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I always wondered how an AI would enslave humans to teach it more things :-)
Not really your point, but if somebody gifted a $500 tandem/boat anchor for a $30MM co, that might indeed be a red flag. A $500 tandem is probably a boat anchor no matter what the circumstances are...
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SiriusXM undercuts rivals with a $4 per month student subscription
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEJxHRVVF3bLrv6XANtcPbQ

Started a vlog to show my journey as a developer and freelancer. The videos are about developing, starting and maintaining your own company, meetup & conference reports and improving productivity.

It's still in its infancy so feedback is always appreciated!
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> Which is fine as long as everybody realizes contribution quality to HN is apparently now random blog musings the likes of which hundreds? of thousands are generated everyday by the vast swath of upper/middle class privileged coeds of the western world and their male hangerons.

1. The author appears to be male. Your mask is slipping assuming the author is a "coed."

2. N+1 is a well known literary magazine that often writes about higher education, not a random blog.

3. HN has never had a requirement that all posts be technical or scientific articles. The state of higher education is obviously relevant to many technically and scientifically minded people who work in higher ed.
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If central banks weren't setting the price of credit by fiat, what would a "market" risk free rate be? Have any economists tried to answer this question?

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted for this...?
I like that WeWork is finally forcing us to have the conversation about WTF a "tech company" even is. A company that sells software? Or one that employs a lot of engineers? Or companies that use a lot of tech in their operations? Companies with a presence in San Francisco and Kombucha on tap? Are big banks tech companies? Insurance providers? Hospitals, auto manufacturers, oil and gas... What isn't a tech company?
> Senator Ron Wyden, a leading Capitol Hill voice on election security, has persistently pushed legislation that would federally mandate paper ballots, among other security measures. The legislation has been blocked by the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.

It's pretty clear what is happening. Given the obvious international attacks on US democracy in the last elections, it seems like a no-brainer that we'd have a bi-partisan effort to secure our elections. But we don't, and the side that doesn't want better election security is also the side that "won" the last election, while it was being hacked by foreign adversaries and while publicly asking the very same adversaries for assistance in hacking the Democrat's emails.

It's beyond suspicious.
Your org has every right to MITM your connections. You are on their hardware, on their line, doing work for them. You should have no expectation of privacy at work, and this includes your computer usage.
As an anecdote, living in a college town, I know many academics at various levels in their career. I happen to know 3 couples where both partners in the marriage are in academia, and actually in the same general branch. In all three cases, the women have been talked to about how they must be treated tougher because their spouses are in academia as well and it the administration needs to prove to the academic world that the women are not riding on the coattails of their husbands.

The men have not had any such discussions with their superiors.

Additionally, why is assuming there is no sexism and proceeding with the status quo better than the assumption there is sexism and trying to improve the situation?
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I'm starting to think that WeWork may be an interesting experiment on the current state of the stock market. It's not just HBR; Bloomberg and virtually every other mainstream financial news analysis outlet has had an article explaining why WeWork is overvalued at its current IPO price.

If it, nonetheless, sells at this price, it seems that it will more or less prove that IPOs don't have much to do with the fundamentals.
Given the vestigial state that public transit has allowed to degrade to - sure. The problem is that fossil fuel shortages will happen in the future and no planning is being done for that, if these pipelines were being built while trillions were being poured into infrastructure to support a green transit based world then I'd have less objections, but it's not happening. The US Government is actively subsidizing fossil fuel extraction while municipalities tighten their belts on public transit - this is bad.

Also, just to note, EVs are getting heavy investment right now and will be able to dominate the market without any infrastructure investments.
If the capital flight away from the rest of the world is bad enough, US markets could even go up during a global recession. That's the thing about the stock market, it goes up and down and you can never guess which.
Meh. Who cares. Why even bring this up?
Stay the course. Don't try to time the market. You just need to avoid the irrational decision to pull your money out of the market because you'll most likely get it wrong and be worse off.

We've had 10 years of prosperity which should have been ample time to secure an emergency fund to weather the storm.
The writing has been on the horizon for a while already [0]

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2283~2ccc0749...
As a name it seems like it will suffer greatly from overlap, making it difficult to find. If you search for "Burnout" it will be extremely hard to make it a top hit. Searching for "Burnout startup" or "Burnout software" you will get similar results and is prob still too wide. Searching for "Burnout App" gets you a mix of Racing Games and Self Care tools.

I think given the SEO issue, combined with the fact that "Burnout" is something you actively want to avoid in a startup makes this a poor choice.

