skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t really understand the pension model or how it is legal to just take it away randomly. Why isn’t the model just to pay employees more and let them save to a 401k that they control?

1. It is not legal to just take it away, as this ruling kind of indicates.

2. Most people are absolutely at (a) putting aside money, and (b) investing it properly. See for example "Retirement Crisis: The Great 401(k) Experiment Has Failed for Many Americans":

* https://www.nbcnews.com/business/retirement/great-401-k-expe...

Doing a search for "401k experiment has failed" will give lots of results.
Why is pension managed by the company, wouldn't a national pool be better? In India in the latest system, employee pays some, company adds some and from the money collected over lifetime, the pension will be given. The fund is managed by central government.
>Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not obligate all authors to write to your reading level.

This, although it's not even always a disability related issue. Sometimes things in life aren't made for you, and you'll be happier understanding that. It's similar to complaining that an advanced mathematics textbook wasn't understandable given your baseline understanding of maths. It's not being written for you.
> There’s a split between people blaming the business and blaming the EU.

I mainly just see Europeans defending it as not the EU, and I see that as patriotism and not an argument from merit. I have to see it that way because blaming the businesses for engaging in a legal activity and doing something mandated by regulation is crazy to me.

> Most aren’t. The GDPR says explicitly that withdrawing consent must be at least as easy as giving it. Yet most popular websites make it incredibly simple to accept but obtuse to refuse.

Most popups have two buttons, accept or reject. It doesn't really get simpler than that.
Maybe those few schools haven't done it because they don't want to have a racist admission policy.
I think you might want to open a newspaper, Israel was at war with Lebanon back in 2006. 2024's war is with Palestine/Hamas.
This is the most relevant point, yet downvoted. Hezbollah decided to pile-on and attack Israel (at Iran's urging, to support their other proxy Hamas). Prior to that, there hadn't been serious conflict between the two states in years.
this was excellent and necessary context on all fluff pieces like the OP. how can we automate this kind of analysis?
I think possibly this is Israel sticking a dagger in Chinese manufacturing.

We sort of knew all along something like this could happen, hence why Huawei got kicked out from the West. But this makes you realize that anything made in mainland China with a Lithium battery is a potential incendiary device, worse still, usually connected to the Internet. Not that I necessarily think China would want to do that, but basically the genie is out of the bottle, and you can't put it back in.

The theoretical threat has just literally exploded in people's faces.

(I know this was actual explosives not batteries but you could do a lot of damage with batteries)
I'm not expert but does small amounts like this are really detectable in bulk? Even at the airport for some reason you have to remove all electronics and put in separate box.
> When you come in here talking about how "harmful" words like "cure" are,

Again, I am not saying this. Like at all. Saying things like autism is something that should be cured is harmful. How many times have I repeated this in this thread? Especially when you're saying things like, "even if the individual doesn't want it," precisely demonstrating the issues involved here.

> There is no "stigma" on therapy except for the stigma you are trying to make.

There is stigma against people with autism in no small part caused by the exact arguments you are making here. How is this distinction not clear?

> No, what you and another commenter are "pushing back against" is anyone suggesting that therapy is needed and better therapy would be better.

No one is saying this! We're talking about a cure. Particularly in your case an involuntary one. Plenty of people are in therapy for this, and get coaching, me included! No one has a problem with that.

FWIW I am on the spectrum and not new to any of these arguments, they're always presented in this same dishonest fashion. Have a good one. You need more help than anyone else, I suspect - You can't seem to have an honest discussion about this, so I'm done. FWIW I work in ASD support groups with people of varying severities and the majority whenever this comes up would opt to not have a cure. No one has a problem with congenitally deaf people opting not to be "cured," so why is there such an issue here? Again, rhetorical question, I know the answer, and I have absolutely zero interest in discussing this further with someone like you.
> so much stuff is basically free

It really isn't. Have a look at daily median income statistics for the rest of the planet:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=t...

$2.48 Eastern and Southern Africa (PIP)
$2.78 Sub-Saharan Africa (PIP)
$3.22 Western and Central Africa (PIP)
$3.72 India (rural)
$4.22 South Asia (PIP)
$4.60 India (urban)
$5.40 Indonesia (rural)
$6.54 Indonesia (urban)
$7.50 Middle East and North Africa (PIP)
$8.05 China (rural)
$10.00 East Asia and Pacific (PIP)
$11.60 Latin America and the Caribbean (PIP)
$12.52 China (urban)

And more generally:

$7.75 World

I looked around on Ali, and the cheapest charger that doesn't look too dangerous costs around five bucks. So it's roughly equal to one day's income of at least half the population of our planet.
I've regarded RabbitMQ as a secret weapon in plain sight for years. The killer reason people don't use it more is it "doesn't scale" to truly enormous sizes, but for anyone with less than a million users it's great.

