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The private sector doesn't just fund the public sector. It's a misconception to assume that this is a one way street.

Every dollar that is spend in the public sector flows into the private economy as well. For instance, the wages paid to civil servants and employees in the public sector ultimately gets spend in private businesses: food, clothes, entertainment, housing and so on. Public investments in public infrastructure also create wealth in the private sector: public procurement is a prime example, public funding and grants are another example. The there's the creation of value through education (schools & universities), ensuring security (law enforcement & justice), mobility (roads & bridges), health (hospitals),... which create the affordances for private enterprises to become successful (no Silicon Valley without skilled/schooled workers, right?)

Also, let's not forget that 'money' is above all a token of exchange that represents economic value, it's not the economic value proper. Government and the public sector aren't competing with the private sector: the primary goal is governing the distribution of wealth in society according to a prevailing economic framework or ideology, and managing the supply/volume of money in an economy is an important lever to do just that.

> A lot of government employees (and contractors) just got paid to sit at home for 3-4 months during the pandemic if they worked in secure areas (can’t take classified information home). That’s a benefit that the private sector just can’t provide.

No. But at the same time, unemployment benefits are in essence the public sector directly stepping in because the private sector runs out of liquidity.

> We need hard work

This is true. All of the above doesn't negate the work that happens in the private sector or private businesses. On the contrary. What we ought to remember is that value creation is equally, if note more, important as wealth creation.

Put differently, there's no point in gazing at the trillions of dollars that get shifted around if the entire discussion becomes detached from any tangible value which gets created and consumed. Whether it's the bread of the sandwich you ate for lunch, or whether it's the leather in the shoes you're wearing.

The thing that worries me more then discussing who gets an arbitrary amount of money and who doesn't, is supply chains, manufacturing, businesses,... all of that shuttering due to this health crisis. The one thing that truly drives people to the street and bloody riots is a scarcity of something as basic as wheat and bread.
I think its about automatically building accurate and well-factored world models online that ultimately integrate not only high-dimensional sense data (such as visual information) but also language. This involves effectively solving the symbol grounding problem among other things. There is some serious effort in this direction in deep learning.

There are also other efforts using different types of probabilistic programming as well as symbolic and neural net combinations.

There's another link on one of the first few HN pages right now about dreaming. I think that dreaming gives one a lucid demonstration of some of the capabilities that we need to emulate if we are going to have human-like intelligence. AI will need to be able to visualize new situations, basically like on-demand, flexible simulations of mashed-up possibilities, involving things like physics and psychology etc.

I think we almost need the AI to have something like a 3d gaming engine with physics, but also it can effortlessly conjure up AI agents in this simulation, but also, many of the physics rules and behaviors of the AI agents are automatically learned with only a few examples. This is the type of capability that allows humans (and some other animals) to adjust so readily to new situations.

I speculate that there may be some representation or type of computation that has not been invented yet which facilitates both the simulation-type data and also the abstractions over it, all the way up to language, in a more seamless way than has so far been described. I saw a paper talking about the symbol grounding problem in terms of everything being categories, but really in the end it was broken down into something kind of like Lisp + probabilistic programming, and it seemed to not really have sufficient granularity to really do justice or properly integrate sense data. Certainly not in a seamless or truly unified way in my opinion. Although I guess I don't really understand category theory.
> The Greeks were really into geometry using the compass and straight edge so they actually did a lot of math without really needing numbers at all. They viewed calculation as less worthy of mathematicians and my understanding is that we don't have a lot of evidence for how merchants and engineers did basic calculations since most of the great Greek math texts ignored it.

Greek society was awash with arithmetical calculations. It wasn’t written about probably mostly because it was considered so obvious and commonplace. (Though it’s also a bit hard to say quite what was written about, since we’ve lost the vast majority of the books from the time.)

http://worrydream.com/refs/Netz%20-%20Counter%20Culture%20-%...

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> Did the Greeks (and the Romans) not develop algebra or use Arabic numerals because they weren't that into numbers as compared to geometry?

Algebra and arabic numerals really took off with the introduction of cheap paper and printed books.

