skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned out to fill out a basic Form 1040 tax return in middle school (late 1970s).

Banking now is WAY easier. Balancing a checkbook? All your transactions and your balance are available 24/7 on your phone. Your paycheck appears in your bank account automatically. You used to have to get a paper check at work and then take it to the bank (open 9-5, maybe a little later on Fridays, and 9-12 or maybe 2pm on Saturday) to deposit it. Paying for stuff at the store today? Tap your phone. You used to have to carry cash, or a checkbook (if the merchant would accept checks) and hope you had figured your balance correctly.

I don't remember a lot of lessons about managing credit but we did study simple and compound interest in math and talked about how that can work for and against you depending on whether you're borrowing or saving.

Home maintenance and vehicle care --- covered the essentials in home economics and driver's education. Most people then and now paid others to do that, or went to the effort to teach themselves what they needed to know.

Cars back then were much less reliable than today. Today's cars will go 100K miles easy with little more than oil changes and maybe a new set of brake pads and tires. Cars then needed regular tune-ups and generally started having more major problems after only a few years.

Health care does seem worse now. You don't have as many family doctors with their own or small group practices, where getting an appointment was pretty easy and they actually knew you. But overall daily life is way more convenient now than it was 30 years ago.
While you may be right, I feel the dynamic is more about the fact that most expats tend to be more educated than the average. If someone willingly moved to a country where limited opportunity exists, that may not apply to them since they're better equipped for it.

This is especially true if you consider Indians or Chinese in America. Those populations have an even more acute education lead. So many people want to come here, that to commit means accepting you spend the next 15 or so years waiting in line to finally be a permanent resident (rather than an immigrant who can easily be forced to leave if their visa doesn't have a sponsor.)
“Without cooperation from the guest” is the bit of info I was missing.

Thank you.
devenv has container support if you're looking for it, but you can completely ignore it if (like me) you don't care
What's disappointing is that it's big but adds virtually no extra keys.

You can get to a very useful 130-key layout-- a second band of function keys, two more columns, and a knob-- by adding only about 5cm on each dimension compared to your typical 104.
Which countries in the "global south" are you talking about? I live in South America and life is not like this. Like, nothing at all like this; you might as well be describing Narnia or Middle Earth and it would sound just as fantastical.

Just as some examples:

Doctors are quite good here, none of that untrained nonsense you mentioned.

You have safety nets.

If you work formally employed (which granted is not a minor detail, since informal employment is a big problem), you have plenty of sick days, and these are mandated by law; so not at the mercy of the company.

Vacations are mandated by law to be paid according to how long you've been at the company. Nobody can fire you for taking vacations; it's about 2 weeks vacation once you've been working for a year. This is by law, the company is of course free to sweeten the deal.

Our best university is public and free.

While life is not easy for somebody without a family to support them or a good job, the reality is nowhere close to what you imagined.

Now, this is one country and I'm aware the "global south" is large and varied. I'm sure other countries have it worse. But it makes me suspect your global description of the south.

Etc, etc.
I completely forgot what the original post I was replying to was about lol. If it was about lemonade then yup the lemons and the lemonade should be on the books as assets.

I’ve also wondered what to do if you grow your own lemons. I guess you could offset the new asset on your books with a Harvest income account?

One of our customers built an ERP for food distributors, I should ask them how they would handle it.
Yeah, please don't read my mention of that book as any kind of endorsement, more like a "wow, look at the wild shit this guy wrote."

I think a lot of the Chaos Magic stuff is written in a spirit of playfulness (though there's plenty of plain dumb stuff too), it's kind of the characteristic of that "movement" in magic to play freely with tropes from every imaginable system and mix them in weird fashions.
> As I often say, Ukraine of today may be East Asia of tomorrow.

