skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Social programs and public investment" are hardly the only things a government can cut. This is just a heavily biased counter-narrative used to protest against them. They may be the low hanging fruit given the entrenched interests which protect corporate welfare projects, tax breaks to "friends" of government, defence spending, foreign aid, the countless non-social agencies within government, etc, etc, etc.

Nor can you point to some half-hearted "austerity" where there was no change in the gov culture which brought about the unsustainable spending, nor factoring in the complete scale on which the previous government spent recklessly for which austerity is required in some countries vs others (and size of GDP, dependency on public investment/social programs, etc).

Even HN isn't immune to political flamewars.
All of which is pretty easily phished.
Batteries can be recycled, nuclear waste is stockpiled with no permanent disposal or recycling plan in sight.

Solar and wind, unsubsidized, with storage, are already cheaper than nuclear. Those costs will continue to plummet, especially as EV battery demand ramps (rapidly expanding battery manufacturing capacity).

Nuclear lost because it’s too expensive, and has its own externalities to ignore (decommissioning, waste disposal, liability insurance).
Where their employees choose to live is not an externality caused by the business IMO.
Like optical flow in that features are used, not like optical flow in that there's one standard by which all measurements can be compared to.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted --- solar and wind account for 1.5% of total, taken from Enlightenment Now by Steve Pinker:

> A second key to deep decarbonization brings up an inconvenient truth for the traditional Green movement: nuclear power is the world’s most abundant and scalable carbon-free energy source. Although renewable energy sources, particularly solar and wind, have become drastically cheaper, and their share of the world’s energy has more than tripled in the past five years, that share is still a paltry 1.5 percent, and there are limits on how high it can go. The wind is often becalmed, and the sun sets every night and may be clouded over. But people need energy around the clock, rain or shine. Batteries that could store and release large amounts of energy from renewables will help, but ones that could work on the scale of cities are years away. Also, wind and solar sprawl over vast acreage, defying the densification process that is friendliest to the environment.
Yeah but still, the biggest loss is going to happen within your plug/jack connection. So if you really care, solder your cables in. Better than every gold plated connector your audiophile purse is ever going to buy.

Also: Acoustics are what matters the most (and they are the hardest to get right, just by throwing money at the problem, that is why it is not usually beeing discussed that much).
This was my first reaction as well, but then I thought about it for a bit, and realised that congress still getting paid is an essential check and balance on executive power.

Congressional salaries need to be free of the influence of presidents threatening to shutdown government if their agenda isn't voted on, otherwise the threat of withheld pay could substantially effect how congresspeople vote.

That's a bigger problem, even if the optics of congresspeople still getting paid during a shutdown is bad.
There's an outstanding issue in the github because the binary doesn't let you directly time fish functions. You can do

time fish -c '[function]'

but that includes the time to launch fish.

This, of course, wouldn't matter for any reasonable usecase but I like a fancy prompt and don't like waiting for it to run.
You left off most important part: corruption. Paying politicians to block regulations and lots of competition, esp taxpayer-funded, lets them get away with this stuff. Even more so when one of their own is the regulator.
This will get me down-voted. But anyway:

I believe the welfare state can be a good thing. Some social network that gets you back on your feed. On the other hand, Portugal has very little welfare and government hand-outs. Because of this, Portugal has one of the lowest migration of Muslim "refugees". I prefer people who bring value as an immigrant to a country. The father of the guy who made the Strasbourg terrorists attack has been living on 5400 Euros a month welfare payments. I don't need this.
https://ns2017.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/5400-euros-dallocati...
So travelling should be based on the countries where there are good hospitals and then spending time on quotes and reading contracts?

Who would take that advice? It's the worst advice I heard in several years.

I thought travelling was about places that you want to see and trying to avoid hospitals.
As soon as your bash scripts run with /bin/sh.

You can still have bash installed and anything that requires significant scripting could probably be done easier with a language for scripting. I want my shell for my terminal. This is also the reason I don't like the verbosity of Powershell, however much an OOP paradigm better supports scripting.
I left teaching over 8 years ago. Elevated myself from programming for fun and sometimes pay to being a full time software developer. Best career move ever.
Government incentives probably won't change the life-styles of people such as yourself who can afford to live near the city core. The problem is for those of us who can't afford to do so, but need to work in the city centre (like most people these days do) our options are basically buy a car and waste hours in traffic everyday, or rent an "apartment" - although these days that tends to mean a small bedroom - in the city centre which you can hardly afford and gives you no satisfaction, nor room to do things like raise a family or have a functional relationship.

What I'd advocate for is governments to tax the hell out of companies who want to buy offices in city cores without a good reason. All a lot of these companies do is contribute to congestion and unaffordable property prices through increased urbanisation which forces people into the city or to deal with the congestion. A few years ago my girlfriend use to have to travel an hour every day to get to the city centre to work in a call centre. What's the point in that?

