skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moscow Design Museum has some more examples too http://moscowdesignmuseum.ru/en/exhibitions/1/. Those that grew up in Soviet Union will recognize familiar objects. I recognized the phones, the "basketball" game, and the portable checkers game. Well and of course the Moskvitch 408 car.

I don't remember really thinking about design back then. Maybe because we didn't have many choices. You wanted a tape player you picked between 4 models, cars - same thing, and so on. And there is probably an effect here of finding the best stuff and displaying it. But that wasn't the average. Most of the stuff remember being unreliable and needing repair. Electronic equipment came with nice diagrams of how everything worked, but it wasn't from the goodness of their hearts, environmental concerns, or trying to foster a "maker" culture, it was because it would actually be unreliable and break down quite often.
Nice to see someone else working on tools like this. I think Markdown has a good level of ‘accessibility’ in that the syntax is friendly while fairly capable.

If you’re curious, here’s some of my experiments (best viewed on desktop):

- https://datadown.collected.design/github/RoyalIcing/lofi-boo...
- https://lofi.design/syntax/
- http://collected.design/research

Keen to collaborate with people!
My money is on DBeaver (free). The killer feature is that you can have all the queries you're doing laid out on the same place and execute the one you want as pleased, and also selecting rows of results and generating an `INSERT` statement off them.
The evidence is overwhelming that labor markets are monopsonistic, meaning that wages are almost always below what a competitive market would produce. Minimum wages work as advertised.
The pricing is per OCPU (Oracle CPU core) per hour. 16 cores = 16x the listed price for a single core. But yes, the table is a perfect example of how bad everything is.
The scary thing is Venezuela was doing relatively well not that long ago. I like to think democracy and a relatively good economy can keep a nation afloat and healthy to some extent ... but rather Venezuela's government has largely chosen this path in one way or another. It's kinda terrifying.
You don't need cross-origin scripts for this: you can host it yourself.

If you were to disallowed loading scripts cross-origin, everyone would just end up creating subdomains for everything you wanted to load, which would be worse security-wise I bet, as you'd lose some of the cross origin security features we have today.
I'd be worried about dust with that design, especially if it's expected to be up and running 24/7
*Qt, pronounced "cute".
QT is QuickTime.
Of course we do. And that's for the important stuff. Social media is largely garbage so sharing the small stuff would be useful.
Part of the blame lies with GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board).

Prior to around 2006, GASB allowed governments to avoid reporting pension liabilities on the balance sheet. Instead, pension liabilities were reported in the footnotes.

From 2006 onward, GASB started to tighten-up requirements, and eventually brought governmental accounting in-line with private sector accounting (aka liabilities are reported in full).

Once the new regs took effect...news reports about cities declaring bankruptcy started increasing.
A 7.5% return seems irrationally optimistic for something like a pension fund. Is that really what they budgeted on?
In addition, it's not necessarily salary of the last year - it's income from the state. Which, until a few years ago, included overtime and unused sick/vacation days. The incentives were totally crazy - cities and counties paid salaries up front, but the state generally paid pensions. So it was common practice to divert all overtime to employees who were going to retire that year, to spike their income and get them a higher pension. With sick days and overtime, it was not unheard of for the calculated pension to end up paying more than the actual salary did before retirement.

To add insult to injury, Senate Bill 400 under Gray Davis (who was later recalled in a special election) retroactively increased pension payments for people who had already retired and started drawing pensions. And CALPERS keeps two sets of books, dramatically overstating the actual performance of their investments. [1]

It's a horrible mess - nobody wants to strip the earned retirement away from retirees, but the math just doesn't work out. When the market provides better-than-predicted returns, employee contributions are reduced and benefits are increased. When all of those extra returns are wiped out by a bubble popping, everything stays the same and the difference is made up by taxpayers. And it's incredibly attractive for politicians to buy the support of unions and their membership, when the cost won't be paid until long after they're termed out of office.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/business/dealbook/a-sour-...
Are you suggesting sweet potatoes migrate?
Yes. And what's wrong with that? Until the brightest minds apply themselves to solving real problems the least they can do is solve small problems instead of making solutions for problems that dont exist.
Assuming the pensioners stay. Why stay completely when you can spend change your domicile to a zero-tax sunshine state or WA?
Illinois is liberal because of Chicago. Downstate is mostly conservative, excluding a few university towns.
Uniting Church and State: OO and FP Together by Noel Welsh

If you are interested in functional programing this little gem has some great insights into how to translate between data and behavior correctly. Not quite the level of Rich Hickey or Philip Wadler, but very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI
Did Waymo kill anyone yet?

