skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the bond market is highly efficient and there is no free lunch. An interest bearing security yielding 8% is a junk bond in today's territory because risk free rate is 0%, and stable corp bonds like Apples are like 1%. 8% is like the price of Argentinian bonds, meaning there is a relatively high chance of default to incentivize capital there compared to the safe 0-1%.

Default meaning, the Gemini coin will be worthless when you try to withdraw. You could try to ride 8% junk bonds for 3-24 months too.
In capitalism, if you have money you can get power.

In socialism, if you have power you can get money.

I guess in a mixed economy, it flows both ways.
Do you have any evidence of that other than the parent link which looks kind of scammy? Everywhere else I have read that the minted $3B is not circulating yet, it's waiting for new purchasers of Tether. Not saying you are wrong by any means, I'm genuinely curious.
> I eventually gave up and switched to a semi-technical product management role.

Could you let me know what your job title is - I am looking for something similar where I would like to work on some semi technical stuff and at the same time manage developers but not sure what title I am supposed to look for.
Company valuations are Monopoly money.
Do you have to do anything special to opt-in for the built-in batch inserts? Earlier, I was forced to use the buffer tables approach: how would one ditch that now?
You can do that by comparing the rates in various states against the rate of firearm ownership. There does seem to be a positive correlation between firearm ownership and suicide in the United States, although other correlations are equally present and might be causative as well. Rural areas tend to to have high suicide rates[0], and tend to both be more poor and have more firearms than urban areas per capita.

Globally it's more complicated, as there are plenty of countries with fewer firearms than the US and more suicides, as well as countries with fewer firearms and fewer suicides. Material conditions (poverty, etc.), prevailing attitudes around substance use, hard to describe social well being factors, and stigma/quality of mental health care seem to be factors.

For my part, I think that easy access to a means of suicide, such as firearms, is one part of the equation, but not the dominant part. The dominant part is the prevailing experience in the population as a whole, as a population that feels like it's lost hope is more likely to attempt suicide on average than one that has not. But it does seem like wide spread misery and access to an easy and quick means of suicide is a very bad combination.

0 - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1005-rural-suicide-...
People did abort girls more than boys so that there now are about 30% more boys than girls. Aborting girls was mainly done due to cultural and financial issues. This is nothing short of a catastrophe for the younger generation.
nice! All the best to Arist and the team!
But how easy is it for that to evolve?
Cancer therapies might result in significant gains. We already see CAR T to be very effective. Hopefully we’ll finally crack Alzheimer’s and the likes as well.
Is the law actually enforced though? It seems like every other month we see evidence of congress members selling off a ton of stock mere days before some critical piece of information goes public that makes the stock value drop.
It had not occurred to me to describe application architectures as Jenga towers, but I'm going to start doing so!
It doesn't mean anything; people just don't understand what 'concepts' are anymore because they're so delusional. For AI to understand something means its human inventor / implementer understood it, potentially. The human understood a concept - not the actual thing - and that concept is what you call immaterial. You can point to code or output, but that is related to the concept. "Understanding" is when you stand under a concept - though you could always step out from under it in the case that you lose your understanding or it does not apply - etc. This inability for people to think is becoming hilarious. The metaverse is going to prevail for these damaged people but means nothing to those living in the real world.
- No assets pipeline

- Terrible templating system

- No equivalent to hotwire/livewire/liveview

- No built in jobs/scheduling system

- Insanely bad packaging and dependencies system
Just to be clear, you are dismissing the words of the guy who actually was in the room when some of these assurances were given.

You may find the accounts from two Ambassadors presented in this write-up interesting: https://transatlanticrelations.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/1...

Here's the direct quote from Ambassador Braithwaite's letter. Braithwaite was UK’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Russia until 1992.

The assurances Russians point to the following:

Assurances given in 1990:

• James Baker, US Secretary of State, 9 February 1990: “We
consider that the consultations and discussions in the framework of the 2+4 mechanism should give a guarantee that the
reunification of Germany will not lead to the enlargement of
NATO’s military organization to the East”;

• Helmut Kohl. German Chancellor, 10 February 1990: “We
consider that NATO should not enlarge its sphere of activity.”

Assurances given in 1991:

• John Major. British Prime Minister, Speaking to Defence
Minister Yazov, 5 March 1991: “He did not himself foresee
circumstances now or in the future where East European
countries would become members of NATO;

• Douglas Hurd, British Foreign Secretary, speaking to Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh, 26 March 1991: “[T]here were
no plans in NATO to include the countries of Eastern and
Central Europe in NATO in one form or another;”

• Francois Mitterrand, speaking to Mikhail Gorbachev, 6 May
1991: “Each of the [Eastern European] countries I have
mentioned will seek to ensure its security by concluding separate agreements. With whom? With NATO, of course. ... I
am convinced that is not the right way forward for Europe.”
This was, of course, a prediction, not an assurance.

