skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally doubt the energy cost for the conversion is so low that it makes sense, but would like to see that demonstrated. Then you are still burning hydrocarbons, which is a big health problem.
I think they would totally take it, with all sorts of special terms. Also, they don't need to have a requirement to say they will get you all that cash immediately to keep the tether promise.

Lastly, putting that money in bonds, index funds, and other such things scales well. The wealthfront example I used took on a billion in deposits in a short timeframe: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/wealthfronts-new-high-yield-...

To your first point, if you have another entity do that type of investments for you and present it as a bank account with a variable interest rate; then you can claim you have a 1:1 cash backing truthfully, even if the reality is different. If you just stored the money in a normal bank, the reality would stay the same.
Expanding on jep42's answer, there are a few problems:

- The package manager can't tell whether the package will be able to support your system or not, so if this is e.g. an optional dependency your install will probably break instead of the package being skipped.

- This results in an unexpected and hard-to-foresee dependency on some other non-npm server, which could disappear, be blocked by a firewall, etc.

- Standard tools will not understand what this package is doing and their assumptions may be broken, e.g. when trying to make builds repeatable.
I thought the same thing. Also was interesting in Fig 2, where the map was wrong, it’s all driver-partner...yet in Fig 3, where it was an illegal turn, they conveniently drop the -partners.
> Tens of thousands.

Not to be callous but if they're poor, is that enough?

Because 64,000 Americans died of drug overdose in 2016, and 72,000 in 2017 (200/day). (2018 stats not yet out.) 2/3rds of those are linked to the opioid epidemic, but those numbers haven't been enough to engage with the same sort of cultural change in other areas of the American psyche, as socialized healthcare would be. (NOT proffering an opinion on that here, just pointing out the body count may not be enough. Sadly.
I really hope this is successful because this would make a difference for climate change much quicker than transitioning to BEV cars. BEV cars are better overall, but there just isn't enough time with the rate climate change is happening.

This combined with a strong push for PHEV and hybrid cars could help climate change much faster. It makes sense on many levels:

* PHEV cars with 40+ miles EV range are great for those who can charge at home. It's enough to make most of the miles electric (such as commuting or getting groceries). And it's a much better use of limited lithium battery capacity. The battery in one Tesla could be used to build 10 PHEV cars.

* Many people still live in places with no overnight charging such as apartments and dense urban areas. The hybrid tech (perfected by Toyota) is the right solution here. Keep working on getting the mpg even higher.

* Government can really boost this by requiring X% of all gas to be carbon neutral and increasing that over time. They do this with 10% ethanol, but that was the wrong fuel. Start with 5% must be carbon neutral and increase 5% every year from there.

* Carbon tax, enough to make synthetic fuel like this competitive with fossil fuels from the ground.

BEV cars is a case of perfect being the enemy of good. When excluding external factors, BEV is clearly superior to ICE. But we don't have time to transition to BEV. We need to make progress on climate change now and this will get there faster.
It doesn't matter if it is tricky or not. It works, and so keep trying.
I knew a lot of Chinese students in grad school (computer science) and saw none of this. This article smells fishy.
I have seen your site https://www.newmomstuff.com its good but i couldn't find the exact URL for postpartum depression...Can u point out the exact path to that...
Thanks for the feedback! I've added those filters to our pipeline of ideas for our roadmap [0].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/19yH2V5K4nzWgEXaZhkzD1egz...
Since practicality doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker here, I'm wondering why no zero-wheel cars? https://moller.com/moller_skycar200.html
> It’s not that hard. You can just charge the car inductively with wires in the road

I’m sorry, are you proposing this solution as being cheaper than either gasoline or batteries?
I think due to the US inability to fix fundamental issues with regards to upward mobility, education and a fuck you attitude on the world stage. Anything they do to counter China will only hasten the rise of China and their decline.
Monopolies may be divided into four kinds.

I. Where the monopolist lies not the exclusive power of production but only certain exclusive facilities as a producer, and can increase, with imdimimished or even increased facility, the amount of his produce....

II. A second kind of monopoly is in the opposite extreme. It
exists where price is checked neither by the hopes nor by the fears of the producer, where no competition is dreaded, and no increased supply can be effected. The owners of some vinyards have such a monopoly....

III. A third and more frequent kind of monopoly lies between
these two extremes, and is neither so strict as the last, nor so comparatively open as the first. This comprises those cases in which the monopolist is the only producer, but, by the application of additional labow and abstinence, can indefinitely increase his production. The book trade affords an illustration....

IV. The fourth and last class of monopolies exists where production must be assisted by natural agents, limited in number, and varying in power, and repaying with less and less relative assistance every increase in the amount of the labour and abstinence bestowed on them.

