skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social security was sold as an insurance program and would have to be completely redesigned to operate like other programs -- you'd essentially want it to be a UBI for everyone over a particular age funded out of general revenues, and might be better off to make it a real UBI for just everyone.

But it's "the third rail" because there is so much money on the table. It's a program that makes transfer payments, which is zero sum, so any change will be fought hard by whoever ends up worse off than they are under the status quo.
My cat was great at climbing ladders, but terrible coming down. She'd usually trip herself up in the third or fourth step coming down and end up hitting all the others on the way. It didn't stop her climbing the ladder to explore the loft every time I left the ladder there for more than a couple of minutes, but it made it so I always had to go up and check for her because she'd never come down by herself after she learned that it hurt.
I'd be happy with just making each existing slot its own lane.
> 500 lines is about how you can read and comprehend a program.

(With the exception of languages that are idiomatically horizontal, such as Forth or APL, where a 500-line program sounds about as reassuring as a 500-line mathematics paper, and is probably about as dense. But none of the programs in that book use one of those.)
Write better as is has more correct and clear syntax, sure.

But it doesn’t write better as in has new, challenging ideas. Or ways to move/relate to humans on a personal level.

GPT writes clear, concise, authoritative, boring, and generic text.
Homebrew is really useful but there's some weird design choices. Like why does it install a new dedicated python? And why is that python required to be the latest? But not always because each formula must specify the python version so this never actually happens in practice and you have formulas specifying all kinds of versions. Like why not just do what every other package manager does and uses the system's python? Seriously, I already have too many pythons installed, I don't need another. Especially when it makes it confusing because I need to install a pip package to get something working properly.
> If your goal is to distribute software across multiple distros and operating systems, bundling dependencies makes sense.

Of course, an important "exception to the exception" is when you're making software that can easily be distributed by distributions, e.g. because it's end user software and open source.

I think the optimal cases for bundled dependencies are (a) large closed source binaries that never change, like games, and (b) self-deployed software, e.g. something like a server written in Go that is compiled and maintained in its running environment by a single developer or company.
NK would bring SK down to NK levels of civilization. I doubt SK has enough weapons and ammunition to fully counter NK. It would run low on ammo quickly. NK is already a post apocalyptic wasteland not much would change if you bombed it to the Stone Age.
I think the contention is that there are fewer of them now than before the recent interest rate shock.
On the contrary, it puts it within small team budgets, so you don't need to go through the enterprise purchasing pipeline.
The linked blog is written by a transit expert who writes extensively on costs, including this report: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2022/10/24/the-transit-co.... I'm not an expert, though, so if you read that and found it to be inadequate/incorrect, I'd be curious to hear why.
I’ll take “Things that make me go Oh Shit” for 1000, Alex.
Bad comparison. It should look like this:

Zen 4, AMD Ryzen 5 7640U, TSMC 4nm, Single Core GB6 Score 2340

Apple A17 Pro, TSMC 3nm, Single Core GB6 Score 2914
> especially in languages like Java, JavaScript, etc

Not only there is sequential array in both the language, it is very often used. Things like iterating the array is one of the most common operation and is almost always memory bandwidth bound even for interpreted language.
That's not the sense in which Elm is hostile. It's hostile as in 1990s Microsoft. There are lots of little things, but the big ones are:

- the compiler detects whether it's compiling core libraries and disables some features if it's not

- you can't choose your own package set, even locally
That's kind of the point -- the reason it uses more power is that it has more cores, out of which you get higher multi-thread performance.
I'm not arguing that they don't work, but the "realistic" alternative is that people will still mostly use natural gas if they end up stopping wood-burning. Heat Pumps are also still using a mostly-fossil-fuel grid at times where there's the least solar and the grid is most carbon-intensive. Thus, wood burning is still the only carbon-neutral option. I'd still rather see heat pumps on a fully renewable grid, but we should have less carbon emissions getting there.
I partially agree with you and I wanted to use the analogy more for the part where he/she only really fights fires a part of the compensated time and is also paid for being "just waiting". I think taking the analogy to far won't work anyway (fires don't happen that frequent actually in less big cities, there's a lot of other stuff they do, compensation IMHO dies not relate to putting your life at risk at all, there's volunteers to which are even paid less, ...).

My main point is along the line if your customer wants these nines, they have to do (pay) something. If you as employer want it, same. You as employee are just at "the end of it".
I wonder if you could make headway by requiring a minimum $15/month from patrons, to make it profitable after processing fees (assuming the $14.29 hypothesis is correct). Aside from the folks you want to directly patronize, the rest would go into a long-tail slush fund. I guess that would chase away the vast majority of the people that really do only want to donate $3/month or whatever though...
That's the fate of all large cities: infrastructure gets more and more complicated, and bureaucracy always keeps growing.

