skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the post upthread I mean:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32540740

"I think your use of massively carries an implication to the reader that funding has increased above and beyond maintenance levels"

The word massive here just means a massive amount of money relative to other levels of government spending changes. From 2010-2020 most govt departments got budgets that went down (austerity), but the NHS was excluded and its funding continued to increase. The amount of money it got is truly massive even on the scale of government.

Trying to talk about "real terms" or "maintenance levels" with something like the NHS is impossible because demand for healthcare constantly increases even with a stable population demographic (some speculate that healthcare demand is actually infinite), as does demand for increased wages. History has shown that there is simply no level of funding increase that the NHS's supporters would ever consider sufficient because they can always claim that the system is strained, could use more people, better paid people, the latest treatments etc. So there's no fixed level that can be identified as maintenance, as one person's maintenance is another's underfunding, which is why all claims about underfunding are impossible to argue with - the statement is literally meaningless.

Related problem: enormous sums of money get allocated to it at a time when every other service gets cuts, explicitly earmarked for upgrades to capacity or buildings and it all gets immediately spent on pay rises in blatant defiance of direct government instructions. So service capacity doesn't change at all but govt can't do anything because too many voters worship the NHS and assume it's perfect except for lack of money.
Eventually you'll heat soak the insulation. With a waterheater, you have new water moving in as you use the previously heated on. The loss may be minimal, but still an efficiency drain half the year. Either way, you to pay for the housing and insulation. Then pay for a replacement battery every year or two.
> The money from taxes is burned, not spent.

> The government taxes to control inflation

You say these things like they art not related. Obviously taking money out of the system controls inflation. We could eliminate tax entirely and simply print money to pay for everything, but that would likely lead to runaway inflation.
Real GDP per capita per year increases over time though, it's not some static number that must take from others for yours to grow, it's perfectly possible to increase the GDP to get your larger salary.

That said one needs to be realistic about it, is going to college really going to make you 3x more productive at 22 than if you didn't?
That's not how evidence works. He either needs to show evidence that they don't work or he has to show why their evidence is unsatisfactory. Based on that video, he's done neither. Saying "nuh uh, your evidence is bad" is not an argument against the evidence.
> In the world we live in, this would be used to abort babies

It would also be used to support babies. Parents would be motivated to move to communities with support, education, affirmation.

Any helpful tool can also be harmful. The solution to misuse isn't enforced ignorance, it's education in virtue.
As someone who has a Starlink dish at this price point, I can assure you that it's a real product. The reason why there is a waitlist is to avoid over-saturating the bandwidth in a small area. If your area does not have a lot of users, you can sign up right away. Similarly if you order Starlink for EVs you do not have to wait.

https://www.starlink.com/rv
What to say other than being rude

The industry attracts people interested in the money they can make, they fake their knowledge and capabilities, and they don't understand what they are doing, because they don't care about the tech, they are here for the juicy pay

That's why our society needs to get rid of money and wealth asap, otherwise we'll be stuck on this dying planet eating each other's remains
perkele!
You could use the same argument to advocate for recreational drugs. Both they and lootboxes hijack the reward loop in our brains. For actual, buy-it-once games, I see his point, but it doesn't apply to the slot machines disguised as games nowadays.
What is that line? I don't think it's good to define it as "how it comes across." The best advice is usually negative and negative advice always is misinterpreted. If my intention isn't to be a jerk and I never explicitly acted out of bad faith or said anything that is explicitly is bad behavior, then the rules should be based off of that, and not a general interpretation.

The truth, isn't always well received, history shows this with big examples like galileo. So do you censor and moderate "interpretation" or "truth" because essentially what I see here is moderation of the truth in the name of a negative interpretation.

This is the same type of thing influencing free speech politics and gender pronouns. Because one small group decided it's offensive to call a transgender person by the wrong pronoun, you can now get fired for mistakenly referencing someone by the wrong gender. HN would do better if it allowed room here rather then just purely going off of interpretation. Think about it. Let the downvotes moderate for opinionated stuff, I think it's excessive for you to actually bring the hammer down. Some contrarian advice is good for this young man and the community in general because it lives in a sea excessively positive advice.

I got a massive amount of downvotes for my responses and that's ok. What wasn't ok for me is your warning, because I know the next time you'll actually shadow ban, and that to me is crossing the line.
You should email dang using the footer Contact link about this thread, so that he sees it.
Why are you comparing to Stanford and Berkeley students? They're not having issues finding STEM jobs.
https://archive.ph/tuaJg

Opens slowly sometimes. The key concept is what happens when your mind is "idle", which can happen many different places (including while driving).

David Gelernter, in his book The Muse in the Machine [1] writes that the fog which exists between full sleep, and fully awake, is an opportunity for your mind to sort things out while the "foreground censors" are still not operational, allowing you to make connections you might not otherwise make. Monica Anderson points out that the secret sauce to making use of those ideas is to learn not to open your eyes until you have fully rehearsed those ideas.

