skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you say not that much? How much, exactly, do you mean? I did already look at length of life after adulthood. Life expectancy at birth was 20-40 years at times in the past, and life expectancy for an 18 year old jumps to 60+ in the data posted here. I’m not sure what you’re arguing now. I gave you an out by noting that the comment you initially replied to could be off by 10-20 years for some locales and time periods, and for some definitions of “adult”, what more do you want than that? The gist of the comment you objected to is true, even if the numbers don’t hold for all places & times.

You’ve complained about my examples without providing any evidence of your argument at all. I’m not sure what your argument is either. Plato wrote about people living to be 80 years old. Bone samples from ancient native Americans show people living to 80 years old.

It’s an actual fact that surviving childhood before the last century produced a posterior probability that was dramatically higher than the at-birth life expectancy, where dramatically means 20-30 years longer life expectancy, precisely because something like 50% of people died between birth and adulthood. 50% is obviously a proxy for a number I don’t know exactly but could be anywhere from, say, 10% to 90% depending on when and where.

“Until the middle of the 20th century, infant mortality was approximately 40–60% of the total mortality. Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years. If a medieval person survived childhood, they had about a 50% chance of living 50–55 years, instead of only 25–40 years.”

“Paleolothic : Based on the data from modern hunter-gatherer populations, it is estimated that at 15, life expectancy was an additional 39 years (total 54), with a 60% probability of reaching 15.”

“Classical Greece : Based on Athens Agora and Corinth data, total life expectancy at 15 would be 37–41 years. Most Greeks and Romans died young. About half of all children died before adolescence. Those who survived to the age of 30 had a reasonable chance of reaching 50 or 60. The truly elderly, however, were rare. Because so many died in childhood, life expectancy at birth was probably between 20 and 30 years.”

“Early Middle Ages Europe : Life expectancy for those of both sexes who survived birth averaged about 30—35 years. However, if a Gaulish boy made it past age 20, he might expect to live 25 more years while a woman at age 20 could normally expect about 17 years. And anyone who survived till 40 had a good chance at another 15 to 20 years.”

“Medieval Islamic World : Average age of scholars was 56–84.3 years”

Etc., etc., etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
I've done that before, and it can be nice, but I think the 'side project'/micropreneur/indie hacker space is more interesting. You only have so many hours of your time to sell, and if you're not working, you're not making money. Having a side project that makes a bit of cash even when you're asleep is a good feeling.

An exception might be if you have some super-deep expertise in a particular area, so that you're not really selling your time as a worker, but selling the ability to waltz in, look at something, do a few things that fix a problem someone has been stuck on. That kind of thing is pretty rare, though.
It's not a particularly common problem. But it's one I always had to plan for. I was, in effect, always on call. If I was going to be out of town, I had to have somebody to cover for me. Somebody who was on the list for physical access and knew what to do enough that I could talk them through it.
They could be defeated in multiple ways, as can most business models... good and ugly. The ones that exist are the ones that survived.

That said, they exist because it works. There's no way FB could make the money it makes by selling its product to consumers, but it can by snooping, manipulating and advertising. Banking goes in cycles and modes, but it's one ugly after another usually. Maybe they make steady, risk free profits while externalizing long tail risks. Maybe they enjoy a low competition regulated market that lets them fleece captive customers. Etc.

The oldest law codes we have show evidence of bankers being bold, usury and whatnot.

In a lot of the big, egregious examples (FB, Citibank, etc.)... killing the abuse would be turning a $1trn industry into a $1bn industry. It's certainly possible to do social media or consumer banking in a much smaller/cheaper way.
This was also trending before covid; no wonder millennials have such distain for the generation in power.
Substack is "Medium + OnlyFans". It attracts content creators because there's not yet alternatives that offer such turnkey monetization (e.g. Patreon is all a bit more DIY). It works for readers because Substack pulled in some real heavy hitters as early adopters (maybe through enhanced financial incentives?), and so the Substack brand has been linked to those prestigious content creators.

Once they start promoting and monetizing the PLATFORM itself too much (aka "doing a fantastic job of surfacing all the content"), then the brand will lose its prestigious shine. It will become associated with "Twitter randos", rather than "former columnists at Rolling Stone and The Atlantic", etc. It will become more like Medium.

That in and of itself isn't the death knell. But that nail in the coffin will come as soon as competing turnkey-monetization alternatives emerge with fresher brand reputation. And I'm sure those competitors will emerge once Substack opens up the door by dialing down its prestige to promote itself more broadly.

