skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A limitation of this study is that it defines “retirement savings” as money in literal retirement accounts. Due to the perverse structure of how most retirement accounts are tied to employment and the rules around them, there is no vehicle for a significant percentage of Americans to actually put significant savings into retirement accounts regardless of income. As a consequence, a not small subset of Americans have much or all of their retirement savings elsewhere out of necessity. Another subset has a strong preference for rental real estate, which again is outside of the “retirement savings” rubric even though that is literally their retirement plan.

I know quite a lot of GenX that would be impoverished in retirement as defined in this study that are actually quite well off. This is like the oft-quoted study that shows Americans can’t pay for a $400 expense from savings, where “savings” is defined as “literally having a savings account”, which few people even have anymore regardless of income or wealth. It paints a misleading picture.

It would also help if the government didn’t tie retirement saving so closely to your employer. Retirement saving limits should be the same for everyone, regardless of employment.
Source?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...
My wife and I moved to a town of 3,000 in a county of 17,000 during the pandemic. We almost left to go back to a bigger city because we struggled to find “our tribe” — nerds. But just in the last month, we found so many people that we’ve now got three weekly D&D groups running!
Dunno, but I read Americans eat 6B chickens a year; only 2B are alive at any one time. So, lots.
Wrong. #2 behind brazil https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death.... Per capita it's lower (around 12th), behind Venezuela,Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil,Puerto Rico, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Trinidad And Tobago, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and Uruguay
Once smart glasses run solidly and can run mind blowing innovation / apps solidly too they are the next smart phone. Such innovations will sell smart glasses like apps drove smart phone sales.

I think my argument is helped by the billions both Facebook and Apple are putting into smart glasses.
> designed for living in the moment while expressing yourself to the max.

Why would they write copy like this? Surely it causes a visceral cringe reaction in anybody over 35, say.

Is Generation Z a clean slate for 1980s vague hyperbolic ad-speak?
It might be helpful to store them in the fridge as opposed to the freezer in some cases. Last time I checked, the highest inflection point in lithium ion degradation with storage seems to be at temperatures at or above 30 C or so [1], so the 5 C typical environment in a fridge would appear to give sufficient margin.

One problem with storing them really cold is that should the device drain the battery, a cold battery can more easily fall under the "minimum cell voltage" threshold due to the changed voltage curve, which can cause laptop batteries to totally fail permanently due to the monitoring chip inside.

Lithium batteries don't like being charged under 0 degrees Celsius (let them warm up first!), and attempting to do so can lead to the lithium being unable to intercalate into the electrode, causing plating of lithium. The batteries should probably be wrapped in a sealed plastic bag with dessicant in it, to prevent condensation from getting to the internal protection electronics. The device should be allowed to warm up before being removed from the bag to prevent condensation.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep12967
if the clove hitch is tied near the end of the rope, you can take the tail and tie an overhand knot with it around the standing line to back it up
Didn’t Google already try this with Google Glass?
> "By re-running the same commentary it strengthens the original commentary tenfold each time. ... In the wake of these really terrible things, we have this comment that really holds up."

I remember there was that one guy who said something about repeating the same thing over and over until it became true.
I hate everything about this tech. It invades people's privacy in-exchange for monetization and there's no way to opt-out. People made this happen should take a long walk and think about what they are doing with their lives.
It’s not just the color of the bubble.

On iOS, green is a warning that at least two things are true:

1) The other side is subject to blanket surveillance (which is probably true of RCS, assuming Google implemented the client/backup).

2) The other endpoint cannot handle images or videos correctly. Based on their track record with the last dozen communications platforms Google has built, this is probably also true for Android RCS implementations. For example, the other day, someone attempted to use gmail to send me a locally stored image, and instead it sent a URL back to some server somewhere. This is neither SMTP nor SMS’s fault. Presumably Google’s RCS client will eventually pull crap like that too. Hell, they try to do it with HTML (remember AMP)?

Note that, following this convention, Signal messages are correctly colored blue, even when sent to android.

(I know that apple does not dictate these colors. Just explaining what “green bubble” means to people that are used to android’s bullshit.)
Show HN: Convert HTML from unsafe inline handlers to CSP-safe external scripts
Apple is probably lucky that so few people use Macs, because the EU would have a field day with this notarization bullshit if they'd managed to get a 10% market share on computers.
You’ll naturally want to see the Red Pyramid, too. Also worth it. Going to Saqqara for the step pyramid and the Pyramid of Unas (for the underground portion with the hieroglyphs) was also great. I thought Memphis was underwhelming after the other things, but it’s still cool.
Doing a quick search puts the U.S. at number 2 in 2019, but I haven't studied this closely.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
The real disingenuous part is where OP lied about the maintainer saying his patch was better.

