skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While in theory what you say is mostly true, it's not really true in reality. The EU govt issued bonds that produce negative real interest rates in 2020. The US Govt let their treasuries hit 0% interest.

bond/debt interest rates are usually fixed at the time of purchase. When you buy debt you know exactly what you will get at the end(provided the person/entity in debt doesn't default). You don't know what the inflation rate will be at the end of the bond when you get the principal back. You can make a pretty good guess, but you can't know.

It typically doesn't ever change, so if you bought a 4% yielding bond, then inflation hits at 5%, then you WILL lose money on your bond. This is normal in a rising rates/inflationary environment.

Bonds are "safe"(for some definition of safe), and you have to pay for safety.

US Treasuries pay next to nothing(and generally always have) because they are the reserve asset, everyone in the world considers them safe debt. FDIC insured bank accounts similarly get away with paying basically no interest on the deposited money.

Safety costs you. Holding cash means you are generally going to lose to inflation.

The only exception really are TIPS, I-Bonds and other inflation protected bonds. But that's only if you how they define inflation is also how you define inflation.

Right now Inflation is like 5%, but a lot of that inflation is from things like buying cars, or in the recent past lumber. If you aren't currently buying those things, then those inflationary pieces don't really apply to you. So your personal inflation rate might be 2% or .5%, it just depends on what you are buying.

Anyways, bonds are complicated, and debt even more so. At the moment you can get 30yr mortgages(debt) under the current 5% inflation rate.. does that mean owning a house with inflation is a good deal.. MAYBE.
There have been some interesting findings in aging studies (e.g. the 90+ study [0]) that suggest some people who have all the physiological signs of Alzheimers, but show no symptoms of dementia.

I suspect the arrow goes:

X -> brain degradation
brain degradation -> cognitive decline
cognitive decline -> driving bad
brain degradation -> post-mortem Alzheimers diagnosis

The loose link there is the path from brain degradation to cognitive decline. The 90+ findings (plus other findings on TBI and plasticity) suggest that by maintaining high plasticity through brain assaults (old age, trauma), it seems the brain can "route around damage" and remain comparatively functional.

[0] The 90+ study: https://mind.uci.edu/research-studies/90plus-study/

60 Minutes on Superagers - Video + Transcript:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-life-retirement-community-...
If I was running a large country, I'd want transactions to be entirely local for national security reasons. Generally, in the event of a world war, I wouldn't want it to be trivial for other countries to remotely cut off my whole economy.
What's the worst that can happen in a on-premises attack, Vs the worst that could happen if AWS was hacked?

The amount of financial data that could be exploited at once is magnitudes larger in a popular cloud. I don't think it's strange that a regulator might look at that failure point with some trepidation.
I know this is sort of a low quality joke post, but I don’t think I’d ever thought about a directed taxi-cab distance before. I’m not yet convinced it’s a useful model outside GIS, but I may spend considerable time today thinking about it.

Thank you.
> Your Apple data is being given away to Chinese dictatorships

Only if you live in China, which is well known to be a surveillance state with access to all personal data.

> and the US government.

Yes, but only by court order, rule which applies to every US company. This is a problem, but not one with Apple.

> You don't actually know if your data is given away. We only learn after Apple is caught.

True for every company in the world.

You make this sound like a problem with Apple, but these are problems with the US and Chinese governments.
I don't disagree, but worth noting that the Atlantic does publish a decent number of heterodox viewpoints, more than other center-left publications.
Sure! If you use Windows you can do it with a GUI in the SmartSet software that's on the drive of the keyboard itself. You can access that by hitting "progm+F1" which will mount the drive. If you don't have Windows you can do it easily in a text file in the "active" folder of the drive.

