skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are curious about this, I would recommend that you graph violent crimes and the prevalence of unwed mothers, and then re-do the graph for each race which one is interested in.
I don't buy it fully either, but, I could not figure out what's a better alternative, not in theory, but in practice.

Software projects are notoriously hard to manage indeed, but it has to be managed somehow, Agile approach is a nice try, we had CMMI as well.

Even a neurosurgeon can be measured, why can't software developers, why are software engineers so special? Maybe AI programmer is the way out.
You think this isn't happening?

The problem is now even dual incomes are not enough. So when squeezed, guess what, people get stressed and start crumbling.
You can argue that X is the wrong value, but in Canada income under X (the BPA set for that year) is not taxed, as you deduct the Basic Personal Amount from your gross income revenue before calculating your taxes.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canad...
In what sense? Where are the people starving to death? Most people seem to be able to do just fine on zero incomes.
Plus one for structurizr. Its model driven approach makes it a lot easier to keep the diagrams consistent with the code: You describe the architecture, and structurizr renders the diagrams.
I get where you're coming from but your point seems flippant. My answer is "debate" -- and looking at the rest of my subthread, some commenters have raised some great concrete areas around Prolog's unique strengths, which I've found helpful!
Plenty of car centric suburbs do fine with the budget too. You got suburbs in california where homes are $2m. They aren’t hurting for road budget. High school class offerings in such a district might look downright collegiate from the additional funding the parents raise for the local school.
Pope says no.
What’s the embedded ShaderToy supposed to look like? When I press play and wait, nothing happens for over a minute.

This post would benefit greatly from a couple screenshots of failed tests.
Look nice, I have difficulty to see the usage. Some type of mid level network army Swiss knife ?
You also missed it. There will be varying accounts, but history written by the “bad guys” will frame things differently to make them seem like the good guys.
Being an average person in a poor country is very different from being poor in a rich country.
In my professional ~20 year experience, throwing evidence in higher powers face that they changed their mind.. is not going to score you any points & give you a win.

Well guys you decided this at the meeting 6 months ago, that's why you aren't getting the feature you just imagined in your dream last week. Guess what, it generally doesn't matter. Stakeholders want what they want, business, customers and requirements evolve. Having "receipts" or thinking that throwing them in peoples face is somehow going to win you arguments is naive.
Subsidizing something will get you more of that thing.
Liberty Machines and Dark Tech
That's certainly one approach and motivation for doing UBI, but it's not the only one. The idea of replacing welfare with UBI and only UBI is what the more libertarian folks want. But for example, if you look at Thomas Piketty and the like's ideas surrounding UBI, it's clear that it is meant as a supplement to current welfare programs, and is designed to improve the bargaining power of the workers in the job market.

So instead of being a cost cutting measure and ultimately a source for greater inequality of opportunity, it becomes a measure to reduce inequality of opportunity, with the drawback being that the government has to find a way to fund it. One proposed solution would be progressive wealth taxes, which, if you're a millionaire or higher is a perfectly reasonable thing to be upset about but otherwise not so much.
Literacy rates in the US are pretty high I think, compared to where we were before k-12 schooling became standard.

And most people can do basic arithmetic, right?

The goal, I think, to start should be to get to the point where an office of 10 or so people has at least one or two who can string together basic scripts.
IBM's NorthPole chip runs AI image recognition 22x faster than current chips
The engineering behind Israel's Iron Dome [video]
A large variety of use cases really, e.g. fraud detection via pattern matching on a stream of credit card transactions, the creation of denormalized views (seeing this a lot in the context of Debezium change event streams from RDBMS), updating real-time dashboards e.g. based on incoming order data, etc. I don't think it depends at the size of the company, we see users of all kinds of sizes.

(Disclaimer: I work for decodable.co, a managed stream processing platform leveraging Flink SQL)
Newsflash: Human beings are an unequal species, giving rise to unequal societies, with unequal outcomes. You can try and mitigate or ease things a little, but you wont alter that reality. Even if everyone on the planet were offered a free Harvard/Oxford/Sorbonne education (and boarding), there would be some people who couldn't get themselves out of bed each morning to attend class.
And also not Bifrost, the visual programming environment within Maya 3D.
Still running apache for my side projects too, it's very convenient and easy to deal.
It's more importantly an alternative to the minimum wage to reduce unemployment.

The classic example is if you can only add $10 value/hour in an area where the minimum wage is $20/hour you will go unemployed. If there is a UBI instead then you receive the UBI plus whatever you are paid in accordance with the value added.

This also means you wouldn't need endless arguments over adjustments to a minimum wage.

