skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "somehow" is easy too.

So, as the Central Banks in the major Western economies are prohibited from buying equity ownership, they generally do not buy stocks from companies^. They just buy bonds, mostly government bonds but when the utility of that diminishes they also buy corporate bonds.

Either way, Central Bank actions distort the entire credit market, allowing any existing bond holder to sell to the central bank at a profit. it allows corporate bond issuers to create and sell to the distorted market, or directly to the central bank in both the primary and secondary market, at a profit.

Note, when issuing bonds this is not called a profit, but let's be honest here, we are talking about writing on a sheet of paper that I will pay your $2,000,000,0000 back in 10 years at 0.75% a year. They frequently use new investor's money to pay back old investors. There is a word for that, but it dilutes my point. The accuracy of this reality doesn't change though.

These sheets of paper are exchanged for money that did not exist prior to the moment of that transaction.

The recipients buy stocks (and everything else). The corporate issuers buy back their own stock, give executives bonuses who make a diversified portfolio. The hedge fund issuers just amplify their own holdings with extremely cheap, non-margin callable leverage.

^Exceptions:
Swiss National Bank buys US stocks with newly created francs.

US Federal Reserve buys bond ETFs, in order to access the universe of bonds.

Outside of the West, the People's Bank of China buys stocks directly. Predictable collective ownership philosophy.
> is the critical effects of sleeplessness and promoting healthy sleep as a national public health priority.

> It seems to me this is just another pernicious example of how lockdowns and disrupting a population’s routines directly and indirectly damages public health

And people literally dying from a virus isn't a public health priority?
This is kinda true, but leaves out the part that it is very hard to just move to the Midwest if you are poor in an expensive big city. First, you have to gather enough money to actually move. You will need a car and gas, and/or a moving truck. You will need first and last months rent (not to mention how will you find a cheap place in a city you have no connections in without being there?)

Then, you are leaving your entire support system when you move. When you are poor, your support system is how you live. Friends watch each other's kids while they work, they share needed things, they find jobs for each other, they lend money to each other when unexpected things happen, they let people crash on their couch when they lose their house.

Telling poor people to abandon their social support system to move somewhere cheaper is really underselling how hard that is.
With Servers you have to maintain a good supply chain and deal with institutional buyers. It's almost a parallels business to the rest of their offering. They won't get support at the genius bar...

Server OS seemed to be targeted at small businesses to run on a Mac Pro or Mac Mini connected to NAS and hosting internal applications. But it wasn't very different from regular OSX.
I'll bet that if I saved the Mona Lisa, I'd get enough publicity that I could save hundreds of kittens by saying "If you'd like to thank me, please donate to the Humane Society" during an interview.
Sounds a lot like TrueDelta.com that sadly went out of business. I used TrueDelta for car reviews when I was buying one many years ago.
Assume you have a shady company that has to use email for some things. Having your email provider being unlikely to comply with a US subpoena could have value.
You're not alone. To be frank, I think much of the apparent love showered on pets by some people is performative. In public, people compete to show off how great they are at pampering their 'furbaby.' Pampering pets has become a fashion.
I agree that what you want to do should be possible and cheap, but generally if you build something for a platform you'd also want to test it on that platform, no? What you say implies that you compile the binary and don't test it before submitting?
You do not want to turn carbondioxide into methane to vent it into the air. You want the methane because it is a good fuel (natural gas consists mainly of methane).
I don't think so. I can see someone going "countless animals die or are deliberately killed every hour, what is one more death in exchange for the continued existence of arguably the most famous painting in human history?"
I never quite experienced those impacts myself yet, but I had existential dread early on.
The painting. Cats are one of the most invasive species in the world, accounting for countless loss of bird populations and other species (toxoplasma infections in seals for example).

Mona Lisa is irreplaceable. The world won't miss one more cat. Losing an irreplaceable piece of history makes the whole of humanity poorer.

Cats have the evolutionary benefit of being cute to humans. Would you even consider saving say a rat or an eel in such a situation?
Well, Apple is a hardware company first and foremost, their business model is to sell you a Mac regardless of how little you use it. Letting a third-party rent a single hardware unit to hundreds or thousands of people per month and capture most of the profit while doing so is against their business model, so not surprisingly they try to prevent that from happening.
You obviously expect to pay over the odds for cloud VMs, but that's really expensive. I would have thought someone as big as AWS would have been able to negotiate more favourable terms, but it seems not.

Given I'd expect a lot of these to be used as iOS build servers, it's worth noting that Azure DevOps gives you 1,800 build minutes on the free tier, which AFAIK you can use with their MacOS agents.
>> It is absolutely possible to live a frugal but reasonable lifestyle on a minimum wage job in most of the country.