If instead governments allocated certain areas of cities which have low congestion and offered companies tax breaks for opening offices there you probably would see many moving out of the cities to the suburbs, reducing congestion and making properties more affordable.

I honestly think one of the main factors contributing to depress and mental-illness today, and why people don't have kids like they used to is because of the way we're living. Who the hell is going to raise a kid on £35,000 in 10m x 10m one-bed "flat" in a city like London? However, if on that money living in the suburbs of a city like Birmingham you'd be able to afford a reasonable two-bed home with a driveway and garden. The problem is uncontrolled urbanisation is driving businesses to city centres, and often to the major cities, then forcing anyone who wants to decent job to follow along whether they can afford to or not.

I bet most well paid developers living in the UK here live in London. And that's by no accident. It's not that they all just love London so much that they're happy to live in tiny apartments with no hope of raising a family or affording a mortgage. They do it because that's where all the decent tech jobs are. And why? Who is benefiting from this? A few very rich people and large businesses who can afford offices in city centres?
Required for what, the self driving cars that don't exist yet? Radar and computer vision is simply a separate approach, not a wrong one. Tesla is as much an expert in the field as anyone, given that, you know, they have the best self driving commercial product by far.
Before the Reagan administration, the government stayed open while Congress dithered about debating appropriations. The shutdown is all politics top-to-bottom.

And not paying Congress would require a constitutional amendment so not really worth the consternation.
“It’s a more boring place now, and they see their friends finding exciting opportunities,” Ms. Pollak said.

So in other words, this is a healthy thing. If people are bored being teachers and they quit, that should be celebrated.
"Austerity" can take many forms too. It's not something you should support as a black/white thing. There's a ton of context involved, including why the state needs austerity and also what long term goals are involved.

As far as I'm concerned if a government spent and loaned recklessly for decades and the only solution is to make temporary cuts so the government can go right back to spending (ie, no long term changes to government culture, risk management, and fiscal responsibility were made) then while it's still "austerity", it's not necessarily a very useful one.

Additionally, despite all of the FUD about "austerity" measures the average nation state across the entire western world (and in Asia too, minus Singapore) have exploded in size over the last few decades.

Most of these "austerity" programs are a tiny, temporary, sliver relative to the massive growth in scale of the administrative state.
The partial goverment shutdown is caused by the president's unwillingness to sign a bill as well as Congress's inability to pass a bill the president is willing to sign.

The defused blame sets the game matrix to a state where the delta value between the bill congress agrees on and the bill the president will sign is significantly larger than the defecting penalty any oneside side will suffer. Removing a paycheck from all actors won't provide a significant adjustment to the game matrix, because the reputation deduction portion of the the defector penalty is significantly more valuable than salary. Some actors actually see a reputation increase for fighting this fight.

While increasing the defector penalty is a good idea, reduction of salary doesn't increase it much.
Can you pick out a particular section?

I'm about as pro-nuclear as they get, but the Wikipedia articles seem to support a story of the Japanese government shutting down nuclear and being very tentative restarting the existing reactors [0].

It is difficult to guess what is going on in a country that doesn't report in English, but the info in Wikipedia (mostly a little dated) seems to support a rollback of nuclear. Reduced generation, limited new developments. Either they are using less energy or something else is filling the void left by nuclear plant shutdowns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan#Nuclear...
Depending on the city, the suburbs can be much cheaper.
That’s even worse. Congresspeople don’t make a ton of money and starving them just pushes out the less wealthy.
Thats because teaching was the fallback plan and all the students they work with daily already realize it.

Every teacher that brags about their prior dream in their specialized trade is immediately shot down by middle schoolers asking "so why are you a teacher"

"Well Jimbo, as you suspect, it's because something went horribly wrong and I've rationalized my acceptance of this low wage life teaching this nation's future"
I did something similar.

I found the "master" computer that all other computers in the computer labs at my high school were reimaged from every week. I installed Warcraft 3 on it, a week later every computer in my 5000+ student high school had Warcraft 3.

Probably why I failed my AP Java course...
No way. Teaching is really, really important for society. And we've made it low-status, because we are morons.

If it were higher-status, you'd see fewer people being 'bored' and seeing the 'excitement' elsewhere. The fact that we've screwed this up should not be celebrated.
And then there's even weirder audiophile accessories like cable elevators, amplifier stands, CD "demagnetizers", and "quantum chip" stickers -- all complete nonsense which doesn't even have any plausible way of affecting the audio.
> What are the crash ratings all around on the Versa? I feel you are not being very scientific on this.

