skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sales tax is similar. Basically, the end consumer pays it on top of the sticker price. Businesses and non-profits often don't have to pay it at all, and if they do, they can get a refund later.
I very much doubt that's what TeMPOraL meant by "socialist/democratic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
The article says "Current SSL cert lifetime best practices put lifetimes at 90 days" but SSL is deprecated... so its lifetime best practice is 0 days.
I wonder if this would get a lot easier with a group. Like, is it easier for 50 people to survive on $100/week of food than for one person to survive on $2. Obviously not practical for most western lifestyles, but I'm just imagining the various economies of scale around making a big pots of soup, chili, hummus, baking bread, etc. All of these things are labour intensive but can be done extremely cheaply if you're working from raw materials and your fixed costs (tools, equipment, etc) are covered.
The number one request: long term grants. Think 30-year guaranteed fellowships de-coupled from "output". Danger is in creating "monocultures" around one topic that sucks the oxygen from any nascent innovation.

There is a profound undercurrent seeking to alter the entire research model. The lion's share of funding has moved to proprietary research labs. And the model itself creates perverse incentives. It's the "Do we really need 200 fresh econ PhD's per year" scenario.
You just opened a pandora box! A proper answer here would be hundreds of pages long.

I'll try my best to give you a short one:

1) Most advice on money is never great.

2) Most advice on money can be applied in general, but many people have specific needs or desires (e.g. some people WANT to own a house for psychological reasons, irrespective of whether it is a good investment or not). More here [0].

3) Your simple options with that 70k are: invest in stocks (probably an index fund, invest and forget), invest in a REIT (the equivalent of real estate investing, without the hassle), or invest in a house.

Alternatively, invest in your own education (degree, or one-year sabbatical, or else).

4) If you still want to invest in a house, it will be your first time - you will be the least experienced investor in that market. Do it at your own risk. Timing the market is hard. Knowing how to strike a good deal is hard. Etc.

[0]: https://medium.com/fabrica/the-rent-versus-buy-dilemma-12-im...
Is this based on the volume of bottles, intact?

The amount of plastic is a small percentage of that volume - that 10-year mountain might become a single office building of solid plastic.

And I believe PET is one of the more recyclable plastics. Certainly, in less developed nations, it's collected, for profit.

In fact this is the real problem with plastic - whether it is collected properrly, or left to wash out into the oceans.

If it's collected, even if it goes to landfill (we're not running out of land to fill, and I believe landfills will become the mines of the future), it can be very efficient in terms of 'usefulness vs environmental impact'. Perhaps much better than many alternatives (eg cotton grocery bags). If it's left to drift, it can be quite a problem.

IE We should be looking much more closely at material handling and life-cycle, rather than focusing exclusively on materials themselves.
This isn't about safety from the government, it is about safety from non-government harassers.
> But it can't be so obvious that random Joe-and-Jane HackerNews know the answer off the top of their heads and Porsche doesn't after all the resources it has spent to figure out the problem.

Does this same discussion-closer apply when we talk about software? Plenty of software companies with the same hundred engineers millions of dollars thing. Yet we are allowed to talk about their fuckups. What makes you think cars are different?
How so? Nobody forces you to join such a group, or is trying to hide the fact that it's commercial.

If I booked a vacation with some company and they offered me to join their WhatsApp group specific to my destination I see nothing wrong with that. The reason we don't have that here is probably that it's too expensive. In China you can hire someone for next to nothing to monitor some WeChat groups and have them answer frequent questions or extract potentially useful new information from other users conversation in that group. Shouldn't be too surprising and if you don't want this, don't join. Like when you're uncomfortable with sharing random recordings from your home with Amazon, don't buy Alexa.
>If you don’t think oppression exists, and that it can be symbolized by structures, I don’t know what to tell you.

I said the exact opposite. The advertising industry shouldn't exist and neither should statues of anyone let alone tyrants like Saddam.
To be fair, Chicago is inexpensive by coastal standards, not just SF. Prices comparable to Philly, not DC, Boston, NY, etc.
Are there some disadvantages to working remote?
I always wanted to find answers to this. I would like to hear from remote employees and may he even managers. Are there any disadvantages to working remote? I am thinking about big ticket ticket times like promotions and salary reviews and also small intangibles like bonding with your teammates and even bosses. What would you give up working remote if any?
I don’t know the particulars of your company but this got me thinking. There is a necessary shift somewhere in the spectrum:

[start up] —- [enterprise]

where you don’t know everyone who works with you nor does everyone know you. Everyone is a cog in a wheel (even if they don’t fully appreciate it). Everything is a system and human capital is just one of many inputs that the business _should_ optimize.

Companies that are too fat get replaced by ones that are lean, etc.

