skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, specifically in my business (e-commerce, selling used video games) we have a set of scripts that can create a full eBay listing simply by scanning a game's barcode, another one that generates sales reports and breaks them down with exactly the information that I want, one that interfaces with some hardware to automatically test the save function in Game Boy games, and some more to come in future (we're new!).

I saw some similar things in the accounting department at my previous employer, and on the flip side I've met many people who seem to spend an inordinate amount of time doing steps that a computer could do, but worse.

I think the important bit is to have tight integration between the person writing the code and the person with the domain-specific knowledge that the code is performing - ideally they should be the same person.

As we move away from seeing computer programming as a specialised skill for a class of elite engineers and towards something just generally useful like reading and writing, I can see this yielding huge dividends economically.
completely and absolutely based. I have ambivalent feelings about apple
> Of asset prices crater, then we'll have an acute deflationary shock, which will prompt the fed to inflate, and that is what will screw the poor.

The problem with this is in what the Fed does with the new money. They currently use it to buy back government debt, which goes to the rich, i.e. existing bondholders. What they should do is to give it out to all citizens equally, which is the opposite of screwing the poor.
I still have a huge crate of SCSI cables for my obsolete gear. Stuff like 25 pins to 50, 50 to 68, 68 to 80 pins, HVD and LVD cables with a bunch of various connectors, cables with integrated passive or active terminators, terminators that only terminate the high bits, cables with 3 connectors (yes, really) for devices with only one SCSI port, etc.

Like the old saying goes, "there are valid technical reasons that demand that you sacrifice a black goat here and there to your SCSI chain".
Not if they are only interested in getting power to their factories ^^.
Working at FB isn't wage slavery, though, is it? If they can work there, cant they go get a similar job?
Some backup versioning schemes are disabled on purpose by some cryto-malware.
Happen to know what model it uses? (I have a background in DSP, including plugin design, but I'm also maybe 5-10 years out of date with whatever's current SOTA)
You probably could have typed your comment without the "this is very wrong" leading it.
This blog was great when Apple was the underdog.

Just doesn't work in 2021 (or even the past 5 years), for the same reason I wouldn't read the blog of Goliath's biggest cheerleader either.
I heard an anecdote from a rural insurance agent that the fire insurance is crazy because repairing/rebuilding a house after a fire costs much more than the market price of the house + land, or an equivalent house + land nearby - the issue is that (in some areas) the rural house prices there are way down as there's no demand and everyone's leaving, while the costs of construction are sky high.

So if they offer a policy that covers the market value of the house, that's much less than what it would cost to repair/rebuild (so insured people can't afford to get their house back after a fire), and they don't want to offer full repair/rebuild value, as that incentivizes people to just burn the house down because in that case the insurance payment would be much more than what they can sell the house for.
As far as American access to semiconductors goes, it doesn't matter if the takeover is peaceful or not. Chinese control over Taiwan could easily disrupt the supply chain through tariffs, export bans, backdoored hardware, etc etc.
Beautifully succinct.
This is one of the main reasons I bought a house this year. Low interest rates combined with high inflation and leverage mean buying real estate is one of the best things you can do with your money right now.
I don't know... The suburbs are really popular
well nobody can control what will happen to a file's content either if you want to be pedantic.

If are worried about dumb users renaming it...I think most users know to not change things after a '.', so could just put the colorspace code there. And then could put another '.QOI' to end the filename.

If want to keep cruft out of the file itself, then putting it in the filename works.
This one? http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/emrhyy7pp0c8bjkjeuhs-...
“Almost nobody has gas heat in Texas”
That’s incorrect. Approximately a third have gas heat per https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47116
> It's not an engineering problem at all at its heart.

My point is that it is definitely an engineering problem as well as a product problem.

a) It's going to be super technically difficult to build (especially in a way where it's responsive at a granular basis to handle huge blow-up bursts)

b) It's not even clear what you're supposed to be building

None of what people are proposing is well defined or easy to build.
I find this less convincing. Europe is missing Sweden and Spain. Obviously, there might be reasons but this omission is reducing its predictive power. The rest are simple truisms – vaccines work but not enough; boosters can help especially for elderly etc. And still some big waves just happen and who knows, if we wait longer, Sweden, Spain un UK might experience bigger waves as well.
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Let's be crystal crystal clear here. If I host a high data use video site on AWS, I can calculate what my costs will be. That provides me some certainty with respect to a business plan. Even better, AWS does have a history that is much better than others in terms of pricing stability. This doesn't mean best price.

Can you say the same about cloudflare? No.
Can you say the same about oracle? No - they have a miserable history of screwing customers.

AWS is offering clear pricing, cloudflare is not. It's really that simple.