Too many people end up with their own half rolled pubsub via things like grpc, and they'd be far better off using this, particularly in the early stages of development.
My guy, the money-hungry vultures are more so the ones exploiting open-source without contributing anything back -- not even financially, let alone development or maintenance.

It's high time permissive OSS licenses died together with free maintenance and support.
Totally agree, although odd that the post was tagged as "open source."
OK, you send the company two random numbers. One an ID, and the other a unique encryption key to encrypt the results.
I find it really hard to justify spending $600M on a system like that? Look, if you had 500 skilled FTEs working on the project for 2 years, at $250K per FTE, that would be a total cost of $250M. Say 50 FTEs for ongoing support at $12.5M/year or $125M for 10 years. So $375M.

But the above numbers are hugely generous. This is not building an ERP from scratch. Do you really think it would take 500 people (say 400 engineers and 100 non-engineers), to build and deploy such a system? I would imagine you could get it done (and done right) with half that many, or less.

Anyway, just mind-blowing.
An unknown exploit that causes your battery to overheat in just the right circumstance (active sensory conditions met), not inconscievable.

I think our society is set to implode due to our lack of awareness and incompetents. Relying upon others to keep you safe is a form of incompetence.

Explore open source hardware. Go solar punk. Keep your dumb phone and your smart pad separate physical devices, which proxy.

Good luck staying safe!
It isn't legally possible to "just" take a pension away.

However, it is not economically possible to deliver defined benefits into an uncertain future.

The collision of the unstoppable force of law and the immovable rock of economic reality creates a great deal of excitement and uncertainty. Also rather a lot of those "heat and not much light" arguments, as people speaking in one of those two frames argue with someone else in the other and they end up talking right past each other.
can you elaborate how XGBoost could be used for a time series type thing like Chartwatch seems to be doing?
That's skewed logic. The fact that Israel was originally created because Jews needed a safe haven doesn't mean that when they won't need it anymore it will disappear.

Also, from Israel's declaration of independence: "we extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East."

Kinda odd for someone with incentive to keep the war going to say that, not to mention to sign peace agreements with the two neighbors it is sharing the longest borders with, Egypt and Jordan.
I'd also argue there's a way to get a reasonable form of this in a more centralized world: You need functional KYC with a high degree of certainty that every participant in the discussion is human and culpable, and you need a system that allows users to block other users. That's really about it.

The problem with many of these social media platforms (X, Threads, Insta, etc) is that they are actively disincentivized to enforce the first requirement of those two. Strict KYC is (rightly) viewed by many as overtly invasive of privacy, it would hurt the volume of content on these platforms (because 90% of it is AI generated engagement bait), and it would hurt their user signup and retention metrics (being ignorant of how many bots and alts are on your platform is vastly better than knowing and doing something about it).
> There was no capital investment, because why pay to have a huge line that isn't being used.

I'd like to suggest that what Tek did worked back then, and the same insightful leadership wouldn't simply copy the solutions from 20 years ago.

Thus the problem is "there was no capital investment, because there was no visionary leadership," and the problem is also that the short-sighted leadership simply saw "a huge line that isn't being used," instead of a workforce ready to take your company into the next century.

> Military are terrible customers ... You spend a lot of effort and business just evaporates.

This only applies to companies that lack vision, that seem to only be able to keep stamping out the same widget as 20 years ago.

> Tek already struggles to compete against cheaper, adequate solutions.

Seems like a lack of leadership, instead of an existential proof that Tek can't compete.

> We've traded the manufacturing we had 50 years ago for other things. It's not possible to specialize in "everything."

This actually sounds like the kind of visionary leadership that Tek or the larger Portland metro needs.

If I sound combative, please only read this in a curious voice. What kind of visionary leadership could rise from the ashes of the Silicon Forest?
Here is the unrolled tweet for those without an active account:

https://unrollnow.com/status/1182635589604171776
Didn’t mean to imply you hadn’t watched them at all; was simply trying to use them as evidence.

> What makes „some“ any different than a hundred or a million? How can you be certain of the intent if civilian casualties were/should have been anticipated?

The point I’m trying to make is that there was a very small amount of explosive in each device. They could have added more material had they wanted to do more damage.

There were many ways to make this far more damaging, and they could simply have shot rockets or bombs from the air.

This was a targeted attack, focused on the specific users of these devices, who are Hezbollah militants. Bystanders were not intended to be harmed, which makes this, by definition, a discriminate and surgical attack on Hezbollah militants.