The way to fix it is to stop building large dense cities. We need tax incentives for companies to create jobs in sparsely-populated regions and for remote jobs. Also probably something like cap-and-trade for dense office space.

This way, eventually we won't need Downtowns with super-concentrated offices.
Apple would like a word with you ;)
If you were one of the most successful people on the planet and at the head of a company that deified you, you could probably do with a memento mori as well.
Yeah Twitter has been wonky for a while now.
We started off using prisma, but now we only use it to manage our schemas. Migrations fail all the time, so we just do a db push.

And yes, we tried to reset our migrations as per the docs. Doesn'tmwork.

FYI, if you use findMany it pulls the ids then uses the ids for its update. They consider using UPDATE an optimization request. WTF?
Israel's previous assassination of Hamas officials has culled those with crappy op-sec, a kind of perverse survival of the fittest.
>will be a beautiful playground for the people who live there

Which is the attitude that a lot of people who live in larger cities have. "I don't want people driving or otherwise coming into my city." But most cities aren't sustainable on that basis.
How do you see automation helping housing? I work in an org interested in 3D printed structures and it still seems a long way off. Or are you looking at improvements in logistics that make it easier to live in less expensive areas?
Yes, "lifestyle business" could be perfectly harder than building a startup. Mainly when your main stakeholder is your family.
You forgot all the pending African crisis. Probably a few more in North Africa as well. Food costs have hit the threshold where global instability in poor regions is high.

Also possibly Pakistan
> Smart people don’t consider themselves better than people around them.

Do you have any direct evidence of this or are you merely making an observation.
> That point is meaningless in a discussion about Tesla who removed radar entirely

How so? You're trying to say that if they've kept radar this accident could not happen, and I'm showing you this is not necessarily true. Do you have any sources to back up the idea that radar-based collision-avoidance systems can prevent this type of crash? The data says otherwise.

Here is a very extensive article on the subject, and it gives a much higher estimate (400 deaths/year): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trucks-underride-...

That was the 'do your own research part', honestly there is a ton of data online about everything we discussed here. You cannot expect someone to provide sources for everything they say while all you're offering is opinions.
"just" undersells it a bit, mainly around type conversions.

Also, there is no ctypes involved, as the result is a CPython extension that just loads on the Python side.
The same as interviewing resources.

this series is a good start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKCbsiDBN6c
Yall are going to need some elevated trains as building underground is just insane.
It was the example amount used in the article.

I did not use it as an example because of the merit of its amount, merely because it was the quote in the post:

> Remember stories like "I was a student, I got an idea, so I raised a million and hired a team"? It’s safe to say we can forget about them.
The happy medium for me would be working less than 20 hours per week. It's not about the work but about how much time it consumes. And part time software engineering jobs don't seem to exist... I would happily live on half my income for half my hours. But if retiring early is more realistic than that (and it seems to be), I'll take it.
I had a Tseng ET4000 I think that had socketed memory, and has some Trident TVGA which I beefed up from 512k to 2MB to get 65k colours and 800x600 maybe...

I had a GUS soundcard for a while and it also had an EDO slot I think.
Nope.

NYC’s problems are specific to the city. Take a look at the transit Paris has built in the last decade or so. It’s been built faster and far more cheaply than any MTA project.

Cities also appeal to people for reasons other than dense employment opportunities. Small towns are hardly free of bureaucracy. So on and so forth.
“Fewer risky investments being made due to economic conditions”
Is a much less attention grabbing title
Someone will inevitably reply that the suburbs are not sustainable and it’s the cities that are propping them up.
Thinking you're better than others because you're into LessWrong is no worse than thinking you're better than others because you're not into LessWrong!
Could be that he expected it to be public. I don't think it matters much to the question of whether judging it at a personal level is okay; the above commenter expressed their belief that _anyone_ doing this is worthy of judgment and I think that's reprehensible.
No, a unicorn is simply a private company valued at $1B or more.

Apple, Google and Microsoft are on an completely different level of anomaly.
I wish Raspberry Pi's came already constructed

I just always deprioritized doing it

I've built desktops in the past before, its more about disinterest in doing it at all for anything

the services that will do it move the pricing of raspberry pi's to an equally as unattractive territory. might as well just get an old android phone and turn it into a server at that point.
> Most people who eat a Standard American/Western Diet (SAD) are ill, as per the article here.

This seems to be a fairly poor analysis. By your definition someone who treats a condition having nothing whatsoever to diet is ill if he takes a prescription but well if he does not. A good example would be allergy medication.

