skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of non-billionaire retirement money in that $35 trillion... Assuming market growth minus inflation is about 7% (yeah, the last 10 years have been crazy, but this is an accepted long term number [0]), you're killing people's retirement savings by about 3% per year.

To put that in perspective, assuming a diligent and reasonably paid (i.e. non-FAANG salary) person puts $20k into their 401k and their company matches that, they can never save more than $1.3 million no matter how long they work. That's the point where 10% negates any new contribution of $40k.

After 50 years (working from 22 until 72), they've paid $2 million in and only have $1 million to show for it. They're better off putting their money under a mattress and only suffering inflation losses. In other words you would ruin the 401k as an incentive to save or invest.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
Probably could have made most of the event handlers separate methods rather than lambdas. That would have made the UI structure easier to read. I don’t know Swift or SwiftUI though.
That would mean eventually there would be no phone numbers left for anyone.
Since a few people are just throwing out roguelikes they like, I figure I'd like to mention a couple that had an impact on me:

Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King

The mechanics, skills, classes, etc are basically ripped from DnD, which I've never had the opportunity to play, so I found it engaging. The author was touting the game as a sort of prequel/sample, just a single 10 floor dungeon, with the intention of using the engine to create a more expansive campaign, but then he moved on to other things, open sourced the project and abandoned it. Someone else forked it, but only to fix some bugs and improve playability, not to continue the grand vision. I think it still stands on its own as a worthwhile game, but its always been a disappointment that the full idea was never realized.

DoomRL

This one was actually a finished game. It did a good job of getting the feel of a fast paced shooter while still being a typical turn based roguelike. Things like being able to decrease the enemy's chance to hit you by moving perpendicular to their line of fire were a nice touch. I think they eventually started to get some pushback from the owners of the Doom IP, and pivoted to a new game called Jupiter Hell, that's supposedly the same feel with a different scenario, but I've never gotten around to checking it out.
"middle class" is not merely a term for how wealthy people are, it can also mean like professionals who do jobs beyond that of the "working" or "labor" class but are not the capitalist investor/owner class that employs the working class.

The issue of debt used poorly for consumption that isn't investment (e.g. fancy TV), the critique isn't a vague "the system", the critique is that advertisers and sales tactics are very specifically designed to manipulate people into such decisions. But the "system" aspect is about whether the assumptions behind larger investment patterns are set up to basically require that such debt-based consumption happen.
There is a lot of precedence that Apple is very reluctant to implement web-app standards, that could compete with the app store.

For some opinion pieces you can search for "Safari is the new Internet Explore"
Unironically one of the best explanations for quantum computing I've seen is from a webcomic (no coincidence that Scott Aaronson played a role in writing this): https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
I wish. Here in Brazil it's effectively the official policy. Multiple times our president has shown that he'd rather give us chloroquine instead of vaccines.
Every promise of Bitcoin was false!
I've worked on the other side, with a large enterprise that requires ISVs to deploy their solutions within containers (deployed to k8s/rancher etc) in a closed off VNet.

The reason for this was a previous ISV's solution that was sending our customers PII data off to another cloud, and we had no way of monitoring or protecting that data.

With regards to your issue, have you discussed your product or SLA requirements if it were to run on-prem?

With 3000+ stores and no automation, it sounds like you need to have a conversation about appropriate CI/CD patterns. Ideally you should be publishing to a private container registry, and they should be responsible for deploying that container.

In our situation, we understood the limitations we were placing our ISVs in, with our infrastructure bounding their reliability. With regards to guarding their IP, we don't specify that we need access within their containers. We provide access to a private container registry, and appropriate compute and network access for their container to run.
I care much more about personal relationships than work relationships. For me, as a person who was already working from home my dating and socializing options got much better now that people don't have to work in the office. I can travel together with my significant other much easier as well.
And then there’s guys who believed in the Wuhan lab theory from the start, and also think the vast majority of the so-called “vaccine hesitant” have absolutely nothing of value to say about Covid-19 and have no business arguing with public health authorities on the issue. They should put the donut down, forego the lunchtime cheeseburger and the evening beer, and stop worrying about incredibly small chance of something bad happening because they wore a seatbelt (got vaxxed).
MethOps seems what half the crazed start-up CEOs I worked for are using.
I remember using the CP/M card mostly for WordStar, but also for Turbo Pascal (after wasting a lot of time on Apple Pascal).
You could rent after selling. Or you could move to a cheaper market. Or you could downsize in your current market. There are of course many ways to access the value of the house.
Really the problem is so much logic is being done inline with the view hierarchy. Like the close button action, it’s a big chunk of code and means I couldn’t even tell it was the close button until I scrolled further down. Actions like that probably should have been pulled off into their own functions.