Well, I get that Kishida wants to position himself firmly on "Team America" side, but this is a bit rich, coming from a country that did to East Asia what Russia did to its neighbors.
The first puzzle from the sample:

> A seller has some quantity of floor with him. The seller offered his customer that if he/she buys half of the floor he has, he will give half kg of floor as a discount. The first customer accepted his offer and he purchased half of the floor and got half kg as extra. After selling the floor to the first customer he again makes the same offer for the second customer, and so on. The seller left with no quantity of floor after he made the fifth transaction. The initial quantity of floor the seller had?

It's a solvable math puzzle, but has some obvious issues.

One of the later puzzles is pretty funny:

> There are three people (Deepak, Avinash, Prateek ), one is a robot, one is a missile, one of them is a Gun, the robot can either lie or tell the trust, and the Gun always tells the truth, the missile always lies, and the robot can do both he can either lie or he can tell the truth.

> Statements :

> Deepak: Prateek is a missile."

> Avinash: "Deepak is a Gun."

> prateek : "I am the robot."

> Find out the Gun, the missile, and the robot?

The typos and weird formatting from the original.

The final puzzle in the sample is just sort of an incoherent mess:

> You have twenty white and thirteen black balls in a bag. You pull out two balls one after another. If the balls are of identical color, you then definitely replace them with a white ball - however, if they're of various colors, you update them with a black ball. Once you are taking out the balls, you do now no longer place them returned back in the bag - so the balls keep reducing. What will be the color of the final ball remaining in the bag?
Ask Volkswagen - pretty sure they have a solution to this required reporting
I attended a school assembly in middle school (!) which featured an emaciated woman dying of aids that had gotten from being raped while jogging in a public park.

People weren’t walking around refusing to be teenagers because look at this terrible world we live in. This combination of sanctimonious, depressed, and boring probably hasn’t been seen on this continent since the 1700s in New England.
It would be better if the images were more clear.
Oh this is a fascinating coincidence- 380,288 just so happens to be the income reported by Vice President Harris and her husband on their 2021 federal tax return.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-0...
> How many people did (so much more than me) with all these projects to be later betrayed by relicensing.

Were you betrayed? They did a thing you licensed them to do. That’s the whole point of non-copyleft free software licenses, after all! It’s kind of odd to specifically choose a license which allows others to use one’s code in proprietary software, then be upset when others use one’s code in proprietary software.

If one wishes one’s software and its users to remain free, the answer is to use a copyleft license.
I'd argue an even bigger issue is the way Amazon clogs up its search and product listings with sponsored results. Amazon isn't interested in selling you what you are looking for. They want you to buy some sponsored junk instead. This mindset permeates the site and IMO is the source of many current problems.
Posteriors: Open-Source Library for Uncertainty-Aware LLMs with PyTorch
Society is consciously created by the active participants in that system. Government fails to hold them accountable for directly creating unwanted outcomes. Task companies with robust interoperability and let’s see how that goes.
The tumbler purge was worse than I expected…
That's definitely something I struggle with, both in videogames and real life. There's also a related thing with taking time to enjoy the things that I have bought or saved up for or worked so hard to get. It's not necessarily that I'm worried about using them up, but rather that I've already become focused on the next thing and don't take a break to savor the current one. I've gotten better about that over the years, but the reminder is still appreciated!
You are assuming that you and AI are the same sort of thing.

I do not think we are at that point yet. In the meantime, the idea that we might get to intelligence by feeding in more data might get choked out by poisoned data.

I have a suspicion that there's a bit more to it than just more data though.
I'd bet that most do, but also know that America could be better and want it to be better. No one has to be ignorant about what is good in order to see what needs improving.
> I wonder what Airbus is doing to increase their production capacity

Probably scrambling and cutting corners. You know, using dish soap as lubricant, hotel keycards instead of proper tools, leaving out bolts, typical industry stuff ;)
The 737 Max was released in 2014 and has flown millions of flights, there's 1400 planes.

