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Single ownership and deterministic destruction are quite useful on their own though, outside of just memory management. I wouldn't call them niche. Rust makes use of them all the time.

Deterministic destruction is obviously very useful for resource management, and not just files and database handles, but also locks and scope guards.

Single ownership allows working with mutable data without dangers of shared mutability. Without it you either need true immutability, or defensive coding by proactively copying inputs to ensure nobody else can unexpectedly mutate data you have a reference to.

Single ownership also happens to nicely enforce interfaces that require functions to be called only once or that objects can't be used in invalid state, e.g. after a call to .deinit() or after intermediate steps in builders/fluent interfaces/iterator chains.
Suspense in Iceland as dormant volcanic zone shows signs of life
You're eluding to a question that no one asked. It can be cheap or as expensive you want. You can buy a boat 5-10 grand that will get you to the Carribean from California, or you can spend 1 million to do the same.

Once you've left your expenses are food and maintenance. There are quite a few sailors living on 10K/y and living comfortably. It's not "cheap" but it doesnt need to be as expensive as people suspect
It's just frustrating to see otherwise reasonable people start tossing out crazy conspiracy theories about the Day of the Short Squeeze when GME will go to infinity and we'll take all the hedge funds' money. I can't even escape from it by staying off social media, because a quarter of my friends are in on it. I'm a lot less troubled than I was the first time around because there doesn't seem to be any severe systemic risk, but I still really wish I could figure out how to convince people to knock it off.
> What do all of these athletes have in common? They were wearing next-generation running shoes.

Related but not mentioned: Elite sportspeople are getting paid orders of magnitude more than they have ever been in history, to promote next-generation running shoes.
Email hn@ycombinator.com for any moderation questions.
Halts are based on specific criteria and rules, they aren't arbitrarily imposed.

See: https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/MarketRegulation/LULD_F...
but options expire on friday? why pull off a dump now?
Much cheaper and better performance at the high end. Doesn't compete at all at the low-end, except through their budget brand Kimsufi. I don't see them really as targeting the same market.
There was a time when it was common to carry a cell phone and a pager at the same time. And a Palm Pilot. That definitely goes against the fashion grain, and brings on a ton of functional overlap.

But then there's also that saying, “A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”

The real answer is: You do you. Nobody will actively shun you for doing it.
> Cashed out at $320 and bought back in at the dip. Wheee!

I remember DFV posting about this at low double digits on WSB, but how is the tax liability on your side? This is why I prefer bitcoin, I can choose to stay and benefit from the appreciation without having to sell directly, whereas taxes on stocks was always a horrible proposition. My Charles Schwab brokerage account is more likely to get more activity from them adopting Bitcoin than any stocks, at this point if I'm honest.
I presume you're using a heat exchanger to cool the exhaust and heat the discharging pellets. How big a temperature differential are you getting from the exchanger? How much extra energy do you need to put in for cooling? At switchover, how do you cool the pellets that you've just finished heating? Is the heating-compression cycle a lot faster than the collection cycle?

Given the overhead and hassle of putting small units on a huge number of trucks, how does this compare to just putting a small number of larger units on power plants or furnaces?

--How important is the CO2 concentration in the exhaust? Is this something that could be done just from atmospheric CO2, not on a concentrated source?--[Edit: Already addressed below.]
That's the type of benchmark I would love to see on Phoronix[0], Level1Techs[1], or ServeTheHome[2]. They've done great benchmarks with FreeBSD in the past, although they don't usually focus as much on network performance.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/

[1] https://www.level1techs.com/

[2] https://www.servethehome.com/
Small signs of a reawakening on the peninsula first appeared more than a year ago, but it was a large 5.7-magnitude earthquake on February 24 that signalled a major seismic event could be about to happen.

Since then, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) has registered more than 34,000 tremors on the peninsula, a number unseen since digital monitoring began in 1991.

