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Somebody has to take the punch bowl away and make us pay what’s come due.

Why is it public-sector retirees in particular who must pay that price? Again, they have moral and legal claims on their pensions, and they (largely low and moderate income households) are not the primary beneficiaries of decades of low taxes that left state pensions underfunded.
Do you think that major companies don't have systems to mitigate this threat?
>Their very existence depends on reducing the costs of manufacturing.

Some might say that their very existence depends on people trusting them to purchase their cars. It always seems convenient that there is no telemetry available in the very crashes we are interested in.
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I'm not so sure about that last part. We (Kinvey, www.kinvey.com) have been using it for customer-facing services in production for over a year. Results have exceeded our expectations.
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This is actually a very good move for them. The type of person who could take the full code dump and stand up the service is likely the type of person who would just write it themselves.
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Pensions in principle are great. The problem in the US is a combination of (i) unrealistic return expectations, (ii) laws that allow pensions to be underfunded, (iii) poor governance that reduces investment returns, and (iv) overly generous benefits.

Other countries (e.g. Canada) address all four of these problems and have pension systems that are widely admired as well funded, well governed, sustainable and savvy investors. The US needs comprehensive reforms to address all four of these points. Without that, any partial solutions such as increased funding or reduced benefits, only serve to delay fixing the system.

For (i), returns should be conservatively based on a bond index rather than an unrealistic 7-7.5% return.

For (ii), pensions provides should be legally required to maintain a small funding surplus (e.g. 105%).

For (iii), pensions should have independent boards comprised of investment professionals that are free of political meddling and actually pay their staff Wall Street level salaries so they can attract top talent to compete, rather than constantly being fleeced by Wall Street.

For (iv) I don't have any specific recommendations, but it would be interesting to see the distribution of benefits for the Illinois pensioners.
Not arguing that any individual should stay or go since that's obviously a complex decision, but at some level if you believe the municipal and/or state government are broken, yet you are in the middle class and you decide to stay, are you not implicitly funding the brokenness with your continued tax dollars?

A huge part of why I decided to leave California was because I lost faith in the municipal and state government and didn't feel like funding them anymore. As a high-earning non-citizen, I "vote" with my feet and my taxes.

I guess the point is that you can still pretend it doesn't have to do with you until it's really staring you in the face... and also by my same argument all Americans are also funding US neocolonialism and war etc. by contributing our productivity to the nation. At any rate, I want to emphasize again I'm not saying anyone choosing to stay in Chicago is somehow making an ethically questionable decision, just wanted to bring up this line of thinking for consideration.
We use Kubernetes in a very unusual way. We built a tool that allows you to take a snapshot of a Kubernetes cluster (along with all apps deployed inside) and save it as a single .tar.gz tarball.

This tarball can be used to re-create the exact replicas of the original cluster, even on server farms not connected to the Internet, i.e. it includes container images, binaries for everything, etc.

But if the replica clusters do have internet access, they can dial back home and fetch updates from the "master". People use this to run complex SaaS applications inside their customers' data centers, on private clouds. These clusters run for months without any supervision, until the next update comes out.

Thanks to Kubernetes, you have a complete, 100% introspection into a complex cloud software, which allows for a use case like this. Basically if you're on Kubernetes you can no longer be tied to your one or two AWS regions and start selling your complex SaaS as downloadable run-it-yourself software. [1]

[1] https://gravitational.com/telekube/
Oh, so it was us users who were too dumb to find them? Fuck you, fuck you for this blame-shifting marketing speak.
I’m unable to see my historical Google location data on iOS via

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb

I’m getting the following error:

“Location Services permission is not set to always. Timeline cannot function properly if you don’t allow Google Maps access to your location while in background. [Skip][Turn On]”

Seems like I should be able to see what historical location data they have without enabling background location.

Disclaimer: I work for Apple
in Bay Area there are many programming / development / game development schools. I also worked on CodeHero.org for a time.

What specifically do you think is wrong with the existing approaches? It's an area I also care a lot about and would like to gain more insight into. :-]
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Here's a good security/privacy option: Provide a fully featured HTML5 app (specifically one that allows you to access the inbox). Then there is no reason to install the native app or messenger.
Seems like a bunch of you are replacing procrastination through social media with procrastination through coding. Marco Arment also has a Mac app, which quits any app in a list that's been idle. https://marco.org/apps
Not always. Hindenburg ended the age of airships.
They're selling an operational service that their customers can't easily replicate, even with the code.

