skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming "their" refers to the war media, motives vary. Younger folks are just trying not to get fired. (Those who haven't even gotten hired yet have to cultivate a very careful Twitter persona even to be considered.) More experienced journalists can't get frozen out by official sources, whether that's the spooks, the brass, the lobbyist-owned politicians, or the surveillance-owned politicians. Editors/producers/executives have to worry about pissing off big advertisers. Lots of people on the talking-head shows are think-tankers, intellectually totally beholden to whatever shadowy reptiles have funded their sinecures and sabbaticals. Even if motives went the other way, at this point habit keeps them doing their masters' bidding, as witnessed by the schizophrenia regarding Julian Assange.

But, really, asking about motives is just another way to ignore this. Motives will always be squishy and deniable. Look at what actually happens. They lied us into Vietnam with the Tonkin Gulf Deception. They lied us into the First Gulf War with the incubator babies. They lied us into the Second Gulf War with WMDs. We went to war in Afghanistan and Osama turned out to be in Pakistan. They lied us into Libya with some random exiles living in Switzerland plus a French philosopher. They lied us into Syria (thankfully not all the way) with gas attacks staged by our ally Al-Qaeda. They're trying to lie us into Venezuela with a recession caused by our own sanctions plus staged attacks on soi-disant "aid convoys". Now they're trying to justify a war with Iran with a video of CIA operatives in a boat. If you prefer older history, "remember the Maine!" was also a lie.
> The interesting takeaway from this study I think is that it does not show that statically typed (even "pure") functional languages are not obviously better than plain old Python.

Could you elaborate more on this statement? Not a native english speaker here, so I don't quite understand the sentence. Thank you.
It's also a great place to live if you're not rich, because of their incredible welfare system compared to our own.
> information that isn't curated by a single source is a pretty fundamental discontinuity.

Even in Ben Franklin’s time his paper was only one of at least four in Philadelphia.
Yeah, I'm in this group too. Every computer I've owned for the last ten years or so has been a laptop, and every one of these so far has been used without a second screen/external monitor.

Haven't had no issues with it, though I'm considering a second screen at some point just to see what it's like.
They still use libgcc, ld.bfd, and libstdc++ though.
To remind you, it's a post about working in another country, the GDP makes even less sense in this context if you don't put it per capita.
You’re assuming cash will hold value after a so-called economy apocalypse?

If the economic credibility of the nation goes, so too does the value of its cash currency.

What’s a “more white collar workers than jobs” economy look like?

Personally, I’m leaning into useful life skills, like growing food, reconnecting to hunting, low level electronics, rebuilding my car, and home myself with my money now.

I’d rather have deep experience in head and hands than a wheelbarrow full of dolla dolla bills y’all with the buying power of East German currency.

Not that I have any way to be sure the implosion is coming any time in my remaining years. But still, if we’re talking about how to prepare for such a thing, let’s get real: investments in today’s ephemeral value stores are the worst idea for securing yourself against economic collapse
It is extremely difficult to calculate cost of living. Sure, I might pay more in VAT, but if I'm also not stressed out about paying high medical bills and getting, in general, more money, the higher cost of living isn't so bad. For that higher cost of living, you get real benefits and a real safety net.

You get none of that in the US.

You might actually lose benefits if you switch states, and even when you do gain it isn't generally because everyone gets those benefits, but simply that you get them from one particular company as long as you don't get sick and get fired.
Haskell has maps.

You 100% do not need to build a "pile of mathematical abstractions in your head" to use lenses. It's a handful of types and functions. Do you need to build a pile of abstractions in your head to use `std::unordered_map` or getters/setters in C++?
But most of the places where people actually live, does. Nobody needs trains to the middle of the Siberian tundra. Middle of south Dakota, on the other hand...
The US is a lost cause. Just do yourself a favour and get out, sooner rather than later.
Side note regarding DBS: There's some interesting research in grafting a nerve (I could be misremembering, but it's definitely a nerve graft) onto the substantia nigra (a part of the brain that we know produces dopamine), and then doing DBS on that region. Early stages, phase I trial, but a neat idea nonetheless.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't the stack layout use flexbox? It seems like flexbox is the perfect fit for such a layout.
Flexbox has been supported by all browsers for years now, even by IE11. What on earth do you need to support if you cannot use flexbox?
But it's only an offence if it's there for self defence.

If the police say "what's this bat for" and you know you only use it to play baseball then you should say that.

If they ask and you say "I'm not saying anything" then they have enough to arrest you and take you to the station.

