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The state. Is our physical economy not capable of taking care of old people?

The monetary economy and real economy are less delinked than the populists think, but sometimes....c'mon people. If we can't pay for our old people what does that mean? Saving the money for later is an abstraction, we are not literally stockpiling canned food and adult diapers.

Ultimately if there is is a problem taking care of retirees, it is because we continue to let this ridiculous healthcare system exist. And honestly, I am not sure that is actually a limiting factor, or just a stupidity.

Frankly, as a huge net importer there are very few clear material limits --- port of LA problems have more to do with rate of change or imports than absolute amount. China, Germany, S. Korea, etc. could just stop exporting to us and all hell would break loose here, but it would be pretty weird there too.

Back to retirees. Let's not beancount our way to poverty. To paraphrase Keynes, if we can do it, we can afford it. On the flip side, if don't do it, then we will loose what capacity we had in that area.
> and contemplated the mistake I had made

Reminds me of my own "contemplation" on the way back out of the Grand Canyon. Getting down there is hard. Getting back up is way harder. And the only "food" I took with me was a six pack of beer, so somewhere halfway back up my body ran out of glycogen and I couldn't even maintain my body temperature. Thought I was gonna die, and realistically I could have died, actually. I was there alone, and had I sat down to "rest" that could have been it. Moral of the story: if you're going to attempt something physically demanding like this, at a minimum have plenty of energy dense food, water, and a thermal blanket with you. That's how I pack for longer hikes nowadays.
That's AMT, provided by Intel ME.

As far as I'm concerned ME-equipped NICs should unconditionally be behind VPNs, but the AMT functionality itself is really cool. Even the 10+ year old machines that don't support VNC let you remotely hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, issue an ACPI shutdown, perform a hard reset (equivalent to hitting the reset button on 486-era boxen), etc. So basically you can do either soft or hard shutdowns or reboots. Quite granular.

I actually used the hard-reset functionality while playing around with Linux early boot on a laptop a few years ago. Rebuild initramfs (loaded via PXE), use `curl` to hit AMT reset endpoint. Very cool.
It's very doable, but the problems tend to get longer later in December, so it's easy to fall behind late in the month. It's fun, it's certainly worth giving a shot.
I call bullshit on this. Our best shot at fighting modern slavery is electing politicians who support ending modern slavery and do not conduct free trade with such countries. Anything else is prioritizing neoliberal free trade over human rights.

I see a parallel over this with climate change. Our best shot at solving climate change is not buying from brands that green wash their image. It is to pass a
global carbon tax.
This app, now almost 5 years old (warning, NSFW):

http://driftwheeler.com

uses a custom brute force search in CUDA, based on bitonic sort (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitonic_sorter) and a fractional norm distance metric (f=0.5, i.e., sqrt):

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23...

In 2017, on a low-end GPU, the indexing took about 10 minutes of 100% utilization, for a dozen patches covering each of 50,000 images (feature vectors were 1,024 32-bit floats).

After that, the app just queries a precomputed list (256 precomputed matches per query) depending on where in the image the user pressed. Even with hundreds of simultaneous users, it can hardly keep a $5 Linode busy.

Good times...
Article title: "Claims that COVID jabs can be used to track you with ‘luciferase’ are false – the substance isn’t even in the vaccine"

FTA: "Luciferase and luciferin, when used together, are useful tools in the early prototyping of drugs and vaccines. However, neither are in the COVID vaccines that have been safely administered to more than half of the world’s population."
Apple wouldn’t let that happen.
If Apple employees were more organized they could make a lot of difference to how the company was operating but it seems that all their efforts are disorganized and disjointed. It mostly seems like their internal organization efforts are nothing more than popularity contests about all the superficial aspects of the contemporary cultural zeitgeist instead of anything substantial about their working and material conditions. They keep signing letters but not actually forming any real union that has real bargaining power.

So it makes sense that they wouldn't know they could share their compensation freely without any repercussions. They seem pretty ignorant of their own rights in general which probably means being an Apple employee is a really nice job. The employees don't actually care about ruffling any real feathers, they only want to make a show of doing so to collect approval points on social media.
I personally would avoid soldered ram. If you ask a software engineer this is against Open/Closed principle.

It is an unecessary bad practice against the benefit of the user no matter what companies claim.
We shared this with each other in college- back in 1998. Tons of fun!
I usually do it in Rust. I have a lot of fun with it, it's great practice.
Back when I was a kid, we un-soldered the original Mac 128 memory and upgrading to 512k...
As an average fit cyclist, I did 100km as an experiment and that did not feel too hard physically. It took about 4 hours but I could barely walk after it.

