skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is VERY worth talking to a professional about this. It's possible to build your savings in a manner they will produce income via dividends, bonds and other methods that give you a pretty great tax advantage and you don't have to sell as many assets during retirement. This is a huge advantage overall, especially in the years the market is bad.

I am not a financial professional but rely on one to guide me.
This needs a hardware component as well as an independent authority of some kind before I’d trust it. Don’t just tell me, “We asked, and they told us they were human ;)” I want independent verification from an entity that knows _who_ the person is and can verify it, not just whether they passed a software-only test.
That handle's for when the springs are working. It's probably not going to lift hundreds of pounds without breaking.
Microsoft is testing media controls for Edge on the Windows taskbar
40k/year + SS income. So probably closer to 60k a year and most retirees have a paid off house. So, the biggest monthly expense is gone.
>>> But the question of how subjective experience, particularly in the human nervous system, arises from physical processes is really uninteresting to me.

And yet it is one of the most interesting and profound question that kept philosophers and scientists awake at night for centuries. Even Ed Witten said that he has a much easier time imagining humans understanding the big bang than to ever understand consciousness.
It's probably been tested only on Chrome.
Well, bitcoin shows you exactly what to expect in such a situation: it makes a terrible currency that nobody ever wants to spend.

I know many people are convinced that the value of money comes from its scarcity, but it's actually a very limited view: An even more important characteristic of money is that it must be abundant enough. That's why humanity spent most of history using gold and silver as support for value and not diamond and platinum.

That's the neat part with credit-based money: it's generally produced in just the amount you need for the economy. But another problem arise in case of financial crisis: banks can run out of liquidity if other banks refuse to lend them, and it has a catastrophic effect. That's what central banks are made for: they are lenders of last resort.

The problems you are referring to aren't really related to monetary policy itself, but about fiscal policy: when you try solving all problems (namely aggregate demand being too low) with monetary policy alone, you end up in weird places.
Yea, I don’t think 4% is all that conservative, either. Unless you have some reliable insider knowledge about when you’re going to die, you kind of have to plan for indefinite withdrawal, or at least until age 120 or something. Ideally, we are at exactly zero when we kick the bucket. Having money left over when you die is fine and let’s you leave a little bit to kin. Running out before you die is kind of catastrophic, no?
Still, I would've thought they'd do a very long vacuum bake-out stage before sealing up the satellite inside the launch rocket.
OP is talking about future predictions though, not "priced in" stuff. If you are able to predict (predict being the key term here, you are predicting... the future) the exchange rate, you can make a lot of money, yes.
this is fairly common in the gov and financial sectors (but it's enterprise architects or security engineers doing the signing)
> There is, however, a healthy kind of dead air

This is the thing that drives me nuts. I was really hoping the article would be about the value of dead air, or at least expound on it more, instead there is barely a paragraph.

What continues to frustrate the hell out of me is that Incident Commanders keep taking silence as inaction (or ineffective action), even when you tell them in advance you need to dive into through logs and think for a few minutes.

I've now switched to taking my headset off when I need to do it (after letting them know and giving them a chance to respond).

It is practically impossible to debug complex scenarios, especially when you need intuition and your subconscious mind involved, while being pestered with questions.
Nitpicking: Don't confuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova

From Wikipedia:

> For other uses, see Nova (disambiguation), Novas (disambiguation), and Novae (disambiguation).

> Not to be confused with luminous red nova, supernova, kilonova, or micronova.

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what half of them mean, but I guess they are nasty things that can make a star brighter.)
Broader sociological problems aside for a second (academia does have issues for sure), one should keep in mind here that string theory is just a small subfield of physics and is not at all representative of physics as whole (or even theoretical physics). So don't let the pathologies that have developed there colour your view of physics or science generally.
Deep shafts have a tendency to flood. And that’s assuming you can drill one in the first place.
> significantly increase the amount of work you need to do if you want ISO 27001 or similar cert

Not true in my experience. We used a lot of "open source" software at work but that didn't matter in the certification. Maybe it depends on the auditor.
Guys, I found the bot.
I think the original comment might be getting at the cultural differences between the US and Japan.

It is plausible to me that the group that owns the most Japanese Yen get to set the rate. That group can decide to tread water or start to charging outsiders for use of the capital.

Warning the above is wild speculation from a stranger on the internet.
Discussion: How do you reach out for projects when working idependently
Hi,
I moved to working freelancing september and had a full pipeline from my network but the work seems to be stalling after May and was wondering what tips do people have.

