skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this is another down-stream effect of weak social support. If a country offers reasonable basic pension and healthcare, retirees will spend because they know if they run out of cash they have their basics covered. Without this support of course they will hoard money.

I saw this living in Norway where people in general tend to save less aggressively because they know if things go bad they are covered. And it worries me in my country of Australia where we are following the US model of ever reducing social services. It makes great short term savings but I feel there are these kind of longer term effects we pay the price for. And these effects are hard for many people to consider when its that far ahead so politically it is unlikely to change.
> emergency / end of life care

Emergency care, yes, that's unpredictable, and that's the sort of thing that health insurance should cover.

End of life care is not always unpredictable. In fact it rarely is in terms of the general need. Yes, you can't predict the exact point in time at which an 80-year-old person, say, will have an event that makes them require assisted living or a nursing home, but you can certainly foresee well in advance that such a need will arise at some point around that age. So this is not an unexpected need in the sense that emergency care is. And there's no reason why the same health plan should have to cover both needs, yet that is what the US health system does.

> you can't leave in practice even if its theoretically legally possible

Yes, this example of yours is an case of an unexpected need that health insurance should cover. However, I don't know of any "health insurance" in the US that only covers cases of unexpected need like this, and does not also cover everything else that is in any way involved with health care.
Well obviously, if there is an ongoing crime being committed they will speak. Even lawyers, priests, and doctors will speak if there's an ongoing crime being committed by someone who they'd otherwise hold confidence to.
Ryzen = 1 piece of silicon, cheap, 4-8 cores, 2 mem channels
Threadripper = 2 piece of silicon, midrange, 8-16 cores, 4 mem channels
Naples = 4 pieces of silicon, high end, 16-32 cores, 8 mem channels.
Feminism is the idea that women have the natural right to make decisions for their own lives and pursue those decisions to the best of their abilities. Taking part in the detention and mistreatment of a woman is orthogonal to being a feminist.

Idealism, well I'm assuming she's not an adherent of the philosophical kind and aspires to some sort of 'ideal' which I would have a hard time reconciling with slavery.

So in conclusion, I reject your charges of No True Scotsman. Some things are cut-and-dried.
Those belts that ratchet (Slidebelts?). Electric toothbrush (yes, really). Decent-to-good leather shoes. Wool socks. Button fly jeans. Rice cooker.

[EDIT] my belt says "Trak Line"
For nontechnical users Gitbook Editor is a great alternative to this. You don't have to have a gitbook.com account to use it, just dismiss it when you start the app, it also supports Asciidoc which in my mind superior to Markdown for any kind of documentation.
Where I live, you still have to pay for opticians and dentists, and perhaps other medical treatments if you don't want to stay in a queue for a year or so.
Ah that's not what I'm saying but it's subtle. Access to hidden variables, if they existed, would allow you to predict a measurement outcome. I'm not saying that. I'm saying the wave function is a tool that allows you to write down all the correlations. In other words, the wave function is a tool that allows you to reproduce all the probability distributions
Maybe the good thing he refers to is the premise.
Some folks local to Minneapolis have had a good run with their no-knead recipe

https://artisanbreadinfive.com/

The basic sourdough recipe makes a loaf with a great crust and good crumb, although I find it a bit weepy, in that it doesn't hold its shape too well because the dough is so wet.

The kids love the olive oil dough for pizzas and breadsticks.
Based on first hand experience... They will find a reason to not pay. Don't waste your money on LTC insurance.
Most of that thanks to this hot mess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Axanar
> that dynamic would usually imply (to my mind) a trusted person in charge of the staff in their absence, to contact, not the two persons combined in one.

Exactly. Although its a touch shameful, the first thing that went through my mind reading the story in the comments was "what kind of person has a mansion and only one maid?".

Multi-room houses aren't easy to keep clean. Add cooking, driving, and shopping on top of that and we have a situation where:

(a) Someone is being severely overworked

(b) Someone cannot keep up with the work, leading to frustration on the employers part and an unnecessarily bad relationship
Possibly for development, but not for execution (just kidding, I know what you meant).

I keep meaning to give Pharo a try.
I never said that I've never run Windows - I just don't run it anymore. It is due to bad experience. Microsoft had chance, but they were blewing it regularly. I still do run Microsoft apps (macoffice and vscode). If they will blew it up with these, I have no problem switching off them.

If Microsoft has feedback hub, throws parties, online meetings, etc., then they are very good at ignoring the feedback. Did they fix the privacy issues with Windows 10? Did they re-enable end-user control over updates? Did they stop resetting user preferences after updates? It's not that they are not aware of all of these.

