skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a pyramid scheme because there's no promise of returns. One may pay $1,000,000 in social security and receive $0, but other may pay in only $10,000 and receive $100,000 over their lifetime. People who pay into it will get $X, unless the surplus runs out, in which case they get a reduced amount proportional to the amount of money coming in.

A pyramid scheme guarantees returns, and those guarantees can, and will eventually, exceed the amount of money held by the scheme. Social security makes no such guarantee.

Social Security is basically a modified tontine. You pay in during your working life, and then receive payments at some age until you die. Like a tontine, the longer you live, the more payout you receive.
That's part of it. In most of Europe, if you want good anything, you have to pay for it. Even then, you might not get it, because the system is so benevolently "universal".

Europeans are comfortable with lower salaries because they believe they're paying taxes for the greater good. That's often not the case.

I speak from experience here and I'm sick of people putting universal healthcare and other European shit on a pedestal.

Now, butthurt Europeans and especially little angry German trolls can start downvoting, but remember, ignore something for too long and it can turn into terminal cancer.
> JS may be fine,

If you compare JS (not TS, TS is fine) and PHP (I have extensive experience in both) you'll find that once you go beyond the syntax on the top you'll find the same flaws in some form or another.

Yes, PHP is uglier, but that is about it.

> but I start do doubt the same can be said about the ecosystem.

JS is a horrible language that works because of the tireless effort of its community that has created an ecosystem so rich that even JS can be programmed efficiently.

The ecosystem might be flawed but it is the only reason why JS is usable at all.
That's a laughably bad and dishonest response from Slack.
They are redirecting the blame to ISPs now.
Have you tried calling Comcast/Xfinity ever?
And it may be handled differently between the many "flavors" of markdown!

In my experience, with decent editor assistance to help with boilerplate, closing html tags, etx. I enjoy writing simple docs more in html
Without external trade I doubt that 1 million will buy too much.
The smartphone market evolves very quickly, much more so than the laptops, which also have a lot more of wiggle space for components.
Scalpers hurt anyone launching a hardware product who doesn't have the order quantity to buy direct-from-manufacturer.
It's not really helpful to take an unthinking, throw away comment, and run with debunking it. I understand the urge, but is ultimately useless.
Has worked so far though with all constraints (political, economic, and scientific).
When I needed it for fairphone 2, many years ago, they said they would never sell that battery again.
State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn’t Cause “Havana Syndrome”
> far best migration support of any database I have worked with

BS, have you never worked with mysql or sqlite?
Yeah, I can believe that humans can safely operate a nuclear power plant for fifty years, maybe even one hundred, but when your plan is for humans to run the plant indefinitely, you sort of have to take into account that people will eventually get sloppy, take shortcuts, say 'hey, this always worked out before, relax', etc. and meanwhile you run into various blackswan low probability events…

Nuclear: a good bridge technology; a terrible long term strategy!
The future is here already, it's just not evenly distributed. There are countless examples of local ecosystems that have been entirely decimated as a direct result of human activity. It's been going on for millenia. The Tigris/Euphrates river region used be a lush, fertile paradise. Thousands of years of human agriculture has turned it into what it is today.

Clear-cutting of forests throughout North America, Britain, New Zealand are other examples. Recent collapses of kelp forests off the coast of California. Not to mention coral reefs dying and the great desertification of western China.

It's happening all over. It's here now.
Containers Are Here to Stay
I think this is still an area of active research. Bats don't seem to get cancer much, which might be another indication of overall efficiency of their immune systems. Where 'efficiency' means 'preventing negative outcomes to the animal'. In case of rabies, it might translate to not overreacting to the virus, or possibly having body temperature that inhibits the virus naturally.

