skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treasury bonds and bills are sold at auction to the highest bidder. The price they sell for determines the interest rate; the higher the price, the lower the rate. The Treasury department sells bonds to raise cash to pay government expenses, both for short term (until the next chunk of quarterly taxes come in) and the long term (spending in excess of government receipts).

A one-year $1,000 T-bill means that in one year from the date of purchase, it can be redeemed for $1,000. So if you pay $980 for it, then that means that your effective interest rate is 20/980 ~= 2%.

The Fed wants interest rates to stay low, so they're driving up the price of treasury bonds/notes in order to reflect that. That, in theory, means that financial institutions will prefer to lend to consumers/businesses/etc. for higher yields, rather than put their money into treasuries.

Usually these sell at auction and the Fed buys some of them, but otherwise the market determines what the future value of money will be based on general return on capital.
I suspected someone may say something like this. Is jumping in the deep end the only real answer to issues of fear or emotional turmoil? (ie, get back on the horse...)

I don't disagree with you, I was just hoping there may be something else to consider.
Not yet, but:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Li...
> Given crabs in general have been around adapting for 145m years, I do not think the current levels will be detrimental.

That argument often comes up when discussing wildlife impacts of global warming. The problem is, the rate of CO2 increase vastly exceeds anything that happened naturally. The rate of change is the problem here.
Flash an Android build directly from the browser using webusb
Illinois has one of those. It just means they explicitly call out the amount of debt they will take on, not that they will have a true balanced budget. Problem is that no legislative body can pass laws dictating the future actions of a legislative body- - they will just pass new laws if they need to.
Ask HN: How to begin contributing to open source?
I've been coding for 5 years already and I was always interested in open source projects.
I'm always exploring new projects on Github and looking at code from one place or another, but I feel like I do not have the skills to go to the issues, pick one, and begin to help the project in question.

I'm not asking how to make pull requests or anything. Just for advice for someone that wants to introduce himself to the open source world.

So, any tip for picking a first project, without any preferences besides (maybe) the language?

Note: The languages I more or less know are Python, C/C++, Javascript and Go.
There's a decent amount of chicken farming and processing in my area (southern Mississippi). I know a few people who work for Southern Hens. The job isn't great, but the benefits are ok and the pay is fairly good for the area (probably doesn't compare well to other parts of the country, though). Better compensated than the majority of unskilled or even semi skilled labor in the area that I've seen. Certainly not cheap migrant or prisoner labor.
As covered on Macrumors [1], you have the option of using a unique generated email on Apple's servers which then forwards to your own email without the service provider getting any info about you. You also have the option to choose what data, if any, you share with the service.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/sign-in-with-apple/
Securing the IoT Is a Nightmare
What's the safest course of action in a scenario like this? Put all your investment money in gold (an unproductive asset) and pray that you've timed it right?
Yep, the worst thing about dying is the process, so this is a pretty big win for those that works
I have serious ethical issues with working for Google, so that would just make my decision easier.
Having lived in Europe (UK, France) and North America (Canada) I can assure you that American chicken is not just as good. It's not just chicken. All sorts of meats are worse in quality.
Yes. You are absolutely right that Media lab does a lot of marketing work. I worked with an MIT-graduated professor as a grad student for a few months. When he joined my then grad school, he recently got his PhD. The first thing he did as an assistant prof was to teach his students on how to promote their work. He even showed us a slide deck from MIT Media lab that basically teaches you how to do just that (promote your work and make presentations look fantastic).

True to his roots, the guy was pretty good at promoting his work (although, having worked on the system he was developing at that time for a bit, I highly doubt the outcome of his project is as good as he made them look like) and he always made sure to get his work featured one way or another in media (be it University publication, local newspapers and through non-profit media channels).
Me. It tastes good.
I agree it’ll probably have to be third party developers and we’re seeing that. Short cuts (originally third party “workflow”) is already pretty powerful. If you play with Audulus[1] you see a UI not too dissimilar to Dark except for Audio Synths instead of programming.

Both obviously need to be greatly iterated on, but the bones are there.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audulus-3/id1027525593
It was much better for gaming than Linux, so far as natively-supported games (so, not counting Wine) until MacOS dropped 32-bit support. Now, yes, it's far worse for gaming than Linux.
Please don't take HN threads into off-topic flamewar like this. Obviously those things are more important than doorbell trackers. They're important than almost everything else that appears on HN, too. That's why the guidelines ask you not to do this—because otherwise every thread will become about something more important, and with increasing levels of rage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: since you've been using this account to break the site guidelines repeatedly, I've banned it. Creating accounts to do that with will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that.
BBP: My Path to the CISO Chair
Already by the twelfth century, fishing pressure and human modification of riverine and estuarine habitats threatened sturgeon populations from Italy to the Baltic.

