skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bar is set so you can eat healthy food and have a dry place to rest. You wont get prepared meals or expensive wares, but you can afford to eat meat, you can't afford western housing but you can afford a hut.

Those two fixes most issues humanity have struggled with throughout history. Of course you can add so much more quality of life things on top of that, but at least then people don't starve or get diseases from sleeping in poor places or being malnourished. That is a poor life, but not necessarily a bad life, if you can eat and sleep well then you can live a good life.

Of course in the western world a hut isn't considered proper housing so you can't rent that out, instead people have to pay for expensive housing or become homeless. Same with food etc. That increases the quality of life, sure, but is also the reason you can't live on a few dollars per day here.
One recurring topic on HN is how miserable people here feel reading about crypto-billionaires, IPOs, cool projects , etc. The common response is that internet made it possible to marvel at 0.0001% people in their respective fields, which wasn't so easy in the past so we shouldn't feel too bad. This advice doesn't work, of course - we are not wired to internalize it properly. The very same thing happens with dating apps - you can see the most attractive people of your city and they are just a swipe away!

Robin Hanson has touched this very dangerous topic a bit
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...
The truth is we are not better than China or North Korea, we just hide our shit better.
The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day
Why ignore ppp? Why feel bad if two lives are equal in all respects? Non PPP only matters if someone moves countries.
You're a victim of the biases and presumptions of your own egalitarian culture.

There is a basis. Men and women are different and sexually complementary. One obvious reason is that the sexual tension and constant presence of people of the opposite sex (female orders exclude men also) and subsequent temptation and stirred concupiscence can be a distraction to the spiritual life. But the tendency for sex segregation occurs naturally. People tend to befriend people of their own sex because of an affinity of similarity, not complementarity. This is an important distinction.
The aesthetic doesn't have to change as much as you think. It does change in the US, because apartment buildings here have largely garbage design. But there are other countries that do the blending better, like Germany.
But government laws and regulations still have precedence over smart contracts or blockchain transactions. “But it’s written in the smart contract” is not a valid excuse for breaking the law of the country you reside in, and will be thrown out in any court. So instead of replacing one governance system with another, you’ve create a second, subservient system that is overruled by the first, have you not?

That’s the part I’ve never understood. Sure, you could use a blockchain that is anonymous to try and avoid scrutiny and legal trouble, but at that point you’re basically just a criminal.
> I would be shocked if the 'white room' scenes where not fully motion captured

The animations don't look that good to me, nowhere near mocap. The weird arms movements alone scream "video game"
You can install Debian (and other distributions) by downloading the netboot.xyz EFI boot image, then open a "cloud connection", reboot the instance, press ESC, and then boot from file.
Which is why I try to vote for politicians that support any kind of single payer / medicare for all / etc healthcare and was so very disappointed with what Obamacare became: just payouts to the established anti-consumer groups as usual.
Expecting system, and built-in applications to work on globally-installed interpreted language is fragile. Despite adoring the Python language, I groan whenever I need to install something written in Python (that isn't bundled into a binary), or want to program with it in Linux.
That's only 50 students worth of tuition for that year, or 0.3% of tuition brought in that year.

While $2.5M is obviously a lot of money, it's a drop in the bucket in terms of how much the university brought in. For universities and hospitals, it's not the high salaries of a few execs, it's the massive amounts of administrative staff.

For the larger hospital systems, several thousand admin staff making 60-70k+ adds up to waaaaay more than the fat paychecks that a dozen execs make.

It's basically a snowball effect. Execs get bonuses for bringing in more revenue, but it's a non-profit so they have to spend it somewhere, so they expand admin and build facilities, rinse repeat.
If you can’t communicate this to programmers then good luck communicating the idea to a general audience.
Honestly... it depends if you have an ad-blocker.

I would prefer TV to Youtube any day, if I had a TV ad-blocker, simply because the content is far more likely to be reasonable quality rather than a 20 minute clickbait video with 30 seconds of actual content.
I haven't studied economics at all, but if you could get your academic comrades to stop offering intro courses as one-and-done gen-eds, I bet we'd drastically improve the quality of online armchair economic analyses.
It's been a while since I read their bios, but Luther Burbank, George Washington Carver, and Rudolf Steiner all claimed their astonishing success as plant breeders came from respectful communication with plant and nature spirits.
This is one of the reasons Tiktok growth is exploding. Like Twitter, it forces creators to apply some editing and think about what really needs to be in their video. Contrast this to YouTube which incentivizes stretching a 15 second idea into a 10 minute waste of time.
The Luddite sentiment common among programmers today really surprises me. The software we’re building today is vastly more powerful and capable than anything from the C64 era.
i wish i was taught in terms of euler' formula, which is probably the most useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
To add to which, the people who are most likely to get visas to move to much richer countries tend to be the ones that start off in their own country's upper middle class (allowing them to tick all the right educational boxes to become software developers or nurses, or at least have savings to pay people smugglers).

