skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QE is not quite the same as Zimbabwe.

In Zimbabwe the government printed money and handed it out to people. This money directly makes its way into the economy.

In QE the Fed buys assets such as mortgage securities from banks. The banks chose not to lend more aggressively and decided to hold on to the cash. As a result there was no hyper inflation.

So how does QE affect stock / house prices ?

When the FED comes into the market willing to lend to anyone and everyone interest rates fall. As a result returns on bonds and bank deposits also fall. Forcing people into stocks. The effect of QE on asset prices is therefore indirect.

So the QE money itself is hoarded in a deflationary environment while savers get pushed into speculating on assets.

As the economy slowly recovers over 5-10 years the QE money is slowly sucked back out and assets slowly deflate to a fairer value. In theory this can work without too many hiccups.

The problem here lies in the inequality that this generates. Large banks, companies stay afloat thanks to buy backs. Asset owners get richer. Wages stagnate and people lose their jobs albeit less than if QE didn’t exist.

This topic is much more complex than I had initially thought. Nobody should come to conclusions such as “A crash is inevitable” or “Hyperinflation”.
You can, though. Email is interoperable, which is why you don't see a bunch of people calling for gmail to be "broken up" (though there have been complaints about the weird anticompetitive stuff they've done to try and build a moat around gmail, I haven't seen anything come out of it)
This assumes rescuers know where to start looking. The survivors of Uruguayan AF flight 571, described in the book Alive, waited 2 months at the crash site before hiking 10 days to find help (losing 8 people to avalanche and resorting to cannibalism in the mean time).
When I learned that NYT is a publicly traded company, that totally changed my perspective on them.
Sorry, my post has absolutely nothing to do with the dying dinosaur media company News Corp (and whilst I'm at it I'll throw in a few more media dinosaurs including most television, free-to-air and otherwise (they're all pretty much dinosaurs).

See, I'm actually agreeing with you, it's just a shame you didn't read what I actually wrote.

"Don't support stupid laws that don't do the thing you want it to."

Seems you didn't read my bit about gritted teeth, I made it clear that this was a horrible option but it's not the worst one.

OK, now give me your workable alternative. Think like an out-flanked general on a battlefield, your army is cornered and you are up against a wall. Now tell me exactly what you are going to do to extract yourself.

Make no mistake about it, for that scenario is the current situation we're in here (don't ask me to do another three-page post, I've already explained why many times, and anyway you don't have to take my word for it, hundreds of others have essentially said what I have. If you want to start somewhere then start with the EFF) .

BTW, if you want my opinion about Australian government communications 'fuck-ups', then I'm very, very familiar with them, I'll list you a whole litany of them if you want! How far would you like me to go back? I know of no other country that so comprehensively fucks everything it touches when it comes to communications—from the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1905 to the NBN and beyond. And the reason specifically is that the media and other vested interests have such an incredible lobby in Canberra; and the damn politicians are gutless lilies, they'll swing whatever way the vested-interest wind blows.

Let me give you a starting point. How about in 1946 when Keith Murdoch—Rupert's father and war corespondent at Gallipoli—used his political power to put the kibosh on the development of FM Radio in Australia? In fact, he very effectively killed it off for 28 years (until 1974) even though he was long since dead (d. 1952). Did you know that? Anyway, the Chifley Labor Government was about to overrule the bastard but they lost the '49 election to another first-class bastard, Pig-Iron Ming Menzies (a mate of Murdoch senior), so it was curtains for a very long while.

Right, I'm fully agreeing with you here, we all know how seedy Canberra is.
You can subscribe through Apple/Google and cancellation will be a few clicks away.
"carefully manage" aka try to retain the fossil fuel dependence at all costs. Hawaii is a microcosm of egregious mismanagement despite ideal circumstances.
Maybe, but there still remains the issue that such a pointless chat is even required to cancel in the first place.
These parties are absolutely in tech...
So you’d prefer radioactivity and c02 in the air from coal to spent nuclear fuel in holding pools at nuclear power plants? Which potentially could be used as fuel again for a different type of reactor? This is literally the choice - something needs to be Baseload generation on a cloudy week with no wind.
It's almost 2 hours AND thorough. Impressive.
"Starlink is not yet available in your area" - for San Francisco :(

(Guessing they're prioritizing places with few other options.)
>It is another ATH day for BTC, so literally anyone that bought BTC in the past and held is in the money.

To actually make money you must sell - to someone, higher than you bought. Then that person is in the same situation. Bitcoin is a zero-sum game (negative if mining is taken into account - billions of losses per year) so for every realized profit there's an equal loss somewhere else.

