skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pension funds are generally defined benefit, as opposed to defined contribution. This means that they guarantee a retirement benefit. The problem with that is the companies often invest a portion assuming an unrealistic growth rate. The problem is worse when you consider that the effects of the underlying under-investment won't be felt until the current workers retire and start drawing on their funds. In other words, the people making the investment decisions today likely won't be around for the reckoning. This leads to a situation where a business today could be held hostage by employees from 30 years ago forcing current employees to suffer, prior employees to have their benefits cut and newer companies without these legacy costs to benefit.

Defined contribution means the employer puts away a certain defined amount for every employee and the employee is entitled to that. This removes the risk of mismanagement of funds and gives employees responsibility to manage their own investments. An example is a 401k account. Most private businesses in the US switched over to defined contribution as its more sustainable and predictable. As an employee I also prefer defined contribution since my retirement is no longer dependent on the health of an employer a few decades from now.
The Cambridge course is much more theoretical than most others, afaik. Tooling on programming language semantics, for example, doesn't change that much.
Yeah Apple can do that. Thank goodness. Safari lags on web standards. It's ahead on anti-tracking, Reader Mode, etc. Which focus benefits the user more?
It’s probably just a minor detail, the human eye is very good at adapting and perhaps a few of the moonwalking astronauts looked at the sky away from the high contrast regolith, long enough to adapt and saw some of the brightest stars, while others didn’t. As for the nudge, I suspect it was a warning, simply a heads up between fellow astronauts that poorly chosen words might become annoying conspiracy fodder for decades. They went there, they know it, the idea that their words might be used to argue otherwise is probably not their first thought when describing anything about their time on the lunar surface. To them they are describing the material evidence that we went there, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a shared desire to keep each other from making mistakes, likely born from years of training together.
> What you did there is the equivalent to a `revert` in SVN ... I'm not sure what the issue is? Why would you checkout `widget` and not expect local changes to be overwritten? Like, that checkout reverts is one of the first things you learn with git ...

Why would you sudo rm -rf / and not expect to destroy your system? Why is --preserve-root the default when that's clearly not what the command means? Like, that -rf wipes everything recursively is one of the first things you learn with rm...

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907882

(P.S. also note the question wasn't even about whether this is expected behavior, it was just about whether it's possible to lose information when using git.)
I mean this really happened though: asbestos was exactly this problem.
It most certainly was not just about cold war propaganda. The dream to reach for the heavens has existed since antiquity. ad astra per aspera, as the saying goes.
> the author forgot to include the Mitterrand library

But it's glass, wood and greenery, what's so bad about it? There's little concrete there. I find it a really nice place, both from the wooden terrace and from the reading rooms which have a view on the forest.
I have the full tracking protection on Firefox and it works perfectly.

Before I found the extension on HN a few months ago, I hated recaptcha. Every site using cloudflare was pain in the ass.

Not only does it make 1-click validations possible, it slashes the number of recaptcha requests (for me).

It's only failed me once. Google said I was using automates captcha solvers. Went offline for a while and voila.
very clever, well done!
What forbids to do it on a state level? City level?
NSO Group, blamed for WhatsApp hack and tracking Khashoggi, has Google, PR blitz
For reference, whiteboarding in Europe is rather uncommon and, if it is done, it's more common for entry-level jobs. In my experience, the highest paying jobs pretty much don't do it at all.
> I suspect you have not done your research

Where did I mention GDP per capita?[1]

When it comes to insights about freedom I prefer to rely on research such as the Human Freedom Index, that I read yearly[2], instead of trying to present data in a way that I can rely on exceptions to support my view, from Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
[2] https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index-new
It's weird for me to not see even a single mention of any BEAM languages, such as Erlang or Elixir. They are naturally distributed and have discovery, networking and messaging built into the virtual machine itself.
Welcome to TrumpTok, a Safe Space from Safe Spaces
Also for a bit of background on Rethinker: after 5 career changes and countless professional frustrations in the last 12 years, i've decided to do something about improving the way in which tech can be used to develop yourself faster and better.

I deeply feel for the pain and fear of those trapped in unfulfilling jobs, and i hope that through Rethinker my cofounder and I will be able to make a difference in their lives.

The Future of Work looks very different for you and me, and "winter is coming" in very literal senses for most careers and job tracks. I hope that Rethinker can be there for you, to help and guide you through the constant changes.

P.S - We're still in Beta, so lots of things will change and be improved in the coming weeks. Any feedback or ideas are also highly appreciated!
and saving Earth is priceless.
Abolish usage of Carbon, now
I usually couch git intros with "git was designed for linux kernel developers to get their work done, specifically filesystem developers, specifically Linus, so a lot of things won't make sense unless you approach it from the mindset of the above. don't worry! that mindset is probably different to yours but you can learn a good approximation to it and then you'll be really good at reasoning about git"
I bought mine in october 2007 for $300 with the unlockable AT&T sim card.
The dust will become conductive if the humidity is high enough.

