skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different kinds of GMO—in addition to RoundupReady (glyphosate resistant) crops, there are Bt crops (mainly corn, as far as I know) that react in an insect’s alkaline gut to form incecticidal protein fragments. The bacterial source of the genes is also used as an organic incecticide, and has no plausible mechanism for causing harm in humans that I am aware of.
I can count the number of 401k holders in my social group with one or two hands. Many more than that set are employed, mostly semi-regularly, and their jobs offer them nothing retirement-wise

Pensions may not be the answer, but neither are retirement accounts.
these failing pensions are largely due to mismanagement, properly managed these retirement vehicles work as intended. unfortunately in the current climate a large company or even a state government can't resist the temptation to use a massive pension fund for something other than it's intended purpose. One lean quarter and they start eyeing up the 7 billion sitting in the pension fund. I read a book a couple years back that changed my thinking on pensions, before I was of the mind that they never worked, were a massive Ponzi scheme, stealing from young workers, etc... no, pensions work provided they are left alone. http://www.retirementheist.com/
Facebook asked users if pedophiles should be able 2 ask kids for sexual pictures
Cool. I wonder when we'll see an uprise in internet websites that reference dat://

Is there a first HN reference to a valid dat:// website already?
Rhode Island legislature considering $20 fee on accessing online porn
Meanwhile the article links to https://www.igkt.net, which I'm sure, must have some members interested in topology, as applicable to knot tying.
This is from 2016 and original authors are no longer at PayPal..
Deduct and not pay are the same.

Aren't they?
> for smallish advertisers (this is not P&G, I understand) agencies can negotiate much better terms

It's more than that. As a small business managing your own ads you can get your account suspended without explanation and any way of recourse just by raising some flags. But being a WPP subsidiary you get assigned an account manager that guides your team trough the process, shows up with presentations, gives early access to tools and ad formats not (yet) available to the general public and makes sure your doubts get resolved before the ad goes live. If you get flagged, they call you to help fix things.

Keep in mind WPP spent $2B on Facebook in 2017, which is 5% of Fecebooks $40B revenue that year. Similar with Google, WPP brought in ~$5B out of $110B Alphabet's revenue.
> VAT is only complicated for businesses that sell things,

As oppossed to businesses with no revenue?
Mh? Why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_crisis#U.S._State-lev...

In general, underfunded pensions and large increases in expenses are a looming threat to many state and local governments. In California, many cities are expecting their pension costs to increase by 50% or more. Few have much in the way of spare cash to begin with.

It's not just the mismanagement of professional pension management funds, though you are of course right that that is a major concern. Broadly, the crisis is the result of applying unreasonable discount rates (8% or more) and making unrealistic promises about contributions and payouts. This is very, very easy to do when you're negotiating a union contract, as a state generally has little choice but to pay up when the time comes. It's also easy to do when you can bump up the assumed discount rate a bit and use the cash this frees up for goodies for your voters.

These weren't just poor management decisions made by self-interested private companies. Indeed, private pensions often assumed much less rosy discount rates and fared much better. These poor financial management decisions were quite often made by union leadership and local officials, some of them elected.

Sad to say, shifting from a defined-benefit system to a defined-contribution system seems to be the only way to guarantee that this particular form of politically expedient mismanagement will not recur. This doesn't have to be 401(k)s, 403(b)s, or other market-oriented system. But whatever the eventual system is, it clearly cannot look anything like the pensions of yesteryear. That system has failed, and the kindness and compassion and pure intentions at its heart has gone to waste.

Let there be no doubt - this is tragedy.
Does anyone know the reasoning behind why there are Duty Free shops when entering an International airport (as a final destination)?
Exactly, and this applies for all "levels of severity". There is no content so "bad" that censorship becomes an appropriate solution.
> In fact, there are way too many c++ compilers if you ask me. I would gladly accept a world where clang is the one and only.

Not me, IMO clang is where it is due to competition.
Direct PDF link: http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/Senat...
VAT also encourages the formation of conglomerates since you'll need to pay VAT to source some component of your product, but not if you make it in-house.

This is mitigated in some cases by lower VAT rates for businesses or recouping schemes, but how much of a difference that makes depends on the jurisdiction
Many Cons have had to establish boundary rules for that sort of "play" regardless of if they are scheduled alongside a more "normal" event. Also, BDSM culture itself has fought hard to move towards a more consent-based culture and publicly displaying such things without public consent is increasingly considered rude.
>This is a tragedy of the Internet ad industry. There is a finite amount of eyeballs, and the amount of companies with a substantial money wanting to sell you a face lotion will always eclipse the amount of companies who market unique, relevant, specialty products one may actually be actively looking to buy.

