skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When exactly does this pushing up of the stock price occur? When the buyback is announced? When it is actually executed? Sometime in between?

It depends on the size of the BuyBack and whether they're getting them at a discount, but it could go up at announcement as it could encourage other investors to buy shares early in expectation that the Buy Backs will push the price up, it will go up (depended on the size of Buy Back/Market Cap) during execution due to the increased demand.

> What if a company does buybacks on a predictable schedule over years?

They're only going to perform Buy Backs when they think they're at a low valuation, when they have a high valuation they'll prefer to give out dividends or employ other effective use of capital like M&A to manufacture growth.

> It seems to me that if the pushing up is as predictable as you say it should be trivial to buy a bunch of shares right before the increase and sell them right after for an easy gain. You should get on that!

You don't get to know exactly when Buy Backs occur, they'll announce that they intend to perform purchase a certain amount of Buy Backs over a specified period and in the next Financial results they'll disclose how many Buy Backs they purchased during the period.
Also the "parlo arabo?" is listed on treccani: http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/arabo

BTW, I agree with the other comment that this is more common in the north.
How does one distinguish a legitimate acquired fear of some things vs PTSD? I am prone to feeling anxious in social situations, but I doubt that counts as PTSD.

If the two pigeons had seen people humans be bad to them, it would imo be a natural response to be fearful of humans.

I am not trying to diminish the idea that animals have PTSD. I think it is only natural to imagine they do and so I find the title weird - it should rather be a confirmation of what should be a normal thing to assume.

I just want to know how one could distinguish between acquired justifiable fear and PTSD.
> Telegram is a great way to read HN articles,

Do you mean browsing news.yc through the InstantView feature?

https://instantview.telegram.org/
Which channel?
Do we? Ideally corporate tax would be 0%, and the people actually pocketing cash out of the company entirely would be taxed.
Episode of NPR Invisibilia:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/09/3760841...
Page says "The dataset currently used is provided by GeoNames." GeoNames is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ so it would be better to add the attribution to each result as well.
> you have remarkable powers of recall

I’ll tell you my secret. It’s called… <whispers> Bookmarks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15574890#15575460
I think an easier path to have corporations which are not owned by anyone is to look at cross-holdings. Maybe one could theoretically get to a situation where a group of companies hold shares of each other and completely own themselves in the aggregate? Even if that may not be completely legal one can imagine that given the complexity of the situation one could accidentally end in a forbidden state.
https://t.me/hackernewslive
The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism
People love “the world is burning” type nostalgia for another time. But there’s never been a better time to be a serious gamer looking for excellent story telling and gameplay.

But just like films where you won’t find the auteurs or Criterion Collection at your local theater besides a few exceptions, you have to seek them out and being paying attention (most people who make critiques like this aren’t anywhere near involved in music/films/games/etc like they were when they were kids. But they expect the same ROI.

Every booming cultural market pumps out more crap than good stuff, and I assure you the 90a and early 2000s had plenty of awful games.
Oh, sorry, the price is the GOÄ (Gebührenordnung für Ärtzte) price the X-Ray place can bill you/your insurance. This includes the X-Ray consultation.

You are send there by your GP if the GP determines you need it checked like that. They write it down, give you a form, and the specialist uses it to bill the insurance (as they don't pay if you just show up at the X-Ray place directly).

Also a full hand, including the palm, is less than 10€ more I think. It's really not that expensive (a Finger was the cheapest I remember finding).
Since it's essentially asking for others to try something you've build, can you use https://news.ycombinator.com/show ?
Leaving Hopkins
Compass operation is clearly dependant on the hardware and your physical surroundings. My phone compass ( LG V30+) works well in a suburban street or open bushland, showing high sensitivity. Inside my steel framed house or 5 metres from a 40 storey steel reinforcement sky scrapers not so much. ( And not much different from my 40 year old Silva compass) That's why Google is using the camera, Street view and AR to align the orientation
Make face models equivalent to PII and restrict collecting, selling, exchanging them. If you don't do this then there will be cameras on every corner collecting and selling information about your habits, because merchants are desperate to obtain them.
Maybe we need to start digging. I wonder if living and working mostly underground (not, like, hundreds of feet but rather just beneath the surface) wouldn’t help keep us physically cool naturally and cheaply but also help reduce emissions and energy consumption since there would be less need of air conditioning and heating. Not entirely practical for a lot of the planet—coastal areas come to mind—but even if those that can do it did I’d think it would make a difference.

Though, I guess this also highlights that it would mostly be the rich that could afford to do this. I suspect submerged structures are more expensive to build and maintain than conventional buildings.
It’s not actually a conspiracy theory to suggest that — all that’s required is ordinary corruption.
Well that is the thing - it isn't granted by us or even talent but by the connection to the resources of others and the benefits - not all of them material.