It would be pretty bad if he said that, but he never did.
My wife did exactly that because she is a light sleeper. She actually slept near the center of the bed with the baby on her chest, so she could perceive any movement.
I got used to perceive baby movements too.

I would obviously suggest to be very honest with yourself, but if you are a light sleeper and don't roll (we didn't), the most you have to be careful of is heat. Otherwise, enjoy the cuddly night
The death rate by firearm in the US is higher, per capita, than in all of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Gun deaths elsewhere are more criminality and gang related. There is no other country in the world with regular school shootings.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
Which countries do you consider first-world? Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia?
Fun to write stuff like that and feel the righteous indignation. If only it were true.

Except you obviously moved the goalposts there.

The "this" there is no way to prevent, in the only nation where it happens, is school shootings. We are not just at the top of that list, we're at the bottom as well, because it doesn't happen anywhere else.

Hence the title.
They scream and stemp their feet for sure, but not for long.

It worked in Australia [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback
RCS does not consistently work unlike other OTT messaging platforms. Roaming on another network often breaks RCS, and even when both people are on their native networks, RCS will turn on and off during a conversation seemingly at random.

Note that my usage has only occured on Google's Jibe servers using Pixel phones. Samsung Messages and alternative RCS servers might perform differently.
Going from 240 to 120 is noticeable. At least for me. I can barely use 60 anymore on external.

XD
Yay, now instead of fighting one giant corporation in court, you're fighting two!
> It's more around math as the language of the universe, in things like quantum physics -- there's no "approximation" here, it's more the nature of reality itself.

Why is it that everyone thinks of mathematical models of quantum mechanics as much closer to the "nature of reality" than any other mathematical model? If anything the constant disagreements between quantum mechanics and physical models at other scales should make it clear that all the models we have are wrong by virtue of incompatibility.
You can buy one. The link is at the bottom of the article.
King George III tried.
Almost certainly the opposite. More massive galaxies tend to form in more massive dark matter halos.
Who gave DCF the power to take away kids in the middle of the night without due process?

Until we vote out of office the elected representatives who passed the laws that give government agencies such draconian powers, and insist on those laws being changed, we won't fix this problem.
$ /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin21)

on the off chance anyone was curious/didn't remember. Yes, I have $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/bash and it's 5.2.15

In that same vein, I wondered if that syntax was supported in zsh since modern macOS went whole hog and ... I gained one more pebble on the huge pile of steaming turds why I detest zsh

$ /bin/zsh -exc '{ echo alpha; echo beta; } |& wc -l'
+zsh:1> wc -l
4

dafuq?

$ /bin/zsh -exc '{ echo alpha; echo beta; } |& cat'
+zsh:1> cat
+zsh:1> echo alpha
alpha
+zsh:1> echo beta
beta

oh, aren't you just the funniest. har. de. har.
Good day HN! I recently had a need to write a simple HTML static site that needed some JS functionality. I wanted to use inline handlers, but didn't like how they were 'unsafe inline', so I made this simple Python3 script to convert all inline handlers to a safer external script, with the CSP hash output to boot!

Check it out, maybe you can use it, maybe it can help you write HTML easily, but then harden it to make it more secure, so you don't have to serve it with 'unsafe inline' CSP header! :)
It seems like a Roth IRA would work? But maybe people don’t know about them. And yes, some people prefer real estate.
Well, you’re secure if you can’t do anything, right?
You’ve got a steel and concrete frame already there. Everything else is not only useless, but actively in the way and has to be replaced. And the end result will still suck because that building frame was designed in a fundamentally different way to how apartments are.
A medical professional explained to me that your body gets accustomed to the body presence of the baby and unconsciously react to it: the body is aware. Now of course mother nature experiments with everything, so there are for sure people who don't get this "awareness" and as such, could be dangerous.
This is not remotely obvious

Apple stopped emphasising discoverability a long time ago.
Prompt engineering and using multiple AI models in parallel might find ways to cancel out most hallucinations similar to how consensus-based replication works.
Least cool thing I’ve ever seen.
Bunch more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681505
Nah we tried that already -- this is different.
flood...the market!
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.

[0] https://simplex.chat
How Washington DC Got Its Metro
I vote for a flip-cover that visibly shows that the camera lens is covered. Like clip-ons, taken to the next level of dork.
In Postgres this effect is huge since there aren't primary indexes. All tuples for a table get mixed up together in the heap, so a large table will tend to having only 1 hot tuple per page. Additionally, every update and delete leaves a dead tuple to implement MVCC, and these are much easier to clean up with VACUUM on a small table.

