skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re presumably misreading that, under 1/3 of Americans have any medical debt and of people with medical debt 75% owe less than 5,000$.

Which means under 1/12th of Americans have more than 5,000$ in medical debt and 1/24th owe more than 10k.

That seems like a huge issue, but only 387,721 Americans declared bankruptcy in 2022. The discrepancy is people who get a moderate medical bill often just don’t pay it for years. Until they’re forced to pay, or the statute of limitations runs out and it goes away.
What specifically is lacking in public libraries in Austin, Texas? Ideally, you can also share a point of comparison, e.g., the libraries in Boca Raton, Florida have much better young adult fiction.
Seems like he wants to cut it and it will be hard because the Red majority wants it (lots of jobs in the South).

Seems like maybe the SLS++ could get canned. I am very curious to see what moves happen with this guy in charge.
Are they really so close?

The lecture is the explanation.
The tutorial/lab is a guided experience (Microsoft's fake Contoso company comes to mind).
A how-to guide is what you need when you want to search/chatgpt a solution.
Reference material: thesaurus, encyclopedia, owner's manual.

Video games have built-in tutorials and yet walkthrough guides are still necessary for tricky puzzles. You check the key bindings as reference.
This comment thread feels like a variation of the Telephone Game.
I almost never use them. In sd webui I change resolution often, so I patched some divs to contain [512, 640, 768, …] and click these instead. Not sure if this slider control should even exist in a flow context, because it cannot be made scrollable like a volume range.

I also somewhat like unix style numeric inputs because you can grab a bar between the arrows and drag it to change the value. No long range required.

Ranges with sticky points are somewhat okay, e.g. Virtualbox settings stick to 2^n values for RAM and some integer disk GBs. But these intermediate values are just nonsense and nobody ever selected 7527MB of RAM by non-mistake.

Bonus points for Ubuntu keyboard repeat/delay settings which don’t show the numeric values at all. You set delay to 178 or maybe 223 or maybe 202. Who cares about muscle memory, right?
The price goes up (or down) because someone bought a stock at that price... For every buy, there's one sell. For every win, there's a loss.
Unnecessary demonization of substance-affectionate and social-safety-rebellious. Have some empathy
The US is a large, diverse population across a large land area. Major variation is to be expected.

But there is also that famous stat that income in Mississippi is on par with Britain or France.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/03/07/still-tr...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/its-great-to-live-in-t...

I agree with deepsun that the comparison factor is huge here:

https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-aim-of-maximising-...
Yeah, so how can you explain I use it for daily payments here in El Salvador, buying groceries, coffee and pupusas? I need to use fiat maybe once a week, otherwise I pay with bitcoin for everything
I think 10-20 flashcards a day is better than 0. But on the other hand it might not be rate to learn something quickly enough.
This is hysterical because four years ago everyone was clamoring on about how the non-fungability of NFTs was the secret sauce to why they’d accrue monetary value.
Lightning is private
Seconding the Reface DX recommendation.

It makes FM programming enjoyable.

I never figured Dexed or FM-7 out, even though the soft synths and the screen real estate would seem like an ideal match for FM synthesis.

But no, I feel like I only started to grok FM with Reface DX.
what does snark buy you
I think you are referring to Nikesh Arora, who runs Palo Alto Networks, the telco guy. He was the business guy, not the CFO.

I don't think Look etc was seen as competitive to Google Fi at all. If anything, that would have been a distribution channel. It was entirely execution-related. Musk is much more serious at shipping than Google where X was mostly Sergey's playground of hobby projects.
And it never will be. There is simply no point to register/log every expense at every gas station in a global, distributed ledger. Actual payments will be done with Layer-2 protocols, such as Lightning or Liquid, which are kind-of separate networks and protocols, but yet rely on the BTC network.

The idea that everyone will run custodial BTC/Lightning wallets is also rubbish. In the future, there will be institutions that do what banks do today: Give out accounts, which are non-custodial wallets like your todays online banking, and settle transfers with other banks in bulk by doing actual BTC onchain transactions.

Average Joe in 2040 will not run his own wallet but use an external service provider - just as Joe is not a member of the SWIFT transaction network, he will not be settling debt with BTC transactions but rather have an "account" and pay with whatever L2/L3 technology we will come up with.

It will be like in the gold-standard days. You had the right to exchange your paper dollars for gold, but no-one ever did. Yet every transaction was backend by gold, just as every L2/L3 transaction will be backed by bitcoin, though no onchain transaction will happen.
Take a look at FSRS.

The paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3534678.3539081?cid=996605471...

Various implementations: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/awesome-fsrs

Some benchmarks of various srs algorithms: https://expertium.github.io/Benchmark.html
Ruby is always released on Christmas, it's a predictable and cute schedule.

But perf improvements can and do drop in point releases too, afair.
Your opening sentence was well articulated.

But I’m not so sure about your second sentence. How does a situation where world wide population drops to 4 billion come about?

Even if US birth rates are declining, birth rates are climbing elsewhere so I’m struggling to see how in aggregate, the world population declines to half of what it is today.
There's nothing future about bitcoin. It exist today, works well today, you can use it for payments, buy a house and in some places pay off your debt or credit card.
When you mentioned Soundslice I recognized your name :) Your recording of Django's Tiger is what got me into Jazz. Small world!
There are only a few factors driving this and they are very hard for Europe to solve:
- the Bay Area an industrial cluster not comparable to anything we had before due to the scalability and the capital requirements of the products
- the US market, the most powerful consumer market in history allowing massive economies of scale at companies, companies can work with a much higher productivity level
- capital markets that can finance the most outlandish ideas
- better demographics
- less crisis and russian intervention (Brexit, Syrian war, Ukraine war are all part of Russias attacks)
- bureacracy and regulations are totally overvalued as a factor, definitely something we should solve, but the EU would not be a tech leader without GDPR
Someone could just come up with a new and more popular crypto. There no chance of gold being replaced by new element. I’m not saying it couldn’t surpass gold but I think the motivation would be speculation rather than a store of value.
Our society and economy are built collectively, not by just a few leaders.
Yeah, that's a good point. YT/TikTok/etc algorithm's often don't seem to lead people towards a path of success and happiness in life. :(
> Since I'm not from the US, the pivot to discussing race wasn't very interesting/relevant to me.

Does your home country have any minorities that are economically lower class? And, importantly, are they visibly identifiable, like different skin colour? I assume yes -- most countries have them if you look close enough. Would it be more interesting if the data were viewed through the lense of these different ethnic groups in your country?
Ubuntu is the same, unless you happen to know the previous release and know they are in alphabetical order. Debian is even worse: not in order, no one ever uses the version number.
It was initially written in C then ported to rust[0], which seems like it was a good idea. The downside is that it may not be enabled at build time if you don't have the right toolchain/platform, but that seems a good trade off.

0: https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-ru...
one important distinction in the US is that we have a requirement to get insurance for nearly everything (car, house, etc.) and these are some of the fastest ballooning costs; and homeowner insurance in the US is actually not separately included in CPI. https://archive.ph/cvorJ
> is inevitable

False. It is (in this context) outputting a partial before full processing. Adequate (further) processing removes that "inevitable". Current architectures are not "final".

Proper process: "It seems like that." // "Is it though?" // "Actually it isn't."

(Edit: already this post had to be corrected many times because of errors...)
> We do see people try to take it too far though

I see it as a useful guide like any methodology should be. But I have worked with someone who insisted the rules should be followed to the letter, literally not a single sentence of explanation in any tutorial. So yes, that is the danger of these systems.
Just to add: harmonics are sine waves, in essence.

A pure sine wave has only one harmonic.

You need to add up a bunch of sine waves of different frequencies (multiples of the fundamental) to get something as, in a way, unnatural as a square (or sawtooth) wave.

That's why they're great building blocks for subtractive synthesis too. Pass them through a resonant filter, and you get something interesting.

They are also very easy to make digitally (a square wave is just on-off-on-off..).
Euro dollar system just printed that money out of thin air. It's the Chinese products which are providing value backing to that printed money
He should've thought harder about the names, particularly "grifter." What he describes is not even remotely close to what grifting means.
Ambitious, it was. Successful less so, but still, Waymo came out of X, so not sure that is a fair characterization, but yes, overal, it could have been soooo much more under a Musk-like leadership.
Cool idea, can it just be an app that sends me notifications instead of the email? Anything that goes to my email is basically a black box and I won't see it. I am an email hoarder and I don't clean them up... Once every other year or so I'll try.

The only thing that helped was routing "updates" and "promotions" straight to my trash, but I miss things sometimes that way.
Just because you don't see the benefits, it doesn't mean they are not there. You don't know how bitcoin affected people's life and how they use it.
how-to is for configurations.
tutorial is for orientation.
explanation is for models.
there is intrinsic in the context of where we are as humans, that's why saying that there is intrinsic worth is correct. Humans need to eat, intrinsically. I guess partially it depends on whether the word 'intrinsic' still applies.
No big surprise here -- autism is not a social or emotional imparement anyway and the doll test is a lie.
> Even “string” is technical jargon.

"string of characters" as a concept substantially predates the first computers: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22string+of+characters%22&l...
People with strong value systems that differ from those around them are the freethinkers your friend with the tempestuous relationship with sandwiches is comparing themselves to.

It's not that people who clean up after camping have to drag all of humanity with them before they can claim to have done some good - it's that the sandwich shop example doesn't have anything to do with actual human values.
The tax system for the average American is, frankly, simple (or simple enough).

You pay a flat percent of most purchases as a sales tax. It varies by geography, but most people spend their day to day life in a single place (their home town).

You pay a flat percent of your home as a property tax. Most people who own property don't move, so while it varies regionally, you don't have to think about any but yours.

You pay a percent of your salary as income tax (it's technically progressive, but i don't think most Americans really think about this conceptually outside of tax filing). Your employer takes out this for you, and then once a year you fill out some forms that seem scary, but for the average American are actually somewhat straight forward. The government writes you a check back if you over paid.

Then everyone talks about all the loopholes and stuff that rich people and businesses get. Most Americans never touch 99% of any of that, and just think it's a way for the rich to get richer. Some people talk about charity tax deductions, but most people don't know how that works, but also wouldn't really benefit from this. Similarly there is the vague idea of business write-offs that no one really understands nor needs to know about.
I follow you, but I read TFA as saying the complete opposite of that. To me TFA is illustrating that "white-vs-blue-collar" is something of a thought-terminating cliche, and that looking at the actual data shows that various jobs cluster in ways you wouldn't expect if you assumed there were two big white/blue categories.

(Also I interpreted "standing/sitting" as basically being a catchy title - I think the author's premise is that all the axes he examined are relevant, not just the standing/sitting one.)
(not a reply to seanmcdirmid) I couldn't reply directly to 'ayewo's post, so I reply here:
I'm not sure where you are finding birthrates are climbing elsewhere.
The forecast for most of the planet is birth decline over the next 50 and 100 years. Africa will mainly still contribute to population growth, but a lot of other areas/countries are headed for net decline in population, with the results hitting us in 50 and 100 years. It is not necessarily all bad, if we cope with it in relevant ways - a "solution" that was based on populations steadily forever climbing wouldn't be sustainable anyway, for many reasons.
>The DX7 is an incredible synth, but one of the joys of playing is hearing the sound change to your adjustments and the DX7 just doesn't do that

...but Yamaha Reface DX does.

I've been changing the sound while playing the synth to go from the ePiano preset to an aggressive synth lead as a demo of that interface.

It's pure joy, and an underrated piece of hardware.
Be nꙮt afraid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_O_variants
strictly speaking, I think apnea monitoring as done on the Apple Watch is pretty non-invasive and not too bad.

One thing that ended up being really noisy and irritating was a continuous glucose monitor. It turns out it's possible to stick those things in you in a way that can false alarm blood sugar drops during your sleep, at which point your CGM app freaks the hell out and wakes you up.
>certain low income countries where overcharging clueless foreigners is the best way to get ahead in life.

This is basically a snide way of saying that "yes, retiring to a country with low cost of living is often a mutually beneficial transaction, for both the retiree and the country in question"

* As demand for medical services grows, the price goes up, incentivizing more people to get medical training

* As demand for housing grows, build more housing

* Gradually expand issuance of retirement visas, so supply can grow in response to demand
Congrats to the people who held through thick and thin, I speculate (my own opinion) that we will likely not see 80% drawdowns anymore due to all the institutional money that flew in, just “standard” 40-50% dips. Fantastic to witness, an asset class out of thin air.

they said exactly that in 2018, 2021, and 2022 too
It's what they are, relative to a society that eats meat, doesn't really follow their self identified religion and that must put that garbage by the side of the trail somehow. :-)
Bitcoin has a 15 year history of distribution amongst individuals, companies, institutions and governments. 15 years of building up decentralized mining so one can be sure no single player can mingle with the chain. 15 years of building a software ecosystem. 15 years of building an ecosystem of exchanges, ETFs, second layer solutions. 15 years of building trust in the technology and the brand.

Why would anyone ever say "Oh, I'd rather store my value in that new crypto someone just came up with?".

The decentralized control and the size and health of the ecosystem is what gives a currency value. You cannot just "come up" with that.
> their satellite was on one of the few rockets that blew up

So there was some positive aspect to losing that rocket after all. :)

A world where meta has the global satellite network happening instead of current StarLink would likely be a worse one for humanity.
I have a cite in the source report, and it's sad to see the top comments here being off-hand dismissals.

A few things that really stood out from the study:

- This is now the primary way drugs are bought and sold in Russia. Crypto and darknet markets have always been a bit niche in the West, but it's really taken off here. No definitive answer as to why, but high-risk, low-trust, poor-post is a decent hypothesis.

- The markets are massive business, which do publicity stunts (e.g., dumping a bus with their logo in the middle of central Moscow)[1] and digital marketing, check out "moriati" on YouTube.[1]

- There are two basic jobs in the lower ranks: kladmen and cooks. Both often involve taking out debt and getting the shit kicked out of you when you don't pay (not so different here, I guess). This is particularly interesting, because darknet markets had been previously seen as safer means of exchange as in-person contact is reduced.

- Different categories of drugs are thriving in the context of broken supply chains stemming from conflict between Russia and the West. Forget krokodil, this is an Alpha PVP and Mephodrone scene, as they've got precursors that are readily available in Russia.

Loads in this report. I read a lot of shit, lazy work on Russia and this is the good stuff. Well worth a read.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-darknet-market-wars/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@moriartymega
You're talking about mania that lasted, at the very most, three years.

Is it really that intellectually honest to compare tulips, which can be grown everywhere, by anyone, with "something" that has been designed, on purpose, to have a diminishing issuance rate?

Satoshi made it very clear, in the very first Bitcoin block, that Bitcoin was a middle finger to politicians ever printing more money to bail out the banks.

I see Bitcoin has the "anti tulip".
It's not an opinion I hold, it's a data point from the data TFA examined (which was presumably self-reported, so take it up with bookkeepers I guess).

If you want to see it, skip to the "explore" part and then enter "I solve problems daily" and "Bookkeeping" in the UI.
>hundreds of millions of Americans

Given that only two hundred million Americans would be more than half, I’d need to see some data that the majority of the US doesn’t have access to clean drinking water.

