skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if a shift in attitude would help, at least not in aggregate. It might work for one person, but if everyone did it, then it could end up being a wash or we could see other weirdness..

If everybody started saving 10% of their salary, the decrease in consumer spending would put deflationary pressure on the economy. That could, in turn, lead to a few different possible scenarios depending on the economic policy decisions of the government and the central bank:

1. If the economic authorities refused to respond and decided to "let nature take its course" on the economy, the reduction in consumer spending would lead to businesses shuttering and people losing their jobs. Maybe instead of 1/3 of people not saving any of their salary, 1/3 of people just wouldn't have salaries in the first place.

2. The central bank can lower interest rates thereby making it easier for people to borrow. This easy borrowing would provide an incentive for people to spend. This could counteract the effects of whatever was incentivizing them to save in the first place. Or maybe we'll end up in a situation where people think they're saving, borrowing, and spending all at the same time and what's really happening is that they're "investing" in some kind of asset bubble that they don't know is a bubble.

3. The fiscal authority borrows and spends money into the economy to make up for the drop in consumer spending (and, if distributed well, that money circulates and boosts consumers pending too). This fiscal expansion route is kind of the opposite of the monetary expansion route in scenario #2. Here, the government is going into debt in a stable and controlled manner. With the central bank lowering interest rates (#2 above), you're encouraging the expansion of private debt, which is unstable and can collapse.

I don't make economic policy, but if I did, I'd tend to lean toward option #3. Of course, it entails the central bank and the country's government working together to make it happen. The ECB would have to encourage (or at least allow) the EU member nations to go further into debt. In the case of America, the Fed doesn't have that kind of control over the government. If Congress decided to take on massive government debt and spend new money into the economy, the Fed would have no choice but to take the necessary actions to keep prices stable (raise interest rates, etc).

Well, that turned into a little rant about things I care about. I guess my overall point is that if Everyone started saving 10% of their salary, it would be a huge shock to the economy, and probably not a good one. And what happens next would depend on a lot of things that I think about a lot.

Anyway, solving this "problem" is not just about a shift in attitude toward saving. At least not in the general sense. I do agree with you that it's not an unsolvable problem for an average comfortably-living individual.
Okay, What was the last topic she was working on? Cartel? Russia? Mafia? etc?
As someone from a country with a state care system. This is fascinating, I never heard that perspective. Why save, when they'll just come and take it from you when you get sick! It's pretty tragic but it makes perfect sense.
>how much do you sacrifice to be able to live on roughly half your income ?

Unless the person has a very high salary, the sacrifice is that they don't have kids.
> simply refuse to save money and spend it all on leisure instead

Yes, I clearly said it's part of the problem. Now "all" is exaggerated, as it's I don't see my friends living a wasteful life. They do get out a little, but no more than my parents did.

> What do you mean by individualism?

I mean that everybody is cool to do fun things together, but grouping efforts to help one-another does not come easily.

As for the rest, it's a very different debate I'm not in the mood to have.
UK houses are generally 50A, single phase.
There are a bunch of things potentially stopping you in practice. The HAL isn't a total wall, and I expect to see many OEMs go around it in some places, either due to incompetence, the HAL being inflexible, or timescales.

So even in situations where you can install such a ROM, there's very little guarantee key bits of hardware will operate properly. Any non-standard hardware/hardware feature is also fairly likely to break.
Important point is that software for self-driving is subject to virtuous cycle because the more it is in use, the more information it collects and the better it becomes. Which in turns means more use... And it can go out of control with one supplier dominating the market completely.
Yes, that's dangerous and threat. Is there anybody questioning that?

I don't understand your contention here. You seem to complain that people do not spend more time discussing obvious thing (mob justice offline) rather than non-obvious thing (mob justice online). I think the reason for that is obvious. Or maybe you just want a "collective outrage" instead of discussion?
Personally, I don't find the thumbnails add anything and also detract a little from reading the headlines. Not to knock on it as an experiment.

My main UX issue with HN is the comment nesting. Would much prefer less nesting and something akin to 4chan's backlink post referencing.
You could start by practicing your written English skills. This is generally a must-have to get into Google.
Really good suggestion. It is not supported yet, would be implemented in the future. Thanks!
I don't blame anything, I'm just describing.

I clearly mentioned there is a cultural/educational problem.
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>I don't believe the stock market is a stable

It never was.

>or good place to invest (anymore).

Yeah, history isn't on your side, nor is the future projected value of how corporations are accumulating wealth. If anything, buying shares of corporations who are doing a good job of accumulating capital has never looked better.

