skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current social security taxes go to pay current beneficiaries and any surplus is spent just like any other tax money and the federal government issues IOUs to the SSA. That’s fine as long as thier are enough workers paying taxes to pay beneficiaries. But as the working age population gets smaller and life expectancy gets longer, either the government will have to raise taxes or decrease benefits.

There is one other fix - make immigration easier. But in the current climate, a politician could never suggest that.
When you quote someone, it's best to do it accurately.

>that if/when an existential threat does arise the US might find itself far behind its foe, no?

No, or unlikely. Any foreseeable threat is mutually assured destruction, and someone would need to discover a way to disable all nukes they don't control simultaneously for the US to be behind their for. Not only does that seem implausible, actively pursuing the technology would likely cause war.
Unnecessary regulations are, by definition, bad, since they have cost without benefit. We're not arguing the semantics of the word here - I think it is clear that the people you refer to think net neutrality regulation is both necessary and good.
Sounds like you should be contacting "anoncoward111" to find out where his mother taught school at in NY. That district probably has at least one new opening since she has apparently retired.
The company doesn't have to care for certain specific/influential people at the company to care and make healthy culture.

Company culture is it's employees, All the way from CEO to janitor.
No, he is not that interesting with email ids. It's just elon@tesla.com
I don't see your point of academia and about hiring from the community?

What I see on Github is as professional as it can get. Issues, discussions, triage, review, CI-tests for example.

Maybe you started too early, before Julia was settled? And/or were too over-enthusiastic to begin with? I think Julia had to grow, find the 'correct' solution with e.g. NA/Missing/Nullable. Break things b/c it didn't work out as expected. Postpone things, debugger (maybe?), for more important areas or because base was not stable yet.

Two years ago in a project I hoped that people would switch immediately from R to Julia. But in retrospect it was good they didn't. Julia was not ready for them and too much ecosystem stuff missing/unclear still. (This said, Julia would in principle have been much much better suited for that project).
They were in posession of a 0-day for this car
You hit the hail on the head with your latter idea. At least in my case, it all comes down to the "feel" of the door being locked and shut; I yank the door around pretty violently some days if I'm especially stressed. At some point, the compulsion was about the door being closed for the security of the apartment, but now it's been bastardized over the years into just being a fixation on the door itself.

Also, as jcranendonk pointed out in a separate reply to your comment, reinforcing the behavior does more harm than good in the long run. In my case, I've been able to reduce some of the mental strain by following CBT principles in a therapy session and also on my own; I can't comment on ERP personally, but I do know it's shown widespread promise in the literature. My previous therapist incorporated some of its techniques into our sessions as well, but was principally following CBT practice.
if you need prescription versions, you can get them at LensCrafters: https://www.lenscrafters.com/lc-us/blueiq-lenses

I use those and they work wonders.
You should have seen it in the 1970s, before they cleaned up the Kennicott smelter. There were days when, from the east bench, it looked like you could walk across the top of the inversion to the Oquirrh Mountains.
Your landing page is insanely good. How did you create those animations?

Also just the general styling/design of the entire site + retool itself is so well done.
I've read speculation that this was a pot joke. Fortunes were made and lost after he made that comment.
Yea, that was my impression about the CL ecosystem and clojure made me rethink that. Nowadays it's pretty much the other way around for me - CL serves as an example of how clojure could keep dying and still be a useful tool for years to come
For most OCD sufferers, it's the "do this or you'll die" thing (at least, from what I've read).

> Like I wonder how many people have compulsions that aren't motivated by something bad happen?

I'm one. I have compulsions, and none of the obsessions involve me being certain of impending death if they aren't carried out just so.

For me, it's an extremely intense feeling of wrongness. Not like morality; just that there exists some "right" way to do certain things, and doing it any other way is somehow inherently wrong or incorrect. Why would I willingly do something the wrong way?

It makes my skin crawl if I do it wrong. Like there's a physical sensation of "You've screwed up; go back and do it again until you do it right." My stomach drops and I feel that one shiver you get when you're just a bit too cold.

Of course, I'm never compelled to do useful things the right way. My go-to example is from a few years ago. I eat cereal a lot, and historically have mostly always eaten Smart Start and Raisin Nut Bran. Maybe four years ago, I branched out and got some Cinnamon Life for the first time since I was a kid. I ate the bowl of cereal and all was well. Then I tried to put the box back on the shelf... and I couldn't. It was wrong. The box was printed wrong, and I didn't know what to do. You know how there's those interleaving flaps on the top? I like to put my boxes on the shelf such that the flap the goes on top is on the left and the nutrition information faces out (that way I can pick it up with my right hand and easily open the box and pour into the bowl — any other way of doing it would be wrong, somehow). But the Life box was printed such that the flaps and the nutrition information were at odds. I had to make a choice: either face out the nutrition information and have the flaps wrong, or put the flaps correctly and have the wrong side of the box face outwards.