Ironman distance is 180km and I think I could do it no problem if the terrain is relatively flat. The challenge here is not the distance or energy but just sitting in the saddle for as long. Not to mention that in Ironman race you have to run a marathon after this ride.
But also children don’t have position of great power while cognitive decline with age is real and affects nearly everyone.
It's already that way in the US, the percentage of paid off home owners is ~29%.

I don't know why some people consider themselves "owners" of assets the bank actually owns, but it's normal in the USA.
Derrick Soo, the homeless candidate for mayor of Oakland, has solar panels on his tent to charge his devices. And good on him!
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I very rarely meet an air conditioner that can keep the whole cabin cold enough for me. We all just point the things at our faces and enjoy the active cooled airflow, right? So I'm wondering what exactly these systems measure -- unless the thermometer is on my headrest I guess, it isn't measuring a variable that has anything to do with my experience.
Zero clause MIT or BSD or the Unlicense are seemingly the only licenses that protect from the tyranny of copyleft licenses.
Had fun doing it with /sci/ in 2019. Hoping to complete this and the first 100 problems in project Euler!
I found myself wondering what is actually lost if schematics like this get out. Are companies worried about counterfeit/copycat product? Are there major differences in layout skill across the industry, such that Compal would want to prevent people learning from them? It looks like Dell was entitled to the schematics, so it shouldn't be that a customer could cut out the vendor.

I'm sure it's not about preventing competent people from doing this kind of service on hardware they've bought. Is it more about making warranties work? Or something else?
Letting people know you could pull this off eventually leads to the inevitable assignment in which you need to solder a dozen of NAND chips in some obscure package that nobody seems to have a stencil for :) Oh and the deadline is 24 hours away.
It's a great moto if it's appropriate. Many companies don't have important data and aren't critical. The great thing about 'move fast and break things' at Facebook was (i don't think they use that anymore...) that it was explicitly what they wanted to do + the downsides they would accept for doing so. An equivalent at a bank might be "be secure and move slowly" - notice how no one says that, ever? They can't stomach the tradeoff they actually need to make. Whose engineering function was more confused as to how to proceed? Early facebook, or Wells Fargo?

Being explicit about what you want and what you'll give up for it is a nice thing.
With interest rates at their current level, it makes a lot of sense to not pay down your mortage, to refinance, or even to take out a heloc.

Again what matters is net worth, not whether you house is paid off.
Taiwan is self-governing, has its own armed forces, passports, and fully controls its own borders. That makes it a nation, no matter what you want to call it.
Racket had to do this to go from lGPL to Mit, it was a long process. But they did it to make the language more accessible to developers. Developers are scared away by lGPL.

Not all contributions were relicensed (resulting in code being rewritten), and we lost some code in the standard library (the csv parser).

Now Racket is trying to make it more friendly to people by created a new language (called Rhombus for now) that is Racket without the parenthesis.

They are playing the long game. But I hope these changes attract new Racketeers in the future
I’ve been getting into cycle touring throughout the pandemic. The longest I’ve gone in a day is ~100km through varied terrain with plenty to see along the way. The thing that blows my mind about this attempt is that it’s cycling ~225 times around a fairly mundane loop in a random Gold Coast suburb.

I can only imagine the mental fortitude required to stay focused for so long.

Different people have different motivations, so I can imagine that this guy was driven by the goal… goes to show how different people are motivated by different things. Regardless, a super impressive achievement.
This is a nice thought but ultimately others’ actions are relevant.

If 80% of people will be remote an office will be closed. If 99% of people meet in person, remote is unlikely, etc. the numbers are fake but the point is that a critical mass is needed.
Back in the day, there was a nice editor I used for a while, called PFE, for Programmer's File Editor. It ran on Windows. It was lightweight and fast, IIRC. Nothing exceptional in terms of features, but one useful feature was that it could open and edit fairly large text files (for that time).
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It's doable if you (a) are good at algorithmic programming challenges, (b) don't have a job, and (c) don't need to buy any christmas presents.
If a government had many streams of temporal data, eg coordinates of people's locations, is it just a matter of no cache availability and computation that would slow this down?

If neither of those were concerns, I imagine applying a heuristic on points through time to predict where they would be next. If it's a sleep range, it would expect the current "pixel" on the next step until 9am. That might increase memory and computation costs, but increase speed with a reduction in accuracy.

If you're in the government blink once to confirm.
I'm 57 and still a software developer.

I _think_ I can retire, but I like software, and I like working with people. And lying on the beach bores me after a day.
Why do you call copyleft "tyranny"? If overnight, every single piece of open source software were somehow magically relicensed to AGPLv3 only, would there be any negative consequences at all for anyone besides people who wanted to write non-free software?
I never said data caps were the only problem, just pointing out that they are one practical problem.
> I can name more off the top of my head

Only spacex here is a unicorn.Everything else has been acquired or listed

And the author seems to talk about billion dollar start-ups, not necessarily just unicorns but only in the past decade.