The major bubble is higher education, and real estate. But the latter is largely due to government meddling and the former... well, is also due to government meddling in part, but mostly this rapidly dissolving belief that college somehow churns out positive ROI for most attendees. This is becoming less and less true; it's only a matter of time before it collapses. It will happen in my lifetime easily, and I predict it will happen within two decades.
The article doesn't mention it, but the suspect Peter Madsen is the cofounder of Copenhagen Suborbitals. This is an absolutely crazy story which just gets more insane by the day. Starting with a missing journalist and seemingly accidental sinking of a private submarine, getting more and more weird and inconsistent until now a decapitated, limbless corpse shows up.

With the corpse cut in pieces, it's hard to reach any other conclusion than that this was a murder. Or just almost in the region of the semi-plausably concievable, an accident followed by a gruesome attempt to cover it up. The repeated change of stories certainly doesn't help his credibility, and the explanation doesn't stand to reason in any way.
> Gofmt, or rustfmt or whatever language fmt are really one of the best things that happened to modern development.

Funny way to state that. There is this formatting tool `indent' for C and C++.
It was already well known and rather rarely used back in 2003. Code formatters
have not happened to "modern development" by any stretch.
Simulacra and Simulation
It's high enough now but looks like it hasn't refreshed yet.
I agree, as mentioned in all my other comments.
The cheapest food is among the nutritionally worst food you can buy. That is of course just one of the causes.

http://seriecientifica.org/sites/default/files/povertyobesit...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198075/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140901-ameri...
What are the margins on making the physical part of automobiles compared to other things that Apple could be doing? Average profit margin is 8% for auto manufactures. [1]

[1] http://marketrealist.com/2015/02/intense-competition-leads-l...
This is assuming that socialism helps the poor, which is something anyone who has even very basic knowledge of 20th century history knows could not be farther from true.
I usually work following a 25 minutes of work followed by a short 3-5 minute break schedule, which usually consists in going up a floor, get some water, and back to the office (that's the closest water source we have). I cannot speak for any health benefits of my "technique", but I find it very refreshing.
The parent was a bit OTT.

The general point is that when you were 22 and earnt bugger all you could still live, now you're 32 and earn a lot more, you live a lot better but never started saving.

You should be saving money but you're not. So force yourself to revert some of your positive life-style changes as you actually can't afford them yet. Do it at source, set up a standing order to automatically take the money out just after pay day.

Start small, say 1%, and increase it every 3 months maybe?

To be honest, the first statement you get of your savings where you earn interest instead of paying it is quite refreshing. And you feel a little smug and a little more mind-at-rest because you know you can deal with disasters.
This is even better, in my opinion: https://bestmotherfucking.website/

Anyway, I agree. Text should always have a max width. Long lines of text aren't really readable.

I use this in my SurfingKeys settings, and use it on a lot of sites to make them more readable:

mapkey('<Ctrl-m>', 'Centers the current page', function() {
document.body.style.cssText = "font-family: sans-serif !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "color: black !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "line-height: 1.4 !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "margin: 0 auto !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "max-width: 60em !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "background: none !important";
document.body.style.cssText += "background-color: #FEFEFE !important";

return true;
});
The only routines using floats are for bezier curves, right? I think the author actually tried to show the universality of the principles, and routines are seemingly similar enough to back this premise up. It will be of course possible to avoid floats in them, which may or may not simplify the routines, but I guess such changes can destroy the inherent similarity and the author was not brave to try that out. (Multiplications are more common but the same argument applies.)
This rings so true! Those all-hands meetings are typically a bunch of business people getting excited telling us about the trips they were on and some milestones they reached and how excited we should be and I'm just sitting there trying to stay awake thinking about how it really doesn't affect my life and I really don't care beyond what I need to meet my contractual obligations.

Usually, I feel those meetings have the opposite effect on me. They talk about how exciting it is and I leave the meeting wondering if maybe I should become a farmer or something instead and feel disillusioned and deflated. Sigh.

Although, I think part of it for me is that I've done some startups in the past and would much rather work hard soul crushing hours on something that 1) I actually care about and 2) something where the pay off is mine and not some rich guy who I've never even met and really don't care if he gets richer or not.
Using 401ks/IRAs/etc protects you against that to some degree.
I agree.

Although I find it very peculiar that my parents could live the life my friend live, but afford children, have saving and yet now have a retirement.

A 30 years old single person with no children an a job that doesn't have a loan or crazy spending habits should not have to choose between savings and pleasures.
living frugal - meaning actively reflecting on expenses and consumption behavior - actually leads to realizing that life is not about acquiring status symbols to impress the wrong friends or a bigger TV. It's a very healthy virtue.
Doesn't surprise me, and the problem exists also in countries like Germany.