I debated the best compromise for some thirty minutes, until my roommate came home and asked why I wasn't in class. I hastily shoved the box on the shelf (flaps correct, nutrition information be damned) and made some excuse about having missed my alarm. I was completely preoccupied with my decision for the rest of the day, and haven't bought Life since because I can't deal with the stomach-sinking feeling of having done something wrong.
That would be interesting. It seems there's going to be a tradeoff between entropy (information content) in a human sign versus the written form.

An example might be the sign RAIN, which could mean anything from drizzle to monsoon depending on how energetic and exagerated the motion. Differentiating which would would need some context, baselining how animated the signer is in the conversation. If you wrote that down you might need RAIN... for one and RAIN!!!!! for the other.
Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.
> Go has a unique approach to error handling, with a combination of explicit error values and an exception-like panic mechanism.

I don't think that's very unique in itself, although Go's particular quirks might be.
@jkaplowitz thanks for the insights -- all this makes sense.

I should note that most of my drivers for Uber/Lyft were not cost-driven but feature-driven. Cost is a factor, of course, and note that my mom almost always uses the pool option to save money -- something Yellow cabs dont/cannot offer.

Drivers:

- Dispatch services work going from Brooklyn to Manhattan, but not the other way. You'd have to know the local dispatch service, they would need to know your mobile phone number (they usually dont ask) to coordinate with you, etc. The only dispatch services that seem to work well in Manhattan are black car services, which is way out of the conversation here -- she needs a ride home, not a Lincoln Towncar :-)

- Dispatch services DO work going from Brooklyn to Manhattan give you a blanket "be ready in 5min" regardless of demand and you end up waiting and waiting -- sometimes at the worst times. I've known people to call 2 or 3 dispatch services, take the first car, and leave the other drivers hanging (unethical...but it happens.)

- Dispatch services are hard to get ahold of when you really need them, often in bad weather etc.

- Dispatch services do price in the dead-head ride back, so there is a legitimate cost issue there on both supply and demand side. Uber/Lyft mostly solve the dead-head ride back issue, so legitimately lower cost by better utilization.

A personal issue when i travel for business:

- Dispatch services mysteriously dont keep receipts or have broken credit card machines (not sure why? to hid tax revenue?) -- so I am left with a ride for work (e.g., to airport) with no receipt and thus i have to pay work expenses out of pocket and they wont be reimbursed without a receipt.

- Dispath services mysteriously "dont have change" so you're paying $80 for a $62 ride

- I'm arriving at Delta Terminal late night in LGA and all the yellow cabs are at the other terminals. You wait and wait. There isnt a good way to "hail" them. I understand the Arro app tries to solve this, but that came years too late.
It does explain why the situation looks weird, for anyone who didn't understand that already. There's not much else you can say about it, other than joke about it.
Firefox is not the kind of app to drive adoption of the language (like Rails or Python scientific libs etc). It's just an app, people using it could not care less what it's written in.
Recent news:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-tokyo-me...

This university was caught penalising women test scores due to a belief they would "waste" chairs, since women may drop out school with pregnancy.

That's textbook example of collectivism over individual to me, and a pretty extreme one.
Without hitting on whether or not this is the right company to do this, I don't think the idea is itself at all unreasonable. By the time you're concerned about 8% equity, you've basically already 'made it' in the sense that you have likely have enough capital to start to more independently pursue your other ideas, or alternatively seek more favorable funding with some history for more traditional venture capital types.

This project seems to be clearly aiming people who have ambition and competence, but minimal to no current resources or connections; the goal being to get them to where that is no longer the case -- helping them to reach their potential. It's hard to call anything at all exploitative if it succeeds in getting people from that critical nothing to something point, regardless of how it does it.
Wow, these audio samples are incredible. I'm surprised to hear the model actually outputting natural-sounding breathing between and inside sentences. Most TTS systems explicitly remove things like that, but the addition of breathing makes it sound so much more natural.

The style tokens result in pretty incredible and realistic audio.
You’re not six years old and catching a bus from the side of my metro area - where the school system lost accredition to the side where the median income is over $100K - takes over an hour and a half in traffic. Both districts are considered in the same MSA (metropolitan statistical area).
Are there any updates to Juno forthcoming that don't butcher the existing install of Atom on the system? I use Atom with Hydrogen for Python and R, and was curious about julia and made the mistake of opting for the 'batteries included install', which promptly overwrote all my atom settings. Seems a bizarre oversight.
I use Night Shift on my external 4K LG monitor no problem.
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VMWare and Oracle in the cloud? "Out of the frying pan, and in to the fire."
They also tend to have one thing in common - a very supportive, stable home environment.

