skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 5% long-term "risk free" rate is roughly equivalent to a company who makes a 'PE Ratio of 20'.

Or in other terms: a $1 Billion company should be making $0.05 Billion (or $50 Million/year) in profits to be comparable to a 10Y bond at 5%. Except... everyone accepts the fact that bonds from the US Treasury (the entity that can literally print US Dollars) is lower-risk than equity from a company. (Equity is junior: if companies go bankrupt they pay their debts first and equity secondly). So you "should" be making more money from equity than bonds/debt for it to make any amount of sense.

Companies will have to change their PE ratios to compete in theory. The easiest way to do this is to... lose valuation. You can't just control profits so easily, so instead of being a $1 Billion company making $50 Million/year, it'd be easier to turn into a $0.5 Billion company making $50 Million/year (now a PE Ratio of 10, or clearly better than Bonds)

Or so the theory of value-investing goes. Which... doesn't really work out in reality but hopefully you get the gist.

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Note that dividends are meaningless from this perspective. Profits are what matters. Companies take profits an invest into themselves, so it doesn't matter if the profits are emitted as dividends (ie: $50 Million returned to the shareholders in a dividend per year), or if the company buys a new $50 million factory each year. Either way, its "the shareholders property" and therefore equivalent.

If the company buys a $50 million factory each year, then in theory, they've grown by $50 million bucks. Ex: the $1 Billion company is now a $1.05 Billion company, and are expected to make $52 Million next year. After all, the "bondholder" could have spent their 5% coupon on buying more bonds, so to be "equivalent" to the risk-free bond strategy, the company also has to grow exponentially.

IE: Everything in the market is now encouraged to grow at 5% (or faster), just to keep up with "risk free government debt".
Which never lied every before/s
For me the second book was way worse.
Stable solutions are explicitly not how you get Trisolarans.
I am currently avoiding two relatives because they're always so upset. I agree with them almost entirely, but I don't want to be around people who are apoplectic. Yes, war is bad, but please just stop yelling at me just because I'm the only one in the room making eye contact!

"The Problem" is hyperbole. I've never wanted to defend something awful more than after having to hear an hour long angry rant, even when I agree.
The man penned a manifesto. What is this manifesto if not a distillation of what Marc Andreessen, the person, thinks about the world? Why would a critique of him, as a person, be somehow off limits in response?
I'm considering it from more of a social perspective. It is socially unacceptable for someone to snoop through someone else's personal photos. Many young children would understand this, and teens certainly do.
Simpler and smaller to just use two screens.
Looks like neither you nor parent comment author bothered to read the actual article...
I believe it was called the "sharing economy" because advertisers spent several decades convincing people that cutting out intermediaries was in their best interest.
Sure, but that means they will never initiate a conversation with you
> In Python, you are more likely to lazily call something() blissfully unaware that an error may occur.

It's not about being lazy or unaware (frankly, that's condescending). No matter the language, IDEs are pretty clear about what errors a something() could trigger. It's not about terseness of the code either. Again, IDEs will just fold all the "if err != nil" blocks so I don't care. It's about separation of concerns.

Example: If I develop an app which rely on external resources such as an API or database, there may not be any reason to manage all of their possible failures upfront, right in the middle of the so-called "happy path" of the current business logic. Just let the connection error bubble up and do right thing (ie. rollback whatever you had, log the error and display a nice message to the user, or whatever is needed) elsewhere where this error dealing is centralized along with all http transport shenanigans.

That's kinda like the Java checked exception thing: annoying with no real benefit.

These days I port an app to Go. And I really like some of the things it brings to the table (mostly unrelated to the language semantics though). But it also feels incredibly archaic at times, error handling not being the only culprit here.
Yes, randomness!
Considering that other nations with similar growth rates have implemented VAT, I'd say the evidence is current American tax rates don't amount to a giveaway to the rich. Rather the opposite in fact.
Maybe we need to develop some iconography to annotate text and images that were produced/generated with AI/ML? Like we have U+2622 to indicate a radiation warning.

Similarly, U+2620 for poison, U+2623 for biological hazard, U+26A1 for electrical hazard or the generic U+26A0 for hazards.

