skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough I was reading the other day how some BMWs will come without a touchscreen due to the silicon/chip crisis and I actually thought that was a plus. Seriously, whomever thought it was a good idea to make cars use touch controls and going through 5 menus to turn the heat down should be just shipped to Antarctica to explain their thought process to the penguins.
Have you seen Ben Eater's videos?
Video is great for many things, but step by step instructions/tutorials ain't one of them.
> Remember, if you call something crap, you're probably doing it close to the person who is responsible for it being crap.

I got bitten by this once. It turns out there's a variable φ(crap) representing the amount of time you have to work at a company before – what I thought were – self-deprecating comments, about the app being a piece of shit, are regarded as self-deprecating, rather than an outsider trashing their work.

> if you forego extreme salaries

Just FWIW, to forego is to go before, whereas to forgo is to go without.
> There is no monitoring system that is aware of the full context, including the state of the plane, the history of previous warnings or malfunctions and the intentions of the pilots.

Its called the pilot. We even include a second system, fully programmed and built entirely by a separate team, to double-check and challenge the primary system: the copilot.

> Plenty of accidents follow similar patters: pilots forgot to enable some warning system, or ignored a warning because it came up in the wrong context, or where overwhelmed by the amount of checklists they had to do or by multiple alarms coming up at the same time.

And yet, commercial aviation is by far safer than driving. General aviation, with fewer of these systems is roughly the same as driving.

You also day plenty of accidents, but I'd be willing to bet that just as many if not more were situations beyond the pilots control.

You're also not comparing it to the number of times that pilots got out of sticky situations by following checklists and/or not having warnings suppressed.
Space-shooter.c: A 2D space shooter written in C using only system libraries
Hah! This is nothing compared to the “update” button being next to iOS Safari’s back button.

Will I successfully update my prescient mumblings such that they actually make sense, or will I delete everything my fat fingers just spent hundreds of seconds editing? Who nose?!

This is an specially irksome bug given that the two buttons are only next to each other for particularly long comments. I should cut back on the waffle.
Uh. I personally hate signal groups. If you ever lose your phone, you loose all history. The desktop app works, but won't show any history. I know in signals eyes this is intentional, but it's also silly. I had access to all that information, it's not any less safe on a new device that I have to prove I own.
> What stops them from selectively defaulting?

Most bond agreements have thought of that: nobody wants to be the one creditor defaulted on. So there's an agreement that any default is treated as a default on all.

(see also the long running Argentina "pari passu" fiasco: https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2020/01/a-cautionary... )
While I agree that "the vast majority of content is pure garbage", I have to make an argument that a non-negligible portion of the site delivers high-quality educational videos with excellent research. The curiosity-seeking part of my brain is subject to being very easy to get hooked on this.
Is there something that we can use on iOS to hide recommendations?
You could restructure the loans make the interest rate lower make the payment period longer prohibit the banks charging extortionate penalties and fees make the banks write down some of the principal or accumulated interest in arrears and lots of other stuff. It’s ridiculous to claim that there were no options here.

And also it’s telling that you don’t even consider the idea that the homeowners could have gotten similar treatment, ie a favorable loan that enabled them to eventually pay the principal back.

Also you’d have to explain how bailing out banks that made poor quality loans and are on the risk of insolvency isn’t “rewarding bad quality loans”.
Yes, this is basically Anglo-Irish Bank on a much larger scale.
You don't pay for the house in Japan; you pay for the land usage, thats a fairly common and understood thing here. You CAN build good houses in Japan but most developers don't see the point due to extreme changes in codes, and due to the everpresent threat of earthquakes causing percieved structure damage.
According to statista.com 5.2 million homes were sold in the US in 2007. Do you seriously believe that 30%+ of these sales were intended as investment only? Even if that were true it would have been more ethical to bail out the home buyers than the banks themselves. The majority of people who lost their homes ended up over their heads through no fault of their own.
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Not fall apart, but depending on region, you guys really like to just use "sticks" and dry wall :)

In central Europe, usually the center is made out of concrete and then bricks on the outside.
I'd prefer moving them to the same line as "reply", putting them side by side, and changing them to "▲ upvote" and "▼ downvote". Adding the text and putting them side by side makes them easier to hit, and moving them down to the "reply" line frees up valuable space at the left side.

