skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing that says that a ruling Whiggist regime can't be coupled with naively optimistic contemporary sci-fi which essentially shares the views of the regime and only critiques a shadow of an enemy long-vanquished from power. Precisely because there is no rule that requires sci-fi to always critique the current regime. If the beliefs are shared, we shouldn't expect that. I think that's exactly the scenario we're in right now.

I also think it's why most contemporary sci-fi isn't resonating, but that's just my own opinion based on speculation. I have a suspicion that contemporary sci-fi doesn't sell well. They all present societies which have solved social and material problems through progress, or which are still solving them, critiquing an image of the Western world in the 20th century. None of them nab at any kind of biting truth relevant to young readers today.

Short story "Best Of" omnibuses are especially depressing for me personally. This is where I found some of the most mindblowing stories and concepts I had encountered when I was younger, and now they're essentially no better than tinder for firestarting. The people running the Nebula or other awards have astoundingly safe and poor taste.
I agree, given "they work" and "a lot of competitors are using them", the rest follows logically. But those assumptions are simplistic, they do some very heavy lifting and are typically presented without evidence.

The most effective doping agents are often the easiest to detect, and modern anti-doping programs like the biological passport and whereabouts program are very effective. It's no reason to be complicit -- the science continues to evolve, athletes who go awry will continue to get caught, and athletes who follow the rules will continue to have to work hard to stay within the boundaries (it is not trivial to stay within WADA guidelines even as an amateur athlete; a lot of people who get medical treatment for a common issue would violate the rules a few times over without realizing it).

But to look at an entire sport and disregard them all as cheaters without evidence does nothing but encourage young athletes to feel like they need to risk their health in order to compete and belittle the accomplishments of clean athletes. We need to hold cheaters accountable, not throw in the towel.
Ask HN: How to write production-grade code?
Hello HN,

I have been writing python code (for Deep Learning/ Computer Vision) for almost 4 years professionally. However, I haven't worked close to a production system so far but would need to in my new position. I want to understand what it means to write production-grade code?

So far, my understanding tells me of

- Language specific or even general code style guidelines - check

- Logging and exception handling - check

- Tests - check but not always and could be more comprehensive

Still, I feel like I don't craft quality code. I have ofcourse received feedback from team members over the time and have incorporated those into my work so that I don't get those review comments anymore. However, the feeling that my code is just simple and dumb doesn't go away. Some say it's a good thing but most code I come across, say libraries I use, are just different in terms of abstractions, language features they use and whatnot while mine looks like something written by a highschooler (imo)

So, if the more experienced among you could suggest some resources / practices / exercises / whatever, that would really be helpful. Thanks in advance.
You can get sued for anything in the US, that doesn't make something a crime.
There's a massive difference in under $25k vehicles. Hence the $200 billion dollar used car market. A lot of these used car purchases might have been new vehicles if the product existed, but it doesn't.
Greg LeMond has evolved into my Fred Rogers of athletics. Every time either of them is in the news my first thought was, “please don’t be bad news”.

The fact that Greg was such a brittle rider - a god one day and barely finishing another - gave me hope that he was legit. The fact that he has focused in retirement on cheating cemented that for me.

Last I heard he was trying to watchdog riders sneaking small electric motors into their bikes. Even 50 watts is a lot of boost for a cyclist.
> personalized pricing systems as they are more prevalent than I realized.

Can you share the worst offenders? I am sure everyone is curious to know.

ETA: I wonder if this leads to an adversarial service, which lets you do "persona based straw buying" to get the lowest possible price.
AI Driving Materials Discovery? Perspective on Recent Google Article
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It's easy! Debits add to the left, credits add to the right :-)

(to be clear, I'm backing up your point by giving the same circular explanation that I got constantly through Accounting 101 and 102, and then occasionally after that when dealing with the books)
Plenty of downvotes, and yet, after writing this prediction, this thread is indeed filled with people all defining the terms 'Credit' and 'Debit' at one another. :D
not entirely coincidentally, Corb Lund also has a song about off-label use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5geefvMDjME
Out of context I obviously can't say for sure either way, but I'd assume in either example there's a deeper why behind both.

Maybe he found meaning in playing the guitar because it allowed him to share a message, or improve others' lives through song. I'd be really surprised if the actual purpose behind it really did come down to the actual act of playing the guitar.