[Author’s note: recently declassified material published by the National Security Archive contains some additional references to
similar “assurances.’]

This factual record has not been successfully challenged in the
West. The remarks by Major and Hurd are confirmed by British
records. I was present on both occasions.
> I know someone who died because their non-emergency procedure was pushed back because of hospital conditions.

I'm sorry to hear this, but let's be clear about what happened here. They did not die because hospitals were full. Even the previous NY mayor has said multiple times their hospitals were never too full to take in patients.

I also lost a couple people due to hospital failures. I don't blame anyone, it was and is a tough period, but if we did not instill mass panick we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today. Hospital capacity is _shrinking_ nationally. For the first time in decades medical staff employment was on a decline. In 100 years historians will look back and baffle at how a medical emergency made the US decrease our capacity in healthcare across the board. A virus did not make this happen. Panic made this happen. My partners dad died many decades before he should have because he got really bad covid, was put on a ventilator, cleared covid and was recovering for a couple of weeks and then the ventilator failed and the nursing was so understaffed they didn't check on him until he was already brain dead.

There is no doubt in my mind that had that hospital not decreased the wages of some 30% of their staff (leading to a huge exodus of workers) because society demanded they shutdown profitable procedures - my partners dad would no doubt be alive and healthy today.

This particular hospital never approached max capacity even once during 2020. This was purely the repercussions of panic affecting healthcare.
I'm sorry, how is that different from GP's reading? Are you claiming that a minister of a member state speaks on behalf of NATO?
> In a pure free market, trading by insiders is legal.

Not really. Why can't companies make "no insider trading" as a condition to employment?
Why would this ignorance be noteworthy or baffling to you, who are informing so many readers of HN of this fact for the first time?
RHIC/CERN seems like the perfect storm of incredibly intelligent and motivated people, coupled with time pressures and a lack of software development knowledge. Add in the fact that their "business" logic requires a PhD, and you've got an extremely limited subset of software developers who even could work on the code.

Most places, you'd figure people just wouldn't be smart enough to Rube Goldberg their way into a functional program. But someone who does high energy physics as their primary job is assuredly capable of torture a compiler as thoroughly as they want.

F.ex. look at the issues: https://github.com/SixTrack/SixTrack/issues

> remove gamma_e from calculation of kick by elens. the gamma_e factor comes from moving from the electron frame to the lab frame. It is actually compensated by the lorentz transformation applied to the electron current density

You know you're in for fun when the docs start with "SixTrack is wonderful, but it is bloody complicated." https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCAtHome/SixTrackDoc
>"Basically they were issuing new shares to new employees rather than giving them out from an existing pool of shares."

Wow. Why would they do this? Is there an upside to that? I don't think that's common correct?
the phrase is "toe the line"
lol sure if that helps you sleep at night about the decisions you've made in your life thus far.

it's not hyperbolic, there is a lot of liquidity in this multi trillion dollar market.

although if you're asking this question, the next point might dilute my prior point to you, but a reality is that many people aren't seeking fiat. They don't want dollars. They want more crypto. For physical goods and services there are also enough closed loops to acquire whatever is desired without touching dollars. For digital goods and services they can already be acquired for crypto.

But outside of that, charities accept crypto donations. Private equity firms accept crypto in-kind investments as the third party fund administrators have also updated their technology. Politicians accept crypto.

No different than any of these entities accepting stocks or bonds, and considering to liquidate some eventually. Except the crypto is more easily exchanged for goods, services, donations, investment.

it shouldn't sound absurd, but if it does, just remember that they can also get as much cash as they want whenever they want.
Thanks. I was sure I'd read about rotary motors in tiny organisms before.
You're probably rich by global standards.

Look at how the poor in India live. "Getting rich" does not mean becoming multimillionaire, it just means reaching a developed country's standard of living.
It kinda does, in the form of hooves.