After a two-day lull, seismic activity intensified again overnight Tuesday to Wednesday.
Might be worth adapting this for restaurants with coal/gas fired ovens. They would more consistent producers of CO2 - not only during winter months. You could lease the capture devices to restaurants and take a larger portion of the co2 revenue. The co2 capture might have marketing appeal to differentiate a restaurant from competitors, too.

Maybe a chain like Blaze Pizza
Ghana is using drones to deliver coronavirus vaccines to rural communities
There's this quote by Linus torvalds: bad programmers worry about code, good programmers worry about data structures.

This should be reflected in the documentation.
My favorite of the species being the Mountweazel!
The atmosphere is only 0.04% CO2, whereas vehicle exhaust is about 13% CO2, so it's much easier (and less energy-intensive) to capture CO2 from a tailpipe. We definitely want to partner with folks working to turn CO2 into fuel — we'd love to turn our CO2 into fuel at truck stops so we can put it right back into the trucks.
"Know thyself" self-awareness is a strength :)
> PoS if implemented with the correct incentives is as secure as PoW.

Lol. And we're just supposed to believe you, right? Show me one POS which is as secure as POW.
Isn't replacing a card usually triggered b/c your card was lost or stolen? As a consumer it seems that I would want to keep my subscriptions ongoing if that happens vs having to type in my cards in all my services again.

I've rarely heard of people replacing a card b/c they want to cancel all their subscriptions.
The word you're looking for is "IntelliSense". https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense
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Seems a bit shady if say I use a refillable gift card for certain services that are hard to cancel
Enron and Madoff are examples of what "some time" means.

Yeah, all bubbles / ponzi schemes run out of money eventually. But 17 years (Madoff) is longer than most people's radar. If you decide to go short, you gotta be right not only in the direction of the stock, but also in the timing of it.

Timing is everything. Unfortunately, timing is also the most random.
This is awesome!!! going to explore and start using it.

Thanks for working on this.
Robots can use eye contact to draw out reluctant participants in groups
What happens to your graphical programs when your compositor crashes? At least with X11, if your window manager crashes, your programs keep running (you'd just fire up the WM again).
It doesn't have to be manipulation. Just a bunch of people and goading each other in a presumed David-against-Goliath "fight", investors trying to predict their and each other's movements, and funds trying to capitalize on investor irrationality, in a market situation (high short interest) which is strongly susceptible to such fluctuations.
Isn't gnome a big pile of JavaScript these days anyway?
"Serious white-washing" is quite misleading. I only responded to a comment to point out that you and others are completely ignoring some obvious and important benefits.

Sure, there are disadvantages. I'm not going to disagree with them, they exist, but let's put them in perspective with how the rest of the world works. But include the real benefits as part of the context.

If you ignore those benefits, and pretend they don't exist, you will end up getting dismissed by those of us who figured everything out, and invested in it.

You should keep in mind that those of us who invest in it are not in any way "stuck with a bag", we can sell at any time if we thought your arguments were convincing enough. The fact is, despite reading plenty of these arguments, we still actually believe it will ultimately succeed, and have yet to see convincing enough arguments against it.

On the other hand, those who missed out have a very strong tendency to want the world to adjust in ways that make their decisions correct. There is a lot of pain in admitting that you were wrong and paying the cost (which would be investing in it), and a lot of aversion to feeling like you have to make that choice. Believe me, I know this is a thing, because I went through that process myself.
Interesting stuff! One of my clients uses Daily.co and it's a great system: much easier to use and more reliable than Zoom, especially since you're not forced into downloading software. It'll just run in your browser. I'd love to see it get broader fame.
The categorization of scam is interesting in this context. Why isn’t gamestop considered a scam? Why is Enron? From the point of view of a worker which gets their profits diluted in dividends payed to shareholders, the very existence of a stock market very much looks like a scam.

Another interesting aspect is various cryptocurrencies (or—as per recent discussion—NFTs).

