skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that credit rating has a strong correlation with responsibility.

No, the reality is that responsibility is but one component of credit rating - another, moreso, being 'how attractive are you as a customer to credit providers'.

This is why your score might drop when you pay off an account, or close it. Defenders of the system and CRAs will say "well, there's less information to assess your creditworthiness now that that account is closed", as if, say, you had ten years of on time payments on that account, but they mean nothing.
All data you have from the author's sentence is the first year, none about the following ones, then the conclusion that none last the full five years. But you assumed it's 1/5th per year, every year.

Anyway, it doesn't matter much either way, even if there's a few that survive, they will be having wear and tear to the point you wouldn't want another student to have them (or maybe as a replacement for a broken one); you wouldn't want some year 1 students to get a new ones while others get the year 4/5 leftovers, they'll resent it for sure.

Second, they'll be paid off after a few years.
My other daily driver is one of the last models of <brand> that doesn’t include any consumer computers. There’s a generic computer under the hood for engine management, but the UX is all beautiful vacuum fluorescent numbers that can de dialled down all at once.

I recently test drove a car with four displays that seems to be sourced from different manufacturers - there was no consistency of UX. I told the salesman that I wasn’t interested in purchasing a 2 ton appliance that was unlikely to receive patching beyond 5 years.
> it makes all economic sense to make the app worse for Marl to catch Narl. Marl will use it anyway (since for him the app was worth having in the first place), but your effort will make a difference in getting Narl.

I guess you're right. Marl wouldn't be a marginal user. The economic sense of attracting the marginal user Narl still only holds true to a point. Make the app bad enough by appealing to Narl and you'll lose Marl to a competing app that doesn't suck as bad. Narl is fickle, doesn't really need the app, and will be easily tempted to move on to other apps. Not a great long term investment. Marl needs the app and as long as it does what he needs without pissing him off the app has got a user they can profit from. It seems very shortsighted to drive away your core users to temporarily attract the less interested marginal ones.

Thankfully, I can't think of many apps that have gotten worse by aggressively targeting the Narls of the world. When apps get worse, it's usually greed that gets in the way. Anti-features that even narl hates, but which stuffs the developer's pockets with cash.
If it's the worst, how is it not the only language in this category?

How do you rank C, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, ... parallelism compared to execution pool + futures here? The absolute MAX WORST?
They actually did another article with some good history on the iOS app for Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/06/ios/facebook-ios-app-a...
Colloquial comment doesn't need to meet mathematical rigor. He's just saying that these laptops do not last.
Seems much of this “inclusive language” is about not working too much.

In The Netherlands many woman prefer to work part-time. Like 24, maybe 32 hours a week. Why not offer such options?

Of course, working less will likely mean earning less per hour in the long run, but that must be a trade-off one is willing to make.
Can you provide a reference to that?
Interesting, it's also based on parsing by Tree-sitter: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/parsing.html
Yes but I'm rulethumping about

it being a waitlist doesn't make it off-topic for the site.
China's Tech Giants Spend $5B Buying Crippled Nvidia GPUs
WOW! I remember downloading it in 1988 (or so) from one of the BBS that I connected to! It took me like a week Crazy times.
I probably meant to say "synchronous_commit", which is how data is written to disk from the WAL. If you want full data guarantees, with regular hard drives, you'd be looking at less than 200 transactions per second. You set synchronous_commit to off, and suddenly you can do 10k transactions per second. You can tune when the WAL gets flushed to disk based on time and/or size. So you can set the amount of recent data loss you are comfortable with.

From the docs:
"setting this parameter to off does not create any risk of database inconsistency: an operating system or database crash might result in some recent allegedly-committed transactions being lost, but the database state will be just the same as if those transactions had been aborted cleanly. So, turning synchronous_commit off can be a useful alternative when performance is more important than exact certainty"
On the contrary: this case it's punishing the very behavior you are complaining about.

People who tried to defend themselves with vain word choice now have that very act of defence used as a tool for their prosecution.
> Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering

I do to and unquestionably I am beginner level.

Each scientific field has specialised and become so dense with knowledge that even new graduates in that field would barely be classed as intermediate.
The international research team used artificial intelligence and deep learning approaches to reconstruct historically sparce water quality data from nearly 800 rivers across the U.S. and central Europe.
Oh yeah, the Git internals...
I tried to find my way through them using visualization but did not progress much: https://github.com/smartmic/git2pic
Not sure if you've seen that v3 was released. Caleb spent a lot of effort to solve many of the performance problems. It's still not as lean as Liveview (and nothing probably will be) but it's much much better than it was.
This suspend is still not guaranteed to be supported by the every modem. So no real "control" unless you cut Vcc too.
Was $50/year a loss to grow the business? Did that actually cover the under the covers licensing cost? The font in question is considerably more expensive on its own.

