skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes essentially you are paying part of your principal each year if the rate is actually negative - you're paying them.

The reason is because the central banks have set rates that private banks themselves can loan out money (i.e. create money out of thin air), that you have to compete with their low rates to loan out yours. For example, say you wanted to loan out your money for someone to buy a house. You're competing with banks who can do so at 3%, so you can't go higher, and there is a risk the guy won't pay you back.

Since the government is usually the least risky entity to whom one can loan money (since they can print it), the rate you can charge them is even lower than every other type of loan, and since everyone else is loaning at lower and lower rates for riskier ventures, the government ends up paying 0%.
The biggest problem IMO is that people don't seem to be able grasp that governments simply cannot solve this.

Only when there is that general understanding can people stop focusing on government as the path to solving this.

Unfortunately however almost everyone focuses on government and elections which is simply wasting more time.
I don’t blame the elites. I blame the people who were in place with the power to restrict the elite’s behaviour.

Corrupt, incompetent or inconsequent politicians can not be rewarded with re-elections they need to be voted out. However when the population stops believing that any political party presents a credible choice we get populists. We get the “non-politicians”.

Of course they solve nothing. They’re worse than the established politicians.
I see the problem. We are confusing cooling towers with river water cooling, also called "once-through cooling".

Cooling towers are specifically when you don't use river water for cooling.

Your first photo has a large lake in front of it, so clearly they will use that, but the rest don't, they only have the towers.

Nuclear plants almost always use once-through cooling or cooling ponds, but coal plants typically don't, and are unaffected by the heat limits (which are environmental for fish, not technical for power generation).

Edit: Notice how in the diagram you linked there is a river for cooling, but there is no tower? Coal plants will have one or the other, but nuclear uses both, and that's because most of the waste heat from coal goes up the chimney.
>We are so used to see the visual presentation of samples that look like a bar diagram, that a lot of people think analog sounds better because the curves are smoother.

Except for a philosophical debate about continuity, isn't that true?
This is an exceptionally insightful point, thank you.
Worth noting that the IRS will not call without having sent a letter first
This font is way better than comic sans. I mean look at the m
True.

But you could also say that you shouldn't accept payment as the entity that will pay taxes. That's what Apple, for example, does for non-US revenue. And what Mirimir does, in a small way.
Yeah for example the super-profound and constructive top comment that just quotes the article and adds "WOW :O".

That's quality content, unlike a the South Park reference drawing a simile between serious research and the (humorously) exaggerated potential disasters of combining human DNA with other species.

Obviously the second was made by some common peasant lacking the intelligence to engage with the audience here. The first, clearly being the work of an intellectual powerhouse the likes of which we stand in awe of, has rightly collected the praise and votes they deserve.
Does anyone really make it out of this world alive?
> how is that "better"

The facts are:

- US had 0 intention to join Kosovo as 51th state, and election were performed under observation of UN peacekeepers which were there per UN resolution

- Russia invaded Crimea using regular army, and within two weeks merged territory in violation of UN statute

> where the political regime just illegally changed before that, exactly in the direction of suppressing politically all ethnic Russians in Ukraine

I disagree with your assessment. Ukraine is a mess, old pro-Russia president and his party illegally changed constitution, which caused chain of events.
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Googling for "ozone blood treatment embolism" shows several credible links to gas embolisms related to ozone treatment.

Apparently some providers don't shake out all the bubbles after pumping in the ozone.
There are a lot of snide remarks in that answer, however, detracting from otherwise great information. (Eg what does the Dalai Lama and Uighur oppression have to do with this?)
I'm on your wavelength.

The biggest, most gigantic problem, amongst many, is that the food supply seems in serious danger.
He's right, they use the tower to pre-cool the water before using river water to cool it even more.

Coal plants typically only have the tower, and don't use river water.
Governments are the only people who can enact laws to move large numbers of people as a group to act.
Almost 200 comments yesterday, especially on how the website doesn't look like equuifax and would be ideal for collecting people's data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527646
You have a better solution for complex game theoretic coordination problems of this sort?
Equifax Owes You Money
All plants are water cooled, the question is if they use a cooling tower, or if they use river water.
IIRC there's around 7m of sea level rise tied up in Greenland ice, and it's already melting remarkably quickly. Now add the wildfires and it seems like it's escalating dangerously out of control.

