skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The thing which is aging is more likely the base of city employees and retirees who were promised defined benefit pensions which were underreserved for and routinely looted, over a period of decades.

Let me ask: How were those pension banks supposed to be funded?

The reason I ask is because my state has a defined pension plan for many public workers. The benefits are defined irrespective to how the market performs. We're also one of the highest income tax states out there. Yet the pension is underfunded. No one's been "looting" it. No one takes money out of it for some other purpose. The tax rate simply isn't enough to fund it. And we have a high tax rate.

Whoever designed this for our state did so with the assumption that market returns would be enough to fund it. It never was a plan of simply collecting tax money. They were wrong. The market returns were not enough.

Current retirees are getting their pensions. We just won't have enough for the next batch at current funding rates.

It's gone to court, and the courts have ruled that there are no loopholes: People will get their pensions, no matter what. So now we're dealing with the "no matter what". We have one of the worst high school graduation rates in the country, and the quality of education overall is rated fairly low. Yet, we can't solve that problem with money. Because for the next decade or two, pretty much all increases in education funding are going to fund the pensions. A number of cities are growing, and the mayors are very clear about the problems: They cannot afford more police officers and other similar employees to keep pace with the growing cities - because all the extra revenue they are collecting in taxes is going to fund the retirement funds.

The only solution the courts will allow is to change retirement plans for those just entering the workforce. But we will have to deal with this problem for a few decades where we must increase all kinds of taxes to pay for pensions, and allow the rest of the infrastructure to decay.

There's no cap on the defined benefits for high income folks, BTW. University football coaches, and retired presidents, get a lot of money (at least one of them gets over $70K/month). Of course, these are outliers. The median is under $40K/year.

Defined benefits is a bad idea. They need to switch to defined contributions from employers, and let the investments dictate their pay (and probably give employees more choices for the investments).
This is a standard feature of many browsers, including Safari.

E.g: On OSX you can download a .dmg file or .zip file, and when opening the OS will warn: "XYZ is an application downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it?". The information about the origin of the file comes from extended attributes.

See: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/04/20/fix-application-fro...
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In many cases, a large company can "hold a gun" to a small company by undercutting it until it acquiesces or goes out of business - see Amazon vs. Quidsi, for example [1]. This may well be proscribed anti-competitive behavior, but the damage is done before the courts rule, even if the startup can afford to see it through the legal process.

And for publicly-owned companies, resisting is rarely feasible because a majority of shareholders will find it to be a risky proposition (and a majority may have invested in hopes of a takeover, anyway.)

It is rare for a startup to grow large enough to challenge an entrenched incumbent in a large market without taking on a majority of investors who are not necessarily committed to fighting for independence.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/3/29/15112314/amazon-shutting-do...
As someone who developed WAP sites for mobile phones, I remember it differently.

Also, in the "Early 90's," state of the art was an AMPS Motorola bag phone on Cellular One.
So, if I send the file to someone else, (1) on Linux and (2) on Mac, does this URL metadata come along, or no? Sounds like no, and the issue is just your device being compromised.
Three reasons:

- Self promotion (Hey check out this thing I just wrote/made)

- Facebook market. It's nice to have what is essentially a Craigeslist with a built in messenger (don't have to give my phone number/ email), that I can stalk who I'm buying from, and is easy enough to use that it gets high traffic. I've been doing this since before the market place when Facebook selling groups were everywhere.

- Event discovery/notification. A lot of smaller events don't seem to have email lists, or are bad at updating their website. The facebook event is normally up to date.

Beyond that I don't really pay attention to my feed, I don't actively add people, and I've only really talk to one person via it's messenger (he won't switch to something else).
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> Is there any credible doubt that electric cars are the future?

No, but the future will look very different from what is the current "industry consensus"

Legal side of the question, consumer preferences, and how the developing markets will react to the trend make it all more likely that switch to EVs will not be a drop in replacement for regular cars.

Some conventional car concepts, and even entire car classes simply make no sense if converted 1-to-1 to electric propulsion.

Few current trends will hold in EV era:

1. The global general trend of car turning smaller will continue. Two-seaters are very likely to turn mainstream. Twizzy like microcars will also have a good chance to make debut outside of niche markets.

