skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And I don't really see how they are able to spend most of their money"

Probably on down payment on things they couldn't afford to buy by cash. Or there are plenty of hobbies that are very expensive.
Friends are of course very important, but you make it sound as in a Civilization game: throw some gold at them so their friendliness towards you will increase by X points. It doesn't work like that!
Pretty close to what I'm doing except the travelling/flying part, which is important to me. I don't even like "owning stuff" or subscriptions so I naturally only buy things I can't go without.
>These mechanisms escalate along with the perceived harm. It starts with subtle hints that you should work more diligently, and only when such attempts fail, it escalates to direct appeals, or even the loss of your job.

>Political opinions aren't somehow exempt from the judgement by others. If there's a real danger that a reasonable employer will fire you for you political opinion, don't ask "who will be targeted next?". Ask just how far from the pack have you strayed?

Are you suggesting that the majority is always correct in what it deems is worthy of punishment?
> there are many locations, such as Thailand, where the best time to travel is winter.

"Winter". Haha. Terminology aside, you're right of course. I was surprised that this actually showed the 'correct' time for most pleasant weather in Ayutthaya (Thailand) - Dec to Feb, the cold/dry season. (People here call it winter, but Thailand doesn't have four seasons so I hate using that term for it)

Weirdly, it suggested almost exactly the same time of year to visit Adelaide, South Australia, which is frankly ridiculous. It'll be hot and dry, and everything will be brown. Seriously.

If you must visit the 1970s. Sorry, I mean Adelaide.. go in Autumn (March - May).
Several people here are asking how you automatically screenshot websites. Look up PhantomJS -- you don't need to use someone else's API when you can make your own! =)
Check any Tesla thread on HN for an answer to your question...
It's really not. Calm down and don't pick up on one minor point and reply with a giant response. Obviously no one else thinks that cars are unnecessary.
It clearly is bad-faith. Is it just a random troll? Not likely, since there are several other similar incidents.
Fast mail are generally good at support, so unlike google you're not dealing with a black hole when something needs to be fixed.
It would be fine for my wife, she drives 30 miles every day, either commuting or shopping.
Well there is, because you get autonomous trains today due to the massively reduced problem space.
Hehe. That's so cool, this is something I did without knowing any of the formal math behind it when writing a small 3D game engine (after seeing Doom). It seemed to be the shortest path to a solution and it worked very well.

Then, after getting it to work I replaced the interpolator with a bunch of assembly starting from the intermediary representation the compiler output.

I unfortunately didn't date that source file but I do remember I was living in Amstelveen when I wrote it so this was about 23 years ago, summer of '94.

We made the textures with one of the first affordable and commercially available digital cameras:

http://www.digicamhistory.com/1991.html
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Maybe you shouldn't save for a retirement then. Maybe no-one should.

I think about this quite a bit. I'm quite frugal in my personal life (although certainly I could be more so), so I actively save for the future as a matter of course.

I'm also aware of the statistics around personal debt levels and net assets in the public at large and while it's clear there's a rude awakening to be had, I'm less and less convinced over time that the "awakening" is going to be of those who have no savings in place when they need them.

It seems pretty apparent to me that if the majority of people have no assets in a couple of years/decades (regardless of why that might be) and wealth inequality peaks to such extremes, then it's very likely the first political candidate to offer hard socialism (debt-driven basic income guarantee coupled with ultra taxation of higher net worth individuals) will sweep in an election, and the money problem will correct itself at an individual level.

Of course this isn't a solution to the living-beyond-your-means problem, and causes it's own problems (inflate the currency with QE, capital flight of high net worth individuals to friendlier jurisdictions), but I don't think that will matter in this scenario.

If the nature of people now is to be relatively short-sighted with regards to money, then what reason is there to expect that people in general are going to be any different in the future?

I fully expect it will be people who are saving their income that will pay to fund those who are not in the future if the latter is the majority.
This idea is not without drawbacks. Mandatory pension systems have a history of being wiped out by extinction events both governmental (USSR et al) and corporate (Kodak and other midcentury megacorps).

It's at least something I guess, but retirement planning is a really really long forecast horizon and is inherently risky.
You are correct, but why is this a problem in the case mentioned by the author?