Most the PayPal Mafia companies were $1B+ Already in 2000s.
Not to be crass, but surely some of these people are just.. dead?

It's an old project, and a lot of contributors.
The article mentions 'green ammonia' as a potential fuel source for shipping, and I would imagine that Yara is poised to be a large producer of the fuel. Using ammonia as a fuel source is something I've never heard of, so reading about it is fascinating: https://cen.acs.org/business/petrochemicals/ammonia-fuel-fut...
The Unlicense is a "crayon" license i.e. not drafted rigorously. Choosing something like that dramatically raises the odds that you'll have to go through relicensing later.

I've been through this, having relicensed a project from the Artistic License Version 1 — another crayon license — to the Apache License Version 2.0. Fortunately we only had around 20 contributors, but it was still a huge pain. Don't do it to yourself.
But that critical mass doesn't have to be globally, it can just be at their company right?
We do: https://www.balgan.world/cyber/cyberinsurance/cybersecurity/...
I wish I knew why these patients can't have alcohol. I mean the biological mechanism. What the relationship is between misprocessing fat and alcohol being deadly.
IMHO Federal reserve backed crypto.
I’d argue that the US government has done a great job at leaving crypto alone. SEC jumped on ICOs because they were scamming people left and right making promises that made the tokens securities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29278467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29284326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29282978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279762
That sounds like the appliance at my new place. It's got a wall mounted microwave / oven unit with touchscreen controls at the top. such a terrible design. whenever the appliance is in use and you open at door the controls get steamed up and become useless.

at least I can turn it on over WiFi (I have no idea what the use case for that feature is).
Yes, but if the taste would have been markedly different you would expect someone to notice it a bit earlier, apparently this ran for years.
The company that owns the Norditrack brand (ICON Health & Fitness) markets their products in a deceitful, under-the-covers manner: Not brazenly illegal by any means but more like - how could a company sell such an expensive product that is basically useless unless you pay "forever" for their service - at whatever price they choose to charge.
I can’t do any of those things with Euros here in the states… does it make the Euro not money? Go down the equator and it’s an official currency
I am glad that social media exists. He would have faced jail time if the media were trusted on this.
The higher the vaccination rate, the higher the excess mortality [pdf]
> Learning how to invest in tax-advantaged ways (backdoor 401k, tax loss harvesting, real estate transfers, trusts, donation funds, etc) is extremely complicated

I strongly disagree with this advice; middle class people trying to imitate rich people with trusts and financial advisors and so on are just letting leeches siphon off their money with fees.

Tax exempt investments are easy to find, they just pay less than taxable investments. If you're not in the top tax bracket, you're playing yourself.

Inheritance taxes only apply to the extremely rich anymore. Avoiding probate with a trust or something does not mean avoiding taxes.

>Most of it is "buy, borrow, die" with a lot of nuance to do it optimally

Oh, yeah, it's easy, step 1 is buy something, wait till it goes up. If it doesn't go up, don't buy it.
On that subject: a good saddle really helps, and the saddles that are on regular bikes are really bad for long rides, way too soft so you'll end up with lots of friction.
I actually wonder about the efficiency of these automatic systems.

These automatic systems are trying to, what, make the whole cabin achieve some set temperature? Who cares about the average cabin temperature? The airconditioner is pointed right at me. I care about the temperature of the air coming out of the vents and flowing over me. Assuming the back seat isn't populated, there's a whole volume of air back there being unnecessarily cooled..
> Calling back was also impossible since apparently there was no way to get connecter back to the person with whom I was speaking.
A 2018 phone

The year is irrelevant when the performance crushes the other options.

that no longer receives updates

Pop LineageOS on it. Voila, security updates.

that you would likely struggle to repair if anything broke

What makes it more difficult than the other options, or smartphones in general?
I'm confused, they say it was priced at $1 million because that was what they felt the drug was worth compared to the ongoing therapies needed to keep these patients alive. Ok fine. But once it became clear no one was going to pay that price, wasn't there some lower price that would still earn them a profit?
They built and ran billion dollar international organizations that employed thousands of people and managed to not get killed or arrested for a long time. That's not an east thing to do in my book
No, very little elevation change, it's only a relatively small loop, less than 10 meters of elevation change over one circuit.
So much progress was made with Flash by Macromedia, then Adobe bought it and dropped the ball literally after a single version. The software quality degraded almost instantly and new features took way too long to release and came buggy, or conflicted with existing features. Animate CC is by far the buggiest software I use, so much so that it continually saves annoying recovery versions of your documents because crashing happens so frequently. I don’t think Adobe was at all capable of making Flash a success on mobile.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-poses-threat-to-germ...

this says
"In 2018, the central government had spent €73m ($80m) on Microsoft licenses, around €25m ($27.5m) over the forecast budget – and that was without the cost of providing German state governments with Microsoft software.