[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Muse-in-the-Machi...
Passport delays spur some Canadians to game the system with fake travel plans
And the fact that we’ve all been able to sleep peacefully without an anti democratic, nationalistic power invading New York City or DC since then. Oh the things we take for granted.
An investment?

Don't go to college and you'll be drowned in the flood of third world labor that has been allowed to invade the country. This is not the 1950's. You aren't going to graduate high school and support a family as a travelling shoe salesman. You're going to end up working next to Jorge in some dead end minimum wage job and spending most of your money on rent.

Saying that it's a choice is a form of gaslighting. For most people, not going means a life of brutal wage slavery and exploitation. I guess you would say it's a choice to live as well?
Or we just do what we do with other "dangerous" products like alcohol or tobacco and ban it for people under 21.

Scary warning labels on all college correspondence would be a nice start. WARNING: MAY LEAD TO A LIFETIME OF DEBT SLAVERY
How much are you looking to charge?
Citation needed. I highly doubt they do that "regularly" after they've witnessed evidence of citizenship other than a passport.
Side note:

https://mobile.twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/15629673112...

"SpaceX announced a big partnership with T-Mobile, $TMUS.

But $TMUS gets 0 options activity.

Before the 12:24 pre-news yesterday, someone swept 112k into $TMUS $150 calls for 6/16/2023 at 11:50am!

The 30k volume sustained next day, a 1000% increase.

Unusual."
Harvesting and distributing seaweed at that scale poses plenty of its own huge logistical hurdles. I wouldn't count on it as a solution.
No because crypto is a useless scam on the whole.

The exact opposite of an Industrial Revolution.

Actually it’s more of a virus or a parasite upon our industrial society. Adds no value, consumes gigawatts.
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>Bart Ehrman, a New Testament historian who is well known for his critical eye on this stuff

He is not known for any such thing. Ehrman's claims are all on the historical chain of evidence for the books, not whether the books are true accounts. I'm very familiar with his work. In fact, in his book "How Jesus Became God", he suggests that there's no evidence at all, historically speaking, that Jesus ever even claimed to be the Son of God or anything supernatural and that, if he did exist, he was just a preacher. Jesus was not mentioned by any of his contemporaries or the Romans at all and they kept excellent documentation of official events of their empire.

Either way, by your own admission, there were no eyewitnesses. If the books are dated 120 years after the birth of Jesus, then the people that wrote them were not around when those events occurred.

Also, your evidence is simply showing that the books existed. It doesn't prove or support the idea that the events in them were true. Your argument here is akin to saying that Ghostbusters is a true story because it takes place in NYC and that's a real city that exists now.

Quoting a book as evidence that the book is true is tautological.
It would be more refreshing if he said “an end of abundance for all you plebs. Me and my buddies? We’re in an unprecedented age of abundance off all your backs, and you’re letting us get away with it without even lifting a finger!

We at least thought by now you’d have pitchforks or something out so we can mow you down with autonomous drones, but turns out we just feed you drivel on facebook and tiktok and you turn into compliant little drones.

Anyway, enjoy your heat waves and droughts and hunger rapidly approaching, we’ll be in our bunkers and mansions and yachts you poor saps built for us”
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main.screen.turn.on

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In a similar position as OP and recognize most of what they're saying.

> Modem: Frequent disconnects, not receiving calls

Something I believe to be observing is that the phone can stay consistently connected for days if stationary but as soon as I take it out for a drive or longer walk I immediately start getting the disconnects, which I so far have only been able to resolve by a full reboot[0). This seems to indicate that switching towers and/or disconnecting triggers it.

> Bluetooth Audio

At this point I'm realizing OP may have a masochistic leaning. But props for pushing and no kink shaming :)

Aside from the modem dying, my biggest pain-point is absent in the post, despite running a fundamentally similar software stack. Ranfomly, audio will not work in calls. Sometimes it's flawless. Sometetimes I can not hear the other side. Sometimes the other side can not hear me. It happens often enough that it's barely worth the hassle to make phone calls if I can avoid it.

Regarding TOTP apps: https://github.com/grumlimited/authenticator-rs is very close to being a nice experience. It's already functional and stable, needs what seems to be mostly a couple of simple UI tweaks.

[0]: There are some pointers that I was not aware of tho, especially the state of baseband firmware; thanks!)
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That's totally incorrect. The current warming is unequivocally due to release of CO2 into the atmosphere. It's really simple physics.
Why is a background check that includes references needed for a passport? Its not the governments job to determine if you are a likable person and i hope they don’t rely on those likely very shallow checks to determine anything.
Lovely picture. One strand of electric fence. Those must be very well trained cows, and closely supervised to boot.

"More labor intensive" sounds like an understatement. If the cows will respect your portable fencing, fine; but thats "pet" grade training. The more independent minded bovines are likely to challenge any fence once the see a bite of grass they want on the other side of it. Or have an itch.
> This makes me very thankful for the work that the Go team has put into the go GC.