It’s really hard to transmit the oral culture of skilled use of a counting board via printed book (we might call it tacit knowledge), but you can pretty straight-forwardly print out a pen-and-paper arithmetic algorithm.
It is not IMO.

Web developer in US can work freely in HoL area if they want to relocate.
That there exists an industry whose stock in trade is making every problem look like the end of the world, doesn't mean no problems exist.
This, so much this. I have been working as a cunsultant at both large companies and the public sector. And they are often unproductive - and for the same reasons. Loads of middle management that needs to be included in every decision-making, but noone that dares to actually make a decision without first asking their managers.

In my eyes, the reason much of the public sector is unproductive is not because it is not motivated by profit. But rather that it is too similar to large companies with loads different management-levels.

I once worked in the public sector when they embraced real autonomous teams with leaders that could actually make decisions when the team needed it. It was just as efficient as the best agile teams I have worked at in the private sector.
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Are they? What makes you say that? I would have assumed the CAATSA would make it very difficult to secure big budget sells.
Cerberus sort of hinges on "a guaranteed amount of much less profit" vs "we might profit, or we might completely lose our investment".

They're not "investors", they're predatory vultures. However, given that, their model does work, even if it is immoral and short-sighted.
Are you sure? 1984 asserts otherwise, that those who seek absolute power do it for its own sake. It certainly seems plausible that people who seek power for its own sake will do so with more consistency than people who have an ulterior motive.
Paulos in the quoted snippet is arguing against a straw-man version of the past, set up as a foil to prove some unrelated point, rather than taking it on its own terms and trying to understand it. This is a common conceit of modern writers, but it does a disservice to readers.

Roman numerals by and large were not used for calculating, but for recording calculations. Those calculations were done (as the very word “calculate” suggests) using pebbles or other tokens, on some kind of counting board.

The point of Roman numerals is to be as direct as possible a representation of the state of the counting board. They are a serialization format.

Think of it as the JSON (or s-expressions if you like) of the ancient world. You don’t run your algorithm by writing and rewriting JSON literals over and over with pen and paper. They are just a record; your computation is done using a different automatic tool.

When someone writes down the state of a graph structure as a big nested JSON literal, you don’t laugh at them for having a uselessly unwieldy written expression.
I've always been fascinated by mechanical things, steam-engines, analog watches, analog clocks, etc. (I've a few of each).

The only digital watch I own is the F-91W, and I think it makes a nice contrast between the watches I wear more regularly.
Why should women stop working entirely after having a child? Given sufficient maternity leave, they can take care of their bodies when it is required, and then get back to work when they can.
AI Dungeon has a monthly fee now to upgrade to GPT-3 and a new much better engine. It works pretty well.
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80-20 rule applies.

All the brilliant students I studied with left for the US.

Imagine investing in multiple startups and then the Unicorn leaving for the foreign land.

Money invested in every student doesn't return same amount of wealth to the country

Richer countries can selectively skeam the cream at the top.
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I feel like you are incredibly privileged that you can afford to to have a family while working so little hours in the public sector and I suspect your situation is not the norm in DK.

Friends of mine who moved to SE/NL/DE/DK are definitely working the full 40h/week and sometimes more since, as they say, living there is very expsensive.

From my experience, the Europeans who toot their "life is so good here, why do other people work so much?" horn are privileged enough to have a hand-me-down property bought/inherited from their (grand)parents, and since rent/mortgage is the biggest expense here, with property prices rising 8 times faster than wages, that property ownership early in life, which they take for granted, gives them the clear advantage that allows them to not bother with the rat race and could even live comfortably on minimum wage.

That of course, is not the norm for everyone and especially not if you've just emigrated here, so anyone wishing to own their own property one day has no choice but to jump in the meat grinder and join the rat race.
I said this before but:

Oh look, yet another Apache real time/batch/big data/stream processing/ingestion/workflow/whatever product.

Apache Druid
Apache Spark
Apache Storm
Apache Flink
Apache Beam
Apache Apex
Apache Airavata
Apache Samza
Apache TEZ
Apache Hama

It's basically a terrible joke at this point. There's no single Apache page helping you to decide which one you want, and they all seem to have such large overlap. Most of them seem to have bad documentation, and give the appearence of not really being maintained.
This puts me off even trying to use them. If there's this much scope creep/NIH/reinventing the wheel happening across the board, I can't imagine how bad each product is individually.