I'm not as familiar with sqlite, but it might have a similar problem in this case since the primary clustered index is on rowid and not a value that correlates with whether the queue item is running.
Firearm related X is the wrong thing to measure. Obviously if guns are truly banned, there will be no gun crime. There will still however be knife crime, fist crime, car crime, etc.

The thing we want to measure is if we can (as a country) live our lives in peace. Better measures of this might be all crime, violent crime, life-span related measures, or even mental health and drug abuse.

Banning one specific thing does not change human nature. We need to take a holistic view to address many issues underlying violent crime, firearm related or not.
The types of batteries used in this type of equipment tend to be less robust and more prone to this type of problem than other common equipment with lithium cells in them.

Cells/packs used in these hobby applications typically lack an outer protective shell, and are of the pouch cell type. This makes them more susceptible to damage, but is done for primarily weight considerations likely. Typical notebook or phone batteries will be encased in some form of structure that protects them, and for smaller batteries, like in phones, can prevent the fire from exiting the enclosure to some extent.

Furthermore, these cells/packs are designed for shockingly high instantaneous discharge rates, which means that any accidental release in energy will be correspondingly fast and violent. It seems that protection of the battery is the charger/device's responsibility, so it's also easy to accidentally use batteries which have been overtemped/overdischarged/underdischarged/overcharged. (they also have much lower design cycle counts than typical electronics batteries). Typical electronics batteries have a chip in them that will disconnect the battery, sometimes permanently, should any of these conditions occur at some point in the battery's lifespan.

I would personally recommend against the storage or charging of such batteries indoors without measures to contain any potential fire. For what it's worth, discharging (and maintaining) the batteries at a low state of charge will also decrease the amount of energy available for combustion.
Yes. I think this was a conscious choice. The field of view allows for a more compelling AR/VR projection.
Generative Modeling Tools Renders 2D Sketches in 3D
I'm glad we were given an option but only based on comfort level, not because of better safety. We wanted the hospital, in case you need a rushed c section.
In case it saves anyone a minute or two, here’s a link that doesn’t strike me as super suspicious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_guns_an...

- Intentional homocides per capita: 59th

- Firearms per person: 1st

- Firearm-related deaths per capita: 9th (and 1–8 are all in Central America or South America, with the exception of Jamaica)
Can you elaborate on the interoperability of that?
Oh I don't just mean for astronomers, I definitely feel like all those lit up towers must be contributing for less visible night sky stars for the rest of us
Victoria Woodhull
True. The same can be said for employees - eventually they might unionize or quit en masse, regardless of what the owners want. Or for customers - they might decide to quit buying the company's products or services. Or for society as a whole - perhaps laws will be passed to strictly regulate a business or to ban its core activities - even if the company is profitable and has lots of enthusiastic employees and customers.
Yeah sure, still I think its better to start with a more modern and more save language even though it does not make everything automatically secure.
I have looked into applications of topology a lot and "everywhere" seems like a stretch, though perhaps you mean it in a particular sense that differs from mine. Could you give some examples of what you think of as the most useful practical applications of topology?
http://gitwit.dev shows us that LLMs can generate various GUIs just fine, when prompted.
We've banned this account because (a) we don't allow single-purpose accounts; that's incompatible with HN's core principle of curiosity; and (b) we don't allow accounts to use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of what they're battling for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that sids is vague, sometimes is used to protect the parents from murder accusation because overly tired
This will continue to be a problem as long as infinite throwaway accounts are permissible. "Assume good faith" falls apart when the commenter is so obviously lying for fake internet points. Mods are asleep.
It’s honestly one of my favourite bits of software these days. Feels very respectful and responsive. I tired logic and ableton. Both are great tools but a bit janky.

Never though I’d say I love a Java program but they did a really really good job.
Did Facebook (er, Meta) completely overlook the extreme backlash to the same concept 10 years ago with Google Glasses? Just look up articles from that time, e.g. https://nypost.com/2014/07/14/is-google-glass-cool-or-just-p... What makes them think it's different this time?

From 2014:

"“Glasshole” has become the term du jour, and outrage has spiraled so out of control that San Francisco has seen a series of reported attacks on users.

New York City’s not immune to the backlash, either.

Gottfried chased down a man who had stolen his Glass right off his face. (He also had an incident at a San Francisco bar where drunken patrons accused him of recording them. He insists he wasn’t.)

In April, a techie war erupted when East Village restaurant Feast kicked out Glass-user Katy Kasmai after she refused to remove her device. Kasmai vented online, and hundreds of Glass groupies rallied against Feast on Google, accusing the eatery of discriminating “against people who are into new technology.”