Their product is a globally-distributed monitoring system. Running these systems all over the world, and keeping them running, is a serious operational headache. It's probably at least as complex as operating the service the customer wants to monitor - perhaps a lot more, given that most services are not globally distributed.

As long as they price below "double your ops budget", they'll remain value for money - even if the code they use is free.
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"State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit."

Isn't this the public sector equivalent of letting a startup pay you in equity? While it may have been characterized as more secure than personal investment, agreeing to this compensation scheme doesn't remove the burden of risk, particularly when the 'startup' offering to pay you later is state government.
There is a big difference between a country with its own currency (like Sweden and the federal USA) and a state like Illinois or a country member of the Euro.

Sweden can't run out of money. How many resources they decide to use in their old people is a political decision (taking into account economic factors like inflation and real resources available).

At the end of the day, this is decided by the current generation, so, this narrative of "jeopardizing the future" make not sense. The quality of life of the old people of the future will be determined by the real resources available in the future and the political will of the voters then.

Illinois can run out of money, so, it's not only if they have the will to give a good quality of life to their old people: they could be unable to do that. The reason the federal government could choose to solve the problem it's not because it has more money but because it can issue money.
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It's a decent question, here's the reason why people are upset...

Politics is something that we create to allow sharing of power between people NOT only in direct proportion to their money/military power but one man one vote.

Now as you notice it's not quite that simple because there is propaganda, which has to be paid for.

So some of this propaganda is paid for by specific interests, but all countries have limitations on this. Eg. in the UK we're currently on the borderline of arresting people because they may have exceeded campaign spending limits. All our politicians have complicated rules about donations, spending limits and broadcasts around elections.

Now the US has some of the loosest rules around this, because your supreme court ruled that (broadly) money is speech, so unlimited campaign donations to superpacs are allowed (I'm not an expert on US politics I think this is roughly right).

But even in the US there are limitations, eg. no money from foreign entities, the lawyer thing that they're trying to string up for where him paying off the hooker is effectively donation.

So why are people angry - because the thin wall we've tried to create between raw financial power and controlling people through propaganda with no control or limits has been eroded. Because the legislation (and enforcement) is from an old era when newspapers, radio, television were the most important things.

If you're saying that maybe we should just rip down all the regulations and have unlimited political donations across borders then maybe you can have an argument about that, but I don't think I'd agree. I like that it's at least a little difficult for US companies to bribe UK politicians to relax our regulations, and supposed to be near impossible for Russia to lobby us. I think that argument would be some kind of anarcholibertarian which isn't really my bad but might be popular on here.
We need to talk about what is ethical. There's no difference between seizing pensions and simply seizing bank accounts or other property. The reason it's possible to seize pensions from state workers is because state workers are powerless. It's no more ethical than retroactively seizing their salaries.
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And Apple joining AV1 group was probably the nail in the coffin.
For the folks who have implemented K8 in Production - curious if you use it to do resource management as well, or, if you also use something like Mesosphere in conjunction? Or would you stick with a like-stack (DCOS+Marathon)?

There is surprisingly little online discussion/documentation on the intersect of Resource Management and Container orchestration. Not sure if it is too early in the curve, a dark art, not actually done, or what...
"This struck me as humble-braggy, and not particularly enlightening."

But it is true. I'll save my criticism for things that are false, or utterly banal. And people at the beginning of their career might not fully realize how much things change when their career takes off. It's worth saying.
> If you don't consider the second leading unnatural cause of death in the United States (only recently surpassed by suicide) killing 40,000 people a year an "issue", then sure.

It is an issue, But not one among the "pressing issues humanity is facing right now" and definitively not worth risking the lives of unsuspecting public.

Interesting that you intend to solve the issue of "40,000 people being killed an year" by putting even more dangerous things on the road, that may or may not become better drivers in a period of god knows how long...

The only sure thing about SDV is that it ll save these companies a boat load of money during the time they are allowed to operate them on the roads...
I am pretty sure that this accident happened because of the way autonomous software makes decisions on its surroundings. I am almost certain the car knew there was an object but evaluated it incorrectly.

There are lots and lots of false positives a self driving car has to disregard just to make its way along any street. Mailboxes on curbs, random parked cars, bridges, signs, and so on. I think the car unfortunately made a bad decision.