Bats are strange creatures and we know much less about them than, say, about mice. They inhabit a very different world.
Started a new job in July. It's my first time using slack so heavily for day to day business needs. After some adjustment I've gotten used to it and enjoy it a lot. Now it's down and I feel like I can't do anything. We have gchat available but no one else is using it and we can't recreate our slack channels in gchat. I've been rendered totally ineffective.
How about 20 years ago? Remember the Celeron 300 MHz which could be easily overclocked +50%(!) to 450 MHz?
Sure bruh, as long as you are not among the poor.
Then we wait until we have the space. There is no deadline to meet.
> Also, do build your own blog engine if you are also happy to manage META tags for Twitter, OpenGraph (Facebook) and general META tags for each post. Also if you are good with generating your own schema.org JSON for Search engines, manage your own taxonomies (tagging, categories, events, locations, authors), and also generating/updating sitemap.xml as needed.

You don't need any of those as a baseline.
So, I just read more about what you do, and you do some cool stuff. I know a ton of developers and most of them do nothing like what you do. The point is lots of people are annoyed at being asked interview questions about things unrelated to the job.
Do you genuinely have one?
The sensibilities of your gatekeepers are your organization’s culture. If you don’t like them, you have a deeper problem which rules aren’t going to fix.
What's important is biodiversity. Diverse biological life is more resilient, and it takes a really long time in human years for that diversity to come about in the first place. So if we're destroying it faster than it develops naturally, ecosystem health as a whole declines.

I think that's a valid point though about "how often does this naturally happen?" Surely a certain amount of extinction is natural, and we have little frame of reference for what the magnitude of that is (at least we as laypeople; maybe even scientists, I don't know)
Well it's your word against independent certifications and transparency reports. It's on you to show otherwise, unless you just want to troll fairphone.
Good explanation! Helped my understanding of their choices. :)
Troposphere – A Python library which allows you build cloudformation templates
Your viewpoint (which matches mine) is in the minority. The best part of solid wood furniture is the insane depreciation!

We moved from a tiny condo to a house this summer. Rented a Home Depot van and ran around picking up free/extremely cheap solid wood furniture! Pieces that cost many thousands new, you can get for $50 or some other token amount. And then you keep it for years, decades, whatever.
I take you then don't consider Warren Buffet sane? As he is currently sitting on mountains of cash, or at least would be if it weren't digital...
Except, human brain changes on second by second bases, it is highly distributed and concurrent system with unimaginable redundancy, furthermore brain capability of learning/adaptability from just from one or few examples/tries does not compare to any AI models; what aspect of GPT-3 you comparing to human brain, specifically ?
I think some people just simply do not notice the little things. and I think those people tend to work on open source UI toolkits.
I lived in London when Livingstone did that, and I do not recall that being the reaction of commuters. The afternoon school "rush" doesn't really overlap with commute hours either. Lots and lots of kids in London had travel passes at that time anyway, because the UK has never had a separate school bus system.
> The Prisoner's dilemma is the reason. There might be a way of doing complex multi-participant tasks that is better than what's being done currently, but the incentives for each participant are not aligned. Even when that lack of alignment produces a suboptimal outcome, each participant in the process lacks skin in the game. Each participant in the process creating the suboptimal outcome is not accountable for the consequence of their collective action.

The article goes on to describe solutions without actually explaining how the Prisoner's Dilemma operates in large companies.

This makes the article less valuable than it could be because it interferes with the reader developing a mental model of the problem.

For a take on this that does present a very clear (and possibly actionable) mental model, see "The Gervais Principle":

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

The idea is based on the axiom that "organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs."
> In 2021, the U.S. government has spent 46.18% of the total GPD.

Even for Fiscal Year 2021 (which ends tomorrow), we won't have solid GDP numbers for a while, so that's at best speculative, and higher than most projections I’ve seen (most of which are down several points from 2020, which was a little below that.)

If the reference is to calendar year 2021 (which is the most natural unqualified reference), its even more speculative, as there is a day more than a full quarter of the year left.

> Which means almost half of every economic activities in the U.S. were directly spent by the government.

