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Taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions, aka Social Security in the US, is the solution for people not earning enough money to save.

There is no reason to have a ton of employers get involved in the wealth transfer system. It adds so much unnecessary complexity, bureaucracy, agency risk, not to mention the longevity risk of a single employer surviving for 50 more years. And on top of that, the only thing the employer’s pension fund is doing is investing it in the same market that the beneficiaries can invest in themselves without having to pay overhead.
Thanks for posting this! I've been exclusively using Powecom KN95s from Bonafidemasks.com; glad to see they get a pass.
> If it can be gamed, it WILL be gamed. Do you really believe that non FAANG devs cannot crack leetcode if they really wanted to ?

Well, of course it can! I presume this is how absolute majority of FAANG devs got there in the first place (judging from the popularity of leetcode, CtCI, etc.). It is just that people who have time, ability and motivation to "game" (e.g. learn) all of the required skills (leetcode-style questions, distributed systems design (even for positions that have nothing to do with distributed systems), behavioral (remember, here in Eastern Europe people don't always behave in typical American "happy-positive" ways, in fact you would be considered weird by your coworkers if you do that, but you will fail an interview to FAANG-type companies if you tell them straight up that your boss was an asshole or the code was complete crap) and don't forget about good written and spoken English) usually aim to move to western countries, because why would they chose to work for peanuts on remote (did you see Google salaries in Poland? I assume they will pay similarly for remote positions if you happen to live in that location).
> This isn't a language feature? It's a macro.

In this current form yes, but f-strings is a language feature, and with this announcement, there's a lot of people hoping for f-string to arrive too.
Surely it is all about the Watts? OK, I think the M1 iMac is a lame duck, but for laptop use, the M1 is just more useful. Let's see what the M2 (or whatever) delivers in a Mac Pro (which is what pros use anyway).
You bet she gave consent to Joseph, she even lied and said she was impregnated by an angel to her parents when she had to explain the result. To someone today that would be laughed off and sent to court, but at the time they ran with it... simpler times :D
these are ways to move most of the client-side logic to the server, it's not exactly no JavaScript but there is much less of it
Boosting 5v to 120v and trying not to break things
I do wish landscape typing hadn't gradually gone by the wayside. I used to be a firm landscape-typer and found it much more comfortable for my hands, but I've accepted that phones just aren't designed for it anymore - too often the keyboard fills too much of the screen to see the textbox adequately.
I don't know if it's fair or not, but I don't know how else you'd use its conversational abilities. Maybe it's just a party trick.
Well... a "Microsoft Visual Rust" (integrated with Visual Studio) could be all the motivation I'm looking for to finally learn, mmmm, not learn but to finally put Rust at serious use.

With everything integrated like, you know (and this may sound super crazy) graphically-mouse-operated "create new project", "right click -> add new file to project", resource editor with "create a window with a button, double-click the button and generate a function to handle the event"-sort of thing. F7 to build, F5 to debug. More or less the things we are used to since the past 30 years or so!!!
The author mentioned "as little (or no)".
More like the US put a gun on Russian head and told them "we can hurt you more than you can hurt us".

Russia infrastructure is old and the country is very corrupt. Wouldn't be surprised there was a "proof of concept" to show they mean business.
This looks neat and all but Delta Space (the "production" version of this) has zero pricing info that I can find and I've scoured their site and docs, even tried going to /pricing, /plans, etc nothing.

In the comments the CEO keeps talking about "we're working on Deta Space, which helps devs publish & monetize their web apps with no ops, and we take a small cut" but it's not clear at all what that "small cut" is and if it comes from payment processing or some other fee.

Can we please get some info on pricing for Space?
Why are you putting an asterisk in Musk?
how do you pay them?
Obviously passive is better, but the point is that you need active heating or cooling or cooking or moving, electric is better. For example, a heat pump space heater or hot water heater is 3 - 5 times more efficient than gas heating.

Electric cars, of course, do share the same issues cars have (extremely space inefficient meaning the throughput of people through over a distance is lower than most other transit options). But the roundtrip efficiency is about three to four times better than a regular ICE (most of the energy goes into producing heat, not locomotion). So they're generally better than ICE cars. You are right that the Boring company seems to have basically solved no problems, and the Vegas system could have hundreds of times more throughput just using light rail (either underground or overground). But the rolling stock of the light rail would be electric - so that better solution would be electrification too!
Without any context, at least 2-3x.