This supports your point: in England it's often a good idea to talk to the police.
What does privacy mean in that context? Casting the term more widely doesn't crystallize the issues. If what I put or do on a 3rd party platform is subject to some concept of "privacy", then so is what pickles I buy at the store. Neither of these are public safety issues, unless you're ready to say that the govt needs to monitor and protect what people say and do on the internet. The same people you think you want to protect, have to write the laws and they are just as clueless with the benefit of various industry corruption behind them. Regulation is not a panacea here.
> Is there any current or near future OCR/ML system which might be capable of transcribing the raw scans with any acceptable level of accuracy?

Mechanical Turk should be able to do it for a pretty nominal cost.
The orbits of the planets don’t behave “regularly” when observed from the Earth, exactly because they orbit the Sun and not the Earth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_retrograde_motion
Most of us admire artists and musicians who have totally devoted themselves to their craft, and we don’t condescendingly pity their “unhealthy work life balance”. My hero growing up was Feynman, who was doing physics every waking hour (or so I’ve read). It’s not like his estate is going to reap the economic benefits of his work; so was Feynman a pitiful sucker, abused by his university employers? Is it my responsibility not to become too passionate about my work so that I don’t somehow exacerbate the class tensions in our country?

I really don’t understand the logic of your comment and most of the others downvoters. He never said his ambition was to make another guy money; perhaps he’s making a lot of it himself, or regards the money as to some extent incidental. The comments about America aren’t in the best taste, but that doesn’t make it okay to put words in his mouth.
That would make sense in an average person, but if you're an elite who is physically capable of back to back marathons, you don't have that much more running economy to gain -- after thousands of lifetime miles, your running economy is already near optimal.
Who care about military ? So you can launch some rockets and kill each other ? Lame..

Some of the American people can't even go to the hospital..
> The intent for that type of clause is to ensure that nobody can come back to the original author with your modified file and claim that they violated some rule (eg. copied stuff from other-licensed sources, patent law, libel, ...) that you violated in your edits.

As usual, there wasn't just one reason. The gist is the "integrity" of the official version of the software. Integrity has a few uses.

Earlier licenses with these kinds of requirements were primarily motivated by reputation concerns. For the maintainer of the project, who could be "blamed" for the ill-considered patches of others. For the project as a whole, when unofficial forks failed to interoperate, or included novel bugs.

Some of those licenses, notably Artistic, required renaming so as not to compete with the official version in package or PATH namespaces, as well as giving notice of instructions to get back to that official version from the fork, if the end-user desired.
This study is very poorly interpreted. It specifically excludes government and corporate pensions (including social security) from its calculation.

Consider:

1. Avg income (all ages) in the US is ~50k/yr

2. Avg social security is ~25k/yr (mostly untaxed)

So including social security in the calculation HALVES the annual burn rate, more than doubling your runway because of greater interest compounding on savings.

Additionally, many baby boomers retiring today have some kind of additional corporate pension from their early careers in the 70s and 80s and these are all government guaranteed, even if the issuing firm goes bankrupt. That probably adds another 5-10k/yr per person on avg.

And finally, most retirees today own houses that have massively appreciated since purchase. Given very favorable laws on cap gains from primary residence sales + low interest rates on borrowing against a home, most retirees probably have a nice additional cushion to draw from.

Overall, this article is FUD. Unless there's a massive economic recession/depression in the near future, most retirees will be absolutely fine. The poorest will struggle, but probably no more than they have since Reaganomics kicked in 40years ago.
> In order to become rich, you need to be very focused on the goal.

Or lucky. That worked for me.
Yes I realize that, and I don't know what the perfect headline is, but I stand by "it seems weird."

I notice that Wikipedia's entry on salt says "Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts." (it also says "This article is about common table salt. For salts in chemistry, see Salt (chemistry). For table salt used in chemistry, see Sodium chloride. For other uses, see Salt (disambiguation).")

Normally the word "salt" indicates sodium chloride unless it is otherwise clear from context that it might be referring to some other salt.

And there is always the first sentence of the article to clear up what specific chemical you are speaking of.
This is pretty nice and I will likely be using it from now on. Thanks.

But I do want something a little more native to latex. The major issue is that sometimes font sizes, axes, titles, even plot thickness doesn't look right in a paper. The issue is when you have a large plot and have to replot to fix these things. But vectored images will help.
Its kinda hard to accept a reference as rational when the opening summary describes him as having "batshit insane wingnut tendencies." Those are not appeals to reason, they are appeals to emotion and tribalism.
Frankly, what do they expect to gain here? A few thousands bucks? Even if Google is getting the lyrics from their site, it's not like they're irreplaceable. Seems like grasping at straws, and if I was an investor, I'd be worried.
It will be rough. China is unlikely to rest.
Contrary to intuition, the average number of hours people work has completely plummeted as well. It's down more than 250 hours a year since the 1950s. [1] At a 40 hour work week that means we now take a bit more than an extra 1.5 months off per year, compared to then. And on topics on forums such as these when you get into physical jobs such as, e.g. plumbers, people bemoan the physical exertion of these jobs and claim the workers are destroying their bodies. OK. Now let's go back to those 'less stressful times.' In the fifties you were looking 7 injuries per 100 workers, and a nation wide average of around 15,000 on-the-job deaths a year. [2] The total workforce back then was only about 62 million. That's 1 in every ~4,100 workers being killed on the job per year. Part of the reason for the rise of occupational safety rules is that so many people were dying on the job that it was hurting the economy!