To say the LIDAR/RADAR or IR cameras didn't pick the person up is to say that these cars are woefully under-equipped to sense their environment.

I think the Police report was just working off of current operating Police knowledge and expectations of the law.
"Total pension benefits have grown at an annually compounded rate of 8.8 percent over the past three decades. Compared to 1987, benefits have grown 1,061 percent." How could they let this cost grow at 8.8% for 30 years! Yikes. How immoral.
I would be inclined to believe you if this problem wasn’t pervasive. Pensions like these are built on promises and backed by tax payers. As a tax payer we have every right to oversee the situation and compel changes if we deem them necessary.
Given the context of his life and the views he expresses about animals in his vlogs, I strongly disagree.

> The man takes in rescue dogs, cats, monkeys and (in the past) even a handicapped illtreated tiger. He has some 40-50 pets in his home. There's even a video where he rescues a rat from being eaten by one of his cats, and releases it outside.

> He has offered that cat multiple varieties of cat food and meat in many videos. He himself has expressed concern that it's not eating the proteins it needs. If an animal refuses to eat food that is otherwise good quality and relished by all its friends, how can it be animal abuse?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696565 and marked it off-topic.
The institutes which have been donated to are confirming a huge amount of Donations, which started last night. So there are very many real donations.
> filing for bankruptcy

Illinois has significant assets and the power of taxation over a large economy. I can't see a court just allowing them to discharge their obligations. It's also not clear that states _can_ declare bankruptcy.

I think a federal bailout of some kind is more likely, not a better idea necessarily, but more likely.
Please add a list view of all venues by city! I don't want to have to search for all the venues.
I see some people who use Elixir/Erlang ecosystems then shove them into a kubernetes system. Isn't this going against what the Elixir/Erlang system already provides ? What are the usecases for this?
You might be a bit too critical with the journalist, the example you provide is the final one after pointing all the not so "obvious to ordinary end user" data Google has about someone. Is it perfect, no. But its good that more mainstream media is discussing these things so people get a better understanding of this.

Maybe it will stop folks from uploading unencrypted data to cloud providers down the road and improve research that allows cloud providers to process encrypted data meaningfully without every being able to decrypt.

The 3m pages of word doc is odd, but its not uncommon to convert overall size to word doc pages in journalist speech (just map size to average word doc size), and then they disregarding data type. I have seen this in other places too.
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That's all well and good, so what's your solution? How do you fund these pensions without screwing over everyone else? What policy is fair to everyone else without screwing the previous generation?

In each of your comments you defend the pensioners, which is fine, but there's a limited pool of money. We live in the real world where you have to work within the confines of reality. Opining about how unfair it is to cut pensions doesn't solve anything or move the conversation forward. It's little more than whining.
There are very few well funded state and local government pension plans, all due to the same reason (unrealistically high investment return assumptions, underfunding, and miscalculation on how long people will live).

This would indicate there is a problem with the design of taxpayer funded pensions.
I do have sympathy for people who work hard their whole lives and never make enough money to build decent savings for retirement. There should be help for these people.

On the other hand, I have very little sympathy for people who are paid well but don't plan wisely. How can you not understand that you need to save money? It takes all of a couple hours to understand the basics of a 401(k) or traditional/Roth IRA, and you don't have to set it up perfectly to have an effective savings plan. I greatly resent the idea that my productivity should be siphoned off to protect the latter group from the consequences of their actions.
Those examples are stunning!

There is a ticket explaining where it works well and where it doesn't:

https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Crunch/issues/15
The idea is that two elements x and y despite having the same fingerprint, will be stored into two different buckets. So you can have several time the same fingerprint in a Cuckoo filter, which you can't in a Bloom Filter.

When you want to remove x, you remove one of the two fingerprints, it does not matter which since they're the same. Next when you query y you will be sure to still have a positive answer.

Note that however the deletion won't necessarily make the filter forget about x. It will just clear some place in the structure.
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I mean, unless you have an incredibly high end printer nobody expects 3d printed parts to come out perfect. As far as I can tell, you pretty much always need to to some hand fitting afterwards. My part time job in highschool involved building robots (as in actually assembling them) for a small company, and as a result I feel comfortable claiming that anyone with access to CAD, and a machine shop can build a workable "robot".
Thank you for the in-depth analysis. I definitely learned a few tricks here!
I can't speak for the entire USA, but here in Illinois, we are acutely burdened by having high crime, large/corrupt government, low income taxes, and a decaying private sector.

