skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that the article did a great job making its case beyond using dramatic language.

I'm sure a non-zero number of errors are expected in any system like this that depends on various institutions reporting to the credit bureaus on the status of payments.

Numbers of affected people thrown around in the article are in the thousands to hundreds of thousands.

There are about 250 million adults in the USA. So, if 300,000 have some kind of error in their credit score, that's a 1.2% error rate, and Equifax has since corrected that particular error.

700,000 made complaints to the CFPB, and about 60% of those related to scores, so about 420,000. So, this represents less than 2 percent of adult Americans reporting an issue with their credit scores.

I am sure these error rates could be improved, but I'm not sure I would jump to the headline's conclusion that "the system is broken." It seems like the system is functioning, has some flaws, and that if the error rate improves even a little bit they're not all that far from what most people would describe as an acceptable error rate.
What if this cheap energy also made it very easy to make, or even store a PetaJoule in a briefcase sized package?

I could see very strong national security reasons to keep that very tightly controlled.

Imagine a 1,000,000 Farad capacitor charged to 50kv
If EMPLOYER pays you 10k and you want to buy a plan for 5k, you first have to pay taxes on the 10k, lets say 20%, so you have 8k - 5k = 3k left over.

OR

The employer can just buy the 5k plan for you tax free, and pay you 5k instead. This means you have 4k left over after tax! This is because healthcare plans are not taxed if provided by the employer.

Incredibly retarded, yes, it is.
They seem to have a good write up to explain that: https://zen-lang.org/zig/

Also: forking /= stealing
Yep! And it’s part of a contract.
> - Ubiquitous mobile internet integrated into even very trivial consumer goods

Surely, surely this has to be among the predictions which came true, or largely so. Even toothbrushes have Wi-Fi!
I augur that the query will be expanded soon with a list of synonyms. I bet would probably add more interesting results
I like to buy used electronics online, but it's very tedious cross-referencing model numbers and benchmarks and such to determine what's actually a good deal. For example which is better, a 10th gen i5 or a 7th gen i7 at the same price?

So as a pandemic hobby, I made a website to scrape eBay laptop listings, extract all the relevant data, cross reference against benchmarks, and sort the result by "value" (aggregate performance / cost). I took inspiration from the parametric search on site like digikey for commodity components, where no one cares about brand.

You can check it out here [1]. Maybe eventually I'll write a showHN, but I haven't been working on it for a while, and there's a few features I want to add before that. Originally I planned to use affiliate links, which seemed like a nice all-parties-win setup, but eBay kicked me off the Partner Network program for not generating traffic. So presently it's totally free and non-profitable.

[1] https://bytebucket.co
I will pay for no ads rather than have a free product with ads.

> This could potentially allow publishers to place ads in areas within each app, or pay to get their content placed higher in search results

The two are very different. Im used to search results being tampered with. Ads in my books? No thanks.
Anything by Fluke or Underworld
the concern is that the evidence that lead to the approval of these “vaccines” was as bad as the evidence for humors and leeches.
I haven't fixed an amp (yet) but I have been able to fix a few electronic doodads and boards using EEVBlog.com forums. Great resource if you are into electronic repair or troubleshooting.
TTY emulators have a long history of being vulnerable to all kinds of nasty things. For example: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2003/Feb/att-341/Termula...

One would hope that we're past the bad times, but at the same time brand new projects like the kitty terminal emulator let stdout read and delete arbitrary files. And verifying something is safe is just hard, these are not even e.g. memory safety bugs, they're "features".
I still have the medium-sized dictionary I bought for college. Many words have dates or notes next to them, from the time when I would use it for studying and doing exactly this. I also have the thesaurus, of similar size, I bought at the same time.

Today I keep a spreadsheet of "Words of Interest", where I make notes about words I encounter that I either don't know or find especially insightfully placed. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind a decent dictionary app that allowed for making permanent personal annotations. Do you happen to know of one?
> I think that would start to create some social nudging functions (i.e. payment for Healthcare) while being a bit more fair (i.e. service quality sometimes proportional to money put in).