I guess whatever the establishment is uncomfortable with will be labelled as scam. Perhaps future will look at GameStop as a scam. But from my point of view, trading in stocks is always a scam.
Although if you're just trying to add a bullet point to the end of a list that would often be fairly straightforward.
How are taxes for Bitcoin any different? Like stocks, you’d still pay taxes on the gains from selling.
Aw, man. This essay gives me some perspective. I ended up hating physics by the time I got my bachelor’s in it. I remember junior year they said, we know you’re confused, you haven’t actually learned REAL physics yet, that’s what grad school is for. And most of you won’t be accepted, and of those who are, most won’t become professors even if you want to.

I figured a physics degree would allow me to get a good job, but then they said, sure, if you want to do finance, defense, or education. What?! The first two were pretty nauseating so I decided to do a year-long internship at various local public schools, and realized that I hated that too. (More the bureaucracy than the actual teaching aspect.) My school basically expected you’d double major in math or CS, so they often didn’t teach a lot of the fundamental techniques you needed, assuming you knew it already. I also learned that while my high school had done a great job teaching me English and history, the math department was not quite up to snuff comparatively, and I felt behind my classmates about “fundamentals” like linear algebra, which they had somehow been taught in high school. Sure, I knew Shakespeare a lot better than them, and even minored in literature in college (maybe biting off more than I could chew) but that clearly didn’t impress them. Why waste your time with old books when you could be making money! It definitely brought me down a notch and made me feel dumb, but I also realized college wasn’t a place for someone to learn lots of different things, but to focus on one area instead. I ended up becoming a bartender and I’m very happy with that decision. At least, once things are back to normal, hopefully within the next few months. Hopefully I didn’t just jinx it
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If only they added support of flutter for Kotlin then flutter would become relevant.. JetBrains ported skia bindings for jetpack compose so there's nothing really stopping them beyond the sunk cost fallacy
I was in my 20's at the height of the travel bubble running around hostels and such and.. yeah. So many people "looking for themselves" but if you step back and look, it's just hedonism which will never make you happy long term. Partying with other young people who share some parts of your world view and lounging around beautiful places is really really fun for a while, but it's hardly a recipe for a meaningful life. I did certainly gain a lot from those experiences but I also am glad I didn't spend the next 10 years doing the same thing. My current version of it is to move somewhere for 5+ years - really shows you how shallowly you understand anything about a different country while traveling.
Just the shoes eh? Mass communication/information and the ease at which we access it, and how it influences my belief systems is a huge shift for me. I've never been to an ultra, but I love listening to ultra athletes and they set a bar beyond what I would otherwise have thought possible in my amateur/pleasure exercise.
It's quite common. Moderation is a bit of a thankless job so help is always welcome and in a power-grab honesty and hard-work become negatives, trumped by the ability to lie shamelessly and ceaselessly.

Many women's subreddits, especially if they're for lesbians, are entirely moderated by men. The ones that weren't were slandered off of Reddit.
Sway (the window manager) _is_ the compositor. There is no need for a separate program like compiz or picom.
Taxes on BTC are pretty much the same as Stock
Media company XYZ that isn't affiliated with Advance Publications has no added incentive to report favorably on Reddit. Limiting Reddit would still be to their benefit in the same way that limiting FB or Twitter would be.
"Your business colleagues are not your friends"
Peregine One Moon Mission Patch Revealed
This is The End of US space programs. Russia made a smart move with China. Europe made a smart move with China.
Not sure how heavily used it is, but FWIW Postmates does offer a $10/month subscription service for reduced fees/free delivery like most other food delivery services do
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> And they said shorts exited their positions. Then we saw Feb 12th's numbers and short interest was still high.

High? It was down from 42.0% (2 weeks ago) to 30.2%. The week before unofficial estimates put the short interest at over 100%.
Is that in doubt?
> It also certainly defeats much of the original purpose of decentralization when a few stakeholders have total control of the network because they hold the most coins...