And this is without even getting into the political differences of the times. In the 1950s people were still just getting over a world war that killed 3% of the entire world's population (imagine 231 million people dying today, to give that seemingly small number the scale it deserves) and brought entire cities to rubble. And this against an extremely capable enemy with genocidal aims, who nearly won. And without missing a beat we then entered into the cold war where everybody woke up realizing that there was a very real chance that their life could end on this day due to imminent nuclear war. Not some abstract 'doomsday clock' nonsense, but literally both sides actively positioning and aiming their nukes at one another ready to go off at a moment's notice - something that genuinely nearly happened multiple times, children practicing drills against nuclear disaster, and regular families building nuclear survival bunkers.

Today we live in a bit of a paradox. Relative to most any time in the past, we live better than ever. Yet people are less satisfied than ever. And I think there's a simple reason. Imagine Star Trek. What would really happen if we had e.g. holodecks? You can do anything, anybody, become anything, anybody, etc. And you would never need, or want, for anything. You would have no conflict, no animosity, and no hope for change since you already have everything. Want to know what the Great Filter of the Fermi Paradox is? Comfort. This would destroy absolutely all meaning in life for most people. People need to want. It provides a clean explanation to so many things. This issue we're discussing, upper class young adults on twitter tirelessly spending their days trying to find things to be offended about - or failing that taking offense on behalf of people they know nothing about, billionaires who continue to work 12 hour days to expand their wealth to no real point, and so on.

[1] - https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=AVHWPEUSA065NRUG

[2] - https://www.ehstoday.com/safety/management/good_times_toll
I think the temporary single-food diet is to break you of the addiction of sugar and other foods, and then once you've habituated your body to an extremely limited diet, you can safely re-introduce some variety again. In his case it was potatoes, but I think eating solely any one item would have served the same purpose.
Or, you know, he could just get a job like everyone else does, including virtually everyone who actually does maintain critical internet infrastructure.

Meanwhile, for those keeping score at home, a quick recap of the ways in which Raymond, esteemed author of fetchmail and maintainer of gpsd, has referred to himself:

* A "load-bearing Internet person"

* "one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work"

* "one of the half-dozen or so most influential people" in open source, "in fact, a lot of people would put me among the top three".

* Hisham ibn-Sindbad (the Black Wazir) in Arabian Nights

* Someone you could reasonably infer is "the most famous programmer in the world" (but Knuth doesn't count because he's not famous outside of CS, nor is Bill Gates because he's not famous as a programmer, nor is Kevin Mitnick or Aaron Swartz).

* A member of a "small cadre of old hands" like Vint Cerf and Dave Taht with "the specialized technical knowledge required for Internet disruption on a massive scale".

* A person "creating the computer code that makes your digital world work"; "every time you use a Web browser, locate yourself on Google Maps, draw money from an ATM, or play on a game console, you rely on computer code I wrote and gave away."
Pension funds assume 6-8% real returns in their actuarial calculations (and even then, most are painfully underfunded). If real returns come in much lower than that, then many of the State, local, and private pensions will be destabilized. Social security and Federal pensions should be fine no matter what.
That's incredible. That's about one or two people from every household participating. Democracy FTW.
Number Stations (and similar like the station described in the article here) have a place in my heart. One of the items on my "hobby projects list" is to make a small version of one -- nothing the FCC would knock on my door about, clearly -- since the topic fascinates me so.
The category links on the home page works fine on my end, what platform and browser are you using?

I'll go over all the filters to make sure everything is properly explained, and ensure design consistency.

I'm planning on adding a link to the source of each data point, so that users can see what e.g. the feature "Audited" if "Yes" is based on.

The "Naughty List" (producthunt.com/posts/naughty-list) will be restructured, but I haven't had time to do that yet, so I decided to just include the raw data from the Alpha.

I will remove "Security Issues", which I just did with "Reputation", because I ultimately want that to be based on crowd sourced data with sources.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad that you pointed out a few things that nobody else has mentioned so far!
> I think people need to keep in mind how important children can be in terms of securing your comfort in your old age.

As much as I see your point, that is unrealistic for many, many people. Especially in the US where that is not prominent societal norm.

My parents live thousands of miles away from any of their children. Most of my siblings don't have the money to save properly for their own retirement let alone support their parents. And housing situations often do not support two households living under one roof.

