skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It entirely depends on what is done with the coin.

Initially when the coin is minted, yes, they are still owed money. Nothing has changed for them.

Eventually, the treasury bonds that they hold will expire and the government will pay them back. At this point, they would usually just buy new treasury bonds. However, if the government stops issuing new treasury bonds after minting the coin, then they will no longer have that option. They could buy other (foreign government or corporate) bonds, but the money they use to do so just changes hands. It ultimately stays in the system at some bank account, which ultimately translates to high-powered money held by a commercial bank in a Fed account, where it only earns interest as long as the Fed pays interest on reserves.

Does that really change anything? Arguably no, other than possibly interest rates, but interest rates are near zero anyway.

The trillion dollar platinum coin idea is an absurd exercise that people only suggested because US politics is absurd to begin with: congress orders the US government to spend money (via the budget bill), but then forbids the US government from actually implementing that spending in practice (via the debt ceiling and refusing to raise taxes). Congress wants to eat the cake and have it too. That is the reckless behavior here: putting the US government into a completely Kafkaesque situation. The way I see it, the platinum coin is mostly a rhetoric tool to highlight just how messed up the system is.
Chicago, IL, USA here. Facebook marketplace is full of catalytic converters right now. Right on the front page.
Annoyingly, now the GP post is now deleted, the context to my comment looks different, and I can't delete my comment.

Since the GP has been deleted I'll respect that and not reference specifics, but I want to clarify for any passers by, much of the GP comment I replied to was of a detailed and technical nature, about things like performance enhancements, features and semantic analysis approaches that could make the tools useful in more use-cases - very different from the rather general and personal criticisms I see elsewhere in the nearby comment tree.

It's the suggested technical and product enhancements that I felt was potentially useful feedback, rather than any of the criticism (I can understand why those are deleted).
That is sensible and is generally the approach I take in user facing code. When I have my way I have validators on all input fields in the UI to warn users of invalid input. I like them to be very specific, checking to see if a phone number is formatted in such a way that it is usable by Twillo for example.

On the other hand services that aren't actively utilizing data I write to be fairly agnostic about that data. "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." is sort of how I aim.
Japan has close to zero immigration where Europe has a large migration from countries with a much higher birth rate. For Japan this implies that their population will shrink while staying ethnically homogeneous while the European population is likely to increase and diversify. Europe will see more ethno-religiously motivated conflict, Japan will suffer from having a decreasing work force which needs to take care of an increasing number of people in need of care. If Japan continues on this path they'll eventually dwindle as a country and stand the risk of being conquered by one of its more populous neighbours. Europe should have a long hard look what happened in Lebanon when that country was torn apart by a civil war [1] between different ethnic and religious groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
Corruption is not rampant everywhere. And perhaps that gets at the root of why some places have functioning modern economies and others do not.
Yes it does.

Seriously using an ORM is just not hard. Especially if actually do code reviews with your junior team members, which you should always be doing.
Cool idea, but do you expect clients to really know what tasks will require a single developer for five days? Just yesterday day I worked for over an hour on a task I expected to take a few minutes.

Also, consider getting an editor to review your copy. The tense (would vs. will) in wrong in some of your process explanations, along with punctuation and spacing.
Well, i don't know, but i don't think it's possible to believe in spiritual energy without thinking it can be located in a physical object. I mean, what would be the point of it, if it could not interact with the world.

And if you simply believe that the physical world is all there is, well i guess whatever spirituality is, then it must be located in matter.

So i guess i don't find it that depressing compared to all the other batshit crazy things people believe.
The study does include now-defunct companies.
True. Still, one alternative model to consider is one where the recent trend of opportunity concentrating in a few big cities could reverse. Either due to market forces (cheaper everything outside of the big cities), remote work becoming more prevalent, or both.
Since it uses a "slowly rotating disk" for the projection, what was the latency of the technology?
I think the replies from toasterlovin (below) summed it up on the diff between PR and ads so I'll leave it at that.

The root of what you are asserting is that is ANY review is corp PR. Which is partially true - a review (good or bad), and esp high profile reviews, can shift conversations around its subject.

For smaller entities, any publicity is good publicity, not as true for larger entities.

So if Apple gave a review copy of a phone to a photographer, that based on his past writings, Apple was fairly sure would write something "positive" - they made a good bet and the review copy of the phone paid dividends.

That being said, the article isn't corp PR - it reads like a "fanboy" review and that's exactly how I took it. Not an advert.

Personally for camera tech I like sites like dpreview.com (no review site is perfect).

I did like some of the example photos in this article tho - don't know if I could ever reach that quality but I'm not a pro photographer.
Actually 'crisis' just means 'decisive change is impending'. There doesn't have to be panic.