I don't think it should be framed in term of fairness at all. The time is priceless IMO, so it can be boundless.
article goes on to state that gravitational pull effects surrounding objects without touching them, you know, like how we already know every fucking planet works?

quantum physics: the biggest waste of time since philosophy
The problem with that is how do you rate the dialogue produced as correct or not? Not exactly something that can be automated, but would probably need something like a recaptcha to gather responses and it'd take forever.
That's never going to happen if Europe and Russia aren't allowed to integrate their economies further. Until they do, geography will dominate[1] and NATO and Russia will continue to press each other.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6rSljTwdU
legal costs aren’t pulled from r&d
As many others have pointed out, PayPal goes out of their way to make sure they are not a bank.
> Lena Evans, one of the plaintiffs who'd been a PayPal user for 22 years, said the website seized $26,984 from her account six months after it got frozen without ever telling her why.

Wait, what? They're actually taking the money? I thought the article was just being careless with the terms "frozen" and "seized".

On what power are they doing so? It's understandable when the relevant authorities (be it a tax authority, or a financial supervisory authority, or a court, or whatever) seize money, but they are not an authority.

Furthermore, if the money in question actually were illicit, then by what fantasy argument would they be allowed to keep it themselves rather than having to hand it over to the goverment? The entire point is that the money is dirty and nobody may keep it.
Not from untrained randos on the internet. Signal noise ratio and prior of “not a nutjob” have to be high enough to offset the cost of lost focus.
You need a really good team and MlOps/DevOps pipeline to bring world class chatbot support and performance. I think there is still opportunity in this space, but you need Apple Level Design care to make it work.
Unfortunately all of these novels were ruined for me by high school English class.
You might be missing the fact that this applies only to format strings, not strings in general. The interpolation into curly brackets is done by the format! (or println!) macros, not a language feature of strings in general.
maybe they just don't like string formatting at all? I'm not sure what they mean.
Ask HN: If you have moved from “bits” to “atoms” careers, what is/was it like?
I'm curious to hear from those who have moved from the world of "bits" (information jobs) to "atoms" (physical outcomes).

What did you go to/from?

What are the pros/cons?

How did you pivot? Experience vs structured education? in parallel vs sequential?
Ah yes imagine the US would extradite US-Citizens to russia...
They sure didn't give me a penny more when they froze my account.
Matter of fact, I did, even with help of my advisor. The journal did not take any action (it is Q1 open access journal), since they come up with all kinds of mental gymnastics why it is not copied (which boiled down it is NOT 100% the same).

That was for the first occurrence. For the 2nd one, we just did not bother because it hurts my advisor's reputation as well. It is not in the interest of journal to admit the mistake once they made it -- they will fight you about it and try to keep their reputation/image up.
Please do! Maybe the paper is technically enough to reproduce the results but if other researchers can start from a working example, they can both verify your results and extend them with more original research far faster.

While any published code receives some nitpicking and bikeshedding, most academic code is terrible so unless you literally use random joke/meme variable names as your only 'documentation' (I wish I were joking) you're not going to look bad to anyone who matters.
A/B test that: a well thought through UI vs a bot. I genuinely think it would be worse in time required for resolution, choice by the users. Obviously not one size fits all but in simple cases I doubt that even the non tech savvy user would prefer trying to articulate their issue in a way a bot could help them.

Recently came across a delivery service which sent an sms announcing a delivery to connect me to a Facebook messenger bot to ask me the order number to give me the delivery information. How is this process better? Just send a link to the tracker and have all the necessary info in one place. Add a button to reach someone if you must.
Probably says more about that tech prof's social and lecturing skills than the bot ha. Guy must be an actual robot already.
The thing about this one it would work on any regular site including banks. I thought the backend was using python libraries written for the project where you could make a bank automation to do transactions and such. Also had modules for managing AWS account. Wish I could think of the project.
It's a good question!

I think this because:

Rape (and sexual assault in general) are (usually) the result of a combination of power dynamics + sex. The other main assumption I'm making is that women are mostly sexually assaulted by men, and that men are sexually assaulted by both women and men in fairly equal numbers. (I think that women are as likely to be effed up in the head as men, but a substantial amount of male victims are victimized in male-only or default situations like the military or prison, and if all the people around you are men, all the assholes and rapists are too.)

So, examining each component separately:

Sex is going to be based on what sex acts are most common, and the most common male-female configurations focused on male pleasure have pain as a possibility for the female. Forcible vaginal penetration hurts more physically than being forced to penetrate, and being forced to gag on a penis is, in my opinion, more likely to cause pain than forced cunnilingus. So the acts themselves are more likely to cause physical pain.

With regard to power dynamics, I think most females are assaulted by men and those men are going to use their physical superiority more often (because it's the power tool they use). For male victims, I would guess whether or not their experience was physically painful would depend a lot on both the sex of their assaulter and how old they were at the time. I would expect boys that are victimized as children would be more likely to report physical pain since, like with adult women victims, there is often a physical strength differential between victim and assaulter. (Or, for example, I was physically abused by a woman as a child, and she was stronger than me.) I would also expect more physical pain from men who are sexually assaulted by other men in a social space where physical prowess is important.

