skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if Dalio is right, what can we do? I'm interested in what others here on HN have to say. My gut feeling is that you are best served creating financial assets to capture the transfer of wealth and then store that wealth in a non financial asset way, in a location where property rights are completely dependable. Maybe you can do what Buffet is doing and sit on piles of cash, and then just buy everything you want when the market crashes, however there are risks keeping such huge reserves of liquidity, not the least of which is a sudden devaluation of the dollar.
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For Boston some have this attitude about anything outside of Route 128. However historically that’s where almost all the tech jobs were. Today more has moved into the city but a large number of tech jobs—especially large companies—are well outside Boston/Cambridge.
I agree with all these. If you are choosing one blindly, my preferred earplug for comfort is the Howard Leight Max Lite. Ideally, though, buy a sample pack from someone (like this, https://www.earplugstore.com/unfoamtrialp1.html) and see which one fits your ears and needs best.

Note that there is a considerable amount of technique in using earplugs correctly. You don't just shove them toward your ear and hope for the best. Normally, they are rolled tightly, and then inserted fairly deeply into the ear canal, where they then expand. Have someone demonstrate, watch a video on it, or read the instructions very closely.
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I disagree, I have the Sony's commented above (WH-1000XM3) and everything is muted, while background noise is gone. I regularly have coworkers calling from behind me and I can't hear them.

If you actually have something that jarring out of your control, I would say you have a bigger problem then just "noise".
Mexico City sits in a former volcano, so the air pollution of one of the world's largest metropolitan areas is trapped in there.
ksh is not GPL and it's much better than csh.
Depends on the country. Some countries have treaties letting your home corporation receive dividends from its foreign affiliate tax-free. Canada allows this kind of thing.

Then there's how to wash your Canadian income into this foreign operation...

There was a big case of a uranium mining company in Canada that sold options that effectively forced it to forever sell its product to its recently setup Swiss subsidiary at the "glut" price. If the price went up, all the profit would go to the Swiss subsidiary. If the price stayed low, they'd just liquidate the subsidiary.

Voila.
Yes, and they could also lobby for better and cleaner sources in their own backyard as well. They do not have to break up existing communities. Coal country has the ear of the president and most of the senate currently.
What you’ve just described is 100% table stakes for a bank account. Literally every major provider does all that.
Half-Life 3 Confirmed.
I myself got this news through https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-November/1042....

https://github.com/danos

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

It has been owned by Brocade at one point.
> Music-generated feelings only transfer easily to imagined perceptions

Not trying to be difficult here but what does this mean? What is an imagined perception vs a real one?
Only one wish for Rust 2020
There seem to be very few "sliders" in today's web. I suspect all kinds of advanced functionality would go directly against what those companies are all about.
I've found that the associations I have with a song do get weaker the more I listen to it in another context, so it may be possible to disassociate those memories by forcing yourself to listen to those songs enough times.

But I've only noticed this with songs that conjure relatively benign associations. Stuff from times and places I really don't want to evoke I also avoid.
Can any remains be sorted out at common water treatment facilities?
R.D. Laing is a major figure in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. His radical critique of how society treats the mentally ill, and advocacy for a more humane approach, are legendary. Laing was also a charismatic guy who became a celebrity of the 60s and 70s counterculture.

The most famous of Laing's experiments was Kingsley Hall, where patients and therapists (though presumably they didn't use those terms) would live together, and where the focus was on helping through simple presence and relationship rather than techniques or treatments. Here is a striking, even astonishing story from one of the houses Laing started after Kingsley Hall: https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/11/living-one-r-d-laings-p.... I posted it here years ago, where it didn't get one upvote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713259), but I still think it's one of the most interesting submissions I've made to HN.

The author of that piece, who at the time of the story was a young therapist enamored of Laing's approach, is now the founder of the new(ish) Gnosis Retreat Center in San Francisco, along with a bunch of other people who worked with Laing. Here he is talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-lJWwwRc8#t=8m53s.

I think it's interesting that they are making a fresh start at reviving what Laing did, and that it's in San Francisco. That's why I posted this, though I certainly didn't mean to bork their server!
Can you explain why you think Robinhood is unrelated to finance and is jumping into it just because it's easy to?
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Sadly, we are dealing with a Jackson Pollock situation.
I use "Mack's Ultra Soft Foam" for sleeping.
I wanted to build a product based on moving money around, and it seemed like it would be easier to start my own than to get what I wanted at a reasonable price. The financial industry is needlessly complicated and I don't know why it's so hard to just move money around.

