skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what he's saying.

He's saying this:

1. Bond prices are inversely related to interest rates. Interest rates have been declining for 50 years. They are now near 0. They probably can't go much lower, so they can really only go up.

2. If they go up, bond prices go down.

3. Institutional asset managers with obligations (e.g. pensions, budgets) already cannot meet their obligations with the yield from bonds and the bonds are unlikely to appreciate in value.

4. Therefore, it makes no sense for institutional asset managers to be invested in bonds because thta will pretty much guarantee that they will be unable to meet their obligations.
He was talking about woke excess. Wokeness being primarily driven by the left.
Installation is the easy part.

The hard part is remembering to update all of your software, and making sure you do it fast enough in case there is a zero-day.

The worst part is discovering that you installed a simple app and forgot about it; and now hackers got in, encrypted your files and database, and now want a ransom.
I actually meant could have.
Well, it's not the hardware vendor who is usually blamed for a lack of a device driver for Linux (or a BSD).
That's a well made one, pretty cool. And you can get the sound of loneliness in two easy steps: just turn on Bartender working and Night ambience
I think the salient point is that there are extremists on both sides but the article only concerns itself with right-wing extremists. In effect, this isn't a campaign against "extremism", it's a campaign to combat right-wing extremism while left-wing extremism continues to proliferate unfettered.

The OP characterizes this as a cultural revolution, but I don't think he made a particularly good case for it. Notably, I think "passively tolerating left-wing extremism while cracking down on right-wing extremism" is pretty weak evidence for CR. Rather, I would argue that CR begins when left authoritarianism begins--when the mainstream, majority viewpoint (the Overton Window) takes a back-seat to the left-wing extremist viewpoint due to intimidation.

If I were to argue that we're on the brink of a CR, I would sooner invoke cancel culture: threatening to get someone fired for espousing mainstream viewpoints (e.g., advocating for nonviolent protest or Tweeting an interview with a black man concerned about black-on-black crime). I would invoke BLM riots (no, I'm not talking about peaceful protests) and a media that refused to challenge the predominant narrative with obvious questions (e.g., "How are we collectively so sure that the cause of the shooting disparity is 'racist police' and not some other factor, to the extent that we are ready to burn neighborhoods to the ground rather than entertain dialogue?") and instead spent months rationalizing the violence. I would also note how remarkable it was that nearly every business in the hardest-hit areas were quick to hang "This business supports BLM" or "PoC owned business" signs, while their suburban and rural locations felt no such compulsion. I would invoke surveys showing chilled speech in newsrooms and the academy or an explicit willingness, pride even, from the same institutions to discriminate solely on the basis of politics.

Ultimately though, while left-wing extremism is concerning, I'm less interested in arguing over the threshold at which it becomes "Cultural Revolution". I think we should content ourselves to note that it is fundamentally illiberal and anti-human and continue advancing the causes of peace, justice, equality, and prosperity.
Nice! Glad to hear that! Why don't you get yourself in here? https://university.webflow.com/integrations

Will read the link you've added. Feedback for feedback? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
>just to maximize yields

It's not as if everyone is just doing fine and some rando person demanded they 'maximize yields' the problems of these cows being sick impacts the folks who own these cows too...
I'd plug Doom Emacs my friend, all the power of a full IDE with all the keybindings of Vim.
Personally, I see Linux as a major attack vector. Binary blobs are a big skeleton in Linux's closet. One reason why big business got behind Linux is their ability to have closed source, binary firmware blobs baked into device drivers. You can choose instead to use Linux-libre, of course, but your user experience will suffer about as much as it would by choosing any other *nix with poor proprietary driver support.
Did you find any features in particular lacking in Obsidian?
I've been a life-long Linux user and took a dive into the deep-end with FreeBSD recently. I find it extremely difficult to articulate the why. For example, you can say things like, the entire stack is maintained by the same entity. Ookkayy... so what? But it matters, and it matters in a nuance ways that's difficult to articulate but you notice it when using the system.

Kinda feel bad for not being able to articulate it. It's not like I can point at one thing, e.g. the system call function foobar(2) is better. I either don't have enough FreeBSD experience or I'm not smart enough. Here are some things I've enjoyed:

- I didn't realize how terrible iptables was until I used pf on FreeBSD

- I didn't want to master yet another networking abstraction that docker introduces for configuring containers. Granted, I have not used VNETs on Jails.