You can have multiply qwerty and dvorak layouts. qwerty.txt is the default qwerty layout which I edited. I set "delete" to be keypad shift which shifts (but not toggle) into the keypad layer. This can be done in qwerty.txt file by adding the lines:
"[delete]>[kpshft]" and "[kp-delete]>[kpshft]" with no quotes. Then to set ( & ) on the C and V keys in the keypad layer for example you create a 1 key macro basically like this:

{kp-c}>{-lshift}{9}{+lshift}

{kp-v}>{-lshift}{0}{+lshift}

kp keys are keys in the keypad layer. Some keys like [] have special names so they are done like this:

[kp-F]>[cbrack]

[kp-D]>[obrack]

You can find more how to do this in the manual. Xahlee also has a good tutorial.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/kinesis_keyboard_howto.html
I am losing track of things. In a personal Gmail account, I now have two options for video calls, Hangouts and Meet, listed separately in the l/h nav bar.

This is also the case for a corporate Gmail account.
> Logic itself is a human construct that comes from observing nature - God's surely didn't hand it over to us.

I'm not sure that is true. If we estimate Pi by tossing needles onto a grid of lines[1] then we are obtaining the value by observing nature. But, while that's a fun exercise, it isn't how mathematicians actually determine the value of Pi. They use formulas[2] based on elementary numbers, such as this: Pi = Sqrt( 6 * Sum[k=1..infinity](1/k^2) ).

Maybe you believe that the numbers 1, 2, 3... are different in different universes. Personally, I can't fathom that. But if you accept that the basic counting numbers are fundamental to logic and reason instead of being derived from nature and somehow varying from one universe to another, then simply square those numbers, take the reciprocals, sum the series, multiply by 6 and take the square root -- that's Pi.

There ARE various geometries possible. But those consist of different definitions of what terms like "straight line" mean. The geometries all have the same value for the fundamental circle constant, Pi.

Whether we choose to talk about Pi or instead about Tau (where Tau = 2Pi) is a social convention. But what the value is (of both constants) is a fundamental property of mathematical reasoning independent of convention.

[1] https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/estimate-pi-by-droppi...

[2] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiFormulas.html
It's not decency, it's advertising. Google has a carefully cultivated public image of being the place to be. There's a reason people talk about "FANG" (with various extra letters depending on who you're talking to exactly) and it's not just salary brackets. It's not generous, it's strategic.

All the perks companies like Google offer are carefully optimized to increase productive time in the short term and extend the duration of that short term as much as possible. Only as you rise through the ranks does mid and long term become relevant and then they have perks to address those factors as well. But at no point is a company purposefully being generous except to extract as much value out of employees as possible. The purpose of a company is to maximize shareholder value, not to make employees happy.
Oh, I didn't look at that this way. Thanks for noticing.

I saw how Bitski made their payments and it's quite similar to what I described. They don't have any KYC yet though and it seems to be okay with their business.

Why do you think it would be a real mess with frauds?
The title ("Orbit – open-source design system documentation") is a bit confusing to me (I'm a technical writer so anything with "documentation" catches my eye). It seems like the provided link is just the documentation for a collection of open source web components? Or is the documentation itself open source? I'm not trying to be pedantic here, just asking in case I'm missing something. In other words it seems like the word "documentation" isn't necessary in the title in this case.
Summary

Look, I happen to have a very high opinion of Iranians and Iranian society. I think you are one of the most sophisticated people in the world (though, note, sophisticated and sophism share the same root ;). I think the Ayatollahs have, in many ways, perverted Iranian society (in others ways ensured it's independence). But your statement is too simple, too lacking in nuance. It is, frankly, dangerous (but I'll defend your right to share them with my life!) in the same way that statements about Iraqi's perception of America were 20 years ago.

Long Version:

"I was born and grown up in Iran "

I figured, but I didn't want to bring it up; if you're going to talk about "lived experiences" then it's fair that I ask you what your social class you belong to in Iran. Were you the son/daughter of an engineer? Or were you the child of a manual laborer? Did you grow up in Tehran, or Shiraz? Or did you grow up in a small village in the middle of nowhere? Did you have foreign DVDs when you grew up?

