skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of entities with enormous sums of money who must buy quality debt at whatever yield is available, and they dwarf retail's appetite for bonds by several orders of magnitude
We're uneasy enough with Google effectively turning the WWW into a platform under their control with them running Search, Chrome and Android - but this sounds as if the platform might actually extend to "any application with a GUI". (With Apple being the one competitor)

I can't see how this is good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii
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I don't have a proper example.

I don't have the same reservations about using the work of problematic people, so I don't typically check for that info.

Off the top of my head, an example might be accepting opiods to manage pain, despite the tons of damage pushing the drugs has caused Americans as a whole.
> fiat currency is ridiculous

If you think this, it's almost certainly because you don't understand it.

The basic concept is incredibly simple: it's an abstraction of value which allows us to avoid having to barter directly with actual goods.

Gold and Bitcoin allow you to implement exactly the same thing, but with specific built in supply constraints that aren't connected to the underlying economy. This is a problem for both commodities being used as currency. Ideally, the money supply should be able to expand to reflect the wealth in the underlying economy - otherwise, you get severe inflation or deflation, both of which have negative effects.

Of course you didn't say what aspect(s) of fiat currency you consider ridiculous. If you're just saying that governments are too free with their manipulation of the abstraction, there's some merit to that. But that's not a problem with the concept of fiat currency.
Quick question: why are long term treasuries returning 7.8% say for 2010 to 2019? I thought those treasuries were in the 3-5% range?
Having studied history for most of my life, I would say it's inevitable. The only question is how much suffering will accompany the reset.
vinyl tarp: i have some car tents from costco (aprox $300) that appear to use a similar vinyl exterior and they hold up great (5+ years so far). I made one into a perm shed, but with that I added another layer of thick tarp on top (that also seems to hold up well, just make sure you use UV stabalized)

insulation: looks pretty awful to me. this thing is going to be cold in winter unless you keep the fire going 24/7

plants: good luck keeping these with enough light+water. watering these seems like a total nightmare given how any drips are going to ruin your structure/drywall.

foundation: anyone doing this, rent a (or buy a cheap) concrete mixer! I bought one used for $100 on craigslist. can sell it right back when you are done with the project.

flooring: "luxury vinyl planks" are awesome. I use the "lifeproof" brand (bought at home-depot) and they are great. completely waterproof, durable, and look like wood.
It’s an on-device vpn only, not an actual vpn. But please keep contributing insults to the conversation without any research. :)
Thank you for the feedback. We deliberately chose not to do this (see discussion in https://github.com/sharkdp/dbg-macro/issues/26), mainly for the reasons given in the Rust documentation:

> The dbg! macro works exactly the same in release builds. This is useful when debugging issues that only occur in release builds or when debugging in release mode is significantly faster.

Note, however, that the C++ dbg(..) macro can be easily disabled to a no-op (identity-op, to be precise) with the DBG_MACRO_DISABLE flag.
Go is usually used for microservices, and for that scenario, Ristretto is not applicable since it's a library, and not a "shared server" like Redis. Am I right?
It’s not that they’re willing but more like had to.

They need the extra cash from the IPO, and they have to disclose the craziness in the S-1 otherwise it’s plain fraud.
The last WeWork I went into felt super impersonal. If I was to be a solo freelancer, I’d have to work somewhere communal because I hate working at home, but WeWork doesn’t have the vibe of coworking. More like ultra-cubicles where talking to other people is even harder.

Second, there is definitely a question mark on companies that have their main office at WeWork, like “this is temporary until we actually make money”. And as WeWork is forced to charge more, and the glut of office space hits (I see endless cranes over the Boston skyline) it will be not much more expensive to get the real thing.

The long term tenants at WeWork would be satellite offices of a major company, so if company X wanted to move into a new city they would hire sales people and put them into a WeWork for when they aren’t out meeting clients. Otherwise everyone else is temporarily embarrassed while they plan on moving up.
Your 30B number is assuming perfect efficiency. You're not accounting for having to go through thousands of prototypes of perpetual motion machines

You might as well've said "The patent office should grant 1M alongside every patent it grants"
Tests showed this finally brought power usage inline with Chrome, but not down to Safari levels.
I’m not aware of any “science” on this, it’s gut level for me. Was TFA unconvincing?

If you usually need hard numbers to disprove the effectiveness of treatment, be sure to stay away from homeopaths.
That is naughty. I haven't used Safari for a few years as I have Vivaldi always running. But this change is just not right.
It was a (rather heavy) weight, and only a unit "of money" by extension.

A Homeric talent was a unit of weight, hence the half-talent "of gold" as a prize. A talent of silver would weigh the same but have less value.

The Hebrew "talent" (kikar) was also a unit of weight.

