skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great explainer by Kurzgesagt - How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmP3MBjsx20
Yeah, you just keep believing that. According to various internet experts, Russia has run out of armored vehicles, out of rockets, out of drones, out of everything five or six times by now. Luckily for me, your military brass and political leadership don't take advice from the internet (since I am unlikely to get bombed if an all-out nuclear war starts, and don't care much for Mad Max-like existence).
3K is not even top of the line laptop nowadays.
There certainly isn't a mass unionization movement in software yet, but there are some recent cases, it isn't "no one". Most recently Grindr formed a union, and company leadership retaliated by telling all software engineers to move to Chicago within the next couple months or quit.

Alphabet and Kickstarter are other notable examples.
Part of the fun with that is there's about fifty different places you could do it, and the only one that will really affect everything is in the kernel (IIRC), anything else will affect the program, window manager, terminal, etc but not necessarily anything else. And some programs bypass everything and read scancodes anyway.

Whereas in Mac OS X it's a simple configurable option (a bit hidden, System Settings, Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Modifier Keys).
Some countries like Denmark (starting 2020) have banned paying with the 500 Euro bank note. It's also no longer printed, but some 600 million of them still exist. I've seen a documentary where (I think it was Swedish police) would like to ban 200 Euro notes as well.
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If nuclear annihiliation does happen, then it will indeed be the ultimate prisoner's dilemma. In that case, it would have been better if humanity had never developed any physics or math. Even though physics and math has helped us solve some problems, it's not worth nuclear annihilation in my opinion.
This doesn't mean that person is wrong about Elon's life sucking, but it's also a dungeon of his own making. Instead of stabilizing his businesses and raking in the profits, he seems to think his wild gambles are somehow wise. He got away with using Tesla to bail out his brother, which took Tesla to the brink. Any CEO without a lapdog board would be long gone for a stunt like that.

Cybertruck is a hyperactive child's idea of cool. Starship is, so far, neither an economical launch vehicle nor a viable tool for interplanetary manned exploration, and possibly a lesson in why a bastardized Agile-ish style of project management doesn't scale up. Starlink needs 10X the subscribers to be viable.

But those situations and a dozen more were not imposed on Musk, nor are they even necessary to achieve his goal nor has taking those risks kept projects on schedule. He chose this life. How big a hole in one's soul that needs so much to fill it?
Interesting how people who have been through acute hardship, meaning random and senseless death of their immediate community, are less apathetic. Ie your parents', my grandparents', generation. Something about the human animal does poorly with existential precarity but no actual hardship.
> Just because they want something doesn't mean they get it.

I agree, which is why I said the push for RTO is not working in my original post.
The road to hell is paved with products that pursued simplicity but ultimately couldn't afford it.

* Just Doesn't Work

* Your simplicity becomes my complexity (fussy compatibility, batching creates latency, etc)

* "One-button" interfaces where you have to learn a morse-code dialect and timing to access the necessary features

* Bonus points: the software is laggy and the one button is mechanically unreliable, compounding the difficulty of getting the timing correct

* Useless error messages that make simple problems complex

* Similar: Necessary complexity (e.g. radio reception, authentication, updates) hidden behind a featureless spinning wheel for maximum time wasting when you can't tell what the holdup is
My house has no garage, but a semi-circular driveway plus a spur that means that we could park 9-10 full sized vehicles. There are basically no houses here with a 3 car garage, and rather few with a 2 car garage. Houses without garages are fairly common.

It rains here, but it also snows here -- so a roof that can shed water but not hold the weight of 3 feet of snow is not suitable. Putting our roof on a house in Georgia would just be a waste of money.

Some ground can deal with basements. Most of Florida can't, so they build on slabs. Then they need to put the HVAC and plumbing somewhere that isn't the basement.

A house in Florida should be designed to withstand hurricanes and floods. A house in California should expect frequent minor earthquakes.

My backyard view is great. My front view is of a road. Planning for those in the wrong direction would be bad.
Depending on your seniority, it may be your responsibility to foster collaboration for more junior members of your team. Conversely it may be their responsibility to ensure they are available to collaborate with you.

It doesn't happen magically, but it does happen spontaneously once people are close enough to talk without having to open a chat tool.

Thats why we stabilised on a happy 1-day-a-week in the office, and instead of using it as a dump day for meetings, its a day for people to work while near others.

And unsurprisingly mentoring and onboarding has drastically improved outcomes.
Here are my kids playing my childhood 2600 from 1982 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ0aeTJAuo
While paper is paywalled, it doesn’t sound that sophisticated.

The blurb mentions the prediction requires a couple of measurements that aren’t usually taken like stomach and waist circumference.