I saw a video card short out that way.
The role of pawnshops in risk coping in early twentieth-century Japan
Precisely, the millenial whoop carries a little bit of bitterness because it is a minor third.
It would be totally different with a major interval (then it would sound closer to some excerpt from the electro-pop era).
Edit: I just got aware there are also a lot of minor third in most of the "happiest" electro-tunes, so I am off the point. Maybe it is something else then, like how it is accompanied, the drums, etc. For example, I don't feel very happy when I hear a lot of synthesizer "hand claps" and too much pitch vibrato.
Yes https://web.archive.org/web/20141109230706/http://www.huffin...
The article says it's actually the city that settled to pay him $25,000.
As if prism and the whole 14eyes thing wasn't enough, now they want to keep tabs on where we're going? And they expect us to "trust them because they have only us citizens' best interests in mind"? I'll pass, thanks. We're headed towards a dystopian future
> ...they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

That's basically Israel's attitude on anything: doing anything they want without any kind of boundaries, then denying brazenly they did it, while doing it again and again. Like having snipers shooting at thousands of civilians, kids, journalists, paramedics, who are protesting inside their own borders.
Uix (ClojureScript Wrapper for Modern React.js)
Possibly but not necessarily; one of the models is where the fabric of spacetime itself is constructed from an automata where individual graph edges reconfigure as part of the evolution of the automata; this could be responsible for relativistic distortions of spacetime.

It gets really interesting when you consider that the lowest-level edges do not have to obey what appears to be local speed-of-light restrictions — entangled photons could have a “thread” cutting across the higher-level emergent spacetime that could provide a simple mechanism for “action at a distance” that does not actually allow external information to be transferred from one location to another, just information internal to the functioning of a superdeterministic universe. (Though, strictly speaking, if you believe in superdeterminism, you don’t need such a mechanism, but it could be useful for convincing other humans.)
The DB deficit is mostly down to the accounting rules used I have had briefings (off the record Chattem house rules) for one of the UK's Largest DB schemes - One that recently sacked one of the Big 4 and now runs self managed.

You do wonder if the Accounting profession deliberately altered the rules around DB pensions to allow employers to shut them down.

Basically in the UK if the worst case scenarios that DB pensions have to match came true you would be talking about a major break down in civil society and making sure you had a shotgun to defend your stash of tinned goods.
I put Make in the same class as Vi. I hate using them but I have to learn them because they're the least of N evils, the most pragmatic way out of a hole.
The "independent' American justice going after European companies.
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It's surprising they have both the "Titan M" security chip and a ST33J2M0 security microcontroller.

You would think just one would do for key storage. Skimming the hardware backed keystore overview, it only mentions one secure coprocessor: https://source.android.com/security/keystore
An IT automation framework like Ansible (my favorite), Chef, Puppet, Salt. Highly recommended if your work includes doing repetitive remote server tasks or any sort of infrastructure / devops stuff.
Better, take both if possible.
The cost of cleanup is in no way linear with the amount of coal being produced; that solution would be complicated and impractical.

A better approach is to make the mine operator come up with some sort of remediation plan as part of the approvals process and then insist that they follow it, backed with the threat of massive fines. Se a standard so that remediation has to be ongoing or commence before the economic phase of extraction is over (to prevent bankruptcy from being a rational out).

That does front-load the costs and so push out smaller operators from starting mines; but that is pretty much inevitable when tightening environmental standards. If the goal is to force a company to do something that isn't economically rational, a determined regulator is a reasonable way.
Well, it applies perfectly.
And yet it's still less crufty than the "by hackers for hackers" GNU Automake and less over engineered than the "made by real professional programmers at a real big tech company" Luigi. Would love the hear if you have any suggestions for actual alternatives for doing this type of automation beyond what make can neatly deal with rather than just going "eww.. it has dependencies"; "eww.. it's made by bioinformaticists".
32blit: Retro-inspired handheld with open-source firmware
Free Backlink Checker Tool for Competitor Backlink Analysis
The State is also using the private sector for building up its services and infrastructure, and therefore whatever increased costs the State has usually come from the private sector, which overprices its products/services when the customer is the State. The State doesn't mind paying more than what the market pays because it's not their money after all, it's the tax payers' money.

Perhaps the above conclusion is not totally valid in USA, but parts of it are, and parts of it are also valid for various states across the globe.

