skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more risk there, though, no? A customer could cancel before the end of the year and simply stop making the remainder of the payments. Sure, there's recourse, both through the credit card companies and courts, but that takes time and effort and possibly lawyers (aka money).

If you require annual customers to pay the entire year up front, you get the money, and that's that, barring credit card chargebacks.
I use Safari as my primary browser on MacOS, Chrome is only used for the developer mode.

Dunno if it's better than the one in Firefox, but it's the one I know =)
Well, because he doesn't want to be inline for non-.internal DNS queries.
Those get-outs are pretty standard boilerplate. They're there even when it comes to human rights - as otherwise certain actions by the state would not be permitted (for example jail).

> There's huge room for bending these rules to disseminate fake news to attack opponents, falsely accuse innocent people of crimes or save others from crimes they have committed

I'm not sure how well that would work in court. Which is where you'd go if you think the government in your country has broken the law, isn't that the process?
Well I agree that the oil argument isn’t very good. But I don’t think the conclusion is “no cause for panic.”

I think water loss (especially from aquifers but also just drought and river diversion in California), soil erosion, habitat loss, and homogenisation are big worries. We’ve seen big problems from soil loss before in America where the prairie grass with its deep root systems holding the soil together was replaced by cereal crops with short roots and plowing exposing the soil. The result was the dust bowl.
Yes, I can definitely tell. I have owned both WQHD and 4K laptops. At least for text, I can tell the difference at first sight, and I’m more comfortable with 4K.
It's more closely related to the `concept` from the Indiana proposal from C++0x (which is structural) rather than the one in C++20, which is most like the expression syntax. (That syntax was lifted nearly unscathed from Spad.)

They're both missing the Indiana `concept_map` which were runtime-free functors -- like -- proper functors.
This somewhat begs the question that those symbols are the best they can be, though. That is, yes, if you know one of those set of "grade" symbols, and you know that you can grade "up" or "down", then it somewhat follows. If you just show me those symbols flat out, though, I have no idea what they do. (Granted, I'm not entirely clear what it means to "grade" in this sense, either...)

Of course, that also begs the question of "do we need characters for all operations?" But, I'm not entirely sure we do. What is the advantage? There are plenty of operations that are just fine with their symbol being a word. (As evidenced by programming, in general, right?)
It's a shame we don't have satellite imagery dating back to when Europeans first arrived on the continent. I suspect the whole western US was once far more lush and green than it is today. The central valley in California, for example, used to have several natural lakes. Who knows how much impact the damming the Colorado river has on the ecology of the southwestern deserts. I can't imagine that concentrating water into man-made reservoirs combined with intensive agriculture has done much to help the drought conditions we see today across the US.
Ask HN: Do you feel like the world we live in is increasingly speculative?
Dogecoin went up 200% in matter of days.

Public companies that have perpetually losing billions are trading all-time high.

Sport cards are selling for hundred of thousands.

Pokemon cards went for millions.

NFT is basically printing money.

I can't help but feel like a chump for trying to invest my money based on the good old fashion way, based on fundamental. Being analytical seems to not to work anymore. It seems you have to just embrace whatever the masses are after, whether that Dogecoin, GME or NFT.

But all these make me feel very sad about the state of the world, it feels like we are in one big casino and people just mindlessly "investing" or really just gambling and somehow it just keeps growing exponentially. At first I thought this won't last ... but it has been going on for a year now.

Feeling powerless and why am I still resisting to FOMO into these things I really don't believe in. Basically joining the other side. Have you guys been thinking about this at all?
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We did a lot more than merely spread though.
The market itself has shown resilience through all kinds of previously theoretical problems

51% attacked coins dont “crash to zero” because market participants decided it wants to buy them up and attempt double spending. In other cases the proactive disabling of only some off-ramps just creates greater scarcity, ensuring amplified value to the coin being acquired

A lot of what satoshi said can be ignored because the market can simply bear it

These are products which can attract value for reasons satoshi and enthusiasts did not predict, just like any economist fails to predict what actual individual humans will do
One of the most common themes of propaganda in communist Poland was how speculants are responsible for all shortages.
I can understand where you're coming from.

My comment was meant to be hyperbole since I think if you're unable to ignore people online you should really just turn off your internet because it's really easy to ignore people online. I did not mean that you must make your code open source. I don't really care either way about that.
Which privacy coins did you look at, and what kind of results did you get? Sounds quite interesting!
Your blackjack outcome is independent of other player's decisions.