Coordinated or systemic movement of money in any form can be a crisis. There doesn't have to be reporting or emotion for the situation to spiral out of control. That is to say, the panic can follow the crisis.
Actually, I've been using content blockers on iOS and I haven't noticed any ads coming through. That's not to say they won't/don't ever but my browsing experience is noticeably smooth on that platform.
I really dislike the company but they make some amazing machines!
You're not paying 300k+?

Clearly I live in the wrong city. 300k would get you a leasehold to someone backyard with a tent in it where I live.

I need to move.
The real question is: why did we install the protections(barriers) in the first place? I assume that a major component of that was as a reaction to the increasing complexity of modern life. Self sufficiency is fine, but it is difficult to take the consequences for many things knowingly. As such, we created, one at a time, experientially driven barriers designed to protect people from new, novel issues.

I don’t think we need to offer more incentives or reduce barriers per se, but I think we really ought to be talking about refactoring our laws. The amount of legislative “technical debt” is intense and problematic.
Inside Bill’s Brain
I agree it makes sense. I think the reason for the strange title is because, technically, air weapons are not licensed.
Curious, what was the total 'all done' cost of doing this?
OOP is optional, but if your program has any concept of structured data, then, regardless of whether that structure can be expressed syntactically within the programming language, you will necessarily have a mapping between that and the database. It might be as simple as a 1:1 mapping between relations and ADTs, with collections of references being used within the program to represent the keyed relationships that exist within the database scheme.
It takes considerable time and effort to get an Act successfully through Parliament, so it's often best to group related things together in a single piece of legislation rather than small separate ones.

This particular legislation is all about permits and licensing for various things, whether that be air weapons or scrap metal dealing, so I'd say it's legitimate to group them together.
Apple themselves recommended Ghostery Lite. I feel like that one had some trouble in the past but I can't recall why. Regardless, I installed it and Magic Lasso to see how they do. I used to use Wipr with some success but it appears to be no longer free. Still, if Ghostery Lite and Magic Lasso don't work out, I'll pony up for Wipr.
> Did Microsoft make their services run faster on IE6? Did IE6 send information only to Microsoft?

The web is the new OS.
Microsoft made use of certain private Windows APIs to win the browser war (by providing features exclusive to IE). I think it’s a pretty apt analogy.
> Short of the CEO being accused of sexual harassment or assault by an employee or being caught red-handed stealing from the company

I would hope being merely accused of sexual harassment would have zero impact until it can be proved.
So what is the solution to corruption?

It does seem like it's getting worse, or maybe media coverage about it is getting better.

Has any country in the world successfully fought corruption in a peaceful way? (ie. no revolutions, no guillotines)
I support pretty much any solution that provides guaranteed access to effective acute care (the fact that the ER can’t legally turn you away doesn’t mean it’s effective care).

But people who advocate for this position (which, again, I believe in) all too often live in a fantasy world where we can magically switch systems and pay less. If we keep paying US medical personnel their prevailing wages, there is no way we’re going to lower costs.

Nurses and doctors are too popular in the US to ever even suggest that we reduce their wages to European levels.
The big boy wisdom is that most social problems are probably not solvable. And that’s why they remain problems.
Oh, you just gave me an idea of turning fzf into a filter for $CMD --help.
I need to try this.
But if you ask them about it they'll tell you they're practically giving it away!

Terms and conditions may apply though...
WeWTF worked pretty well in part one :)
>All those things arguably exist for good reasons, but it's a huge hurdle to doing anything useful.

Humans are good at coming up at ideas, the problem is, not all ideas are good ideas. But humans are especially good at ideas to maximize their profit resulting in permits and compliance are written in resulting blood along with the engineering standards enforced.

Unfortunately the threat of jail does not deter those ideas, but putting enough barriers that everyone working under them have to jump through does a really good job at reducing the amount that follow through with them.

The other aspect, it doesn't take much to kill a human. The rules may seem overkill, but a human is a soft squishy fleshbag where tripping on a pencil could kill you.
> My solution is: take a piece of the federal budget and give $1-3MM to anyone with a far fetched idea that has a prototype to back it up

So giving millions to people who are already privileged enough to have access to the tools/resources/education to make to a prototype?
Founders, get to Disrupt SF for answers to the hard questions
In Denmark, we have introduced regulation that limits buyers to only be able to borrow 4 times their yearly household income, when buying a house in the largest cities. That puts a limit on how much the house prices can rise.
Does anyone have the paper? Please upload if you could.
>Giving people money at minimum redistributes wealth, so it cannot possibly be any worse

Of course it will. Basic income is so expensive that the wealth don’t have enough to take to fund it. It’s going to require massive taxes in the middle class that result in a quality of life loss.
Where the 4th amendment was, a void (2017)
I mean virtually nobody does anything that's important, whether they're talented or not or have a good degree or not. We're pretty good at fooling ourselves into thinking what we're doing is important though.
There's a lot more than just economics that separates rural areas from urban areas. Gun control is a prime example. People from urban cities don't go hunting so they don't see a reason for gun ownership. People from rural areas don't have to deal with gang violence so they don't see a problem with gun ownership.