More ridiculous yet if said medication became available over the counter it would magically make him well again. It's not like other metrics aren't available to more directly measure.

The honest truth is you can be fairly healthy just by doing the things we already know are unambiguously true. Eat reasonable portions. Don't eat the shit tons of sugar we all eat. Exercise. Don't live on obviously unhealthy fast food. Don't smoke or vape. Maintain a healthy weight which is nearly entirely a function of getting enough exercise and not eating too many calories.

To the degree that we are unhealthy it is 99.9% a function of simple things on which there is no complexity nor disagreement.
"Unreliable" Lung Float Test Still Being Used to Convict Women of Murder
> If you don’t like Haskell, that’s fine. You don’t have to.

That's the problem: I do like most parts of Haskell! It's a language I really want to use more often, as many parts of it are miles beyond most other languages. Just the fact that it has proper first-class support for tagged unions makes programming an absolute joy.

All the "introduction to Haskell"-level stuff made me fall in love with the language, and I basically wanted to rewrite all my code into Haskell. But then I started trying to actually write production-level code and engage with the larger ecosystem, and I basically drowned into a marsh of incomprehensible language extensions which were somehow required for pretty much every single library - and more than once I ran into severe project-breaking design limitations only after investing dozens of hours into the library.

There are plenty of languages I really can't give a rat's arse about, but I like Haskell too much to just ignore it. To me Haskell is the one that got away, and I am eagerly waiting for someone - like this project - to essentially create a "Haskell for programmers".
Let me sell it every day then! Cut out the middlemen! I would honestly love to do it just to screw over the shadowy-cabal data economy.
Wars reset all debts and China has all the capacity to sustain a massive war economy equal to USA during WW2. I think people underestimate what they could do if provoked or desperate
Can we at least have mobile data please
That would be the peak of the cycle.
We're at the point now where it's, "clever engineer who has domain knowledge in some niche goes out on his/her own to make something novel that could be leveraged inside an established organization but isn't worthy of being a full fledged business".
Isn't there a rule about titles containing 'considered harmful'?

Either way, this is pretty interesting and the guy is pretty excited about finding it.
It has to do with how they handle errors.

When reaching certain conditions the one wheel just stops working and launches the rider. The recall is to (on most models) add a warning to the rider when they enter those conditions and generally handle it better. It's a firmware update.

Presumably the others have been handling these conditions better, because they don't have similar numbers of accidents, crashes, and deaths.

The biggest thing that stuck out in my mind was there was several deadly accidents and some of those were with folks who were wearing helmets.
You often will not smell small particulate. In addition the problem here is that the stove has to be operated correctly and in good condition which, unfortunately, is not something you can rely on.
In the video comments it looks like he's done some of that and it's one of the spectre v2 mitigations. Makes me wonder if there's now less QA happening on the oem side without mitigations=on.
I used to choose other distros for more updated dependencies, but now I appreciate the stability at OS level a lot more. Containers also solves the problem for running services.
Tourists don't drive in Manhattan and businesses there don't rely on vehicle traffic. And delivery vehicles are not charged as far as I am aware in the current proposal. The people who will suffer the most are people who drive in for work and suburban families that drive in for weekend day trips. The latter can afford to pay for the privilege. The former tends to be people under-served by transit, which is unfortunate and they should probably be given a discounted weekly pass or something.

There's absolutely no reason to expect any kind of collapse in anything other than asthma rates and traffic congestion.

Funny how people who tend to proclaim that they are pro-business also tend to oppose textbook classical liberal free market solutions to textbook externality problems.

The city already is and has been a playground for the rich for 10+ years. That's largely due to real estate. Small businesses in the city are also struggling due to real estate, as well as the chaotic and difficult regulatory environment.
I hate USB-C. What a mess.

What good is a universal port if it's not actually universal? I would actually prefer different shapes, because then you could be pretty confident that if everything fit it was going to work. Like how USB used to be.
farmers who store grain do appreciate rodent control, but I don't know if cats consider that "work"
Actually the problem in some situations is the rider reaches the limit of what the motor can do, and so the thing can't help but nose dive.
The Russians and their friends are playing a different game. Russian soldiers are like cattle heading to slaughter against NATO equipment and training.

But if long running influence operations seem to be the area where Russia in particular owns the board.
And so did his self help book
You should be able to find replacement gumstick batteries on ebay etc, but genuine sony or aiwa brand ones are a) hideously expensive and b) ludicrously underpowered - like 400mAh or less, which is worse than a single AAA
Many/most of the people in suburbs/exurbs around me go into (or don't go into) suburban/exurban offices and local businesses. They rarely go into the major city 40 miles away. When I do, it's mostly to go to the airport or a play every 2-3 months.