A brief history of aquatic resource use in medieval Europe
Richard C. Hoffmann
I'm always amazed by the longevity of DirectX 9. It was a truly excellent graphics API. DirectX 11 had more features, and was in some ways better designed, but it was always really painful to have to reimplement some of the things that were stripped out of the D3DX utility libraries that formerly were part of the SDK.
It's not fixed, but it's not perfectly elastic either the way, say, hot dogs are. Part of the value of educational institutions is their track record, new schools have no track record, so aren't a perfect substitution.
Here's a link for ya:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210318

In essence, Apple generates a unique email address through their relay service that forwards to (and thus hides) your actual email address. It was widely considered a pretty major step in the right direction for user privacy.
Maybe, but it's not going to be wrong by several orders of magnitude like this.
Depending on the arithmetic, it seems that yes it can! I've noticed gcc using LEA instructions for arithmetic of the form (x * a + b), where 'a' and 'b' fit with the instruction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH
U.S. seeks to send expert team to China to combat coronavirus outbreak
It doesn't really matter that much, and it really doesn't matter at all if it's different wings of the same building. But separating these things for future construction might make some sense: for instance, you could put the study building in a really convenient part of campus, and stick the library off the side in a less-convenient location, since people don't use that as much.

I'm also thinking that you might not want lots of food and drink around the stacks of books. But in an open study area, why not?

Finally, if I go to the library to look at stacks of books, the last thing I want is for the bookcases to be surrounded by a somewhat noisy study area with groups of people talking. It should be as quiet as a tomb.
People always say this, but then post support comments saying stuff like "nobody uses Ubuntu, everybody uses insert distro here". It's a big mess to support.
>The present concentration of co2 in the atmosphere according to Zhang, Yi Ge; et al. is the highest in 14m years. Given crabs in general have been around adapting for 145m years, I do not think the current levels will be detrimental.

It's not my field, but doesn't the rate-of-change matter even more than absolute value in time? Life can and does adjust, but it takes generations; if things change too fast, then only the quickest (smallest) life-forms can adapt.
Large business with deep pockets has a product with a deficiency. Small entrepreneur sees a need and develops a bolt-on improvement that fixes the deficiency. Large business also sees the deficiency and fixes it.

I just don't understand the article's mentality. The only way Microsoft "owes" the small entrepreneur anything is if that entrepreneur had patents or other IP that Microsoft violated; or if the two companies had some kind of non-compete agreement.

It seems like, in this situation, the options are to pursue acquisition, have IP (like patents), or figure out how to carve out a niche and compete.

IMO: The "bolt-on product to fix something wrong with someone else's product" business model appears short lived and requires a rather early exit strategy.
I personally don't get this. European supermarkets are full of cheap chicken meat. Can the US food industry actually beat that low quality meat with even cheaper and lower quality junk food and still be profitable? Please somebody call the ALF squat team. This is sick.
Literally the most confusing thing about German toilets, from someone who grew up in the US... WHY would you want your poop to be entirely exposed to the air like this, on an elevated pedestal, as if it is some prize?
They haven't had to adapt at this rapid of pace. And this is also a human story. Yes the crabs may pull through but not in the abundance to provide us a food source.
I noticed this in the study paper too:

"Participants who reported use of cannabis or dronabinol were instructed not to use for at least 24 h before sessions."

I wonder why there isn't any number of how many people used cannabis during the trial or its effect compared to people who didn't.
How does sign in with apple work when switching to android? or using a windows PC?
MDMA has been used successfully to treat severe, treatment-resistant PTSD.[1]

This was done under the guidance of experienced, trained therapists, with therapy done before, during, and after the session.

[1] - https://maps.org/research/mdma
It's good but not quite as good. 16 core is the high end of consumer CPUs, mid-range is probably more like 6 or 8 cores.
You're casting vague FUD and not going into the details. The murders-for-hire are absolutely the most critical part of this whole case.

>No one deserves this, even if they have to here for the sake of others’ safety. Certainly, the many non-violent drug offenders growing old in here don’t. Pain does not heal pain. A lost soul is not redeemed in a cage.

I agree with this part of Ulbricht's letter here. If not for those murders (which he believed were successfully carried out), he would be a non-violent drug offender, and not deserving of anywhere near a life sentence. But working your way up into a grandiose Walter White-style megalomaniac paying people to kill your foes? That's imperialistic tyrant behavior, not freedom fighter behavior.

