skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except most don't. Many don't even have the opportunity, or realize that they have it. In a world where everyone takes advantages of all the opportunities presented to them I would agree with you, but for most (at least around me) 401(k) seems like afterthought or fantasy

If I don't have steady work the last thing on my mind is retirement...
yep, I got that tidbit from Kasparov himself I think
Google Unveils 72-Qubit Quantum Computer with Low Error Rates
President Trump ‘may’ Attend US Embassy Opening in Jerusalem
Do you know what all of that piping and industrial looking stuff is east of Playa on Culver?
I've generally found that criticism, even if a reasonable sentiment, on Hacker News trends downwards. It seems to be more favorable to support something or stay silent, than to give critical commentary. It could also just be my tone.

I'm sure my comments would be more popular if I ignored the realities of software development and only praised the novelties of it.
I think that's just a mockup, trying to figure out how to mount the engines and route the various wires and lines and such.
I've been thinking about this a bit lately in the context of the Freudian death drive [0] — risk being a part of the will that drives us to do things and build relationships.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
> Importer will still pay the tax on revenue so there won't be at any advantage for being located elsewhere.

Labor costs are not equal everywhere, and other regulations also might make it an advantage to be located elsewhere, for example environmental regulations might make your process more expensive.
Not that I know of. It's never even asked for that kind of thing on the iPhone version so it's pretty confusing.

Edit: according to old posts on a support forum, it might ask for a photo of your ticket stub. That doesn't explain why it wants access to your own photos, which is a different permission on Android from getting access to your camera.
> when a url update happens many reducers need to respond

Wouldn't the components handle this change and dispatch any actions needed?

> a login status change, many reducers may need to update themselves if a user logs in our logs out.

Again, couldn't this be handled at the component level? It seems risky to have multiple sources of truth for data.
putting efforts to find a needle in a haystack was still paying off when the majority of needles were of incomparably higher marginal value than they are now

Was this back when Google included the referrer URL with each needle?
It would be interesting to ponder where would companies choose to go if every nation harmonised their tax system globally. Removing all tax incentive.
It just occurred to me that I'm not sure how they can even be sure that you were telling them the truth. Not that I'm suggesting otherwise, but within the scope of the tools they have available to them while doing the review, what's to prevent you from saying "sure, we're keeping everything on device" when in fact you're building an international database of faces that you intend to sell to a nefarious government actor.
It's more about the pervasive cigarette smoke for me. Even though poker rooms are now smoke free you still have to wade through the rest of the casino to get there and no air filtration system is perfect. The result is you leave smelling like an ashtray regardless.
The only reason I don't use it is because I use windows. While you can theoretically use it on windows, nobody does.
Estonia's ice roads break all normal safety rules
> And yet that is what is mandated in the constitution.

I don't live in the USA and am not US citizen - many HN readers don't either :-)
Still in school ? (don't understand different <type>grad).
See: GSOC Seastar Framework https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6190282903...
Another reason you cannot revert is that many women will fight you as much as they can to not revert to 1960 era. The idea is scary, I would much rather have you lonely then me being women in 1960.

Sacrificing confidence, feeling like I am actually capable, social status, ability to be independent and all that in exchange to emptiness of lonely largely pointless household work and forced dependence sounds like bad deal.
> the knot used was one that only a butcher would use

Sounds like a convenient way to frame butchers from this point forward.
This op-ed is a dog's breakfast of Big Labor talking points, and pretty much what one would expect from a law professor flogging his latest book, entitled, "The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon" (see author bio at bottom of piece).

TLDR: The Kochs are trying to kill pensions because they don't like Calpers' political activism. The author doesn't get into specifics, preferring to make sweeping accusations such as, "This relentless, well-funded attack has taken every form of political advocacy available. It ranges from campaign contributions to ballot initiatives to model legislation to lobbying to lawsuits to financing academic and judicial conferences."

Sounds pretty scary. And as a former investment banker I can confirm that, in fact, F500 CEOs and boards are afraid of Calpers and Ontario Teachers and a few others who have gone the activist route. So maybe there is something to the thesis that all these fat cats want to stymie the ability of the working class to effect meaningful change through its collective ability to influence corporate governance.

But as someone currently involved in the government of a small town, I can also tell you that pensions are, legitimately, a major problem. Especially when they pertain to unionized public employees whose unions are allowed to force every member of that group of public servants (cops, teachers, garbage collectors, etc) to pay union dues regardless of whether they want to be part of the union.

The tenacity of union leaders, coupled with the universally bad optics of management not giving labor the future financial security that labor wants, often results in management making pension promises that they won't be able to deliver in a decade's time -- especially if the discussions happen during a good market run when modeling a perennial 7% YoY return on the pension portfolio seems reasonable.