No, it doesn't. While GDP is the most common current measure of economy size, and may vary in proportion to total economic activity, it by design does not capture all economic activity. GDP measures end-purchaser value of production, not total economic activity. Lots of economic activity is (for instance) resale, which doesn't matter to GDP.
Again, and one last time, he is not advocating for what society should do. He is predicting what it will do, which is what an insight is. That is the service he provides to his customers: predicting the future. His customers want the best guess for what the future holds because knowing that is the best way to make money, or at least not lose it.

You keep conflating predicting what will happen (foreclosures, immunity via vaccination or infection) with advocating for what should be done (kick people out, get everyone sick) and then attacking a strawman.
Security is a significant integration effort.
MySQL migrations are beyond a joke.

It’s absolutely impossible that you’re not trolling with such a statement.
>Sorry, I didn't mean offense.

Don't be a SJP, you have the right to offend someone when he talks bs.
It seems the resold them cheaper [0]. Unfortunately, all prices are zeroed, so it's hard to tell by how much and whether it was below retail.

[0] https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake/products/10... (see the description, 100% of CPUs reached this).
Slack had an unrelated DNS issue today
These living creatures can't be brought back. Do you have the wisdom to tell which creatures are pillars of their biome? Further, do you alarm when the match is lit and the flame is spreading or do you wait until your home is already aflame?

I don't think you are a bad person. I suspect you and I grew up in a time where species dieing out is the norm as opposed to the exception, so it simply doesn't stick out for you. Its just how the world works to you. But it is recent, and I'd argue we're making a poor trade as a species, trading bio-diversity for.. frequently, strip malls or strip mining.
And now let's take a real example where 100 people have a trillion and 100,000,000 people have 10,000. And that's not even the bottom end.
Well they aren't necessarily incorrect, TTLs can be a pain.

However that's why when you do a migration you lower the TTLs and eat the cost of lookup requests. Wait until your previous TTL lease expires (which is 2x the TTL) then start the migration. After everything is known to be good you up the TTLs again. That way you have a way to "quickly" recover if issues arise.
One tip I have to make large-ish awk programs readable is to name the columns in the BEGIN section. Then, you'd use $colname instead of $1, $2, etc. for instance:

BEGIN{
item_type = 1;
item_name = 2;
price = 3;
sale = 4;
#etc
}

Now, in place of $1, you'd say $item_type which significantly improves overall readability of the code.
What do you mean other than? I removed it, that is the (entire) difference.

> Warp it in a shell script

As I said, for non-interactive use of course I don't care. But trying to actually do/check/test anything with awscli interactively/'manually' is pretty painful IMO.
Are they blaming them though? Is this not the actual fastest path to resolving the issue?
How many times have you heard the past government talking about the problem with Californian porpoise?
This piece is based on learnings from working in a government beauracracy but has lessons for any large organisation. https://profserious.substack.com/p/10-things-i-learnt-in-gov...
In the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker it was probably extinct in the 80s too. There hasn't been a universally accepted sighting of one since 1944, the few sightings made since then aren't really conclusive.

For most of these creatures they only existed in one particularly small region or area. The San Marcos gambusia, for instance, historically only lived in a single 1km stretch of the San Marcos River. Species with that tiny of an area can be driven extinct by a single bad weather event or epidemic. Or because some real estate developer decides they want to build a couple apartments. It doesn't even necessarily have to be something big. It's unfortunate, but sadly something like the San Marcos gambusia would probably have gone extinct within a few centuries, human activity or not, unless it was able to adapt to expand its range.

