skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes being lower or higher are not what determine size of pension hole. Greece and Italy have higher taxes and still have a pretty big pension hole. The problem is public sector employees are promised pensions higher than county/city can afford. Unlike a corporation which has to balance its budget, city officials go beyond means with their promises in order to get elected and leave the problem for the next set. This is one of the main reasons why many in this country prefer a small government vs big.
Perhaps the road from tech demo to minimal viable product is a lot longer than we think.
JSX is PHP-mix-HTML templates and JSP all over again. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to relive it.
It just seems to me like the "infinite scalability" promise of serverless is only realistic if you have no database. Because inevitably, you'll hit database scaling issues due to query patterns and suboptimal indexes LONG before you'll have a hard time scaling up your fleet of servers because you're getting too many requests.
Does this mean Otto is being shut down?
It's not about a lack of alternatives, but about the lack of accessibility to them. How many phones can we find on Amazon shipping with any of these OSes today?
Why no comparisons to the pension systems in other countries? I'm always hearing about how Europe has a much more generous pension system. Do they work the same way? Are they all similarly underwater? If not, what are they doing differently?
Surprises me as well. From the people I know in trucking related industries, they all thought that was clearly an important market and a prime adoption route.
OK, thanks.

But whatever, the title needs to include (2013).
"not a game" - well, he certainly hid this well behind a playful and enthusiastic way of teaching, as when he was our Props of Matter lecturing prof at Birkbeck College in the early 70's. And very effective too, not that I followed the Physics path beyond that (the siren call of computers was stronger for me).
Spoilers...

Marooned in Realtime has multiple groups of people travelling into the future, all having set out before a mysterious event that wiped out the rest oh humanity. They experience the evolution of the Earth, but the only human civilisation they experience is that of their fellow travelers. 'The Forever War' (referenced elsewhere here) in contrast has individuals who dip into evolving human civilisation, finding massive societal changes each time they return, so much so that 'home' becomes the time jumping army they belong to.
> Are you claiming this doesn't work?

No, I am not. I misinterpreted the "larger than all coefficients" because I was sure that the condition that at least one of the coefficients other than the constant term had to be positive. You pointed out my mistake, you are correct, thank you.

> Are you claiming it's trivial to accomplish?

It is easy to state what you need to do. Find largest a such that k^a ≤ p(k). Find p(k) / k^a using integer division. Because division is a function, there is unique quotient and unique remainder. The quotient is your first coefficient. Take the remainder, repeat.
This is surprising to me as well. I have seen first-hand how tedious it can be to find reliable truck drivers, particularly in the Midwest. I am eager to see how this industry shifts in the next couple decades.
Is that a sign of illegitimate fake-spotting, or a sign of just how widespread fake reviews are? Personally I'm quite inclined to believe an extremely high fail rate.
Surprised there's no discussion of FFT, power spectra, etc. Would like to see someone with an electrical engineering/signal processing background work on this problem.
I’m able to track aircraft around 100 miles away using a cheap receiver and a 50’ wire antenna. About $50 total investment. I would guess commercial aircraft must have fairly high watt transmitters.
I checked your comment and it was an F with 83% fake on FakeSpot.

Edit: I was paid for writing this review.
Was in an old school taxi cab here in San Francisco last week and I asked the guy what he thought about Lyft and Uber. Usually when I pose that question the cabbie goes on a tirade about how his/her livelyhood is ruined. But this guy's response was different.

He said.

"There are now more Uber and Lyft drivers in this City than there are people that need a ride."
The one thing all the predictors mentioned in the article seem to have in common is that they're all efforts by the financial industry to wring more profit out of the real economy - i.e. the one that produces goods and services of more tangible value than numbers on a balance sheet. Without proper regulation, competing on the basis of investment returns inevitably creates a race to take ever greater real risks, independently of the risks as portrayed to investors, and employ ever more sophisticated tactics to obscure the difference. That's why I and many others who've lived through more than one economic cycle know that when the ratio of finance-industry profits to real productivity takes a sharp uptick it's time to run for cover.
I didn't realize US taxes were so high in comparison to other countries.

You are looking at the wrong table. Look at the next table instead and see just how high the US is relative to other countries.

The only thing we don't tax is goods, but that's to help lower income people - the same people you want to help.
From a technical standpoint, a lot of the effort is probably duplicated, except trucks are heavier and less maneuverable so they have some added challenges.
> The amount of capital required (both human and material) is too large to achieve colonizing Mars, even in a small capacity.

Sending people to Mars would cost a few times as much as the construction (inflation adjusted) of the US interstate highway system. [1] There is a reason physicists, economists, and engineers, but usually not Linux container experts, are consulted when evaluating megaproject proposals.