It has little to do with having a large amount of money to spend on ads and more the level of severity of the problem your product solves for the 'eyeball.'

Humans have some needs that are greater than others, and ad dollars spent at alleviating pain or providing for those needs will always get at the most eyeballs. Entire industries - born online - have developed around capitalizing on solving for these needs.

I need money - Predatory loans and credit card offers.
I need to be skinnier - Nutraceuticals (Dr. Oz), weight loss, vitamin crazes.
I need to be beautiful - Skin care, facial lotions.
I need to be less lonely - Online dating, pornography.

The list goes on. The point is - there are more people looking to be skinny, beautiful, rich, and married with children than there are people looking for 'commercial equipment sales.'For now, and until targeting gets smarter and consumers opt to share more data about themselves, those products will win the majority of ad clicks.

We'll get there. (eye roll) Maybe decentralization is the way? :). I'd love to give the Google/FB duopoly a kick in their 'walled garden.'
Came here to say this. The article is misleading. The bombs in existence today are several orders of magnitude more deadly than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
React Gets Context and Suspense. Quo Vadis, Redux?
>Your 401k is 100% yours. There is no risk of your 401k account "going bankrupt" because too much of it was given to others.

Systemic risk is present either way. You're just playing category theory sleight of hand and drawing distinctions between forced savings plans that aren't meaningful.
What you get instead is native advertising - news that are in reality ads, fake reviews, paid comments to social media, forums.. and all that jazz.
Yep, GCC is no longer supported on Android.
Urgh. PayPal is the definition of stagnant. As a merchant, the experience hasn't changed over a decade. I have over a dozen workarounds for their bad interfaces for refunds, invoices, chargebacks, tax reporting, etc, user experiences.

I'm not clear on why they move so slow.

To be fair, across that broad range, nobody else is doing better than them. It just seems like given their position, I'd see more innovation. For example, what’s their response to Stripe? They seem to be on their laurels.
> it's not 100% your fault if your 401k plan only offers poorly-performing, high fee funds as many do.

Well, IRAs and Roth IRAs are the competitor in that realm. I don't trust most people to handle their own funds in an "automatic" 401k plan however. How many "normal" people do you know who has a Roth IRA for example?

Not a lot. A ton of people I know even pull money from their 401k early for luxurious reasons. (It makes sense to do so in an emergency. But not for like... a Euro-trip or Cruise Vacation like some people in my circle...)

Honestly, each time I hear about stupid personal finance stories like that, I wish that those people were on a pension instead. There's a lot of stupid out there.
A lot of times these kids are just slow...low IQ. Amphetamines increase IQ and general mental and physical performance temporarily. So the benefit is there but these parents should probably accept their childs aptitude rather than trying to augment it through hard stimulant drugs..
Maybe if you operated your system at the saturation point, which you really don't want to do in practice. Instead you want your queues to be mostly empty. Bursts are inevitable but bursts coinciding with GC doing work hopefully is a beyond 99th percentile thing. Of course if we're speaking purely theoretical we could also assume spherical cows in a vacuum and say that requests don't burst and simply arrive in a metronome-like trickle and then the spikes evaporate too. This is basically queuing theory.

And you could also use more CPU cores than request workers, that way you will always have spare core capacity and thus your latency will not be directly impacted. That is if you really really value latency more than throughput.

Again, my main point is that throughput and latency are not the same thing. There is some relation in so far that you cannot fulfill latency promises if your throughput is insufficient and your queues start filling up. But below the saturation point it's a lot more complicated, especially in parallel systems with bursty arrivals.
My memory is that it supports DWARF debug info. So you get full debug info in DWARF and can use the mingw port of GDB on Windows.

Still, this is very different from the first-class support for compatible debug info that Clang provides.
Pure fantasy. AT&T got $1.3 billion from the USF in 2007-10. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/at-t-verizon-are-rolli.... About $450 million per year.

The FCC doesn’t disclose USF contributions by company, but you can guess: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-303886A3.p.... Total reported telecom revenue is about $300 billion per year during that period. AT&T averaged $120 billion per year in revenue during that period (about 40% of the industry). (This is probably an overestimate because AT&T’s revenue includes non-telecom revenue.)

During that period, USF revenues were $7-8 billion per year. 40% of that is like $3 billion. Even if I’m wrong about AT&T’s revenue share by a factor of 4 AT&T still pays in much more than it gets out.
The world in 1950 was very different to today. Find it amazing someone is brave enough to claim gender equality was the sole cause for half the population being subjectively sadder as recorded by a wide array of surveys conducted to various standards.

Why not blame modern marketing techniques, the rise of human interaction replacing technology or leaded petrol while we're at it.

The correalations are all there and just as valid.
Do you mean would "saving for your retirement" be needed? Or were you specifically asking about pensions?