This is ultimately much more of a public sector problem than a private sector one. Unfunded pension liabilities can kill companies, giving union leadership a strong incentive to compromise in cases where the pension is going to bankrupt the company.

On the public sector side, what you see instead is hiring freezes that benefit tenured union members, tax hikes that prompt wealthy residents to move to Florida, and cutbacks in other areas (e.g., paving roads).

It's not a pretty picture, and this op-ed is a good example of the rhetoric that can be deployed against people trying to make sources of funds equal uses of funds. Please DO NOT take that as an implicit defense of anything the Kochs are doing, btw.
Technically, I think the Hyperloop can work.

Economically, to make it profitable, then I am not certain it can work in the United States.

The Hyperloop is running in a vacuum tube.

* We have the ability to evacuate air from a tube, to low air pressure levels.

* We have the ability to build space craft that can operate in a vacuum.

* We have the ability to build a maglev, to propel the pod.

* We have the ability to build nuclear power plants, to energize the maglevs. I don't think solar or wind will create enough electricity to meet production usage demands.

Given all that, it's now starting to sound like an economical non-starter.

The United States just doesn't have enough people to make this work economically. It sounds cheaper to just go with a maglev. And you can get up to 300 to 400 mph if you push it. This is almost comparable to an airplane, but more comfortable. And the volume of people you transport can be a lot higher.

And all the Hyperloop plans are regional. One for Houston. One for Chicago. One for Virginia. This means that each location is fiscally responsible for themselves. But for some locations, then there is not enough people to economically sustain it. A national system may work, as it will allow some lines to be profitable, and this will balance out the lines that are not profitable. So the entire national system may eke out an operating profit.

And then, there is all the land rights that you have to buy up. Just look at how expensive the California high speed rail project is costing.

And all the tunneling and bridging that must be done.

And the designs only show two tracks running in parallel, but I think they actually need 3 tracks, in the event one track breaks down. This adds to the costs, but I don't see anyone suggesting this, or even thinking about it.

And they need to design contingencies in the event something breaks down. Americans do not like new technology things that kill people. One disaster may kill the entire project.

And, what about the science of the sonic boom, as the pod crosses the sound barrier. Given this is propelled through a vacuum tube, at lower air pressure levels, then will a sonic boom be generated?

All of this is now starting to sound really expensive. All this research is going to cost a lot of money. No company can really afford that, except maybe Apple. The US government is not interested in footing the R&D bill.

Then again, I could be completely wrong. And once again, Elon pulls a rabbit out of a hat, and comes to the rescue.
> Is there a use case in the app that makes that somewhat reasonable.

Maybe image recognition to see the kinds of things you're eating/considering buying before/after going to the movies?

This seems pretty reasonable to me. I consider it a fair trade for the monetary discount they're offering on their services.

I don't want to spend $10-$15 whenever I want to go to the movies. But I'm more than happy to provide access to my data and photos which I have no way to easily convert to monetary value.

If I didn't feel this way, I just wouldn't use their service.
Zero in the U.S. Maybe a bit in India.
I'm really over trying to fight companies on this on an app-by-app basis. If we want this to stop, it has to be through legislation. Either we allow companies to do it and stop acting shocked when it happens, or we legislate the possibility away.
Load app - present ticket - uninstall app.
this tribalism is what makes human beings human.

It's perfectly reasonable to construct a tribalism which aids in discovering the truth. Science itself is an example.

The best we can do is tell people "Prefer doing things that make you happy" and hope they don't commit their lives, careers, families, etc. to things that don't make them happy.

One of the best things we can do, is to have many non-exceptional role models, on which younger generations can make incremental improvements. What's needed isn't a whole-cloth re-imagining of the entire social reality. We need a kind of progressive traditionalism, where people can try and evolve towards a better society without dropping complex cultural systems which create value and human well-being.

Perhaps also it would help to give people an easy way out of things they don't enjoy doing? Kinda hard if those "things" are marriages or children, so I'm not sure how feasible it is.

I think it's far better to make people aware of the "price" up front, so such deep commitments are made by people who are ready.
Why is that surprising. They were always up front about the data when they got acquired & dropped it to its current price. The new part is the location tracking (which thankfully you're now in charge of on an iPhone).
The Mystery of Zach, New Zealand’s All-Too-miraculous Medical AI – The Spinoff
Agreeing on a range of acceptable tax rates might be doable at least. This is nationsl politics that is decided by national budgets after all.
Never having used or looked into Beaker, dat, ipfs, etc, some immediate questions about security implications come to mind:

1) Someone accesses your "site" directly on your computer via ipfs/dat whatever it is. This is static content I guess? And it's like your computer is just running a static webserver (kinda/sorta? if not, or something more dynamic please advise). So, are there security implications here? Is there an attack surface that a client/viewer of your content could leverage?