An interesting definition of “fair” - in Sweden the principle is equal health care prioritized according to who needs or benefits most from the care, not how much you pay. If you see it from that point of view, tax is not a transaction where you pay for the services you receive. You pay for the society you receive, which includes people in general being more healthy, not just yourself.
I keep thinking about these topics. The constant rants, the food waste, the bs jobs.. I see a few ideas but it seems i'm too radical (I believe people enjoy heavy activities as long as they're rewarding intrisically and socially)
Thanks for your brilliant refutation of the arguments in this article (just in case: /sarcasm)
I think they just deployed that, because I don't think that worked an hour ago.
Fyi "this language has been under design for a long time" is not always perceived as a good thing since it can be associated with navel gazing. IMO I'd advertise the language based on the core benefit you think it provides
Argos AI Adventure – A text based adventure game written with GitHub Copilot
I sympathize with all artists who are concerned about these new tools. Once I thought about being a full time artist, but life got in the way.

However, visual art creates a cultural feedback loop that is constantly evolving, it is a crucial mirror that shows us stark naked. Just read the history of art.

People should not forget that there is no way this technology can make such a vital form of collective expression relevant without artists participating in it.

Of course it will disrupt a lot of things, and nobody enjoys that, but new ways of meaningfully involving humans in it will continue to emerge. Otherwise it would just cease to be relevant.
Media, perhaps, but interest groups probably share more of the blame, because the FUD originates with them. E.g. Greenpeace claims one million deaths from Chernobyl, GSS claimed something to the effect of "more than 1.5 million with most of the damage still to come" a few years ago. I almost can't blame people in an environment like that when they think TMI or Fukushima killed hundreds or thousands and gave a lot of people cancer or whatever.
The problem isn't that they're finally not hosting that misinformation anymore. It's that they're trying to memoryhole the fact that they ever were, instead of saying something to the effect of "we used to believe that the mRNA and the spike protein would not last long in the body, but now we think they do."
> There are literally multiple internal Apple emails released through court testimony where Apple executives clearly explain how important iMessage is to lock-in to iPhone and how if parents can just buy an Android and install an iMessage app it would mean disaster.

I’m genuinely interested. Do you have a link?
Those numbers are all developers overall. In the Django developers survey (i.e. web only), Windows is just above 10%. The most used platform is Linux (42%), Mac 32%, Windows with WSL (i.e. Linux in a VM) 17%, and straight up Windows is a paltry 12%. In other web frameworks the numbers are likely worse, since Django has a pretty good Windows support.

https://medium.com/codex/jetbrains-django-developer-survey-r...
An experimental weather forecast visualization app: https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/
I predict you're correct.
I find it rather rare that a relatively compentent dev couldn't get approximately equal compensation working for some other company. So if offered $X for volutary severance, where $X at least N months total compensation, most devs who can get a similar job in less than N months will leave. This leaves you with least capable people, which is (usually) not what's wanted when doing layoffs. (This is of course assuming that interview performance is correlated with work performance, which is not necessarily a great assumption to do)
For Oculus owners, there's a really fun VR take on this concept called Control Tower VR. It's not super polished, but the core gameplay loop is fun enough that I don't care. Having a third dimension to route aircraft is really fun, as well as just walking around and watching them.
Cool project. I wonder if this could be used as a Latex alternative? Can I typeset and display math equations? What about cross referencing (images, equations, sections, citations)?
Show HN: YoLinks, a human-readable URL shortener for teams
Hi HN,

I've been working on YoLinks (aka YoLinks.app) for the past few months. Most URLs are long, unmemorable, and opaque. YoLinks allows anyone in your organization to create aliases that anyone else can access. These aliases end up being shorter, more memorable, and transparent. Imagine using yo/onboarding instead of https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pyJy21G5F508r6Fbg0AMlE8a.... All aliases are private to your organization.