As opposed to a few stakeholders that have total control of the network because they hold the most computational power?

And before you bring up mining pools, you can replicate that in Proof of Stake by creating staking pools.
VS Code Remote is very nice. You can deploy your ide right inside a cloud vm and code all day long in Azure.
People who don't mind their $1B portfolio being stolen in a minute?
For the most part taxes on stocks are at least better than bitcoin. Roughly they are treated the same in the US though.
NAT64 requires port rewriting.
Are you suggesting that, somehow, Bitcoin is immune to having to pay tax on gains?

Or are you suggesting that Bitcoin is great because you can hide your capital gains somehow and not pay tax?
Interesting. How does it interact with the standard DEF/SCR/DPF system, or does it replace it entirely?
> From the point of view of a worker which gets their profits diluted in dividends payed to shareholders

I hate Tesla, but their IPOs and SPOs are a great example of what the stock market offers, and why a dividend (or other reward) is necessary.

Without raising $5 Billion from investors back in 2014, Tesla wouldn't have had the money to build their Nevada Gigafactory.

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Banks offer loans, which depend on interest rates. Shareholders don't want money, they want a share of the future profits. As such, the "promise" you make to a shareholder is more flexible, longer-looking, a better deal for most people involved.

If you can't make money this year, or next year, or 5 years from now... shareholders are forward looking enough to still give you money. As long as that share they received truly benefits 5, 10, 15, or 20 years from now.

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Owning a right to future profits and a vote for the board-of-directors is a powerful thing. Shareholders become one of the owners of the company, with all the rights associated with that.

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So. Lets timetravel back to 2014. Tesla needs money. It wants public money: willing to give you a piece of ownership (aka: future dividends and a vote for the board-of-directors). It promises to use that money to build a Gigafactory in Nevada.

Today: we now have a company, and set of shareholders, who BOTH benefit from the situation. That's the magic of the stockmarket. It turns out that the "promise of future profits + voting rights" is a powerful item to trade.
Digital goods as NFTs have exactly the same problems as physical ones.

There was a case where someone stole a JPEG of someone else's art off their website, minted an NFT, and sold it, claiming to be the original artist. You still need a centralizing authority (like with NBA Top Shot) to ensure authenticity and prevent fraud.

The one maybe advantage I can see of decentralized is that the secondary market doesn't have to be governed by the rules of the centralizing authority. In other words, maybe the authority provides for the initial minting of the good (ensuring authenticity, which can subsequently be verified using the blockchain), but don't have to be involved in the secondary sales.
There's definitely some truth to that, but CNBC still has "GameStop drops 40% in 25 minutes" on the homepage.

They were really quick to get that up when it happened but not so quick to alter the headline they want.

Isn't it more newsworthy that it bounced back so quickly? It's up over $100/share since Monday. Currently up $20/share on the day and will be on the short sale restriction list tomorrow.
80% of my portfolio is now in long-term PUTS against GME (like short-selling, but without the risk of margin calls if the price rises.) People want to treat it like a casino, fine. But that won't last.

When it goes back down I'm going to make a nice profit out of this craziness.

Or you know, lose a lot if it somehow stays insane for an entire year.

I know what my money's on.
> these tools protect us from so many footguns present with raw query string manipulation.

cough Parler springs to mind.
What is driving the action at this point? Aren't all of the hedge funds cashed out at this point?
You're just looking to complain here. It's super convenient and I would argue less surprising that an updated credit-card retains the subscriptions that were on my expired card. It's not going to follow you if you completely replace the credit-card

https://stripe.com/blog/smarter-saved-cards
Not really. There is no objectively true unarguable definition of life. When in silico life becomes reality and humans do their human thing of devaluing anything that's not like them, it won't matter what human consensus deems as life. I'm not worried about determining what "indeed will be life forms" no more than I worry about objectively defining what is a good meal or which is the most beautiful color. Humans have no standing it determining what true life is. What's important is developing an intentional stance towards whatever is not us.
Nice bonus I didn't expect when moving to Wayland: my touchpad magically started behaving waaaay more nicely.
/r/WallStreetBets considers - and I'm phrasing it nicely - to be unreliable and not worth considering as source of information in regards to GameStop, or actually generally.
Seems you are right.

