skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The debate which you outline is not a new one. And while the two sides may seem to have comparable efficacy, it also seems that those who hold their principles strongly abhor even the thought of working on terrible products like this one. And it seems glaringly obvious that those on the "work within the system" side are rationalizing away their immoral behavior in favor of their perks, status, salary, etc, on the off chance that they "work within the system to change it".

If you're making a huge salary at Google, and you value that, and working there for x more years will net you an even huger salary, what are the chances that you start to work against it from the inside at that point, if you're not already doing it now? It ain't gonna get easier. You're not gonna become more of an outsider/breath of fresh air.
There is a very important reason for this: any philosophy is born as a result of important questions of the times in which it was created. When a philosopher writes an original work he/she has all these problems in mind. A modern writer will have to filter that same philosophy to the lights of the modern days, which usually doesn't work as well. To truly understand what a philosophy is all about you need to read the originals.
Ahh, got it.

So the overall yield is not lower, just the annualised yield.

That doesn't sound like nearly as much cause for alarm.
they buy the 5-year because they don't have trust in the US economy and want to lock into an interest rate before they decrease further
I doubt the "what we eat" part but not the energy and transportation aspects of it.

We could, in 20 years from the time the efforts were legislated in, phase out most petrol vehicles in exchange for electric and go to nuclear, solar, and hydroelectric for our power needs.

It would work, too.
> Around 280,000 protested in the streets across the country that day [Nov. 17], with 106,000 people attending rallies on Saturday [Nov. 24], according to French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-are-france-s-yellow-j...
The 5-year yield is lower to mitigate the uncertain risk (to the issuer) of paying above-market during years 4 and 5.
Considering most of these groups rally around conspiracy theories, which by definition start from a position of questioning commonly accepted facts (i. e. "critical thinking"), maybe we have actually gone too far with the critical thinking?
Thanks! What type of stuff do you email to yourself usually?
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Actually they still pay a positive amount (about 2.8%/year). What's significant is that now the 3 year pays slightly more than the 5 year (2.84% vs 2.83%). Usually longer term treasuries pay more because the buyer assumes more risk to have their money locked in to a specific rate for a longer term.

However, when the market expects that maybe interest rates will be falling in the near future (like in a recession), it can prefer to lock in the current rates for a longer term. When markets expect recessions, people tend to buy long term treasuries over short term treasuries which causes the yield of long term treasuries to go down and the yield of short term treasuries to go up.
Right, but the 3 year bond would only pay 3 years of interest. If interest rates are significantly lower 3 years from now, then reinvesting in a new (lower interest) bond at that point would give you a lower return over 5 years than the marginally lower 5 year bond would give you now.

So, why does this happen? Well, it happens when the markets expect interest rates to drop between now and five years from now.

Why might that expectation exist? Well, it might if bond buyers were anticipating a recession.

At least that is how I understand it. Feel free to correct me.
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I don't know which are the clickbait affiliate landing pages you're referring to. It'd be helpful if you would mark on the spreadsheet which links you believe to be clickbait affiliate links. That would help me make sense of your feedback, as right now it is unclear to me.
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Sometimes, there are no good eventualities. Maybe Canada and parts of Siberia might see some benefits. Generally speaking, the rest of us won't. Sure, maybe you'll get an extra month to grow your tomatoes, but that will be balanced out by an increase in storms, mass fires, extinctions and sea rise.

But, I guess you can ignore all that. The scientists are just trying to scare you so they can get a few extra thousand in funding. That's the real problem here.
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> Flex is closed source, runs on the GPU and is implemented in CUDA (Nvidia only).

Flex 1.0 did require CUDA hardware, but with 1.1 they added a Direct3D backend that runs on any DX11-class GPU.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-flex-110-released
These online groups have the same advantage that many other cults have over their victims: they can re-try until they find enough buttons to press that work to bring out the vulnerable people. It's like negotiating against a much more experienced adversary: you're going to lose.

The only way to deal with that stuff is not to get exposed to it in the first place. Something similar happens with advertising, there too the best recipe is not to be exposed, not to think that you are strong enough to withstand it.

One way in which these groups succeed is by alienating their victims from anybody that would empower them with common sense. Parents, siblings, spouses are all pushed away with tricks honed over many encounters.
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Is that so bad? Would you rather everyone rioted and collapsed the economy? Is censorship bad?
Something tells me Linux guys/gals will still be the ones getting calls when the Kubernetes instance explodes.
Here's a YouTube video illustrating it quite nicely IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwChe0WvO4
In the article there is actually a link hidden that provides just that info

> Click here for a QuickTake on the yield curve

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/the-yield...
It is the same as before but parents feel safer the kids are on their room.
And there's 0.005 ppm / kg * 5.97219 * 10^24 KG * 29540 $/kg = ~ 1 sextillion dollars worth of platinum in the earth's crust.
Not quite that.

