skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we have PSD2 in Europe. Additionally, there was a ruling somewhere that until a bank allows for a proper machine interface like an API, it must not actively block scrapping but the details on that are fuzzy atm.
I've been wondering if the cutoff is actually much earlier. Say 50% of cars on the road are EV, how many gas stations can continue to run profitably with 50% less customers? Even getting and refining the gas requires massive global supply chains to transport and refine, what happens when there's a 50% drop in customers? Do they lose their efficiencies of scale? Do prices rise substantially as this happens?

I suspect once we reach a certain thresholds it will create other push factors toward EV's and accelerate their adoption.
Sarah Connor?
The reason you own bonds - particularly government bonds - is because they are better than the alternative.

At the point somebody is bidding in a primary government bond auction, they are either a pension fund with a bank deposit, and/or the bank backing that deposit with central bank reserves.

Even with all the investment options available, somebody always has to end up in that position in aggregate. Asset prices rise across the board until this indifference level is reached.

Central Bank reserves are remunerated at a fraction of one percent at the moment. Bank deposits even less. Bank deposits also suffer from the risk that the bank will fail.

Therefore relative to the only options left, government bonds represent a good investment. Particularly if you are a pension fund under regulatory instructions to fix your income with certainty.

What's particularly interesting is that the bid for the bond will come from two places - the pension fund, and the bank itself - using essentially the same money. The sale to either is settled with precisely the same set of central bank reserves. If the bank wins the auction it will end up backing the bank deposit with the bond rather than reserves. If the pension fund wins the auction, the deposit and the bank reserves are deleted from the bank's books.
Whole article: https://archive.is/uL2y1

Key Quote:

"Inevitably, the next bid wouldn’t arrive until a minute or two before the top of the hour, extending the auction just as it was on the verge of ending. The price climbed so high, Hinton shortened the bidding window from an hour to 30 minutes. The bids quickly climbed to $40 million, $41 million, $42 million, $43 million. “It feels like we’re in a movie,” he said. One evening, close to midnight, as the price hit $44 million, he suspended the bidding again. He needed some sleep." (So Google paid north of $40m to hire Hinton and his lab).

That all makes $2m a year for Ilya Sutskever, or $600k a year for some run-of-the-mill dude with a degree in AI seems like a bargain. The founders of Nuro got $40m each to leave Google and start their own company. Hopefully we get some more transparency about pay to bring up the whole field rather than just "AI." After all, at the time of writing software tends to have a higher accuracy rate than machine learning ...
> Yes, entire industries are reconfigured and nation-states are redrawn because some humans want them to be reconfigured.

I think you're missing the point that if necessary, the humans involved can be swapped out until ones with the 'right' desires are in place.

> but that in no way implies that an organization is actually some kind of inhuman entity that functions without humans.

An organization doesn't have to be capable of functioning without humans to be an inhuman entity with inhuman motivations and so on. The human components just need to be fungible and more easily steered by tweaking incentives etc. than the organization is.

For that matter, epiphenomena like regulatory capture really don't occur at an individual level much, but largely at the interface between governments/agencies and corporations, or even higher-level entities like industry trade groups and consortia.
When the foundation co-founder & CEO of the development LLC says something – and the same thing, repeatedly, when the topic comes up – that's not as weak as an 'unofficial opinion'.

Of course, it could be reversed, and if you find any more-recent official welcomes from Signal for third-party clients to use its servers, I'd love references.
Or the ones that required a special grid mouse pad.
Depends. Corpors might want to offload, but then again perhaps not, since it would still be valuable in countries that chose to not impose restrictions. Then there's the ability to avoid middle men (both authorities and bankers) while making trades and purchases abroad. For everyone else, it matters little, unless they really need to get on a plane, and fast. But then whatever assets you have to trade for that seat matters less anyway.
>Put another way, do you really think you couldn’t get a lot of people in e.g. San Francisco to sign onto a mandate that requires the rich to register outgoing capital flows?

Your example is poor; there are 10s of millions of people in California who have been trying to get healthcare reform passed for nearly a decade now and the trend so far has been Obamacare being slowly unwound. It's unclear if the far left/right is anything more than a boogeyman at this point considering the glacier pace of the Senate in the last 20 years. The media would have you believe the democrats are well on their way full blown communism, but the reality is the party self-sabotaged their own $15 minimum wage proposal and managed to be less generous than Trump on stimulus checks.

