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Have you ever looked at funding statistics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
You're describing paleo (as in paleolithic), it's benefits are still a matter of debate:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
I believe that every dollar the Fed has "printed" went into bonds because that is how the US financial system works.

The government gets money from the Fed by selling them bonds in exchange for cash.
The biggest omission IMHO are project-scoped access tokens. GitLab has them above the bronze tier [1]. GitHub only has Personal Access Tokens, which grant access to all projects accessible to the user - scary!

Having project-scoped tokens would open up GH as a storage layer for personal data apps as well. Like a bookmarking app that syncs to your GitHub.

1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_acc...
That is perhaps only relevant if you plan on selling them. I have no such plans. For me they are an ever accruing "money hose" I can turn off or on as needed...
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> …The economics of investing in bonds (and most financial assets) has become stupid ... Rather than get paid less than inflation why not instead buy stuff—any stuff—that will equal inflation or better?

That is indeed the point of driving interest rates low or negative - to force people into economic activity. If holding a bond makes you negative money, you might as well buy something with it, which goes back into the economy.

It seems like there's this sense that putting your money into the market should always generate a return, and yet we have an economy that is driven by spending. The interest rate is how those are reconciled.
Probably the same as many fancy copy protections turned off by patching single jnz/jz command
Not very familiar with JVM unfortunately. Maybe someone else can chime in and tell us about how it stores profiling data?
I should have said that I don't blame any individual dev or sysadmin for failing to respond. It's a deeply entrenched organisational issue.

Imagine fixing an issue on a Model 204 mainframe, with a perpetually dwindling number of people you can rely on for help, knowing that if you don't fix it, people don't get their welfare cheque.

High stress, low reward. Unsung heroes in my books.
> One thing I've learned about professional investors is that no matter what, at the end of the day they're talking their book.

That doesn't make them wrong. It's basically just a tautology. If you believe X is a great investment, and you aren't investing in it, that would be a far stranger situation.
I'll believe it when I see the performance.
I don't know why you call it a utopia, it's literally how most of the western countries currently operate and have been for a long time now, why do you think they have a graduated income tax.

It's been around since 1862 in the US, and I think at this point it's fair to say it's been well battle tested. That you need to make some tweaks and small course corrections to it overtime is normal.

That people who take more risk and produce more value deserve a bigger share, well while morally you can be against that idea or disagree with the risk or effort they've put in, incentives for people to try things to get richer also has proven itself a necessity to grow the economy overall, which is growing the pie in my analogy. But it is also in the interest of everyone for the system which enabled those same people to grow the pie in the first place, and gave them the opportunity to take risks and be competitive in the markets which got them a bigger slice in return to make sure that this whole system is sustainable and doesn't come crashing down.

That's why minimum standards of living must be met, education must be available to all, and why graduated taxes were put in place 150+ years ago.

There's ton of studies and research on these economic models, and most alternatives are theoritical, while this one has been going on for 150+ years like I said, and has a pretty good track record. Doesn't mean it can't be improved on further and also doesn't mean it must be static throughout, course correcting some of its variables as the environment changes seems reasonable to me, and most likely a necessity.
My biggest gripe with java is developer productivity. It has gotten better but is still far behind interpreted languages like Python and Ruby. Class hot loading and things like that have made it better, but if you change a method signature or interface you have to stop your process, recompile, redeploy, and restart. For big codebases it’s brutal compared to the aforementioned languages and their attendant frameworks.
Wait till you meet google engineers here, who say "we give a lot of thought, and we know better"
Here on HN I frequently notice that people fail to recognise, end of day, to err is human. Agendas change.
Probably relative to things like J2EE as mentioned in the beginning, and as mentioned toward this middle:

> Non-blocking / reactive is one of the central demarcating elements of “modern” vs traditional.
I don’t think LLVM IR is really interoperable, is it?
Mind you, this is all before “yield curve control” has been implemented! What a joke.

And when it’s not the fed, it’s (increasingly) just financial institutions buying their required allotments. We’re well on the path to a market like Japan, where nobody in their right mind actually goes out and invests in bonds, they just are required by law to have a certain amount on their balance sheets. This is why SLR is a big deal and if the fed does or doesn’t address it tomorrow, you can expect real chaos.
> For instance, there's no such thing as a song that's slightly cheaper than a Taylor Swift hit, with slightly higher sales. You can't compete with Taylor Swift on a price/demand curve. Also, you can't compete with free.