This makes me realize that folks just don't understand the value AWS is providing, and is perhaps why they can charge such insane prices.

People with actual money to spend don't want "free" because they don't believe it's actually free.

In terms of cloudflare, they have something like a negative 60% operating margin. The idea of building a business on a company with a negative 60%+ operating margin is insane, either they will go bust or have to raise prices.

AWS by contrast makes money. Because of this, they can shave a point or two off margin to give (another) price reduction.

1TB per month cloudfront, 2M cloudfront functions etc etc. They are under almost NO financial pressure to raise rates.

Cloudflare is under pressure or will be. With VC money perhaps they will get a longer runway.

The "free" offerings are an old story by now.
What's wrong with that is that such accounts are invariably agenda-driven rather than curiosity-driven, and that destroys what the site is supposed to be for.

Curiosity meanders in unpredictable directions, so there's basically zero overlap here.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to prove. You're using land and housing prices interchangeably, when the problem being discussed is about real estate prices not land prices specifically. Yes land prices are part of real estate costs, but that's not all of it by a long shot.

Building codes, bureaucracy, and NIMBYism all contribute to construction costs, which in many cases severely constrict supply (SF being a shining example), and thus make existing units more expensive. Focusing solely on land prices is missing the forest for the trees. The problem is that there isn't enough supply to meet demand, so prices are skyrocketing.

Building more housing will drive prices down at best, or slow price increases at worst, but it doest affect housing affordability, which is the original statement I was commenting on.
That's been a feature since AWS started. That isn't at all what I am talking about above.
..who then created Typescript
If you have to spend 5x your net worth on a house, that’s capital that is not spent on building businesses, whether through direct investment (buying tools or paying workers at your own business) or indirect (through stocks or other securities).
I know that Python exists for a long time already but I tend to find it exactly one of those sci-if technologies in combination with the extremely powerful hardware everyone has these days. It’s a matter of time until the real big masses start using it and contributing. I’m pretty sure that whatever big solution there will be, that it will be made in or with Python.
Employees have numerous options? Slaves cant just get a new master, it was criminal to escape?
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3116521/c...

> winners have until January 17 to spend their e-yuan before it expires

The caveat there is that expiration in this case is probably to encourage winners to spend the money/provide an end date to the experiment. Most likely regular e-money would not have that condition but special payments (ex: stimulus) could.
Great article, thanks for sharing.
I like the vocabulary explanations and the chart that summarizes all.
Will share and read again!
Money doesn't disappear when you buy real estate. It goes to the person that sold you the real estate, and they can choose where to put that resulting capital.
Seems like you are desperately threatened by the analysis of Tim Sweeney’s posting and want people to ignore it without reading it.

I can’t see another reason why you’d write a pure ad-hominem that has literally no connection to the OP.

If there is something incorrect in the posting, or you have a counterargument, why not offer it?
As a .NET developer I am a little envious of all the GC knobs that Java developers get to play with.

If I could have only 1 new GC thing from Microsoft, it would be the ability to totally disable GC during the lifetime of a process. I don't even want to be able to turn it back on.

I have a lot of scenarios where I could get away with the cruise missile approach to garbage collection. No reason to keep things tidy if the whole world is gonna get vaporized after whatever activity completes. Why waste cycles cleaning things up when you could be providing less jitter to your users or otherwise processing more things per unit time?
Questionable sources such as the German CDC?
Yes (Unix)
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If the push comes to shove, a US carrier group parked in Taiwan's territorial waters makes any sea invasion impossible if it's willing to shoot at Chinese ships; you can't ship and land a million soldiers across a hostile sea, and China can't (at the moment) win the sea battle.

It's debatable to what extent USA is willing to fight for that, but if it chooses to do so, then now and at least until 2030 USA has enough military might to enforce a stalemate/status quo across the Taiwan strait, no matter how much it gets escalated. China can force Kinmen and Matsu islands, but invading Taiwan proper requires either USA not joining the war or a stronger China.

So IMHO the fate of Taiwan in this century depends on how much USA will be willing to intervene to protect it; and the physical location of semiconductor factories is a big factor influencing that willingness.
Sadly public housing in the United States has been a policy failure that's tied to our issues regarding poverty and race. The only way I see public housing working in an American context is if it was seen to benefit the middle class, kind of like how FHA loans and the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs exist to help middle class households get mortgages with low down payments. I also know that some Bay Area municipalities have below-market rentals and for-purchase developments; some municipalities require all significant housing developments to set aside some below-market units.