He was very likely the only DPR (or at least the only significant one), and, in all likelihood, the chat logs are authentic. No, they weren't proven in court, due to the corrupt agents you mentioned (the defense would cast aspersions just as you did here), but if you look at the facts, they're very likely to be real. Also, the judge explicitly permitted the murder-for-hire evidence to be shown in court, which contributed to the judge's sentencing deccision.

Just to cover one of the six murders: Mark Force didn't have admin access when Ulbricht courted him to murder Curtis Green; Force was just a regular SR user at that point. (He did previously have illicit admin access via Green's account, but this account was disabled by an admin a while before the murder-for-hire conversations occurred.)

That entire encounter and conversation was documented in real-time by law enforcement who had access to Force's account, so Force couldn't have just doctored them. Yes, there are some other circumstances here, like Force (unknowingly to law enforcement at the moment) using Green's account to steal Bitcoins before all of this, which is what caused Ulbricht to later order Green's murder, but he definitely wasn't entrapped or tricked into murdering him. Ulbricht was the one who suggested the murder and requested it, and he paid him $80,000 upon seeing staged photos of what appeared to be Green's bloody corpse. These Bitcoin transactions are obviously all public.

Read the chat logs ordering Green's and FriendlyChemist's (and later FriendlyChemist's associates) murders and tell me what you think:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqepaijrm8lsqsm/260502700-Ulbricht... - Pages 31 - 51

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...

You can see Ulbricht deliberating the decision with his "advisor", Variety Jones / Cimon, before finally concluding he had to die.

No, I didn't give a rock-solid defense of why I think they're authentic, but I don't have the time at the moment. If this thread is still active, I may give a more lengthy analysis later as to why I think they're legitimate.

I believe he's basically a modern mini-Pablo Escobar. I do think drugs should be legalized - specifically to prevent megalomaniacs like Ulbricht from gaining immense, malignant power and ambition. I hope to see the day when all drugs are legal for recreational use while he remains rotting in prison, aged 85.
Dihydrogen monoxide can be a very dangerous solvent.
> Do you believe it is harmful? If so, why?

In Europe we believe it's indirectly harmful: Being able to wash germs off meat and eggs allows tolerating more diseases in the farms. If you can't just sanitize diseases off products, you have to keep the farms clean of diseases.
Prior relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22166421
Spoiler: Extinction
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Yet if you look at the cases they weren't transmitted from meat/egg end-products, it was almost always produce sources contaminated with manure from infected populations.
If you use the original definition of inflation, i.e., increase of the money supply, there has been massive inflation. It hasn’t resulted in a substantial increase in the consumer price index, but you can see huge increases in certain areas such as the stock markets, housing markets in certain areas, health care and education.
I will let you know tomorrow, will be shamed then . Public sale of property cause of some tax problems.
Wildlife, learn to code.
Also let me remind you of the war in Lybia which the GNA is loosing, so they signed a deal with Turkey in order to help them win the war
Robots could repair or dispose of broken satellites in orbit
Yeah, that's shady. But Google and Facebook are the only ones highlighted in the title.
We are not talking about Amazon, we are talking about Rocket League, which is nothing like Amazon; one is an online retailer and the other is a video game. Epic/Psyonix will be just fine. Lots of people spend money for the cosmetic items they offer.
This is about something else. If you are allowed to clean meat that aggressively it usually means what passes as good enough to be sold has a lower standard. Or the other way around: because we in the EU can't use these methods the whole supply chain and quality control has to be much much stricter to deal with this. We can't just dip the thing in chlorine and assume it is clean now.
My mistake, mTCP doesn't include SSH client, there is a separate project [1] for that.

[1] http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/
i have no doubt that if you have a ballooning SaaS business hosted on AWS there is a capture team lead investigating what your tool does and whether or not it is worth amazon creating a team to re-implement in order to crush you.

they definitely do this for physical goods so i'm not naive enough to think they aren't talented enough to do it digitally.
>If a games publisher chooses to restrict its platforms, that's its business. But I won't think of it for "games" in general when I want to find a game.

But nearly everyone else will, so why would they care about you? No game developer has failed because they lack Linux support.

Linux has a tiny portion of the desktop market, and an evern tinier portion of would be Epic customers if only they could play their games on their preferred OS. It's not like Linux has 30% of the desktop market and people are out there demanding support. Linux support makes no sense.
> when the proxmox node I was using it on just randomly decided it wasn't going to boot anymore

could this possibly be proxmox's fault more than ZFS's fault? You even said the pools were fine
How is transaction and tax information managed?
Automating Customer Support – scratching our own itch
Becoming less basic is acidifying.