-Some of the ideas I'm considering are fiver and upwork but this seems to be a competition for bottom prices. Ex was charging $125 an hour for the most Jr engineer work on my team and over there seems like it tops around $80 an hour.
-Government contracts -> Seems like this has a lot of lead time.
-> How to create a funnel from online either marketing or cold reach is completely unkwon to me and would love some input on it.
Consciousness can not be simulated.
Last year I had arm surgery and in the recovery room I was in pain and agreed to a nerve block. The anesthesiologist put an iPad in my lap. Then with the ultrasound head in one hand and a syringe in the other he looked at the iPad until he found the nerves he wanted and zap!

I was in a lot of pain and was a bit groggy but my one clear memory is being fascinated by this and watching the tablet closely.

(The nerve block worked, but I don’t know that I would ever get one again. It definitely freaked me out).
I think that the emotional nature of health-related topics also contribute to the challenge of debunking misinformation effectively... In a period of pandemic and facing the unknown
If you want you income to increase with inflation you can't spend the entire rate of return. So If you are using a 5% return you should really only spend 2%, if you go with the current inflation rate.
Clothing - that’s what did me in (annd anctually inspired me to learn sewing!). All clothing is still assembled primarily by hand, whereas your spool of wire probably has never been touched by anyone but yourself. Both need an army of suppliers, and like Adam smith’s wool coat an army of transportation behind those suppliers. But your shirt was… made in a fundamentally different way than your spool of wire.
Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
I'd love to hear their side of it.
Sure but that too is to die with a million inflation adjusted, not to draw down. Are you saying retirees should need to be able to live only on ongoing gains?
I think captchas have been mostly worthless for a while now, so human-detectors rely on other behavior signals instead, and are transparent to the end user.
I have a Sawstop for my main cabinet saw in my shop at home, but also a regular job site saw for working elsewhere.

The table saw is a great tool, and the safety feature makes sense. Especially for the cabinet saw where the incremental price for a comparable too is not so much - but there are plenty of other power tools that will hurt you just as badly. A router or jointer won't amputate a finger, it will just turn it to hamburger.

No matter the tool, you need to respect it and learn the safety rules.
I would disagree about "no frontiers" and where the frontiers are.

The standard model is not complete in that we don't know what the mass term of the neutrino is, if it is Dirac or Majorana or some combination. There's the mysterious absence of the right-handed neutrino which is a good candidate for the "dark matter" particle. This is not "physics beyond the standard model" but "a missing piece of the standard model". There is at least one major secret inside the neutrino and Occam's razor makes that a good candidate for explaining the missing mass and maybe even the matter-antimatter asymmetry.
Planetary Geophysics—What it is, what it teaches in search for life beyond Earth
This is very neat, but I am not convinced that call center/tier 1 support employees are allowed to just click on random links clients send them and jump through a Captcha hoop.
While there certainly are ideas from string theory that have filtered down to CMP, topological insulators are not one of them.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/03/18/business/japan-boj-negative-...
I am an Australian SE with a stutter. I was making $160k. Tonight I am homeless
After having built a Voron and a couple other kit projects lately, I've fully converted over to threaded inserts in my designs, it adds one extra step but it feels so much better than trying to get a machine screw to bite without cracking the plastic, and it gives you a bit more margin if you accidently undersize your hole, or the plastic shrinks too much.
> At the end of the day a lot of this comes down to people being unwilling to even be around people unlike them.

When did I ever say this? People are talking about loneliness. I don't know about you but the "We only hang at neighborhood barbecues" makes me feel more lonely not less.

I want to make friends. Real friends, not fluffy workplace style acquaintances where we only talk about superficial stuff over a beer once in a while

I even straight up said. I don't hate my neighbors. We get along fine. They are just also very different than me and it contributes to my feelings of loneliness. I don't think I'm the only one in the world that feels like that
At this point the best way to check is to be extremely offensive, but then you might not be talking for long if it's an actual human.
I think there's also an element of moving goalposts. Maybe we understand certain structures of a fully connected nn, but then we need to understand what's happening within a transformer.

They're going to continue to get more complex, and so we will always have more to understand.

