skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you daft? You make 20k, you pay no taxes. You make 200k, you pay 90k in taxes. At one point in the past if you made millions you paid 90% of your income in taxes. So yes how much you can make - 90%... make as much as you want.

Soviet propaganda is as relevant as Capitalist mythology which is as tired as Soviet propaganda.

> interesting to see an example of when and where there were a society that did a forceful redistribution of wealth of this degree and managed to produce "things that they need" and made "society as a whole" better

Okay, when 90% taxes were in play the economy was doing great. All of these are extremely short time periods. In the past no one has ever had these levels of wealth. Therefore, trying to see examples of the past which would validate current politics is a fool's errand.
Mainstream financial planner advice has been pessimistic about Social Security for > 10 years. Of course, the incentive is easy, any financial planner benefits more if you invest more.

Major changes that drastically affect Social Security

- Changing the Retirement Age, even adding a 3rd progression delay (for people who will keep working or have some savings) and pegging this to U.S. life expectancy.

- Changing the survivors benefits payouts and required minimum distributions (arguably, if the middle and lower class has more 2 family incomes, these make less sense.)

- (Biggest) Changes to healthcare. A large portion of Social Security right now goes right back into the hands of long term nursing homes. In addition, you have medical expenses related to "retirement living communities"; I'm not very sure that as boomers age even more into nursing homes, that those well prepared will be able to find supply.

I also look forward to the eventual reform of Social Security to allow more diverse investment methods. Whichever President is in office when age based asset diversification is added to SS will see a huge market boom!
> talking heads yell at each other for hours.

Which is no different than talking heads yelling at the audience through a display and speaker, it's only through mental gymnastics that a degree of separation is established.

Propaganda.
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Wealth and income inequality matter too. It doesn't matter if dependency ratios are going down and productivity is going up if all of the productivity gains are being siphoned off (which they are).

That's partly what's so toxic about the meme that social security is, or will be, unaffordable. It embeds within in an implicit endorsement of current and future increasing levels of wealth and income inequality.
There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about:

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We hear stories about old men with arcane computing skills who snag multiple 100k consulting contracts a year.
Because they're fun to read about.
If you want to know the truth, go on glassdoor and find out what a COBOL or RPGIII dev makes out in middle america.
We're talking 40k-60k. Really, these guys worked in a typical 80s/90s greenscreen outfit. They never retrained out of laziness. They saw everyone get fucked on the dot com bubble and then they stayed at their job which never changed.

I worked with these guys. I always use them to remind myself that no matter how the powers that be kiss my ass right now they'll have no problem paying me shit even if it means incredibly short sighted moves like sticking with a system with an ever dwindling set of devs.

I put in a small amount of study time refreshing myself on this tech.. waiting for the day they're all dead and I can name my price. I'm not counting on it though.
They were the driving force getting the pluggable storage API into pg12. zheap is planning on using that API.
Yes, nice to have the key people working on open source in Bill Gates pocket. Isn't this what the open source communtiy have been dreaming about all along..

Cynisism aside I get where you are comming from. As somone doing OS fulltime I applaud the effort. I guess it is to much to ask to have a source of income completely without bias.
The pluggable table storage abstraction in v12 is one major stepping stone towards zheap. Another major piece (general undo infrastructure), is being discussed on the PG development list right now.
Planck time is not the smallest observable unit of time, it is the smallest time step that present-day physics makes predictions about. Subtly, present-day physics might actually break down on timescales longer than the Planck time: it's not that we know it doesn't break down until Planck time, we know that it must break down at Planck time.
Thanks for the link. I was referring to measurable time (since for frame rate we must have discrete intervals), but it sounds like that is still up for debate.
That's not at all true, the tsiolkovsky rocket equation relates to delta-v (change in speed) and mass fraction, NOT altitude.
It can be demonstrated but that does not mean the entire system can be.

There is as an example negative feedback effects too in the system.

The temperature hasn't increased significantly from 1960's til today relative to CO2 more than it did from late 1800 to mid 1900.

So the question still becomes if the temperature increased 0.5 degrees while we weren't emitting that much co2 and it's done more or less the same in more or less the same timeframe with us putting much more co2 out there. How big a part is really humans and how much is natural variation.

If you want to convince me you provide me with actual scientific demonstration that aligns with the claim.

