skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most public (i.e. government) "pension funds" are not pension funds, they are welfare benefits programs for retired people. That is, they are not primarily funded through individual savings or investments but through current taxes. The US Social Security system, for example, works this way. While excesses are "invested" in US government treasuries, this is really just a delayed tax obligation. And while the SSA may provide you with a report about your "account" -- complete with contributions, balances and anticipated payouts -- it's mostly meaningless as your benefits are not contractually tied to past contributions. They are instead only related by regulation, but those regulations can be changed at any time.

The article is about GE's pension fund, which is separate and distinct from the US government "pension fund" (the social security system). It is also not a 401(k) or similar fund, those are tied to individuals and managed by a third party. Many larger and more established companies and organizations in the US have pension funds similar to GE. They are typically defined benefit funds, as opposed to defined contribution funds. Defined benefit means that the amount of the pension is defined up front and does not depend on investment returns during the lifetime of contributions. This obviously creates problems if returns are not as good as projected and provides a temptation for companies to put less into the fund, hoping that future company growth will make up the difference. Many companies have succumbed to this temptation, GE among them it seems.

Without even looking at the details of the GE plan, I strongly suspect there will be multiple lawsuits over this action. On the other hand, it's a bit surprising that GE could unilaterally take this action without the buy-in from various unions, so maybe they pre-negotiated it ahead of time.
It says his compensation is largely tied to company stock performance. He is not guaranteed all of that money. He and the company have to perform.
> but you have to learn how to cook as an independent life skill, and not constantly rely upon recipes

But don't you have to start by looking at recipes before you have fully acquired this skill? It's not like anyone is born with the ability to know what temperature to cook things at.
Yes, GE lost a bunch of money in purpose so it could screw over workers.
One issue is that sharing your facilities with a different business (which probably has significantly different physical plant requirements) has its own set of problems. It's actually pretty common in cities more generally that you have coffeeshops that are closed in the evenings in the midst of a bustling restaurant and bar scene.

As I recall, Starbucks actually looked into doing some sort of wine bar transformation in the evenings at some locations. But I've never seen such a thing so it presumably didn't work out for whatever reason. And that's a single business.
Using AV1 <video> tag with a single frame is an amazing hack. Thanks for sharing.
What do you do if you lose your data and have to start over? As far as I know, there is no way to automate the settings of all of these macOS apps that don't have config files that can be backed up like VSCode. Do you use Time Machine?
This article immediately reminded me of the classic "BSD is dying" meme. For those who haven't seen it yet, https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying explains it, and several of the points listed there might also apply to this article: "[...] there is always someone who is more than willing to defend it", "easily knocked down facts", etc.
Also, everybody does it. Every major brand already has many thousands of followers with questionable names in clearly irrelevant locations, and this on a platform where such shenanigans are visible to everyone.

There's no reason to believe upvotes, which are less visible to other users, are bought at lesser scale.

When everybody does it, it's hard to single out any one actor as bad.
In defense of users, when my parents want to use an app, I'm not going to send them documents on the Unix security model or explain how macOS security diverges from it.

They should be able to download and app and use it without having to call tech support.
Dang, dang.
I always thought that the original idea of Perl was slapping sh, sed and awk together into one language.
The comment I replied to said "There is no longer such a thing as a "safe investment". The only way to grow your money is to take risks with it".

Bitcoin is seen as a risky investment by most people. To those of us that understand what it actually is and how it works, it's the best kind of money/store of value ever invented.

The only other options I see for storing wealth are things like precious metals, real estate, or stocks and bonds.

I think precious metals are kind of useless as money and over hyped as a store of value. Asteroid mining could flood the market in the future.

Real estate is a lame investment. People need homes. When people buy up real estate to park wealth, it drives up the cost of homes for new home buyers.

Stocks are a maybe, but I would only buy stocks like apple and tesla. I don't really like most corporations.

Bonds are a joke, with negative interest rates.

In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin looks like the most sane place to store wealth.
Any language put into the same relative popularity graph of other languages each with faster growth will always show up as diminishing.
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/backups

I back it up to Backblaze every 80 hours. And I am slowly moving my config files to Nix.
Almost nobody was using Ruby in 1995. Perl, however, was everywhere.
Soon to be followed a few years later with the same money pouring in to PR/consultancy report hype for quantum tech soon to be followed by a a predictable death for anyone dumb enough to have fallen for it whilst the startup investors divested long before.
Why would I pay for something that's mostly buggy, poorly supported and half finished.
For what it is worth, the website that was launched alongside the fraud allegations has already been removed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20190929121126/https://www.gefrau...

