skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a mistake in that comment. The opposite is true. Central banks primary driver is to stop CPI prices from decreasing, which happens naturally because economic productivity increases with technological progress, making it easier and cheaper to produce goods and services.

Money is created to revert this development so that CPI prices increase at the rate of 2% per year. Naturally, life would get easier because of technology, but instead life is made harder and harder to incentivize economic growth and environmental destruction, and keeping people in jobs that are not necessary or keeping work days longer than necessary (hamster-wheel economy).

It's important to note that inflation is relative to CPI prices, because CPI prices will naturally decrease but prices of scarce assets like real estate will relatively increase because they're more limited by space, time and energy. On the other hand, digital goods and services are highly deflationary, i.e. digital consumption is getting cheaper. So, there's digital deflation, 2% CPI inflation, 10% (or more) asset inflation.
Not that this is the best way to learn Lisp, but this book by PG might help you understand Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
It seems kind of a cheat to increase session length by making your page so hard to use that people will spend extra time just trying to figure out the controls.
> it's a lot of neo-Keynesian trash.

No, Keynes argued that the rich keep interest rates too high and prevent the poor from taking on debt. For this reason he advocated for low (zero, actually) interest rates and programs to encourage more borrowing. Basically Keynes got everything he wanted and now the present outrage is that debt is too high and the poor are allowed to borrow whereas before they were prevented from doing it. In fact the long march of history consisted of a sequence of credit easing measures, even including government guarantees, in order to extend credit market access to virtually everyone, with things like underwriting standards deemed to be racist and in need of weakening. The end result is almost everyone can borrow today and at historically low rates which leads to, surprise, a situation in which debt levels are historically high. Then that, too, is blamed on "the 1%".

At least Keynes had a sense of history and wasn't walking in the Eternal Now.
> If that's the argument, then what's the magic number threshold that makes you a monopoly after you cross it?

Let's assume a very generous 5% for payment costs (credit cards are capped at 0.3% in the EU, but US cards with their rewards can run up to 5% in merchant fees, and god knows about the cost of doing business in other markets), another very generous 5% for CDN/hosting (data traffic isn't cheap, modern games easily run into triple digit GB sizes, and gamers are notorious for bringing down even the largest CDNs on delivery dates), and another 5% for profit and other costs (development), and you end up at something like 15%.

Anything above that is ripping people off.
One thing that needs to be mentioned is how the investments are allocated. It seems to me that many white-collar people are stuck with some very vanilla investments. You can:

- Stick your money in a pension fund managed by some professional. This guy has very little incentive to do anything interesting. But you don't have time to look at a bunch of stocks and bonds, so you'll get index + noise - costs. The big thing here is the manager feels constrained, whoever he is. There's a mandate and you have to stick to it, so be conservative.

- DIY your investments. Probably this means listed equities or indices. If you're a great stock picker, that's great for you, but the money is simply sat in the stock market waiting for your retirement. Listed firms tend to have the opportunity taken out already, mostly.

- Stick your money in a hedge fund. Not everyone is allowed to do this, maybe someone got burned on it in the past. This isn't necessarily much different from option 0, but more leverage and better information might help some of these funds beat the market. As a whole, probably not, but at least you can look at other things than just buy-and-hold some stocks.

- Invest in new businesses. You can certainly pony up the money to start a restaurant or a gym or whatever. People do this, heck I'm doing it, but I don't see it much. I get the sense that we'd be much better served with most people plowing their money into local businesses than the stock market. Skin in the local game. But it's also quite hard to build trust, you need to go through a lot of potential partners to find ones you like. Or get lucky and meet someone.

- Give your money to a VC firm. Back to agency problems. Does the VC have incentives to build businesses? It seems like the incentive these days is to swing for the fences on all the investments and hope some do well. Might work for the VC, but does this work for society? I'm sure there are a number of burned out unicorns that would have been fine as medium-to-large businesses.

- How about PE? Maybe I'm just cynical, but PE seems like extractive financial trickery. Buy a firm, load with debt, pay the PE firm, hope things work out anyway. What happens to the investment? Well it's still gonna be in established firms, often big ones. A lot of that money ends up with management, who will have the same problem that we're thinking about (money from the acquisition incentive burning a hole).

- Invest in firms in other countries. You don't know people or legal systems in other places. Big lemon problem.
From what I remember from this older interview with the two founders (in Czech) the main inspiration for doing Factorio were Tekkit-like mods for Minecraft.
I've always thought the last interface would effectively be notepad/text.

As long as there are minds there will be text.

As long as text can be complex we will have to consume it in blocks and probably visually (or the direct brain interface equivalent)
Why the heck do you need to be constantly pushed headlines, sport scores, and non-urgent messages? Just make them load fast, so when you only use resources on the device when the app is actually in use.