Both Waymo and even Uber do not pretend that their systems are ready for public use and at least allegedly have people who are paid to take over (granted, in Uber's case it's done as shadily as anything else Uber does). Tesla sells their half-baked stuff to everyone, with marketing that strongly implies that they can do self-driving now, if only not for those pesky validations and regulations. I think there's quite a bit of a difference.

A lot of deaths and injuries on the road happen in countries with bad infrastructure and rather cavalier attitude to rules of the road. Fixing those could save more people sooner than SDVs that they won't be able to afford any time soon. Not to consider that an SDV designed in the first world (well, Bay Area's roads are closer to third world, but still...) aren't going to work too well when everyone around drives like a maniac on a dirt road.

Not to say that SDVs wouldn't be neat, when they actually work, but this is a very SV approach, throwing technology to create overpriced solution to problems that could be solved much cheaper, but in a boring way that doesn't involve AI, ML, NN, and whatever other fashionable abbreviations.
s/changing/will change
Not sure why it was downvoted, but my bet is this that you insist in: Pensions are surely a problem, but they are clearly a drop in the bucket

Pensions are NOT a drop in the bucket by any measure. Maybe for the USA they're less important. But for the rest, safety net is most of a country expenses. Then you add that population in the first world tends to shrink and the model in most countries where current workers pay for retired ones... and you have a very serious problem.
Python dictionaries: A Confluence of Great Ideas (also known as Modern Dictionaries) by Raymond Hettinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8
How the Makers of Mafia III Lost Their Way
The title and first two paragraphs are really quite unhelpful.

From what I can tell:

- PySide2 (the LGPL Python bindings for Qt 5) is being renamed "Qt for Python"

- There might be some new support provided that wasn't before. Not sure, the post isn't clear.

- There might be added engineering effort being thrown behind the project. Not sure, the post isn't clear.
Voters wanted jobs, did they not? Politicians promised jobs, did they not? The people of Wisconsin made their beds, now they must lie in them.
We ought not to focus on others whom were promised / earned a certain level of pension only to have it cut because other factions are jealous. Pensions are what many retirees need to survive. Reducing pensions in any way degrades the planned and promised standard of living of people often unable to go out again into the workforce.

We gotta strengthen organized labor and fight for living wages and pensions for all persons. The 1% have way too much and keep getting richer, while the rest fall behind and the middle-class languishes.
Calstrs, which is only for teachers, has over 900,000 members, with a bit less than half currently working. The average pension payout is $50,000 and the average retired person under Calstrs worked for under 25 years. And this is only for teachers.
https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/...

The many tens of billions of dollars spent on pensions annually in California alone dwarf any tax breaks given to companies. And California is very stingy with those anyway. For comparison California's annual budget is just about $270bn according to Ballotpedia.
You really have to wonder, from an evolutionary perspective, how and when this skill became so modular and specialized, that mostly everyone is born with this innate capability.

If you take this idea, that facial recognition is a modular specialization that most humans have inherited at birth (such that it can be added or subtracted from a person's instinctive skills, leaving everything else more or less untouched), and cross it over to other species, I'd take a wild guess that this is the missing piece in animals that fail to recognize themselves in mirrors.

Comparing elephants and dolphins with dogs and cats, it's tempting to contemplate that while dogs and cats can become familiar with us, they're likely face blind. Elephants and dolphins, while capable of passing mirror self recognition tests to a certain degree, are probably not as adept, because they lack the same socialization demands that have intensely pressured humans for a couple thousand years.

I have to figure in earlier periods of human history, an inability to recognize individuals, especially in similarly peopled enclaves might have been supremely deadly. Not just boss-in-the-elevator deadly (as mentioned in the article), but literally stab-you-in-the-back deadly.

So much so, that we aren't born with other skills like capable of walking directly after being birthed, like other animals, but for the most part, by age three, if we can recognize faces, we can pick our parents out of a line up.

We know literacy and written language is a hard driver of civilization. I wonder how much, the innate capacity for human facial recognition plays into the ability to read text? It seems like dyslexia is related to the degree of rendomization of the pattern of receptors in the eyes, but facial recognition seems strongly bound to processing and memory.

Is it a prevailing trait that predates history, or is the capacity to record history, and history's emergence and fidelity concurrent with the prevalence of human facial recognition as almost pure instinct?

Furthermore, imagine a world where the selective pressure is removed, and the trait is replaced by an augmented reality product, a device that recognizes people for you. How easily ruled would those people of the future be?
Thankfully, those who are yet to be born will be many more numerous and possess better technology with which to pay the debt we charge up.
‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’
.04% of what?
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These aren't technology problems, they are social and political problems.

> To feel like they actually have a family instead of being increasingly isolated.

