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> Absent central bank intervention, a productive economy should naturally undergo significant price deflation year after year as efficiency improves, causing more goods and services to be produced with the same inputs

This comment assumes that central banks create money and that's what drives inflation but this isn't the case: commercial banks are the ones which create money (through credit).

Also, you can't sustain an economy under deflation, because deflation would just make the whole economy collapse. In a market driven industrial economy the limiting factor for the economy isn't the output, but the demand, and deflation is the ultimate demand killer (which is why basically nobody buy things in bitcoin: realizing the pizza you bought five years ago is now worth a few thousand dollars doesn't sound cool).
As with all human attempts to categorize things, the 4 categories should actually be a spectrum, and the ends of the spectrum should be called into question based on PG's definition here. I mostly agree. I think I probably fall on the more "independent-minded" end of the spectrum (as we all like to think). But there is value in conformism and value in independence of thought. PG should realize the fact that he wrote this essay and is still alive is a good example of where things are today vs. in the era of feudalism or even the era of WW2 :)

I agree with his take on academia though. That whole institution is limping along.
If the logs are stored in JSON, the jq tool can be used. I understand it's more complicated that grep for certain structures, but also having a library of jq filters for the app may be useful and can be shared.
Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature shuts out smaller competitors
And now the (possibly fake) security seal is definitely broken, so "probably new" becomes "definitely used"
What the company ran into? Unfortunately not :/. It was a quick chat in an informal setting with their VP of engineering (I think?) that really was just a "huh, interesting moment" for me (although I've coded in Clojure for a full-time job before I have essentially no personal experience with Datomic).

As for the positive side, I think dustingetz monitors Clojure and Datomic threads pretty closely so maybe they can chime in here.
Since we're talking specifically about the FreeCodeCamp newsletter, may I point you out to their privacy terms you agree to when you sign up (this is essentially a clickwrap, or "take it or leave it" contract):

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/privacy-policy/

> We'll ask you for your email address so you can use it to sign into freeCodeCamp, and so we can send you announcements and helpful programming-related links.

Essentially, this is an "opt-in" process because you are opting to create your account and you agree with the site policies.

Granted, I'm in no way a legal professional and I could be wrong about everything I said here. Corrections are welcome.
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Everybody copied their design style and it was no longer distinctive. I still have an iMac blueberry flavored iron.
Homepage should be indicative and easy to navigate. For example in online advertising industry you are presented with "Publishers" and "Advertisers" in content creation industry homepage should show for example "Content Creators" and "Consumers" or "Publishers" and "Readers".

I also think Substack's UI and UX should be much better and also their search feature is rather primitive, search always should be robust in this kind of businesses.
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/20200724130914/https://www.washingtonpost...
I believe naturalization is only 3 years if green card is through marriage. Not sure on how it works if you have a new green card through work and just got married though.
I'd definitely let you buy me a beer. I'd say the approach is similar to finding people in other professional fields. Ask someone you know and trust in the legal field for a recommendation for someone in a specialty. So, for example, if you have a relationship with a corporate lawyer, ask him or her for a recommendation for a good employment lawyer. Lawyers know lawyers and one way or another likely will be able to connect you to another good lawyer in a specific field or location.
FlyGarmin is already back up. And it’s not a huge deal in my opinion. In addition to being only smaller operators, dbs don’t expire and roll over on the same day. New releases are available early.

Absolute worst case, if you were flying IFR and it was worth the expense, you could go to Jeppesen and buy a 1-off update for your avionics. Garmin Pilot could be replaced by a ForeFlight trial, etc. It’s not like Garmin goes down, planes are grounded.
Part, yes. But not a majority.

I worked at a large social media company (not large by modern tier 1 social media network standards). We handled well over 10M users, but the company is dying / died. The technology still works, but the mindshare was lost and users jump ship faster when the network effect stops being an asset.
Ever since getting an @hey.com email address I've found myself subscribing more and more to newsletter. I guess I could have done the same thing with gmail and filters, but getting newsletters as part of The Feed and out of my Inbox has made me really enjoy weekly newsletters compared to before.
I have this very same question. My company announced something similar – that they wouldn't even be doing PERM recruiting because of the posting requirement, and the risk of getting in trouble with DOL. I too work for a large tech company.
Did you know that email clients have to poll their email server periodically and download their messages?
There’s no such thing as a fixed position in space.

The motion of Hubble (and basically everything inside the Milky Way) relative to the galaxies in that picture is ~250,000 km/s, or 0.83 c.