2) Sort of opposite question as in 1. You are the client/viewer of the "site," directly connected to some dude's computer via ipfs/dat or whatever. Obviously I should use standard security measures and not just go clickity on anything/everything I see, but beyond that, are there any other security implications for the client? I could download a virus I'm sure by clicking or downloading a malicious file, but beyond that, could I get hacked by the target in a more dynamic way than that?

3) How do I "navigate" in ipfs/dat-land? How do I know what URL to go to, and if this "URL" might be a safe site, or like what the hell is this URL if it's just some kind of hash? Is there a "google" of ipfs/dat sites/content?

Stuff like this. :) Any feedback would be muchly appreciated!
From what I read, Winston Groom (the author) made a deal that specified payment based on the Net profits vs. the Gross profits. That Hollywood accounting makes it so even super-popular films show little-to-no Net profit since they add in marketing expenses and who knows what all else. Long story short: Always go with the Gross profits.
Right, but the question is what reason do we have to believe that a decentralized monetary system will be more equitable? Being decentralized is no protection against inequality.
It’s not companies that pay taxes, it is who consumes their products (us).
The definition of a polynomial has nothing to do with units of measurement. The coefficients come from a ring and a ring has nothing g to do with units of measurement.
Drive by down votes, presumably because they thought you were incorrect but didn't even have the dignity to tell anyone why.
Interesting. It seems Google is moving away from anything gpl/gnu lately (fuchsia, etc...)
It's actually not very different from graphic programming, where a simple rounding error can cause all kinds of troubles, from very small (surfaces or ray not reflecting perfectly where they should be) or very big (completely messing your entire rendering).

Both activities very much resemble chaotic systems and they are both very challenging to debug.
Founder of Tower Records dies at 92 while drinking whiskey, watching the Oscars
There has only ever been one serious problem with Walmart: it historically hasn't paid very well.

It's just starting to kinda-sorta catch up with Target and Costco in pay and benefits.

There's a pay trade-off that the Walmart critics go dramatically out of their way to avoid however. Costco can pay what they do, because their employee to sales ratio is extremely different from Walmart. Walmart employs a lot more people per dollar of sales, and operates a very different style of retail business. To match Costco's employee count to sales ratio, Walmart would have to fire a million people. If you ask the critics if they would like to see Walmart fire a million people so they can raise the wages for the other million, you'll get an immediate evasion in response.

Walmart's net income margin for 2016 was 2.8%, and that's typical for them. They get by on a razors edge. They do $485 billion in sales, and only have a $7 billion cash buffer (Twitter has $4.3 billion), while operating on that comically tiny margin. One bad slip, the entire thing collapses in a giant heap of red ink, and a million people lose their jobs instantly. Walmart's ability to survive long-term at such thin margins, is one of the great business stories of the last century.

The notion that Walmart destroys small towns is a crock. I believe only someone that has never actually lived in a poor small town, could claim that. This is what it's like working for a small town retailer: minimum wage, zero benefits, high likelihood of losing the job because the business goes under (pre-Walmart), zero upside potential at all for the employees. That's what small town retailers overwhelmingly looked like in the US from the 1950s through the 1990s, when Walmart reached saturation.

Oh, and Walmart raises the standard of living by drastically improving product selection and access in small towns. Small town retailers have horrible selection and pricing. Critics will claim Walmart's pricing power is a negative, when in fact it's a massive positive for the actual humans that live in small towns (versus the people on the outside that have never lived in a poor small town, that like to write articles from a million miles away and talk about small town retail poverty culture as though it's glorious and should be preserved).

So let's recap: Walmart raised wages, it improved selection, it lowered prices, it absorbed labor slack, it provided benefits, it provided a consistent and large base of employment.

Growing up I watched Walmart move into every corner of Appalachia. It was a vast improvement everywhere it went and it absorbed immense labor slack among low skilled workers. The notion that there was a paradise beforehand, is blatantly false.
I don't know why everyone is always so shocked. People want smart devices/services that understand them. Where do you think the data comes from? From you!
I don't see the big deal really, Google maps and the like has probably 100x the data plus the mean to make it evil. I don't really see what extra data they will have compare to just ticket sales. It seems just a bad VC bet, and you can take advantage of it.
You can disable location access completely, or while in background, or prompt every time.
Why use it? llvm is the future anyway and lots of players have a stake in it and contribute to it.

