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Regulatory and tax changes in the 1980s created private equity. Declining interest rates juiced it, as has computerization, but the fundamental change was Reagan's policy of financial deregulation and reducing capital gains and marginal rates so that entrepreneurs had more money to invest.
I think you have a simplistic view of strategic counters. The weapon that counters an ICBM is, in fact, an ICBM. The counter for a bomber is another plane. The counter for the plane is a faster bomber, another plane. And the counter to that is an AI plane, and then an AI bomber, etc. If you are thinking "missile defense", missiles are simply rocket-based drones, and they will have to become smarter too.

Whatever your weapon of choice, the counter is AI <something>. We test this theory every day with Bots vs Humans in any number of computer games. Bots will kill you every time, as long as they can recognize you. Hence AI Vision (and sensing in general) being the last hurdle.
I've always been mildly amused at the credit check.

I'm sure bad credit is the indicator they're looking for, but what does it mean to them?

A new hire makes bad decisions? A new hire could be easily bought or bribed? A new hire is broke and needs a job?
Maybe you took the comment the wrong way.

It could mean there are dangers in every city. Thus, don't look for a safe one.
If there are multiple sections in one sport center you like - definitely should give a try to all of that. Visiting more than one sport center regularly for me is a little exhausting in a long run.

>learn a new language

what a beautiful reason.
The sci-fi racing series WipeOut has some great tracks for fast-paced instrumental background music. Picks me up every time.

The Portal 2 soundtrack has a good mix of fast and slow/eerie, which I find great for working through things... though I may just associate it with problem-solving because of the nature of the game.

For calmer, more meandering listening, I've got the Morrowind soundtrack. Though really any recent Elder Scrolls game has some great wandering music.
The human body has 20-30 trillion red blood cells, roughly 80% of the total cell count in the body. So it’s not that surprising.
For those of us who don't like to be on our smart phones all the time, who keep work and personal strictly separate, who don't travel often (and when we do we leave our tech at home because a vacation is to get away), who prefer to keep their data local and outside the hands of 3rd parties, it has really sucked over the last 10 - 15 years to see the entire industry go all in on SaaS everything.

I use Linux and FOSS mostly. I always have anyway, but it's nice to be able to still be in control of things while the Apple and Microsoft worlds keep pushing Cloud and SaaS on their customers (last time I installed Windows on a dual boot I needed a Microsoft account just to log in to MY computer ... WTF?!?!?!). And for work I need an Apple ID to use my MacBook... at all. WHY?!
> I don't want Facebook monetizing my data and my gaming life.

Do you use the Steam store? It's related "recommendation" queue? Is that not an example of Valve monetizing your data/gaming habits?
New filing: Tesla wrecked engineer’s reputation via false claim of secrets theft
I understand not everybody likes PHP, some prefer python, java, go. PHP is my go to language for tinkering on my personal projects. Also, I don't need to run an instance per each little desktop application. I can run one instance and "host" all them on the same instance.
There's another type of PE out there beyond what you've described which is, the owner of a moderately sized privately owned firm (doing somewhere between 10-100 mil revenue a year) wants to retire and sell it off, and PE firms are the only ones who can afford to buy it for the 100mil+ price tag it warrants.
I will have more to yell about this in 3 hours because I have a thing I want to yell about this. Free stickers if someone yells it for me before I’m done with this appointment.
I feel like it's worth pointing out, particularly because I imagine many people dislike Murdoch here, that when the Wall St. Journal was investigating Theranos the company attempted to get him to quash the reporting.

He told them to pound sand and said he had every faith in the Journal's internal processes to not publish anything they couldn't prove.

Really increases the WSJ's credibility in my mind.
s/Breakthrow/Breakthrough/

A breakthrow in my field would be, like, literally throwing my desktop out the 4th floor window. Satisfying, but frowned upon.
We don't have a truth meter or a mind reader, and in any case people are allowed to be wrong. Most of us are wrong about most things.

If someone else is wrong or you feel they are, you should make a respectful case for the truth as you understand it. Alternatively, if you don't want to take the time to do that, chalk it up to someone being wrong on the internet and leave it.