I'm probably getting too nitpicky or semantic here, sorry if I am. I do think the distinction is an important one though, a lot of problems can show up if the "what" is treated as the purpose or meaning in one's life and we forget the "why" behind it.
I’ve seen the fast.ai course recommended over and over here.
Super cool! Visually dazzling.

If you want to build something similar on a raspberry pi, here is a tutorial: https://questdb.io/blog/create-flight-radar-raspberry-pi-que...
Biden says he is 'considering' Australian call to drop Julian Assange charges
Demand for a roof over one's head is inelastic. Markets do not work for inelastic goods. These people can't just downsize; renting is the low end of housing, and the low end is being systematically crushed by the landed aristocracy, abetted by automated price collusion.
In what conceivable reality could housing costs go up across the board but municipal revenues remain flat? Municipal employees need a place to sleep, so housing costs lead directly to new revenue needs.
Stocks makes sense with that being a core part of how that market is supposed to work in the first place.

Rent prices changing daily really doesn't make a ton of sense, there isn't really a valid reason for it except for an algorithm trying to figure out how to make the most money. Under normal circumstances I would expect maybe a monthly adjustment, maybe weekly if it was for a single unit not for all units in a building.

Something like, oh this unit isn't renting we need to get it filled so let's adjust the price. That wouldn't really be a daily thing normally.
Ok so they submit a billion images now what? It's becoming increasingly clear that AI will not be found in violation of current copyright laws so unless we get a major rework of them why does this matter?
They do sell dryers and washers that can notify you. HN crowd probably doesn't like those because "OMG why does it need internet?".

They don't even cost that much compared to ones that aren't connected.
Take a look at this brief demonstration video showing our development team trying out IQ in action.

https://youtu.be/_dZH2eaxwgA
Who cares about other lessors if they're using the same algorithm (or a similar enough algorithm from a different company)?
You can, but that’s still work time.
People like custom built homes.

There's an old housing development nearby, perhaps constructed in the 1940s. There were two basic plans, along with mirror images of the plans. You have to look closely to see this, because over the decades the houses have been extensively remodeled and improved with things like garages, extensions, etc.
LLMs are pessimisticly constrained to being equivalent to TC0 or more specifically are uniform consent depth threshold circuits.

Circuits and TMs are very different, but while LLMs can use threshold circuits, they do not have access to finite size input parity circuits, nor can they do operations like xor in a single layer.

It is the cost of high parallelism.

For those who are trying to figure out real world applications, it is worth the effort to learn circuit complexity, as it will be far more realistic than TM.

https://complexityzoo.net/Complexity_Zoo:T#tc0
I'd love to see a real-time multi-threaded & SIMD raytracer in C/C++/Rust. Plenty of math in there, but an opportunity to discuss thread & data parallelism, PBR, data structures for large scenes, profiling and optimization, and so on. It's like the next step after your existing 3D programming course.

Get 60fps on an RPi5 for extra challenge.
It's the accounting equation being represented in canonical form. A chart of accounts is visualized in the minds of an accountant as:

Assets | Liabilities + Equity

Accounts classified as assets are debit accounts (left side), and accounts classified as liabilities or equity are credit accounts (right side).

The theory discussed everywhere in this thread is sound. You really don't need to use terminology like debit/credit for accounting.

What the discussion misses is the application of this framework. It is useful for a human to be able to visualize a complex transaction and work through missing pieces with the hints this framework provides. I'm missing something on the left? Oh yeah, I missed the deferred revenue debit.
What profitable vehicles is GM selling for less than $20k?
This is actually neat. I know my way around the command line FFmpeg, but this is something I could pretty easily get my dad to use. He does a lot with video but he isn't great with the command line.
Chechnya is not a region, it's a country which is temporary under Russian occupation.
Minute Singularity Intro
What if we collected money from users in exchange for a license to use the software. Then, that money could go to an organization: call it a "company." Then the company could use the money to pay the developers! We could call this idea "proprietary software." I wonder if anyone has thought of it?
Sure

1. Being colored
2. Doing recreational marijuana
3. Being a specific faith (like wearing Hijab for women)
4. Heck, just being a woman

Society seems to always have reasons to fire people or deny people a job that seem silly in retrospect, but enough people seem to think it's reasonable enough to do en masse.

