skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pension reform is basically impossible.

That probably depends on the culture.

My experience from Finland is that there is always a pension reform going on, or at least people are planning the next reform. It's been recognized for decades that the pension system is unsustainable, and reforms have gradually made it more sustainable. Pension growth is now based on a mix of price and wage growth, the initial pension is based on lifetime contributions rather than final wages, retirement age automatically follows changes in life expectancy, and so on.

Older generations certainly got a better deal, and young people are always cynical. But as people age, they tend to gain confidence in the system, as they have seen it change over their careers.
What part of EBITDA covers debts owed that the owner is refusing to pay?
I understand the sentiment, but in this current system, that counts as contributing because eventually it can be exchanged into something that you consume (e.g. food, housing, healthcare). Even if there were no money and everything works with barters, you'd still have to offer something that other people need. Unless somehow you could survive without requiring food etc from someone else, then they won't force you to "contribute to the system"
> (the waste problem).

The waste problem isn't solved. It's entirely a political problem rather than a technical problem, but it's still a problem.

> we will have been burning fossil fuels for over a century by the time we actually learn to live with solar at a scale relevant to climate change.

In 2015, wind&solar was 5.7% of US electricity generation. In 2021 it was 13%. In 2022 it was 16.5%. How can you extrapolate from that and come up with a century?
There is no hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsL1wT8jxVU. The French government based their diagnostic on a report by the COR (their advisory board) but that report had only one (among many other) scenarios where they might be a hole. The President of that board said it very clearly in his Senate hearing (above)
At least in my corner of South Minneapolis, the houses being built that match your description almost all appear to be built by investors, not owners (and the design incentives for investors are clearly to maximize square footage). They are also being listed at about 2x the neighboring house values.
A but of a nit but I think cross-talk is well modeled by classical signal theory, there's no need to invoke quantum mechanics, no?
I like the token window bit. I don't really like the probability bit, because it kinda alludes that OpenAI just built a huge probability map of all N-grams (N=8000) and called it a day.

Which incidentally would also imply that a lot of N-grams just don't exist in the training data, causing the model to completely halt when someone says something unexpected.

But that's not the case - instead we convert words into a lot fuzzier float vector space - and then we train the network to predict the next fuzzy float vector. Since the space is so vast, to do this it must learn the ability to generalize, that is, to extrapolate or interpolate predictions even in situations where no examples exists. For this purpose, it has quite a few layers of interconnects with billions of weights where it sums and multiplies numbers from the initial vectors, and during training it tries to tweak those numbers in the general direction of making the error of its last predicted word vector smaller.

And since the N-gram length is so long, the data so large, and the number of internal weights is so big, it has the ability to generalize (extrapolate) very complex things.

So this "probability of next word" thing has some misleading implications WRT what the limits of these models are.
> Uncles modified RO/RO is literally just a military amphib ship with defenses stripped out, i.e it does 90% of the job.

Uncle has converted his private ferry [0] and other vessels to act as amphibious assault and support vessels. Certainly, China is on a building binge regarding amphibious assault vessels (e.g., Type 075), but it will take years to build, train, and crew these warships and others like it.

> As much as RU is a reduced state, so is the EU as a block.

These two things are not remotely the same. Russia has all but burned through their enormous inheritance of equipment from the Soviet days. That equipment can never be replaced, as Russia is no longer a superpower. Russia will become a second or third rate power among European countries, depending on how long the war drags out. Meanwhile, Europe is mostly sending old kit out of their warehouses and stockyards, with some notable exceptions. Europe has the economy to rearm, while Russia does not. Most importantly, Europe's military industrial base ought to be in a strong position before China is ready to invade.

[0] https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/08/04/china-reportedl...
No if anything we are going more into the cloud, but using mostly open source SaaS that can be self-hosted if needed.
Food is produced by rural areas, not by suburbs. Suburbs produce nothing that cities can't produce.
You may not be familiar with Socratic questioning. Your response also comes off as rude. The question was meant as a prompt for dialogue not because I didn’t already research this topic.
But as a mature company, Amazon's stock price is not likely to undergo huge swings. Thus you wouldn't file an 83b. However, a startup aiming for unicorn status will have a huge inflation in valuation on the way to being a unicorn (and beyond). If you're unlucky, doing an 83b early exercise will hit right as the valuation jumps, leaving you with a five figure tax bill. I mean, that's better than, say, an eight figure tax bill, but taking a five figure risk so early on in a companies life cycle when there's not even a proven product market fit is, well, risky. If you're in a place where losing that kind of investment because of a remotely possible potential upside, your risk tolerance is simply higher than mine.