- I like to _invest_ in the tech stack that I learn and not have it change the next release. I have more trust in the stability of FreeBSDs choices and roadmap.

- I like how light-weight the base OS install is.

- I like that FreeBSD doesn't use systemd and I like the simplicity of rc(8).

- I like that jail has stronger integration with the OS, like installing packages into a jail.

- I like that the book, "design and implementation of freebsd o/s 2nd edition" is available and my hope is that it's still relevant.

Something things I don't like:

- There are subtle differences in tooling and outputs that surprise me. Nothing I haven't been able to work-around. E.g. I learned that GNU Make has made _vast_ improvements to make that's available on BSDs. Not a big deal but had to install gnu make and invoke it as gmake.

- I miss cgroups.
That's most likely not [1] why software companies like AutoDesk, Adobe or Microsoft (with Office365) are moving towards a SaaS model: regular monthly payments add up to more than one-time licenses, and provide a more predictable revenue stream.

Market was willing to accept that, so there was no reason for them not to do it.

[1] Citations missing for my claims too! :)
>> First time I came to the US and I conversed with this Asian women friend, who told me that she wanted to go to business school, and I asked her "why business school?" and suddenly another Asian women (friend of her) cut me and said "Oh why not, because she is a woman?" and I was like "wow, where did that come from? what does that even mean?" and since that day I know that US racial issue is fucked up big time.

It is, but I'd encourage you to examine that a bit more from the perspective of the person weighing in. Yes, you meant nothing by the question, and you would have asked it regardless of the other person's gender, but what is interesting is -someone got defensive-. Why? She's hypersensitive; is it more likely she got that way apropos of nothing, that she has just bought into some victim culture that is determined to create claims of systems issues wholecloth to rail against, or because she -has- run into misogyny enough times that she assumes the worst?

Again, it's not reflective of you, but take an empathetic view to where people like that are coming from, as it's not a vacuum.
OK, so when the game starts up it needs to see some proof that you own a license for it. So it needs to see proof that you own an NFT.

I am not aware of the technical details of various NFTs but I'm going to assume that you prove ownership similarly to how it can be done in Bitcoin--signing a transaction/message with a private key that corresponds to the public key of the asset in question. I would be happy to learn of some other way to do this!

An issue here is that this does not prove unique ownership. I could share the private key with other people, and everyone could play the game at the same time. Admittedly, these would have to be trustworthy people since I imagine that the holder of the private key would be able to transfer ownership. Maybe you could sign a bunch of messages ahead of time and distribute those to your friends? That could be averted by having the game require a random number and/or datecode to be part of the message.

Maybe the game can require a transaction to be posted on the NFT chain saying that you have started playing the game at x time, and eventually a corresponding stopped-playing message. So it would not let you play if it sees that a previous session hasn't been closed? Is your play time now publicly logged?

It isn't intuitive to me (as someone with solid familiarity only with how Bitcoin works) how this could work. I would love to see a more technical analysis.
Why would anyone post guards around a field of potatoes, widely known as worthless? Maybe I should go see if they'll take a bribe, perhaps there is something to these potatoes after all.
It doesn't seem particularly sensationalized in that it doesn't make ransomware seem any scarier than it already is.

If anything, it seems like it's meant to make the ransomware people look like cool guy Robin Hood types. Staying out of geopolitics ("we could, but we don't") while hitting the fat cats where it hurts, that sort of thing.

Other than that, I thought this was interesting at the end of the interview:

...I also think we will expand this tactic to persecution of the CEO and/or founder of the company. Personal OSINT, bullying. I think this will also be a very fun option. But victims need to understand that the more resources we spend before your ransom is paid—all this will be included in the cost of the service. =)

Even if this particular interview is fake (how do we know it's actually fake, and not just the interviewee lying/exaggerating?), this I think is a real threat that a lot of people don't consider. Most people (myself included) are very easy to dox and harass.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone, but maybe if we start getting high-profile cases where individuals are targeted for extortion leverage, maybe we'd finally get people to start caring about software/data security and data privacy.
> Of course, I hold the extremist opinion that even some CGA (4 colors!) games were beautiful in their own way.