I think what you're hoping for is some theory that once discovered will apply to all future NN architectures (and very likely help us find the "best" ones). Do you think that exists?
Google's AI Wasn't a Mistake. We Know. We Were There
I can understand why ancient people would migrate west or east since the sun movement; rise or set would draw them there. What would spur people to move north or south other than hunting animals? If animals I'd expect north for a bit then south again (or vice versa below the equator).
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._Stafford
Haha didn't know about this! Clearly we've regressed as a society
Active Directory Spotlight: Attacking the Microsoft Configuration Manager
MIPSr6 added RISC-V like compare and branch instructions.
"Sorry I'm not allowed to follow links."
D. Gross, Nobel Prize winner in physics for his work on the standard model, became a formidable fighter for string theory, but recently said: "We don't know what we are talking about."
And the inability to influence the course of global events that can affect your life in any case...
I don't see how this would work in practice. I had a conversation with Uber's criminally bad customer support yesterday. I know it starts with a bot, but claims at some point to escalate you to a person, with a name. I still couldn't establish if it was or wasn't a person. I asked repeatedly if I was talking to a person or not and was just ignored. But I know at the best of times the real people just paste a bunch of boilerplate crap instead of actually helping you, so it could easily have been a person doing it. At the end of the day it doesn't matter much, awful support is awful support.
Pray tell:

How much ownership of the means of production did a slave of the USSR or PRC own?

Who “owned” the property in these cases?
.NET with vscode C# extensions has not worked on Mac for some time. It's broken and cannot debug, it also features a fun warning from MS that their tools are proprietary.

Theyve really botched it and I can't find any reason to reach for poor quality tools over existing OS ones.
What about earthquakes?
This is a breath of fresh air. I hope this is the beginning of America beginning to walk back the popularity car-centric suburban hellscapes.
Yes I was a little unfair with some of them
It isn't a terrible currency because of the fixed supply pattern though; it is too volatile because there isn't a consensus on how to price it yet. At some point it'll be more like gold where the value of crypto is obvious and understood. And I think the major problem is it is too risky, a fat-finger mistake can deplete an entire wallet with technically no recourse.
Sometimes I'm upset that we don't have flying cars or warp drives yet, but then I think of the sheer engineering challenges in something as mundane seeming as this and can be proud again of humanity. I don't know how they ever manage to get these kinds of projects right. The JWST was a pretty crazy feat as well.
That's basically what Blade Runner is about, no?
Babe wake up, a new malware vector just dropped!

But seriously, a lot of workers who are most likely to be replaced by AI (First line support, etc) aren't able to open links from customers.
It's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project.

Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem)

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen...

It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.
Test pointer polling rate here (use Chrome/Brave/etc - Safari is NOT accurate)

https://www.clickspeedtester.com/mouse-polling-rate-checker/

Using an M1 Max with Promotion (120hz) display:

- Logitech BT mouse - 60-70hz

- Logitech USB mouse - 125hz

- Trackpad - 130hz
If paying people that need the money just to survive is exploitation, is it better or worse to pay people more money for slightly less trivial stuff that don't need that money to survive?

I struggle to see how providing opportunity to the poorest people in the world is bad and I'd go so far as to say a worldview that finds this behavior bad is harmful to the people who need help the most.

If you want to enable the most vulnerable people in the world to live better lives you do so by providing better opportunity, not by taking away the only opportunity they have.

e.g. if a child is working at a sweatshop so the family doesn't starve, you help the child by providing the family with food so there's no need for the child to voluntarily work at the sweatshop. You most certainly don't take away the sweatshop and watch the family starve.
Seems like a better plan then deciding when I am going to die. What if I plan on living to my 80s, but make it to my 100s?
I am just happy there is a native Redis-like available on Windows. I believe there is another RavenDB replacement but this one is 'more' official!

Is it possible to use Aspire locally or is it just a cloud only 'framework'?
The big thing here is that the GPU has historically been a pain point for Android, because it has extreme access to the AP in ways that basically sidestep any mitigation that you put in its way. Any bugs in the driver's mapping code (and there have been many) end up giving very powerful primitives, and this fact has repeatedly been used in in-the-wild exploits. Unfortunately, I don't think much is going to change here until this gets rearchitected.
I've just recently used a similar Turing test. Needed to contact an owner and all the website had was a floating chat bubble. I've gotten an immediate reply, so suspecting it's an AI, I've asked what's 3772825+8272626. The answer I got was "c'mon man", successfully verifying I'm talking to a human.
Ah.

and For the audience at home: https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=hoarded+Japanese+chalk&ia=we...
New game engine runs Manic Miner on an Arduino UNO
The problem is that you won't know it was poorly jacked-up until it's too late.
I still replay the campaign every so often, it's still very good, is not too long and very enjoyable, I'd love a PS5 update but I doubt that's coming.
Don't? You make backwards compatible changes and provide an API. To sunset a thing takes coordination and measuring usage.

