skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Swedish system solves much of this, at a price.

In Sweden, the principle is that everyone pay into the system, and everyone gets benefits from it.

So everyone, rich or poor, gets a $130/month payment per child under 18. There are many other examples.

The price is that while the US has a very progressive tax system, where high income earners pay a lot of tax, while the low & middle pay very little, in Sweden everyone pays a lot of tax. It (kinda) works because everyone also get a lot back from the system.

So Sweden has very high taxes, but most people get similar value back. You can think of it as a forced savings system in some ways.
Benefits? Which benefits? Eurozone is the lowest-growing area of the world.
It destroyed more GDP than the II World War comparing with trends before Euro and with other countries at the same time.

> Should state elections in Mississippi drive US Fed policy?

EU is not a Federal Country, not a State and most of all not a Nation. It's just a common table where each country fights for their interests and the biggest state try to eat all the others not caring about its level of export.
The universal credits in the uk where setup by a conservative government thats obsessed with austerity.

The intent was to cut the funding to benefits disguised as a new system.
> You can draw a straight line to mass disinformation from the budgets of major oil companies

Citation needed.
They had to use older Teslas to make this work, because newer models don't use sign-reading to determine speed limit.

Abstractly, it's interesting, if only because it probably wouldn't trick a human -- everyone would see the 85mph as BS regardless of the defaced sign.

Has anyone hacked into openstreetmaps yet and fiddled with speed limits?
I don't think it's scientists so much as it is redditors and "I fucking love science!!!" people
I didn't ask what your basis was for opposing inflation. I asked what your basis was for saying that monetary inflation was the "real" inflation, as opposed to price inflation. You didn't answer that. Instead, you gave an answer that says that inflation is bad, which I agree with. But the negative effects you describe are at least as much the symptoms of price inflation as they are of monetary inflation.

I've given you a couple of chances to make a case that monetary inflation is the one that matters, and you have provided exactly zero (other than the bare claim that it was so). So I'm going to stick with my position, which is that your claim is wrong.
It also raises questions on the nature of consent, agency, and responsibility in the case of an addicted person who continues their addictive behaviour (with interesting answers depending on whether the person is willingly or unwillingly addicted). It is not a settled question in philosophy to answer that an addict has all the agency (especially to be "informed as to the risks") as others[0].

[0] "There is certainly widespread agreement about the paradigm threats to personal autonomy: brainwashing and addiction are the favorite examples in the philosophical literature. But philosophers seem unable to reach a consensus about the precise nature of these threats. They cannot agree about how it is that certain influences on our behavior prevent us from governing ourselves." From: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/
A human has the basic intuition to assume the sign itself might be wrong or misleading, the programmers of the car automation failed to realize that in a way that might've gotten someone killed.
People in this thread seem to mostly not even consider the value that the ability to (sometimes) speak privately has.

As an analogy: would you want your spouse (and vice versa) to hear recording of every conversation you have, including those with close friends/therapists/rabbis etc?

It's not completely absurd to say yes to that question. But it's notable that such a relationship would be a departure from established norms, and that most people feel even healthy and strong relationships profit from the ability to occasionally seek advice or blow of steam in confidentiality.
I've watched all of these, and they are hands down the best intro linear algebra lectures you're going to get, anywhere, ever. The concepts are well motivated, and he places appropriate emphasis on the "big picture". It is remarkably easy to follow his train of thought as he introduces new concepts.
I don't think they were being mean. To me that should have been a PM, but we don't have those here.
Related there is this old (old enough to be postscript, not PDF!) paper that compared register allocation on the usual 8 registers on Intel vs 32 virtual register that are then allocated to the 8 available registers. Doing the latter created faster code, suggesting that the CPU's register renaming is not as good as it could be. This was on a Pentium 2, so it might be that the results don't hold any more. It's also been at least a decade since I read this paper in detail so I might have remembered it wrong!

http://www.smlnj.org/compiler-notes/k32.ps
Templates and Logic – Building SaaS #45 · Matt Layman
> If I was a kid, I wouldn't think it seemed preferential over regular e-cigs.

If I was a kid none of these options would be preferential over just not smoking.

I've never smoked, but to my knowledge it doesn't carry any positive effects. That means utility doesn't really make any difference. The tobacco game is a pure marketing play.

Maybe you could even sell a JUUL and an IQOS device to the same people (JUUL for everyday use and the IQOS for trips where you can get new capsules)
> We'll soon have source-included but secret-compiler software as a technical possibility, by means of zero-knowledge computational proofs.

could you elaborate on this?
They shouldn't and that's exactly why states are allowed to declare bankruptcy and why Puerto Rico should be allowed to declare bankruptcy. States in the EU probably should be able to also.
Detection of Autism with Electroencephalographic Signals with Genetic Algorithm [pdf]
One of the best resources that I have used (in the distant past) is vim golf[1]. It's a super fun way to level up your vim skills.

