skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Swedish pension authorities ("Pensionsmyndigheten") has now published a - belated - study which shows that migration to Sweden will double the pension costs by the year 2060 [1]. This studt is 'belated' because these numbers had already been calculated and made known by others but that news was labelled 'främlingsfientligt' (xenophobic) and 'racist' to quench any chance of a fact-based discussion on the subject.

The problem with (current and recent) migration to Sweden is that most migrants come from places with low 'human development index' (Afghanistan and Syria are the top 2 countries at this moment) while the Swedish job market requires high levels of education compared to surrounding countries. This makes it hard for migrants to find jobs and to establish themselves, leading to a high dependence on government subsidies and state-subsidised pensions ('garantipension').

In other words, by allowing (until recently unlimited) economically-motivated migration of people from countries with a low HDI, Sweden has worsened any future pension problems dramatically and reduced the chance of the state pension system to survive in the long term.

In 2014 Sweden had a birth rate of 1.88 per woman [2], the third best in Europe. While not at the 2.1 level required to keep the population at the current level there was no obvious need to import a large contingent of people from the Middle-East and Africa to avoid the "collapse of the pension system".

[1] https://ledarsidorna.se/2017/10/pensionerna-migrationens-kos...

[2] https://www.thelocal.se/20160316/swedes-are-europes-third-be...
Complements and substitutes: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Modern web companies don't make money from the web, they make money from something you do while you're on the web. The less the web costs to use (in the broadest possible sense of cost), the more people will use it, the more money they will make.

That's why Facebook's trying to pay off Indian ISPs, and Google's pouring money into web browsers and internet balloons. Microsoft came late to this party because their original make-money-from-the-OS model meant they were trying to compete using the browser, but now that they have a cloud strategy like everyone else, the law of complements has turned them into good web citizens too. Thanks, Satya!
Sure, and our current social contract says you pay less in taxes if you are super wealthy. There are places in this world where the rich are taxed to death, you are free to leave and settle in such utopia.

Is that what you are saying?
So (for Firefox) setting this in about:config should disable usage of the light sensor API (plus other sensors that could be also working against you), right?

> device.sensors.enabled = false
"I don't think, however, that it would have a similar effect on our (i.e. employees) salaries."

Why not?
In my area, this is attributed to the mild winter last year.
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While that link is part of WCAG 2.0, there are other items within the standard to follow such as: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H67.html. Decorative images are not supposed to be read by the screen reader.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/
Ask HN: Why are there so many Bloomberg articles in this site right now?
I had a company I was talking to ask, and say up front that they would need pay stubs as proof.
The first 100% cocoa bar I've had that was actually pretty good was: Montezuma Absolute Dark Chocolate Black from the UK. I found it once at my Trader Joe's and sadly haven't seen it since. Seriously tempted to order a supply from abroad despite the high shipping cost.
I think that this started as an argument about a specific thing that taxes are spent on – fighting income inequality. But now you have identified (mistakenly, by the way) the political ideology that, as you think, stands behind my opinions, and are arguing against this political ideology as a whole.

Can we agree on fire departments, roads and military and get back to discussing welfare state, please?

Edit: oh, and by the way, just as lighthouses were actually built by private organizations in Adam Smith's time, 70% of US firefighters are volunteers.
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Not getting my hopes up, but have seen more this year (Ohio) than I remember seeing in a long time. As in, like maybe 4-5 instead of 1-2, but I'll take it.
> I keep saying this but: if your company has been acquired by private equity firms, consider moving asap. Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical of software/tech companies.

For anyone in a web hosting role, I suspect the same would probably apply if EIG bought the company. Those guys have a pretty lengthy record of buying out successful hosting companies and driving them into the ground.

https://researchasahobby.com/full-list-eig-hosting-companies...
But you'll create this problem for a lot of new people by making salaries public. You don't need to be a multimillionaire for money to cause problems.
The smoke is when things like the same simulated robot that learned to run around like a mentally challenged person also learns to simulate throwing and can read very basic language.

It will seem quite stupid and inept at first. So people will dismiss it. But when they have a system with general inputs and outputs that can acquire multiple different skills, that will be an AGI, and we can grow it's skills and knowledge passed human level.
When I worked for the DoD, our salaries where not published.

Not that it mattered that much, thanks to the hacking of the OPM.
Not to anyone working in BASIC.

And probably more importantly, they're implementation details: you can't feed a modern processor out of order instructions, the entire system is built and optimised to efficiently execute sequential programs (but possibly several of them concurrently).
230+ sets of documentation already work. You can vote for your favorite language here: https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation
Would this work for a business that requires domain expertise?