Crude insults aren't just against HN's rules, they also are not in your interest, because they discredit your own argument. That's the worst way to represent your point of view, and in the case you happen to be right, you end up discrediting the truth for everybody. Not a win.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree on the 10-year. We might get Fed Funds above 5%, but the market won't expect that to continue for 10 years. (Mathematically, the 10-year yield should equal the expected average Fed Funds rate over the next ten years).

I disagree that valuations have been crushed. You qualified that with a "relatively". We're lower than at the peak of the bubble of course but Shiller PE is still 30, higher than any time other than the dot-com bubble and the current bubble.

Private equity firms will choose not to write down the value of their assets, but the actual transactable prices will probably drop further than public stocks.
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My own understanding of the comment:

They're making a connection between non-jumping code with a list, and jumping code, like classes, functions, etc. with a graph. A list can be iterated from beginning to end and read in sequence, or can be jumped into at any point in the code at arbitrary points. Similarly, if I open a file and want to read code, I can jump to any arbitrary line in the code and go forwards or backwards to see what the sequence of code is like. I can guarantee that line n happens before line n+1.

With functions, classes, modules, whatever, the actual code is located somewhere else. So for me to understand what the program is doing I have to trust that the function is doing what it says it's doing, or "jump" in the code to that section. My sequence is broken. Furthermore, because I am now physically in a new part of the code, my own internal "cache" is insufficient. It takes me some effort to understand this new piece of code and re-initialize the cache in my mind.

The overall thrust of DRY is overrated is that we often times take DRY too literally. If I have repeated myself I MUST find a way to remove that repetition; this typically means writing a function. Whereas previously the code could be read top to bottom now I must make a jump to somewhere else to understand it. The question isn't whether this is valuable, rather, whether it is overused.
Even among "privacy-conscious webizen", I take privacy seriously, I have my Nextcloud homelab, private email, use uBlock, use Wireguard on my phone, and use Linux, yet I have an Oculus Quest 2 with a Facebook account, because that kind of tracking is frankly not worrying to me. I use it to play video games. Of all the places where they can track my interest this is not one I worry about.

Amongst "normal" people Facebook is simply not a dealbreaker. My real concern with VR adoption is much more that my family simply does not see it as interesting.
In summer you can only pick both options.
We're basically working on this at Comm: https://github.com/CommE2E/comm
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The red blood cells are actually roughly 80% of all cells in your body.
Oh boy, more reasons to be afraid means more funding!
> And for work I need an Apple ID to use my MacBook... at all

Why? You can use the computer perfectly fine without an Apple ID.
Being Mortal is a fantastic book, especially if you have a loved one with a terminal illness you're taking care of.
Its really funny that this description not only fits my country also but probably quite a few other.

Issue that happens world wide is that politics is filled with “nice face” or “easy to buy” by corporations.

There are no engineers with passion or corruptless ppl joining politics.

Smile and wave guys, smile and wave.

Ps. Here in Poland we talk about German politics as they were those competent ones, go figure.
Clearly they need software engineers to go over and explain their business to them.
This looks awesome! I will definitely give it a try. Right now I use postgres in a docker compose but its definitely a bit heavier for single machine prototyping.

One thing that I like about my setup though is that there's a clear migration path to horizontally scale. Do you have a recommended way to move past pocketbase should an app get to that point?
My complaint is that the names of commands in Git are not intuitive. Otherwise, I think the UX lf Git is near perfect because it's possible to write things like Git graphical wrappers.
Exactly. The customers who will buy this will add it alongside their existing Iridium setup, for faster speeds when able.
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Many people run their own NAS which is the non-cloud alternative to something like Google Drive.

Running your own email server is a pain, having a client that pulls down your emails and stores them on a NAS so that your email is only briefly stored in the cloud is not a pain.

Never used WhatsApp or Telegram so no idea what the alternative for those is.
> get to miss out on other things we could have invested millions/billions into.

Things like the internet, space flight, nuclear power etc?