And this applies to families that still talk to each other.
Puerto Rico was without power for months after Hurricane Maria.
Is that around 2/7th of the population? What are some alternative systems to make the people have a stronger impact?
Yes, sorry about that.
There's a lot to like here, but

> The Swiss have a culture of professional part-time work ...

Coincidentally, this is the very day that one of the top stories on Swiss broadsheet Tages Anzeiger is about how more people would like to work part-time, but can't because of family commitments: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sonntagszeitung/nur-8-prozent-d...

EDIT: to quote for example "Rund drei Viertel der Eltern mit Vollzeitjob geben das höhere Einkommen als wichtigen Grund für ihr Arbeitspensum an."

Three quarters of parents with full-time jobs said the higher income was an important reason for their full-time work.

Later on it discusses the cost of living and of childcare for a family.

EDIT2: I don't know if it's deliberate that Vox put a video of "Why we should all move to SWEDEN" at the bottom, but I certainly chuckled.
Every article I see about the HK protests makes sure to focus on how non-violent the gathering was. I see many people framing that non-violence as a better way to affect change in their government.

I sincerely hope that a non-violent protest gets these people the change they want, but I take real issue in framing violent protests as unnecessary when your historically oppressive government refuses to listen to the will of its people.
I mean, both things have been around much much longer than GANs. I think Freeman’s paper on superresolution is from the early 2000s.
It's not hard to turn that into a situation where it can work against you.

What if it were your child's baseball bat? You can say that's what it's for but then what if the cop asks you if you'd use it for self defense? Would saying yes potentially be incriminating?
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda
Source for this? Middle-aged runners look like they're in great shape. Evidence suggests long-distance running, if done correctly, has no adverse effects on the body. We've literally evolved for it
It wasn't YUM that held back OpenMandriva's switch (OpenMandriva never used YUM), but some of the build infrastructure tools that wound up being replaced as part of the migration from urpmi to DNF.

Those legacy tools never were updated for Python 3 because they had no maintainers or developers. When the distribution switched to DNF, they were able to adopt actively maintained software that replaced those that were ported to Python 3.
This is really interesting. Any place I can get to know more about this?
There's this Tolstoy quote: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Perhaps a similar thing is true for rich versus poor. (And of course, wealth translates to happiness too).
There is a shortage of qualified software engineers. The whiteboard interview has spawned out of necessity. There is no good formal examination like an MCAT that companies can rely on.
So what you're saying is... the population distribution of Russia and the US are different and therefore present different problems?
Jeff Bezos told what may be the best startup investment story ever
> How confident are you in selecting a shelter dog which might live with you for another 10, 12 years, versus a dog from a breeder that you know the genealogy of (and therefore the parents, grandparents behavioral traits)?

Very. They put down the dogs with severe behavioral issues (e.g. biting). My local shelter is very good about providing adoption/surrender notes as well as behavioral notes. I decided against adopting a BC mix as they were clear exactly about the time/effort needed - he had been adopted out and resurrendered by a family who was exercising him 3 hours a day and they still couldn't calm his extreme (even for such herding breeds) leash reactivity. The volunteer explicitly recommended against adopting him.

Additionally, I've developed a relationship with a rescue by fostering for them over the years. They exclusively foster-to-adopt, so everyone gets several weeks (more, if they prefer) with their dog before signing papers. Most rescues at least allow you do do that, and I think people should take advantage of it.

I get what you're trying to say. I'll be the first to admit I'm a bleeding heart, and I feel awful for all the surrendered dogs in shelters - especially the ones who've endured abuse by their owners. But I place more stock in being able to live with a dog directly, instead of relying on their genetics. Sites like Petfinder mean you get a selection of dogs across the whole country. Additionally, casual pet owners aren't going to know the difference between a quality breeder and a backyard one. It's genuinely hard to tell unless you know what to look for.

My personal advice for shelters vs breeders is just "don't." People who do need to buy from breeders already know they do, and I'm not at all objecting to that. Everyone else is usually looking for a companion dog, and can find one at a local rescue/shelter.
12M pills and 700 deaths: How a few pill mills fanned the US opioid inferno
A Debugger for Bash in Six Lines of Bash
There's also python-bridge: https://github.com/Submersible/node-python-bridge

I don't recall now why I chose it over the much more popular python-shell. Sigh - the exploratory-spike log is sparse, and then "that all works, so why revisit low-commitment choices". I used it last year for a python helper, to offload some opencv and tensorflow optical tracking from electron.

(Both exist, and work, in javascript. But opencv had painfully subtle issues even with py3 vs py2, so I payed complexity to be closer to then mainstream center py2. And then moved tf over to work around chromium's excellent video latency and load (for passthrough AR) becoming much less so when also touched by the cpu.)
Urban planning took a back seat because they rushed to open it before the municipal elections. Fortunately the voters are not amused by the irony anymore.