The other thing to consider is your vesting timeline. As you vest, you'll owe additional taxes, which means a sizable tax bill before there's been a liquidity event. If you are rich enough to afford that then hey, go for it. But not everyone is in a position to be able to do that.
It is also dependent on the environment.

My first job in the 1990s was programming VB for MS Access. I learned the hard way that if the bug wasn't obvious, it was probably Microsoft's fault. And over and over again I was able to demonstrate that it really WAS their fault.

My next job was in Perl. It took me a couple of years to find a bug that wasn't my own mistake.
"Happy City" by Charles Montgomery brings an interesting angle on the typical urban planning story by focusing largely on how we can plan cities and communities to maximize happiness. In the book, he discusses that people have this "ideal" of moving to the suburbs, owning their own house, etc, but then the long commutes, isolation of living in a car-dependent neighborhood, dangers of living among high-speed cars, etc. all lead many people to actually be less happy overall after moving to the suburbs.

So I think that some of this fact that the suburbs are desirable is not necessarily completely rational, and may instead be heavily influenced by the idea that moving to suburbs is what they grew up seeing as their future (due, of course, to federal programs that incentivized suburbanization) and by auto-industry lobbying and marketing that idealizes a car-dependent lifestyle.

Obviously there will be variability and I'm sure many people enjoy a suburban/rural lifestyle more than they would a city lifestyle. But I don't know if a preference for suburban living is really part of our human nature, and I think assuming that it is can be detrimental as it can take effort away from recreating the peace and quiet and nature access in a way that is accessible to all in a more efficient urban setting.
Have you considered that replacing a billion cars will take a couple decades, and it’s really not important that the grid is ready at the beginning.

I’ve been having this discussion for a decade. The “do you know where the electricity comes from” group gets a little quieter every year.

What’s really critical is getting the EV market jumpstarted.

Controlling the emissions at several thousand power plants vs a billion cars is orders of magnitude easier.
Thanks! I looked around and didn't see that.
> A major reason for the preference is the lower price per square foot in the suburbs than in higher density areas.

I think that's a big part of it, but also people choose suburbs and rural living for reasons more to do with quality of life rather than cost.
Such an obvious feature… you would think! Apparently it’s not that easy, though, because nobody seems able to do it.
how do you prevent build 1 from modifying the VM in a way that impacts build 2?

if a build 1 happens to install a specific libc, do you un-install that libc before running build 2?

if you just say that stuff is the responsibility of the user, okay, but then the artifacts produced by this system aren't deterministic, which seems like a problem?
Presumably Musk will continue to the time honored strategy of rich people: refusing to pay people what they're owed as per an agreed upon contract.
Zero MQ: The Message Queue Without a Broker
I have a modern well-insulated house (built three years ago) in Zone 4.
There is no universe I heat it with a hair drier.
Classic business-of-software holy war stuff. Some people were angry that Fantastical moved to subscription. They also moved Cardhop into the subscription for non-grandfathered users.

For actual users of Fantastical 3 and Cardhop 2, it's been nice to get new features without having to wait for a Fantastical 4.
That’s solvable by batteries. Of course there are tradeoffs like extra cost
He doesn't have to work. Twitter acquired his company and the payout was structured as salary for tax reasons. Musk firing him suddenly turned that opex into capex, for no other reason than Musk has no idea what is going on in a company he runs.
This points at a larger problem: the junior developers who gleefully pull in tons of third party requirements which, as far as I can tell, is the supposed "senior" approach in javascript development.
Well, I'm a socialist. The EU has capitalism built into it's fabric; socialist policies are largely illegal, because of EU financial rules. For example, you can't nationalise things.

It wans't a plummet; it's that the EU is designed to prevent certain kinds of political change, in particular changes that I want to see. By staying in the EU, we'd be accepting that we can't ever make those kinds of changes. I don't think we should make that kind of concession.

That's the politics; as for the economics, I don't share the German view of how to manage the European economy. Germany dominates European banking and finance. I think European bankers have made some awful decisions in the last couple of decades, and we have been dragged along. I don't think Tory economics is any better; but we won't have neo-liberals running the UK forever.
Thanks for the feedback.

I generally agree with you - there are too many systems that start off as quick productivity and then you get stuck. So there has to be options and composability in a platform. I really agree that you need to have a way to grow your understanding of the system and evolve it over time - not just chase "quick wins".