This bit is key, and really tells me that the best way to address issues in science and trying to help students is not to have more programs for students, but to have more programs for helping families.

You really need a holistic approach to this sort of stuff, rather than targeting say funding someone who is good at a specific thing.

There are many more people who can't focus at school and so fail because they don't get enough food, or they don't have the support they needed to succeed.

This is why programs like the food stamps has a high return on investment, because it addresses the actual issue at hand rather than a symptom.
I suppose, yeah. Maybe that's a valid point in that until we can (want to?) cordon off core social services (for the whole of society) from the reach of private capital then we will inherently continue to create and sustain a market that zeroes in on the truly vulnerable. For example services just like healthcare including aging with dignity in assisted living after they've either been taxed out or need help or both.

For that latter part I've witnessed two mind-numbingly ugly siphoning of all assets to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars a month until assets are gone and then they're forced out and into pretty sub-optimal situations and neither of these two examples started off anywhere near the edges of being poor but they certainly did die that way.
On more competitive CS:GO servers the built in voice chat is intentionally disabled between living and dead players not to prevent such "ghosting" (which is just part of the game) but so that dead players can chat without disrupting living players on their third party (TeamSpeak, Mumble, Discord, etc.) voice channel.
I believe Google is asking developers to support a recent API version to push updates to the Play Store.
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Yes, but it didn't have anything before it, and yet it gained adoption like crazy.
He even made a public comment "Ford is trying to kill SEX"

https://jalopnik.com/ford-killed-sex-1585513454
get some IR leds and illuminate your face and take a selfie in the dark looking at your phone using the front camera.

The back camera usually has an IR blocking filter, but often the front camera does not. You can check by videoing an IR led (like from a remote control) with the front camera and seeing if you can pick up the flashing when you activate it.
Thanks for sharing! I did not know about this. I use Stylus and dark themes for many sites, but this will be great for random sites.
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He has previously explained his reasoning: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127#issue...
I was sure he would wake up next morning and find the car missing. I think he was really lucky that this wasn’t the case and the thieves waited(?) for the next night.
NightShift absolutely works on external displays
> But at that point you understand pensions when fully funded actually cost less than 401k's, assuming similar investments. Because 401k's end up with some dead people having large surplus's and pensions don't.

a) 401(k) and 503(b) plans are expensed and accounted for in the present. You may have the best actuaries in the world but if your current pension-expecting workers beat the odds you're in a world of hurt, even without over-promising and under-funding pension benefits. (No less than Warren Buffett himself famously warned of this problem back in the 1970s, and if there's one thing Buffett knows it's risk assessment and insurance.)

b) 401(k)s are only more expensive than pensions assuming everyone retires at the same age and gets the same benefit on retirement between the two investments. However, as is common, pension retirement age can be as low as age 50. Paying out those pension benefits for those extra 10-15 years (vs. retiring at age 60-65 for 401(k)) probably adds up to paying more for pensions than 401(k)s, especially given that some employees can apparently goose their pension eggs by working overtime in the last few years of employment.
I once worked for a company where the CTO's e-mail was aliased as pigfucker@domain.com.
This is the first comment I’ve seen approving that tweet and it’s every bit as deluded and cringeworthy as I’d expect. Musk never even apologized for that one did he?
The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of hearing about Elon Musk. I'm sick of hearing what he has to say. I'm sick of thinking about Tesla and, now, I probably won't ever buy one.
In India, 420 means scam\fraud. Just sharing the other (interesting) side. I don't think Musk used this number for any fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_420_of_the_Indian_Pena...

https://www.quora.com/What-does-420-mean-in-India
>What more do you really want?

For it to be on F-Droid. I think that much was clear.
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Ive theorized the people getting a PhD are not your average american. Most college grads finish school and go into industry.

My peers who went onto get PhDs without going to industry were... different. Not necessarily super smart, but not the best socially or in leadership positions.

I can think of 3 people that were getting their PhDs in engineering, but I thought they were average students at best. One was an average to below average working with me on labs. Another was just a goofy weirdo, I couldnt be friends with him because he'd shoo me away. Another was somewhat a brainiac, but to a fault, He'd get As, but didnt really have friends from what I could tell.

