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Why didn't you just pay off the loan if you had more than enough collateral already to get a >100% collateralized loan?

What happened is that you used DeFi to leverage your financial position, not pay off debts.

Don't lie to people.
If advertising wasn't a viable business, all of these pay for services would suddenly get much more popular.

That said, advertising without tracking across multiple sites/apps is perfectly viable - The New York times does it (https://stuntbox.com/blog/2020/05/new-york-times-third-party...).
Oh ok, that's fine then.
This is a false dichotomy. Ivermectin doesn't solve the problem. Ivermectin is in widespread use, it didn't solve the problem anywhere. Maybe it's 50% effective, which would be a great result for a drug - it still wouldn't solve the problem.
> You make it sound as if the theory is pure quack

My apologies. I tried to phrase neutrally, and give good references. What can you do, when an idea sounds interesting, but is quite clearly rejected by current mainstream science?

Personally, I agree with you. But the topic goes above my level of experience in fluid mechanics and numerical meteorology. Some of the best minds in numerical atmospheric fluid mechanics should thoroughly examine the proposed theory. Like you say, the potential implications could be big. But the current short attention span of science funding does not support or reward such work.
Hmmmm, if you say so
Everybody emitting less than their neighbors is a differential equation where you end up with everybody emitting negative infinity carbon dioxide. That seems like a fine result.
Can you check now? It should be available. We do have 1 canadian company who is hiring for engineers in both US and Canada.
We had not opened it till now but have just done that.
GOG is the best Digital Game store right now, I really hope Netflix doesn't buy it and screw it up.

I don't know why anyone would want that. I love my one-purchase DRM-free games. I hate the concept of streaming games.
I'd subscribe (as a company) if you didn't have the 10k yearly fees. I view recruiting as point in time events (we are a startup) rather than a continuous process.
Grammar tip, if someone name ends in s, you can just write Gates’ experiment.
Here's a non-Amazon link to a very popular text:

https://www.powells.com/book/nonviolent-communication-978189...

Also, this book is questionable because of certain phrases and perspectives, but I enjoyed it because it is an attempt to boost confidence (another non-Amazon link):

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-more-mr-nice-guy-robert-...

I think the author of this book wrote it specifically for angry right-wing types who think therapy is a weakness, because inside the book is hidden messages of self-acceptance and assertiveness wrapped up in tough-guy sounding language.
Show HN: Story of an International Student
Hi Hackernews,

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping safe.

I am writing this to put forward my story since I have been in US as an international student.

I came to US to do my masters in Systems Engineering in Fall 2016. Having always had an interest in Robotics, Machine Learning & Computer Vision - I moved to M.E degree in Robotics at the end of Fall 2016. 1-1/2 years later, I graduated with my M.E in Robotics. That is when, it seems my life took a turn to the worse. I did not have any work experience and most companies felt my profile did not suit their needs. I have struggled for 1 year during my OPT to find a permanent position before I ended up getting an opportunity to do my PhD in Robotics & Machine Learning.

Joined PhD in Summer 2019. Another year of struggle again because of the differences in research interests which is perfectly understandable and as far as I read happens sometimes in PhD. So, I moved to another Professor who is working in BO, ML and RL. After 9 months of enjoying my work, loving what I did - my current advisor tells me he is moving to another University and he cannot take me along(because I lack rigorous mathematical background). We submitted 2 papers in this years time(1 rejected & 1 in review) and now this happens. I finished all my coursework and also preliminary exam.

Now, I have another 45 days and these are my options:
1. Find another advisor: Seems like the best option. Doesn’t it? Unfortunately, 2 professors did not want to work with me. What are the chances that another professor will take me? Next to none. I just want someone to trust me to do things right and get stuff working. Every year - I have had to struggle and constantly worry about these insecurities.
2. Find an employer who is willing to sponsor me H1-B visa on cap-exempt. Not so easy considering the pandemic.
3. Go back to India.

I certainly do not have any grudges on any advisors but makes you wonder if I am the bad person in this case. Everything happens for a reason. All I wanted was to work hard, do stuff right and most important, keep my family happy.

At this point of time, the only choice I can honestly see is going back to India(because advisors are getting most of their students back and do not intend to recruit at this time).

I am putting my story out on HackerNews because of 2 reasons:
1. I wanted to just write it out and post the struggles of an international student. I completely understand mine is a unique situation and not everyone faces what I do.
2. I was hoping someone notices me, hopefully extend a lending hand and actually believe in me.

I need some help guys.

Regards,
Harshvardhan Uppaluru
Link to my Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t912aa6P8tWhMYLj7JO2AQcpzZZu7l4_/view?usp=sharing

Any comments/suggestions are helpful. Thank you.