[1] https://www.vimgolf.com/
How is it diversionary to state examples of how renewables can be stored? That is literally the crux of the issue, we need storage for renewables. Nuclear sounds great on paper but look at new capacity additions. No one except China is adding nuclear. So to bring it up over and over here, Many HN commenters simply can't get over the fact that nuclear is way way way more expensive than renewables. Storage is the clear answer, unless you can point me to recently built nuclear and how cheap it is?

How about South Carolina? Oh that was a massive fiasco that cost the ratepayers billions for literally nothing. If they spent those billions on solar, efficiency, and demand response, they'd have far cheaper and cleaner electricity. Instead they wasted billions on a nuclear facility that will never be finished.
In particular, Tesla no longer uses sign-reading (it is patented). They use OSM. Using Teslas for this experiment was undoubtedly calculated for the increased exposure it would get.
I mean I'm familiar with ml and haskell, I'm more interested in what's the best platform for building things. The language itself is only a part of the equation.
Another example is that many men who are 5'10" and 5'11" report being six foot, which shows up in a lump on an otherwise normal distribution.
Wait for the response to your statement from a seemingly naive person. It will be something about how a majority of scientists once believed in [insert disproven theory here]. It will be made in seeming naivete, but will 100% be from a bad actor.

Across all websites, across all platforms, whenever someone says "well almost every climate scientist agrees with this", somebody crawls out to make that statement.
Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020? – By Jeremymorgan
If the entire third party ad serving market imploded how would that be a bad thing?
I think he’s referring to something like a surveillance state - folks in charge who know everything about you and wish to police all your behavior.

It’s a great quote from 70 years ago that speaks well to modern politics, but its application to Phillip Morris here seems to be a bit of a stretch to me.
Migrating to Kotlin–what to look out for
A number of these steps become easier if the reactor is physically small. A plant that fits in a shipping container has a way easier path to commercial viability.

Small plants require less capital. They're easier to manufacture. They can iterate faster. They have less environmental impact, and therefore fewer regulatory hurdles. They require less labor to build and a smaller supply chain.

I expect that the engineering is harder, because scale can bring efficiencies. But still, I think the winner is going to be a small device, not a behemoth, if only because a small device can come online years earlier.
We still have a few of these Google branded safety glasses in our local hackerspace after going to World Maker Faire in 2015.

Last time I've put them on was testing our open-hardware pico-satellite deployer.

Thanks for saving my eyes.
Have you read Consider the Lobster? It is absolutely a clear, informative, educational essay that also happens to be beautifully written.
How about road work situation?
US states are forbidden (with some exceptions and loopholes) from issuing debt. I would guess that one of the main reasons why this limitation has never been lifted is exactly to avoid a situation like the one you describe. The Puerto Rico debt crisis has shown that this is not a purely theoretical concern.
What really surprises me is that the company that creates that piece of useless bloatware has a research team that does cool stuff like this.
Straight from fusion to electricity without a steam turbine with helium to harvest?

I've seen it said here on HN that the amount of helium out of a deuterium/tritium is so small it is negligible.

From article: "My question is: Would that setup produce a continuous fusion for some period with positive net energy generation?

Here is my argument why I think it would: Since Boron is solid at room temperature, it's density is high, so I think the fusion rate per nucleon would be quite high. As far as I know 100keV is the energy needed for Hydrogen-1 and Boron-11 to fuse, while the resultant three He-4 nuclei should have about 8MeV of energy. So indeed if all accelerated protons fuse then the energy produced should be quite higher than the input. The problem that immediately comes to mind is that as the container starts to rapidly heat up as a result of the reactions the Boron inside would no longer be solid and may even start to leak through the opening. But before that happens, would there be at least a brief period where an efficient fusion can be sustained?"
I'm not sure if you're speaking approving or not

It’s “not”
Security Researcher exposes abysmal cybersecurity of SlickWraps
It would have been impossible for Greece's GDP to drop by that amount (in absolute terms) before it joined the EU. Because it quadrupled after joining.

Here, check out this graph, which rather obviously shows the benefit of joining the EU in 1981: https://www.google.com/search?q=greece+gdp&oq=greece+gdp&aqs...
Can't say I've noticed it, but then I'm going around with Javascript enabled, so it's not like I would.

That said, the github one is a sort of interesting case, insofar as they're doing it to avoid user-generated content clashing with their page-chrome ids... while still preserving a readable URI that matches what the content creator expects. Which doesn't seem like an unreasonable case, to me.