I am curious if you found any of my suggestions "too platform-y", since it does sound like we agree in broad strokes about ideal architectures.
Leave it to HN to bicker over the first sentence rather than engaging with the (useful, IMHO) advice in the rest of the article.
Suburbs are often on city utilities. And they pay for the infrastructure. You won't generally find septic systems on properties under about an acre. Not that it never happens, obviously, but a septic field has geographic requirements that means you won't often see it in a suburban neighborhood.
ABC doesn’t need to be a name brand. It’s owned by Disney - which is a worldwide name brand

NBC also doesn’t need to be a name brand. It’s own by Comcast/Universal Studios which while it isn’t itself a name brand, its products have a worldwide reach.
Use the $100M loan they have?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation#History

EDIT: Hopefully they made money on that scammy alt-coin too.
I had that with a wireless mouse I'd forgotten about.

It was made harder because every time I began trying to figure things out, I'd disturb the cat. Who then left. It was a black mouse on a black surface in a poorly lit area.

I laughed so hard when I realized what had been causing my problem.
NJ cemetery may have remains of enslaved people – says slaveholder's descendent
What about QC do I not understand? It's been a while since I have made any comments about QC so I'm glad that those comments made an impression.
I've barely touched the App Store in the past few years while I used to peruse it regularly. Now instead of browsing for top selling games like I used to, I'm back to using a search engine or reading reddit threads for suggestions.

App stores are too polluted with garbage now, they went from being a unique selling point of mobile platforms to entirely useless and I think IAPs are largely to blame.
Go on what do I not understand about Hopf algebras?
HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges
> Right now you're forcing me to pay for your fetishes.

Popular claim made without sourcing any facts.
ChatGPT cant really provide accurate information on anything, least of all legal matters. Anyone relying on it without double-checking its responses is a on thin ice.
It sounds like there was not a direct attack on that reactor so there’s no definitive answer on how bad it would be https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/what-experts-say-an-attack-o...
DN42: because why home-lab when you can home-internet?

My ideal high-school curriculum includes some labs where kids set up DN42 networks with each other. Claim some Autonomous System (AS) numbers & peer.
My employer has banned Copilot (and presumably this app as well), for what it's worth. I'm guessing most large employers will end up doing the same if they're at all paranoid about their code, although by that time Copilot may offer an on-site version, or at least a version that can be deployed to an enterprise's cloud instance.
The costs are going up everywhere and many shops have runs of being empty of produce. In every other country that is not the UK, this is pinned on "supply chain disruption" or the war in Ukraine. If you haven't been watching closely for the last year, inflation is rocketing up globally. Those countries were not part of Brexit, hence why GP says it's impossible to disentangle the effects of COVID and Ukraine on any short-term macro-economic trend.
At least in my country (Australia), this is way more an issue with student unionism than unionism generally. Both because student unions are even more powerless to affect widespread change, and because they tend to focus on it more than traditional unions.

I say this as someone that is quite pro-union, and someone that was quite involved in my student union when I was studying. We were one of if not the most powerful student unions in the country, with tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue. It was very much a launchpad for those aspiring to be career politicians. “Stupol” is a legitimate entrypoint into “real” politics and a large percentage of our elected representatives cut their politician teeth being involved in their student union. Thus, you end up with a bunch of naive wannabe politicians that quite easily get lost in showboating and “the bigger picture”, often taking away time, attention, or resources that could be put toward more directly helping the members.
Whether an item can be delivered to a particular address seems like a seperate concern to whether the address is correct/real.
Zelensky warns of ‘open road’ through Ukraine’s east if Russia captures Bakhmut
The biggest drawback of LLM is that it never answers with "I don't know" (unless it is some quote) and it just brings bullshit hallucinations which human has to reject as wrong. Thus it is mostly useless for anything serious.
Personally I use it to beautify some text, but still have to do a bit of correction to fix b/s or missed context.
Sure, but the fact that your savings or pension plan contributions "should have" been enough for a certain amount of care can't guarantee that it will be enough for all or even half of it when the time comes; it's perfectly plausible (and with certain worker/retiree ratios even inevitable) that the market clearing prices will have to be higher than what would be enough for most people.