From my experience with building models (in other domains), the key to break through is very often new data that previously wasn’t considered as it wasn’t easily available.
I was also single - which puts you in higher brackets than married :)

but ... ~8% in FICA (SS & Medicare), >6% in state, and then ~20% in Fed income taxes (15% on the amount from ~8k-~30k, 25% to where I was salarywise) - comes out to right about 35% total

As for what I got back ... it was not much - maybe a couple hundred $$ from the state and feds combined

$35% is a good rule-of-thumb to cover several states - you may be lower, you may be higher ...but it is a good starting place to back-of-the-envelope think

Today, the Fed income tax rate on $60k is a little over 14% (single filer) - https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-...

Plus FICA @ 7.65% gets you to ~22%

Worst case state for $60k looks to be in the neighborhood of ~9% (NYS @ ~5% + NYC @ ~3.6%)

Which, in this case, does happen to get you to ~30-31% instead of 35% (and is all based on single and/or married filing separately, and nothing special you get to deduct)

All of which goes to say ... 35% is a reasonable approximation (do 30% if you want as a mildly-more-optimistic approximation) of take-home vs gross pay

And, of course, you can adjust this to your local state's rules easily enough - drop the personal income tax entirely in TN, for example

But FICA never goes away (SS drops after ~$160k, but Medicare's ~1.5% never does)

Neither does Fed income taxes

Of course, if you are married filing jointly, your standard deduction will cut your effective rate quite a bit. Add-on dependent children, and it goes even lower.

And every individual can figure this all out for themselves - but ballparking in the neighborhood of 1/3 of your income going to income and payroll taxes is not a bad place to start :)
which market? where?

layoffs.fyi suggests 964 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 231349 employees laid off in 2023, and if you look at the actual site, a whole freakin lot of them are in different countries. additionally they don't make a distinction between DEI and STEM workers, just layoffs.

there may be 100k actual programmers -- IT staff, Product Managers, DEI, etc. -- but 50% of them are in India, London, Israel, or Croatia, and most of them were never going to interview for jobs outside of their country.
In cities, not one single person has ever felt the need to stop their vehicle, roll down their window, and shout a homophobic epithet at me. Outside of cities, this seems to happen regularly.

When a rural person comes to town, do the local urban people take a moment to shout something derogatory at them? If that happens I have never seen it.
I’m annoyed it was written 18 years later by someone who should know better.

Actually I’m annoyed that a course in distributed computing is an elective at good schools and may not even exist at others. I like concurrency, but I’ve been surprised over and over again to find nobody else can or will step up and it’s because I’m the only one who was classically trained. It’s just ridiculous at this point.
Even in War, Ukrainian Soldiers Find Time for World of Tanks Video Game
More likely to be from the same bad batch too. There was a post with very detailed comments about this just a few days ago.
Xkcd: Ten Thousand
This is not a true story. There was always a bit of a meme about Gandhi because "haha Gandhi and nukes" but he was no more likely to use them than any other AI. The "integer overflow bug" story was invented by apparently a random person decades later who stuck it in a wiki, and then via citogenesis it spread everywhere.
Obesity isn't a cause. Metabolic syndrome usually leads to obesity, and metabolic syndrome is the driver behind cancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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Thanks. I've found it futile to argue with people about font rendering over the years. It's always like people are just in denial of reality. Which I feel is emblematic of how Firefox (and Linux, and lots of other libre software) lose desktop market share, IMO - by denying the reality everyone else sees.
Wouldn’t it be closer to eating the mega burger regularly, like every week? In which case if you have that habit, it could easily be predicted that you would continue.

But the actual model seems simpler, measuring something like the obesity from your mega burger habit.
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It is too late to change the name. Just because you and I would have chosen a different name if we could go back in time does not make it OK for you to assert that the name "does not mean anything in the first place".

Since the 1990s there has existed an entire non-profit organization dedicated to clarifying the meaning of the name.
Let bring back gold payments! There are already some institutions that offer gold certificates: notes that represent gold stored in some bolt and collectable on demand.

It was a good idea all along and the reason that "gold back currency does not fit a growing economy" is BS if not properly substantiated.
I think the law technically states that you have to declare, if you have more cash. It's not directly forbidden, is it?
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I recall that idea being kicked around but I don't think it was ever implemented. I suspect states may implement some income tax changes to get a bigger piece of the action, but the biggest tax burden is from the federal government and they get their piece either way.
Capturing the carbon is only part of the cost... The other part is sequestering it for millions of years. Concrete is a great place to do that, where many other 'sequestering' techniques might only last tens or hundreds of years, requiring the capture fee be paid again and again and again.
“Forget everything you just heard, and go back to sleep. (click)”

https://youtu.be/sixCVdhy0lQ
ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”
> And to make matters worse: complexity sells better

Yes!