My primary goal in building YoLinks was learning. I was also frustrated that my current company doesn't have a similar tool; you can learn a lot more while solving a real problem (this is why I didn't sign us up for similar products on the market).

Here's a list of concepts and tools I learned while building this:

* React for the frontend

* Cypress for in-browser tests

* Concepts around building a multi-tenant product for enterprises (roles, managing mappings between users and their organizations, SSO)

* Google Identity Platform (which also exposes you to Firebase Authentication) for authentication and supporting OIDC auth for multiple tenants

* Mixpanel

* Browser extension development (manifest v3 for Chrome and Edge; v2 for FireFox)

I'd love any feedback!
An easy way to share contact informative at conferences

- https://qcard.link
> We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

Now that I think about it… doesn't this in combination with IoT and planned obsolescence pretty much guarantee that block lists will have to grow in an unbounded fashion over time?

I wonder when the first "Legacy IoT
Telemetry 2010-2020" list (or something similar) will pop up :)

That is, if it doesn't exist already.
England’s Oldest Surviving Shipwreck Is a 13th-Century Merchant Vessel
It’s probably a good ol perfectly rational slippery slope. Fixing a minor mistake or two in post is absolutely the best choice for everyone. Each additional fix is not worth a reshoot either. But slip too far and the product suffers.
It started that way because it got around WWII-era wage caps and it remains advantageous because it gets paid for with pre-tax dollars. (Which isn't, I know, carved in stone. But that's the way it is atm.)
It seems like the article is saying that the fact that there isn't a union is actually a big help in the ability to do this kind of lay-off.

> Swedish companies must negotiate with unions before layoffs. However, this was not the case at Klarna, nor is it the case at most Swedish tech companies. Klarna does not have a collective bargaining agreement (called “kollektivavtal” in Swedish) in place. This means that Klarna as an employer is not forced to negotiate layoffs with a union. Instead, Klarna is entitled to negotiate directly with each affected employee, which they are doing.

Klarna is also pretty big (7500 employees according to the article) so I imagine it doesn't have to do with the company size.
Power, laws, and planning: How law and policy replicate land use social division
probably most common on the big island I'd imagine, due to the peak there.

I don't really have a proof for this, but it seems like atmospheric charge mostly builds up due to charged dust and other particulates being blown up from the ground and into the upper atmosphere. Since this requires wind + a lot of land surface area for particulate capture, it would follow that islands wouldn't get a lot of lightning.

But now I'm wondering how lightning in seaborne hurricanes and tropical storms originates.
> This is an archived page. So what's shown here is that the site /did/ say mRNA and Spike don't last long.

Right. Now compare it to the page as it looks today to see that they deleted that section.
very inspiring, points well taken.
Capitalism is why we still don't have it

Capitalism is why we still burn coal and use gas

Capitalism is why china is already ahead

I can continue with many more examples :)

They all waiting in line to get government funding

Capitalism is why there is no chip fab in the US

Intel is waiting in line for government funding
> It is my understanding that Julia was implemented in Lisp

That's mostly incorrect. Julia's parsing and lowering are implemented in Femtolisp (though active work is underway to replace the parser with one written in julia itself). There's no lisp code doing any actual important or performance sensitive work in Julia.

The very small core of the language implementation is done in C and (a restricted subset of) C++, and then the rest of the language is boostrapped in Julia itself.
I thought for sure it was going to be a link to Mr Carlsons lab: https://www.youtube.com/c/MrCarlsonsLab
This question should be taken down. It implies no intelligence in asker.
>I wanted to build something that illustrates the difficulty of drone flight.