You'll note that there is a real anchor on that link -- https://github.com/quiet/quiet#user-content-dependencies -- which works without Javascript. It's just rather inaccessible.
Yes, in the past I knew a couple people that were addicted - as in, they got the shakes if they didn't drink. They would drink several 750ml bottles of vodka per day.
Yeah, I guess it’s more profitable for them to just collect taxes from Microsoft instead.

But I am not sure it can’t be done. What if the government deployed desktops to all citizens that were centrally administered, and requires them to be used for all government business / taxes, public services.

Clearly I am talking about a dystopian society... but I don’t see why some dictator or communist wouldn’t want to implement it. Aren’t large Chinese companies essentially branches of the government? Why doesn’t China want a fully controlled clone of Microsoft ? They clearly wanted their own google: baidu, their own amazon: Ali baba, their own Facebook: wechat...

It’s no more inefficient in principal to have government controlled personal computers as it is to have corporate controlled work computers. Work desktops are famously useless with all the required bloatware, encryption, antivirus, restrictive group policies and internet policies... but corporations think it’s worth the loss of efficiency, electricity, employee time to have a stranglehold on their computing. Why wouldn’t the super power hungry governments want the same ?
> Basically, he argues you can't trust encrypted email for any content you would not also be fine to send over an TLS secured wire.

I was responding to the person above me.

If PGP encrypted email is as safe as TLS encrypted lines, which are used every day by major corporations, what’s the complaint?

A form POST over TLS through a relay network sounds like it would hide my metadata better than Signal, which is tied to my phone number; and metadata leakage is what actually gets you caught, in the real world.

So does depending on a single point of failure for implementation, where it’s easy to coerce a backdoor.

He wants to talk about LARPing security — well, tying your secrecy to one of the most monitored and tracked systems in the world, the phone network, sounds exactly like that.

I’m genuinely asking what the threat model is, because this sounds like advice that’s going to get people tortured or killed.
This article reads like a press release for a startup.
National Climate Assessment (No. 4), May 2014.

"Climate change is contributing to increases in wildfires across the western US and Alaska."

US Forest Facts and Historical Trends

"the U.S. forest area has decreased by less than 1.4 percent over the 90 years from 1907 to 1997"

https://file.scirp.org/Html/1-8601410_67248.htm?utm_campaign...

There are also countless predictions on the intensity of hurricanes by scientist related to climate change. But one has to ignore almost 100 years of research on the natural 9 to 13 year cycles of hurricanes to make the models work.
This is interesting. Are you implying a leader’s job was to act silly and maintain an image of a not-so-smart but relatable guy while the party was doing its shady deeds? A comic relief mask of sorts?
Yes, Chez Scheme is mostly written in itself, including most primitives and the entire compiler. Additionally, the way Racket CS is architected, significant parts of the C-implemented Racket runtime are instead written in Racket and compiled to Chez Scheme ahead of time, such as the thread system and the IO library.
GPS map-like technology could be used to treat brain cancer
The future of Japan's master artisans
Yeah, good points. I guess such non-tech articles serve several purposes.

I do think this one gives non-technical people get something useful, though. More broadly, it'll increase science understanding among the non-scientist/non-technical public, at least on this topic, and good does tend to come out of that.
There's an absolute ton of fake climbing gear on Amazon, claiming to be legitimate brands and certified. Furthermore, goods from different suppliers are often mixed together in Amazon warehouses. So buying from the brand's own account doesn't necessarily mean it came from them!

I would strongly advise not getting any safety equipment like a car seat through Amazon.
Using your devices as the key to your apps
Carriers that invested in scrubbers may find the cost higher than expected
I'm not talking about the meetings either.

The meetings were even simpler: he went there for debt negotiation with an election mandate to not capitulate and with the most open mind for compromise, and was immediately handed an ultimatum to capitulate, with quote verbatim "elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy."

The crime against logic was what he discovered afterwards.
Ask HN: What’s your preferred stack for early stage startups?
Many people say Ruby on Rails is the preferred choice for startups because it helps you move faster. I wonder what other people’s experiences have been, though.

By early stage startup I mean the following: 1) no revenue; 2) solo developer; 3) no product-market fit (need to change rapidly).

Coming from a JAMStack, my initially thought is that Rails gives you many problems you shouldn’t have to deal with at early stage: managing serves and databases, performance considerations, costs, etc.

If you use something like Firebase + Next.js, you can basically focus on developing your product (no infrastructure work needed) and have zero costs until you have hundreds (or even thousands) of users.

It feels like a much better options for startups, so I wonder if I’m missing something here. How’s your experience with web frameworks for early stage startups? Is there a way to have zero costs using something like Rails or Django?
China tests the limits of educational standards
That list speaks nothing of industriousness. It's about how many hours are spent at work. Most people who have experienced working in different cultures could tell you that that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how productive people are at work or how much actually gets done.
> Why is it wrong to say explicitly offensive things

Because they are offensive

> and why should someone be legally punished for it

Because that is what legal systems are for. Punishing people who do things we, as a society, find objectionable

> Who gets to decide what is and isn't offensive and to what degree?