At this speed, it would take ~100,000 years for the galaxy to move its own length, and even then the movement would be in a direction which doesn’t cause much blur.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12e9%20light%20years%20...
The idea that taking away health coverage (during a pandemic even!!!) and doing everything possible to let the most amount of people die in a pandemic is comparable to political correctness or sending people extra unemployment so they don't have to work in a pandemic is unbelievably absurd. It's beyond stupid. But you can see this twosideism play out in society at large. The news interviews experts who know what they're talking about and alongside them gives equal coverage to whackos with insane ideas that have no base in reality.

The problem isn't giving both sides the chance to speak, it's pretending that the ideas are equal and giving them equal weight. For example, wearing masks, washing hands, and social distancing as ideas for fighting the pandemic are not similar to drinking bleach and bathing in UV light. Yet both ideas get equal coverage and equal weight, as if they are both valid methods of dealing with the pandemic. This is why we cannot discuss politics and why Americans have to hide their views. People who can think will not put up with the stupidity of the idiotic ideas people who can't think put forward. How can you have a conversation with an idiot who thinks it's a good idea to drink bleach? Or one who thinks corona is spread by 5G towers. There is nothing to talk about. And the idiot cannot converse back either. They are likely unable to actually understand the situation so any evidence provided goes above their head.

Eventually, the idiots move to one side, the rest move to another, and it becomes an intractable problem. That's what we're seeing now in America. The institutions that are led by idiots have failed horribly, often on purpose: White House, Senate, CDC, FDA, Florida, Texas, Arizona, etc. But of course, this is all taboo to discuss in the first place. Politics are taboo in America. That's why no one talks about any issues and why we truly are a "shithole country," as the president called it.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that there are many many good Hungarian companies like Prezi, LogMein, Zwack, Pick, Cafe Frei, Balabit, Commsignia, etc, that have great products, it's just that Raba and Ikarus does not belong to this list. At all.
"it’s one of several economic casualties caused by the coronavirus."

Better to say that it s a casualty of the lockdown. It was killed by the government, not the virus.
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Spyglass didn't. Microsoft may have started from the Spyglass codebase, but I don't imagine there was much left by the time IE 4 was released. The Netscape guys like to talk about how Microsoft's monopolistic practices killed Netscape, but by the time of Netscape 4.6 vs. IE 4, IE was a far superior browser in speed, stability, and CSS support.

At the time, it was really Netscape's market to lose. It was not difficult to download Netscape, and in the IE 2/IE 3 era, that's what everyone did. Netscape just stopped being the best and didn't recover until Firefox was released.
These are the kinds of questions that need to be studied and answered. But instead, politicians just say “‘Murica is #1” and leave it at that. The platitudes need to stop. We need some policy wonk technocrats to take over government.
HST is in a 96-minute orbit, up to half of which is blocked by the Earth, depending on where in the sky you point it. Getting time on it is an extremely competitive process - the recent cycle had over a thousand proposals, requesting over 24,000 orbits worth of observing time, and they had only 2700 orbits to allocate [1].

This sort of proposal pressure (over 9:1 oversubscription) leads to very conservative proposals, where we request absolute minimums and emphasize that even a non-detection will lead to publishable science in such and such a way.

Getting over 60 orbits to point at a blank field would have been frankly impossible through the regular time allocation process, not because the science wasn't excellent, not because it wouldn't be recognized as excellent, but because it would crowd out other science that could be done with far fewer orbits per project.

The telescope administrators explicitly recognized this problem when they set up the Director's Discretionary Time process (and this is common to all telescopes now) - sometimes you need someone with the authority to just roll the dice on a long shot.

[1] https://www.stsci.edu/contents/newsletters/2019-volume-36-is...
Unfortunately I don't know the mechanics, I just know that legally it's possible to employ someone abroad as a direct employee even if he or she has no US immigration status. For those who can navigate such things, I'd contact an accounting firm that's part of a global network.
> It amazes me that I see team after team of competent well intentioned developers create one ball of mud after another. It's striking really.

It is! But I don't understand... how? How does that happen? You should put good people together and get something good. But it is not always so. Very puzzling to me.
I do but please read my reply to op to understand the context.
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Yup. I kinda regret creating my account for this reason.

I've had good discussions, but I can feel the pull of the karma counter ticking up.

I don't know if it was worth the trade.
Rogan had a guest months ago that talked about this.
Small planes and helicopters are so unstable that I wouldn't enjoy riding this vehicle at all. High-speed train is so much more comfortable.

Most people taking the plane everyday hate it.

It's a so-so idea.
Would you still consider it a "good take down" if he turns out to be wrong ? Or are you 100% certain that he's right ?
Garmin app, website go offline after reported ransomware attack
reposted a few minutes later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23943447
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

A FreeCodeCamp account presumably offers more functionality beyond just the newsletter, and the majority of people would sign up for that functionality and not the newsletter.