$ cat > hello-world.lisp
(defun main () (format t "Hello, World!~%"))
$ sbcl
* (load "hello-world.lisp")
T
* (save-lisp-and-die "hello-world" :toplevel #'main :executable t)
[undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done]
[defragmenting immobile space... 1110+19908+28500+22601 objects... done]
[saving current Lisp image into hello-world:
writing 4816 bytes from the read-only space at 0x20000000
writing 2320 bytes from the static space at 0x20100000
writing 2383872 bytes from the immobile space at 0x20300000
writing 15190112 bytes from the immobile space at 0x21b00000
writing 39911424 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x1000000000
done]
$ ./hello-world
Hello, World!
$ ls -lh hello-world
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 56M Aug 23 10:23 hello-world
Disconnect. Offline only
It was nice that they followed the Microsoft flat design stuff. Weird that it was all psychedelic, though. That was hilarious.
> which allows it to continue unencumbered by the dissenters strongly held viewpoints.

I hope it does! :)
Silly node, emphasizing tech.
Aren't you at risk though of the government shifting the goalposts (e.g. wrt retirement age)?
Yes, we travel a lot and what is warm for you might be cold for me etc.

I have solved this problem analyzing more than 20 billion weather data points and created a nice search around it, so you can find the perfect spots that fit your needs depending on temperature, humidity etc. right now it's an internal page for my own use and one of my side projects that I never officially released but use frequently myself.

There seems to be demand so I will put it online in the next days. It will take the subjective out of the best time to go.
Do you also replace cars when a tire gets punctured?
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars.

Sure you need wealth to pass it on, but notice how you limited you statement to wealth, that is why American's are IMO different than the overall population of the Earth in terms of planning. I think other cultures are more in touch with reality and not so consumed with wealth. The reality is even if you die with no wealth to pass on, you have a body (what is to be done with it?); you may have minor children (who do you want to be their guardian?); and you may not die but simply be incapacitated (who will make your health care decisions and what do you want those decisions to be?).
> The danger of antivirus, on the other hand, is wildly overstated in this thread. A small fraction of attacks use vulnerabilities to begin with

But AV vulnerabilities sit on the top of the attack class pyramid. They often are remotely executable, run with kernel privileges and do not require user interaction.

You can't lump that together that with malware that requires tricking a user into downloading an installer, clicking through it and granting it elevated privileges.
They are only sub prime if the borrower has a greater risk of default than a prime borrower. There is a real issue of mis-selling of these loans in the UK, but the loans are not always sub prime
You can scream and yell until it is one though.
> So we discussed a bit, and it turns out most of us don't have any saving and just live by the day. Comfortably, granted. They are not poor, they eat well, they have clothes and can afford pleasures. But if anything happen to any of us, we are screwed. We have no buffer of any kind.

The solution to this largely a matter of a shift in attitude. Start saving 10% of your salary right now and stop buying new clothes, eating out etc. Having a buffer is way more important. There are plenty of resources for learning how to live frugally. The benefits of having a cushion, however small, are enormous.

Of course, that doesn't take away from the other points you mention. But it's by no means an unsolvable problem for the average comfortably-living individual.
The article (oddly) doesn't mention it, but Surematics is blockchain based - https://surematics.com/
because in the past 30 years many more jobs have become just sitting around all day?

Sitting around all day is a relatively new phenomenon. And more than just sitting, but sitting basically in the same place all day.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that office behavior is one of the main factors in your health, considering it's 8 hours of the day
There is always PC, and always has been PC. It used to be PC, for example, that women should stay at home and not trouble their minds with worldy affairs.

If it was broadly unacceptable to advocate that women should be socially equal, we'd have online mobs chasing down people who dared to suggest that. The current flavour of acceptable thought may change over time; the problem isn't the flavour, it's the mobs.
> The author focused on Damore, but didn't mention the dozens of Google employees harassed and sent death threats online for being against his memo.

I think you might be doing what you're criticizing here. Damore and his supporters are likely getting just as many death threats and harassment, the "progressives" generally dish out just as much, it even get's tolerated at by the likes of twitter. The "conservative" side just doesn't make a big deal out of it.
How is that bike shedding?
Unfortunately that defeats the purpose of a trainer, because "real" planes, which the trainer is supposed to prepare you for, won't be electric for quite a bit, so you do need to learn all about the intricacies and issues which can crop up on those planes.

Even assuming a rather speedy pace of improvement in battery tech, the power/weight ratio won't be there for quite a while. Batteries also don't get lighter as their energy is consumed, like fuel does, and many planes cannot even land with the same weight they are allowed to take off with.
> Political opinions aren't somehow exempt from the judgement by others

I agree. Nothing and no one is exempt from judgement or criticism. This is exactly what some people seem to refuse to understand.

> Opinions, and speech, have power
Nonsense. People have power.

> Therefore, some speech is harmful

We are past the inquisition. Word's don't hurt, they don't kill, they don't destroy lives. People do that.
There is the argument that they can encourage you to do all these things, but does it really happen outside an "echo chamber"?
Throughout history this happened only when conflicting opinions weren't allowed.