Thank You. I need to copy this down in my book.
Upvoted to see if anyone here might know how this possibly could be any improvement over plain resistance heating, which has an efficiency of 100%.
But on the topic of market impacting capitol flight, is that a real possibility?

No.
There's (old) precedent for this in the USA[0] but it is hard to imagine for crypto.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Which will show what kind of actions they did or did not actually go through. Are you basing the proof of pp selling parts soley based on an edited video?
This is the third comment on this thread I've seen that *really* needed an /s
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At a macro scale, holding cash isn't free either.

If it's in a bank account then welp, $250k FDIC limit. If it's physical then welp, gotta rent and secure a warehouse that is literally chock full of cash for anyone to steal. Etc etc.

Zero/negative interest rates are supposed to encourage productive activity, or at least spending.
I do all my development in VSCode, and symlink my settings to a git repo. VSCode really let's you customize a lot of stuff, and if you lean into it as your development environment, you get awesome cross platform support.

That same git repo has scripts that apply some of my system configurations, and a readme to walk me through the GUI stuff I have to do.

My first few setups were hard. I had to debug some weird issues on my Linux install. (Not sleeping properly, remapping some keyboard keys).

But now I've got it cased. I setup 3 machines (2 Linux, 1 windows) over the past couple days and all are essentially equal development experience now. Was super fast to setup l. If your going the Linux route, make a repo where you record all the tweaks your making so you can redo them if you need to on a new machine.

It's shitty the first time, but now I know I can buy any new machine and have it ready to rip in mere minutes. With my custom keyboard layout (home, end, pageup, pagedown, alt, cntrl, alt+tab), my custom VSCode hotkeys, my ssh key identity management, my terminal font and themes, my system hotkeys (moving windows around and switching workspaces). Now that I've got all this setup, it feels great. Feels very fluid on all 3 machines.
> Is reasoning about message flows and behaviors hard? Yes, but that's just a byproduct of concurrency.

Maybe it's just me, but message flows and behavior is a lot easier to think about than concurrent access to shared state.

In an Erlang world, it's fairly easy to look at a process's code and see what it does for each message it might get, and think about if it's correct or not. Of course, it's sometimes hard to see which messages it might get from other code; also the system behavior can be a challenge to understand at times, although generally going back to making sure each actor does the right thing, and making sure the right number are running gets you most of the way there.

With the re-entrant Swift actors proposed in the link, I'm not so sure it will be easy. It looks like if your actor A's method needs to call another actor and read the response, that opens actor A to running other methods between the call and response; that makes it hard to think about again.
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What happens to a bond when the Fed buys treasuries? Are they "cancelled"? Or does the Fed actually hold those bonds? The latter sounds nonsensical, but I don't know enough about how the Fed works.
Either they're smart enough to "accidentally" release that driver, or they're actually "smart" enough to accidentally release the driver.
Are education focused companies worth it?
I've seen a lot about edtech revolutions or the opportunities in edtech for startups. But it seems like a lot of school systems reject the use of edtech. Is it mainly because edtech solutions just don't deliver on value or are there other intricacies involving teachers and students? (like usability and accessability)
It seems like an industry a lot of people don't know how to actually improve or are hesitant to do so.
It's because most of HN user queries are very niche.
One thing not mentioned is a lot of high quality indoor grows will actually supplement CO2 into the air from tanks, or less frequently, natural gas burners. (Burners aren't ideal, since they generate heat, which is the major problem in indoor gardens).

It's not just the CO2 from the energy (although, that's probably the majority, depending on the source of the power grid).
I was thinking the same thing.

This example is less about the potential negatives side-affects of meditation, and more about the care one should take when getting off serious medications. Most retreat centers (and other "guides") usually suggest several weeks or more of no medication before going on your "journey". The side affects of getting off medications, especially ones she apparently was taking for years, can not be underestimated in this story.

It's also clear she was prone to emotional instability before the retreat, and like any treatment -- pharmaceutical or otherwise -- it can have side-affects that need to be managed, dosages that need to be tweaked, etc.

This story also ignores the 90+% of people who have profound experiences on these Vipassana retreats. Just know what you are getting into, and know it can be very very intense even for those who have practiced meditation for years.
Abandons NEW combustion engine development. They’re still developing their existing combustion engine platforms further and aren’t giving up on ICE.
In big codebases, people don't change Interface (that's a contract btw) that often. They would do the proper "migration" by offering path to the new contract/api.