I run an online lsat prep business. I sell video courses. Not a monthly SASS, but everything runs automatically. Students arrive at predictable times of the year and buy in predictable quantities.

But, to expand on it, you would need domain knowledge. That can be hired; I have an assistant who’s an lsat tutor who handles a lot of support.

There aren’t really any buyers within my niche. Existing lsat prep companies already have a course.

There’s also the issue that my personality is in the business. The videos feature me, and the informational materials are written in my own style, using the word “I”, etc.

So far I’ve been operating on the assumption that I can’t sell it at a reasonable value. But maybe that’s mistaken. Do you think non-lsat experts might want to buy a business like this?

There’s definitely some cost savings potential. “Programmer” is one of my larger expenses. A developer could optimize it with their own labour instead.
I don't know about your specific examples, but yes, royalties from spin-offs absolutely do flow back to the supporting institution.
An impressive and thoughtful response, thank you Dennis for taking the time to inform me!
Flexpoint looks like its 16-bits however: https://www.intelnervana.com/nervana-engine-delivers-deep-le...

And I'm not really sure that stripping "Sin" and "Cos" out of the FPU units would really save that much power and/or improve efficiency.

Generally speaking: the biggest problem today is the memory architecture of your computing device (be it a CPU, GPU, Paralella, or FPGA). Efficient CPU programming requires deep understanding of L1 / L2 / L3 / Off-chip cache. And similarly, efficient GPU code require deep understanding of the memory hierarchy.

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https://www.intelnervana.com/nervana-engine-delivers-deep-le...

Looking at the Nervana posts... it looks like the "memory" question is:

1. HBM: Except both AMD Fury and AMD Vega64 are already using HBM. NVidia also has an HBM offering at the very very high end.

2. 16-bit Flexpoint: Except NVidia and AMD cards already can efficiently calculate half-floats (16-bit floats).

3. MAC: Multiply and Accumulate. AMD and NVidia cards have been optimizing this instruction and can perform Matrix Multiplications at ludicrous speeds already.

Maybe the Google TPU can be a theoretical competitor... but until Google's TPU becomes available from newegg.com, it really isn't a consideration for most people.

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The main "advantage" of Nervana looks like its improved memory architecture with "separate pipelines for computation and data management". (aka: vague marketing talk).

And I really do think this is the key: depending on how memory is architected on the Nervana system, it really can make-or-break the speed of applications. But is also the part that's the most mysterious with the least amount of documentation so far...
I could barely mow my lawn last weekend. They just kept attacking me. Didn't even get to trim the edges because I was tired of being stung.
>(aspire to) use it as an alternative to renting for a significant fraction of the year.

BUILD MORE GOD DAMN HOUSING.
If you had an estimate of the real difference, you could switch to breaking ties randomly. Black wins 60% of the ties, white wins 40%. There will be a ratio at which each side should win 50% of the time.

I agree that with perfect play, it will be a 50% of a tie to each side. But it is still interesting to ask for a better estimate of practical play.
Again, then it is a worthwhile argument to ask why certain things are enshrined when others are not, if it is indeed possible to base a legal system upon what reasonable minds agree is "implied". For example, most people today would agree that not enslaving humans is implied under the equal protection clause., and yet, we have a specific amendment that had to be ratified, stating "No person can hold another as a slave..."

Like most implied rights, the right to privacy is weak specifically because it is not enshrined. Even the explicitly stated rights have limits, particularly when they butt into the other explicitly stated rights.

When the implied "right to privacy" butts into the 1st Amendment rights of freedom of expression and a free press, on which side do you think the courts will err on, on a consistent basis?
How does removing a multi-million dollar lottery solve the issue of making everyone's salaries public and having the same issue there?
If my (relatively high) salary is published, they'll be able to make inferences - crucially, it doesn't matter if they are correct or not.
McCain is co-sponsoring a political ad bill that takes aim at Facebook
Evil is really hard to define in any remotely acceptable way. If 95% of a population was actively dangerous to the safety of me or people I cared about I would totally be OK with harming up to and including killing the innocent 5% if and only if there wasn't a better way.

Herein population can be understood to mean any group of people from a small band of individuals up to the population of a continent.

This isn't morally reasonable because I would in fact probably sacrifice any number of people who are not close to me for those that are however I tend to think that the majority would make the same decision. This is why having individuals make such life and death decisions would probably be a bad idea.

I don't think I could reasonably on the other hand punish the guilty 1% and also the innocent 99%. I guess everyone probably has a line but I don't know if you can ethically define and what point it becomes right or wrong because I don't think most people consider even the mundane choices they make logically.

