skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming these are defined-contribution plans. These by definition self-fund, as what gets paid out is directly related to what gets put in and the fund's performance.

Problem pensions are defined-benefit, where regardless of the amount of inputs and fund performance, the payments are guaranteed. Even worse, most pensions in America assume 8% average annual return, which is absurd. The whole thing is a house of cards.
Ok. First off I love the name. Fantastic.

Also. I love the clean and simple design.

If there is one tweak I would make I would add a simple badge to the company name like you see here for the 'Developers' tag:

https://www.webase.com/website-gallery

All the best!
Isn't that beyond the scope of a layout component library? It's React so you manage state.
Kudos!

As a nostalgic side note, I'm not even that old, and I miss when the Internet looked like this. Just regular folks learning HTML and writing about something they find interesting. These days, everything looks like it was built in a Wix or Squarespace factory.
Thanks! Not using any APIs, we read from Career pages. Once our processes are more established, we should know when the posting went live, we will start publishing the date soon.
Google Brain and CMU ‘Noisy Student’ Achieves 88.4% Top-1 Accuracy on ImageNet
For anyone not familiar with Technology Connections, if you ever enjoyed the simple, straightforward TV of golden-era PBS or Discovery channel, please check out Technology Connections' videos. He produces eloquent, high-quality media with a distinct lack of gimmicks and unnecessary background music; just conversations about interesting consumer electronics and other items and how they work.
> bit of stretch ... accelerator.. before product market fit

I dont get this. AFAIK accelerator is like ~$50K-$150K. What kind of product fit can u possibly reach before your first $50K ?

Even a fully functional MVP only really shows basic execution ability. No?
I've heard of the app, and it's great news. But I feel that with just a little push (well, not so little, but small at Github scale), the mobile website could be so much better, and everyone would benefit from it without installing an app (although with an Instant App one could have the best of both worlds… but just on Android).

The demo of Emily and Jon's work shown by Nat is great news and I hope it continues forward.
I'll fix that, thank you.
20. Sometimes the favicon is dynamically generated by the page JS and is actually a playable arcade game: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/
Computing a Risk Estimate Using Netflix’s Riskquant
Is there an easy way to explain why pi shows up here?
Clearly this failed massively, because these days its flooded by /r/The_Donald transplants.
This is the first truly white-label web component set that I know of. It's intentionally not a design system, and looks pretty ugly out-of-the-box until you customize it with your own styles.

I think it's a really interesting approach, and has the possibility to be a Bootstrap-like foundational layer.

I work on lit-html and LitElement, which Lion uses, and we're working on new userland theming systems (and standards too) that will make using and theming a set like this easier.
> I suspect that the answer to bad online social spaces is "less online, and slower," but I'm not sure what that looks like.

Kind of like how HN limits us to a handful of posts per day before the “you’re posting too much” roadblock, causing you to really think about what you have to say and whether you want to burn one of your budget on it. Usenet could have used something like that.
" by far, the most problematic major technology company active right now."

This is ridiculous. Facebook is a social network that allows people to share information with one another, almost always in the terms that the user wants i.e. users have control over their own privacy level.

Unlike so many places, Facebook does not sell or share any data with anyone. They don't need to, because they have their own advertising engine.

That's it.

The list of concerns in this Wikipedia article are mostly misguided or misrepresentative.

Most concerns are actually critiques of social media in general, such as "Students have a hard time coping" because they're caught up in social media is a social commentary about new technology, not Facebook.

'Envy' 'Stress' etc. - this is 'Facebooks' fault for allowing people to share information about their lives?

The vast majority of people are able to handle their 'social media account', and there's a very easy answer for those who don't want to deal with it - which is to not have an account with Facebook, moreover, this is a general concern, not a Facebook-specific issue.

Almost all of the other issues in kind 'Tax Avoidance': FB pays 100% of the taxes they are owed, and don't pay taxes they don't need to. In the context of this article consider that the architect of the EU's ostensible loopholes was Jean Claude Junker (!!!) literally the Pres of the EU Commission who created all these shenanigan rules when he was PM of Tax Haven Luxembourg! It's 100% the EU's fault that their tax laws are wack. If they want a more thoughtful approach to taxation than they should change their laws.

Facebook is critiqued for some content moderation issues, as though it's 'their fault' that someone bullies some other person? Again, this is a general social media issue, not a Facebook issue, moreover, everyone would just like clarity on how to deal with the issue. Governments don't provide clear direction, and the press/twitterverse will be in outrage mode whatever happens one way or another.