From an intuition standpoint, I would NOT expect my license of web fonts to extend to a client I’m selling my work to. My null hypothesis would be that there is an additional license to acquire.
Years ago I bought a tv. Clear on the other side of town. When I got home I had a message from the fraud dept about charges. I called them up to explain I did in fact buy that tv.

They weren’t calling about the TV. They were calling about the car wash I stopped to get near my old neighborhood on the way home. For $8. Wat.

And for a while they would flag me every time I went on a road trip or travelled, because they pegged me as a non traveler. I travel, but quality over quantity. And you’re basically psychologically fencing me into a profile you’ve written about me that’s wrong by punishing me every time I step out of it? Fuck you.
Apple absolutely does do this. I have first hand knowledge of doing it for them.
It's a bit more complex than that right? If no part of the user wanted this, it wouldn't drive up engagement. Clearly it causes me to use the product more. Companies can try to optimize for stuff like "satisfaction after using the product" but it's genuinely much harder -- and not tying work to business outcomes is not scalable.
- 40 years old in Shrek
Heh, I didn't see it on X, maybe because I am not logged in.

As far as Twitter goes, I wouldn't call it particularly NSFW.
Why and How Does Python Use Bloom Filters in String Processing?
If you need a free alternative, the closest I know of is Metropolis[0] by Chris Simpson, although it is closer to Gotham.

[0] https://github.com/dw5/metropolis
I’m a broken record at this point but… As arguably THE community leading the zeitgeist, we need to be having serious and sober conversations about the limits of capitalism.

How are we ensuring a healthy long lasting multi century society? We need to start implementing alternatives because even what were supposed to be the “good guys” are just another set of idealists and optimists ground into cynical dust.

It’s nearly deterministic that a “successful” venture > ipo > investor focused corporate trajectory has no conclusion other than to eventually consume itself and harm people as they chase margins for investors as THE core goal.

These are the cold sores of the antisocial margin chasing greed embedded in the structure of commerce and politics in which we live.
Who else wants to help turn this ship?

This is unsustainable
And then there is security aspect. Crash safety was not a priority back then, crumple zones, airbags etc. were often simply not there yet or in very basic form.

Yeah all looks fine when looking just at the financial numbers but once you are in serious crash and will see yourself crippled or kids dying, that penny saving may not look that good idea.

There is vast ocean of cars between hyper modern mess of interconnected unmaintainability and these unsafe old metal bricks. They may not be the best solution in 20 years, but right now they are great.
The problem with this article is that I'm trying to read it during a meeting and I can't stop laughing out loud. Love hearing about Marl the every user.
Here's a list of companies that can be bought for $50b:

Valero Energy. Profit: $10b. [valustox.com/VLO]

DR Horton home builders. Profit: $5b. [valustox.com/DHI]

General Motors (!). Profit: $10b. [valustox.com/GM]

Aflac Insurance. Profit: $5b. [valustox.com/AFL]

Nucor steel. This one is selling for only $40b. Profit: $5.6B. [valustox.com/NUE]

Microchip Technology Inc. Also $40b. Profit: $2.4b. [valustox.com/MCHP]

Arm has it's work cut out to raise their profits from the rumored $1b. I'm not sure why an investor would consider them without a strong plan to 10x-100x their profits when there are companies selling at a similar rate but making much more money in boring product categories. Hope they can do it while staying true to their mission.
What you describe is the capitalist perpetual September.

Long term you is less valuable than short term you.
I think it will just more people into existing engines like Unreal and Godot.
Cheers! Thank you for the link. I will give this a watch this evening. I’ve enjoyed a lot of Rich’s podcast guests in the past actually.
> Science magic saving us from climate change

I hope you are joking

Something to "save" us is not what we need

We have all we need and if we can adjust are economic and social relationships we do not need saving, we can look after ourselves

A big if.
(I tell this story a lot.) I heard an ad on the radio a while back, from the American Podiatry Association, which recommended that everybody should schedule a checkup with their podiatrist once a year to maintain foot health.

I am sure that 95% of podiatrists honestly believe that's good and important advice. Just as 95% of font designers honestly think that subtle differences in kerning are strongly impactful.
Godot is already a great, viable option for many games, and it's only getting better with each point release. Official (paid) console ports are coming in the near future. An asset store is coming, probably next year.

It's not a drop-in replacement for Unity, but nothing is.
Cracker Barrel Is Stuck in a Generation Gap
Always post xkcd with the full link so that people can see the alt-text.

Posting mobile version because mobile people don't have alt-text on hover: https://m.xkcd.com/386/
VinFast’s Rise and Fall Burns Investors in Familiar SPAC Pattern
https://archive.ph/mEadm
Same here. My family uses my MacBook Pro from 2009 on a daily basis, the original unibody model.