It could also use actual comments, and perhaps breaking more things putout into subviews.
Which is most of covid infections.
All my words are declared integer.
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Your sensibilities are not universally shared, having said that, it's a reflection of our industry, but when I look at many corporate dev/IT ( reinvented with tucked mildly skinny jeans and no tie ), I'm on the fence about this one.

About the content itself: It looks like another young gun discovered the nuts and bolts of a wheel.

Whatever, it's not my war.
Hope you vote Democrat!
`~/.bashrc` doesn't have to be a mess
A good philosophy

I stopped reading here.
Most “previously infected” people were absolutely not infected at all. If this study involved self-reported previously infected and not confirmed PCR, the results would be very different.
Rural Montana here: you can do pretty much whatever you want. From time to time I muse about building a nuclear waste dump...
Popularity among criminals is almost certainly the ease with which it can be converted back into real money, typically in another country, but the key element is the conversion to cash. The majority of actually anonymous crypto currencies don’t have a fast path back to real money.
Time becomes expensive then too… Jet lag is also a substantial issue. You have to accommodate the lowest common denominator in these situations. (People who have substantial family, don’t do well with jet lag, and aren’t very fond of long flights in economy)

Personally, 2 weeks is the minimum in my book for any kind of substantial time difference (4+ hours) and substantial flight time (8+ hours each way). I’m sure others feel even more aggressively than I do. I cannot imagine how people with kids would feel. The food and bacteria issues also just make things really challenging for many people.

There’s also the issue that you’re usually there for work, not just fun. Thus, you don’t really get to enjoy the spectacles as much because you’re gonna be doing 40+ hours working. I’ve been in exotic destinations before and had work stuff come up. It is not fun anymore. Terrible if anything. Rather be home than be in amazing place but unable to enjoy it.
That is not a logical assumption.

If "a dwelling would be impossible", the logical conclusion is that zero dwellings would be allowed.

This situation is the norm in US unincorporated zoning. I have never heard of any unincorporated jurisdiction with a "minimum residences per parcel regardless of parcel size" exception. If there is such a jurisdiction, it's the exception not the rule.

There is a limit to how many dwellings an area can support without major infrastructure upgrades (sewerage, water lines, new roads, additional sheriff's deputies). This limit has to be divided among the parcels. The fairest way to do it is by acreage. "Minimum acres per dwelling" is just the reciprocal expression of "maximum dwellings per acre" and more well-behaved since fractional acres make sense but fractional dwellings do not.

Giving tiny postage-stamp parcels the right to build one dwelling would be a windfall for all the kooky "sliver parcels" created by things like railroads and surveyors' errors. Those obnoxious error parcels are made undevelopable in order to encourage that they be merged into a neighboring parcel.
The company might or might not need to pay taxes differently on its end.

On your end, you (the individual) are required to file an income tax return with the state you reside in. If you lie and say you are unemployed that's very obviously fraud.

Whether the company you work for is willing to deal with any extra tax paperwork that might be required if you relocate is of course an open question.
Deep nesting suggests that you need to break parts out into their own views (or pull logic out into their own functions). Like the close box in that file, it’s a great candidate for turning into its own view, or at least moving it’s action into a separate function.
You’ve hit the three corners of the Fraud Triangle—opportunity, incentive, rationalization.
Show HN: Some Experiments with ROS
Personally I see this a lot and I'm not a fan:

it('should work', () => {
inputOutputPairs.forEach(([input, output]) => {
expect(testedFunction(input)).equals(output);
})
})

Tests are way more useful when they are written with the intent of acting as documentation. If I had to give this test a grade (from F- to A+), it would get a D+. It catches regressions, yet does an absolutely horrid job of explaining the intent behind testedFunction.
It’s really, really problematic this study used a hospital database of PCR test results, instead of self-reporting. This study will go viral and every yokel who was on the fence but had flu symptoms back in July will decide they don’t need the vaccine.
Why do you need week long meetings ?
> What if I told you that in many areas households don’t even need a single car?

Sure, if they live near public transportation. I would vote down a dense housing development of it didn't have access to public transportation
Feedback is welcome!
> For anyone unfamiliar with dengue, among its more notorious aspects is that repeated infections over a victim’s lifetime can make its impact worse.

One really minor nitpick, but I think it's different strains of dengue that get you: get infected by one, and you get resistance for that strain, but also become more susceptible to develop complications or die from a separate strain.
Well, it's mostly regulation that sets the incentives to transform them into deathtraps, not deregulation.

The regulations I am talking about are immigration restrictions. If people from poorer countries could migrate freely to more productive countries, they could be more picky about which jobs to accept.

