skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It s very hard for these reforms to pass in europe, to the point where it might be better to just let the pension systems collapse.

Raising the retirement age is not a great strategy, 70 yo people are not as productive and hoard jobs thus increasing unemployment of the most productive, the young. This is massively happening in all of southern europe and is a major reason for economic retardation.

Young people are increasingly aware that they will not get pensions. Old people hold vast amount of wealth in real estate which has become entirely unaffordable even to well-earning young professionals. At some point the collapse of pension funds will meet the need for housing. Hopefully there will be a tradeoff
Sure, the basic data about government spending is real but in this particular article it’s being leveraged for a distorted narrative, and the distortion is the idea that there’s no possible way we can pay for these things without fucking over the common person.

The infographic sliders are reinforcing the idea that “the money must come from one of these things” when it really should just come from progressive taxation at a reasonable rate instead of letting the wealthy off easy.

The Republican Party cut the taxes of the wealthy in 2017 and increased the deficit by doing so. They can’t be trusted to give advice about government spending because their basic party platform is that government is bad, the wealthy need tax relief, and their actual legislative track record is increasing the deficit. And yet here they are telling us through their study and this complimentary article that the only way to cut the deficit is to fuck the poor and the elderly.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much...
The quick answer: Yes and from a human visitor perspective, lethally high amounts. It's the single most intense emitter of radiation in the solar system except for the sun itself. If we wanted to colonize any planet with plentiful moons, Saturn would be a much better candidate at least in this regard.

Also, though another reply here mentioned Jupiter not emitting its own radiation, this isn't quite correct. It does, almost like a small pulsar.
I'm in a different country

Every shop I used to shop at has an e-commerce presence

Some are just getting used to it, but most are great
Nice, but don’t you realize that HN is a cult too?

1) Paul Graham, the revered founder whose corpus of essays is widely read (and will surely make “real critical thinkers” feel unwelcome)

2) Dang, an enforcer who invisibly hides comments and chastising people for speaking in a way he dislikes

3) Trigger warnings (“this article has a paywall”)

VC talk like HN’s is dangerous: it’s the road to a system that has seen more human rights abuses than almost any other

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism

More seriously, LessWrong is not a cult by pretty much any measure and your comment doesn’t really provide any evidence to say otherwise
Any given callee is going to deal with a bunch of both inputs and results. And it’s not clear to me what those terms mean — e.g. is the response from the database an “input” or a “result”?

I think your point of view would make more sense looking at the call stack — database access happens deeper than the code that handles the response, so you can’t push it “up” from there. And I mean, sure? But I don’t think that’s an inherently better frame than the one in which external sources are “upward” and your own application code is “downward”.
Ethnicity?

The statement quoted is about race being a silly non scientific concept.

What was the purpose of the US including race in the census in the first instance - I'm guessing it was some throw back to tracking former slaves post Civil War?
> I thought the idea of Social Security was an insurance program to guard against you outliving your means if you live long enough, not an I-get-paid-back cash-out of your payments. Is that a fundamental misunderstanding about what the purpose of SS is?

Yes, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of social security. Social security isn't insurance or an investment, it's a tax that's presented as an insurance or investment in order to make it more palatable. The social security tax rates were set with the demographics and life expectancies in mind decades ago. And now that these demographics and life expectancies have changed we'll either have to drastically increase the tax workers are paying, or drastically cut the amount that people withdraw.
The interrobang is just a ligature for !?, the love point is just a ligature for <3, the sarc mark is just a ligature for /s.

Friendly period is a waste, just don’t type a period, same effect

The goals of the question comma and exclamation comma can be achieved with existing constructions - how so? Like this! - that are just as parsimonious.

Irony, rhetorical question, and snark mark are actively bad: all three symbols destroy the ambiguity that is necessary for the device to function.

The Authority mark already exists[1].

Elrey and Acclamation seem to be fairly niche variations on the purpose of the standard exclamation mark - maybe a combining diacritic mark is the solution!̇ Typists of languages other than English are already there, just waiting to welcome you!̫̑

That leaves Certitude and Doubt. Certainly their case is the strongest, as they replace entire words. Perhaps using entire words is a good thing, though; the spectrum of certitude might be richer than the all-or-nothing binary choice offered by two characters…

1: The current form has the distinct advantage of actually providing some information about the authority being claimed.
90. Retired early at 60.
CLI is a UI, too.
Heck for 500k you can start your own Solar power plant and serve the neighborhood
Peak power is the key word. It's not a constant like Nuclear unless power storage improves many orders of magnitude from where its at right now.