Yet, there is no way to opt-out directly, and you have to go through extra steps to do so after the fact.

This is also in breach of the GDPR which mandates that consent for non-essential data processing (marketing communications fall into that) should be opt-in (so pre-ticked checkboxes are already forbidden) and freely given (so there is no penalty for declining, you can’t refuse to open an account for them if they decline consent).
What are you tax concerns exactly?

You have to file a US but generally you can avoid double taxation, especially on the first $100,000. If you have business income it's generally a good idea to incorporate and have the company pay you to get the full tax benefits. Incorporation generally gives you a lot of flexibility tax wise.

If you abandon your green card you'll have to pay capital gains on all your assets as if you sold them, I believe.

PS: I am not a tax lawyer, but that's a quick overview
I can't remember who said it or on which podcast, but they basically said that VTOL is the real game changer, not autonomous driving. Sure autonomous driving might be able to shave some time off of your commute, but you are still in a car and still driving on roads. VTOL is what really allows you to experience what the ultra wealthy with access to private jets and helicopters have experienced. Getting out of the city to a 'vacation' spot in no time at all.
If the people blocking roads were a majority of the population, they wouldn't need to engage in such protests.

Control of the majority by the minority is by definition not democratic.

Authoritarian regimes are the exact ones who control the majority with a small minority of the population.
I'm not an expert, but I don't imagine any study that could be designed that would determine this to any practical degree of certainty--B12 is correlated with so many other risk factors, like smoking for example. People with healthier brains possibly take more risks, but it's just a vague guess too.
That is not quite what is happening. PDF has a feature called "incremental update", where changes to the document are not done in-place in the PDF object structure, but instead are appended as an incremental update to the existing PDF file. PDF files are interpreted starting at the end, where there is a root node linking to the rest of the PDF object structure. Such an incremental update replaces the root node, and thereby can replace parts (or all) of the previous document revision. Basically this works like a persistent (immutable) data structure.

To enable multiple signatures, each signature is appended as an incremental update (and so does not break any preceding signatures), and each signature only signs the document revision where it was added. Now, there are a number of updates one may want to apply to a signed PDF: adding further signatures, adding document timestamps (also a kind of signature), filling in form elements (in documents where multiple people have to fill out parts of a form and each have to sign their parts), adding annotations (comment boxes, highlighting). For that reason, signature validators have to decide, for all incremental updates that follow a given signature, whether the changes done by those incremental updates are harmless and constitute an intended use case like the ones listed above, or whether they are potentially harmful and try to give the impression that something else was signed than what was actually signed.

The good thing is: Since the incremental updates preserve the revision history of the PDF, one can easily inspect what was originally signed. For example, Acrobat Reader provides a UI command "Show Signed Version" on each signature, which then opens the signed prefix of the PDF, that is, with the subsequent incremental updates removed. The problem is that many users are not aware of this and therefore can be deceived by fraudulent incremental updates if the PDF viewer doesn't indicate that there is an issue.
Vigilante hacker sabotages Emotet botnet by replacing malware payloads with GIFs
As a thought experiment, do you have the same reaction when considering visiting a new restaurant in person?
Your cell company that directly controls the LTE transmission is regulated by the FCC, not every small website you may interact with on TCP/IP on your smartphone over LTE.
So what do you think actually happened here? Was the controller a really good counterfeit, or was it real but used? In the latter case, did it show signs of wear?
The fact that you are posting this using your real name is strong evidence that it's not actually "unsayable".
I have a SSN and I had a past job and past job visa in the USA.

In general, what is the purpose of the SSN and is there any use for the SSN?

With the context of H1B1, same question as above: Is there any use for the SSN in the context of a new H1B1 application?
Agreed. It's actually amazing how often I've seen a company truly believe that the lower wages they pay to offshore workers has no impact on the quality of the product, only for the truly diminished nature to become apparent after some time.

That's not to say all offshore workers are bad, of course. Just that, just because you can hire an Eastern European for half the price doesn't mean they will produce the same quality work as the other people who were more expensive.
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People don’t buy stuff in bitcoin because of the high transaction costs, and low adoption in points of sale. If you believe that bitcoin price will go up in the future, you would buy bitcoin instead of pizza using dollars.
"Opposition parties are so inept: they could not even operate corruption."

(Do not know if it is original or some old joke: I have heard it from hungarian stand-up comedian Tibor Bödőcs - who is btw basically the only comedian left who dare (or talented enough to get away with) criticizing every side of the political spectrum here - nowadays mostly Orbán of course...)
I've heard non-technical folks with their heads in the clouds expecting to run millions of dollars in transactions through an IT system, but cringed at my suggestion that they're likely to dump more than a couple hundred grand one-time into the scheme. Yet the same person doesn't blink at paying significantly more than that yearly maintaining existing low-tech systems, and has already spent millions on ERP projects.

