skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While dealing with assets in the billions

Yes, those costs were computed on a book long 1 billion dollars of notional. There's a difference between notional and risk though. 1 billion dollars of 10y treasuries will be ~1mm dv01. Both matter.

> lending out at higher interest all the time

This isn't how rates trading works. Entering positions costs money. You're not making loans. If you hold treasuries, you're earning the coupon on them for the period that you own them. It gets more complicated when you factor in repo, but typically you pay GC repo when you're long.
Generally speaking, you can release based on the calendar or based on whenever you think the feature set warrants it. You are advocating the latter which works well on low traffic projects. The former is a better idea on high traffic projects where there's always something worth shipping whether it's a new translation, a bug fix, or new feature.

It depends on the project, but in larger projects the calendar approach means politics takes a back seat as no one can hold back the release if their feature hasn't been merged yet due to blocking issues. And it helps keep the change-set small, and hence lower risk, if you release more often.

Also, Firefox already has a nightly release stream. I use the Aurora stream which releases a few times a week and have almost never had an issue with this frequency. I don't think a monthly release cycle is going to be an issue.
Theoretcally, that's 100% true.

Realistically, a large pool of users don't think about the long-term viability of a business (all they want is the world for $22 per month).
> Most on the right think socialists want cold-war-era USSR-like government. Most on the left including self-described socialists just want social democracy and not true marxist socialism.

Even the ones that want Marxist socialism don't want Cold War USSR-like government, which is Leninist, an authoritarian adaptation of Marxism to bypass the prerequisite in Marx’s theory of developed capitalism and broad working-class class consciousness.

> democratic socialist not full socialism

“Democratic socialism” is not “like socialism, but reduced strength”.
I agree, I think that we typically can't see "inside" so we need something 2D ... but people can handle 3D with the right visualisation. In our life experience, we tend to interact only with the surface of objects.

Bear in mind that circuit boards are actually 2.5D - they have up to 8 layers and have tracks inside, connected by either parts holes or "vias."

When it comes to diagrams, I think that is just because we use 2D paper, so we make 2d diagrams. If we had a nice 3D representation I think more people would use that.

Then again, it seems like overkill since you can split a circuit diagram into submodules: power supply, microcontroller, peripherals, ...

The difficulty in most spaceship games is that you create a "border" of hull, engines, etc. You then put in the "filler" for instance crew space, corridors, chairs, guns. What to do when you have so much "filler" that the "border" becomes too small? In Space Engineers I find this problem hard to solve as a player. It's less so in the 2D Cosmoteer.
Or just follow Amy Hoy's advice[0] and only raise the price for new customers. They probably could have bumped their prices by more than $1/month (and sooner) if they had taken that approach.

[0] https://stackingthebricks.com/one-weird-trick-to-raising-you...
I think we may be arguing in circles. The Clean Air Act gives the EPA the authority to grant the State the ability to set their own standards. It does not require the EPA allow States to set their own standards.

If the question is whether the States have the authority to set fuel standards absent Federal approval, I think the Commerce clause stipulates that they cannot, neither directly nor effectively. The Supremacy clause of the Constitution means that EPA standards will preempt the State standards if the EPA says they should.

My original point is that’s probably a good thing overall, because what’s true for vehicle efficiency standards would be true for innumerable other goods which we want to be able to sell anywhere in the country under a single standardized set of [safety, environment, labeling, packaging, warranty, liability, supply chain, and labor] regulations.
> this is the only way Snowden can be hurt today.