The later Latin talentum borrowed the existing weight measure and the Greek word τάλαντον and by the time of the parable of the talents, this word already carried the rather heavy meaning of "58.9 kg." (from your link above).

So a talent in the modern metaphorical sense of "talented person" means a person carrying a heavy weight, and a heavy responsibility. If a single talent is almost 60 kg, imagine the unlucky person with five talents placed on them! Perhaps it would be better to have a genius than to be talented, though neither one makes you rich.

> For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

The only thing we can say with confidence about these "goods" is that they were heavy, and not necessarily something you want... especially if they are to be repaid "with usury" at some future undisclosed time of reckoning, as in the story!
We don’t know that they didn’t. They might just not have cared so long as the plan to dump the stock on retail investors and cash out themselves was on track.
> Would you prefer if standards were worked on by people with no browser development experience?

How about someone not on the payroll of browser vendors?

Oh, and maybe manage them in an independent organisation with power to enforce decisions and not in something that looks more like a cartel than a standards body.
I just see Apple has been being naughty with Safari. Slap on the wrists for them.
Correction: Dichronauts, not Dichromatic. (DuckDuckGo is smart enough to find the right book; Google kinda-sorta is -- it's the first image search result but doesn't otherwise appear in the first page of results, at least for me; Amazon's search isn't.)
> When companies have now started to go into debt to buyback shares and artificially raise their EPS, who are they targeting?

Their shareholders, which includes management. Buybacks are essentially dividends in another form. Buybacks have the upside of not being expected to go up indefinitely, and there are no dividend cuts to upset investors.
The alternative would be to admit underprepared students without offering any kind of support and take their tuition money until they fail out. That's no better.
Fsync doesn't work the way you think it does

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

PostgreSQL › wiki › Fsync_Errors
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Fsync Errors - PostgreSQL wiki

LWN.net › Articles
PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise [LWN.net]
> This logo has nothing to do with Linux, nor with kissing

And it does not have to! Look at the logo of other distributions, what do they have to do with Linux, other than being the logo of a Linux distribution? Sigh.

> It's only about transporting and reinforcing the idea that one of the main roles of women in society is to be something pretty for men to look at.

No, this is only what YOU BELIEVE it means. I did not think about that at all, it is just your own interpretation (that may be shared with other people). You see what you want to see, it does not make it so.
I think the first part of gp is common knowledge too, but his conclusion is novel.

It is pretty common to explain sleep as when your mind cleans up and store stuff in long term memory. From there it is largely a point of view distinction between “keeping stuff you want to save” and “throwing away stuff you don’t want to save”
Many people using Mac will use safari because it's power usage is incredibly low compared to the others. Im a Firefox user, but on a MacBook, safari is the only option.
Soros is probably about the Koch of the left. I generally think he's a other worse, but that might be my economic biased - I think the Koch brothers are more libertarian than Soros is leftist. So if you have a problem with the Koches because of oversized political power from their wealth, you should also have a problem with Soros for the same reason (independent of their politics).
I binged this yesterday. I didn't particularly enjoy the way they mixed Gate's early story with his current endeavours with the foundation, but all in all it's still interesting enough.
>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.

The problem is that people are smart. This kind of policy would be gamed in no time.

>If 30K -mostly students- a year get a mill to develop their thing

Today there may be 30k smart, ambitious students with a great idea. With your policy there would be 30k smart, ambitious students and 10 million others pretending to be.
This is brilliant writing. Please keep it up.
I've noticed this, bht ahve never been sure why. Maybe some marketing guy can offer insight here? I don't see this making a huge difference. It seems as though they want it referred to as a proper noun? I guess maybe it increases significance or something?

Foreigners, does Apple do this in other languages, too?
" indexing outperforms actively managed funds"

Most index funds are actively managed.
> Simple things that people like reasoning about and visualizing with printf() statements can be done in a debugger more easily after using your brain and logic to think about what the issue might be.

A big problem that tends to make me sometimes not use debuggers, is that for relatively large software split in many DLLs, adding a printf & rebuilding takes a few seconds, while loading it in gdb or lldb is sometimes north of a minute (or, from my experience with MSVC's "symbol loading", sometimes fifteen minutes).
Imagine you are CEO of an old fashioned company where people do work and revenue > expenses. You want to buy drinks for your staff. Do you a) put your card behind a local bar at happy hour every Friday or b) in an incredibly roundabout way pay premium rent so your staff can enjoy “free” drinks in the office?

No. Outside of hipster hotspots WeWork makes no sense.
I miss fatwallet and its shenanigans.

I’ll never forgive Rakuten for buying a community and shutting it down.
Because they are not solvable? Or because big boy wisdom says they're not solvable? I would say the cynicism of the latter is indeed a large part of the problem.
Further information: this particular project (Tees CCPP) is actually a replacement for a former CCGT that was on the same site.

