skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRC lacks backscroll. Even if you park a bot in your channel to act as recording secretary, there's no low-friction means of getting at that history without going out of band. This means that spam doesn't persist... but neither does consideration and consensus.
It's better than their flag for sure, but it's still not all that great and they really should fix their flag.

Tennessee and Texas are good examples of State Flags. When you drive through TN, the iconic three-star pattern is found on a lot of bridges and signs now (similar to the Chicago flag being seen everywhere around the city).

Washington, by contrast, is a terrible terrible flag (flags shouldn't have words or state seals on them; you need to be able to identify them from a distance).

This is an okay start, but it should have included a flag redesign with it that matches the new state branding.
Alternatively, for optimizing publications rather than optimizing research, there's SCIgen (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/) which keeps getting accepted to questionable journals..
This risk is supposedly managed in the US by the Patient Benefit Garanty Corporation, but it may itself need a federal bail-out...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Cor...
Meh, not actually released yet, just a beta mailing list you can sign up for. No thanks.
Compared to most government commissioned new brands I have seen recently it's definitely above average.
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That's probably not going to happen. What are they going to do, let you call without giving a name and then pay in cash? How would they get their cut? Might as well just take a cab if you're going to do that.
I miss USENET, but I really really miss kill files. In principle one can locate substitutes for various sites like HN, but in practice it often seems ineffective and unreliable.

I'd love to see a general solution to this.
Logo is ok. State seal is what really got me. It looks like something whipped up in illustrator in a couple hours.
It is on the employee. The employee chooses to accept an employer's promise to pay for retirement, in lieu of cash now (via choosing to work for that employer).

Government on the other hand taxes income in order to pay for retirement and people don't have the ability to opt out, so of course they have an obligation to pay it.
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> ... sound great until you need to SHARE data ...

If by "share" you mean one writer and others with read-only access, then staleness of data is a question. In java we have volatile for that, I think there is a similar keyword in C++. However, you'll have to maintain the invariant of "one writer and others with read-only access". If you don't need absolute latest version, you can do message passing/pubsub etc.

If by "share" you mean multiple writers, I'll have to question your design decision. Why do multiple threads have to write to same memory location? Most of the time, you can get away with partitioning/sharding.

If you disagree, I'd like to know why?
The one thing that made them "make sense" to most people was that the average person is/was terrible at personal finance and retirement planning. The company running the pension was a way for the average person to be "guaranteed" a retirement income without having to worry about anything.

Remember, corporate pensions were a big thing when the US was at it's greatest economic strength (post-WW2) and the internet with all of its modern tools to make investing much simpler for the average person didn't exist. You had to pay brokers for every single trade or someone else to advise you or you had to just buy and hold a small set of stocks for 30 years and hope those companies would still be around (a fair bet at that time).

Back then companies didn't really go under like this. If anything, they got bought by a larger company and merged, but the frequency of that was nothing like today.

Today, with health care costs what they are, having pensions and defined benefit plans are insane to me. It's much better for the company to say "we will match x% in a 401k". They are defining their contribution and it has a cap. If anything happens to the company, the employee's funds are safe as the money is already transferred. For the employee, it does require them to manage this money but that's far easier and cheaper today and that money doesn't require the company to be around forever. If things tank, the employee is protected.
What is a thing that instantly reminds you of Oklahoma, but isn't something negative like race riots, manmade earthquakes, teenage pregnancy, and domestic terrorism? Come to think of it the honest history of Oklahoma makes a hell of a flag.
100% my first thought when loading this page. It really seems like they are running the calculation on query. Think about how much compute resource have they needlessly burned through by not caching user queries.
I think you've no idea what commuting costs anymore. 100 a week would be absolutely ridiculous. If the company provides parking you're looking at around 70 per month. If you have to pay for parking that might be as much as 250 per month, so still way below 100 per week. This kind of contribution certainly adds up, but you're not looking at 1 million in retirement funds. Also, you built yourself a detached office, which isn't uncommon and you frequently needed to purchase office supplies and I'm guessing your own hardware and computer software. That's a substantial initial overhead that eats away at how much you might be saving by working from home.

Also, consider that many companies now allow employees to work from home for part of every week while still supplying hardware and office supplies. That 250/70 per month commuting cost is down to about 150/40. Just accounting for the expense of building your home office you could already be in the hole compared to people commuting only some of the time for the same job.

Also, none of this accounts for the additional considerations office's typically provide like free lunches and social/professional networking opportunities.