Isn't it time to rethnink everything? perhaps stop with taxation altogether, and fund public services with their own currency? and maybe put some time limits that the new currency is valid in order to avoid inflation?

I don't know if the above will work, but it could be on the right track.
"It won’t be character based at all: it will be visual. Rather than typing, we’ll draw what we want."

I've often had that thought too. When I was at university I played with CAD for designing circuits. You could drop components onto your workspace, connect them up and see if you had a design that met your needs. It was so easy (and fun). Why can't programming be like that?
China Has Been Running Global Influence Campaigns for Years
Happy Family Day 2019 is on May 15 this year
Glass houses are a thermal crime. I'm from south of France, suck kind of houses are stupid here, but I think also anywhere. There is a typical architecture here, for countryside houses, that of the "Bastide", which is adapted to the climate. In hot climate, it's too much opening during summer, in cold climate it's too much opening during winter. Maghreb, spain and all countries around the Mediterranean have their own architecture adapter to hot climate with nearly passive cooling during summer (with an adapted way of life, i.e. work early and do nothing in the middle of the day during summer).

We don't need styles, movement or whatever, we need forms evolved for a long time by normal humans (on this point I'm a fan of Christopher Alexander position on architecture, see A Pattern Language or The Timeless Way of Building). Modern architecture is just a fraud based on nothing.

Look at those :
* http://www.hugues-bosc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/M...
* https://sunnyspainholidays.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/su...
What is an Ad wall?

You mean the showed an ad you could have easily avoided with half the time you used in creating this outline link?

Journalism, especially, local journalism should be supported if we don't want listicles to dominate.

The website isn't subscription based. No need to click on their ad, but no need to actively encourage others to avoid it.
I wholeheartedly hope to see this happen in Poland.
California’s education funding is record high, why are schools short on cash?
The QA on aerospace grade material is much more severe as are the manufacturing standards. As a result the spread in critical characteristics between batches is much smaller, thus reducing the risk of a batch bad enough to fail in the normal use case. But yes, there are no guarantees, even aerospace grade stuff will fail. Testing isn't perfect, it simply reduces the risk.
> A ticket, no matter how small, is punishment for a criminal offense

No, very often citations are given citing part of the civil code, not the criminal code. Just because a court is involved doesn't mean it's a crime.
I didn't hit a paywall, myself. I don't have any accounts that would give me access, either. Though Medium will usually block after some number of articles in a month.
Not that I've put much thought into it and not that it really matters in the context of the conversation, but if I was a manufacturer building a concept car I wouldn't bother using automotive grade components. It's not like they're built to drive any kind of serious mileage (if at all).
The load factor is part of the spec, usually (I didn't check the specs). Maybe blatant misuse is a little bit strong, but one could get that SpaceX took slightly higher risks than traditional companies.
Why is not the State legislature not stepping in and sanctioning the City officials / elected councillors
I would prefer innovation to be driven by durability and usability standards, rather than huge, bright, addictive LCD touchscreens.
> Americans seem much more comfortable with the idea that both free speech and free gun ownership will get more people routinely killed; like car ownership, it's just part of the price, it seems.

In 2013 there were 33,636 deaths due to guns. Even without breaking down those figures (2/3 were suicides) it would take 178 years to reach the 6 million regularly claimed to be the total for the Holocaust. That seems to be a fair price to avoid genocide and tyranny.

Why would any of the mass murders "spill over" into mass genocide? I don't see why one should logically follow from the other (I stress logically because they obviously don't in practice, as the example of the US shows).
I was part of one growing up, the jurors definitely were not just judging based on emotions or lack of facts. They end up voting on a series of yes/no questions that ultimately narrow down the decision. End of the day the judge is still in charge and if he doesn't like the result it will get tossed. We went through the process twice - winning both times no less.
It is worth noting that as far as I know enforcement of ticketing was _super_ low in the first place. To an extent this is just accepting the reality that some people will just bunk the fare given that the system is self-managed, i.e. you validate your own ticket. When I've been in Tallinn in the past I've seen people not pay as a matter of habit.

This is arguably the logical outcome of public transport. Ticket inspecting is expensive, inefficient and barely effective (without effectively doubling the staff costs of each service) and stopping the bus for the drivers to collect fares impacts the efficiency of the service (e.g. the "classic" old person paying in pennies slowing the bus down).

Given that transport is often heavily subsidised by the government anyway this is just giving up on the problem as its hard to find a cost-effective means of enforcing the collection of fares while keeping those fares affordable.
Very interested to know what this means in practice, particularly for iOS.

AFAIK, there's no permissions which allow you to read SMS messages, take screenshots (unless jailbroken), access photos in the background, access the camera in the background etc etc

Does this just spy on the users Whatsapp activity, or spy on the user in a broader way?