Unfortunately, defense spending is so successful and brings high rewards exactly because there is a strong motivator behind it. I am very very very doubtful the same amount of money would have high return of investment if it was instead given to cookie-cutter science grants.
Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
People do install normal starlink on boats [1]. The $10K/$5K price tag really has me scratching my head about what they are thinking. Does look like they plan to cover the entire ocean, so at least there is a specific benefit they can point to. They're definitely giving up a lot of everyday coastal business in hopes of making it up with a few whales.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHCK6aARn0
Old versions of Dolphin will presumably still work, so it's not a huge blow to the Windows 7 users.
You could say the same about baptizing children.
The r600/NIR back-end
> If you think the US is bad try starting a business... ...in literally any other country

...other than New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Denmark, or South Korea, as of the 2020 Ease of Doing Business Report, as all these countries were ranked higher than the US :)
Another Safari fail.
Looks amazing! Love the idea of a Firebase/Supabase like thing I can easily run locally and deploy as well.

Also props for the dashboard design, looks and works very nice!
No idea what you're even trying to reference in your second sentence, but the first sentence "community law enforcement" is a red flag in my book. The law creates a fiscal incentive for people to report their neighbors for actions that were federally protected at the time this law was passed. Neighbor vs. neighbor. Citizen vs. citizen. We spend more on policing than any country in the world and yet still need to deputize citizens in a heavily armed state? It's not my neighbor's damn business to know if someone in my household seeks an abortion.

If fiscally incentivizing vigilantism isn't dystopian I don't know what is.
> We don't fight bombers with bombers

The Six Day War was won by an inferior fighting force when Israel used bombers to attack bombers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Focus

> nor do we fight ICBMs with ICBMs

Our only viable methods of defense against ICBMs is ABMs, which are basically the same thing in every way except the targeting systems and maybe payload.
Oh HN I can’t quit you.
There is a difference between "Do you want to be tracked" and "Would you be willing to pay more for a headset that is not made by Facebook". If privacy is free, people will take it. If privacy adds 100$+ to the price tag, people will still pick the cheaper option every time.
They don't need any new development or that kind of stuff for wide coverage, just the intersatellite links, and they have launched 15 groups of them in the first 6 months of this year.
You probably would.
At that price point they are targeting boats that are going to have multiple gensets, and be carrying 1,000+ gallons of fuel.

The additional load of the Starlink, relative to the chillers, water makers, and other onboard systems would be nothing.
Not a lawyer, but is the alleged silencing action in the title illegal? The surveillance equipment installation, the bribery, and the lying perhaps are
I'm glad to see this. I don't want to live in the mental straight jacket that these "activists" want to create.
Alan wanted what eventually became EToys for his Apple projects. They looked into doing it in Java but figured that digging the old Apple Smalltalk-80 out of the trash bin and cleaning it up would be less effort. So we got Squeak.

Then they did Etoys stuff at Disney and some other neat experiments. Then Alan moved on to 3D shared environments[1] and later to recreating personal computing in 20K lines of code[2]. The idea was to build it on top of Ian Piumarta's COLA[3][4] but to get something out the door they ended up using a stripped down version of Squeak instead. So moving on from Squeak is harder than Alan hoped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_OS

[2] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

[3] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006001a_colaswp.pdf

[4] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2006003a_objmod.pdf
The "printer thing" I believe is like a terminal that renders on paper instead of a CRT. The telephone is like SSH.
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MUDs did it for me. Type faster or DIE!
> Why can't a company legitimately focus on a niche sub set of users who value privacy in their products?

No one is saying that they can't, somebody is saying that they are, but not in that customer's best interest.

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edit: with parallel construction, there are absolutely no drawbacks to narking on your users, assuming that the way you do it is an obvious possibility that you just minimize or ridicule the likelihood of.

e.g. "Everybody knows that they can use Method A to break your encryption, but that would be company suicide! Do you seriously think they're stupid enough to do that!? They even made the client open source to be open about what they can or can't do."

rather than

"Guys, I just noticed a process running on my phone that isn't supposed to be there."

Which is what we've been taught to watch out for.
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I mean, they're pretty effective for determining whether people have convictions (caveats apply, depending on your jurisdiction) for that kind of stuff, right?

One of the problems with not doing background checks is ex post facto if you do have problems with an employee, and it turns out that you could have discovered them with a background check, then that can figure into your liability.
20th Century is actually owned by Disney now though (as of 2019), so the link back to Murdoch ends there.
> A new hire could be easily bought or bribed?