If the Federal Reserve decided to implement capital controls, I doubt it would happen democratically. It's more likely that you would wake up one day and all the major banks would have limits on how much gold you could purchase in a year for "liability reasons". I'm sure a Senator or two would scream, but the next week there would be the next culture war story with Ted Cruz complaining about MTV.
Oh there are plenty of things that are way more difficult or impossible to do on iphone. An incomplete list:

1. Run a desktop window manager when connected to TV/monitor.

2. Share files using wifi direct or bluetooth.

3. Download torrents.

4. Switch between front and back cameras while recording a video.

5. Play fortnite.

6. Copy files to/from a flash drive.

7. Cast screen to TV.

8. Copy whatsapp chats from older phone.
IIRC the rendering engine wasn’t that great either at that time.
You could also take advantage of SQLite's JSON support and store as many "columns" as you like in a single column.
If you need to smash glass, why not use a rock and slingshot? Isn't that a whole, whole lot cheaper solution? Or a BB gun?

Also if a drone comes flying in a room where you're barricaded, it's time to fire the shotgun at it or just throw a pillow at it. If it crashes to the floor, I'm tossing a towel over it. Take out the battery and toss it back out the window. XD
Yes. I got a real keyboard for mine back in the day.

Today I have one. It has one purpose: run "Star Raiders."

I love that game. And the 400 looks seriously cool. Never fails to get some attention running that game.

Then people experience the feel of that cool looking keyboard... oh well. It is fine for the game.
VPN servers and client, I don't know how to build one. There are many opensource VPN like wireguard, I just don't understand why this and that. And how do I makesimole VPN, how do they intercept our request etc.
> What do you think is more elegant in Java than C#?

Broad availability of third-party libraries? Java Flight Recorder? IntelliJ? Multiple build system options including first-class support for Bazel, Gradle, and so on. (Msbuild gets old quick...)

That said, personally I prefer TypeScript over all of the above if performance isn't an issue. ;-)
> But once I've given that information away, it's irreversible.

In an enterprise environment all software has a basic level of trust of "this will try to do what it claims to do". That means the ID provider can directly ping the server of whatever service was issued the data or login cookies and say "this data should be deleted please".
Meh.. every time an article comes out someone says this. Definately more complex than that. Look at Amazon as a counter example.. the reason they dominate is the combination of better product and maximizing efficiencies of scale. Additionally.. they rolled "profit" into growth, netting consumers on a whole better selection and service.

It is almost always better for the government to create "incentives" than to create "requirements" anyway. Instead of "requiring" a text before transfer. It would be better to hold both companies that facilitate a transfer without the customers autorization to large liabilities. This allows them to create a mechanism to prevent this that is probably better.
> avoidance of life's suffering is nothing but an escape from life itself

Neither stoicism nor buddhism is avoidance of suffering, but inuring one's self to suffering. Buddhism (particularly the therevada teachings of Goenka) explicitly warns against aversion and craving to sensations (that of suffering/desire/etc.), but encourages a mind of equanimity in the face of either. Stoicism has this similar goal to temper reaction, but lacks an effective practice to reach it.
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GPS and especially cameras on our smartphones are massive gamechangers
The same way you can still feed a horse even though they don't have a network of troughs in front of every bar.
How would you want to address it?

There is already a distributed programming library on the system called XPC, so people already have experience with it, but you certainly can't program as if every method call might become remote. Mainly the problem is every call can fail, and sometimes retrying is correct and sometimes it isn't, but also the costs of passing a large function parameter become different cross-process and then more different cross-machine.

Note ObjC already had some language features for an older library (DO) like 'inout' parameters, but they were actually removed because XPC instead only uses callbacks.
Is that based in any way on the relative capabilities and security track records of OpenWRT and pfSense, or is a highly security-conscious userbase merely what's left for pfSense after eliminating anyone who wants good WiFi support and the ability to run on cheap commodity consumer appliances with tight memory and storage limits?
From wikipedia: Vāmācāra is a Sanskrit term meaning "left-handed attainment" and is synonymous with "Left-Hand Path".

In occultism, "left hand path" means black magic. So it would be the "right hand path" followers who forbid practice vamachara.
People like Ray Dalio keep saying this, and scores of others have been talking about how fiat currency will fail, but it won't. Globally, no one that matters wants it to fail, therefore it won't. People like Paul Tudor Jones have been saying that the USD will fail for decades and people should buy gold. Even Peter Schiff has been talking about gold and hyperinflation since before the Great Recssion.

All the bears have been completely wrong, except for short periods of time. And they will continue to be wrong. Again, no one that matters wants the USD and UST to fail. Bond vigilantes can't defeat the Fed.
Ubiquity plugin for firefox, it treated the web as API, sending the request to forms without opening the webpages first.
Big media outlets often “independently confirm” each other‘s falsehoods
I like Actors. I have played with them in both Pony and Elixir. They were always an obvious next step from Smalltalk style everything-is-a-fricking-message oriented programming/thinking.

Is it just me, or is Swift getting really complex? As I read through Lattners evaluation, I found myself wondering "hadn't heard of that @Thing yet. I wonder how many there are that I don't know about."