Most hypocritically, the most popular 'solution' around here seems to be 'decentralization' - as if when there is no 'authority' modering content these problems will be solved? Just the opposite! A 'decentralized' social network will be the most unruly place imaginable where all these problems are considerably worse. Imagine ISIS with their 'execution' videos willy nilly, NAZI propaganda, ex-husbands and wives doing a terrible thing to one another, pedophiles, stalkers galore.

Facebook is a social network where people can 'share stuff' almost entirely on their own terms. They moderate, but not perfectly and there will never be perfect moderation because nobody can agree on what that is.

They are not a bad company, nor is it really even bad technology, like anything, most people use it for fairly benign, normative stuff like sharing cat and wedding videos.
Taxpayers will. The PBGC will be backstopping these pensions as well (as mentioned in the article). The country can always general fund transfer and QE its way out of it anyway.

https://www.pbgc.gov/
It's basically a way for a company to take out a loan and default on it with no liability. See GM, where they hooked employees with really fantastic deals and tore them up once they tried to cash them in
I can understand that for things that come into contact with the food, but not all of the packaging does.

For example, the Tillamook cheese snacks are individually-wrapped planks of cheese. For that, I understand. But why do the ten plastic-wrapped cheese planks then need to be wrapped in another plastic bag?
'for x in $y; do printf "$a%s$b" "$x"; done' is used in the code already. I am proposing that it be changed to 'printf "$a%s$b" $y', which is also POSIX compliant, shorter (even including a comment), and faster. I included the part about brace expansion as a side note, not proposing that it be used.
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This represents an era whose end resulted in Sony and Nintendo becoming bitter rivals. I wouldn’t expect them to care?
Technically correct. But I think the parent comment was pointing out that, given the way the world is, he's more likely to get his information if he cuts out what feels like grandstanding.
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I often typo and get corrections from the text editor I used, when I write not-code text.

When I write code, I don’t need to type fast. However, I like to layout things quickly: proper indentation, docstrings, spacing, order/position of functions.

I think those can be solved.
I do this in production a few places by setting a div with no content or only absolutely position content to have padding-bottom of the aspect ratio in %. That gets calculated from the width, so if the image is 4:3 my ratio is 75%; 200px wide becomes 150px tall as well. Then, I set the image as a background to the div or absolutely position it inside to fill the space, and it's responsive to the layout while also reserving space for itself.
Right, but isn't what you say exactly concurrency instead of what we normally consider parallel computing, at least on a single machine? Depending on the implementation/runtime you may or may not need something like threads, which are a good concurrency primitive, for parallel computing.
How common are pensions these days? None of my employers have offered pensions, just a 401k. Current employer is over a century old; seems they got savvy to the pension liability long ago.
I thought I had seen it before. Verified you can actually see the whole chapter in a nicer (book vs web) layout in Amazon's "Look inside" feature since it's at the beginning of the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pr...
If you're right (and I'm not sure that you are) then this seems to be a systemic, or at least cultural, problem. It's certainly not inherent to software; you're talking about individuals' attitudes. So how do we change that and inculcate values like being user-aware in people coming into the field? How do we get the other components of the business to support this?[0]

[0]:At my current job I'm completely insulated from users and I would really prefer not to be, but that's "the way it is".
(Ultimate Electronics Book author here.)

I'll add that it's also great documentation / example material for how to use CircuitLab. In fact, that's how it started.

In many ways, circuit simulators are a power user tool, and so I started this project by just making a larger library of example circuits. It then became clear that I needed to put the circuits together in context, and the idea for the textbook popped up since the context many of our customers share (at least the hobbyist and education segments) is in learning electronics.

Now, I'm inspired by communicating in this part-theory, part-practical style that seems hard to find in conventional resources.
They're worthless now?
Or with very experienced teams that have families and don’t care to live the startup life like the team I work in at an educational research non-profit in the Boston area.
Yeah I'm not answering that because nobody is actually "discounting" that lower-featured tier, that's a dodge. The base tiers are not discounted. They're the actual price for those features.

And that's completely fine. You can have an enterprise tier with more features! What I am saying--and I understand that you understand this but for your question to have any rhetorical impact must misapprehend it--is that they must not be security-based features as it is full-stop unethical to charge a toll for basic security.
Looks great! Can you add a feature to copy the flag/notation/etc when you click on it?
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> Having 350 more engineers on the market is only a good thing. Salaries in Boston have gotten to the point where an engineer with no experience just out of a middling CS education can demand $120-150k and often get it. Where does that leave most (non-startup) companies here? With inexperienced and understaffed teams.

Isn’t that implying that most non-startup companies just aren’t willing to pay market rate for the devs that they want?
"Dapper" might have worked better :)
One of them was the most expensive phone available of its size at the time. Isn't that what flagship means?