Please wear a mask! :)
I think this is quite exciting, as it solves a major unsolved problem for large git monorepos: enabling development or CI/CD inside a git monorepo without requiring a large checkout.

As monorepos grow huge, this comes to be very costly or even prohibitive, and companies like Google simply don't use Git.

Here are some problems with alternative approaches that have been mentioned:

* VFS for Git: I believe abandonded by MSFT in favor of improved client-side tooling: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit/blob/master/docs/faq.... .

* Sparse checkout: limits ability to use a build system to dynamically find any dependencies and rebuild them

* Submodules: can't atomically update both the parent and the child repo, have to manually update the referenced commit of the child repo in the parent repo, and each collaborator must manually update their child repo when the commit changes
at the same time it's very easy to run into anecdotes people have like "you bought the 5th edition of this college textbook? do you want to buy the 3rd edition in Spanish?"
now tell us what you really think...
So much this. All I wanted was a simple way to share pics and updates with family and friends. Instead, I got an anal probe and mind control. Seriously, it is harder and harder to actually find my family and friends on their convoluted mess of a site.
You are not immune to propaganda
> don't show signs

Like for example being Polish.
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If you live in a society, you agree to abide by its rules or to move to a different society that better suits you if they will accept you. Otherwise you are a renegade. I don't see how this is avoidable.

A state is considered intact if the government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. A state can become predatory if they abuse that legitimacy, but other than that, if the government loses its monopoly, you have what is referred to as a failed state.
I don't think that's necessarily the case. With that criteria, the concept of a society without money at all would also be a 'non left wing' position, and I don't think that's the case. Decentralised currency doesn't strip the government from the ability to redistribute money --- it can still do so via taxes, even without control of the printing machine.

Hell, the right implementation of the decentralisation of currency (obviously not what we have right now with bitcoin) could be more equitable than what we have right now with centralised currency.
I did have sufficient funds but drawing a loan is more capital efficient. I responded to another comment in this post explaining why.

Also, this was not my scenario but a common view: it can make sense to draw a loan so that you're not liquidating long-term holdings. Imagine I hold $100k in bitcoin and need to pay off $15k in student debt. If I sell my BTC, I'll incur capital gains tax and also have a smaller long-term holding. Alternatively, I can borrow $15k against the BTC, pay no tax, and keep my BTC position in full. There are various ways to then generate interest on the BTC and pay back the borrowed funds.

Some platforms offering 0% loans include Liquity and Alchemix.
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Colloquially, no one would interpret "tiny drops" as "relative to the size of the Earth".

Unless of course they were trying to defend an incorrect comment on HN.
I think you're overstating how impactful railway land usage is, in total amount it's definitely a lot but per suburb or area it's not much and it more or less sits next to the rest of the suburb rather than dominating it. It provides far more value than an airport in my opinion. I can walk out my door and 5 minutes on to a train then into the city, there's no way to get a plane from my house to the city.

What you really want to reclaim I feel is roads from cars, we devote insane amounts of land to cars, car parking, and car travel..

The city of Adelaide is an interesting example if you're interested, it's a young city and built an airport 4km from the CBD, which means the CBD can't have tall buildings, the airport has a curfew, noise is a constant hot topic, and it takes up more land than our CBD and most prized suburbs do. It's likely sitting on hundreds of millions worth of real estate, while the train station takes up less than a city block and then the rails weave their way through the rest of suburbia. The most recent Southern Interchange, a car highway interchange, takes up more land than the train station does including it's convergence and junction yard, and all it does is connect two roads together.

The city also tore up all it's rail network when cars took over, and now it can't afford to put the rail back in now that it's proven to be the more sustainable and pragmatic option.
I don’t know what things are like in the Netherlands, but a while ago I realised that the (self-reported) drug use in the UK was sufficient that the UK would literally have to bankrupt itself if it tried to fully enforce its laws.

While I take this to be a sign that the laws are wrong, I am more anarchic than the average UK voter. I can’t even compare myself to the average Dutch voter (ik spreek nur een bitje Nederlands, and even that is mostly because of how close it is to an average of English and German).
For greater capital efficiency. I explained it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845492

And I'm not increasing my overall debt position on my personal balance sheet. Rather, I shifted the debt from student loans at ~5.5% to a DeFi protocol where the borrow rate is effectively negative.
We also have a different plan where it's completely success-based. You pay only if you hire any of our vouched engineers. We charge 15% of annual base salary in that case though.
Is it really ok for youtube, a product with monopoly position on online video, to bundle a product that competes with other companies ? Seems similar to what Microsoft did with bundling IE with Windows
Yup. The majority of leaders I know are just average people who are more comfortable being assertive. Often aggressively to shut down nay sayers. Listen in meetings and hear how the people talking are normally not the most correct or the right ones but the most assertive.
99.9% of decisions in real world isn't 0% or 100% but somewhere in between. The limit is there, the question is how big.