Lol, he won't be: he's already pocketed a pretty sizeable advance. The man thinks ahead, unlike the petty bureaucrats he enraged.
I imagine over the years Slack has really made a dent in Gmail's intra-organization messaging rate. Now cross organization is getting swallowed. Does Google care?
Everyone knows RMS is an eccentric, that he hates all things closed source even when it is silly. That eccentric people are also very lonely is easy to understand as I can identify with that. Some have compared him to a Diogenes type character. Apparently the twitter posts are enough to make him drink the hemlock. Just know it can happen to anyone. Even you.
Yeah, I'm not in the valley but I'm worried about a coming bubble-burst. The worst thing is it'll probably affect even those of us who don't work for vapid startups; "tech" will become a bad word instead of a good word, new initiatives even by established companies may dry up, etc. Trying to figure out if there's anything that can be done to prepare.
Living paycheck to payckeck with a new phone every 2 years, a new car lease upgrade every 5, a mortgage on a 3 bedroom house, and eating out 4 times a week, and 1000 TV channels is hardly what someone would consider 'poor.' It's just sustainably stressful and largely optional. This is why I feel the paycheck-to-paycheck metric/rhetoric is obnoxious, on 100k a year I can live paycheck-to-paycheck if I so desire, on 20k a year I can live at 75% of my means and save 400$+ as well. People's personal choices are not a comment on the economy, they're a comment on the fiscal education system. I personally save about 33% of my paycheck on 32k per year in one of the top 10 most expensive global cities.
> The idea is not to starve companies of capital but to remove their “social licence to operate”

Per this description, the basic idea behind divesting seems similar to the concept of creating social stigmas and perhaps even “cancel” culture. I’d argue that this isn’t even very effective as a vehicle for positive change amongst individuals, and seems extremely unlikely to be effective amongst corporations. Honestly, it doesn’t seem like the idea of corporate social responsibility has held up well in the modern era, period.
I got lucky enough to be able to take both Calculus and Physics concurrently from the local University rather than taking Physics without calculus from my high school. It almost seems like they should be taught as a single interdisciplinary class.
So I was trading between a market in Ukraine (Liqui.io, now defunct) and one in Japan (Binance.com). My server was in the US in the mid-west on a cheap provider. I found it was the best to reach either side. The round-trip to each was about 100-120ms. It's quite high, but my tests showed me that going anywhere else would increase one side so the best is to have the same time on each side.
I am sure there is a lot of optimization to be done to my bot, but it had a good balance of sales/buy and I would rarely lose money.
I've argued this point before, and have hoped for comments from people who run ad-supported blogs. Or manage larger commercial sites. Just to see if my estimate low-balls ad income. But no ...

I do believe that we're in an ad bubble. For one thing, I've read that it's hard to measure effectiveness. You can look at revenue vs ad spending. But so many other factors affect revenue. Some you have measures for, such as how the economy's doing.

But for others there's no public data. Such as ad spending by competitors. You can measure that directly, or buy data from firms that do. I gather that's a key use for VPN services with residential IP blocks.

And then there's the fact that you're typically running multiple ad campaigns. So it may not be obvious which of them actually increased revenue.

Bottom line, I suspect that firms have been throwing money at online advertising. Either blindly, or seduced by bullshit from ad management firms. And so it's entirely possible that total ad spending is greater than users' discretionary income.

But if that disappeared, and was replaced by user micropayments, I doubt that all sites would be impacted equally. HN and Wilders wouldn't be impacted at all, for example, because they don't run "ads" per se. And popular sites generally could probably earn as much as they do now from ads. At least, if their paywalls couldn't be gamed.

So is there anything that would disappear that's valuable? I can't imagine that anyone would miss ad-supported link farms, for example.
The most fundamental part of his job was to uphold the US constitution. After numerous attempts to stop the constitutional violations of the NSA from within, he chose to uphold the constitution rather than the orders of unelected power hungry spooks.

Frankly, hundreds if not thousands of people within the NSA deserve to be charged with treason. I would be shocked if this actually happened, though.
Yes, that was what I was referring to when I said that one probably shouldn't have relied on those protections.

However, it doesn't change the fact that he stole a tremendous amount of classified material that had nothing to do with what he felt civil liberties issues. Also doesn't change the fact that the Russian government outright admitted that Snowden shared Intel with them (according to the house Intel committee report).

So even if he has a solid defense regarding prism and some of the other stuff he exposed, he doesn't really have any justification for the defense and foreign intelligence classified info he stole.
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According to AAA you got ripped off. The highest fuel price in California today is $4.17/gal for premium fuel in San Luis Obispo. This price is 15% below the all-time high set in 2012.
>Investors divesting from fossil fuels sounds a lot like sanctions in that they “don’t work until they work.”[1]

Sure, but you can say that about any cause. Sounding like something is vague, and thats the larger point from the article. People need to quantify the actual impact of their actions w.r.t. divestment. Whereas, its easier to quantify the impact of other more positive/creative actions (e.g. transitioning from petroleum to clean energy).