Anyway, I think you're being facetious. Three or five years ago you couldn't say which phones would be supported today, and right now you have no idea which of this year's phones are going to have lineageos updates in 2025. Right?
Maybe this is a problem of semantics, or something that I simply can't quite understand any longer because I am an electrical engineer (or at least I have a diploma that says I am :-) ). But this distinction is very strange, and I'm not sure why/how you're making it. Electronic engineering is nothing like that.

Knowing rules of thumbs and how to "combine components" into something useful is not a parallel skill set to electronic engineering, it's a part of electronic engineering. Rules of thumb, models and reference schematics (from manufacturers or whatever) are pretty much how you come up with the first draft of a circuit.

Also, electronic engineering consists precisely of designing circuits. Quantitative analysis is a big part of it because without it you can't always know whether the circuit you've designed works according to specs (and in practice, yes, experimentation and testing plays a big role, but there are only so many prototypes that you can blow up before you run out of time, and only so many things that you can test for in a regular lab). The whole point of one's activity as an engineer is to combine components into something useful.

Sure, you don't sit in a lab drawing schematics and building things all day, because there are a lot of other activities that go into building a good product. There's a lot of validation work and a lot of analysis and a lot of planning. Some engineers focus their time only on one of these things, especially because they really are so complex, and so complicated, that you can spend a lifetime studying just one of them and you're still left with a lot of stuff to know.

But at the end of the day, designing electronic gizmos is pretty much what you do, regardless of what role you're playing there.

You can certainly make things by sticking components and circuits together without a thorough understanding how they work. But the idea that engineering somehow mostly about understanding a system through mathematical modelling before building it, and design is mostly about making things by sticking components together by intuition, is very much absurd.
Ridiculously high, but to be expected.
Thanks for the feedback! We got lucky with the name :). Will check into adding a badge.
I really want to check this out, but my eyes hurt reading the page because the contrast of gray on black is so low. A vision-impaired person might not be able to read it at all. Please consider using this tool to pick a text color that provides sufficient contrast: https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html#fg=90...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197255

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11002731

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717877
Can u maybe share how much traction you had pre-accelerator and how much traction u had before a bigger seed/SeriesA ?

My perception is at an accelerator or a $100K angel is really basically a nice pitch + MVP + some token revenue or customer maybes.

I get it that if u are building yet-another-analytic-service, then the bar is higher.
I personally use the git CLI for my day to day work needs, I think this was so unnecessary considering there are so many other things that Github could focus on. Microsoft is once again ignoring the mobile market, shittè mobile app, shittè mobile website, but hey, a redundant CLI FTW
When the PBGC gets it, usually benefits are cut to more sustainable levels and can actually be paid based on the pool of available funds.
Your math is wrong. The probabilities you listed for the 2 events is correct, but you multiplied 0.72 by 0.03,but probabilities aren't stated that way. 0.72% is a probability of 0.0072 and 0.03% is 0.0003. So the correct probability of coincidence is much lower than 0.02% it's 0.0002% or a probability of 0.000002. So that rate wouldn't be 2 in 10,000 it should be 2 in 1,000,000. This pravelance rate is therefore 25 times lower than that of childhood onset schizophrenia (1 in 40,000).

You did however get the number of people who should have it in the US correct at roughly 620 cases if the two conditions are independent. Although that only includes the reported population numbers, as a better population estimate to account for people who won't answer the census is more like 340 million. This portion of the population that doesn't answer the census could easily be hiding all 670 potential cases because they also don't tend to trust doctors and would never be diagnosed.

I'm not saying that this is a guaranteed scenario, but schizophrenia does have a genetic component, so it is possible that we simply haven't seen the cases in the general population because their families have hidden the affected family members. The "closet" syndrome when it comes to mentally ill family members is well documented, and some groups have even been known to hide family members with physical disabilities such as blindness or deafness. We believe this is happening less today, but that's difficult to prove and may simply be our way of coping with the fact that we will never be able to help people trapped in that situation.
> Almost certainly taxpayers won't stomach paying for them, as happened in Detroit and smaller jurisdictions.

I mean we've been dealing with this for thousands of years already. A pension is basically just a loan from an employee to an employer. Back when jews had a monopoly on money lending in Europe, every year the townspeople had to decide whether they were going to pay back their loans or just kill all the jews in their town, or at least take their land and send them elsewhere. Most years they just paid back their loans as agreed, but then every few decades when the debt service got too high things tended to go sideways.

The basic issue is that even after thousands of years, we still haven't really figured out what's equitable in terms of how debt should work.