It's exactly this kind of wasteful resource usage and the accompanying notification spam that drives me to avoid native apps in the first place.
I've enjoyed messing around with Lisp, but for me the uniformity of the syntax makes it harder to reason about - everything looks the same, big blobs of parenthesis.

That's part of its appeal, but also a big part of its downfall I think - other languages can utilize a wider "Ascii spectrum" and represent different things in lexically different ways, making it easier to distinguish at a glance.
Isn't the point here What they get 30% of?

Do they get 30% of what the end user pays or 30% of the revenue the app maker keeps (30% of Fanhouses 10% is 3%)?
Yeah. My first reaction is that this is great news, but as you say, the oil may now come from Brazil, Iran, etc. On the whole, I think it's a win for the environment, but I would like to see a detailed analysis of the predicted effects of this decision on oil exploration, extraction, and consumption.

I do feel a bit sympathetic for the company driving this project. They invested billions of dollars and over a decade of time only to see the project killed at the last minute. This is a consequence of our erratic and unpredictable political system - every four years we seem to completely change energy policy. It's the price of our democracy, but I'm sure it's frustrating for CEOs.

Edit: It's frustrating to see the parent comment get downvoted. If you disagree, explain why in a comment - no need to bury a perfectly reasonable perspective.
I wasn't a fan of it as well. While I find sticky headers common enough to not be too surprised at their presence, the strange link symbols next to repositories on GitHub especially bothered me during my reading of the (otherwise solid) article
When You Attack ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci, You Are Attacking Science’
I've been using fastmail for years and I love it.
More words than the fastly failure, but just about as much information.
One of the two capitals of the EU. Why does the EU need two capitals? Because France wanted a win.

The European Parliament would love to pick up and leave Strasbourg, but it is legally bound to meet there several times a year for a full session despite the majority of its work being in Brussels.
> I can also imagine a high number of people like myself reading that part and think it's a joke or purposely ignoring it because there are much more important issues to deal with and because I'm not much into indulging the ridiculous whims of self important people.

It doesn't say "no brown M&Ms;" - it says "no brown M&Ms, otherwise we cancel the show and you still pay us the entire amount".

If I saw something like that in a contract, maybe I wouldn't go looking for brown M&Ms, I'd at least ask my boss (who hopefully has a direct line to our lawyers) "is this for real?", and if my boss and our lawyers are any good they'd tell me that's as real as it gets.
> "Why has Apple not demanded 30% of web app revenue yet?"

They would if they knew how. Which is probably why they block features on the web so that they can't compete with native apps.
It's hard not to be sympathetic to those Albertans whose lives will be impacted by this decision. However, for too long Canada has relied on extractive industries leading to a mild case of Dutch disease. Perhaps the loss of Keystone will jump-start Alberta's nascent start-up scene and other non-polluting sectors of its economy.
UTC works out better anyway. TUC and CUT are both terrible choices. With UTC the focus is on Universal Time and nobody cares what the C is for.
> It’s time to stop taking open source infrastructure for granted.

It's time our governments start taking OSS seriously.

Like academia, OSS deserves state sponsoring.

Most of the research papers I read were made possible by OSS one way or another.
AI system outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips
I dread that moment, if it ever happens. Imagine being on the subway or in a cafe with a dozen people talking to their devices. And say goodbye to privacy; everyone will know what you're doing.
Haha. What's sad, my galvanized friend, is the younger generation doesn't get my cataclysmic Wizard of Oz allusions. I'm just consulting with the rain.
Web notifications work fine on Android. Has Apple still not fixed notifications then? I was under the impression that they claimed to have massively improve Safari during last year's conference?
> The thing is, CP/M and DOS were both primitive operating systems by modern standards. CP/M and DOS were not multi-tasking.

One of the reasons is that the first Intel processor to support multi-tasking was 386. When DOS was created, there was no hardware support for multiprocessing and virtual memory.
Define Monopoly?

Apple have ~65% Market Share in US and over 70% in Japan.
A probably better question would be "Which Linux CLI apps NEED a GUI app?"

Certainly many do, but certainly many don't as it would either reduce their usefulness, or not improve them at all.

Then again, go ahead and produce a GUI interface for them. If the GUI interface is used, well and good. If the GUI interface isn't used, then let those GUI front-ends die.
I think you just read the first sentence of my comment.
I don't get this.

Both things could be fixed in a day. Also, both of them could be impossible to overcome ever. What's the distinction you're trying to draw. If it comes down to an acute situation where I had to choose, I (and most I think) would choose to eat. I understand in the real world, there probably wouldn't be such a clear choice.
3 clicks literally means you lost 90% of your potential users.
VS Code becoming standard tools, alongside GitHub and NPM which they own now. This affords a tremendous amount of steering control and opportunities for lock-in. Some of the existing ones are the proprietary plugins for VSC, and GitHub Actions.