Wile I was impressed about some of the nuance that goes into the combinatorial complexity of the many design patterns Swift wants to capture under its broad umbrella to make it a language for everyone, I kind of have to accept that I will probably never have the bandwidth to acquire the High Priest level of knowledge to really get the thing. Which means the odds of ending up with unexpected and surprising behavior actually rise. I feel more and more this way about Kotlin, Rust, and even Python these days.

Reading/writing code in these increasingly multi-paradigm ecosystems is starting to feel like reading epic poetry (e.g. Dante or Beowulf), but where different sections are written in different languages, with different prose and rhyming styles, some pieces a mix of two left for the reader to figure out.

I used to stress about getting these systems enough to code idiomatically in them, to use them "right." But more and more, I'm finding myself developing personal dietary menus in each, where I pick a nutritious subset that I can wrangle into some sort of expressive consistency, and just write code in that subset, idiomatic-fling-of-the-season be damned.
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You are likely confusing yield with coupon. The current yield of munis are below inflation. However their coupon rates are determined at time of issue so bonds issued a while ago tend to have coupon rates above inflation. What this means is one can sell these bonds now significantly above face value (and possibly incur capital gain tax). What it also means is that new investors in today's bonds will get below inflation return. This last point is what matters and is what people mean when they say that bonds have negative real yield.
The correct way is either you join their GH org (which is the best method in terms of IP ownership as well) or you create a GH org for each contract and set up apps with access to only relevant repos in that org.
I have a love of both. Atari was a chip playground. And the SIO system was very forward looking for the time. Look at FujiNet for an example. Old software working across the Internet!

The Apple was a tank, fast workstation. (Assuming one boosted the 1Mhz CPU.) I had 4Mhz at one point then.

My //e can run at 16Mhz. Crazy fast. Makes it useful today.

Atari machines can get a high Mhz upgrade, and if one wants to do it, a 6809!
It's sad but totally expected. Any spinoffs?
It's not molecular species. The full quote is: "truncated and modified mRNA species present in the finished product". It's specifically truncated and modified mRNA species.
> Remember the portability disaster that was symbian and Java ME?

Don't forget Java Card in that list. Which Oracle still tries to claim as a Java portability win, even though it doesn't support basically anything. And I don't mean missing standard libraries, I mean like it doesn't support char, double, float, and long, or multidimensional arrays. Support for int is even optional. Doesn't support exceptions and you can't even assume it has a garbage collector. Among many other limitations.
What if I told you that the world is bigger than your subculture?

Why do you automatically assume that someone uses BitTorrent, for example? Your comment reminds me of the dark time in our past when people who used Visual Studio just assumed that everyone else used it, too.
“They said that Uber had said minimum wage and holiday pay would accrue from when a trip was accepted to when a passenger was dropped off, not the whole time drivers were logged on to its app – the working time laid out by the supreme court. They said this meant that Uber drivers could miss out on up to 50% of potential earnings.”
"Non rhetorical question: are there any scenarios where the US defaults on their debts?"

No. Since it is just a bond swap. To anybody not in the US (like me), the US dollar is just a 0% permanent bearer bond. When a bond matures it is swapped for central bank reserves (floating debt). When one is sold it is swapped back (fixed rate term debt).

The monetary system is reflexive. No financial institution is going to hold central bank reserves when there is a near identical government bond available paying a higher interest rate.
Gotta say, Google's pioneering and Facebook's shamelessness in the personal information harvesting space has been, for me, the single most valuable feature of any website on the internet. If they had been even slightly less brazen, I may never have been convinced to opt out as hard as I have. Removing the most addictive and exploitative sites from my life has cut my time online and improved my quality of life dramatically. Could not recommend more.
A B2 bomber and a completely unclassified car engine is a slightly different order of magnitude in terms of complexity.

If you want to run a current F1 car in 40 years time then you will need to RE it however because the Powertrain is complicated and totally custom
This is compared to Apple's program where you have to make less than $1M to qualify the next/current year for 15%. Makes much more sense.
Edge’s privacy report on the iOS App Store does not include location data.
I'm glad Google didn't choose the unnecessarily convoluted and worse solution Apple did that only adds more bureaucracy.
While interesting, I have a feeling that your prediction may be subject to recency and availability bias. If I picture myself looking from within the US, your scenario sure resonates. But looking from outside, I'm not convinced it does. From the other side of the planet, it looks like the US is having a moment but the other governments aren't sitting idle and letting entropy increase.

I'm also not sure that 50 years from now, the Capital Riot will be recorded as being a majorly significant event in US history. It'll probably be mentioned in history books but I'm doubtful it'll be referred to as a pivot point in US history.

Migration crisis: I feel there's been larger migration events in the past. Doubtful the climate crisis will actually be creating a massive scale migration crisis.

I do think climate change will change the dynamic in various areas.