I think you nailed this part 100%. I suck in the very same way I did with my first - and only - real life drone I bought.
First time reading the NY Times?
Interesting point, but the example here is HQ'd in Ohio. I think some of what you talk about in California is true but you could say that about New York, or once upon a time Hong Kong. Places where ambitious people come to breed a certain mindset. California is a big state and very rural parts California arre like Idaho (I'm not talking exurbs).
Nah the Vancouver scene is the same. Maybe it's a West coast thing?
I like the saying, “strong opinions, loosely held” which I feel hits in the same vein.
small app that allows me to publish my Apple Notes to my personal website

[1] http://montaigne.io
[2] https://podviaznikov.com
> Most guys I know here in the Austria boonies have a hunting rifle.

First of all, Austria is the only country in the European Union where firearms are only partially licensed.

Second of all... Sorry, what I really meant was to say was that European gun ownership (broadly speaking) is very different from USian gun ownership. Europeans generally need permits, reasons for ownership, training, et cetera just to own a firearm. Carrying is heavily discouraged, and often illegal without a permit... which the state is under no obligation to give you. Magazine size restrictions are rampant.

In the United States, in many territories, we don't have equivalent policies. Many states allow for entirely permit-less ownership and carrying of firearms. We don't need to ask permission – that's the difference I'm trying to indicate here.
The issue is rather that due to the unpredictable nature of renewables, sometimes the stars align so that the combined output of wind, solar, and hydro end up far beyond what the grid needs.

During those times, in some parts of Europe for example, renewable energy really is practically free. This is a problem for nuclear and fossil plants which lose money during those times. The renewable operators don't make much either but at least they don't have very high input costs.
The article makes it sound like this is a suggestion, not a requirement, for layoffs
I just finished rewriting this custom reddit email newsletter service from a few years ago. Fully functional but don't feel like trying to market it: https://orangered.email/
I dunno, it seems like the tide is turning a bit. Mazda and BMW both say they're going to cool it with touch screens, and I assume others have too. This might be related to the chip shortage, but then again I've seen a bunch of articles about how much people hate this technology in cars. The original prediction doesn't include a timeline, I note. Maybe this is wishful thinking on my part?
If there was a standard for specifying which static library a binary has linked, this would be a non-issue.
There is a response to this tweet where someone says "stop gatekeeping art" which while I understand the gist of what they mean, seems like a weird thing to say to console someone who is concerned they are about to be automated out of a job.
Iron Man's "arc reactor" is explicitly supposed to be a fusion reactor and it blows up, taking a building with it, during the events of the first Iron Man movie.
No, that's just a different way of writing Q. There is not a continuous gradient along which nuclear fusion research progresses. It will have a negative $/kWh ratio until the first commercial plant is built. Until then it's milestones that show possibilities.
A lot of art created now, especially for film/ media, already goes through a similar process that AI just automates and accelerates. Several big concept artists I have met have lamented on the fact that many artists in the industry basically churn compositions out through mashing references they gather on google images or asset stores, not to mention just straight photobashing, which has made a lot of the concepts produced fairly derivative and homogenized since everything is just referencing what google images serves or assets that everyone else uses.

Even fine artists have likely had their practice influenced by the whims of what the algorithms on major social media outlets are willing to favor in order to get engagement. It kind of feels like many creatives have been incentivized into becoming slaves to these processes, which has in turn made them seem replaceable with AI.
I’m not a fan…the credit score system kept me homeless during my freshman year of college even though I’d saved up enough money to pay a year’s worth of rent.
this is very cool, good job!
Turkey's underground city of 20k people
What progress? We’re bruteforcing solutions without any way to learn from then. ML eliminates serendipity. I’m not strictly anti-ML. Horses for courses and all that, but I’ve got to admit I get weird, “The humans stopped learned and the computers started,” sci-fi vibes sometimes.
Polycam and Changing My Views on Augmented Reality
Europe's drought could signal the death of river cruising
No, I just thought the chinese government regulated internet hosting very closely. Or implying that it is also complicit in these schemes.
> I think the reason programmers don't unionize is some are 10x better than others, so they don't want to get the same wages as 1x programmers.