I would also avoid comparing this with "Slack". Slack has both negative and positive connotations. It also has way better SEO properties since searching for "slack" without additional qualifiers was likely uncommon.
The parent tweet said "innovations" which is not the same thing as "inventions," the word you used.
I’m starting to entertain the idea of a massive bubble in bonds. Is inflation really never going to show again? I can’t understand why anyone would want to hold a fiat currency for 30 years for no return.

Is it due to portfolio theory where the assumption is stocks and bonds yields have inverse correlation and the way to manage risk is to have a correct ratio? Due to global QE there is too much money floating without enough to invest.

What’s the alternative to equities and/or bonds
You're being downvoted because your point is irrelevant. Epstein raped children.
Interesting that FT adds that first bit to copy/paste.
> Stay diversified and stay in the market.

Agree 100%. Always worth noting that you should have an asset allocation based on your risk profile. If you need the money to pay for your kids college and it is less than 5 years away, don't have it in stocks!

Beyond that, equity allocation makes sense. You want to walk the line between not being able to sleep at night because the market is cratering and not being able to sleep at night in 30 years because you don't have enough money saved to retire the way you want to.

Disclaimer: I like this stuff, but I am not a financial advisor.
Note that Wasmtime is the engine starring in the blog post and demos :-).

Of course, cross-language interfaces will always have tradeoffs. But we see Interface Types extending the space where the tradeoffs are worthwhile, especially in combination with wasm's sandboxing.
I think it’s based on their customers being mostly tech companies or individuals
It isn't right now, but if you buy at this valuation you're betting that they can diversify away from memberships as their main source of revenue to something more "techy."

Personally I am bearish because I don't think they can hire the engineering talent to pull that off. They should've gone on a tech hiring spree long ago if that was their intention but I know of no prominent tech leaders who work there.
But you also said that Opera and Firefox had private browsing before Chrome which is not true.
A cash emergency fund is there to help you weather financial storms, that's its sole purpose.

I have a six figure US stock position and I'm not going to change anything I do as long as I remain employed. Save for retirement/long term in the stock market, save for big ticket items in cash (I have a new car fund, for example). If I lose my job I'll have to stop contributions until I get another job. If I remain unemployed longer term I'd have to tighten my belt on frivolous purchases.
There are many possible hypotheses apart from "sexism against women" though.

Consider the hypothesis of "sexism against men": society considers all women valuable, but only values men who earn a decent amount of money. Men who earn little find it hard to date and have children.

Wouldn't this "sexism against men" spur men to choose high earning (but maybe not fulfilling) professions, while women would feel more free to aim for personally fulfilling (but lower earning) professions?

By the metric of earnings this might look like sexism against women, but by the metric of life satisfaction, it might look more like sexism against men.
> Why would anybody claim it's a tech company?

Because a company calling itself "tech" and "sophisticated" automatically gets higher stock market valuation by unscrupulous investment analysts.

Thus, a company is priced higher the more techy and sophisticated is its image.

Have you heard of Chinese companies' price jumping just from them adding word "blockchain" or "o2o" to their name? This is what it is.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-fea...

Though everybody runs to point fingers on "oriental mindset" of some fund managers, few notice that this happens in the West in a form that is even more extreme.

A perfect example of that is a company called Netflix. They sell videos over the internet, but they are priced a whole ∞ more than companies selling videos on physical tapes
I applaud Mozilla and Google for this.

It does get me wondering however, how viable this would be in other countries. Say, what if the UK or the US were to try to pull something like this. There's not much that Kazakhstan can do against Mozilla. However, if something similar were tried here in the US, it seems to me Mozilla would be a lot more vulnerable to government retaliation, or being forced to do what the Fed says whether they want to or not. The Mozilla Foundation is incorporated here in the US. Those board members whom are not US citizens could be deported or prevented from entering the US. Those board members whom are US citizens and residing here could be arrested. The IRS could be weaponized to revoke their 501(c)3 status. There's probably other things I'm not thinking of.

I'm not saying the US is quite that bad, or that it's going to get that bad here soon. But I don't think it's unreasonable to think that such could happen if people don't remain vigilant. We need only to look at the history of other nations abroad and our own history here to see just how quickly and easily it can and has gotten that bad in the past.

Again, I'm glad of Mozilla's and Google's technical solution to this problem. But, as it seems governments continue to lean in this direction, I worry that failing to pursue the policy angle in addition to the technical angle when addressing these problems will cause the technical solutions to be or become brittle.

