skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sometimes stuffed a computer into the terminal. DEC themselves did this: the VT103 is a VT100 with an LSI-11 (PDP11/23) built-in. The VT180 is a VT100 with a Z80-based CP/M computer inside.

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT103
https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT180
You are right. 0.2X is reasonable for a transfer company with a more general audience.

I wonder what % of their total transaction costs are from FX spread and fees. Maybe, even at 0.9X, total transaction costs are dominated by local bank transfer fees.
Very cool! I'll show this to our team [1]; we have a few keyboard ninjas & I think they'll absolutely love it.

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[1] team of https://mintdata.com, where we've been known to appreciate a fine keyboard shortcut or 12.

[2] partly an inside joke to our team who reads HN, since we recently shipped keyboard shortcuts for our top menu (Google Sheets, we borrowed what we could to ease the pain :D )
There's no long term risk to google and other ad exchanges because the advertisers are in a prisoners dilemma.

If the advertisers collude or trust that the competitors won't increases ad spend, the relative market share stays the same and all companies participating enjoy increased margins.

The first company to break gains market share, so as a result they all "overspend" and google is the only one that benefits.

The worst part is the cost of google's margin is baked into product pricing, so the end result is we pay more to have the companies compete to advertise to us.
My wife had somehow never had The Sixth Sense spoiled so we watched it recently. It obviously blew her away with the twist, but I also really enjoyed it again, the acting and story are all great.
We should punish violations of the law if and when they happen, rather than pre-emptively asking businesses if they could please be a bit less successful.

Bigness is not a problem in itself, and we should be more appreciative of it as a form of resiliency after this pandemic. Big business has performed better than most other American institutions. Our ability to cope with the shutdowns has been heavily reliant on big business, especially big tech.
I have socialization needs which shelter-in-place orders forbid me from meeting.
> software must be as easy to modify as it is to use

interesting metric, reallllllly bad target
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This is not true. They shut down inbound shipments of non-essentials for a few weeks, but they are in the process of re-opening up non-essential inbound shipments. We are now able to ship in all of our (non-essential) products. And we're hearing the same from most other sellers we know.
The key is if people will continue to use Amazon after things have settled or just go back to their local stores.
Looks like Arabic script written vertically. I was expecting something closer to Chinese writing.
Which makes it a great time to advertise if you are brand building.
Retail exchange rates are never good but talk to your bank. If you have enough volume to do they may allow you access to their own trading desk for a much better rate.
What is DS? If I google it, I get "Diplomatic Security" and that can't be right.
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Which is why everyone should be laughing at IBM Cloud right now for not succeeding that well at IBM's original business model. ;)
Everyone backs up to both.

I probabbly should / could get the Synology to backup to the cloud after it does it's local thing but I haven't looked into it ;)
> The very best engineers have a checklist they apply depending on the type of bug.

This is misleading at best.

Masters do less work than beginners. They have years of intuition built up that let them apply heuristics extremely cheaply and save their energy for solving the novel parts of the problem. There is no 'list'. There is only the verbal part of the brain trying to introspect on what just happened. Sometimes accurately, but quite often not. The ones who get it even close to right become mentors, instructors.

I can spend as long as you like explaining my debugging process and the first time we sit in a war room you'll call me out for not following my own 'list'. Every situation is either unique or the result of a lack of self-reflection (why do we keep solving the same problem over and over? Are we not programmers?)

The biggest danger to people who can't explain at all is when advances in their field arrive and they can't introspect enough to adjust their behavior. There are limits to how much you need to address this in an interview process. For many of these people, they'll already be in that space when you meet them and easy enough to spot.
No. I read this right when it came out with much interest. Why would I ROFL? It's not physically impossible like a 2-4 MT stream explosion postulated to happen days after the nuclear excursion when decay-heat melted fuel was dipped in the suppression pool. The best statement I heard in that regard was: "If that was true, then Hawaii would be wiped off the map multiple times per day as lava falls into the ocean"

Related to this paper, nuclear chain reactor excursions are limited in energy by the vaporization and dispersal of fuel.
Why are they advocating for said closures?
Let's say I want to host a video, and I'm a "normie" that only has a cell phone. Under this model, my device is my server, so I'm hosting it off my cell phone. I want my friends to be able to see it whenever, but I don't want to have an internet connection at all times just for my friends to see my video. How can I achieve this on this network without a "broker" to host the video? Peertube is a "solution", but its a failure for widespread adoption because it adds complexity compared the mainstream solution. You're only going to draw average users to your platform by providing a superior user experience - very few posting even here can sincerely say that they don't sacrifice their privacy for convenience on a daily basis.