I wouldn't be surprised if they end up picking up Docker for a song now that Docker has utterly failed to find a workable revenue model. (Microsoft sponsored Docker's surprisingly-complete Windows support, IIRC.) The extremely-widely-used Docker Desktop products are already nonfree, as well as the dockerd that runs on Windows.
The IRS tax data leak
Are open source and EU cloud technologies excluded from French tenders?
OP is from California.
The next Presidential elections are early next year, that's why. Macron wants to look more important/relevant, and a keeper of french values and cultural importance.
> On the other, other hand - more tar sands oil staying in the ground means more oil from elsewhere in the world, often from politically unstable or unfriendly regimes will replace the oil the US otherwise would have imported from Canada.

This statement has some inaccuracies in it, it is true that it will literally result in more oil from other places, but, given supply and demand, it will result in less additional oil from other sources.

Whenever a cheap source of a good is eliminated the average production price of that good is increased (assuming there is an exhaustible supply of that good at that price) so the removal, or even inconveniencing of access, to tar sands extract will cause an up-tick in prices overall and a likely unnoticeable dip in supply.

Additionally, as a Canadian myself, the Alberta oils sands have recently contributed strongly to an economic crisis in Calgary as extraction profitability has sharply declined. There is a lot of oil still left up there but Alberta needs to act now, while it has the funds to do so, to transition their economy. It is not a feasible long term revenue source.
lol at 120 being a low dose. You start on 10-20.
> a few users have figured out how to run it on mobile

Mobile hotspot//USB tether forwarding your VPN.
I don't believe you. Civil court judges don't have the authority to order elected politicians to undergo racial sensitivity training. Citation needed
True. I would 100% agree that the fed's priorities, (north star: maintain 'stability' for some definition of stability), in order of importance are:

KPI 1. Keep prices from decreasing (screw the poor, put the middle class on a hamster wheel so they don't get too powerful)

KPI 2. Keep employment up (if you're working you're too busy to revolt)

KPI 3. Keep prices from increasing too fast (or else people will have nothing to lose and will riot)
This is all currency though. The difference is that if you adopted Bitcoin you wouldn’t get poorer as time went on.
You think downvotes and character attacks present as a good argument? Doesn't count as proof IMO if there isn't a valid argument presented, you're going to have to do a lot better than that.

And back to the main point, So I assume you agree that Netflix did go completely down the other day then right? It seems according to you that you know better of Netflix's management culture.

> I'm pretty certain this is not how Netflix's culture is.

Would you be willing to share your expert insight of this if you know better then?
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Regarding your two points, in 2020 Apple claimed there were about 23M developers [1] and they charge $99 every year.

Even if only 50% of those 23M devs are actually paying the $99 fee that is still over $1B a year.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apples-wwdc-2020-kick...
Cybersecurity alert fatigue: why it happens, why it sucks, what to do about it
> edit: -4 in 7 minutes, anyone have tips on exactly how you are allowed to discuss any of this without wholesale accepting it?

It is against the rules to complain about downvotes.

Someone else disagreed without receiving similar downvotes.

Your downvotes are probably because of statements like "and refusing to accept any downplaying of it". It's not that I would refuse to accept any downplaying, just that I don't find the ones offered to be persuasive.

If you focus on attacking the argument at hand, rather than on the mental state or character of those you are arguing with, you will have more success.
Not sure why they are downvoting you. People here seem to not get the concept of supply and demand. Specially when the demand is inelastic in the short-medium term
Almost no-one has english as first language in EU. Also most younger people speak at least 2 languages. Only older folks and people that lives in rural areas speak only one language.
I know. I'm always amazed to see how many open source licenses there are on every device.
What's your native tongue? I guess that would make non insignificant difference
This isn't snark, but a genuine question. What makes open source developers prefer permissive licenses to GPL and other copyleft licenses? What is the benefit in letting corporations use your work in proprietary software?
Alberta fundamentally has to shift gears - just like Saudi Arabia. The world will move on from fossil fuels and they had better have a plan to transition.

Norway has been handling their fossil fuels remarkably intelligently.
This problem only exists because street parking is heavily subsidized at below market rates. In urban cores, street parking is often 90% cheaper than garage parking.
Ehrenfest didn't just die similarly, he took his (disabled) son with him!
So we continue prop up terrorist regimes for the next few decades.

Electric is approaching winning on its own merits.
Giving billions to horrible people in the mean time is not an acceptable solution.

Oil independence is great for America and Canada.
Independence “from” oil is a separate if related matter.

A half way point is to allow drilling and pipeline and add taxes to local oil and major tariffs on external oil.

We get oil independence, alternative tech will be encouraged to replace expensive oil. Only losers are people that use oil.
So we can improve the data by regulating the supply chain, serving sizes, and points of sale

Doesnt seem to support enforcing varying levels of prohibition
Australia's Forever Lockdown
Wouldn't clients then only become aware that they need to replace their certs after they've been revoked?

