skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McConnell is one of the few people in elected office who has been trying—with little success—to make Social Security fiscally sustainable. Weird that you’re calling him out.

The truth is that sub-replacement TFR in developed countries is going to lead to problems of varying degrees, and that the inevitable failure of old age entitlements are going to be the least of our problems.
Quality writing and sloppy ML-genrated thumbnails really don't fit together, but I saw you already announced that you will replace them with proper images, so this will be a nice resource overall!
The cheapest eggs at the store in my California suburb are 2x the nominal average. Looked up the online prices and averaged all the available dozens to find the "price average". It's the square of the nominal average ($8.20)
People would just continue the already established practice of paying part of the sum in cash to dodge taxes, or in this case to work around the imposed limit.
Nitpicking. If Russia is at war with NATO - it ceases to exist. Why would it enter that war then?

It can just go back to 1992 Ukrainian borders. Some bruised pride. Lots of money wasted. That's it.

> I have my own opinion to that, and it's the opposite of what Russia would say, but that doesn't mean I'm right and they are wrong.

This is just relativism. Very convenient to justify doing nothing. Ultimately there are facts. Nobody was going to invade Russia and you know it (and Russian government knew it).
Is 9to5mac another one of Vladimir's puppets now? Quite the pro-Russian headline there.
Oof, like looking in a mirror. Maybe I shouldn't start that company then.
As part of the first group, we're still not doing great. Home insurance rates and property taxes have gone through the roof. My mortgage costs 25% more now than it did two years ago.
"white men"

Please don't add racial and gender resentments into an already bad problem.

Neither the US nor Europe has enough medical professionals to drag arbitrary racial and gender demands into the mix.

And without old doctors in general being willing to work even though they could enjoy their retirement, many places in Europe would have no healthcare left. Which doesn't bode well for 2040 or 2050.
Hiring doctors is exactly what the local hospital needs, and can no longer do after being bought out by a megacorp.

NP: "if it gets worse go to the ER" Thanks...I guess.
https://archive.is/YVSrY
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

Even has "climate models aren't reductionist enough".
All walks of life really: pharmacy in a not great part of town.

For me, I’d say it depends heavily on what you have to sell.

I don’t think I’d be able to handle working a cheque-cashing place or a car dealership where you’re incentivized to sell what someone doesn’t need.
In my experience you can get a solid 5-10% performance boost just by rearranging order of (independent) asm instructions, sometimes more inside tight loops. Compilers have big tables of what resources each instruction uses and are pretty good at maximizing throughput this way.

If you're willing to put in the time, optimized hand written assembly still reliably beats compilers, especially for vectorization.
I think this happens when people have a dream of doing a specific job. As you mentioned, Hollywood does the same thing, as does the videogame industry in general. One could also look at a certain company which name starts with "T" and ends with "esla".

In a way, the work itself turns into part of the compensation so people are willing to have a worse everything else as long as they do the thing.
And, thanks in no small part to the final collapse of GAINAX, they've announced a second season of Panty and Stocking after getting the rights.
And Gaina
That the page HTML is indexable by search engines without having to render in the server. Such unzipping to a directory served by nginx. You may also use it for archiving purposes, or for having backups.
> It's pretty dependant on the questions you ask.

That’s the description of a house of cards rather than some revolutionary new technology.
"Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8654

Electromagnetic pump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pump

MHD: Magnetohydrodynamic drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
Sure, I don't agree with that estimate either.
> Do you look at the picture I linked, and think this is a preferable end state over some extra regulatory cost?

Alternatively, we can dispense with the false dichotomy (along with the presumption that the technical constraints of 19th-century telegraph lines are applicable to modern telecom) and identify ways to incentivize competitive markets without dealing with externaliies by imposing regulatory barriers that ultimately generate oligopolies.