I don't really have a horse in this race as I'm an EU citizen and have never lived in the USA, but I am curious to know: have you, yourself, done this (what you say is absolutely possible)?
Ask HN: What is the creepiest/scariest thing you have heard a child utter?
Another data point. Tried to get a discount in our Inner Sunset 1BR that we paid $3250 for. Other units in the same building listed for the past few months for $2700 with 2 months free (effectively $2250).

Denied a decrease (citing CA Fair Housing and not giving anyone a decrease) so we paid 1 months rent to break the lease. Now living in a 2BR by the beach for the same price as before with 50% more space, W/D, garage.

Old apartment went from ~10 vacant 1BR to ~25 vacant 1BR listings during the past couple of months during our negotiation and move.
Is it? Which law is being broken?
Yes, that's a huge part of the problem. Burning things is less of a problem (carbondioxide-wise!) as long as you emit no extra carbon extracted from fossil sources.
In terms of tools? Launching ducktools.com.

In terms of "best thing that saved money for little effort?" Converting gp2 volumes to gp3.
Also consider purchasing a refurbished mac mini.

I bought one on ebay for $350 2 years back, I've added 16 GB RAM and a samsung evo SSD. At a total cost ~$500, this old mac mini is a beast.
But they make the software the other 99% use. That's what makes them important.
Citation on Azure being hacked?
>The county should also buy up housing and rent for cheaper to drive the market rate down

Almost, buying up housing is fine if the government changes zoning and upzones existing properties. It is better to go one tiny step further and make the government guarantee housing for a fixed price because then it is truly forced to fix the problem.

Once you have done this important step the government has many options. It can either fix the demand side or the supply side.

The supply side is easy to fix by changing zoning laws to encourage taller residential buildings and then by actually building them.

The demand side can be fixed by changing the tax law so that commercial property is no longer the only source of property tax income. This lead to an imbalance of commercial vs residential property which then lead to lots of workers without housing which then lead to a race for apartments driving up prices.
> Native number crunching is very impressive.

So unlike Transmeta, you can actually disable the x86 emulation and run native VLIW code on an Elbrus CPU? It's interesting. But I guess it's still not useful to independent developers in the FOSS community, it appears that MCST’s proprietary C/C++ compiler is the only compiler that can target the CPU.
...and that is if you are only dealing with a single vacant property.
>In the bigger picture Apple aren't really documenting anything for their new toys,

This should not come as a surprise, it has always been Apple's default stance.

Apple has been, is, and will very likely always be a closed ecosystem.

They might sometimes appear or pretend to be open, but it's essentially good PR/marketing (e.g. stash Unix underneath a closed-source stack, call yourself open source and proceed to lure all the open source devs to the platform).
Hoare's quicksort visualized with interactive code blocks
That’s the traditional way to model things.

There’s another dimension that I find increasingly useful to look at.

Capital is infinitely scalable. One person can put $1 to work, or one person can $100 billion dollars to work.

Labor has a hard limit somewhere around 60-80 hours per week. One person cannot sustainably put more labor “to work” without capital. Labor is essentially time.

So you have time and money. But not all hours you spend are the same. You can spend an hour fixing your car, or painting your house. The net effect of that hour is to provide a bit of value for perhaps up to a dozen people.

Or you could spend an hour creating something that provides a bit of value many times into the future for thousands, millions, or billions of people.

One is not inherently better than the other, but one is inherently more economically valuable than the other.

So the lesson is if you are time rich but capital poor, and you want to get capital rich, you need to spend your time on things that provide a bit of value for an arbitrarily large number of people. In other words, one-to-many not one-to-one.

There’s an upper limit to how much money your labor can make working 1-to-1 or even 1-to-N where n is small. There’s no limit to how much money your labor can make when N is large.
I appreciate the openness of these invitations, but they are ultimately not valuable to large parts of the community. I (like most people) am not in a position to become a board member - certainly not an Executive Director. There are obstacles of both personal qualification and free time (since I don't see any evidence that the position is paid).

Because of that, I'm much more interested in how the Board will determine how it can best serve the community, and gather community feedback. That question can only really be answered after the board members themselves have been chosen.
Right. I think Bunnie has very good arguments for how you should approach "security focused" hardware (see, https://youtu.be/w8BA6_9HCzk) and this clearly isn't it.

AFAICT, this has much less documentation than the Itanium, so even from a tinker's perspective, this is really uninteresting.
Announcing or implementing such policy is one thing, making sure the policy has the intended effect is another.

Racial and cultural integration is not easy.

Singapore could do this with its small size and hands-on approach (ethnic makeup of apartment buildings is dictated by law), but even America has difficulty doing so.

