skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> however, I’ll note that private banks and payment services do already discriminate in their payment terms

That's a much more important issue in my opinion, I assume we agree there. I wouldn't be surprised for any one bank to be picky, but if almost every bank refuses to service a certain type of customer that's a problem. More broadly, its a problem that having a bank account is effectively required to live in modern society.

> the unbanked population would still likely benefit from the existence of a minimalist USPS banking option.

Agreed here as well, at least in the short term. The government we have today doesn't seem interested in flexing that authority even if they had it, though the government does have a history of a slippery slope problem when it comes to federal powers.

Income tax was initially sold as a tax of only 1% on the most wealthy. While it was originally limited to that, the government gave itself the power to tax income and it only grew to leverage that more. I have no reason to think banking would be different.

They may only want to help the unbanked today, but when a big bank fails the government would offer accounts and may even offer full replacement for lost funds due to bank failure. That alone wouldn't matter, except that it could tip the scale of cost/benefit that made a USPS bank worth it for those with no other choice.
Nominal type systems are pretty much better across the board IMO. Much safer and much less to keep in your head. Modern langs like Rust or F# have very complete and nice to use type systems.

But yeah unfortunately not sure if JS is an appropriate target for these type systems. Nim does it, but I'm not sure how safe it is.
Dx and Rx should be disaggregated in medical practice generally, not just dentistry, especially for procedures.

Referrals should not be to a specific practitioner, but to a pool. And not within a captive monopoly healthcare system.

One cuts, one chooses.
$8000 for Invisalign sounds insane. I spent around $3k in 2017 for Invisalign by an orthodontist, not a dentist, and I'm in a very HCOL area.

80% of what your dentist does for Invisalign is just handing you the trays which are made by Invisalign.
I think they are going to leave in the same way all those celebrities left the US after the 2016 election like they claimed they would.
Thanks for the elaborate and helpful response. I'm also hacking on this as a personal note taking project and already started playing around with your ideas. Thanks!
That’s a big part of why I’ve never learned to solve a Rubik’s cube. I’d rather learn how to learn how to solve it than memorize an algorithm and I don’t really have the time/motivation/interest to learn how to learn how so I haven’t bothered.

My son, at age 9, loved learning these kinds of algorithms (he also learned how to solve square roots by hand from a YouTube video and would do random square root calculations to entertain himself, checking his answers against the calculator on my ex-wife’s kitchen Alexa).
> Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

Single taskink OSs are long gone. Single core performance is irrelevant in the world of multitasking/multithreading/ preemtible threads.
It seems like the usual status quo power and revisionist power conflict: [0]

In every political system, the existing rules are created to preserve the existing status quo. Where do those rules come from? There is chaos and war (not necessarily kinetic; there are trade wars too), the war ends with a political settlement which satisfies enough participants to create stability (as all wars must end; otherwise people keep fighting), and the signatories to peace create rules to maintain their desired outcome.

Later a power arises for whom that peace isn't desireable. They are the revisionist power and want a change. Intellectual property rights are desireable for those who have a lot of intellectual property, the status quo IP powers. New powers might not have IP and don't find IP rights to be desireable.

If the revisionist power is strong enough, then either the status quo powers accomodate them - perhaps a controlled IP transfer program for developing countries, in return for strong IP laws or openness to foreign investment within those countries - or there's war (again, not necessarily kinetic war - maybe lots of hacking and IP theft, for example).

[0] "International relations analysts often differentiate between status-quo and revisionist states. Revisionist states favor modifications to the prevailing order: its rules and norms, its distribution of goods or benefits, its implicit structure or hierarchy, its social rankings that afford status or recognition, its division of territory among sovereign entities, and more."

https://oxfordre.com/internationalstudies/display/10.1093/ac...
Porting them out of tree would be worse than doing nothing.
No. You pay max insurance of around $24k pre tax in Germany for a family. But the rest is private fun. So in an unfortunate year with couple dental implants and few pairs of glasses your pay another $10k from your pocket. Tax authority will not agree, that medical expenses could be deducted and silly endless bureaucracy discussion starts again.

Edit: what I mean that mandatory insurance does not cover many important procedures.
The best feature of my purpose-built static site generator is that it automatically builds (mostly) optimized WEBPs from any source image [1]. Not only does it reduce the image size, but it outputs many sizes of the image so that I can use an image `srcset`. The browser then automatically downloads the optimally sized image for the element.

It's a game changer to be able to copy photos directly from my Google Photos and not worry about it bloating my web pages.