"Historically the Site accommodated a 1,875 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station (the former Teesside Power Station) with the ability to generate steam for utilisation within the wider Wilton International site. The Teesside Power Station ceased generation in 2013 and was demolished between 2013 and 2015."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_power_station

https://www.tccpp.co.uk/pdfs/changeConsultationDocuments/NMC...
Similar for FreeBSD: https://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/old/picobsd.html
TiVo confirms its customers will soon see ads before DVR recordings
AWS re:invent 2018 talks:

https://youtu.be/HaEPXoXVf2k

He has a sequence of 2-3 great talks on DynamoDB, the history of relational databases and the rise of access-pattern oriented db design.
This is really nice. The sync.Pool based ring buffer is a really clever way to get around the thing that always kills my low latency work in golang.

I wonder how much the type casting costs you’ll see in real world situations? I’ve not benchmarked that generally but it’s always something I worry about with ‘generic’ data structures like this.
This isn't Facebook. HackerNews isn't about to go around accusing people of being OneNation sympathises though I do understand the position you're taking here.

Being critical of the influence of fee-paying students in University can quickly become hyperbolic.
From what I understand this exact same argument is reiterated every decade. "It worked in the past but today is different" - invariably ending up with a suggestion to give up increasingly large amounts of your profits to someone that "manages your investments" for you. I would do it if the fees were fixed, once someone asks for a "percent" I call BS. There is no difference between managing 100K and 1M yet you pay 10 times more.

I'll stick with Vanguard.
Seeking to replicate the performance of an index by trading a basket of stocks/futures/options is not active management.

For instance, when an institutional investor gives SPDR say, $300,000,000 for a million shares of SPY, the fund goes out at purchases the underlying stocks in proportions that match the composition of the S&P 500, and then issues the SPY shares and holds the underlying and dividend payments in trust. SPDR does not have the option to choose the shares, they purchase a basket that replicates the S&P 500.

This is passive management, there is no one actively picking stocks, and when to buy/sell them.
It's funny how progressive everyone is until it impacts their bottom line.
If you mean will it persist across restarts, then no. If you mean does it have a built in network protocol, then no.

But neither of those are requirements for micro services. I certainly will try this out the next time I need a cache in my microservice.
Not sure whether trolling.

There has been some very good investigative journalism done in the tech sector. Theranos/Uber/Tumblr comes to mind. Specially from media outlets outside of the SV echo chamber.
Sometimes just park your own view and genuinely ask questions and find out why she believes in them. Sometimes you can have an interesting conversation that way.

But most of the time, change the subject.
tl;dr ps: The author has a substantial loan that she didn't pay off when given the opportunity.
The older the car, often the bigger the engine and cat. On some of those old pickups, the cat is worth more than the carcass.
I would really enjoy seeing an article like this paired with analysis from somebody with the same education level but from the University of Chicago economics department or something like that. They'd probably tell two very different stories. A few things that jumped out at me:

Two of the sectors where the author is touting gains for Democrats both have significant left-leaning bias: academia and tech. How does that play into this?

Democrats are getting more college degrees now, but which degrees?

Why start so many graphs of Democrats doing better than Republicans in 2008 when we had a big recession and a new president who didn't prioritize rural America? Why not go back to 2000 or 1990 so we can get a bigger picture?

And pardon my ignorance, but "GDP per seat"? And why is this graph next to Median household income? Are they saying that the changes in median household income are causing "GDP per seat" to rise? Urban populations have changed a lot in the past 10 years, are we even talking about the same households?

Household income statistics are prone to distortions[0], GDP per seat is probably prone to even more, why not use GDP per capita? It feels like they were just happy to find two graphs where the Democrat line went up and the Republican line went down and they know most people will just glance at the graph without wasting their morning thinking about what GDP per seat really means and how it's affected by the population flows of the past decade.

[0] - https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/09/16/misleading...
Yes, there are still standing timber frame tithe barns in England from the 800's.

Just gotta keep the timbers dry and insect-free (or -free-enough).

But all the modern stick frames, hmm, no so much..
All the cores need to synchronize memory between each other, I guess you can improve speed on that part.
From my understanding, the documentary is about what Bill Gates is doing, and what inspired him.