Also given global tensions and solar's reliance on China in its supply chain i'm not sure its the better option.
It's lame from a social standpoint that subscriptions are fracturing the indie software user community. But, it wasn't paying the bills to have people half-using all the apps. You named two apps that have released features and improvements at a furious pace since they went subscription. That's great for users who are all-in and wouldn't have been possible if accommodating you.
Disable Apple Watch unlock for other Mac devices, a 4 digit pin on your watch really lowers the bar for security.
none, of course
>Also please understanding aliasing.

With ISAM files (dbase, clipper, etc files), one simply duplicated the file definition in code and pointed it to the same file on disk. Them were the days.

I'd also add, be aware of the time it takes to build and deliver views and stored procedures result sets, some of them kill the server, but at least sql servers only deliver the results over the network, unlike ISAM files which copied the entire set of files down to the workstation in order to then build the "view". Talk about congest the network.

TO the OP, I'd pick something that interests you and then look at what languages are being used in that domain.

Whilst its common to hear about the pythons, dotnet, java languages, in practice, there are many languages out there many being used in niche applications. Not all recruitment agencies deal with niche programming languages, so recruitment can take place in other ways, like via internet forums and user groups.

For example, one of the global companies that makes credit and debit cards uses this parser to control its manufacturing process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOLD_(parser)

They have different machines for making the card, programming the chip, printing and embossing, and all these different machines use different programming languages to control them and there are sometimes different machines in different parts of the world to contend with, because the banks like to get your replacement card out to you overnight anywhere or nearly anywhere in the world.

If you look on the back of your debit/credit card, you can usually find who manufactured your card.

So if you want to go mainstream, life might not be as rewarding. If worst comes to the worst, get a job working for security services, they like to train people up and you'll get an insight into how they think and operate, but you wont be able to tell anyone, its a contract for life which you might not want.
thanks for following up with more detailed numbers here.

> Ferrari shipped ... Lamborghini shipped

both of these also make SUVs now, which account for the majority of their sales. i was only referring to their real sports car offerings. those are traditionally roughly 5k worldwide per those 3 mentioned brands.

> Corvette ... 911

not really super sports cars, at least most editions of them. and i agree if including them all we are looking at a lot larger numbers, not that it changes my argument much.
> It seems as of 2015, 50% of road related costs came out of general taxes.

Note that in the context of the "half came from gas taxes," the article is only talking about highway funding. Local road funding isn't covered by Fed gas taxes at all.
I think the original comment proposal was (my, slightly sarcastic, paraphrase) "stop incentivizing anything but urban infrastructure and living, everything else is a ponzi scheme"

I agree with your proposal.

I have no objection to removing laws against high density housing.
because no one ever used CLASS and so it was poorly supported/understood
can you share the strap design to hold the microSD?
how do you decrypt it when accessing it? very cool!
I had a similar experience in two startups.

I can really recommend this path.
I mean, Paris in Alpha+ is close enough, I think.
> This mechanism pushes academia more and more towards mediocre Cargo Cult Science

Ultimately, a cargo cult is a scientifically sound application of empiricism that just happens to completely fail, whereupon it may be rejected. If scientific methodology is evaluated empirically (which I endorse) in terms of enabling scientific progess, you end up with a cargo cult.

For example, why is it a good idea to have falsifiable hypotheses? Most philosophers don't adhere to this standard. You might make a great argument on the grounds of what scientific progress means, how tangible it is and how it prevents discussions that are in some precise sense a waste of time. However, if you ground your epistemology on experience, the best and most convincing reason to adopt falsifiability is that it's historically been enabling science in ways that we like. One non-obvious prerequisite for this is that people seem to more easily agree on whether something is falsifiable than on whether it is true. I think this is an empirical psychological fact.

Concerning what is a good scientist, I consider as the important metric their individual contribution to humanity's knowledge. It may be that the biggest marginal contributions are made by people who identify epistemological deficiencies in their field and initiate paradigm shifts. However, I believe most of the total contributions to scientific knowledge are made in ways that barely benefit from deep epistemological insights.

I think it's very hard to argue "it's not good for results" that we have too many compliant laborers, if "results" is advancing human knowledge. Successfully teaching philosophy of science to people such that they can meaningfully apply it in practice is hard and requires significant investment. I'm not convinced such efforts are the best way to advance science. Rather, I think a more effective measure would be better aligning the incentives of scientists with the goal of advancing humanity's knowledge.
Disagree.

As far as I understand, in this article he argues that in the, say, ChatGPT output, compression happens.

But does it really?

To make a similarly low resolution metaphor, a “bayesian kaleidoscope” of a language model doesn’t necessarily mean it blurs the “word pixels” it is moving around. Because moving them around, rearranging them is what it essentially does, even if in opaque ways; but not degrading them, not changing letters in words or deliberately algorithmically messing up the word order in a sentence.

