skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pension funds have been allowed to decay so far in such an unseen manner that there is now a universal aversion to peering behind the curtain because the naked truth is too terrible for anyone to process. That there are only a handful of small, independent journalists/bloggers willing to touch the subject, as is the case with this article, is a sign that there is fear at the highest levels of a national conversation on the issue which would be born from honest reporting by mainstream sources. The ramifications that stem from exposing the pension system as utterly broken beyond repair would threaten to topple the whole house of cards propping up modern society.

CalPERS in particular has become subject to multiple mini-scandals recently. The first of which is the competency of their latest CEO and the thoroughness of their hiring practices (1). Even the most charitable interpretation of her resume and skillset would arrive at the conclusion that Marcie Frost is a figurehead/cheerleader type CEO at best. Combine that with the recent announcement of Yu Ben Meng's return to CalPERS as CIO and there is certainly room for concern (2). Meng left CalPERS in 2015 to serve as deputy chief investment officer of China's $3.2 trillion State Administration of Foreign Exchange. We are now facing a situation where the nation's largest public pension is managed by a man considered so trustworthy by the country we are currently waging a trade war against that they placed him in charge of their largest capital fund. Even if everything is financially and legally above board, this kind of tone-deafanagemeny by the CalPERS board does not induce great confidence in their leadership or stewardship abilities.

(1): https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/marcie-frosts-shoddy...

(2): https://www.pionline.com/article/20190204/PRINT/190209951/ne...
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I usually post this long thing about why we're a great company to work for and I realized that nothing compared to mission and purpose.

So yeah you can read our accolades and I'll reference them below, but the truth is nothing matters more than why we exist:

We're fighting climate change by building better apps for farmers and the agricultural economy.

If I didn't believe this was one of the most important problems of our generation to help future generations, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on this. If you want a mission you can tell your grandchildren about in hopes of creating a better environment for farmers (and really the whole world), we're working on it right here, right now.

I'd love to hear from you and learn more about how you can work with us. Our stack is JavaScript (React front end, Node back end).

For reference, we're a Unicorn company:

https://www.builtinboston.com/2017/09/26/agtech-startup-indi...

We work on the most underhyped sector in startups today (agtech):

http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2018/#trends-and-takes

CNBC named us the Most Disruptive Company in the world, beating out Flexport, Airbnb, and other companies you've seen here on HN:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/meet-the-2019-cnbc-disruptor...

And our big climate goal is to use regenerative agriculture to sequester 1 TRILLION tons of carbon from the atmosphere:

https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative
Presumably videos don't need to fully load for the page to appear loaded?
There are fees from the exchanges and the bookers that are higher than 1%. If you only have 1% hedge, you're losing money on the long run.
Compile-time integer exponentiation in Go would be neat, e.g. 5 ＊ (1000＊＊4).

I know we have scientific-notation integer literals, but it's not the same thing, especially when trying to calculate e.g. Mebibytes.
I hope you mean the website theme.

If yes, indeed.

I had to view in Reader mode via Firefox.

I could not read it, I got dizzy by its colors; my sensitive vision couldn't stand it -_-
The tptacek tweet is not, and yes.
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This is classic "Porter's 5 forces".

"The number and power of a company's competitive rivals, potential new market entrants, suppliers, customers, and substitute products influence a company's profitability."

There are several hundreds of thousands of restaurants (maybe millions?). There are only 2-3 aggregators. Most of the restaurants are replaceable by a similar one. So aggregators have more bargaining power.

As long as there is a profitable business model for the aggregators, the restaurants will get pushed to their lowest common profits. Without resorting to collusion with other restaurants (or asking the govt. to intervene) the only way to compete is to differentiate significantly that makes the customer desire a specific restaurant.
This is mostly irrelevant; users using Web IRC gateways, services like IRCCloud or clients like HexChat[1] do not have to configure the server unless it isn’t already present in the list. If they do, they already will have to manually configure either TLS or plaintext. There is no “default.”

I mention SASL because it is relevant to security posture, especially if the user wasn’t connecting via TLS. Although of course the server could allow PLAINTEXT in practice there’s no point in supporting that because IRC already had native plaintext server authentication.

[1]: https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/blob/3d1d9e1716d66abb6921...
A drone only has to carry itself and it's package, but it has to carry it in a vertical direction, and maintain that (because things in the air without thrust tend to fall back down to the ground, and that's bad). Meanwhile, a car only has to push itself in a horizontal direction around the ground.

As you say, the problem with trains isn't efficiency, it's infrastructure for last mile to our doors. However, we already have that for vans: Roads and driveways to our door are already built.

If I need a cell phone delivered to my front door, which is going to be more efficient: The van that already is delivering a larger box two doors down dropping it off, or a separate trip from the warehouse to my house from effectively, a small aircraft?
And in case anyone from Mozilla is listening, this could well be existential for you. Right now, your pro-privacy stance is a principal factor in users choosing Firefox over Chrome.