Personally, I'm a software developer so I can pretty much decide for myself if I want a job that allows me to work from home, and after doing the real math, I found you can basically go either way and expect roughly the same financial outcome, so the real choice is about what you actually want. I like the social aspects, so I take jobs where I can come in and expect coworkers to be present. What you want may be different, but neither option is inherently more advantageous.
You don't need a fancy solution to randomly add latency -- just do what I did and sign up for Cox Internet.
It would take to long to answer all of those, so let's just look at the first point.

> An unmarked cardboard box. Why wasn't I required to return this box for reuse? It should be a Pelican-style container that is used to deliver a shipment, and immediately returned for reuse.

How much does a Pelican case weigh compared to a cardboard box? It probably weighs more than the cardboard box and the purchased item inside. So, you're literally doubling the weight of everything being shipped. Then, you want to return that case to the sender, so now you're not only doubling the weight, but you're doubling the number of items being shipped, and therefore doubling the shipping cost for the consumer.

What's the environmental impact of a cardboard box compared to a Pelican case? I don't know these numbers, but even if we somehow forget about the extra weight, shipping, and fuel, you literally might need to reuse that Pelican case tens of thousands of times before it has a positive impact over a cardboard box. Would it get lost or need to be repaired from damages in tens of thousands of shipments? I almost guarantee it.

That being said, I agree we should be asking more questions and looking for ways to improve recycling.
I don't like the ridiculous idea of "free speech zones" but law enforcement does need to be able to move people who block streets or doorways. It should be independent of why the person is there. Of course they shouldn't shoot them.
It's more of a modern issue, but I recently discovered that a lot of triple A console games are demo'd (at trade shows and in promo videos) on a pc. They then cut down video quality and content to port them to the console game you can actually buy. There's video of a pc hidden under a desk, and a console controller modified to work with it.

It may be old news to a lot of people, but that blew my mind. I don't see how that is acceptable. I guess that hardware for these consoles is still a struggle.
> we need to pay more attention to the cons

I like the probably-accidental double-entendre here. ;)

I think there is some attention (though probably still not enough) being paid to algorithms/clouds/etc gamifying our dopaminergic cycles, often without our best interests in mind. But it's worth remembering that individuals can easily fall into these anti-patterns independently, without coercion from centralized servers or dark UI patterns.

When I first heard the RHCP lyric referencing "getting high on information" I thought it a clever turn of phrase, maybe even a bit of a good thing; now I view the phenomenon with deadly seriousness, as I find it an ongoing struggle in day-to-day life, trying to keep focus on what matters amidst a deluge of both noise and signal.
they aren't. private pensions like this are rare and generally pay a few hundred dollars a month [1] while social security, run by the government, pays much more [2] and is what most people exclusively rely on.

1. http://www.pensionrights.org/publications/statistic/income-p...
2. https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-securit...
But most 401ks have ridiculously low balances, with the median for people 50-59 at 150k: https://www.financialsamurai.com/median401k-retirement-balan...
If someone told me they wrote a neural net in Haskell, my first reaction would be "wow that's Cool!", after all I don't think I can do that. I wouldn't care if the code was gibberish.
Avoiding “equations” when you want to understand theory is a mistake IMO in the same category as avoiding “code” when you want to understand software: it’s possible but it’s definitely the harder way to do it.
It's a common practice to put title in URL to boost SEO, but the URL seems to convert all space (%20) to 20 and I doubt it would still be useful...

/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html
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Stuff pensioners need today, beyond non-depreciating physical assets, needs to be supplied out of stuff which is produced today.

If the economy is growing at a faster rate than pensioners are increasing their consumption, anything they've "banked" can proportionally hold & increase its value (unless it was very poorly invested).

But if pensioner consumption grows faster than the economy, then there's less stuff to go around. Either pensions are worth less, or a bigger slice of the pie goes to pensioners (e.g. propping up asset prices with cheap money) and young people are screwed over (since they don't have many assets).

The weird politics we're seeing these days is driven by a mix of the latter effects, I believe, amongst other things (like loss aversion in older people with less productive capacity, and cohort effects in communication media choice leading to information bubbles).
https://en-audio.howtopronounce.com/shiohara-in-us1-voice-71...
They pre-funded it assuming a given life expectancy and per-year healthcare costs. People started living past that life expectancy and healthcare costs rose much more quickly than expected...
Good point. I find that carefully phrasing the problem is half the solution. For example, the entire field of cryptography would not have moved beyond the one-time-pad if it wasn't for a rephrasing from 'impossible' to 'computationally infeasible'. Similarly with probabilistic algorithms.
I was recently looking at getting new hardware to improve Chrome loading times. (This is a somewhat theoretical affair for me since my desktop is already pretty fast.) But, now I wonder if I should downgrade.