If we know how much humans are actually affecting due to CO2 then we can figure out what we can do about it. But as long as we don't know how much humans affect it I don't see any scientific foundation to go into the kind of panic we have seen the last 20 years really getting into the extremes these days.

It's not science it's politics.
what's your CS area?
Interesting, I think this might actually be better than calendar year. In video games there's a very quick zeitgeist, but with board games it's much slower. So this is less "games released in 2019" as "games you can play in 2019".
Yeah, you don't torrent hollywood shit, that's well known. For that you either pay the troll toll or take the high road. I've personally chosen to just not watch hollywood movies and my life is a lot better off for it.
The relevant part of the article, for those like myself who read the comments first:

> When I looked at the code, I realized I was not going to be able to reuse anything because it was written in Perl. My plan was to rely on many of Google’s managed services, which don’t support Perl.

I didn't know Google did shared hosting these days (like, PHP or whatever they do support, I knew about VPSes and hosted databases).
Crisis is always a great opportunity as the pressure motivates people to ship, while also to do their best, to really consider any and all options, everything that might work.

Sometimes, of course, this does not work out for the best.
Stoked about jsonpath! The current collection of json(b) functions are a huge pain to use. If you want to do something as trivial as filtering a json array, you have to select jsonb_array_elements in a subquery, do a filter, and then roll the thing back up using jsonb_agg, giving you a 3-deep subquery structure.

Also excited about generated columns; we do a fair amount of denormalization in postgres, and managing that stuff in code can get pretty error-prone.
It's built on telling others "hey guys, we think your business model is evil so we're just gonna turn it off -- if you want [a smaller portion of] that money you need to go through us to get it now" or you get nothing at all.

It's kind of like walking into a store and saying, "I want this bag of chips but the way you're charging for it is evil. I'm going to eat it now, but if you want paid you can go across the street and get a money order from my mom in the car. Oh, and she'll pay what she thinks it's worth."
When I worked in a physics lab a PRL publication was seen as a big deal.
Unreal, I recall seeing this a while back but I forgot to bookmark it and couldn't find it again. I really think that the actor model and functional pipelines are the correct way to do concurrency in most software these days. The actor model can be used to encapsulate mutable state when needed and functional pipelines otherwise.
I vote to not pay into social security, let me manage my own money.
Audio production has lots of well designed products these days.

Also plenty of bad ones but still it's interesting if you're into electronics/technology.
>I don't understand why Congress doesn't incrementally, predictably, and slowly raise the retirement age for Social Security. It was never intended as a retirement program - instead it an insurance for those those that lived beyond the average life expectancy.

This is absolutely untrue. Here is FDR's address as he signed Social Security into law: https://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html#signing

This doesn't sound at all like it's not meant to be a retirement program. He even explicitly uses the word 'pension.'

"Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
What about tailored jeans and sweatshirt. That may be the ultimate in comfort
Don't forget that Clinton balanced the budget during a good economy while the current administration even raised the deficit in a good economy without any plan for ever reducing it besides a miracle.
I'm genuinely doubtful that people would want a tech-associated fund to try and mess around running the government. I mean tech doesn't get much of good press lately.

Not that I agree with that sentiment, but "something needs to be done with Facebook!" is one of the few things that both US parties seem to agree on.
it was never "neutral" or "open" in any real sense;

at the same time there is no real reason to fear github that I can see - until it starts claiming ownership of your code or inserting spyware into your downloads or something more subtle
Food isn't hoarded, it's wasted, because no one pays for deliver it where it's needed.
I don’t get the down votes, this is basically the national costume of SV/Tech
It could also be iOS aggressively killing resource hog apps, as it tends to do. As a dev, I’ve found that the apps that I work on almost never get killed by the OS, sometimes sitting in memory for several days, because they’re quite conservative with resource use. Many of the (often needlessly) heavier apps by the “big guys” on the other hand get killed on a regular basis, even on devices with a lot of RAM.
If anyone thinks ANY political party can have all the answers, they aren't using their brain. In addition, our structure today is about keeping the fights as an us vs them, while the corporations steal our lunch while we are distracted. It reminds me of a quote from the movie "The Usual Suspects", 'The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.'
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So you want like the medium format equivalent of a Noctilux, but with autofocus?
Bit of an old joke, no? I think the "descent to the absurd" style here doesn't make sense because there is a concrete reason for what he's saying: lowering the barrier to suggesting changes in laws in a more structured form.