Bond prices go down when interest rates go up. As such, an investor who thinks that interest rates will go _up_ will reallocate from long-term bonds to short-term bonds, rather than the opposite as you stated.
I should have been a little clearer than my one line quip. I wasn't trying to say you should give it out for free :). It's just that GPL and LGPL (v3 specifically) are extremely hard or impossible to comply with in the mobile world.

Even if the software author complies with terms and provides full source or in the case of LGPL, enough to relink the app with a modified version of a LGPL'd component, you can't really swap the app for your modified one due to the "protections" in place on Android and iOS.

Personally, I'd suggest taking a look at how Qt does their commercial licensing.
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The social signaling bit comes in when a doubling of your energy bills has no noticeable affect on your daily life. If you're struggling to pay your bills already, then that change could put you in a world of hurt.
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> That increases demand for those assets, which drives down their price.

I'm not an economist but this seems wrong
You're right, but for many people it's difficult to become a thought leader until they have first improved their skills in reserving judgment and combating bias. I've met people who seem to have a strong opinion on everything, and they convince some people, but their opinion meets an unfortunate end when they present to a more discerning group.
As well, they turn off their half of the server fleet.
Pixiv is also a cool company. I don't want to speak too much for fear of messing up some of their story but they're basically a bit like Japanese deviantArt. They've open sourced some small parts of their code: https://github.com/pixiv

As far as content goes, it is constrained by Japanese law, which is mostly more liberal around art with the exception of their oddly specific yet vague censorship requirements.
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I'm also deaf and I have a cochlear implant, so I can communicate well in person but the reduced fidelity of cell phones and the lack of lip reading gives me some issues.
They always make the same boneheaded mistake with media. People go to a platform because it has what they want. There is something very minutely controversial that nobody in the target market gives a flip about anyway. Therefore now that we spent all this money getting it we should make it bland and advertiser friendly like what everbody alreafy left and hey where did everybody go again?

I just don't get how that keeps on happening when it doesn't seem to be even a good short-termist move.
Do you have any links you can point me to that demonstrate the pro-Dragonfly folks going through similar lengths to "have themselves heard"? What part of my statement seems unsubstantive?
As 'many' as I want there to be, obviously.

I don't adhere to that rule of thumb for all of my comments, since not all comments are intended to be taken seriously.
> A 5-year bond now has a lower yield than a 3-year bond? How is that even possible? Wouldn't anyone who wants a 5-year bond just buy a 3-year bond and then put the cash under their mattress after 3 years?

Today's rates show the 3-year yielding 284bps and the 5-year yielding 283bps (the same as the 2-year) [1]. Let's consider three hypothetical buyers' outcomes. To keep things simple, we'll assume interest isn't re-invested.

One buys the 5-year. $10,000 of their principal would turn out $1,415 in interest [2]. Another buys the 3-year, keeping the principal as cash on redemption. $10,000 of their principal turns into $852 in interest [3]. Immediately, you see why the 5-year is a better buy for a 5-year investment horizon than the 3-year.

Consider a third buyer. They buy the 3-year with the aim of re-investing. To get the $563 difference between the 5-year and 3-year total interest pay-outs, they would need to buy a 2-year bond yielding 282bps when the 3-year matures [4]. If rates are lower 3 years' hence, the 5-year investor will have done better. If rates are higher, the 3-year buyer with intent on reinvesting will have done better.

This reinvestment risk, which incorporates the market's views on future interest rates, is what the yield curve essentially reflects.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

[2] 2.83% x $10,000 x 5 years

[3] 2.84% x $10,000 x 3 years

[4] [($1,415 - $852) / 2] / $10,000
That’s country wide not Paris — and notice the spread between protesters in the streets and those attending rallies. It’s way overcounting people just trying to transit past the protestors who are causing all sorts of havoc by blocking traffic.
> All it means is that the central bank will probably leave interest rates steady, or even cut a bit, in 2022 or 2023.

This event reflects the relative preference of the markets for the 5 yrs compared to 3 yrs, producing lower effective yields. This is probably done to secure a certain rate for a longer period of time.
I am 6'8", also long legged with a (relatively) short torso. In general, it holds that the Japanese companies build small cars for small people, American companies build big cars for big people, and European companies build small cars for big people.

Exceptions can be found of course, but this is overwhelmingly the rule. Even Japanese cars that /should/ be big are not made to accommodate larger occupants - see the Lexus LS series for instance, their largest luxury sedan - for some reason the front seat stops well short of sliding back and occupying all the room it could, therefore my knees are crammed up into the dash. Same goes for Toyota Avalon, Sienna, various Acuras I've tried, Honda Accord, etc. etc.

Contrast my experience in Japanese cars with the smaller Audi A4, or my (much, much smaller) 1984 5-series BMW, where the front seats are able to run back as far as touching the back seat, resulting in ample leg room when needed.

