skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet the health care works who have HOOPP also get it. As well as secondary school teachers (OTP), municipal workers (OMERS), etc. None of these entities can print money.

There's no guarantee that pensions will perform well of course (see Alberta). But as someone who spends a decent amount of time in /r/PersonalFinanceCanada, the random person on the street probably does worse.

> But at the end of the day, what are they doing different that a target date fund from Vanguard/Schwab/Fidelity is not?

1. Forced savings taken off their pay cheques no matter what, which solves a huge behaviour issue.

2. Run by folks who are better audited than individuals are personally, so results are readily available, and can be easily criticized for non-performance.
Yes to everything you're saying. I'd highlight your points in a different priority order. The fact that our society lacks effective concepts for supporting and sustaining anything abundant is the KEY issue. Your "doesnt fit our existing ideas around paying for things" point.

Our whole capitalist system has no means to encourage us to leave nature alone where it happens to provide us immense value. Our system just destroys it (and eventually itself in the process). That we even allow monopolies on products that are basically just ideas is a grotesque aberration.

Although we need to fund development, a lot of it could happen without funding if we simply supported healthy natural systems and didn't have legally-supported monopolies. The challenge that open-source projects have basically amount whether the developers can live okay enough and not have to deal with competition and exploitation from large-capitalized monopolists.
I don't see it mentioned nowadays but who is still building with Meteor? Is there anything that beats the convenience Meteor provides, especially for MVPs? Also MVP shouldn't be a ton of code, so you're always free to port it to another architecture when you have confirmation for whatever you're testing.

Meteor has built-in Auth and DB (though it's Mongo but why not?), don't know about the others but there are packages probably.

Edit: forgot to mention it has hosting via Galaxy which I've never used but it's there.
Well, many sites include cookies to link devices as required cookies anyway. So even if you reject the rest, you are still accepting some form of "device linking". It's hopeless.
You can derive the formula for this using the Chinese Remainder Theorem.

Consider the problem of finding a polynomial p(x) such that p(x_i) = y_i for some finite set of (x_i) and (y_i). The classic approach to this is Lagrange interpolation, which can be seen as a special case of the Chinese Remainder Theorem. Essentially, you are trying to find a p which satisfies the following modular congruences:

p(x) == y_i (mod (x - x_i))

The constructive proof of CRT, specialised to this problem, yields an algorithm equivalent to Lagrange interpolation. To extend Lagrange interpolation so as to include derivative information y'_i at each x_i, change that congruence to:

p(x) == y_i + y'_i (x - x_i) (mod (x - x_i)^2)

And to give second derivative information, change the modular congruence to:

p(x) == y_i + y'_i (x - x_i) + y''_i (x - x_i)^2 / 2! (mod (x - x_i)^3)

And so on...
Maybe, but unlikely. I think it's more of an "ethics" issue (read: attackers don't want to get more heat than needed and also the HSE would have trouble paying for it)
As I said in another comment, I tried to use WezTerm a few days before switching back to Kitty for the poorer performance. I ran a few benchmarks and discovered if Kitty takes 1, Konsole takes 2 and WezTerm takes 2.5 (using the same fonts and font sizes.)
Yes, as long as you have visual studio installed it is quite seamless. I have taken huge GUI apps targeting Linux and had them “just work” on windows. On that note, I’ve taken GUI apps targeting Linux and cross compiled them to android and it “just works.”

Edit: wasm as well. I just started messing around with emscripten and it blows my mind that I can run a qt GUI app in my browser.
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>ruling classes' devoted their attention to Brussels

You are right. I expressed what I think poorly.

My belief is that the ability to blame Brussels and focus attention away from the realities of the UK meant that many people could avoid thinking about the demolition of local services and the emiseration of their fellows and instead focus on "the big picture".

There isn't another game for our politicians & public services to play now.

Also agree on the nature of Singapore.
>You must guess correctly the inflation rate of the next years and get a bank that is stupid enough to take a lower interest rate

Banks don't actually care about the long-term inflation rate is going to be since they generally resell loans quickly, with Fannie and Freddie backstopping.
Getting started in the web ecosystem involves a lot of similarly impenetrable "magic". There just isn't a community built around creating project templates and creation scripts and such for lower-level programming.

I'd say you're right about the GUI shitshow, and the web ecosystem is just a slightly different kind of shitshow.
You regularly see opposition to this opinion on HN though. Complaining about electron being inefficient is super common around here.
> Dead people make more room for new, other people. (consider going first.)

Thank you for this snarky remark.

Every time I hear people arguing against having kids for reasons (overpopulation, bad for environment, pessimism about the future), I cannot help but think: "why doesn't that argument extend to the present generation - i.e. suicide?"