I think a lot of this effect is caused by wishful thinking from people embarking on business plans which they would realise are non-viable if they did the accounting properly. People are buying a fantasy instead of an IT system.
This can and does happen. Though, for most items, the net gain you'll realize probably isn't worth the effort.

Consider this from Walmart [1]. Mobile 1 5W-30. Something I buy frequently, but not from walmart. Walmart's site doesn't list a SKU, but you can see the UPC code from one of the pictures.

Same exact SKU as Advance Auto [2]. The problem? I know for absolute fact that the containers that hold the oil look totally different (and Walmart's online photo does not reflect reality). I don't buy motor oil from Walmart because this is the crap they pull. And it's not like this just recently happened or the manufacturer recently switched. I've compared the containers across years and several states now.

Maybe the packaging is just different but it really is the same oil on the inside. I don't trust Walmart enough to find out.

1: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mobil-1-Advanced-Full-Synthetic-M...

2: https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/mobil1-advanced-5w-30-fu...
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Send nothing and every recipient replies! It can't get any better.
It’s a pretty important point to make in this historical moment: lies are not opinions, they are just lies.
Why can't the reserve currency be a crypto one? One that has a very clean genisis and is not controlled by any single entity.
It's to fight deflation. With people losing their jobs and holding onto cash to prepare for economic hardship, businesses tend to lower prices to sell their supply as less people are buying. This rewards people for holding onto cash as it increases their buying power if they hold onto cash and wait to buy things. This can even cause a positive feedback loop called a deflationary spiral [0] where everyone is holding onto cash causing prices to fall, causing more people to hold onto cash and so on. That's really bad. You want people spending money and businesses investing money to grow the economy. By injecting money into the economy by buying assets, they hope to counteract deflation. Also, they have not bought any equities yet. They are mainly just buying our own governments debt and mortgage backed securities [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spiral

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm#...
But what about microplastics and various other man made contaminants that are increasingly present in fish?
martin_ What did you do?
Hah. This was in the mid to late 90's (possibly '96 or '97), so not one of those. I'm pretty sure it was a Western Digital drive. It had large "retail" packaging that included foam padding and extra hardware, like mounting rails for a 5.25 bay, etc.
I did this a while back. There are a number of really awesome services now that give you a one-off email address solely for signing up for newsletters, and an in-app reading experience that is markedly better.

I've used Stoop [1] for the better part of two years now, and it's a great product with a great model.

I'm working on using Feedbin instead so that I can get my newsletter emails in Reeder, which I use for reading RSS feeds. That's my main news source, really.

Feedly also provides a lot of this functionality in their Pro+ plan, but they go way above and beyond my needs at a higher price.

[1] http://stoopinbox.com
[2] http://feedbin.com
[3] http://feedly.com
At tech companies, it’s often in the form of hackathons, hackweeks, or 20% time.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding...

People without $DISORDER show less symptoms of $DISORDER.
Do you think there is any chance that the current administration will try to kick permanent residents out of the United States?
The volume of resources for a NASA style plan is indeed mind boggling.

But the Mars DIRECT and SpaceX plans are more than an order of magnitude cheaper and easier. The SpaceX plan it’s hundreds of explorers on Mars for less than $10B.
This sounds familiar. Around 2002 I bricked a Pentium motherboard while probing the SPI address space looking for the fan and temperature sensors.
> My friends in Google MTV make $200K/yr.

I'm guessing he's L3? SWE L3 averages 180K in Google.

My friend at Google is SWE L5 (which averages 350k), but he's at closer to 400K because Google's stock price appreciated considerably since he joined.

> Google India on the other hand make close to $50K/yr

Regardless, $50K in India is actually quite high. Many, many large US tech companies are happy to pay peanuts. The average for a large tech company is probably between around $10K/yr to $20k/yr USD, which in my opinion is horrifically abysmal. (Not to mention, I know of companies that hire people in India's neighbor Pakistan, and they are paying them around $400 USD per month, i.e. less than $5K/yr.)

The numbers are frankly quite absurdly low.
There are so many fake or manipulated reviews across all sites -- Yelp, Amazon, Uber, eBay -- that I just don't trust them anymore.

Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.

I'm dying for an alternative to the 5-star review, but seems like there's no end in sight.
Ask HN: How do you validate a startup idea?
As a software eng, I come up with software product ideas on a regular basis, but I haven’t figured out a good way to quickly validate that they serve an actual need. (I don’t want to build something that no one uses.)

I’m wondering if anyone has had a good way of “validating before building” that they care to share?