There is no app for that, and I don't know if there should be.
One of the big things pushed with Fossil is that you get issues and a wiki built in, compared to Git, but when you consider it there's nothing preventing you from tracking issues and keeping wiki pages inside a Git repo as well. All that Fossil offers is some extra porcelain over its storage layer, which could be offered through extra tooling for Git as well.
The Botch of the Human Body
A fascinating digression. I conceptualize borrowing oppositely.

When you borrow, you borrow from someone else's past/present labor and obligate your future labor. (Where 'you' can be an individual, organization, or society.)

In my view, borrowing is always from the past. You cannot borrow that which has not yet been created.
Also this: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31451-4
In 2001, Car and Driver magazine wrote an article [1] on this that supplies additional narration, context, and detail.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140913050248/http://www.carand...
Borrowing from the future is an excellent strategy in a lot of cases, you just need to explicit that you're doing so and make sure it makes sense.
FWIW, I went 30 years without being diagnosed as or medicated for Bipolar 2. Life was hell, physically tortuous even, and socially and financially devastating. Wrecked my life good. I was around 43, when I found out.

I completely understand getting set off. I don't know how many thousands of hours I've lost to excessive anger and irritation.
The bitch of it is that there's usually a good reason to be angry, just not _that_ angry.

With the proper meds, life isn't perfect, but I have the kind of peace of which I dreamt for decades...and without being zombified. I can actually hold down a job.

Friends, roommates, and noise generated by other people, still a big no. I live alone up in the hills and wfh. I like it that way.

As for meds, should you try any again,

Forget lithium. The best mood stabilizer I know is Lamotragine. If you are in the US, fill your prescription through canadadrugs.com. It's too expensive in the US.

As for anti-depressants, the Serotonin-based drugs never worked for me, but I take Viibryd now, which isn't Serotonin-based.

As for ensuring that you sleep (I was an insomniac for much of 20 years), Trazadone is an old, cheap, and non-addictive sleeping pill. It has nothing to do with ephedrine or melatonin, and won't mess you up at all.
If you want to see pension data from California, it is available here. https://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/all/
There is a bunch of one time payments near the top but some below that are some making quite a bit in retirement.
Cellular Automata Laboratory
Read white paper.
The history of alpinism can, to at least a first approximation, be summarized as "veterans with PTSD fixing their heads the best way they knew how". This goes for freeclimbing too, to a somewhat lesser extent.

I heard a interview with a vet and climber once who described the appeal of alpinism as "all of the good parts of combat, without the shooting or any conscious thing trying to cause me harm".

Skydiving sounds similar, if shorter in duration than 3 weeks on K2 or something.
> The way most pensions work

Most pensions historically.

People entering the job market today (or even most of the millennial generation) were never offered these final salary pensions. Instead we get defined contribution plans, 401Ks, or nothing at all.

The key difference being that defined contribution plans (and 401Ks) are always only worth what was contributed (and investment performance profits). Things like your final salary, final position, or year of retirement (except for IRS rules that give significant tax advantages) don't mean very much except contributing more to these funds.

It is a better system from a larger society perspective (nothing is "loaned") but may result in few actually being able to afford retirement.
The federal government isn’t state and local. Also note that the Feds no longer have generous pension plans and rely on 457 plans similar to 401k.

Someone in my family ran a fire department in the 80s and 90s. They had no money and in this state arbitration made negotiations difficult for management to win. So they gave away pension and health concessions that were cheap then.

The number one issue with these systems are public safety pensions, because of the amount of overtime earned by these employees. Administrative staff and professionals are mostly exempt and not that big of a deal.
Some needed contextualization here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U...
Much of western civilization is built on borrowing from the future. Actually I believe that the words “credit”,”mortgage”, “financing”, and actually “borrowing” are all synonyms for “borrowing from the future.”
A lot more theories:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_...
Ask HN: Just like HN, any “secret garden” you religiously follow
HN has brought a transformation in me. It’s like before HN days and after. With the perspectives from discussions/comments, eye opening articles, I always had an edge during technical discussions with my fellow geeks. Like HN, do you follow any other sites for topics like finance, personal well being, medical, leadership, spirituality etc
I think that it depends on the industry.

