skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of productive assets goes up as interest rates fall, this is a simple NPV calculation.

Interest rates are low, and have been low in the developed world for a while. The reason for this has nothing to do with central bank conspiracy theories. The neutral rate of interest is determined by productivity growth, profitability of available investments, and how much capital there is that can be invested in them. The best a central bank can do is 1. be good at detecting where this equilibrium is and reacting to it, and 2. move interest rates at the margins to smooth out the business cycle.

Think of it this way. If, in the aggregate, an average business would make a real return of 3% per year, then an interest rate above 3% would discourage all but the best business ideas from being pursued. Likewise a lower rate would encourage investment in worse ideas with lower profit margins. This is one way to think about the "neutral rate of interest." It is determined by exogenous facts about the real economy.

Now, we have fewer "profitable ideas" (and lower productivity growth correspondingly), and significantly more savings due to greying populations (people who are older/will live longer require more savings) and cultural tendencies (e.g. higher savings rates in China, Germany). So the neutral rate falls, and the result of that the price of capital goods rises.

Central banks' hands are effectively forced by this situation. If policy maintained an artificially high interest rate when the neutral rate is lower, economic contraction would ensue disadvantaging all parties.
When I click on that link, there's an obnoxiously large button that says TRY REDDIT'S MOBILE WEBSITE at the top of the page.
We've proven that the US can write a check whenever it wants, and yet whenever we talk about helping regular Americans with free college or healthcare or UBI the national conversation is "how are we going to pay for it?" Writing a check to wall street to bolster profits while leaving Americans to mostly fend for themselves is still theft.

And if you are working and don't pay income tax it's because your employer is legally allowed to pay you poverty wages.
Research is super expensive, and the low hanging fruits have been picked. There's no such thing as a cheap drug, unless that cost is subsidized.

Also consider that the lifetime for drugs against viruses or other pathogens can be fairly short. Viruses that are a problem now, like SARS-Cov-2, might be a non-issue 3 years from now, or the vaccines we develop now might be ineffective against future strains.

Unless the government or non-profit organizations can promise grant money, in exchange for R&D, then patents are reasonable.

And note that 20 years is a very long time in IT, but not in Pharma. Many drugs developed 20+ years ago are just as good today.
My wording was ambiguous, so to clarify: their full constellation is 3236 satellites, 1618 is the half amount they need to launch until 2026.
I use Beat Saber and Pistol Whip on the Quest as my go-to lockdown workout. I break a sweat within 5 minutes most days, and before I know it it's been a 30 minute session. I'm not sure any fitness trainer would approve, but it gives me an excuse to get my arms and legs moving and get my heart rate up without me ever dreading the morning workout.
Plan C: Maker Pods, Projects and Play
> And all I can infer at this point is that his biggest desire is to be Elon Musk.

That's more an indication of your small thinking and limited imagination rather than Jeff Bezos' motivation.
Was there been an FOIA request for background? Sounds interesting.
This.

My mind was blown when I heard the 2013 remaster of The Eagle's "Taking It Easy".

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZZHNRHA2g&t=1m36s

Remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8KEbQA8kw&t=1m36s

I never knew there was a backing bluegrass guitar on the track!
There is a lot of nonsense tossed around about who actually discovers the majority of drugs and how the public sector can be more involved, but you've identified one case where government and academia could make a huge difference, e.g. by running clinical trials on off-patent drugs applied to new conditions. Low risk, low cost, and very little incentive for big pharma, but a big win for taxpayers if the trials identify cheap new cures.
> what websites see daily, recurring, long time active usage?

Reddit

Do you really think that people would stop going to reddit if they used the site instead of the app on their mobile?
(But, of course, the people more prone to recurring visits are more likely to install an app.)

> mobile app will always have better UX than a website

And again, it's reddit we are talking about here. The app experience is just horrible.
Which sucks, because it is one of the few seafood's that I actually dislike. I don't like certain oily fish, and I don't like calamari other than that I like pretty much every seafood. I spearfish where I live which I like because I can only take what I am going to eat, I don't injure any other fish like pole and net fishing does and everything I take is of legal size. It allows me to be more selective of what I take. I tend to target, hogfish, mangrove / mutton snapper and lionfish as the reproduce fast and are able to withstand the pressure of fishing. While it is legal during certain times, whee I live, to take grouper, tuna and permit, I tend to avoid taking them as they are more susceptible to fishing pressure.

I have spearfished for over 30 years and it is astonishing how much the fish population has declined even in my lifetime.
Additionally I think replicating AWS is much easier these days than replicating the entire technology stack needed to competatively launch / maintain an entire fleet of satellites. Replicating AWS is a solved problem... throw money at it and you can build data center services. Affordably building and launching satellites at scale is much harder.

Seems like SpaceX matching AWS would take much less effort than the reverse.
Just keep listening.

Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap is an amazing look into (somewhat Canadian-focused) classic rock, 60's, 70s, with amazing anecdotes about how it connects with the biggest namns of the last 65 years. Truly awesome radio show. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/2-4294-randy-bachmans-v...

For current music (yes, even pop) I HIGHLY recommend Benji B on BBC Radio 1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v4tv3/episodes/player He has been doing yearly "Best Of" mixes for over 10 years, and if you want to contextualize what's been going on in the last decade-plus of everything club/underground, rap, techno and pop, they're required listening. Whatever bias you have about current music, I promise there's something for you in his programming. Easily one of the best radio DJs in the world.

Second mention is Gilles Peterson, more jazz/world focused than Benji but they crossover numerously, and his programming is just stellar. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm4ss/episodes/player

Lastly, I'd recommend Pete Tongs "Essential Mix" if you find an artist/DJ that you appreciate, its essentially masterclass mixes on their most inspiring work and adjacent music.

Enjoy
I found Wii Sports gave me nasty RSI in a way I'd never experienced before if I tried to play it "seriously" for any length of time. All that vigorous motion but with no weight or resistance was really, really bad. It also allowed a much faster pace of action than the real sports it mimicked, which probably didn't help—no stopping to fetch the ball or wait for people to get into position in tennis or baseball, for instance.

Waggling the controller with one's wrist was more effective in game and didn't hurt after 15-20 minutes like playing "for real" did. It also wasn't really any more fun than playing with a normal controller—so, fun, but nothing special.

I'd expect to hurt myself trying to get a workout with something like this, based on that experience.
A fun way to start thinking about the structure of songs is to try your hand at djing, particularly when mixing two songs together with beat-matching and whatnot.
Easy for HN to do that. HN is not incentivized to make money. The people who run HN do not care if HN does not make any money. In fact, they have zero monetization strategies for HN.
Yes! Bonus points for using software made by a Scuttlebutt friend.
>Is there any framework for independent review whether something is a genuine threat?

I'm not sure whether that would help. Both sides are pretty anti-china atm.
Amazon Eyeing Mall Anchor Stores as Fulfillment Centers
Sure.

But the IBM deal wasn't a corrupt insider affair either.
Looking at prices for general medicine in the US lets me suggest that even stronger regulation might be needed.

Doesn't the government fund research grants with several billions each year?
Interesting, one of the areas that the UK government and the EU are apparently arguing over is our apparently quite right wing government wants more freedom to support UK companies through state aid than the 'socialist' EU would like.

If we were to be constrained by WTO rules (an organisation hardcore Leavers seem very fond of) perhaps we can expect an increase in UK arms spending, though this being the UK no doubt this won't mean any improvements for the people at the sharp end of things.
customized like this https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/ or like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs
Or how they expect to remain one of the most popular sites in the world if the core functionality doesn’t work right.
I can switch off from work, but if I get a problem I can't solve in that day, I will keep thinking about it for the whole day.
We actually love Ring Fit! Have you tried it?

We managed to get one of the first copies available after it had sold out through the lockdown, and have put in a good few hours over our lunchbreaks to benchmark against it. In our opinion Nintendo has done a really good job, and we even managed to break a sweat playing it.

That said, Ring Fit Adventure is limited to Switch users, and the game itself was not compelling enough to build a real fitness routine around (if Peloton and Zwift are too far in one direction, then RFA is too far in the opposite). It's taught us a lot about how important certain aspects from the game design will be as we continue building the Quell game world though...and anything that is encouraging people to look after their health gets a big thumbs up from us.
For some context on why this matters, if you're writing a library (like sklearn) and you want to support multiple array types, you might need to do stuff like

if isinstance(x, ndarray):
...
elif isinstance(x, other_array):
...

In the most ideal case having the standard means that scientific libraries can support all conforming implementations by default. Then sklearn would automatically support cupy/numpy/dask/jax/mxnet/pytorch/tensorflow arrays. Multiply that by all the scientific libraries and the effect is pretty profound.
> What entitled you to their money? Do

What entitle you to speak on their behalf?

The story of the rich who cry about their money being taken away by some evil entity, it's just the constant, endless, uberable whining of the wannabe rich people

So boring...

They are not giving them to ME, they are giving them back to society, the same society that made them rich.

There are many billionaires who wants to pay more taxes because it would simply be fairer.

> Can I come in your house and take things because it’s your duty?

You are wrong, again

1) If it was my duty, you couldn't do it, because you cannot collect what's in the government duty to collect.

2) Your duty would be, at best, to report to the authorities. But since you're one of those americans who don't understand what "society" means, you think everything revolves around you and you alone.

Spoiler: it doesn't.

Your duty is to contribute back in proportion of what you earn and own.

