skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an adult, you should have a basic grasp of things like knowing which societies have large social insurance programs and which do not, rather than being baffled by these basic facts of life.

https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/social-spending.htm

Western society has a historically unique obsession with social insurance programs, to the point where between 20-30% of GDP is spent on social insurance, whereas in other socities the number is much lower. In fact the modern version of these programs were invented in Germany under Bismarck, and the ancient version in the Roman Empire with their bread dole. From the Roman Empire's 'dole' to the hospitals in the middle ages, there was a tradition in Western societies with having the government help the needy. That's not to say that individuals didn't help the needy in many different societies (begging was an occupation in early Islamic societies) but having organized government programs on a mass scale simply to help the poor was the invention of Western civilization during the Roman Empire and continued as a Western obsession to the present day.

Even in the US, the share of national wealth spent on social benefits is 19%, the dirty secret being not that the US spends much less than Europe on things like publicly funding healthcare and education (because the US government spends about the same amount as in Europe), but in the US those public funds are pocketed by well-paid professionals and still the private sector is left with large individual bills, whereas in Europe those same institutions have to get by on the public funds only.

If you want a quick way of shutting someone up who is arguing that the US should have European style funding of universities, tell them we already spend as much as they do in Europe with public subsidies, so the missing step is just making tuition and fees illegal with no increase in government spending. Same thing for healthcare. That will be a cold dose of reality.
I currently use Voice Memos to record multi-hour rehearsals as a single recording.

I assume recording with Tape It would prevent/interfere with recording with Voice Memo. So before I try recording a rehearsal with Tape It, I'd like to load existing Voice Memo recordings to see how Tape It would add value.

Right now after rehearsal I manually extract each full run-through of a song (or important excerpts) into a separate file (then I put it into dropbox for sharing). I would find it useful if Tape It automatically creates a separate "file" for a play-through of a song, so that I don't have to manually do it. But I can't tell from the Tape It website whether something like that is possible or not. So I'd like to load an existing recording and see whether that happens.

It would be extra useful if Tape It would automatically determine and label the name of the song to each "file". I don't plan to put down my instrument and unlock my phone to label each song before/after the run-through -- I am paying attention to the rehearsal leader and don't want distraction, don't have time, etc. If it doesn't happen automatically, then Tape It's usefulness depends on how easy it is to go back and label each song -- again, I want try it with existing recordings to see how easy that would be. (It would be even better if it could identify a whole song play-through versus just an excerpt/segment. Scenario being "We made a small change and only practiced that part without a full run-through.")

For promoting the app, consider advertising on /r/bandmembers and /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers and other super-relevant subreddits. Or you can encourage some Tape It users to create/participate in threads in those subreddits about "how do you record your rehearsals".
I want to take a “trust, but verify” model with my kids, but all the different apps, capabilities, websites make it exceptionally difficult. Apple+ screen time is okay in centralizing some things , but I wish apps could expose some controls or logging to that or some other centralized service.
The issue with free movement of labor is that it only works out well across a region with standardized pay rates. Otherwise corporations will import labor from the low-cost zones and fire their high-cost local workers. This causes a lot of anger, see Brexit.
This is very common throughout Southeast Asia as short-to-medium-term fuel storage, I imagine elsewhere too.
I would assume any neighbor's houses that come off the same transformer too.
Actually, my issue with YouTube isn't really the autoplay per se, it's how the recommended videos (including autoplayed videos) go very aggressively into rabbit holes.

I'll listen to an anime music playlist and my entire recommended video / front page becomes full of anime stuff. An in-law joins Youtube to watch bible study videos and now they're an avowed freedom fighter against the globalist satanist cabal running the world. That sort of thing.
Of course I vote against socialism in the West, I'm here to make money, the less taxes the more money.
From The New Yorker in 1993 : On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
Precisely. I love to reply "I would prefer not to" when asked a question; never in over 55 years (I read the story when I was 16, in 1964) has anyone realized who I'm quoting.
definitely feat, since it would indicate an end-user experience change whereas docs and refactor would not.

If you think in terms of semver and changelog autogeneration, these questions have obvious answers. ofc there are also other benefits like improved communication with teammates and contributors (and the curious).
Bear in mind that his perspective is as an investor. He doesn't want to invest in something that will make the founder rich and happy. He wants to invest in something that will make him rich and happy. There's a huge difference.

He's negative about copycat startups because they rarely make enough money to make their investors happy. He likes monopolies with product:market fit because they generally make investors happy.

