skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I am from a south asian background. I choose to take care of my parents when they are old as they had done for their parents and so on up the generation tree. Its never a burden, its just a way of doing things. I would like to hope that my children would do the same for me as their value system would be passed down from me and my surroundings. I think its because of the cultural upbringing. I would also add most south asians would agree with my sentiment.
Time for metric time!
From a relative of mine: You should live off of your parents until your kids are old enough for you to live off of them.
I'm just pointing out that when the evidence of bodies piling up emerged, people denied it, so I assume that will still happen even if bodies pile up even more.
I'm with you 100% until the last paragraph.

We are definitely social creatures, and living lives of increasingly less social interaction is not going to work out for us personally or as societies.

But I see no reason we can't handle society at a scale of millions or billions of people. It, after all, always is experienced as less than that, even people who live in NYC or Mexico City have regular interactions with a smaller group of 100-200 people at most, even if incidental daily interactions with more people than most of us.

But those incidental daily interactions with a huge number of people -- I am pretty sure are actually positive. To the extent that I'd predict that even in the present society with social interaction limited by the social forces we're talking about -- someone living in manhattan who, on the average can't help but interact incidentally with a huge number of people daily (on average, there are exceptions, going up with wealth!) -- is likely on average to be happier, due to those interactions, than someone in a suburb working remotely who has one to two incidental interactions... a week?

I think those incidental interactions are in fact key to happiness, the more the better, and there is no problem if due to living in some of the densest places on the planet, they are with a huge number of diverse people.

Also I think people seriously under-estimate the extent to which humans have lived in "urban" societies for many thousands of years. Granted, the scale of "urban" was smaller than it is now (a city of 20K people was enormous 500 years ago), but we have always been extremely social creatures, always in fact, in general on aggregate, looking to maximize our number of relationships and interactions. (See eg _Dawn of Everything_). (I also think people way over-estimate the universal cultural homogeniety of "ancient" and "pre-historical" civilizations. Things were not as we assume).
> Still sound like your opinion vs his.

Can't do much better in short HN comments. I've tried at times to be more rigorous than that, but so far I've only scratched the surface: https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/good-code
Social security pays out at 80% when the trust fund is exhausted in a decade. It’s then a policy change to increase benefits back to 100% (no cap in income exposed to SS taxes).

Math might improve a bit with US treasuries paying almost 4%, as that is what the trust fund invests in (specifically special issue treasuries).

> By the end of 2021, the trust funds had accumulated $2.9 trillion worth of Treasury securities, earning an average interest rate of 1.4 percent during that year. The Social Security Administration provides monthly reports on the investment holdings of the trust funds, their maturities, and interest rates. The trustees project that the trust funds will earn $64.6 billion in interest income in 2022.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/understanding-...
Show HN: We added ChatGPT to our documentation to make them fully portable
TLDR: Check out our documentation search here: https://xata.io/docs/overview

Hello HN. I'm a designer over at Xata. We build a serverless database platform on top of Postgres and Elastic-like search that provides goodies like a native TypeScript client for type support in your IDE. Long story short, we're trying to bundle all the normal stuff you need out of a database along with branching, so you don't have to glue everything together.

Today we added a new /ask/ endpoint to our search product that bundles in ChatGPT support into any stored data. Why would you want this, you might ask? Fantastic question. Let's say you have a bunch of documentation stored in OpenAPI with a jumble of random markdown files in a Github repo. Sound familiar? With Xata you could push that content into a Xata DB on publish, and immediately get text and vector based search against that content. The new /ask/ endpoint only needs some rules, and suddenly you have natural language responses. Because it's all just markdown, you can then render the response back in your documentation site with syntax highlighting and all that goodness.

Ok yeah, yeah. Docs chat. I get it. What makes this really cool is that because the content is now in a database, along with those endpoints, our documentation is suddenly portable. We can now provide helpful links throughout the product that ask "How do search boosts work?" that can answer things inline without linking you somewhere. We're still kicking the tires on this stuff, but it's nice to get the authoring experience of writing markdown in Github repos and seeing it suddenly show up anywhere, not just a static website. Obviously there's more you can do with it than this docs uses case, but it's the one we wanted to build for ourselves.

Here's a 5-minute video that explains the basics along with some other resources if you want to build something similar yourself.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbH9OHXvok0

The new ask endpoint

https://xata.io/docs/api-reference/db/db_branch_name/tables/...

A deeper technical dive on how this works

https://xata.io/blog/chatgpt-on-your-data

A starter repo with examples against Pokemon!

https://github.com/xataio/examples/tree/main/apps/sample-cha...
I keep telling my older relatives this: yeah your house is now 800k, but so is the house you want to move to... It doesn't matter when it goes up since you can only ever move laterally or downgrade.
It’s not that it will prevent you. It’s that no one will want to listen to it.

