skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do a present value calculation of the real value of a solid pension.

It's irrelevant.

Each Nordic country is different.

Sweden and Denmark's national pension pays out largely similar to American Social Security ($1k-$3k/month)

Finland's appears to cap at around $1.5k/month and the rest is on you.

Norway's is very generous (114% of monthly income), but it's easy to be generous when you are also a petro-state and your pension is backed by the National Oil Fund.

In all these pensions, you have to contribute to the state pension fund in order to receive more than the bare mimimim ($1k/month) at a level largely comparable to Social Security deductions.

It honestly isn't that different than the US SSA, especially factoring in CoL which is California or MA level but average wages are around $30-$50k nominal

The "Nordic Model" that became vogue in American political discourse is the Norwegian model, which is almost entirely subsidized by oil. We may as well copy Saudi's social welfare program then (on a separate note it is actually pretty generous after massive concessions were given after the Arab Spring).
Nobody said it came for "free" but it's a hell of a lot more efficient than any other military expenditures we've made in the past 20 years.
Every theory is subject to real world variables and in this conversation, I have yet to see one real world variable.
Porsche are heavily invested in synthetic fuels, I don’t think their ICE models are going anywhere soon.
> The only thing remaining is the question "What is a valid URL?" but I'll leave this one for another time! Because it's a tough one.

Is it? According to https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/urls.html, a URL is a valid URL if at least one of the following conditions holds:

• The URL is a valid URI reference [RFC3986].

• The URL is a valid IRI reference and it has no query component. [RFC3987]

• The URL is a valid IRI reference and its query component contains no unescaped non-ASCII characters. [RFC3987]

• The URL is a valid IRI reference and the character encoding of the URL's Document is UTF-8 or UTF-16. [RFC3987]
I’ve never thought much about it, always consider it’s just a percentage. I am in Canada but it’s pretty much the same. Googling “tipping buy one get one” turns up this snippet from a Quora answer:

> The amount of effort the server devotes to your ordre is the same regardless of what the owner charges for your meal. So tip on the original, undiscounted price. And tip at least 20 percent.

Kind of funny, when it results in a higher tip I should consider the amount of effort.

I expect if I said I was only tipping $2 on a $100 bottle of wine at a restaurant because it isn’t any extra effort to grab an expensive bottle the poster might not agree.
You offered surface level commentary that was immature and naive. If I can effectively rebut that commentary with a meaningless platitude you should examine your initial commentary and understand why it was unpersuasive (and not very interesting).
It's not inequality that is a problem to me. It is- people of our country not being able to afford the basics. They are renting more than ever where land is owned more and more by faceless capital. They are having to work more shifts to get by, and they can barely afford healthcare.

I see it this way- a poor guy and a rich guy both get cancer. If they can get the same medicine and the same/similar doctors, then I am fine. The poor guy might be sharing the cabin with three other people, and he is going to go home on public transit. I am okay with the rich guy having a room to himself, 8k UHD TV on the wall, and driving home using a Porsche.

I am okay with inequality, as long as all the people have the basics fulfilled.

I don't want everyone to be equally wealthy. What am I? A Communist?
‘select * from branches’ is explicitly and unambiguously going to give me information, not change state. I always feel apprehensive with ‘git branch’ and end up reading the git-branch man page with its 500 options. For an SQL native GQL looks wonderful.
There's a "use different authenticator app" button, but it can be disabled by the domain admin and that might be the default depending on when your Azure AD domain was set up.

The fact that you can set a domain to MSA/TOTP or MSA-only, but not TOTP-only, is an incredibly scummy, but incredibly predictable move by MS.
Sam's club has excessive amount of sturdy boxes. If you live near a McDonald's also ask if you can get some of the fry boxes at the end of the week. They are the sturdiest boxes I've ever had. Usually a manager will set some aside for you if you're able to ask nicely.
> Lazarus never was as good as Delphi GUI-wise

What do you mean? I've been using Lazarus for many years and i used Delphi 2 and 7 before that (mainly 2 though) and i find Lazarus to be an improvement over these versions (AFAIK Delphi 7 was incredibly popular - among Delphi developers anyway - to the point where it was offered for years after newer versions were made).

IMO the main reason is simply that Pascal has lost its "cool" status - and also there is a ton of misinformation out there about it (i even still see people mentioning Kernighan's article on Pascal about why it isn't good, which not only isn't valid anymore -aside from a couple of cosmetic differences- it also wasn't valid in the 90s or really even when he wrote it - though in his defense he was referring to Standard Pascal, but that hasn't been relevant for literal decades).

> and hasn't been updated for modern GUI toolkits, so (unfortunately) it's almost obsolete by now.

Lazarus is a fully volunteer-developed project, so people work on what they want. If you want support for a modern GUI toolkit you basically need to do it yourself (the maintainers are very accepting of external contributors).