From a tech perspective, until the West Coast companies started opening satellite offices in the city, it basically didn't have any tech companies any longer and was losing population.
I'm confused. a rpi is comes already constructed? they are single board computers. all you have to do is plug in a power cord?
In my opinion the economics don't workout that well when you building a hosting service on top of k8s especially when you have to compete with amazon on prices. It is tier that has the highest churn and lowest spending power that I feel they marketing too.

Would love to hear some thought. May be I am missing something.

On the tech side, IPAM can fail to assign IP in k8s. It could be of various reasons. What do you guys do in that case?
Am I missing something? Why do passwords get length caps?
E.g. Atlassian caps at 100 chars. Why would they do so?
Seniors are not productive economically, middle age people are and maybe the news has finally come to the end of the who-to-blame cycle. Which makes sense since 2024 is a election year.

Well, at least we're off the "millennials kill everything" streak. This could be the start of a "seniors kill everything" streak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_locations#Brazi...
As someone who has stopped SSRI's 8 years ago, this is true.
That's confusing, because the GitHub repo has an MIT license. Is there some kind of secret sauce they add to the compiled binaries that the non-commercial clause applies to maybe?
Ironically NYC used to have an absolute ton. In fact a number of the underground lines we have today were direct replacements for the overhead lines, which were unsightly and very noisy.

These days I have to imagine we could create something much quieter but very few people are going to advocate for their sunlight to be blocked by an overhead train line.
Perhaps you are confusing the water for slime and the slime for acid, which quake 1 did not have. There was nothing called acid, what it was always called (as stated BY THE VERY subject document here) was slime. Quake 1 had 2 instantly damaging fluids/textures slime and lava. That is literally what they are in the source.
What a weird discussion, disputing a document that was written 25 years ago contemporaneous with the subject. There’s no misremembering here and this document trumps yours or anyone’s memory.

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Slime_(Q1)
https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Water_(Q1)

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aid-Software%2FQuake%20aci...
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aid-Software%2FQuake%20sli...
Or, fewer and fewer people are needed for approximately the same amount of production. This may lead to a further bifurcated society.

I do think that a service-oriented economy has many, many more nooks and crannies to hide non-productive jobs, though, and that could perpetuate the “bullshit job economy” hypothesis.
Totally love the quest for elegant and minimal implementations.
But I don't think line-counts are comparable across languages.
The APL/K crowd has a very different opinion on the number of statements per line.

To give an impression of the style, this is the C-implementation of a K interpreter.
Have fun deciphering that.

https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/src/branch/master/a.c
Criminal trials are very tough. I've spent thousands of hours in criminal courts. One thing I would say first is that most lawyers are generally not experts in anything outside of law, so things like medicine and statistics are tough for them. That's why they bring in their own experts.

Before trial the experts will go through all the discovery and try to come up with theories that refute the prosecutions idea. You essentially have infinite time to go through the discovery. But, you do not know in advance what the witnesses and opposing experts are going to testify to on the stand.

During trial things move very, very quickly and you don't have any time to really take into account everything the witnesses are saying, and if there are things that say needed some time to run a statistical analysis to see if they were true, well you'd be screwed because you don't have that time. So, essentially witnesses can say things that seem really bad to a lay jurist, but if you had time to run the math they would easily be explained as common and not statistically significant.

In a complex trial like this I think it would be fairly easy for it to go the wrong way.

The justice system is definitely designed to produce convictions. Acquittals are a rare bird.
For clarity it should be:

MOTIVATION = EXPECTANCY x VALUE / (IMPULSIVENESS x DELAY)
> I sort of dislike the term "lifestyle business" as to me the term implies something you can do without working too hard at it--which is not necessarily the case.

There is nothing wrong with the term. I first encountered it in the early 80s, but I think it dates back to the 60s when people started to question the big company profile of the then social contract.

Yiu say, “which is not necessarily the case”. Well in that case it’s not a lifestyle business, as that’s 60% of the definition.

The classic lifestyle business is a surf shop or dive shop: you like the activity, you don’t need a lot of money, you can shut the business for a day (or early) when the weather is good and just go surfing/diving. Some bike shops were like this too, before that business changed.

A consulting business can be like this too. I have friends who are EEs and programmers and they live the same way. One works Jan-march and then takes the rest of the year off unless something is particularly interesting. Another won’t take jobs during ski season. One key is that they love the work (I see comments on HN from people who don’t enjoy programming; for them programming could never be a lifestyle business).

Other businesses like being an electrician can be like this too but for whatever reason don’t get swept under the same rubric.