Tom Cruise makes (e.g.) $10M for being in a movie, and Jane Doe who plays Waitress #2 gets paid $10K for being in the same movie, and yet they're both part of SAG.

You can create union/guild structures which have a minimum pay scale but not a maximum.
I think functional programming has a larger presence in JavaScript/frontend now, given ES6 APIs like forEach/map and interfaces like higher-order components in React. I notice much more FP in modern frontend docs, like CodeMirror 6, Lit web elements. So, we’re not all using Haskell, but its certainly benefited my programming to have a better understanding of FP concepts.
Your price at the pump went up. So did Saudi Aramco's profits – to a new record
Oh damn! Thanks!
love this design!
I used to live in Campbell, CA in a second floor apartment directly overlooking three railroad tracks: two for the light rail and one for the Union Pacific freight trains carrying loads from the Permanente Quarry.

My dad worked for Union Pacific when I was a kid, so it was super fun to see their trains go by. The light rail trains would sneak up on you, but you could hear the diesel trains coming up from miles away.
Short answer: No, that can't happen.

Fusion reactors and conventional nuclear (fission) reactors are very different. Only poorly designed fission reactors can meltdown and release large amounts of highly radioactive material into the environment. And no nuclear power reactor of any kind can explode into a giant fireball like a nuclear bomb; that only happens on TV shows.
That game is probably Flight Control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game)
Just for fan. Who you are in C++
Apple does allow personal loan apps, but sets limits on interest rates and repayment deadlines (≤36% APR, ≥60 days) which effectively ban the type of app at issue here. Requesting permissions to all of the user's contacts and photos in a loan app wouldn't pass review, either, and the fact that Apple doesn't permit sideloading is an effective block against the "subway flyer" tactic.
Mail couriers had to teach themselves to drive after many years of using horses.

Artists will have to learn how to stimulate AI models in effective ways and perform suitable post-processing.
My pet peeve: predictions not associated with probabilities or odds.

It's impossible to verify or score accuracy without that. Nobody predicts anything at 100 % certainty (otherwise it wouldn't be a prediction, it would just be stating inevitable facts), so there's always an implicit level of confidence.

It's just that when people don't say what it is, their predictions become meaningless to anyone but themselves.

A prediction without a probability is also not open to critique, because the way we settle differences in beliefs about uncertainties is through betting against each other. But a bet requires odds to price it with.
The problem with a secret sauce is the market needs more than sauce.

So even if they could proactively leverage their synergies using mobile apps or whatever their secret sauce was, activities like, I donno, collections maybe, still scales up linear with size like legacy companies.
If they claim they achieved 1.3MJ and can only reproduce some hundreds of KJ, that's not exactly close the exact same numbers.
Where in the US do you live, because I've never been somewhere here that people don't hug.
> Oh, yes, I certainly would. Shared libraries are an expensive, trouble-prone solution for that relatively uncommon problem.

This personal assertion has no bearing in the real world. Please do shine some light on what exactly do you interpret as "expensive", and in the process explain why do you feel that basic software design principles like modularity and the ability to fix security vulnerabilities in the whole system by updating a single shared library is "trouble-prone".

I mean, the whole world never saw a real world problem, not the UNIX comunity nor Microsoft and it's Windows design nor Apple and it's macOS design not anyone ever, but somehow here you are claiming the opposite.
They're building a small scale reactor to test the design. And are you really criticizing a private company for taking just 10 years to get to working reactor? Their approach to fusion can't work in small scale tests.
I predict Amazon's rank in the top500 is about to improve.
-rbanffy (2010)

That wasn't a bad one. It was at 100 in Fortune's 500 in 2010. However, as people have said, the context determines the quality of the prediction. If this was said in reply to "I'm going to buy all my DVDs from Amazon from now on," it wasn't such an interesting opinion.

BTW: p=1191