Disclaimer: I grew up poor and I have relatives who lived in public housing; the environments they lived in were very rough, not only in terms of the quality of housing, but also in terms of living in crime-ridden neighborhoods. Now, I'm not saying that public housing has to be that way; I've heard good things about Singapore's public housing.
Fair point, and I don't have a good counter-argument.

I think my problem, if anything, isn't that there's an excess of freedom of thought and expression so much as there's not enough counter-thought and counter-expression.

So my shaky position is stuck somewhere between what I've identified as the two evils: Book burning, and the uncritical dissemination and condoning of problematic ideas. (I'm aware there's a further problem here because I'm the one deeming things "problematic").

I also think I picked the wrong place to have this conversation. After all, TFA isn't talking about Ayn Rand, it's talking about "opposition to LGBTQIA material, the history of racism, and material that may cause discomfort to readers." These aren't things I would typically label as "problematic."
Some other variant of the “Havana Syndrome.” Let’s put on tinfoil hats and ask for bigger budgets.

From the article:

Several possible explanations were offered at the time, including advanced technologies from another nation like China or Russia, natural atmospheric phenomena - like ice crystals - that could register on radar systems, and "developments and classified programmes by US entities".

The one case identified "with high confidence" was deemed to be a "a large, deflating balloon".
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Did you try typing "help", which gives you the following rather verbose block of text:

----

This is an exercise in NPC interactivity. There's no puzzle and no set solution, but a number of options with a number of different outcomes.

HINTS: Ask or tell her about things that you can see, that she mentions, or that you think of yourself. Interact with her physically. Pause to see if she does anything herself. Repeat actions. The order in which you do things is critical: the character's mood and the prior state of the conversation will determine how she reacts.

VERBS: Many standard verbs have been disabled. All the sensory ones (LOOK, LISTEN, SMELL, TOUCH, TASTE) remain, as do the NPC interaction verbs ASK, TELL, HELLO, GOODBYE, and SORRY; KISS, HUG, and ATTACK. You may also find useful THINK and its companion THINK ABOUT, which will remind you of the state of conversation on a given topic. The verb RECAP gives a summary list of topics that you've discussed so far; if she's told you that she's said all she knows on that topic, it appears in italics.

SHORTCUT: 'Ask her about' and 'tell her about' may be abbreviated to A and T. So >A CHEESE is the same as >ASK GALATEA ABOUT CHEESE.

There is an assortment of walkthroughs available at http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/cheats.htm, but I suggest not looking at them until you have already experimented somewhat.
Censored and large font. No descriptions. No prices. Any paired drink or side choice obvious.
Spoken like someone who has never been a serf.
Does his name happen to be Freddy?
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It's possible (I would say likely) that there was a warning light. During normal aviation takeoffs, there are procedures that govern when it is too late to abort, and procedure dictates that it is safer to attempt flight. For a carrier, I imagine that point-of-no-return is about a few feet from stationary.
This is a wonderful and informative reply. Thank you so much - i really appreciate the time you spent writing this.
Can you do SIMD with JS? If not, then C++ has the real advantage.
They perform better under heat?
I haven't particularly noticed a dropoff in quality (I'm not a frequent user though, so that doesn't say much), but I can easily imagine that many of their best journalists left, and given the situation described here (second-class citizens with second-class payscale at the NYT), they weren't replaced.

As for the staff of 70, perhaps the NYT has pushed them to expand into an ever-greater set of product categories (on top of keeping existing products up-to-date)? Perhaps the lack of integration with the NYT means they're still managing a lot of their own infrastructure/HR/etc.?
I don't think this is true whatsoever. Young people are voting for progressives, who are running on platforms of expanded social welfare and reducing wealth/income inequality. I mean look at the last democratic primary super-Tuesday exit polls. Ages 18-29, +46 to Bernie. Ages 30-44 +19 to Bernie.

It's not that young people aren't voting for their interests (which in my biased opinion is in the best interest for the country overall), it's that we don't have the numbers yet. I presume the story is similar in local SF politics.
Hardware wallets aren't that cumbersome to use; it only takes a few minutes to move coins on/off. Waiting for confirmations takes longer than dealing with the wallet. For daytrading you'd definitely want to keep coins in an exchange though.

I'm speaking neither hypothetically nor in hindsight since I pre-ordered the first hardware wallet back in the day and have never lost coins.
Samsung is considered the epitome of state capitalism, so there may be some confusion about that last sentence.
Expat is a Western immigrant in non-Western country
That article is seven years old and in no way reflects current reality. In fact it has never reflected my own experience or that of anyone I know, where iMessage spam has been near enough to non-existent.

And even if there were a spam problem, the risk is mostly on the upside anyway. It would only be an issue if iMessage got a reputation for flooding people with admonishments to take security seriously, purportedly from Apple.
From the abstract:

"We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination."