What about you simply do it and shut up?

p.s.: you are obsessed with punishment, are you one of those americans who believes that the bible is the law?

somebody already told you that

"framing it as a punishment is a bit disingenuous. The idea is not to punish rich people, the idea is to change how the tax burden is distributed. I would turn the question around and ask why we as a society are intent on punishing the middle class with the tax burden?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210412

Of course you have no answer to that, because you should admit that if it is wrong to punish rich people with taxes for being rich, it is vastly more wrong to punish people who are not rich for not being rich.
Among all the feasible buyers, Oracle feels like the worst possible one. They are basically the real life version of Mr. Robot's Evil Corp, and they have a very bad record when it comes to acquisitions.
> You may be thinking of forex trading.

Yeah, that would be it.
This is true but incomplete. The S&P500 is basically at the same level as mid-February, and even if expected earnings for, say, mid-2021 forward are the same as they were in February, the missing earnings between February 2020 and mid-2021 should be reflected in prices.

What's missing is that a decrease in interest rates also directly results in an increase in the NPV of future distributed earnings. That increase seems to have offset the decrease in the expected nominal (undiscounted) value of earnings. But this also makes for lower expected returns in the future: In principle, if interest rates and expected earnings stay the same, the unwinding of that discounting is what drives equity returns.
Playwright does support all major browsers. Puppeteer does support Chrome/Chromium and (early support) Firefox.
Generate the following pattern with the least number of bytes of code (2013)
Not the OP but I have always been amazed by the quality and completeness of IBM’s documentation on their systems and peripheral devices. You can read it just for pleasure.
"The 3033 features a machine cycle time of 58 ns. It has a cache size of 64 KB. Main storage may be 4, 6, or 8 MB.

...

At announcement the monthly lease price for a minimally configured 3033 processor (without peripherals) was $70,400" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_303X
Self-Experimenters Step Up for Science
FWIW, there's a VS code extension. I haven't used it yet personally but I'd like to try it out eventually. I use vim-orgmode, otherwise, and it's been great. I should note that I've never used the original org-mode in emacs so I'm not sure if it's missing features or behaves differently, etc...
In Achaogen's case, Cipla purchased global rights to Zemdri (plazomycin) outside China and other IP for practically pennies on the dollar: $16M USD. Everything else went to liquidators for the most part.

It remains to be seen if Cipla is actually going to do anything worthwhile with Zemdri. I personally doubt that they are capable of it.
Here is the article talking about this:
https://theheadless.dev/posts/basics-playwright-intro/
Yeah, the reason businesses fail is because people believe in things. Great observation.
Check out our stretch goals - if we can get past $2m by 27th September then kickboxing mode is coming for you ;)
This looks like yet another Petrodollar merry-go-round look-alike.

US TikTok is the price to pay for that sweet long term government contracts.
It is not, I haven't seen a browser for which notifications weren't opt in.
No, you could probably sue for access that does not need an account esp. if they have gravely changed the terms since you signed up.
I think 'arc' and 'bel' are maybe 30 years too late.

By 1990 Common LISP had a lot of momentum but LISPers on the ground were about as excited in Common LISP as programmers were interested in programming in Ada. The "cool kids" back then were inventing their own LISP dialects such as Emacs LISP, Scheme, etc. LISP had lost the 1980s to Microsoft BASIC and it would have been easily to conclude that "bloat" was to blame, and with the 32-bit age just starting to open, Common LISP was well planned but lacking a constituency.

It's almost impossible for 1980's language to look bloated in 2020 and now the "cool kids" who want to use LISP for the use value gravitate to Common LISP and secondarily the Schemes, Clojures, etc.

In 2020 if you were interested in programming languages for their own sake I would point you towards FORTH (e.g. not at all bloated) or towards something post-LISP. Say a language with LISP's internal data structures but with a PEG parser deeply integrated with the runtime. (e.g. write a parser for a random query language in less than two hours, write code that manipulates the parse trees, get the 'unparser' for free)

Sometimes I think the faculty at MIT had a grudge against Noam Chomsky for inventing modern computer languages (transformational grammar is great for that, acceptable for 'stand up in front of a bunch of language-using animals and give a talk about how their language works that the animals might get something out of', and not useful at all for artificial understanding of natural language) and opposing the Vietnam War, DARPA, JASONs, thus most of the research funding at the CS department.
Bizarre claim. In what way would Starlink have any less access to AWS? Its... the internet

> “If Kuiper succeeds, Amazon can not only offer global satellite broadband access—it can include that access as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), which already offers resources for cloud computing, machine learning, data analytics, and more”
Data Version Control with Python and DVC
As explained in the book "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers", the goals are unstated on purpose, due to the Principal Agent Problem.
Paying off debt is absolutely the right move. It gets you a guaranteed return of whatever your APR is.

Debt is a negative bond, while bonds are currently paying around 0%, while terrible, is still way better than a negative #.