At Chinese scale, it may lead to worse than what Uyghurs are being treated in Xinjiang.
Actually, some people theorize the opposite causation for one thing you mentioned: kids survival rate increasing means one could have less kids. In a world where half the kids don’t make it to 5, and people depend on their kids for their elder life, people are likely to have more of them.
I don't know if "remorse" factored into his original sentencing, but if it did, I imagine that could now be called into question, given his attempt to repeat the same offense while in jail...
> On the other hand, it’s quite alarming to see how much investors are banking on central bank intervention. You don’t want to hear them even murmuring about the slightest chance of backing down.

This is the real question; how does the Fed stop holding down the accelerator, and when they do, how many years of flat returns do we end up with?
I assume that this study (based on researchers affiliations) was done in US. I’ll hazard that results are heavily skewed by culture. At least for adult results. For example I would wager that dogs life in Asia or Eastern Europe is much cheaper than in the US. Also, I guess they didn’t include some people on ABC7 news comments section in the study who seemingly would sacrifice any number of humans to save a dogs life.
Can you expand on this?

Did CT follow Oakland, where SF is NYC? Or if CT is SF, where is the corresponding Oakland?

I live in NYC, and my view of CT is that its modern identity is dominated by being a suburb to NYC, with a handful of big and old businesses in the big cities to keep domestic economy afloat.

The places in my mind that don't fit this model are all east of New Haven, at which point CT starts to be "Coastal New England", a region that, excepting Boston, continues up to Bar Harbor, ME.

But my view is obviously biased by my limited experience, I'm curious to hear more of your perspective.
Myself, let both there
Related for people into provers, there is a set of notes here https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/842/handouts/notes.html to help you work through the Agda book https://plfa.github.io/ which is done using emacs, atom or vscode
SF has (had?) the highest percentage of millionaires/billionaires in the US. It is (was) arguably the richest city in the US or possibly the world. Many of the thousands of fresh millionaires that it mints yearly come from very large windfalls... which are immediately used to purchase houses in cash. At the same time, SF is building literally no new detached single family houses.
Apple is adamantly opposed to allowing this use case. It doesn't matter who is asking them.
Aren't you paying for the network access as well as not having to manage the hardware? Rack space, networking and usually cooling etc all add up.
Looks interesting! Is there a way to try it out on a webpage instead of PDF?
> everyone who bought a square of land in a "city" since the 1970s or so and held for at least a decade has won big regardless of where

Not true at all, look at Detroit, Gary, or any midwest "rust belt" town. Abandonded properties everywhere, can't find buyers even at tax sale prices.
Agree on pretty much all points.

I just can't stand shit farming.

> The worst part is that there's no real way for a consumer to fix this problem.

About all you can do is buy local grass fed or go vegetarian. As you say, it's not a huge thing, but at least I'm not participating.

> Generally smaller operations as they end up priced out of the market.

I would love to see some legislative reform on the large scale use of antibiotics in meat raising. That wouldn't necessarily help smaller farmers, but it might push larger scale farms into somewhat less heinous practices.
slowly transition your assets away from growth stocks to bonds and dividend-issuing stocks as you age
personal experience with non-profit sector revealed tax-dodges for high-net-worth individuals, and abysmally poor cash-to-cause ratios. still rescuing the kitten. bird in the hand beats two in the bush.
> The amount we still don't know about the long term effects of being infected with COVID-19 is terrifying, and I honestly don't think it's talked about enough, because we have learned more.

Maybe a dumb question, or maybe I did not understand (the part before the "and"), but how can one be terrified of what one does not know about?

I agree with the part after the "and".
I think it would be more likely that people are just so far removed from the killing in today's society that they don't know/care about the ties to their lives. How many of today's people have actually killed, butchered, and eaten an animal? I imagine the vast majority of people just go pick up pre-cut, pre-packaged meat at the grocery store.
This, although I think the 24 hour minimum set by apple kinda undermines the scalability asset.

Obviously the 24 hour minimum means you’d be better buying one for most CI uses, which I think is what most people want them for.

However I think I remember a image can that also manipulated used apple hardware for the metal api? They would still benefit from the ability to scale on at least a daily level.
no but it's the #1 factor, #2 is human irrationality
I don't really see a problem with it being possible to own copyrights and file legal actions from prison

I see a huge problem with it, if you were sent to prison for abusing copyright law for your personal gain.
> I certainly didn't say "unending population increases" or "above all else."

If you don't think that, then there's a certain density level where it's considered fine to oppose it, and there are certain things one could prioritize above population increases that could lead people to favor restrictions. Maybe some of the people favoring restrictions think the high point of density has been reached, or perhaps they favor restrictions because of what values they place above population growth. It's worth at least considering before we simply dismiss them all as xenophobic.
> 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO.