Though chances are your info is a bit out of date. As of right now (i use the trunk version since i contribute to Lazarus, though my contributions are certainly on the "old GUI toolkits" side) there is support for Qt6 (which is modern enough in my book :-P) which seems to be at a decent state. Here[0] is an image with Lazarus compiled using the Qt6 backend with a small 3D model viewer i wrote - running Lazarus itself is a litmus test for a backend as the IDE is quite complex.

Of course the neat bit with Lazarus is that you can also use any other toolkit that is supported - in the same image you can see the same exact model viewer running with the Gtk1 backend :-P

[0] https://i.imgur.com/NE2LB3U.png
I see this advice a lot, and I think it's making the problem worse.

The most common form of bad documentation I come across is simply documentation with pieces missing: it uses terms without defining them, it tells you what problem an option is intended to solve but doesn't say what effect it actually has, and so on.

One possible cause is the "empathy" theory: the author missed that bit out because they assumed the reader already knew it. But I think it's more common that the author just did a half-way job, because we don't have a documentation culture that takes being complete and correct as the minimum baseline.

If that's the case, I think the advice authors need is to _not_ spend so much time thinking about what their reader is trying to do, and spend more time thinking "is what I've written complete?".
Yes, but the winners of your lottery won't get missiles and tanks. I hope not, at least.

The US want a strong army, a debatable policy, but that's how it is. A strong army needs to be maintained, otherwise, well, look at Russia. And this is done by keeping people active, both soldiers and suppliers. If instead of building weapons, they decided to give random Americans what they want, like cars, computers, houses, whatever, sure, there will be some happier Americans, but also a weaker army, that may not be fit for the what they may be needed for in the future.
US doctrine is to be prepared to fight two major wars. Implicit in that doctrine is that Russia is one of those two major wars. Aiding Ukraine in taking Russia off the table is cheaper than doing it ourselves, so by doctrine keeping Ukraine from losing should reduce our defence spending, not increase it.
Amazon has one of most ridiculous and terrible UI's that are outdated and difficult to navigate with so I wouldnt take anything from there to follow any standards
magit , for me on windows, it was slow to the extent of making it unusable, i really liked magit features, but the slowness was a bit too much
"fundamental lefts"?
Don't get me wrong, both formats have their place. I personally find neither to be terribly difficult to read or write, but maybe that's just me. Having used XSD and JSON schema, XSD is a far more complete solution that takes advantage if XML's more sophisticated syntax. I'm not sure how you'd make JSON Schema more expressive without making it hideously difficult to use.

I'm not advocating for universal XML use, nor am I advocating for universal JSON use. I'm advocating for standing back and asking yourself "what am I trying to accomplish?" then choosing the right tool for the job.

As for protobuf: I've seen entire companies built on it. It's amazing what your engineers can do when they don't spend half their time twiddling bits or arguing about data formats. It's a godsend for embedded developers (like me), because JSON, XML, et al are non-starters in that space.
Eh, I messed around with it for a while - it's okay and good for beginners, but without much more effort you can get better results out of A1111 or ComfyUI
There seems to be a trend. I wonder which private equity firm is working through bending spoons? These are hallmark moves.

Oh! Right at the top of the Googles! There it is.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/nb-renaissance-invests...
It’s been in some high school US textbooks at least as far back as the 1990’s and I suspect it’s much older. But the implication of such didn’t get much attention. I vaguely recall one of those little blue box blurbs with a mention of headless chickens being able to run and a diagram of a reflex test.
No, this is not the broken window fallacy for the US. It is the broken window fallacy for the entire global economy. Yeah obviously the war does not help the global economy.

The fact that the goods are exported is not relevant. Many goods are exported. Missiles, sure, but also food. Is exporting food a broken window fallacy? Obviously not.

The US has an immense economic competitive advantage in military goods owing to its technology. It’s a product like any other and the wages that flow through this industry as well as its suppliers are huge net positives to the overall economy.

Selling that which you have a competitive advantage on and buying the rest is the basic principle behind international economics.
War sucks. Yes, soldiers are tired. How does that article imply that they are "losing" relative to Russia? Do you think the Russians assaulting Avdiivka right now are having a great time? I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
You're confusing totally separate things.

Is this great to support allies, defend Europe, send a message to China? Of course. These are all great things.

But the point is, it costs the amount of money we're spending. The article is arguing that the money somehow comes back to America. It doesn't. It's not free. All of that production capacity is going to arms manufacture, instead of the economically productive things it would have gone to otherwise. It's not "all upside". It costs something.
This article really resonated with me both in regard to the mundane and profound boredom aspects. For the mundane, obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling (with the justification that I occasionally find content like this). While the profound boredom experienced during the start of Covid made me realise I wasn’t living up to what I thought were my values. I then started volunteering with the local emergency service which has been one of the best life decisions I’ve made.
> Here we are in 2023 still battling with forms (see comments about datalist and color picker) and general UX for users entering data. It blows my mind. Why this isn't a solved space is beyond me.