For example, I doubt that software engineers are competively paid, when compared to industry. But that is more of a function of how ridiculously high industry pay is.
How much money would you consider to be a reasonable pension? LA's payment of pension obligations is 31% of their city budget. Many other cities see significantly more, and it's going to keep getting worse as more workers retire.

https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary-surging-pension-c...
I am just trying to figure out your angle on this, because I do not think Monsanto being the devil incarnate, or some scientists believing in eugenics 100 years ago has much bearing on whether we should use GMOs now to let people in areas where conventional crops do not grow well feed themselves. Argument that "there are too many people in the world" aside, I do not see how it could be a bad thing.
i rewatch this one now and then just to hear Joe Armstrong speak of another author's complex compiler code and the singular comment " and now for the tricky bit"
Cliff Click’s “A Lock-Free Hash Table”, now over ten years old!

https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts
No subscription.
Well, coconuts do - they evolved for the purpose. It seems unlikely you can say the same for sweet potatoes, though.
Also:

I see what you mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g

and

Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mHQCkr-4I

both by Peter Alvaro (second also includes Kolton Andrus) are thought-provoking looks at failure modeling in distributed systems.
"Are We There Yet" - Rich Hickey (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...)
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I'm glad someone's experimenting with this idea. The makers of CakeMail did something similar with email templates a while back (see http://cakedown.alexandredeschamps.ca/), and I always thought it was a bummer that they didn't keep going with the idea.
You might like this essay:

http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
It's rather delayed bankruptcy in our case. The idea that these trillions are going to be paid back one day is preposterous and we all know it.
My guess is that the opening line is pure political rhetoric: "What a pathetic ploy to divide the working class against each other."

While I agree with the overall point of the comment. I down voted it because of the tone with which it was made and it's lack of attempt to brings any facts or references to bear in reinforcing its claims.

A prime example of states spending their money poorly to the benefit of big businesses is another HN topic. The headline is about eminent domain, but the article talks about the 3 billion "investment" that was given to Foxconn that seems unlikely to pay for itself even in an optimistically estimated 25 years.

Edit: Also, several of the "factual" claims made were... hard to believe without any numbers to back them up.
Sorry, I think I read your message completely wrong - I take this back.

It sounds like you're arguing that in fixing these social problems more jobs will be created - I originally thought you wanted to "disrupt" these fields using tech.
To me, amazon has earned a reputation for being extremely customer friendly, consistently working to drive down prices, and funneling all of their cash flows into R&D/growth.

Idk about you, but those are probably the top 3 attributes I want in a company that manages my infrastructure.
I was pulling a number out of a hat to make a point. But you should know that nobody has a crystal ball. Before 2008, institutional investors were saying they were prepared for "apocalyptic" losses of 10 to 15% of the housing market. Sometimes reality outpaces expectations. Regardless, you can substitute "a sufficiently large number of people" if it offends your delicate sensibilities.
Non government employees have had inadequate inflation raises but without nicer retirements nor better health benefits.
I mean, the obvious solution is to move to purely defined-contribution plans and haircut the existing people down to actual returns on invested balance for them.

But I have to imagine in a lot of cases that would lead to people being impoverished later in life, which is not especially humane.
4 million people. How many working people with enough income to pay tax? Half? Less?

So maybe ~13K per tax paying person in outstanding pension obligations alone?

That is a big deal.
You need experience no resume
> "nicer"

That does not even start to describe it fairly. "Extremely sweet" would be more accurate since civil servants and the like get to retire with almost their best pay ever, while the rest of us get something averaged over dozens of years.

> and I have witnessed years of inadequate inflation raises

So you think the private sector gets "adequate" inflation raises? Not everyone works in tech.
If one has a simple tax situation, I'd recommend looking at Credit Karma (US) or SimpleTax (Canada).

Unfortunately, I've found TurboTax is better with weird corner cases. It helped me figure out I was eligible for the American Opportunity Tax Credit (US citizen going to university in Canada) which alone was a few thousand dollars that I would have missed if I had filed a 1040-EZ on paper. It has handled 401k->roth rollovers and cost basis, reporting capital gains (when I divested from Bitcoin), paying taxes on Canadian RRSP capital gains, and sales of Restricted Stock Units. I'll probably pay to use it for the foreseeable future.

In Canada, the tax system is less arcane, so the tax software companies have to give it to university students for free to get them hooked. It's too bad that even if I move to another country, I'll have to file US tax returns for life.
And now you know why the big push for open boarders.
Actually most of the money that is borrowed (approx 90% AFAIK) is invented and injected into the economy. You borrow against the future because this new creation of currency must later be paid by labor or investments.
Seems like pensions should be based on base salaries rather than overtime or clinic pay or licensing deals. I’d hope that the medical center and the university bear most of the burden. The police and fire fighters are a different issue in that the county, city or state governments bear the burden. Without raising taxes it’s difficult to solve these issues. Single payer would help though.. it would reduce the medical costs.
> All that Fossil offers is some extra porcelain over its storage layer...

Well... the tickets are things that live in the repository like a commit, so can reference other entries, and are referenceable by other entries, in a first class way, so it’s a “simple matter of programming” for git in the dismissive sense.