In any case I don't think any basic income plan works if you imagine that everyone stops saving their earnings and relies on the basic income for their working years and retirement. It is called universal basic income after all and not universal "luxurious" income.
> No one actually expects to live on Social Security alone...

None should, but plenty do.
MoviePass shouldn’t exist. That’s the problem.
> I fail to see who MoviePass hurt except its own investors.

Games on the iOS App Store are generally free (or 99 cents). It is not profitable to recoup your costs by selling the product, because consumers will not pay for an app that costs more money than $1. In order to sustain this environment, the industry has moved to selling data, ads, and other sort of nonsense.

Let's suggest that MoviePass successfully "disrupts" the industry and then gets bought out or dies. What happens if this disruption permanently causes admissions revenue to go down, because consumers expect $10, and as such, movies to be substantially more unprofitable to make?

This sort of long-term "environmental impact" never seems to come up as long as we can pile more ads and tracking on top to make up the difference in unreasonable business models.
>"Dumping" is bad because it harms unsubsidized competitors. (It also pits foreign governments against private companies.) I fail to see who MoviePass hurt except its own investors.

Everyone who might have started a competing company but did the math to figure out they would have to charge more?

>Lyft seems to be doing fine.

Hasn't Lyft been spending billions of dollars without posting a profit just like Uber?
Wow, I'm in the exact same situation.

Using Xfce and loving it so far, went through every single distro in existence.

Cool series!
GDPR had to come at some point. US companies don't give a shit about privacy, and EU citizens do. GDPR is a good thing.
If you're poor and even if you are not, the last thing you want to see in a film is more poor people. I for one like to go to movies to escape my reality. That's what happened to movies about poor people.

No, I did not read the article. Sometimes, the title hits me the wrong way and I have to make my point.
Washington becomes first state to pass net neutrality law after FCC repeal
If you don’t have a problem with random tech companies tracking your every move, why shouldn’t the government?
No, they just want subsidized tickets, but then whine that MoviePass gets something out of the deal.
Afaik there are some companies that take up the 401k advisor role. $FNGN is one, and I'm sure there are others.
I think the OP meant that $9 per serving. So $36 (now $40) for a family of four.
puppeteer only supports Chorme so you will need to use Slimer if you wish to use Firefox.
I'm not interested in discussion about heraldic. German Nazi used Latin alphabet, so it easy to found connection between Nazi and a Latin letter for anybody who want that.
For example, Nazi used eagle, Russia uses eagle, and so on. It's easy.

I already pointed to source of Azov emblem: it's symbol of French Revolution. IN symbol was used in modern Ukraine since 1991 at least (i.e. from beginning of independence).

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BA...

I'm interested in actual evidence of fascism in Azov, because it will help to uncover yet another Russian agent. Number of Russian agents in Ukraine is estimated to about 20 000 agents.
This looks very similar to the Makefile I'm using except that beside -MMD I also have -MP flag. I created this Makefile a couple years back and I'm reusing it for every new project, but I cannot recall really why I needed to add -MP.
With the Android app I was able to check in from more than a mile away (multiple times)
If you have a sourdough starter, then you don’t need to pay for yeast (though in my experience, I always end up pouring off excess starter, ie wasting flour).
I don't see how actually having control over where you invest your money in a 401k vs having none whatsoever in a pension is "category theory sleight of hand" or a distinction lacking in meaning.
It's also draining the heck out of my battery.
It is a terrible idea, because it tends to favor companies that have their cost base in the country.

I'm not completely sure why that would be the case – wouldn't it result in a relatively level playing field?
I explicitly wrote "lobbying AND donation".

Please don't twist conversation into debates about semantics: it's not helpful.
What leverage does the EU believe it has here? Tech companies only put branches in Ireland, Netherlands, etc because of the US tax code. Another jurisdiction will just compete on price and win the business. Jobs will leave (high paying ones at that) the EU, income tax receipts will be hit, unemployment up, wages down. It's just suicide. Corporations and the super-rich are the leading edge of tax arbitrage. Like it or not this is the future of tax for everyone, it's just a question of when technology enables you to do your job remotely.
3L of Kefir is only about 2000 calories, which is not enough for most adults.
yeah not like they are being paid or anything.

The market equilibrium rests where you can extract maximum value, if they can get away with tracking, they will do it, it has absolutely nothing to do with it being a fair deal or not.
> always the revenues of American tech companies

Clearly not.

Vodafone: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/14/uk-uncut-vod...

Topshop: https://www.theguardian.com/business/gallery/2010/dec/04/uk-...