Front on the Versa is 3 stars, side impact is 2 stars, rollover is 4 stars. The Crown Vic is 5, 5, 5. The door additions were designed to improve officer survival in a crash, not reduce it (I used to work in law enforcement and that is direct knowledge). I'm not sure why you think I'd look at the Vic's safety ratings and just make an assumption about the Versa, that's extremely presumptive of you.

> She wasn’t injured in her wreck

She was injured, she had bruising and a sore hip for a few weeks, as I stated. This was from a 15MPH crash, one which rendered her car totaled with severe frame damage. If it had been at highway speeds I doubt she would have survived.

Also, the Crown Vic is a 2009, not a 80s or 90s car. It has crumple zones, breakaways, and other modern safety features that all contribute to its exceptional crash rating.

Sources for crash ratings:

Versa:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2011/NISSAN/VERSA/5%252520HB/F...

Crown Victoria:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2009/FORD/CROWN%252520VICTORIA...
"Like many libertarian leaning people I used to be a fan of "Austrian" type economics. ...I now think that Keynes was at least largely correct in the essentials."

Welcome in the club. Mises is great. Everything sounds very logical, written from a guy who never worked one day in a free market enterprise. Mises never understood a capitalist market economy and the money and debt that drives it. He basically describes a middle-ages, barter free market economy.
Thank you for the quick heads up! I’ll make sure to familiarize myself with said guidelines. It’s very useful!
Oracle weren't the only game in town then though. Sybase and db2 were around, widely deployed and enterprise worthy at the time. The sales and lockin tactics which earned oracle notoriety were not unique either but they did that part 'better'.
Yes, but politics is also a game about making people feel that their government is fair and legitimate, not 'merely' efficient at decisionmaking.
Pay more and treat teachers better. Market forces at work.
The weird thing is how much time Americans are willing to waste on a commute.

Some studies have basically found that people chronically overvalue how happy a nice house will make them, and undervalue how unhappy a long commute will make them. I don't know if Americans are uniquely guilty of this, but humans are prone to lots of little errors like this.
Visa stock is definitely a buy at this level
I use ads as a reminder. Wanna checkout something about kubernetes? search on it, click on a few things, I'll get reminded across every device. Wanna book a vacation but not ready, do the same. :D
> The departures come alongside protests this year in six states where teachers in some cases shut down schools over tight budgets, small raises and poor conditions.

Even as a child myself growing up in the US education system, this was a common topic where even the students knew teachers were underpaid and education in general had a lot less money in it -- but at the same time I don't ever recall schools shutting down because of it. I can't imagine what it must feel like to be a student now and being told school is closed because my teachers are protesting.

Not really sure why I'm getting downvoted so much, just wanted to express empathy.
Congress could just pass a law saying the government stays open by default, going back to how things were before a few decades ago, and avoid the whole problem.

The executive’s cooperation is not needed here. The president cannot shut down the government. The most he can do is veto a law, and congress can override it.
I believe we see this article every time we have a strong economy. When the economy is strong, teaching is unappealing. When the economy is weak, many people cannot find other gigs and so flood into the relative security of teaching.

Teaching may also be less pleasant in the social media and smartphone age, for reasons enumerated in The Coddling of the American Mind (a highly recommended book). There may also be a gender dynamic at work; today, it would be hard for me to recommend that guys go into teaching: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/09/08/why-dont-more-men-go-into....
Articles like these, while only loosely related, always make me think that the software engineering bubble has to pop. You have people with ton of education busting their behind dealing with little brats all day to try to make sure they have a future... During that time, some bro who read a couple of books and hammered on his keyboard, and MAYBE did a 3 months bootcamp gets bummed if he can't pull in 100k in one of the coasts with a flex schedule and free lunches/coffee/smoothies/whatever. God forbid they get paged in the middle of the night, they'll scream bloody murder. Same contrasts with trade workers: hiring qualified carpenters/plumbers/painters/whatever is becoming incredibly difficult.

Obviously I'm only considering the extremes here, but those extremes are...very common.

Society can't go very far if the ONLY thing people do is write keywords in a text editor all day. We need to properly value other professions too.
>And this is why I comment. This is wrong! You should not have to stretch on healthcare if you know how to spend your money.

> Get treated abroad. It's as simple as that.

> EDIT: You may lose your job. It's a consequence of life. You will still have saved a bunch of money when taking into count the savings on healthcare and the lower cost of living abroad

It isn't a matter of managing your money properly. There will still be people who are disadvantaged despite making what everyone else would see as the right choices. They can even be in a position where they are at a disadvantage while being fully employed. You can blame it on the structure of the economy and society, or just blame it on bad luck.

Some of these disadvantaged people are covered by existing welfare programs (e.g. Medicaid), but a lot of them aren't.

Insisting that having healthcare is only a matter of financial literacy is naive and disregards reality.
That's not 'noise', that is packets that didn't make it. It's not having a perfect picture vs. no picture, but about data packets either going from A to B or not going from A to B.