That is a rather general question, but generally speaking, the law makers and the legal system decide things like that.

Now, mind you, personally, I support a rather radical version of freedom of expression. I think almost every kind of censorship is ultimately detrimental to society, but I am not naive enough to ask "but who gets to decide" or "but why cannot I"
> I feel blessed to live in a world where companies can "get away with" selling products to people who are informed of the risks and choose to buy them.

Except people aren't informed until laws force companies to tell the truth. Until then the advertising swindle will continue to kill millions. I wish you didn't feel blessed about any of this and rather felt sympathy towards countries that don't enforce the same laws as yours.
It's a rhetoric not a fact, but any logical person can deduce that an industry that stands to lose money, and has a lot of it, will use some of it to push a narrative that everything is fine. This is tutorial level critical thinking.
A. This the hard-core disaster recovery for cash. For mundane stuff (my bill got ripped in half) you can go to a bank and they will give you new bills and ship the damaged ones to the Treasury.

B. If you have a stomach for cheesy movies, The Hurricane Heist (2018) is about a fictional plot to steal $600M from a cash destruction facility. (Cash that is too old/damaged to be in circulation, but is still legal tender.)
Moreover, this is hardly an isolated case. Google juggles multiple major anticompetitive & similar cases at all times, in multiple jurisdictions. They've lost several.

That's the wider context.
Anything after a hash in an URL is never sent to a server (it's only within the context of the browser).
>Isn't oceanic absorption experimentally verified

You cannot experimentally verify oceanic heat absorption, the same way you cannot experimentally verify anything predicted by climate science - because the scale of such experiments make them effectively impossible.

At best you can experimentally verify bits of theory on small scales - say, testing the temperature of a greenhouse with varying levels of CO2 - then combine those bits into a predictive mathematical/computational model, make predictions, and then perform measurements on the planet and look for results within a confidence interval.

But you're taking a problem with a massive number of degrees of freedom and attempting to reduce the search space to a few dozen. This reduction is non-unique, which is to say there are a large number of ways to model a complex phenomenon like climate which will agree with past and present measurements, but fail to account for the actual drivers which will influence the future.

This is partly why all climate models to date have been incorrect, and the fact that they consistently overpredict temperatures is a strong indication of institutional bias.

>How else do you adjust models if not by finding processes previously not modeled, verify them and then model them?

Excluding potential bias from researchers, there's nothing particularly wrong with this approach, it's the best we can do and given enough time and resources eventually such a search should theoretically stumble upon a correct, complete model, though this isn't necessarily practically achievable for many real world problems. But the issue here is that the confidence of such results should not be misrepresented, and that's the part that people who claim the "science is settled" are missing.
this one or something else? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

I've been waiting for someone to make that work before diving into vscode and if it's solid looks like I have my weekend project.
As I read that I thought, "It would be awesome to see those doodles." A quick image search did not disappoint:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-w...
There isn't anything to fix.
And aren't most browsers (and for sure Chrome) loading the entire page anyway? I mean maybe if you have a slow connection, but for most people with a fast connection it should load everything to avoid that when scrolling down you have something missing.

I really don't see the issue, to me is a useless argument.
Implementing Adaptive Icons in Android Using Android Studio
I’m under the impression that alcohol is substantially less chemically addictive than Nicotine. Is that correct?

Doesn't addictiveness vary from person to person?
30 Year treasury yield hits all time low
And then you start recording those expressions into macros just by pressing q. Or just repeat the last one with a period. Vim is so great in so many ways, I always have to use a Vim emulation layer when using Visual Studio.
There's several factors they could use to bring a level of uncertainty to the algorithm. Compare against the previously clocked speed limit, compare against map data, compare against the speed of other vehicles in a proximity, judge based on density of crosswalks, parked cars, traffic, etc.

This isn't a failure of autonomy imo. Speed limits are arbitrary placeholders that are more for supplementing the slow reaction speed of the human brain. If we started focusing more on making the algorithm implement actual analysis of the environment instead of "the rules of the road", we might see better results.
There are like three dozen twitter bots that automatically repost HN posts, and there are like ten thousand twitter bots that automatically repost popular reddit posts. A single post getting to the front page of both will get you a hundred thousand tweets in ten minutes.

They don't seem to have linked the study, so I can't check if they controlled for that, but it's such a common use case that I really hope they did.
Several posts upthread, you said: "I think there are ways to regulate and pushing blatant disinformation while leaving the greyer borders up to individual discretion and discernment." So, who gets to regulate? That's your authority that is "other than the courts".