Here's from Wikipedia:

> After one year of service, 130 MAXs had been delivered to 28 customers, logging over 41,000 flights in 118,000 hours and flying over 6.5 million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX

That's 315.38 flights on average per plane per year (41,000 flights in year / 130 planes)

How many crashes have there been...? 2 or 3?

Let's assume (very very rough estimate) we have similar averages across 1400 planes, that's 441,532 flights last year. If we assume two 2 crashes per year.

So you'll have a safe flight 99.9995% of the time.
"Follow jury instructions" is a very slippery slope that IMO we shouldn't be okay with.

It allows for a scenario where lawyers and/or the judge can instruct the jury to exclusively consider the statutes in question as read and interpreted by the court, facts deemed relevant as determined by the court, and decide only if the facts presented appear to have violated the statutes presented.

This isn't a way that law should work and there's absolutely no reason to have a jury in the first place if it is going to be so mechanistic.

A jury is there to judge the actions of one of their peers. Lawyers are there to present the facts and the arguments for why a person should be considered guilty or innocent. A judge is there to make sure the proper procedure is followed and the trial is fair. That's it.

Jurors aren't bound to listen to only what lawyers tell them to listen to. Jurors are asked to decide whether or not to punish the person in question for the crime they're charged with.

Of course lawyers will try to screen for this view though. They want a predictable jury that will listen to every instruction given to them without question. When juries think critically and decide for themselves a lawyer can't predict which way the trial will go and a carefully constructed series of facts and yes/no questions during testimony may be wasted. Lawyers want a script and assured convictions when they can't get deals before trial, that's the whole game.
Is that true? Can you put to the sources for that?
They're European, I assume they're going to eat some cheese and take a nap and worry about it later.
In product liability law, at least, every party in the “stream of commerce” is liable for a defective product. These include the manufacturer, distributor, retailer, and importer.
QoS?
> If you are rich enough to think buying kidneys makes sense,

Again: when serious people (i.e. not a bunch of stoned Silicon Valley überlibertarians at Burning Man) discuss this topic it’s generally assumed that the government is the sole buyer of live organ donations. The United States is certainly rich enough to make it work—indeed, it already covers a huge percentage of dialysis in the country via the Medicare ESRD program.

Anyway, I’m not a doctor but I don’t think it’s especially controversial that some people today will die without a kidney transplant, and it’s a bit too late for preventative efforts for them. Personally I would rather they have the option to get a new kidney rather than tell them “sorry, we don’t want to play God and turn you into a Frankenstein.” But maybe I’m too rich to understand.
It needs to be repeated that broadcast media is experiencing a bloodbath right now across all areas of the political spectrum. And according to publicly available data, the downwards trend is far more extreme for right-leaning publications[1]. So, pandering to right-leaning audiences is not the winning market strategy at the moment either. It's a lose-lose situation.

Can NPR go too woke? Sure, anything is possible. And maybe they have on radio–I wouldn't know. It certainly doesn't seem to be that way from their website though.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conserv...
Interesting! To translate to the language of stock and bond offerings:

TicketMaster ~ bookrunner/sponsor;
scalper ~ underwriter;

The general population cannot participate in IPOs, just like we cannot buy primary-market tickets to popular shows.
Indeed. While you might dislike Neo-liberalism, Reagan-ism, or Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism," as Walter Sobchak said: at least it's an ethos.

Trumpism believes in nothing but suborning yourself to Trump's will and needs. Sure there's some vague isolationism and xenophobia, and some pandering to Christian nationalism, but the only consistent policy position is fielty to Trump. That's why there aren't any interesting Trumpist pundits. The House is twisting itself in knots right now because they can't decide what he wants or will tolerate regarding Ukraine funding. A real party with a policy would have an articulatable agenda, probably with some dissenters on this or that, but all the current Republican party can agree on is how great dear leader is, and Democrats are bad.
If they get split up, I predict we'll see everyone from AXS to Seatgeek to some Stanford blockchain bros with VC funding jumping into the market immediately.
Or possibly their content is far too weighted ;)
Algol 60 already had a go to statement, restricted to jumping to local labels, similar to the one in C.