They can still be materially a lot richer and often enjoy many other lifestyle benefits from moving overseas even if they have to drop down the status ladder and forget about owning land and having servants, but it does make the decision a bit more of a tradeoff than a salary comparison might suggest. The option of moving isn't really there for the people who are so poor there's no upside to staying in their own country.
Yep Specially crafting a zip file can make it streamable but it’s not the general default. Can GNU unzip read from stdin? Not sure but I don’t think so?
> implying "game engine people" are good at fixing performance issues
You're acting like the employees were forced into the limos at gunpoint. People have free volition. Offering someone a better opportunity is not remotely 'evil'.
Presumably, you can still game on the original NES (if any modern TV accepts its video signal).
It depends on what you want to get from them. If you consider reading a book as a conversation exploring various ideas, you' ll like it very much.
It will stop working.
>> do you think $6.70 a day (US ppp equiv) is actually quite a decent income, or do you think the extreme poverty threshold might be a pretty low bar to have set?

Well first of all, the point I was making was that enormous progress has been made, and the article has a very negative tone in spite of that. I'm just too old for that type of pessimism. Things do get better.

And as far as the bar goes, I don't know that there is a bar. There's a quote by a labor union leader named Samuel Gompers from over a century ago, "We do want more, and when it becomes more we shall still want more". I think that about covers it.

The only argument is over how we get there.
I think it's a misconception that we can somehow speed up or direct "evolution", no matter what language and mathematics we have.

Diverting an asteroid, however, is not evolution.
> structs should signal intent

Isn't a collection of parameters to a function an intent?
All "labor actions" have only become "acceptable" through sacrifices of people fighting for it. Its a hard thing to get companies to agree to make less profit, as making profit is how they justify their existence, and profit tends to fall, so they are incentived to fight even the smallest demands from workers. "Acceptability" is a dynamic thing, decided by those who write laws.

Not sure how to respond to your example because its a different situation? Do you think workers are just angry in the same way the mob outside of your house is? Or do you maybe think they are just trying to survive in this world?
Most of my vegan friends don't eat this trash, or only exceptionally, so it didn't really pop into my mind when I wrote my comment.
I'm definitely going to have to do some research on bananas after this lol.

In CSS land however you wouldn't break the world for a different banana, you'd simply add another class for the variant and style appropriately.

.banana {
// generic banana styles
}

.banana.musa-velutina {
color: pink;
}

Of course not all decisions are going to be as straightforward, but I do think that there's a lot of value in keeping a website's items consistent.

The work upfront to name things and build out concepts will pay its dividends as you extend a site or build out new ones.
But you don't have more CPU cycles per second. And the software you use takes several times as much resources to let you do... basically all the same things you could do a couple decades ago.
700K more cybersecurity workers, but still a talent shortage
> 1. At peak popularity, Borland products where easily available. Borland decided to turn to enterprise and raised the price considerably, so individuals and small companies started looking elsewhere. By the time they realised the mistake it was too late. In my opinion this was the biggest mistake.

Exactly this. Turbo C was the first real C compiler for DOS that I could afford, where "real" means that it supported large memory model. Before then, the cheap compilers were always stripped down to only allow small model (64K instructions/64K data). Turbo C was also downright fast, and it cost far less than what Microsoft wanted for their compiler. But once we actually started writing 32-bit applications, its day in the sun had already past.
Amusingly Steve Ballmer got the hump when MS engineers started leaving for Google
At least in the UK, dementia is the number one comorbidity of Covid death.
Very nice interactive visualizations! I've made a similar article some time ago https://imadr.me/rotations-with-quaternions/
No, we've got our own fine tuning pipeline and initial tests showed better performance without traditional stem/lem processing so we dropped it from our classification pipelines and haven't seen a need to revisit.
But people don’t build desktop applications that much anymore. Windows, macOS, and Linux as GUI platforms have all faded with the Web and smartphones.

It was a huge downgrade in interactive functionality at the time, but the Web has slowly built up over the past two decades so it is almost as functional.
It has some of that accounted for, like:

"Upon power-on, the 65F02 grabs the complete RAM and ROM content from the host and copies it into the on-chip RAM, except for the I/O area. Then the CPU gets going, using the internal memory at 100 MHz for all bus accesses except for any I/O addresses"

There's also some soft cores for a Z80 that can work at the stock clock speed, but do more work per cycle, which is interesting.