However, as a founder, what he likes should be waaaay down our list of priorities. Our happiness and definition of success may not match his. In fact it almost certainly won't. Follow our own dreams, not Peter Thiel's.

I like the author's take on his new thing: don't sell the vision and get investment. Instead, just execute and see where that goes. I look forward to seeing where that goes :)
I figured this might be the "quantum computation is computation done on parallel worlds". It just isn't that compelling [1], and is in fact arguably false [2]. That's probably why Sabine didn't touch on it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13552...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2514
It’s really hilarious to see the clowns acting like the traditional banking system is immune to this, it’s not.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3e2cb339-3135...
I wish you could disable the free trial offers.
And, luckily, all transmitted text is normal English.
New lava lake lets DR Congo volcano 'breathe'
No one's talking about suing anyone. We're talking about Apple fixing the exploits that allow jailbreakers to do what they do.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-9-20-renewable...
> advertisers taken out by the door will come back through the windows.

True. The internet ad industry has been engaging in outright war with us all for a very long time, and they certainly won't ever stop.

We have a model for what this will continue to look like -- the internet ad industry is no different than other types of online attackers. They'll continue to attack, we will develop defenses against their attacks, they'll change to different methods, and so forth.

It's a war that can never be won, but that we can't afford to stop fighting.
>Why are you leaving out the context that the principal defense alliance is with America specifically in defense against Russia?

Specifically against the Soviet Union, a communistic totalitarian regime that does not exist anymore.

Specifically it never included Ukraine as member, and specifically the US promised that NATO will never expand to more than the original members.

The only countries in Europe that are against the NS2 are those that have already pipelines or interests and are economically harmed by more competence.

>Claiming that the US is acting purely in self serving motives is wildly disingenuous.

Claiming that the US is acting purely in self serving motives is telling the truth. The US can mind its own business.
Some philosophers had a writing style that is readable when translated to English, so they can be read directly. For example, one can read a translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and understand what he is saying. Nietzsche is fun to read. For a philosopher such as Spinoza, who wrote his philosophy as a set of mathematical proofs, reading a book about his thought is easier than the original.
> AFAIK we already simulate brains of silk worms or some such thing?

There is research into mapping the complete neural structure of a nematode worm called C. elegans [0] - one of the simplest known organisms that has some kind of a nervous system (the entire worm has 959 cells for hermaphrodite individuals, or 1035 for males; of these, 302 are neurons - and yes, this is not a typo, these are not hundreds or thousands of cells, just cells - that's how tiny it is). Its entire nervous system has been mapped out, including all connections, in [0]. Note that its neural cells are not like mammal neurons, they lack many of the known processes present in even a single mammal neuron.

However, the project to simulate this simplest of organisms, OpenWorm [1], has not yet achieved its goals (which is also somewhat reduced - they only intend to simulate the motor system initially, not the entire organism).

Silkworms (which are moths) are waaaay beyond any imaginable simulation capability at the moment.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889226/

[1] https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/milestones
Current team squashes PRs, so the individual commits are not super important, and it's only the title of the PR that needs to be semantic. Works pretty well for us.
When people say that the three-body problem is "unsolvable" they really mean that there's not a way to write out an analytic solution to the problem. In the same way, you can call quintic polynomials "unsolvable", because there's no way to take arbitrary quintic polynomial equations and express the solutions as ordinary algebraic formulas.

However, it's very misleading to call quintic equations unsolvable, because we know where the solutions are, and we can use various numeric methods to calculate the solution with arbitrary precision. Any time we can calculate the answer with as much precision as we want, I'd like to say that the problem is "solved" in a very real and meaningful way.

The problem is worse with quantum mechanics. With quantum mechanics, not only do we lack analytic solutions to many of the equations used in QM, but we also lack good numeric solutions (using real hardware, at least).
Neat project, thank you for sharing.

Do you currently, or plan to, handle Condition constraints? Also, how does wonk handle combinations with statements that have the Deny effect?
Most people fill in small increments usually relating to their pay point. This is especially so for the UK where weekly pay is popular. I suspect this is a worldwide thing.
> In fact, we see some of this in TLS - not everyone can participate, but there are dozens of independent organizations working within an internal governance models

I think what's happened here is that you don't understand the difference between TLS, a network protocol, and the Web PKI, a Public Key Infrastructure and so you've sort of muddled both together, which is revealing on its own.

You've also imagined a fairytale outcome that doesn't match reality.