> Let's spend those countless billions on improving conditions here.

How do you propose we allocate those billions? Who do you delegate to allocate those billions? Is the marginal benefit of that reallocation greater than the marginal cost of killing off all interplanetary colonization efforts?

[1] https://spacenews.com/op-ed-mars-for-only-1-5-trillion/
Bitscoop labs has a free product that has a decent free tier, or you could roll your own with mashape's open source tools
MaxTo is pretty close. I didn't come across this one in my travels.

It does support the ability to ensure windows don't go beyond a certain region.

But the problem I see with this app is you can't define the region size and where it's located. It only gives you an option to vertically / horizontally split evenly in sections.

Like, cutting your screen in half, and then in half again. Not so much picking the size and area.

Really close tho!
Quantitative easing was not for banks. Also, the bailouts to which you refer were not free money, they were loans with low interest rates that have been paid back.

The pensions don't have enough money so easy access to debt does nothing to help them solve that problem.
Since the comments in this thread are missing historical context, here's a review wrt California:

1) the State Treasurer presented 3 options (low - 6%, middle - 7%, high - 8%), but said high was dangerous
2) the State picked high, since they were voting on their own pension payments
3) the municipal unions went to the mayoral candidates across the state and said, "if you want our support on election day, support 8%"
4) the courts have ruled that once a pension plan is approved, it can't be repealed for existing members
5) the San Jose mayor actually tried to repeal it to prevent city bankruptcy, and was ground into the dust by the public unions and courts
6) the last city employee in each city will be the Treasurer, to sign pension checks. There will be no city services (fire, police, libraries, etc.) - just pension payments. This is already happening in California
7) Public union members receive higher salaries now (thanks to COLA) than the private sector, plus multi-million dollar pensions. My dentist calls them "royalty" because their benefits are on a different level than the private sector.

What's ironic is that Marx predicted that in a democracy, the voters would eventually vote themselves ruinous entitlements. He was correct, but all it took was the public unions.
Or, it's just a collectible gimmick to drive sales just like all the other toys and promotions they execute throughout the years.

Only a small % will ever be redeemed. Most will try to collect all 5.
The book “Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos” provides a good overview of how these airline reservation systems came to be.
For us SF lovers, take some time visiting the link at the end of the article: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php
> Instead of asking why they have no pensions they seek to equalize status by falsely believing we can't afford any sort of pension.

More accurately: we can't afford the pensions we've promised with the taxes we're willing to pay. It's not a normative argument but a descriptive one.

And within the American free market, there is little incentive for people to pay more taxes to close that gap. Why pay more taxes to Illinois--and not get any increased public services from those taxes, because the money is going to people who have already retired--when you can move to Tennessee or Texas and pay less?
Defined-benefit pensions are economically bankrupt when lifespan keeps increasing. This has been known for decades[1] and is the reason why none of us reading this have a DB pension, except those lucky few state employees who got a sweetheart deal all those years ago.

Of course, the fact these pensions were managed by state government (read: mismanaged) only accelerated the inevitable crisis.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/10/demise-d...
I'm always dismayed here and elsewhere to see everyone assuming that collection is the problem, not the dispensing and management. If someone proves incapable of proper budgeting, surely it is foolish to want them to have more money? Always sad that it's everyone but the policy and budget makers being blamed for the failures of policy and budget making. You can argue an honest politician can't survive, but you shouldn't shift blame.

It seems like some feel it's a catch 22, that citizens don't want to pay for things yet they want things. But in reality, those clamoring for the improvements and government assistance are rarely those that don't want to pay and/or recognize government fallacies wrt spending. If you want to tackle the problems, you need to first be honest with where they lie...and not having enough money is not where the problems lie.
Thanks for explaining. For what it's worth, back in 2002 I worked as an urban planner for the city of St. Petersburg. The one in Florida. Like every city in the US we were fooling round with parking and since I had a background in structured parking going back to 1991, I was tasked with looking at some options. Not options I chose but options that various people with various levels of political power but a pretty much uniform lack of parking expertise...beyond the non-professional kind that one gets from parking cars over the years.

So anyway, being a diligent design professional, I went to the planning department library and studied all the previous downtown parking studies I was able to find on the shelves. About a dozen going back to 1961...roughly forty years worth. Each of them was similar in that if parking was free in 1961, the 1961 study recommended charging for parking. The 1965 study would recommend making parking free. The 1970 study would recommend installing parking meters. The 1974 study would recommend taking parking meters out...and so on. In 2001, paid parking was prevelant. You can guess at the options under consideration.