It is. You throw it in React and get on with your life. It's only "not solved" because some people have a bizarre fetish for avoiding JavaScript and will find any excuse to wedge in their half-baked alternatives.
I appreciate your comment, I've interests in so many things, specially RAD systems like lazarus, delphi, gambas (I was from that era) and I tinkered with Rebol many years ago, and the experience was quite "unique". Tarantool I had to work with in previous projects (it offers a lot, but very unknown)
I also think they only achieve about 15GBPS on their backplanes of their routers with SFP28, enough to show a benefit over SFP+ but not really full speed.
Researchers Devised an Attack Technique to Extract ChatGPT Training Data
Before I clicked I did not think "good old fashion ML" would refer to deep learning. :-)
She might still have the Italian nationality. Citizen from the EU are allowed to work in any EU country and can keep their nationality. From the Dutch Wikipedia page (translated with Google Translate):

Morganti graduated with honors in astronomy from the University of Bologna in 1982 with a thesis on radio galaxies. In 1987 she obtained her PhD from the University of Bologna with the thesis Morphology and Physics of Radio Galaxies. From 1988 to 1989 she was a fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Garching. She then served as staff astronomer at the Istituto di Radioastronomia in Bologna from 1989 to 1999. In 1999, Morganti moved to the Netherlands and became a researcher at ASTRON in Dwingeloo. In 2005 she also became a part-time lecturer at the University of Groningen. In 2011, she was appointed professor by special appointment of Structure and Evolution of Radio Galaxies at the University of Groningen.
> Nobody said it came for "free"

Yes they did. That's basically the entire point the article is trying to make.

That my original content was refuting.
You say "GraphQL" but link to "Graph Query Language (GQL)."

Those are two entirely separate things.

EDIT: And neither of these should be confused with "Graph Query Language (GSQL)" by TigerGraph: https://www.tigergraph.com/gsql/
There's also accurately noticing when your employees are engaged in political activism that is harming your company.
It won the OS wars on the server side, no question there! It works greats, serving all the SaaS platforms out there...

But as a desktop? Most of my colleagues are using apple hardware/MacOSX. Personally, I'm writing this on Ubuntu - I've been on Linux since forever.

Another one: Android. Built on top of Linux, its core is open source, but is it REALLY in the spirit of open source? One most new phones you cannot put LineageOS (I've always checking the list before I buy).

How does it help that I have the source of Linux and Android, but I'm still not able to build the OS for most mobiles?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not disillusioned with open source. Not at all. I love and appreciate the open source I have (this includes e.g. Rust) I'm just cautious about what the author of the article is foreseeing. You might have a vibrant community, doesn't mean its output won't get wrapped inside some SaaS/big corp.
> here's the Endatabas solution to this problem:

Where?

The narrator says "Endb supports ERASE. Mustard is gone." and then moves on to another topic entirely.

This is right after they said the data was immutable.

What does ERASE actually do? Does it wipe the old bytes? Does it add a tombstone that could be bypassed?
Lilac Chaser
This problem isn't just cars. I've had 2 washers fail in the last couple of years, each time the main logic board. The proplem is (mainly) the electronics, or more precisely, highly integrated, highly proprietary parts.

When they break, you can hardly diagnose them, let alone fix them, or replace them with 3rd party stuff. Buying replacements from the manufacturer (if you even can) is often uneconomic, and also risky, since maybe it broke because of some other failure, etc.

The solution isn't going back to simple wires and mechanics - his example of 'wiring in a tail light' would double the weight of the car with wires if applied to everything.

The solution is modularity and open standards.
> Having the engineer pair with someone who has never used the product before who also works in your org could help.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. If you do this, especially with a user who is known for asking good questions, you will benefit greatly from it.
People have already given awesome suggestions here. There was also a suggestion a few weeks ago to just chat people up about stuff at stores and some will reject that and others are just as happy as you will be to strike up a conversation and who knows where it'll go from there.

Also for ransom pen pals I use an app called slowly to connect to people around the world. I don't think I've reached out to anyone not super interesting.
We talked constantly to ours. Not about anything in particular. Just narrating everything we did. Constantly.

Our oldest was talking in full sentences at 1 year. It was astounding. Now, granted, it was stuff like, "I'm dunna det da fwad" but he was communicating in full thoughts at about the time he walked.

People always asked what system we used for teaching him. Our answer was always, "it's boring at our house so we talk a lot."
dig bigger holes
Yep. Having more than one kid disabuses us of the notion that our parenting was the driver in how awesome the kid turns out.

