skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is this according to their own numbers? if so they likely pulled them out of their ass.
> 80 percent of the tax benefits go to the top 20 percent of taxpayers.

I hope someday we can all see why this is both amazing and ridiculous...

> In Rescuing Retirement, Ghilarducci and James promote what they call a “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA), a system of federal retirement savings accounts that would combine features of defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Nice to see a proposal in the article.

> GRAs would be professionally invested and would, Ghilarducci and James argue, generate greater returns than existing 401(k)s by taking advantage of access to the more profitable investments and lower fees that large pools of assets can offer. The accounts would follow workers throughout their careers, even if they changed employers. When the time came, the GRA would be transformed into an annuity, which, alongside Social Security, would pay out a consistent and lifelong income.

I don't know anything about 401(k)s but do they really operate on some foundational condition of less-profitable investments and higher fees?
Which is why I called this a strawman. The tradeoff is that you have to check yourself for the ":paid true" instead of having the compiler checking that you're taking a PaidOrder type.
Check out also a beautiful periodic table constructor from Moscow that won IF design award: https://periodic.artlebedev.ru

(About the project: https://www.artlebedev.com/mendeleev-table/)
Netflix-1080p – A Chrome extension to force Netflix in 1080p and 5.1 audio
Amazon's Aggressive Tactics with Reporters
Agreed. My first language didn't use latin script--it didn't even read left-to-right. But I'm not offended that programming languages all do use latin script and a constrained character set.
K8s vs. K3s: The Comprehensive Difference
I'd say the opposite: maybe the news reports should have less detail. The efficacy percentages of different vaccines mean different things but the way they have been publicized has lead many people to think one vaccine is better than the other. We're starting to see some people refuse to get vaccinated, because they're shopping aroung for a vaccine that they think is more effective. At the end of the day, what really matters is vaccinating as many people as soon as possible.
How is that off-topic? It's the whole reason the story is remarkable at all.
I think that's around the same time? Not sure. Anyway, at least that one is easily overridden in System Preferences >> General.
It's great when it works, but different versions of <OCAML? and/or Unison?> on different hosts/VMs screw it up. I never understood the real reason why (but I never really investigated, lazy) => it's a pity.
" algebraic geometry is like plotting the equation of a circle" this description and definition is as helpful and accurate as saying a circle is approximated by a square. Pop math writers need to stop likening something as complicated as algebraic geometry to high school algebra.
Good point, but it doesn't matter because the ideological bullhorn drowns that out and guarantees a flamewar. Just look at the responses it generated. We made it to "you want all the Jews in Israel to die" in three hops.
I think GP is asserting that that part of the article is bullshit as it regards larger craft.
Not sure parent should be considered as inflammatory as you take it to be. The core idea was that having 5 vaccines that performed well is a good showing for a small country, especially one that has been under heavy embargo for many decades.
High CPU alerts are terrible alerts. If I'm paying per instance, I want CPU utilization to be high. If it's low, I'm wasting money. So now what I need is an alert where it's not high, but somewhere between "high and too high". You know, like when there's an arbitrary spike because the Java is doing some GC. Or you have a one minute spike of traffic that fires an Ops Genie alert at 2am but auto-clears between when the on-call engineer wakes up and when they log in to check.

For the love of $DIETY, if you're going to set up CloudWatch monitoring, create custom metrics that map to your business outcomes and alert when those go off the rails.
Currently the terminal requests API keys that only give access to free tier features. This is so that we can say that every user has access to the exact same features, regardless of whether they have a subscription to a specific API.

This is likely going to continue for a while. However, at some point, we may want to add premium features associated with these APIs. Because if the user is paying such subscription, it makes sense to provide that data on the terminal. Since this will only benefit a small subset of our users, we are deeming this as low priority
Thanks,

My use case is to get my VPS run a web and mail service on Nixos but without the bloated binary logging of journalcontrol. The indexes in these log files change heavily between snapshots so they take up way more disk space than append-only text logs, that snapshots very well on ZFS.

My experiences while building:

- It's easy to use the config.system.services tree of the user-services (ssh, bind, caddy, etc) to create s6-services;

- Sometimes it needs a change to make it work [1] on s6;

- That same change seems oblivious to systemd. I guess it just starts the process and never bothers to monitor liveness. So much for a process management system ;-)

- Nixos packagers seems overworked, as my pull requests seem to get stuck ;-(

- Nixos use of systemd leaves a lot of decisions to resolve at boot time, decisions that I want to make at build time with s6;

- However, I cannot create a s6 dependency tree specification at build time, that's still at run time;

- Because S6 uses the service-directory to store state-files in the same directory (no /etc-/var split).

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122844
I reworded the inflammatory title, which I believe is what is desired by the HN guidelines.
Yes, it’s clear speculation is the source of much of this, “all” was hyperbole on my part.
That sounds like great free software. But again, to quote from that thread a few months ago:

The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal.