2. Battery capacity will be becoming more, and more of an irrelevant metric, as people discover that even basic EVs fully satisfy their need for a commuter vehicle. Thus all extensive investments into battery tech and manufacturing, may well go... sideways

3. New manufacturers from the developing world will actually have more headway than established ones as they are there creating brand new markets, while established makers will still be trying to sell electrified versions of "car 1.0"

4. New EVs will themselves see strong competition from "new mobility" and "public transport 2.0"

5. Same will go for two wheel transport. "The 150cc world" has long been thought to be a developing nation only thing, but it is the one currently expanding, and heading West. I am seeing more and more of maxi scooters, and other "Asian type" motorcycle varieties in the West these days. I think that's a very natural consequence of people adjusting to continuously worsening traffic.
Weirdly enough, it works fine on my ancient Surface Pro 3. So check https://docs.krita.org/en/KritaFAQ.html#krita-is-slow
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I wouldn’t. I think children are property too and parents genes are inherited too.

I suspect that once we start designer babies, they would become property too.

Pensions don’t work anymore. It’s an outdated idea. Just like minimum wage, it’s forced penury for the promise of future wealth. This has only enabled unions and the like to exploit everyone including workers.
Signal’s desktop client is barely good enough to check a box while Telegram’s desktop clients are as good or better than its mobile clients. Furthermore, its desktop clients are native and reasonably efficient.

This is huge to me. I spend a large portion of my day in front of computers, so messaging services that take the desktop seriously are much more likely to catch my attention.
Yeah, and they didn't mention other crackpot theories either, like ancient aliens destroying the statue's faces with zero-point energy weapons.

I wonder why?
There's been laws about that sort of thing for decades. A business can no longer refuse to serve black people. So we, as a society, are using that logic.
Yeah, I'm a much bigger proponent of a negative income tax, mainly because it doesn't disincentivize work as much as just giving everyone the same amount of money.
The Superdelegates are OK with it, I guess... or are the Superdelegates (AKA supercitizens) still a thing since the 2016 fiasco?
'We have not decided if we will go public in 2019': Airbnb cofounder
Hybrid was only a stop gap until batteries reached the point they are today.

In markets (California and Norway in particular) where there is significant EV growth you are seeing Hybrid sales drop quickly.
Well, it's invisible, not secret. You can also recover deleted files from a hard drive, but that's not a secret. Both things need to be more widely known, but the fact that they exist is still useful (both for individuals and law enforcement)
>Also, I never take pictures in-app, but I just tried it and I can't reproduce your problem with the Android client: there is no cropping on my phone. Maybe an issue with your phone?

It's possible of course but this is a fully updated Nokia 6.1 (running stock Android One) and all other apps work without a hitch. So it's either a setting I flipped somewhere in Signal and I can't find (arguably a symptom of a bad UI), a bug in Signal or a bug in my phone only triggered by Signal.
I pay to have my trash picked. $110.
Here is the finest example of privacy derangement syndrome that we will ever see: an open-source program implements an open standard in a way that's completely above-board and it's described as a nefarious scheme.
Wow, that's a clever way to deal with fences! Wouldn't have expected they'd do that.
Previous "discussions":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19380948
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378071
> Whether we like it or not, tracking data used for ads is the currency of the free internet. It is how things are paid for.

You're right, it's the currency now. It would be great if it wasn't. If there was some way to force the industry to come up with new, non-privacy-invasive methods... Hey maybe if we made a law to ban the old, bad, way....
Sure, but the vast majority using the code don't care and never will. The FOSS movement built its momentum by attracting freeloaders intentionally; turning around a couple decades later and saying to them "but you have to support the developers too; pay up" is doomed to failure.

Moreover, it was clear that what we're seeing today was an inevitable outcome from the beginning, much as the true believers denied it at the time.
Sure. Software is essentially creative work. I'm not worried about our industry. I'm worried about what our industry will do to other industries.
The same could be said for mail.app sending your Gmail password to Apple, but it would be rather unlikely.
Both fit the bill at different time references. Plan 9 is closer to what we would expect a modern computer would be, with network transparency built-in down to its very core. It's natural to spread your use across multiple machines from a single seat. Authentication, authorization and securing the channel against eavesdropping was not as big a concern then as it is now when every network should be treated as it's public and hostile.

I'm not sure how a Lisp machine of Symbolics or LMI heritage or a Smalltalk system would deal with distributed functionality across untrusted networks. From the language PoV, it seems natural to Smalltalk.
Indeed. At that early stage of development, a monolith (or at least monolith-style practices, such as tight coupling between API providers and consumers) is definitely simpler and more efficient. But it wouldn't hurt to take steps from the beginning to make it easier to break the monolith apart when/if it becomes pragmatic to do so.
I would be surprised if it was entirely absent in Egypt too.