I’m not really sure what about that isn’t clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system
That is a great tip, I had no idea. Thanks!
Probably we need both. Hardkill all devices, and let determined users resurrect their own devices with the open source firmware if needed. The point is that millions of vulnerable devices won't stay online by default.
"Although the term "zero-day" initially referred to the time since the vendor had become aware of the vulnerability, zero-day vulnerabilities can also be defined as the subset of vulnerabilities for which no patch or other fix is available." - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_vulnerability
It seems appropriate that a company's own pensions should be senior claims over shareholders which might indirectly be responsible for part of other pensions or retirement funds somewhere down the line.
The whole point of all this fancy encryption is to make it mathematically impossible for the vendor to read your messages. It doesn't matter if it's mathematically impossible for them to read messages on the server if it's operationally trivial for them to extract them from the client.

It's end-to-end encrypted, but both ends are wide open for Discord to do what they like. If not them, someone doing a supply chain attack on their frivolously & opaquely updating proprietary clients.

WhatsApp has E2EE, but how do you think they found CSAM on people's devices? Because they control the endpoints.
This is very cool and I could have seriously used this when recovering from RSI! However, it's not exactly a great argument that this is better than a keyboard and mouse for those who are abled enough to use them fully.
Ah, interesting. I think, looking back, that "lea" is usually where I start getting confused!

I apparently also need to internalize harder that I should just ask llms about everything :-)
It seems like you are implying that this is bad outcome for pensions - do you truly believe that?
Can you clarify what you’re referring to with defined benefit? I am really looking to make it so that companies don’t hold pensions hostage. I think they should be putting money into some outside thing that is independently managed
Been working on something cool—imagine building powerful AI agents just by writing it out in a doc. No code, just ideas.

Excited to share this with the HN community! Would love any feedback. You can use the free plan credits to try building your own agent.
Israel declares start of 'new phase' of war - Lebanon
The only practically relevant Linux environments you can't expect these things to exist are stripped down distros used for docker images, like Alpine (where you don't expect much from the system anyways) and Android (not sure about the latter, haven't used it in production in quite a while, but afair it's as non-standard as it gets).
Urg, I used exactly this brand in the past.

Is an interesting problem. Maybe the experts in the area could help here. I assume that a worn battery near the end of its life is more prone to explode, but I wonder...

Would the dead cells in the battery take part in that; or are just dead and not reactive.

In other words: if a battery has only a 30% remaining alive; or a laptop has a very worn battery, would an hypothetical explosion by overheating be much less severe? or is still so dangerous as new?.
Regarding the other bidders dropping out, what exactly was the primary expense that gave it an estimated $1B total cost? $600M can build out a greenfield software platform, so there must be more to it.
No one said it was wrong, they just said it's "right" discourse.
Cython relies heavily on the Python runtime. You cannot, for example, make a standalone binary with it. A lot of unoptimized Cython binary is just Python wrapped in C.

From a quick glance this seems to genuinely translate into native execution.
There’s plenty of LISP packages that support process composition. Also LISPs syntax better suits write once type environments like REPL shells than your average C-derived syntax.
I don't know the details, but I suspect its a bit more. Probably takes as input all of the factors over a time series and then determines based on these inputs over time there is a higher likelihood of Y. When that likelihood reaches some threshold it sends an alert to the nurse. It's almost certainly not as simple as temperature at 105 -> alert (although a temp of 105, would certainly signal a problem).
>† Another thing that caused them problems is that Chinese characters are addressed differently by different people, sometimes by name, sometimes by title, sometimes by a kinship term that will vary with the relationship between speaker and addressee.

I have that problem with watching anime, especially slice-of-life types where you have 20 people all in school uniforms and with realistic hair colors and such. They'll all be called 3-4 different names and have no real distinguishing characteristics.
The trend of shutting down / charging steeply for API access has fundamentally changed the internet.
Sad to hear that. I use it in several projects successfully.
Politics and philosophy discussions here are intelligent in that most of the commenters aren’t dumb. They tend to be entirely uneducated and resistant to the educated.
This is how I feel about NATS: https://nats.io/

It's an infinitely more friendly version of Kafka, pub/sub, etc that is extremely lightweight. Yet every environment trends towards Kafka because it was "chosen" by the big corps.
IMO, getting comfortable with and tuning autocomplete makes this a non-issue, and the benefit of the verbose commands is that they are very discoverable.
In tomorrow’s news, Cloudflare blocked by Brazil.
Do you know how to use netstat to see who is holding the port open? This seems like a major Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair issue. But also Ubuntu can be a special place. But if you stop the service & the port is still open... It's probably not that service, it's something else, and so throwing shade at systemd is again not accurate.