-- Nassau William Senior, An Outline Of The Science Of Political Economy, (1836, 1872) pp. 103-106.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59405/page/n11...
Carbon Engineering claims it will be between US$94 and $232.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/06/calgary-company-can-ca...
If you use TOR browser, you will constantly get capatchas, as your traffic cannot be distinguished from spam, they also become increasingly hard to solve too.

I guess privacy isn't free...
I wish I'd bought more Microsoft/Apple stock.
For a while, I had to get blood tests every month or so for a drug I was taking. Usually I went to a discount provider (labcorp), and paid like $30 for the bloodwork (maybe it was actually less).

One time I went to UCSF hospital, and they ended up billing me several hundred dollars. For the exact same lab codes. Actually, I think they billed well over $1000, but my insurance company at the time allowed several hundred in charges.

I called them up, but they were unwilling to negotiate. I ended up paying, because I figured that it wasn't worth fighting it.

One time several years back I fought a fraudulent charge from a doctor who billed me for a more expensive procedure than the one he actually performed (this practice of "upcoding" is actually pretty common). I eventually got them to remove the charge after a lot of complaining to the doctor and talking to my insurance company, but it wasn't worth the stress involved for the amount of money I got back.
From what you say it sounds like you are a great developer.

It is worth defining your goal because you speak about Scrum Certification and Project Management, and also of studying more CS. So are you looking to get deeper in the tech or move to management type roles?
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey
I was reading through Apple’s 10K, and they define cash like securities as being highly liquid and having a maturity in less than 3 months.
That's where it gets even more bizarre. Some states legally protect health insurance companies for not disclosing their price list. Highly paid lobbyists pushed that one through legislation on trade secret/proprietary data doctrine. You can't inconvenience the holy "free" enterprise in America.
1993 congressional hearings on video games
I'm doing it, my neighbor is doing it, many people I know retired already and are doing fine. You have so much more time doing more interesting stuff.
It’s sad to hear you had such an awful experience. I think every society that introduced allowances for the disabled has been better of as a whole for it.

I was thinking with my engineering brain for a simple and obvious solution to a simple and obvious problem. So sorry if that came out as a something dismissive.

But yeah looking from so far away it seams California has much bigger problem than plastic bags...
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders? No: Customers
The author is an expert in audio design. I read his website obsessively many years ago.

I miss the old web of personalities and personal websites.
What is API economy and why it matters to your business
Vanity and peer pressure seem to the be fit in this. Mostly peer pressure.
This seems pretty similar to the much smaller Tomu.im . It might even be running the same u2f code.
I love Bazel, but above all I hope open source can adopt Bazel more. It’s certainly much more usable for the case where you want to import external programs, versus systems like CMake, in my opinion.
from the grave?
Wow indeed. Nothing new under the sun, but right now the tech sector seem to be particularly vulnerable to the power of the big guys.
Seriously. Here, let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chinese+student+espionage

or, at least consider the top link

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-ch...

Also, if you think the Chinese IP theft isn't state-sponsored, please understand that thanks to state organs like the CCCP's Organization Department, pretty much everything happening in China is state sponsored.
Japan and Western economies have pretty good data, they are generally not manipulated. There are enough people who work there, and researchers who go in and out who can vouch.

The reason a lot of media is hyperbolic is 1) they can make a story out of it, otherwise there's nothing to read, and 2) they hate Japan's ethnocentric culture, and want Japan to have large scale immigration and to be 'diverse'.

Also the 'economic' data is the side issue, what we know for sure is the 'demographic trend'. This is not something we've seen before in the modern world and we don't know how to deal with it.

One specific problem is the concerns over 'deflation trap'. If businesses think the future is grim, they invest less, hire less, which causes less investment etc. This is bad, and it's why the Fed targets inflation at 2% and not 0% for example. (Or, the major reason, among a few reasons).

But given a new world with tons of data, we can forecast better hopefully.

Also - from a 'big picture' business perspective, most of economic growth comes from warm bodies. The difference between US and EU growth is not US innovation ... it's US babies and immigration.

So, if you own WallMart or Starbucks, or a bank and make mortgages you want 'more bodies'. That's what makes you money.

We generally focus on 'The GDP' more than we focus on 'GDP/capita'.

Even governments like more bodies as it means more money, more power, a bigger seat at the table, etc. etc. - or at least traditionally.

And there are of course some scarier issues like ... the notion that the birthrate may not stabilize. Like a nation suiciding itself by literally not caring enough to replace themselves. Which is actually an existentially spooky thing.

But I think we'll be ok, there are projections that show Japan stabilizing at still a fairly large population.
I will concede the point on the tax efficency of stock buy backs. But where I find we are in disagreement is in the purchasing of companies. An apple with Netflix and Disney would make Apple TV+ a whole lot better out of the gate than otherwise. Netflix has proven it can do original content and Disney's back catalog (now that they've bought Fox) is too big to laugh at.
Owning Qualcomm would be immediately accretive to EPS given how important they are to the industry and would ensure that any modem needing components would be easily sourced.
And you're right about the keyboard fiasco, what the heck went wrong there?