You are dead right about poverty-pimps - they are the true parasites in all this.
Yes, if people are perfectly spherical economic machines.
Wow very cool. Is the data available via an API?
This is silly. It is like saying nobody would invest in Amazon if Jeff Bezos sold even one share of his stock. Nonsense.
Ozempic Is Obviously Good for Business
There are private properties in classes

class Foo
{
#ImPrivate = true;
#meToo()
{
if(this.#ImPrivate)
cantTouchThis();
}
}

new Foo().#meToo() === BOOM

Also with using closures for "classes" takes up a whole lot more memory because new instances off all the closures are created for each instance of the class.
The frightening economics of haunted houses
Wealth follows a Pareto distribution, and there are many Pareto distributions of things that are not caused by selfishness.

https://www.thelangelfirm.com/debt-collection-defense-blog/2...

If selfishness isn't a good general explanation for Pareto distributions, is there a reason that it's particularly explanatory for wealth distribution?
Can’t see the goalposts anymore, where are they?
For Youtube/Google it's a win-win: they can show advertisers that the ads that can't be hidden, and annoyed users will be more pressured to buy Premium to hide the ads.
Ik going to switch off our last node 6 instances in a few weeks time.
Ethernet on coax cables did it already after a collision (late 70s, thats 50 years ago). Funny how basic things are today to much work, but animations everywhere are a must.
Very cool that you have the site translated in Nahuatl! Was the translator a native speaker? If so, of which variety?
Well, he had to say that.
Honestly the big stark difference between Australia and the US seems to be immigration. There might be a fundamental lack of a labor pool that might have been building out comparable infrastructure and housing supply that we see in similarly geographic sized US.
I know in The Netherlands this happened in the city I grew up, Hoogeveen [0].

> In the second half of the 1960s, Hoogeveen was the fastest growing town in the Netherlands. Until that period, the town contained a number of canals, which had been dug in the area's early days when it was a prime source of peat and maritime transportation was a necessity for efficient transportation of cargo. By the 1960s the rise of the automobile and truck-based transportation meant the canals had lost much of their economic function, and the canals were filled in.

———

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoogeveen
As with nearly all of social science, we can’t really run the controlled experiments necessary to determine if this is a causal relationship. Just because it looks like a “monetary problem” does not mean that throwing money at it will fix anything.
Seems very odd to hate classes and still insist on doing OOP. If you just break the data and the functionality apart you don’t have to worry about any of this.
I read the documentation but I don’t understand what use cases or problems this is meant to solve. What is this for?
I don't know, it could be because you think people with UBI might have more time to spend on videogames, but since UBI is likely not a good income they'll probaly pirate them instead of buying them, threatening the business model of your whole industry.

Or maybe because you work in one of the most toxic tech industries and would like to have a way of supporting yourself while you find another place to work at?

Did I guess correctly? What did I win?
> Few have the combination of intellectual integrity and social obliviousness to publicly ignore that these socioeconomic factors likely have common causes among them, including lower intelligence, poorer impulse control, tendency towards violence and aggression, lower empathy, etc.

OK, assuming for a moment these are true. What solutions do you offer? Because if this is the conclusion, i.e. the fault is inherent to the Black people, you basically block any (reasonable) solution. Whereas if you focus on relevant external factors, there is always a way out.
Also not Bifrost, the synthetic training data generation startup.
Ok, so if Google is too big and YouTube is split away from Google... who exactly will pay for bandwidth, server and transcoder costs for all the adblocking freeloaders?

If you ever tried to host videos yourself, you'll quickly see that it costs a stupid amount of money to manage. Why would a standalone YouTube LLC. allow anyone to access it with an adblocker and without subscription?

(People seem to lose their mind on HN every time someone even tries to recommend something as ridicolous as paying for YouTube.)
It's 4 diagrams. You can't get much less engineered than that.

Whats your background that you have simpler alternatives?
There's no reply button for the first 2 minutes or something in a busy thread, but you can get one by clicking the comment's time stamp.
Then support a different package manager
ask gpt4
> is faith based

Back when people used precious metals for currency many different economies would all be tied to the same shifts in value. I don’t know all the details but there’s real world support for significant deflation being detrimental not just theory.

That said trivial levels of deflation aren’t harmful, but bitcoin had very extreme deflation.
I can understand that! It’s kind of stupid that, for example, Galen Weston (the owner of one of Canada’s grocery store oligopoly members) will still get a cheque in the mail representing some infinitesimal chunk of his income. Same applies to people with regular high paying jobs who use it as monthly fun money or just toss it into a savings account every week. Feels pointless.

However, I would also bet the current system of multiple federal and provincial assistance programs with differing eligibility requirements and TONS of staff on the pay roll… might cost the same as “1 cheque per SIN”. It will massively ease up the stress on those systems, possibly even negate the need for quite a few of them. (Even if they don’t seem to plan on cutting any of them based on the article)

And on the access side, it’s much less effort, which is the ideal for someone that really needs it.