The problem with KB3035583 (gwx - Get Windows X) was, that no matter how many times you have hidden it (to indicate do not install), Microsoft un-hided it, and several times it has flagged it as security update, which caused for many people to install it automatically. It definitely wasn't an mistake, it was clear intent, to make target figures with Windows 10 upgrades. It is one of the biggest reason why people were turning off windows update!

> People are obsessively convinced Microsoft is bad

You know, I'm some 25 years in this business and there are many reasons why they are right. Microsoft worked hard to earn this reputation. From "knifing the baby" to their today's attitude regarding privacy and pushing their services.

> Software isn't perfect. You don't fix software by never updating it. We're used to updates on Mobile/Tablets - many people are used to updates on PC/Tablet/Desktop but there are people who continually beat this non sequitur horse that PCS can't and shouldn't be updated.

As I've written elsewhere, existence of updates is not the problem. The update process (hogging up entire core with wsupdate service? No problem! Installing updates for 30 minutes? No problem either!) is one problem. The shoveling of unwanted stuff into updates is another. Compare that to apt/dnf on Linux side or App Store on Apple side - they are as unobtrusive as possible.

> Google updates their shit all the time - does hundreds of releases a day.

Google updates do not make your machine unavailable for 10-30 minutes at the most unfortunate times in the day. Ever been to ambulance, where the nurse has lined up patients, because her computer doesn't work right now? Guess which fault it was, Googles or Microsofts?
Echo 4k TV: Amazon - The First Major Tech Company to Figure Out Television
Blimey. This bit is hardcore:

Person: DOES THE SHORTEST THING THE TALLEST PYRAMID'S SUPPORT SUPPORTS SUPPORT ANYTHING GREEN?
Computer: YES, THE GREEN PYRAMID.
Person: WHAT COLOR IS IT?
Computer: BY "IT", I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE SHORTEST THING THE TALLEST PYRAMID'S SUPPORT SUPPORTS.
Computer: RED

I got confused by the instruction. That's ...it's hardcore.
I hope it will be easier to disable notification on echo than for Kindle on Android.
It isn't just first past the post, either.

* It is gerrymandered districts, setup over decades to guarantee seats go to one or the other party. The number of actually competitive elections is at historic lows every cycle.

* Representation per person is at historic lows. The population rises, but the seats in state and federal houses doesn't change. Even in the best case scenario, Wyoming still has over 250k people per senator. Nobody can actually represent the interests of that many people (albeit, given the original intent of senators they shouldn't, but that is a different can of worms). House seats are no better.

The information era has siloed people into ideological extremes. Coupled with the fptp disaster you pointed out, the corrupt media owned by centralized interests keep the poor at war with themselves.

* The obvious loopholes and exploitation of the constitution is blatant and apparent. Either anti-corruption clarification amendments are required, or a modernized rewrite maintaining the principles of separation of power and explicit rights and liberties but updated to insure things like freedom of privacy are necessary.

It is a chicken and egg problem to fix, of course. Regular people cannot rewrite laws or constitutions without the ample resources to wage a revolutionary war. However, the powers that be won't either, because the current rules set them up for power and give them their legitimacy. They are a product of the system as it exists and will fight to protect it, not change it.

Historically the best answer was to sail or caravan to the unsettled and unclaimed lands and try it over again, but we have run short on those options.
It's version 0.4, so it's a pre-release build.
Astronomers characterize two 'super-Earths' in a distant planetary system
Healthcare is still so terrifying that I feel like I have to have millions of dollars saved up just in case. And the insufficient coverage we have now might not make it through the next two years unscathed.
> This style farm would give more control over the humidity and temp to the farmer

I'm not following; any modern greenhouse has automated humidity and temperature control (and, more important than humidity, artificially increased and controlled CO2 levels).

What sets the temperature and humidity control apart from a modern hydroponic greenhouse ag operation like Houwelings? http://www.houwelings.com/files-2/why-greenhouse.php

> plants can only use a few narrow spectrum bands of light which can be efficiently replaced with led.

Yes on the light spectrum - but I'm not sure what you mean by "efficiently replaced"; my understanding is that the energy required to replace sunlight with best-in-class LEDs remains substantially more kWh/lb of produce than shipping as far as across the entire country.

The Cornell lecture I linked to elsewhere talks about this: https://youtu.be/VrpyUA1pQqE?t=1842
According to another interview that I can't find at the moment, he also wrote a Famicom emulator for the Mega Drive, which might have been the first Famicom/NES emulator ever written.
Ah, but making a post like this will get you tons of hype and views on the Internet including from tech news aggregators...
Indeed, we have come a long way since then. Today, explanation in AI systems works a lot better:

Person: WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
Computer: [low-level fan noise]
> Second, again, Cargo is a tool you use to build your software, not necessarily one you use to distribute your software.