While climate change is definitely something to be concerned about, it is not, currently, the main driver of extinction events like this. The far bigger cause is more direct human activity, like poaching and land development.
translation:

a) we pushed a change that was not well thought out in its ramifications

b) we probably didn't lower the TTL on our zones several days in advance of doing this change

c) we reverted in a panic!

d) by the way, did you know that many ISPs' caching nameservers don't respect low TTLs and will hold onto zones longer than they should?

e) please go bother and waste the time of some first tier support rep at RCN or Comcast or CenturyLink, who certainly has the power to administer their DNS servers...

oh jeez.
Coping with the Clutter of Houseplants
GitHub – royrobotiks/Graffomat: A large DIY plotter for spray cans
An U.S. Company Fears Its Windows Hacks Helped India Spy on China and Pakistan
Missing part of that quote is "This issue was caused by our own change and not related to any third-party DNS software and services."

Seems refreshingly honest to me. Slack screwed up, it's not anyone else's fault, but there's nothing Slack can do about it now, here's a workaround.
full title == [GitHub - royrobotiks/Graffomat: A large DIY plotter for spray cans. Powered by cordless drills and an Arduino as a brain]
https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...

It seems that they've pointed a camera at a wall of lava lamps, and the output video feed is fed into their randomness generator. I wonder how they account for the fact that: (A) Most of the video feed is constant, only the blobs in the lava lamps move (B) Lava lamps aren't actually all that random (C) The wall is visible from the street, and someone with nation-state-level surveillance technology could easily reconstruct what that camera is seeing.
(a) Holmes seemed to be obsessed with this due to a personal phobia of venous blood draws (personal quirks are a surprisingly common driver of weird decisions in Silicon Valley-ish companies; the fact that small low capacity vehicles are used in Boring Company tunnels seems to be down to Musk's phobia of public transport, for instance).

(b) The original idea was that a patient would have one of these things _in their house_; a patient can't reasonably do a venous blood draw on themselves, but they can do a finger prick. There are some real working tests that work this way for this reason; HIV self-tests are normally finger-prick tests, say.

But by the time they'd repositioned as "the machines are in a pharmacy, or maybe a central lab", yeah, it made no sense anymore.
Cap Table Coalition invests $16M in 100 Days
ELI5: What is Zanzibar?
And very likely a weapons experiment, as has been said by others. This kind of indirect ICF is the closest model of what happens in a thermonuclear weapon.
My last couple of jobs have involved being on slack almost all the time.

Since when its down we couldn't do anything, I just got into the habit of keeping a Google Chat room that everyone knows about. If Slack goes down, we just hop into the google chat room. Google Chat got a lot better in the last few years, it's actually fairly serviceable now.
unless you are a customer of a very tiny ISP the odds of getting the person on the phone who has root on their recursive caching nameservers provided to DHCP clients are minuscule.
Given the hours of operation, I wonder what happens when your self-driving car shows up with puke in the upholstery from a previous rider
Valuation in 8 Categories: A Broader Picture of Your Company’s Capital
According to the DMV press release (submitted elsewhere on HN), this is incorrect:

>Waymo is authorized to use a fleet of light-duty autonomous vehicles for commercial services within parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. The vehicles are approved to operate on public roads with a speed limit of no more than 65 mph and can also operate in rain and light fog. Waymo has had state authority to test autonomous vehicles on public roads with a safety driver since 2014 and received a driverless testing permit in October 2018.
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker hasn't had a confirmed sighting since 1944.

Lots of these species have been long gone. But the landowner of that 1944 sighting probably couldn't turn over a rock on his property without fines and lawsuits coming at him, at least until now.

ETA: If I'm remembering the stories right, either the last or one of the very last IBW sightings was doubted by officials, because the guy was a farmer or something and "not a scientist or expert".

Not getting them to pay him any attention, he went home, shot the breeding pair, and returned to the officials office with proof.
It can, but it did not, in this case.