While a tipping point tips, government action is still conspicuously absent, and countries (well Russia and Canada mainly) are trying to nail their continental shelf claims in the Arctic for oil exploration.
I don't think this has anything to do with ITAR. It's a sanction that includes export restrictions, but it's a completely different law. I think the law you want to focus on is: CISADA (Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010).

ITAR is just one of several export control laws in the US. The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) is another. In most cases these don't interfere with international software development... but sometimes they do.

I don't think Microsoft has a choice here.
Huh. I've only had one stuck pixel in my life and I was able to fix it by poking it with a pencil eraser. Guess I've been lucky. 3 in one screen is a lot.
Pretty good for an "Amateur Mathematician", I can't wait to see what he does once he goes pro.
Woah.

I thought you were being hyperbolic.

Man!

That was a well fleshed out answer. Is Quora always like that? Or is that a one off kind of thing?
Additionally for iOS, Synth One is excellent, and free (open source even). I also really like "Unique" by Sugar Bytes and NLog Synth by TempoRubato.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0lOtdvqyg
The Key to Safety Online Is User Empowerment, Not Censorship
Not sure what you're talking about. Volume control works normally for me full screen.
No, except to bring to peoples attention that government has failed and is failing and will continue to fail to solve this.
Very bad idea. This almost always incentivizes to exploit for short term financial results at the expense of long term sustainability. For example, you can cut down customer support department to save money which would increase your profit (and therefore bonus for an employee who made that decision). In longterm you probably won't have customers. Executive pays often follow this rule and you can find vast number of stories how they ruined companies for short term gain and bonus cashouts.
China is communist in name only at this point. The government is authoritarian but the economy works in a pretty familiar way as far as business ownership and financial transactions.
I think this is a consequence of living in a society with a mostly effective justice system.

If you have a law against larceny which is vigoriously enforced with proportionate penalties, it's going to deter a lot of thefts. But none of the thieves it does deter can show in your recidivism stats, because none of those people commit any thefts.

It's only the people who are desperate or irrational who steal when it means going to jail for it. And if you put that set of people in jail for a while and let them back out into a situation where they're exactly as desperate or irrational as they were before, it's no surprise you see a high recidivism rate in that population, and the only way to prevent those thefts is to remove the desperation or address whatever e.g. mental illness or drug addiction is causing the irrationality.

This is also why disproportionate penalties don't really reduce crime. Because anyone doing the math even remotely accurately will be deterred by proportionate penalties, and anyone not doing the math at all won't be deterred by any penalties, and that doesn't leave a lot of people who can only be deterred by disproportionate penalties.

But that's a different thing than saying there shouldn't be a law against murder or theft at all because punishment is totally ineffective. It's only ineffective against the people it was ineffective against to begin with, who are only a small percentage of the population.
You mistook a polite correction for irrational butt-hurt :)

Pointing out their transition was not meant as an attack or accusation. I assumed you did not know, and might want to know in order to speak more accurately about them.

You also mistook a “yes, and!” for argument. I agree that the wachowski’s would have written a different movie today. I also think it’s self-evident that today would be different were it not for the matrix.
> There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important.

I think that there is virtue in patience.

That tripod guy has patience to setup the tripod and camera and carefully compose the shot for perfection because this might be his way to have a perfect Sunday.

Why do you want to deny this because somebody does not have enough patience to wait a little?
The actual HN source is not open, but some people have reverse-engineered the ranking algorithm and I think the threshold is getting 40 comments before 40 upvotes = automatically sunk.
Thanks for a great answer. I suppose it's rather quite like discovering a program isn't entering a code path. Knowing that is the first step to figuring out why it doesn't create a side effect at the end. (Metaphors all suck, but...yeah).
OK, I'll bite. Ping me on linkedin and we can chat.
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I found that comment a bit bizarre, too, as an American.

Many (most?) people in America simply don’t care about this or have any general curiosity about the world outside of them. America is the land of fast food and unsustainable cheap beef; we have a president that denies climate change, so it’s no wonder that there is simply no interest in understanding sustainable fishing by a large portion of the population, regardless of which country is succeeding at it.

That is much different than some kind of conspiracy like that post implied. I think it’s actually worse than a conspiracy because it shows widespread ignorance and no desire to seek out the information or analyze the food we eat and it’s impact on the environment. America doesn’t need a conspiracy to hide this, they won’t seek it out anyway.
> I just don’t see how we’re getting out of this alive.