While technically just one (formerly extremely rich) person could be the source of profits for everyone else by buying enough btc at ath from every holder, leaving everyone else in profit, the more likely distribution is Pareto with 20% winning and 80% losing.
Another data point. I'm in Indiana. My bill just closed on the 15th,

300 kWh @ $0.148799
288 kWh @ $0.108297

There's some adjustments on the bill that actually reduce it but those aren't included above.
> Office workers, even tech workers, are so removed from the result of their labor, it's hard to get motivated about anything except a nicer title and more money.

I think there were some Germans who called this feeling “alienation“.
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Applying for remote work is a sales job. I have done it a bunch of times, landing work within two weeks each time, and this is how you do it:

- figure out for whom you are a good fit based on your experience - for whom and what are you a good solution?

- create a professional, to the point resume, highlighting your unique value prop for these people, and your experience that they will care about

- write a really good cover letter about it, and say in it "I realize you may not have considered remote, but I think I am a very good fit and would be a benefit to your company, would you consider discussing this possibility"

- go through stack overflow careers making a big list of everyone you'd be a fit for, regardless of whether they think they will hire remote. The whole world is your oyster.

- send out applications TWENTY TIMES A DAY. <--- THIS IS WHAT MATTERS

- follow up: after a few days, after a week, after two weeks, then drop them if you haven't heard.

That's really all there is to it, it's a sales grind. You get up and you do your TWENTY calls every damned day and you will find work.

Some folks might think these are high numbers, but here's the rub: when the answer come in, you want options. There's a sales saying: the best negotiating tool is a fat pipeline. If you get a hundred applications out in a week, and they take a few days to a week to get around to them, the following week you have a bunch to look into. But don't snooze, keep firing out another hundred that week until you close! That way, you get not just a job, but one that is actually good for you. You can do it, it's a sellers market in tech! So grind the numbers. Good luck! :-)
I don’t have to. The article is quite simple.

If you think it’s bullshit, feel free to explain why.
>The argument some people have is that tether is printing fake money to prop up crypto market.

I don't think that's actually supported by evidence. AFAIK there are concerns about tether's solvency (because one of their bank accounts got frozen), but evidence of money printing is lacking.
Similarly no one is forcing you to use third party apps. Apple can continue to enforce their App Store. And you can ignore the third party stores.
Not to defend Facebook, but a failure to opt-out is not really the same as volunteering.

I find the argument made by Facebook to be sound. They're making a comparison between Google crawling the web and indexing content vs. a news site intentionally posting their content to Facebook.

The difference between getting your webpage crawled and explicitly posting on a public forum is significant. I read their comment as "users explicitly post contend on Facebook vs. passively having their content scraped by Google".
Marketing isn't magic. You can't just take anything and sell it uphill.

If you could, why would anyone try to innovate on any level? Why are software engineers and product people paid more than marketing people at the same company?

Is Apple > Blackberry just because Apple had better marketing? Or Nokia?

On the other hand, if you have something genuinely desirable, then yeah marketing help people find that thing.
I studied economics and I cannot claim to understand what is currently going on or how it will end. The fact that there are so many conflicting opinions (from experts, not just HN posters) tells me that I’m not the only one. We are in uncharted waters AND sailing in the dark. When the end comes it’ll be obvious in hindsight, but it’s currently anything but.
Neither of those things are representative of those with tattoos, and are a pretty small outlier. Reductio ad absurdum, in my opinion.

That being said, I wouldn't personally care. Not my life to live and I don't have time to police the actions of others. Plus, I'm sure they'll face their own set of issues related to such imagery that go far beyond anything I could do about it.
Satoshi created Bitcoin blocks on a few laptops for the year he was developing the Bitcoin protocol. He took the network live at that point instead of recreating the genesis block from scratch. During the year long development period, Satoshi evidently did not retain the private keys for those million BTC.

I say evidently because like every other early adopter, Satoshi would have cashed in when Bitcoin exceeded a dollar in price after that first year after release on Slashdot.
Any lending for profit is dangerous and predatory. You mock religions, but fail to defend your point. We're literally living the destruction and huge gaps and wage issues caused by interest, yet no one is batting an eye. I feel sorry for humanity at times.

You're arguing against a strawman. I never said that people will be forced to lend money without compensation. With 0% interest rates, any lending will be purely out of charity. If people want to make money, they will invest it, as we've been doing for millenia. Invested in moral ways.

There exist today developers who will sell property in installments, without upping the price. I've seen this in at least one West Asian country, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were more commonplace.
No your rates are fixed and agreed upon ahead of time.

However if you sign up for a service like OhmConnect, you can get paid to lower your energy usage at times when prices are high (which tends to coincide with use of the dirtiest energy). They warn you a day ahead for the time period, usually an hour but sometimes two, and you get credit for being under your typical usage for that time period.
Satisfied Starlink user here. It beats the pants off our DSL connection though there are still some hiccups. Outside DSL, all we had available were the high orbiting Hughes, etc. I’m stoked to see more folks have this as an option.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using paper markets to store value.