After your debt is paid off, then buy TSM(total Stock Market) index funds. I recently came across an example here of what a TSM index fund can do for one's financial life: https://deepnote.com/project/b7be8d06-b84c-4178-b51a-688bef9...
In the history of site and app developers so far, yes, a very poor assumption. Assume opt-<whatever drives engagement harder>.
For one week now I have been getting the same weird ads for a boyfriend tracker and another for Spotify.
From a much shorter and very different route, once after an 18 hour straight Quake marathon, I looked around the my room and was startled at how everything looked. I was highly impressed by the graphics and depth perception.
The US military spends a considerable amount of money on biomedical research, usually on diseases and procedures that no one else prioritizes for funding, including the rest of the government, because it is neither politically fashionable nor lucrative. The boring but important stuff that no politician will ever talk about in front of a camera.

As a well-known example, modern trauma medicine was practically invented by the US Army. They systematically invested in research for the better part of a century to maximize survival rates, minimize recovery times, and restore full body function post-trauma to the extent possible. If you are in a serious car crash, most of the procedures to optimize your outcome were originally developed in a battlefield context by the military.

They also fund a lot of research for relatively common diseases that attract little government funding otherwise due to lack of fashionability e.g. multiple sclerosis. Their incentives are different than either the rest of government or the private sector, and that is probably a good thing.
With gerrymandering of districts votes are diluted or concentrated specifically to create imbalance of each vote being equal.

They pander to wealthy and influential because they will receive donations in unlimited amounts for such pandering. If they don't, they'll be primaried out by that spending being directed toward another candidate willing to pander.
I guess it's gotten better. I remember a time when they asked you to please just enter a number for your timing-based AMT adjustments without even giving you a hint what that is. Admittedly that was a long long time ago.
I want to agree with you, really.. but the realistic person in me says that it is likely that if you don’t keep the data, someone else will find a way, because getting the data seems to be irresistible as a form of control and advantage.

So maybe not playing doesn’t really work.

I was thinking, in regards to some grandparent way up there, the same statement “don’t play” might have been true for Oculus in general.

What I mean to say is, don’t sell the company, ever. Then you can “control the outcome”.

Ah, but there lies another fallacy. You really can’t control the outcome even if you try to. Even if you don’t play, likely someone who wants to do the same thing as you, and exploit it, will find a way. Or maybe on their own, Oculus would have never found the right supporter who would honor privacy. Even if they had.. the below could happen.

For example, if Facebook hadn’t bought Oculus, maybe they would have bought the Vive product line from HTC (a bit far fetched) and compete against Oculus.. and then done the same privacy intruding measures.

So even if Oculus had held out and didn’t “play”, they might have been crushed anyway or the privacy problem could have just happened somewhere else.

I’m not saying we should give up trying to protect privacy and “play” the game... but that somehow in the competitive environment we are in, those playing the game are winning more over those who wish not to.
I don't understand why we don't (as a society) fund more scientific research, in general.

It seems like taxes could fund non-profits to be able to do this sort of research, and then pay for the vetting process and manufacturing.

It would probably save TONS of money, too.
Should You Use SwiftKey or Gboard for Your Android Keyboard?
You used to hear a lot about this sort of concern in countries like Mexico etc, and would be slightly relieved that it was so much less common where you lived. Responsible first world governments are supposed to be neutral
I would say just register in US and EU, if necessary buy the country-specific domain name extension and redirect to your main. like, my-saas-service.au to my-saas-service.com.

Obtaining trademarks in every country is not worth efforts unless you are at really high growth.
I agree 100% with this. While you can appreciate music it's hard to be a "buff" unless you can try to understand the effort or absolute virtuosity that goes into playing a really complex piece. Knowing that you like the way music sounds is great, but understanding _why_ a particular harmonic shift / change is unexpected, novel, or unique is even better. That said, understanding that sort of theory takes a lot of work and investment.

If you can't make that investment, I'd say watching some videos about theory, or reading up on production, or technique on any instrument will help gain a deeper understanding. Bernstein did the Norton Lectures in the 70s around a language of music (https://youtu.be/8fHi36dvTdE) but even watching somebody like Cory Wong or Jacob Collier go through their composition, playing and process (there are many other artists that do this stuff to) is great for appreciation / buffery.
Amazon's obligation to "launch at least half of the total by 2026 to retain the operating license the FCC has granted the company" is designed to stop squatting on the license without delivering service, and it's with the US government NOT the International Telecommunication Union.

If Amazon has shown at least some launches done in good faith, expect the FCC to be VERY lenient if Amazon don't meet their goal of launching 1618 out of 3236 satellites.

Though if in the year 2026 Amazon has missed their target by a significant amount, expect SpaceX to sue to try to get the spectrum partially re-allocated so they can leverage it for their (likely already fully operational) Starlink service.
Which continues to this day, most critical information is found on Red Books collection.