To make sense of the “image” an LLM produces is left up to us, and therefore, it is also up to us to decide whether any compression of anything has happened. And then, how do you measure it?

If you cut a painting into pieces, then glue them back together at random, thus making a new painting, would that constitute a “compression” or just a new painting, which could be worse or better than the original?

I quite like Chiang’s writing, but not this time. If anything, his take on this undermines what he previously wrote a little bit, painting him more of an LLM that he probably would like to admit :)
The problem isn't that retirees spent too much money. Most money gets spent by people in middle age who have kids, active income and no choice but spend the money. Retirees typically try to be prudent. This is why you see the large export numbers with comparatively low imports in countries with low birth rates in parts of Asia and Europe. Very productive people with no kids spending little of their money and soon stopping to contribute and cut down on spending to brace for the long haul. (source: numerous Peter Zeihan interviews and videos)

Still will lead to inflation though, as you point out, since production will drop.

I also wonder what that means for index funds and the stock market in general. Every month massive amounts of retirement savings get directed there because there is really no other place to invest. What is gonna happen when contributions turn into withdrawals?
We can certainly do more to help paralyzed people be functional members of society. Just because you are paralyzed doesn’t mean you have to be worthless.

With advanced interfaces and equipment for instance, a paralyzed person could control delivery robots to help deliver food or items to people, allowing them to earn an income and pay their costs of living and perhaps even invest their money to eventually retire.

Or maybe they could just do typical office work, just wouldn’t be with a mouse and keyboard. No reason why they can’t join zoom calls.
> A coal powered EV has roughly equivalent emissions to a gasoline car,

Can you cite this? Thank you
Those are normal 8-bit bytes wrapped in a mark-space pair to allow the hardware to divine which 8-bit byte it is using. That mark-space pair is just a way of separating out the beginnings and endings of the 8-bit bytes in the bit-stream.
> It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.

Yet.

"In every region of the country, recruitment rates were higher in rural and exurban counties than in urban counties. Only urban counties in the South had recruitment rates above the national average. Cities in the Northeast, Midwest and West all had rates well below the national average." [1]

[1] https://dailyyonder.com/largest-share-army-recruits-come-rur...
Wow this is wild, didn’t even consider this scenario and my band easily fits 2 fingers underneath to pop off the watch!
That's interesting, I see the term has multiple definitions, to include contradictory definitions around the tested value of the placebo itself.

It reminds me of some other terms in my own areas of specialty, and the meaning they "properly" carry, vs. the meaning they generally carry when used by the public.
> The interrobang is just a ligature for !?, the love point is just a ligature for <3, the sarc mark is just a ligature for /s.

And and-per-se-and is just a ligature for et, and yet...

> The goals of the question comma and exclamation comma can be achieved with existing constructions - how so? Like this! - that are just as parsimonious.

That's seems at least as non-standard (even ignoring the use of hyphens in place of en-dashes) as question-comma/exclamation comma. You can set of a phrase with dashes but that doesn't demote sentence-ending punctuation/capitalization combos within it. (To be fair I've seen other people do something similar rarely, but mostly by also not using initial caps to avoid signalling a new sentence; that’s clearer if still unusual; I’d be surprised if any style manual recommends that construction, with capitalization after the question mark, with the semantics targeted.)
Thanks! the way I wrote it does give off the wrong impression.
Do they account for inflation?
What period of time is that kWh over?
A free tool to quickly deploy your Node.js RESTful API
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. At least in the US Social Security is a benefits program like Medicare, Medicaid, Snap, etc. It has special accounting rules for Congress but that’s about the only difference.

It’s not a forced retirement savings scheme where you “pay into” it. At anytime Congress can change what the benefits are and the only reason it hadn’t happened yet is because it’s such a popular welfare program.
Releasing this free tool that enables you to quickly deploy your Node.js RESTful API on your preferred server or cloud without relying on PaaS solutions.

Good enough as a starting point for small projects or MVP.

Feel free to try it out and let me know how it goes.
Do you work at the press office of the construction company? 20B is absolutely nothing? Holy crap
can anyone recommend a Lion's Mane supplement? Unfortunately Fungi Perfecta does not give actual ground mushrooms but stealthily sells ground-up _mycelium_.
The Wire, Tales from the Crypt
This seems like a great opportunity for some good old fashioned adversarial training.

Post train one LLM to please another LLM, that rates the quality of the first model's responses and calls it on any bullshit! (And vice versa.)
Who here is suggesting you add a "couple dozen" of dependencies like this?