I imagine lots of this is correlation not causation, and that things are different at big names schools.
FWIW, there's nothing "holistic" about Phoenix - it is centralized payroll (same as Regional Pay System it replaces), but the HR is completely distributed amongst departments (running PeopleSoft, SAP, legacy or bespoke apps of various natures and kinds), and Pension, central index, etc are various separate monolithic applications as well. A very large percentage of problems can in principle be traced to the fact it is the very opposite of holistic system
(note, I am in no way claiming that consolidating disparate HR systems into one, enforcing data cleanliness, and creating a "holistic" system could be done before heat death of the universe, for sum of money less than totality of our GDP, and resulting in anything else than chaos, confusion and disorder... just clarifying Phoenix was emphatically not an attempt to create such a "holistic" system :)
I agree on the 3% although the fact that it applies to any company founded over the next 8 years seems a little bit of a stretch. If you meet someone 5 years later who wants a cofounder, seems like it could be not-insignificant penalty. I would honestly prefer to not take the $5000 if it meant I could get the networking opportunities without the 3% equity.

The option is just egregiously not worth it and represents a major liability to anyone looking start a company that needs to raise significant amounts of capital
This seems like useful background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
If you told me two years ago that anyone (even a major player like Amazon) was thinking about competing with Steam, I'd write them off immediately, but this makes a lot of sense. Steam has gotten way too complacent in its social features, and I am getting increasingly frustrated by bugs in the app. My ears picked up when Discord mentioned a "book shop" vibe. With all of the controversy about adult games and Steam's "grand bazaar" approach, I would love a store that was curated and made my gaming experience more fun.

I smell a game vendor war a-brewing. The results could be messy...
There's a link which takes you to the list of palindrome dates mentioned on the website [1]. There's 38 of them, but they all take the MM/DD/YYYY format into consideration. I wonder how much of a difference it would be by taking DD/MM/YYYY instead.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/33583-palindrome-dates-21st-cent...
Hmm. Are you arguing Trump is not a conservative? He ran under a Republican banner and has many classically conservative policies.

As for the latter paragraph, are you implying news outlets simply sell screen-time and print-space? How can the media "gift" coverage? Their job is to report what's happening and things said and done by a presidential candidate is clearly news. And yes of course the abundance of newspapers openly stating they wanted his opponent to win is evidence of being anti-Trump: that's basic logic.
> Even at the time some part of me realized the absurdity of it.

You've independently discovered a key diagnostic factor in OCD. :) What distinguishes OCD from, say, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, is that the sufferer of plain ol' obsessive compulsive disorder knows full well the absurdity of their condition. She understands that doing 12 jumping jacks before leaving the house won't stop it from burning down, but the overwhelming "why not be safe?" urge compels her to do it just in case.
Demolishing that was a crime.

Cincinnati has a lot of absolutely awe inspiring architecture dating from the 1890s to the height of the Art Deco era. Check out the Cincinnati Museum Center sometime. It's the old rail terminal that was saved from demolition and it's like a church of optimism.

Ahh... back when people believed in things...
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Maybe I wasn't clear but I don't think I ever setup the straw man you knocked down saying an employee shouldn't ever be able to sell.

All I said was its very reasonable, as evidenced by the fact that every IPO over the past 40 years has had a lockup, to have a 3-6 month hold period for existing share holders when you go public.

That's it. I( and GOOG, FB, AMZN, SNAP, and the rest of the entire tech community that went public ) all believe that a 3- 6 month hold window is a very reasonable ask given that they all had one.

Sorry if I confused you, I hope this clears things up:)
So? Why can't we look at what the Tokyo medical school did, on it's own, and argue that? Why is there always some form of whataboutism?
A PhD should also be about being honest in ones arguments in the popular press. PhD's in Education may take 13 years (is that the median?) because most students are part time. In good graduate programs that provide guaranteed funding for students, 4-6 years is customary (and funding sometimes runs out at year 5). It's hard for me, as an academic, to trust an author who twists statistics to make his case.

And what does it mean to improve society? Basic biomedical science rarely promises improvements, but has given us revolutionary technologies (the structure of DNA, the genetic code, cloning, transgenic animals, etc, etc). The essence of basic science is that you do not know what you are going to learn, or whether it will be useful. You cannot plan unimagined discoveries.

Should graduate students start doing "research" sooner? That is certainly the standard in biomedical research, where very few courses are required. But the consequence is that students know a lot about what they have done, and very little about other disciplines. How does a graduate student in biology become a computational biologist without learning programming and algorithms?

The comments about having research experience are spot-on. And many of the frustrations people describe could be reduced by learning more about one's advisor before joining the group.