Even worst case predictions for climate change don't imply the human race will be threatened. But what we will see is massive geopolitical disruption as previously habitable regions become uninhabitable. What happens when coastal Myanmar is underwater or southern India experiences 130 degree days on a regular basis? Climate change is going to make itself felt over the coming decades as increases in migrant crises, regional conflicts, and famines. (Not to mention economic loss as, e.g., the agricultural viability of large areas changes.)
I was working at PDI Dreamworks during one of the semi annual investigations into which filter kernel was best. And I was completely blown away by how quickly the lighting sup could identify and react to various filters. Gaussian was voted down reliably and repeatedly for being too blurry.

Personally, I like the extra blur I get (and extra safety and guarantees) you get with Gaussian. Back in the NTSC days I discovered that vertically blurring interlaced video made it noticeably more clear and visible, even though it was softer.

But, If you do really spend time with sharper filters, it is true that Gaussian is softer and some pros really do want sharper images than Gaussian can provide.
Well that certainty is what I am challenging.

And your response is precisely the problem - people think only government can solve this. But government has not, will not and cannot solve it.

We need to move beyond government as the solution.

The first step in that is to loosen up your certainty that only via government can anything large scale happen.
Individual action cannot convert to zero carbon generation, make treaties, implement carbon taxes, require impact labelling or ban unsustainable methods.

Governments are the only ones with the necessary leverage. Even if we have to wait for some country to elect a Green party government, or there be enough XR style demonstrations disrupting the economy that they have to act.
Me too. I tried voting and while it was fun it didn't seem to matter. I tried bitching about it on the internet and while it was fun it didn't seem to matter. I guess if we are all fucked I might as well have some fun.
The Wikipedia article says that _critics_ of RT regard it as a propaganda outlet... which is not quite what you said.

TBH though, RT has a bunch of Russian-angle propaganda in some of its shows. Those are mostly the shows hosted by actual Russians, or with Russian/living-in-Russia panelists; and their newscasts. Other shows, particularly those by non-Russian journalists/creators, aren't like that. Of course, it is a Russian state entity which selects which people and shows get to be on the network. It seems to me like the main influence on the non-Russian shows is that they refrain from covering or referring to internal Russian affairs and politics.
Of course if it's just going to show the default set of buttons all the time, that's a feature also achievable with... actual keys.
That might have been manual moderation. Read the FAQ and Guidelines posts at the bottom of the page. From the guidelines:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
Here's your second.

The first time I encountered the word was in 1980, reading a 1969 comic book containing the phrase "The Wanderlust begins to rise in my bosom!" Phineas T. Phreak was speaking, and I think he ended up going to Disneyland with two of his friends (with hilarious results).
Does everyone have a job, no homelessness, etc?
An early version of HN is bundled with http://arclanguage.org/install.
OneSignal is hiring an SRE to scale the future of our bare-metal infrastructure
Awesome self-burn about the quality of Chinese 'honey' there.
For Romania, it is in a national database. Source: family member that is a high ranking policeman, he checked my records and there is more than I thought, having a perfectly clean criminal record.
http://productionadvice.co.uk/no-stair-steps-in-digital-audi...

The “stair-steps” you see in your DAW when you zoom up on a digital waveform only exist inside the computer. [...] When digital audio is played back in the Real World, the reconstruction filter doesn’t reproduce those stair-steps – and the audio becomes truly analogue again.
Sure if you by "world" you mean bean counters and not users.
Musk should spin his boring company as underground housing construction. I don't think we'll have time for BFR production to escape to Mars
The hardest part in software development is probably to not add new features. Learned the hard way. (The things users tell you they want, is rarely what they actually want.)
Bots drove nearly 40% of internet traffic
Was it the hitch hikers guide that said, "As a result of their time on Earth, mouse scientists had developed the means to cure all mouse diseases, allowing their civilization to survive in perpetuity."
Isn't this more of a behavioral or policy change more so than anything else? Maybe setup ground-rules before starting the call?
I know how to fix most problems with measuring an engineer's performance. The best solution is to remove "manager" from measurement. Lead developer would speak with all team members to assess performance of colleagues. Those are those who know exactly who makes their work harder and who helps them everyday whether by wise advice or by leaving clear code and thought through architecture.