[1] https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/blob/05846...
Maybe Canva doesn't want to sell.
I can only speak to my personal experience living and working in Seattle. Economists for the most part seem divided with no clear consensus either way. There's a lot of different variables and angles you can examine that'll lean towards one way or another so I don't think there'll be one clear answer unfortunately, especially since the burst in inflation over the past few years warps data.
Mapping 400k speeches from the Swedish parlament using embeddings
Planetary Realism: On what planet do we find ourselves?
Seems like a convenient way to get around their Most Favored Nation anticompetitive policy.
ultimate goal when submitting to app store, congrats
In that case, you can get the mini with 64GB of memory for $1999.
Yes, You Can Measure Technical Debt
Has anyone else actually tried to measure their technical debt, or am I just a data nerd?
If you look at the graph, they did take into consideration real vs nominal. Unfortunately, the jump in minimum wage happened too recently to get a long enough timeline to see the effect over more than 1 year so the outcome is TBD but the early data seems positive.
There are lots of apps that only run in a single thread. If you want them to run fast, you need fast single-core performance.
Uber did not eliminate pickup uncertainty for me.

At least twice I canceled and went for public transport.

Other times it is well app saying I will be on destination in 20 mins yeah if a driver is just around corner otherwise it is rather random up to 40mins of waiting easily.

Of course you cannot cheat physics so it is not Uber fault but saying it eliminates pickup uncertainty is a stretch.

Being picked up in 40mins for me is a lot of times same as not being picked up at all. Especially if I could walk to public transport and in those 40 mins be where I needed.
If you fail to find US-based candidates and are open to the UK, let me know, and I'll send a reference for a good Product designer.
It's definitely XML/HTML inspired, but not a type of XML since it uses prop={value}
It'll still be at the top of SPECint 2017 which is the real industry standard.
Geekbench 6.3 slightly boosted Apple Silicon scores by adding SME - a very niche instruction set extension which is never used in SPECint workloads. So the gap may not be as wide as GB6.3 implies.
It can pull images from a domain.
That would be difficult (since for client-side rendered sites it would require loading the site in a sandboxed environment) or impossible (if the site actively prevents that using CORS or similar, or if it happens to include scripts which expect to be run in a normal environment).
Hubspot is now a conglomerate of features. They are the anti-thesis of eliminating for value
Not that it would happen often, but could you imagine the outrage of people losing salary during periods of deflation? No way this works long-term imo, but maybe I'm missing some ideas to balance it.
You don't need infinite data. You need ~100k samples. It's also not particularly expensive.
Investors and founders to name two. Taking over a company via mass poaching would absolutely invite lawsuits.

The government for another. Hiring all the employees of another company is regulated, and it could be seen as anti-competitive behavior.

You’re thinking of individual poaching, not whole company poaching.
A game I play with friends introduced a Mac version. I thought it would be great to use my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro for some quiet, low-power gaming.

The frame rate wasn’t even close to my desktop (which is less powerful than yours). I switched back to the PC.

Last time I looked, the energy efficiency of nVidia GPUs in the lower TDP regions wasn’t actually that different from Apple’s hardware. The main difference is that Apple hardware isn’t scaled up to the level of big nVidia GPUs.
UltraEdit is really good with large files.
I agree 100%. The number one issue is buy-in, by the leadership and by the users. Without it, don't waste your time.

Buy-in requires their input and demonstrable benefits to them.
I'm guessing it's because everything that ships in the LTS must be maintained for 12 years. I understand Canonical's desire to not still be maintainig Qt 5 in 2038.

Tho the ideal time to make this change would be in 25.10.
I saw an ENT for the first time earlier this year and was shocked that each visit (less than 5 mins) got billed at around $1500 per visit.
Because people don't know.

That includes users of low-level languages. They assume free() means free when it doesn't.

And assumption- and hope-driven development are less bothersome to the mind!

It's annoying to have to fact-check every sane assumption, but unfortunately it's required. Of course for anything that exists, somebody somewhere built a cache around it for average-case performance gains that destroys simplicity and adds pathological edge cases.

Most people learn this only when they try to run a real-world system that inexplicably runs out of RAM, or if they see unreasonably large number and actually start digging instead of just accepting it.
Did it ever, or was that the tty abstraction rather than stdout?
But there are still plenty of casual contexts where one can use traditional curse words, and they will still have an impact. Making people think less of you is not the main dynamic of curse words (and they don't have a monopoly on that either!). Rather cursing is about openly transgressing social mores to display some combination of exceptional emotion plus (not being beholden to) social status. It's basically saying "I'm going to reject this thing you care about."