The flip side of this is that I think men who are sexually assaulted by women are more likely to experience social and emotional pain/turmoil. Much like men are taught to wield their muscles as weapons, women are taught to wield our social abilities, and a woman who wants to humiliate a man or assert power over him is more likely to gaslight him, convince him to gaslight himself, etc. than beat the crap out of him. You also see this when some asshole women are dismissive of men getting erections during an assault. "He's hard, he wanted it."

I'd also hate to compare the experiences and I wouldn't say one is worse than the other. I think we should understand the variables that might cause differing results so that we can support all the victims. A focus on self-defense and overcoming feeling weak isn't going to help a male victim who could have physically stopped his attacker but didn't for social reasons: They need validation of their experiences and decisions. You know?
Giving someone food and shelter implies that someone else must work to provide that. Food doesn't materialize like it does on Star Trek.
I think it's the compile time formatting that rules out "using format strings read from configuration text files".
Oh right, as if he didn't do miracles left and right, raise from the dead, and predict the fall of Jerusalem 40 years before it happened. That's your hangup with the story?
Because if you work in a call center/chat center 99% of your customers are asking the same 20-30 questions. You and I might be bright enough to read the Kb or search google but many people are not. A talented user support person is going to cost a company $40-60k/year and can only handle so many requests at a time.
It may be just Chrome's reader mode
> If someone has a great idea that can double food production - they owe all the money and food to the society because they would not have had the idea or been able to implement it otherwise.

I don't see why this makes any more sense than "they owe it all to the singularity that started the Big Bang, because it wouldn't have happened otherwise". Or, for that matter, anything in between. Kids, this is your brain on bad counterfactual reasoning. Look for proximate causes: in other words, necessary and sufficient conditions.
The funniest part:

> charged with committing crimes under Part 2 of Art. 187 ‘Illegal circulation of means of payment’
I wonder if this is related to "Ukraine: 'Massive cyber attack' shuts down government websites" [0] [1].

If this was Russia, then they would probably use the REvil "arrests" as a proof that they don't engage in Cyberwarfare, but rather help the world become a better place by cleaning up the Cyberspace.

Edit: TBH, that Twitter video in the other comment looks pretty serious.

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-says-massive-cyber-attack...

[1] https://therecord.media/hackers-deface-ukrainian-government-...
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Edition
When these discussions come up I routinely post this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

Yes it was pretty limited and not quite useful yet for real work, but it shows what could be achieved on an 8-bit 2mhz CPU with less than 64K of useful memory.

Modern software is VERY bloated.
Good observation.

a) will be forever unknowable, although we can make some broad observations across various countries' responses to Covid and the overall outcome. EG: Australia has had strict lockdowns since March 2020, yet their cases are now spiking horribly (as I've heard so many times, with deaths lagging a few weeks). Where I live (Wales, UK) has had a mask mandate since September 2020. We were not allowed other people in our houses from March 2020 till mid-2021. Most places of entertainment have been closed around half the time, etc etc. Yet our observed outcome is objectively terrible.

All I can say is that my subjective experience has been dominated by the side-effects of Covid restrictions. I personally know only one person who has had anything more than relatively minor symptoms from Covid. I accept that my experience is probably biased in one direction, but I doubt there are comparatively many people whose life has been dominated by Covid itself.

b) is a contentious subject, and our inability to discuss it shows that we have become too detached from the reality of life and death as a society. Tell me - is it better that a young child has been correctly "isolated" in their room for many days, and told that it's necessary so they don't kill anyone with Covid, and grows up into a disturbed adult, or that an elderly person with several chronic health issues dies a year or so earlier than "expected"?

Death is not the worst thing.
Denormalization adds to the volume of data to read and write, and often reduces the global hit ratio of caches.

On most servers the most plentiful and cheap resource is the CPU (not the storage!), and an adequate level of normalization loads CPU while relieving storage.

Normalization often adds storage 'seeks', and therefore doesn't costs much on some storage (SSD...).
I can agree with this. I got a bluray burner and I could rarely get blurays to actually play properly or at all. Somewhere between software, licensing and drm , I now have basically a paperweight. An old ps3 does the trick though
> There's currently no pressure to drive anyone "off-world" for more resources. "Off-world" is not only completely speculative and untested but also prohibitively expensive.