Yes, Intel chips aren't much faster now than they were 5 years ago. I vaguely remember reading on Anandtech that Haswell was the last generation that Intel was able to increase the IPC (instructions per cycle) by 15% over the previous generation, and nowadays the typical generational improvement is ~5%.

According to my calculations, that would mean that the latest generation of Intel chips would be ~27% faster than the Elbrus: (1 + 5%)^5 - 1
Would be a highly theoretical question, but let's hope it would still be «infinite». In practice, killing all the dogs (somehow) would almost certainly result in a significant number of human deaths, widespread suffering, and general chaos.
CI services like Travis and Circle do Mac/iOS builds and give each job a minute or two at a time — I guess this is different because it’s a service rather than “leasing” the machine?
I'd say it is possible to run Darwin on AWS, but I have never tried. FreeBSD runs well, so we know that any OS with drivers will boot on AWS.

They're Apple after all, so they can build macOS to boot from a standard environment - UEFI, kernel that doesn't check the copy prevention string on SMBIOS, etc.

Us, mere mortals, are more restricted, as we don't have the keys of the kingdom.
Why email plus (+) trick isn't good for privacy (or why email alias is better)
Resurge – The Godzilla of Offers
I've had a similar idea for a "Metacritic for products" so I love this idea.

It'd be interesting to collect reviews from established reviewers (rtings, Wirecutter, Consumer Reports, etc) and create an average score too.
Right, but if I'm trying to buy a return, what are my options? Stocks, bonds, some kinds of real estate, and maybe annuities. But annuities basically track with bonds. For the segment that is trying to buy a return, and doesn't want the hassle of managing rental property, stocks and bonds are pretty much the only games there are.

So, at least for them, the question is: How much does it take to buy a given return? The question isn't the only one in investing, but it's also not an insane way of looking at the market...
You're absolutely right - I was forgetting what I installed! The SolarEdge thingies on my panels don't invert at all, they just modulate the voltage/connectivity for the panels so that malfunction/shade doesn't pull the whole array down.

What I'm personally waiting for is a grid-tied inverter that can also be used to directly charge batteries as well. Nobody seems to make one that doesn't involve some important compromises. For now it seems that if you want grid-tied and a battery system, you charge the batteries through a double DC->AC->DC conversion (i.e. charge the batteries from your regular house AC system), and somehow solve the instant-cutover problem separately.
I often wonder to what degree frequent early exposure to humanoid animals is doing some kind of damage to people's social cognition. I think there's plenty of evidence to be had online that it's doing pretty significant damage to at least some people. But I wonder if it's also behind widespread harmful social effects like the concept of "fur babies".
The cost to generate electricity when asked to. ERCOT operates an auction to match the supply of electricity to demand at any given moment. In PJM, they have an energy market, but there's also capacity markets, where people can get paid by being ready to generate on demand. The idea being that the capacity market will reduce some of the price volatility that happens in ERCOT, where sometimes energy goes for thousands of dollars per MHw.

The PJM and ERCOT markets, where any independent operator can interconnect and start trying to make money, are in stark contrast to a lot regulated utilities in the US. Under the regulated utility model, the utility tries to maximize profits under the constraints of what the regulator will let them get away with, and what the regulator will let the utility bill to the customer. Often, the regulator's rules tend to make the utility want to build lots of transmission, because that's a guaranteed 20% profit. Whereas if the utility adds lots of cheaper new generation, they are at risk of putting old assets out of business, which means lost capital investments.

So when we want to find out what the true costs of electricity are, we should look to where investors are putting their money in PJM and ERCOT, and ignore anybody who works for a regulated utility. The motives are completely different.
I find that "Debt: The First 5000 Years" has the best overview of money (predominantly credit systems), though admittedly it's a much longer read.
Children would also choose to save a bowl of ice cream over a bowl of gold nuggets. They aren't making abstract rational/moral choices, they're choosing the thing which will make them feel good. It's effectively the same question as asking them "Do you want to play with that dog, or with that person?"
Or perhaps the exact opposite.[?]
I also wonder what the median age is for different technologies. I'd assume that developers are younger in frontend/mobile apps than in backend or C++ enterprise software.
These are pretty expensive for most uses — another article of theirs calculates ~73 days to equal the cost of outright buying one and the 24 hour minimum is a high floor for, say, nightly tasks.

One thing I've been wanting to do for a while is integrate with iMessage. iMessage stores a local SQLite database of message history. A forever-running MacOS instance could sync that with The Cloud and open up some pretty cool applications.
AWS can use the Mac any way it wants, but the license terms are part of MacOS.
Am I wrong to think there are workloads that can only be run on Mac? Seems like a competitive advantage.