skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Couldn't be stuff like a $500m personal loan to a startup CEO, secured by said CEOs stock in a private company that has negative cash flow and no real assets, which he also happens to control? Surely there is no reason to doubt the quality of collateral like that.

As a startup CEO with available stock, an actual positive cash flow and no _real_ assets.. please tell me where I can apply for this type of loan? Because all the loans I'm looking at are 3-8% interest and requires me to sign over my personal assets as collateral in return for a paltry $250k. I'd rather use that loan to just buy more real assets for myself instead (which is what I am doing)
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Shortet some stock Larry, didn't we?
Stripe keeps your 2.9% also [1].

> Stripe supports the ability to refund charges made to your account, either in whole or in part. If the original charge underwent currency conversion, the refunded amount is converted back using the same process. There are no fees to refund a charge, but the fees from the original charge are not returned.

[1]: https://stripe.com/docs/refunds
No? If I lose a fixed percent at each stage, my losses as a function of distance are slightly sublinear. Ex: 10% per stage, I lose 10% at first loss, then 9%, and so on. Further, if I have intermediate transformers, my current on later segments is lower, which means that my resistive heating is lower, which means my resistance (and therefore loss) is lower.
Valve in general has had an interesting, "hands off" approach that has gotten them in legal trouble in the past; they sold software/games in Australia and for some strange reason didn't think to ensure they were in complience with local Consumer laws [1].

[1] https://www.pcgamesn.com/valve-accc-lawsuit
There has been quite a lot of killing arising from capitalist enterprises, some of which have employed their own armies.

One can also have desires which are more complex than mere impulse. The behaviour of soldiers willingly putting themselves in extreme harm’s way is one such.
Idk what taxi's you used but outside of a handful of cities, getting a taxi was terrible. Even when I lived in Chicago I had to call the dispatch, who would give me a 10-15 minute wide estimate of their arrival time, and often idled at a random spot in my building and I would have to walk back and forth across the complex to find it.

Uber and Lyft are insanely better than that.
The developer is FreeAddon
Sure except that from a mental health standpoint, that's a highly personal view, and not something that is really viable to enforce for a government. It's also not really verifiable on enough cases to make a blanket ruling a good idea. By all means get the word out about overconsumption, but don't have the government force the people to act in their "higher self interest" by removing their ability to get access to efficient retail. I know a lot of people on HN love the idea that people are stupid and we need to regulate them to make them positively free, but that's not a great path to go down for a lot of reasons.

On the environmental side, I think climate change is real, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as everyone says it is, and I find it odd that the solution to every upcoming crisis is always more socialism, and then we get more socialism but it doesn't help and then the date of the crisis passes and we go on to a new one.
I always send snotty replies to spam that looks like it came from a small startup. Makes me feel better.

I think I get more email from someone mistakenly using my address than I do startup spams though.
Cool project! I made something very similar called cowatch.video

Also utilizes WebRTC
I feel the hour is later we imagine. What we need is billionaires of the world to use their $ to drastically overthrow the major economies and stop CO2 production by any means. Its better the world goes into deep economic collapse than become unbearable for most life.
That’s 50k per list - many blockers (like 1Blocker) simply have different lists for each category of blocked elements. Works well.
What about cherrypicking bug fixes to old versions?
I dont think uber is very useful outside the US
Github is a surprising source of spam for me; whether it is the emails in commits, or from the profile I don't know.

But I'd estimate I get 1 email every 3-4 months referencing the profile and either inviting me to join some blockchain hypefest, or telling me I'd be perfect for a role .. in another country.
(thats including tax, and govt subsidies)
One thing to note is that $100B is created everyday but the $100B is destroyed the next day. It's not like $100B created everyday for the next month.
Sept 15 was tax day. Companies withdrew money they had in the market to pay taxes. It is a regular occurrence every year, but this year it was a problem because the FED tightened. They assumed 1 trillion would have been enough but now are looking for the correct amount buy adding money.

They are still trying to figure it out.
Some other stats:

- The most popular category is “Productivity” accounting for ~40k extensions and 676M installs

- Google itself authors 155 extensions accounting for ~133M installs
The use of administrative subponeas with effectively limitless gags is very concerning, but I also feel that the attention is somewhat misplaced.

The US government receives far more private data about people from companies selling it or simply giving it away, than they get via administrative subpoena. The practice of paying for requested data also makes companies complicit in these orders, when they are issued-- they're a revenue center.

