skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's aggravating, because places where warm shelter makes sense (like major bus stops), they discourage it, because they don't want to attract the homeless. Sigh.
Doesn't debt have to sum to zero globally? A debt held by one person is an equal asset owed another.

Or perhaps this is a measure of the number of debts outstanding, divided per person, but not accounting for assets.
Debt is how the supply of money grows.

So, sure, if a few people don't want to have any debt, that's great. But if everyone stopped borrowing we'd be in a lot of trouble.

There are other ideas about how we could grow the money supply of course. Perhaps the Federal Reserve could mail everyone some cash every month.
Tomtit – Perl6 “Makefile” tool based on Sparrowdo plugins
> Dueling implies that someone who is _better at one thing_ (hurting others) is inherently Right

I don't think it does. Revisit the story of Jeffrey Hudson, and how winning a duel changed his life. What it does imply is some personal risk in making unsubstantiated claims against people.

Try looking at the glass as half-full. Under the present system, true claims are suppressed well enough by the pay-to-play nature of mass media. Re-introducing some aspect of personal risk--one that couldn't be mitigated by mere cash--would, hopefully, let the air out of entire industries of manufactured controversy, which fuel everything from needless wars to societal decay.

As for the challenge, there are worse things than death.
Worse, we would end up with the student loan effect, which would mean that houses, like education, would explode in cost since there are no constraints on cost when you can just "charge it".
I read both your links, and I don't think my characterization is an inaccurate recalling of history at all. From the second and third paragraphs of that wikipedia page:

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When Landsbanki was placed into receivership by the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority (FME), 343,306 retail depositors in the UK and Netherlands that held accounts in the "Icesave" branch of Landsbanki lost a total of €6.7bn of savings. Because no immediate repayment was expected by any Icelandic institutions, the Dutch and British national deposit guarantee schemes covered repayment up to the maximum limit for the national deposit guarantees – and the Dutch and British states covered the rest.[1]

The Icelandic state refused to take on this liability on behalf of the guarantee fund. Originally this was because the state lost funding access at credit markets due to the Icelandic financial crisis, but later proposed bilateral loan guarantees for repayment were rejected by Icelandic voters.

----

At the end of the day there were a ton of foreign depositors who felt like these were just normal savings accounts with higher rates, but when the financial crisis came they were in a much more difficult position than people who used domestic banks.
This reads like a person with Stockholm syndrome, captured by the crypto hype train. The entire point of money/currency is to have a standard unit of transferable debt!
J&J responds [1]:

> The Reuters article is one-sided, false and inflammatory.

> The article ignores that thousands of tests by J&J, regulators, leading independent labs, and academic institutions have repeatedly shown that our talc does not contain asbestos.

[1] https://www.jnj.com/our-company/johnson-johnson-issues-state...
Runescape was my first experience botting... helped eventually lead me to realizing residual income is the way to go.
There are gesture recognition sensors available that don't even need a general purpose CPU, eg. Broadcom APDS-9960. https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Sensors/Proximity/apds99...
Assuming a non-graceful shutdown, i.e. the company runs out of money with no acquisition offer and enters bankruptcy liquidation. Also assumes everything's legal and on the up-and-up, which can be a rarity for startups with more than one interested party.

Customers: they get a shutdown notice and the service stops working for them, and have to find competitors that do the same thing.

Founders & employees: laid off and go look for jobs.

Board members: move on with their lives.

Data, IP, office furniture, leftover inventory, rubber bands: sold at auction to pay creditors.

Social media accounts & domain names: technically this is property of the corporation and is also sold at auction, but in a sale that assumes no acquisition offer for team/brand/IP, they're often worthless. They become zombies and eventually revert to the public under whatever inactivity policy the host has (eg. domain names often get snapped up by speculators).

Debt: There's a pecking order for debts and other capital claims, and whatever money left in the company checking account + the liquidation sale mentioned beforehand goes to it. IIUC, unpaid wages come first, then unpaid suppliers. Then senior debt with liquidation rights negotiated into the contract (eg. my wife invests with philanthropic debt, which often has these clauses). Then regular debt, bondholders, then preferred stock, then common stock. Founders & employees usually hold common, which is the last to get paid out.

All the startups I've personally shut down did so with no drama, but there is a big tendency to fight over the carcass, particularly when you have people with bigger egos involved. One that I worked at, for example, involved an IP auction where the founder stealth-bid (through an employee friend) against the VCs, the auction house accidentally told both parties they had won, the lawsuits went flying, and the founder moved to China with the IP to start the exact same company and run it into the ground again.
Libertarian hackers always think of regulations as pesky pinpricks from the nanny state but in this case, in their domain of software, regulations would actually serve more of something along the lines of industry standards to ensure that software is created up to code. Hackers want good code, don't they?
No. The discriminatory nature of laws like this work on statistics. While something like a drivers license with a street address isn’t discrimanatory per se, when you look at the groups that are adversely effected and how those groups correlate with voting preferences, a pattern emerges.