It is only my speculation, but it seems very likely that Dijkstra had the Algol 60 and Algol 68 go to statements in mind. As in, an example high level language from which to banish the go to statement would have been whatever successor is planned for Algol 68.
> The medical act is (very) good in the US, but is it affordable?

The answer is....it depends.

If youre at poverty levels you would qualify for federal-level Medicaid insurance. learning about these benefits takes some digging. Some states(often democrat) provide their omedical benefit coverage for people who are at or below poverty line(which is itself a locale-specific metric).

If youre upper-middle-class or work for the government, you have good medical insurance through your employer or by paying $$$$$ out of pocket.

Anything between these two -- youre probably underserved in terms of medical coverage and you probably only see the inside of hospitals via emergency rooms.
that was a dumb move, it was obvious that he wasn't happy there and probably would eventually retire/resign from NPR. I still listen to it almost every day, but it's hard to deny it has a left leaning bias. That doesn't bother me in the slightest because they back up what they say with facts or clearly delineated opinions, unlike certain other news networks.
You focus on banking, I’m talking about budgets. Do you track every cent in and out and have a quarterly updated forecast of your financial position a decade out? How close are you to that? If your answer doesn’t include a spreadsheet of some sort you’re not budgeting but taking a shortcut on faith your intuitions are correct.

Did you get taught how credit applications work, how banks determine credit worthiness, how to depreciate an asset, how to calculate lifetime cost of a vehicle, how to draft a bill of materials for a project? All things everyone should be able to do. It’s the lack of these skills and the cost of living crisis that creates ripe markets of ignorant people to exploit for profit through their financial mistakes.

Your school offers home ec? Mine dropped it forever ago. Only the trade school kids learned anything more hands on AP chem.

Cars are more reliable sure, but less maintainable in a home garage. I didn’t bring them up because the best argument I have for cars is repealing cafe and taxing cars annually with a multiplier for wheelbase squared x miles.
override input works well.

asking nix to accept arbitrary args in flakes like asking to so random patch of rust code during compilation. to patch use cargo patch. that is analogy of flakes, when you thing how flakes make nix statically typed.
Jury nullification is the term to search for here. I'd really recommend you just dive in and do your own reading. Its a complex topic that is viewed very poorly by lawyers and judges, not surprisingly as it means the success of their cases depend on juries that may not necessarily be predictable.

The history of this is fascinating though as it goes right back to the founding of the US and why our legal system is designed the way that it is. I know one of the founders wrote extensively on this I want to say it was John Adams but then I'm sure Hamilton did as well since the dude never stopped writing.
Thank you for providing such interesting knowledge. It seems that antitrust is a major challenge everywhere.
>> So what makes it better? Should we be thankful for the current status quo?

Taylor Swift cleared a billion dollars at the box office (that's tickets) she's gonna walk away with half that.

There are countries with GDP's that small. Taylor Swift made so much money selling tickets that she could be a micro nation. Thats not t-shirts, that's not concessions, that's not kickbacks. Thats half a bill on just tickets.

Look at an artist like Dave Mathews. Who went out of his way to have his own ticketing and merch platform (Music Today)... Now it is a "presale" for Citi Customers...

When money fell out of the sales of physical media concerts, merch and licensing were the only avenues left to make money. When artists get big they cash out, the fans pay for that...

I dont think the status quo is going anywhere, sadly. Like loot boxes and pay to win games the genie is out of the bottle, the only thing you can control as a consumer is your own spending. That might mean going to local shows or staying away from major artists...
I find extra long grain basmati rice doesnt do well in a rice cooker, much prefer the soak and huge pan of water method so I can get consistent results for inch long rice grains!