Maybe it's good not to upgrade to the latest iPhone?
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We software types must be masochists. It took Rob Pike an hour in the comfort of his private office to write this piece of code. How is this _at all_ like a typical software interview?
Fed Chair Powell calls out US health spending, getting nothing in return
Gold is shiny and pretty and has some useful physical properties. Bitcoin has no useful properties, but some people want it anyways. Both are hoarded, and are enviromentally destructive to get.

What else do you really need to know?
It's not contradictory. When they say they hate that cryptocurrency has sucked all the air out of the room, they're saying that they hate that nobody is talking about the non-cryptocurrency alternatives, not that they don't exist.
My SNES games were stolen when I was younger so I only had the boxes and manuals which I kept in pristine condition. I decided to put one box+manual up on eBay and was surprised that it sold within 10 seconds (likely by a bot) for the $100 buy it now price. I suppose I should have priced it higher!
I also use Comcast.
48 percent of American households over the age of 55 still have no retirement savings. [1] [2] None. Zero. 401ks were a legislative hack for high income earners [3], and were used to con the middle class out of their additional pension comp. Those funds instead ended up in shareholder pockets, with a small amount provided as 401k matches.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/these-people-are-on-the-verg...

[2] https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/670153.pdf (GAO report)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21827154
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Discussion here may be kept to a higher standard, but that also means that a lot of things I'd be interested in are censored.

Not sure what the solution is, but it would be nice to have some sort of ML-based approach that would tune the content I see to my wishes, rather than the wishes of the average denizen or the moderators.
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Well I am on a not so fast connection a lot and what is even worse: click on something and get absolutely no clue the click event was registered.

Click again to see if you did something wrong and, yes, youe action was registered 2 times causing all kinds of trouble.

To all SPA developers around the word: show me if I interacted and show me if something is loading.
Same, but with my entire .config folder.
If you need this, consider just getting cheaper and slower Internet connection :)
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I think the best way to understand the numbers would be to look at the breakdown of costs. Two links that were shared from the twitter thread discussing this might be useful:

Preprints cost (projected vs actuals): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V0vKrf50K667CqM3e4S2...

Org finances: https://cos.io/about/our-finances/

A few things stand out:
1. Preprints are pretty new. You're not just hosting PDFs on an s3 bucket in maintenance mode- you're also wrangling authors with very different workflows to use your platform. This means building tools for moderation or retraction, and long handholding to recruit 26 partner groups, some of them started as grassroots efforts without their own institutional history. Each group may have their own ideas about governance. (each research field may do things in different ways)

2. In that light, the projected personnel costs are.... not high. The spreadsheet claims that 22% of page traffic going to preprints, but the original 2019 forecast called for ~$7k budget on developers + QA, total. At market rates, that's... a small fraction of the annual cost of a single developer? (their team page lists 10-15 devs on staff)

3. Compared to the overall organizational finances, it suggests that if anything, some of the cost of running the service is being spread across their other offerings. The original vs modified forecasts for 2019 seem a bit, well, different- it's likely that the costs are still being worked out, and may be dependent on hard-to-predict growth.

It's also very notable that this hubbub seems to involve a relatively small amount of cash: the proposed funding model is a 60-40 split, with the service share divided among up to 26 groups. That says a lot about the role of building institutions to support preprints long term, and the need to help grassroots initiatives mature if we want to keep these services active.

https://cos.io/our-products/osf-preprints/
"...this fee structure accounts for $87,976 in contributions by the preprint services toward maintenance costs (38% of total)"

Disclaimer: I don't speak for any of the groups involved in this process, and comments are based only on these public documents. There may well be other numbers or context.
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> For more on how I plan to incorporate shared ownership into the community app I’m building,

Soooo the whole idea of returning to Usenet is part of your product pitch.

Can we get a giant asterisk on posts that are basically just advertisements?
I am on several dating apps and there is now way in hell I would ever use Facebook dating. It used to be called the poke function anyways.
Exception: If I’m researching technical topics I want the fastest computer, browser, and internet possible.
Thank you for being a tool fixating on that one point to distract from the main issue: Hint: it's always about the money, and in this case particularly so.

Fortunately this is not the place where these things will ultimately be decided.
That's a big part of the problem - commodities made with third world labor are so cheap to replace, that it doesn't make sense to fix it with labor at first-world rates.
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Bernie Sanders dominates Democrats in donations from tech workers
I don't find this argument convincing. Systemd is creepy, invasive, and is given WAY too much credence.
The New Mexico flag is cited as being one of the better ones.