I didn't mean to imply renaissance people had no concept of art, just that the concept (not just word) was likely somewhat different to ours, which has evolved since.
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That’s not true. The interviews are completely different than the kind of work you do when actually coding and building products. You ABSOLUTELY need to study and prepare for them because they are such an artificial test: solving puzzles on the whiteboard under pressure. I had nearly the same thing happen to me as OP, and doing Leetcode for a few months meant getting an offer from a company whose interview I had previously failed several years ago.

You’ll cheer up when you look at levels.fyi and see the compensation at these big tech companies. Don’t waste even more of your time at another startup, go straight to FAANG. If you want, I can even refer you if you reach out.
This theory doesn't hold up not the least because the surviving representations of noses in statuary don't look particularly "black" (interpreted very narrowly as the west sub-saharan facial phenotype), which is the image of Africans around which most Eurocentric racism is built.

Look the statue in the article with an intact nose, and also the statues of the seated pharoahs at Abu Simbel. To my eyes, they just look a lot like egyptian people today, stylized for artistic purposes.
Why do you jump from blue collar to high tech in the retraining conversation? Sounds like an extreme that people aren't arguing for. I think retraining a cole miner to use similar tools or equipment (like in a quarry) would be what most people are talking about. Or retraining retail to be in customer service.
Some kind of result of co-evolving? Predators thinning out weaker members of the herd keeps the overall health of the herd up.

Just some quick speculation.
Where are you currently based?
Ok, but I know from personal experience that for me, personally, macronutrient ratio and feeding window both, independently and together, have dramatic impact on my physical appearance, energy level, and mental functioning.

The way you are wording your comments, someone could come away feeling like these things aren’t really worth considering.

It’s like, your comments to me seem like you are technically correct but a person reading them might think “ok, this smart person said the Atkins diet doesn’t really work, it’s all sleight of hand.”

That could be counter productive, because the Atkins diet really DOES work for some people. Proving that it’s likely not working for the reason people think it is can be helpful for accuracy’s sake, but depending on delivery can just become discouraging.

The missing point is these interventions really can be effective. Why they are effective is more of an intellectual exercise.
"The market is the solution". Er nope.
Email Encryption Market Revenue and Value Chain 2018-2028 – Daily Chronicle
Agreed. I wish I could have spent more time with my parents when they were younger. At least they were able to retire early and we're making up for it in adventures nowadays.
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cool helmet design

Save those helmets. 30 years from now they'll be worth a fortune on fleaBay the way Philco televisions are now.
It absolutely is. You know who else has a license like this? hacker news. (https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/)

By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

also microsoft, google, reddit, twitter, etc, etc, etc, etc
Email

SMS

Notifications

They all go through some provider who can block you.

It’s a rare product that people check on their own without notifications!

Any ideas how to reach people without gatekeepers? I have just one way: a desktop app or mobile app that is allowed to periodically wake up and poll a server.
Huh that's weird. I was a beta tester of Project Stream during the holiday season. I travelled with a Pixelbook and before my travel I tested all my controllers: PS4/Xbox/Nintendo and even an NVIDIA shield controller. Only Nintendo Pro Switch controller can be paired with the Chromebook.

The only problem is that A/B and X/Y is different between Xbox and Nintendo controller and you need to press B when the game tells you to press A. But it's a minor issue.
America's food giants swallowed the family farm
So if I want to maintain a one story building on land that is zoned for a 40 story building, I have to pay extra taxes even though I'm not using extra services? Seems to me like the best policy would be taking both into consideration.
Ask HN: What's your favourite ISO standard code?
My recollection is that Lessig was pretty clear from the start that he was running just to raise the prominence of his position on campaign finance, not to actually become president. IIRC he said he would resign after passing one bill.

I can see why party leadership would choose not to participate in what was, from their perspective, a stunt--not a serious campaign for the White House.
Ouch! Sounds more like you had him for dinner and he got his revenge by haunting you for 10 years...
If you want your support staff responding to user's auto-responders, newsletters and spam, then use support@, but if you want your staff to get work done, then you use a noreply@ and have your support requests come in some other way.
There's 22560 to pick from: https://www.iso.org/standards-catalogue/browse-by-ics.html
That seems like a gross oversimplification. Retraining could fit as a component of a much larger plan to tackle the issues facing the job market and employability of people in these fields. Or maybe it can't. Either way, oversimplifying doesn't further the discussion.