It's difficult to find a Democrat or Republican politician that crosses the divide on issues like this because they would lose their primary if they did.

The best way to fix this problem is to move to some sort of approval voting or ranked choice voting system. This would allow candidates to have a chance at winning elections even if they don't have the support of a major party.

Unfortunately, these voting systems have a lot working against them. Most notable is the fact that they are deleterious to the party in power, so there's little motivation for politicians to work on implementing them.
It was a half semester only in an early, first or second year experimental course. It felt mostly like an advanced high school course that was rigorous on the math. For example the birefringence I mentioned in my previous comment wasn't even mentioned. It also want treated from a theoretically engaging/pleasing angle. It was a course that had to be taught rather than being loved of you know what I mean?
Administrative costs are particularly high in the US, but they're high in lots of places: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.... (Ex. 3)

If we cut hospital administration costs to Dutch levels (as a %-age of GDP) we could save about $140 billion per year. It's not nothing, but it's also only about 4% of total U.S. health expenditures. As noted in my response to a sibling post, all profit in the system amounts to another 6%.

So even if you cut out all profit,[1] and reduced administrative costs to Dutch levels, you get a 10% cut. It's not nothing, but it doesn't even get you 30% of the way there to cutting our costs to rich-OECD country levels (as a %-age of GDP). You still need to find another $875 billion or so to cut.

[1] Which is of course unrealistic, because drug companies in the EU make significant profits too, and most countries like Germany and the Netherlands have private service providers who make profits.
https://medium.com/@zwischenzugs/a-non-cloud-serverless-appl...
As far as I am aware the danish national bank have needed to print more money to devalue the danish krone because it is by law pegged to the euro, but as there is more trust in the krone they have needed to print more to make it within the 1% of the euro.
"paid by the state" and "free" are not the same thing and shouldn't be used as such. I realize I'm nit picking here, but when people banty about the term "free health care for all" I really do think there is a disconnect somewhere. It's paid for. And while the IRS may be an efficient system, the government certainly is not. Now, while I'm not opposed to medical coverage for all, saying that our government running insurance instead of rolling hospitals into one of it's emergency services, like police and fire, is a different discussion.
Switzerland, Norway and who else exactly? Out of 100+ countries
By the way, not directly related, but I wonder if there are at least libraries to build type safe XQuery statements?
I'm going to give you an equivalent example using JAX-RS and Hibernate:

@Path("/things/{thingId}/tags")
public class ThingTagsResource {
@PUT
@Transactional
public Thing setTags(final @PathParm("thingId") long thingId, final SortedSet<String> tags) {
final Thing thing = dao().load(Thing.class, thingId);
thing.setTags(tags);
return thing;
}
}

I think this code hews much closer to the programmer's intention, providing essential input validation with minimal boilerplate. It's also comparatively easy to test.
> world has gotten 14% greener because of more CO2.

"But that isn’t cause to celebrate. It’s a bit like hearing that your chemotherapy is slowing the growth of your tumor by 25 percent.

Despite global greening, carbon dioxide levels have climbed over the past two centuries to levels not seen on Earth for millions of years. And the carbon dioxide we’ve injected into the atmosphere is already having major impacts across the planet."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/science/climate-change-pl...
> Did Microsoft make their services run faster on IE6?

Yes. Internet Explorer used to send out-of-spec TCP packets during the initial handshake that IIS would respond to also in an out of spec way. This had the effect of speeding up subsequent requests, but only in the case of IE talking to IIS.
Something this article doesn't specifically call out is age. Anecdotally, it seems that the upcoming generations are more liberal than the last, and that the older population is simply dying off. Perhaps someone can cite direct evidence of this?
I'm old enough to remember when pretty much every business app developer knew SQL. ORMs didn't arrive because people didn't want to learn SQL, they arrived because there was a mismatch between 'relational database' and the emerging trend to 'put your business logic in an OO-powered independent middleware layer'. Unless you want to code all your logic into stored procedures and whatnot, you end up needing some sort of abstraction of the database structure that can manage business rules for you.
This is not a real disabling of dbg.

dbg.h should support a function that disables writing out to the screen, but still returning the expression during run-time.