Our flag in Oregon has two different sides, neither one of which is great.
As an occasional Oklahoma visitor, I always kind of liked the arrow sculpture ("Iron Feathers") outside the Will Rogers (OKC) airport:

http://www.e-a-a.com/portfolios/iron-feathers-at-will-rogers...

But if you look at that scuplture with a different light, it looks very lonely sitting out there in the plains:

https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=a50e1...

About the present logo: the designers might have gone with a redder color for the dirt segment. I know what you mean about there not being enough concrete associations with the state to firmly anchor a logo.
Almost certainly from Ribbonfarm:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the...

The Evaporative Cooling Effect is also a useful notion.

http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...

Archive as site seems down: https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/http://blog.bumbl...
Just to hijack this comment for a moment -- we're a startup looking to make local news more profitable and sustainable -- and hopefully reaching a new audience that might not watch local TV news or subscribe to their local newspaper.

If anyone is interested in helping the cause, please email me -- jared AT nillium DOT com . I would love to talk more.
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To answer your question directly, because websites aren't citizenship. I read a lot of different webpages, with varying levels of quality content. HN, Gab, and 8chan are among the list of websites I have loaded in my browser before. I imagine you've visited them at least once too - or do you rely entirely on conjecture and gossip to tell you what they contain?

Forget about that, though. This isn't about any specific website. Indulge me with a hypothetical.

Imagine for a moment a future in which a web browser exists on par with something like a Gopher or Usenet client: a historical curiosity, used only by a tiny fraction of weird people, a few thousand worldwide, tops. The majority of content is posted and consumed via native apps, communicating with centralized services from cryptographically secured devices that do not allow any sort of inspection, debugging, tampering, ad blocking, memory dumping, hot patching, or other runtime-modification fuckery. It's an end-to-end chain, determined entirely by a small group of people at TSMC, Apple, Comcast/Cox/et c, Facebook, and Google.

The apps all still use HTTP (with TLS) to talk to their APIs, of course. But you can't go to webpages, even ones you don't like, because there aren't any. You can't start a new website, because nobody uses browsers any longer.

This is the trajectory we're on. It has nothing to do with whether you like whether or not specific sites like Gab or 8chan exist or not, or where you fall on the freezepeach spectrum of opinion.

Now, out of the hypothetical. Let's talk today. These censored platforms are engaging in an all-out assault on the web. Instagram has banned hyperlinks. Browsers on mobile cannot be extended via plugins or extensions. Gmail is censoring inbound emails not sent from a small whitelist of providers. Google Chrome is about to defang effective adblocking via a plugin API change. Apple, in their iOS, has hidden the Taiwanese flag in mainland China, and has replaced the gun emoji with a picture of a squirt gun worldwide. There's no hack or workaround for this. Entire swaths of potential businesses have been prevented as a result of this type of overarching design: bake censorship into everything.

If the world continues on the path it's on, soon the web will be gone and mass publishing will be centrally controlled, as mass publishing has been for almost the entirety of the history of mass publishing. The free and open web where virtually anyone can start building an audience was an anomaly, a first of its kind in history, and several extremely large and well-funded organizations, Facebook and Apple primarily among them, are working to bring an end to this historical deviation.

I really, really don't want that to happen. And it has positively nothing at all to do with the sites you listed.
This is why France is rioting right now.
Not OP but to a certain extent this is an inescapable part of finance and economics. If inflation or interest rates shift the payee might not have enough money to increase their contributions. The rule of thumb is usually that when the stock market is up the bond market is down. Well, the stock market is in the midst of the longest expansion in US history. Nobody knows when it will shift in the other direction.
>Print dollars, transfer from the general fund, or have the Fed start buying up equities and using the cashflow to fund any necessary benefits payments (a somewhat more adventurous twist on the Bank of Japan's role in that country's economy). It's the government's job to be the guarantor of last resort, and they have the tools available to do so.

This is already happening. Defined benefit pension funds and defined contribution pension funds (401k/IRAs) are all invested in the same place: the public stock market and real estate. That's why I think bailouts of public stock market values are basically guaranteed, as long as the US dollar remains relatively desirable.

Individuals may or may not be bailed out, depending on their political power. As I mentioned in another comment, these pension recipients got bailed out because their members are important in elections:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/business/coal-miner-pensi...
I've had an Ethereum address for 3 years and I just counted around 30 spam tokens attached to it. That's remarkably low considering how global and easy it is to send. I don't even want to imagine how many spam emails an unfiltered address would've gotten in that time span.