So basically, there was some media orchestration, GE stock dipped somewhat, potentially the hedge fund paying Markopolos made some benefits and there was not really any follow up (so far) from the SEC. And the website disappeared a month later.

I felt that the reactions from analysts were that most long term care insurances are problematic, GE possibly a bit more but not spectacularly worse than competition, and that the "fraud" part was a bit overblown.

We'll see if the SEC will open an investigation, but so far not a lot happened.

Still even without being a fraud, this might be an issue in the years to come for GE to be able to generate enough cash to pay for its long term care business...
If the complaint is the name, as you seem to be suggesting, then pick whatever name you wish. If the complaint is that not everybody of a given age should be lumped together as one, then that's as true of any generation than any other.

Either way, Millennials are not being singled out.

Signed, a reluctant member of GenX.
Once I got to that part, I took the article for satire. I'm still not sure whether it is.
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It's not gospel, it's a view. It's useful to understand people who have a different perspective. Their view may not be universal, but it's still a valid view.
People are taking crazy risks with their money to get a significant return from it. One of those crazy risks is investing in Bitcoin.
There are plenty of places in the USA where you're not allowed to take photographs too.
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Americans love having the one company they happened to work for control their healthcare, though.
I dunno, we already have a concept of Stage Voice (or Youtube Voice), where the accent spoken is different than the speaker's native accent for the purpose of being more widely understandable. It doesn't seem such a stretch to suggest that English settle on one accent to serve this purpose in every day life as well. And hey, learning a new accent is significantly easier than learning a new language.
For one-liners, awk. For anything more complicated, I'm faster writing a 30-line Python script than a 5-line Perl script - and everyone involved, myself included, is happier six months later when we need to edit it.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage appeal
Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type, researchers say
This is a giant strawman. In market economy, merit is judged by the people, according to whatever dimensions they value / care about (could be different for different people). The whole point is just that the barriers to entry are (relatively) low and people are (relatively) free to prove themselves. See a shitty sword and think you can do better? Pick a hammer and make a better sword. No requirement for you to inherit membership of the swordmaking guild. Of course there are still barriers, but they're lower than in non-merit-based systems, and serve (ostensibly) different purposes (e.g. protecting consumers, not protecting the elites).
You can probably install and run it under a different "user". If you're using Android, Shelter [0] and Island [1] can provide isolation, depending how your device is configured.

Shelter is FOSS, Island is not.

0. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

1. https://island.oasisfeng.com/
> never given Microsoft license to do so

It's possible that they don't need it. There are fair use exemptions for reverse engineering and automated analysis. These may be the legal basis on which anti-malware research can be conducted.
A rounding error compared to the billions owed to pensioners.
You'll always find exceptions, but it does not disprove the fact that the general rule covers 90-something percent of the cases.

I don't speak Italian (except the usual hello/goodbye/thank you), but I can read a sentence to a native (say from a travel guide) so that they'll understand it. Try doing that with English.
I'm still forming my backup strategy. In your particular usecase, it's a bit clunky, but I'd use Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac and make monthly backups.
In early versions of the MacOS beta, the right-click open did not work, nor did starting the app from the command line. I never tried checking for the quarantine attribute and subsequently altering so I cannot comment there.

You also couldn't notarize old apps that weren't built with secure timestamp, hardened runtime, etc (a lot of versions of some software I'm supporting back to 10.7 preexisted some of the required criteria) until the beta release that coincided with this announcement in early September.

I think Apple relaxed their stance here because they did not want the average person to think that Catalina was breaking their apps and have subsequently deferred their "hardening" to January 2020.
Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
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No one "picks" a universal language. Is spontaneous chosen when people adopt because it drives the most value for them.

Its not the end-all that English is that language, but I think its fair to say that anywhere in the world atm English might be the closest to a "universal language".

I for one would rather stick to English, until a better alternative "proves" itself in the "marketplace of ideas".

As for the main argument about the phonetics, I think most languages have this problem, for instance in Germany every region has its own nuance and dialect, but the common one is "High German".

Same thing in English, and I would argue (even as an American) that our common version is "RP English or BBC English". If you can speak in this dialect, not only will (almost) everyone understand you, but speaking it also comes with a hint of "Respect", as its not so easy/common to do.