Edit: I was reminded that donations to groups who do pursue the policy angle, like the EFF, would be more effective than handwringing on HN. I would encourage those of you whom are also concerned about this to do the same.
it’s scary I can no longer tell the difference between paid mercenaries/interns manufacturing consent and reactionaries on reddit
What does the age of the cancer have to do with this?
Particular carcinogens absolutely do cause particular mutations or at least mutational patterns. Lookup mutational signatures. Signature 4 for smoking for example
A lot of financial transactions and central clearinghouses require participants to post collateral. For example if an insurance company enters into an interest rate swap with a bank, both sides will have to post some percent of the contract's notional value in escrow. This protects both sides from counterparty risk (i.e. what if the insurance company goes out of business and can't pay its side of the swap).

The collateral needs to take the form of low-risk, liquid securities. Usually government bonds. Bringing a big bag full of cash to a derivatives exchange is not accepted. If you're a big financial institution, you have no choice but to buy government bonds. Even if they're negative yielding.

Since 2008, there's been a massive increase in financial regulations. Policy-makers have desperately pushed to make banks and other financial institutions less risky. That mostly means much higher capital requirements and more central clearing. In turn that means the demand for holding high-quality government has exploded.
Have they said this? What technology are they adding to their business?
First, it's not like the objection even matters: how nice the assembly interface is doesn't really matter for adoption at all.

And it's not too bad; it's basically very close to a modernized MIPS. There are legitimate complaints, though.

Probably the most controversial is that integer divide by zero can't be made to raise an exception.

Similarly, omitting condition codes is something that will be distasteful to many.

Also, there are so many combinations of legal instruction subsets that compatibility may suffer. Most everything is in a large set of optional extensions (and some important optional extensions aren't really finished yet).
JVM (Java), Parrot (Perl 6 VM) and CLR (C#) shipped easy, multi-language environments over a decade ago. For some definitions of "easy" and "multi-language".

Different programming languages exist for many reasons, only one of which is syntax. Many of these reasons relate to data structures and runtime control flow. WASM won't be able to "solve" these issue any better than the JVM, Parrot, or CLR did. (Spoiler: they didn't, and WASM won't.) At best you'll get a Rust'ish WASM, Python'ish WASM, PHP'ish WASM, etc. And all of those will feel like a cousin to JavaScript, just as anything on the JVM feels similar to Java, on Parrot feels similar to Perl 6, and on the CLR feels similar to C#. WASM's choice of data structures, control flow, and data representations will be strongly influenced by the requirements of the major JavaScript engines (in Firefox, Chrome, and maybe WebKit). This is already the case when it comes to control flow semantics.
Just last saturday, I tried to take an application which prominently featured a "Run on Heroku" button and test a bug locally.

For the life of me, I could not figure out to go from the button-based(apparently automatically inferred by Heroku?) deployment to a local Procfile-based deployment.

It was faster to rely on the alternatively provided Dockerfile to start a local deployment and hope that it was as up-to-date as the Heroku setup.

I find the idea of one-click deployments really appealing, but Heroku's vendor-lock-in-based implementation really turned me off their service.
Do any of the people downvoting recall what happened recently to all those Greek Euro-denominated government bonds?

Of course, that could never ever ever happen in Germany? Not even in 30 years? Let's hear an explanation.
Hardly. It took how long for Chrome and FF to support position sticky, or backdrop filter?
> Incidentally, I buy clothes almost only from thrift shops, which means no Patagonia.

I don't know if you've heard about this, but Patagonia offers second-hand buying opportunities. This is the site, more or less refurbished Patagonia wornwear.patagonia.com
Well maybe they wouldn't have to if people weren't such cheapskates and freeloaders
> I think this is a common misconception. Tech giants rise mostly because they create new markets. Since their beginnings nobody beat Microsoft on operating systems, nobody beat Google in search, nobody beat Facebook on social network market share.

Isn't this just another way of saying survivor bias? They are big because they survived and out-competed the competition, no? There were and are other operating systems, other search engines, other social networks. And sometimes even having the same things said about them... Think MySpace before Facebook. Until they got conquered.

These giants are huge because the internet -- to some approximation -- has no geographic boundaries. It's much easier to consolidate and hold power when you don't have to literally expand to every corner of the world where people physically live to capture them. Amazon and Facebook can acquire entire towns with nothing but a few more servers in the rack.
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One aspect about salt water corrosion/rust is that it pulls off the oxygen and releases the hydrogen, albeit at a very low level, but always seems like some way to produce hydrogen without adding any power.

Quick dig shows this is one area of research that is ongoing.
"teamwork" and "can work remotely" are flipped in the similarity graph of the job explorer: https://whatforwork.com/job-explorer/
That is, "teamwork" returns results for "can work remotely" and vice-versa.
I lived in Thailand for the past year and was unlucky enough to get dengue after only a month there, despite liberal application of mosquito spray and keeping them out of the house. I wouldn't wish dengue on anyone.