Say the HDMI cable is crap and it can only do 100 packets per second, and HDR needs 1000 packets per second, the HDMI chips are going to negotiate a HDMI transfer settings without HDR. Going back further, say the HDMI data path is negotiated to do only basic HDMI, say, DVI-like video. If even that is too much for the cable to handle, say, it constantly drops a few packets, you would get either perfect pixels or missing pixels.
I don't know if anyone else here has seen _The Ring_, but the little girl walking out of the screen kind of freaked me out!
Yeah the lack of acoustic treatment is a running thing I see. A few absorbing panels at primary reflection points coupled with diffusers should be the next upgrade on a midrange system. Bass traps as well depending on your sub and music.
Different strokes for different folks. If it works, don’t fix it. Etc.

Some of us succeed not just despite our bad habits, but because of them.
> The partial goverment shutdown is caused by the president's unwillingness to sign a bill as well as Congress's inability to pass a bill the president is willing to sign.

you forgot: or pass a bill the president can't sign, by overriding a veto

but that also requires even greater consensus than Congress can currently achieve.
So, You Got an IoT Device for the Holidays
My personal opinion is that the so-called 'sonic attacks' are actually work-related injuries caused by something being used WITHIN the US diplomatic missions.

The finger has been pointed both at sound weapons and at microwave weapons, but nothing external to the diplomatic missions has been detectable. Hardly the situation if the weapons are as powerful as has been described.
> I'm guessing Scala.js's slow compiles and heavy output size is an annoyance

Compared to BuckleScript, sure, but that's an extreme outlier, near instantaneous whole project (wtf) compilation times with tiny output is most definitely not the norm.

As a Scala.js user that is also subjected to the Angular/Ionic/Webpack world, the former is very fast, as in, 1-2 seconds incremental compilation, whereas the latter is a lumbering beast, often taking over 10 seconds for "live reload" for even the simplest of changes.

In terms of output size, yes, there is the Scala collections "tax" (@150KB), but thereafter the bang-for-buck factor pays off -- all the power of Scala with minimal increase in bundle size.
Bike infrastructure can in fact increase congestion.

Fivethirtyeight did a study in Minneapolis on bike lanes constructed earlier this decade and showed that bike lanes did increase congestion for 10 roads they looked at.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bike-lanes-dont-cause-t...

Anecdotally, the mid sized city I lived in added a bike lane experimentally on my commute to work. The lanes going into the city decreased from 4 to 3 and immediately increased the amount of congestion. It also slowed my commute anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes based upon what time I left.

And the sad thing was, nobody used the new bike lane. I never saw a single rider use those lanes during my morning commute.
>"Required for what, the self driving cars that don't exist yet?"

Required for Level 5 automation. Tesla claims to be selling the required hardware, waiting only on the software and legislation allowing it. All other players in this field are focusing on a combination of cameras, radar and LIDAR.

Since LIDAR is expensive and the self-driving hype is real, Tesla have a strong short term financial incentive to forgo the former while claiming to sell the later. Combine that with virtually every other expert in the field saying they're full of BS, and I think the picture becomes crystal clear. Elon covers for himself by promoting conspiracy theories about grand industry-wide plots to keep an underdog down, and that has worked very well for him so far. But like most conspiracy theories, this is one you should think critically about.
This is ludicrous anti-government propaganda that ignores the government's role in developing air power. Yes, the Wrights made the first one on their own. The Army and USPS provided a raison d'etre for quite a long time before commercial air traffic caught on. The idea that only private tinkerers can innovate is a lie. In the modern era, government-sponsored research has been responsible for the majority of innovation, but especially in the aerospace industry.
This is one reason Final Fantasy Tactics was such a powerful game. You could basically lose any character other than the protagonist and it really hammered in the weight of your decisions on the battlefield.
One hand full of uranium is enough for a whole human live inclusive transportation heating and so on. Now compare this to the literal mountain of solar panels that would have to be produced…

1.1 billion hectares of land are farmed to feed the 7.5 billion people. That works out to 2000 square meters per person.

World energy consumption (all sources) runs about 18 terawatts, or 2400 watts per person. That is 58kWhr per day. Using an insolation factor of 3.0 (that is a 1W solar panel averages 3Whrs per day) each person will require 20kW of solar panels to replace ALL sources of energy. That is about 100 square meters of panels per person.

That's a lot, but not unthinkable. You could buy 8 pallets of panels today for $13k and cover a person, and it only takes 5% as much land as the land used to feed that person.
Developers are a bit different in this regard. I used to use a vertical monitor in 2007 because, well, it's pretty great for big chunks of code and web development in general.

As good as it was, I never wanted to watch videos in that way.