In the free market of ideas the bad ideas will lose and the good ones will win. It is inevitable that the best "product" wins. These people know it, that is why they don't allow others to voice conflicting opinions. They will lose.
The only sane and healthy way to fight what you called "harmful speech" (i.e. the kind that encourages violence and/or discrimination) is through debate.
If we silence people and destroy their lives are we really better?
If the sensors are redundant enough, a failure or two shouldn't prevent the car from driving; it'll just drop you off and drive itself to the nearest repair place.
That's interesting feedback! Thank you :)

We actually went with Docker for the set up because it simplified dependency management tremendously, and it allowed us to deploy on platforms like Kubernetes, Swarm, and ECS. As a plus, it gave us some confidence that if it works for us, it should work for others (obviously, we have come across cases where Docker behaves differently across platforms).

I consider asynchronous processing (in this context) as advantageous in some cases. Indeed, when we were refactoring `athenapdf`, we considered introducing a message queue for workers to pull work from, and to put back when the work completes. The problem with this however, is that we can't as easily scale horizontally (i.e. introduce node replicas behind a load balancer), as if we tried to get / update a job, we may not get the same node we originally got. I mean, the solution can be as easy as introducing a centralised message queue of sorts (or even a sticky session), but that complicates the set up process, so we decided against it.

Taken together, for our specific use cases, we believe it is a lot simpler to consume a synchronous API. No webhooks / callbacks. No polling. No concerns over acknowledgement. If a HTTP call fails, we will know about it immediately. If a complex retry mechanism is needed, we think this should be accomplished in the client application.

In the long term, I believe we should have a toolkit that can easily be plugged into a wider orchestration engine like Conductor (https://netflix.github.io/conductor/). That way, anyone can develop their own conversion process pipeline with ease.
Show HN: Docker Cheat Sheet
Using Kubernetes for Local Development – Minikube
Money won't help very much if society collapses.
I have one comment for the article: LOL.

Seriously, the author probably never worked in teams with different sizes [1, 2], considered another workflows [3, 4] and skill levels of the developers (yes, that's a variable you have to consider also!)

Also if you use Git in the same manner as CVS, you should do it because it's much faster, more reliable and more flexible...

Edit: Ok, the author is saying things which I agree with, I was commenting on the click-bait title and the first paragraphs mostly, but still, there is more to the story.

[1]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith-29166d02222...

[2]: https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

[3]: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

[4]: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
There is a difference between political correctness and culture.

Political correctness is just a fancy way of saying: "You can't say that because <I> find it offensive!".

The mob isn't the problem, letting them run free is.
Americans, both people and companies, are much more short term focused then, lets say Germans or Nordic countries in Europe.

And again, no comparison with let's say China. A government in China may not only make a 5 year plan, but a 50, 100, 150 year plan. This may look mind puzzling to you and you can doubt it's effectiveness. But nevertheless they do.

It is said that Deng said, when asked what he thinks about the French revolution (1789!): "It is to early to tell"
All of this is thankfully foreign to the average Australian, an employer in mandated to pay +9% of an employee's salary into a superannuation account that cannot be withdrawn from unless you retire (or suffer “severe financial hardship").

The average 39 year old man will retire with AU$300k, while Women retire on AU$180k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
> I see the stock market as almost a casino; with odds rigged for the rich with not-quite insider trading.

The stock market is a casino if you want it to be one. And historical data shows that the odds are rigged in favor on the people investing consistently in diversified low-fee funds over a long period of time (decades) which is compliant with the timeline for preparing ones retirement.
as somebody who lived in one of those 'real' socialism of east europe behind iron curtain, I sure hope not. it twisted people and general mentality in unimaginable ways, and even though we have technically 28 years of democracy, this and next few generations are and will be f*cked up by the evil legacy of this period.

at the end it doesn't matter what type of system you want to retire in. numbers don't lie, and if there won't be enough young to cover your retirement, no system will magically provide you comfortable times. simple logic is, if you want to increase the odds of comfortable retirement, save for yourself, invest and be generally smart with money (thing I see extremely rarely among young).

and to be honest, I consider this correct by far the best and fair system. if one strives for monetary wealth in life, one should work hard and do life/education/career choices accordingly. it is perfectly OK to have other priorities in life, for many it might be the best path to happiness and fulfillment. but then bear the consequences of those choices and don't rely on others to throw cash on you for not doing your part earlier.
That's definitely a killer app for VR - remote emergency assist using VR.