I think most such choices are actually made emotionally.
Absolutely- the air con is essential. Good air quality and a comfortable temperature is hard to get any other way. So the car would need to be at least a hybrid.
I'm not certain which small colleges you are describing, but nationwide small colleges are getting hammered and will continue to do so based on demographic trends.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/02/0...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/small-colleges-losing-...

http://college.usatoday.com/2017/02/24/for-many-small-colleg...
Where is a good place to buy batteries online these days? I feel like Amazon is a crap shoot with all the expired product or knock-offs they have.
A few years ago the townhome next to me was broken into and a woman was kidnapped.

So, I guess a few years ago, I'd say.
Unfortunately not everyone is in the position where they can just say no like that.
Same thing happened with the squirrels in the Pacific Northwest. Little red ones replaced by the big grey ones.

In more remote places and in the mountains where the winters are harsher you still see the small red native squirrels though.
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Jesus, that sounds like a few billionaires I know.
Good luck, and if you go for it, welcome aboard!
Do you think would-be robbers will give me the benefit of the doubt? I'd prefer to not trust them.
How about service providers like car repairmen and house contractors ripping people off? How about gold-diggers pursuing people on false romantic pretenses? How about just people gossiping about you out of envy?
> (who could of believed they would do that??)

I didn't even realize I was being cynical when I was unsurprised by this news. I don't really understand why everyone else is. (That isn't to say it isn't important news, but the shock that everyone seems to be in is confusing).
I don't know or care to measure his relative popularity, and living in the Bay Area it's quite difficult to asses his popularity in the US at large, but Chomsky has struck me as one of the most well-known writers on the left for >20 years now. So what if he's mainly published in book form? I don't think of op-eds as good for anything more than cocktail party chat, I've certainly never heard of anyone taking any kind of meaningful political action in response to one. Sometimes they help to draw attention to an obscure issue or influence people a bit at election time, but his absence from op-ed pages bothers me not one whit.

It can be convenient for a political establishment to have some popular, attractive, but ultimately ineffective figures (often unconsciously - please don't overlook this) for others to cluster around. Such persons are referred to as Judas Goats, from ranching where the idea originates. This is why it bothers me that Chomsky gets his readers all fired up over injustice but never seems to equip them with the intellectual tools to do very much about it. Given his manifest intellectual talents, it's strange that he opts for the role of a preacher railing against sin rather than delving into the root causes.

I'm not saying don't read him or take him seriously, he has a lot of valuable things to say. But if you just rely on Chomsky and want to get into radical politics, it's like going into battle with a nerf gun. He's very moralistic, but as his arguments often never address things from the point of view he's railing against they're very easy to deflect. Of course Chomsky would argue that the The Establishment has a whole body of media arguing on its behalf and he sees no reason to do their work for them, but that doesn't really equip his readers to argue the case, which is where the rubber meets the road.

Also (and I know I'm not the first to say this) Chomsky is really good at saying what he thinks is wrong with the world but not at equipping his readers with tactical responses to do anything about it, other than shouting into a megaphone. This a problem with left activism in general, which has been lacking in the tactics and strategy department. That's not Chomsky's fault, but agitation without organization leads to futility and demoralization.

Alinsky's Rules for Radicals remains a standard primer of activist organizing methods but at times it seems to have been almost forgotten about by people on the left. I only heard about it because people in the Tea Party took up using it and shared its contents widely while pretending to be very outraged by their existence. (As a general rule, your opponents are often far better teachers than your friends, in any context, not just politics.) I could name a large pro-Democratic political forum that I've read for 10 years where I've only seen it mentioned once or twice, and then only in passing rather than as a repository of useful techniques. So if you're dissatisfied with the state of the world, the best thing you could do would be donate your Chomsky books to a thrift store and pick that up instead. Sun Tzu wouldn't hurt either.
I'm pretty sure companies have ruled me out from even contacting because I left past salary blank. I didn't check their hr boxes and that was likely one.
This is possible but a risk I was willing to take. I highly doubt my employees will post it online and run a massive SEO campaign for everyone to see.
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What culture is socialized to publicly disclose income?
Yes, certainly. For that and unrelated reasons.
Mardens is awesome. It's like a cross between Ocean State Job lot and a government surplus auction with some furniture and home goods thrown in. I love when they have hardware by the pound. Last time I was there they had copper fittings at ~double scrap price. They also had nuts and bolts that looked like they were on the container that got dropped in the harbor but still well worth the price.
To be fair, if you're trying to camp somewhere that isn't 60-70 degrees at night, you need to leave most cars on (or wake up and run the AC/heat briefly) to make a lot of locations comfortable, since cars don't retain heat very well. This isn't really feasible in a gasoline car (it's loud and wasteful) and would run the batteries of many electric cars a little too low for comfort. In my admittedly limited experience, the Tesla has much better idle efficiency than many competitors.
Perhaps we need a Model W the Westfalia edition :-).