To Richard Florida's credit, he doesn't have to vary his policy pitch. There's always a market for voices advocating exclusionary policies for urban neighborhoods...e.g The Mortgage Bankers Association that commissioned the study and Parkingmill that is in the business of managing scarce parking. Richard Florida doesn't actually do studies. Influencers don't do studies.
> firing some doomed saps at Mars

made me giggle incessantly. well done.
"The Collectible MacCoin is First Fully Food-Backed Global Currency" - The PR hype train is in full effect with that sentence.

Like most PR spin, I understand what they are trying to state with "Food-backed" but it's such a meaningless parameter*

* except to PR teams, of course!
I don't know anybody who would call this a sausage: https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Kirkland-Signature-Le...
In general, Lisp books were generally so far ahead of the state of the art at the time they were written, they remain very relevant and timely today.

And very likely tomorrow. :)
> This is so weird, why would anyone redeem them?

I'm confused, you would keep it?

It's just a buy-one-get-one-free campaign.
EA Takes Down 'Open Source' SimCity 2000 Remake
Fox AI predicts a movie's audience based on its trailer
I would imagine that it is still easier to relax at home than in a foreign place with little kids. If your kids are older and they can more or less roam on their own, yes, it's easier to go on vacation but with little ones now you have to worry that they don't run off, don't get to close to the water, don't run into the bushes after a lizard, or try to swim into deeper waters etc. At home you can at least relax about the environment since you know its safer for them and they are more familiar with it.
I've always felt that self driving trucks make the most economical sense to automate. A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money) and without the need for a driver (saving money). And the majority of their time is spent on relatively predictable interstate roads, not the chaotic roads of a busy downtown, so they'd be simpler to automate.

Otto (the self-driving truck company that Uber bought and is now shuttering) was the first I'd heard of that. It's a bit sad that they're shutting down.
> being like the USSR which drove itself into the ground by spending everyone's money (trying to keep up with the US)

So US will spend their money on trying to keep up with... China? Russia? Japan? India?
> how do you propose we fix prejudice and discrimination in this context

Discussion about equality usually don't get to this point, but in hope that it might someday get started I will try to give an proposed answer.

First we need to expand the context, and I will use Swedish numbers for that. 90% of the employed population work in a gender segregated profession, same for both men and women. It is a known phenomena (sometimes called a paradox) that the more a society works towards equality the more segregated society gets. The best theory I have heard for it is that people will self segregate when given multiple similar valued choices, as going with the group one identify with carries with it a higher self confidence level in that choice on average.

So one obvious fix is to address that very aspect. Understanding that people will have on average a lower self confidence when they decide to go into a group where they are a minority. Make the interview process or trial period better suited for low confidence participants and it will benefit minority groups more, while at the same time not being discriminate to the majority. A mentor program is a prime example which has shown good results in equality programs, and I would bet that is because it addresses this.

Less practical on a company level but possible on a national one would be to address how and when individuals make career choices, and what the influences are. If we expect that a 15 year old to make a critical decision to decide which path to study and later find a job in, it should surprise no one that friends make for a major influence. Look at the school yard and its clear how self segregated kids become based on gender, race, sexual orientation, economic class and so on. The school system could be designed to improve self confidence and self-esteem, and in times where suicide has risen to the most common cause of death for men between the age of 15 to 60 it seems it would also be a major health benefit.
> there would still be a need to strip out the types simply from the perspective of minimizing JavaScript bundle sizes.

Are you really sure?

To me that attitude sounds awfully close to cargo-culting.
The spec calls out code density as the reason.

> The standard compressed ISA extension described in Chapter 14 reduces code size by providing compressed 16-bit instructions and relaxes the alignment constraints to allow all instructions (16 bit and 32 bit) to be aligned on any 16-bit boundary to improve code density.
> An interpreted language is slower than a compiled binary? Color me shocked.

That same benchmark shows JS code that’s 6x faster than PHP.
> Let's not pretend like this was ever seriously going to be sustainable.

Why not? Each year machines become more efficient, and productivity has gone up. The main problem has not been to create wealth, it has been on how to share it.

Politicians also say that health care for everyone is impossible, but there is a lot of countries that do just that.

This is about setting expectations. If you convince your citizens that paying pensions is wasteful and not sustainable, you can diverge that money to other places.