More succinctly, did your class make or was it depicted in "Children of Heaven"? (deserved the Oscar, btw. It was brilliant)

"First, a massive portion of the population (middle and upper class) are also considerable"

Well, doesn't that implies that the Ayatollahs did well by Iran? In the times of the Shah the middle class was proportionally small, certainly not large enough to make OP's comment wrong. (The answer is no, the Ayatollahs were a disaster and Iran's middle class, even if it numbers in the millions, is still a small fraction of the total population)

" and they _dont_ hate America."

OK, here I'll concede you're probably partially right but only because "America" is very ill defined. How can someone "hate" Akron OH? You can despise them, but hate? Ohioans are the nicest people I've met in the world (lived experience from growing up in four continents)! But, typically, when ppl talk about hating "America" they are referring to DC and DC's policies.
(1) Mortgages currently have LOWER interest rates than inflation. Right now inflation is above 5%, and I know people who refinanced below 3%.

(2) It doesn't matter too much in either case. If I took on a debt 5 years ago, and I'm paying $500 per month, if we see inflation will mean I'm paying half of that.

Inflation is really good for people (and governments) with excessive debt. If your net worth is negative, inflation is a tax on your debtors, not on you.
> I reached out to support 2:15AM in their live chat and got my issues resolved as we spoke.

Nice, but time zone matters - depending on where both you and they are based, that could have just been normal 9-5 making it seem better than the reality... Not detracting from the fact that it got resolved promptly of course.
Dude, just use a timestamp.
sure, but it is subjective what is the goal and what is it's value.
Congratulations! Deep respect for you! It's a very attractive program and easy to use. You made that in a short time while you are only in the 2nd year of your education. That promises a lot. I'm proud of you!
I'm a Macports user. Here are some things I find attractive about Homebrew:

1. While the range of packages available is only slightly larger, the support story of those packages tends to be MUCH better than Macports: a not-insignificant number of ports haven't been updated since they were first published.

2. Homebrew user docs are much better. The Macports contributor documentation is comprehensive and detailed, but their user docs are obtuse/non-existent. Homebrew contributor documentation is poor, but that lack affects a much smaller set of people than Macports' lack.

3. Homebrew is the supported install method for many pieces of open-source software: even if they also have a port, any support they give / tickets you read will be targetted to the Homebrew installation method.

The 1st and 3rd points may be mainly down to network effect but I feel like the 2nd point is very addressable and will also contribute to 1 & 3 in a big way.
> or worse yet, trigger a full fledged recession

Why does a recession need to have a negative connotation? It's what a healthy economy does to get rid of market inefficiencies.

Since the 2008 housing bubble popped, I noticed a general sense in the zeitgeist that recessions should be avoided at all costs. Is this not delaying the inevitable, or setting up an even bigger downturn in the future than what might have occurred more naturally?
Pets.com started in 1998 and was gone by 2000, it's more like the ICOs of 2017. Bitcoin has been alive for almost 12 years now and is stronger than ever before. I'm not sure that's a fair comparison.
I doubt the state would fund the university without oversight and forcing them to show 'value for money'.
Yes, similar contracts are used in the Netherlands. Afaik our (Dutch) lawyer has done deals with SAFE-equivalents.
Station Desktop is going open-source
"algebra" in the gp comment is different from the algebra in early highschool.
How many of these train stations have been built after 1950? And what defines "large" in both cases?
> The book nicely separates out the useful tech part from the political propaganda, and deflates the entire hype around it (Hint: Most people want Merkle trees and a trusted institution, but think they need a Blockchain - they will end up with a blockchain, a centralized institution and a large energy bill).

People who want Merkle trees and a trusted institution don't understand either.

I haven't read the book, but I suspect this refers to the deafening "Blockchain not Bitcoin" hype from 2015-2018.