You could point to the diff and talk about it. Worthwhile, I think.
The repository for WPF for .NET Core is linked right here at the top. You can explore it yourself. It only supports Windows (there's a lot of hardcoded Win32 stuff in it). Microsoft has said they won't spend resources to support cross-platform efforts on it. They also likely wouldn't stop community forks from trying (just don't expect MSFT employees to participate during day job time), but again you can explore the repository here and get a sense of how much work it would take (a lot).

.NET Core has always had platform-specific libraries that only work on a single platform or work somewhat differently on different platforms. The UI libraries (WPF and WinForms) are just the biggest examples now of platform-specific libraries on .NET Core.
It runs Linux, you achieve FDE the same way as any normal Linux system with LUKS aside from a few minor complications.

https://robpol86.com/raspberry_pi_luks.html
True, that is probably the reason why 2" is the hole size. It has been a while since I have bypassed a fence and it would be negligent to have something that worked as good as a ladder!

Normally you find an area that can be lifted up and you can expect barbed wire at the top, climbing is out the question though.

I would go for the bigger holes if it was my fence just so people don't vandalise it by lifting it or cutting the wire.
Why not try to do both and become an expert in the system your employer is migrating to as well while you are at it.
I will just say, when pwned = lol.

Big buzz, attracts the bees.
> I'd long wondered why underground trains came in 2 obviously different sizes, ie. the central line AKA the sardines express vs the district line, the carriages thereof being properly capacious.

Because the original lines were opened in the mid (sub-surface) to late (deep) 19th century. The sub-surface lines were built cut-and-cover and thus easy to make roomy with the technology of the times, digging from up and covering was well within easy means, however the deep lines were built using pre-TBM tunnelling shields, limiting their diameter due to effort and sheer technology. The deepest station in the underground was opened in 1907, remains one of the deepest stations in the world, and pretty much all the deeper ones opened after WWII.

Later deep lines (Victoria and Jubilee) I'm guessing were kept at the same diameter for convenience (of sharing structure, infrastructure and rolling stock), and possibly existing sections being "moved" from one line to an other.

> Was talking to a TFL'er who said it annoyed him that all tube trains were collectively referred to by the public as 'underground trains' when there were actually sub-surface trains (the big ones) and proper underground trains (like the central and northern). I really hadn't known.

Technically they're all underground trains, as in trains which are part of the London Underground. The sardine express ones are "deep-level" or "deep-tube" (they used to be the actual tube lines but the term has expanded to basically be the same thing as the Underground).
"I don't think it's unreasable to expect people to save enough to cover then between their age of retirement to say 70 or 75. Then let the insurance kick in after that."

I would like that too. It's much easier to save until a defined age instead of having to save for potentially a very long life.
I'm 40+ and I wear hoodies for the same reason as OP - my ears are sensitive to cold, as is the rest of my neck and head. If the temperature starts with a 6 or less, I look like Kenny from South Park while walking down the street. I also work in an office, but I never post on HN, especially while at work. ;-)
This is a sad commentary on software development as a profession, as well as society as well. A watershed moment is when private individuals might be able to get paid for the extremely valuable work that they do that allows thousands of companies to make a profit with some companies becoming worth billions. The fact that the ability to socially beg for money for valuable software makes the idea of writing valuable software more viable is a sad state of affairs.
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> Note: yes, I know there can be regulatory requirements for EV in some jurisdictions, but let's not confuse that with it actually doing anything useful

That exactly. Similarly confused about customers who think OV certificates are better than DV - as far as I can tell no end user knows how to tell those apart in their browser (no 'green' locks...)
I think you could make a point that it would be a practical implementation of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem" made practical by extension of Moore's law.. I think the original author expresses disappointment in the lack of fundamental new developments in system research and he has a point. Then again the wheel hasn't changed much in recent history either..
By and large, as long as you're using decent specific impulse propellants, the hard part is not really the rocket equation but rather that rockets are extremely complicated sustained explosions. Oh, and they're really expensive. You have to worry about pogo, combustion instability, etc.
And if they extend that attitude even further and overthrow the government, what then?

The parent poster's stance is the correct one to have: make no plans for SS to exist, so if it does, you're just in a little better shape than you expected.