IMHO his cutthroat tactics leading Microsoft are already well documented and have nothing to do with the great work he’s doing now.
The US spends almost twice the OECD median on healthcare as percentage of GDP (17% vs 9%). Almost all the other countries in the OECD have nationalized health care. Ending our current system and switching to something normal would in fact be ending a massive wealth transfer to the health care industry. In dollar terms, the difference between 17% and 9% of the US’s GDP is $1.7 trillion dollars per year. This is an enormous ongoing wealth transfer to a rather ineffective health care industry, which ranks below many countries that spend much less.
I Almost Did Not Write Today
Feeling blue: Womans blood turned navy blue
Content blockers are inferior to extensions such as uBlock Origin.
China’s clampdown on Muslims creeps into the heartland, finds new targets
How would this list compare to other methods?
Should replace Google with HCL. The actual employer and one lobbying against unionization
It's partly a flex but I think it's a common experience. There are lots of things that the kinds of people who are on this site - for the most part, intelligent people - will pick up on subconsciously.

When we realize it's not common knowledge, we get excited and/or become proud of ourselves, and explain what we think to indulge ourselves (because we were just given evidence that the knowledge isn't as common as we thought).
>I personally prefer the "security" of content blockers vs. extensions

This is why content blockers are actually better, extensions are huge security holes.

Setting aside the whole issue of content v ad blocking, anything that locks down the capabilities of extensions on your system is only a plus for your security.
>I don't agree that founders are unique in inventing "important stuff".

Not what @aripicker claimed: "... being a founder, which inherently involves inventing ..." No mention of uniqueness.
My understanding is that the bailouts were completely separate from the quantitative easing. The money for the bailout was raised by selling government debt, and in exchange for it the government got shares in those banks (the government actually ended up with a profit in the long run). This was all on the government balance sheet.

Meanwhile the money printed for QE was spent buying shares and bonds, and relatively few of those shares and bonds were from the troubled banks. This was all on the Fed balance sheet.
"HCL employee and union organizer Ben Gwin says HCL workers make between $30,000-60,000 a year, and it varies widely."

That's really low. I wonder what kind of work they do for Google.
I'd rather prevent ransomware from working in the first place. Local backups are hardly sufficient anyway.
Yes, most are wannabe vigilantes.

Sometimes ransom but CloudFlare has kind of killed that line of business.
disclaimer: not recommended, etc... but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://runkit.com/lxmedina/5d863141b387ad00138e273f
You made a couple good points. Now we're having a conversation!

1. You don't have a choice about investing in the future of your own country. You do that when you pay taxes. Like it or not. It does not matter.

2. Venture capitalists do not fund far fetched ideas, they FOMO lemming-like fund whatever every other idiot is already funding.

Lots of people in favor of UBI simultaneously hate the idea of merit-based "big money" grants for ideas. Maybe because they don't want public opportunity programs to dry up the pool of broke-ass idealistic post-docs with big ideas and no chance to ever see any of them get funded.
No more free beer:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/31/18049142/wework-bee...
Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
"is there any system that can’t be gamed?”

Well, I think that's a different thing. Gaming something is AIUI an exploitation of the rules.

What's happening here is plain breaking of rules, which I'd call something like corruption.
>...and the scar will always be there.

Will it? I think over time, people will forget.

When the British colonized Hong Kong, they were especially brutal to the protestors. During the protests in the late 1960s, the British controlled police killed over 50 protesters.

Yet today, the protesters are wishing for the British to intervene.
So just install a content blocker? I don't get what you're trying to say.

Plenty of them out there for iOS and macOS and they work well.
Using Machine Learning in Semiconductor Fabs
Secure web browsing with new browser architecture (2008) [pdf]
Crypto that's not "on" by default.
I have tech talents that maybe a few thousand people in the world have, and research ability to move the needle (maybe even novel ideas in the field, if you ask me).

I can't work in academia (no Ph.D), find capital (no connections), and the software job market is a crazy stupid PITA (no thanks).

I know it's me, that I can have what I want if I really go for it, and that is what I do by living simply and continuing my work.

But it would be swell if it was easier to be seen, at such a high level. I would gladly teach, if offered the role.

Basically, it should made way-too-easy for obviously talented, experienced, people to find some kind of work in teaching or civic developments.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/magic-crystals-viruses/

And this hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MM0Z_jCrGo
It's probably not sixfold since journalism includes a mix of the intrepid and the opportunist. But it's likely on the order of at least twofold increase as the opportunists are the most likely to have moved from journalism to PR.

But the idea that there isn't an increase in the ratio at all is laughable. You'd have to be some type of fascinating conspiracy theorist to believe that none of the Pulitzer-winning stories of the past decade uncovered any type of corruption or wrongdoing.
No way that compost toilet doesn't start to smell up the whole thing
> It's paid for.

Using this definition, everything is paid for, and nothing is free except sunlight. This is obviously a useless definition.

“Paid for by [someone else]” is “free”. There is no other useful definition of the term.

Also: https://satwcomic.com/every-time
Maybe this is the way it shapes out - the contractors of the new economy are equivalent to the hourly worker in the old economy, the perm people management. The contractors have representation from a union, and the perm people, none.
Hmm. Now if I could make a FreeNAS plugin out of it...