Hooves are better than t[iy]res in one way: they're self-renewing.
> business where they can provide substantial collateral for their loan, support high returns, but somehow can't access other forms of finance

Apparently the answer is "crypto margin trading".
In my experience, long build times mostly come from not caring about build times. Not from large codebases. A surprising number of developers don't think build times (including running all the tests) are important. They'll just go "ok, so now it takes N minutes to build" rather than thinking "hold on, this shouldn't take more than a few seconds - what's going on here?"
From Ruby on Rails to Node
Maybe because without the scams and shenanigans all that remains is some imaginary tokens that literally do nothing and serve no purpose other than "hodling" them?
I believe the law itself is sufficiently vaguely worded that the companies have opted for a blanket policy to avoid even a hint of impropriety.
>If Russia, idk, bombs a US base in Germany that's a totally different ballgame (hence why small contingents of US forces will be deployed to various locations)

Since Iran launched a ballistic missile attack at US bases in Iraq[0], and pretty much nothing happened in response, I wouldn't jump to conclusions about US response to attacks on our bases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Martyr_Soleimani
Coolest part of clickhouse is it’s ability to do ETL automagically.

It really is a super power.
> Building the web app in Rails took me 2 days – the same thing in Node would have taken 2 weeks. I’ve also included things I wouldn’t have attempted to build on Node/Express until I proved the idea out (editing a profile? Psht please - I’ll wait till someone requests that

I would love to hear more about what you are doing, and perhaps more importantly, how you are doing it if everything is so incredibly difficult for you.

Ruby only has one thing going for it, and it's not a very unique thing and you can get the same thing in a lot of other places: it has batteries included(and then some). This can make you very productive from the start, yes, but it can also constrain you to work in exactly the way the authors intended and otherwise make your life difficult if you have needs that just fall slightly outside of the garden path.

With node, you have nearly an infinite number of choices. But if you pick a stack, and you set it up properly, there is nothing preventing you from moving at speeds similar or surpassing RoR, and usually without any of the same limitations.

I am currently building a full-stack application in TypeScript using React and GraphQL on top of Next.js. It is easily the most productive stack I have ever tried, even though it took some work to get there. I can change a database model and the change will propagate through my entire stack all the way to the frontend, giving me type errors in every place I need to change anything, and things like that. There are great "plugins" for nextjs like next-auth which make auth laughably simple, and then you can pick between whatever ORM you want(We are using Prisma, which has been great).

With that said, if RoR fits your use case and meets your performance demands and it makes you more productive.. well, that's great news. Seems like a no-brainer to go with it then.
Maple seeds spin like an autogyro propeller. This is possible because they are no longer attached to the tree. An aeronautical engineer once told me that a single blade propeller is theoretically most efficient by some metric. It would seem the trees have found that solution.
You've made a similar comment twice in the same thread now. You seem to think overpopulation is a myth.
The term “ransomware” is never used to describe malware that steals passwords, thats the point of confusion.
I am in no way happy that my native country's sovereignty is hedged on US global hegemony, but Russia is often complicit and just as bad when it comes to military action in 3rd world countries. I'm also not trying to prop up a higher moral position, but I am very opposed to a Russian invasion, much like I would be opposed to an American one. Nobody wants Russia to fail, they just don't want Russia to be a threat.
Regular gpg does have a --passphrase-fd argument that's nice for this sort of thing. Where you can specify which file descriptor the passphrase/password is coming from. Very handy for integrating with scripts.
It's ironic how Pelosi uses free markets to justify her own slimy trading activities, while simultaneously pushing legislation that would shift us more towards a socialist economy. That takes real chutzpah.
I think it's only for 'microsoft-edge:' URLs, used by certain Windows features (e.g. Bing search from the start menu, or opening the online help via a link in the Settings). Most other links will just be normal http:/https: links and will use your actual default browser.
Many European countries have extremely generous benefits for raising children, but it has been broadly ineffective at raising birth rates - with the possible exception of the Czech Republic. I agree though that governments are going to try, and they may find a way to do it.

There was a good episode of The Weeds podcast, "Baby making vibes," which talked about this. Some of it is focused on the American political lens of Liberal vs Conservative birth rates, but much is broadly applicable discussion of policy and the more "vibes focused" angle that conservatives tend to take with the issue.
> One example of a "rug pull" is that the team provided liquidity to the AMM liquidity pool, and then removed it, leaving people with no where to trade the token. Its honestly hard for me to call that a scam

If the team went through all of these steps with the intention of pumping the value of the coin, hyping others into buying it, and then extracting as much money from them as possible with no intentions of helping the coin succeed long-term, that seems like a scam to me.

The victim-blaming mentality runs deep in the cryptocurrency world. It's fascinating how many people in the cryptocurrency space are reluctant to call a spade a spade only because the underlying blockchain or algorithmic rules weren't violated.
There's also the question whether any given institution is even capable of addressing the underlying causes, or whether it's in its best interest to do so. Sometimes the causes are big and deeply rooted, and a college is not capable of pushing back the metaphorical tide.