For American vehicles, at least when you pony up the $$ for the larger models, you actually get occupant space to match - in my experience all American vehicles based on a half ton or larger truck frame offer ample interior space even for someone of my stature - this is Silverado, Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade, Expedition, etc.
Half these things are trade secrets for any number of major brands. Coke is not going to tell you the supplier for each and every ingredient in a bottle.
I wasn't aware that Vancouver had a significant opiate problem. Is it just a supply and demand at play via close ties with China? Or are there societal issues at play?
Please unpack for me how opening up Google Search in China precipitates genocide.
>What's your long term game plan with that?

That they're going to be more mature when that happens because they've demonstrated that they weren't ready just yet.
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You are confused between the Western myth making history in pop culture and factual history. Greek aesthetics in public art greatly favored modesty and was heavily influenced by adjacent semitic cultures. Real history is very different from the fictional romanticization in media. https://phoenicia.org/greek.html
Investors want to buy long term bonds because they suspect the interest rates will get worse, so they want to lock in the current rate for a longer time. It signals that investors are expecting a recession.
Haha, gotcha. edited.
Maybe so, but I don't agree with them. What they're doing is using their state monopoly on force to squash dissent. That's reprehensible, and entirely separate from companies deciding what content they want to endorse through re-broadcast.

I'd be genuinely curious to hear what people think is the difference between "deplatforming" a screaming racist in my living room by telling them to leave, and removing someone's account from a website I built. It seems to me like both are not only well within my rights, but the correct thing to do.
This doesn't address Lewis's point that all those books written in the last 125 years share more of our perspective and our biases than something written a thousand years ago.

Furthermore it's not just that they are old, but that they are old and have survived that recommends old books to us.
A few things to consider on the topic.

It is estimated that there is, on average, a ten year lag between the time CO2 is emitted and the time its maximum effect is felt in the climate. Some estimate the lag can be even longer. So we haven't yet seen the worst of the ~36GtCO2/yr we've been releasing into the air for the last ten years or so.(1)

Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.(2) And it is at the heart of one of the positive feedback loops we have started by warming the earth. The arctic permafrost contains a difficult to estimate but staggeringly large amount (in the Gigatons) of methane, both in the form of methane hydrates (frozen methane) and stored carboniferous materials which, when no longer frozen, are quickly turned into methane by bacteria.(3) At this point existing warming of the planet has progressed to the point that there is no way to stop a massive arctic methane release.(4) And, in fact, if you look at the recent satellite data(5) you will see that the methane levels at most layers of the atmosphere are higher than the satellite instruments are capable of measuring.

And reducing our emissions may make things worse. The Aerosol Masking Effect (aka global dimming) is what scientists are calling the fact that sulfur and other pollutants in the air can reflect sunlight away from the earth and cool the planet.(6) If we stopped all CO2 emissions today the global temperature would rapidly rise as the aerosols fell from the atmosphere.

There's a lot more, but I'm feeling too much anxiety about this to go on.

1. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/031...

2. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...

3. https://envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea...

4. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-o...

5. https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/soundings/iasi...

6. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/our-aerosol-emission...
yes, OP meant drives up the price and drives down yields
> But there's no real indication that the censorship or surveillance is any worse than the existing search engines present in China. As far as that front is concerned, Google in China would be no worse than the status quo.

Just because some evil thing would have happened anyway, with or without your assistance, doesn't absolve you from moral responsibility for that assistance if you offer it.
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And if you cut out red meat from your (reduced) meat consumption in favor of poultry or sustainably raised/caught fish, that also significantly reduces your food-related environmental impact.
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You basically went line by line to take too many words to say “you’re wrong”. That's how much content is left over after you filter out the insults.
Actually it does not drive down the price but the yield. When the price goes up the fixed payment is a lower fraction of the price of the bond. Hence the return goes down.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bond-yield.asp
Anyone know if we can access these transcriptions after the call. This would be super useful for say meeting minutes.
Ah, so this is basically the market saying the US government's ability / willingness to pay debts today is greater than it will be in the future?

Or is it simply about interest rates, I guess, since higher interest rates cool the market and lower interest rates warm the market. So investors are thinking a recession is coming and the Fed will need to lower interest rates to stimulate.
He made it most of the way there. Increasing demand drives UP prices, which drives DOWN yield.
And groupthink is orders of magnitude more powerful in the era of social media.
An inverse yield curve predicts lower interest rates in the future as longer-term bonds are being demanded, sending the yields down.
PC gaming is doing well, but anecdotally the number of PC gamers using tablets and laptops seems to be driving that as much as if not more than traditional desktop/tower form factors. Admittedly many "portable" gaming GPUs are still discrete chips, but in a laptop or tablet form factor they certainly aren't discrete boards anymore.