Honestly, I don't know why people invest so much in online content. The early "hot new brand" stage has the shelf life of milk. Some of these brands stick around forever (Slate, Salon, etc), but it seems like they're slashed to skeleton staff after the first 5 or so years when the hotness cools. I guess the long tail of that white dwarf remnant stage trickles in enough revenue to justify keeping them around after people have moved onto the next thing?
No - like they literally wouldn’t let us out.

They had to attend church for months watching only from their parked vehicles and with their windows shut. And somebody had their windows open once so the church got a threatening letter from the city from an informant neighbor across the street.
This might be helpful - How to Read a Technical Paper - https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jason/advice/how-to-read-a-paper.htm...
Man look at that early 2000s simple text-based web header & web design.
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That "much worse" at 3% was represented by a single reply.

When i read about the study my biggest surprise was how poorly it was. A poll with 40 people is so pointless that I don't understand why they didn't hire professionals to do a real survey.
You can do this with `jid -q`: https://github.com/simeji/jid

(Its interactivity is keyboard- rather than mouse-based.)
It's useful to understand the difference between problem space and solution space. Writing code (in most languages) is all about writing in solution space, and sucks at talking about problem space. I find that most people tend to jump into their editor way too quickly and start writing the solution before they've thoroughly analyzed the problem.

When I jump from editor to pen and paper it usually means that I'm having trouble mapping the code I'm writing to a part of the problem Im'solving, and I switch to exploring the problem more before going back to the solution. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's pretty much what happened to you as well.
>anybody working in the cryptocurrency space should vet clients very carefully given the high level of fraud and insanity in the space.

Normally I'd agree, and I'd just flat out refuse to do crypto work for people over Upwork.

But these payments came over the course of two years. After the first few settle, I can't blame him for assuming everything is hunkydory.

What's insane is that the bank is letting someone do chargebacks going back two years.
Modern apps have modern requirements like better security. Better UX, quality and security beats dev convenience every time.
I don't see why you couldn't do the same in a Slack command-line program as well? Not hard to find simple examples of that.

https://github.com/csabapalfi/slackcat
Well, in practice you can have binary input, as many programs do, but human-readable free-form text is the simplest interface there is.

We just need more modern terminals that can handle that.
Referring to hashing as encryption is like calling a fingerprint a lock.
Contracts are constantly litigated and various terms get struck all the time. It’s not that everyone agreed with Upwork that gives them control it’s the near impossibility of litigating amounts in question without losing money. Upwork in the other hand has extreme incentives to make these terms stick because they have a lot more at stake than just ~12k.
Yes, but in this case it was out of his control entirely, he didn't have the option of verifying the name on the credit card. It was Upwork who (apparently? we don't even know) chose not to do that, not the freelancer. If he was taking the card directly he would have the option of doing it more responsibly; if a hypothetical freelancer read a story like this, they might be more likely to do it next time. Upwork, apparently not?

But if your point is that people taken credit cards get scammed all the time even when taking them directly, I agree, that's a thing that happens.
very interesting. Thanks!
You can't do a critical analysis of prices on just the last 5 years the prizes for electricity and fuel were always higher in Germany even before they adapted renewable energy. The surcharges for renewable energy are only 10% of the overall power cost. Despite the surchharges going from 1% to 10% in the timespan of 10 years the prizes stayed the same or dropped. The plan from 1998 is exactly on its track. Without surges caused by bad actors like in the last few months there is nothing that supports your claims of destroying the economy or a failing power grid. The economy in germany before covid also had its best years in decades even the highly manufactoring parts of it. Can you bring any data to your claims?

Energy Prizes from 2008-2021: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Publication...
Effect/affect is mostly a problem for people with English as their first language: they learn the language by sound, and in pronunciation there (usually) isn't a difference between them. Same with "could of", "we're/were", etc.
The thing is that school acts as child care for 60-70% of the work day and it makes it not very viable to offer alternative services for the other 30% as there are not enough hours remaining to offer full time work.
Finding clients is basically the hardest part.

Not going to lie: Most of my clients come from my network and their referrals. Most of my freelancer friends’ clients come from their network and their network referring clients to them. While it is possible to find clients organically through advertising, it’s much easier if you can build a network to pull from.

You can start by simply contacting people you know and asking if their companies need any help. Let them know you’re available. Then, when they ask, be available and solve their problems ASAP.

It’s actually quite a challenge to hold down a full-time job and to freelance at the same time. You might be lucky enough to find clients who don’t care much about how long it takes and are fine to communicate asynchronously through e-mail at your convenience. However, most clients will want to get on video calls throughout the day and will expect the work to be done quickly. Realistically, it will start competing with your day job at some point. You should decide now how you’re going to handle that.