OTOH, the modern version of your picture would probably consist of dozens of fiber lines all running through the same network of underground conduit, so the most direct answer to your question is "yes, absolutely".
It's important to note that this only means that households that own real estate are seeing their net worth increase. Renters are seeing their bills go up.

So landlords are doing great, homeowners get extra paper wealth, and most millennials see their cost of living increase.

And on top of that, we're getting price gouged by grocery cartels.

The real battle is convincing people that none of this has anything to do with inflation.
Modern garum is Nước Chấm ("Cham sauce") in Vietnam, Nam Pla ("fish sauce") in Thailand. Even in China it gets used a lot in the southeast cuisines (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian).

I'm not sure we can confidently assert that it was a salt replacement in all cases, because anyone living on the ocean has an infinite supply of salt which is impossible not to discover, nor can one claim it was not an original development in the region, because fermenting fish is self-advertising. However, I think the extent to which Romans used garum as a trade good combined with other Roman findings is sufficient attestation that a Roman version may have arrived at least once as a further link within trade networks via Indian shores. Local historiography is extremely sketchy in this period, relying on isolated Chinese references.

Whatever happened, local culinary traditions would have already been well established by (1) local geography; (2) Austronesian peoples; (3) prior links from shorter distance coastal trading; and (4) Indian states' long distance voyaging. To assert they had no supply of salt or had never discovered fermented fish would be difficult at best.
I ran Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi 4 for over three years as my daily driver. Mostly programming, browsing (also Youtube) and image editing. I even did some light video editing on it. I ended up with Mate eventually, other options except Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS didn't work fast enough.

P.S. Literally every desktop environment on Linux looks better than Windows, if you'd ask me.
I'm going to give you all a bit of very real advice from a very senior engineer. The premise of this discussion is based on a fundamental misapprehension of what the job of a software engineer is about. The amount of time you get to spend finding fun optimal solutions to optimize individual operations is like, 0.001% of your career. Most senior engineers, even those without a background in advanced math, have an intuition for optimization patterns over years of solving problems, and often the reason something has not been optimized for speed is not because nobody knew how to do it, but because speed was not a requirement.

The sort of engineer who can define the requirements of a project and execute based on those requirements is much more valuable to me than a algorithmic prodigy. Seniority is not defined by the mathematical complexity of the problems you solve. Focus instead on design patterns and best practices, scalability and maintainability concerns, mentoring of more junior teammates and the buildout of tooling that helps ease the overhead of working with the codebases under your purview and the development, deployment and testing of that code.
That goes too far. Housing can improve through new construction and remodeling, or deteriorate through neglect, so that doesn't seem zero-sum to me.

Some price increases are due to demand alone, but demand also results in at least some improvements to supply. House flippers can do real work on the house.

The housing market serves people with more money. This can be a problem for people who would rather have lower rent than a nicer place.
As always, be careful if you catch yourself being more skeptical about things you disagree with than things you agree with already.
This is neat. First I heard of it was this last weekend, when they mentioned during the Phillies/Mets game in London that the dirt had been shipped in from here as well.
It's a ~43 % increase, not 30 %. Apple takes 30 %, so you would have to increase the price by ~43 % to cover it.
Having a test done is not a treatment. It is vital information about your own body. Better yet, if you have an issue and no doctor is listening to you and are willing to pay for the test, then your usage of the system simply means you're not doctor shopping. If you turn out to be right, then you can take the result and go to a doctor and get treatment. Otherwise, you can be satisfied.

The artificial scarcity created by doctors gatekeeping is unnecessary.

For example, I successfully diagnosed my own anemia disorder (thalassemia) this way. It's a simple test. I paid for it. The results are unequivocal. We can now stop giving me iron, thank you very much.
Many programs that fall outside GPL licenses are not in Debian for good reasons.

Ubuntu is good for people that don't have time to custom build and debug out-of-repo packages. And in many cases the signed boot-loader/kernel gets around some UFEI bios that block end user configuration.