Most people who post on HN will experience a negative ROI on the money they paid into SS, unless they live well into their 90s.
Nintendo have had their fair share of failed consoles as well
Ah okay I get it. For some reason, I thought it was travelling through the material mentioned in that quote during the time it disappeared in the video.
This is still better than the current paradigm of LEOs stopping and frisking anyone who "matches the description". That phrase has basically turned into carte blanche to harass anyone they want with plausible deniability. With facial recognition at least now there's one more constraint they'd have to operate under for probably cause, right?
>but I'd love to know why manufacturers don't seem to be pushing the aperture as hard with medium format as they do with full frame.

For one because the DoF would be so small as to make focusing almost impossible wide open...
I went to a university that gave minority groups extra points and had entrance quotas. The result was that 90% couldn't make it and dropped out after the first year or just completely failed.

If you can't get into school based on grades, we should be looking at other areas in the education system to fix, not making it easier to get accepted based on a person's environment.
I like open source software projects and use them extensively on behalf of my employer. I care that they are healthy.

That said, there is a huge difference between getting authorization to spend company money on a subscription or support contract (easy), vs. getting authorization to donate company money to a person, informal group or nonprofit (extremely difficult).

A license or support contract is easy for the lawyers to understand, easy for procurement to understand, easy for finance to understand. That's how work gets done at a corporation, and they do those types of deals all day. Depending on the amount, I can sometimes turn around approval in hours.

A donation is not "how work gets done". It has no strings attached, which looks scary to lawyers and finance and PR folks. In my company at least, donations have a separate approval path that loops in the PR and corporate citizenship folks... and they want to see that money go to something fuzzy and feel good, like a charity. "Donations" is a line in the budget; it's not a big one and it's not mine.

So, I still think that the way forward for open source projects who want financial support from companies is to organize somehow (incorporate, nonprofit, etc) and sell support subscriptions. This aligns very well with how the corporation manages other dependencies, like office space, phone service, etc.
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If you can do without AF then most of the cost is just the back. You can totally shoot digital MF economically if you're open to not using the latest greatest back.
It would be wonderful if that 75% number pans out! But at the same time, I'm still going to do my retirement planning assuming that Social Security dies before I'm able to withdraw a single dollar.

Pessimistic assumptions are a good idea in situations like this.
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This is a common talking point, but it was balanced while Republicans had control of the House and Senate.
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Come on YC, the silicon valley elites have destroyed so much of our society. Do we really expect you to fix it? You all need to read Anand Giridharadas "Winners take all".
Who needs public services when you can have private for-profit start-ups?

I'm sure the new startups will always prioritize serving the citizens over making money. After all, that's what private for-profit organizations have a long track record of doing.

In seriousness:
I'm sure the listed start ups do good work. There are ways tech can help government and people.

Government 2.0 is awful branding. The idea that you can "upgrade" our government with a handful of private companies is downright anti-democratic. How about instead of trying to replace the existing government with private organizations answerable to a few very rich individuals, you work with existing democratic structures and try to improve them.
So you admit that he refuted your contention that

> A language cannot prevent someone from making stupid mistakes.
They could make adjustments to the retirement age or benefits that are in line with funding. Or change the funding to be in line with the promised benefits. Instead they choose to underfund and let the next generation deal with it.
As another user mentioned, oscillating loops can achieve these phenomenon and they're extremely abundant in biology. The circadian rhythm is an excellent example of this behavior.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4758938/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073891/
Yeah, don't want an otherwise good constitution because of a provision that has been repealed for over 150 years.
“Was never intended to be”, is not a great way of reasoning about the problem today. It may not have been intended to be a retirement system when it was established, but that is what it is now, and intentionally so.

It got that way over time, but it does solve (or at least address) the retirement problem the country faces right now. Going back to the old insurance service is both politically impossible and would just leave the retirement plan problem completely unsolved.

We would need to figure out another solution. Which leaves us right back where we started.
About 90% of the time when some group of people claim they have influence they have fuck-all influence. Reminds me of the time some 4chan users tried to have ReCaptcha label things 'penis' because they had this inflated sense of influence.

ReCaptcha said that it was trivial to handle the increased traffic and that it was not only auto-filtered out but also a drop in the bucket.

Everyone always thinks they're hot shit. But the world is a big place.
Two cores CPU with hyperthreading. 16 GB of RAM. But data isn't stored in RAM, right?
> Cannot find the symbolic notion of progress and dies of boredom?

So, it gets burnout.