And unlike any particular (safety) regulation that can be gamed easily, it's much harder to game your employees' demands when they have good outside options.
A while back I was (very tangentially) involved in an investigation relating to a near-disaster relating to this. https://www.taic.org.nz/inquiry/mo-2007-207

Iron ore is heavy and hard to transport. But at some points in the production process, the ore often ends up as a sort of "sand", and if you mix it with water you can get a slurry. Sometimes iron ore is transported by pipeline, and one thing you can do (and is done not infrequently) is pump the ore slurry into a ship, drain the water, and then sail to another port, pump water back in, pump the slurry back to shore, and repeat.

If for some reason you can't drain the water (due to equipment failure or running out of time due to an approaching storm), and leave port with a cargo full of ore slurry, then as the ship rocks back and forth, waves can deposit more and more iron sand on one side of the ship, causing a gradually increasing list. And of course, once you've got a list, gravity brings more and more iron sand to the lower side, increasing the list. The report downplays it a bit, but in the linked case the ship was quite close to just flipping upside down and sinking by the time they made it to shelter.

An interesting reversal of the issue in the original link, since rather than dry cargo becoming inadvertently liquefied, here the cargo started liquefied, but was incorrectly not de-liquefied.

Amusingly, while trying to find the report to refresh my memory, I found the same ship had ANOTHER incident with the same cargo two years later: https://www.taic.org.nz/inquiry/mo-2009-210

Liquefied cargo is oddly dangerous.
I haven't seen serious arguments for eradicating all mosquitoes, but just the species that spreads it, which is a small portion of the total mosquito population and doesn't occupy a unique ecological niche.

Earnest question: what's the bigger ecological change, infecting all these mosquitoes (can they spread it to other species? We've seen evidence of mosquitoes hybridizing in the wild), or just kill them outright?
only if it was possible to use chia to store content.. it would be a game changer
> So I get to piss everybody off.

Not me, totally on board with whole modes of being and life that we are unaware of and could possibly be unable to perceive at the present moment, even on this planet.

Very interested in models to help explore/experiment this space rather than those that don't allow to knowledge to be built upon for future proofs or falsification.
While I agree with the gist of your point, the free market approach to health care doesn't account for consumers' short-term thinking. The market doesn't operate well on the scale of decades, it only responds to current activity.

My point is: given a population of health-conscious, long-term thinking consumers, a free market to serve their needs is likely to work out pretty well… except for potentially getting flooded by long-term promises that aren't actually held up over the long-term. But if the population isn't focused on health and is short-term focused, we'd see market failure here, and yet the population and economy overall will still face all the costs of people not choosing to get the preventative care they need and thus spreading disease or other social costs long-term.
This is another thread where anything contrary the mob is going to hit -4, but here I am because such things are a bit fun.

I replied to someone specifically claiming that Apple made an exception for the all powerful Netflix, but that Hey was too small to get the same exception -- it's just big v small. In actuality Apple has a "gerrymandered" broad set of categories that are exempt (whether you are a garage company or a multinational), otherwise you have to provide basic functionality in your app without such a subscription. Hey didn't fit in the categories, and they didn't provide the functionality.

I may disagree with Apple on this -- and there should be an App label denoting that external subscriptions are necessary -- however phrasing and truth actually matters.
Looks like it’s also an interesting area of research for malaria control.

Both diseases are transmitted by mosquito bites. Malaria is a parasite while dengue is a virus. There seem to be twice as many dengue infection a year than malaria cases, but 10x more death from malaria than from dengue.

The fact that the « hack » transmits through generation is pretty amazing too

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6237385/
> Again, Kelly gives us terrible advice. If you have a trillion to one payout on a coin flip, you want to bet less, not more! Why would you risk half your money, and have a 1/4 chance of losing all your money, when you can bet 1 cent at a time and just wait to win one time so you can buy half of the stock market with your winnings?

So you're just going to throw away the criterion because you think the results are unintuitive? That's the argument you're making here.

To take your reasoning seriously, the reason why you might not want to bet 1 cent at a time is because the Kelly bet is guaranteed to eventually overtake your 1-cent-bet-strategy. Furthermore, it is completely incorrect to say that the Kelly bet has a 1/4 chance of losing all your money in the given situation. If you lose your first bet, the Kelly criterion tells you not to bet the whole house on the next bet.