Follow Google - and all its shady practices - and you will lose a large chunk of those users. Many of them, to use current terminology, are "key influencers": technically savvy people who advise family and friends what to do. Lose them and the outlook is, I suspect, pretty grim.

You're clever people. You'll know this. Google has a good few smart folk too (even if their motivation is questionable). It's easy to see this is difficult for you: Google is your primary funding source. Fail to comply with their wishes, and that funding might well disappear.

As has been noted in other threads, the tension between privacy principles and funding is a huge threat.

For the good of the open web, I desperately want a successful Mozilla, and a technically excellent Firefox at the forefront of a pro-privacy, anti-surveillance re-balancing of the internet.

I don't doubt the difficulty in filling a $300M funding hole. I'd gladly pay $30 per year for a pro-privacy Firefox. Another 9,999,999 is a tall order. On the other hand, you have c250M users...
For example: the ODROID Go is ESP32 based and emulates all major 8-bit platforms reasonably well; it's a niche favourite.
aka taking functionalism too far
Rust moves slowly too. I'm not sure where the idea that Rust makes changes willy-nilly came from, but anyone saying that is deeply unfamiliar with the RFC process. It's extremely hard to get new features into Rust.
If you use the build in keyboard they can read your messages.
It's fine to say we want everything as secure as possible. But what about the tradeoff between a system being easy to connect/use and making it so difficult to connect that hobbyist users can't get the device to work.

If you are doing mission critical or life-safety related work with $3 devices, you are doing it wrong. Spend a little more and use something else.

In my case, I am monitoring room temperatures in my house with several ESP8266 devices so I want easy-to-connect features. I don't care about security in this application.
I agree there is a huge problem with security in IoT and it could be a great startup business for the near future. I met somebody in Redwood City who was working on the security on a hardware level, but I guess they have not been very successful.
No, that's specifically a style of architecture featuring (inter alia) raw concrete external finishes, and not a catchall for things you find ugly.
They could still require redistributions to include a copyright notice. I think the real issue is that Intel might engage in product binning without changing the source code.
Here's an interesting thought experiment: what would it take to convince you that this change really is being made for performance and security reasons, and not to hurt ad blocking?

Given the level of cynicism directed at Google by the HN community, is it even possible for Chrome to lock down extension permissions in a way which wouldn't be seen as some sort of aggressive move against ad blocking? Keep in mind that secure, user-friendly permissions systems do have to be somewhat restrictive in order to be effective (see Android, iOS, etc), and that ad blocking extensions will necessarily be impacted as a result.
Tools/Website/Service to Note/Remove Fake/Robotic Blog Posts
While reading posts on slate.com I was struck how many were "noisy" and similar to past posts I've encountered. Certain memes pop up repeatedly (usually denigrating someone) and contain no useful information. It occurred to me there might be a websites or analysis tool or a service that would indicate which posts were likely to have been generated by a robot.

There's probably a vocabulary and an entire work milieu/domain/subject area about this topic but I am naive. Can anyone help me here?
They are replying to a comment about Telegram, and mention other messaging apps which are better. They also do not say that they're all just as bad, unclear where you got that from?
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Disrupting HK's economy hurts HK, not China. China will gladly let HK devolve back into a fishing village.
Common knowledge is like common sense - not as common as you'd think.
This is a actually a pretty good self-guided tour for Googie architecture in and around Los Angeles, California:

https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-googie18-2008may18-sto...
Doesn't the connector make it modular?
This may be one of the rare usages of 'exponential' in the popular press that I can allow. The exponential aspect of urban growth may be apt -- the premise that the number of people who can find a reason to relocate to a city will vary in direct proportion to the number of people who are already there might hold with acceptable accuracy over some range, and departures may be negligible during some periods of rapid growth.
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At O(1) Labs, we're building the Coda Protocol, the first cryptocurrency to have a constant-sized blockchain. We use recursive zk-SNARKs to compress historic state in Coda's blockchain so that nodes don't have to store all the data going back to the first transaction. Compare this to Bitcoin or Ethereum whose blockchains already have hundreds of GBs of data, and keep growing.

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Are you saying te use of thousands of people to clean up that region is an invention?
Its more the massive privacy, security, longevity, and performance penalty you pay switching to Android that causes concern.

Android has some nifty features depending on device, but the core experience just isn’t there. (E.g. I figured chrome on Android has to be faster than Chrome on iOS - nope, my XR consistently beat a Pixel 3 side-by-side)

My iPhone 6S from 2015 is still in service and fast; I gave it to my mom when I upgraded and she’s very happy with it. It still gets updates.
We already (mostly) solved that problem in the US with the Fairness Doctrine. Then we apparently decided because the problem was solved, we didn't need the regulation anymore. That ended exactly as you would expect, and exactly as it has every other time a regulation that's working is removed because it's "not necessary anymore".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
mrustc is a good option too.
“Go is to services what Rust is to systems.”
Are there any open-source hardware/software ESP clones. Similar to what Arduino did in the micro-controller space?
I thought of a non-malicious use.