Archived here:

https://archive.md/xwMUe
What are the negative externalities of central banking and dollar hegemony? I'd argue the externalities of dollar dominance are orders of magnitude greater for enabling crime (and legal antisocial behavior), wasting natural resources and accelerating climate change.

GPU prices is totally fair though.
It's an easily addressable issue. We've had the technology since the 19th century, but just as there are the nimbys disingenuously working hard to their benefit to ensure that new housing for workers isn't created, you have people like Elon Musk and others in the car/oil industry working hard to defeat rapid public transit and other public works.
Since we are talking container formats, I would recommend something in the IFF/RIFF family (which includes "true" Four-byte-type IFFs like RIFF, WAV, WEBP, and variants like PNG, MOV, MP4). They are about as simple as you can get as a container format. It has its limitations but it's basically the simplest "boxed" format you can implement - Type-Length-Value.

I would absolutely recommend basing on some sort of container format (vs "raw" data structures), it makes it really easy to add functionality without breaking backwards compatibility.

Basically all container formats follow this idea of "collection of boxes" pattern. The IFF series are box-length based. Ogg uses capture patterns but no explicit box size (I think). The former means you have to know the box size ahead of time (or seek back and write it in), the latter is better for streaming, but harder to seek (without indexes).
There is a part 2 on the blog with some algorithms references, and a part 4 with books :)
I mean, you are kinda flippantly dismissing my claim... do you disagree? You would rather be a serf?

Today we have all of modern technology to help us - we have vaccines for debilitating diseases. If you break your leg, you don't just die... And even the lowest class of people can afford smartphones and access the internet.

These are all vast and material improvements to quality of life
As I read this post, I was really looking forward to learning how they productionized it, as that seems like that is where the rubber meets the road (and where the complexities and dragons lie).

But all I got was "Oso helped us out" :( .
Why would we "see" Piaget if his work, as you correctly note, his theories have been refuted? Educationalists, who have never personally and successfully taught anythingmarried simply wrong theories of learning, are a good 50% of the problem.
>How can the user know

Read the document of the original top post (the document from Apple).

The answer to your question is right there in the document.
took me a while to notice that I perceive color and light intensity differently in my two eyes. I think this is actually pretty natural (IE, it happens commonly?). Either way, I can also see polarization (haidinger's brush) which confused me a bunch when I was trying to explain what I saw and everybody else thought I was crazy).
This is not financial advice, but get out of bonds. They are bleeding value. The coupon is not even meeting inflation. Its a bad asset.
I feel very sorry for folks that are relying on this for income, retirees, etc.

The next thing you read about will be the $100T in the bond market trying to find exits to something that has any kind of return to outpace inflation.

Maybe that will be Bitcoin, an asset that has grown >100% per year for the last 10 years.
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Depression.

That said, I have a grab-bag of symptoms that isn't entirely typical. On the one hand I don't get any suicidal ideation, on the other depressed episodes seem to feature an actual lowering of IQ. Other than that, the usual lethargy, anhedonia, etc. that most people associate with depression.

At best, antidepressants (at the maximum prescribed dose) make it possible to get up and trudge through the day somehow. Most don't seem to even do that much. A couple I've tried immediately gave me night terrors so I couldn't really try them long enough to see whether there was any therapeutic effect.
its not about slums. the US has abundant land and houses are cheap in most of the country. It's just big (especially coastal) cities where the prices are insane. Alot of americans do in fact live in "fly over country" where prices are 300k or sometimes less. In addition, we are lucky that we have a lot of cities, not just one major one.

Contrast this to a tiny country like britain or japan with only one major city london/tokyo where everyone wants to live. Where land actually is a limiting factor.
I assume you mean "USB Attached SCSI Protocol" :)
Inflation was known to legislators back then so its way for legislators to lower the bar and catch more people in the future, without anyone picking up on it at the time.

Anyway fabricating evidence has been around for as long evidence has been needed to settle disputes.
Doesn't seem to be an option on iOS?
Well spotty WiFi and internet connectivity issues probably aren't the homeowners fault either...

The fault probably lies with the ISP, the router manufacturer, or someone else. Let the gadget manufacturers guarantee pay out, and they can try to chase the ISP themselves. If the issue doesn't get fixed, they can simply say "IoT doorbell (reliability guarantee excludes use with Comcast)"
Not all 'pornography' is equivalent. While I can see an argument for expression of certain viewpoints, a lot of pornography is just meant to appeal to baser instincts, and has a known negative effect on people. Not all books are equal. I don't understand the extremism in this regard around children's literature. In an adult library sure, but yes... children's books ought to be curated. This cannot be remotely controversial.