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.
Yes; I've always been baffled by the idea that an unmanaged currency will be better. Either tragedy-of-the-commons, or some gorilla(s) exploiting it, seems the very likely outcome.
I admit that I have no intuition of a product of 2 dimensionless quantities :)
Security rating of any domain or your ip
Wait. Did I read it wrong or didn't an article a few days back say that we can use make with file names consisting of spaces, its just that we shouldn't? Although that article talked about using a non-breaking space as a hack.
You're misunderstanding though, it only works on certain strains of HPV, for the unaffected strains we wouldn't expect a reduction in incidence. You are thinking of Herd Immunity, which is what allows for a disease to be wiped out and protects unvaccinated/immunocompromised individuals in a population.
If only it were that harmless.

No, the reason for accessing your Photos is to get the location and timestamp off of every one and build a nice little trail of where you are and where you go.
> Hence why wages are 3x higher on one side of the river versus the other.

Not the workers. Taxes for infrastructure. Although, I suppose you can extract that out of wages through transport fees.
And in that situation how does a pension help you? If you don't have a stable, well-paying job you don't have a stable, well-funded pension.

We need as better system for retirement but pensions are not the answer.
MoviePass announced their their new, improved, and unrestricted plans in August. We all knew the $10 a month plan was not going to be profitably by itself. In the last week they have started blocking out specific movies, requiring some users to provide photographic proof of their ticket purchases, and bragged about collecting data outside what is described in their TOS. This is after already locking out customers from using the service at some of AMC's flagship theaters. Who had it had it at roughly 6 months before MoviePass started running out of money and needed to resort to trying to milk every last cent out of the theaters, studios, and moviegoers?
Yes; Clang was started internally to Apple. They did "just hire" the developer of LLVM.
My dad is involved with a sailing charity that runs apprenticeships in traditional boatbuilding:

http://pioneerck18.org/page4/index.html

They restore and maintain the yachts that the trust sails, and build rowing gigs which it sells. There is apparently a booming gig-rowing scene, although it doesn't look like much fun to me.

Meanwhile in France, they have a quadrennial contest to find the best craftsman (or craftswoman) in the country in an enormous range of disciplines:

http://www.meilleursouvriersdefrance.info/concours_sujet.php

Winners earn the right to decorate their tools with the colours of the tricolore - even if, in the case of one blacksmith, that just meant wrapping three bands of electrical tape round the shaft of a hammer. I was lucky enough to come across an exhibition about some of that year's winners at the Musée des Arts et Métiers when i was last in Paris. There were a load of winners' masterworks on display, listing the materials used and the number of hours it took to make them - often in the several hundreds.
>you'll end up bound to a single implementation.

Which will be just fine for something like 99% of us.
Trains?
It's easy to be critical of these people, much as it is easy to poke fun at "spoiled Millennials" in the West.

Though I can appreciate their perspective. If society around you is a frantic rat race, and you're not allowed to live for yourself, and it doesn't seem to make a difference what you do, then why bother?

I don't quite feel the same, but I admit much of modern life is so discouraging as to be a farce of a civilization.

Social isolation seems to be a big part of it. Friendships, jobs, and even family ties feel fleeting and superficial. Why work on building a life when everything shifts so much that your environment, activities, and social contacts completely change every couple of years?
This bit stuck out to me too:

I called my doctor and asked him how come the nutritional requirements didn't
show a limit on the amount of salt? "Isn't too much salt dangerous?" He
replied that it wasn't necessary; most people had enough sense not to consume
too much.
> edited to add: to be fair, it's not ABI compatible with MSVC. But it deserves a mention and it's an easier option than MSVC-style build systems for many open source projects.

Pretty sure this is significant in Chrome's case.
IPFS doesn't actually distribute hosting unless someone else goes through the trouble of doing pinning. Some gateways may keep local copies but they're also free to destroy local copies.

In the typical deployment where nodes refer to their own local IPFS services, it's often the case that the primary IPFS pin serves the majority of traffic.

If we're going to call that "distributed" then so are normal webpages with random caching options.
Yeah, I meant something along the lines of using CRISPR or a future derivative to make a person genetically predisposed to having the fastest mind, most durable body, and best hand-eye coordination.
Good memory management is important for a high performance, low latency DBMS. I don't see how getting rid of GC is bad engineering practice. If a tool is not well suited for a problem, use another tool. Could you please explain your opinion?

//Edit: removed 2nd part, which wasn't really that important anyway...
There are a few problems with pensions -- all basically forms of underfunding:

1) Underfunding due to shrinking business or region -- it's a lot easier to make your pension numbers work if people who retired 20 years ago are a tiny fraction of your current workforce.

2) Underfunding due to overly-generous plans (the retirement pay a lot of public sector employees get is disproportionately generous vs. their pay while working. Especially when contracts do "highest 3 years" or "last 3 years" and employees collude to give lots of overtime or other special pay to let people about to retire juice the pension

3) Underfunding due to bad math -- really easy to just make the "expected investment return" the dependent variable
Then why have you always voted for one particular flavor of authoritarian?