Apache Kafka seems to be the only exception...
I find drawing abstract ideas helps make them concrete. It's slow at first, but with repetition it becomes easier.
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It's also the case that the anti-war right has had much more consistent anti-war positions than Trump, who might have used isolationist arguments to justify reducing US presence in the Middle East overall, but has also defended the notion of keeping troops there to secure oil, escalated with Iran and mooted military intervention in Latin America. The anti-war right wouldn't have appointed the likes of John Bolton to advise them on security.
Is beancount the kind of tool that's mostly useful if you put a lot of time into it, like Emacs? Or is it immediately useful with even small investments of time?
Project coordination with opensource projects is a really difficult problem where you simply can't win. Sometimes a project is just bad and needs an overhaul even if it means 40% of the code has to be thrown out. Sometimes people fork the project but most of the time a project is started from scratch because it means full ownership and therefore a more productive working environment.

The number of times I've seen something that amounts to a 1-3 line code change being discussed for hours is absurd. If you are a new contributor who wants to help out by writing code it often feels like you are making the maintainers work harder than if you had done nothing for the project.
It's got a stronger chance of occurring in the chip fab than in the CFO's office.
Yes, but the other way around: you debit the "Depreciation" expense account (since it is the sink, it increases) and credit the asset account (it is the source, it decreases).
I'm not saying everything done is open source. I'm saying it's less common in regulated industries.

NDA / sensitive government work -> FOIA makes restrictions tough. I can request government source code.

Trade secrets -> The government can't really keep trade secrets. I guess if I were working with classified code?

Hard-coded exceptions -> Not specific to regulated industries but bad design.

Legal possibility -> This is not a legal possibility. A legal possibility is paying damages. It's the same if I break a proprietary license too (for example, accidentally ship out a copy of a library I paid for just one license with my product).
> Technology and theories have since advanced that might leapfrog it

With "might" being the operative word. As long as none of these new approaches has achieved viable fusion (so, more power out than in) I think it's not a bad idea to just continue with the less radical plan that will probably work, even if it is slower.
IMO inline cites are the worst of all possible worlds: they butcher the text but don't provide enough information to resolve the citation and require another two levels of lookup (brief-ref mapping, referenced work) to resolve the reference.

Either just name the damned work already in the text ("as Smith writes in Academic Observations (1972) ..."), or use a numbered note and cite the work fully or partially. Any decent bibliographic tool (LaTeX + BibTex) can handle long vs. short cites, and your reader will thank you. For any sufficient volume of references, footnotes are the only sensible tool.

There's also the silent notes form (unsure of the proper name) common in serious-but-nonacademic works --- no indictation in the main text but page-referenced notes with anchoring context. This solves one problem (interrupting the main text), but introduces another (failing to sufficiently notice additional references or comments).
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Wow this really surprises me! Turns out I've been taking the UK banking systems for granted for a very long time.

In the UK I've got a normal debit account with a chip and pin card + contactless, I have a few different type of savings accounts attached to it as well. I can access it online and from their app, I can setup standing orders, direct debits, change my credit card auto-payments, and use "faster transfers" to send money to any UK bank account in under an hour. None of that costs me any fees, the only fees I would pay is if I go into my overdraft or don't pay off my credit card on time. ATM withdrawls are free for the most part and there's no minimum or maximum on tranasctions.

Granted, I am 26 so I imagine a lot of this has happened while I've been growing up.
Instead, you are simply giving it to another company when Google probably already has a lot of information. Even if they start out not taking any more information than they need to (which, being a money app, probably is a decent amount of information), I don't trust any company to stay this way.

Other companies shut down and sell off to larger places too, so you aren't exactly off the hook there. Slews of apps have done this. You are simply aware of some of googles' stoppages, in no small part because you might have used a couple or because they get publicity for longer.
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Note that this is households, not people. There are c. 130 million households, so this is almost 10% of households.
>pets really can get covid

The issue i have with statements like this is that they convey a lot of false information; Within the general public definition of 'get covid' is 'dangerously contagious'. So unless you change that definition most pets can't get covid; As in most pets, either the viral load is so low they couldn't spread it or it manifests as a gastrointestinal disease and so wouldn't be contagious unless you eat the animal.

