skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because then too many people will not actually prepare their own pension.

It is worth noting that if your goal is just to handle the people who didn't make wise decisions when young, the current system does more than needed, and there's a much better way to accomplish that. You can simply force people to save n% in a retirement savings account, managed by the government; ie. take the current system, but keep everyone's money separate rather than merging it into a common pool. This is how Singapore's Central Provident Fund works.

The current system really solves 2 problems: people who choose not to save enough, and people who didn't earn enough to save enough. You can solve the 2 separately: the first with the solution mentioned above, and the second with something like a negative income tax.

Now, the problem with separating the 2 is that there may not be enough political will for the second system, because it makes it obvious that the amount you receive in retirement is not in proportion with what you contributed. That's the case now too, but it's obscured by the structure of the program.
Society does not have unlimited resources, so I think a more useful way of characterizing it would be a better allocation of resources to accomplish society's goals.

For example, my one of my grandparents' kidneys stopped working when they were mid 90s. In the US, they were entitled to taxpayer funded healthcare benefits which allowed them to receive dialysis. So US taxpayers paid for a van to come pick them up in a wheelchair 3x a week, perform the dialysis at the center for a few hours, bring them back. And they had to have a translator available since they did not speak English.

This went on for 4 years until they died at 99. Even though it was my grandparent, I still think that was a ludicrous waste of society's resources. They should be given an option for assisted suicide.

I hope that I can figure out a way to take myself out if I ever come into that kind of situation. I see no purpose for me to burden others with providing me with chronic care.
> Scots is a dialect of English.

You are probably thinking of Scottish English or Scots English, which is essentially English of some words and phrases from Scots and a very strong accent.

Scots proper is as much a language of its own as English is.

Scots and what we now think of as English arguably have a similar age and a lot of shared heritage, though obviously given how much separation, invading and other reasons for variation & remixing of languages has gone on over time, it is tricky to tie down completely what came from where when.
Can’t speak post Covid, but last time I checked they weren’t terribly impressive. IIRC the median was 1.1 years. Facebook usually tops the FAANG charts for retention, but the numbers still aren’t great.
I found this to be a pretty good list: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/

Some more details here if you're curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27812093
Our boring non-crypto services business just saw a 100% increase in our cyber premiums due to all the rampant theft and ransomware this wonderful little corner of the internet has given birth to. Great work DeFi world!
> - teachers are astute at spotting students who memorize blindly, and will intervene to correct that

> 100% on memorization

OP says it’s not 100% memorization and you say it’s 100% memorization. So which one is it?
Given M amount of money, if that money goes to shareholders or the company coffers or managers or workers, it can be spent or saved. Why is it more likely to be spent by workers?

I gotta say, the notion that it's somehow a negative that workers get a larger share is a bit convenient for the shareholders, managers, and companies.
Heh. That sounds very familiar. In my IT department, about the same time, we wanted MFA on our admin accounts for services and generally SMS was the only way to do it. But how do you SMS MFA for a team of 5 or 10 people? Well, we used an android phone velcro'd to the wall running tasker and some custom server side scripts.

Even though we could have used Twilio, we chose to do it this way because a lot of services filtered for VOIP numbers and refused to setup MFA on them. So we needed a real honest-to-god number which was extremely annoying.

Team member wrote up a short blog entry about it: https://obviate.io/2015/04/16/making-of-the-mfa-phone-becaus...
Trying to make the switch myself. My boss became a director recently and asked if I still wanted to move up. The problem now is organizational and we had a massive merger recently. The execs are still wanting to trim the fat and blocking new hires/promotions.

Recently I came across some Technical Manager jobs but the commute and lack of WFH post Covid was a deal breaker. I didn’t think they existed for someone without management experience but they do.

One thing to avoid is being called a manager but not having any reports, dotted line “reports.”
It's possible that manna from heaven and the bread at communion are mushrooms. that many of the experiences seem to by psychadelic: the burning bush, the transfiguration, etc. And that it was all gotten rid of during the black death.

https://psychedelictimes.com/the-secret-psychedelic-mushroom...
What is awesome about them?
For insulin to stop working once your glucose got to 75-80 would be perfect.

I'm not so sure about that. Insulin does more than just regulate blood glucose levels; it also affects fat metabolism, potassium levels, and many other things. If the insulin "turned off" completely we could see patients who went into ketoacidosis as a result of fasting and/or exercise.
Can this read existing code and fix one missing piece? That will be cool.

Say I have a question I can't solve by searching through stackoverflow. If the AI can solve a problem like that, it will be great.
Do you think it's required if you live at a latitude further south than your skin tone is evolved for?
Care to explain how I'm paying for the "very wealthy, celebrities, and so on"?

Who says they're being callously exploited? Because some company's founder now has hundreds of billions, that entitles random warehouse workers to share profits?
1. Bookmarks don't save state.