To that newly freed space on the left move the "next" and "prev" links, and if "next" and/or "prev" is not available for a particular comment pad its space so if "next" and/or "prev" is there it is always at the same horizontal position.

This makes it easier to skip forward or back a subtree at a time, because after a given click of "next" or "prev" is executed your mouse or finger will be over the next "next" or "prev".
I would like the freedom to choose to use MongoDB from a MongoDB as a service offering, not being limited to only certain licensed service-providers. That is the kind of freedom I choose open source for.
Because people don’t want to deal with old wiring, lead paint, and old pipes. I.e. they are not better quality. I would never choose an old US suburban house over a new US suburban house. The standards have been greatly raised, the materials and technology have greatly advanced.
It looks like Medicare spending was also included to arrive at $1.5T. A portion of "veteran's benefits" should probably also be included for the VA medical system.
Isn’t that one of the definitions of dictatorships in other non-white countries according to neocon NGO/CIA/white savior class. The separation of powers that may exist de jure but no de facto when it comes to the power structure like in the US.
Respectfully, while the optimization functions and constraint handling may have overlap, they differ in their intended applications. For optimal control there is no adaptation outside the initial ruleset, which is the core of AI. Optimal control is "keep things on path"
Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export
No, in the cities the incomes are also far higher than in the rural areas. The overall effect is the result of Simpson's paradox

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
The question does imply that one knows one's self sufficiently to answer.
> while Mac tries to force people to switch to zsh, and most lemmings just obey

You have a flawed understanding of Mac users, and of lemmings, and of zsh.
I'm not sure. I thought it was a different, but maybe.
Is this jumping on the bandwagon or genuinely beneficial? I'm willing to give FB the benefit of the doubt here.

However, I'm a total rookie when it comes to crypto, blockchain etc. and giving a company that permabans via ai with no human fallback control of payments seems like a bad idea to me.
The WSJ did a fantastic podcast on this recently called Bad Bets. If there is any interest it is worth a listen.
This is an important observation to share with us. Thank you.

A previous comment mentioned the "value" of homogeneous cultures. I'm sure, from the POV of your coworkers, they have a homogeneous culture - everyone is the same (except for that one person - you). From your POV, you are the odd person out. I'm sorry you don't feel welcome.
Once I got a job as a software dev I quickly started preferring text based tutorials and docs. As a student I would always hunt down the “best” tutorial video for a given topic.
I see people disagreeing if this is Microsoft or Google's fault. I think if there is a use case for using a 3rd party app for the 911 call, either A. Google should have some way of detecting if the 911 call went through and/or B. Have a popup when you call 911 through a 3rd party app that says "that didn't work, force my 911 call through" which uses the system phone app.
Because they are harder to modernize with eletric runs and other issues such as lattice plaster walls which cause insane interference of Wi-Fi or other wireless technologies.
The Guardian is a propaganda outlet. It's not so much that what it pumps out is always untrue; it's that there's almost always extremely perverse timing and choices about what to emphasize and deemphasize. In this case, we have somebody crusading against somebody who assisted the Nazis many decades ago and died almost 20 years ago. OK. But the backdrop is that Germany and Austria seem intent on violating the Nuremberg Code right now.

Just to have some fun, I'll keep a count here of the number of times I see "you're posting too fast" trying to post this comment: 6
The other guy probably took it as an insult that I was saying he wasn't creative. Being 'creative' is seen as 'good' when in fact it's often a huge pita.
YouTube has some of the best, highest quality free content available on the internet today.

Stay away from the crap, remove it from your recommendations, subscribe to some good channels. It’s that simple.