The problem appears when valuation are caused only by the "store of value" usage, because it has no anchor on the real world, and thus, can vary freely from 0 to infinity.
It's pretty sad when you consider that the same thing happened just 10 years ago in February 2011 when a deep freeze caused blackouts.
How do you land a wingsuit?
news media need to see more than ever how important it will be for them to publish directly to the ActivityPub ecosystem, and to cut out the gatekeepers in the way.
Surely there must be a cooling-off period before PG&E can go bankrupt again.
My learned helplessness was just to look at what is going on in the US, ask myself why I'm still putting up with it, and then to leave the country. Unfortunately most people don't have that option, though.
So did the windmills freeze or not? Starting to doubt the fact checkers.
> The job of modern "journalism" is no longer to inform - it's to influence.

Has the purpose of journalism ever been to “inform”? Seems it has always (well, going back for centuries at least) been to argue a point. I say this out of sympathy for journalists, not to condem them.

> The individual players just tow the party line.

Aren’t you contradicting yourself? If your aim is to influence the last thing you’d do is toe the line; rather you’d cross it without a thought.
> I think it needs to be thought of as part of an overarching design

Right. Which is very much opposed to your initial "FP is a tool, not a unified theory on how to model the world".
UH???

Serious Question: So are the early adopters subsidizing the masses down the line?

i.e. so at $100/mo + $600 start-up/set-up fee -- thats for early adopters ... so the "african farmer who can pay <$1/mo for the service can afford it... and corporate subscriptions are obv going to be big bulk data contacts?

And the encryption policy? The Privacy policy? The data-mining-of-location-history policy?

Yeah, it's a Nope from me dawg...

And I folow Elon closely, and I like a lot of what he says and stands for - but he is at the behest of the USG - Starlink must not be trusted.
That is the correct answer :)
>>Not true,

It is literally true. People who bought at $50K around this week, have to hope there are people who will buy at $60K, then those people have to hope there are people who will buy at $70K, then $80K, then $90K....

From that perspective this looks like a kind of a Ponzi scheme already.

Of course like most Ponzi Schemes the early investors reap massive gains. It's the ones who come later who suffer.
Presumably not, if they use dark patterns and not only survive, but thrive. Right?
What are some side projects with journal link?
A couple of weeks back a read a hacker news article where an entrepreneur chronicled his efforts in his start up and had an "/open" link on the website. (the content was something about creating content images for pricing and the like) I'd like to do the same. Can anyone point me to that or other projects where people have chronicled their start up journey?
This is literally a logical fallacy. We see the evils of interest every time the topics of wage gaps, national debt, and so many others come up. Yet, it seems most people are blind to it, and try to patch the system, not realizing one of the core contributors to the problem.
capacity and demand.
Sometimes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26174534
Is it still true that Java (with Spring) is still the best backed stack to know for finding jobs? Or is Python sufficiently popular now for someone to ignore Java?
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> The key thing with most patents is that the fees have to be "fair" (which is afaik also a legal requirement).

It is generally not. Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing terms are often contractually required from holders of standards-essential parents that are participants in standards-setting organizations responsible for the relevant standards, but are generally not required by law outside of such contracts.
Me too. I'm looking into shorting it on Kraken but I am not quite sure how it would work because it would be delisted before it went to 0 possibly and I am not quite sure how that would work.
Anecdotal for sure but our connection has been fairly consistent. We do experience the occasional 10 second disconnect every so often. SSH over Starlink has me reach for my DSL for those use cases. If you want specific numbers, I can pull whatever data.
"Powerful airship overclockers (weight 52 tons, length 38 meters, wingspan of 16.5 m) was dispersed to six times the speed of sound (6M), then with his “back” at an altitude of 28-30 km was supposed to start a 10-ton manned orbital plane 8 m long and 7.4 m span."

What on earth (or not!) is this supposed to mean?
Mods can see (and undelete) all deleted comments. There is no way to "permadelete" comments, or if there is, it's only available to SE employees. I think you can also see when a comment was deleted, but not 100% sure as I'm no longer a mod myself and can't check.
Well, when you play these games with energy prices it is just a matter of time... and with the "new normal" in weather changes, it seems that it won't be the last time either.
For it to be worth it to care, not only does the problem need to be significant (it is), but your ability to influence it also must be (it isn't). American systems are brutally ossified and trying to change that will take millions of lifetimes of sacrifice.
It’s still impossible to do on a practical basis.

