skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked at the F# vs Java benchmarks and .NET is still faster on most of them just to get a sample on more idiomatic code. The F# codebase doesn't use a lot of externals looking at the code list

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Only the PiDigits benchmark uses "extern's"; only because it seems like a lazy port. Everything else is native F# code. It beats Java in all benchmarks expect for the binary-tree one. To see a functional language match or beat benchmark level Java on many cases, at least for me, feels kinda nice. Many other real world benchmarks in house (tech choice evaluations) and third party I've seen JVM vs .NET Core also show .NET usually coming out on top recently.

The .NET GC isn't as good as the Java one. But I feel that's because the cost/benefit of improving the CLR's GC is less than Java's so the work is put elsewhere. The language (C#/even F#) generates less garbage in the first place with typical code. Any GC improvements there probably don't have the same bang for buck as in Java where allocations IMO are more frequent in day to day coding.
Hope it doesn't turn out to be another Wisfoxcon in Abbott's Texas.
Absolutely. Those of us who have been fighting for better downtowns and doing away with zoning problems and flawed arguments ad business development have so much more ammunition thanks to Strong Towns, and our opponents haven't for several years been able to pretend we're crazy or advancing unexamined novel ideas.
lol this guy needs to take a chill-pill
the University of California system (where I got my Ph.D.) just got rid of standardized test without proposing anything better.The admission is now even more unfair and subjective. First time in a decade I am not donating to my Alma mater. Neither do many others from my class.

Also California recently tried to pass a horrendous Prop 16 to enable outright race and gender discrimination in admission process. Luckily it didn't pass, but the politicians who supported it (Newsom, Harris) are still here to do damage.
Do you see what's happened/happening in Hong Kong?
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This makes no sense, and is a typical non-sequitur thrown out by those who are unwilling to give up meat. There is absolutely no evidence that meat eating is the limiting factor in population growth.
And yet both can be too much for some people.
Gray wolf who broke records on a historic journey found dead in California
Tax what exactly in the specific context of real estate?

If you tax the ownership, that's property tax, it already exists, and
1) It's already high in the most HCOL states (imagine paying 30K a year for a property worth 750K, that's Westchester, NY or many parts of NJ, and a handful of other states)
2) Imagine you're 75, retired, and suddenly your property tax spikes and the house you bought 20 years ago for 150 is now worth 750K, and now you're on the hook for 30K.

So that's out. Next we have taxing transactions. OK, so we up flip taxes (ownership less than X months), we increase transaction taxes on a sale, we can even rid ourselves of the cap gains tax exclusion for single and married couples, and perhaps even tax everything as short-term cap gains.

So now people will never sell.

What have you accomplished?

Or were you just expressing your emotions and letting others figure out the incredibly complicated logistics of your suggestions?
You're gonna have to provide a source for that. Just because less meat is needed for the same amount of protein doesn't make it better or more healthy.
And a 757 that was thought to have crashed due to pilot confusion, caused by instrument error, ultimately because the pitot tube covers were left off and the hole is just about the size a mud dauber likes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
Really, it comes down to your budget. LTO drives don't do anything interestingly different across manufacturers, and I've seen no evidence of significant reliability differences either. So, just buy the biggest generation that makes sense for your data storage needs.

Two important things to note:

1. LTO5 and onwards have a feature called LTFS, which allows you to address the tape as an ordinary file system. Before that, you were limited to purpose-built tape tools.

2. Generally, tapes can be read in drives 2 generations newer, and written in drives 1 generation newer. This rule was broken with LTO8, due to new tape composition. Starting here, it's 1 generation newer read/write.
I am priced out of the market. What does the collective hivemind of HN suggest? Do I take out loans from family and friends and put up the down payment or wait for the prices to "normalize" is it going to take 2,5,10 years ?
Ali Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons
I'm amazed how every version has been worse than the one before. The best version was out over a decade ago.
The other commenter is right to call your comment performative rudeness. You're acting like it's insane that the boiled frog is complaining about the water temperature. Meanwhile facebook just released sunglasses that can surreptitiously record everyone everywhere.
This was a great read. I look forward to the Part II teased at the end. In addition to deep diving on the Huffman codes, I hope you find a way to include an explanation of when to read left-to-right vs right-to-left, which is what tripped me up the most in this article.
Which is why you have immutable backups, and you do not simply over write everything. this is not a new concept, or a new thing. To believe ransomeware protection is not a function of proper backups is just ignorant. Anyone working in Enterprise IT, managing backups for any company, that is the #1 thing we talk about, that is the number 1 thing we are focused on in our backup strategy. We spend significant resources on it.
Doesn't the use of snapshots (and their backup) help with this ?
I am assuming here that you mean that the source got corrupted some time after it was created (and anyway, if it is not the case, it is a issue unrelated to backup, in my opinion).