Without stronger laws barring the collection of data and providing stiff civil or even criminal penalties for disclosure (including to the government) the bulk of the situation will not be much improved.
You don't see any reason why it might be worse for someone who lives in an area, and already has a life there, to be kicked out, than it would be for someone else not to be able to move in?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/neumann-s...
My new place is much better :)
These are important issues to be solved, but outside of the Fed’s control.
The Justice Department as a whole has this agenda under Barr, not just FBI.
It is interesting to see the difference in the comments here vs those on the NYTimes. Here the focus is on digital minimalism. On the NYTimes they are focused on the article content which is the new SV model of appification applied to therapy or more generally self help.

I see these apps as new approaches to the traditional self help market but for a new generation. These are people like Tim Ferris who follow the traditional model of publishing a book, but now blogs, youtube, tweets etc... Then there are entrepreneurs making apps focused on journaling etc.., screening tools / lead generation.. which are trending towards, at best, finding someone a therapist.

Also the ACA opened up mental health resources payable by insurance so you also see health insurers developing web based tools as well. And you have the traditional therapists doing podcasts as well as video chat therapy etc...
I personally find the podcasts valuable to help understand the theory. Still, in practice, it makes sense to see a human therapist, preferably one well trained to work through issues.
Chrome extensions are such a massive vector for unwittingly giving away all of your data. The fact that they're near impossible to monetize combined with the fact that people click through the permissions screen so easily makes it a prime target for scraping people's data.
I've never been able to eat an entire orange or an entire mango. But drinking an entire two-liter bottle of Coke over the course of a couple of hours while coding or writing?

That's easy. That's why I'm fat.
They may add value vs taxis, but would Uber or Lyft add value vs any other startup taxi service?

Expanding further, How about a taxi-app you and I could sit down and hack out? How much value-add is there in an Uber or Lyft vs what we could do?
Do you happen to know if all the natural gas used to generate electricity in the UK comes from the UK's territory (e.g., the part of the North Sea where they enjoy mineral rights)?
Well I've been pretty negative about Uber and WeWork up to now, but if Larry Ellison is against them, maybe it's time to reconsider.

Kidding, I'm kidding. Sort of.
The first quote isn't defending sex with minors. It's criticizing inconsistent definitions of minor. Do you disagree that it makes no sense morally for, say a 19 year old and 17 year old having sex together to be OK in one place, and rape if they had first moved a few feet over, if that movement happens to cross a border where the laws change?
Exactly. A few companies (including Google) make all their money through ads.
Look at the median, not the average :-). It's hard to put numbers on quality of life as well: what does the median American eat versus the median French person ? How many vacation do they take ? What does they work, commute, family look like ?
The map is not the territory
Hey thats a pretty good price. Built on the same platform as the ID3 apparently. 125 miles range is OK for 99% of the time. Long journeys then take a bit of planning but its very do-able.
Until relatively recent history, "let them go" with an order to appear in court at a later date was the SOP for anyone without a criminal history. I'm not sure what the official name for this policy was, but political operatives sometimes use the pejorative "catch and release" to describe it.

Crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor. Unless we start separating and detaining families indefinitely for speeding and public intoxication, we should probably stop doing it for crossing illegally.

Otherwise, we should change the laws regarding illegal crossing to make the procedures and penalties more explicit. As it stands now, locking up non-violent offenders for illegal crossing is a totally arbitrary policy dictated by the whichever administration is in power. There's nothing in the laws that say families have to be detained (and thus separated.)
Sometimes its a compiler code gen related bug, sometimes its bad source code. Without a dmesg+vmlinux, it's just anecdata.
For whatever reason, HN is completely uncritical of anything Apple does. It has gotten to the point that _/r/apple_ tends to have a richer debate about the companies actions. It's a side effect of the lack of subreddit equivalents IMO.
Will they eventually just charge that $1 or $1.10 for profitability? If so, would you still use them?
> Imagine if the founding fathers had tried to "worked within the system" of British rule.

Technically they couldn't since the colonies were without representation in the British Parliament, so they really couldn't, could they?

> Previous whistleblowers like Thomas Drake and Bill Binney tried to work within the system...

Sure but the Obama administration still looks bad for their handling of those whistleblowers. Binney and Drake still look like heros. No one said that whistleblowing was for the faint of heart. Nor were there any guarantees about your livelihood if you report on your employer or customers.

The only whistleblower statute I've known to be effective has been around medicare fraud -- first because medicare fraud is in the tens of billions, and second the reportee get's a cut of any future settlement or judgement.

