skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care for this analogy, as you can be as responsible as possible and still have your credit tarnished due to microeconomic black swan events (and there are numbers thrown about that a majority of citizens can't afford a $1000 financial emergency without relying on subprime credit or family). What credit scoring for insurance purposes does due is suss out who is more likely to make a claim because their finances are marginal and they need the payout versus relying on their own finances for minor claims. Similar to folks who can't afford to replace their roof, and so they make a claim with a public adjuster to have the insurer cover the cost (very popular strategy in Florida for example, causing insurers to flee the state or stop insuring homeowners seeking coverage if their roof is over 10 years old).

If one is well to do, they're going to avoid making a claim unless the economic cost of the event is catastrophic (in which case, everyone is making that claim), and so the credit score is being used as a proxy for household financial strength (which is lazy, but easier than ongoing income and asset surveillance, although some credit card companies do this for credit risk management [Amex comes to mind]).

EDIT:

> That’s the bleeding heart take, yeah.

Guilty as charged.
Would be interesting to investigate a correlation between a low-income person with a relatively high credit and an above-average increase in their income and net worth over time.
No, it’s not. PSD2 does not define any APIs. Open Banking implements the requirements of PSD2, but they’re not the same thing.
You ticked so many of my proverbial boxes with this and now I'm crossing my fingers you've written about any of it somewhere for public consumption!
> one can literally write down a matrix of numbers in a program to define a new mathematical function, and later use that function to manipulate the contents of the computer's RAM[1].

This "Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists" video https://youtu.be/F_Riqjdh2oM explains classical and quantum operators as just matrices. What are other good references?

Quantum state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state

Quantum logic; quantum logical operators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic

> All this business about energy levels, evolution, etc. are distractions, just as the electrodynamics of a transistor are distractions from what it means to program a computer.

But a classical simulator - like e.g. qiskit - for a quantum circuit/experiment/function must run the experiment very^very^very many times to even probabilistically approximate a sufficient quantum system; because of the combinatorial probabilistic explosion that results from adding just one more basis state.

What are the fundamental limitations of quantum simulators? Maybe it's possible.

Quantum simulator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_simulator

- [ ] Maybe Twistor theory has insight into a classical geometrical formulation that could be run on a non-QC?

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

[Photon] wave-particle constructive superpositions approximate which operators, which may form a neat topology like this:

- [ ] > A research question for a new school year:

> The classical logical operators form a neat topology. Should we expect there to be such symmetry and structure amongst the quantum operators as well?
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logical_connective...
for me I would probably pay about $10 or $20 per year.

Just curious if others feel that way?
They call it proxy war.
YES!

I think the single most important thing of any software is "how do i install this". Thats the first thing i search for on a github repo.

And please no outdated tutorials, that sucks so bad ... that i give up and don't use it.
> Everything is designed around its own pitfalls.

This is true, but it’s also true that most things don’t claim to be major paradigm shifts and “the future”. Designing VR around these limits won’t satisfy people who have been promised ready player one. It’s a gimmick with some good potential, but it’s just a gimmick.
Pick a project (or better yet, a problem), and make it happen. Pick an area and tinker in it.

There's not really much more to it than that.

You may need to learn a ton as you go if you don't know the basics of the area the project is in. Software based projects are probably easier than hardware based projects in the sense that you won't lose money to change your mind.

On a RPi, you can always just rewrite the SD card and carry on. No harm, no foul. You're not counting on it like you would your main machine (until you are).
- Wireguard (VPN)

- Pi-hole (Adblocking and works with VPN)

- Plex (Media collection)

- Plausible (Web analytics)

- Home assistant (Smart home)

- Uptime Kuma (Monitoring)

- Traccar (GPS tracking)

- 5 nodejs web apps

Wireguard and nginx ports are only opened to internet.
For the record, I actually like and use it. I'm just at work and didn't put much thought on how to spell it. I also didn't really expect someone to care that much in a general, high-level discussion.
Follow the first link/s in these articles and somewhere you will find „jawsamycin“. A part of this molecule looks a lot like a row of teeth…
That's curious - I expected the answer to be "they're provided with discreet advice about expected future events based on friendly intelligence with sufficiently-high degrees of confidence that it's shared with them in order to further promulgate their success in a kind-of realpolitik to advance their peers' and nation-states' interests".

But that's not the case, apparently. Worth a watch, perhaps.
5MB to 60KB seems a bit extreme for a lossless compression. Would you be able to share the original and compressed documents for study?
Sadly, she was a heavy smoker, and passed away from lung cancer when I was still very early in my career.

The one time we "worked together" was when I got a summer internship at another defense contractor, programming in FORTRAN 77 on VAX/VMS. Coming from C & UNIX at the university, VMS and FORTRAN was quite different. She taught me the basics of the language over a weekend. I never really adjusted to the column layout stuff.