Do you ask your parents or google?

Do you ask strangers for directions or google maps?

Do you wear sweaters knitted by other people? They’d have to pay YOU to put up with their sweaters and wear them.

No one outside of a niche or your immediate family will give a shit about your music, buddy. They already don’t give a shit about most other things people used to do, after automation replaced it.

If it makes you feel better, already hardly anyone really reads the vast majority of comments and articles people write. It is solely an exercise in releasing your own stress LOL. No one cares!
If you can't retire at 66, do you think you will have enough to cover rocketing health care costs and needs as you turn 70 and then 80? At 66 you should be installing accessible bath tubs and stair railings and lifts. If you don't lay the ground work now, it'll get grim sooner rather than later.
> If your day suddenly is more than 4% longer or shorter, you might wonder about increased or decreased traffic for that day.

I can confidently state that if there is a sudden change in the length of the day of 4% or greater, questions about traffic statistics tied to that on any website I am involved with be very low on my list of priorities.
Yes this! If I make websites as a blind person, I'd probably just have CSS give headings 20 PT font size, paragraphs line spacing 2, 16 PT. Something like that. But if browsers used good defaults I could just not worry about CSS and just go with plain HTML.
Sorta. Comparisons to any disease/outbreak from before antibiotics are doomed to use for comparisons.

They are not useless, to be sure. But they will be very dirty in the stats.
A simple Python wrapper for the ChatGPT API
It is a bit odd that "monospace" in a mac browser gets you Courier/Courier New, because macOS has come standard with Menlo for ages and Monaco since the OS 9 days, both of which are excellent monospace fonts that are far and away better than either Courier. Even weirder, outside of browsers requesting a monospace font will get you Menlo.

Newer releases also have San Francisco Mono that it could use instead, which is even better since it's tuned for modern displays.
Deno didn't have a structure that caught my attention in its early stages. But now i see it going in the direction i need logically. I guess I need to start experimenting with a side project.
I would prefer to keep this information in version control. A commit message with a thorough explanation of why the previous version failed and how the change resolves the problem would accomplish the same thing as a comment in the code, but it wouldn't clutter the correct version.

And as others have said, you could add some unit tests to prevent others (or your future self) from creating a regression.
The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File
Or post office worker anyway. There isn't actually a "driver" involved, the PO Box is in the post office identified with that zip code, the only driving involved is to get it to that building in the first place!
> Rarely did anybody take that to mean they shouldn't talk to the person.

I've always taken that sort of thing as a social cue that the person doesn't want social interaction.
Do you use this each morning? What’s it like to do that? What other features or changes have you considered for this project but not added?
Yeah, it the these workers get all the benefits too. Phunny how that happens.
A bunch of US zip codes are for PO Boxes only, so this seems to stand a strong chance of working, at least in those places.
The thing is: if you look at that we would also need to look at why Apple hasn't changed to USB-C on their iPhones yet while almost(?) everything else of theirs has changed years ago.
Agreed, I was assuming too high of a value being discussed.
Deno should have like a mirrors.manifest.js file that stores your dependency links, and mirrors, should one source go down... that way it wouldn't be such a problem, the only big issue might be ensuring the sources don't have a rogue link or two from bad actors, where they do something nefarious like build a useful package then swap it out for a bad version later on, and put only on a mirror so when things go south it triggers, of course there could be bots/queues that periodically take md5s of the code, or just whenever version changes occur, so that would stop that.
That's at-most-once.
> To avoid doxxing myself, I’ve carefully changed the address readers see.
Deno caches your dependencies locally.

If you are building something that demands high availability you probably want to host the dependencies yourself though. Which is easy, you just copy them and serve them as static files (assuming their license allows that use).
That seems absurdly high if you're talking about fully remote.
"The market" doesn't want EVs and EV infrastructure because the majority of equity holders financially benefit more on a margin basis from the petro-dollar based system that ubiquitous EVs would threaten.

However because a subset of rich (and debt insensitive) individuals want a sexy new thing that has marginal ecological benefits at small scale, we had a boom period where excess capital (and unsustainable debt) was being spent to try and push EVs into the market.

When cleaning ladies and burnouts are using EVs because it's as trivial as using a petro-car then I'll grant that the market is working, but as it stands 'The Market" is only given token nod to electric and it's a fashionable thing to do in the US, it's not sustainable the way it is happening.
The End of the Public API Strangler
It was not a sensationalized media story. It was something that happened and that wasn't normal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/don-t-leave-him-here-ecu...
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-01/el-coronavirus-desbor...

It got to the point that the COVID task force coordinator had to issue an apology: https://twitter.com/EcuadorTV/status/1245492946675347460?s=2...

I think your comment really proves my point. Even when there's overwhelming evidence of how bad it really was, there's always someone who will downplay it or even deny it.
They still use Swarm's own satellites. And Swarm still launches additional satellites. They last launched 12 satellites on January 3rd on a Falcon 9 launch.
Yes, but that does not mean it will write most code. I am not talking about programmers dissapearing, I am talking about them stopping to write React components.
Same was said about microphones and amplifiers, the drum machine, sampling...

Music just adapts. New methods, new sounds, new genres. And it won't get easier to create music, it will just get easier to create certain parts of it (anyone can play strings now with an orchestral sampler; that was unthinkable 50y ago). It will still be brutally hard to stand out from the crowd.
OpenAI (ChatGPT) API Integration Platform
I've been in at least two apartments blocks that had multiple post codes, but that's not hugely unusual as a UK post code is (to a first approximation[0]) a street identifier, so the high street has one, the side street has another, and the rear parking might also be its own.

In one case, this meant my front door and back door had different post codes, even though it was a 35 square metre one bed apartment.

[0] except when it isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Actually, no one should cross a picket line.
When inflation > interest rates, saving is a loss making activity. That's the environment we've been in from 2008 until about 2022. You're not wrong and I am the same as you, but we can't blame people for adapting to their circumstances...
> A host for your index.html files Hostgator $33/year plan.

- Google Cloud Firebase Hosting - free; really good tooling to deploy, automatic CDN
- AWS S3 + CloudFront - a bit more setup, but more or less free
- Azure Static Web Apps - free

No need to have any hosting plan.

Firebase Hosting in particular is really easy to get started and connect a domain to it. The Firebase CLI tooling makes it dead simple to deploy updates as well.
It's a power imbalance. Starbucks can close one trying-to-unionize location because they have 3 others in a few block radius in some cities, and in doing so ensure the other 3 stores are too scared to unionize. If all 4 stores in a town unionized, Starbucks can withdraw from the town because they have 16 stores in a neighboring city, so and in doing so intimidate them. There is no equivalent behavior a worker can have.
Yeah, well, if they were to heat up the economy some other way than paying rich people to invest, or cool it down some other way than paying rich people to not invest, it would upset the only people who matter.
Agreed.

I cannot imagine relying on a company to pay me during retirement. I get that that system existed once, but the incentives are so misaligned it terrifies me
Swarm operates as a wholly owned subsidiary as far as I can tell. It wasn't fully integrated into SpaceX.
>> I don't think we should define days around the petty need of humans.

Why not? Are you being considerate for alien life? As far as we know, humans are the only ones who are going to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c might be of interest - it has some of what the machines are trying to read and what accuracy they need.
In EU we say 1000 tonnes, but i guess that this does not sound impressive enough for a newspaper.
Stuart Semple also has a 'white 2.0' that looks like neon white compared to regular white.

https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/white-20
Intent to Ship: CSS headline balancing
Bogleheads isn't about capital gains tax. It's about steadily investing in a passive portfolio, dollar cost averaging in, and taking advantage of compounding returns. It's also about living frugally below your means, but not everyone wants that second part :)
Separate inner markings, like on most 24 hour earth clocks I find on Google images. When you've lost clean divisibility with 5, conflating the dials to make every hour house 2.5 minutes is already not a nice design.

Of course, you need mechanically handle the jumping ahead of the minutes and seconds arms.

What you get tends to look like a very precise chronometer, the type a Mars scientist would wear.
> Rather than admit our economy no longer works

What do you mean our economy no longer works?
Visual example in this tweet: https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/1542264788029423616
> why do we waste time arguing over trivia that doesn't matter and could be answered in seconds?

Because it's not about getting answers or determining facts. It's about the social interaction.
Fossified Pilot Episode
I wonder if a sufficiently famous, public, and unique name could get delivered. Would a letter simply addressed “Biden” make it to the White House?
For once, we're blocking the right thing. Good that the CDU/CSU is no longer in charge of the Interior Ministry, but still Nancy Faeser (SPD) is barely better than the Conservatives.
‘Organoid intelligence’ could create brain cell-powered computers
Code needs to be written :(
Light is reflected, not heat, and a part of it goes directly in space.
For the vast majority of artists in any genre no one pays any attention anyway. The threshold where people starts to pay attention to you is really high. If you make art for the sake of adulation, sure, good enough AI generation will make that even harder. But your odds of getting to that stage are already vanishingly small.
So we need to go back to talking to people irl. And basically assume that anything you read online is not written by real people unless proven otherwise.
It's impossible to save because of the inflation, high cost of living and taxes.
It was never possible historically speaking and we are no different today.
Question we have to ask, how that happens that with taxes taking like 50% we can't provide people with pensions.
This can be hit or miss, I remember when younger I got a letter to our PO Box with just the ZIP+4 (the ZIP is unique for a post office, and if there are less than 10000 PO Boxes, the +4 is unique for the box).