Look at tax breaks and you will find where your pension is.
[PDF] Systematic Evaluation of Optimized Search Algorithms on Modern Processors
Could it be that losing the self driving car market to Waymo is more of an existential threat than not being first in the trucking business?
Changing the name is easier now than later.
I especially appreciate the concept of Encrypted Shares where I can have devices participate in the sync, but not be able to read its contents. I don't know of another peer-to-peer sync tool with quite that same option. (There are several cloud storage options like Keybase that are close, but not quite the same as me spinning up a VM or always-on closet PC that I control top-to-bottom.)
If you are very interested in this subject, I would recommend reading "No Requiem for the Space Age", by Matthew Tribbe.
Found: The Last Traces of Unspoiled Ocean
Preferring a promise of $50 later depends on trust. Economists are much too emotional to understand that kind of thing.
I'm actually pretty happy with my Netgear Velop mesh system. I had a Netgear Nighthawk X8, but when I moved it was great for the new house. The Velop mesh has been seamless.
Public sector pensions are deficits and eventual bankruptcy are the result of greed and politics and not taxation.

chicago is a poster child for the corruption that has created a system which will bankrupt in three years [1]. It was never sustainable but its continued expansion kept politicians in office. just look at the numbers in the story I linked, what reasonable group of people would have ever signed off on this? Chicago isn't alone. Its rampant. six figure retirements? no public service job warrants that.

and it isn't just the public sector employees, there are story after story of city bureaucrats making a quarter million or more and that is just up front money. simply put, they control the piggy bank and they are willing to loot it for gains today because they don't plan to be in office when the bill comes due

[1] https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511130434-projection-chi...
> The other 95% of it is just wasted bandwidth.

You can save a lot of bandwith by requesting compressed responses:

$ curl -s --user-agent moo/1 -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' "$pretty_long_url" > test.gz
$ wc -c < test.gz
63507
$ gzip -d < test.gz | wc -c
426941

(OK, that's 85% saved, not 95%, but hey.)
> A relatively small fraction of that

And what would you do with the large number of unemployed people that would result?

You can't just change one thing and ignore any consequences.

And don't forget that the broken window fallacy only applies to economies where everyone is working full time. If they are not then it does not apply, and your analysis needs to be more thorough.
...Given that the "Pension Hole" the article is describing is a total shortfall of five trillion dollars, I don't think you could easily solve it with a "relatively small fraction" of 1 trillion dollars.
Is this a joke? Check any ranking system of "top cs/business" schools and you will see that they are all extremely close with any small change to the weight of the features resulting in different orderings.
The only way to explain these stats is that there is some simple-minded tribal behavior that skews the ratio. Not what you want to see from the people trusted with the money.
Hm, yeah not sure what I was thinking. Maybe expected number of attempts?
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention the Amazon Vine program which sends products to well-standing reviewers in order to seed reviews.
I'm sure that YMMV. But there are often problems activating very old phones. E.g. Verizon won't activate phones that don't meet their GPS requirements.
Climbing Everest had no point.

Colonizing Mars might be the only reason humanity exists 1000 years from now.
I used Zilog Developer Studio and C for that particular project, and there was very little inline assembly required.

I don't think I've had to write anything 100% in assembly in 20 years, so no idea what you'd use on Linux.
Will this effect the Big Mac index?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
Chicago pensions to bankrupt by 2021, the numbers in the article are amazing for payouts https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511130434-projection-chi...
Assuming you mean Fourier domain. It is not very useful to keep the activation in that domain. Winograd transform operates at 4x4 tiles (it is effective because 16 FMA of that 4x4 tiles can generate 2x2 activations (roughly speaking), while direct convolution requires 3x3 FMA to generate 1 activation). If you keep the activation in that domain, you are looking at keeping 4x4 / 2x2 thus 4x more information than it is needed, which is not useful or desirable.

Thus, the most optimizations are just keep the transformed weights (you are still looking at 4x4 / 3x3, 1.9x more data), but that can be somewhat justified by the computation cost. The transformed activations are not useful.
Not to mention that it can drive 24/7 when necessary, turning it into a mobile freight train.
You forgot to mention 7 billions of potential enemies, which will be able to dig you out of any bunker, e.g. because of hunger.
Just cutting benefits misses the point, how is austerity a long-term solution?

The US has a massive problem with the perception of "government usefulness", heck you've got whole political wings solely trying to appeal to "the only good government is no government" mentalities.

As a result, barely anybody wants to pay taxes for anything, in their extremely egotistical and narrow-sighted definition of "freedom".
Nothing. I do this. I think the AC-Lite even has it's own DHCP, but I'm using the ISP router for that personally.

Usually the ISP router just sucks at wifi, but I have seen ISP routers which have only 100mbit/s uplink ports when the internet connection is higher. In that case you'd want a custom router also. Or if they ship some router with some features you dislike that you can't disable (like public hotspots, unpatchable insecure config interfaces, etc.)
Interesting. How did you discover this?
Thanks. I am looking at something similar with Segment to be honest. Bitscoop looks closer to what I am looking but definitely need something fully open source.