I recall we would use used punch cards for scrap paper when I was a kid. Pretty much every note or list she wrote was on a used punch card.
I once had a bunch of reasons to believe that my main linux machine had been compromised by a (totalitarian) state actor for months. As soon as I googled "qubes", all input devices froze. I went and bought a new machine. Dissent is costly. :-)

P.S. Saw that same "frozen" behavior a few years earlier when trying to wipe drives from a live OS.
Yeah trying to say they beat it over all is a mistake.

I do appreciate the author of the article pointing out all the really good things that are truly notable. And frankly those of the things I value more than raw GPU performance no matter how many watts.
I suppose the first thing that might come to mind is the correlation between obesity and serious disease outcome. "Pooled analysis show individuals with obesity were more at risk for COVID-19, >46% higher for hospitalization. >113% higher for ICU, 48% increase in death... The underlying metabolic and inflammatory factors of individuals with obesity also play a considerable role in the manifestation of severe lung diseases. [0] Given that only about 20% of sub-Saharan Africa is overweight compared to nearly 70% of North America [1], I might consider this one factor.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/obr.13128

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/obesity
His actions speak louder than his words. Along with the name change, the company pivoted to pushing high interest (12.5%) loans on students.

The ISAs also underwent dramatic changes. They now last up to eight years, max out at $42k, and apply to any job, whether or not it's tech. You could attend the program for a few months, drop out once you realize it's a disaster, get a job four years later as a truck driver, and end up on the hook for your full ISA.
The hacker news audience doesn't like the truth sometimes.
Just to be clear, every US citizen fits into a protective class of some sort. It really prevents discrimination on the basis of your membership to a particular protective class. Like anything base on law/policy/etc. there are complexities, caveats, and exceptions.
Got it so it's about Apple being Apple.
Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
Most of Amazon's work is served on a plate by Oracle, given the ratio of OpenJDK code.
> Despite this, I still routinely meeting high level people in companies who insist that assess in seats somehow give more productivity. I don't buy that hypothesis.

I'm teaching a software development programme to mostly 18 to 20 year old students. One of the ideas behind the programme is that students need to work through many increasingly difficult programming assignment. And that they do this for 40 hours per week in our 'office' (a class room with fancier furnishing and less density).

Due to COVID, we experienced some periods during which we had to revert to (partially) working from home. On average, about 40% fewer assignments were completed during these periods.

Our explanation (and also the reason that we have students come in full-time in the first place) is that:

A) Students who get stuck need to be able to easily seek help at that moment. Many students just don't ask for help when working from home, regardless of the many things we tried to stimulate this.

B) When students get stuck, feel frustrated, feel tired or are satisfied with something they've accomplished, many will come up with the idea to play a quick computer game. And get sucked in for the rest of the working day. This doesn't seem to apply to the few older students (with working experience) we have though.

So what does this tell us about employee productivity when working from home? Probably little, though I wouldn't be surprised if an organisation with lots of juniors has similar experiences.
I love selfhosting. Right now I have this in my personal docker-compose.yaml: NextCould (3 installs, each their own MariaDB instance), HomeAssistant, Mosquitto, Vaultwarden, an Nginx served static website, Unifi controller, nzbget, Samba, librespeed, Wireguard, 4 MineCraft servers, AdGuard home, FoundryVTT and Traefik as reverse proxy for https (it's all 1 yaml file, everything! At least, excluding the HA config etc). All on a 16 GB RAM, corei3 based server. Home Assistant tells me it is consuming about 30 W right now (and generally stays between 30-35W). That's about 70 eur a year for multi-terabyte personal cloud, and docker-compose makes managing it very easy (docker-compose pull, docker-compose up -d). Over the past 2 years I had only one issue (I had to pin Mariadb to 10.5 or NextCloud complains).

Oh, the initial costs are of course quite high, including all disks I'd say about 1000 eur, so it's quite the hobby (I have a nice Fujitsu motherboard (3 y/o) and Fractal Design case (12 y/o), it saw 3 builds now, I started with a super cheap atom based board, then a Pentium dual core, and now the corei3 system that can handle a lot more disks, the nvme root drive makes it so fast.) I wonder about my next system. I also have a corei3 based Nuc (as htpc) and that thing is also very fast, silent and energy efficient. And it has nice and fast external I/O. Not sure yet, but my current system will last at least another 5 years.

My father has a Synology NAS and for some time I thought that would be my next system because I'd get tired of the associated sys-admin tasks at some point (I started with a Gentoo system and there were no containers, meaning you have to set up php-fpm, then mariadb, then download Next(Own)Cloud, then update it regularly, pff and the migrations to other systems...). But docker-compose really changed that for me, I think the Synology would be more work.