It turns out that Bitcoin solves a very specific problem in a manner that looks general. It's taken several years for that idea to play out, but it appears to be on a well-deserved decline.

It's possible to see Bitcoin as the answer to a range of problems without seeing it as the solution to every problem.
I remember watching video footage of fabricated camps in the Balkan wars made by CNN and BCC in the mid 90s (I forgot the name of the video hosting website that was popular back then), following years of similar articles. Nothing changed really, people are as dumb as they ever were and even easier to manipulate nowadays.

Americans and their allies are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East alone in the last twenty years or so, not counting their military orgies since the end of the II. world war. However China bad, Russia bad. Israel kills 66 children in just 4 days. No problem for the US and its allies. China bad. Russia bad.

This sort of media brainwashing will continue until there's nobody sane left to oppose the establishment in their military action against China in the distant future. No proof, no common sense, just..."news". From us, for us. Because nobody else matters. Vietnam fiasco can't happen again.
Less of a questionnaire and more of an advert in my opinion. If you want to show HN your technology, just do so directly.
The stimulus checks made sense when people simply weren't allowed to work. I lean very right with my fiscal opinions and I can understand why we stimulated since government (with no choice!) created the quarantine issue, and people needed to eat. But now, with so many open jobs and no one willing to fill them, they should not only cut the stim checks but cut back on other forms of assistance to force people to go out and work and learn new skills. Until this happens, inflation will keep rising.
When needing to grant access to photos on iOS, the user can has three options:

- Deny access to photos

- Grant access to hand-picked photos\

- Grant access to all photos.

Picking the middle option opens an OS-handled photo picker where you choose which photos the application can access. The model works pretty well in balancing flexibility, security and convenience.

Something else _many_ apps support, is just pasting a photo. So if I want to post a photo on Twitter, I can just copy it from my photo app, and paste it there. Twitter has access to no photos on the system at all, it merely receives that one.
Something I wanted to check too, but too lazy to do it.

Actually, I was to lazy to even ask here, so thanks for asking.

Let's hope someone even lazier can just upvote without replying.

/s
Also the sound seems to register itself as a media sound, so it will hijack your play/pause functionality. If I'm playing music and get a call, pressing play/pause to stop my music will just stop the ringing while continuing to play the music. Additionally, if I get a call and pick up, later on if I hit play/pause it'll continue playing the Teams call jingle instead of my music.

It can even be seen in Big Sur with the new playing media icon in the top bar. If I click that I can see that there's an item for my music, and an item for Teams sounds.
If you prefer to write db queries directly, you can implement this functionality in Postgres using ARRAY_AGG/JSON_OBJECT functions. They really simplify database code in some cases.
A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
Most of your point is well made, but electric engines are just as tied to physics, unless I'm missing something? Doesn't mean quality of the control software is still not concerning.
"Google is implementing its previously-announced one-hour cap"
From the text of the rule:

> There is no bar on processing of payment transactions outside India if so desired by the PSOs. However, the data shall be stored only in India after the processing. The complete end-to-end transaction details should be part of the data.

So this only applies to the customer data, not the actual systems that do the transaction processing and verification. The systems that actually do the work could still be cut off from India, leaving them with nothing but a database of customer transactions.
This line about his friend broke my heart:

> When Kamil had left for the U.S., though, the Chinese government had required that two of his friends serve as guarantors. If he did not return, they would be punished.

How evil and disgusting. But a reminder that the people who escape and tell us their story have paid a huge price to do so. And so have their families and friends.
Sometimes I scan the top and bottom of a door to see where the holds/fixed mounts are to know if I should push or pull.
(Assuming "we" here is the US)

Trade embargo is a possibility, and the US has done it before. But only to smaller countries; it's a strongarm tactic, and the US's trade arm is not strong enough to do more damage to China's economy than the US would suffer cutting those ties.