Edit: I'm not saying any of those reasons, or being fired for holding "controversial" opinions are good, I'm just pointing out it's nothing new.
IQ discourse is increasingly unhinged
Hah, facing a similar gripe so enjoyed this. Unfortunately/thankfully the dryer is on its last legs too, so will likely be replaced by the smart washer sibling unit later this year.
What is 2% of Anthropic's global revenue, and what is 2% of Google's global revenue? The penalty for Google getting it wrong are much much higher. Anthropic can get away with moving fast and breaking things (like the GDPR). Google has no such luxury.
> And then the increase in local taxes to try to compensate for the mass costs, and hurting the current tax base, is a major issue.

My favorite is when jurisdictions let people past a certain age freeze the property tax rate at a certain point. Of course, these were the same people who:

1) campaigned against any and all housing that would disrupt the "charm" of the area

2) insisted on a 3/2 single-family home on a significant fraction of an acre

3) insisted that said home be miles away from the city center, requiring lots of infrastructure while simultaneously reducing the population density that would pay for said infrastructure

4) did nothing to shore up the budgets at the local, state, and national level over the last 30 years
> This is the reason why Chinese products are beating everyone else

Do they?
Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war
Checkr, the background-screening platform valued at $5B, cuts 32% of workforce
Can you please elaborate on "downward pressure". Because the way I see it, 4day work week should actually increase the salaries, not reduce it. The way I see - if there is work for 3200 hrs. - it could either be done by one person in 80 weeks (current setup), OR 100 weeks in new setup. Assuming next that velocity should remain the same to keep competitiveness, it's gonna require you to hire not 0.25, but probably 0.5 person for one day free. Hence demand increase for employees. No?
So, Amazon's 'AI-powered' cashier-free shops use a lot of humans
Without a nationwide tariff to level the playing field, how do you expect a business executive to compete with other businesses?
You can get displays like you're describing, but pricing isn't great. I was surprised by the price levels that Kobo is offering, which is probably a mix of huge volume discounts and aggressive pricing to make a splash in the market.
I built a double-entry ledger for multiple different kinds of credit cards at redcarpetup.
the way i like to primarily think of it technically is idempotency. Thinking of balances is the wrong way to model it :

1. since you want the capability to recompute all balances using ledger entries.
2. there are not two balances. There's usually a lot more. you want to update reward points, dues, late fees, partner share, etc etc etc. a 2 balance double entry ledger is a simplification.

once you set your mental model to think of it as a idempotency problem, there are multiple ways to model it. For e.g. a directed graph - traverse the entire subgraph to update balances.
Or model it as a log database and re-run txns to arrive at balance computation.
I can see what you are saying, but I think it helps in two ways:

1. it is another way to conceptualize an idea. For most purposes this might not be relevant, but who knows where a hard accounting problem might be resolved through the application of graph theory (or the inverse!).

2. it is another way to visualize flows. Not everyone is financially literate or numerically inclined, so instead of handing them a table of columns of numbers and having them reason about the flows numerically, it lets you represent the flows spatially which maybe easier. After all, not all tools are for professionals.

Additionally, while the cumulative history in one graph might be much, simply adding filters based on transaction date might provide non-obvious insight that other visualizations miss. I can see this probably being even more helpful by cross referencing other information such as location.
But actual data says opposite. Amount of housing is growing while household size shrinking.

>>US-wide, homes built in the last 6 years are 74% larger than those built in the 1910s, an increase of a little over 1,000 square feet. The average new home in America, be it condo or house, now spreads over 2,430 square feet. It is also important to note that, parallel to the rise in living space, households have been getting smaller over the same period. In 2015, the average number of people in a household is 2.58, compared to 4.54 in 1910. This means that today the average individual living in a newly built home in the US enjoys 211% more living space than their grandparents did, 957 square feet in total
So they're basically following AMD's lead by going to a modular chiplet based package...
> However, budget challenges put the project's timeline into question. The SFMTA's train upgrade project isn't just a migration off of floppy disks but also a "complete overhaul of the current train control system and all its components, including the onboard computers, central and local servers, and communications infrastructure," Roccaforte said.

> Much more critical than the dated use of floppy disks is the system's loop cable, which transmits data between the central servers and the trains and, according to Roccaforte, "has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem."