The article claims people think they want simplicity, but aren't willing to sacrifice anything to get it. But the reality is much worse.

People, at least business people (people making decisions, not end users), hate and loathe simplicity, and love complexity. Or, if not complexity per se, all the benefits it brings. Esp. bragging rights.

You have to be able to boast the number of engineers working on the project, the millions spent... and even the bad performance!

Bad performance is proof of the difficulty of the problem. If something actually works, it means it wasn't that hard to begin with.
Yes, I do in general agree with that. I suppose my confusion really only applies in this particular context of , e.g., HN; I would expect software engineers to look at these issues differently than your average home or office user. It seems to me that this "easy to use out of the box" marketing is aimed at a different sector of users, and I would expect software engineers be able to look through this. Perhaps my expectations and assumptions are wrong.

I am just curious where all the willingness to tinker and solve problems appears to disappear when we move to macOS.

Windows spying on you? Oh, let's install this tool X and change a whole bunch of registry settings to prevent that.

App windows behaving annoyingly on Linux? Oh, let's just switch to a completely different desktop environment/window manager or what have you.

Too many icons in the menu bar on macOS? Yeah, I'm returning this machine. :)
You can enter the US carrying as much money as you’d like. Can’t speak for Canada.
I have not read it, but it sounds remarkable.

It's especially poignant right now, when Russian troops are being called Orcs, and are accused of committing war crimes that merit the name. I cannot prove how much of that is propaganda (though I do have acquaintances with first-hand knowledge).

It's remarkable that propaganda still works in this era of instant access to knowledge. If anything, it seems much worse: the tools that give us instant access to verification also give us instant access to confirmation bias.
I think it's way too early to call either way. There are a lot of companies that have embraced remote work post-COVID—my own company is about to start a massive downsizing of their NYC headquarters, for example—and I believe that these companies will have better outcomes in the long run by respecting their workers' dignity. We'll see which way it goes over the next few decades.
I think you can, you just must declare carring the cash if it's more than $10k.
You don't need to buy a $750 USD device to do this either. You can get away with a very cheap TENS device that has ear clips such as:

https://www.tenspros.com/intensity-micro-combo-tens-microcur...

And then look at a study like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199464/table/T... to determine what settings to use for your condition.
Cash payments over (few) thousands are not permitted in the most/many EU member state already. NL are just catching the train. Greece has it as low as 500 Euro.
Can’t pick my family, neighbors or colleagues. Can’t control my friends’ friends, or people who I share hobbies with. They are who they are and I can deal with them or isolate.
The only reason the 500 Euro bank note exists in the first place was that the Germans wanted a replacement for their 1,000 Mark note.

(Apparently their reasoning was something along the lines of: what if you want to buy a car?)

Meanwhile in Singapore we have a 10,000 dollar note (which is worth about 6,800 Euro at the moment.)
You can (of course) cross the border with more than $10k in cash. You have to declare it.
My country had shot an airliner of its own. It was an 'accident'. They shot down the plane which contained some of the best scientists and academicians of the nation, all whom have the vision of bringing nuclear power to our nation. This stuff were everywhere back in the day, from sabotaged national car companies to buried national plane prototypes. Our government was a puppet of US back then.

I wonder how many of those accidents are actually accidents.
I was under the impression you were still allowed you just had to fill out a form.
Wow Greece has a limit of 500 euro, but: "There is no cash limit for car purchases"

wth?

EDIT:

Also this something that I didn't know about the UK

> With regard to the change, there are unlimited payments of £ 5, £ 2 and £ 1. Coins with a face value of 50p, 25p and 20p can pay amounts up to £ 10, with 10p and 5p up to £ 5 and with 2p and 1p up to 20p.
There seems to be such a strong anti-RTO/pro-remote sentiment on HN. I don’t hold that against anyone: if you prefer working from home, then I’m happy for you! But here’s another take:

I’m a software engineer and I love working from the office. I enjoy my 40 minute commute (on sunny days I ride a bike and on rainy days I read a book on the train). I enjoy the separation in my life between where I work and where I live (often I don’t take my computer home). Eating lunch with my colleagues is often the highlight of my day. Many of my current and former colleagues have become lifelong friends. If my company went fully remote permanently, I’d look for a new job.
People are pretty damn good at buying drugs with fiat, too.
At least when downloading from the Play store, Google requires the application be updated every 90 days or so. I've run into this multiple times where the application ceases to function after the 90 day window until I go update.
"Get organized in your community" seems just as vague as "we need to change" when the response requires global action, in my opinion. Reading and commenting on articles is how many people process and understand the contents of the articles and fit it in to their framework when deciding what actions are "constructive" and which are "destructive". Coming to terms with the idea that our quality of life might need to lower in order to continue at all is something we all need to consider. It's not unfair to vocalize that.
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If the endgame is to ban cash, what would be the back up plan for in case of war, solar flare* or other natural disaster?