It doesn't have to be from coal miner to software engineer, or some kind of massive transformation. Skills training and education for adults is more than that, IMO.
hmm, I wonder how hard it would be to make a JavaScript driver that lets you manipulate data just like you do in JavaScript, eg. using map,reduce/filter, push etc. For me it's a lot of overhead when switching back and forth between different languages, eg. between JS and SQL. Even though SQL is a powerful language and I'm really good at it.
It was roughly coincident in time (one week prior) with the US-NK denuclearization summit.
Dropbox adds three-device limit for free users
I still miss pine, tbh

(If this reference is too old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_(email_client) )
They do. That's why collection is done early and throughout the day.

Battery cages are slightly sloped so that eggs roll out of the cage, out of reach of the birds and for easy egg collection by workers.
I could be wrong, but my understanding matches yours and that, this data is not ever read back in by common HTTP clients (browsers, curl, etc.).
This seems to back up the side claiming that the Deep State is out to get Trump, here by sabotaging the peace talks with North Korea.
Does anyone know what kind of impact client-side encryption would have on sync speed for potentially-large files (as opposed to simple text messages)?
Are there any road structures that will last longer than 30 years? I've heard that there are other materials used overseas that do, but I don't know the subject well enough to ask effective questions about it.
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>> there are plenty of super-talented, capable people whose companies didn't work out through no fault of their own

There are also plenty of super-talented, capable people whose companies didn't work out through considerable fault of their own.

As I'm sure you know, building a company is hard, risky, and the wrong decisions paired with the wrong luck can kill you. Even if you are a failure at business, your skills and experience can still be of tremendous value to another company.
This trope is getting old (though you might not have intentionally insinuated it) - Ethiopian Airways is not some backwater airline: it flies into the US and governed by FAA rules - so yes, that information reached Ethiopian Airways as they have a direct line of communication to the FAA.
Microsoft, Facebook, Trust and Privacy – Benedict Evans
(iodide dev here) Yeah, that's a good point. We called it JSMD before we even thought of starting Pyodide, and in hindsight seems a bit constricting.
Windows has the functionality you describe too, but it works only by storing a flag specifying what kind of origin the file has, not specifically what the origin was. Your article seems to indicate that mac OS uses basically the same system as Windows.

EDIT: According to some other comments in this thread, I'm wrong. Mac OS does store the whole origin.

EDIT 2: Looks like I'm wrong about Windows too, which also stores the whole origin. This actually disagrees with what is written in the bug report, so perhaps it needs to be updated.
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Thanks for the thorough explanation. This is the first and only one that I've seen that makes complete sense. Hopefully you can publish it somewhere!
I read the transcripts of Haspel's torture sessions. They read like an episode of "24". These are dumb, violent people with an exaggerated sense of their own heroic virtue. Par for the course.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-torture...
Confused at why comments like this get downvoted. What does that signify?
Specialized databases have the advantage of being, well, specialized...

For example, a specialized OLAP database which knows about the schema of the data can employ much more streamlined storage and query operators, so it should have a "natural" performance advantage.

However, a very specialized database may later lock you in to something, and in case you need something different, you will end up with running multiple different special-purpose databases.

Not saying this is necessarily bad (or good), but it is at least one aspect to consider how many different databases to you want to operate & manage in your stack.
The deep state should get no black budget.. this is getting out of hand... https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black...
How so? An empty 40 story building surely takes a larger fire department and more sophisticated city planning than an fully occupied one story average house?
Future of particle physics: “In it for the long haul”
What? Here is Zulip’s license which is almost identical:

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Kandra Labs (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, perform, display and distribute such content.

The ridiculous pitchforking in this thread is out of control.
my labrador would HAPPILY eat himself into a coma. They are bred to not have the genes that regulate satiety making them super food motivated.
Generally, fences should be extended 8-12 inches into the ground to prevent this. Some animals can also climb fences so a completely secure installation has wire or boarding over the top too.
Windows has had HDR support for a long time, and Photoshop, too, allows you to paint in HDR.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/high-dynamic-range-i...
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maybe a hormonal variable at play, anybody can fight when enraged, even if on average they might flee
Nobody really nose.
I actually think there will be a dramatic uptake in Western Europe. Petrol taxation is a strong lever, a car rated at 40mpg actually gets 30mpg in real world usage, you drive that car for 100,000 miles and it costs more than £15,000 in petrol, a real world 20mpg costs more than £25,000 over the same distance.

VW is planning to sell its ID hatchback for about the same as the diesel equivalent, the cost savings are far higher, the range is 200 miles plus, it can charge in 30 minutes, which most people will only use on roadtrips, when glad of the break after 3 hours of driving. By launch in 2020, a charging network will be in place across the motorway network.

In Western Europe the barriers to mass adoption are fading.