As opposition politicians pointed out, the total amounts to hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money."
For the forseeable future, Oil won't overlap with fish very much. That is, unless someone gets in touch and makes a big effort!

I talked about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547185 (also linked at the end of this blog post)

Oil has the architecture and possibility to be something like fish (a great interactive shell). It has a nascent headless shell mode, e.g. for being driven by GUIs, which no other shell I know of has. As far as I recall, the Warp terminal that appeared here has to parse the stdout of a shell session in a weird way to deliver some nice UI features. The headless shell provides a clean API for that (or at least it should; people need to test it).

And Oil uses a principled and accurate parser is for autocompletion. No other POSIX shell does this.

But personally I'm putting that as a low priority in favor of the "batch" use case. I think the "killer use case" will probably be to have a better language for continuous builds and "cloud automation", which on current platforms like Github, Gitlab, and sourcehut use a lot of YAML and shell.

I use a lot of this automation myself, and I expect it to dramatically increase in the software world in the next decade. And I expect new platforms to appear.

There a lots of people complaining about playing whack-a-mole and with YAML and shell errors, waiting for a "git push" every time, etc. Also, these systems are profoundly inefficient. A better language could be the foundation for much better systems. Over the last year, the blog has hinted at this kind of thing pretty frequently. Get in touch if you're interested :)
> Developers are scared away by lGPL.

I see GPL as a sign of quality and am attracted by projects using it. It's a promise nobody will ever take that thing away from me once I've started using it.

I'm a developer, by the way. :-)

Edit: Not to mention that some people even using GCC, Linux and Java.
Is the Voronoi partition the best/most commonly used solution in practice? Or are there better tricks for this problem?
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I think it's reasonable that an Aussie publication interviewed an Aussie rider attempting a record in Australia
There really isn't such thing as ownership. Stop paying your property tax and see what happens.
Is this a joke? Do people no longer understand the basics of vaccines and how immune systems work? Here's a real study and real analysis of mortality rates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313045/.

Main point

> Among those fully vaccinated, there was 12.5% (23/184) mortality while it was 31.45 % (309/984) among the unvaccinated (OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.2 to 0.5, p<0.0001)

Mortality rate among the unvaccinated is more than double that of the vaccinated. So whether you plan on getting sick or not the vaccine only improves chances of survival. The fact that this even needs to be discussed is just depressing because anyone with basic understanding of biology can understand the causal factors involved in developing immunity against a virus and that a vaccine can in no way reduce your odds of fighting off the infection.
Better than not knowing what's killing you.
Stop clinging to my butt!

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Exactly this. I recently created a tiny DSL (can be trivially parsed with .split('\n') and regex) for a side project. I wanted to create a very simplistic syntax highlighter for it in VSCode, but I realized I needed to create an extension using a code generator, and write a bunch of manifest files. In addition, to use/distribute the extension without having to run VSC in development mode means I had to create a developer account, generate some token, and publish it to the marketplace.
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Thank you. That will give me two places to start looking. About the stack, is it standard to ask the developer to implement libraries, frameworks, or databases that have yet to be used. I’ve made database migration my line in the sand as far as what I want to do personally. I have managed to migrate a database using alembic and sqlite3, but I created a database for each module to use, and alembic seems like it prefers a central database, and sqlite3’s alter statement seems to add an additional level of complication, and on and on and on. Part of the problem may be that I can layout what functionality I would like to see implemented, but I am limited in how best to enact these changes to the libraries, databases, frameworks, and etc. that have served me so far.
I was jokingly predicting that they’ll turn individual shipping containers into autonomous vehicles at some point. Why not?!
My analogy for you is a house that was built 6 inches to the right of where it should be. It's almost perfectly good. You can live in it. But there are these niggling things wrong. They will always be wrong. Over time, enough people say "hey if we just do this work, get this done, we can move the house". So finally some people actually do it - they move the house, brick by brick, 6 inches to the left. And hence end up with Webpack and npm and 1gb of node_modules etc etc. And the house is now 6 inches to the left. To many it looks identical to how it did before. But for those to whom it really matters - people who's quality of life depends a lot on exactly where the house is - it is a massive difference.

So many small things are just now better - aligned with what we really needed to start with. Whether it's the automatic reactive updating dev server, the fact I can embed CSS directly with my component and have it scoped there, or that I can use properly DRY CSS, or that I can unit test my code separate to the DOM, that I can build my pages in a truly "functional" way such that they are free from complex state bugs ... all these things are small ... but big.
> Typically the decisions of the boneheaded variety are made much higher up the org chart by higher-level middle management

And what's that person role? Someone I feel its not a VP of quality insurance who made that decision.