Moxie's strategy works and yours didn't, and you're here telling everybody you don't agree but reality doesn't care whether you agree with it or not.
The primary school math teacher once wanted me to draw some repetitive shape for the final test of the Logo course, but I had no earthly idea of what a loop was. That's the last time I programmed in Logo more than 25 years ago. I've been looking at this book a couple of months back to see how it's done.
They are excellent solution where you cannot run Ethernet to, and do not want to use WiFi.

I used it in home automation (Thank you Home Assistant) for mostly sensors, and less important actuators, where I had power, but could not get Ethernet, or WiFi.

Anything else, very unstable and too much latency.
Same. They absolutely fall into the category of "worst tools available except for all the others". It takes work to configure a JIRA workflow and set of dashboards that works for your org, but every other product I've tried just doesn't even try. I was really shocked the first I tried Notion and Asana since they were so hyped, but they felt way to simple to be useful. Even with a small team we found them way too confining.
Let's not pretend there was no fuckery on the Ukrainian side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
this is not exactly true; here's some additional context for the curious:

https://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm

https://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/as-...
What is missing is the long arm (of the law).

- End of dry sardonic quip (or equivalent of a dead-cat-bounce).
Minor in comparison to the larger propaganda over that war
Ask HN: Do you also alternate between super productive and slow days?
I've realized that when I have a super productive day the next day or two after that I'm not as energetic and can't do as much. Is this something that other people face? If so is it because you exhaust yourself on your energetic day and need rest? or is it just random and some days you have a great night sleep and are well rested therefore you have a lot of energy?

I have nothing against incorporating rest in my schedule to be more productive, but I'm wondering if going all out and then resting and recharging is better or worse than limiting yourself on your energetic day to not exhaust yourself (kinda amortizing your energy). I'm also not sure if the amortization strategy has the same effect. Maybe I need to try it and see.
Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube
Neuroscience 6th edition (2018), Dale Purves et al. is up do date.
It can convey more information than the stationary images that dominate much of reddit, while taking less effort to consume than text (it's really hard to get people to engage with more than the headline in written content).

TikTok is imho one of the closest approximations of a marketplace of ideas, or a penny-university. Every topic under the sun is talked about (even if TikTok tries to censor a bunch of topics), you have various experts from their fields giving insights into their daily lives (like snippets from the daily life on an arctic base) or short tutorials (how to draw an owl kind of stuff), but also discussions about philosophy or how to deal with daily life (e.g. how to declutter your space if you are depressed, or how to arrange furniture). And unlike e.g. YouTube's recommendation algorithm that makes everything seem bland because it only shows you stuff that's like stuff you already know, TikTok's algorithm keeps exposing you to new things tangentially related to what you watched/liked, so it's more like drifting though an ocean of videos, with new stuff happening all the time.

That said, TikTok should totally be enjoyed in moderation, and there are some places on TikTok you should avoid. If you linger on videos showing teens twerking, you will get more videos of teens twerking; and it's easy to see how that kind of content makes it a worse place for teens specifically (plus the extreme prevalence of filters, so everyone on TikTok looks "better" than their real life version)
Haven’t watched the video either, so asking perhaps a naive question:

Why is it faster? Is it algorithmic, or some neat trick, or just a much more efficient implementation?

And are they closely equivalent? Would you use one or the other for the same thing, or do they make different CAP promises?
Put it deep enough in bedrock where there is no groundwater, like the Finns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...

There is still the issue of how to communicate “Danger: Nuclear Waste” to the people who will encounter the waste storage facility over the next 10,000-100,000 years, but for now we can safely store waste.
Boston Globe and telecom providers in the states do the same thing - force you to talk with someone (I think the term is "retention specialist"). Naturally after having introductory rates expire and prices jacked up 50% or more you're angry and want to get out, but they have all kinds of new promotions or rates you can sign onto.
> everyone has just stopped recurring

Every one had two years to implement the e-mandate system.[1] What does it say about Amazon, your phone provider and your card issuer that they haven't been able to do it in time and decided, instead, to pass the buck to you, the customer?

[1] https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=1166...
Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
> They have to make mistakes and suffer the consequences of them before they ever truly learn from them.

This seems to be a good strategy for things with obvious and immediate consequences. Eat too much ice cream, feel sick, etc. It seems like social media seems to have a much more slow burning, pernicious impact on your quality of life. Adults struggle to accurately diagnose this, expecting a child to do so seems unwise.
I was really happy to read that she voluntarily cut herself off from the phone when she moved out. I was afraid the punchline was going to be "so now she's constantly miserable". Good for her!
It shows why in the readme, the benefits are small but real. Others have recommended improvements.
>” Elections aren't decided based on an investigation that happened 60 years in the future, if that was the case then we could never have an election because we'd have to wait 60 years for the results.”