It's a huge problem in Southeast Asia, and the tactics employed to eliminate the problem are often not helpful in the long-term (e.g. random spraying of insecticide in residential areas).
> This creates an easy explanation/scapegoat for a problem rather than trying to actually figure out all variables involved.

He certainly doesn't help that impression with the florid language he uses:

"THE QUOTIDIAN MACHINERY of patriarchy functions as a complex of many moving parts. The same mechanisms that pull women down are the ones that push men up, compensating for the latter’s initial lack of numbers in undergraduate studies until they become an overwhelming majority among the academic elite. All these various parts, some seemingly innocuous and others quite abominable, operate together, defeating attempts that remediate only a single aspect of the patriarchal machine."
I'm interested and have a 12 MP global shutter camera, complete control over chroma, not sure what you mean by intra-only encoding though?
This means that lending money to the German federal government is considered less risky than just “holding onto your money”. You might think of money as a physical asset (cash), but really it’s far more varied, and for amounts that exceed insured deposit thresholds, you are not protected by the risk of failure (or “bail-in”) of a banking institution. Besides, as others have pointed out, these make little sense from the point of view of an individual investor and are going to be parts of more integrated risk-calibrated portfolios of assets.
4K at 13”? I wonder who would need (or even want) that.
If you put a lot of money in a bank then there is a counterparty risk the bank defaulting or you getting a haircut. Money in a bank is no longer "yours".

Some hardcore asset management schemes store physical US bills in a high security storage. You will pay % negative yield on yearly storage cost, but cash is truly yours and you can withdraw any day.

Also in the EU, with some fintech startups, you can now open a bank account which comes with a IBAN number from a central bank of Lithuania - essentially your money is stored within European Central Bank system. You will have negative ECB interest and pay some extra, but there is no counterparty risk unless the whole European banking system collapses.
"Accessible" means more than "there's a web service available somewhere that's running some version of it".
Because if there is no sexism, then what needs to be improved? Strategies that have been used in the past, such as affirmative action or quotas arbitrarily seek to create representational parity regardless of the input. That is a bad thing, and you're acting like it's at worst neutral.
Ask HN: Anyone Using HN for Work? Research Competition. Spot Trends. Other?
A friend and I are busy building a cognitive search engine. We extract data and insights from text. We're planning to launch a free product on top of HN to learn from people using it and iterate from there.

Before launch we need to understand (1) if there's anyone using HN for work, and if yes (2) how and in what field.

Assumption is that there might be people using HN to learn about competition, find trends, research new applications of technologies, and probably more.

Thanks.
I'm hoping to be in a position to fund a pirate gene drive extermination of mosquito subspecies in 2020/2021, if someone else hasn't done it before then. i.e. do all the development and then implement the solution without "permission" because fuck waiting around for 5-10 years of pointless debate.
Besides the technology questions, there are also non-technical considerations too. Who do you want governing the package repo you host all your code in?
I'm also in a similar boat. Full stack but my ideas are usually big requiring a team not a single Dev. Curious if you and op might want to team up. 3 devs as co-founders could accomplish a lot. I used to do Marketing 10 years ago and seo so can do some of that if needed to gain traction after we build the app.

My dream app is an airtable clone with a lot more column types like markdown with a nice editor so you could easily use it as a tool for a blog backend, also would be nice to have row and column level permissions and roles. So I could view and edit my info as an employee but not see others unless I was in hr for example. Also better linking and searching and combining of data from multiple bases into one mega base, and some sort of dashboard creator for stats and stuff.
It might be a nice add-on for desal plants, which already have plenty of waste saltwater getting pumped around.

Someday.
This is the real reason the US yield curve looks the way it does.

All other developed countries are selling negative or near zero government bonds. This has lead to huge international demand for US 30 year treasuries.

https://tradingeconomics.com/bonds

US treasuries are giving a greater yield than Italy or Spain for reference. Of course there will be huge demand.

Central banks are no longer islands. They are part of the global economy and a part of a market just like any other. The US acting alone to raise interest rates won't work like it did in previous cycles.
> It is counter-intuitive, but knowing non-trendy platforms makes you more valuable

Yes, but knowing only non-trendy platforms (especially if they're not really in demand and have a large diaspora such as PHP) is a good way to struggle to find work - except in the later phases of your career as you can leverage your experience in consulting, if you have managed to make the right connections.
So We is a real estate company, that doesn't own its own real estate, that wants to be seen as a technology company, that doesn't develop its own technology.
I think the lack of engineers in the US government is becoming a bigger liability every year. Here science is changing the globe at an ever increasing pace and our congresspeople are baffled and confused by the word "encryption."
The market goes up and down. You invest for the long term and ignore the volatility.