Common point seems to be that "millennials" (and low-earning people) in cities suffer from extremely high rents which take away their ability to save anything, especially for downpayments on an owned flat/house, and those on the countryside have low costs of living but often enough nothing more than Social Security to pay the bills. Trump didn't get elected in the flyover states without reason, and the AfD in Germany has their stronghold in the poorer parts of Germany.

In addition, in the US you can go bankrupt from being injured. Your medical system is... unimaginably bad from German POV.
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Precisely! If you need an exemplar, just look at lead... an element that was known for centuries to make people crazy, which was formerly a gasoline additive. And what about all those other additives and emissions? Then you start looking at bunker fuel. This stuff ain't good for you by any stretch.
There's a fair chance he raped her and then murdered her. Much more common and less glamorous than Russian mobsters taking out someone about to break the big story.
Have a look at the Chromium/Chrome's extension Just Read

before / after
https://i.imgur.com/Ihy5wQh.png
Eurostat ? ("Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe").

They have stats for anything and everything, most renewed annually, in all 3 working language, in complete free access, and provide aggregate for EU17 and EU28.

Here is a link to their "browse stats by theme" page: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/browse-statistics-by-theme
But but ... that's socialism! And socialism is bad because ... USA USA!
>>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.

As someone who has had experience living in that system let me tell you the moment something like that can even happen. Most rich people from whom you could take significant for your socialist schemes will leave the country. Leaving behind a very very small part of usable money for your schemes. It will be over before it begins.

You have also now scared away almost every single economic prime mover individual from the economy to a point almost any body smart will only have one option for a good future- To leave the country and immigrate to else where. And there will always be some capitalist heaven which will welcome all this smart people with open arms.

With this set up your common pool of money from which you wished to pay for your Basic income will shrink year after year, until bankruptcy and total investor loss stares you in the face.

>>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.

They won't(rightly so) and that is what will be the biggest problem in the times to come.

The only way in the future is to make good decisions for the future or suffer.
>The whole western world is in for a rude awakaning in the coming years with regards to retirement.

Most Western countries have mandatory pension systems in place. In my country, NL, everyone has to pay money into pensioen funds that invest it for you.
Its a scam because its often used to justify paying below-market salaries.
> I'm not really sure what your concern is here.

You must be kidding me.
>I have a hard time believing anyone would commit a murder on a submarine in Denmark. I feel like it's almost impossible to cover that up.

You mean "premeditated murder". Because it's too easy to commit a murder or manslaughter anywhere on the heat of the moment (e.g. makes a pass, she refuses, argument, pushes him, pushes her, she falls and dies, etc).
This brings up the interesting question of whether it's ok to publish the trained model and not the data?

I'd imagine it's sufficiently derivative as to be allowed? What if you wrote a model that produced summaries of the book - would that be allowed?
Somehow clicking on the thumbnails keep appending `%7B%20%7B%20hit.url%7D%7D` to the URL. Bug?
It wouldn't actually matter. The problem is demographic, not financial.

Ultimately, somebody has to produce the resources, goods, and services that every person on earth needs to survive. If people live an average of 5 years after retirement, work for 50 years, and the population is at a steady-state, then every elder is supported by 10 workers. If the population has doubled in the last generation, then it's 20 workers. If the population is still doubling but people are now living for 10 years after retirement, then it's still 10 workers/elder. If the population returns to a steady-state but people now live for 20 years after retirement, though, we're down to only 2.5 workers/elder. Suddenly everybody feels the pinch.

Pensions, 401ks, stock market growth, and all other forms of retirement savings are just different ways of lying to ourselves. Ultimately, goods have to be produced, services have to be rendered, and money is just a way to track who has done that and reward them appropriately. If you have fewer people doing the work and more people depending upon it, standards of living will fall.

If I had to bet on a (peaceful) solution, it would be automation. Do more with less and a given number of workers can support a much greater number of dependents; the only challenge then becomes redistribution in a way that people find adequately fair. But elder care has proven stubbornly resistant to automation: if you've ever had a family member in their 90s and tried to take care of them at home, you may be doubting that it's even possible for 2.5 workers to take care of one elder, even if their own needs were completely automated away and they had no children.
I've tried a couple of these types of extensions, Just Read is the best one I've found so far.
Because expectation is not certainty.
I definitely can.

Although I'm not living the grand life. I don't own a car, I don't have children or crazy expensive hobbies. I cook every day, buy vegetables at the farmer market. I don't drink at all, or consume drugs, or smoke. I don't go out a lot. Once a week maybe.

Beside I find it very peculiar that my parents could live the life my friends live, yet could afford children, have saving and now have a retirement.

A 30 years old single person with no children an a job that doesn't have a loan or mad spending habits should not have to choose between savings and pleasures.