Edit: Some, not all, things are covered.
It's not ruthless -- it's business.

If the fault lies on anyone, it's the employees who accepted the offers. If they really thought it was "evil", they would have denied the offer on moral grounds or in loyalty to their employer.

Do you not frequently get offers for more money than you are currently making at your employer? I would be a massive asshole if I accepted and left a job every time I got one of those -- especially in this market!

Since they succeeded in hiring so much of their company away, it seems none of them felt particularly attached to Borland or their work there, compared to a salary.

The only "evil" in the situation is how easily some (most?) people will abandon you the moment they get a better opportunity.

I suppose Borland could have matched salaries or tried to keep their employees in whatever way (maybe they did, who knows?) but at the end of the day either they didn't, or it wasn't enough for those engineers.
Configurable linters are usually best avoided, because it's too easy to remove a check rather than fix your code, in a crunch.
One technique in particular, called saliency maps, turned out to be especially helpful. It is often used in computer vision to identify which parts of an image carry the most-relevant information. Saliency maps pointed to knot properties that were likely to be linked to each other, and generated a formula that seemed to be correct in all cases that could be tested. Lackenby and Juhász then provided a rigorous proof that the formula applied to a very large class of knots2.

Kewl, and not to discount the result but sounds like ... pattern matching, right?

So why do the editors of all these journals keep feeding off the ML == AI meme?

Surely they know better by now.
It's important to understand that in the 90s Microsoft was one of the few software companies that took "software talent" seriously, and would aggressively poach talent from competitors. They offered better pay, better working environments (private offices instead of cube farms). Often times their competitors wouldn't realize this until it was too late.
Robert Harper: “Phase Distinctions in Type Theory”
The article points out that fines are not tax deductible and gives the other example of BP and Deepwater Horizon

> But such write-offs are legal, qualifying as “ordinary and necessary” business expenses. By contrast, fines and penalties are not deductible. Oil giant BP was able to deduct most of the settlement it reached with the government over the Deepwater Horizon spill because much of it went to address the environmental calamity, rather than to penalties for wrongdoing.

And the other points in the article are the trust that was set up and the expenses for cleaning up the spill were what was deducted on taxes but they seemingly did not actually do anything to clean it up.

> In 2012, the Coast Guard finally ordered Taylor to install a dome to contain the leak, but three years later, when Taylor Energy settled a lawsuit that forced it to start publicly disclosing more about its efforts, the company had not even finished the design.
What is shape? Reading the doc doesn't make it clear why it is a paid thing. I just signed up for oracle cloud for free account and how to check if I accidentally bought anything?
Not exactly as you may be thinking, but in many countries there is a parallel, private health care sector.

The fact that patients have the choice to go to the public sector instead of the private likely keeps prices in the private sector down, but if there is literature on the extent and magnitude of those effects, I’m not familiar with it. Mexico is an example of such a country.
It's not a government fine. It's just an agreement in the contract specifying a payment is due if your card declines.
Uhh... yeah, just typing the password (or letting your password manager autofill when you get cache poisoned or whatever) has always been enough to get you. onkeydown has existed longer than phishing.
That's the great thing (and the point of many of the comments in this thread) about Scala - you don't have to do any FP with Scala if you so choose. You can operate in a completely OO fashion and gain all of the benefits of the language (primarily the type system) for free.
Dealing w apple about finding Pegasus on my phone since 2016. They have ignored my request for help until now and technical support saying there is not much they can do about it.
The dataset doesn't ignore PPP, it's expressed in "international dollars" which is a standard PPP adjustment to US levels.

That's not really discussed because it's an utterly standard thing to do in cross-country comparisons, but the article might have been better if it talked about the fact the data is PPP adjusted so the actual dollar amounts earned in the poorer countries are even lower, and the fact that PPP adjustments aren't perfect so people on $6.70 of imputed US purchasing power can still pay rent
You could do a Google search something like this:
[inurl:https://play.google.com/store/apps/ -"Contains Ads"]
Scientific Method - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Similar problem to me when they acquired apiary. I was in a free tier of apiary which became a paid tier under oracle. They then charged me for months. I finally had to write a letter (yes snail mail) stating that we were going to report them for deceptive trade practices to the attorney general of Texas. They got back to me after a few weeks. They promised a refund…never got that and it’s just not worth fighting.

I will never choose to do business with oracle directly.
I Made a Video about Humpty Dumpty and Naïve Set Theory
Quality of friendships.
During the last ARM HPC User Group conf i was able to get my hands a 160 core instance, i was shocked, holy moly do they beat Xeon when it comes to SAT solving in my test with HordeSAT.
Quick feedback: I really like your color scheme there. Dark blueish grey as a background, and a regular blue that comes of as pretty bright as the text color, and therefor pops forward and sticks out. Nice variation on the dark mode theme.
> It's not ruthless -- it's business.