*electromagnetic pulse destroy electronic devices (no ATMs, card readers)
> It's probably not replacing the cement though -- it's almost certainly an additive in the concrete mixture, like flyash.

No probably about it. The article says it can replace some portion of the sand usually used in making concrete
They kinda do, property taxes on commercial real estate play that role.
Even deliberate nuclear use might not trigger a nuclear response.

They've kept strategic ambiguity, but it's obvious that the US has developed a plan (or several plans) on how to react if Russia drops a nuke on Ukraine. And it seems clear that the US feels they can make Putin and Russia regret the use of nukes without using American nukes in response.
work on things that go to production somewhere...
1. Learn data structures, but don't get overly pretentious about it. An ArrayList really is the right choice a lot of times, even though the CS mind might assume LinkedLists. :)

2. Learn neural networks and training them.
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You can cross the US border with more than $10k, you just have to report it:

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/kbyg/money

But I agree with the general principal that this should be inflation indexed.
Most of these examples don’t even suffer very much.

Roads don’t “suffer” from disuse, their maintenance costs go down.

People who work at home still need child and sometimes even pet care, working from home doesn’t mean you’re magically able to watch your children and work at the same time.

People don’t get their hair and nails done to please coworkers.

Dry cleaners are already on their last legs due to changing fashion tastes and new materials that can be taken care of at home. You can buy suits that don’t require dry cleaning or ironing.

Public transportation was already too downtown focused and should be re-developed to better serve non-commuting usage anyway. Since the USA has almost no rail anyway this is a simple matter of changing bus routes.

Office leases suffering isn’t a problem. An entire thriving residential and entertainment district in Cleveland with some of the highest property values in the city is built in disused industrial buildings and land.
Anyone interested in building this? My family has a long history in construction and I now work in AI, this is piquing my interest
How is Django more heavy than Flask?

When I think about heavy, I think about how hard it would be to replace the framework with my own code in the future. So I don't like magic.

One thing that keeps me from investigating Flask further is that Django seems to be way more popular:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=django%2...

So it will probably stay around longer.

Me and other devs maintain this repo which shows how to get from a fresh Debian install to a running web app via different frameworks:

https://github.com/no-gravity/web_app_from_scratch

As you can see, it also has a Flask version.

Contributions are welcome!

As for libraries: PHP has great http and html support build in already. Python is a bit tricky in this regard. That's why I would give Django another try for new web projects. But I also had success just rolling my own http/html code in Python.
Who cares if the apple watch won't sync with Apple TV!?
> requires a couple of measurements that aren’t usually taken like stomach and waist circumference

That was used in the previous research tool (M-BERET) but presumably not their new one.
Ask HN: PandasAI is great but is there a more general library?
I've been using pandas ai and its pretty good at saving time on googling the correct pandas function. I was wondering if anyone knew of a more general library that does the same sort of thing but more generally for python functions?
You’re really just making a case for firing up a profiler more often. That’s fine, I do that a lot. But what you’re looking for has no meaning outside of that context.
I can acknowledge a man's shortcomings without discounting his positive contributions (which are manifold). Without him, there would be zero EV market. Without him, US space dominance would continue to atrophy into oblivion. Without him, there would be no reusable space launch vehicles (and all of the opportunities that accompany it) in existence.

But I will grant that the Twitter acquisition was a pretty clear unforced error.
No it's more "muh money laundering".
Dutch government also wants banks to reports all transactions over 100 euros.
The government is unable to control the crime by the cocaine gangs so these kinds of measure are their "solution".
> How about instead of developing more technology, we address the root problems instead?

That's not a business plan. Panem et circenses, nothing changed since then, it's planned and there is no problem to fix.
> Prior to world war industrialization, 90% of workers were independent.

If you change that to “prior to the First Industrial Revolution”, and by “independent” you mean “worked on family or village farms”, sure, that's approximately right.

Just before even the first world war, there is no sense where this is true, even loosely.
"Years" is overstating it a bit; Vulkan's SDK came out a little more than a year and a half after Metal was available on iOS and 8 months after it was available on Macs.
Most likely the last one. As I understand it, our diagnosis techniques for cancer are very limited and basically only at the “omg, that’s obviously cancer” phase of progression (ie it has to be noticeable so that we can do a biopsy). Even our imaging techniques are limited because surgeries can discover that the cancer is worse than what was originally thought. In some cases we can catch the cancer very early, but even in those cases it’s a mixture of luck and we don’t actually know how long the cancer was actually growing for (“early” just means early enough for treatment to be very effective).

At least that’s my external highly amateur understanding of the situation.