It's unclear what Snowden's legacy will be. Sure, he informed us that the government might have been doing illegal things under the cloak of secrecy. But he released a lot of information and he didn't even try to go through the legal whistleblower channels first.

If he had gone through whistleblower channels I think it would have been harder for the US to use the word "traitor" to describe him.
So it’s nothing about the morality of killing dozens of innocents. It’s just might makes right?
Only HN's can think their opinion is worth more than millions of people spending and earning money in more than 50 countries.
To me, this is more of a religious war than anything that has an objective answer, but I'll share my opinion for what it's worth.

Spring is fine, and I mostly use Spring Boot for API services. But for web stuff, my personal preference is for Grails (which ultimately is still Spring underneath, but with Groovy flavored goodness on top). At least for server-rendered HTML. If you're building an SPA and using fancy JS frameworks where most of the application lives in Javascript-land, then that might change the picture.
I don't like Oracle any more than the next person, but this just isn't true at all. Oracle is a robust product which fills an important part of any technical stack. Building and supporting databases is hard.
It's not about use-case, it's that "X number of replicas with affinity" OR "1-per-node" should just be a setting within a Deployment. No need to use a completely separate DaemonSet definition just to run 1-per-node.
Good to know. I did not know that.
These are unregulated payday loans. They only exacerbate a troubling situation. It turns desperation into debt.

Debt only really seems to work as an investment or to solve liquidity issues. The problem sounds like these debtors never had investments they were looking to finance or wanted liquidity for capital assets. They are just poor people who struggle to get by.

You may criticize someone for going to debt in such short term thinking but it's hard not to empathize. If you were about to be homeless or go a day without a meal, would you take a loan?
Yeah, I recall calling up asking for a ride in Chicago. It'd be someone who spoke very unclearly on the phone, "You want a pickup for 6am going to the airport? Okay" and hangs up. So...did you get that? Did you schedule it? Email confirmation? It was not great service.
It takes a certain level of awareness to even be capable of making that distinction though.
The 2.25% overnight funding rate is the basis for a lot of other rates out there, like the loans the banks lending to the public. The Fed doesn't care about saving the banks a few millions. The Fed cares about setting the short term interest rate for the whole economy.
I first heard about it from AdBusters.

https://www.adbusters.org/
Firefox is warning me that they have a self-signed TLS certificate. Is that intended?

EDIT: After accepting the warning it now says "Site not found" with a DreamHost error. Hmm.
> I wish companies

Because it's not a soap opera and you're not owed anything about the personal business of other people. As an individual, I have every right to control the narrative for why I've left a company (assuming nothing illegal).
are there any social media platforms that don't have metrics like follower counts, karma etc ?
The BLAS & Lapack subset of the API of the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) is very well implemented in open source projects such as OpenBLAS and BLIS:

https://github.com/flame/blis

Both are well optimized for AMD CPUs.
> That's true, but guidance on how to get better at design is much more available than it used to be.

Absolutely. It's a wonderful time to learn.
But don't be too successful, or you'll be copied by them.
In many aspects you can't beat CRT image quality, though getting close enough. Also many other aspects, like latency, tearing, scaling....work in the CRT's favour.

However, big, heavy and less easier on the eye over time as well as electricity usage all weighed down it's demise. Though like many, I still have a few CRT's for the odd moments and photo's just look a whole other level on them. But for many tasks - panel screens are more than good enough.

Equally, I recently heard that good CRT monitors are going up in price second hand and kinda like the old IBM model M keyboards - may well overtake their initial sales price. A quick look on ebay and for my monitor - it's now worth more now than when I brought it - tech like that is rare.
A friend of mine created a similar tool while ago:
https://hypejunction.github.io/color-wizard/
Uber is the reason I no longer need to take out local currency when I am traveling in Europe. I'd happily pay a 50% or greater premium to avoid the hassle of dealing with local taxi companies.
It'll probably be quite a while before operating systems rush to turn on extra level of page walk fun, increasing TLB miss penalty even more.

If only x86 could have 64 kB pages...

Of course you're right it's not a great idea to use those bits. Eventually they will be in use, although it's probably 10+ years.
I wonder how it ensures that the game can be completed. My guess is that someone worked out every 'lock' with it's 'key' (be it an actual boss key for the boss dungeon, bombs for an item behind a broken wall) and then the randomizer has to swap out items anytime a key is found behind it's own lock. Maybe it is even possible to allow for play troughs that are winnable but where some items are inaccessible.
I mean, it's been very useful while travelling in countries where taxi drivers rip you off after the ride, and I don't speak the local language.
This is nonsense. Predicted is not the same thing as wanting. If the economy runs on everyone clapping for Tinkerbell, we have more problems.
Seems like he's being removed for being an asshole for years and years, and for things he very explicitly did say, repeatedly, for years. And this seems very much like a "straw that broke the camel's back".
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And losing money with every one of them!
This is a reference to Elon Musk's financial strategy, specifically https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-offering-banks/elon...