Focusing in on students specifically, I suspect (but do not know) that the extremely high pressure nature of going to a University in India is a factor. If that assumption is true, it's not clear whether the University is capable or willing to change that.
Technically, social mobility is just relative income position changes over time, which applies to zero sum games. It does not imply that you can significantly increase your income. Social mobility is also an indirect measure of income distribution, and by proxy geographic compactness -- you can double your income and still have low mobility if the distribution is wide.

A country can be "highly mobile" with flat GDP and limited income growth opportunity for the individual. That is just how the math works out. Social mobility is a term-of-art that does not mean what most people intuit it to mean.
The issue here is the futile attempt to tease apart power and money.

Those with power, seek to acquire money for when they lose power.
Those with money, seek to acquire power for when they lose money.

If consultants at large firms are prohibited from trading specific shares, it does not make sense for folks who literally make the law to do so.
> A car is a luxury that we made into a requirement pretty much everywhere in north America, which in turn makes our lifestyle more expensive than it needed to be. So, in short, we should reduce the demand of unnecessary products(like cars).

This is a nice halfpinion, but the entire country can't essentially be some monolithic ecumenopolis like Mega-City One or Coruscant. I'd think most people here would love to see a few more efficient transportation options, more walkable suburbs, and other things you're describing, but there's certain infrastructure that can't really work in a suburban or rural setting. Cars, or something very much like them, are a necessity in areas where food is grown and everything is spread out.

Personally speaking, I'm not worried about the general theme of overpopulation/climate change because nuclear energy has already solved human needs.
Many people here are complaining, but i also think that's why they let the companies go without much regulation.

Just enforce them to enclose their stock purchases the same day and make it illegal to trade based on knowledge like insiders.

If they trade in insider information, this will be known when laws are made. Normally records are available of many things.

No, the world is not perfect.
Indeed. There's no way for users of Wolfram Cloud, for example, to see that information though.
It's quite crazy to think that these guys not only were basically behind FB (they won the lawsuits, with an 's', proving it) but also saw Bitcoin early on. They bought at less than ten and were billionaires when it hit $10 K.

So these dudes both "saw" FB and cryptocurrencies.

Hate as much as you want on FB and cryptocurrencies, it's still quite a feat to have foreseen both.

Regarding storing parts of the secret here and there: it's basically and "m out of n" scheme AFAICT. There are many variations of this but the overall idea is that you can afford to lose (n - m) parts and yet you'll be able to recover the secret. And if a thief were to steal parts, he'd need m parts to be able to recover the secret.
If you like this, you might find my little Tmux plugin[0] useful - it's meant to make continuing your terminal work on-the-go as simple as possible:

- you're in tmux
- you do some keyboard shortcut
- you're presented with a QR code
- you scan the code with your phone
- your active tmux pane is now in your phone, you can see output and send commands

Behind the scenes, it is also using WebRTC.

[0] https://github.com/bjesus/muxile
There's a big difference between "we're going to the rooftop for a project" and "we just left the rooftop door permanently unlocked". The former is fine, the latter is where I'd say that the University is probably making a mistake.

Exceptions of course for high traffic rooftops specifically designed for human occupation, with appropriate amenities and guard rails. The ones my university locked off were either full of industrial equipment (ACs, etc.), or had low stone ledges that were no longer up to modern spec. Closing them off was the right call.
Yeah, I though that flagella were just little whippy things that corkscrewed somehow... but then I looked at that page this morning and I'm still gobsmacked.
Engineering Management at Tines
What? No please force everyone to spend months creating projects that only copy the exact values over. It creates lots of jobs.
> Perhaps some here would propose that these activities come at no cost or are otherwise a free lunch.

Many people don't want to believe that the whole money system is a zero sum game. But it is. Just because people can't observe any change whatsoever when they're watching the numbers in their bank account while the central bank buys another chunk of bonds or lowers the interest rate, (in fact with negative interest being forwarded to end customers, people can actually see), doesn't mean the central bank's actions don't have any consequences for them.

Just because there's a long and not exactly transparent path of connections between the value of some money in a bank account and the actions of a central bank doesn't mean the two are not linked in a very grievous way.
Things exist despite being hard to spot/grasp.

> Many of the goals you listed have been accomplished technically. Unfortunately most people don't care.

Countries such as Lebanon or Argentina serve as examples for the obvious effect that beyond a certain level of inflation, people start to care.
Turkey banned bitcoin but with inflationary pressure being as high as it is, the story is not yet over I'd bet.
You are confusing Plan B, the morning after pill, with the abortion pill.
> By not spending your cash on things that are scams.

So...by staying out of cryptocurrencies entirely, then?

Sounds good to me.