In any case I am still very bullish overall on Apple and I can't wait for ARM based Macs.
It may interest you to know it was actually Theranos that pushed for Arizona to change the law to allow this. [0]

Might be the only good that came from their company.

[0]: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/0...
You can compete on price. But definitely depends on your niche and market segment though.

There are plenty of users who are not happy with how the big companies create products. Google and Apple create for the mass market and in the process generally eschew features, functionality and quality of life improvements which a certain subset of users demand. That's why people pay for Evernote, Todoist etc even though Google/Apple notes and reminders exist. Some companies have even raised VC funding for creating calendar apps even when Google calendar exists.

If your potential customer is happy with the free product, then they were potentially never your customer in the first place. Creating product in such a niche won't be easy nor will it make you a billionaire. But there's a decent chunk of money to be made in both B2B and B2C.
Amazon can in fact take their grocery business to zero profit safely, trivially. That includes taking Whole Foods down to near zero operating profit levels.

It's the ideal approach and classic Bezos. Their competitors can't afford to match it in the hyper low margin grocery business. Walmart can try, however their profits have already been badly squeezed downward for the last five or six years in a row now, in competition with Amazon.

Kroger, a $121 billion sales giant, has a mere 2% operating income margin. Amazon can tip them over and kill them very easily by eliminating that small remaining margin. Kroger effectively has zero margin of safety in their business, they can't afford even the smallest of drawn out price wars with Amazon. Kroger also has little safety buffer in their balance sheet, barely positive in assets and a small sliver of cash; while Amazon has $37 billion in cash. Bet on a Kroger bankruptcy or forced sale in the coming decade, pinned between Amazon and Walmart.

AWS is set to be a ~$15 billion per year profit juggernaut five years out. Their ad business is going to generate a minimum of $8 billion in profit at that point.

They can very easily bury the entire US grocery industry at zero margin to pursue aggressive market consolidation (the grocery market is extremely fractured). There is no other means for them to compete in groceries other than for Amazon to take the margin down to a level where they drown everyone else in their path, while not having to worry because of their profit offsets in the rest of the business.

Predatory pricing is not a concern in this scenario. Walmart has always done exactly the same thing in subsidizing one part of their business with another depending on where they're looking to expand market share. They've rarely had a problem with regulators over it.
This is awesome. I wonder how long til Google implements a similar filter..
It may well be an emergency, but inconveniencing [1][2] the very people you are attempting to persuade (the voting public) is not a strategy that is likely to work. In my opinion it will make them deaf to the underlying message (Although, I can provide no suggestions for strategies that might work!).

[1] e.g. preventing them getting to work or flying to a holiday
[2] Extinction Rebellion Protests: What happened? - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48051776
>Prerequisites:

>- Newer installation of Rust, probably.

does not instill confidence
> is the amount of research done per capita in Europe more than the amount done in the US ...

Actually I asked you for that info to support your idea that others freeload on US bought R&D. Now you are asking for the data that would show your supposition is incorrect, instead of having some to indicate that it may be valid.

But a true assessment of the situation wouldnt just look at cash spent anyway. Humans are complex, cash doesn't fully account for their motivation and achievements. Many people do great work for lesser remuneration.

> In principle this is just a measure of how important something is to people.

In principal sure; like the profits from crack cocaine, cutting down ancient forests, making nuclear arsenals... Great principle that.
What's 'relative' about it ? Every trip we've made in recent years to a Western country has been truly scary or depressingly sobering.

I get told often I could be earning several times more in Europe and even more in the U.S. but this coming 'dark future' seems much more reasonable and safe to me than moving to a country with gun statistics belonging to war, not to civil society, or the mess of unemployment and sluggishness that was, is, and will be the EU.

As with the stories about 'stagnant economy' and 'aging society' constantly being thrown around since the 80s, the scaremongering doesn't match actual daily life, sorry. Give me deflation any time, happy to buy something for the same price every year, or pay the same exact rent in any central city in Tokyo Metro decade after decade.

I just can't see anyone we know living better, being safer or happier in the West, now or in their immediate future, dark or not.
California programs, so yes expanded Medicaid. But as the state that consumes the most in welfare, it seems highly relevant when discussing the needs of the 'poor'.

Programs: California Medi-cal (which covered all of my medications, tests, etc), Denti-cal (all dental work thats not cosmetic), my obama phone, calfresh (for ebt food) and calworks (cash monthly stipend) are the only programs I can speak to.

I'm grateful for what I had to fight to receive during a bad period of my life and hate seeing misrepresentations like this being spread without specific context.