2. Bookmarks aren't a constant reminder in my field of vision that they exist.

3. It turns the "too many tabs problem" into "too many bookmarks".

Once in a while I "unload" my tabs by bookmarking them into a separate folder. I close the tabs and because there's no visual reminder anymore I forget they exist. Eventually I build to to another few hundred tabs and do it again.

Now I'm dealing with a couple of thousand bookmarks. I once deleted my old bookmarks. A couple of years later I went looking for a specific one. I knew exactly where the bookmark should've been, but I had deleted it.

Edit: all of this is to say that I'm not sure whether this has a technological problem. Maybe if the UX of bookmarks was really good.
Bevy's First Birthday: a year of open source Rust game engine development
Is it always about things being faster? I would take less speed for better integrations and less development time.
Excellent book. The audio book is really well done as well - narrated by Ray Porter.
Git does not imply Github in this context.
It was too hard to fork the bitcoin codebase to make things like dogecoin so people figured out how to use ethereum smart contracts to make coins based on ethereum and then they did that again to make entire chains of coins based on chains on ethereum or something.
The financial hurdles do exist - but it is mostly the political lobbying that prevents a real attack on obesity in the US. Sugar is big business and, by extension, obesity greases a lot of people's palms.

The US could take a serious look at addressing massive over consumption - but the last serious take on that was the sugary drink ban in NYC and that turned into a "you'll pry my big gulp from my cold dead hands" affair pretty quickly. The US is in too deep celebrating the exploitation of the health of their populace to turn things around - but other countries might have a chance.
Still early, but looks like damage control to me.

https://twitter.com/mudit__gupta/status/1425150994778787841?...

https://blocksecteam.medium.com/the-initial-analysis-of-the-...
I doubt it.

We know that over work reduces creativity and productivity. Hell, as an outsider you can practically see this in what Google offers; they’ve totally lost their way and keep rehashing the same products in repeatedly inferior ways.

Rather, I think that they feel that it’s more productive or that it gives them more control. Neither of which is a rational argument
What is ATGM? Seems like something I'm not comfortable searching for.
Poly Network has asked digital asset exchanges and miners to block any tokens coming from the above addresses [...] Tether froze more than $30 million in response to the hack

Decentralized finance at its best - so decentralized that individuals and centralized companies can decide to block transactions by themselves.
My anecdata says once in two decades. I migrated a few simple Perl webapps some time ago, the oldest being 20+ years old or something? Not completely sure when it was created.

I moved them from Oracle to PostgreSQL because we would have had to start paying for Oracle licenses ourselves. It's a very good reason to change databases.

There was no ORM, so I just rewrote the queries to be portable and added some runtime branching in cases where that wasn't possible. PostgreSQL has an extension that adds some Oracle compatibility functions and views; that helped. The initial data migration went pretty nicely with ora2pg.

For the largest (and most important) application I had the writing side duplicate writes to both databases so I could run two instances in "production" and compare their behaviour.

It took a couple weeks of work and testing and then a couple months of observing that the new system works fine; the biggest pain was Oracle's '' = NULL thing and the lack of common SQL syntax for sequences; and the complete lack of tests, of course...
It was really helpful to me in highschool that the calculus teacher was also the physics teacher, and many students were enrolled in both classes simultaneously. You ended up learning both at the same time.
Maths do not have a why.
The purpose of the ethnic foods isle is to compete with places like specialty Asian grocery stores. It's not racist, cultural appropriation, segregation or colonialism. Wal-Mart is simply copying the business model of the Asian grocery store down the street to make a profit.
Thanks for the heads up. Our app only uses Intercom and Mixpanel. Are there any best practices for how to handle this so that Brave users can use the app and keep their privacy preferences intact?
I always say "Money doesn't buy happiness, but a severe enough lack of money can certainly cause unhappiness"
Multi-Page Plan in Inkscape
It is only applied for photos which are going to iCloud. If they change that, then we should be really worried. Current method is only pure improvement if leave all speculation out of it.
Transformers Take Over Object Detection
People have been suffering and dying in terrible ways since the dawn of time. And yet we’re trying to improve on this to reduce suffering and death. What’s your point?
In my experience those optimisations tend to never happen unless they make the app unusable, leading to tons of WebApps working like crap.Probably you work on a company that budgets a lot to eorgormsnce optimisation, etc or you just care a lot about it, bit in my experience most companies and most developers don't have the time or motivation for it. I'm tired of sluggish crap.
Make all your Gnome windows maximized and it's the next best thing to i3, except way more polished and stable.
And also hotel employees and third party security companies are accountable to the hotels they work for/contract with and often have a handful of cameras watching dozens or hundreds of guests from reasonable distances. Many AirBnBs have 5+ exterior cameras for the single family staying there and who knows who's watching the videos or what they're doing with them. Not to "think of the children" this too much, but there's no way I would take my family to an AirBnB with a pool if there were any cameras pointed in its general direction.
> If you're the only firm providing stability, your investments in that in the short term might make you less competitive on pay

You're contradicting yourself here. Above you were saying that the way to keep employees is to give them proper raises, and thus enhance stability. How come greater stability equals less competitive pay?
>I dread running Android :(

Why?
Because HN is not "designed" as much as it's just been written by dinosaurs who visit it via Lynx. My browser is currently at 150% and I'm basically a millennial.