The gulag example is a good one because with a different limit it would change from system of extermination into a civilized prison and it doesn't require any particular person to make this decision taking the full responsibility. It's just a change of some parameter by a few percents.

> Pre-AI equivalent: These prisoners seem like they're eating too much, so let's cut their food portions. One third reduction seems reasonable.

Bureaucracy and corporations are a type of AI, and they routinely make objectively evil decisions and people tend to follow. What computerized AI introduces is even stronger network effects, even easier monopolization, and even smaller accountability.
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So that may be true, in theory.

In reality, the switch from Analog to Digital means that while people in Urban areas have more clearer channels, people in rural areas (who could watch snow covered analog TV) now have fewer if any channels.

Even if a mathematical calculation says that my TV should work great, I still have nothing if I can't pick up any channels.
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Today I've added lifetime access for a fixed fee. This will only be available for a limited period of time.
As I've grown up and become secure in my atheism, I realized that I have not come to my beliefs through any kind of logic or based on evidence. It's just what I believe - or don't, and the beliefs we have on matters we can't directly observe are formed in ways I don't fully understand. I cannot account for my atheism, and I don't think I have to. Similarly, I don't think you can account for your belief in God, but you also don't have to. It's a BELIEF, not a theorem to prove.

It's not like I go around thinking "there is no God", it's just not part of how I find meaning and make sense of the world.

This is not a moment of folly, just like your belief in God is not a moment of folly. It's just part of how I, and you, make sense of this confusing situation of coming into being on Earth for a little while, knowing that we won't be here for very long.
I have some archive data stored on GELI drives; this is a welcome development. Yes, ZFS has encryption, but it comes necessarily along with the rest of ZFS. GELI is a much more straightforward way to deliver an encrypted block device compared to an encrypted Zvol.
It is still pointless to put in $1 and expect to receive an average of 96 cents. If you like speculation with less gambling, try call option debit or credit spreads on stocks or ETFs with a low bid/ask spread. It’s more sophisticated, more skill based, and has a higher EV.

And if you get good at it or are already good at it, let me know.
Define a good life...

The average life GLOBALLY sets that the "minimum wage" life in the US is the top 10% globally.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...

> And the global median income is just $1,225 a year

You can be worth $4/k total and still be worth more than 50% of the world. Your $15-25k/year income for minimum wages is still 10x the global median and your "I can't afford a nice apartment" life is still 100x better than most of those places.

"every wage should be able" Why? Because you feel it should? Guess what? your feelings don't make land cheap, labor to build housing cheap or get rid of burdensome government bs that makes things 10x more expensive than the should be.

Your entitled opinion doesn't make things affordable or change the fact that the people crying about how bad they have it in the US have it 100x better than previous generations and current generations around the world.
Nothing about this change prevents Facebook from serving ads! Opting out doesn't remove ads, only tracking.
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Not sure hardcore drugs should ever be OTC; cocaine, heroine, fentanyl and the like. Possession and use should be legal.

It should be a healthcare issue. You go to some state run place, they give you the option of something to get you off drugs or the real thing. They provide a safe place and clean needles. You have to take some mandatory drug education on a weekly or monthly basis. They should offer all the support and information to help the ones that want to clean up.

It should be state run. Private business should not profit off hardcore drugs ever. There will never be an incentive to get them clean.
This hypothesis is being contested: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442

Although yes, if the old trees don't decompose (for whatever reason), then the forest becomes in fact a carbon sink.
And how prevalent is the practice of ISPs injecting packets into non-HTTPS traffic? Seams like OP is trying to argue against HTTP just because of a few ISP bad actors. HTTP is simpler, faster, less complex and requires much less initial configuration to set up. It also seems to me that HTTPS would be a great way for an evil tech monopoly (Google?) to solve the user attribution problem much more accurately in a cookie-less world (if you control the browser "Chrome" and the server "AMP" you just need to make sure the link between the two is encrypted to identify the user.) So I'm always worried whether opponents of HTTP have not been somewhat indoctrinated.
That doesn't disprove that "two disparate people who have never communicated coming up with the same idea for something".

It's entirely possible, if not probable, that there was independent efforts to build out "role-based" communications. Some employee comes along and says "Look, I've already developed an app do you want to buy it?". They talk with him and decide that what he has built isn't worthwhile and move on. Suddenly he thinks he has intellectual ownership over the entire premise (hence the hilarious $1B claim).