Feast co-owner Brian Ghaw is unapologetic. He says Feast’s no-Glass policy is for guests’ peace of mind. “They just felt uncomfortable about having somebody who could potentially videotape them,” explains Ghaw. “If someone were sitting at a table with their smartphone constantly pointing in a certain direction and you didn’t know what they were doing with it, you’d feel pretty uncomfortable as well.”"
Not sure how you wound up where you are, but it sounds like you're not in the right place. If you look around and don't see any of 'your people' around, it might make sense to go wherever 'your people' are instead.
I would find value in hearing why an intelligent person rolls their eyes instead of feeling righteous indignation.

It's really, really hard for me to understand why gun violence doesn't make you feel indignation, righteous or otherwise.

But right now, I am willing to listen.
As field anthropology, this is an interesting observation.
No, but Snapchat did. Also Facebook did too.
How many of these governmental bodies look after the best interests of their citizens?

For example:

This year when I was traveling in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, most everyone I talked to (surprisingly) wanted big governmental changes there and would welcome a governmental collapse. The two main concerns were high theft rate of valuables and phones as well as politicians campaigning with big promises and then doing nothing but playing on their phones and getting paid for it. There was no accountability in government.

From my own perspective, Ecuador needs foreign intervention and foreign security to help to at least keep mayors and presidential candidates from getting regularly assassinated because the way it’s going there, it looks like a collapse is probable. Ecuador’s government was one case of a government body not performing in the best interests of its citizens.
The whole “companies must maximize profits at all costs” thing is false, fake, untrue.

It’s easy to prove: if true, it would be illegal for companies to do any philanthropy at all. They do, out of some mix of brand building and PR and whatever, but obviously those same principles can be applied to any other policy that seeks to increase NPV of future profits at the expense of this quarter.

Companies can and do pass up revenue opportunities and that is fine and legal.
This is way too cool.
Just to clarify the cameras are very well fit into the profile of the glasses, so it doesn’t look like “camera” glasses in person. Ray ban did a good job here.

But on the flip side it’s very obvious when you’re filming (bright white light comes on), so it’s less creepy.

Oh and obviously unless you’re an influencer and streaming the camera aren’t always active. I agree it’s weird to hang out with streaming influencers.

The way this + my Apple Watch has reduced my phone usage when on the go I truly appreciate. I wish Facebook sold it with that point in mind but they won’t for obvious business cannibalization reasons.
Isn’t that basically the first edition of Wall’s “Programming Perl”?
Wow, that's scary. Did this happen while it was charging, or completely at random?
Same experience. We made sure the room temperature was warm enough to not use blankets (no risk of suffocation), but not too hot for the baby.

We went from sleeping 2 hours per WEEK (I cannot describe to you how it felt), to getting 8 hours on the first co-sleep.

Never looked back.
I installed Titanfall last month and it between 50GB and 60GB (I don't remember exactly).
> Obviously if guns are truly banned, there will be no gun crime. There will still however be knife crime, fist crime, car crime, etc.

The gun is greatest weapon of destruction a regular citizen can have, is allowed to carry and buy. Knifes needs physical proximity to use.
How did you tie the liquorice though?
The people on Meetup aren’t defined by their hobbies either. I have had wonderful times on group hikes through Meetup, and I don’t consider myself to be “a hiker.” I just enjoy hiking sometimes. Same with the other people who were there.

If you see something you think you might enjoy doing, I encourage you to give it a shot. Even if you’re not a [that thing]-er.
> Along with our propensity for polluting air and water and the massive amounts of carbon we're dumping into the atmosphere to trigger climate change, we have created another kind of pollution: light pollution.

Ahh yes, light pollution, killing millions annually like air pollution and choking seas and rivers like water pollution. Threatening the existence of nations and making swathes of the world unlivable, like climate change.

Come on, light “pollution” is not remotely equivalent to the others.
> Russians weaponized fentanyl into a gas and used it to disable Chechen terrorists in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 [0]. It was so effective that besides the terrorists some hostages died before an antidote could be administered.

This is somewhere between myth and outright fiction.

There is zero evidence that fentanyl or its derivatives were responsible for any deaths. The claim that fentanyl was responsible is based on a single study which claimed to find fentanyl on one sample of clothing and in the urine of two survivors ten years after the incident happened, something which has & far more plausible explanations.
Thanks! I created the initial MVP of Mel right after we shut down Remedy back in 2017, so the SMS-based UI was top-of-mind.

A great post-mortem on Remedy here: https://www.fastcompany.com/40483774/remedy-wanted-to-cut-pe...
Same here, I got to watch my dad burn though his retirement nest egg at an astonishing rate once he fell Ill and needed long term care. Started out at only $3800/m for assisted living and ended up at $11,000/m in a nursing home. This was by far the most stressful period of of both our lives. You will need much more money to retire than you realise unless you stay in good health or die young.