I otherwise also agree on the paradigm shift in military technology.
That's not how the U.S. financial system works. The government doesn't "get money from the Fed" - it gets money from the Treasury, which either collects it from taxes or issues government debt to raise funds.

The Fed participates in open market operations, and one of the markets they participate in is the Treasury bond auction. But they participate in others as well: notably, they've recently been major participants in mortgage-backed securities and corporate debt markets. When they participate, they effectively inject cash into the system, since the amount they can pay is unlimited and subject only to their mandate to get full employment and limited inflation.

There's a lot of other subtleties involved as well; this isn't intended to be an exhaustive explanation.
> The worst spread and the highest seroprevalence are all in California’s urban areas which locked down most stringently.

LA, Sacramento, and every Bay Area County Sheriff publicly announced a focus on “education and voluntary compliance”; virtually all the urban Southern California Sheriffs aside from LA County publicly annouced outright non-enforcement policies (some asserting that the orders were unconstitutional), as did the Sheriffs the counties with the major San Joaquin County cities.

The “most stringent lockdowns” weren’t anything like lockdowns.

Aside from the components that were directly within state or other non-sheriff’s authority to enforce (like the alcohol service components which could be enforced directly by state Alcoholic Beverage Control), there was no enforced lockdown essentially anywhere in the State, and this was publicly announced and widely reported in the media, so people were aware of the nonenforcement.
When 0% first $1m? How much of a hit are they taking from 15%?
that may be so but most people can't have a 30 year commitment so they buy ETFs. And ETFs need a buyer for that bond to have value. if those buyers don't exist then the bond could be worth a lot less than 1000$. this is what the author was talking about with the comparison to run on the banks for bonds.
I’m curious, since you seem to have thought a lot about this - any suggestions for defensible locations with plenty of natural resources? I’m guessing suburbia generally doesn’t meet that definition.
The late summer booster for AZ that will be issued (prob in the UK first) has already been adapted to this variant specifically and is in advanced trials.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/new-astra...

And other vaccines (e.g. Novavax) have been shown to be pretty effective against it

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/novavax-vaccine-has-96-effi...
Powerful 22-core, 18-core server-grade systems with fully open firmware and hardware, fully open BMC, with PCIe 4.0, DDR4 memory with ECC and other modern features [1]. They are FSF RYF (Respects Your Freedom) certified [2]. Truly FOSS hardware. Quite affordable too. I think not many have heard of it. They have fully FOSS desktop processors too (4-core, 8-core).

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

[2] https://ryf.fsf.org/vendors/raptor

More info:

[3] https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Main_Page

[4] https://www.talospace.com/

[5] #talos-workstation on IRC, where people using these systems daily hangout. Accessible through the Element Matrix app IRC bridge too.

Now idk whether that's innovation, but it's a big thing IMO. AMD, Intel and ARM have proprietary bits in them that can potentially spy on your entire system (AMD Platform Security Processor, Intel Management Engine)
There are some interesting F1 threads from the 80s archived. Fascinating that people have basically been chatting the same old bollocks for decades and won't stop any time soon
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I feel like they're feeling the pressure for a potential incumbent to come in and disrupt the market they've cornered. Who's in the best position to take a run on this? Or do you think it'd more likely to come from a new player?
The Goenka schools provide a questionnaire to determine mental health and any medications the student will need. Each teacher is different in who they will let in, and all those schools are volunteer run. I can see that some teachers could be reckless with course admissions, but all teachers would have managed multiple courses before, and would know the difficulties for everyone if they let someone in who has a history of mental illness. It's not great situation for anyone if any student enters psychosis on a silent retreat, not the teacher/manager/other volunteers/other students.

Edit: Also it's tricky if your students are motivated enough to get in that they'll lie.

https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards...
I would not see Zip as a file format, it's just compressed version of some other format. You therefore inherit all the pros and benefits of the compressed file, which might be columnar storage (e.g. Parquet) or row-based (e.g. Avro), but those "modern" formats have compression built in, no need for zipping.
I would love to pivot to law, I helped my ex do a lot of her homework and have a false sense of understanding. Only problem is that I’m old and a new start will not be easy when competing with people 20 years younger.
They already have 0% for the first $0, don't be greedy. /s
Shouldn't this be inverted? Small devs with unknown apps have more to gain from play store's distribution, and won't mind paying 30% of a smaller revenue in exchange for all the help.

Bigger apps like Netflix are already doing their own advertising and marketing and have close to zero to gain from play store. And they will be making a large amount of revenue. According to this they will have to pay 30% of a larger amount.

It feels backwards.
i mostly invest in inflation protected assets. there's really only 4 categories of investments: equities (stocks), fixed income (bonds), real estate and commodities. And, one of those categories (bonds) has been eliminated by the governments and feds of the world. So, that only leaves: equities, real estate and commodities (gold and bitcoin).
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