Has the Go team hit on some GC algorithm that has escaped the notice of the entire compiler-creating world since 1995? Not to disparage Go at all, it's got brilliant people working on it, but you could boil the oceans at this point with the effort from the brilliant folks who have been working on JVM garbage collection for the last 20+ years.
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If we can figure out mass nuclear power and efficient ocean desalination, then why couldn't everyone get to have energy intensive economies? I don't think they'll all look like America today-- but that's because we have others make our things cheaply and that won't always be an option in this scenario.
Not sure where you are getting that 8-10 year replacement cycle for EV batteries. Other than the original Leaf batteries, which had no thermal management, most reputable investigations have shown an expected life of around 200,000 miles for a battery. Newer chemistries like LFP promise even longer life.

If you are basing that 8-10 on the warranty offered by manufacturers, then I assume that you expect a gasoline engine to need to be replaced at 36,000 miles.
> There was no such thing as due process within their democratic process. i.e. if a dozen people from the community dropped your name on pottery shards into the anonymous legal pot, than you were banished from the city without trial.

That's Athens, not Rome, which had very little in the sense of actual democratic processes indeed, even in republican times. The tribal assembly was continually overshadowed by the senate, and the only popular institution of any power was the tribunate of the people with it's veto powers -- practically lost during the Punic wars until the government started to break under the strain of the wrongly-incentivized oligarchy.
30% for how long though?

10% seems low for a UK recruitment agency placing contractors in software dev or similar fields unless we're talking about relatively long engagements and the recruiter fees continue throughout.
Would the United States do such a thing? Was it Ukraine?
> causing them to turn to leftist politics and other disruptive actions

Ah yes, because rightist politics is normal and works inside the system, and there's no real cause for any protest, everything is awesome and all voices are heard, understood, and all problems are acted upon promptly.
I don't know whether Russians are the good guys or not but one thing is clear to be:

The EU is not the good guy since they blocked me from accessing RT.com.

The EU thinks I'm not allowed to access all information because god forbid me from coming to my own conclusions among all the lies that both sides spit out.

What is the EU so scared of that they are going to such desparate measures to hide things from me?
Sure, but it's also the biggest single source of calories in the world (wikipedia says 1/5 of globally consumed calories, citing a book), making it a good point of comparison.

And on top of that, if you look at the linked data, rice isn't even the most efficient (in terms of CO2/calorie) food source. I'm not suggesting everyone switch from beef to rice, I'm just saying that beef is egregiously inefficient. For comparison, even rice is 17 as bad as nuts, and beef is over 500x as bad as nuts. Also you basically can live on potatoes, and the chart shows root vegetables as basically on-par with rice for CO2/kcal. Beef is just so bad that any other diet looks fantastic in comparison.
Only if it breaks down without oxygen available. Normal decomposition goes directly to CO2
You don't need to be logged in to view other people's comments though
THIS. If you're not charging per project, you're a salaried employee, only without the guarantees and protections given to one.
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To your point, yes they are easy to dismiss. Until that one time you bump into someone of substance and don't have anything to hand them.

Biz cards are now a differentiator. For the cost, they're a no brainer.
Thank you for both of your responses. This one made me laugh, which was needed this morning.
> I think I do not misspeak myself by saying that the work of this article should settle the matter clearly and finally.

Perkele, consider the matter closed.
I carry around "Calling Cards."

These are more akin to the old Victorian concept[0], than the modern business cards. They are quite nice, Moo.com cards. They have my "personal brand" on one side, and simple contact info, on the other.

They are personal; not business (I also have business cards, but no one ever wants them).

People seem to like them.

[0] http://www.victoriana.com/Etiquette/victorianetiquette.html
Very true, that's a great way to think about it.
I would imagine the motivation would simply be that Chinese aristocracy had zero leniency with the notion of a wealthy, non-aristocratic class. From the perspective of the power structure, I can only imagine that's what 'wrong people' would mean. There was a similar tension in Europe I think.
This is pure anecdata. Based on the government's own numbers discharge of loans through bankruptcy was not a big issue when it was outlawed:

> The Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States recommended to Congress that educational debt be exempt from discharge in bankruptcy. The Commission made this recommendation despite evidence showing that less than 1% of federal student loans had been discharged in bankruptcy.[1]

Meanwhile, corporate America seems to have no moral qualms about stripping assets from a company, loading it with debt, and then going into chapter 11 to screw the creditors[2]. I don't see why we should hold students to a higher standard than highly paid executives.

[1] https://www.tateesq.com/learn/student-loan-bankruptcy-law-hi...

[2] https://www.retaildive.com/news/the-story-of-toys-r-us-bankr...
That's an "interesting" solution, since exactly what waked does is already done by kernel internally if you use timerfd, without the need for any special daemon. Any app that wants to be woken up at certain time can just register a timer for that time with the kernel.

I wonder if waked writing directly to RTC doesn't break the kernel alarm functionality used by timerfd, but hopefully not https://gitlab.com/seath1/waked/-/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L...

But why not, it's FOSS. :)
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I gave up on business cards when I realized I can send you a message via LinkedIn in the same time it takes to fumble for a card you’ll probably lose.