This is a statistical fallacy.
Sounds great.
Maybe, in addition to working on price segmentation, one way to leverage the behavior (“stickiness” as you call it) of your users is to create a mechanism to make them refer new customers to you: you can create an inexpensive growth engine, for example like Dropbox did with its referral program.
lot of them banning crypto or requiring disclosure as well
I agree in spirit, but this is overbroad. The various branches of government employ millions of people. A cop, or VHA nurse, or my friend who works a non-managerial role at the EPA can own stock. It's the decision-makers who were should be concerned about. That group extends beyond congress, but doesn't contain literally every government employee.
You aren't even getting into the fun of "display numbers" where, 2.000 could be 2000 or 2,000 or 2'000 depending on who wrote it. :D
Because investments are still a great way to hold your savings. The problem here isn't that they have investments (e.g. a 401k), it is that they are acting on insider information. Which is illegal to everyone else. At _minimum_ they should be held to the same standards. Though I think most people agree that they should be held to _higher_ standards, which gives suggestions like a blind trust. And obviously strict rules of if they break the blind part that they get jail time.
Is that why The Economist has a whole separate category for reporting on "Race and sex bias in medicine"?
This is our strategy exactly. We get a lot of outsiders or investors critiquing that we have industry jargon on our landing page that only insiders understand. That is 100% by design.

Not only does it signal to insiders that we know what we are talking about and that our software was built with them in mind, but it also scares away people that it is not built for. Which helps us avoid answering countless inquiries as to whether this software can work for this or that.
Behind on...what? Against the latest and greatest Apple or AMD? Maybe. I'd probably put it at a generation at most.

That aside, there's a -huge- market for chips that aren't the latest and greatest. Intel expanding into that, which if I read right is what they're doing, could be a huge moneymaker.
I don't think normal middle class government workers owning stocks is a real problem. I get where you're coming from (technically they could have inside information), but it's not nearly as impaction as the elected officials having very large swings hinge on their own policies.
Corn in the US is heavily subsidized. It's why corn syrup is so prevalent in US foods, because the subsidies mean it's cheaper than any other sources of sugar.

In the US, Iowa is the largest producer of corn [1] (producing nearly 40% more than the next, Illinois,) and thus the greatest beneficiary of those corn subsidies. Could we reduce those corn subsidies? No, it's politically nonviable, in part because Iowa has enshrined in its laws that it must have the first primaries in the US [2][3]. No candidate that has ever said anything against corn subsidies has won a primary.

[1] https://www.cropprophet.com/what-state-produces-the-most-cor...

[2] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/why-iowa-and-new-hampshi...

[3] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/01/why-the-iowa-cau...
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My experience is that this doesn’t necessarily hold true in practice. The concurrency primitives being used are different. I’ve put a war story below :) but it’s kind of beside the point.

My main point was that other DBs like PostgreSQL implement row level locking so can handle concurrent writes much better than SQLite.

As for my war story I hit on false deadlock detection problems writing to two separate tables from two processes with an fkey between them. Fun fact if it thinks there’s a deadlock SQLite will not call your busy callback. It will just immediately fail. I know the deadlocks were false positives because my solution was to move my backoff logic out of my busy handler and instead catch SQLITE_BUSY and call sleep myself. Identical backoff values but the “problem” disappeared.
A fiscally motivated piece of "journalism" is absolutely worth dismissal.

solutions floated:

#1 Double the diversity candidates in your testing pool (ie: use a testing group that it non-representative of any naturally occurring environment)
#2 Use novel technologies like "real-time ultrasonic scanning"
#3 "Transparency for medical algorithms" (sounds like a precept to industry regulation which is notoriously anti-competitive)

Doesn't take a lot to imagine the biases at play here...
I just did, since is first time I've heard of it. And to me it seems Ghidra is more advanced. Maybe in the future will surpass it.
A substantial amount of Earth's resources would need to be eviscerated to accomplish that goal, the the space colonies are extremely likely to fail anyway, in the end.
I believe GP is defending facts against malicious lies. That seems always a good thing, regardless of whom the lies are directed towards.
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It is not. If you find something that does bot belong to you it does not become your property. Only in special circumstances you can claim it as your own.
Strange, I have never seen an apartment that includes electricity.
Trying to give it some context and a (possibly not right) English translation from Google translate:

[dalsgaard] 5 years ago

Hi Kids.

Linus Thorvalds is not so happy to use C ++ to write the Linux kernel in - as he thinks STL and Boost are unstable and not portable, and that you become dependent on the abstraction models you get built in the program, which may later turn out to become ineffective. What do you think about that?
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[bstroustrup] Bjarne Stroustrup 5 years ago

He does not know what he is talking about and he attracts attention by expressing himself rudely. If he had had a good argument he could have used it quietly and politely.
And you don't see the contradiction there? On the one hand you say that the environment is protected more than the people yet here you argue that it's actually the people who benefit instead of nature.