If you are having to keep two or more modules/libs/packages/repos in sync, those should be unified.
An ordinary person can recite Macbeth backwards, starting from "When shall we three meet againe?". Prove you're a human by reciting Macbeth backwards.
If it makes you feel any better, non americans need to think how the item you're looking for is pictured in hollywood movies to solve some captchas...
What do you think Captcha results have been being used to train?
“ Turns out you were the uninformed one. From the context through parent posts you can clearly see this was about a website using google adsense and by that, the company sells my info to an external (google) which then tries to take advantage of me to extract money from me.”

This is not how it works. You might not be medically delusional but you are saying things that are not true.
It's lack of industrial policy, really, the fact that these people did good science until outsourcing started proves it. It's not cases of "got useless PhD at university no one ever heard of".
anecdotes about dating apps being overtaken by ai "assistants"?

pls share!
Works fine in Firefox
That's hilarious, but I suppose they'll ruin that one day.
Reminds me of Amtrak’s handling of time changes - the train either waits at a station until leave time (if it was less than an hour late) or it just becomes an hour late depending on which time change it was.
Yes, Standing Waves Can Exist Without Walls
Sorry, not to say it's not a cool project, but, real question: Why would anyone you don't know accept to click on a shady URL you sent them?
I wouldn't.
"Hey, are you a human? If so please go to this website you have never heard about"
Sounds like the beginning of a bad scam to me
I think when dealing with 'the other side' so to speak, a good many of us (me included) are against the forces of shear ignorance, scientific illiteracy, undo/thinly veiled racism, and a general disunion amongst men (a war of all against all). I certainly wouldn't put you in this category, but you must admit your original comment came in hot, which instinctively makes people put their shields up. I hope we can all be like the Buddha, but for me, it's exceedingly hard to embody
Well, then you are not talking to a human. You are talking to an interface handled by a human. I think it's a small difference but an important one.
OnlineOrNot Diaries 19
I'm a middle aged Hispanic guy who lives in a very conservative state and works in tech. I have established my own community of friends and family. Work doesn't provide anything for me except a paycheck. I'm friendly at work and I keep in touch and consider some people I've worked with friends, but the majority of people I work with are just work acquaintances.

I remember being lonelier in my 20's, but I never really socialized at work. I socialized outside work with my family, or found places I enjoyed being with people I enjoyed being around.
"The office" is an antiquated system that's unnecessary. America definitely needs more public spaces, but building your relationships around work is a recipe for disaster. It takes time to build a community, but it's worth it. I don't want to be around people who are forced to be around me, pretend the don't look down on me, sabotage me behind my back.

Remote work makes those people forget to discriminate in my experience, I can stand on my merits without that guy who does my job (but sucks) joking about how they could replace me with a sombrero. (actual IRL interaction.)

EDIT: spelling
Nah. Satire was always safe when it's not pretending to have documented evidence of the thing actually happening.

Two recent headlines:

* Biden Urges Americans Not To Let Dangerous Online Rhetoric Humanize Palestinians [1]

* Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little [2]

Do you really think, if you jumped back a few years, you could have known which was satire and which wasn't?

The fact that we have video evidence of the second is (part) of how we know it's true. Sure, we could also trust the reporters who were there, but that doesn't lend itself to immediate verification by someone who sees the headline on their Facebook feed.

If the first had an accompanying AI video, do you think it would be believed by some people who are willing to believe the worst of Biden? Sure, especially in a timeline where the second headline is true.

1. https://www.theonion.com/biden-urges-americans-not-to-let-da...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump...
Evolution of repeated token attacks on ChatGPT models
Threat Actors Exploit Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPN
There is a ton of poorly thought advice on this subject online. I recommend looking at some of what more reputable authors have published, such as Wade Pfau.

Even among experts there is not going to be a complete agreement on what is the best strategy, but there is broad agreement on some key points. I will briefly mention the two most important ones in my opinion.

First, realize that since investments compound, the (random) returns you get for the first few years of your retirement will have a disproportionate effect on whether you will have enough long-term. This is called the sequence of returns risk, and there are some things you can do to reduce that risk somewhat.

Second, and as a consequence of the (random) variability of the value of your investments over time, it is very beneficial to be able and willing to cut down on your expenses when your investments have lost value, particularly if it happens during those crucial first years.

Lastly, consider the possibility of purchasing an annuity. It provides you with some insurance in the event that you live longer than you expected.
> median retirement saving is actually $164,000, which makes sense as the median salary is ~$60,000

That includes ALL retirements accounts - ranging from those of people who are early career to those who are at retirement age.

I haven't seen data about median retirement savings for those at retirement age.

Edit: I'm wrong!
My laptop's manufacturer doesn't use it to spy on me.

This isn't about fads and trends. If you want to discuss those, find a fashion forum.