Don’t if that’s not your thing but you’re missing out. If you change your mind here are a few exceptional channels to get you started, they should cater well to a HN style audience:

Technology Connections (misc tech)

Wendover Productions (Logistics)

DefunctLand (Documentaries on old defunct stuff)

Not Just Bikes (Cycling, public transport, urban design, walkability)

Practical Engineering (civil engineering)

3Blue1Brown (Math)
This used to be the case with TeamSpeak/Mumble too back in the day. Some of my favorite memories as a teenager was setting up Teamspeak servers on a Linode box and setting up everything. I’m glad Discord is making that easier for kids today.
Correct. My cards are indeed locked to the original merchant that first charged something to the card.
Nope. There's always some level of unconscious bias on many personal subjects.
Yeah sure, and for most things it's fine if things break, irritating and bad press, but fine. Things like calling emergency services can never be allowed to break. It must have fallbacks, if it even needs to be allowed to be overridden in the first place.
I'm genuinely a little bored of hearing about how AI has any actual 'intelligence'. It doesn't. Its not akin to people.

The better analogy, IMO, is how people are being pushed into a computing model and adopting computing attributes as characteristics. We are becoming like "semi-autonomous computers". And worse, it is a client-server model, with corporations and governance taking the executive decisions!

Rather than describing some software as intelligent, we would be better describing the change that this idea (and the idea of collectivisation - as opposed to individuation) has had on people. It is people that are changing, machines are still inanimate.
I think this is a big thing. If everyone defaults at the same time, the property market just vanishes as everyone force-liquidates to manage the defaults. If that affects collateralization levels, it's even a positive feedback loop.

The RE companies that have good balance sheets will have great opportunities in the coming years.
On the website it showed a USDP currency symbol. That's a cryptocurrency right? I'm in the US, do I need to pay capital gains if someone sends money to me through this?
Maybe it is just normal in those countries? Each country has things which seem absurd in other countries but are so normal in others as to rarely be discussed.
Indeed, my house is ~150... made of wood.
I've built the tool spending $29/month. Tips to quick start with Bubble
Hi guys!

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> It looks so promising yet from the comment it doesn't seem like either something I shouldn't want to touch

I can't speak to the communities on there - I just worked there, never really used it myself (but the founders and others who work there do use it to make connections, I believe.)

> more like a weird enterprise cross breed between linkedIn and Google+, not a general social network

Yeah, the main thrust is that it's an "AI powered LinkedIn for generating communities" but there was good support for "find people who like <X> near <Y>" and get suggestions if people appeared near you with similar interests ("<A> also likes <X> and is near you in <Y>").

> this has slipped by

I don't think they've got around to making a big publicity push yet.
Amazon to Shut Down Alexa.com Website Ranking Service in May 2022
He's not against national and state power; rumors or accusations of him being a libertarian are greatly exaggerated, for sure.

He's just pro-Western civilization and pro-US.
AI-augmented flight.

We should not remove humans from the loop until the system passes the Turing test and solves the Trolley program concurrent to acceptable ethical standards.
That’s actually a EU/US style when they forcibly downed the plane in Austria of a hesd of state Evo Morales of Bolivia. They then orchestrated a coup against Evo Morales, who had non-white indigenous support and over 50 percent, and replace him with a minority white supremacist regimes (5% vote).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
China will value internal stability and safety higher then external investors.Internal lenders will get securities and partial payments, while BlackRock and other will be left holding the bag and getting a hair cut.

This results in private pensions funds being devalued, meaning alot of "early out" pensioners might return to working, if the investment collapse spreads. It will also continue to drive the market value of flats in western cities even more upwards, as they become a AAA-haven for china fleeing capital.
Yeah OP called it a pension when it was really a 401(k) — but Enron had some sort of setup where employees could choose to buy Enron shares at a discount into their 401(k) but importantly, Enron’s “employer contributions” were also in the form of Enron stock, which couldn’t be sold by the employee until they turned 50. Then when the company started failing, they instituted a trading blackout so employees couldn’t sell their stock for weeks before the bankruptcy.

Of course, there was a corporate pension as well that failed and was was also largely in Enron stock. So now those liabilities are owned by the PBGC.
Ahhh, mea culpa, thanks for the correction. I can't edit my comment any longer - it looks like HN limits edits to a ~2hr window – but I would have if I could.
Not that difficult problems most of the time, but in practice the problems are more or less ignored and it often works, in most cases anyway. Not good obviously.

Problem I have with Rust is that it uses certain patterns to make it work against the unforgiving borrow checker. I am not convinced that we will stay at this point.

Rust disallows some operations where the developer can know the operation to be safe, but the borrow checker does not. So you need to accommodate the language.
Android is a general purpose embedded OS, it's not just used on devices with cell radios. It doesn't manage the BP (cell phone processor) either afaik.