Debian is usually the cleaner option, but Ubuntu after heavy modding is more user friendly (i.e. official support for drivers/hardware is more practical.)

Cheers =)
C# the project that's basically follow up to Microsoft's failed EEE (MS Java Virtual Machine) of Java, is closer to Rust than Java? Bold statement.

As Java programer that used both, adaption to C# was hours, while Rust took months if not weeks.

> Proper generics

Rust and C# generics are not the same. Rust uses monomorphization, C# uses reification, Java uses type erasure.

> Async

The syntax is the same, because Rust copied. The mechanisms aren't, but fine. Point for you.

> Iterator expressions

Other than syntax, not really. I do know Rust iterator are highly optimized as in bound checks are elided, but don't know enough about iterator expressions to make of this point.

> Trait composition

Traits and interfaces have little in common. The sooner you empty your head from such nonsense the better.

As extra points Traits + Generics enable a style of programming that's not achievable in C#. Try implementing interface for type that implements another interface and doesn't implement another.

Oh. Java feature is similar, albeit it uses type erasure for now.

> Extension methods

Rust doesn't have this.

It has impl blocks and implementing traits. For example you can't implement a method for type without owning Trait or Type.

> High order function

Yeah it has those. Same as Java.

> Unsafe block

It's named similarly. But the meaning is completely different. pointer access vs undefined behavior.

> Slice types.

Sure.. Fair point.

So you raise two and a half points.

And you completely omit what makes them grossly different: ADT, monomorphic generic, lack of GC by default, trait solver, mutability xor sharing, lack of nulls...
> From the end of 2019 to the end of 2023, U.S. GDP grew by 8.2 percent...

This is a masterclass in deception. Here's the actual, plain English translation:

"U.S. GDP growth averaged 2.05% during the four year period beginning in 2020."

But 2% GDP growth per year is subpar, and we're trying to make it sound great! Well, folks are familiar with annual GDP stats, so giving them annualized stats makes comparison easy. To prevent this easy comparison, we won't annualize it! Instead we'll say:

"U.S. GDP grew by 8.2% during the four year period beginning in 2020."

But there's still a problem! 8/2 makes for easy mental math. The reader can still easily realize that we're talking about a paltry 2% growth. How do we handle this? Easy! More obfuscation!

"From the end of 2019 to the end of 2023, U.S. GDP grew by 8.2 percent."

Now the readers is two operations away from being able to compare the data!

The greatest trick of all, of course, is that this odd formulation invites misinterpretation. Since we almost always talk about GDP growth in annualized terms, this sentence can easily be misread as saying "U.S. GDP grew at a rate of 8.2 percent from 2019-2023". In my opinion, this misinterpretation is practically demanded by context, as the actual (2%) figure does not fit into the glowing narrative at all.
Counterpoint (from the perspective of a science teacher who has used LEGO as part of teaching, and who still has about 70 pounds of LEGO): LEGO pieces reinforce "blocky" engineer mindset, reinforcing the idea that we can "fix" climate change with technology.

We're up against a population boom enabled by access to fossil fuels. Our nigh-insatiable appetite for energy conversion has serious consequences for life on earth.

I'd far rather teach basketry & other fiber arts, foraging for food & medicine, land stewardship, how to hunt kill and process animals for food, and other primitive (using this word non-pejoratively) skills done as a tight-knot group (such as what a classroom can be with good leadership- not saying I provided that to the degree I value now, but if/when I go back to teaching, I will). LEGO is a distraction, a luxury enabled by the Industrial Revolution. We don't have plastic interlocking bricks without coal and petroleum and long (and easily-disrupted) supply chain.