So unless those words stop being routinely used for ignorant personal attacks, I don't see how swearing with racial slurs could become trendy for anybody but racists rejecting the idea that racism continues to be a problem. A decade ago I had more of an idealist post-racist outlook and could have believed that in a few more decades we'd be at the point where these words would have lost their deeply personal punch, with their only lingering effect being to cause pearl clutching (and who doesn't want to needle pearl clutchers?). But at this point that looks to be a pipe dream. Which is why I say it's a similar dynamic of words being off limits, but it's not actually the same. Some social mores have fundamental merit, believe it or not.
The people who I imagine hate this the most are the Chinese brands that make really great stuff and support it well. I want to do business with people like

https://7artisans.store/

https://us.kandaovr.com/products/qoocam-3-ultra

It is such a breath of fresh air to find actual product manuals on the web site compared to snooty Italian tripod vendors whose web sites have nothing but warnings about how they’ll never support you if you bought your product from the wrong vendor.
If not RocksDB, then what? Why SlateDB is the right choice for Stream Processing
If you're using Jekyll, Jekyll Picture Tag (https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag) does the same thing. I use that in my pipeline for my blog, and I agree, it's very nice to just not have to worry about stuffing a 5MB image down someone's tiny cell phone connection.

Though I'm not sure many browsers actually use anything other than the largest image option...

I've debated encoding to AVIF as well, but that's such a painfully long process on a blog with somewhere around 8700 images.
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Fixed, thanks for the heads up :)
Eh, I don’t think it’s the same thing. The gulf between “photos user” and “pixelmator” user is quite high, much more so than “weather app” and “weather app but better”.

In particular, if you have the average user Pixelmator, they’d be worse off. The same isn’t really true with weather or darksky - they really just do the same thing.

We still have iMovie and FinalCut, GarageBand and Logic. Apple has kept two different product lines before.
Experiment Tracking and Visualization in VS Code
Hey, you're right...alot!
> I am still astounded the huge change moving from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac (M1) has had in terms of battery performance and heat

The battery life improvements are great. Apple really did a terrible job with the thermal management on their last few Intel laptops. My M1 Max can consume (and therefore dissipate) more power than my Intel MBP did, but the M1 thermal solution handles it quietly.

The thermal solution on those Intel MacBooks was really bad.
University is inexpensive in the US as well, but we have a culture of leaving your home state to go off to another college, which makes it significantly more expensive. Average semester cost for tuition and taxes alone is something like $3500/yr for in-state tuition rates (aka when you're going to a public college in your home state), which is quite reasonable when you consider the higher average earnings, lower average housing costs, and better average university educations.
“Growth” mindset is a dog whistle for age discrimination
If landlords are able to raise rent beyond what you think is "fair" then that is almost certainly because there is some arbitrary restriction on housebuilding/rentals. Otherwise an entrepreneurial individual would just do that, undercut and take the profit anyway.

Where I live this is happening at the moment (London, UK). Permission to build is hilariously difficult to get and often involves expensive concessions, at the same time rentals are increasingly regulated which makes it riskier/more expensive.
Those were the 90s. Modern rasterizers* all use barycentric coordinate based algorithms for a few reasons.

Easier to implement with proper fill conventions and multisampling, and much easier to parallelize in hardware and software.

* Hardware even back in the 90s used this type of approach :)
This explains the overly verbose documentation for every Microsoft product. Every possible exception that applies to 1% of installations is inserted as you go along, which makes it difficult to read.
You know, it doesn't really matter to the original point. If the middle class is doing okay or if it's struggling, either way household androids and more generally less labor scarcity are exactly the kind of thing that will improve the situation.
Right. It's a structural type system that automagically puns things at runtime. The "most robust type system", I would think, would be something like Haskell.
I'm not familiar with the landscape - is there a "compiles to reasonably-readable [ba]sh" language that's gotten any traction anywhere? That seems like at least an interesting possible solution.
If that were true, why isn't my GPU running my UI loop or running my JS event-loop?

Single-core performance is still king for UI latency and CPU-bound tasks.
Yep same here, tried it for a while but Adobe's idea of UI just does not work for me.

I reluctantly went to Photos, mainly because of ease of use on the phone for family members, but still I miss full tagging and smart album support.
Yeah I would like to have a word with banks offering saving accounts in EUR.