I measure for all other rices in my rice cooker depending on the rice
There’s a big difference between “ideas” and a written book, a filmed movie, a recorded album, a painted picture, and so on.
Not really, it’s got a very complex set of regulations, they are just dang near impossible to enforce.

Source: worked in that industry for almost 20 years.
ITYM "We are fully convinced we will receive our usual bonuses, and if we get fired we expect a severance package of tens of millions of dollars."
Spirit Aerosystems is an Airbus contractor too.
Agreed. I just stopped commenting on the code point by point after a while.

Church (or other community) involvement is also people can decide to get into. Whether you're religious or not, though I admit being a-religious would make it a bigger compromise.
Japan is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal
if they do that they will just use VPNs. you can't stop this no matter what, you just have to educate people and hope they don't fall victim.
> a breakdown of the civilian training requirements

Which is why I specified:

> most people competent with a gun

Most civilians are not people competent with a gun.

It is very relevant that hobby shooters can easily far outpace police in their weapon competency with just a casual amount of shooting practice (hell, most ranges give you a 2-hour block of time, so even one range day a YEAR could put you even with some of these departments). Whether some cops are also hobby shooters is irrelevant to the complete lack of reasonable training requirements at a policy level before we turn cops loose on the streets with firearms.
We can legislate for whatever outcomes we desire. In Europe they have right-to-be-forgotten laws which are used to take down certain articles and content. I think it's fine to hold an $80bn company's feet to the fire a bit.
That's a weird and extremely sanitized view of what happened. A more accurate explanation is that the Democratic party was a coalition of (mainly) Northern progressives who supported integration, and Southern "Dixiecrats" who were opposed. Following the Act's passage, the Southern coalition switched en masse to the Republican party. Many of these voters continued to oppose racial (and "legal") equality for many years, and in some cases are still do. Even as recently as last year, Alabama had a Congressional map struck down by the US Supreme Court for violations of the Voting Rights Act -- and the Alabama legislature then proceeded to ignore the decision and write a new map with exactly the same deficiencies [1].

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/alab...
The Paramount Decrees way back in the 1940s/1950s: that's why Hollywood studios cannot produce movies and own the theaters which exhibit them. It's also similar to the (much more complex) reasons TV Service Providers (DirectTV, Spectrum, XFinity et. al) are separate from TV Networks, and why you don't see Disney trying to buy, say, DirectTV. Of course, streaming upended almost all of that.
Ah, that’s another interesting possibility. I definitely observed that the actual HDMI refresh rate is 59.94 Hz while playing Super Mario Maker, but no idea what the game’s internal frame rate is.
"it is often cheaper to buy the equivalent of a hamburger, fries, and coke at McDonalds, Burger King, or other similar stores, for less than you can buy the ingredients at the supermarket. This is actually a "known thing" which has been factually verified."

I've worked fast food and grocery stores - the only time a grocery store is more expensive is when you go 100% brand name goods, and even then the price difference in total is a couple bucks.
Git-botch-email: Git's use of email
Either that or their ideological fart-huffing has finally alienated even the "very blue" reservoirs.
It’s not that kind of 3D printing, it’s laser powder bed fusion [0]. I don’t know a lot about FDM but I’d be kind of surprised if you could do Ti-64 and get the same mechanical strength (but I’d be interested to know if I’m off base) because I think it’s like metal embedded in polymer that you have to sinter post-build? Compared to basically doing a continuous laser weld with the powder bed method

However, here [1] is a cool paper looking at optimizing similar meta material structures using polymer filament printing - if you could do something similar in metal FDM that might be interesting?

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_melting

1: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz1708
t would be great if some summaries were added.
(In case anyone is reading this, I push my calls through Telnyx, have inbound/outbound recording on, and just caught PayPal removing the 2FA from my account, after I begged them not to, and then stalling me on the phone and transferring me to a manager after their call centers closed.

Gonna be a fun call with PayPal tomorrow!)