Ah. It might be a systemd-resolved.socket (or similarly named), allow socket activation. Systemd would warn you when you disable the service that it wouldn't be giving up the socket, that it could still be restarted. Because it's a great monorepo that's smart & courteous.
In addition to Strands and Betweenle, as you've mentioned, my list includes:

* Wordle https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/

* Weaver https://wordwormdormdork.com/

* Squaredle https://squaredle.app/

* Plusword https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/plusword/

* Travle https://travle.earth/

* Waffle https://wafflegame.net/daily

* Conexo https://conexo.ws/en/

I don't play every one of these every day, but it's nice to have some ways to fidget while waiting for the train. Thanks for your links - looks like a few I haven't heard about before.
The latest FDA Guidance on Cybersecurity requires that we show how we secure our device's software supply chain. Next time someone complains, I'm going to remind them of this attack.
Whether manufacturing grows, on its own or as % of GDP, has nothing to do with any particular segment of manufacturing has grown or declined, or emerged or disappeared.

As a thought experiment, you can do the same analysis with any number of technologies from the 20th century—typewriters, vacuum tubes, plate-based printing presses, analog telephones—and the point is obvious.
Plenty of people place plastic containers into microwaves.
Looks like they only use it in Brazil, everywhere else seems to resolve to regular Twitter IPs
Both sides are leeching off somebody, one off a project that picked the wrong license, and the other off contributors who were mislead about a project's licensing intentions.
If the recipe has "garlic" in the title, I'm budgeting 1/2 head per serving.
could you do as much damage with batteries though? it seems like they would start fires instead of exploding
Postgres Window Functions for Data Analysis
Well, this is better than most of the comments on the subject. You actually propose a mechanism - tax breaks, maybe with a wink and a "you know what we want". It could happen just that way.

Now, do you have any evidence that it actually is happening this way? Because, while you have motive, and a plausible mechanism, you still haven't shown any evidence that the crime actually happened this way.
-Future historians were baffled by the extinction of 99% of life on earth after the planet inexplicably became surrounded by a cloud of radioactive soot. Monuments were discovered exclaiming "at least we're not speaking German"
IMO HN actually scores quite highly in terms of health/politics and so forth content because the both mainstream and fringe ideas get both shown and pushback.

A vaping discussion brought up glycerin used was safe and the same thing used in smoke machines and someone else brought up a study showing that smoke machines are an occasional safety issue. Nowhere near every discussion goes that well but stick around and you’ll see in-depth discussion.

Go to a public health website by comparison and you’ll see warnings without context and a possibility positive spin compared to smoking. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/e-cigarettes/index.html I suspect most people get basically nothing from looking at it.
> I think possibly this is Israel sticking a dagger in Chinese manufacturing.

Based on the small amount of information available, hard to say. Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-exp...) quotes one device as made in Japan, so seemingly goes beyond Chinese manufacturing. Probably some point along the import/export that got hit instead?

> Images of the exploded walkie-talkies examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labeled "ICOM" and "made in Japan."

> According to its website, ICOM is a Japan-based radio communications and telephone company.

> The company has said that production of several models of the ICOM hand-held radio have been discontinued, including the IC-V82, which appeared to closely match those in images from Lebanon on Wednesday and which was phased out in 2014.

> The hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bought, said a security source.
Everything seems to be going up at once. The pagers were an unprecedented and major attack. It was also pretty incredible they managed to also infect their radios but now its already a farce.
Anybody here have "The Way Things Work" or "The New Way Things Work"?

Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured over a book the same way since.

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/039...

https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473
It's not just "association"; PTFE literally is a PFAS. My point is there's a major different between PFAS polymers and PFAS small molecules.

From https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/833 :

"Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), also known as C8, is another man-made chemical. It is used in the process of making Teflon and similar chemicals (known as fluorotelomers), although it is burned off during the process and is not present in significant amounts in the final products." [GenX is very similar.]

And there's no technical reason why manufacturing PFAS polymers necessarily has to result in PFAS small molecule pollution. The waste could be captured and treated with processes such as supercritical water oxidation. This would of course cost more, but seeing as there's no good substitute for PFAS polymers, I'd happily pay more for them. Pollution, like all externalities, is a market failure, and it's the government's job to fix market failures with regulation.
The US would probably also accept any Taiwanese immigrants fleeing invasion and Chinese occupation
India approves moon sample, Venus orbiter, station module, reusable launcher
It might be reasonable, if it was quality software. But it is crap.

Governments should unite to create basic open source software and then individual organizations can tailor it to their needs.
things break due to shifting dependencies.

also, if it isn't maintained by the company that made it, then it is a good sign that they are no longer using it. it suggests that there is a better solution elsewhere.
They didn’t think to check their communication devices after yesterday?