I probably replied to the wrong comment. Or didn't really read your comment.

Sorry.
Yeah there are all kinds of edge cases when a digital token represents ownership of a physical object that just aren't accounted for. What if I get foreclosed on but smash the hard drive containing the key out of spite. Who owns the house now? The chain says me, the law (central authority) says the bank and under the rules we live by today the central authority is correct.

What now?
This is false.

iPhones are built to last longer by being more physically integrated, and the trade off is that they are less repairable.
Imagine being a poor person that gets a replacement credit card expecting to ditch your subscriptions, to get your finances in order, and then getting billed anyway on your new card.
I can think of two reasons:

1. Having interviewed otherwise similarly qualified recent graduates, those with PhDs absolutely were worse on average at writing code[A].

2. Having a PhD raises the salary you can get at other jobs (less true today then 25 years ago when it happened, but still somewhat true), so if the job isn't paying particularly high rates then they either worry about retention or quality (i.e. you can either get a better paying job elsewhere because of the PhD or you can't despite the PhD, neither of which bodes well for the company hiring).

#1 didn't really apply to my dad since he had over 10 years of industry experience at that point, but might be the reason for the policy.

A: I don't know why this is so. I suspect it's a combination of factors; those with good practical skills may be lured away from academia after one of their previous 2 degrees and never get a PhD; the PhDs looking for industry jobs are already those who were disqualified from academia for some reason? I never pursued any education after my B.S. so can really only speculate.
How much better is the cost per payment for one of Stripe's big customers? It's 2.9% + $0.30 for most, but if a company is doing, like Postmates are, millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars in sales volume, what sort of 'preferred' rates do they receive from Stripe?
> this whole GME thing is stupid: but following the price is also stupid.

I will top that by stating: “Nothing that happens in the stock market is stupider then the fact that the stock market exists.”
someone just unloaded their calls that printed massive money
Any idea how the energy savings are measured?
> - I experienced Hong Kong before china destroyed it.

I've just got to inject some skepticism on this point. This is such a knee-jerk opinion that's popular to parrot, because it feels right to say.

Maybe some small degree of it is true -- but you were able to come to this sweeping conclusion for all of Hong Kong, all of its people, based on your visit? I would question how in day to day life of people there (in working, living, buying, commuting, socializing), you came to this opinion. You saw something objectively changed? People upending their lives? How were you able to visit the city then?

Or were you just reading and regurgitating the news and stories told by the headline-grabbing people who thought this?

This is like if someone from Europe visited the US, and made the bold claim of feeling sorry for Americans because life had been fundamentally destroyed by the Trump presidency years.

I just don't buy these dramatic pronouncements. Not that I don't think China has damaged Hong Kong in some respects, but I just am skeptical that a short visit by some tourist can conclude some deep, fundamental change to a city's persona.

Your point about Shenzhen, I do believe though.
The broad argument still holds, for me: trying to beat Wall Street at their own game, on their own turf, is doomed to failure in the long term.

That's not to say there isn't money to be made here, clearly there is. But it's not a level playing field: funds can get bailed out to the tune of billions, they can freeze the sale of stocks, so on and so forth. The app everyone is using to buy these stocks is owned by Wall Street, too.

If this ever came to the point that WSB wants (or wanted? the anti-Wall Street rhetoric ebbs and flows) my gut instinct is that Wall Street will just pull some trick people haven't thought of yet that wipes out the retail investor threat and tell everyone to get out of their sandbox.