Btw, a nice podcast on Selfhosting where I got a lot of inspiration from: [0]

[0]: https://selfhosted.show
Programmer's Guide to Snippets in Javadoc (JDK18)
The Mesa codebase does feel quite weird from afar but it would fun to contribute. I know compilers but not much about graphics.

Unfortunately I don't have a box to try wacky drivers on so that may block my efforts to embarrass myself in one more domain. Couldn't tell whether they test in VMs or physical boxes (or userspace?)
I'd imagine slaves would view it differently. They clearly did live under democracy in the US, but I don't think anyone would argue that it behaved like a dictatorship towards them.
It's not a dodge, it's a genuine question. The same tech bro's crying that they can't afford to own a house in SF can comfortably afford the rent, so what's the big deal?
Well, in some sense this is an inevitable problem with any contest that a) has sponsors and b) isn’t just making propaganda.

I think the solution will just be to have a variety of funding sources and a variety of ways that winners are chosen. Ideally the “corporate” sponsors won’t be the only sources of prize money, but one among many.

Even then, I don’t really foresee any controversial organizations being a sponsor anyway. More like: engineering company sponsors contest about physics.

Overall, the goal is to create great literature, not write polemics, so I am not particularly worried that this will be an issue. Certainly there is always the chance that the winning story will be harshly critical, but great sci-fi is usually nuanced, not black-and-white.
> Most accidents are caused by things that are pretty ordinary forms of irresponsibility

This is a big diversion form the actual point, but it's important. The vast majority of these crashes (the word "accident" is rarely used by news/DOTs/etc anymore) could be prevented by designing streets to control speed and improve visibility. So I'd argue that they're caused by poor design which comes as a result of misplaced societal values.

Re the second item in that list of causes, an interesting article came out a couple days ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-21/make-the-...
I wonder why there are so many conflicting opinions on this.

It may be that those trying to discredit the benefit of gyroscopic stability are looking at the first order effect of the gyro/wheels on keeping the bike upright, when in fact it is the force from the front wheel on the handlebars/steering, and the man-in-the-loop.

https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/summer11/researchspotlight....
Bringing self hosting to lambda users is _REALLY_ hard and Big Tech won't let you do it too easily.

Many corp email smtp servers will IP block your email server (big thanks to spamhaus), or won't support no-DNS email address and servers (which is RFC from the start) or won't have the decency to handle grey listing or will send all your emails to their spam boxes (gogol) even though ppl did remove your emails from their spambox.

IAPs won't provide a stable public IPv4 address or IPv6 prefix. UPNP NAT port redirection (IPv4) will have bugs on the IAP router/modem.

Buying a DNS and configuring a domain is a pain. So few DNS registrars support automatic domain configuration via the standard dynDNS protocol (is this even a thing?).

The self-hosting devices on user domestic LANs will be pown by very "smart" hackers pushing those very users towards big tech (I wonder who is pay... pushing such hackers to do that...).

The path of least resistance will win, always, even if it means giving way to much power to some corps:

Lambda users _will use_ comfy centralized services mostly, and those centralized services, once big, will try to zap away any alternatives or interop (which most used in the first place to get there).

Like lambda users _will use only_ the pre-installed OS on the computer (or mobile phone) they bought, same idea.

I am talking about nearly everybody else who is not "us", the 0.1% (ironical).
Couple weeks ago I made this post about self-hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30618577

My conclusion coming out of that thread was self-hosting is not a thing I'm going to do. I don't have the time or energy to essentially take up the part-time job of managing my own self-host.
Ask HN: Does research experience affect your performance as a software engineer?
And if so, is it for the better?
John McCain couldn't raise his hands because of his torture at the hand of the Vietcong.

Then big-man draft-dodger Trump comes around and gets the Republican Nomination instead, all the while making fun of McCain's injuries as a POW.

People like to pretend they care about leaders who have gone into war zones and personally risked their lives. But the politics of the past decade have taught me that all of that is just more political bluster. There's no actual power to going into war and risking yourself as a leader, the people will forget by the next election.
I am writing a non-fiction book and it’s going well so far, but recently it occurred to me that (despite the negativity present here), I have benefitted so much from spending my smartphone-addiction attention here, in this place, rather than pretty much any other app on my phone.

I would not be half as far in my project without HN. It’s makes me think about the European parlors and coffeehouses that fostered great European curiosity. In a digital world full of places devoid of this curiousity, it can still be found here.

Heck, this happened today, specifically with the thread regarding Colossal Cave Adventure. The top comment directed me to resources that just so happened to save me a chapter of work.