So far, the best answer I've gotten is equivalent to "suicide is bad" (a.k.a. "I have no good rational arguments but it makes me feel bad")
The did not ban Facebook for supporting genocide in Myanmar, so clearly failure to moderate calls to violence is not the issue here.
> What about the Bill of Rights allows States to infringe rights but not the 'federal government'?

The grandparent poster is arguing against the doctrine of incorporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...). Prior to the Civil War, the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights were read to apply specifically against the federal government.

However, the thirteenth amendment (banning slavery) explicitly overrides state jurisdiction. The fourteenth amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the law, and this is the usual route by which the other rights guaranteed under the Constitution have been extended to apply against state law.

In recent decades, this question has been settled so thoroughly that an anti-incorporation stance is a radical reinterpretation of the relationship between the federal and state governments.
The higher frequencies of 5G are even more easily blocked by outdoorsy things like trees and rain.
In my opinion, corporations and govt entities should switch to a model in which they don't purchase software but instead have internal staff work on the FOSS that's used in the group.
This could help the FOSS ecosystem while removing the profit incentives that people have to make shitty pointless web apps. Although I'm sure some shitty pointless web apps will still get made, I think this could shift the dynamic of the software production ecosystem for the better.
> So let’s say if a small town in Texas decides x is legal or not legal, does that mean the rest of the country has to follow?

City ordinance typically doesn't apply outside city limits, same with county and state laws. Texas cant outlaw anything nationwide.

> I mean wouldn’t it make more sense to decide a lot of the issues locally as it suits? In that aspect, can someone explain why Supreme Court is even a thing in a functional democracy with representatives making decisions at state/federal levels as appropriate?

The Constitution is 'the law of the land'[1]; whenever local law conflicts with constitutional and federal law, local law loses. So when the constitution grants the populace a right, the state and city cannot take it away.

The function of the Supreme Court in this case is to adjudicate these disputes as the final court of appeals, and strike down any law found to be in violation of the Supremecy clause via judicial review[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_...
Okay, so it's not "I didn't see a benefit to having it OSS aside from appeasing some OSS purists. The app is already free, and I don't need the added burden of responding to issues and pull requests (and supporting the code they add)." It's "I don't want to open source it at all". Which is fine, just say that instead of bringing up support burden.
Indeed, that's why it's called a redistributable.
The most obvious sign that "Open source" is broken is that everyone uses that term and not Free Software.
NASA figured out how to launch James Webb Telescope to second Lagrange point
Intel Unveils Its Plans to Accelerate Moore’s Law at IEDM 2021
It’s not how the system has worked for the past 150 years or so. Rights recognized by the Supreme Court have been inviolable as far as I know. I can’t think of an instance in which the Supreme Court said you have the right to X while not immediately striking down a law that effectively violates that right. I’m not a legal scholar so I could be wrong. There are variations amongst the laws of the states but federal laws and federal rights generally take precedence over an individual state’s desires. There are exceptions but generally this is true. Louisiana wanted to have 18 be the legal drinking age but the federal law that tied highway funding to making the legal age 21 effectively killed this desire by Louisiana and Scalia and others on the Supreme Court allowed this happen.

It’s all a delicate balancing act between federal interest, states interests, and peoples’ rights. The Court is upsetting the balance that had been achieved and a new equilibrium will occur.
Probably just as well? That seems like a page from the usual Western feminist perspective that if a woman isn't pursuing STEM, wanting to be a corporate "girl-Boss", or a she-preneur; she's surely a victim of a barbaric sexist culture instead of an individual actor just avoiding pursuits that she doesn't find appealing.

I mean you're talking about religion here. It's almost a universal that religion takes some of the best and brightest people it has and then has them dedicate their lives to something that has no material rewards, much less "financial independence".
is there a way to change the default search context(which is global)
Have you tried the Mac?
If UWP would be alive, Microsoft wouldn't advice on how to migrate away from it:

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/10/19/uwp-mig...

Also apparently WinUI3 won't get UWP support at all:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/02/uwp_microsoft_winui3/

Nobody at Microsoft is going to come out and admit that UWP is dead, but it's easy to read between the lines.
Why would anyone want to build an windows app when there are so many better alternatives?
This assumes that treatment will be available to everyone and not just to select few.
I record GPX with OSMAnd+ running on my older and smaller Android phone. No SIM, no Bluetooth, only GPS. It goes on all day long. Then I send it to my new phone or to my computer over WiFi. If I were in the mountains I'd turn on hot spot mode on the phone to make the transfer work.

No log in, no external services.
I don't think that was the point at all, the point was that if your app doesn't let you record your track without internet connection, then it's on that specific app (and eventually it's on you if you stick with such an app).

There are many apps that let you track your run/hike/ride without internet connection.
You're confusing (deliberately?) a few different things.