Additionally, they mention that your ID accrues "reputation" on the urbit network, which makes it pretty ballsy to bring up comparisons to Reddit because their system of upvotes and "karma" is one of the major structural failings making their platform unsuitable for free speech (same thing here tbqh famalamalampai). Thus the behavioral problems of modern social media (excessive virtue signalling, witch hunts, shadowbanning) are only amplified by this system, the tyranny of the majority extended into every aspect of your networked computing experience.

Overall I think this is a cool idea for certain applications where it has potential, but they're not pitching it just for those applications, they're pitching it as a technology to replace the entire current internet model with, and that's just not going to happen.
This really is the tiniest violin. You're commiting piracy, plain and simple, and your justification is that your (unverifiable) terms of access aren't being met.
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That's true, but I think most other models assume there's a lowest dosage which is totally safe? For very low doses, even if LNT predicts a very low rate, it still a lot of cancer cases for a population of several million. Even if there would be very vulnerable groups, it's hard to imagine a model that predicts more cases than LNT for very low doses.
As someone who grew up in different debate-club-esque environments, I agree wholeheartedly. I had to unlearn quite a few patterns of thinking and behavior—patterns that had been positively reinforced by most adults in my life—when I grew up.

For me, the most damaging effect was the separation of debate and decision making. In real life, if I advocate for a position—be it where we eat dinner or where my child goes to school—and I'm convincing, things actually happen. We have to go to that restaurant and my kid has to attend that school. Debates happen to inform a decision all parties are trying to make together.

As a kid, the opposite was true. Debate was about proving my intelligence in exchange for praise from my teachers, parents, and peers. It was an athletic competition in which our positions were our jerseys, in that we took them off after and went home.

I was reflexively argumentative for a decent period of time as a young adult before I realized the damage it caused to my relationships and how unproductive and dishonest it was.
My pleasure. It is a labor of love.
since you said you were a regulator, hope you don't mind another question.

This model seems to be doing a fairly good job keeping auto insurance costs under control. Is this regulatory model also being applied to health insurance ?

If yes, why isn't it controlling healthcare costs ?

If no, why not ?
The answer to this is "it depends". This is really dependent on tax treaties and the nature of the work, it's as simple as where the computer is. The laws are basically set up to avoid setting up easy tax avoidance so it's not as simple as moving people around.
I hope we keep it closed, more or less. They could restrict visitors using a lottery system. No motorized vehicles within the park boundaries. The valley would have a chance in that scenario. Otherwise it will just be swamped by even greater crowds rushing in to "enjoy" (really destroy) the beautiful nature.

I visited Yosemite valley proper for the first time last year after living in California for five years. I was blown away by the scale of development and the sheer number of people.

If we truly want to save these places, we need to keep most humans out.
I agree we aren't ready to even start the process of getting back to quasi-normal. But the question was about a long-term advertising strategy for "when people eventually spend".

I'm saying that "when" isn't a given; instead, it's an "if". Companies (whose cash flow just tried up) don't want to spend on "if".
I really don't think ads have a significant impact at all. How much is your buying affected by ads, really? Do you really buy a different eg. toothpaste rather than the one you typically get due to ads or because it's some percent off this time and it's also just okay toothpaste?
Dude! Thanks so much!!! If you're ever in Portland, I owe you a drink!
Jamtaba – play online music jam sessions (using ninjam servers)
Dude, if you sign up for a payment processor without reading the TOC, you are an idiot. Just straight up. It's a huge dependency of your business and you need to understand the rules. (Silent changes are much more problematic, and I think companies can be legitimately blamed for that.)

> What is the bloody fucking point of rules that cause you to kick off customers if you can't even give some transparency on how those rules work. It's insane and even if it complies with some bullshit government regulations on money laundering, grotesquely shitty of major financial services companies. Users should at least be given the benefit of the doubt and told why they're being punished before being booted.

Your problem here is with United States KYC & AML requirements, not with payments processors.
As far as I can ascertain, Urbit consists of a sensible, worthwhile goal, and many man-years of work building bizarre, contrarian executable artifacts that have nothing to do with that goal.
Nebula is a competitor to YouTube that was created by a bunch of YouTubers in the educational video space. It's a paid subscription only model.

I have a subscription but for some reason it doesn't scratch the same itch as YouTube even though it has a lot of the same content that I watch on YouTube. It may be because there isn't much Nebula only content so I might as well just check one website instead of two. I also don't think it has comments. And all round just isn't as slick of an experience as YouTube.