This year it got back to 2% where pre-pandemic it was as low as 0.25%. Somehow banks are not that quick to make interest higher- unless you pay interest to them
PPP isn't something you need to adjust for in this case, so no, it's less than $14/hr once you make an exchange.
I gave up on Affinity Photo after discovering that it degrades images as you edit them. Specifically, it blurs entire layers when you merge them. And it does so over and over, making the base layer worse each time. Therefore you can't trust it with your images. Affinity has refused to fix this, making excuses instead. Example here: https://youtu.be/QA8eVWOLL5I

Affinity is also unwilling to fix glaring UI blunders or omissions. For example, in Designer, people have been asking for a "print/no-print" toggle on layers for years. Everybody else has this. But nope; they have staunchly refused to add it.

So I bought Pixelmator. It's a little clumsy to use in some ways, but the authors have been good about responding to queries about it.
Thanks for the suggestion but I've already read both of them. You and I are on opposite ends of the spectrum, you have an affinity with eukaryotes and I barely share an affinity with most of humanity. I'm interested in knowing things for curiosity sake and my general support for humanity, specifically the unthriving middle class, is for my own comfort and desire to live in a nice society. I see religion is just another form of politics and politics is inherent to people, to hate religion is to hate people. I don't particularly like religion but I don't particularly like people either. Given the inherent constraints of people I'm not sure how I would design a nice society without religion. It appears to me that those who try to stamp out religions often end up creating new ones complete with articles of fait, heresy, and excommunications.
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Seems that if you are into photography you still have to wait until M4 Max based Studio is out and wait out Mac Mini Pro. 2x graphics performance will accelerate many GPU-based tasks in tools like Topaz Photo AI, Lightroom and Photoshop, Luminar, etc.
Apple is slightly pulling away. AMD's top desktop chips were on par with M1/M2/M3 1T but now they cannot match even M4 despite releasing a new design (Zen 5) this year.

It's partially because AMD is on a two year cadence while Apple is on approximately a yearly cadence. And AMD has no plans to increase the cadence of their Zen releases.

2020 - M1, Zen 3

2021 - ...

2022 - M2, Zen 4

2023 - M3

2024 - M4, Zen 5

Edit: I am looking at peak 1T performance, not efficiency. In that regard I don't think anyone has been close.
I was fired from Microsot a year ago because of a "lack of growth mindset" because I was critical of using ChatGPT in a healthcare (direct patient care) setting until hallucinations were under control.
Totally. Cheap, superficial clickbaity lists generating traffic via HN. But TBH though, it worked, respect.
Germany didn't have a minimum wage for a very long time. It's the EU that forced one and it was then extremely low for a long time, too.
No, it is a myth that inflation is caused by higher salaries. As you know, salaries are the last thing to increase with inflation. It's not boats that make the tide rise.
> We want to give a big thanks to our amazing users for your support over the past 17 years.

Wow I feel old :)
I read somewhere that “growth” for the sake of “growth” is like cancer. When the mission of an organization is to grow at all costs, bad things will inevitably happen. I imagine the redwood forest was cut down with such ambitions, but sadly nobody thought to put the brakes on operations until it was too late. I’m not sure what the answer is. Perhaps if the vision for the company is strong enough the growth can always be the byproduct of successful fulfillment of the vision. Then the organization can just always align on ensuring the vision is worth pursuing and analyzing it from a broader viewpoint.
It was tried multiple times in 3rd world countries with the expected consequences: total disaster and hyperinflation.
For night owls, all these habits are temporary.

I've done a stretch of 2 weeks to 2 months of being an early riser, but inevitably, like clockwork, the sleep schedule drifts back to me going to bed around 2 AM and waking up around 10AM.

And yes, I've tried everything.
How often do you think we see periods of deflation compared of inflation? I mean deflation not a decrease of inflation rate.
Central banks will not tolerate deflation, too destabilizing
I don't think anybody's really being "forced" to do anything here. There are very affordable spots in the East Bay, some even along the BART.
Time and patience pays when you have a great product.
Sure, I'll give the particular example of bash compared to sh is probably a poor example to put focus on in that it's one that doesn't demonstrate every point just like SDL 1.2 to 2.0 wouldn't due to SDL_Compat (leaving some room for interpreted vs compiled differences to not count otherwise we'd have to restrict conversation to scripted GUIs instead of QT or compiled shell commands instead of scripts). The other example of ncurses 6 vs 5 is better as it's a compiled interface where the ABI broke but that was already in the comment. Or take the other example zsh vs bash on how there are often changes that take some porting work but not much.

More than each of the specific examples, the main point was meant to be more around things like stdout being comparable to display server protocols which do behave about the same in compatibility. Specific apps end up doing their own thing with compatibility regardless which interface they output on. One of the examples I chose was a poor example for that and seems to have distracted from that point, mea culpa. Another commenter noted Python might have been a better example of scripting compatibility over time.