skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The site’s author already agrees with you and has committed to making a better privacy policy. It’s on the list

Because, my friend, there are some things that go on to-do lists and some things that do not.

Launching something that collects personal data AND forwards it to a third party API ? Nah mate, that's NOT something where you can justifiably put "Privacy Policy" on your nearest To-Do list.

In addition, if you are potentially dealing with users in Europe who are covered by GDPR, a real Privacy Policy is NOT an option, it is MANDATORY.

I'm tired of software developers, irrespective of size, thinking it's a-ok to to take liberties with the personal information of others and/or not be transparent in what they do with your personal information.

The fact you are a mom 'n' pop shop and not Google does not make it any more ok.

Privacy cannot be an afterthought.
Modern or classical?
The beauty of real estate is that you can live off the income rather than having to draw down the principal like in a traditional stock/bond portfolio which doesn’t have a very strong current yield. But, as you age you need a manager and that takes a bite out of it.
I’d expect a CEO to act like an adult.
How dare you go against the grain of maximizing productivity? Are you a slacker, a freeloader, a (clutches "Fountainhead" close) second-hander?

On a non-sarcastic note, I recommend Derek Thompson's "Workism" -- it might resonate with you:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
That's only if you plan to leave your stock portfolio to your children when you die. You can take out more than 4% if your plan is to use up your savings while you are alive.
They need a new CTO, there is no reason any of this could not have been prevented by a solid engineering design. If we can have autonomous vehicles, rockets that can be reused, social media like tiktok, insta, snap, Twitter then no reason we can’t have mission critical systems to support southwest (or any airline for that matter) solved by technology
I think the whole LastPass fiasco just shows why everyone wants to get into the SaaS business so bad - subscription revenue is the gift that keeps on giving.

LastPass has proven they have no business safekeeping anyone else's credentials. Anyone who cares a modicum about their security will have migrated off. But migrating off is a HUGE pain (people will need hours to update hundreds of passwords), and LastPass's announcement just days before Christmas was obviously done so that your average Joe would just miss it.

So LastPass will be able to continue collecting subscription revenue from users who were too busy or just not paying attention to the news, despite the fact that they really should be giving refunds to everyone who depended on their service.
As a slight contrast to the other responses, I found setting up maturin (Rust + Python) very straightforward since the documentation is recent, and I find it's easy to write parsers in Rust because the ADT syntax is very terse.
It's true that the country will be fine for a while but savers are getting decimated in the process.

That $1M nestegg will feel like $250k in a few years.
I gave you an upvote even though I'm going to disagree with you. In general, I'm very open-market and low-regulation - however in this particular case you're touching on the idea of a "common carrier," which is an important idea.

When you have one (or a small number of) providers, in a high-barrier-to-entry industry, that provides a critical service - this gives these providers enormous power over us if they were to refuse to do business with us or charge us higher rates. Think water, electric, shipping/postal, internet access, telco, etc.

What if the postal service decided to stop doing business with you, perhaps because of the offensive content of the letters you want to send? Or nobody will ship your merchandise because they don't approve of it? Or your internet provider cancels you? And what if there are a small number of them that collude on these bans, so now you can't even switch providers?

By designating certain industries as "common carriers" it prohibits them from denying service to anyone for any reason, except for particularly obvious, egregious and illegal reasons.

If you want to send out Nazi propaganda newsletters to people who have requested them - the US Postal Service will (and should, I believe) deliver them for you.

We should not allow telcos to decide who's calls to put through. This is a job for legislators and law enforcement, however imperfect those solutions are.
I've never thought anything related to chemistry was simple, so if it really is more complex then I'm glad I'm in IT.
In a society that does not give any value to people's lives beyond their productive output, this will inevitably be an outcome of euthanasia. It merely provides a more dignified alternative to the existing paths to what we call "deaths of despair".

People who were forced to starve, to subsist, to suffer empty, meaningless lives of toil and/or misery, now have an alternative to the continuation of their suffering. This does not mean the alternative is good, but neither is its absence.

One would hope that seeing how many people would rather choose to die in their own terms, as opposed to continuing to toil to enrich their landlords while they have to choose between food and heating, would steer us towards building a better society, one where people have not only freedom, but autonomy over their own lives.

And if it doesn't, well, then I suppose I'm glad we have an alternative to the society we're building.
Central banks are only recently been making things harder. Previous 10 or so years were quite easy on government debt. Even in some cases being negative.
Probably took losses on the bond portfolio when he saw rates rising. Should’ve just held steady.
Agreed. It should at least log you out of all sessions without you having to do it yourself. This is good to know if I ever want to rotate my encryption key. Knowing this, I may even log out of all sessions even if I was rotating my master key.
It’s funny that you use unit tests as an example of it being possible to run drills for this kind of thing. Unit tests are by their definition not the kind of thing that simulates this kind of failure. Perhaps you have a false sense of security about what you’ve really been testing?
If you're such a DBA, the rest of an enterprise will quickly route around you.
The price-earning ratio for Volkswagen is 4.4 on the 22nd of Dec, Tesla still has a ratio of 38.05. That is partially based on the hype of a full self driving Tesla. That promise looks like it won't materialise anytime soon. Other car manufacturers are also catching up on the EV market. The Tesla share price will likely been going downhill for a while.
Like I said earlier, you probably haven't looked at Alan Kay's work in depth.

What did he do after Smalltalk? If it seems like nothing, it may be because you weren't the target demographics. He cared about teaching children computational thinking. Squeak, Etoys, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay#Subsequent_work
Probably saved a couple thousand dollars.
I agree with the parent's GP's interpretation. Woman was making $250k annual. Up to that point had only had a retirement account of $250k. Which strikes me as sheer bananas.
Spam filtering for phone calls is in its infancy. Only 20% of calls are signed https://transnexus.com/blog/2022/shaken-statistics-november/. Some robocalls are signed. Many legitimate calls are blocked. I ignore all unknown callers.
Medicare covers a lot, but excludes a lot (glasses, hearing aids, long-term care, for example). Add in Medicare premiums, supplemental premiums, and co-pays, and it's not inexpensive.
Hot Frameworks
> Elon Musk is right: Social media should tell you when you’re shadowbanned

Defeats the purpose of shadow banning...
I was curious how F = mv/t relates. TIL a steel hammer reverberates 30% of the energy back into the arm. Titanium is only 3%. I imagine it feels a lot better after a day of work.

https://www.protoolreviews.com/titanium-hammers-vs-steel/
a people problem like you describe seems much much harder to solve in any reasonable time frame compared to a software issue.
The front edge of the Dell XPS 17 is not just square, but distinctly sharp. It's terrible.
Costs a lot to expatriate though. Deemed disposition on exit = capital gains.
It's not a hard-and-fast rule.

The problem is this: once you have a high level of debt, you become sensitive to interest rate changes. Your debt rises, so you have to increase interest rates to lure investors to buy the bonds. The high interest rate forces to you run a bigger deficit, do you have to borrow even more money. Then investors demand an even high risk premium. That's the cycle.

Once that process takes hold, the only way out is some combination of lower living standards, higher taxes, higher inflation and currency devaluation.

You're right that it hasn't happened yet in the modern era. But it will. Remember where you heard it first.
AFAIK that only happens with planes and boats, where the transporting company is on the hook for sending you back if the border at the destination turns you away. I've driven into Canada numerous times and never encountered any sort of American checkpoint before the Canadian border. But when I get onto a ferry in America that goes to Canada, they do check my passport first before I get onto the ferry.
It's a lengthy discussion topic to say the least. High level, pension coverage and associated healthcare plans have declined over the decades, 401ks (they were initially designed as a tax shelter for the wealthy) were parroted as the solution when they weren’t, and with the healthcare arrangement in the US, what might have been sustainable previously no longer is. Hence, people bouncing from an extraction economy to enjoy higher standard of living during the last chapter of their life (because it ain’t getting fixed in the US in a timeframe that matters to them). Florida was the default for a lot of retirees because of no state income tax, warm weather, and low cost of living, but those days are long gone with the residential insurance market collapsing, the price of real estate at all time highs, and the extreme shortage of doctors, RNs, CNAs, and care home aides.

Similar to college costs, the amount of total capital required to retire comfortably is accelerating away (due to underlying cost inflation, compressed future capital market returns, and longer expected lifetimes) from the capability of the mean worker to accomplish the necessary level of wealth accumulation during a work lifetime. Very few levers to pull besides earning more or finding somewhere to live that costs less.
How do they get the big bucks out of the last bank?
No idea why; one guess is that it didn't occur to Tesla to worry about test-drivability and rentability yet. Probably hasn't harmed them so far because the brand has a fan following, of people happy to spend a few hours learning these details up front. Could become more of an obstacle for Tesla when there are five brands of really good electric cars, designed to test-drive well, available for immediate purchase at dealers.
I tried to cover this in my second paragraph, but I'll give it another shot; whether it's legal or not to use internally doesn't really change the political reality that trying to use this internally at most big companies will be an uphill battle that most people aren't going to fight. From a pragmatic perspective, perspective matters even if it's irrational; if anything, the fact that someone holds a perspective that's irrational is even _more_ of an argument that cold reason might not be effective at changing their behavior. This is a thing I've struggled with a lot in various circumstances, and I think it's not an uncommon hurdle for a lot of us in the tech community, but ultimately you have to decide whether you care more about how you make your case or if you care more about whether it succeeds. It's a totally defensible position to take that you shouldn't have to cater to people who have irrational fears about your product and that they should be willing to try it out based on the fact that the risk they worry about isn't real, but if what you really want is to be able to sell the product and have people use it, you won't be happy at the end of the day if that strategy doesn't work. I might be entirely incorrect about what the goals of the author of mold are, but based on what I've read, it sounds like this is basically the situation they're in now. If I'm incorrect, and they're genuinely happier sticking to their strategy even if it costs them the ability to sell the product, then my advice doesn't apply and they can and should ignore it. If they aren't happier this way though, I hope that they either consider a different strategy or that I'm completely wrong about what's stopped it from succeeding so far, because I just don't see the situation changing if there isn't a shift in how it's marketed.
I think my mind was first blown when our physics teacher asked us if H2O conducts electricity. And naturally we all said yeah[1]. We were naturally wrong, but pure water is amazing in its own right.

edit: decided to add an edit just in case someone tries to test this claim

[1]https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
This brought a smile to my face. Solid industrial engineering fundamentals brought to the table.
I generally agree. A lot of outrage, especially online outrage, reads to me like people finding things for the first time and being shocked by it.

Even when those things are incredibly routine, or dictated by a well-intentioned law.
The expensive part is not the terminals, it is providing continuous reliable service in a hostile environment with a determined adversary.
I was a dutiful recycler until links here on HN taught me that plastic thrown in the main garbage stream would end up safely in a landfill, but 20% of recycled plastic ends up in the ocean!
One thing I always wonder is what exactly does HCl dissolve in the stomach, and how does it not destroy the nutritional value of the food?
Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email.

We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this.

Imagine you send me a message that just says [[personalized thank you note for the pair of socks you got me for christmas]]. Then I just imagine a long GPT-3 generated message in its place. And I reply with [[gracious acknowledgment and well wishes for the new year]].

Exactly the same intention is communicated, and we both waste less time :)
Logically, there must be enough benefit for them carrying spoofed robocalls to risk regulatory attention AND driving away all their voice revenue. Many people have stopped answering their phones altogether since voice calls became unusable.
> But migrating off is a HUGE pain

It took less than 10mn to migrate to Bitwarden. What do you mean by migrate?
Property taxes in Texas are large enough to be half a mortgage payment, but the appraisal can be stopped when someone hits 65
I would love to know if, of the 219 people, how many of them are victims of systemic neglect (e.g. chronic condition patient whose meds aren't covered by insurance, suicidal patient who cannot get inpatient therapy, addiction patient who has been denied methodone or other drug-assisted sobriety). Even if it's only 219 people, I think if even half were victims of systemic neglect, I would want very far-sweeping policy changes to prevent these deaths.
Testing reveals the presence of bugs, never their absence. With hindsight you can always feel smugly superior in saying “you should have tested for this”, but there’s an infinitude of things you might need to test, and if you haven’t encountered a failure you didn’t test for, you’re probably just lucky.
On the flip side Southwest has stranded what look like tens of thousands of passengers. The memo seems to be focused on curing that problem. It's not clear what the alternative(s) would look like short of ditching all their passengers.

It looks like this is not a fun week for anyone who works at Southwest.
Free text of the research paper:

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/6353634...
Why would it be obvious that you’re using someone else’s pickup line?

In any case, for openers/pickup lines/ice breakers I don’t personally see any difference between using chat GPT and a friend or a pocket “1001 pickup lines to make your sweetheart swoon”. There’s an understanding that it’s a prefab solution so I think the harm is minimal if at all.

For the rest of the conversation it is less clear. If it’s a synchronous conversation it seems a bit weird to be using a computer to generate responses.
Part of that is the ndarray crate, which IMO is too generic often, making syntax complicated. The nalgebra crate is a bit nicer IMO, example:

https://github.com/martinxyz/progenitor/blob/85260/crates/pr...
There's tons of people without bags, and additionally due to the total operational breakdown there is no one to ask about where your bag is and hear any idea about what's going to happen.
Migrating from LastPass to another password manager is actually a pretty easy process. Many password managers can import passwords from LastPass.
Fun fact: The exact meaning of the letter p in "pH" is disputed, as Sørensen did not explain why he used it. Sørensen describes a way of measuring pH using potential differences, and it represents the negative power of 10 in the concentration of hydrogen ions. The letter p could stand for the French puissance, German Potenz, or Danish potens, meaning "power", or it could mean "potential". All the words for these start with the letter p in French, German, and Danish—all languages Sørensen published in: Carlsberg Laboratory was French-speaking, German was the dominant language of scientific publishing, and Sørensen was Danish. He also used the letter q in much the same way elsewhere in the paper. He might also have labelled the test solution "p" and the reference solution "q" arbitrarily; these letters are often paired. Some literature sources state that the "pH" stands for the Latin term pondus hydrogenii (quantity of hydrogen) or potentia hydrogenii (power of hydrogen), although this is not supported by Sørensen's writings. Currently in chemistry, the p stands for "decimal logarithm of"
You can report the post(s) individually. I guess the moderator who looks at the report will have to figure out that the account was hacked. Or just disable it if it's been abandoned by the original owner.
Life in Europe looks pretty nice from the outside at least. Could America sign up for self-vassalage or something?
> She had 15 years of saving 26% of $250k to only have $250k???

But that part is just... wrong.

We don't know what the savings rate was before her "mid 50s" - clearly it was LESS than 26% of $250k, and yes, that is bananas. But GGP's text does not match what the article says.

In reality, she started with $250k around 55, and then saved (up to) 26% of $250k for 10 years, retiring at 65 with about $1 million saved.
This was the bridge into Canada at the Sault Ste. Marie checkpoint. The traffic was backed up for a very long stretch and it is the only time I've been stopped there outbound from the USA so maybe they were looking for something specific, still, it really upset my plans at the time, and I was already pretty tired from the trip and only about 45 minutes driving time from home.
> the most effective way of recycling is to limit your purchases altogether.

This has always been true. There's just been a lot of "feel good" marketing around this point to beguile the market out of this rather common sense in the past few decades.

> Then turn to the recycling industry and maybe it will find a way back.

Putting my curmudgeon hat on for a second, I remember a time when we used to make products with high enough quality and durability that they would either last nearly a lifetime or get repaired when they didn't.
Thank you! It's not something I have really had an opportunity to think about. I've worked with people who have had other kinds of disabilities both physical and mental, the world they have to navigate and challenges they have are, for lack of a better work, astounding.

I remember back in school we took turns using a wheel chair for a day to get a vague sense of what it would be like. How you would have to plan your route around the school, getting through doors. Just the difference in perspective in the hallway. For something like seizures, that is harder to think about so I appreciate your reply as opposed to the derision.
The name of one of the Indian languages "malayalam" is a palindrome, though not visually symmetric.
>> Extra info: earlier this summer I started to put together a figure to illustrate the "entropy of ignorance"

Wow, that's heavily biased. "Create a culture of fear and weakness -> Enforce useless mask-mandates"? That's extremely biased (and ignorant in itself).

Also, it does not follow potential ramifications of some major decision, for example, "lockdown -> no" ends there, failing to illustrate outcomes when observing current spread rates, mutation rates, and death rates of a virus.
Only if you assume that the US economy will stop growing, and with it the tax base. The US government’s ability to pay debt isn’t just its ability to print money. It’s also the ability to collect tax revenues and given how stable economic growth in the US has been for hundreds of years, it’s reasonable to assume that it can easily pay debts well over 100% of gdp.
Did you have trouble finding an LTC plan that was reasonably priced to provide enough coverage? As expensive as care is and premiums are, I didn't see pricing that made sense vs. saving for it myself.

(I do have a tiny life insurance plan with a LTC rider so I could get exempted from the payroll tax in WA state.)
Waste-to-energy plants have been utilized for a couple of decades in Sweden. There's several new plants in the USA.

I think it's more likely that regulated and aggregated pollution management will be at least somewhat successful. These plants will buy up vast sums of waste that would otherwise often get into the environment and oceans. Honestly with good air scrubbing it could replace many of our coal plants with better air quality outcomes.
Just as with ISPs, for many people in the US, true airline choice is not a luxury they have. Depending on their origin and destination, there may be only one airline that flies it, or only one that flies without a ridiculous set of stops or layovers. Even if people want to switch airlines, unless they live near a major airport or have high flexibility on when and where to fly, it's not really practical.
In an elder care facility that costs?
It varies massively by airport and by time of year, and you just go into “Non U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents” (there’s almost never a “Europe” line).

On airports, there are a set of U.S. airports like Los Angeles which always seem to have long queues, and a few where CBP is more prone to asking 20 questions of everyone.

On times of year, visiting cities when a big convention is happening can be much slower, as can traveling near a holiday like Thanksgiving.

I’ve witnessed and stood in a 3 hour queue at San Francisco and that was my #1 motivator to go get Global Entry sorted.
It's quite nicely explained on the official EU site (much better than how I understand):

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/liquidity_lines/htm...

Without a swap line banks couldn't just treat EUR as USD whenever an entity needs to keep USD for import/export purposes.
EMP FTW
What is missing today that will make it viable 10 years from now?
At this point I'll settle for 'like a responsible teenager'.
No, a normal life isn't risk-free. If you want to live a maximally safe life by spending it in a cocoon and having others provide what you need, that's on you to pay for.
The entire reason for the direct expenses (as opposed to say, negative reputational effects) is the lengthy appeals process. Euthanasia lacks such gatekeeping.