I can write checks easily and even manually set up recurring ACH transfers, so why can't I automate that with an API? There are a couple companies that do it, but it's too expensive for doing lots of small transactions, yet it's free through ACH and writing checks...
I indexed a few samples. It looks pretty good. Can't use it for work, but definitely makes it really fun to look at source code. Java is 3GL. Python is 4GL.
Hah
No surprise from a Canadian.
Canada is a tourist trap: a terrible place that just happens to have good marketing.
Flux Capacitor – Great Scott
My main point is freedom is not a binary thing. Suppose that instead of a slight inconvenience, you have to leave your state. Or you have to move to another state. Or suppose that you have to move to another country. Or suppose that you have to give up everything material and flee your country. Or suppose that you have to sacrifice your family to escape the constraints. Or suppose that you can only kill yourself to escape your situation. It's a matter of degree, not of kind.
My personal favorite was the same_spiderman.jpg with Spiderman multiplied a few times with the Photoshop clone tool titled "All the billionaires who want to kill Epstein"
In a three person company, every problem is every person's responsibility to solve. Especially if you're the only one having that problem!
Too true. I live near a significant recent bush fire & had my first run for a couple of weeks this morning - clear breathable air is a joy! These periods are pretty uncommon however - compared to the regular temp inversions & associated low air quality in Brisbane, for example.

Admittedly with the current climate collapse gaining pace at breakneck speed, it's possible that this may be the 'new normal' for the Australian bush very soon.
> Or you can take a massive pay cut, tank your career, and go live in the middle of nowhere.

Working remotely is an option here (if you go this route, look for a 100% remote company though).
> Increased nuclear would be a big win for the environment as well but is a social-political untouchable for a variety of real and made-up reasons.

When more and more people will start to take the actuality of climate change seriously, either through education or – increasingly – from personal experience, nuclear will become more touchable.
It's odd that we're so reluctant to spend money on quality tools that increase our productivity. It pains me to spend the $300 for my editor even though it has paid for itself dozens of times over. I think we're spoiled by open source(and shareware before that).
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Those are legitimate observations, but so is CamperBob's. I have first hand experience of how bad the carceral system can be, but the fact of that awfulness doesn't mitigate the oddness of a very high profile prisoner just falling through the cracks.

The whole thesis here is that what happened to Epstein could happen to anyone, but that's not true. Most people are not billionaires with 24-7 access to the best lawyers in the world and extraordinary leverage over some of the most powerful people in the world. The implicit subtext here is that Epstein is just another human that got chewed up in a system that's generally indifferent if not outright hostile to human life. But people in jail are not mindless components in a dysfunctional system. They still have agency and respond to incentives and are mostly intensely interested in each other, not least because of the inhospitality of the system. They have newspapers and TV in jail, and I very sure that everyone in there was very aware of who their new neighbor was.
Yes, Canadian tax residents have serious obligations, as do US citizens (no matter where they live)!

LPs on the other hand, do not _if_ there is no economic activity in Canada and there's a tax treaty at play with the founding partner jurisdiction. Canada doesn't have the authority to tax foreign owned businesses unless they participate in the Canadian economy.

Eg: Your international entities can route money through a Canadian LP that is owned by your Barbados corporation. In this scenario there's no Canadian tax obligation and the money trail becomes harder to follow due to Canada's privacy laws (your company name might not be on your LP documentation). Your company does, of course, have to settle up the tax obligation with Barbados.
Hm, many thanks for the pointers. It's still not completely clear to me, but I have a much better idea and know the story of thing to search/read up on. Cheers.
It sounds like the company is being penny-wise, pound-foolish. It absolutely makes sense to spend a few hundred extra per month to have a suitable work environment. I'm sure your increases in productivity will more than offset the increased expenditure. To get the other two to realize how serious this issue is for you, tell them you're seriously considering quitting if they won't get a quiet office.
People Demanded Privacy to Confide in Eliza, the World’s First Chatbot
But they have to own the source to be able to dual license it.
Also, governments are finding new and creative ways to put new taxes on already legal money.

So yeah, privacy matters.
Interesting. The purported specs of the technology are competitive with OLED contrast ratios (deep blacks) and response times. Would this tech have been less prone to burn-in than OLED's are?
Not the best example, perhaps, but a stock brokerage app getting into banking (especially with shady marketing [0]) feels like feature creep.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699995
Buybacks are routinely priced above the list prise to ensure sales. Once the buyback occurs, the only change in corporate value should reflect the improved financial fundamentals of the company.
Sure there will. What do you think will happen to all the maintenance items and discarded scrap?
I did some searching, and it appears that the number of households using coal stoves is roughly 130,000 (a far, far cry from the "millions of home" cited in OP).