A proper backup tool should help you keep several versions of your data without using a proportional amount of space, by using some form of deduplication. I use borg backup for my backup, and I can go back to any day in the past three years and get an old copy of any document (as long as I saved it on my disk for more than one day, since I do daily backups)

You can also setup "append only" backups, if you are worried that somebody may willingly try to destroy your old copies
> I am one of those millennials that is forever priced out of the housing market.

> in SF

Perhaps you may be priced out of the housing market in SF specifically. That doesn't mean the housing market as a whole. There is cheaper housing elsewhere.

I'm GenX, in my 20s I wanted nothing more than to live in NYC. Could never make it happen, too expensive. I was literally priced out forever of the NYC housing market. I gave up on that, moved to California which was back then still a lot cheaper.

If you're young, no point in banging your head against the established old money and demand they change for you. Shift targets and build the next great thing/place.
Like it or not, Bob is an investor. He had a choice to rent or stay in his current residence. He is not compelled by any force to participate in an inflated housing market. He should do his due diligence and not assume risky bets that he is unable to handle.
I don't know mathematic notation well at all, but can easily reason about most code.
This sounds fascinating and also completely over my head in terms of possibilities… is there a basic “getting started guide” you would recommend for someone who may not have the bandwidth to go all-in learning telephony from soup to bolts but would still like the benefits? :)
Over the past 3 years, my corporate bonds have outpaced inflation and only saw a 5% drop in price when the stock market crashed. Pretty good if you ask me. Society isn't going to abandon the idea of loaning people money to speculate in bitcoin any time soon. There is just no economic intuition to believe that bitcoin will continue to increase other than speculation.
That would be only temporary. Building more houses decreases prices like building more roads decreases traffic. It doesn’t. Humans are animals and, like any animal, will breed into any available habitat until it is full.
I think comments like this are against HN rules.
Even at the 0.208 vs 0.2 cd all else equal, a 50km difference implies a range of 1,300km, which the Tesla does not have.
Somewhat true if you mean not adjusted for inflation. But that means you can buy more too with higher wages (except low-wage jobs haven't kept up). If you mean rare woods and stuff, maybe so. But compare the labor part of modern forrestry to the stuff 130 years ago:

https://www.komatsuforest.com/-/media/komatsu-forest/images/...

A machine grabs the tree, cuts it from the ground, rolls it through a thing to remove all the branches all in just a few rapid smooth movements.
That is through using a custom server -- which is a whole other topic. I'm comparing apples-to-apples between NextJS's built-in router and Remix's usage of React Router as far as client-side routing is concerned.
I usually don't like having my picture taken by anyone, machine or human.

But it's probably less threatening to most people if it's just someone taking a picture of the area from a distance – or an amateur/tourist with a smartphone rather than a professional with an expensive camera. Women photographers might also be perceived as more benign.
You're afraid people will drive drunk, so you want people to put all the bars so far from the homes that everybody has to drive to them?
That's a really hot take
I'm saying the best way to be a loser in the crypto market is to stay out of crypto entirely. And pointing out that people who make that decision aren't typically quiet about it at all.
Welp, there went my Overwatch plans for the evening.
This is interesting -- could you clarify what made cofounders drag you back? And knowing what you know now, how would you spot and avoid such people in the future?
Thanks, this works! I'm going to use it now :)
I live in the Japanese countryside and I absolutely need a car for living, but it makes me sad to realize that it would take almost nothing for me to get rid of the car. I spend my driving time 90% on a single road where all the places I need are. I spend 9% on another similar big axis. I occasionally go to Tokyo but to do so I park my car at the free parking on the highway bus station.

A regular bus on the two axis I use would allow me to totally get rig of a car. I am pretty sure we could automate such a bus given today's tech.
random thought on that, at least not unless you're a super wealthy person or very high ranking politician who literally needs the services of a "body man"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_body_men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Love
Even if we assume for the sake of argument that that's true, I think that only enhances my point: there aren't enough engineers that these companies are willing to employ such that they would tip the scale on the supply/demand balance sheet and push compensation down (in real terms; obviously every additional marginal engineer pushes down compensation in counterfactual terms).
Depends what the failure mode is.

To date the only light switch downtime I've had was related to power outages and bulb failures.
I don't think its a matter of being a moron or not.

I've been in the conditions you describe, even much worse. Rarely does the mind wander to "this sucks, this really fucking sucks. Things need to change." You're too preoccupied with survival, and doing what you need to do. There is simply no time or extra energy to ruminate on one's material -- much spiritual -- state.