That above Gamestonk Economy page showing how you can pull `dgs5` from FRED, is basically unrelated to the `GOVT` functionality on Bloomberg. You have to understand, quoting an index is a whole other league from pricing information on individual bonds; anyone can do the former, but Bloomberg does the latter.
No, they just need to use FUSE and provide file system level access to the source code.
That's a symbol that refers to "euro" or "euros", the currency. "euro" or "euros" are still written with our lovely 26 letters.
I am guessing the last part means on average. As a sole investor, the fees on any fund will always be higher than what is available to an institutional investor. And this would make quite a big institutional investor.
Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status
I’d argue that the parent post you’re replying to is relatively positive and factual, and it’s the knee-jerk responses that it triggered that are the problem.

Now you can argue that this is why the parent post is a flamebait, but since the sole fact that Cuba is such a small, socialist country is why this vaccin is interesting in the first place, you may as well ban this vaccin from being discussed on HN entirely.
Ask HN: Harvard or Stanford for Undergrad?
Hi, I was admitted this last admissions cycle to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cambridge for undergrad. I want to stay in the US and study CS so it came down to Stanford vs Harvard. Stanford was a bit cheaper, has a slightly better CS program, and has a good location, so I ended up choosing Stanford, but it could have gone either way.

Parents and people around me are questioning why I turned down Harvard for Stanford. Do you think I am missing out on anything by not taking Harvard? I feel a bit bad about missing out on the "old world prestige" that people keep referencing where I live; it seems Harvard has a lot more of that than Stanford. I am in the DMV area, by the way, if that matters (maybe that is why there is a bias for Harvard?).

I know both are great, but I am having second thoughts, concerned that I could have made a better decision. Let me know what you think.
Not a tutorial but did you look at PicoTCP ?

https://github.com/tass-belgium/picotcp
Is it really as political as that as in "the big bad republicans ate my pension"?

Juicy pensions are on the decline everywhere. The company I started working for at age 23, so many years ago, in all its vertically integrated, multinational glory, provided, at the time, pensions you really could continue living a middle class lifestyle on. I duly got into that pension plan, with the huge pension adjustments that entailed (greatly reduced ability to pay into your RRSP) but that future defined benefit pension was worth it.

Except that $bigco went bust, and when the dust settled, we got cash payout of the some percentage of the deemed value of the accrued pension that they could recover from the financial wreckage, and that was that. No pension at all.

Now I and everyone else is just on defined contribution plans, where between your own and the company's contribution you put in maybe 10% of what it would take to live on, per year. The rest is supposed to miraculously come from compound gains, using the old wisdom that anyone can get 10% per year without effort.

What does that mean in real life terms? Live cheap, far below your financial means - one basic car instead of his & hers SUVs, a basic house in a decent neighbourhood instead of the latest 5K square feet monstrosity and so on, and try to save a good 1/3 of your income for the future. Barring a financial meltdown or runaway inflation, I think we'll make it. The fact that "runaway healthcare costs" are not a factor here helps a lot, though without a company plan, you're on your own for all dental work and (up to a certain age) all prescription drug costs.

Anyway the economics is simply this: Work for 40-45 years and accrue enough to live another average 25 years after you retire. The $$ have to come from somehwere. You see a lot about super juicy public sector pensions in the USA where people can retire in luxury before age 50... probably outliers, as is the "evil people stole the pension fund" situations. On the whole, it's just that people live longer.
By what definition of "native"?
It's not a "tragic loss", it is murder. And justice is needed.
"Of course the real damage is caused more by the upvoters, not the original comment"

Original comment invited political flaming by throwing in the "great showing" jab at the end.
It's common for every publisher to publish things early. When I worked at a publication, the July edition would hit stands in mid-June. Same thing happens across the industry.
I don’t see what investment is more profitable and lower fee than a bog standard vanguard ETF
We do have a few vaccines in development here, but the federal government seems to want to block them all.

There is ButanVac, there is one in development in UFPR and I'm sure there are others. Sadly, our federal government is beyond terrible right now, but I imagine we could have developed one of our own already.
737 trim wheels are very visible and very loud. The noise and motion they create have been a joke within the 737 community for at least 20 years.
At least the early news report I have read about the Biontech/Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines didn't have links to the scientific studies either. This seems to be pretty standard for new these days :-(

Even if the effectiveness number doesn't pan out to 92%, every working vaccine is another useful tool in the toolbox. I could imagine that many South- and Middle American countries have higher trust in Cuban than in US or European vaccines.
Would it not be correct for those callers to keep calling the old (shared) implementation?
True. What most users do is that they work with the terminal as it comes, and as soon as they start needing an API key they go and get it. E.g. I don't trade forex, for me it doesn't make sense to set an Oanda account to get access to this information.