Nobody cares about the absolute pH, except insofar as it affects wildlife and the ability of the oceans to provide protein that billions of people depend on to live.

And that is being affected, as noted in TFA.
I could see this as handy when I'm trying to troubleshoot an opaque/proprietary/legacy application. Things like knowing it's talking to environment variables or the registry would be a lot of help drilling down into what it's touching so I know where to look for what's breaking it.
Nope. But way to make assumptions in an attempt to validate your world view, very nice.
What are the mechanics by which loans and stock buybacks do nothing, while investment and hiring do good things? It's all shifting money around, the results of which benefit different groups. That's not to say that in specific cases dollars couldn't be spent better elsewhere, but there is no "this is better than that" formula.

"Investing" when there's nothing to invest in is pointless, and if you hadn't heard, unemployment is near all-time lows; companies are hiring.
Because the wash hides the actual problems making it harder to detect.
That thread mentions Apple using a combination of linux and macOS on commodity hardware for workloads that weren't suitable to their current hardware. If the Mac Pro satisfies those workloads now Apple is free to make the T2 chip mandatory.

Their own security makes a mandatory T2 chip inevitable imho - there were dubious allegations they were using compromised motherboards in servers last year, it wasn't true but they'll want to make it impossible.
As I understand it Apple will make it mandatory for any app that offers social logins of any kind at some point.[0]

Shameless plug, I work for Skyscanner and we've had it since iOS 13 launch.

0: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/sign-in-with-apple/
At one time, Windows was only 3% of game players. Does that mean companies shouldn't have developed for Windows way back when?

Market growth potential aside, a small portion of users doesn't necessarily equate to abandonment="sensible economical decision." If that small portion is more profitable than the majority, then it's worth serving. That's pretty much how Apple got to be where it is today.
A document on his computer saying that he paid a supposed hitman and they ran with the cash, and chatlogs of him talking to the hitman, and an "immutable public ledger" with a record of the payment whose time and amount matches up with the note on the laptop are all ridiculous government smears. And there's nothing at all sociopathic about lying to your parents all the way until their bankruptcy in asserting your innocence.
The reason Carlyle called it the dismal science is because so many classical economists were abolitionists, and Carlyle favored the institution of slavery.

I agree that counterfactuals are almost impossible to know in economics, but if predictions on one side repeatedly turn out wrong, then that side is probably wrong.

You can find innumerable doomsayers that predicted hyperinflation, and a loss of faith in the dollar and bonds. All of those people were completely wrong, and in fact the dollar strengthened, yields plummeted, and consumer prices were stable.
How are they telling if you're a Linux/MacOS user? You just ask for the refund in Steam and say you're a Linux/MacOS user and thats it?
My understanding is that "Sign in With Apple" is still officially in beta; once it launches in full, all iOS apps that offer third-party sign ins (like the Google & Facebook options) will be mandated to also offer Apple's OAuth sign-in -- and must give it more prominent placement than third-party services.
Nice, interested to see how this compares to dex.ag.
Lots of good discussion here about the state of iPad tablets.

My SO is returning to school and wants a tablet for school. She likes her iPhone. Is the iPad ready to be a primary note taking solution? I have seen its note taking app used to great effect but how is external keyboard support? Does anyone use an ipad in uni as their primary input device?
Amazon is an advertising company, and has been doubling down on that market despite users not being happy with it:

https://apnews.com/a5ad925b06b7454ea746764399e1a096
Everyone outside your bubble.
You may be shocked to find that you are part of the group you are trying to to call out...
I don't know a lot about the specific languages of either the "cultures" you mentioned, but you'd have to assert that culture didn't exist before writing for writing to be the definition of culture. That's not supported in cultural anthropology or history and is a bit contrived, perhaps unless your view is only that of a cunning linguist ;)
>I also think it's important to distinguish between the government and the people. It can be easy to see them as one and the same, but that would be a mistake.

To a degree they are one and the same though. The government still requires the consent of the governed.
It's not just the enthusiast segment. It's the pro segment. Apple can't conceive of a professional who does anything other than edit videos or audio.
I find it harder to pay attention to the actual complaint because they word it in such a biased manner to purposefully play on the fears of people who associate 'chemical' with danger. Imagine if someone was complaining about the European produced poultry because of all the chemicals they put in their food.
Acidifying literally just means dropping ph because you are introducing more acid. (increasing H+ ions)
It will be mandatory to be on the app store at some point, so that won't be a valid excuse for app developers.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165568, which was posted a bit earlier and has the original source.