That said, I believe it's nature and nurture in the end.
I don’t think I argued that there weren’t limits to property rights. Did I?

> Unlike private households and businesses, public companies only exist due to licenses from the state.

There are a few problems with this. To start, private business and private households also exist due to licensure from the state. The distinction between public and private is a matter of technicality, not categorical difference. The monopoly that the state holds on the initiation of violence applies categorically to your ability to purchase a home and pay taxes, and it applies to large tech companies.

The second problem is that public businesses were as a matter of fact private before they were public. So instead of offering shares to the public on government regulated, public markets that anyone can participate in, they could just be private instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...

It's been dead for 70+ years.
> short form AI video

TikTok and Instagram may be totally on automatic in a year. Systems that learn what the viewer wants will generate as much of it as people will watch.
> git branch

Yep. And to list worktrees you use:

$ git worktree
error: need a subcommand

Oh woops. But to show all refs instead of just the branches you surely just:

$ git show-ref
0003692409f153dd725b3455dfc2e128276cfbe2 refs/branchless/0003692409f153dd725b3455dfc2e128276cfbe2

No. But I can just cut(1) out that SHA1...

These SQL-like commands are probably meant to be familiar and guessable. Not terse. And then you can change the query instead of using all sorts of utility commands in some ad hoc pipeline (or look up whatever switch they threw in to turn on and off things like SHA1 as first column). If you don’t like the latter.
Sure you can help. Sometimes it's just being there for a friend or stranger even if you don't think it's that beneficial it really can be to have someone around.
Your reasoning doesn't tackle the issue at hand so no I can't understand how "meaningless" because there is does actually matter. It doesn't matter that the people who produced the model can't scrutinize the results because they know what went into it and we don't. Just like how it's not very common for corporations that ship binary firmware blobs to scrutinize them in depth, since they have the upstream source/data that went into making them. They don't need to, because that's not the point.

No you wouldn't end up with the exact same model weights if you trained it yourself on the same data but you could compare how the models perform when given the same prompts and to try to identify anomalous variation that could point you towards Facebook misrepresenting us about what went into the training / fine-tuning.
"Simulated annealing, when used with a logarithmic cooling schedule, has been proven to find the global optimum of any optimization problem."

I have many questions, but I suspect I'm not smart enough to understand the answers.

That was a really interesting link, though.
Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
Real talk though. Kids and babies aren't stupid. So if you take the time to explain things, they pick up on more than you would believe.

Where many people go wrong is that they assume little kids are stupid instead of understanding that they lack context.
First words from the article (emphasis added): “Three astronomers FROM the Netherlands”

Because of that and her Italian-looking name, I suspect she’s Italian. Wikipedia thinks so, too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaella_Morganti)

> Not many Dutch people have been bestowed the honor of receiving an Italian commendation.

I expect quite a few will have minor ones, as it’s customary to bestow them on ambassadors and politicians.

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_of_Italy), this one isn’t minor, but still follows that pattern.
> In computing, hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system.

So yeah just scaling. I agree I've never heard the word "hyperscale" before and don't think we need that extra intensifier for a well-understood idea.
No, it's a nice pun and nothing more. People read too much into wordplay, perhaps we need retinal cells that stabilize that
My AAD account is permanently screwed up because I left and rejoined the company I’m at (intern conversion, so I got a new AAD account with the same email).

I get signed out constantly, especially on mobile where my coworkers do not. Trying to sign into ADO sends me to a screen prompting me to configure a new org because it gets confused by two accounts existing with the same email in the same org even though one of them was deleted along with the underlying AAD account. It also just 500s sometimes when trying to login saying there’s something weird happening during authentication, I have to restart the browser to make it work.

As far as I know there’s no way to fix any of it, so I’m stuck with half working SSO.
No, you're just having a totally different conversation.

I already said there are absolutely ancillary benefits. But that doesn't mean it's not costing money. It's costing a lot of money! The article is trying to make the point that the money is just coming back to the American economy and therefore, in a sense, isn't "costing" us. But that's false. We are spending real money.

Is the money worth it to affect the war effort? Of course. But it's real money being spent. It's not "coming back to us".
OP, the term is “old-fashioned” not “old fashion”.
People terrified by nature is the bigger problem.

Contamination trigger allergies. Plants remove part of that contamination and improve health for everybody. They reduce skin cancer rate for example.

Landscapers know their job and plan according it. (At least some of them; Cheap workers can be terrible gardeners. People get what they pay for).
This is interesting, thank you for writing it and sharing!

Now I need to remember to read each new entry... (Which is entirely on me, just to be clear!)

I wish I could get my teammates to write any docs, let alone good documentation. It doesn't help that we barely have time for tech debt due to leadership priorities.
Maybe the Chernobyl exclusion zone will become an old growth forest some day!