It's hard to improve in this space because we want to keep the terminal free. And exploiting each of the free tiers of these APIs makes that possible at the moment.

Our GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal2 has a Proof of concept GUI, where it works with a one click start. Although API keys still need to be provided.
My local Dollar Tree offers 12 eggs for a dollar, a loaf of bread for a dollar, a decent sized bag of frozen berries or vegetables for a dollar, 2 pounds of rice for a dollar, a 26oz can of baked beans for a dollar. That's not exactly crap.
> I don't know anything about 401(k)s but do they really operate on some foundational condition of less-profitable investments and higher fees?

The (HR person of the) employer chooses what to allow in a 401k. Normally you have a dozen funds or so available. And the choice by the employer doesn't necessarily align with the employees interests, as the high fee funds would love to send you that amazon gift card, whereas the low fee funds wouldn't even reach out to you. ;-)
"This" = mandating most regular folks put their lives on hold, while the rich and powerful get to continue with their schemes.
I've been manually setting up wine prefixes for my games, and until last week I had not run into any issues. For some reason, Ori and the Blind Forest DE could not see input from my controller.
When running the game through steam, everything works.

It's an excellent last resort, even if you're more comfortable using Wine directly.
People are different. The high-order bit of learning is to come to the field in a way that sparks his interest, sustainably. For a minority of people that's "build a real foundation". If so it ought to be clear pretty quickly.
Typed Programs Don't Leak Data
Cuban healthcare is the left-wing version of "Mussolini made the trains run on time." Both are just idealizing the concept of a benevolent dictatorship ostensibly getting one thing right and ignoring all their other human rights violations.
I hear you. Seeing HN threads on fire does that to me sometimes.
That's what I thought, but then why not just a USB with some basic encryption?
What I don't understand is what they do when merging two branches. If both branches introduce a function with the same name a merge conflict is inevitable, no? Or do they not support the distributed version control approach and every developer has to submit their changes to the current version of the database?
Sounds likely, coupled with a blind assumption that since the conglomerates dominate most segments in the US, they'll dominate the geographical products in Europe (and where relevant, elsewhere) to a comparable degree.
How to Migrate to Rocky Linux 8
Welcome to software engineering where there is no golden bullets, only different tradeoffs :)
> A great showing for a small, socialist island nation under decades of embargo by hostile anti-communist forces.

Did they edit their post because there is nothing even remotely ideological or controversial in that statement?
Yes, checkpoints help a ton. Even if this means dealing with a slower algorithm. Then make sure to never overwrite the intermediate steps and back them up as-is if needed.
Small Demo 2D Videogame in AssemblyScript
> fairly clearly speculation is the source of much of this

That's a hand wave. You don't want to open your mind and look at different perspectives, fine. But let's not ever think of such a position as a high-quality one.
Those 28-33yr old teamleaders/managers are immediataley alarmed by two things:

- "How am I going to manage this person 15-20 years my senior?" Also this "will want to be manager soon."

- "This old man must be stupid when applying for a non-leadership role at that age."
Anaconda is more because it makes it easier to install python. A lot of our users have never coded before, and we found that installing python through Anaconda seemed the best option.
>I think it is (unfortunately) a privilege of being able to afford the FOSS and privacy-focused alternatives--through money and time. A good salary gives you room for privilege. I don't think you can separate finances from the equation. Many people are just out there trying to take the easiest route to survive, and FOSS isn't as easy.

Reminds me of a quote from http://theantisense.com/2018/10/26/biohacking-trash-flavored...

"I understand that “teaching a man to fish” is a thing, but that metaphor breaks down under the constraints of time and the pressures modern civilization. The ability to make tools stems from access to time. The freedom of time comes from having money. There’s a reason all those Renaissance dudes knew 7 languages, had spare time to write poetry, write essays on philosophy, and built their own laboratories. It’s because someone was doing their dishes and laundry for them. Someone else was subsidizing the overhead."

(The article make a rather different point and that quote is slightly cherrypicked, btw. It's a good article, I recommend it.)
It’s fascinating how consistently the shortage and glut cycle plays out across a diverse range of commodities. The common elements seem to be an undifferentiated product and some delay in the production cycle. The length of shortage and glut depends on the length of delay, which is exacerbated if production depends on fixed assets that take a long time to build and a long time to wear down (e.g. ships).
Probably because datacentre ARM chipsets aren't significantly simpler than Intel ones. Not in any ways that would reduce this problem anyway!

The article even says this is because of reduced feature size, not chip complexity.
> “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA), a system of federal retirement savings accounts

Given Social Security, not only as a concept, but how it has been used as a piggy bank by a spendthrift Congress, the likelihood that a GRA would suffer a similar result is close to certain.