Zero issues, I just had to migrate to Linux to get OS updates. It has pretty damn good reliability.

Hardware can last pretty long, it is wasteful not to bother releasing software updates.
Does that make it OK when the Justice Department comes around?
Languages even moderately distant tend to strain the concept of an accurate translation in the first place for any nontrivial utterance.
Legal privilege will not apply if your conversations with your attorney are for planning or furthering an ongoing crime or fraud, or one that hasn't happened yet.
Machine Learning Ensemble Modelling for Predicting Unemployment Duration
> Also for bit-banging speed is essential isn't it?

Maybe, maybe not. Quite a few modern uC's run 100+ MHz, at which point even high level languages become fast. Or have PWM function or even specialized I/O state machines like on RP2040.

Or you could call some assembly that does the low-level bitbanging, then process the data in more comfortable language. Things like serial I/O is "check some status bit(s), put byte in memory location, done" on most uC's, I'd think? No reason you can't do that in Python or whatever.
That would have been a killer feature, Samsung DeX is great, but Apple doing Stage Manager on Iphone would be huge.
It would blur the lines and converge UI even more when looking at the Vision headset UI. Many people only have a phone nowadays, being able to dock it to type efficiently or look at larger content would improve things.
I think I may have misunderstood GP's post. I thought they meant that one of the gears was changed to plastic (as in mine) with the rest remaining metal. But it's more likely that they meant that the newer models are now using a fully plastic geartrain based on what I've read since.
I fear we'll never get these, not even for ICE cars.
> The article has some very different findings. The crucial paragraph from the abstract is:

It's kinda funny how only the abstract is referred to when trying to paraphrase the findings of the paper. I would say that the abstract by itself is more like an opinion. The real hard data backing up the abstract, should be in the article. But, it can't even be faulted because this "science" is behind a pretty hefty paywall with 40$ for the full PDF and 10$ for a 48h rent. It's basically the same price as a full movie.
The real problem is big-money-driven design. Big-money stakeholders don't care about non-measurable things like user experience or user well-being. Big money thinks finance, and finance is always metrics, so everything else becomes metrics too.

A brilliant essay.
Hmm, I wonder if they will extend the update time frame for their Pixel Phones? The #a series only get 3 years of updates, which is way too short.
From the perspective of someone who's been neck-deep in a highly complex PostGraphile project for several years now, I wholeheartedly and strongly recommend that you SHOULD NOT expose your database or autogenerate an API from your database. Maybe it's fine if you have a really basic schema and the API requirements are just a few CRUD endpoints with no business logic, but as soon as you go past that you'll find yourself in a world of pain.

One upsetting side effect of giving API consumers the ability to query your data arbitrarily, is they will absolutely find the most inefficient and resource-intensive ways to do it. And the blame when the "API" is taking several minutes to come back with data will be laid squarely at your feet even though the cause of the problem may not be under your control at all.
Ask HN: Should one remain anonymous in online content creation
I want to know what you think about the idea of creating and having an online presence and having that somehow trace back to you in the physical world (be it name, voice, face..ect)
I like to avoid the word "share"
There's far too many use cases where you need persistent data stores that are not on the device. Feels like deliberate ignorance here.
Maybe they ran fine, but they also spewed pollution everywhere and guzzled fuel like crazy. My reasonably modern family car does 55 US MPG. Cars 50 years ago weren’t just “simple”, they were in many ways PRIMITIVE.
But that's an naive ideological take on the virtues of business; whilst at the same time you offer a naive cynical take on the vices of politics.

D'you not see this sort of double-think taking place?

Exactly the same naive gloss can be given of policitians: their compromises are part of the democratic process by which competing power interests are balanced without oppression. There are no Company Stores, or Company Scrips because corporate power is given "an inch" but no more. And there are FDAs and the like because Society gets its two inches. And so on.

Politicans are creatures of a mechanism as much as businesses.

This "reduce one to mere mechanism, but not the other" is pure naive ideology.

Business does not "offer better prices" etc. through this mechanism. It offers prices every bit as flawed as politics offers policies.
Ask HN: Have you started getting ads in YouTube?
So I have been using an adblocker (ublock origin) on youtube for a while now, basically since the ad time and video time became 1:1, and it's worked well. But now I am starting to see youtube ads pop back up.

Anyone know why this is?
Children have no explict conceptions of numbers and logic so they obviously do not plan the same way someone with explicit knowledge and understanding of logic reasons and plans. One could argue they have implicit understanding as members of a species known for inventing mathematics but that's more of a philosophical argument than a scientific one.
What part of “throwing their toys out of the pram” gave you the impression that it was logically argued?
I think the word "Scientism" (also) covers that one ?
Worse, they loop through when you scroll horizontally and replace the thumbnails with new icons for the same shows, so you lose track of whether you’ve wrapped around or not.