Also the cynical side of me thinks the Canadian banking oligopoly is excited about a monthly payment will be made into their client’s accounts.
Summary: Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
Also not Bifrost, the Figma -> React code generator

Edit: Ah looks like this company is no longer active unfortunately. On the plus side now the name Bifrost is available!
Chasing bugs in the electronic village (1992)
I think you don't remember what it was like under Steve Jobs. XCodes enshittification was well on its way.

Honestly though, the problem with XCode for me is 90% that the autocomplete is just enormously stupid (they need to just ask JetBrains how to do it), and that Swift compilation is slow (which they are working on).
Actually…

You’re right.

Wealth inequality means less jobs for the lower class. Specifically, less high paying manufacturing (labor) jobs.

There’s lot of studies that show that marriage rates have decreased because of…

- the decrease in union power

- globalization (offshoring)

- technological innovation

Read them here:

American Economic Institute
- https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20180010

Brookings Institute
- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-marriage-gap-the-impa...
More abstraction.

What happens when you need to debug this?
Trade-offs, wild - right? Performance, expandability, and so on

As the end users I'm not sure how much criticism they deserve for not embedding the storage.

If they have to buy something extra... why not go with better performance, reliability, and expansion choice? An eMMC hat or something is exactly that, forever, until it fails.

Adapting expandable SSDs deals with all of this
Know that this policy would be illegal in many jurisdictions, especially in the one I live in. Setting it up disqualifies you from being a global employer - at least in theory -, and it's also really unethical. Also workers have a right to their voice and can't be recorded by default.

Have a written record of the meetings outcomes, that's what is actually useful.
Not to mention that he is a bit of a self-promoter. I am sure he would take credit for Bitcoin if he could.
Noone is stealing anything from you, you just made this up to feel better about your freeloading.

If you gave a shit, you wouldn't use YouTube.
You seem to be looking for an argument that I don’t care to be invited to.
Logseq doesn't seem to be able to edit an HTML file. I checked out Logseq when I was considering Obsidian, and I found it quite complicated (it seems closer to Workflowy...). I'd love to see something like this succeed...

Pinegrow - this seems to be close to what I'm thinking... a visual HTML editor. But wow, the interface is complicated. Looks like they've crammed AI/ChatGPT into it, a news reader widget (?!). $150/year price tag. - A simple, open-source app along these lines would be great.
But do you work in the trades in places where the median home is $800k? Trade wages are probably better in socal.
Does Uber really need 4000 microservices?
Do you live in an area with high international demand for housing?

Not all of the US is a hot spot for high paid immigrants, yet. Displacement is a real thing. Not everyone can change states or nations to make the finances work out.
>They're not a surprise.

Ha! Try getting 10 minutes into this example and not bring surprised by a fucking pasta ad. https://
With now AI existing more and more in this world. Yes.

A CV is not enough, previous projects isn't enough and references aren't enough and you can forget about a cover letter.
I guess it goes without saying that it's not the mythical rainbow bridge connecting Asgard to Midgard
This article is far too generous to the argument. Matt Bruenig’s analysis will likely appeal to some here.

https://mattbruenig.com/2023/09/20/doing-the-marriage-thing-...

https://mattbruenig.com/2023/09/30/response-to-douthat-on-tw...
Breaking the private keys to the concentrated wallet(s) targeted not the entire system. Easiest way is finding/stealing the keys but eventually over time compute does break encryption and keys made with those algos are no longer "secure". There may even be ways to target earlier keys easier than later. It could take decades but it will happen.

Are you suggesting as processing/compute increases, encryption doesn't get weaker from previous algorithms? 40-bit SSL certificates, Triple-DES encryption and MD5 + SHA-1 hashing would like a word. AES-256 could outlast the universe but that is based on our current knowledge, and sometimes encryption systems have doors, not only in the algorithm but the tooling that does the encrypting... the creators of bitcoin tools they used for keys may also be a weak link or even had doors they put in themselves as a failsafe, humans tend to do that due to game theory.

Encryption is a balance of compute/processing for encryption and decryption, too intense and the system is computationally too heavy. So with that, over time all encryption will be able to be broken at some point following, as history has show so far.

Even if that holds, the chance that someone finds the keys or tracks them down, might be faster and most likely will happen as time goes on.

The point being mainly that too much concentration in any financial system is a time bomb.
The mental contortions freeloaders do to feel better about themselves are always fascinating to watch on HackerNews.

Somehow it seems really hard for people here to be honest with themselves and admit that they really just want YT for free and someone else (Google) to shoulder the cost. And they also whant to rant at Google while they pay for their services. :)
Dave Chappelle is the most overrated standup comedian in the world right now. He was funny before he left. He shouldn't have come back. He is now a cheap reactionary. He is not even in the same league as George Carlin.
The government can't even provide citizens with basic necessities of life such as food , shelter, water, and bathroom. A government run soup kitchen and homeless shelter would solve this. However, two problems.
First Toronto homeless shelters are at max capacity during winter months. So there is already a lack of funding. And we already effectively taxed 30%. *

Second, what's stopping the world from immigrating to Canada to enjoy this social net?
I believe we need tiers for new immigrants or international students. A person that has lived in Canada 30 years should be infront of the line for social assistance.