(1) better healthcare, reducing poverty etc. lift the floor of longevity but not the ceiling

(2) "cost of old age" is exactly what longevity research attempts to reduce - noone is interested in living longer as a vegetable; instead, the goal is to increase healthspan - living healthier for longer
That being said if you know you're going to use the money soon/are willing to pay via inflation for security, cash/bonds make a lot of sense. If the market goes to shit and the knock-on economic effects come for you, cash is nice to have. What's worse, losing 5%/year or losing 30-50% all at once while simultaneously losing your job?

My security fund is currently in 60/40 bonds/stock portfolio for precisely this reason, even if the stocks decline by half and the bonds dip a little with them I'll still have a good margin. My 401k that still has 30+ years to run is 100% stocks.

Also my wife is pregnant, so I converted the entirety of our HSA to cash (most of it had been invested up this point) as we're going to need most of that money in the next few months (and that's just for what we can foresee) and losing half of it to potential market perturbations is unacceptable.
I don't know how decred works, but typically there are consensus level barriers to this to mitigate "nothing at stake" attacks. For example you may need to lock the tokens for weeks or months to use them as stake, and it may be impossible to trustlessly transfer ownership of locked tokens.
> I don't need the added burden of responding to issues and pull requests (and supporting the code they add).

I just state clearly in README that certain projects of mine are open source but not open contribution. This way people can follow development and modify things to their liking if they want to, but I don’t need to hear from them.

Of course don’t do it if you don’t want to see others repackage your stuff.
DMSO is very good for reducing inflammation causing increased intracranial pressure, as well as following The Concussion Protocol.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2290457/

https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2007/7/cover_dmso
Use no-code

Hear me out.

The #1 problem you have as developers is marketing.

The #2 problem you have is validating demand from customers.

So force yourself to do the uncomfortable steps ASAP, while also making it easy to pivot by launching with the smallest possible stack.

If you can launch with something like Airtable + Webflow + Zapier + Typeform, you can get something out there in weeks instead of months/years. It will be relatively easy since your team is technical.

Then release it to the market and see if it sticks.

The power of a lightweight stack is NOT the ability to find Product-Market fit instantly.

The true power comes from making the 20-30 iterations it will take to actually find Product-Market fit less painful than if you had to rebuild from scratch every time you had a new idea.
it was to hint at his role in the 're' package
If only uprooting was as simple as writing this. I’m all for the ideological implications of this but without the social safety net to be able to do this, it feels another extension of increasing classism.
Great comment! Can you also read the implied variance from the prices? What I mean by this is: Is the probabability of a deflation ala 1930-1933 being weighted against a Weimar hyper inflation scenario resulting in a seemingly stable mean prediction?
TIL that there is this whole Degoogle movement.

I luv muh privacy as much as the next guy. But the posters to the Reddit sub of that movement come off sounding "emotion-driven" at best. Conspiracy theory "extremists" at worst.

The impression I get from the Reddit discussion of the eff.org article is that the majority of posters there are not "Hackers". That can be a good thing in a way.

One not-so-good thing, on the other hand, is degoogle posters' apparent unfamiliarity with the nuances sometimes involved in software maintainability decisions.

That plus the confirmation bias that is inevitable in any subreddit.

I'm far from a Google fanboy. Trust me! But being somebody who does code reviews on the regular, I can understand why Google played the "Single purpose" policy constraint card as their rationale for pulling that AdNauseum extension. [0]

From a quick review of the AdNauseum code [1] I can see why Google would say that it does more than one thing.

Case in point: It could be argued that my word processor provides a "Single purpose". Namely: Process words.

But my word processor actually has several discreet functions that I use it for: Mail merges, PDF generation, script and manage macros, etc.

So in that sense, my word processor does not provide a "Single purpose". I could see how Google could apply that to AdNauseum.

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[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20211209223531/https://adnauseam...

[1] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/
LMAO!! Web is by far the worst UI development experience to date. Only a committee with a twisted hate of developers could invent something worse.

You obviously were not building apps twenty-five years ago when all this shit was figured out and super easy.

The web hit and people took it to it's logical conclusion. Twenty-five years later we are still trying to figure out the best way. Angular is highly refined but still a clusterfuck.

I build web apps professionally. It's not good and not really getting better unless better means bundling a browser with my app. Face in hands.
Funny how feelings change.
https://xkcd.com/353/
I don't see it as arrogance at all, I see it as being uniquely fortunate to be in a position where one can attempt to address a fundamental problem that affects most people.

I'm not a billionaire and have zero prospects of ever becoming one. Maybe this would also be considered arrogance, but I don't want to grow old and die. Neither do any of my friends or family. None of them are billionaires either.

Life is absolutely incredible. Humanity is on the brink of technological progress the likes of which we've never seen before, and I'd love to (selfishly) stick around to experience it. I also don't see anything noble or enjoyable in watching friends, family and other people slowly break down and eventually die. I'd hazard a guess that a lot of people share this opinion.