Are there parts that don’t or even a disturbingly high percentage, I could believe, but the majority of Americans not having clean drinking water is a high claim
First thing is to have a chat with a labour law attorney to clarify the situation and possibly hatch a plan. Only then should he go to HR according to plan.
Perhaps you should sit down with your friend and see if she can budget her expenses better?
"back then" a family could live on a single income.
Oh that’s neat (TIL), am also working on a HS that also does this [1].

Not only does it feel like the most correct (I don’t think there is a perfect) behaviour for the user but also makes implementation much simpler. Synapse has a LOT of ordering foo and magic in the code I still don’t fully understand and I’ve gone fairly deep into synapse at times for work.

[1] https://github.com/Beeper/babbleserv
> bookkeepers are "white collar" but do little problem-solving, etc.

If you think that then I’d wager you’d never had to digitise any form of economic based system. I need an accountant to even begin to tell me how to do their weird nonsensical math, because it’s not actually math but law. Law which is open to interpretation. Law which still has to be boiled down to financial calculations and budget planning.

In Germany you get a green tariff when you produce solar energy. You do this in most of Europe, but in Germany the tariff goes away if you exceed a certain amount of energy production, as in, you’re either paid X or you’re paid 0.
It all seems close because the terms are muddied in our minds by countless poor instructions over the years.

Their doc actually explains the difference efficiently though :

Tutorials - learning-oriented experiences

How-to guides - goal-oriented directions

Reference - information-oriented technical description

Explanation - understanding-oriented discussion
> most don't do much

Directly, maybe, not. But people love games and wearables gamify fitness. I think that's a net positive. My mother looks at her Apple Watch step count daily.
Decleration on the Common Language
I'm failing to understand the proposition behind bitcoin.

From what I remember, the amount of BTC is finite, so eventually we will run out of new BTCs, and by then, most will be held by big institutions and some individuals who didn't want to sell, and it will become yet another luxury commodity like diamonds or gold. Hence, the entire premise of "Bitcoin is the future of money" is kind of stupid, unless it's money for the ultrarich/lucky, because it's not available to the common folks.

And even if it was available to the common folks, how do you expect to live in a world where your currency changes value drastically from day to day? Isn't that a characteristic of a defaulted state/currency?

But let's say it's not the money of the future, but rather a speculative investment that is "not tied to greedy institutions". How does one sell 10 BTC and cash it out, bypassing the "greedy banks"? Last time I checked, most reputable exchanges are somewhat regulated, and in any way, getting a sudden $1M won't go unnoticed by the government.

So yes, I am failing to understand the premise of bitcoin. It seems to fail on both as the currency of the future, as well as unregulated investment instrument.
Well my question was not about US vs other places. It was more about is there or is there not an affordability crisis.
If you by “cross platform” also want iPhone support, 1Password is pretty great.
Money is a meme, there is no value it can measure other than whatever delusion people collectively agree to call "value".
Are you assuming great health? Or rapid death?

Nursing home care runs $8k/mo or more per person. And low-end ones can be sketchy... you hear horror stories.

That $4k/mo won't be enough as you head into your 80s or 90s. Also consider inflation over 3 or 4 decades.
Does this mean you won't support pgvecto.rs anymore?
It seams that you currently only support Windows and MacOS via your electron wrapper. Are there plans to also release a Linux version?
Here in Nevada, a can of beans or fruit is roughly $1.
Author should have induced a artificial ahead of time fever. Sauna, hot bath, insulation (bed rest well wrapped). Go all in, guns blazing before it goes all out.
a basic problem is their easy population explosion. As soon as you allow a sizable population of them to thrive, it becomes very hard to keep them in check in the places where you really don't want them.
In my smallish european city, we have a few food courts. The outer doors are normally open/ajar in day time.
I really really don't like seeing rats scurrying about under the benches and obstacles when I visit there to eat.