I’ve been waiting for the day when we wake up and realize how cynical and impersonal the world of A/B testing is and consumers insist on better treatment.
Yeah, but good luck buying an EV without that bullshit!
You think it's that low?
Without pretending the previous Twitter owners were flawless, I do think they had a respect for the "magic" of the site and took care to not damage it too badly. One thing that's been striking about watching Musk talk about Twitter is how...few of his views about what makes the website enjoyable or special are shared by other Twitter veterans. For better or worse Musk is going in a different direction and I think this blog captures one way that's happening.
Java and TypeScript
I would love to be able to import the Project Oberon source code into an LLM, gain a deep understanding of it, and subsequently generate smaller subsets of the system (or variants like a CLI based system). Additionally, I'm interested in the potential to convert it into other programming languages, such as Nim, Go or Odin.

It seems that at the moment LLMs are not able to grok Oberon source code (although they are able to generate it).
Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
Yeah as soon as we write the word 'thread' or thinking about LLM API concurrency control across many user requests, all frameworks we tried are basically a wall instead of an accelerator. For a single user demo video on Twitter or a low-traffic streamlit POC to get a repo with lots of star gazers, they work quite well, and that's not far from what someone needs for an internal project with a small userbase. Just once this is supposed to be infra for production-grade software, the tools we have tried so far are still prioritizing features over being a foundation.
“Don’t say ‘murder’; say ‘liquidate’ or ‘take care of’”

I mean, that sure looks like evidence to me, and not in an unfair way.

Calling it unfair is like “how can you possibly expect me to not get in trouble if I can’t conspire to avoid getting caught breaking the law!”
If you were working in Blender, Godot may hit up your alley a bit more as an open source community driven engine.

But wrt UE, it depends on if by "contributing" you mean "making plugins" or "contributing to the codebase at large". From the sound of things you want to do the latter. Unreal is "viewable source" but you first need to sign up with an Epic Games account: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-github

From there, there are instructions on how to contribute (the contribution documentation is actually on a public page: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/contributing-to-the-...)

There is probably some official Unreal Engine community as well (probably on the UE forums), so that can be a place to ask for any specific pieces where devs need help. Best of luck.
Why not just isolate their network and keep using them? I can't imagine this being a big risk for a convention checkin system.
We actually do this as the basins populated with bacteria that process our waste are heated to improve their metabolic activity and speed up the process.

edit: in regular waste processing plants
> Strangely enough Mr Crompton is himself awakened by an alarm clock. He rose at 3:45 am and charged from fourpence to sixpence a week.
Welcome to enshitification.
100-Year Plan
Mid-six figures have absolutely nothing to do with survival.
> "we didn't block you because you found another way out."

In other words: the ambulance was not blocked. They (SFFD) recently had a press release where they say Cruise did not block the ambulance. Why? Because they know there's a video now, and that Cruise is more than willing to share it.
Show me a chrome book that has hardware which can last a decade.
Check if your ublock origin install is corrupted.

This happened to me the other day. There should be an option to "repair" it on the plugin page and that should hopefully work.
What percentage of the cars were electric? hybrids? diesel? hydrogen? natural gas?

I am curious to hear your insights. I watch the traffic like this too and try to tally up as many as I can as I try to count 1000 cars. How do you record what you find?
The article says:

> Google Search itself, has decayed to the point of being unusable for complicated queries. Reddit and Craigslist remain incredibly useful and valuable precisely because their software remains frozen in time

I was contemplating the truth of this, and thinking about how much of the internet's wealth of useful content gets overshadowed by nonsense and UI antipatterns. It was right at this moment that I continued reading and scrolled down and the stuff I was trying to read got greyed out and replaced by one of those annoying popups about something or other before I could finish reading the article. Oh the irony...
Is it really that odd? The point isn't that you can't say those things and you can't tell employees to not say those things. The point is that you can't do those things, and separately, you can't tell employees to not say those things.

Your characteristic made it sound like the government's end goal is for the company to simply not say those things, in which case it would be silly for them to also not allow you to tell employees to not say them. But of course the government's end goal is for the company to not do those things, and separately, they don't want the company to instruct its employees to refrain from discussing those things because that indeed looks a lot like trying to hide evidence.
As your lawyer I strongly advise you to not say "I'm going to murder this person".
Someone is positioning against Apple’s entry.
“Unfair” only in that regardless of the words used, anti-competitive practices may be prosecuted as such. If you need to educate your employees not to sound like monopolists it may be too late.
Yeah, the least bad EV as far as I can tell is a Bolt EUV. But I think what I really want is an EV that looks like a regular car. I don't want something that looks like a space ship and has big screens inside it.
I wonder how correlated this model is with reality.