Fortunately there are still people working on it.
The staple of Hacker News armchair economics is that whatever the situation currently is, it'll lead to hyperinflation.
I'm a big fan of renewables, solar/wind/hydro. But we still need that baseline generating capacity for these dark icy winter days. It's clear now that coal/oil isn't it (pollution) and we should reserve natural gas supply for home heating (because it's efficient and "relatively" clean) and spot-demand generators.

So that leaves Nuclear. But we just need to get it right this time -- i.e. don't build them near earthquake/tsunami zones, don't play games with the control rods and these days we've gotten pretty good at control systems. I think it's about time to look at it again.
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> To me, a functional language without tail recursion seems pointless.

Tail recursion is a low-level detail IMO. Scala does fine without it.
I am not sure if this is wishful thinking but can Starlink lead to growth of smaller communities that are self-sustaining (produce their own renewable electricity, food, etc) that cannot simply exist due to connectivity constraints? I have a dream of the world where we live in 1-10k population small towns littered around the globe, connected through starlink and public ways, and the idea of cities would become obsolete. No more traffic jams and NIMBYs and other nonsense. Better policies suited to those neighborhoods and better politicians. Unique culture would flourish in each community based on its dynamics. Utopia in my imaginary mind, what are the downsides?
A us China war would be ecconimc suicide to the wrold ecconomy. To the point that countries we think of as poor come out ahead. (Where would Brazil cast their alliance is an interesting question, as one of the few powerful countries that could make a difference that isn't commited already.

Whoever wins will have lost a lot.
Brian Rose
Bravo
https://www.reddit.com/user/ImmediateAd9633/draft/122a451c-7...
If it is naturally how you talk most people tend not to notice.
If I understand this correctly, this is a picture of the western power market showing "next day" purchases as well as "real-time spot prices" (and one other category - something about 15 minutes.) Anyway, if a utility has generating capacity then the cost their electricity is what it's always been subject to natural gas prices or other "cost of manufacturing" costs. If a utility has to purchase extra power then they turn to this market and purchase only what they need at these prices. So what's causing the run-up of market electricity in the western US? Possibly demand from the colder parts of the country assuming there are transmission lines over which the electricity can flow. My recollection is that most of the lines run north-south rather than east-west.
Most tidal I am familiar with capable of generating anything approaching reasonable amounts causes significant ecosystem impacts- you basically replace entire shorelines with concrete bunkers that act as a crappy gravity battery (you can get significant mass from the water, but not much lift from the tide).

I think most research is focused on utilizing less unique space- rooftops, open plains, open ocean. Shorelines are tiny spaces for how ecologically unique they are, plus they tend to be highly desirable for other human uses as well.
> No, the GNU does not restrict the distribution of software. The GNU requires that source code be made available. That's not remotely the same thing.

GNU says you can't distribute their source unless their license terms are met. That's a restriction on distribution, yes. For example, it's not legal to distribute kernel source alongside CDDL licensed code like ZFS.

If we were to apply your standard to Apple - Apple doesn't restrict what apps can get into the app store, they restrict what apps in the app store are allowed to do. You cannot request permissions you don't use, for example, but they don't say that "Facebook is allowed and Instagram is not". Any other application that does what Epic does would have been blocked too, that is the licensing requirement of Apple's software environment.

> It is also self evident that concepts like filesystem isolation do not require gatekeepers to work

I in fact never said they did, this is putting words into my mouth.

I said there would have been no market impetus on Android to offer them without Apple doing them first. Which is self-evidently true as well - why are those features only being offered in Android Q? Why did it take 15 years?

> So ignoring that the GNU does not restrict the distribution of software[0] there's still this huge jump in logic

It's not a jump in logic, I'm asking you a very simple question: are there situations in which restrictions in certain "user freedoms" (such as the ability to receive CDDL code distributed alongside GPL code) produce an overall better outcome despite small-scale negative outcomes from players who do not comply with the overall licensing requirements?

Just saying that is apples and oranges doesn't mean anything. Tell me why that's not true.

Ultimately it is a microcosm of the paradox of tolerance. "The only thing that cannot be tolerated is intolerance itself". And similarly "The only freedom that cannot be tolerated is the freedom to violate user freedom" is the basis of both GPL and the Apple store license.

If you want the app store where you can do anything, there is Android. Apple is attempting to provide a curated user experience. They aren't preventing you from buying Android, just doing a model they think is better for their users. And that's the freedom of contract in action. Their users have alternatives and are free to go elsewhere. Why don't you think they should be allowed to prefer that?

Would it be OK to sue the GNU Foundation and force them to dual-license all existing code as BSD because copyleft is "anti-competitive"? Why or why not? If not, why should Apple be forced to alter their license agreement to allow third-party stores?
...or with shitty Cox