This is one reason I appreciate Downwell. You unlock new 4-color palettes as you progress. Some are really nice to look at and completely change the mood of the game.
I taught myself to code in junior high, pre-web and (unless you worked at a university) pre-internet. I would have killed for the access to the plethora of programming-related content available to people today. I had access to a couple of others who were also trying to learn what we could do on a TRS-80 Level I, and that's about it. I bought computing magazines that had some code in the back of them, and learned from a few programs that were passed around on diskettes. Later my parents bought me a Tandy Color Computer. I purchased an assembler for it and a book on 6809 assembly programming and finally felt like I was making some progress.

I just wanted to throw that out there. It's a completely different world now and the access we all have to programming resources would blow the mind of the younger me. If I can give one suggestion, it's to learn about how computers work at a low level as you're learning whatever language calls to you. It helps tie the concepts together in a way that learning only the syntax and quirks of one language does not.
In some cases, better than Linux: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_ga...
I just spent this past weekend playing with FreeBSD. Pretty sure the answer comes down to whether your hardware is supported.

I gave up trying to install it on my XPS due to the lack of support for 802.11ac and issues with video. But it installed fine on my desktop (wired network).
Using a tiling window manger over traditional desktop environment. For instance, I use I3. I have it set up with 10 workspaces. w1 is for the browser, w2 is for notepad, w3 is for code editor, w4 is for file manager, w5 - misc stuff, w10 - terminals. I can switch between them immediately with Super+(1-0) - no clunky animations, no waste. It's more convenient to work that way on a single monitor than using 2 monitors.
American who freed Canadian girl asks world repatriate children in Syrian camps
I'm with you on the first part, but not the second (ha).

Time-based billing should be granular to the second/minute/hour depending on the service, but should be listed for the customer in a table upwards an order of magnitude or so.

VM instances often get turned up and down in less than an hour. Serverless functions (AWS Lambda) execute and then end in milliseconds, often.

But yes, billing should be simpler/more clearly reported and calculated. And many of their services seem to bill in overly complicated ways.

On the other hand, I think some AWS services are essentially free for small amounts of usage, so individuals have less to worry about re: billing.
Jamie Dimon has a reputation for brilliance. His Bitcoin comments were spot on, people criticizing them don’t understand the regulations banks live under.

BTC may be great, but it has no intrinsic value and trading it is pure speculation. That’s not appropriate use of bank capital. It’s probably not an appropriate use of most peoples capital.
The left didn't storm the capital
If they do something illegal, prosecute them in the court of law.

If they spread lies, sue them.

Don't have a third-party ban them arbitrarily with no recourse.
Wow I never heard that! I always thought it was just some arbitrary convention I guess.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of excess deaths means they're not literally counting every person who died, including from old age or car accidents, but theoretically attributable to a cause.

For example, researchers can measure excess deaths in 2020 compared to the previous year and find a gap between that and confirmed covid deaths in every country. For example, if the caretaker of a child or disabled or elderly person was suddenly hospitalized without time to find a substitute, and they didn't survive due to lack of care.
Unless user didn’t buy the hardware but the experience in which case the reward is theirs by right.
It's not a bug; it's a feature.
I agree with pretty much everything you've said (your comment on the tension between billing and learning being particularly poignant), but you're talking about a 14 year path versus the gist of the article, which talks about shipping commercial products with 400 hours of self-learning - an unrealistic expectation for most people.

You're probably better off planning for the decade-long path (starting humble, and improving incrementally) than thinking that anything remarkable is going to happen in your first couple of years.
Ja Rule is selling a physical painting from his Fyre Festival days as an NFT
Thanks for this advice. I'm 37, started at 30 and I'm at the midway point. I'd like to get where you are.
> I would love to be able to switch to FreeBSD

Curious what you think you would personally gain other than the much-repeated mantra of "they have organized man docs and a strong set of CLI userland tools because they are developed alongside the kernel"
Affirmative action biasedly lifts up minorities over others. It looks noble on the surface, but realistically creates more of the same problem.

When I applied to college, I (and all of my friends), knew that ticking any non-white ethnicity box on the application made you more likely to get accepted. I don't know that any of us did, but it was very well known that you could game the system this way.

It made acceptance into college less about your academic merit and more about your ethnicity (or ability to use ethnic bias to cheat the system) - aka, more racism.
For me, stability. I put OpenBSD on my router and it is really quite nice to administrate it with unbound, dhcpd, and pf. Rc is significantly nicer to work with than systemd.