Which is it?
Even then, do you want people who are incentivized to pump-and-dump the macro market during their term? You'd almost need to enforce this for 10 years or more, even if it goes beyond their term.
This same script is used for the server and client. So you are running this on your workstation.
> the researchers were able to approximate that about 20,000 T. rex were alive at any given time

low
Charging someone’s credit card 12 times a year has a definite cost. Having the funds ahead of time is also worth more than earning the funds one month at a time.
We don't exclusively burn coal to secure bitcoin and China uses a combination of power generation technologies to power its electrical grid. To imply that it's all coal is just wrong.

Yes, shut down the coal plants today, but you'll be cancelling more than Bitcoin PoW. So what are you really mad about? Bitcoin or Coal?

For goodness sakes, if these activists win at cancelling Bitcoin, all they've accomplished is extending the lifetime of coal-fired power generation. Yay?
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And if you believe in a link between obesity, diabetes, and the prevalence of corn products in our food, the chain of causality looks even worse.
I'm a little confused on how you are interpreting the majority of your customers opting for discounted pricing as an indication that you should raise prices.

But, yes, in general a lot of SaaS service could probably raise prices.

And also in general, annual billing is appealing.
>> Index funds are a reasonably good proxy for the future health of the economy

Were.

Index funds were a reasonably good proxy.

They have been completely detached from reality for at least a year, and arguably for several years.

S&P has doubled over the past 5 years. Does that mean the economy has also gotten twice as healthy?
I've heard exactly the opposite about hydroponic vegetables. I suppose it depends on what nutrients the plants are given in the water. What is your experience?
This is really broad stroke. Everything we do is a gamble. Investment firms work for their clients if they didn't they wouldn't last very long. Contrary to what most people think they play a important roles. For example spending time with firms to decide if they are worth investing in. Capitol allocation is really important. It allows someone like me to delegate investment choices for my pension. This funds things new medicine development, new technology etc. Sure there are things like high frequency trading. But taken as a whole I know who'd I prefer to give my money to to invest: people with something to lose if it doesn't work out. I'm not sure how else to allocate capitol with out totally eroding personal choice.
Not doubting you, but I'm really curious how that highly illegal data is encoded, because for the life of me, I couldn't find it :-)
The original, downloaded version of Google Earth shows the month (and has already had a historical imagery feature for the long time). Get "Google Earth Pro" (it's still free, that's just what they call it now), go to View->Historical Imagery, and you can scrub left and right on the slider.
Haven't found a better way than `./ci.sh` and do as much work as possible to keep github actions/travis/jenkins/whatever from requiring something different than running locally.

It's sisyphean.
> Elon on the other hand has multiple, something like spacex isn't just going to be forgotten

So far they haven't done anything that deserves that. If they do a manned mission to Mars and back that will be another story, but so far that hasn't happened.
It seems to me that aquifers aren't sustainable water sources to begin with--we shouldn't treat them as a primary water source, but rather as a reserve source for scarce years. On the other hand, topsoil could be sustainable (at least for very large time scales) provided it's properly managed.
Credit cards are still pretty difficult to get in Colombia and some other countries in South America. You can get them, but you need a long relationship with your bank, and the process is expensive and time consuming for not very much cash back, so most people don't get them.
Yes, but that is usually what resilience and high availability means.

Btw what you’re talking about is interesting because decentralized systems are often decentralized until you start thinking of implementations. Since most cryptocurrencies have a single software, one bug tend to affect the entire network. Some cryptos are looking into having several implementations but I think we’re not there yet.
I've resorted to running my own local copy of GL (and, of course, its runner) for troubleshooting build complexity, since their runner pool has been so indescribably bad of late: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

I agree with the other comments that CircleCI is my high-bar for "how can a sane person run the build locally?" because I also agree with the other comments that "act" is handy, but only for the most trivial of hello-world builds, and `gitlab-runner exec` is a cruel joke
Study: Public funding made up 97-99% of the R&D cost of Oxford-AZ vaccine [pdf]
>Wasn't the dust bowl caused by topsoil degradation?

No. It was caused by extensive deep tillage as method of pest control.

We have better tools and methods now.
A company I bought a plugin from, had a one fixed price for all time. They kept all the old customers in that bracked, but new customers have to buy a yearly fee.