For instance, the lack of a street address in North Dakota pretty much only effects those living on an Indian reservation
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/native-americans-north-dakot...

Say you need a state issue I’d, but then limit access to those ids in specific areas, as Alabama did in 2015.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/01/as_it_turns_out_...

In Texas, researchers ran an an analysis of where these laws have the most impact and found that the largest contributing factor to predicting disenfranchisement was race.
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/
1) Most ISPs have something like this router/software -- one that is capable of injecting/redirecting web requests to whatever they want. I remember seeing this kind of thing when I was a Comcast customer -- they implemented a bandwidth limit and to warn you that you were about to exceed it, they used this type of web request injection.

2) There's likely a profit motive here as the software that is being advertised via this injected message costs money. They're likely getting a commission/affiliate fee from every customer that installs said software via this notice.
if you write them a cheque, they'll cash it.

Not 100% true. I grew up in farm country and there were lots of people (my parents included) who refused on principles to participate in federal CRP programs which would have essentially provided government checks for doing nothing.
Garland would have made an excellent choice instead of Kagan, or even Sotomayor, if there was a desire for a more balanced, more centrist SCOTUS. However after those two nominations replacing Scalia with Garland was obviously a bridge too far which the R's could not accept. As unpopular as it may have been, In a way, I don't really blame them, and it seems to have paid off for them in the long run.
In unrelated news: average mortgage worldwide close to $86k per Person.

How much of the Worldwide debt is secured by collateral?
What was the best finding in your experience?
I’ve sometimes wondered if there is a journalistic bubble chamber.
Don't know why this got downvoted. It's true.

PV might take us the next 100 years. Fusion might be necessary for the following 100.
And every debt is someone else's asset. I have a retirement plan that owes me money, that has US bonds, that I pay part of the interest on with my taxes. It is when the credits all pile up on the same group and they don't use it wisely, the world can get into a real conundrum that seems to only be solved by violence.
it's mostly just light though in the first, raise gamma/brightness and make colors warmer and it will look pretty much same minus plants
And, of course, a devaluing would benefit people holding debt.
Please explain how snide, dismissive statements contribute to a healthy discussion? There are chiropractic techniques which I do not agree are junk science and produce good outcomes for patients. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081245/
I use a version* of a net-pot to flush out my sinuses after surfing. If I don't, especially if I surf in a red tide, I get a nasty sinus infection (surfers sinusitis or acute sinusitis). I even had sinus surgery to reduce my turbinates and increase my sinus ducts which helps, but still doesn't prevent the problem.

* I use NeilMed's sinus flush which basically is a sealed bottle with a straw I can use to force flush my sinuses, vs. just using gravity.
Ask HN: Do you read PDFs on small screens?
I’m always reading papers on my phone, but is it something people do a lot? I’m developing a pdf reflow tool available online at https://docushow.com

Please let me know if it’s something you’d find useful.
I have a municipal fiber connection, but the bandwidth is atrocious and Comcast seems to be much better priced for faster speeds.

What router do you have? Is it just something running OpenWRT, or something fancier? Also, how much do you pay beyond the listed service price (fees, taxes, etc), and can you waive the installation fee?
> So, sure, if a few people don't want to have any debt, that's great. But if everyone stopped borrowing we'd be in a lot of trouble.

Why would we be in trouble. Explain it to me like I know nothing about economics?
I do believe that people with limited access to capital can't understand the markets as well as institutional investors, and you should too. It's not about intelligence, it's about access. The rich have more current information about state of the market than you do and can act on that information sooner than you are able to, which allows them to systematically make slightly better trades than you can.

Stock trades aren't instantaneous, and they're not guaranteed to resolve in the order they were submitted. Wealthy traders can throw money at a combination of locating their servers physically closer to the exchanges and just straight up purchasing preferential treatment from them in order to ensure that their trades will always resolve ahead of yours. Moreover, the "price" of a stock is essentially the rolling average of all the buy and sell offers currently in open. When you "buy" a stock from Robin Hood, what you're actually doing is creating an offer to purchase at or below a specified price point.

One of Robin Hood's main sources of revenue is providing access to that stream of trade offers to investment firms who can use it to "predict the future" in ways that will systematically erode your profit margins. There are any number of ways this happens, but probably the easiest one to understand is that after they see you place a buy offer they can use their position near the front of the queue to accept the cheapest available sell offers ahead of you and immediately resell them to you at your offered price, pocketing the difference.