Here's a great example of the way things work in Illinois. The most powerful man is a man named Mike Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House and Chair of the Illinois Democratic Party. He has a fun little trick that he likes to play on the people he serves by essentially stealing money from us via property tax assessments. The first assessment on any property's taxes in Chicago is generally outrageous. It's like this because he wants you to appeal, because Madigan & Getzendanner is Cook County's largest firm in the commercial and industrial appeals process[1]. And rumor has it, they're also the largest in residential property tax appeals, too.

I doubt Sweden's government has such egregious types of government scams. And I'm sure Sweden's government is designed to serve its people, not bleed the powerless dry.

[1] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/investigation-madigan-firm-th...
Ok, so what's your solution? What approach is ethical in regards to the previous generation and the current? Someone has to pay the bill. Discussing what's "fair" or ethical is all well and good, but lacking context re what is _possible_ and _practical_ it's just an academic exercise.
I don’t see many founders on HN or social media after they get funded.. if anything they may post about their company
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I deliberately put the low quality one because it has the crowd reaction included at the demo contest, and I really enjoyed the crowd losing their shit when the full screen video + audio came on. :)

I just noticed he compressed an entire bananarama music video with better quality sound into a 1Mb REU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH3yrLG8K7g
It would need to be a subscription service - unlike a game or a disk partitioning tool, they can't support it for four years, then stop supporting it after without taking negative PR.

Realistically, an ad-free program subscription would usually be marked up from what they can make per-user per-month off of ad revenue - so maybe take ad revenue, add $5 and round to the nearest ten?
Issues that are trivial at the level of the individual become logistics headaches when you scale out to thousands or tens of thousands of individuals.
I'm surprised more apps with maps don't do this, like Uber.
> a federal bailout of some kind is more likely

At least in my D.C. circles, the Puerto Rico bail-out bill was framed as a dry run for Illinios.
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1.1.1.1? Why are they in my home network?
Here is my worry: IL, CA, and hundreds of states and municipalities will come hat-in-hand to the US government for bailouts in 10 or 15 years. If that happens, everyone in the country is on the hook.
It would fix the problem of taxpayers being on the hook for it. It's the union and pension recipients job to ensure that their retirement money is managed properly, just like the rest of us do with our 401k.
>eating on a couch is 100% pleasure

It's not that simple. For example, humans can indulge and feel guilty at the same time. We're complicated beasts.
The PROBLEM is that corrupt politicians in the 90s

And how did those corrupt politicians get into office and stay in office?
I mean you can say this with any company really..
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There is no deliberate malnourishment. Repeating the comment I wrote above...

Given the context of his life and the views he expresses about animals in his vlogs, I strongly disagree.

> The man takes in rescue dogs, cats, monkeys and (in the past) even a handicapped illtreated tiger. He has some 40-50 pets in his home. There's even a video where he rescues a rat from being eaten by one of his cats, and releases it outside.

> He has offered that cat multiple varieties of cat food and meat in many videos. He himself has expressed concern that it's not eating the proteins it needs. If an animal refuses to eat food that is otherwise good quality and relished by all its friends, how can it be animal abuse?
It's true but long ago I grabbed my takeout archive and was surprised by a few documents about my history of this and that (can't recall, probably gmaps routes I didn't know were stored)
That was my first thought. "Ok, I hope they're not driving...crap, they are."
> Some of us do not subscribe to the "ends justify the means" theory

I don't think that this is the case here. To be an "end justifies means" the writer would have to give a false information on an information that is relevant to the core of the story. Does it really matter what's the size of some digital data? Would it be O.K. if Google collected 100Mb of data but totally unacceptable if that was 5Gb?

The size of the data is an irrelevant implementation detail of the story. Even assuming that this is all the data about you is silly in the first place but the articla is not about that - even if the title says so.
A 3 meter blind spot around the car doesn't necessitate it can't see beyond 3 meters. Just as you have blind spots in your vision around your body (like you can't see your legs when looking directly forward) but you can see long distances.
Yes, there are rarely solutions that can cover all edge cases. But looking at it in terms of maintaining a society, it works well...and that's all we had before the 1950s.
What makes you think it gives an accurate or actionable glimpse?