A VR service for Truckers sold by Uber/Lyft could be a thing for the millions of truck drivers to be out of work in the not too distant future.
I clocked more than my fair share of hours rerolling stats on Baldur's Gate. But in retrospect, it seems like outrageously shoddy game design. "We're going to have a permanent set of stats that determine how powerful your character is for the whole game, and how good those stats are is going to depend mostly on how much time you spend clicking 'reroll' and a little bit on luck. And we're going to make you do this all in one go, right at the start of the game, before you even get to have any fun."
The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."

> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Templeton
> A salary of ~$100K gives you 40 points

That is incredibly high for Japanese standard... Even Google JP engineers might not be paid for that much, and they are the top of the food chain. Most engineers I know, their salary is around 40k-50k a year. Apparently, Japan doesn't want below exceptional engineers in their country, which is a fair requirement, but hardly a welcoming one.
> Until I see diversity quotas applied in the job roles that kill and injure men at work it's a little hard for me to take serious this ... squabbling ... in tech industry.

That argument was beaten to death years ago. The basic outcome is this: you should allow people to work where they want to work, anything else is conscription (the Soviets tried this with predictable effects). So unless you are willing to force people to work in jobs they don't want diversity won't be 100% across all kinds of jobs simply because people self select for the kind of jobs they feel they can do and which will not lead to them getting injured or killed on the job in higher numbers than those that are physically more suited to doing that work.

So the diversity conversation will center on those professions where such innate differences won't make a difference. Even so there are women who do traditional 'mens' jobs and do them well but they are rather the exception than the rule.

And very few of those 'mens' jobs are really in that category, most of the time it is simply tradition rather than some actual basis in fact. Though I'll definitely yield to there being some of those in the steel industry, I've worked near two steel plants (IJmuiden and Sault Ste Marie) and know many steelworkers and would definitely not see them being replaced by females (or less bulky men) any time soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/26/meet-wo...

That said I do know a female welder and there are plenty of women in construction who don't care about danger (which should be avoided anyway), dirt or heat and for 'heavy' we have cranes.
FWIW, most of what you're saying here is my rationale for the first half of the sentence you quoted. Specifically, there are times when it makes sense to speak up, and being able to do so anonymously definitely quashes fear-driven self censorship.

While generally I'd agree that self censorship is a bad thing, I'd also agree that an ability to control one's impulsiveness is just the opposite. Impulse control is what I was referring to above as my general reasoning for why I default to using my real identity online, not self censorship.
Link without paywall, anyone?
btw, I'm looking for ideas about breathing patterns. I've noticed blood flowing differently[1] if I pause with fresh air in my lungs before releasing it.

Some docs says that breathing influences arteries constriction (or the opposite).

I wonder if it helps increasing oxygenation ..

[1] palms and feets get a tiny heat wave, also a sensation of relaxation in my veins
In the US, if you don't have health insurance, than having savings is arguably unwise. A single illness or injury that requires an ER visit can easily total $250k which would completely wipe out the savings of someone making 2x the minimum wage ($7.50/hr) and saving at a rate of 10%[1].

If you don't have the assets, then the hospital is limited in how much it can recoup from you, and they usually write it off rather than garnishing your wages. Might as well live large until that happens.

1: Also as a note, this person making double minimum wage and working 40 hours per week is making ~2150€ / month. There are vast numbers of people doing much worse than this. In fact it's fairly close to the 33rd percentile of household (not individual) income in the US (~$30k/year which works out to 2121 € / month).
Interesting article. I had not realised that Zork Implementation Language (ZIL) was Lisp!
Very broadly speaking (UK, Sweden at least since I live(d) there and know the rules); more kids = more income if you're living on income support.

So you have linearly increasing support depending on the number of people who depend on you.

There is no such linearity in work- you get paid and you pay whatever you need to pay, the company and the state do not make things easier.

I'm not saying that if you have kids on welfare you're better off- I'm saying that it's an easier cross to bear when you may not be as significantly worse off as you would be if you had a flat income.
> It is inevitable that the best "product" wins.

If that were so, then pharma companies wouldn't spend more on advertising than R&D. And fat32 isn't ubiquitous because it's 'best'. There are many, many ways to beat your competition, and having the better product is just one.

I do otherwise agree that people shouldn't be silenced.
If you consider any marketplace the "Uber for X", then Uber is the eBay for seats in cars. :)
I know you get asked this kind of question in every thread, but do you know where I can send questions about the judiciary.gov site?

They hold the coroner's letters to prevent future deaths, but the search is not useful.

It would be good if I could search and return every letter about eg deaths by suicide or railway deaths or etc.

It seems a shame to have all these reports to prevent future death locked away.
I was thinking the same. Thanks :)
The problem with destroying trust is that it's really hard to rebuild it.

You can introduce missing pieces and support all you like, but if people think they can't trust you based on your previous history, then it won't make a whit of difference.