Until a few years ago my LEGO collection, amassed in childhood, was a prized possession. Now I'd have sold it or given it away were it not for my wife advising we keep it for our child. In light of what I wrote above, while I can get down on the ground and immerse myself in creative parallel play, I'll also promote the old ways to plant the seeds of a wonderful, effortful, meaningful life that also has a more down-to-earth carbon footprint.
Most nearby young star clusters formed in three complexes
This article is a great example of how macroeconomic indicators are a poor measure of overall economic health. The real question is who is actually served by an economy like this.

The basic bargain at the heart of the United States means that you put up with bad urban planning, public infrastructure and a criminal healthcare system in exchange for getting to drive a huge vehicle, cheap food and consumer goods and a detached home with a big yard.

Now you get all the bad stuff, plus expensive food, unaffordable transportation options and a bidding war with Blackrock for your starter home in the midwest.

But hey, the stock market is up!
Microsoft backtracks on Recall feature after outcry
A fifth way to raise water: n-body gravity; wait for the moon and the tides

A sixth way to raise water through a pipe possibly at an angle possibly into a water tank: MHD: Magnetohydrodynamic drive.

- "Designing a Futuristic Magnetic Turbine (MHD drive)" @PlasmaChannel https://youtube.com/watch?v=WgAIPOSc4TA&"

- "A Compact Electrodynamic Pump using Copper and TPU" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40635173

- Is MHD more or less efficient than the other methods?

(Edit) I wouldn't matter whether the pipe to lift water though is at an angle; Is my intuition bad on it this?

Shallower orbital trajectories are preferred to perpendicular to the gravitational field of the greatest local mass because: is it just Max Q or also total energy?

But the downward force of a column of water in a tube at an angle is no greater than the two pointing straight up, is it?
> When our senior engineers are physically available I can put myself in their office or at their desk and demand they help me.

Wow, this seems like a horrible way to manage your people. A decent engineer will not accept this kind of treatment, remote or not. They will quickly move to better managed environments and you will get stuck with subpar engineers.

I never had a boss who did this. Even when I worked in office, all my managers were respectful and almost always they scheduled meetings ahead of time even when they needed to ask minor questions. Only time they would swing by my desk would be if it was truly an emergency (rare) or if they they just wanted to chit chat.
Wow, looking forward to check it out!
Is the Future of Moore's Law in a Particle Accelerator?
> I put a lot of the blame here on Windows and its persistent refusal to implement a decent way to uninstall programs without using a vendor-provided binary/script.

While the install & uninstall process certainly be criticized. The fact remains that the uninstall script is made by Adobe. They deserve credit for all dark patterns that script contains.

Other systems have similarly opaque places where configuration can be left. Look at dot file structures, gconf, et al. on linux. As well as Preferences, extensions, input managers, Library folders on Mac.

Until we get a system that is entirely containerized, this will continue to be an issue.

We should probably keep the focus on Adobe lest we distract from their bad practices.
"Its business conditions began to deteriorate around 2012, due to careless management by executives, and the company lost its anime production capabilities following an exodus of its creative staff."

no creative, no business
> 3 and a bunch of resellers.

You just explained why prices went up - not because Sprint exited, but because the market bifurcated into prepaid and postpaid. You can get unlimited everything on T-Mobile's network from Mint, for about $30 per month. You just have to pay up front, and you have to bring your own phone. The "majors" have raised prices on 1- and 2- line plans because they are positioning themselves as a premium product especially for families and groups with lots of lines. No point in competing to a race to the bottom vs Mint, Cricket, Metro, etc.
> Nvidia shares have gained 250% over the past year

Yes and to me this is a big warning, If I was an investor and had this stock, I will sell it all as soon as I could. I think tomorrow (or today?) it is splitting.

Time to take the profit and invest elsewhere. When the AI frenzy crashes, and I thinking the day is coming, maybe a year or 2, but the crash will make the dot-com crash look like a fender-bender.
Previous discussion on HN:
Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39074062
The Sappir-Whorf hypothesis is precisely related to cognition, ideas, and not perception of reality. In fact, the only aspect of linguistic relativism that was somewhat confirmed was the part related to color perception, so you seem to have this reversed.