It's not like these things are mutually exclusive.
Better.com's CEO is 'taking time off effective immediately'
What you call "expressive duplication" I call "explicit intent". The error control flow is not subordinate to the happy path.
> he can absolve both himself and his team of responsibility.

Everything up until this sentence makes sense in a twisted sort of way, but that's the part I don't get. When did we absolve companies from their choice of vendors? If I buy a service and that service does not work then the company selling that service does not get to blame their vendors, that they chose, just like they don't get to blame individual devs that they hired.
And they do an excellent job as Java’s language steward. Java was revived and has many excellent research and development going for it. Project Loom, Panama, Valhalla came to mind. They also made a low-latency GC.

Oracle is not a homogeneous entity.
It was the pinnacle of an era that was gone with the rise of the Internet.
Jeff Jeff and John John are frequent applicants at Kellogg for some reason.
whenever you sign up for some one-time use trash, use support@oracle.com as your email to get them back :)
Most of those other systems have price controls for everything, like Medicare does in the U.S.

The U.S. is different because we allow corporations to lobby/bribe/buy politicians, which most other developed countries consider to be corruption.

So we have a health care system optimized for profits, not people.
Whether it’s hospitals, hosipital owners, doctors, or other healthcare industry benefactors, someone is making a killing beyond just the insurance companies. Ballooning administration is not only a cause but a symptom, which is why free market solutions can’t overcome the problem. Establishing new healthcare institutions will depend on the existing healthcare industry, which will expect the same profits or it won’t cooperate. There is no way around the fact that free-market healthcare is just deeply immoral and inhumane.
Last year between jobs I spent some time with Node.js and Rust.

Rust, as a language, isn't a good choice for simple web applications. It's compiler-checked manual memory management. Most of the time I spent with Rust was just getting boggled down in arcane syntax that would probably take me months to become familiar with.

In contrast, Node.js with garbage collection is blazingly fast for web applications.

Rust, though, introduces some really good concepts that I'd like to see in other languages. Matching and error handling takes some time to get used to, but it's much more advanced than exceptions. (Specifically, the caller, not the callee, decides which errors are exceptional and which errors it can pass up the stack.)
Salient points.

If the Fed is behind the inflation, there is something we are missing. For example, I have personally struggled to find what bank reserves are useful for.

I surely doubt they're totally useless. I can only assume that they are a more preferential asset with relation to the Basel requirements on further loan creation. But since banks are not constrained by these requirements right now (as far as I understand), it's unlikely to have a meaningful effect.

Another way to look at it is that this is putting a floor on Treasury asset prices, which could in theory somewhat translate to asset price inflation as more market participants are able to liquidate their treasuries at a higher price, whose dollars would then go into other assets.

An alternate take is Jeff Sneider's - where he says that QE (and central bank actions, in general) are more of a tool for instilling confidence in the market rather than anything else.
I don't know if it's my imagination but I've noticed this with FM radio too. Sometimes I'll turn on the radio in the car because there's a local station that plays music I like, but it's become unlistenable because the ad:music ratio is about 50% now. And the ads seem to be mostly for things boomers might buy (like hearing aids, luxury cars, and blood pressure medicine), because of course everybody younger never listens to the radio.

FM radio is dead; it just doesn't know it yet.
I find your story very interesting, because it's a pattern I've heard several times before: someone who does not want to get vaccinated because of the risk of side effects, but is willing to expose themselves, to a greater degree than is necessary, to the risk of covid.

It seems that for some people there's an intrinsically greater distrust of vaccines (a synthetic thing) than disease (a natural thing).
Also, it's a variation on the concept. It's really good when we have multiple implementations of a general design.
> Feels like the box should have a bunch of buffers or tuners or whatever the necessary technology is and guess what channel I might flip to next (up, down, previous would be good starts). It could have those streams ready to go in a millisecond.

I'm not an codec expert but, AFAIK, apart from buffering you also need to decode since the latest keyframe (so, typically, last n seconds of input).
A very famous philosopher who wrote a book on critical thinking has demonstrated that logic and critical thinking are not enough. You need to be aware of your own motivated reasoning, and your fears. What are you afraid of thinking? Which groups are you afraid of offending? If you get past that, then you have to ask yourself if you're willing to risk your good name and your career for the sake of truth and honesty.
> and to skip the 18 minutes of advertising per hour of TV

And now Instagram shows 1 ad every 3 posts/stories, which is getting closer to the ratio on TV.