That's the catch with normal humans trying to play the stock market. You can't actually participate in the same way that wealthy institutional investors do, because you can't afford to pay to be near the front of the queue. In fact, the way you participate essentially guarantees that, no matter how well you do, the institutional investors will be able to do slightly better.

One way to work around this is for normal humans to pool their resources so that they can collectively act as a wealthy institutional investor too. That's essentially what index funds are.
It's safest to assume they are not giving back anything, unless they provide evidence otherwise.
> How do they require minorities to have ID but not whites?

By only asking minorities to prove they are carrying ID. "The law" is what gets enforced, not what it says on the books.

Edit to add: as people are getting all up in arms about rural areas, they should recall that this tactic was broadly applied by the New York City police department too.
Huh? There are bus routes to almost all those towns. I was a daily rider of the 6 between DT Minneapolis and Edina. And what does public transit to these suburbs/exurbs have to do with Minneapolis eliminating parking minimums for new housing?
Ask HN: How to find employment when your proprietary speciality has disappeared?
I am proficient in the proprietary SequenceL language.

"SequenceL is a concise, high-level language with a simple semantics that provides for the automatic derivation of many iterative and parallel control structures"

I can re-code your existing algos and make them fast.

I'm available for hire, NYC or remote only.

My preference is science and not for profit
Execution. Facebook is big enough that it would serve as a useful warning.
Maybe the chicken is better than the beef, but the beans are more questionable. Methane is a very strong greenhouse gas.
I'm sure there are a few technocrats that have this as one of their goals in China but (note: this is speculation) I doubt the reason there is friction from moving away from state sponsored businesses is changing payrolls.

Communist party leaders own huge portions of their state sponsored businesses and directly benefit from their success. Chinese leaders don't want fair competition, they want to be rich.
well, it is javascript, so you could implement something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/951021/what-is-the-javas...

the async way doesn't seem to work inside the walk function, but the older (and uglier imo) way does

As an example here is the modified code for
https://turtletoy.net/turtle/eed0f57234

// You can find the Turtle API reference here: https://turtletoy.net/syntax
Canvas.setpenopacity(1);

// Global code will be evaluated once.
const turtle = new Turtle();
turtle.penup();
turtle.goto(0,0);
turtle.pendown();

function sleep(ms) {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
function pausecomp(millis)
{
var date = new Date();
var curDate = null;
do { curDate = new Date(); }
while(curDate-date < millis);
}
// The walk function will be called until it returns false.
function walk(i) {
turtle.forward(i);
turtle.right(150);
//await sleep(100); //await not valid inside the walk function
pausecomp(50)
return i < 200;
}

edit: implemented: https://turtletoy.net/turtle/e99ca811ad
I don't know anything about Apostol's Mathematical Analysis. My guess would be that it demands a fairly sophisticated background of the reader, and does an excellent job of covering calculus from an extremely rigorous point of view.

I have heard that Apostol's Calculus is an excellent choice, probably somewhat more accessible to beginners, but still offering a rigorous, highbrow perspective. I've also heard the same of Spivak. I'd probably opt for one or both of these.
> how does a world where debt monotonically increases indefinitely work?

Assets also increase monotonically. One cannot talk about debt without talking about assets. You should look at the whole balance sheet.

> debt has just become a standin for currency

debt IS money. If all the debt in the world is repaid there will be no money.
I’ve purchased a tin of I think fir needle tea while in Oregon. It tastes like... pine.
I’m really not familiar with the geography, or its history, but the feds only kept 2% of Texas. I’ll assume the rest became private.
Since both accelerating to 900kmh on such a short track and decelerating will involve multi-g forces, maybe this will be the most comfortable travel position.
I had to use one after a sinus surgery (to remove a not-so-tiny bone spur and then put things back where they belong) to flush out dried blood and whatnot.

I've used it a few times after when I have a severe head cold to open things up a bit. Easier and less invasive than going through the background check needed to buy cold medicine.
Interests.
Just because deuterium is cheap doesn’t mean Fusion energy plants will be anywhere near economically competitive with conventional power sources even most renewables. Many of the presumed benefits such as waste control are not as rosey as most people believe.

It is clear now that plant scaling with known methods are entirely dependent on magnetic field strength. More powerful magnets will mean more hope for tokamaks.

Entirely new designs are probably not what the doctors are ordering because nothing of the sort is anything close to a surefire success in the wings.

So many concepts have come and gone. Tokamak was the closest they ever got. Look at the plant schematics. Its like building a furnace from a humongous collection of delicate swiss watches.
Right, they are integral but the user doesn't interact with them and they can be swapped out for a different implementation and the user would never know outside of noticing the impact that the change has (or trade-offs such a change would make).

Caching for `docker build` really doesn't have anything to do with layers except as a means of storage, it doesn't need to be layers at all.