Well, good thing people are making it cheaper now. The people who don't think it's possible will benefit from that eventually despite their grumbling. It's the way of the world. Endless cycles of laughing at Colombus and then enjoying imported tea.
It's sort of funny when the pro list includes "better for science" and there's still a need for a con list. There should be a scientific equivalent to the hypocratic oath; a lot of us laypeople imagine that scientist default to "good for science" and "ease and possibility of replicatability."
>>> imagine trying to compile all your packages from scratch on a system

used to be the norm back in the unix days. finding exact pre-compiled binaries for your exact arch/OS combo was like finding a pot 'o gold ;)

am also amazed at how well gba emulators run on older devices!
My perspective is (and always has been) that I am working for a for-profit entity. There's nothing wrong with this, most people do it, and that's pretty much how society is built.

But I feel that the for-profit aspect applies both ways: if the company is going to work to maximize profits, why shouldn't I do the same? If another company is offering me a substantially higher salary than I would get with a normal raise, then why shouldn't I at least consider it? The company wouldn't hesitate to fire me off if they felt I was underperforming.

The only argument I can see for loyalty (and only kind of) is if you work for a non-profit, or something run on a finite research grant or something. At that point, you could argue that loyalty isn't naive as the work itself is more the goal than the profit motive.
You're right. We are being manipulated.

I make the claim that rational thought evaporates completely when sex and/or sexuality in any form is the basis of public discourse.
Only takes a few to make an example.
It doesn't say 100 full-time equivalent positions for the full year. It says any 100 individuals employed directly or as contractors at any point in the year. Pay someone on Fiverr or Craigslist $50 for a logo? That's a contractor. Have someone on commission-only outside sales for two weeks who didn't bring in any revenue? That's an employee or maybe a contractor.
As someone coming from a web background with almost no systems programming experience, Rust is appealing to me in terms of it's language features and support for a functional style of programming, as well as the documentation and tooling (among other things).

But from the little I've learned about modern C++ and RAII, I wonder how systems engineers will respond to Rust in the long-term. Memory safety seems to be the primary argument in favor of using Rust, but what would be easier - rewriting everything in Rust, or refactoring existing code to take advantage of RAII?
It was a standalone app that looked very much like an email client with a listbox on the left and contents of the page on the right.
As a GAE native speaker quite comfortable with [ɹ] (inverted r), the voiced [post]alveolar approximant, I find this sound super fascinating. It's very rare in languages, suggesting it is very unusual phonetically, but it happens to be prominent in two of the most widely-spoken languages, so many speakers can pronounce it.

I've always found alveolar trills more aesthetically pleasing, but you casually drop them in English conversation and you get weird looks and questions.

Question for the peanut gallery: what the heck is the difference between the voiced alveolar approximant and the r-colored vowel, ɝ, (schwa plus hook)? They have different IPA so presumably they have distinct pronunciation, but I cannot hear a difference, nor can I feel a difference in my tongue placement when I say them.

Also, curse HN's lack of unicode support. ~~I think it's related to MySql's stupid utf8 is actually utf8mb3 thing~~. I think they rendered? I see it in my comment after posting, but they are blank squares in the text form.
I want to second the book recommendation, it changed how I viewed the world and politics.
Very cool thanks for the data point!

That makes sense to me too, honestly with those kinds of numbers might as well take a paid sabbatical for six months lol.
What about the use of quantum physics in things like semiconductors?
There's a difference between prediction and commanding.

It's like when a father tells his daughter she'll get married and have three sweet little children. That doesn't mean it's immediately set in stone and she's forced to.
> I don't know why you think that serde_json isn't good enough and so 49 other JSON libraries will spring up

Because I have some decades of experience.

> I also don't know why you're sure a programmer will decide they ought to write format!("\"{json_string}\"") but you're confident they would never write format!("\"{}\"", json_string).

That's not my argument. I am not saying string formatting will make injection vulnerabilities more likely, but that it's a missed opportunity to make them less likely. You add a new feature because it's more convenient and attractive, and so you expect people to use it. If you know that feature touches on what's known to be one of the most dangerous aspects of programming, you might as well make it more convenient and safer, so that you attract programmers away from the less safe options and toward the safer ones.
They use an external card processor which stores your details. They only store my card details there. No address, no name, nothing.

They don't access to your card details. Just an API integration, that's all.
I am concerned about climate change.

I am alarmed at how impossible it is for America to do anything about it. Both because a 6/10 majority should be able to accomplish something but cannot, and because the 4/10 minority is so aggressively blind to the evidence.

Climate change is a long way off, but we have many other problems facing us today where that same 4/10 minority is both very wrong and very capable of preventing corrective action. That was true before pandemic, but the pandemic is one direct and explicit example, and it's causing the US to fare worse than most other nations.

That's alarming.