But yes, I don't deny I could definitely tune down my spending.

I'm not in a difficult situation myself. I don't have saving, but I have a nice life. I'm one of the person who can give away the 500 €. I'm more concerned that so many people around me can't.

While there is definitely an attitude issue here, it can't be the only one. I can believe there is a difference in the education my parents had. I can't, however, they were so much better planners than my friends are.
What's the advantage of that comment style? 4chan's comment threading is effectively non-existent
Ask HN: How the investors see the web crawling companies?
How the investors see the web crawling companies( in areas like price intelligence tools, online marketing tools)?

I want to understand how they evaluate the web crawling risk.
Though they remain in Vulkan as an optional feature, supported by all the desktop GPUs - so they're aren't going away anytime soon.

Of course, how much of that is driver fakery and how much is actual hardware support can be debated, but there's surely some hardware support, otherwise it wouldn't be exposed in Vulkan which is supposed to be a thin layer.
Historically the population has increased. The most likely outcomes of that which I foresee are a global resource war, pandemic, or pollution killing most of the population.
Disagree, or at least if there's a width that's too wide then I haven't found it yet. Let the user set the width they want in their browser, don't force your own max width on them.
Also sitting position I suppose. Sitting on the side of my bed is not the same as sitting on top of it. It puts pressure under my thighs and with bad blood flow would make my whole legs feel bad.
I have just been using the state for a top level component.

While it is true that this is now working, updating the state in the component that contains the <lasso-head/> and <lasso-body/> tags will cause the dependencies (defined in browser.json) to be lost. Unfortunately, the stylesheets are included in the dependencies... This means that playing with state at the top level removes any styling on the page.

This is EXACTLY the type of insanity that makes me recommend AGAINST using marko...

Example code here: https://github.com/nherment/marko-css-error
With SBCL and Linux kernels with binfmt_misc support enabled (module or compiled) you can execute FASL file from command line, using the same SBCL core for all the executables and, I would add, with an "instantaneous" feel. ^__^

With Debian it should work out of the box, on other distributions it probably needs to register a wrapper/trampoline with the binfmt_misc infrastructure.

FWIK running instances don't share the same core in RAM though.

$ cat hello-world.lisp /tmp
(print "Hello. World!")
$ sbcl --noinform /tmp
* (compile-file "hello-world.lisp" :output-file "hello-world")
; compiling file "/tmp/hello-world.lisp" (written 23 AUG 2017 11:09:24 AM):
; compiling (PRINT "Hello. World!")
; /tmp/hello-world.fasl written
; compilation finished in 0:00:00.001
#P"/tmp/hello-world.fasl"
NIL
NIL
* %
$ chmod +x ./hello-world.fasl /tmp
$ ls -lh hello-world.fasl /tmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 330 Aug 23 11:17 hello-world.fasl*
$ time ./hello-world.fasl /tmp

"Hello. World!" ./hello-world.fasl 0.00s user 0.00s system 44% cpu 0.009 total
$ /tmp

Edit for clarifications and fixing formatting
Sadly, in most of the Western countries, your pension payments go to paying the pensions currently being handed out. By the time you'll need yours, unless something changes, there won't be enough money to pay it.

That's why you're now encouraged to enlist in private pension saving plans and all those things.

At least, that's the outlook in Belgium.
> Word's don't hurt, they don't kill, they don't destroy lives. People do that.

Where do words come from?
I'd pay, given I have enough trust. I'd also be happy to e.g. half my payout for legal assistance in retrieving whatever access was taken away.

The issue I see is, what happens when a spam-account gets blocked? And how do you keep people who knowingly break e.g. google policy from forming the majority of your customers.
>It's not so much that Americans are bad at planning, it's just that they're not taught to do it. It's not taught in schools, and because their parents didn't need to plan so much when the economy was much better, it wasn't a skill that has been passed down.

This is simply not that true. It was taught in my public school and taught to most of my friends that went to public schools near me. Also taught in college. It didn't help. The power of compounding interest is taught to almost everyone and even fake quotes from Einstein used to hammer it home.

My generation (mid-30s) faced a post-graduate nightmare of a job market after 9/11 and then the 2007 credit decoupling in combination with a massive run-up in real estate values in the largest cities in America. No one had money to save.

I have managed to save starting in my 30s but I have quite a few friends who work paycheck to paycheck. The education was there. The ability is lacking.
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It's not really inherint to role players. Plenty of popular RPGs had radically different (and often non-chance based) character generation systems, ranging from the sublime (doling out combinations from a pool and trading strengths and weaknesses, like GURPS and Shadowrun) to the ridiculous (Traveller, where your character can die before the start of the game).