So I would create a new subscriber role and simply let your new customers pay a bit more.

It is wise to be upfront with existing customers : say you have need for more funds or more investments, relay that to your existing customers, say you are keeping their price (indefinitely if possible) and that new customers going to go into the new tier.
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Thanks for this. I was looking to post both but turns out I can't.
How the Panama Canal Works
It was caused by lack of cover plants. Farms are using cover crops like ryegrass more because it helps keep water in the soil better.
Related... the genius and simply idea of how archive a 1:8 ratio compression and preserve an acceptable quality for free. The Binary Time Constant sound compression algorithm : https://www.romanblack.com/btc_alg.htm
Disclosure still applies for Congress (and POTUS/VP), it was repealed for 28k other gov't employees.

Also, it's mandated 45 days after trades - not in advance as many here are calling for.
> I bet that medical R&D happening in a more distributed nature around the world would engage more diversity for testing.

Sure. Distributing the research and testing internationally would be the best case. But if you're only testing in one single place then not many locations are as ethnically diverse as US metropolitan areas.
Owning isn't worse with rent and real estate increases are as dramatic as what has happened in the SF bay area over the last ten years.

I was very lucky to buy towards the end of the dip in 2013 and my mortgage on a 2-bedroom 2-bath house with a yard is now significantly less than what I would have be renting it for now.
feedback - the bot might be a bit more compelling if it reported the city it is focusing on. hard to tell.
I think all of this can still be reduced to be even more practical, unless we really do classify it as religion, in which case it's reduced to "follow scripture for the sake of following scripture because it's the way". I say that without judgement, and it applies to all religions.

With that said, there is rhyme and reason to this. The physical aspect is important because you can't meditate effectively if you can't even get into a comfortable pose (and I really do mean comfortable, not convoluted) without pain. You can't focus on your breath or heartbeat if it's erratic, heavy, or you are distracted by pain, indigestion, uppers, etc. So the physical aspect can be understood as a way to facilitate deep meditation.

This ties in with your "calming the mind point". Here is where it gets shady - nobody really knows what this means. We have "let go of all thoughts, be a passive observer, lol transcendental mantras", etc. In reality, reading "Altered Traits" and other meditation books, we get that maybe, maybe it helps with willpower (frontal lobe development according to "The Willpower Instinct") and focus. I will venture that it helps with working memory, and potentially IQ-related tasks.

Extrapolating from that, we can tie in with the Egyptian concept of "not losing yourself in the afterworld" (or dreams, or every day life), by being engaged, aware, and being able to recognize and analyze reality, or perception thereof if we get into Buddhism.

What that really leads to, in an enlightment sense, is very unclear.

Note that I went off on a BUNCH of tangents, but all these systems really try to tie together into some whole, which seems to be similar to what I described, but it's not clearly stated anywhere.

I promise you I am not arguing to argue, but I have been looking for an answer here for a long time, and I find none. Again, unless it's that "it's religion", in which case "that's that". On that note, these convos are difficult because there is no coherent system, but people seem to view them based on the system they are coming from - Yoga, Buddhism, breath work, lucid dreaming, whatever. That's too isolationist imo.
Yes, her work is really excellent. For anyone skimming, she is https://haraiva.itch.io/
It would help. There are already funds that track the money of politicians and invest accordingly. If they submitted a large options trade, the funds would front run them and take away much of the profit.
Only 2.5B over 2 and a half million years that seems astonishingly low. I wonder if we have any idea about their reproductive lifecycle and lifespan.

There are about 1 billion cows on the planet today mostly because we breed them and there are nearly half a million elephants living currently while being hunted by pesky humans.
The title of this pre-print paper: Who funded the research behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine?

Conclusion:

> Our study identified that public funding accounted for 97.1-99.0% of the funding towards the R&D of ChAdOx and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. We furthermore encountered a severe lack of transparency in research funding reporting mechanisms.

Related Guardian report: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...

From the above report, the researchers say:

> "We need to stop perpetuating the narrative in which the private sector and profit are the sole drivers of innovation, and recognise that the life-saving ChAdOx vaccine technology was developed with near total governmental and charitable funding."
I can't believe there are people that don't understand: the science gods have shown us the conclusive research! The only genomic difference between ethnicities is melanin!
Legitimacy is generally not an objective thing. So there’s not much of a point in arguing here further.
"These topsoil crisis stories have been running ever since that time that topsoil crisis killed thousands and caused widespread food insecurity. Utter hogwash. Well, it would be hogwash if any of the hogs had anything to eat."
I think it’s working the way you want. Don’t mess with it.