https://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2017/06/trends-in-heating-... is the link that seems to have the most detailed information.
The facts were in the article, OP was just highlighting an interesting part of the article.
* her -- she refers to herself as a girl multiple times in the writeup

edit: or possibly they/them -- I'm seeing conflicting info circulating around
A product recommendation, for those looking to deal with office noise:

I've found that the earbuds that Etymotic makes are far superior to anything I've tried with active noise canceling. They're less expensive, they don't require batteries, they're more portable, the audio quality is better, they don't have that "stifling" feeling, they're a LOT more effective, and, best of all, you can control the level of noise damping by adjusting the fit. With mine (the MK5's), I find I can adjust them anywhere from "foam earplugs" levels of sound dampening to "can't hear someone trying to talk to me in a normal tone of voice." (Yes, really.) Half the time I'm wearing them, I'm not even listening to music, because there's no need, and I'm one of those people who finds that, productivity-wise, silence really is golden.

Since getting them, my Bose headphones that cost 5 times as much have just been gathering dust.
The 3D glasses problem doesn't really apply here. With 3D movie glasses, everything is blocked out except for the 3D images. Some people feel queezy when their proprioception and visual input don't match. It's a little like car sickness.

With the screen, they do match, as only what's on the screen is 3D. In that sense, it is like looking at a box with something 3D in it, versus being submersed inside something 3D like with the glasses.

tl;dr With the screen you can move your head around and the world moves with it, so there is no sensory mismatch. But turning your head when going into a 3D warp speed starscape with 3D glasses on might easily cause someone to ralph on the poor sole sitting in front of them.
>It seems like the previous games were all ground-breaking narratives

HL1: sure. Environment storytelling and exposition delivered by fully voiced NPCs? Back in 1998 that was legitimately amazing.

HL2: the same only better! That's not a dis on it, it's just the story/storytelling wasn't particularly groundbreaking at that point. It was just done well.
They also have to be wanted.
This is part of why I bought an E4xx instead of a T4xx, the RAM isn't soldered on in the E4xx line, so that's at least one thing I can fix that I can't on a T4xx.
Yup.

The US system is expensive and increasingly cruel.

I do not expect that state of affairs to endure too much longer.
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To get an answer, it's more relievable to send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com

I think the explanation by kristianp is correct. Someone else summited the same link, it was killed, and killed stories are not visible in algolia.
It’s what a doctor does (at patients bedside, without ecg) - irregularly irregular; fast or slow, high degree of accuracy
Sure, why not? It has worked for many years before.

The terms like "money laundering" are only recent and swept through without properly understanding the privacy implications (and probably didn't envisage the pervasiveness of modern electronic surveillance & data breaches in today's digital world).

Anyhow, advancements in cryptographic Zero-knowledge proofs could hold the key in solving some of these problems (proof that funds are clean without reveling the source). Currently there are some scalability problems, but progress is being made so I'm hopeful. Wikipedia has a good write-up about the basics of ZKP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
It's quite understandable, accurate and detailed on-line information about Molnijas is a bit scarce...
Official announcement from FB:
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11931

Full disclosure:
CVE-2019-11931

Description: A stack-based buffer overflow could be triggered in WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted MP4 file to a WhatsApp user. The issue was present in parsing the elementary stream metadata of an MP4 file and could result in a DoS or RCE.

This affects Android versions prior to 2.19.274, iOS versions prior to 2.19.100, Enterprise Client versions prior to 2.25.3, Windows Phone versions before and including 2.18.368, Business for Android versions prior to 2.19.104, and Business for iOS versions prior to 2.19.100.

Affected Versions: Android versions prior to 2.19.274, iOS versions prior to 2.19.100, Enterprise Client versions prior to 2.25.3, Windows Phone versions before and including 2.18.368, Business for Android versions prior to 2.19.104, and Business for iOS versions prior to 2.19.100.

Last Updated: 11-14-2019
NB: a web page per paragraph-or-so of text is ... pretty annoying.

Please don't.
I moved to the middle of nowhere and did not take a paycut. Now I work remotely and I'm saving so much money that I might even take a year off after this job expires.

It still sucks and I hate working, but it's the least bad path that I could find.
I’d like to start by saying I find it completely normal freelancing platforms charge you as they do for the service of finding clients for freelancers.

Freelancer Protocol is for people who haven’t met on a platform and need a framework to engage in a standard deal. Deal finalisation (deliverable against money) is conditioned to the client accepting a demo (link or video) of the working code. The framework has basic features, like paperwork generation (invoice & contract) and communication (chat and file share).

I just integrate with Stripe for payment & invoice. After checking out a couple of APIs, decided to go with https://esignatures.io/ for online contracts/signatures. They charge per contract and have the features I need (Templates mgmt + Zapier integration).