*The average family paid 45.2 per cent of their income in taxes to federal, provincial and local governments in 2022, estimates the Fraser Institute
OSFC is not just boot security at all! For an example of past talks that do not hit on boot security at all, see (e.g.) [0] and [1].

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2021/talks/on-hubris-and-humility-develo...

[1] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
Name one thing.
Global Encryption Day: Any backdoor would do more harm than good
At some point, you need to stop blaming (or giving power to) others for your situation, and take control for your own wellbeing. Who you marry is well within your control, and not the 0.1%. Take some responsibility, it's a good first step to improving your, and your community's situation.

>Everything stems from this.

No, not it doesn't. If you think that wealth distribution is the cause of all of today's problems, you need to do more exploration.
Exactly.

Manufacturing jobs used to exist.

Manufacturing jobs used to exist in high numbers.

Manufacturing jobs that didn’t require a high school education existed in high numbers.

Manufacturing jobs that paid well and provided a pension and didn’t require high education existed in high numbers.
If they won't choose the easy way, we'll just have to persuade 'em the hard way. 10$ gas on its way.
How else would engineers demonstrate "impact" for promotions?

/s
I'm not convinced the personality thing is sufficient, or maybe I don't quite understand what you mean by that. Cows used to have names, like horses or dogs did. In contrast, house cats usually didn't.

Plus, the children used to play with the goats and sheep while they were still small. I'm not very familiar with the cows (my grandparents didn't have any), but I know that goats also tend to be fairly smart, curious and quite playful. As a kid it's fairly easy to develop some attachment to them, especially since there isn't that big of a size difference (a cow can be intimidating to a child because of its size).
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! Comparing these specific features to using, say, a vanilla general purpose PL such as Python with an ORM and a SQL database, it looks to me like the integration of primitives such as parsing, constraint programming and unification are far stronger. In particular, unification seems to be a material one that you mentioned -- to do this in SQL, you'd have to do contortions around an EAV model which could probably get you to the same area you would with prolog unification, but probably much less efficiently. It does seem like the answer to my question is "ergonomics and efficiency" which is a useful thing to know.
It might be the case that a better language for this sort of thing would have to be designed. Maybe somebody needs to take another crack at the sort of Visual Basic/Excel type environment.

I think someone on this site chimes in occasionally with a sort of “spreadsheet, but each cell runs a line of Python” type program they’ve been working on (although I can’t remember the name unfortunately). That could be a good basis…
Finance used to be the driver of marriage, and now that it is less so there are fewer marriages.
A Philosophy of Software Design
Sure, but what's the way out? What is the solution for both the white and blac population? We can just accept the data as they are or, as a society, try to do something that improves the situation.

In this case, it would make sense to ask why black fathers are much less interested in being a father than their white counterparts. Is it culture? Is it social issues? Once we discover the cause, we can try to do something, at least education-wise.
I can't say using vendor specific icons is wrong, clearly a lot of people need just that, but I always miss more generic architectural components in these diagramming tools.

That's the problem I have with the `diagrams` Python package (https://pypi.org/project/diagrams/), I find it extremely useful, but the "Generic" section doesn't even include a "Queue" component, and the "OnPrem" section only includes specific queue products.

That Python package is exactly how I like to create diagrams, so I keep using it, but I always have to add my own badly-designed custom icons to it, which look so bad that I wouldn't dare send a PR to add them upstream.
“Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity)” - classic assumption!
lol it’s his own car… he can do whatever he likes with his property. what would ferrari sue for? it’s not copyright infringement like this case.
If you can't imagine how politicians could endlessly fight over a UBI you haven't tried hard enough.
Nothing personal but I’m guessing you are either relatively inexperienced or maybe in a market that is different than the U.S.

The reward is your salary/bonus/stock, and it obviously works… because work gets done and tech talent is well-remunerated for it. The technical leadership structure you seem to be recommending already exists; plenty of ELTs have or are comprised of experienced people with deep technical roots.
They are choosing to further enrich themselves past what any single person can consume, instead of helping those around them, the definition of selfishness.
Open House New York
> Just because it looks like a “monetary problem” does not mean that throwing money at it will fix anything.

There's a grain of truth and a grain of falsity to this statement. It's true that indiscriminately "throwing" money doesn't necessarily fix monetary problems. On the other hand, it seems unlikely that the problem can be solved without addressing the economic conditions that seem to have created it. Certainly, lecturing people about "family values", which has been happening for many decades, hasn't fixed anything.