That’s not quite what I’m getting at. The reason why I’m pointing to these 60+ year old elections is because people aren’t as emotionally charged about those elections in particular.

Elections can indeed be decided in the here-and-now, but the integrity questions still remain. That’s the key.

I feel like too many people are declaring the suspicions as moot and settled without actually looking taking the time and effort to investigate fully and properly. Emphasis on the fully and properly, because in the historical examples as well as the more recent examples, I see investigations being dismissed along partisan lines or because the courts did not want to get roiled in a constitutional crisis or a political revolt.
> In my previous job, we did scrum, but not too strict. We had two week cycles, not-too-strict deadlines (most of the time) etc. If I finished my task early, I was free to pick up tasks from the planned list, without having to get permission from my manager. We also didn't agonize over story points, retrospective etc. We did it light hearted and quick. The only thing we religiously followed was daily, quick 15 min stand-ups. Everything else was flexible.

This is exactly how I've seen it run with success at several different companies (including how I run it).

In my mind, the most important value of Scrum is having a cadence to give people reasonable timeframes to think in AND ensure that a variety of different conversations happen frequently enough (discovery, planning, prioritization, execution).

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> And retro - gawd, I hate those.

It sounds like you hate these because you aren't actually empowered to make meaningful change within your team.

We've found retros are one of our most important rituals. They help us identify risks, process, and team issues; often while they're still small. We quickly work those in.
To me, it's a difference in professional gestalts(?) in highly trained individuals.

Physical engineers, especially, have a very formalized, standardized way of looking at the world. They all share it, and so their code follows from that.

Physicists, biologists, software developers all have different ways of looking at the world (some more standardized, some less). Our code follows from that.

So while we may gripe they don't leverage (insert language arcana / convention), my intuition is our code would still look very different even if they did. Biggest example, as you point out: math-structured code, from math-heavy disciplines.
Personally, I have little problem with most advertising. The thing that makes online ads toxic is the data collection that goes along with them. It is entirely possible to do advertising without all the spying, so I differentiate between the two things.
Another history is Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, from 2005.
Somebody should do the math of pulling out to the gas station vs. driving with a full tank.
Very cool! Just tried my bass into my iPhone 11 Pro max, recorded okay, but Tape It identified it as keyboards.
How would solar ever be a good option in the UK?
My main complaint against Jira is that it seems to poke the wrong parts of the brain for the wrong type of project manager. It's... fine... on its own, but something about it seems to call out to the hyper-detail-oriented micromanager that makes them want to make 23-step story status workflows. I've come to appreciate opinionated tools that want you to use them a certain way. Even if they prevent me from using them exactly like I'd want to, they also prevent the nightmare PM from using them exactly like they want to.
TikTok Reaches 1 billion AMU
This matches my experience at Google.

Scrum/Agile tells you to split up a project into well defined tasks to be done simultaneously by multiple people.

That's counterproductive if, come perf, you need to show that you completed the project, and distinguish your contribution from others'.
These services are so fucking needy. It's like they were designed by broken people. How about some respectful technology that knows its place, and can say "hey, you've accomplished the task you wanted to do here, so go do something else."
To me, this feature looks more like a convenience wrapper than anything else. Maybe it actually was useful for something and got implemented for that reason.

You pretty much get everything it needs "for free" with the standard SQLite machinery. I can't imagine the code implementing this is a large burden at all.
Does any photoediting tool hás a filter like this? look It looks like a fixed algorithm
Follow up assessment of Soundtrap Capture (and Soundtrap Studio):

- Capture: Import was super easy but I see no way to loop, so that's out.
- Studio: Full-blown collaborative DAW (overkill) but importing your own loops is gone (wtf?!).

Looks like I'll wait for you guys to hopefully add importing audio files and looping.
> The sprints that feel more productive are the ones that happened to have a lot of break-down-able tasks

That’s a great point which I will take with me. Might be somewhat biased since we only done greenfield.
I had a lot more success with them after popping my electrical panel open and rearranging the relevant outlet circuits to all be on the same AC phase (making sure not to unbalance the amperage load since some were 15As and some were 20)
So the trucker shortage is a false conclusion? Cause this article states that’s the definitive cause. It reads to me like an axe to grind with Brexit and trying to tie this crisis to that political football.