Nothing you have written so far suggests that you actually understand the sense in which the Kelly criterion is optimal, which I attempted to explain in my other reply to you.
You keep writing as though it only maximizes the expectation of log-utility.
In fact it's not clear that you even understand what the Kelly criterion is telling you to do.
I spent so many hours in high school playing Angband. It introduced me to roguelikes and I always found it to be straightforward to understand and play (in comparison to nethack, which is also quite good). I love that it is still being updated after all these years.
I caught it from sharing a thirty minute meal with an in-law who didn't divulge that she had attended a party and had woken up coughing that day.
One could argue that people don't "hear" anything but the electrical signals transmitted from their ears to their brain. If an ultrasonic signal causes someone to perceive a noise--any noise, even if waveform-translated from the original, but in a predictable fashion, isn't it "hearing"? E.g. if we set up a chime that went "bing bong" every time the cat went through the cat door, after a while wouldn't it be appropriate to ask your roommate, "Did you hear the cat come in?"
Mosquitos in <your city> can save 77% on their mortgage with this little known secret.
> "Only" $1000

I don't know your profession but let's take a statistical guess and say you're a software developer.

If I asked you to drive out to my place to take a look at 500 lines of Javascript, and tell me if the code is kosher, and if you're wrong I'm going to sue you. How much would you want to be paid to do that?
And especially to Windows purchasers who funded Bill and Melinda!
The article is about individual maintainers, not open source projects that are maintained and operated by massive companies, so I'm not sure why they'd have been mentioned?
There's no “right” way to fund your company
It seems like the executive branch of the US government has the power to impair the oil industry in North America, but not to implement a carbon tax. It seems to me like it will help a little on the margin, but not nearly as much as carbon pricing would.
Yeah, I saw the "Safari is the new Internet Explorer" argument. I, like many others, found it uproariously stupid. It betrays an authorship and readership that have literally no clue what the IE era was like. Just some sort of "IE bad" cudgel bit of pandering rhetoric.

It is whispering to a very specific audience.

And through all of this, the most remarkable thing is that Safari is hugely over represented among web visitors, both from iOS and Macs. It's almost like providing an extremely fast, light, energy efficient, feature rich browser encourages its use.
> I don’t know what the President of the Council of Europe does besides Chair meetings, but apparently it includes setting the language for which the meetings will be held in.

Please excuse my pedantry, but you've misspoken here: the European Council, the Council of the European Union, and the Council of Europe are three different things; and here you've accidentally said the third when you meant to speak of the second. The first two are EU institutions–the European Council is senior to the Council of the European Union, in the former EU member states are represented by heads of state or government, in the later they are represented by the ministers responsible for various policy areas (finance, agriculture, trade, transport, education, etc). The Council of Europe, by contrast, is a separate international organisation from the EU, with a much broader membership – it includes the vast majority of European countries; it is most famous for hosting the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although it is active in other policy areas as well.

And all three have a presidency. The President of the European Council is an individual, currently former Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. He doesn't take orders from the Belgian government, he is truly independent. By contrast, the presidencies of the Council of the European Union, and the Council of Europe, are held by governments not by individuals. The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates every six months, it is currently held by Portugal, Slovenia is up next. Likewise, the presidency of the Council of Europe rotates every six months; currently it is held by Hungary.
I wish my company let us work from home. During lockdown, working from home was game changing.

As soon as my stocks vest I will join a new company and move further from the city, closer to the beach.
Isn't this illegal in California.. you can't sign your rights away.
This article is interesting, I even skimmed through their paper. But I think still the question remains: How to find the unified reward function? Or in other words, how to find answer to life? [It cannot be 42].
I've been impressed by DCSS's dev team's ability and willingness to make unpopular decisions and make radical changes to the game. They seem to be principled in their decision-making.

I read somewhere that, since I stopped playing, they removed the food mechanic! To my own surprise, even though food clocks are a very archetypal roguelike mechanic, I agree with that removal. I haven't really played it since maybe 2012, but at that time dealing with food was mostly a chore, hardly ever a problem, and you were set for life after you went through the hive and picked up scads of royal jelly.

This is not to say that I don't like food clocks; I think Brogue's is an excellent example of a well-tuned food clock. Brogue has item vaults where you have to pick one out of 4-8 items, and you don't know what's going to be lying around on the ground over the next few levels, so you have to take a risk and pick what you think is best. I used to keep careful notes about what else was in each vault so that I could backtrack if I found a duplicate of what I picked up in a vault, until I noticed that I was dying to the food clock a lot. This is not to say that I enjoy my characters starving, but Brogue's design pays particular attention to trying to never make you bored / making nearly every keystroke meaningful (whereas vanilla nethack can be mind-numbing).
I would've agreed if their end goal was to build a non-financial entries on a ledger.

But in case of Bitcoin they're doing it with the expectation of trading these ledger entries (UTXOs) on the secondary markets.

That's what makes them money surrogates / money substitute.
as far as it relates to property and home issues, I think the iteration (not revolution really) we need is the Strong Towns ideas at StrongTowns.org which is really a mix that is very far from any typical right-left conservative-liberal sort of thing. It's relatively opposed to top-down but it's not at all the dogmatic libertarian free market either.