You could try it out with something like this:

disable_dbg_output();
int a = 0;
for(int i=0; i<1000000000; i++) {
a += dbg(i);
}
The opportunity cost of privacy on the web is greater than your average person is willing to pay.
You know; I just realized I should clarify some confusion I myself may have introduced here. My original comment suggests the trigger is always matching a domain regex but domain isn't the only trigger. Content blocker authors can make use of one or more of seven different triggers. For example:

`load-type`: An array of strings that can include one of two mutually exclusive values. If not specified, the rule matches all load types. `first-party` is triggered only if the resource has the same scheme, domain, and port as the main page resource. `third-party` is triggered if the resource is not from the same domain as the main page resource.

So our concerns about the cat and mouse game is true, but only for domain triggers.
That's what you think not having any knowledge of them. Many of the best and huge systems I've seen have been implemented in stored procedures.
To put $30bn a year in perspective, that buys you a basic income of about $10.12 a month in the US for all adults.
Eventually excess algae would have to be removed. If you then just let them rot or convert them into food which is then eaten (both being the slow biological equivalent to burning), then the captured CO2 returns to the atmosphere.
How many times can an eye surgeon operate on the wrong eye?
With more effort than it's probably reasonable to expect, and they probably wouldn't keep listening anyway.

To pick one as I happen to remember it. 500 days before climate chaos. IIRC that was some French minister, or delegate 500 and something days before the Paris 2015 climate summit. It got a fair bit of press, and was making a reasonable point. 500 days to make adequate agreement in the summit or lock in the train to chaos as the plan to reduce won't work. Not that chaos arrives on day 501.

All those Arctic ice free probably miss the second half of the sentence that's "in summer", or in the coming fifty years etc.

If they're going to cherry pick that disingenuously they can "prove" black is white.
>> Total US healthcare spending is $3.5 trillion.

Yes, but some of this is funny money. Like when you go to the hospital and get charged $50 for a tablet of aspirin. I can see a coordinated national system to be far more efficient than the system we have now of fake list prices where some parties get a negotiated real price
Ask HN: How to get in touch with a YC company?
We are its-near.me one of the participants in the current Startup School.

What we are doing is a little similar to what Allo community is doing. They are one of the recent YC batches but now seem inactive.
https://www.allocommunity.com/

I would like to get in touch with them and ask questions. I have tried through their website but have not been successful. Ideas anyone?
Ask HN: Is there a library for creating cross-editor plugins?
Hi there, assume that you have an idea for a plugin for text editors (or IDEs), but you don't want to mess up with the specifics of Sublime's API or Atom's API. Is there any higher level API that would help me abstract away from Vim's, Emacs' or IntelliJ's APIs?

I'm not looking for specially fancy features, so it should be possible. However, I don't know if I'm looking the right keywords.
OpenTechSummit Thailand 2019, October 1-2 in Bangkok
Not sure how old you are, but at some point you will probably be happier and more successful if you take ownership of your life decisions.
Maybe I am missing some subtleties, but why is talent not money?

>The Homeric talent "as money" was probably the gold equivalent of the value of an ox or a cow.[2] Based on a statement from a later Greek source that "the talent of Homer was equal in amount to the later Daric [... i.e.] two Attic drachmas" and analysis of finds from a Mycenaean grave-shaft, a weight of about 8.4 gm can be established for this money talent.[2] The talent of gold was known to Homer, who described how Achilles gave a half-talent of gold to Antilochus as a prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_(measurement)
that is the joke
You don’t need $1m to see if an idea is feasible. Budget isn’t the issue for those programs, it’s getting enough applicants with ideas that are even reasonable in the first place.
So it turns out there aren't any 7nm EUV in high volume ( comparatively speaking ) shipment from TSMC as originally expected. While this isn't confirmed, I would assume Apple to have make a bigger announcement in Keynote if they were using 7nm EUV, since they only mentioned 2nd-Generation 7nm, this is likely an improved version of 7nm DUV, aka N7P ( 2nd Generation 7nm is also an Semi Official Term TSMC uses to describe N7P, while specially mentioning EUV when it is involved ).

The question we have now, would Apple A14 be 7nm EUV, or would it be 5nm? If it is 5nm as the original cadence suggest, then we could expect 3nm EUV A16 in 2022.

And Intel doesn't plan to ship their 7nm EUV till late 2021, in a volume likely much smaller than anything currently Apple ships.
What if the tectonic shift is inside one of those books you'll never read?
Windows 7 and Server 2008 Get 0patch Security Fixes After EoS
> If someone like Trump can continuously interrupt the media, they effectively control it through disruption, and then the media cannot focus for long enough on anything for people to fully panic and cause a full blown crisis.

Coming out of two straight years of one collusion “bombshell” report after another I agree with you. I avoided the markets when I was unsure if what was being said was true (it definitely seemed true to me).

Now it seemed to be largely politically motivated and I’m totally “insensitive” to the MSM reports on Trump and I’m ready to make long term investments in the country again. Too bad I stayed out of the markets for the last year because those looked to be good times.