And the key factor is that if everyone (or their government) saved twice as much, that wouldn't help because if the worker/retiree ratios are the same, then twice as much retirement savings should simply lead to a twice higher market clearing price for that work due to "these accounting mechanizations".
Few people are that committed to a company to be real owners.
I'll stick to Mario Kart 64, keep your slimy addiction-enabling loot boxes Nintendo, sad to see how the mighty have fallen.
I encounter it on a daily basis. Anecdata aside, it’s some amount of lost traffic and humans react to measurable loss much more heavily than they do to potential gain
This would be more effective if California would force its energy suppliers (PG&E, SCE, Etc.) to offset watts for watts on Solar installs. They won't because people like me would then no longer pay for electricity.
Dems offer ban on Feds using facial, voice recognition tech
This "one global network" instead of, say, AWS's regions, was a selling point for Google against AWS. Big enterprises loved loved LOVED not having to think in terms of regions.

Recently, AWS seemed to be finally capitulating to sales demand and globalizing things.

I wonder if that will slow now there's a competitor incident report with the answer being region sharding.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633253950198624257

And he apologises for firing him after humiliating him in public!
>Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are ignoring those complaints because there's no one left to process them. They clearly struggle to keep the lights on, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555
> This behavior was actually a core copy protection trick. The custom drive writing the commercial software would gate the transitions in the middle of a sector, leading to a region that would read different noise every time.

Can you explain that a bit more? On the software side, how could you detect if you had a pirated disk or not? Read a few times the same data and make sure it'd always be different?
Your points require a very specific definition of suburban. Many cities in the western US are almost 100% suburban, but if that gets brought up the goalposts move.
This is one of those lessons that we as a software dev community seem unable to absorb. Polish is universally better received than flaky new features, and the releases we view most fondly are the ones that are fast and reliable, and yet we never seem capable of holding off on the new features to fix existing pain points.
“I would like to apologize to Halli”
This story is fascinating in a lot of ways, but one which jumps out at me is: I don’t think the particular pre-“aha!” wondering about timing would ever occur to me in the domains I’ve worked. I guess maybe I’d discover it in the repro isolation process because that elimination is often very illuminating (it’s basically how I taught myself to program!), but it wouldn’t ever come to mind unless I was staring at it while debugging.

Say what you want about the ills of high level abstractions, but not having to think about the implementation details of clock sync all the way down to the metal is a pretty nice convenience when you can afford it.
Fed's Powell opens the door to higher and possibly faster rate hikes
Contrary to what I am seeing in comments on HN, this is not just for single family detached housing. If you go to the ZERH website, under Program Requirements it says:

Versions 1 and 2, Single Family, Multifamily, and Manufactured Homes

https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zero-energy-ready-home...

Additionally, one of the photos in the featured article has the following caption:

Lopez Community Land Trust built this 561-square-foot affordable home on Lopez Island, Washington, to the high-performance criteria of DOE's Zero Energy Ready Home program that delivers a $20-per-month average monthly energy bill.

I've said for years we need to go back to more passive solar design as our baseline standard because it is both more energy efficient and more comfortable for humans. It protects the environment while improving quality of life.

It's a myth that you can't see gains in both areas.

I'm also happy to see the caption because we need to do a better job of supporting high quality of life in small towns, not just big cities. Trends in recent decades mean small towns suck because they lack services and big cities suck if you aren't one of the wealthy.

That wasn't always true and programs like this can improve and strengthen both small town and urban environments while mitigating the burden suburbs currently represent.
https://archive.is/uYqK4
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820161325.h...
Could this phenomenon be avoided with the addition of another prompt asking it to take account of the discrepancy?
This is such a strange take.

From a legal standpoint, why is it a qualified use of government paternalism to outlaw gambling? We should not be asking the government to set laws based on morality.

Practically speaking, and apologies in advance for how obvious this argument is…when you ban gambling, it doesn’t disappear, it simply goes underground. Criminal actors benefit while the state is unable to enforce any protections or see any recompense. Moreover, it’s unclear what brightline exists between “gambling” and a ton of economic decisions. If I buy a plot of land because I think it might have oil, is that gambling? When I lock in an insurance policy, is that gambling?

I get it’s popular to immediately call for government enforcement whenever you experience personal moral outrage, but the real world contains far more nuance. Making gambling and some of its “sinful” corollaries like drug use illegal has never solved the problem, and has exacerbated it for the worst off.
Human Heuristics for AI-Generated Language Are Flawed
I disagree obviously. I think it has merits and it's not "just randomness", whatever that means.
You don’t really get any more Solar after dinner. If everyone gets a big battery (expensive) then they could slowly offload the charge overnight but that would need to make financial sense to the house owners somehow.

At a minimum you’d need to recuperate the wear on the battery as they all have a finite amount of cycles