For me, there is some comfort in knowing that I’m as replaceable as anyone else. It helps me deal more humanely with others when you have to fire/lay-off/reduce hours. And it helps remind me that my professional work isn’t the essence of my life; it’s just one component of my own personal system. It has to be optimized alongside family commitments, volunteer work, and my own faith-based pursuits.

There is no benevolence in a system, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t act benevolently towards each other.

It might sound crass, but you are unlikely to retire from your current job. And nor will your boss. In fact, one of my main focuses as a manager is to remind people of that fact along with this advice: when they start to feel the itch to move on, let me know if I can help them get experiences that will position them for the future.

TLDR; the business doesn’t care about you, but hopefully as an executive those that report to me always feel that I have treated them with human empathy.

Also, I strongly encourage you to build up your non-professional circles. Most of my closest friends are previously coworkers that I stay in touch with after one or the other inevitably moves on.

We’re way past the point in time where the system is designed for pensions and 50 yr watches.
> ... [W]orkers tend to spread out geographically during an economic cycle’s later stages, economists say, raising questions about how these cities will fare in a downturn. Workers are usually more confident—and employers more lenient—when the economy has been flourishing.

> In 2017, some 5.3% of adults in metro areas of between 500,000 and three million people worked from home, a rough proxy for remote workers. That was up from 3.7% a decade earlier...

It’ll be interesting to see whether these workers will be able to maintain their “big city” salaries over time, and how they’ll fare in a economic downturn (e.g. they’ll be far away from “most” jobs in their sector.)
Most of the foods I mentioned above you can't buy in small quantity. Eg, you can't buy a single slice of bread.

Bulk here meaning usually 1 weeks worth of food. Small enough the average person buys in that quantity, including people who are paycheck to paycheck.

>'ll mention that the unfortunate bit of $2 per day doesn't actually include only groceries, but other necessities as well. I don't know what the amount is in the states, but wherever it is, it doesn't leave a lot of room for anything but the most basic food. No spices. No chips since you can buy beans (or lentils!) and rice that last for multiple days cheaper than you can buy the bag of chips.

The $2 a day food challenge is just food, nothing else. It's a challenge, not a hypothetical for someone who is homeless. Food stamps give quite a bit more than $2 a day.
And users. It’s trivial but I always replace ‘user’ table with something like humans or players or creators. Because yes, words do matter.
What percentage of his time and net worth has Bill Gates given to those in poverty over the years?
If I understand you correctly, this is what Rust/Cargo currently do. You can have multiple versions of the same library in transitive dependencies, and it will link them all into the same binary using a name mangling scheme similar to what you describe.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51714866/
> Everything is a terrible investment at the moment

I would agree, but: you can also invest in things that thrive in a downturn (e.g. gold is considered to be a safe asset, some would say Bitcoin as well), or simply invest in risk-free assets (e.g. govt bonds), or in savings accounts that pay you 1.5-2% annual interests.
I get a positive JOMO feeling when someone shares a media scare story and expects me to join them in pearl-clutching.

I only loosely follow mainstream infotainment/moral panics, and mostly for entertainment value. So I totally enjoy missing out on the “let’s all be scared together” vibe.

NB: This sharing would be f2f, since I have yet another JOMO: not being on FB/insta/etc.
Pizza at Trader Joe’s are between 80 and 380 calories. And nutritional values are terrible. You might be able to survive on that for a few weeks, but you won’t thrive, you will get weak and sick easily.
I'm sure it can be done - Sweden has 1/18th the consumption of Italy. So just copy Sweden. The biggest obstacle is probably the plastics and bottled water companies, who make billions on keeping consumer habits (and laws!) as they are: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/03/a...
'Youthful rebellion' needn't always exist. I reject the notion that young people rebel because they are young rather than because they live in a society that has not raised and supported people correctly.
I was looking for a way to do this, thanks! :o)
The article may only talk about Pret, but as an American who has lived in England for 6 months and visited there several times, Marks & Spencer's prepackaged food is also extremely good (there's no chain in the US where you're going to be able to get good sausage rolls or meat pies), and Tesco is only a step or two behind.

Furthermore, as some other people have mentioned, the UK has many, many more small local bakeries that sell high-quality made-to-order sandwiches—well above the quality of Subway, and while individual independent bakeries are of course going to vary, my recollection is that they tended to be above the likes of Panera and the sandwiches you can get at even high-end grocery stores like Whole Foods, as well. There are also various local variants that are well worth eating—the Cornish pasties we got when visiting that region were to die for (especially in Tintagel!).
You can feed yourself for $2 a day in the US, not live on tho. But you can do that much easier if you have money upfront from the beginning instead of getting $2 every day. Let's say you have $60 in the beginning of the month. You can buy a 25lb of rice for $10-$15. You can then do the same for beans and you would have spent $20-$30. Some spices salt, pepper, thyme, onions and vegetable oil. Then if you're feeling really luxurious chicken. Buy multi vitamin to make up for what you're missing. Go to vegetable / farmers market while they are about to shut down and you can make out like a bandit for $5. Tons of vegetables or fruits they don't want to take home with them.
Thank you for the answer.