When an opposed nation is weaker than one's own, one can use sanctions and trade embargoes. When they're the same strength or larger? Trade embargoes cut one's own nation out of the international community. China has India and Russia right next door; they don't need the US's trade.

It's definitely an option. I don't think Americans have the stomach for it. The government that tries it will be voted out and replaced by a trade-friendly one.
The reverse would be also true they can just take money as they like (e.g. negativ interest or simple one time reductions of consumer balances as it happened in Cyprus).

Or just freeze all your assets. I for one fear even more control of the incompetent, ever money hungry governments
Winfetch: A zero-dependency Neofetch clone written in PowerShell
My less(1) tips are:

Use "-S" to toggle the "--chop-long-lines" option at invocation or in interactive mode. This mode shows only one line on the screen for each line in a file and is helpful when viewing a log with entries much longer than the screen width. When lines are chopped less(1) lets you scroll horizontally with <LEFTARROW>/<RIGHTARROW>. Chopped mode also works in tail mode ("F" command or "+F" option).

As others have mentioned the search "/pattern" and filter "&pattern" commands are awesome and they also work in tail mode.

The -J option toggles the status column which is helpful when using search patterns or paging around a file.

Since less(1) has lots of features and navigation methods it’s good to remember the "h" command to show the help page.
> Bitcoin has been alive for almost 12 years now

Bernie Madoff's fraud lasted longer than that.
Yep, I have no idea which would have a more significant impact.

Both seem reasonably plausible to me. I'd definitely be interested in what the results turn out to be!
I'm not talking about TDP when I talking about stuffing cores, I mean physical size. The M1 cores use more transistors.

I'm sorry, but you're comparing power draw of a workstation "X" AMD chip with a laptop chip. It's simply not a honest comparison. You must compare the efficiency of mobile chip with a mobile chip. When you do that you find similar efficiency.

I don't understand why no one is posting actual apples to apples comparison. Every time a comparison is posted its either comparing to a workstation chip to find power efficiency even if they're tuned to be power inefficient, or comparing to Intel CPUs only, etc...

Laptop processors from AMD use less than half the power per core of workstation processors while sacrificing only a very small performance gain, due to the use of a different lithography for I/O.

Apple's architecture is simply not superior. If it was, we wouldn't be making these contrived comparisons, and we wouldn't even be comparing 5nm chips to 7nm chips.
ROFL no one cares what a shill
>Completely disagree that the stimulus checks were unnecessary

They were completely unnecessary for a LOT of people. I can guarantee almost no one on HN needed a stimulus check. If you were working a white collar job remotely you did not need one. Those checks should not have been given to anyone that was still employed through this. It was all a political game to garner votes.

>I'm really curious what you think a superior solution to the COVID economy would have been.

To not shutdown businesses that needed to be physically open to survive. You really think those checks helped out all those small restaurants/bars/etc. that weren't even allowed to be open during all of this?

Additionally, they sent a bunch of money to other countries so we'll get to pay for that as well.
Americans used to move for opportunities much more in the past, today they have grown much more complacent and stay close to mom.
I agree on some products, but not at iPhone scale. They do pilot runs months in advance to shake out issues. When you sell several million in the first release weekend you have to build stock and fill the channel. They may choose not to enable something in software, but I really doubt they are making HW changes. Last minute HW changes lead to big failure rates, which is just too costly in terms of reputation and cost.
Yep, sorry, it's probably a bit confusing. The whole design system is open-source, from its components to also the documentation. You can find it on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/kiwicom/orbit/tree/master/docs
The biggest difference is that arm has a fixed length for instructions. Meaning apple can predictably feed more decoders than x86 which must finish decodes before knowing where future boundaries are going to be.

AMD has admitted to being at our very near the upper limit for x86 decoding. With arm Apple can have and reliably feed more decoders from the incoming stream of instructions. They have built their whole chip around being able to extract parallelism from the huge instruction window.