If you have huge codebase in Python or Ruby, you'll rip your hair more often because it's riskier to make changes (dynamic language) according to your use-case :).
I struggle with championing nuclear as a part of our future energy portfolio. Nuclear is certainly one of the cases where there are excellent arguments on both sides of the debate. My largest concern is that we don't have enough time for lengthy nuclear projects.

I have previously posted the MIT study[0] looking at why nuclear plant costs have consistent budget and timeline overruns. This post is a further effort to add some data to the debate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25161738
Good question:
GraalVM support taking LLVM IR as an input https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong
Which means that graalVM can support any llvm language almost out of the box (in theory)

Llvm IR however has not been designed with inter language interoperability in mind or at least not enough. E.g rust has no transparant, complete, seamless and efficient interop with swift, go, c++, etc

But in theory llvm is just an AOT and both AOT and JIT can enable true interoperability which is why graalvm support both a jit mode and an AOT mode.
However JITs enable better performance at least for any high level, GCed language than would an AOT.

Moreover, GraalVM through the truffle framework enable unprecedented language designer productivity. Through high level constructs the designers can be much more productive than in standard VM/AOT, which explains how with a few engineers Oracle has managed to reimplement Java, ruby, python, js and R in parallel in only a few years...
The idea of generating energy from people is actually kind of interesting because it's something that we already do at the gym. We have all these weights and machines to have people expend as much energy as they can, but don't capture it.

Now I'm sure the amount of energy expended at a gym is fairly trivial, but if we can attach a $5 generator to every exercise bike, rowing machine, stair machine, etc. it could potentially be profitable.
It is interesting Java was supposed to be write once run anywhere already some 20 years ago.
> let’s get rid of the other meaningless stuff, like fiction novels

Hey now, this person seems like a huge Ayn Rand fan.
This. I have a laptop that I rarely use on battery. It spends most of its life on a desk tethered to an external monitor. The advantage of being a laptop is that I can take it to my parents' house on the weekend, carry it back and forth to the office, etc.

But then, at the office, they got some HP Elitedesk minis, which are very small - but use regular desktop CPUs - and I bought one for myself. Now the laptop spends most of its days in a drawer because the desktop is much beefier and just as portable.

Of course, there are use-cases that a computer requiring an external screen and AC to even work can't handle. That's why I would be much more interested in having a "big" laptop, as in powerful CPU, tons of RAM, glorious screen. Could even be tempted to throw in a dedicated GPU. Don't care about it being 1 cm thin, featherweight and all-day battery. I do care about it not spinning up its fans when I'm just running vim in a console. I don't mind lugging around 2-3 kg of copper if that means the CPU can do a lot of work in silence.

I have a friend who's moving much more around, in meetings, etc. Her old macbook air is perfect for what she does. Also, the latest and greatest AMD wouldn't make a difference for her job, but she would clearly hate to lug around a heavy, bulky beast.

I think the issue is that, with today's technology, there's clearly no one size fits all. And there seems to be a trend in laptops to optimize for size and battery-life. Luckily, there are people for whom this is the right compromise. Don't know if they're the majority, but clearly there are other use-cases for which choices are more limited.
Even from the title alone, I thought that was pretty clear.
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I am kind of partial to the pan-psychic notion of all plants and animals who are living having something that could resemble consciousness or at least an experience of existing. It may not resemble the part of our consciousness that forms words and likes to project an ego into the world but perhaps the experiences we have while dreaming or non-verbally perceiving. I suspect that the experience of being a mycelium would be very alien to anything we can easily imagine. But this whole concept is best explored in science-fiction for now.
> visual-space-inefficient

If you’re referring to the oft discussed “information density” issue, my goodness, scroll a little. That spacing is good for usability and, yes, accessibility. Those larger action targets and the space between them are not only good for us with vision impairment but for people whose only computing device is a phone.
This was the part that caught my attention as well, it would be super interesting to see it play in real-time.

For one, how would they even put capital movements controls on crypto? For example, I just have to remember my 12 word seed and I can hop on a plane to another country and my crypto comes with me.

The other part is, wouldn't those capital controls be the last nail in the coffin of "we lost complete control of the situation"?
> Consider US tax-free municipal bonds (munies). They are safe

Are they?

COVID19 has destroyed the tax-budgets of many states and cities. Deficit spending / stimulus is the current plan, but how long can States keep it up?

I know there's been a stimulus bill just passed. But is it enough to get state budgets back in order after a tough year?
They were initially dotCloud!
Sure, according to some OO professor. In real life these things change all the time. And it’s not just methods and interfaces that force a recompile, those are just examples.

As for dynamic language projects, they should include a test suite to mitigate such issues, but often do not.
That’s what a “Pump and Dump” is: buy bad investment, talk it up, sell to bigger fools. (Not that this is what’s going on here; think GameStop perhaps.)
GNU Guix also supports containers (guix environment --containers) in addition to docker export. But they are not, as I am aware, OCI-compatable. Would love to see a similar effort in that space.
i've completed 2 goenka retreats and i would describe the experience very differently experience from how you did.

first, the nightly videos. not cultish and not metaphysics. don't believe me? view them all here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz7QHNvNFfA&list=PLPJVlVRVmh...

second, plenty of delicious food. if it's your first time, dinner is fruits. if it's not your first retreat you aren't offered dinner, but you really don't need the calories because you've mostly been sitting. all the food is vegetarian.

third, the assistant teachers are well trained.

finally, you left after a few days so you cannot speak to what happens at the end. it's called "loving-kindness" meditation and it's at the end because yes, the retreat can be intense, and it's like a balm to treat any difficulties you encountered along the way. here's a link to what it actually is: https://www.mettainstitute.org/mettameditation.html
Indeed. GitHub recognized this and allows security settings on orgs you're a member of (such as employers, clients, et c) to opt out of users' oauthing to random third parties (wrt access to that org's info). If you're a organization, you can whitelist the apps that users are allowed to use to access your org's code.

Then, when your devs log into whatever with GitHub, they're not forking over (access to) your org's source code to every random website.
Not in the exact same spot as a usable building. Not a big one anyway. I guess it could conceivably be more effective to just put a vertical windmill on the roof.
You do realize the paradigm shift that enable language polyglotism? It is nothing like WORA
Could you point to some professional grade plugins or DAWs that are free? Never heard of that.

Also a decent professional grade audio interface is still quite some $$. It's not like $$k like in the past, but you still have to pay a few hundred bucks.

Compared to say 50 years ago everything audio got really cheap, sure. It was in the tens of thousands range, now it's in the "a few thousands" range for semi-professional studio equipment.

Audio is actually one of the remaining software niches where they still call prices in the "a few hundred bucks" range for a end-user license. Other things around got much cheaper much faster.
Many Americans tend to think that you can live/work/retire almost anywhere in the world, but particularly western and Northern Europe (“eastern Europe” is viewed with derision by Americans, even though once these countries become part of the European Union, they become westernized pretty fast), as long as you have a “high paying job” (that an individual can work remotely) and “are willing to pay the taxes”—-and in some cases “are willing to learn the language”.

It is quite offensive. But, it is a prime example of American imperialism/colonialism at its best, when the American empire is not only in hardcore decline, but literally crumbling, if not collapsing.

Also, I love all of the Americans in the past few days who are trashing both the European Union (who did not suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations) and the European Union countries that have suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine for a week, most likely, at the absolute longest. By the way, those EU countries made that decision independently from the EU, so maybe you should not be trashing the EU here. We also have other vaccines in our arsenal to fight this. We also trust our officials, and we have a culture of doing so. We are willing to pay taxes not only for a stable government, but a stable society.

Yes, the EU did mess up with the procurement of vaccines, but we will get through this. We have handled the pandemic better than America has (I am also American...).

Oh yeah, to the Americans reading this: the EU, and its founding and its precursor organizations were designed for “what to do after your empire fails”. I suggest Americans maybe try to learn about this. Otherwise they are going to have more of the same, as in rulers like Trump or worse.
If we're going to be pedantic, it's per institution per ownership category.

So you could have:

* individual account

* revocable trust account

* joint revocable trust account

* etc

each with a separate $250k limit at the bank (and in the case of the trusts, the limit can be $250k per beneficiary of the trust).
If you change an interface in Python you need to manually verify that everything is correctly using that new interface. That’s much more of a devprod hit.
What’s the overlap between Atomwise and DeepBAR? Seems like behind the scenes Atomwise might have a proprietary version of something similar to it.
ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day.

It’s depressing to read about engineers having to go to the Smithsonian to study the lunar lander to relearn some of the innovations and improvisations made at the time.
Counterpoint: Twitter should ban the Russian government
10x is too web 2.0 - we're now on 200x -- get on with the buzzwords if you want to remain in the 200x category.