Slack uses DigiCert, not LetsEncrypt, and if you poke entries into your /etc/hosts file for various slack hostnames, things work just fine (which they wouldn't if it was a TLS cert problem).
What if I told you the derivative is a linear operator? (matrix meme style)
How to Generate Noise with the Web Audio API (2013)
Do you have a source? Everything I've read gave me the impression that we only have strong evidence that outdoor time is a factor, and the light exposure explanation is just a hypothesis.
https://archive.is/EtBDc
most bluetooth headphones i’ve seen will be useless in a few years once the non-replaceable battery wears out

wired headphones can literally last decades
You can already do this with HTML, if you want to:

### <a id="about"></a>What is all this about?
So in theory someone could use it to build their own mini Locast?
I'm reminded of the mocking of papers with odd sounding titles.

E.g., yes, the nerve bundle of this particular snail actually is a way to easily study some reaction mechanisms.

Sometimes careers were damaged or research derailed because of this mocking.
They were first and from a featureset and reliability perspective, S3 is still unparalleled.

That coupled with storage costs that were always very competitive and the fact you had unlimited scale and PAYG pricing got a lot of people hooked.

It’s going to take a long time for S3 customers who have experienced pretty amazing uptime and reliability for the entire life of the service to put the same level of trust in something else.

CF did a really smart thing by making R2 be able to operate as a transparent caching-replica of S3.
You're never going to get money out of politics. Even in the Soviet Union. Do you really think the Soviet Union did not have endemic corruption in government?

Here in Seattle, the Council created "democracy vouchers" paid by the taxpayer to give to the candidate of their choice. What it really is is the incumbents using taxpayer money to fund their campaigns. If you're not an incumbent, good luck getting any of those vouchers.
Openness is also a no-brainer play to get market share especially as a business-card e.g. if we buy a GPU, it only needs above a certain performance - stock and driver support is all that matters for us in today's market (obviously this is not the case for GPGPU work)
USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion
There are laws against price gouging. I believe those only apply during emergencies.

Personally, I believe it's manufacturers not asking for the price the market is willing to pay and scalpers taking advantage of that. Charging real prices also can prevent hording in certain emergencies.
Not exactly, but end result is very much the same. Raise of rates you have to pay for new loans to above your inflation rate. Probably overall you have slightly less to pay as risks are lower, but it won't be pretty.
Debating whether or not to close my account, or if this is the norm for companies to bow to China. Because if the latter, I'm probably a hypocrite if I close my LinkedIn and keep the others open.
Please try responding to what people are actually saying rather than inventing endless strawman arguments.

There are important functional distinctions between a government run enterprise, a government regulated enterprise and a completely unregulated enterprise.

There are different types of inefficiencies in heirarchical systems and market systems. Markets tend to duplicate effort often in unnecessary zero-sum games. Heirarchical systems have trouble routing around incompetence and corruption.

If you pay attention you'll notice that the systems that work best are hybrids that layer market and heirarchical systems.

While the army seems like a purely heirarchical system, it is really a hybrid system since interfaces heavily with the market systems which we call the military-industrial complex.
> The fact is that Social Security is in trouble: the pay-as-you-go plan doesn't work with an increasing lifespan.

The situation is not ideal, but it isn't cataclysmic:

> The authors of the most recent report even took their calculations out to the year 2095. At that point, they estimate payroll taxes should still be able to cover 74% of payouts to Social Security recipients.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/09/can-young-people-st...

The report in question:

* https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2021/tr2021.pdf

Two possible solutions (non-exhaustive): increase pay cheque contributions, use general revenues to make up the shortfall.
Learning to Drive from Real-World Demonstrations Using Policy Gradients
My understanding is that JIT, as performed by Toyota, takes into account the differences in difficulty of sourcing different inventories. If this is true, one would expect that Toyota faced shortages later than other manufacturers. Does anyone have a source proving or disproving this?
What does this mean? Hasn't Tesla been selling FSD beta for like 5 years now?

I don't really trust anything Elon says anymore. I feel like he's not followed through on commitments about FSD far too many times. I'd personally never buy a TSLA until they get things much more in order (build quality/fit and finish, and actually deliver FSD)