I think the desire here would be for a mechanism to alert clients to obtain a new certificate before their current certificate is revoked and becomes invalid.

edit: formatting
What market? The market of iOS users?

There are literally more users on Android - If I were in that position, I could just switch platforms.

If I'm a radio manufacturer, I can't cry foul that Lamborghini won't allow me to sell my radio in their cars by calling them a monopolist over the "market of Lamborghini drivers."

If I then decide to still make an exclusive Lamborghini radio, I own that responsibility for my failed business model.
It still amazes me that 77TB is considered "small". Isn't that still in the $500-$1,000 range of non-redundant storage? Or if hosted on AWS, isn't that almost $1,900 a month if no one accesses it?

I know it's not Big Data(tm) big data, but it is a lot of data for something that can generate no revenue.
It'd be laughable to expect Vivaldi needs the exact same 600 million dollar search deal that floats the entire Mozilla foundation to fund a custom Chromium UI.

As I said, there are definitely other decent sources of income besides Google for these deals and since it's a significantly more focused organization it doesn't seem implausible to me.
FTP is totally usable for this, using iCloud as a cache would add so much latency that it would be unusable.
Coincidentally, four major Canadian producers are uniting in an alliance for net-zero by 2050. The four are responsible for 90% of oil-sands production [1]. To me, this makes Canadian energy a more responsible source compared to many US-based and other international producers. [2]

[1] https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/major-canadian-oilsands-producers...

[2] https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/oil-companies-net-...
GNU/Linux FAQ
The UN uses French and English as working languages, so there is a precedent for French or English as the working language.

No primarily English-speaking nation is a part of the EU.

The skill gap will be resolved. Until then? Traslators are already a normal part of the working process.
I have a theory that the ISPs over-block with their adult content filters, so you've got plausible deniability and don't have to ring up and say "I want porn please." Because the alternative is that they lose a customer to an ISP who doesn't embarrass them.
> Mandarin would open the EU to the largest number of speakers.

No, making Mandarin the working language of the EU bureaucracy wouldn't open the EU up to any additional people, and the vast majority of Mandarin speakers are subject to one government or another that has no interest in the EU (and particularly, for instance, being accountable to the European Convention on Human Rights.)

> Romansh is an European language not used in the EU; choosing it would level the playing field

No, it wouldn’t. In terms of making communication within the levels of the bureaucracy to which it applies all but impossible, sure.

Not sure why that would be the goal, though.
Who are "the few" in this case?
Could you supply some specifics/citations for the previous permit being revoked for being illegal?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453365

Edward Thorpe and Ralph Vince both conclude that the Kelly Criterion in the continuous case is excess returns divided by variance, which is pretty close to the Sharpe Ratio, correct?

Asking to understand better, not to be combative. Your comment made it seem like that formula is way off.
> In Java, say, you have a giant static array. You allocate chunks of that. You can then return to the caller a block of memory without you ever having to call the OS's allocator.

Where did this "giant static array" come from? Seems like somebody allocated that to you and I think you already know where they got it. Keep going down the rabbit hole.

Somebody is at the bottom of the rabbit hole, and they are not using Java.
That's way too generous. Linux at least dominates in servers and smartphones.
Indeed, the genesis of GEM was with Lee Jay Lorenzen who left Xerox to come to DR after he tried to pitch a light version of the Star's GUI that would run on PC-class hardware. So although there was obviously a lot copied from the Mac there was also a lot that came from his experience at Xerox.

Here's his presentation of his prototype, in 1982, quite a while before the Mac or Lisa were released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30
I have nothing against op’s well written and documented comment but it is describing the status quo.

it’s like saying cobol is the most used programming language, why use java or python?
That sounds like a lot of infrastructure which you need to operate to avoid trusting your back. Do we have any reason to think the average Salvadoran wants to do that? If not, it’s not exactly realizing the sales pitch.
Personally, I much prefer "patches are welcome". It puts the ownership back on that person who asked for XYZ feature to do it.

If that person is actually motivated enough to write a patch (which I have had!), I welcome reviewing it, because it empowers that person to feel like they can contribute to my project (and hopefully other projects too!), and makes others feel like they can contribute to my project as well.
I don't like the oil economy at all, but revoking permits after a company has spent billions laying pipes using government-granted permits does leave a bad taste in my mouth.

It seems like bad precedent for the assumption to be that the federal government will pull the carpet out from under your feet (losing you your entire investment) whenever the political winds shift.

Today it's an oil pipeline, but tomorrow it could be for a solar installation in a nature reserve, or new hydropower, or a nearly-complete nuclear power plant.
"There was that project some guy posted a while back that used a combination of sqlite and partial downloads to enable searches on a database before it was downloaded all the way."

https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorrent