skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't pay all earnings to the USG, only everything above a certain threshold IIRC. It's only counterproductive if you think like a normal person instead of a central bank. Their mission is to keep the dollar stable. They are doing that by keeping the USG stable. All the central banks are acting in concert right now to save the global financial system. My guess is that we are being slowly transitioned to removing the USD as the world reserve currency and replacing it with a World Bank electronic one.
AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial
"You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness, if you can go by the right way, and think and act in the right way."

The "think in the right way" takes just a little practice. The "act in the right way" is the hard part, and the whole thing falls apart, in exactly the way you've noticed, without both. I've yet to achieve both, personally, though simply having "think the right way", with a little moderating wisdom from age, isn't nothing.

I think a trap in general with systems like Stoicism, or Zen Buddhism, or similar, is believing that thinking or knowing is anything more than one maybe-necessary-but-certainly-not-sufficient step.

(frankly, I'm not even sure what "go by the right way" means, yet, and would have to return to the original Greek to figure out whether it's just a summation of the two following ideas, or something separate—however, as I'm still working on "acting", I'll leave that for another day)

[EDIT] For those reading this without having read Meditations, it's heavy on duty and obligation, which is deep in the "doing" side of the above dichotomy. The "think the right way" is largely about ignoring that which one cannot control, but the trouble is that anything in the immediate past becomes "beyond one's control", which is where the parent's slipped-deadlines and such become easy to brush off without the duty-and-obligation and act-the-right-way habits balancing it out. Can absofuckinglutely confirm that if you get very good at the "think the right way" side, and only that side, it gets dangerously easy to not be bothered by failure or inaction.
uh risk averse is the bonds. they even have I-bonds. it’s ridiculous to think stocks are just going to keep going up 8% every year. it’s one black swan event away from a potential 10 - 20 year recovery of your initial investment.
Valid concerns about meditation induced psychosis aside, I think you're mischaracterising many aspects of the retreat.

> Technically, the in-person instructors are only assistant teachers. There is only one true teacher: Goenka himself.

There are some actual teachers that tour the globe. But mostly it's ATs. I think there's a lot of hoops to jump through to become a teacher. And I believe the ATs also must be able to jump in and teach if equipment fails.

> During his nightly instruction via VHS tape - the only human interaction you're allowed all day

You can meet with the AT one-on-one to discuss anything in the middle of the day. You can sit before the AT after the last meditation and ask questions.

> Goenka teaches Buddhist metaphysics (I recall something about vibrations of the universe).

Much of what he says is based on teachings 2500+ years old when philosophers didn't know what atoms were, but were thinking about what the most sub-divisible thing was. I heard it put this way, 'The course should be taken seriously, but not literally.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism

> Then, at the end of the retreat you're hit with a love bomb on the way out the door.

They teach 'metta' at the end. Which is not so much being love-bombed, but you meditating on loving-kindness to others.

I'm glad you got out when you did.

Edit: Fixed a quote + clarification

Edit: Why the downvote, did I say something that wasn't factual?
For those who mostly work on terminals, GNU screen/tmux is truly a blessing.

Also, if this isn't considered as cheating, Python. Now I can automate everything without worrying the quirkiness of shell scripts.

My work setup hasn't changed much in the last two decades.
I'm not sure I do. Isn't polyglotism about being able to write in different languages, and Java VM making that possible?
Sending an incredibly loud robot smashing through someones window seems like the worst possible way to start a negotiation. Is a highly agitated suspect really going to negotiate via this thing?
The signs of inflation have already presented. There are regular anecdotal reports in urban housing markets nationwide for homes selling for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over appraisal (which is meaningfully different enough from 'over list', as some agents in extremely hot markets intentionally underlist to attract bidding wars).

Some of this is due to interest rates, but those have already bottomed out. At this point, it's a near certainty Covid will continue impacting markets for quarters to come.

As mentioned, a little inflation is a good thing. If we think of the financial system like a rube goldberg machine or some heavy enterprise SaaS application --things you can't just tear down and start over-- the most viably peaceful way out of our problems is inflating the debt.
hahaha :D
India is seriously considering it now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-cryptocurrency-ban/...
Is that so? My experience is the opposite: devs don't want to learn Kubernetes YAML, they just want to git push and have someone else take care of deployment.
Types almost never save the day and they don't add much to the understanding. The code should be structured and documented in such a way that you are able to understand it, reason about it and swap implementations of stuff in the places where such flexibility is handy. E.g. in Clojure, I can trivially test my functions in the context of the application using the REPL. I don't have to reload anything, I do it right in the namespace I am modifying. I can also just look at the data there.
Also Clojure is way more consistent and you can probably learn all the functions in clojure.core and some of the typical libraries by heart. These functions then work basically on anything you will do and are almost 100% transferable to ClojureScript.

For sysadmin-like tasks, for most stuff you can use Babashka, which is a limited Clojure + some frequently used libraries implementation with very fast startup thanks to GraalVM. For the rest, Python/ Perl etc. will probably still have a bit better standing because of all the libraries e.g. working with SNMP.
fifty years? no way. But even if you're right, what point are you trying to make?
> even London

wasn't the London one supposed to have been done cheaply and effectively, in contrast to the splurge of the previous two?
There's always https://javalin.io/
I’m a bit late here, but I’m building AsyncGo (https://asyncgo.com) to be an async communication tool, replacing (Zoom) meetings and Slack for situations where collaboration doesn’t have to be real-time, which is quite a lot of the time.

I think the world is better when you give people more flexibility about when and from where the can collaborate with each other - I saw it in action at GitLab when I was working there - and I hope this makes a difference for people.
I recollect my Paint Shop Pro on the Apple ][e. You would turn a rectangular pixel on or off. You moved in any one of four directions. That was it. After I was done with my book reports, I would spend hours attempting to render the book covers in Paint Shop Pro to print with my essay. This was high art at the time.
Stack Overflow is much better than Quora. Quora has gone downhill over the last few years with paid contributions and modal nags. It sea they will also sign me in after I click a link in their email digests. I don't know how that can be secure
It's worth mentioning that the Euro 7 standard has not yet been formalised, however the proposal is that it will require CO of less than 0.3g/km (currently 1.0g/km) and NOx of less than 0.03g/km (currently 0.06g/km).
Haven’t munis had negative real (ie after inflation) returns for a while now?
Thank you for posting that image. I was was pretty sure I remember giving repo specific permissions to apps but reading the post and all the comments made me think I wasn’t remembering correctly.
This is a device to use when traditional negotiation techniques fail, and/or to find out the condition/location of the suspect for medical attention, or prior to breaching when all else fails.

It's another tool designed to keep people safe (both good guys and bad).

As an aside, I think you've read far too deeply into titles. Nobody emphisizes the "human" title, because there's literally no other way to negotiate. In fact, their actual titles are often Hostage Negotiator or Crisis Negotiator. This isn't CSI Miami nor Law and Order.
> Continues? The world is more equal than it ever has been, at least since the invention of agriculture.

Sure, globally. But that's as a result of a rising floor beneath extreme poverty, ie. the percentage of people subsisting on less than $1.90 per day has been dropping.

Sure, that's only a part of the story, and a growing global middle class is nothing to sneeze at, but the reduction in poverty is projected to slow considerably over the next decade, with half a billion remaining in extreme poverty in 2030, 87% of whom will be concentrated in sub-saharan Africa.

Meanwhile, social mobility up and out of the middle class is also slowing considerably in the various advanced economies, as is downward mobility from the upper class into the middle class, while downward mobility from middle to working class is growing.

I don't mean to diminish the progress that has been made so far, but it is starting to look likely that these successes are stagnating.
Josh & Belle, sorry to hear this, but pleased to see you're tackling it head on. Best of luck with the sale!
and when 90+ precent of the cars on the road are EV - where are you going to get gasoline? or think how much an oil change will cost when motor oil becomes a specialty item

> You making a lot of assumptions that arent born out by current experience

current experience assume easy access to gasoline and motor oil that has been true for 100 years - that will pass in time
Who said they're starting with this bot?
I can't say that I do-- I mostly learn about investment things by googling a question or a term and then reading all the results that come up and mentally aggregating what they have to say.

I will add that The Balance and Investopedia have been the leading sources of my education, all in all.
Slashdot.org
I agree mostly because in JavaScript you have to write '==' for comparison.
It is. Let's say we are talking 30 person-years, that is 60000 days. It means 100KB of text written per day and engineer.
I once spoke to a commodities trader who (half-jokingly) explained his job as: predicting the market in the morning, then letting his clients bet and make this happen during the day. Repeat.
Only if it going to actually hurt to lose it... when did these guys every really get hurt... they hedge their bets exactly so they never put themselves in a position to literally loose their house(s).
Lovecraft didn’t actually have any special insight into ultimate reality. He was at least a little bit crazy. Not really a good reference for any of this.
It happened during the Great Depression (the outlawing of private gold ownership). I wouldn’t say it’s that unlikely if things get rough.
I looked again and the basic I remember was on the HP 9845B that I used for a while.

https://www.hp9845.net/9845/software/basic/
Uber avoided paying into unemployment during the pandemic
I’d bet the hosted services will hold onto data forever, so that they can mine it.
Let’s say it’s 15 papers per month, so $40k * 15 * 12 = $7.2m for four editors. I’m not at all convinced. 40k per issue would be plausible.
One advantage ICE has over the historical preservation of sail is that cars as a collectors item are far easier to keep around, and much of the design artifacts will last much longer.

It's unlikely ICE cars will be banned from being driven in the next 30 years, if ever. Once electric is proliferated the effects of car enthusiasts will be negligible. Even if there are some bans, motorsport will hopefully continue.

Many car manufacturers run heritage parts programs and there is already a well established industry for maintaining the collector and enthusiast car fleet that has nothing to do with the new car cycle. People are engineering entirely new parts for old cars all the time, we won't be forgetting how ICE works for a while yet. Although the goal of all that engineering effort may shift from efficiency to efficacy in the form of motorsports parts.

I fully expect to have to keep barrels of E85 at my house so I can take my soon to be heritage vehicle to the track every now and then, but I don't see us forgetting how to engineer for combustion engines.
The woman in the article was withdrawing from Zoloft during a very stressful time and went to meditate for 10 hours a day. It is not a surprise she had a psychotic break.
Disregarding we have hidden memories that are locked away, it is established that our minds suppress troubling memories. After a long meditation time, they can come out.
In my personal experience, I have had to discontinue sessions due to bad memories arising.
I do/done few of these (lucid dreaming, travelling years on end) but to add to it: mostly have movies/shows/youtube on in the background while programming instead of movies, sleep with mp3s of comedy tv shows on headphones, do not voice-anything with people (restrict comms to text chat or in person). Are some things I have not seen here before.
Yeah, I was actually thinking of buying a corvette or other sports car. Because I figure it will be a collectible and worth more money than I pay for it down the line. As they stop making gas cars.
I actually believe something far scarier. I think we're going to see a worldwide disintegration of governments and then sort of a feudal anarchy - basically the Syrian Civil War, but spread across the globe. People will stop taking the government seriously and just go do what they want, with a lot of local bullies and warlords springing up to take their place.

The financial picture Dalio paints is the first stage of this, but it merges with a lot of other trends to make something horrible. There's the ongoing migration crisis; conditions are becoming inhospitable in areas like Central America and the Middle East, which is driving migrants to developed nations like the U.S. and Europe and destabilizing those countries. There's the climate crisis, which is the root cause of the migration crisis. There's a trust crisis propagated by the Internet and Big Tech, where nobody knows what to believe anymore. There's a pending military technology shift where cheap autonomous weaponry fundamentally changes the power balance between large nation states and small insurgencies. And then there's a population that's just fed up, as evidenced by the Capitol Riots and lockdown protests (as well as plenty of Internet vitriol).

Unfortunately fleeing the U.S. won't do anything for this, because if the U.S. goes, the whole world will erupt in flames. Better to put down roots in a community whose values you agree with, ideally one in a well-defensible location with plenty of natural resources.
1. Specifically AWS RDS and Aurora. It is incredible how much time it saved for me in the past 7 years.

2. Resharper from Jetbrains and all IDEs from them. Using something like Eclipse was such a pain and nightmare.

3. Cloud and SaaS as a concept. Everything just became 10x better when moved to SaaS.
Those scores almost without exception come from authoratative sources, not crowdsourcing.

If you crowdsource reputation, people will be able to buy it.
>Not sure what you have to worry about.

>From op: It's just too often that a commercial offering just disincentives bettering the 'free' product.

Instead of the public foundation focusing on bettering and modernizing the public option, they are -and will continue to be - putting their efforts to create a better api to be used solely for private purposes (albeit with good intentions).

Sure, it's opt-in to use the 'better' api. But that comes at the expense of this better api not being available publicly. So going forward by default the public is always going to be getting the inferior api, saving the 'better' ones for commercial use. That doesn't seem very opt-in-like to me...
Perl.

Before JSON, XML and other standardised data exchange standards became a norm. And Java was still playing the catch up game with libraries. Perl was the the go to tool for achieving over a weekend what projects done in other languages took months to achieve. This was true as early as 2012.

Those days are behind us. But it was some thing like a magical tool back then.
AWS and DynamoDB was a revelation.
C# Generics
.NET Linq
Totally agree, why i use https://www.dropwizard.io/en/latest/ with guice, generally waaayyy more explicit about whats going on
VLC Media Player

It just works. No more dealing with codecs, or having multiple players installed for different media types.
> 10 times better than the second best option

It's not who was first, just who seemed 10x better than the next best option.
BayesBet: https://bayesbet.everettsprojects.com/

It's a probabilistic programming powered hockey game prediction model. It hasn't been performing too badly this season! https://twitter.com/hockeystatisti1/status/13700659799889797...
I’m all ears if you’ve got something interesting and lots of equity? I work at Amazon, lots of experience with the cloud, scale, computer science etc. 6 years experience as a dev.
WebUSB Postage Label Printer and WebUSB Postage Scales[1]:

- No OS based printer queue to get gummed up
- Super-fast (just ZPL printer commands being sent down the wire)
- One-click to create a postage label
- Automatic label printing when a new order comes in (Websocket + WebUSB)

We used to create labels by copying and pasting between Shopify and Australia Post. This hardware saves us ~4min per parcel.

[1] https://chickcom.com/hardware
I'd be curious to see a comparison of the return on junk bonds of a given company against the actual stock return of the same company.
Flying in front of residential homes? I don't think so. I could go onto Google Maps and in short order find a US flag on a random US suburban residence. It'd take days to find the same in the UK or France.
How is this shocking?

More than 25% of people OF WORKING AGE aren't part of the labor force in almost all western economies [1]. And another 20-30%+ of the population is too old to be part of the labor force / retired [2].

This is well over 16% with too low of an IQ to contribute in a theoretical economy. It doesn't seem hard to shift priorities - the age for retirement, the people who qualify for welfare, etc...

Since 2015, the US and France already spend over 30% of GDP on social programs [3].

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_str...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_...
I believe the desire to make SLO work well faded (or complacency with it being discouraged grew) as screen locking became widespread. Using screen lock was once the dance of security enthusiasts, but it has become a nearly ubiquitous habit for general users.

Sharing of OS-level accounts remains an interesting challenge, so devices in those situations should involve identical account sharing at all application layers.
These days we have computational fluid dynamics. We can simulate many more things to make an easy to build design rather than making manual adjustments to each one.

There’s been little need for a liquid fuelled engine that large though due to advances in solid rockets in the US and Europe, and a focus away from super-heavy launch vehicles elsewhere.
Holdings here:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1350694/000156761921...
> Recently this was Jamie Dimon lambasting Bitcoin all the while a cryptocurrency trading desk was being set up at Chase.

But Jamie Dimon also has a reputation of not being the smartest bulb in the block, and also being overly cautious so....

I think the GP statement is more correct though. A lot of fund managers love to gloat about their positions rather than talk the inverse.
With interpreted languages you pay the price in terms of productivity (best practices, design patterns), performance (at scale) in long run which is way more than what you gain in short term is my opinion.
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Are there still any BBS’es around that are ONLY accessible via modem/phone line?
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2102214

CONCLUSIONS

A two-dose regimen of the ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca) nCoV-19 vaccine did not show protection against mild-to-moderate Covid-19 due to the B.1.351 variant.

(Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04444674. opens in new tab; Pan African Clinical Trials Registry number, PACTR202006922165132. opens in new tab).
Embrace and extinguish would be American way of imposing restrictions on capital movement. Make something so superior to Bitcoin (a la FedCoin), and have it be the unquestionably superior choice. Bitcoin has a huge usability, "did I enter the right public address" problem. Point is, there's a lot of ways regulators could manufacture the behavior. A great deal of market behavior is already manufactured through the the Federal Funds rate.
Nice! Seems super easy to use and the indexing + search are powerful features.

Is it possible to configure the period of the sampling profiler? e.g. 1ms or 50ms instead of 10ms?
Standard tactic: delay enforcement for ~1 yr to let the publicity die down, but carry on with the plan on a slight delay. "We know you all hate this idea, but we think that what you really hate is the fact we sprang it on you with no warning. We're still doing to do it eventually though."

I almost have to admire it. As a society we have distressingly short memories.
It’s a joke. In Lovecraft novels the protagonist pokes around ultimate reality and finds madness therein. It’s not claiming anything specific about meditation.
Elastic Beanstalk is a halfhearted attempt at reproducing Google App Engine or Heroku. It is not comparable.

GAE, on the other hand, is dreamy compared to K8s. I once moved some infrastructure to K8s because it was costing too much on GAE; I ended up moving it back because it was worth it. We've subsequently moved it to Digital Ocean's PaaS but that's a different story...
Or in other words, they are sensible
Seems to be back: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hashtagope...
Has Jonathan Blow actually measured these things or is this perhaps a skewed memory?
Firefox! Oh my god, there are tabs! I had never used anything but Internet Explorer. Browsing the web was never, ever the same. 30 minutes in and I didn't know how I'd lived without it.
A Letter of Authority (LOA) is a legal document that allows customers to authorize someone to act on their behalf within agreed limits.
Are there any counterarguments disagreeing with this assessment?

Certainly those at the Fed and the Treasury speak confidently that the debt is manageable and inflation is easily cooled, but I imagine they have to project confidence.