OpenBSD's documentation in general is very high quality, and FreeBSD to a lesser extent. Other distros are not really documented as well, so I have to rely on adapting information from the arch wiki most of the time.

For FreeBSD, jails are nice but I prefer docker. (which I have to use anyways for work).

Both FreeBSD & OpenBSD have a nicer user experience in general, in my experience. That said, I can't use them as daily drivers due to not having docker and other tools, and gaming. Linux isn't stellar for games but I can at least run a lot of games these days through Proton, etc.
Sorry but I find it impossible to believe you are speaking in good faith.
OpenFaaS and GKE Autopilot
Until you get busted for drug possession in, say, Texas, and have to go to jail and are at the whims of a conservative court. Just remember that there's risks to everything.
> I already clarified my statement, quite a few replies ago.

You didn't "clarify" because I asked if you were withdrawing the original statement and you ignored the question entirely.

You also accused me of "nitpicking" your new statement, when the new statement is a very different thing from what I originally replied to.

> Now, you've made a pretty positive statement there. My turn to ask you for a link, or other proof.

Sure, that's in the first article I quoted the title of. https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-are-probably-l... It's talking about the Pfizer vaccine.

> I've also already suggested that the known low effectiveness of reducing transmission would indicate that it does not have sterilising immunity.

Your original statement, and some of your followup statements, argued against the vaccine reducing spread at all. If you're talking purely about sterilizing immunity now, ignoring any other reduction in spread, then either you're moving the goalposts or some massive miscommunication happened multiple times in a row. But sure, it might not be sterilizing. And in that case I say: This whole conversation was pointless because I don't care if it's sterilizing, I care if it reduces spread by a lot.
HN: where inconvenient evidence gets downvoted.
>The translator intentionally wrote the responses to take advantage of metered speech so the reader doesn't make full thoughts as they read.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.
It's too expensive to take to work, but I live in a city (DC) with a downtown centered transit system, so certain 20 minute drives take an hour or more on transit. Add in a 5-10 minute walk on both sides if your home/destination aren't right on top of a metro, and some trips become super inconvenient.

If you know DC, I'm thinking, say, Van Ness to Eastern Market, H-street, or anywhere off-metro in SE over the river. Cabs here are infamously unreliable, and just don't serve many neighborhoods, to the point of illegally refusing to take you once you're already in the cab.

Before Uber, if you were someone who wanted to go out to eat or visit friends in other neighborhoods a few times a week, you had to live as close as possible to metro/bus hubs on the same lines as your social group. If you couldn't afford that, you got a bike and dealt with it being stolen 3x a year.

Now you can reasonably live a little further from transit and still take those trips. You still want to live somewhere that minimizes commute, but I'm no longer optimizing for commute AND social group AND restaurants AND groceries, which widens things quite a bit price wise.
This is a lot of fun! Definitely makes me miss my favorite Irish pub (located in the Midwest).

Nit: I wish the traditional music cycled between a few different songs. What's provided is pretty repetitive, and is already stuck in my head.
I can kind of see what you mean, but I wonder if this is actually a result of the subject, not processing. The night sky is absolutely peppered with pinpoints of light far smaller than individual image pixels (resolvable stars) which are quite unlike typical terrestrial scenes.
Sorry, I didn't respond to your list of questions because you misread my claim in the first place.
A 3 percent tax on the future of the internet: Stripe
>Why do you think Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post? Do you think he was after the ad revenue?

So he can control the narrative about Amazon via one of the largest US newspapers and allow it to make more money. It's always about money. Power is just a proxy to money. Or maybe it's the other way around...
It's not even close to being unsustainable now and it may ultimately remain sustainable for timescales that are difficult for us to relate to.
Nothing would be saved. Competitors would develop new products, win the market, and be back in the same place. Magic thinking isn't very useful.
And for some of us (not sure how many), there's Debian kFreeBSD.
Let's not let that be an excuse to settle for poor security, either from Github or our banks.

I agree the way Plaid/Yodlee/etc ask for passwords is insane. I've "closed the tab" several times when I hit that. Just the other day I got asked for my bank passwords for a mortgage refinance. I refused and they said I could send them bank statements instead.

On the other hand, if I want to access a customer's CI pipeline there's no one at Semaphore I can email to find a more-secure workaround. I have to grant access to my whole Github account. As a freelancer with a lot of clients, that's a big problem for me.