Celebrities could sell the 'rights' to their faces and then ordinary people could 'act' in commercials and later on even movies and then just stick the face of the celebrities?! xD Celebrities will become cheaply available to 'star' in your next Netflix series.

(But unfortunately, even if celebrities don't sell their faces, they'll be stolen!)
No luck. I thought maybe it was cached somehow because of the way Facebook is linked from the start page, but so is Reddit, and putting Reddit in the hosts worked. Strangely, the hosts file doesn't seem to be read with Instagram either. I'm not sure what's going on here.
You're wrong and as a matter of fact the definition for Open Source is more clear and a little more restrictive than that of Free Software:

https://opensource.org/osd
Howl – Fast and light editor with a minimalistic user interface
Ah, no relation, but interesting library!
It seems to me that Ronald Knox's On Englishing the Bible remarks that the "pale horse" of Revelations is "chloros" in the Greek.
> Beer doesn't even have distinct recognised regions

Does this matter as much for beer as it does for wine? Given that, as far as I understand brewing, most of the flavour comes from the hops used, with some also from the type of yeast and cereal. These can all be transported to some degree before they're brewed together, so a beer's provenance doesn't matter so much as its style and particular ingredients.
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I've noticed that an Android Chrome I have no issues hitting the links on this site, but if I switch over to Firefox I can barely click anything. It's not just this site. That annoyance alone has almost driven me back to Chrome.
People don't usually drive to the store every single day for a single item, whereas amazon would deliver a single item to people every single day.
A lot of international companies are in China and the rest of Asia via HK. Sure, they can move to Singapore, but China will invariably lose something.
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I enjoy solving business problems with software and diving into various domains and building solutions that have a material impact on the bottom line. One of my best performing projects (continues to save millions annually) required 70% digging into a problem domain and 30% coding. Another recent project I'm proud of is an ML-powered pricing engine that's given a $250+M funded competitor's service in the space a run for it's money. I've produced results working both as a member of a technical team and independently (working directly with key stakeholders/executives).
Same-day-delivery is kinda solved in other countries - read more on stories of Meituan[1] or JD.com[2]. Granted, the labor cost, infrastructure are different. But answer is probably not gig-economy delivery but self-serve lockboxes, robots or drones. By the way, delivery workforce use electric mopeds, not diesel vans like we do here in America.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3025295/meitua...

[2]: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jdcom-speeds-packag...
I never had a name for it, I called it Jetsons architecture. Most often I’d see it in some car washes on the el Camino and the Boulevard Cafe[1] in Daly City, for example.

[1]https://theboulevardcafe.com/gallery/
I feel like Go is the way it is, mostly because its maintainers are also responsible for the continued productivity of thousands of engineers working on Google's numerous Go codebases. Any "breaking change" that requires rewriting Go code is a tangible negative for them, in that it'll interrupt Googlers from getting real work done, and the blame will come back to them.

In a sense, Go is more like a corporate-internal DSL that the public just happen to be able to use. (Erlang is—or at least, was, for the first ten years of its life—another language that is this way.)
"Ethan didn’t think much of the liberals’ point of view. But he didn’t think much of his neighbors’ unbounded optimism either."

Feels good to read this.

As a liberal-leaning farmer, I feel myself in between two worlds: many farmers around me see me as a depressing doomsayer, and insist in business as usual and are not really interested in adapting farming practices or leveraging conditions for long-term insurance; "city people" see me as a bunny killing, biodiversity ravaging agro-capitalist.
Sigh, whipping up a cable when needed has become something to post about? Does having stacks of pin-out diagrams and a hot soldering iron near my desk make me look old?
Half my childhood we were the kind of broke where you chose between meat besides hotdogs or the electric bill. We clipped coupons, shopped for sales, and made every penny count. Never in a million years would we have bought a single roll of toilet paper at any kind of markup; we'd have done without until we had enough to get it on sale. Course if we were that broke, I'd have been sent to knock on doors asking for odd jobs until I had enough to cover whatever crisis was at hand.
In my experience, in most countries (and outside the US especially) WhatsApp has already won the network effects battle, and it's the default messaging app in any smartphone.
Even people with iPhone will all have WhatsApp installed.
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Amazon should offer a discount if you pool your purchases over a week or so.
Have you used a recruiter? What was your experience?
Have you used a recruiter yourself or to hire for your company? I am trying to compile a list of recruiters and transparent reviews so we can all use it as a resource.

https://forms.gle/t6S12Kv6Yse7VUSd8
Comparing Samsung's OneUI and stock Android, I would pick OneUI without blinking.

I used to hate Touchwiz.
No, no, no, no. No!

What about the trees?
Just because a carbon tax re-organizes the market doesn't mean that the organization that it "chooses" is good.