I sadly don't have the resources to direct activity against the scourge of aging and death, and can only hope that fortunately-resourced individuals decide to do so.
Which sucks if you like me want to keep virtual spaces (or desktops) separated. I only want to see windows (or apps) running on the current desktop in the dock, which kind of breaks that (apple app) model i suppose. This is doable in windows (and a few DEs in linux) but not in Mac OS unfortunately.
Google and Facebook have a global reach that few others can duplicate. Google has trackers on 80% of web sites and probably 80% of phones too since Android is completed compromised by them. With all this data, they may know you better than you know yourself.
Guess I will just have to leave 2 little Lego robots pushing and pulling the mouse then.
Day 7 “The treachery of whales” might be good/fun to solve via SGD. Closed-form answers do exist for both parts, but one can pretend not to know them…
You can register a Wikipedia account and then block them in your preferences.
HeroicGamesLauncher, a Unofficial FOSS Client for the Epic Games Store
> …the only way I can foresee open source working in the way the purists want…

Well the point of open source is it works however the person opening the work wants. There’s a license compatible with every philosophy out there. Take your pick.

Open source isn’t broken because it can’t really break at all. For something to break it would have to have a concrete form to begin with.
I don't know if companies love him but I know Strava is an android app.

An android app is software.

Not hardware.
Firefox is rejecting all the docs.microsoft.com links in this thread:

> An error occurred during a connection to docs.microsoft.com. The OCSP response does not include a status for the certificate being verified.

> Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_OCSP_RESPONSE_FOR_CERT_MISSING
This really depends on the project. Many people just do it in their spare time and have a normal software engineer or similar role working on proprietary software using open source. Some are still at university and studying. Some are contracting and probably also get some new customers thorough their open source work.

I do not have real data, but I assume that more than 50% of the effort invested in open source is not directly paid by a company. For the Linux kernel 20% to 30% of the commits come from people doing it as a hobby, the Linux kernel is supported very well by big cooperations.
Presumably, yes. I don't remember actually seeing the tick but I felt it when I scratched it off thinking it was a scab, and later developed the typical bullseye rash
Yeah, my immediate reaction was "I thought the answer to unstable local currency was usually 'use USD'; not sure that helps here..."
For fast win, i recommend:

- Vercel and Next.js for frontend.

- Clerk.dev for authentication and account management

- Hasura for database

- Heroku + BullMQ for cronjob, background processing.

- AWS S3 for storage

- Search engine (many options to be chosen)

- Cloudinary for images.

Not easy but simple, no need for a Rockstar DevOps engineer.
If you can figure out how to wire up objects in the current version of Xcode and know whichever method of garbage collection they last settled on, you can still write a Mac app like it's 2003
Don't we have OSM already?
I don't feel particularly exploited - but then my OS library is not particularly popular (or widely used). I suppose if the library did become popular and some $MegaCorp built a cash printing product on top of it I could add some code to the library to print disparaging remarks about $MegaCorp practices in the CLI (or whatever).

Then again, I also give my poetry and my (2 completed) novels away for free. I'm not the greatest Poster Child for the Capitalist cause.
>professors paid by the university

universities were being paid by the military, who get their money from the taxpayers.
I advise everyone to talk to a licensed financial advisor. Do you really foresee needing 6-months expenses in cash? In my case, I keep 1-months expenses in cash. And everything else is shoveled into funds, stocks, and securities. Then I have 30 days to figure out how to balance my expenses and converting stocks to cash (~2-3 days).

A .1% APY is losing money everyday in a 6% inflation economy.
You might be able to move to another state but not everyone else can. Your view of how things should work is not feasible or tenable. It would lead to the dissolution of the union.
One problem with VB is you still have to know C/C++ to extend it
I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment. I've spent my career specializing in most of your bullet points. Lately I've been meaning to start a tutorial series with either those concepts or general "learn to code" kind of stuff. Clearly there is more interest in the operations type content than I would have guessed.
Hermit Agafya Lykova gets a solar panel to keep her satellite phone charged
Ask HN: When Do You Read?
I would like to read more. Between my full time job, hobbies, family time with 2 kids and whatever you have to sneak in (administrative duties and whatnot), I can only find time and/or energy to read during the holidays, when days are less packed.

Good thing is, during these lesser times, I can read a lot. But I still would like to be a more consistent reader.

HN crowd, what are your reading habits/patterns?
We have a couple of Red Kites nesting quite close by. Love watching them, and don’t seem to have a rodent problem.
I'm by no means an expert, but it appears to me that one could use a similar list to demonstrate that, dunno, Spanish "is clearly" French, or so.
Inflation of 6.8%, which isn't even that historically unusual and would mostly be termed as a moderate level of inflation, isn't remotely comparable with the current 50% inflation rate or the 20,000% rate that Argentina has experienced in recent history.