> Everything is a terrible investment at the moment.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." comes to mind. But I agree with you, in this case right moment is very important.

> So, don't take risks, but do whatever will make you happier.

Does this mean it makes sense to wait for a few years, if so, how many? and what to look for?

> For example if you don't like paying rent to a landlord....

I'd like to take the most efficient steps that would yield best result over 20-30 years. I'm pretty flexible in terms of "wall colors"

Does it make sense to wait till marriage before getting yourself into home-owning situation?
...and when that day comes you call a specialist to handle the case and let your "ordinary" worker get back to work on the 99% of the job space she's qualified for?

I find this very ironic: Hiring for suitability to handle edge cases is also a brute force approach that doesn't scale.

A good algorithm optimizes for expe ted inputs and farms out cache misses and unexpected behavior to some other system.
Does this include drinks? They are often the big sources of profit for restaurants, and that's not counting beer.
I love when AWS console stays out of my way so much that I have to pick through its backend HTTP requests in the browser developer tools to figure out why it isn't working even though the UI shows no errors or perhaps even reports success. This is a regular occurrence.

My absolute favorite is when AWS console stays out of my way in a particular manner that hides expensive resources, with bugs in the per-resource console, the cost explorer, and the notifications systems conspiring with each other to deliver a lovely surprise at the end of the month. It's amazing what bugs can do when they work together!
> Everything is a terrible investment. Everything is overpriced.

You don’t know this, no one knows it, and to speak in absolutes like this is to imply that you can predict the market. If that was the case, you’d have all the money in the world. This reminds me of all the “experts” in 2008 who said dismal 2-4% returns were “the new normal”. Those “experts” were dismally wrong and is a great example that anyone who “knows” what the market will do in the future is someone not to be listened to.
You need a house but you don't necessarily need exactly that particular house. More importantly, this also applies to anyone who's moving house right now.

Suppose you need a new house, and you want to own rather than rent. You will be willing to buy a more expensive house if the mortgage interest rate is 1% than if it's 10%, because the amount you actually have to pay is lower when the mortgage rate is lower. Mortgage rates vary along with other interest rates. So when interest rates are lower, mortgage rates are lower, and people can and do pay more for houses.
Do you have data for a Tesla completing a single Nurburgring lap at full speed? AFAIK they failed each time so far https://insideevs.com/news/323053/tesla-model-s-fails-to-lap...
They’re vastly different if you apply a class-based analysis, yes. An alleged billionaire abusing minors while palling around with heads of state compared to someone with a public defender?

And I don’t even understand how one can solicit prostitution from someone who cannot legally consent.
The AWS console is a thousand times better than the nightmare one in Azure.
>My boss didn't believe me that I could tell the difference... so he brought some back to the States and we ran a blind test.

Odd he didn't believe you, given the difference between the two is so striking.
> You're thinking in short, next twenty years or so

I suspect the drawdown of easily-accessible, dense, cheap fossil fuels will spell the end of global integration; consider a very low-energy future where most communication takes place via radio and travel for 99% takes place at a fraction of today's rate. We would expect regional differences to increase as groups adapt to local areas, ideally while carrying out extensive sharing of e.g. practices and techniques.
Also similar to "Where Children Sleep", which is exactly that: http://jamesmollison.com/books/where-children-sleep/
Being from Norway I considered buying electronics cheap in the in the US but discovered it was not worth it. Once you factor in the 25% VAT in, the difference shrinks. When you at considerably stronger consumer protections and warranty, the difference is all gone. Warranty in Norway on an Apple laptop is 5 year. It is just one year in the US and offers much weaker protection. If you buy a 3 year apple protection plan to get closer to Norwegian warranty, the laptop ends up getting more expensive in the US.

It just isn’t worth it.

I find the big price difference for me is on small things. Stuff like rubber bands, paper clips, tooth brushes etc will always be significantly cheaper in the US. But those things are impractical to import from abroad.
a pdf, https://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/early.twocolumn.pdf
I noticed this passing through Kansas.
Most mobile-browsers don’t support ad-blocking, especially on iOS.
He didn't do a basic Google search to find all the articles about his conviction for child molestation and solicitation?
Most people in the US are within a bicycle ride from a Walmart or similar discounter. (New York City is a notable exception). So $5 is has similar buying power throughout the US.

I know because I spent 5 months cycling through the US on a tiny budget.

For calories you would buy ramen noodles. Aim for 2000 calories per day or more.
For Vitamins and fibre, buy apples ($1.11 per pound). At least one apple per day.
An iceberg lettuce every 10 days or so is a good idea.