Also by design not just anyone can upload to it and so I belive it will probably be quite limited in its growth.
I mean it's kinda the logical conclusion or else your images become your darlings.
Sorry, I think I pasted the wrong link.

From the homepage, Pricing → Commissions → Forex leads to the 1,000,000,000 cutoff.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=fx
Is it really buy? Or is it "rent"?

I'm guessing for most people, it's actually "rent".
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Do you play any casual games that you're able to play only a short while, and not pick up until you have free time without creating addictive anxiety?
Why not use docker containers which will do this by default for stateless portion of your infrastructure?
> The user interface has been changed to utilise a more recent version of GTK+ (GTK+ 3)

with GTK 4 just around the corner
Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.
Sounds like a spirit. I had a similar visit from an owl during my wife’s pregnancy.
Well this page says something about trading less than $1 billion per month:

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=fx
OR ads aren't that effective in the first place and the whole industry is a house of cards propped up by middleman making their fat margins convincing people ads are necessary...
It’s interesting you say that, because I find myself to be quite productive in GIMP.

I think the basic set of tools are pretty easy to use, and the one or two other windows you need open (like the tool-specific settings) are also pretty understandable. When I stumble upon something new I often find pretty good official docs on the topic.
The current laws would need to be adapted to allow for some socialization.

Processes and procedures would need to be put in place to ensure safety.

Society would need to adapt to meet those needs.
There's also a general technique for filtering experts when you don't know their domain well: ask them do something known to be impossible. [1]

Very bad answer: "Sure, no problem." [2]

Bad but tolerable answer: "Not possible but it's too hard to explain why."

Good answer: best attempt to explain why it's not possible, and the nearest solvable version or what you would need to change to make it solvable.

There's a great Better Call Saul episode (s4e5) where an expert is idenified as a unsuitable (in part) because he insists a project could have a firm maximum duration without caveats about what could go wrong, and he could do it without something it obviously needs.

[1] That's arguably what the unnamed MP was doing when he asked Babbage if he'd get the right answer if he put the wrong numbers in the machine:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...

[2] At best they might silently replace it with the possible version, but that's still hiding the tradeoffs from you and means they could be misrepresenting other answers.
There's a pretty actively-maintained Python wrapper for the internal API: https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper
This is already how it works for a lot of channels except the funding comes through Patreon. This is strong evidence that viewer sponsorship works yet YouTube is just missing out on their cut.
Here's a counter argument:

In college (17 years ago) a professor once told me that databases largely outlive the apps that use them.

Imagine a world [1] where IT manages data centrally, but users are free to interact with it how they best see fit?

Would this kind of a world be better?

(provided of course you have the right permission model & audit trail for modification)

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[1] Founder of https://mintdata.com, so I'm biased -- malleable systems are near and dear to our heart

[2] Professor Franklin at UC Berkeley, if you're reading this, I am very sorry for not being the most attentive student :)
This is probably the worst possible forum to admit to believing the earth could be sentient and could have a soul.

But I don't think there is any goal to remove us. More like slap us upside the back of the head and say "Hey, stupid! Stop doing certain things already!"
It is my opinion, but an informed one.

A couple executives just plainly admitted how crazy inefficient our spending was, so I just can’t imagine how they could possibly go back to blow nearly a million a year in ads any time soon, or ever, when 90% of our revenues come from traditional enterprise deals that don’t have anything to do with ads, for the most part. They are all just worried that they will have to accept a down round in a year, and are trying to mitigate that.

By the way, this is true for engineering as well, where I work: now that we figured out how to remain productive while cutting 40% of our AWS costs (spot instances, killing idle instances more often, ...), will we ever go back to be inefficient and leaving idle AWS clusters up at night just because “money is not an issue”? Very unlikely. And the marketing department wasn’t being run any more efficiently than engineering, budgets were just fat because money was free for nearly a decade.
I don't use twitter android application and the browser version on mobile is extremely slow. This made twitter usable on my browser again. Thanks!
PS: It would be even more useful if someone hosts it in a domain like <someshortcode>twitter.com, then I can just add shortcode to the url and escape from the slow, official one.
Please don't use multiple accounts to comment on or vote for your own posts. You succeeded in getting this perfectly good submission buried by our software. I had to manually restore it.
yeah, this sentence jumped out on me too, making the whole article so less convincing. those schools of journalism should really include basic math in their core corriculum.
The comment you're responding to seems genuine. However...

> I really hope that PR firms don't pick this up.

That ship sailed years ago, alas :(
http://web.archive.org/web/20200413161736/https://www.latime...