To be honest, layers aren't even all that efficient (except in perfectly ideal scenarios), just better than no sharing at all and no one has taken the time to come up with something better yet...because frankly there are many other things that need improvements before bothering with it.

Again, just figured I'd mention again... since you are trying to explain Docker to me... I'm a Docker maintainer and have been for the last ~5 years. Happy to chat about this.
Weather extremes, lack of mountains and beaches.
For now I just manually add "-pinterest" to my query when I am looking for images.
It's a shame how much abortion gets pushed as a wedge issue. It's great at riling people up and getting them to cluster into their particular camps, but at that point people who would otherwise be able to agree on other issues and actually make progress decide to just not talk to each other.
Obviously this is a huge subject. I'm not sure it's so clear that British rule slowed Indian industrialisation... I guess answering that requires a counterfactual, and as you say post-1850s Japan is the best-case one. But do note that this was not a kind and gentle democracy... even if its rulers spoke the same language. (And, of course, the fact that there was a same-language to speak indicates that it was long a united country, in a way that India was not.)

But something like pre-1850s hermit kingdom Japan is another possibility. And the hermit kingdon's share of the world's pie would have declined greatly, too, with nobody to blame.

Certainly lots of cotton mills got built in the late 19th C, in both Japan and India, and all using the same off-the-shelf technology, and often the same capital. There's lots of interesting detailed work comparing them, and tracking things over the decades. And while I'm not an expert, I don't think it supports any very simple ideas of good guys / bad guys.

For example, here's a link: https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
Financial Times (UK version of Wall Street Journal) is reporting the same. Let's not build a conspiracy theory and ignore the hard evidence.
Google invented search as we know it. Before that, search results were basically paid advertisement followed by some links to tangentially-related pages. Searching wasn't really an expected use-case, IIRC, Yahoo was modeled more closely to a digital Yellow Pages than a search engine. That's apparently one of the reasons Amazon picked a name starting with an A.

Yahoo turned down the option to buy early Google. They didn't see the value in search because it would take users away from their site. They wanted users to stay on their site and participate in discussions and such.
I like that one, and also a tea called Russian or Mongolian Caravan Tea. As smoky beverages they could also be compared to mezcal and scotch.
My bad, they were pushing for it [0]. Actual number according to Bloomberg is 4k [1].

[0] https://electrek.co/2018/11/15/tesla-model-3-production-7000...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
The USA is sometimes on that list, but confiscation of everyone's gold/(personal credit horde) in the 1930's seems to me to be even a bigger deal than a sovereign debt default.
Does it tho? Star fusion produces the exact amount of pressure needed to counter the gravitational attraction which is why they don’t collapse or blow up while the fusion reaction is stable, when it’s not the result isn’t pretty.

So in essence stars aren’t energy possitvie (or if so only slightly relative to the energy of the reaction) they just convert one type of energy into another.
You should read Steven Pinker, then, if you think going back to a Golden Age of murder over social slights is a good idea.
That's true of most people. Emotions universally trump facts.
> A self-funded slow-growth profitable startup can be a much more stable bet, even though it seems counter-intuitive.

It's not counter intuitive, it's just that it's really hard to guess which company is doing OK, getting slow steady and profitable growth and which does not.
Additionally, the slow and steady company can still be acquired / decide to "bet big" / ... . So we are back to Google and co.
That's bad advice. Common saline solutions are around 9g/L and won't kill most protozoa.

http://www1.nencki.gov.pl/pdf/ap/ap574.pdf

Even at seawater-like concentrations of over 30g/L, it can take over 72 hours to sterilize water containing fresh-water protozoa.

Boiling is the only practical way to sterilize water.
> 1. Rural California has way fewer black people.

But it has a large Latino population in an equivalent economic position.
Do these necessarily have to be exclusive? The CIA is known to have made organized attempts to influence the media in the past. Virtually every government does this, it seems implausible to me that we (the US) would be the only ones with 'objective' reporting.
Of course you simply have to namedrop the term 'conspiracy' to get a knee-jerk reaction and have everyone lean in the opposite direction of what is otherwise a relatively reasonable option.
Swiss citizens travel more kilometers by rail per capita than any other country in the world. If you're going to implement a new form of public transit, they're a pretty good place to look.
My understanding is that reserve banks create money out of thin air and then 'loan' it to governments. Then governments use the money to pay for public projects. A lot of the money ends up going to large corporations through significant government contracts, grants and subsidies.

When a government takes a loan from the reserve bank and puts it into circulation by giving the money to corporations to pay for public projects, the government is effectively diluting the value of everyone's money and giving it to corporations. This process creates public debt for which the government will need to take additional loans from the reserve bank to keep meeting the interest repayments; which will further dilute the value of everyone's wealth while increasing corporate wealth; and the cycle will keep repeating.
If you're playing the board game, you can agree to use your own dictionary.