Had I not been able to finally get working again, I would have eventually qualified for free housing, utilities and all the other benefits available from programs that are funded from various sources. I made several friends through the course of going to these offices over a long period of time who were admittedly worse off than me (mentally) but somehow knew all the inside information on how to game the system. (Ex: if you are considered impaired you can get free bus/subway/van service card, which they all knew how to easily acquire). I had to ride my bicycle or walk everywhere to get back and forth from these appointments.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-other-state-comes-close...
Try to Fix Two Linux Kernel Bugs While Testing TiDB Operator in K8s
That’s your prerogative of course.

I never said that cattle are forced into heat. Most of western industrialized dairy production use artificial insemination though. That’s hardy controversial or in need of backing up with sources. Nothing ideological about it. You don’t think it qualifies as forcing an animal into pregnancy, well that’s up to you to fit into your ethics framework, nothing I can present as “fact” can change that.

It’s perfectly possible to improve the quality of milk (I.e. manipulate fat, protein and lactose contents) via altering feeding regimes. Hardly controversial, and quite common but in the west, through the use of feed concentrates with additives. Nothing ideological about this either.

As for hormone supplements to control heat, well, or sure why you find this hard to believe, but the again, your anecdotal experience maybe doesn’t support it. Do some basic research into western industrialized dairy production.

You say you don’t have time to research, but the you expect others to do it for you? Not really any constructive about that.

My comment was about a question that was asked: do dairy cattle live happy lives? I don’t believe it’s possible to answer that question with hard facts.
I was hoping to use this for moving large video files to a different prefix, but just spotted a limitation of the PUT Object Copy - "Objects to be copied can be up to 5 GB in size."

Cool feature otherwise.
$999 for the headset, pair of controllers, and two base stations.

$749 for the headset and pair of controllers.

$499 for the headset

$279 for a set of controllers

$149 for one base station
Game of Thrones cinematographer: it’s not me, it’s your TV settings
That's why Twitter is such a giant-killer.
It still hard to believe that one of the largest tech giants can't handle UI and UX of their main product right. I would normally assume it's an inherently hard problem them, but there is a counter-example to compare with – VKontakte, the most popular russian social network. It started basically as 1-to-1 clone of Facebook, but somehow managed to evolve into social network with one of the best user experiences I've seen. Now, I'm not using it anymore for political reasons, but I truly wish Facebook hired Vk's UI/UX folks or just cloned their design :)
What point are you trying to make?

Not sure hiw putting a plate of food in front of someone is comparable to putting your arm into a female’s birth canal with a canister of sperm.

Again, what you think is ok and not ok in terms of treating an animal, even pets, is part of your ethical framework. And it’s up to you to inform yourself in order to justify that framework to yourself. The burden of proof is not on anyone but you.
Hi Rob! Is it possible to produce gasoline through atmospheric CO2 capture for less than traditional methods? Will CO2 capture be competitive in real costs?
It's pretty simple, and really not caused by people attempting to appear unique. There are two main factors: 1. All humans has a need to be accepted and approved of by their peers, 2. Humans also have an essentially identical neural architecture and a very similar set of likes and preferences to their peers. This results in groups of people with similar habits, clothes, and so on. The vast majority of humans normally want to fit in and conform, rather than be the odd one out in a group, see the entry on tribalism in any good anthropology textbook.

Also, anyone who claims not to understand this is either lying, engaging in some form of virtue signalling or has some sort of mental illness.
yup that's how i'd imagine that'd go. nice insight into DJI's dev practices, any happless shmuck can access their keys and accidentally upload them to github(i know i've done that accidentally for my personal projects)
They already have it. You can choose your required "usage rights" in the advanced search settings page(atleast for images)
Two great insight:

> No business plan survives first contact with customers

> The real value is finding the product/market fit. That’s not found in a set of slides.

Business ideas are useless. They're inert. It's like pointing at a random spot on a map and declaring "let's dig there for gold".

OK, let's.

A bias towards action is all that counts. And there's no stealing that. It's either innate or it's cultivated.

--------------------

Addendum: lifted (stolen?!) from one of the best quotes I've read on business ideas:

This isn’t rocket science and I’d never publicly discuss it if I were genuinely concerned that humanity was a species of action. It isn’t. I could guarantee most anyone a pot of gold ten miles from their house, hand them a map, order them a pizza and turn ‘Lost’ (or whatever the show is today) on TV for them. Whatdaya think, are they going to hike ten miles or eat pizza?

Yup. Instant gratification, bird in the hand, risk aversion, you name it. People won’t do SH%T.

So that’s where the opportunity is. Ignore the status quo, realize where the opportunity for arbitrage lies, and take action. It’s everywhere.
Regardless of the importance of FB privacy violations, an article mocking Zuckerberg's awkward delivery ("cringey") doesn't satisfy HN's criteria of gratifying intellectual curiosity.
Doesn't matter, it's not an army.