The smallest font on this page is 9px, that's just ludicrous.

I mean just open the CSS file and judge for yourself.
chuck aw them biscuity hings right oot.
How about some 19th-century songs? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Scottish_Song
I'm trying to imagine absolutely ridiculous amount of money you'd need to pay to insure something like a DeFi product. OTOH, there's a market opportunity to create DeIns products to handle the demand. Do it right and it's blockchains all the way down.
It's like people watch and read all these Cyberpunk stories and say that nah, it's all fake, can't happen here, tech can solve everything.
Has Apple even once admitted knowing of, or that they participated in PRISM even when official documents were released showing that Apple joined PRISM just after Jobs died? Nope. None of the companies listed did, in fact they all publicly denied it because they are not allowed to by national security "law".

So, how can Apple make any argument when they legally aren't allowed to talk about it? Do you think Cook believes in your privacy so much he will go to prison for revealing it? Nope, he's the one who let them in Apple to begin with and "privacy" is a sales pitch everyone laps up. They've been compromised for over a decade. There is no security. It's all lies on top of lies. Have you ever heard of what happens to people when they reveal top secret government spying programs? Snowden? Drake? Binney? Manning?
lmao a "maverick" you have to be trolling
Tether is a centralized token and never implied blockchain philosophy
> A reasonable person would not bring a dog to a property where it was already established that dogs are not welcome.

I disagree both that the author "brought a dog to the property" and that a reasonable person wouldn't invite a guest with a dog for a few hours.

> What about "no pets" says you can bring a dog, but just for a small amount of time?

Human reasonableness. Just like like listing says a place can house a specific number of people, it doesn't mean you can't invite more than that number temporarily. The people/animals staying for the night is completely different than guests. That's why.
Apple pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store (2017)
How hard is it to set up build caches? Does anyone have working examples for toy projects?
Developers not happy with recent Chrome change on alert API
It had neither, it had routine maintenance that was not done, and covered up.
This is a big Nono in nuke world.

Re: I attended Naval Nuclear Power School
Yep, looks like you're on the nose about it costing too much to them:

> The Services are offered only to residents of the United States. The Services must be primarily used in the United States (territories not included) and are not intended for extended international use. Further, the Services are designed for use predominantly within our network. If your usage outside our network is excessive, abnormally high, or cause us to incur too much cost, we may, at our option and sole discretion, suspend your Google Fi account, terminate your service, or limit your use of roaming.

https://fi.google.com/about/tos
None of these things indicate that I should be forced to pay for someone who doesn't want to work.
> When something critical comes up

The problem: everything looks 'critical' to folks with a greedy and selfish streak who rise high in management and have their pay tied to the quarterly stock price. That's how we ended up with 24/7 support and "five nines" availability. I'm old enough to remember that banks opened late and closed early, didn't operate on weekends or holidays, and if you didn't get your paycheck cashed by 4pm Friday you were out of luck until Monday at 10am. Grocery stores, malls, and tons of other places opened in the morning and closed at night, and most places didn't open on Sunday at all. Those that did opened later "after church".
It could be that the customers most likely to pay are on more recent hardware. So why bother catering to everyone else if there is no return on investment.

Or for free software, chances are it is add supported. So push as many ads and trackers until the churn rate gets too high or competitors take market share.

Or more generally, maybe the design just follows the money.
> There are like 10 easy feature requests I'd love for them to do

Consider that if Mozilla hadn't lied about how it was going to open source it when they announced they were buying Pocket (alternatively, if people actually held them accountable instead of demonstrating that the public's short memory means that you can lie about pretty much anything), then someone would have probably fixed at least a few of those.