What does that average to ? Maybe $5 a day ??
I can't say I've had the same experience here on Windows using WSL. It runs like a champ. I've also used it within Debian based Docker images on many occasions.
I've lived 3+ years in each of NYC (10 yrs), SF, Seattle, London, and Stockholm. They all have their own charms and quirks and are all nice in their own ways. But from order of most favorite to least (not bad though):

* NYC

* Seattle

* Stockholm

* London

* SF
Suburbs ARE evil, but our land use policies keep us from building enough housing in cities, which makes them too expensive to be considered a good option for most people.
Algorithms that could someday replace modern cryptographic techniques
No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20903110
> Or maybe there are no appropriate map projections.

We have webgl now. Project a globe as google maps does when you zoom out.
Wouldn’t these be ideal to address a rooftop or backyard market?
Same on Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyvie...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyvie...
Tweet-a-Program
I know many people will disagree, but I really miss the VMware fat windows client. (vsphere 5, before they ruined it with the weird flash hybrid that didn't work properly)

That, was a paragon of design reliability and speed compared to the AWS console.

What annoys me the most is the sheer weight of each page. If you have to context change, its multiple seconds before the page is useable.

A classic example is lambda. I click on the function, page reloads (no problem) 1-2 seconds later the page is fully rendered, I can _then_ click on the monitoring tab, another couple of seconds, and then I can jump to the latest log, in cloudwatch.

Cloudwatch can get fucked. Everything about it is half arsed. Search? all of the speed of splunk, combined with its reliability, but none of the usefulness.

The standard answer is "you should use Cloudformation" I do, it too is distilled shart. (anything to do with ECS can cause a 3 hour, uninterruptible hang, followed by another timeout as it tries to roll back.)

It also lazy evaluates the acutal CF, which means that parameter validation happens 5 minute in. Good fucking job there kids.

What I really want is a QT app in the style of the VMware fat client (you know with an inbuilt remote EC2 console, that'd be great...) that talks to AWS. The GUI is desgined by the same team, and is _tested_ before a release by actual QAs who have the power to block things until the change is released.
Except this doesn’t factor in the utility they provide.
Best performing asset of that past decade, and 2019: https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-w...
Yes, it is a very small thing.

Start with automated lines ( the L ) where you know the location of every train. You know the speed of every train at every point. Now it is a standard algebra problem that 15 year olds were solving 20 years ago in algebra/comp sci exams, using pen and paper - it was pre-calc so they invented how they could divide the track into equal section and compute the time it takes the train it should take the train to get to the station by approximating the unknown time based off the time that it took the train to pass the sections behind it. On non-automated lines start by adding god damn train trackers to the individual trains and start splitting the blind sections of the track by adding cameras and sensors. They don't need to make the lines automatic. They just need to add visibility.

None of this is difficult. MTA and "infrastructure is hard" people are full of excuses. They are the same people who were saying that the L should be fully shutdown for 18 months when now we have MTA announcement that even with the partial shutdown they are way ahead of schedule with the tunnel work so they can start doing the station work.

There should never be the case when it says a train is 8 minutes away and a train behind it is 9 minutes away when a train gets to the station in 2 minutes and the train behind it gets to the station in 5 minutes.
No one would consider Bitcoin to be a safe asset

Safe investments in a downturn include REITs that invest in apartments.
You identify that there is a face yes, that's face detection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_detection, which is not the same as face recognition and doesn't need a model per person.
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Do you have proof that this global philosophy you propose is more effective than nation-based organization?
Trash food and beverage franchises brought us together? I don't think so.
It is both. Americans are anti-intellectualism but worship the moneyed elite. If you are a well spoken university professor they will hate you.

But it is usually fine to be a vulgar billionaire. Then you get praise. Moral character in the US is measured by the size of your bank account.

A non-rich person would never have escaped the vulgur behavior of Donald Trump.

Only in America does such behavior get accepted. He embodies American populism and reverence for the ultra rich elite.
You’d rather choose to hear most of a small amount than some of a larger amount?

The compensation was never there to begin with for non popular artists, only difference is now they can distribute it.
I started getting cluster headaches a couple years ago, so it isn't true anymore, but I used to have a photographic memory. Useful for picking up lots of entirely useless information.
United is the worst offender with security questions. Not only are the questions preset, but the answers are a dropdown too! There’s also no way to input a “custom answer,” so you’re stuck with absurdly low entropy “security questions.”
> *as well as centralized?...sure it can, which means that it's centralized.

No, you aren't understanding. “organization” can label something that is centralized or something decentralized/distributed. Or it can be anywhere in between. “Organization” implies some structure, it doesn't imply that the structure is heirarchical/centralized, though.

> What it cannot be is completely independent.

Yes, whether centralized or distributed an organization can also be completely independent (or not, either way), which is a separate issue.