Whatever you do, don’t use your work computer for any freelancing tasks. Neither party may ever find out, but if you get into a situation where it matters then it’s terrible to have intermingled the two.

Finally: Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now. Freelancing isn’t really the easy money that some people make it out to be, especially if you’re not actually free during the day because you have a job. If you’re looking for something different, consider just getting a different job.
I have one. Unfortunately mine dries out like crazy. I had it for a year and already had a major nozzle issue. And that despite being judicious about printing at least a couple of full color pages every week.
... is "Robin" a pseudonymous reference to "Robin Hood"?
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> Bulgarian national currency is BGN, and as of now, its value is pegged to EUR with the fixed ratio of 1.95583. So, 1 EUR is 1.95583 BGN, and it doesn't change over time, at least not yet.

1.95583 is EXACTLY the exchange rate between Euro and Deutsche Mark that I still remember from the switch in 2002. Indeed, after some research I've just learned that the Bulgarian Lev has been pegged to the DM since 1997.
This assumes there’s ever been “youth wealth”. Boomers have been systematically disenfranchising millennials on down since they’ve gotten into power. They’re probably one of the most selfish and entitled generations that have ever existed.
It appeals to gaming communities rather than business ones through it's design and features. You don't have to sign up to instances separately - there's a single account you use to sign into any, and you can adjust your picture/nickname per instance. It's got great streaming and voice channel features. Because of all this, it's the #1 platform for gaming communities, and many other tech communities opt for it as well.
How are the sources at this link all fake?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
Can you be more explicit ? Minimum car insurance is mandatory, and you can pay for full insurance if you want.
Archive link in case this article is removed:
https://archive.is/HMYkr
I wonder if animal trainers have tested this method again and again. I suspect that not all cat will be able to be trained like this.
Perhaps a bit more epistemically humility is in order.

For all of us, myself included.

That said, even highly adversarial climate models greated almost half a century ago have tremendous predictive power.

Large systems are modelable. Not with any degree of precision, of course, but a high degree of accuracy.

Otherwise insurance companies wouldn’t exist.
Part of the job of the platform provider is to make sure that both parties are genuine. That the buyer is who they say they are and is not using stolen money, and that the seller (in this case you) actually delivered what has been contracted. Upwork has failed at job 1, and one presumes continues to fail at it unless they have introduced all-new sign-up/diligence processes since then.
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> Is this really how it works? They're taxing people with 0 income? I guess it isn't relevant to the target audience of the article but it must suck for the unemployed.

No no, the social security min base 710 BGN is only relevant if you declared that you're actively working, but in fact getting no income. If one decides to e.g. take a break for a year, they can declare that they don't actively working anymore, and thus they'll be paying a lot less (I don't know exact amounts though)

And also, unemployment is a whole lot different story, but I don't know details about that.

> This seems really high. Why do you need an accountant every month instead of once a year?

As already mentioned by phoronixrly, yes it's because of the VAT registration. Having that registration, accountants have to do some paperwork every month.
What makes the strategy a bit different from Mastermind is that you have so many more letters than colours.
I couldn't agree more. I think when people choose their side, they have to pick positions that clearly identify them as belonging to that side. "My bonafides as a republicrat can be succinctly established by espousing a hawkish kill-all-the-butter-side-up-people position."

Two parties might be the worse possible number of parties in terms of creating polarization and extremism.

I'm generally not a fan of voter initiative processes, but imagine states passing a voter initiative to make ALL public offices non-partisan?
Those are XOFs (extendable output functions), not hash functions.
Design of self-reproducing machine systems
> the exact same experience. Their mobile app

The experience is different: Brother doesn't have any mobile app, which is an additional reason I like them.
Yes, it can detect single far red shifted photons. It's cooled down to 7(!!) Kelvin to achieve that incredible feat, while the telescope itself is at a relatively balmy 36 Kelvin. If you want to get more spatial resolution you will need a (much) larger mirror and likely an even more stable platform. This is already a machine of such ridiculous precision that new technology had to be invented to make it possible, those sensors are works of art on par with anything ever made.

You can read more about the sensors here:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/infrared.htm...