The only reason I got out of such a situation was because I knew there were things I could do to change my material circumstances, and escape such a fate. Had I not---had I not been educated or lived in "greener pastures"---I'm certain I would've continued to live like that and made peace with my circumstances, and made the best of them.

Materially, the circumstances were awful. But the few people I was surrounded with, who shared in such destitution, really made it very bearable, even pleasant. Having "lost" some, really did not give the same anguish as it does now. At the time, it just meant I had one less person to rely on, and one less person that would make the day go by faster, and so on. It wasn't emotional. Such is a luxury for others with time and resources.

Being "in the moment" and always working hard to survive gave me purpose. Being surrounded by others of the same fiber gave me belonging.

Would I go back, knowing what I know about the world? Never. I know far too much about how things "could be" to ever be in those material circumstances again.

Were the entire world to collapse, and I to lose my memory of all the past, I'm certain my spirit would be better off.

Alas, I and all the people around me, are too educated. We've been taught of bad and good. Of what we should strive for; of what "success" means; how we should think and act so as to be "good"; and what "bad" things and circumstances we should avoid, even be sad, shameful, or any other array of negative emotions, about.

The world we've been born into is hyper-focused on materialism, and there is no escape. There's no way to survive outside this system; and so those neural pathways rebalance and rewrite themselves so that we may find a place, any place at all, in this place.
Sure, as long as Mr. Bob doesn't have to move for reasons having nothing to do with speculation.
It seems the root of the misunderstanding is interpreting the slash (/) as "and", when it really means "and/or", in this case, or
Have A be a pointer to B?
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it's ideal for everyone else. If you read what I wrote, we had 2 kids. We were forced to take in 2 more to keep those children out of the system. Because we aren't married, when she had a major medical issue, I had to basically drain my savings to pay for it because she had no way to do so and no insurance. Because the adoption took longer than expected due to COVID issues, the state stopped payments for the foster kids altogether and I had to make up that shortcoming. It turned my entire tax situation upside down.

It works for you? That's great. It's hell for me.
""In carrying out searches and other disciplinary functions pursuant to such policies, school officials act as representatives of the State, not merely as surrogates for the parents, and they cannot claim the parents' immunity from the strictures of the Fourth Amendment."" (NJ v TLO)

Meaning: schools have the right (and responsibility) to take steps necessary for the safety of children, but those rights are rather limited compared to those of parents, because they must also satisfy the limits set by constitution for all acts of the state and its representative. Banning books is an excellent example since it is almost the textbook definition of a restriction of free speech at the same time as having exceptionally weak arguments for its necessity, ostensibly to prevent psychological harms, which is a dubious concept to begin with.
My initial reaction to your first paragraph is "Preparation for your own death".

And I don't know where on the scale from "old man shouts at cloud" to "living consciously and connected to, and aware of, the world around you" this reaction sits. Even whether that scale has both end points being co-existent.

I find that pursuits intended to give myself more time for the things I enjoy eats into the time otherwise spent on things I enjoy - both in the setup and the maintenance (you already said it's reliable though, so maintenance may not be an issue).

To what end? is my question. Living in the perfect temperature works to narrow the temperature range in which you can comfortably operate. TV on, lights off, blinds closed... it just feels like the next step is automatic fecal extraction and progress towards the body types on the space ship in Wall-E.

To what end? To see if I can. And if you can, which in this case you could, it feels as if you're retro justifying the effort. Are you happy no longer having to do these mundane tasks? Living in algorithmic rhythms.
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>If you need a personal assistant for your day to day life due to how much you're working, consider the idea that perhaps you're working too much.

Isn't that exactly the point? That OP did consider that they're working too much and are looking to delegate some of that work to someone else.
Your wage is related to how much other people are willing to get paid to do the same job.
> More like Bob bought 10 houses at $500k/each, hoping to flip them in a year for $1m/each. If you cause his houses to be worth $200k, as they ought to be, he is really screwed.

That Bob is indeed really screwed, and so is the bank. But if we're printing a bunch of new money and giving it to everyone equally, that Bob doesn't get any more than the original one.

> Raising taxes and/or raising interest rates decreases speculative forces.

Raising interest rates especially, and that's the one I'm suggesting.

The problem with raising property taxes is that it equally impacts people who aren't speculating. You have to pay the same amount even if you only bought a house because you needed somewhere to live; even if you're not borrowing the money.

It also doesn't solve the general problem, because then people move money into things that aren't subject to property tax, like stocks. We don't need to deflate the housing bubble by creating a stock bubble the size of the sun.

> Either housing prices fall back to earth, or the earth expands so that housing prices don't seem that high anymore :).