Many of them even if they suffered full fledged "flee a homicidal government and start with nothing" would have immaterial assets like education and experience running large organizations to gain wealth and rise up again.
If it was not speculation the stock market prices would only change the day of the earnings call. Anything else is speculative, since we don't (at least should not) have access to the real performance numbers the rest of the year.
Is he though?
At companies this size, in tech at least, you always have a constant flow of people joining and leaving. A hiring freeze means your shrinking. Your engineers are slowly evaporating, and you're not replacing them.
yes its most likely a gradual loading of the ligature rather than an abrupt drop. one would have to be fairly determined toward fate, and a bit athletic to incur cervical dislocation.
Telegram is not a Russian company, it has encryption on by default and is literally famous for fighting "scary Russian government" and all those helping Russian government censor it, including the megacorps you for some reason assume are not in bed with the government.

And given how fast the west is moving on backdooring mass communications, in a few years Telegram might end up as one of the few unbackdoored apps left standing.
As this is a direct response to my comment, I don't have the ability to downvote this, but everytime I read "fake news" these days I translate that to "this news that I disagree with that doesn't conform to my world view, so I'm just going to regurgitate the BS phrase 'fake news' without actually pointing out what is factually false."
I don't understand what you mean, because you say "the best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly". That is "trickle down economics" as I understand what people mean by the phrase, and I agree(?) that it makes no sense. Broken windows, etc.
I remember teaching a physics section at Cornell that had an Indonesian prince who was always attended by somebody who I think was a bodyguard.

He struck me as a pretty nice guy.
seconding, i found borges through a recommendation after reading chiang and he (borges) became my favorite author
You're talking past the point. The ultimate selling point which the OP was emphasizing is an increase in jobs. Investing in automation, which is literally how many companies used the freed up tax reserves, is a net decrease in labor demand and therefore a net decrease in jobs, so the argument that this is increasing labor demand is BS.

And yes, creating 50 jobs that automate away 1000 jobs is a net loss of 950 jobs. Even if those 50 happen to be in tech or other industries that you benefit from.
There already are VR rooms. I'm stoked to try it out (going next week), but from what I can tell it's still a niche even for the companies where you can do them.
A very good result from all the bad press they've gotten lately. If Google can improve its stance on privacy then I think it solves it's biggest problem.
Even if the rich parents aren't injecting a huge cash flow, that student still has the safety net to fall back on.
> (also when did he poop?)

Probably before heading out and then once or twice during the week he was out there. It's not a big problem.

The more urgent question is, how did he get water?
When you say 'save', what do you mean? They aren't putting it in a mattress in their house... they are 'saving' it in investments that fund the economy.
Though I haven't used it personally, Google Play Store looks to have a pretty large collection as well.
Suppose you follow your argument to the conclusion, and no companies issue dividends. What is the point of owning a share of a company then?
Yes, posture and stress tension are huge! I don't work sitting down any more, and I think that has helped me a lot. But one thing I've made a point to avoid is standing still in one spot like John Carmack giving a talk.

Instead, I'm always moving when I stand at my desk. At home I have a FluidStance Level:

https://fluidstance.com

They are expensive, but mine has already paid for itself in terms of feeling better and more alert and hopefully longer life. :-) I don't have one at the office yet, but in the meantime when I stand at my desk I'm always moving around - swaying from side to side, climbing an invisible ladder (raising each foot back and forth), etc.
Can Uber ever be profitable? Yes. Here's how
> creating 50 jobs that automate away 1000 jobs is a net loss of 950 jobs

Keeping 950 jobs that are technologically uncompetitive is a good way to create a crisis down the road. Let's not confuse the investment and automation debates.
I would argue that all of the Amendments have always been subservient to “national security” (whatever that means in any age), for better or worse.

Also, I have yet to hear anyone argue that we should “violate” the 2A, but I have heard lots of 1A discussion about how we could frame laws or discuss whether 2A is worth keeping in its current state.
It appears that they are oblivious to just how problematic a culture of poseurdom is and that itself explains the dysfunctions of the old-guard elite of all sorts. It isn't that they are privileged but that they outright spend their time lying to put up appearances instead of actual substance.
It might be reverse pathological causology admittedly - that pathological bullshitters get into power not that those positioned for power are trained to be pathological bullshitters.
Wouldn’t it be true for any capitalistic economy. Owners will extract as much rent as the market will bear, and employees will pay as little as the market accepts. It seems only natural that those two forces would converge on having rent correlate strongly with wages
I had severe rsi on my forearms from too much coding with bad posture and no exercise. It got me for more than 3 years. It was a muscular issue the nerves were fine. I lost endurance in the forearm / wrist muscles and it didn't seem to come back no matter what I tried. Doctors therapy exercise etc. It was a nightmare. I went on a leave. I barely kept my job. At times I couldn't use the computer for more than 10 minutes before my Muscles were exhausted. Gradually but very slowly things improved. Today I can manage it pretty well. My recovery started with reading this book and I recommend it to anyone going through chronic pain:

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
The US has higher pay than peripheral or semi-peripheral countries like India, Brazil, etc. (Of course your purchasing power is different... Imported things are crazy expensive in Brazil, but it is cheap to go to a pizza restaurant and people will cut the slices for you)

I don't know if the situation is better in the US relative to other core countries such as Canada, UK, Germany, etc...
> Staying safe behind a chokepoint might be unexciting

I didn't understand the main solution the article offers. We'll solve the problem that the door is a safe chokepoint by putting another safe chokepoint "inside" the arena, right in front of the door. Now everything is fine, because you have the same gameplay, but you've labeled the floor the player is on "good" instead of "bad".

What did I miss?

(I also didn't really understand why this was supposed to be a problem in the first place, but I put that down to the fact that I hate the entire genre under discussion. As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, roguelikes can suffer from a similar problem. Angband gets very repetitive:

1. Some monsters appear in groups. At low levels, you need to fight them in a hallway. This is basically fine with me. Later versions made group monsters unwilling to leave rooms, which made them no more dangerous than before, but much, much more tedious.

2. Some monsters can summon other monsters. If you fight one of these in a room, you'll die. The solution is one of two things:

2a: If the monster moves, dig out a corridor and wait for the monster to come to you. With no empty spaces around you, summoning can't do anything.

2b: If the monster doesn't move, use wall removal effects to open a path that allows you to target it with ranged attacks while staying out of its line of sight. In general, it will also be out of your line of sight, so this means memorizing a few common flight patterns for ranged attacks.

3. OK, some monsters can hit to cause earthquakes, opening empty spaces where you were expecting the safety of walls. And some monsters can move through -- and incidentally destroy -- walls, completely wrecking the idea that you might not get surrounded.

The answer to this one is to use a Destruction effect to automatically kill summoning wall-destroying monsters as soon as you see them, because even for a maxed out character, they're too dangerous to fight. So the game is about luring uniques into special diagonal-only corridors and grinding it out against them there (Hit! Hit! Hit! Heal! Hit! Hit!), carefully conserving all your healing potions for the fight against Morgoth, who causes earthquakes and summons everything.)
End to end encryption is not on by default, they even say that in their own FAQ.

https://core.telegram.org/tsi/e2ee-simple
I also had it on my LG, because of my Local Guide status
The disconnect would be between a gov. agency freeing money for national companies, and investors who can invest in whatever they want, including investing in other countries and bribing the gov. to free more money.

As you point out investors are not stupid, but why should they be trusted to do the right thing for everyone else ?
Money is fungible. When a company buys back shares owned by an equity mutual fund, the fund uses the cash to buy shares of other companies, including the shares of IPOs, if the manager thinks they are good investments.
Fake news, click-bait, misleading, agenda driven reporting; call it what you like. I did provide extra information to contextualize why I called it that, not sure why you are so mad.
The current Tomb Raider series does a fairly good job at this, with a mix of 'sandbox' areas with patrolling enemies and 'setpiece' areas where they'll actively pursue you or you have to assault a prepared defensive location.
> 2) Pile the money up in a big pile and have a bonfire, as they literally have no other ideas for what to do with the money.

See: Softbank
The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
The money they're talking about isn't peoples income, it's companies buying stock. The people they buy it from turn around and invest it elsewhere. Likewise, the "40%" saved isn't sitting in a vault somewhere, it's also invested.
Thanks for the tip about that book. I'm collecting a number of resources from the answers here and I'll try to go through them. Right now Paul Graham's "On Lisp" seems promising.
So far Tesla has not really done much in terms of battery tech. Pretty much everything they are doing with 18650 cells in their cars and power walls is hardly ground breaking science. They have managed to make things look incredibly beautiful, but 18650 batteries have been around for a long time. If Tesla starts to do more with different chemistries that will be interesting.
I don't have a link for you, but in Canada, if the personal debt was connected to a commercial transaction (ie: you bought something using your personal credit intended to benefit an incorporated business) then it is a taxable benefit to that business. The person owes nothing, but the corporation does. In this case, it is of interest to the corporation to give the money back to the individual before tax season, otherwise it is income. The person could always treat it as an investment as well, but there are additional rules to that which of course then affect the individual's taxes. Every penny of it that stays in the corporation is taxable.