Obviously this is just my project, and I don’t expect my happiness with this development to change the lives of others, but it’s a good thing for me. It’s especially good when compared to the other places I could be; ideally I would throw my phone and laptop off a bridge and achieve inner peace.

Barring that, I’m glad to be here, and thankful for your project. It did positively affect the lives’ of others. At the risk of this comment sounding like a copypasta, I hope you understand my meaning well enough. I don’t think I’m alone in this experience here.
When I got to a site and it says 'open your free account to read the rest' I add it to my blacklist. There's so much good stuff to read online that doesn't require a password. More than a lifetime of it, most of it already vetted by time.
Bugged photo from Google Photosphere confuses /r/backroom
Unraid can do something extremely similar to this. There's a plugin that provides a repository of Community Applications that are essentially docker configuration templates designed specifically for Unraid. You can search for say, HomeAssistant and install it with just a few clicks.
Yeah, I'm not sure what action you would take with this information. Especially given the specific scenario of a tactical nuke used half a world away. Certainly, that's a profound change in the state of nuclear war, but what is there for an average person to do about it?

Somewhat more actionable is if the situation escalates from there towards MAD, and you might want to head to your bunker or what have you; but if you plan to make peace with your estranged family in the event, do it now. If you plan to go stockpile supplies, do it now. If you plan to build a fallout shelter, it's probably a little late, construction is expensive and slow now, but maybe you can get a dirt delivery to enhance the survive-ability of a structure you already have.
Yeah, but unlike them, I'm a loser who probably can't make anything worthwhile.
Writing out your post is more time than I care to spend worrying about it. I've finally secured a fully remote position at my current company, and I'll continue working fully remote for as long as I can. It's not worth worrying about the pros and cons of remote culture when I don't have any input into the decisions. I'm just going to coast along the best working circumstances I can find as time goes on, simple as that.
Sporadic database performance issues can certainly make you feel that way. They are definitely not trivially debugged at scale
It's nice to think there is a large untapped market of people who are ignored by traditional lenders, who have old-fashioned ways of measuring applicants and overlook people who don't fit the traditional mould.

There are a lot of important points in the thread, such the difficulty of enforcing terms compared to traditional loans, and the amount of cash needed up front which can only be made back over time -- but solving those problems wouldn't fix the fundamental problem that it's hard to succeed in lending when your target market is comprised of people who are unlikely to pay you back.

The ISA startups learned that the traditional lenders were right, including in their use of credit scores to evaluate applicants -- a lot of people ignored by traditional lenders really just aren't people you want to lend money to.
It's still slowly but surely chugging along. A small number of people (myself included to a small extent) are working on it. There's even a budget:

https://opencollective.com/sandstormcommunity

We've discussed the one-click install thing at some point (not necessarily with Cloudflare), I imagine that's still of interest. There were some issues with the setup process that would need to be addressed first.

Kenton is in the loop and he still has the keys. But, he's busy with other things so he only does a few occasional but vital things.
> Yeah, I remember reading about these when they launched and on paper they seemed like such a bad deal. The only group of people who would benefit from them over traditional loans are people who know they would never be able to pay off the equivalent debt.

Right, which goes to the point the author made about these agreements seeming exploitative. Why exactly aren't they (education ISAs) exploitative is my question. They're essentially loans with much fuzzier terms, and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau agrees [0].

But, for the sake of accuracy, one should note that the author's company wasn't offering education ISAs. They were operating on more of a talent agency model, and their basic ISA was 10% of pre-tax income for 18 months [1]. I think 18 months is a reasonable term, and 10% could be a reasonable percentage, but, again, the terms are inherently opaque, because there's no way for the consumer to predict what the outcome would be.

What I wonder is what sort of jobs/careers the clients were ending up in, and where they started. Knowing that would make it possible to judge whether the outcomes were worthwhile or not. We're not talking about sending people back to school to earn additional qualifications, so, I'm guessing it wasn't a case of people landing $100+K/year engineering jobs and such. They say their aim is to be able to take someone making $40k and get them to $52k, possibly in part by moving cities. I wonder how satisfied these early clients were with what they received.

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[0]: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/placement/
Where is this Coase article/paper, I’d like to read it?
>India, with 41 million obese people, ranks third after the US and China in having the highest number of overweight people in the world, says a study.

Young, thin people have an extremely low covid mortality rate. Young, obese people have a much higher morality rate.

>In a study of COVID-19 cases in patients aged 18 years and younger, having obesity was associated with a 3.07 times higher risk of hospitalization and a 1.42 times higher risk of severe illness (intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, or death) when hospitalized.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

Look at a map that shows age and obesity, then overlay that map with the severity of Covid outcomes and you will see a very close correlation.
Self-defense, domestic violence and the limits of the US justice system