Essentially, he has almost nothing in cash, and instead of selling stock to raise cash he borrows money with his stock as collateral. This is why he's so monomaniacally focused on his stock value and public image.

For a more professional, but login-walled, overview, see https://www.economist.com/business/2016/10/22/countdown
Sure, there's 4chan
Who owns a corpse? If the former inhabitant of the then-living body had designated a particular heir via a will or similar legal instrument, one might acquire consent from that heir?
Activitywatch is open source and self-hosted, and written in Python. It's good!
Do you remember what getting a taxi was like before Uber/Lyft? Uber is a cash burning machine for the investor, but it's definitely adding value as a customer.
Not really. Even Mastodon has them, but you can tweak settings to hide how many people you follow and how many followers you have. You can also filter your notifications so that you only see replies instead of replies, boosts, and faves.
> Disagree. There are numerous cases where it takes multiple investigations to "get" a career criminal (think organized crime). If each batch of subpoenas or sealed warrants were exposed even when there is no charge this time, that gives said suspect a very nice opportunity to clean up loose ends.

Subpoenas are only supposed to be issued if there's a reasonable belief that the subpoena will find evidence of criminal activity. In theory, subpoenas should find evidence most of the time--if subpoenas frequently don't turn up evidence, then subpoenas are being issued without the proper burden of proof being met.

For this reason I strongly disagree that we should build any policy around the idea that subpoenas won't turn up evidence of wrongdoing on a regular basis. This just encourages law enforcement to go on fishing expeditions, instead of doing proper, evidence-based police work. If law enforcement know the person will be notified of the subpoena after some time, then they'll be incentivized to only apply for subpoenas that are sensible and strategic, rather than applying for frivolous subpoenas that don't turn up anything.
For an event driven app(poker game) built with React, redux and redux-saga, we deleted almost the entire project(100k lines of code) because our logic was tightly coupled with the sagas and reducers. Now we moved our logic inside the state selectors(we use reselect), the reducers are dumb, while sagas are only used to listen/dispatch async actions.
> [...] the faces look completely real and I would have no problem believing they were anything but.

I suppose that depends on who the viewer is. For example, everyone at work was blown away with how hard it was to pick the real face here: http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php

However, I went through about 50 in under a minute and got every one correct.

Programmers spend their time thinking in abstractions and models, rather than appreciating things as they are, as an artist must (see Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain -- https://www.drawright.com/theory). I wouldn't be surprised if more artsy types have a much easier time recognizing these fake photos, despite all the component pieces roughly being where they should be.
4chan is an excellent example of a cure worse than the disease.
Continuing seriously, those $500M for Musk are peanuts to the financial institutions involved.
An interesting foot note of history, the FAL was nearly the US battle rifle:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-fn-fal-was-almost-ameri...
>Personally I think the Fed is keeping interest rates down to defuse a massive geopolitical conflict that is closer to blowing than anyone realizes, but that doesn't explain why banks are worried about getting stiffed by each other.

And what might that massive geopolitical conflict be?
I heard some economist call Uber "the greatest transfer of wealth in a very long time". What Uber is doing is taking investors money and subsidizing your Uber ride to a restaurant.

They are providing value and I'm a casual user myself. However the consumer price right now is arguably unsustainable against the stated quote above. To survive both of them are going to have to raise prices
I was a huge fan of my tiles until their most recent update. A month ago I was singing their praises for helping me find my wallet which I'd left at the hotel before leaving for the airport.

Now, they've reworked things to improve battery life and the tiles feel worthless. It takes much longer to connect/find my stuff and I'll not get connections within my own house.

I'm glad Apple is entering the space and hope Tile goes back to helping me find my stuff.
This story is a perfect example btw, compare https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/d6v3mo/explanation_o... to the multiple defenses of Apple in these comments
The Absolute Truth is that the point of Life is to become conscious enough to discover that the point of life is to become infinitely loving and utterly selfless.
But imagine how conscious you have to be to get there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjZB9CoFfs
They do add some value. They don't add any value above a taxi company/cooperative with a decent app.