Car camping has a long and rich history, the '71 Chevy Impala was used by travelling salesmen because the bench seat in the back would fold flat into a decent bed.

It is interesting that with a small number of 'tweaks' to where things were laid out you could really improve the experience in the Model S.
There are Snowboy and uSpeech on Github. Haven‘t used them yet.
Are the delusions if they do well on the tests?
That would not be the result of publishing salary information. It might be a drop in the bucket for equality at best. And you're speaking to someone who consistently votes and donates to democratic socialist candidates and causes.
This is amazing. The most amazing part to me is the part in which programs are published into the network itself, as just messages.

I didn't quite understand it and so I may be wrong, but that Annah thing may be quite game-changing.
If anyone doubts that massive amounts of money have gone to a few (now extremely wealthy) legal drug dealers.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-famil...
On the path of a new revolutionary attempt to predict the past!
There are tons and tons of people who want to be employees and have absolutely no desire to be their own boss. They find freedom in choosing where to work and where to put their efforts. I strongly disagree with this idea that everyone is a secret entrepreneur.

You can still retain ownership of your career and be an employee.
Universities have become country clubs. Those funding figures include absurd overhead rates that fund absurd compensation packages for professors and administrators. Tuition has also gotten absurd. This bubble has to burst before we can repair our public universities.
But you can always use it to your leverage too, I have lied about my previous salary before and it worked out great.
The difference is a go AI can play billions of games and a simple 20 line C program can check, for each game, who won.

For "cat in the picture", every picture must have the cat first identified by a person, so the training set is much smaller, and Google can't throw GPUs at the problem.
There's no shortage of TV pundits saying the same sort of stuff as Chomsky so why he's being held up as some sort of martyr is beyond me.
It's hilarious really. A home robber isn't going to download your salary history prior to robbing your house, chances are a lot of the money has gone into big heavy things that they aren't after anyway.

Thieve's are opportunists, they only question they ask is "how easily can I get into that house without getting caught?".
>> The entire point is that it's deeply screwed up for you to need to hide your wealth from your neighbors--or from some set of neighbors but not others--for fear of being robbed.

That's not the point of the commenter. Secondly, I reject your summary opinion that lacks evidence, but you are welcome to your own feelings.
Marie Curie died of acute radiation poisoning, so I guess it's just a matter of how little you're worried about the effects of what you're working with. :)
The problem is 1/1000 patents makes substantial revenue for universities.
This problem is happening in part due to the ascent of the conservative political movement. Conservatives hate research universities for two reasons.

One is they get their grants from the government, and conservatives believe the government is awful for most things, and research instead be done by private corporations.

The other reason is that conservatives see universities as hotbeds of athiest, radical left ideology, and so basically want to shut them down. In fact, one of the founding books of the modern conservative movement is William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale.
Was the WebPlatform project?

> The WebPlatform project, supported by various stewards between 2012 and 2015, has been discontinued. This site is now available on github

https://webplatform.github.io/docs/
>>Anyone could make a reasonable estimate of your salary based on your job, which is easily discoverable.

That would require two things, I guess. My name, and the ability to estimate my salary based on the company I run. I am pretty sure even if I told you both you'd miss by a significant amount.
Took the survey despite being British, found it had me down as being most similar to New Yorkers.

As someone who doesn't know much about American dialogue, do people over there really use similar wording? Or is the quiz just coming up with random answers because it has no clue what to suggest?
> it seems to me that progressive distortion is far greater than pro-business or pro-government distortion

i don't know that these are directly comparable. it's like comparing a car's length to a truck's height. there may be some correlation, but they are distinct things.
Do you have any reason to think they do this? With "this" meaning "give higher rent hikes to tenants with high incomes than they otherwise would've." It doesn't sound remotely plausible to me.
How are you guys planning on marketing this, if you don’t mind me asking?

Are you using smart contracts to power this?

Congratulations on shipping this! It looks like a very compelling offering!
So, the article mentions that Congress was kept unaware, but was the Obama administration also in the dark about this investigation?
So wait, you said a number, and the recruiter said that the job paid less than what they believed you were currently making?
That doesn't sound right because in Chinese rules, which is what AG uses, komi only changes in steps of two. Are you sure about 6.5? Could it be 5.5?