For example, a voip android desk phone - it relies on voip to make calls. Android is agnostic about it and allows third party software to handle underlying calls, whether it is Qualcomm/Samsung/etc software for cell calls or Microsoft Teams for VOIP.

There isn't a straightforward approach here for Android. It's not like iOS where Apple owns the entire software stack, including modem software.
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What if you had a system where anyone can bid any amount on any piece of land. Whether the owner refuses the bid or not, the land is now valued at the price of the bid for tax purposes.

To avoid frivolous bids, bidders must place funds in escrow before making a bid which is then returned to the bidder if the owner refuses the bid or fails to respond within some number of days.

All bids are reported to the public although bidders can be anonymous.
I have a dog door and a daughter who won’t close her bedroom window no matter how cold it is outside. I’m guessing it would be impossible to measure the air-tightness of my house :-/
in the third tier city where i am right now, high quality apartments go for 200kUSD or less. i don't know about those of questionable design and safety but i can't imagine that they go for anything but less than half that.
> but there's no obvious reason to think we're way better at one or the other.

There’s a very good reason. Sales of buildings plus land happen all the time, whereas sales of just land are virtually non-existent in a lot of the places with the most valuable property (e.g. Manhattan). Without real sales to tether the analysis you are just guessing.
From Bloomberg:

> Bondholders of $19.2 billion in Evergrande dollar notes face deep haircuts as the company overhauls its mammoth balance sheet without a government bailout -- a process that promises to be long, contentious and potentially risky for Asia’s largest economy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/evergrand...

It might seem odd that a Chinese company would have taken out dollar loans, but the practice is common around the world. One reason is that the borrower can get lower interest rates because they assume the exchange rate risk themselves. If that bet goes sour, though, the borrower faces higher costs to service the debt.

Of course the thing about dollar bonds is that even if the national government were to intervene, those dollars can't be printed by Beijing.

The only way to service a dollar debt is to raise dollars. One path to doing that is to sell dollar-denominated assets. US Stocks and bonds in other words. So the pressures in China can spill over into the US economy through forced asset sales of dollar-denominated assets.

This is another angle to the contagion idea. Organizations around the world have taken big short position on the US dollar. As those loans come due, dollar assets are sold. Which drives the dollar higher. Which makes the dollar loans even more unsustainable. And so on.

It has been called the global dollar short squeeze:

https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/

And if you're really adventurous, there's something called the "dollar milkshake theory" which predicts the uncontrollable rise of the dollar as (maybe counterintuitively) a wrecking ball for the world economy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qTOWuL7Zco
We also classify people who are spies, publish fake news or lie all the time as journalists as well.

During the Church Committee it got public that the publishers of Time Henry Luce, New York Times’ Sulzberger and so many journalists worked for the CIA:

“Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Tirne Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.

By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.“

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

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

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/05/06/40-y...
Claudia Schiffer hails influencers diversity
This has been shown to be not true many times over.

Different subjects need to be taught in different ways, but there are optimal ways to present information that works for everyone.

No one is a "visual learner", there are topics that are best presented in a visual format.
There's absolutely no way a person an an average income could buy a home in Australia and pay it off in 7.27 years. Those figures are totally wrong. Many people would be lucky to save for a deposit on a place in 7.27 years.
Systems Engineer here!

I studied computer science at one of the best U.K. universities but I currently work at a multinational engineering group in a team of chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers and I much prefer this kind of thing to the ‘tech’ industry.

The wanky recruitment processes with all the crap that goes on are actively insulting. Where I work it’s more like ‘this is what I’ve done before. This is what I’m going to do for you. Watch this!’ And then you get on with it.
URLs for the spoken extensions:

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Moving houses from A to B? Are you talking about manufactured homes? Outside of those, which do not represent the average American home, I've never heard of a house being moved except in very unique, very costly circumstances.
It’s Rare for Teslas to Spontaneously Catch on Fire
And I was so nervous about posting that I apparently wrote an essay... ':-D
>I have yet to see a blockchain implementation that's easy enough to use on its own

Bitcoin core is pretty easy to run yourself, no technical skills required.