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."--P.J. O'Rourke
The usual reason why not is that solar doesn't provide enough power, and batteries sufficient to power a container ship across an ocean would need to be impractically large.

I wonder if maybe there are good options for powering electric ships mid-journey. For instance, suppose you have a container ship with enough battery capacity to operate for one day. On its usual route, there is a power line running along the ocean floor, and buoys at regular intervals with cables that bring the power up to the surface. Once a day, the ship stops at one of these buoys and charges its batteries for an hour, then continues on its way.
There's only so much room for the landing gear. Larger diameter engines require longer landing gear. Increasing the space given to landing gear requires changes to the wing box. Changes to the wing box is fundamentally a wing redesign.
I think another key idea is that you're still thinking about libraries as complete packages where you kinda install two versions of the same thing. But it seems more likely in the Unison ecosystem that you'd end up with the ability to much more easily only extract the specific functions you need.

So say there is v1 and v2 of a utility lib in my dep tree, but actually only using func A from v1 and func B from v2. Then I just have the AST of v1.A and v2.B in my deps and everything works.
Love it. Just changed the "about" on the repo to that. Thanks! https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal
I think Unison paired with a strong graph database instead of the filesystem would be a powerful combo. It would very naturally represent the AST graph directly and would benefit from graph db optimizations. The cost would be the need to invest a lot in new tooling: you'd want a graph db-based source control implementation that offers similar cryptographic certainty to git; you'd have trouble using existing tooling directly like text editors that expect files on disk; etc.
There is also a book : TCP/IP Lean
http://www.iosoft.co.uk/tcplean.php
we've been in that world for about 10 years now

if you don't like it... turn off secure boot, or enroll your own keys (the mok approach takes about 30 seconds)
An Example IRC Session
Hi Eric - don’t know what AMA means (sorry), but I would like to talk about this with you / your team. I also sent you a note via your website and Twitter. Bottom line is that coverage of your recent announcement talks about dual listing. I’m wondering if you’d be equipped to do a primary. Thanks!

Jonathon Feit
Jonathon.Feit@beyondlucid.com
Did you read the titles? For your convenience:

"Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took
3 years to fully cut ties (yahoo.com)"

"Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments (jessesquires.com)"

It clearly shows what I say.
> Ask the many Cubans in exile, how often they have to send life saving medication to their families on the island.

Well, not to excuse the dictatorship in Cuba, but there is the small issue with embargo and trade restrictions the US places on that particular one. Theoretically, medicine is exempt, but in practice it isn't: https://medicc.org/ns/documents/The_impact_of_the_U.S._Embar...
Agreed. If your product just works, “sales” is a piece of cake. If it doesn’t and you find yourself hiring a fancy expensive charismatic sales team just to convince people to buy your product then that’s borderline fraud imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Mu...

I posted proof, im not goal posting, and you are missing the entire point of what I originally said. Mizrahim/sepharidim are jews from arab/meditaranean/african countries.. they are more than 50% the population of jews in Israel. I am not arguing with any more. Your previous comments describe how you feel already.
> I agree that there's not enough to say definitively that Enigma definitely had a major impact

The parent comment wrote:

> which is demonstrably false

which demonstrably proves my comment perfectly valid and correct.

Try again later.
Custom Cloudwatch metrics are expensive to write to making them useful for coarse grained high level service metrics. If you can afford it go ahead but setting up some other cloud native monitoring service may be the way to go.
If you are running some software that requires an instance, but is in not expected to create load you can put it in a burstable, and setup such an alert, so you know when it is time to upgrade.
Just speaking from experience here: One P.J. O'Rourke quote and I'm off to where the minds are open--nothing personal.
But most of those discussions are between people who haven't got a culinary education.

My point was that there are chef educations where you actually learn things that most amateurs only guess at. But, as Myhrvold's work shows, there are plenty of things that are not necessarily at the level of scientific certainty.
You’re never gonna get anywhere with that argument unfortunately. The hedonic treadmill is too quick and everyone you’re responding to grew up taking all of these modern miracles for granted. I remember what buying snacks was like growing up in China in the early 90s.

You brought your own rice and a dude on the side of the road would pop it for you in a lead pipe.

We shopped at dollar stores after landing in the US and it was mind boggling.
I'm sure it's still ongoing. Either that, or they stopped because they were succesfull.
Morbidly obese with all of the sides. Doctors literally telling me that it wasn’t a good idea to have children because I wouldn’t see them for very long.

After was amazing. Buying clothes in physical stores. All lipid planes and glucose panels normal. My whole medical world switched around.
You can also do 'systemctl edit <service>' which will open up an editor in which you can see the existing configuration and edit the overrides in /etc/
Israel does not “maintain the blockade in Yemen”. It has very little to do with that conflict at all. Why attempt to derail a conversation about Cuba’s healthcare with this?