And about the cooler here:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...
The first two plots are almost aligned, obscuring the delay between trends in Covid related hospitalizations and covid related deaths.
Sure if it's IPFS. The article seemed to suggest that there were NFTs that were just Imgur urls and that a savvy purchaser of that NFT would somehow ensure the Imgur image couldn't be deleted or changed, which I don't believe is possible.
I would suggest it's just as rare to read a math book from start to finish...
This is a valid point. The culture of various languages forces their favorite paradigm. In the case of many class-based OOP languages (or those that have strongly adopted it), programmers can be publicly shamed and ridiculed for not writing class-based OOP libraries and programs. Even just using simpler objects can be frowned upon because its not using classes, even if it can be considered valid OOP too.

This is why, unless forced or pressured to on a professional level, prefer dabbling in those languages where there is no classes or its truly an option, and not the main (forced) paradigm. Prefer less stress, hidden spaghetti code (pretending it's not), bullying, or shaming. Just way more enjoyable to write in languages where the paradigm that you choose is because it makes sense to solve the problem, not because "that's just what we do around here".
I mean you can't just not validate the payment method when your sole purpose is to act as a payments facilitator so you can skim money off the top and then lump that onto the freelancer when you fail to catch fraud. I consider this a fraud issue between Upwork and Robin because they never validated Robin was the correct card holder. Whether manual hours or tracked through Upwork, Upwork has a duty to validate that the person paying isn't a fraudster and they failed to do that over a multi year period. That strikes me as strictly negligence by Upwork and the burden shouldn't be on the contractor.
I suspect it was because he wasn’t following curriculum or rules. If you assessed how he was teaching it probably didn’t check the boxes. There has been a movement since No Child Left Behind to standardize and make success repeatable and measurable. It doesn’t work. The best teachers find there own way of teaching that works for them. Teaching is half a performance art and half reading the room and adjusting on the fly.

The best teachers I had broke every rule in the book and got better results for it.
The variable output length functions are called eXtensible Output Functions (XOFs). An XOF isn't a cryptographic hash function, though they can be very similar (and can have an identical internal function doing the work).

We use different words for Cryptographic Hashes, Password Hashes, XOFs, MACs, and (non-cryptographic) Hashes because they do different things and have different security properties. Misusing the terminology makes reasoning about what is meant difficult.
Interesting to see a public docs site using Confluence.
> Do not be under the illusion that Bulgaria is just like $western_european_country but with less taxes and cheaper housing. Everything comes at a price. You will not find many things you take for granted in your home country here.

Technically speaking you are right: there is almost no police, no public health care (quality is too low to even step foot in a public hospital), school are pretty low quality, and people tend to be rude. But for a temporary gig (I am in Romania due to taxes for a few years) it can be beneficial. It's not as bad as say India or Pakistan as east eu countries are orders of magnitude more developed, and if you can put up with the nuisance for a while then you can return to your western country and maybe afford a deposit to stop living with flatmates as an adult. Worth while in my case.
Isn't your comment then very specifiy for that installation of yours? When you use MS Teams in a "normal" O365 environment, then every feature you described for IRC is possible with weebhooks and the cards API. Simple CURL based integration.
I'm more used to reading than posting on Hacker News. I'll do better next time. :)
The modulus function has this property.
> you have to blindly trust them not to collect data about you

Why blindly trust them if you can inspect the client, like you easily can with Signal? It's all about how you choose to update your client and which due diligence you want to apply, and for this a decentralized system doesn't help.
I'd just want to add that, I in general don't think it's a good idea to train cats to learn behaviors that are unnatural for them. One could say that, eating processed cat food and living with humans are already unnatural, which is true. But to the extent that's possible, I want to provide my cats the freedom to act as naturally as possible.

On this particular cat toilet training trick: cats are in fact quite particular about litterbox -- where it's positioned, how safe it feels inside it, how it smells. A human toilet is decidedly an unnatural setup for cats, and who knows what can happen. Maybe the cat learns to use it but constantly feels anxious about it (e.g. slipper surface). Maybe it will avoid pooping until it gets really uncomfortable. All of these can't be good for its health.
If Chase was already involved, it seems like Chase denied the chargeback request. Banks have an incentive to not let bad chargebacks through to major merchants, it would reduce the value of the card networks over time, and hence incentivize less use of the card networks resulting in less profit for the banks.

I would have taken Air Canada to court though, assuming all the facts are true. A small claims court would have definitely supported them.
Lol in the span of covid, there would maybe be 200k deaths from the flu over two years. We’re almost at a million (that we know of). Everyone who says this is anything akin to the flu either knows their lying or is woefully ignorant of the situation.
qntm's novel "There Is No Antimemetics Division" is one of the best things I read last year. https://qntm.org/scp
This is computer modern optimized for printing. It’s not bad, the pixels are constructing the glyphs in a way that makes them good for printing.

Bitmap version of the font, I guess.