Also, they're already late as hell, what's 5 more years? 5 1/4 isn't going to become more obsolete than it is at this point.
That's true but you can still skim the comments I suppose to get an idea.
> closer together

Not necessarily: The increased and stacking vulnerability to brain damage after concussions might not go away ever. I don't think this has been researched.
Unless the supply problem is solved, there is no cure for not enough housing stock on the market. You can shuffle people around and then what? If there are only 10 holes and 20 pigeons and you can have 1 pigeons per hole, some pigeons are gonna end up in the wild
No way this is true. Especially decade part. After a decade of such work you’ll age at least 20 years.
You are hereby reminded that litigants can claim anything they want in a brief. The bar for sanctioning a party over unfounded claims is extremely high.

Another kind of marketplace that provides detailed information on the other bids and asks is ... every functioning marketplace you have ever heard of. Commodities, stocks, futures, farm produce, everything.
… or maybe you are not proficient at shell scripting? I never had this issue, including large projects written in tcl, bash or perl in the 90s when it was more normal to do so.

The modern answer seems to be some kind of dsl with yaml syntax mixed with Unix (and thus bash) snippets which are often incredibly verbose and definitely not easier to read than a well written bash script. The only thing I think of when I see those great solutions is; another greenspun’s tenth rule in action.
Great way to get California tech companies that use any form of AI (which is all of them) to re-incorporate in an island nation instead.
It really isn’t… Chinese products are beating everyone else because their labor costs are cheaper, period. In the case of newer industries like electric cars, because they are heavily subsidized by the state. I won’t get into the debate of whether this needs to be protected against… Possibly, but a very complex topic. According to the article 996 applies mostly to software products where America is still absolute king of the hill.
Is this plug taken? EV charging etiquette comes to "Modern Manners" book
Much like we're lucky to have eyes that happen to see the sun's strongest frequencies?
Doesn't that only apply to lossless compression? I haven't seen the show in quite awhile.
You need an email and a phone number, so that makes it a no go for a lot of people.
You don't mean the Duke? The Super Duke is 21k USD, surely the cheap electric motorbikes are coming in below that.
Seattle keeps raising property taxes in order to reduce the housing shortage.
Playing video games on an old Apple II via a floppy emulator has a different set of requirements than a safety-critical application.

Lawyers will probably spend a year wrangling liability concerns.

I could probably replace a floppy drive on any system within a couple of weeks. I would not accept legal or financial liability for any such solution without an extremely thorough and slow review of all aspects of the project. edit: and an astronomically high paycheck.
I don’t think it will prevent concussion but it might prevent career ending fights.

Some guys would be proud of ending someone’s career but it doesn’t sit well with everyone. And a couple people have died after a fight. I don’t know of any stories where the other fighter felt anything but terrible about it.
You are not wrong, though that penalty may be pretty intangible on a spreadsheet, at least in the near term.
Indeed, the dirty secret is that many accountants think of debit and credit as decrease and increase as well. After using the terms for a little while they switch the symbol (word) they think of, but it still retains the same meaning. They are basically synonymous.

source: friends and family members who are accountants and have generously given free bookkeeping tutorials
As someone who worked in real estate for 8 years with 4 years in single-family property management, it is absolutely RealPage and all of the various automated tools that are beginning to populate the real estate sector.

When pricing rental properties, you look at comparables within an (often small) geographic area, making price adjustments for changes such as access to public transportation, proximity to business districts, "newness" of the comparables, amenities in the community, etc.

RealPage's pricing program does not have the ability to take those into consideration. Instead, an outdated 2bd/1ba, 20yo community that's 10 minutes to a business district is being priced comparatively to a just opened 2bd/1ba <1yo community smack dab in the middle of that business district. All because that new community also uses RealPage.

RealPage has also made it incredibly difficult to override their pricing suggestions. In many cases requiring the manager of the company themselves to contact RealPage, file an appeal, and wait for RealPage to approve the appeal.

RealPage is generating these pricing numbers by looking at their own customers, not at the larger market, and has taken that pricing power away from medium to large property management companies (which in recent decades have begun to consolidate the market).

This is what happens when technology companies enter an industry that has been largely stagnant for years with little to no regulation in how those 3rd party tech companies have to operate in a sector that, itself, is highly regulated.

There's a reason I left that industry, from my experience it's rotten to the core and is built to only benefit shareholders with little disregard for consumers and renters. You think Facebook's enshittification is bad and dangerous to consumers?