Barclays: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/19/barclays-ban-prot...
fun fact kefir is like 0.5% alcohol so that amounts to 15 mL of alcohol for 3 L of kefir! Not much at all, but probably adds up combined with other drinks
I don't think the environment will stay like this for long.

Investors in MoviePass will likely not make their money back. Or maybe they'll break even on a sale of assets to some major theater chain, if everyone involved is smart.

Afterward, future investors in companies like this will use MoviePass as another example for the fact the times when you could form a business mostly based on collecting user data is over. The stakes have changed, the goalposts have moved; Google/Facebook sized ingestion of user data is still very profitable, but now startups have to compete with that. So MoviePass knows which movies I go see and where I go before and after... Google knows where I am literally all the time.

They really should have started from day 1 trying to play ball with the theater chains. Theaters always made most of their money on concessions; incentivize upsells into that and get subsidies on ticket prices from the chains. Instead, they burned every bridge with the theaters they could have hoped to make. They'll pay for it.
I doubt it. That data isn’t worth more than the movie admission.

The real goal is probably more like ticket scalpers... see how pricing motivates behavior and now demand can be shaped. The value generator would be either tiering the service offering or charging a premium for certain movies.

If they can demonstrate that flat rate pricing generates demand for movie viewing, even for shitty movies, they could buy excess inventory and give away shit movies or slack times and charge a premium for good movies or peak times.

It is almost certainly achievable. Back in my high school/college days I had access to unlimited free movies through various means. I saw every movie in the theaters from 1996-1999. We could get into hot movies the first week, so we watched whatever was available.
I agree, I'm pretty strict about keeping UI state out of the store, but when you need to coordinate a bunch of components based on the status of network API requests and you already have a global message bus available...

I've created a gist[1] with some snippets from a current project; it's still alpha, but you can get a general feeling for how the data flow works. I would clean it up a bit if I were officially releasing it to the public, but I'm definitely interested in feedback if anyone thinks I'm doing it ALL WRONG. :)

[1]: https://gist.github.com/parkerault/9dc7e825cc9a62b5efa8a4c1c...

Edit: regarding serializing state; I don't know how others handle it but I subscribe a localStorage writer to the store that only gets called when the store is changed, not when an action dispatches, so if an action creator dispatches a function to redux-thunk, the action doesn't get serialized, just the resulting store after the reducers do their thing. Do you have any examples of actions themselves getting serialized? I believe when Abramov talks about keeping the state serializable in the redux docs he's referring to the store itself; as far as I know anything goes in the actions themselves.
The Gamification of Music – The Blogging Musician
If your job doesn't offer a simple 401k plan there's no hope for them offering a pension, let alone a stable well-funded one.

I agree with you that the future is murky for young people. That doesn't change my view that a 401k is preferable to a pension.
Are there plans that actually only offer actively managed funds? Even the bare bones bottom tier Fidelity plan I had years ago from a notoriously tight pursed startup gave me a few index tracking funds.
Yeah, I suppose that's the case. It certainly seems like a simple solution, which has its attraction, but it's possible there are other downsides (like unfairly punishing reinvestment or smaller companies) depending on how it is implemented.
1) Yep, exactly. There shouldn't be security implications, as long as the IPFS daemon is secure.

2) Again, as long as the IPFS daemon is secure, standard security practices apply. It's just static files.

3) It's all just static files. You get linked to from other files. Same as you navigate the rest of the web. It's not hard to wrap your head around it, really, just imagine that the web was all static files. That's it.
> If my retirement is invested in overpriced, underperforming funds it's 100% my own fault

Its my understanding that there are a lot of 401(k) plans out there that charge a significant management fee on top of any fees charged by underlying funds. A lot of plans also don't offer much choice in terms of underlying funds.
Now that's what I call a complete meal, the drink included :)
Yes, but also a lot of non-food items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket

There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. It's tricky because some categories of goods or services didn't exist decades ago, but do now.
We are heading to a harmonised tax system, zero corporation tax everywhere.
Why Cryptocurrencies Are Failing to Fulfill the Role of Money
What a strange idea. I guess you'd call it 'government as digital pimp'.
What supermarket would buy them though? Their product is trivial to replicate. In fact, every supermarket I shop at already sells meal-kits.
Certainly a risk, though that doesn't seem like a valid reason for collectively throwing our hands up – unless the argument is to do away with corporate taxation entirely, which isn't invalid!
It sounds like they say 'create 100 accounts with 1 coin in it', then when you want to send, say, 23 coins, you give the recipient the private keys to 23 of those accounts.

Which 1) only works if you trust the sender or 2) immediately transfer the funds out in which case you're still rate limited by the root chain.
> the compiler will elide them for you

Surely the compiler isn't going to remove or ignore things that you typed.

You probably meant to say the compiler will allow you to elide them.