If the debt was personal only, it is no different than if someone gave you money as a gift. Likewise, we don't tax lottery winnings. But we do tax gifts that come from corporations you own or are employed by, or a board member, etc, as income (taxable benefit). The tax connection, in each case, is because of money going into or out of a corporation you have a financial connection to. That's why you'll never get a lottery ticket as a gift from your boss, paid for by the company.

If that ticket won big money, it's a whole world of hurt for the corporation.
People happily own Amazon/FB/Alphabet stock with no dividend payments.
Another option for seasonal variation is to overbuild. Build enough solar for winter and just discard or figure out something to do with the excess power supply in summer.

(I'm not sure that would be cheaper, it's just another possibility.)
I don't trust anyone who says tax "companies" rather than "the rich". It's like universal income. If you're talking about taxing someone other than the rich, you are talking about taxing people who can't afford it. If you're talking about giving money to someone other than the poor, you're talking about giving money to people who don't need it. Not everything that is counter-intuitive is a deep insight.
Well put. Second-amendment gun fanatics dwell so intently on their fantasies of bravely exchanging fire with government soldiers, when in fact their government has figured out how to oppress people in less physical and more effective ways than direct military action could ever achieve.
I can think of many situations in which suicide is morally acceptable. I'd be very critical of anybody who asserts otherwise, that would be a much more interesting conversation to have, if only because I think I could really lay into anybody who disagreed with me on that matter. Whether prisoners should be able too is less interesting, so far I've not seen a compelling argument for permitting it. It seems like a perversion of justice to allow it.
Do you have any evidence supporting your "obvious" answer? Can you explain why investors have pumped $15 trillion into bonds with negative yields if there are so many good investment opportunities around?
Much of the money isn't going to other investments. It goes to savings. The top 1% save ~40% of their income. The bottom 90% save 4% of their income. The problem with giving money to the wealthy is that it doesn't go to startups, it leaves the economy and increases a number on someone's terminal.
The best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly whether rich or poor. In general, it turns out most very wealthy people have little incentive to spend money quickly. Instead, they save to hedge against and profit from recessions. Your option 2) isn't some foolish strategy, it's literally what is happening. Some of the money goes to investments and the rest seeks to hedge against the risk of those investments.

I really don't understand how people still push some version of trickle-down economics. Corporate buybacks are exactly this. Using taxpayer money to fund it only hurts the long term value of the economy.
Interesting post. I’ve been dealing with RSI on and off for the past 5 years. Natural keyboard, standing desk, reducing keyboard use in my free time, lots of breaks, almost no hobby activity, stretching and exercises helped, but the pain keeps coming back after while.

Any suggestions for Linux-based tools?
But the thing is, I'm willing to take an opinionated language that gets most things right over a "god language" that is malleable enough to bend to your will. I'm pretty sure others will disagree, but I don't feel like writing my own language using Lisp.
Typically (a) they whitelist a route to the licensing servers (e.g. enterprise, "soft" disconnected) or (b) there's a manual, airgap tolerant authentication procedure that must be performed regularly (e.g. generate key from licensing servers, save, move across gap, upload to hardware).

No idea what Cisco does specifically, but I've worked with other gear or software that worked like this.
i think this is a bit hyperbole. There are a lot of Americans who live happy, quiet, and mediocre lives. Every society from the beginning of time had a hierarchy, and this will never change. It is just how is the hierarchy formed? Is it through meritocracy? or is it through nepotism, divine rights, and what not.
> That is not a legitimate policy goal. The earlier poster points out that gun ownership is not correlated with crime at all. We shouldn't set policy goals that are merely about partisanship -- trying to cut down on gun owners because we don't like them -- rather than a clear public benefit.

A 2014 review in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded having a firearm in the home, even when it’s properly stored, doubles your risk of becoming a victim of homicide and triples the risk of suicide. [0]

Guns are intrinsically dangerous, in much the same way as certain aggressive dog breeds and industrial explosives. While many/most people can safely raise rottweilers, store dynamite, and keep guns, some will not. Is there a marginal benefit associated with the removal of each marginal gun? Obviously. Is gun ownership reduction a legitimate policy goal? Obviously. It's strange that you think otherwise.

> In general, modern legal systems reject holding one person responsible for the crime of another. If a mass shooter lawfully purchases a firearm, what possible liability could a dealer have?

Part of a more involved system of background checks would necessarily involve more action by dealers to verify that the customer's purchase is legal. Prosecuting and holding liable individuals who fail to follow established precautions when selling dangerous products is not unusual.

[0] https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/1814426/accessibility-fir...