How could the API's whatsapp does have access to be abused?
Who the hell thinks "this is for poor people, so I don't use it"? That's some serious small-minded thinking.
That's not how any metro transport works. The Tube is manic at peak times, because...peak. But everyone mostly pays a flat rate for using the whole system each week (within the zones they travel to at least). This is a solved problem.
There was one additional reason why city wanted to create a free public transportation only for local residents. So that all the people who were working in Tallinn, but whose(?) place of residence was outside of city, would register themselves as Tallinn's official residents, and that means more tax payer money coming to city budget. Win-win.

Edit: improved spelling
Why a multi-account setup is essential for secure systems
Database triggers is a common tool to use in such cases
Especially the Boeing case shocks me. Uber is a start-up, so their culture is different. Boeing on the other hand, well they are old school aerospace and violated their own hard learned lessons here.
"git restore --staged" should be the same as "git reset -- file" (--mixed, --soft and --hard cannot be used with individual files).

"git restore --worktree" is the same as "git checkout -- file".

"git restore --source..." should be the same as "git reset --hard -- file" if --hard was made to work with individual files.

Though "git restore" should make it clear (or clearer) to the user what they want to restore without resorting to more mysterious options like --hard/--soft. So if that's not obvious from my examples, I think I've failed :)
I guess the OP's point is that if you're storing everything on a db anyway i.e. 1 row per user,per email and a sent/not sent status flag against each row - then why do you need a messaging system? The email sending system could just poll the db for emails to be sent (by status=not sent), and then update the status after sending, as well as a timestamp for later cleanup. A more robust system is then achieved completely without messaging.

Of course polling is never a great design, but I guess that's the crux of his question.
12$/month for a software that can be programmed in 2 weeks. You're charging based on what expenses? Serving pngs and jpegs and paying a CDN for less than 50 bucks? I've seen SaaS deploying whole instances for users just for free.
for the 1., it depends on the quality you want to achieve.

A business that relies on those platforms can't be called business.
Not to mention that the game 'drops' several cosmetic items and rewards them for 'quests' in-game, so the average person has about a 0% chance of distinguishing between paying and non-paying players

I'm not sure but maybe kids who play it a lot can distinguish a dollar-bought flying monkey from a game-drop weasel with a patch eye (I don't mean to demean the game, it's just very outlandish looking in regards to these cosmetics). And that leads to bullying based on sort or rarity of the item, perhaps? But then I think most would agree the problem is not _caused_ as much as _evidenced_ by the game economics
Why is technology limiting free speech?
> You still want to maintain the markets. Giving every resident free card to use in public transport does that.

Why not give them money instead? They can choose to buy a ticket or choose to ride a bike/walk and use the money elsewhere. You might keep the market for public transportation (though I have my doubts: why would the provider need to respond to demand if he's paid no matter what?), but you're strongly intervening in the transportation market in general.
I never understood how the myth that SSDs have no random access overhead became so prevalent and oft-repeated. Did nobody ever measure?
I feel like Git's concepts got tied into a mess in its cli tools. Like the devs maybe tried to imagine what would be the proper interface for a person not deeply familiar with the innards, but failed, and e.g. `git-show` is the result.

So I get this vague feeling that someone could build a better human-oriented suite of CLI tools on top of Git's internals―with the internals better mapped to people's more casual understanding of the concepts and their aims.

But that someone isn't me, yet.
Ah yeah there are definitely plenty of bugs it's the project my friend used to learn to program and I started learning when I joined on, sorry about that!
We are in a constant struggle to fill front end web developer roles in every place I've worked at in the UK.

Seems to be a real shortage of quality developers And we offer competitive rates at my current place of work
Comparing views held in 1994 with views held in 2017, it is clear that nothing is driving a lot of people to the far right. Quite the opposite is happening. A sort of relativity may be in play here, making it seem as if other people are moving to the right if the observer is moving to the left.

Histograms of the change, for each party and year:
https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB
The problem is that there's a massive gulf between fraud and successful company. If Ford put Tesla's display in their latest vehicle people would be going nuts about the fact Ford shipped such an unreliable item. Tesla has essentially made the calculation that they can ship a sub-standard product and cut corners. This is exactly the same attitude the early years of Uber had. They'll certainly get away with cutting these corners in the short term, but in the long term it's dishonest and it's not a sustainable way of doing business.
Filling party balloons with methane is pretty much standard in south asia from what I've seen; it carries risks, but it also gives the fun of getting rid of the balloons explosively.
The Strange World of Virtual Bike Races
Also work and time was cheaper then, they could spend centuries building the same cathedral with nobody complaining about the ballooning price.