I see this often, people not being sensitive enough to the common definition of important words, or worse, purposely misusing words knowing the common definition will mislead people into thinking stories are more sensational and important than they are.
This isn't overzealous spy governments. They are investigating the one of the top three data heavy organisations on earth. They are requesting a miniscule subpercentage of that data, and doing so through an untrustworthy and opaque filter. You cannot investigate a company like facebook without large volumes of data.

It's just that relative to people's normal perceptions, it seems like a dragnet.

Facebooks feelings about this are unjustified and nothing but a tactic to waste regulatory body time, taxpayer money, and judicial stamina.

Crack them open like an egg, is what I say. I've no time for companies doing literal exabytes of questionable business and then playing the victim around handing over a few gigs of it for investigation.
Can you expand on your point about American pharmaceudical consumption? It reeks of the naturalist fallacy but I realize you were mainly mentioning it as part of a broader statement so I'd like to hear more.
Have a look at Gaffer, it's a great FOSS alternative node based vfx system. https://www.gafferhq.org/ can be a pain to build but really cool.
Thanks for contributing to opensource.

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Most work is not fulfilling. You do not even need "Bullshit Jobs" questionnaire responses to show that, ever increasing record number of people needing psychiatric medication to get through their day should be proof enough that something is fundamentally wrong.

Let us not kid each other. For most people their "work" is not a choice. The system is set up so that it is either you take whatever job you can to survive, or it is homelessness and no health benefits for you and your kids.

And no, pointing out that nobody should 'need' to work 2 full time shit jobs to merely put food on the table and meet rent isn't "Marxism". We are producing more "wealth" per capita than at any point in history (at the cost of destroying the planet btw), but still we require burned out elderly workers to keep at it until they literally die.

We used to have, at least in Europe, capitalism combined with a strong social security in healthcare, schooling and basic provisions for those at the bottom, financed through a progressive taxation regime at the top end. This worked fairly well for all. Yes, there were huge differences in lifestyle affordance between the poor and the very rich, but nobody needed to be homeless or without healthcare. While ofc tax-evasion was a thing, it wasn't ultra-weaponized like it is today.

If you think of extreme communism as a horizontal line and extreme capitalism as a vertical line, the old model was more like a sigmoid on the contribution/reward plane. Moderation is best in all things.
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whilst going into dubious territory, i also wondered the same. I assume its something to do with the speaker only being used for alarm bleeps?

from what i remember from failed watch repairs on these as a child, there's really nothing super easy about that connection
The number of renter-occupied residential units in the US is estimated at 44 million - this would be one quarter of rental stock being empty.

I suspect _many_ would find new, cheaper rentals from cash-strapped landlords.
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Thanks. I'll gladly edit if you can provide me with a better justification? (to me, "contributing to my country's military relevance" would fall under "we build them so we don't have to use them," but I'm obviously the wrong person to be writing these.)
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I’m denying the claim “were not men the canaries in the coalmine -- the original victims -- for the dehumanization of capitalism?”

Lots of men had their humanity disregarded, but women were treated worse, and that legacy continued for a very long time.

These issues still exist in some places, based on what I’ve seen reported by trans people who transition so successfully that people who knew them before the transition mistook them for their own opposite gendered siblings and treated them differently in accordance with gender stereotypes rather than by merit.
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How far behind? How much over budget?
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>It’s conventional to make assets positive (hey, having lots of assets is good, right?). OP gains nothing but confusion by turning everything upside down.

I agree. However, the problem is that you can either make the vocabulary consistent or you can make the math simple, never both.

Making the math simple means you have to make a decision to always treat debits as positive and credits as negative or the other way around. You just have to be consistent.

Making the vocabulary work means you have to switch signs based on account type. But that makes the math and hence the software complicated and error prone.

Assets being positive makes sense. But debiting an asset account to make it more positive is counter intuitive. And expenses being positive doesn't make much sense either, because having lots of expenses is not so good, is it?

We're just accepting the inconsistent vocabulary as a price for having a simple mathematical model.