Is it not possible to consider that part of the English languages perceived disadvantages as a universal language could be also perceived as an indirect advantage? In that learning its grammar and structure is fairly easy (Barrier to entry is low), but perfecting the nuances of its depth in precision and pronunciation is fairly difficult.
Opinion: Centralized DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
Native greek speaker.
Learned english before becoming an adult, as most people do here, because the greek language is mostly useless if you are doing business with foreign parties (e.g. tourism or multinational companies).
Learned italian as an adult. I agree with antirez that pronunciation isn't difficult, but there are some challenges to a non-native speaker.
A nice 360 pic from the high point I think:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Thor's+Stone,+Thurstasto...
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The software in question (called Beacon) is designed to call home. The binary has built-in cryptographic keys and it sends traffic encrypted. The receiving end, called Home, receives these packets, decrypts it and verifies the sender and after that gives an alert.

The exe must have been running to be able to generate the proper encrypted payload and send it to right place. In this case ports 20 and 1025 over TCP.

Disclaimer: I am one of the people who wrote the software.
Obviously just use J.
I’m pretty sure you do.
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Why do you think that?

httpss://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation
I mean that in common vernacular, when someone says "pension", they are referring to a defined benefit pension. Otherwise, in the US, we use 401k, IRA, "retirement funds", or other words.
Hmm? Didn't sound like he was arguing that point (ship has sailed). Just reminding people that learning languages is hard, and that we also need a common dialect for the common language.
Thanks! Yep, makes sense. I implemented this today:
https://remotehub.io/founder/remote-jobs-skills
If you are in Italy, Netflix, like TV has dubbed American content.

In that regard, there isn't a single European non-native English experience but the non-native experience is split between dubbing culture and subtitling culture.
Corrected. You're the second person pointing this out.
Wow! I'm definitely going to take some inspiration from this. IMO, this should've been the submission since it felt a lot more readable to me than the other list.

With the other list I got bored quite quick, but with this one I was able to read it for a lot longer. This was mostly due to the screenshots and the explanations of how you use it.
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Isn't this what Dave's River pieces are about, e.g. https://github.com/scripting/river5 ?
The simple answer is that group mortality is easier to estimate and plan for than individual mortality.

At 65, you do not know if you are going to live to 70 or 101, so you need to plan your 401k accordingly, pessimistic.

Couple that with the fact that many many americans could not save enough to last to 101, but could last until 72. So they are left with the choice of living more poorly than they should or running out of money.

Defined benefit makes way more sense, some people "win" by living longer, others lose. But there is much less stress in the meantime.
I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to their 401k as a pension
> Meritocracy is a lie, but it's sold as a feel-good truth: you could just come from the ghetto, work hard, and by gosh, be successful! Of course that isn't the way it plays out almost ever - we tell ourselves that the supremely rare few who it does work out for could be everyone else if they just WORKED HARD. It's a LIE.

Just one example is worth having a meritocratic system, IMO. (Btw, meritocracy isn't based on hard work, just on output - whether it's genetic, or a result of effort, or whatever is irrelevant.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
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Thanks! I've seen the abbreviation a few times before and been a bit puzzled.
In Germany, the pension (Rentenversicherung) follows you during your employment life, the mandatory contributions are automatically paid by your employer and it does not matter if the employer goes belly-up at some time between now and your eventual death.

The idea that someone could lose their retirement and depend on social security or nothing at all simply because the company one has dedicated his life to goes bankrupt is just... horrible.
Thanks for being so open in your reply.

Part of me suspects this is perhaps just a minor variation in the brain’s handling/interpretation of information. There is tremendous variation in people’s ability to visualize and how concrete that visualization actually is.

Some artists can completely visualize the art they want to create before picking up a tool. I’m only like that in the vaguest sense. Most of the time my imagination imagery is fleeting and difficult to hold on to. Like seeing something out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn to look, it’s gone.

But my memory is either very visual or very sensory. I may not remember the details of some movie or other that I saw a year or two ago, but I will often still be able recall how it made me feel and whether I liked it or not.

As for food and tasting, I do recall flavors as if I am tasting them again, but to borrow a phrase... it is as though through a mirror, darkly. It’s an echo of the real thing. Less real. Not satisfying.
Can anyone do back of napkin math on what $1.9T could buy in terms of wind/solar energy? How many homes that could power?
> That makes one wonder about who else is still using Perl? if any? Can’t remember the last time I’ve heard about it.

Perl, like many other languages, has its own bubble. I'm using Perl daily at work. I used Python for a while, but the Perl job market was just too nice to pass. I have a backlog of clients interested in Perl work longer than I can handle, and they don't mind my requirements because they have no one to replace me with.