Please let me know if you know a better way for me to integrate chat (right now I use the firebase db and messages load with a little lag, it’s not a meant for this use case). Feel free to reach out to hello@freelancerprotocol.com or in the comments.
You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old, precising that you don't know if things have changed (thank you for your honesty by the way).

Apple forces recyclers to shred perfectly good hardware indiscriminately, against their will, so it does not hurt Apple's bottom line. When you are the richest company in the world, surely you can do better. There is no excuse.

I cannot take Apple's own 2 MB, 55 request loading marketing material about environment as a reliable source.
Props for keeping your sense of humor, dude.
I do this with code and architecture, or any complex system really... It works pretty well! It's similar to physical space having a sort of memory... except it's mental space.
Your forgetting, I'm talking about either two lanes of traffic in one tunnel or one lane of traffic in two tunnels.

First order analysis says there is no saving by using two tunnels instead of one. When you consider 4 one lane tunnels vs one tunnel with four lanes of tunnels, the four tunnel solution is worse.
> Arabic has both

Not really. Arabic has U+0649 (Arabic Letter Alef Maksura), while Farsi has U+06CC (Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh). They look similar, even identical depending on the font, as long as they are standalone. When they are in a word though, it gets more complicated.

The important difference between U+0649 and U+06CC is how they look when they are connected to other letters. The former is always dotless. The latter is only dotless when it is not connected to another letter from the left. Here is an example:

U+0649 (Arabic): ى لى ىد لىد

U+06CC (Farsi): ی لی ید لید

It's kinda similar to how Turkish I's are not the same as English I's. English capital vs small form is different from the Turkish one, so different code points is necessary:

English: I i

Turkish (dotless): I ı

Turkish (dotted): İ i

Because Turkish uses separete letters for capital and small letters, only the different forms have their own codepoints. Because in Farsi and Arabic different forms of letters are implemented as ligatures, you need a different codepoint for each of them. You cannot reuse standalone U+0649 for U+06CC.

So to recap, Turkish has dotted İ and dotless I and they always retain their dot status. English has one I that will be written with or without a dot depending on how it is placed in the sentence.

Arabic has dotted ي and dotless ى and they always retain their dot status. Farsi has one ی that will be written with or without dots depending on how it is placed in the word.
I'm not an avid container user, but I think at least part of the popularity for certain dev/ops/CI use cases is how easy it is to get stuff in and out of them using bind mounts and the like. For example, having a run environment that's totally different from a build environment. The only way to do this with conventional VMs is to access them over some in-band protocol like SSH (or to have to re-build the run rootfs and reboot that machine, which is typically extremely slow).
Same experience, I had Bose and found that the ANC made speech worse.

I'd add that Comply makes a line of memory foam tips that are much nicer than Etymotic's.
Where would you get the coal though? An electric heat pump is gonna be way more cost efficient than burning coal. This is a coastal California climate we're taking about here, not Winnipeg.
Nor could it, with the millions of rounds of taxes an average paper dollars will see.
I was being conservative, since the number of times any given toilet is used per day is pretty variable and the conservative result was already enough to say "this needs to be re-applied frequently".
If it was generally understood why America is different from Bangladesh, every country would be like the US.

It sounds like you're implying the secret is being nice to the big capitalists so they keep their capital in your country. But I don't think that's the way the world works, and it's precisely because most people think that's the way it works that most of the world cannot catch up.

Big companies in the US are largely owned by Vanguard and Blackrock and so on. They're already collectively owned by the people, despite all the talk about inequality. Prosperity depends on this system, not billionaires.

It's not that the US couldn't wreck things by acting like Argentina, but that people shouldn't pay attention to the super wealthy posturing. And the more they talk nonsense, the more they encourage radical actions, because true things can't be believed.
Those clips/connectors don't come for free, but the ability to price discriminate is obviously highly valuable to Apple.
What about the last thread I read that concluded Monero was the answer here?

Which one's been audited?
Sadly it is not that outlandish. The Duke of York (not Prince of Wales) was famous int eh 1980s for his louche lifestyle and there has been a veritable string of scandals revealing numerous highly respected public figures in the UK to have sordid lives of criminal abuse away from the public gaze over the last 20 years.

Of course it would be a tricky story for any journalist, editor, or publisher to handle, not least due to Britain's plaintiff-friendly libel laws. But outlandish? Not at all.

'Outlandish' are things like Prince Andrew's claim that a war injury caused him to completely stop sweating for several years and that this provides a watertight* alibi against his accuser's allegations.

* I couldn't help myself
What happened with that chunk of land in Lake Michigan that appeared out of nowhere on the new map?