It doesn't work like that. Indeed, stories like this are why many firms simply don't want to listen to any pitches, because people often have a pretty outsized notion about their "inventions".

Again, maybe they really did rip off his idea. Maybe in 2016 they really had no idea of broadening their communications approaches (or I guess narrowing in this case). His lawyers can demand the pertinent records and that's what a court case is for. But just seeing this reminds me why I'm very clear in a lot of situations that I don't want people's ideas/inventions, because in almost every case they've been considered but now the person thinks they invented it and have ownership over it.
Perforce?
Allow facebook into your private circle of trust and boom! personalized ads and privacy!
If a mod sees this, can you switch the URL? It looks like the Youtube user stole the content from here: https://youtu.be/A-tDj4ZGcZY
You're right. I think we should start referring to all phenomenon that include water as "tiny drops of water" just to be safe!

E.g.: Did you hear about the tiny drops of water that washed away that small coastal town?
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The one serious gripe I have with ATSC is the audio handling. When you have a drop out or freeze or other glitch due to poor signal it takes out both video and audio.

For most programs most of the time an audio loss or glitch is more damaging than a video loss or glitch. If they had given more bandwidth to audio so they could use more robust ECC ATSC would have been a lot more watchable for those of us who don't have strong signals.
That's not the same person as above
It's 32 more than I would like for sure. But I don't think it's fair to talk about it like this is an everyday thing in the UK, particularly drive-by shootings which was the original point of contention.

I do agree with you on this part of your original reply, though:

> But it is delusional to think that so long as drug use is criminalised, criminal gangs will not use extreme violence.

It's definitely the case that criminalization of drug use is one of the root causes of a lot of violent crime in the UK. I imagine we'd have other social issues to contend with if we followed the path of making many drugs legal, but we'd certainly have less crime related to their trafficking and distribution.
Isn't this what sysprep is for? Removing drivers and other crap?
> The vast majority of side projects I see from applicants are one-off toy projects that have the luxury of starting from a blank slate, haven’t been built in a collaborative environment, aren’t hosted for significant traffic, and often aren’t user friendly enough to be used by anyone other than the author who knows all of the right commands and steps to get it to work.

And every one of these bullet points can tell you a lot about how good a developer can be. Do they know the limitations of their project, what is it that they wish to have done better, why wasn't it done, why did they stop developing, etc, etc... there are so many questions to ask based on the individual contributions that give you a lot of good information about how well a developer can work.

When working as part of a team a lot of developers' short-comings can be hidden by the achievements of the other members.

From my point of view (as not a hiring manager) the only time when the achievements from a work environment are more important than the individual ones, are when we're talking about how well someone can work with others (which is mostly a soft skill you can gauge from conversation alone) and when individual projects can't really exist in the context of the technologies the team you hire for is working with, and you require previous experience with them.
I think that this happens to be the case now, but is not an intrinsic property of humans. I think that we're living in an age where most consumers have been "programmed" to expect things for no financial cost and only a privacy cost.

The key word here is "programmed" - and what has been programmed can be deprogrammed. I honestly believe that we can re-rehabilitate people to no longer automatically give away their privacy for a service, and instead consciously and carefully assess the financial cost vs. utility of a service.

This could lead to both a reduction in the amount of available services (as smaller ones go out of business because people realized that it wasn't really worth it for them) and an increase in the number of services people are actually willing to pay real money for.

Also, if the subscriptions were far cheaper (say, $2/month), I think that 20 concurrent subscriptions would be acceptable to many people.
All of which are much more like layers of sedimentary rock, unknown and invisible to most people, than they are like cathedrals admired by all.
How about tracking back to content related advertising rather than tracking based advertising? All related studies are showing that the latter isn't working anyway. And, as these metrics (and ethics) suggest, it has been an illegitimate invasion, right from the beginning. The fancy "conversion rate" dashboards are just not worth it.

Bonus: Maybe this will be an opportunity for content providers to reset the decline of advertising prices that has happened over the last decade. (Remember the blooming blogger scene in the 2000s, when you could still make substantial revenues? Remember the thriving online news papers? We could get back there, if advertising became less invasive and less aggressive and also more profitable for content providers, e.g., how it had been in print.)
>Charge customers

This. If something has commercial value, then put a price on it. We've had currency for thousands of years now. It's a really useful way of signaling value in a commonly understood way. Much more efficient than barter.

Stop asking us to barter away data for services. If the service is truly worth something, then put a clear price on it and show some respect to your customers instead of trying to trick them.
Read the article, there are paragraphs that explain why it's called a virtue.
Simple text and image ads can't provide enough revenue to keep something like Facebook running.

(Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on your perspective.)
They want their lives to be public to the masses that matter to them, not an evil corporation.