Part of it can come down to if the postman wants to bother to figure it out.
Their twitter account sometimes talks about customers. https://twitter.com/SwarmInternet/

Here's the most recent one they posted: https://www.shapetechnology.co.nz/doc-deploys-remote-shape-e...
That orange barcode could've been added by a human too. The entire sorting process only relies on that barcode, so once a human decodes the address and adds that barcode it'll just work.
Why GoodRx is emailing customers about sharing their health information
Good point.

But I'd point that languages and compilers are built so we can have both.

The problem is some definitions of good really aren't, and it isn't just because they're slow, it's because they make some things "good" at the detriment of others. Uncle Bob's Clean Code is really good at making some portions of the code "good" and "simple", but when put together they are interconnected in ways that are more difficult to understand.
i think if you use tailwind, not to use the actual package loses a lot of what it can do, I don't think you get all the features/functions for ..um only delivering the parts required (having mind fog this morning lol)... I'm not sure if it's tree-shaking, but how they look at every file w/ tailwind in and only bundle up the needed css. However, maybe it works in deno? I don't know.
Even then, the Channel Island are a Crown Dependency and use the GB ISO code, while the Isle of Man is also a Crown Dependency and has its own ISO code.

The British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory are both British Overseas Territories, but unlike the Falklands, Bermuda, etc, do not have their own ISO codes.

So the determination is more complex than that.
That raises the question if it's a political action. If Q1 2023 is a third consecutive quarter in GDP decline, that would seem to strongly signal a recession.

Is there a formula that is followed to officially/definitionally determine is the US is in the recession? I'm not even sure how to search for the answer to this next question but I presume somewhere there has been a process used by the government in the past, so we can at least tell if current government is charting their own process.
In many cases, the PO box number becomes the suffix of ZIP+4 so you could probably write 21240-1084. I have friends use this nine digit number as their return address.

Note: the real barcodes use 11 digits. There are two extra digits beyond the Zip+4 that encode the stop along the route. The Zip+4 gets you to the block but then you need two more digits to specify the house/apartment etc. If you can decide the barcodes sprayed on the front of the envelope by the USPS, you'll find the extra two digits. But the Zip+4 that everyone knows isn't that precise.
It’s interesting to see that the senders of these letters and postcards have not written Gandhi’s postal address. Since Gandhi was always travelling and campaigning all over the country; often people did not know his exact postal address and many letters were addressed to "Gandhiji, jahan ho wahan (meaning wherever he is)". [0]

[0] https://zikredilli.com/delhi-depository/f/to-gandhi-wherever...
Happy to go by your numbers, that was just the first search result. 35% is still very significant, so your initial claim about it having no traction and this being just a face-saving gesture was not correct.
Wow, that's 1.5 billion goals. Per second!
I know with the Leaf that would be relatively easy, because it doesn't ensure current from the battery matches the current going to the motor, so if you add a plug into the HV and inject power so the battery current nets zero, it can drive indefinitely. The gen2 (non-plug-in) Prius throws errors if it detects current out of balance so it's a lot harder to hack. So whether any given car could easily be hacked to use a generator is up to the particular implementation and us hackers don't have those Rivian vans! Though, I wonder if anyone has hacked the pickup yet?
How to Migrate from Google App Engine Python 2 to Python 3 with Minimal Risk
The difference between different countries postal services is quite amusing. UK postmen delivering based on drawing on envelopes, while here in Czech Republic I have had mail not be delivered despite the address being printed on the envelope perfectly.
Many people don’t have a realistic option to live below their means.

Not only do people make little money the US government literally kicks you off food stamps if you have 2,000$ in the bank.
"Not trying" is not the same thing as "not dancing in a minefield."

There's a difference. Folks try to make it seem as if there isn't, but that changes nothing.

I have often been called "negative," and a "naysayer," because I say really bad stuff, like "You know, we tried that, a couple of years ago, and it didn't work. Here's why..."

People think that I'm saying "We shouldn't try." Instead, I am saying "This way won't work. What should we do differently?".

There's that famous quote, attributed to Alexander Graham Bell, where he has had 10,000 failures, and he's asked why he doesn't give up, and he answers "Well, I now know 10,000 things that won't work."

What you get, with experienced people, is folks that have a map of the minefield.

I can tell, you, from my own perspective, that I have spent my entire life, Making It Happen. It's my job to ship, not make a bunch of noise, like I'm doing something, and nothing is happening.

I am currently working with a designer, on an app. He can't believe how quickly I'm implementing his vision. That's because I designed the app structure, to allow easy access to the chrome.

Wait until he finds out that I'll be able to implement his help overlays, using the voiceover (accessibility) text.