One can also get LA Times stories via Reuters, thanks to shared TLS hosting:

printf "<base href=https://www.latimes.com />" > 1.html

printf "GET /california/story/2020-04-13/yosemite-national-park-closed-wildlife-waterfalls-muir HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.latimes.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n" | openssl s_client -connect www.reuters.com:443 -servername www.latimes.com -ign_eof >> 1.html

firefox ./1.html
Note that there may be fewer ads on Twitch, but there is still a machinery working on you to make you select various levels of subscriptions or buy vanity/chat mechanics. It all hinges on streamers creating "1 to n" relationships, and such a dynamic changes the content.

If only it was possible to pay for the true hosting and bandwidth cost, with discovery/search mechanisms either open source or on a separate service (decentralized and smaller in scope), and again a separate platform to support individual creators.

Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the Twitch model might still suck on some level.
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You're both right. Marketing dollars work, but there's also a lot of wasted spend.

Many big campaigns are just brand awareness, or are poorly implemented with lots of supply-chain and measurement overhead competing for the cheapest impressions. Video content is increasing and leading to an oversupply of inventory. There's competition from connected TV and streaming services. Privacy regulations are affecting targeting and measurement.

A lot of budgets are also just paused in response to consumer demand, with uncertainty around the economy and shifting strategies to conserve cash and move to more efficient ads.
This is just moving things around. The international employee deals with equivalent of withholding etc. It's exactly like a self-employed consultant/contractor locally, they should be factoring this into their hourly rate (including things like paying their accountants to sort out taxes, etc.).

If wage disparity is big enough, it can still be a "win".

Also it doesn't always work this way, often US companies have subsidiaries to handle payroll etc. in other countries.
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My local paper has shut down for the time being which is a shame. Hope it can bounce back but you can lose so much steam of staff have to leave and you might lose your office. There is a lot of permanent damage being done.
That is integration and evolution costs on the article. Those tend to be very hard to estimate, and are the ones that most grow out of control. The article really doesn't do them justice by passing through them like if they were like the others.

There is also an undereported gain that is freeing your team to work on higher impact work.
> Except in the case of Splunk. Their pricing is ridiculous.

Their pricing is ridiculous and what is even stranger is that with the ELK stack there is a good and free alternative. Now Splunk is good, no doubt, but I still wonder how they can be that successful with that pricing.
Private companies are required to fully fund pension plans under Federal law. What's specific to the USPS is the requirement to fully fund health care benefits and, more importantly, a restriction preventing the USPS from lowering health benefits for existing retirees.[1] Unlike pensions, health care benefits are normally not considered vested benefits and so when faced with the USPS' dilemma any other organization, public or private, would simply lower health benefits.

The USPS is being screwed, but it's more complicated than the memes thrown around in public discourse. Your link doesn't give enough context necessary to debunk many of those memes and to resolve the confusion.

[1] Also the Treasury bond thing, but that's not nearly as much an existential burden as health benefits.
That's incredibly pretentious. Not everyone has the knowledge you do. It's almost like it's written for an average person.
That's a problem I have with Parks. There is a conflicting mandate. They 'protect' but they also 'promote'. My parents took us up to Yosemite on weekend trips in the summer growing up. 50 years ago they tended to studiously avoid the valley proper.

The farther you're willing to hike the fewer people and more bears and Germans.
As someone who is interested in transferring money I will admit that I find InteractiveBrokers website confusing. I don't understand how it works. Let's say I want to buy Russian Rubles with US Dollars. How does that work? How do I get the Russian Rubles out? With TransferWise it is very obvious. I'd love to save more money but I'm not sure how to do it with InteractiveBrokers, but I would like to know.
Thanks you. It feels like I'm constantly chasing the inbox zero tiger. Words like these make it totally worth it.
To me, this shows that the actual service/content they're providing has relatively low value, and so they're "making" money not just on the content but also on the services side; eg, they're a cheaper sysadmin than an outsourced one. And they're also possibly ignoring risk; eg, they don't have the data durability that a cloud provider does, but it Probably Won't Matter (TM).

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this way of making money; the lower the margins, the more watching your costs is crucially important, and the difference between making a living and not even breaking even!
Whoa, please don't be a jerk in HN comments, even when someone might not have read an article.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Well, the money folks have taken over corporations. They're more likely to be run by an accountant than a business person today. That happened in the 80's. After that, big business has been all about squeezing cash for executives and stockholders at any cost.
Targeting is def worth the premium for the right categories

Not for things like cars and toothpaste but for things like online services/games, fashion, homeware, etc
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