Managers will argue that they have so much responsibilities that they cannot code together with teh team, but I again would say that the problem may be reduced with reduction or higher management. Bussiness part shall talk with engineers on feasibility of their vision and ideas without proxies who are so in the middle that they neighter understand bussiness nor technology.
I wonder if Canada and Russia will be the nicest places to live in the next century.
We have a dog who is 13. We have him a good quality cbd pill for general inflamation and anxiety. Very good results.
I don't know what 'nerfed' means, but on HN, a post that doesn't get any upvotes doesn't go anywhere. That's suitable in this case, since the post was off topic and broke the site guidelines. It wasn't moderated, nor did the software do anything to it.
food, water, shelter, space..

right now the most important is leader, but that's a concept not a thing
I'm going to miss the clever back folding page.
What I would like to see is a country average temperature record, we often see high temps, some may be a small hotspot, others may well encompass the entire country. With that, are heat waves becoming larger in size and by that - area covered? Asking as from my experience in life, they kinda feel like they are.
As someone who lost a loved one to cdiff and mrsa infections, I would hope to expect a basic level of competence in a hospital, which is increasingly not there.
Great book, it is fun to build some visual and generative. Where you can get new results each run
Well, I'm certainly not getting out alive. And so far, nobody that I know of has. Maybe someday, one day, though.

But yes, you likely meant "we're" in the sense of the human race, or modern technological society. I really doubt that the human race is seriously at risk. Although global population could drop substantially. As part of modern technological society crashing.

So it goes. It was probably inevitable.

Edit: As with population boom-and-bust cycles, generally.
That's debatable. Once certain kind of social interaction happens exclusively on a single platform or one of a few platforms, it can be argued (IANAL) that these platforms, even if privately owned, now have a public function - and thus have a "dual nature", partly public and private (that's an actual formal term in some non-US legal systems).
This piece is a classic and a must-read for graphics people, but do remember that this was written before LCD displays. Today’s pixels actually are little squares to a much greater degree than CRTs in 1995. That doesn’t change the theory or truth in Alvy Ray’s paper, but it does mean that the perfect reconstruction isn’t the same now that it was then.
A lot seafood is flash frozen these days, even next to the coast and even in japan. It’s just the best way to deal with parasites. I don’t think you can eat sashimi in the USA that hasn’t been flash frozen.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "threatened". Sure, humans will continue to exist, we won't go extinct, at least not globally. But we're looking at local and possibly global societal collapse. If we're back 500 years in the past developmentally and technologically, that's a huge deal. Maybe even if you survive, can you go back to a world without vaccines, antibiotics and mass communication?
Fun link, thanks!
This is Scotland, so the water is pretty cold most of the year. If you have to swim through cold water to steal something you are much less likely to do so, especially at night.
Super skeptical of this
Agreed; the point was simply that needing a second computer in this case isn't as bad as it sounds.
Usually either:

1. Paid Chinese State-sponsored propaganda/troll [1]

OR

2. Super nationalist Chinese person (most are) either from China or abroad who take major offense when "their" views are challenged.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/17/how-to-spot-a-state-fun...
China is investing heavily in Africa.
The northern parts, sure. Also northern China. The Arctic could become the new Mediterranean.
Sun (founded 1982) was certainly not the first. The Apple II (1977) put CTRL to the left of A, and every other II followed suit. I'm sure they weren't the first, either. The original IBM PC's Model F keyboard (1981) put control to the left of A, too.

The Macintosh didn't originally have a CTRL key, so Caps Lock went there. The first Mac to have CTRL seems to be the Macintosh II and SE, where you were offered the choice of the Apple Keyboard (control left of A) or Apple Extended Keyboard (caps lock left of A). Thus began decades of confusion.

Interestingly, the NeXT keyboard (1988) had no caps lock.
Yes, that is what affected the rank in that case.

We usually call it the overheated discussion detector now, even though the phrase is clumsy, because sometimes the discussions are just low-quality rather than outright flamewars.
It seems there's a lot of blame put on "the media" because there is a common mindset that someone else ("the media") is responsible for informing everyone, rather than anyone taking on any kind of personal responsibility of informing themselves. This manifests a lot in regards to Asian countries where many westerners (specifically Americans, possibly others idk) get the impression that China/Asia is nothing but a bunch of uncivilized villages, and they never learn otherwise (because they never educate themselves and/or "the media" never educates them).

And I don't think it is just astroturfers, either. Given the above paragraph, I think it's understandable that many Chinese become quite defensive about the fact that they/their countrymen aren't, in fact, savages. I spent some time living in Asia, and even just from that (without any stronger roots like growing up there or having a culture based there), even I personally became quite frustrated and 'defensive' when having to constantly inform my American friends that yes, they do have electricity and running water in Singapore. I can imagine that someone actually from those places would be even more defensive.