One of the more infamous notions of purely cognitive S-W that dorm peddle that is entirely discredited is the idea that people who speak gendered languages tend to associate "feminine qualities" with feminine nouns describing even inanimate objects, and "masculine qualities" with the reverse. This has been measured in various ways and is simply false.

I would bet that your example of "foreigner hatred" vs "xenophobia" would also turn out to be wrong if studied. The much, much more likely reason Japanese people don't consider themselves xenophobic is that people don't typically think of themselves as holding bad views. I would bet lots of English-speaking white nationalists also don't consider themselves xenophobic for the same reason.

Finally, I think your outlook on the level to which Hitler manipulated the German people is highly optimistic about human nature. I think it's unfortunately quite clear that people didn't need a lot of sophisticated convincing to do what they did in WWII, they wanted to do most of that and all they needed was someone who would allow and organize them. And to be clear, I'm not only speaking of the German people here - atrocities against Jewish people and other minorities were committed in many European countries where people didn't speak an ounce of German, they just needed to be let loose. Including, shamefully, my own country (Romania), to be clear that I'm not just pointing fingers at others.
> However, in my experience the vast majority of brilliant nerds way overextend themselves, and are much too confident outside their domain. They're also much more likely to be jerks and will tumble from conflict to conflict until they get their way by attrition or status. Conflicts are strangely more personal because so much ego is tied up into it. They're more likely to assume they're right in every (non-tech/science related) situation.

If this behavior is rewarded, then you haven't eliminated politics - you've reinforced politics but eliminated social cohesion and decorum as elements thereof.
Define "underpaid".

Are you being paid market rate for where you live, without coercion and without collusion? And does it meet local minimum wage laws? And are you fully informed of working conditions, and is physical safety properly regulated?

If so, it's hard to see what's exploitative about it.

And nothing in the article suggests that any of the things I described (coercion, collusion, etc.) are happening here.
Rich is always, by definition, a relative/comparative term. As evident by you making _comparative_ statements about what Americans have to.. fictional machines from star trek? Saying comparative statements about wealth aren't useful is... even less useful? What are we supposed to do, gauge things by an absolute scale? That becomes useless pretty quickly unless it's updated to be _relative_ to some new standard (aka being comparative).

So the metric by which Americans have an improved "access to vast quantity of high quality consumer goods" would be, from the article, the fact that Americans have had their purchasing power increase by 3% relative to other nations, which saw purchasing power of their citizens decrease.

Things like housing and medicine are generally going to be expensive at any point in time (due to supply/demand and cost of development, respectively) but the increase in purchasing power outlined in the article is a pretty good (not perfect) proxy for Americans ability to acquire consumer goods.
It sounds like we need to force the AMA to create more doctor openings and drastically increase the kind of care offered.

For me personally, there should be a substantial difference between a surgeon and a diagnostician. Someone who's only job it is to look at evidence and lab results and walk through what problems it could be. This is a wholly different job than actually doing any of the procedures and would attract new people.

Moreover, I know many doctors who are skilled surgeons but terrible at diagnosis.

Take my own wife, who, up until we figured out what worked for her and found a doctor willing to do it, had miscarriage after miscarriage (seven total), and the fix was fairly straightforward, but it took forever to get there, and most of the obstetricians and MFMs we saw (great surgeons, themselves), were not actually very knowledgeable on the latest research. Nor should they be. The intricacies of various blood disorderse, genetic recombinations, etc, has so little to do with their practice of gynecological surgery that it's crazy we confuse the two. At the end of the day it took my wife and I (both coming from scientific backgrounds and familiar with academia and statistics) took matters into our own hands, got familiar with the data, and suggested appropriate treatments (which have worked several times now in a row, so clearly something changed, unless probability is really trying to screw with us).
https://tinycircuits.com/

One of their projects, TinyTV, previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690234