If all you're doing is using it to store stuff, then instead of signalling to a company that bad behavior pays off by rewarding them for it, consider using Zotero instead, which doesn't have a history of being insultingly mendacious and by default keeps your data private (in the form of reliable, bog standard files on your own disk). Or, if you're willing to suffer through slightly more geekery, there's Perkeep/Camlistore.
I guess this might be the case in America but seriously? Economic gains up here in Canada tend to either go into reinvestment or leisure since life is your thing and having a fancier car than your neighbor is silly. I think that due to limits on the supply of leisure goods you will find that your second sentence is accurate - but I think that's due to the increased demand of leisure, not due to the increased demand of status (outside of a small portion of the population).
Oh, yes now I can see what you meant. Forgot that private mode was called porn mode, especially since in my brain it's more like "safe mode" to run without extensions or cookies:)
Common Problems with Bank Partners
Program Synthesis can do some rudimentary fixes. But I would love to explore this problem of program correction using AI.
There is actually evidence (iOS 15 beta), that they added option to recover your backup from recovery keys. This strongly suggests that E2EE is coming.

Someone was worried about how they handle the keys. They have solution for that already: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/08/13/is-apple...
Yeah, once the burnout reaches a certain point, they will disengage, and then their right in the middle of the pack of the leavers.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/citibank-revlon-laws...

Just sayin…
That's not how timing attack mitigation works: just because you're doing some other stuff too doesn't mean the timings can't be exploited.
This is why I don’t play.
> cyber premiums

Truly, we live in the future.
The only reason I'm agreeing with you is he didn't have enough control over his domain to maintain the secret.
It's a nice dream, to have a populace educated to a much more advanced level in math, but I don't think it's doable with America as it is, i.e. we can't have both. We could at least stop sliding further down, perhaps, and I'd be glad to hear about many sorts of changes in state- and nation-wide curriculum, while we're to have such things, for what I believe to be marginal improvements. At the smaller margins we have individual parents doing what they can with things like these Russian Math programs, as they have done for a long time, and I think is probably sufficient to ensure the prodigies aren't snuffed out.

What's stopping us? For starters, over a hundred years of battling desires: https://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/AHistory.html Not any of the sides entirely without some merit. And that is closer to America's strength, in that try as we might to enforce Universalism in some domain, we're pretty bad at it against ourselves. This is a good thing, since while the surface of possibilities does suck and we can dream it was much better, it is not entirely uniform and solid, there are yet still many cracks for the precious few (many of whom being immigrants who found their own crack just to get here) to slip through, drag some along with them, and come out to do great things.
In the last few decades, technology has progressed and made a lot of tools available to facilitate remote work. Then the pandemic came along and forced everyone to adopt those tools. A lot of companies have now noticed that they can just go all-in on these tools, expand their talent pool and lower their hiring costs.

As described here[1], my company already has a majority of the new headcount in the non-US countries. The only caution they are taking is to avoid tough timezones like India. But it doesn't matter to a team if the new team member is from Colombia or Canada or Kansas, while it matters a great deal to the execs to hire that person outside US since that saves a lot of money to the company.

Who benefits? Shareholders, execs and the middle class in the non-US countries. Who loses? US middle class. We have seen this movie before with manufacturing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235
I don't get how an OS is released and performance isn't mentioned.

I think each OS release must include data about the performance (Speed and resources at steady state).

We want performant and lean OS's.
What specifically do you have issues with when it comes to IAM?

It’s a complicated tool for sure, but it comes from the natural complication of dealing with auth in a very flexible way.
Point from Corey Quinn; there sure are a lot of companies registered in Delaware that want to reduce their workers comp based on location.

Apparently what’s good for the Goose is not good for the Gander, according to executives.
Can you cite a statute that requires a provider to look for hashes when NCMEC asks them to?

If NCMEC told a provider that a specific URL (or similarly unique identifier) contains CSAM, the provider would be obligated to destroy the associated file or be guilty of possession/distribution because at that point they know what they have. That's different from NCMEC providing hashes that could identify files the provider may or may not be storing.
That's right. In most of the world, easter is referred to as some derivative of 'Paschal', which is the adjectival form of Easter in English.

For example,

French: Paques
Spanish: Pascua
Romanian: Pasti
Russian: пасха (Paskha)
Chinese: fùhuójié (resurrection festival)
Danish: paske

Only the german languages adopted a Germanic goddess name due to the coincidental timing.
I know at least one person on the Snowpack/Astro team has expressed[1] interest in dual Node/Deno support.

I’m not currently advocating for supporting Deno on my professional projects. But this isn’t for lack of interest, it’s just lower priority than other changes I want to make first. I absolutely want to switch when I can justify it, if for no other reason than fast TypeScript ESM without a build/transformation step.

1: https://twitter.com/n_moore/status/1423672410486755332?s=21

Edit: forgot link
>pay their fair share

Define fair share, it's not clear to me what that is.
If you only have a small amount of hazmat you find someone who's renting storage trailers and pay them cash, fill the trailer(s) and then drop off the face of the earth.

If you just have tires you can make a pile visible from the road. Given enough time some teenagers with a flare gun will make them go away.
"Test teams are applying mechanical, electrical and thermal techniques to prompt the valves to open"

Wait, what? They are heating and banging on them to "fix" them?!