>And there’s no reason you can’t do both.

Oh, there are more than two ideas that activists have. There is "no reason" you can't do a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and more and more. You only have limited resources to expend here - your free time, energy and motivation.
2014-04 is absolutely actionable for a browser.
The system is coupled with hedge funds and etc. because the money they use come from banks. Goldman Sachs and others don't have the money to maintain all their obligations, it all comes from other banks that loan the required funds. When there are problems in money part of the banking system, everything goes down.
I have read many American chemistry patents. Up through the 1970s or thereabouts, they often did seem to teach things in enough detail for implementation by "a person having ordinary skill in the art." Now they usually make vague, broad claims and provide fewer, less clear examples of the invention's embodiment. I don't know what drove this drift toward uselessness.

To explain this trend I might vaguely gesture toward businesses responding to stresses as the postwar golden economic era ended, except 1) old patents from before the postwar boom (e.g. 1930s) were also useful and to-the-point and 2) academic publications also grew more bullshitty in the same approximate time frame.
Plus there's policies and procedures that must be followed to be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act. Skipping out of the country and accepting asylum with an adversarial foreign government while in possession of a crapton of stolen classified materials would definitely disqualify someone.
The statistics in this article aren't especially useful, and could easily have been made more so by breaking debt down by attainment. Students that leave postsecondary without a 4-year bachelor's degree on average apparently owe less than $10k; with a bachelor's, less than $25k; with a graduate degree, $45k.

Roughly 1/3 of all borrowers drop out, implying (I think?) that the majority of debt is held by people who complete degrees, a substantial minority of whom obtain graduate degrees.

If the student debt crisis is about rescuing people for whom college was of no benefit (for instance, because they attended a for-profit school and didn't obtain a bachelor's degree --- the overwhelming majority of low and middle SES quartile students at for-profit colleges do not), the intervention needed to solve that problem is radically different and less expensive than "forgiving all student debt".
This has always been my interpretation. I was unaware the idea was to sell C02 heavy companies.
> The year following Crashplan’s announcement we saw a huge increase in customers, which is simultaneously good and bad

No, this is GREAT, but you have to do it right! You should have increased dramatically the pricing for new customers to keep the growth at acceptable levels (in terms of absolute numbers). This way you would have had a lot better margins from new customers and could have scaled your business in a more controlled way.

> raising prices on the day when the industry started having fewer options would have been the right financial decision, but not the right Backblaze decision.

It would have been the right Backblaze decision, because you would have secured a decent margin to provide the best service you can to your customers.

> We’ve all been subjected to price increases that were clandestine, then abruptly announced and put into effect the same day, or were not well explained.

Not sure if I use radically different services, but this never happened to me! Usually, you get months of time in advance to get adjusted to the new pricing.
That seems very unlikely to be the most cost-effective use of capital. Exon Mobile has a market capitalization of $309 billion. So figure $200 billion for a hostile takeover --- that's approaching the yearly cost of a Green New Deal plans, and you've only taken out one fossil fuel company.
Thanks! I had no idea about Protontricks!
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Snowden repeatedly attempted to follow internal processes and was stonewalled.

The most fundamental responsibility of his job was to uphold the US constitution. His bosses deserve to be charged with treason, which is why they are working so hard to attack him.
On firefox I get a thing that says "we need to update really quick, sorry!" You click "ok" and the browser restarts and reloads everything. Seems to be a pretty good solution to the problem you describe.
Taken logically some jurisdictions have legislation and legislators that allows for and perhaps it could be argued support rape according to other jurisdictions. Given this is the case how does such a rape supporting jurisdiction have any legal authority whatsoever to for instance compel another jurisdiction to turn over people guilty of other crimes say murder? And vice versa, according to the rape supporting jurisdiction how can one which supports imprisoning innocent people for things which are not criminal have any legal relationship to the other?
> Does this lead to a constitutional crisis over the EPA's ability to govern?

No; it may add to the stack of legal disputes about the Trump Administration’s administrative actions allegedly exceeding statutory bounds and procedural requirements (including the requirement not to be arbitrary and capricious), but that's such a big stack already...

> I feel like this is a move to destroy the EPA and make California pay the legal fees to do it.