Right, exactly. And housing prices falling screws people with mortgages and causes defaults, which is so bad that we haven't been able to solve it since 2008.

> The latter is obviously just old fashioned universal inflation (wages and consumer prices rise), and really screws someone saving for a housing downpayment

Their existing savings will be the same percentage of the house as it was before, because the nominal housing prices are staying the same -- inflation offset by higher interest rates. Then their nominal wages go up, so they can save the rest of it more quickly, which is the entire point.

> (not to mention, loans would be harder to get as inflation picks up).

Not harder to get, just higher interest rates. Which is, of course, the idea.

If you want to make it easier to buy a house, fix zoning so we can build more housing.
so, just to be clear: what you are saying, is all government services, bureaucratic expenditures, military budget, FBI budget, Education, Energy, social services, social security shortfall, disaster relief, interest payments on the debt, medicare, universal health care, and so forth should come entirely from the collected tax base. Perhaps we can even be very careful about this, to avoid politicians abusing "projected revenue" by mandating all of these line-item expenses of the government in any given year cannot exceed the previous year's tax revenue? And if the government decides to exceed that figure, 100% of the overshoot must be somehow redistributed to the people, directly.

I'd be down. Count me in on your reform program.
I would probably be ok with a few $470 cakes here and there… if I was in the position to have a PA that is
> To us, this decision may seem unhygienic at best.

Seems like an add presumption for the author to make. The output has to be removed, and the local people are making it. Plumbing and waste management are some of the most significant developments of every surviving society.

It also seems like a strange comment to make from an author in a country that has sit-on toilets. Now that is unhygienic!
It's telling that most of your examples are business related, whereas OP said that personal tasks are first and foremost. But if you actually try to name some personal tasks, it becomes difficult. The sole realistic example seems to be "anything where you have to be on hold on the phone."

I don't think that life admin tasks increase as you get busy. Life stays the same, and work consumes proportionally more.

Would you use an EA to take your kid to school? Pick them up? Your life needs to be on hold for those things, but to me it feels really strange that some people would want to outsource it in the name of work.
Wouldn't recommend it unless you do network/telecom stuff for a living, it has a bit of an ongoing time cost in maintenance...

some of the SIP trunking providers that have more focus on the consumer market such as voip.ms do let you define your own custom IVR and menus, to accomplish pretty much what I described, without having your own SIP-speaking system registered to it persistently. You should be able to define a voip.ms IVR destination as your cellphone.
> In other words: I can't ask for people's consent because they might not give consent.

I think you missed the point.

If somebody came up to me and asked permission to do something they already did, i'd say no out of "what the fuck" factor even if i would have said yes if they asked before.

Implying they were suggesting otherwise is stretching the truth.
Why does it matter if it's zero sum? Sometimes things we need aren't free.
I feel very strongly about this because facebook is trying to get everyone to wear sunglasses that can surreptitiously put my picture online and TFA is trying to tell everyone that it's fine. I'm not in any art galleries TFA is talking about, sure, and you're telling me that means I can't speak up? Or that commenting means I'm a "fucking animal?"
This 3-2-1 backup strategy is missing a dimension: time. Data is rarely unchanging. The 3-2-1 strategy is inadequate for changing data, because if you delete the wrong database table and didn't realize it, the 3-2-1 backups are going to be missing the table too.

You need to add the time dimension and have a monthly snapshot for data that is older than a year, weekly snapshot for data within last 1 year, and daily snapshot for the last 90 days.
Imagine how many man-hours were expended in composing those comments
Sometimes we programmers just need a little danger in our lives.

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Evidence? It's mathematical, not scientific. Derivable from first principles.

I can eat meat as much as I want provided another 7 billion people don't also do the same.

The issue is with the number of people, not the activity. Literally any use of land is a bad idea at that scale, we end up in rabbit hutches.
The US has more prisoners than China, an "authoritarian" nation with 4x the population. In fact, certain sectors of our economy (Idaho potatoes, for one) are completely dependent on unfettered cheap prison labor.

Hong Kong is China, the fact it ever wasn't is because of Britain and the Opium Wars. Nothing new for Britain or its offshoot, the US — but I'm amazed people still think westerners should be able to balkanize the rest of the world at will for commercial interests. I suppose Oxycontin is just the domestic, self-inflicted version of that.

Also not sure what part about US democracy is comfortable, the majority of the population cannot afford a $500 emergency in the wealthiest "liberal representative democracy" on the planet. Most of us are wage slaves and are required to bail out these "too big to fail" banks and businesses every couple of years but sure, China is the global threat.

Btw how many governments has China overthrown? Because we can certainly get into numbers with these "freedom-bringing democracies"