And you're on a "generic web app for Internet things". This page loading 27ms slower would not be perceptible.
I am trying to understand this. What were the mini tens of thousands of dollars I paid to the federal government over a period of 40 years in the form of Social Security taxes then?
Random curiosity: if they just go dark indefinitely, is there some authority that can assume authority over those TLDs? IANA or something?
Good rabbit. Lot of boomers/hippies agree.
Not in sufficient numbers.
You might like the writing of Richard Rorty.
> wealth is not zero-sum

Land is zero sum. The easy (partial) solution to that is just to build more housing on the same land, except older homeowners spend their time blocking new housing, which has essentially turned housing into a zero sum market as well.

> greed of corporations who are not increasing wages

Increasing wages will do nothing if those wages end up chasing the same fixed amount of housing/land.

Now, people are going to point out that the US is a big country and there's lots of land and so on. And that's true, but a lot of the economic growth and opportunity is concentrated in the cities where housing growth is being blocked. The same problem occurs in Canada (and a few other Western developed countries too).
I don't think the parent was suggesting putting hardcore porn in general content. They were just referring to a time with less strict morals and mentioned some mainstream entertainment titles of the era.

I was just using pornography to illustrate the even stricter morals outside the western world. But like the parent comment I'd also wish we'd loosen up a bit.
> it really falls short on mobile devices

Tuft and his obsessives have always lived in a print-focused world; the digital equivalent only being the desktop computer.
The discord channel is popping off. Come join, https://discord.cofunctional.ai I'll explain it
> "The economy" isn't some magical object somewhere

It's not magical, granted. "The economy" is a subjective state (eg metrics) that solely resides in the human mind, rather than a singular thing.
Here the full-time is defined by the collective bargaining agreement, which in my case is 38.5h/w (and you must take one 30 minutes break). Anything less is part-time.
> ... never had a breakout.

Would "never detected a breakout" be better wording? :)
> It adds an extra switch to the design which complicates it, and it leads to situations where the mic isn’t on but the user doesn’t know why.

This could be solved with a simple dialog box telling the use to check the switch.

> What Apple came up with works perfect as it adds some privacy while affecting the user in no way.

Far from perfect. Anything except physical disconnect switches can be overridden with software, and companies like Apple can be compelled to cooperate with creating back-doors. Which opens up those same back-doors to bad actors figuring out how to use them.
Throwing more people mostly making graphics, and creating movie like sequences where characters explain things isn't as hard with the tools available compared to making everything fit memory-wise making choices not faced today. Those three programmers interfaced with the hardware directly, solved os problems to get things working enough to put in a custom game engine they created into the smallest amount of memory before they can even start creating a world where there game could exist. The challenge today is how can I generate enough content to create a story to put into my unreal game engine. The 3d part, driver development, the memory management all is handled by something else.
Nuclear has been stalled in favor of fossil fuels for at least 50 years already.
In that case, your followup completely nullifies your second point.
If they're not buying new cars, then nothing changes for them in 2035; and if they buy 15-year old beaters, then there's time until 2050 for the used EV market to normalize - because right now it is (of course) distorted as the early adopter EV cars were more of the expensive end and not represent the median family car.
Only if the cost to produce food is below the sales price. There is not an infinite "grow more food" capacity. The cost to produce 5% more food may be more than 5% of current costs.
Buying used panels bulk, DIY most of the the install.. I’m not sure how much kWh you would end up with but could be a decent amount. Battery storage is probably the most expensive part if you want overnight power
> Can solar and goats and wind and IDK algae+co2 make up the difference?

Can row covers etc be made from corn; from cellulose and what other sustainable inputs (ideally that are waste outputs)?

Compostable thermoformable biopolymers for food packaging

FWIU transparent wood "windows" are made out of treated cellulose? How do they compare with glass and plastic in terms of transparency for full spectrum UV for e.g. plant growth, sanitization, and vitamin D?

> Is solar laser weeding a more sustainable approach?

From "Solar-Powered Plant Protection Equipment: Perspective and Prospects" (2022) https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/19/7379 :

>> The unmanned system (robot) is well suited for weeding operations, and it helps to minimize the required workforce and herbicide usage while weeding. Two solar-powered weeders, EcoRobot and AVO robot models, are developed by Ecorobotix, Switzerland (Figure 2). These models work more effectively in row crops based on the detection of weeds (>85%), and a herbicides is applied precisely on the weeds to destroy them. The solar power used in EcoRobot and AVO models is 380 W and 1150 W, respectively, and they have a working time of 8 and 12 h once fully charged by solar panels [64].

> What rotations improve the compost and soil situation?

Crop rotation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation
I’m only paying $0.08 cents in Georgia but I’m with another energy provider that has the lowest rates in the state (if their marketing material is correct).