This one. Same reason it's looked at for a security clearance.
The Play CDN is the funky script I was referring to. It's not plain compiled CSS, it's a rather large (~100kb) JavaScript file that dynamically adds Tailwind classes to your document as you use them. It's also only intended for development purposes. I would recommend the CLI to OP over that, but my point was that it's largely unneeded for his use-case and more likely to cause confusion and more toolchain bloat for what are one-man homelab hobby projects.
Its very hard to tell on this website.
Eventually they will realise that no one really cares about blockchain anyways and they'll remove that part too.
I don't think so, it is more like you scrape what is accessible to this user. So in the end you will scrape your friends data. This is why I said that you are free to only share with friends that 'you trust'.
That group has been around for so long, seems mostly Intel folks.

I just don’t get why the progress is so slow!

I was trying to follow along, and joined calls, but the group moves like a glacier.
lol saw one of these on the road a few weeks ago. to each their own but its so ugly
There is very little software development that does not rely on the products of open source communities these days...
Evergreen observation: https://www.theonion.com/study-38-percent-of-people-not-actu...
This will get turned over once it cuts into local tax revenues. Those fancy dinners and lush hotels for government officials aren't going to pay for themselves.
I hadn't heard of this... to save people a search:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-community-struggles...

> A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota
Hard agree. The only counter to an enemy AI swarm or a runaway AI swarm is another AI swarm. Sure, we'll probably fuck it up, but at least there's a chance for us.

The alternative is simply accept Chinese rule.

That's it. Those are our choices. And for the pacifists, China is still going to develop their own AI swarm, and they could lose control of it, so dying is still on the cards with the second one, too.

I love people here focusing on the "end game". Yes, this is the horror: the rational choice is to develop the technology that will likely kill us all. They argue "The end-game is so bad that we must lose the mid-game", as if that will stop other nations from developing the end-game technology!

Really, anybody who isn't already a monk who lives entirely off the land through their own labor, doesn't got to make any moral argument, or argument about "well, Chinese rule wouldn't be so bad - we're just fighting for culture". Give up your culture, then we'll talk.

Everyone who believes there are other choices are simply living in their "just world" fantasy.
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“Mr President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!”
Well, in principle, we know how to build nuclear. We're slow at it, it's expensive, but it's sort of off-the-shelf.

Long term energy storage, by batter or otherwise..? I don't believe anyone has done it. We're not talking about maybe smoothing out energy supply/demand over 24h, were talking producing energy in the summer for the winter.
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Except Apple hasn't prevented others from opening a market.

You're aware of Android, right?

It's not "my definition". It's THE definition.
Correct, plus big-endian, plus any emulation for opcodes not supported by the host CPU (like paired singles, or mcrxr on G5 and up), plus any cacheline size impedance mismatches. It should be possible to run such code in the standard PowerPC problem state but it wouldn't be trivial.
We need a rapid buildout of green energy. I like nuclear but the Green Democrats of the world ruined it. The world is worse off for their efforts, but someone has to win the race to peak stupidity.
that's marginal though, as people might be, at the margin, shifting the places they go, rather than not going anywhere (covid lockdowns excepted). so that might induce a marginal change in incident rates, but not anywhere near at a magnitude to warrant a change of behavior.

the biggest threat in our urban walking lives is really cars[0], and even that isn't so large that we should remain in a state of constant fear.

[0]: pollution is actually the biggest (external) threat, since it's estimated to be responsible for millions of lives lost annually worldwide, but that's regardless of urban walking, so it's beyond the scope of the argument here.
Were they showing the private data to everyone, or just to the person whose account was used for the scraping? If it’s the latter, then this is also not a crime, it is just someone accessing data they have been authorized to access, but in an automated way.
Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit.

Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
The quality of the roads, the rapidity with which they degrade, the timing of the repairs, the allocation of contracts. Corruption is like air when it comes to road construction in India.
> "amateur" diversion

This is always a funny topic when people wax philosophical about dirty bombs as though you wouldn't get cooked trying to open a cask.
Is there a version of the ZR1 that's $190k (...currently available)? I thought it started at around $125k.

Overall the Corvette is the halo car... with a range from $60k up to about $125k. But I haven't actually walked into a dealer and asked them how much they'd want to order me up a ZR1 :)
EE, a lot of us work as automation engineers for the controls industry. I went the cyber security route. Job opportunities for doing EE work isn't the most entry level friendly option in the US. Not to mention the pay elsewhere is more competitive.
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