It's not about destroying the EPA, just its purpose of protecting the environment.
that seems more appropriate for quasi but i could see how pseudo might be used in such a manner
What is the governement if not the court? This statement confuses me
A day late and a dollar short, as always. Snowden already got paid a pretty good advance, and a lot of the profits abroad likely won't even enter the US.

This is just petty bureaucrats trying to justify their pointless jobs.
But it's wrong. It's actually a "push" instead of "pull", the direction is away from what you're doing not towards you!
You've had to change the definitions of several words in order to keep your narrative going.

You refuse to admit the difference between a peaceful and by-force arrest because you're expanding the definition of the word violence and apparently would like to talk about it.

You've expanded the definition of the word 'murder' to no longer require intent.

You've expanded the meaning of "choked to death" beyond what any reasonable person would expect it to mean.

If the police had gone out there and violently murdered somebody by choking them to death I would be very angry. That's simply not what happened and if you believe it is maybe you should examine exactly how you came to that conclusion.
Even if you’re right and they’re wrong, the snark was unwarranted IMO. You should either correct the GP or request more information (like a source), not ask rhetorically.
I believe the idea is that not all entities and institutions are eligible to borrow via the FED discount window, e.g. there is the primary credit system (primarily banks), and the second credit system (for some other low risk entities). Thus the repo market serves this segment of the market for liquidity.
A chinese person does not age faster. The chinese people are aging faster because they have less youth than is needed to pay for the social support for the generations approaching retirement. In response the 1.5 child policy was dropped around 2016, but birth rates didn't pick up as much as expected because of high cost of raising children.
If he didn't provide any so-called evidence then a journalist/media platform certainly shouldn't take it as fact.
At peak (December 2017 to February 2018), my small python bot was making between 500 to a couple thousands dollars per day. It was even possible to do arbitrage by hand at that time since you sometimes had a 10-20% difference between the markets.
Agreed, this article seems like it was written 5 years ago.
So does this mean that I no longer need an nvidia gpu for doing ML at home?
>I'm pretty unclear on how anyone even thinks divestment works, actually.

Bank/major fund/major anything announces no more coal investment.

If you a early stage/small player that just took the jam out of your doughnut.

>But that's non-investment, not divestment.

Same thing at sector scale.
see also: advertising
If it wasn't for this blog post, I'm not sure I'd know right now how much I'm paying for Backblaze, and it's very possible I will forget by my renewal date.
Interesting that there is no mention here of the drastically inflated number of administrators in colleges as compared to say 30 years ago.

“literally nobody knows who these people are or what they are doing”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
Financial Twitter on fleek (h/t Financial Times front page)

https://www.twitter.com/nickatfp/status/1171613239580516352
Got microservices? Service mesh management might not be enough
I love the tone of amazement and excitement in the video. The images were amazing, but the tone really stuck with me.

I wonder what could be done to bring back that type of mass amazement and excitement towards technology?

When I think of the future I'm blown away by the possibilities of CRISPER, 3d printing, energy storage, block chains, driver-less cars, UBI, space exploration and more. We are advancing so quickly on so many fronts, and yet most people are indifferent or down right hostile toward it.
You can sell equity on your home with Point (https://point.com/) but I'm not aware of the same thing existing for cars, probably because it's a comparatively small chunk of change, and cars just depreciate in value, whereas homes are supposed to appreciate. Instead you could use your car as collateral for a loan, assuming you owned it.
It's funny running into this article for the first time.

I've been using Tarsnap for a couple years now for our SAAS. After receiving the first month's email receipt for $0.25, I replied: saying something along the lines of "damn this is cheap! you could charge a lot more!". No reply of course. He's probably heard it a million times already.

Having gained a bit more experience with pricing our own product this past year, I think it might not be as simple as "he sucks at business".

Here's some potential (and highly speculative) reasons:

- He may not need the money. He's got a respectable day job that pays well.

- Higher prices mean less value for your users. Less value means less geek cred/love. I'd recommend Tarsnap to a fellow techie in a heartbeat. I probably wouldn't if it started at $100/mo.

- Higher prices mean you sell to a different audience with more responsibility. High touch sales, support email threads with 10+ folks all demanding different things, handling exotic types of billing, etc. Many devs don't like dealing with this kind of stuff.

- What if he's doing this as a lead gen for his consulting services?