C.f.: https://youtu.be/AX7vyycyRCs?t=2908
Is writing speed a real bottleneck for any software development...? The other day someone posted how 10 lines of code a day is the avg as per the mythical man month book which the author of Redis agreed with!

I've worked with people who barely knew how to type, which was annoying to see, but were extremely senior and productive.
that's impressive. I wouldn't have thought that would be available at walmart.
What's wrong with using these products? This "study" doesn't appear to make a distinction between using the products exclusively and using them in conjunction with other products.

I'm betting every one of these large companies ALSO use specific contract management software tools in addition to Excel Sharepoint and email.

I'm actually surprise MORE companies don't use this combination since almost every large company makes use of MSFT office suite products.

I'm skeptical of any company trying to position itself as some sort of replacement for products that have been used for decades.

I've drunk that Kool-Aid before and it never works out the way it's intended, companies always fall back on some class Office suite products.

The sad truth is that you'll probably end up using Excel, Sharepoint, and email in addition to whatever contract management solution you go with.
Honestly, I don't do much to it.

I have one pickle jar that I use to store old bacon fat. I just pour it into the jar and put the jar in the refrigerator when it cools. I use that fat for things like eggs, meats, and certain vegetables I want to add bacon flavor to.

The other pickle jar I use to store leftover frying medium for things like potato chips and french fries and such. I fry in lard because that's what I grew up with.

I don't filter or refine or anything. I just pour the liquids in their jars and scoop out what I need when it's time to use it.

I don't know how long it's possible to keep doing this because my wife throws the jars away every few months and I have to start over. But there's a restaurant in Philadelphia (Bookbinders?) that is famous for re-using its cooking fat for decades.
I'd be surprised if many CS degrees (as opposed to CE) had a circuits course. But I agree that calculus would be a surprising omission.
You can add e.g. descriptions to your params if needed. Also phpdoc understands types like string[] for arrays and union types like (int|string) for untyped params.
Yes they do. Maybe not the majority of users but enough to be important. There are a lot of very smart and math savvy people who don’t know how to program but do very complex stuff in excel.
> DNS interference is being mitigated by the CA system

Such mitigations (e.g. 0x20 or multi-perspective) are not enough to outrun the metaphorical bear. So they only work until you are slowest again. Putting such mitigations in place for those who can't or more often won't deploy DNSSEC makes sense, but somebody will get eaten by the bear this way.

> unlike other security controls, DNSSEC fails by dropping the site off the internet

You could do some small UX work here to have an explicit error like the ones for TLS version interference, but it's of dubious value. Also you're probably thinking this is valuable feedback to site owners but unfortunately it'll be choked with noise. TLS version interference, for example, mostly means your crappy anti-virus or other middlebox garbage is causing problems. But it might be an attack, or a dodgy cable... who knows. As with certificate expiry the right thing for a site owner to do is have their own alerting in place.
There's no reason as-is benefits couldn't have been sustainable if properly managed by the plan sponsor. It is not the pension participant's fault public policy failed them and did not properly account for the ability of the corp to default on its contract using BK law, nor required adequately funding the plan.

There is no limit to available funds in an economy not on the gold standard. These aren't trillions of dollars in obligations (in the case of these smaller pension plans, not speaking about public pensions such as those in Illinois), and we've burned up a greater sum on air conditioning and lost cash payments in the middle east alone during conflicts. As long as you can get past the "moral hazard" folks and not impact the macro too much (ie inflation), you can get away with a lot when working with funny fiat money.

This is part of what government exists to do, providing security to its citizens. A contract was made, and it should be kept (with pensioners coming first ahead of all other creditors).
I Will Be Sad If Betelgeuse Explodes
It's no coincidence that the prices for even not-at-all-rare games and equipment spiked right around the time those who grew up with them started making actual money, and a bunch of nostalgia-focused web shows grew up at the same time, feeding and feeding off of the phenomenon. The only reason the prices may stay as high as they are for working gear & media is because both are starting to fail at a high rate, for that 1985-2005 aged stuff. Interest in them will definitely wane.
My parent grew up WWII Europe and had the same thrifty mentality. The one thing that sent me over the edge was this shitty knife my mom would always use. It started life as an okay cook knife but over 30 years after repeated sharpening started looking like a filet knife used clean fish with a worn out wooden. So it was not performing well. I had to take all the old knives and replaced them with a fancy set of German knives. Mom and dad thought they we nice but said the old knives were fine. sigh! Buy them nice Egyptian cotton bedding, into the steamer truck they went because they were too nice to use. What? sigh. And there are many other examples.
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