The trouble is it's both. It's a build tool like make and I have no issue with that, I'll stick to make personally but to each there own. But I can't do that because It's also the primary distribution mechanism for rust libraries and even some apps. SPeaking of ripgrep, take a look at the installation section of ripgrep (http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#installation) "cargo install ripgrep" is an installation option.

And because static compilation is also a distribution mechanism (just not for the end user) the binaries are 10 times larger than grep, not to mention a giant GPL trap for commercial users.
If people are overly-thrify, it simply means that there is an under-supply of profitable investment opportunities for them to allocate their savings and labor toward. It is possible to increase the supply of real investment opportunities (investment opportunities which do not depend upon the extraction of "rent" from other investors) through the use of public inducement prize contests. It is possible for government to subsidize the creation of real investment opportunites by raising the nominal value of public inducement prize contest prize pools.
Maybe not a few weeks, but 2.5 years seems pretty intense. Why not six months? I find it hard to believe they couldn't have executed well in six months if it was a priority. Clearly, it wasn't.
I understand what you're saying, but his implication is that dogs do not have to be taught not to aspire to be better than dog-status. They cannot be any more than dogs.

This is clarified by using an inanimate object (wrench) as a the other example.

Human beings though have to be molded in order to keep their 'place'. They can even aspire to want to be things that they cannot achieve, such as my never ending desire to be the first man to set foot on Mars.
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One issue I encounter often-ish is that when I'm on a gitlab page then hit the back button in the browser - I get a bunch of JSON spit onto the page instead of an actual HTML document.

Whats up with that?
Speaking about quality on Netflix in general, I find it super annoying that they don't encode content that isn't available in DVD quality. They seem to have bitrates associated with resolutions, and the bitrate for 480p is pretty low. I wish they had another high-bitrate tier for 480p if the source is not available in HD.
You know full well these aren't leaks. Private information was stolen illegally. Don't pretend like this was a whistleblower. This forum needs a rule against this kind of fained ignorance.
My limit is more like 700 miles. I'll easily drive 12 or 14 hours with only fuel stops. I used to do 1,000 miles to Florida non stop for spring break. I don't do that anymore but know people who do.
Why are you so reluctant to divulge the candidate names you've chosen? Probability of gaining valuable feedback is far greater than your concerns over stealth or theft.

I like to use naming conventions. Non-english vocabulary tends to hit my sweet spot. For a period, all my code names for internal tools were short japanese words that did not have widespread recognition in American English. "jisho", for example, which translates to "dictionary" makes a great name for a library of hash functions. Currently digging on Sanskrit. "prem" which means "love" and sounds like heaven itself is recognized around the globe. Or "autamika," perhaps less well known, but means "the highest place in the heavens where the Gods make their thrones" or "to head in a northerly direction".
I think its terrifying that Firefox has so many build in things that make it easy to track people. Yet they claim to be so much about users privacy ... I think most of the stuff tor browsers does should actually be in firefox by default. Excluding Tor itself and noscript enabled by default.
That's not exactly true. Money in the bank is invested and is different than consumption money.

One drive the offer, the second one drive the demand. The economy is basically the flow from one pot to the other.

With interest rate at historical low, large business with trillion hoarded, money is already plentiful on the investment side. This article is just claiming that there is portion of that investment money could be reallocated on the consumption side which would indeed allow the economy to run.

The article is very optimistic that this money is really what is missing. Personally not quite sure about that as the economy already relies on historically high level of debt on the consumer side (i.e. consumer spend today and tomorrow money), adding fresh money in the system is at best a short term "solution", adding memory to a memory leaking system.

The problem is that there is simply not enough money flowing from the investment pot into the consumer pot. i.e. salaries are too low, tax on profit are too low, ... something isn't balanced and we are all playing economic musical chair, with people hoarding money to avoid being without once the system breaks.
Is it fair to call it an OS? My feeling it's simply Android with some customization and/or apps.
The cost function just looks like difference squared, but I'm not sure how that yields results like this:

Hglmo,wosmd! (8)
Gflln* wosle! (9)
Hello, wosld! (9999)
Hello, world (9999)

The bottom two seem to be much closer to the desired result, but the top two score lower cost? Seems weird to me. :-/
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3 Approaches to Improving Happiness
> The government subsidizes food production

Yes, and this is a bug, not a feature. Food would be cheaper if this were not done. The "subsidies" are to the food producers, to artifically keep prices up. The equivalent for health care would be subsidies to health care providers.

> and food for the poor

Yes, with food stamps. But nobody tells the poor what they have to spend the food stamps on, and nobody regulates grocery stores up one side and down the other telling them what food items they have to provide if they accept food stamps and what they have to charge for every single item. So this regulation is nothing at all like US health care regulation.