Is that a sign of a dying language? Probably yes. But to be honest, if it's about to become the next COBOL then I'm looking at a lifetime of profitable work with little to no competition :)

BUT:
> Nothing personal with Perl. Just doing stats

Perhaps a little bit of research could help your point as well. The CGI example you mentioned is broken, but is also using a module (CGI.pm) that's been bad and wrong for so long that even Perl, with its eternal love for backwards compatibility has removed it from Perl Core. That's a sign of Perl's marketing problem, yes, but it's hardly a real indication of a language that's too old to care about fixing itself.
Mercury just launched a banking API
Violent crime was higher than today and there are theories as to the reason I am sure you are aware. However, I still say this was largely a matter of perception. The perceived issues can also be made closer to reality in a self a fulfilling sort of way when it is reenforced by the affluent avoiding the place, taking their tax base with them and leaving behind a higher concentration of less wealthy people in an area.

But as you also no doubt are aware, the trend reversed itself in the current century with cities being desirable again. Part of this is reduced crime. But part is that perception, which kept newly educated people away as you say, simply being lifted.
Refreshing take on standups: https://youtu.be/2u0sNRO-QKQ?t=105
But literate people can't speak all the words they know in an agreed way. It's like the whole "how do you pronounce Linux" thing.

Then you move, and local people (in UK, say) pronounce the word differently (eg bath, heard).
Not just technical articles, any article in general
The one that do survive to a mature age are less likely to be unicorns however.

Maybe that's where the real problem is.
Or, more accurately: issue more traffic citations.
> If we want to select a common language

I think you're making an assumption that there is some central authority that has the power to make this selection on behalf of everyone.

I think the reality is that each person is making language learning choices based on their own utility. It's a network effect situation where everyone wants to learn the most popular language. English is ahead for historical reasons but that is enough.
Exactly.
As an Android user, I always used to laugh when (10 years ago) people would upgrade to an iPhone from a flip phone and say "the best phone I've ever had".

Ridiculous :).
I'm currently learning Spanish, and have to say that I don't find noun gender to be a huge problem, as generally (apart from some exceptions) if it ends in 'a' then it's feminine, and if 'o' then masculine. Compare that to German, which has no general and easy mnemonic for guessing a noun's gender, adds an additional gender, has a grammatical system where the article attached to a noun changes to that of another gender depending on case, and then to top it all off has no standard rule for creating a plural from the noun singular...
> And many native speakers think the less of people who struggle with English, even unconsciously.

This can affect you even when you're aware of it. I've spent a lot of time with non-native speakers and I've been the non-native speaker in other scenarios. I've gotten close with a non-native English speaker who recently moved to the states for engineering. I forgot how the language barrier can unconsciously affect me. I knew he was at least smart enough to be an engineer but just this past weekend he told me more about his life and career. He was modest but blunt and straightforward about his accomplishments, in my own words I'll say it's prolific. It was a good reminder for me. Unfortunately most of the exposure I have these days with people in the category of "struggling to communicate" are children. What a terrible mistake it is to subconsciously associate non-native speakers with the intelligence of a child.
Please. I don't think you are replying to me in good faith. (Edit: on further reflection, I don't think I have anything useful to exchange with you. If you can't understand why this is a problem, there is nothing more we have to say to one another. Here's a hint, though: there is no regular menu item to do this. It's not discoverable at all, intentionally. Macs don't have a right-click button, and right-clicking or control clicking is not expected to be necessary to accomplish anything in macOS.)
I'm surprised you're seeing that many performance trim level BMWs.
Well of course the Model 3 is amazing, but my point was I would NOT spend this kind of money on a BMW or a Mercedes or any other existing luxury car. I am not a luxury car owner and never planned on being. I saw the idea of what Tesla is going for and want to see the future Musk and his cult of personality are trying to build. Self driving cars sound cool, but they lead to all kinds of interesting societal changes. My cousin was killed by a drunk driver. Self driving cars means less drunk drivers. My father had a seizure while he was driving and almost died in the resultant wreck. I'm not saying he (Musk) will necessarily meet all of his goals, but if he hits even 1/2 of them, it is the future I want to live in. I purchased the Tesla to help him make it so.

I jokingly have been comparing the Model 3 to an A10 Warthog. The A10 Warthog (famously) is literally a plane built around a really big gun. The gun is the primary focus of A10 designers and it shows. When it comes to a Tesla, it is a computer with amazing batteries that happens to live in a car. It isn't like any existing car on the market, because primarily, it is a computer. This is really exciting, and very different.
Nice tool, I'd love to try it. Is your sign-up broken? It just comes back with an empty red alert.
If we want to select a common language...

We don't select a common language. English is the common language because of many historical reasons.
Give https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley a listen