The equivalent of food stamps for health care would be to give poor people a flat sum of money per month on a "health care spending card" that they could use at any health care provider they wanted, for any service they wanted. And then no other regulation of health care providers--no rules about what services they have to provide, no regulation of prices, etc. I personally think this would be a significant improvement over the current US system.

> food is cheap and plentiful to create

Yes, and it would be cheaper if the government did not subsidize producers, as above. The reason for this is, of course, that there is a free market in food (or at least much closer to one than the market in health care) and so producers are competing on price, therefore driving them to make food production more and more efficient. A century ago in the US, food was not cheap and plentiful to create. Technology and production processes improve over time if they are forced to by competition. I see no reason why the same would not apply to health care, if it were competitive the way food production is.

> food is easy to steal

This is an interesting point, but I'm not sure how much difference it makes in itself, because even the richest person in the world can only consume a limited quantity of food. So it makes no difference to rich people whether the poor can steal food or not; even if they do, the rich won't be the one to suffer, someone much further down the income ladder will (if anyone does).

A more interesting aspect is this:

> It's a lot harder to steal health care

I would rephrase this as: health care is much less fungible than food is. You and I can trade lunches, but we can't trade, say, gallbladder operations or physical exams. I agree that this is potentially a valid reason to treat health care different from food. What might be helpful is to look at other goods or services that are not fungible and see how they are handled in comparison with health care.
Ask the question of why every person who has a net worth over 10 million dollars has that much money, and why they need any more.

Once you are 10s of millions-aire you aren't seeking money for survival or even happiness. You are also probably well beyond money for the sake of security - you could probably lose 90% of your fortune at that point and live comfortably. Why do these people keep seeking and amassing more money then, with limited exception?

Its the same reason why anyone who could, would.
I happen to do that kind of work (and would have private messaged you, but I see no contact info in your profile).

Details: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/resumes.html
This is huge. The idea that a tech company would figure out a way to integrate their vision of television into the central living room appliance has been enough to swing the stock of major tech companies upwards and down. However, prior to this, it was never convincing that the tech players had something useful to offer beyond just another smart television. But an Echo TV is a game changer. For the first time, a major tech company has something compelling to offer to the average household as their vision of television. Now let's see what skills developers come up with. Wouldn't surprise me if it takes a few iterations to perfect this, but if anyone understands iterating towards perfection, it's Amazon. This is an exciting moment in tech.
You can go to developing countries. The health care I received in Southeast Asia was quite good and the full cost was significantly less than just the co-pays on my plan in the US. Thailand has a retirement visa that allows for 6-month stays and you can live quite comfortably there for under $20k/yr.
> at what point is there so much stuff in memory that you need a couple hours of hold up time just to flush it out to SSD

A few hundred megabytes for our "enterprise" financial software...
> Yet here you are, posting things like this

I posted what I am educated about, and did not post an opinion about what I am not educated about.

> Without any data.

Apologies. I posted a nytimes story that links to a study in another comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353347
We don't want it to become accepted that a company uses its weight to change city ordinances it doesn't like. Because more often than not, it'll end up doing so in a way we don't like.
I was surprised the author didn't include the detail about lola meaning grandmother.
> 1) We need funding to fight X 2) If X happens anyway we need more funding

That does seem to be roughly the stance taken by security agencies, but it also occurs to me that I view this as a completely reasonable argument when I hear it from an IT department or the CDC.

I want the CDC to have lots of resources to protect against serious outbreaks of infectious disease, and if one happens, I see it as a signal of three possibilities:

(a) They need more resources.

(b) They need to fix their methods.

(c) Nothing's 100% safe and we should accept that.

I definitely see TSA as mostly pretty much 100% (b)+(c) (mostly (c), to be honest), but the reasoning you cided isn't always wrong--sometimes (a) is legitimately the case, so you can't dismiss it out of hand.
Estate tax refers to taxing your assets after you're deceased (i.e. inheritance), not realestate (i.e. property): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...

(I'm afraid this confusion makes your comments about retirement and forced property sales make very little sense... unless I'm missing something?)
> basic health care is not a market

Why not?
Yeah, couldn't come up with the right word, hence the ellipsis :\
I think you greatly over-estimate the ease of hiring someone to run child-care for your company.

Are they skilled at it? You don't know, their resume looked good to you, but your expertise is elsewhere.

Are their policies correct? Again, you don't know.

Are your liabilities reasonably covered? Who knows?

And you still have to manage that person on a day to day basis. You have to be able to fire them if they screw up, you have to know whats going on in their department.

You can educate yourself, but again you won't become an expert and that's time you could spend building your business.

Even for Apple, and Tim Cook, it's easier to rely on the competitive market to provide child-care. The best of all worlds would be to rent space to a child-care provider, and bid out the service to get the best child-care possible. There are still issues, such as you don't want the low bidder, and you have to do research to pick the best bidder. But at least you aren't running it day to day.