(edited to replace characters with U+ notation)
Are you implying that we cant expect moral/ethical behavior because of the pay rate?
I guess if I give you 100$ you will make me a billionaire? I'll take that offer.
The bias in the article is a bit apparent, considering that Signal, a well-respected and excellent messenger, does the same thing, but isn’t called out in the title. WhatsApp, I presume, is similar? The kicker is that Telegram lets you turn off P2P and only has it enabled for contacts anyway.

Frankly, TechCrunch has changed for the worse in the past 1.5 years or so. Used to love their write-ups, now I barely bother to check inz
The I took issue with way it was worded as it seemed combative. Thank you for your clarity in this follow up comment.
> but pro-tip for people in the future: cops are humans and if you stoop to personal insults

Yes, protip, abandon your rights so man children don’t get upset. This is clearly the best decision.

This comment is sick.
Yea, VB was quite something. I look back at it with fond reminiscence.
Here here for YNAB. I would have preferred something FOSS, but the mobile app makes it much simpler to record transactions as they happen rather than saving receipts and doing it at home.
Would this damage not also be consistent with a rocket warhead and/or solid rocket fuel tube landing in, on, or next to these vehicles? I don’t see why the blown out door of that vehicle couldn’t be explained by a driver’s-side explosion, blowing out the passenger doors and spinning the vehicle around.
Can we only title things like this a sub-critical test

I realize the hacker news headline accurately reproduces the incredibly dangerous and clickbaity Fox news headline. But it's incredibly misleading. Even if Fox News won't do better - can we? So then the title would appear:

"US conducts [Subcritical] nuclear test in Nevada hours after Russian move to revoke test ban (foxnews.com)"
I cannot upvote this enough
Am I going to get on a list for clicking on a few articles about random towns in Iran?
Not to be nitpicky, but Inigo Montoya doesn't think "repeal" means what you think it means.
My point there is that we would fully expect publicly expressing malice to victims would get you on a suspect list. Heck, private expression of malice would likely get you added if they found out about it. Do we consider that a chilling effect of speech, that people are less likely to express malice to victims of a crime?

This isn't even hypothetical in light of current world events.
Until that feature lands there's this https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf which is pretty nice.
I was using "modern" to refer to "right now", and I think I'm correct that if civilization collapsed tomorrow we would go back to being subsistence farmers, not hunter gatherers, because we have access to all sorts of plants that are amenable to being farmed. But you're right, the phrase "modern humans" does have a specific meaning, and I did not use it correctly.
I only read the first book and that was only after having watched the Chinese dramatisation of it that I really enjoyed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_...

Apparently Netflix are due to do an english version of it too.
Sometimes its about getting out of your comfort zone. Comfort breeds complacency, and just the right amount of pain can be part of growth.

Too many people seek only comfort and that makes them numb, fat, stupid and weak.

Every day or two I take a cold shower, so cold its painful. I dont slowly ease into it, I step directly into the ice cold water, and often let out an involentary scream.

Why? Because it stops me getting too comfortable. It toughens me up. It also has a list of other health benefits, but the biggest benefit of all is the mental toughness and endurance it creates in me.

I like the taste of pain, although it is an acquired taste, all of the greatest tastes are. The process is wholistic, it's not just about the taste/distaste of the immediate but who it ultimately makes me become.

We become immune to diseases by deliberate and measured exposure (thats literally what a vaccine is) and it's the same with pain, and actually life, you conquer all of your dragons by deliberate and measured exposure.

And to answer your question (which took one quick google search)

> Capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their heat, can trigger the release of adrenaline
Hey if you're Arab or Palestenian you're likely to get scrutiny no matter what
I do agree that the lack of a meaningful feedback loop seems to distort the opinions of the powerful - they’re isolated and they don’t even realise it. But then do most people’s opinions not ossify as they age? I don’t know many 50+ people changing their views on very much.
A couple. One infamous case was the Golden State Killer[1] case. Though in that case, it was GEDmatch, not 23and me -- similar service, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo#Investig...
Why? I don’t get this comment.
It would be interesting to see if Nota could solve one problem that TeX and LaTeX, while theoretically capable, don't really solve in practice. Namely, the ease of styling according to dumb external requirements. Just to give you several examples:

* Very tight, but very loaded layouts like A0 conference posters
* Apply a national standard, such as, for example, post-Soviet GOST documentation styling standards
* All combinatorial explosion of bibliography styling requirements in different international traditions
* Make the documents look like a default style in so and so MS Word version
* Precise positioning of one picture upon another, or text upon a picture for quickfixes in the papers
* Be able to consciously tweak any of the above

The problem with tex universe solutions here is while technically all of the above is possible, in practice it requires some black magic far deeper than a lay person (even with a scientific degree) wishes to dive into.
It's really funny - just this morning I was reading the Wikipedia article for Interstate 94, which led me to the WikiProject that maintains it (US Roads) and an open letter they wrote a month ago that they were leaving Wikipedia and starting their own wiki, because of how painful it's been having their articles deleted due to arbitrary notability guidelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Roa...
I've got a lovely screenshot of a polar sunrise behind the mammoth research towers, all going full bore (so they're glowing with the current research).

Truly a beautiful game.
Thank you, that makes more sense. Personally, I was trying to figure out if there was a broader point or similar derived in the article, but after skimming it, it looks like it's a rebuttal and not much else. Thanks for giving context!
It's not misleading. It's the "footage of the arrest, with narration" (not "separate statements") that went viral.
Why mediocre CS grads may have a harder time getting a good job in the future
Which derivative?
If you have Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/3SlzNgk3ROB5mjQpTNtCjm
Is it worth buying one of these now, keeping it in a box for a year, then busting it out once we've found a way to hack the early firmware?

Otherwise I wouldn't dream of dropping the money on something so locked into social media.
Not OP, but I do in the form of the original Deus Ex (not to be confused with it's sequels, which are pale imitations with the veneer of being in the same universe).

This particular clip is what convinced me to get into the game (potential spoiler) [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7sjoH8Sqc
If that were the case, they wouldn't have seen weird connectivity issues/behaviors.
I think the point isn’t the ruling but more so it’s the message the cops are sending to everyone else who might do similar things in the future. Imagine the intimidation knowing police officers are battling you in court, you know, those people who work for the same city that the entire courthouse staff does, who they see all the time as part of their jobs, and have long standing mutually “protect our own” relationships with.

Cops work in the public. If the cop was charged with beating his wife or even just had the cops called (how would calling the cops on a cop work when they are coworkers?), that would also be public. There’s no invasion of privacy then. If it’s not true, it’s libel not invasion of privacy.
The attacker effectively controlled the IP the domain was pointed to. If you have this, getting a cert issued from any CA is trivial - you've proved to them you control the domain in question.
To all the parties involved, I'd argue.

It seems they were able to parse out all of the claims and readily dismissed the vast majority of the ridiculous stuff that the cops were claiming, while acknowledging that the assertion that the officer was a "wife abuser" could veer into defamation was plausible and merits a trial (where both sides are perfectly entitled to build their case). Seems reasonable!
It took me several years to learn, and I still encounter transactions from time to time that take me one hour to come up with the correct splits.

Not everyone has the same level of financial education, nor the same intuitive mental model around what's credit and what's debit, and what goes where.
Not an economist, but I can't imagine so. You seem to think different, that's why I'm turning it around. Am I off base?
Indeed: Pentium 75 is P54C and from 1995, while PAE (Address Extension to get beyond 4GB) was only introduced in the Pentium Pro (P6) series in 1995.
There is a glyph for that: ™
Prepared Statements in Transaction Mode for PgBouncer
This is hardly news. As long as there is financial incentive, things will perpetually get worse.
> Are you seriously suggesting that before the internet no one published or wrote about highly niche or uninteresting subjects? That you couldn't find mundane facts from history or nature written down somewhere?

Yes and no. I'm suggesting that before Wikipedia, no encyclopedia could have published an article about Jack Wade, Alaska, an incorporated community of probably < 100 people (I picked this place somewhat randomly off of google maps). If you put even one sentence about every town similar to that in an encyclopedia, you'd have an encyclopedia set that no one would be able to afford.

> What we'd then have is a social network of people competing for some kind of points or popularity, or to prove who was the most expert or most interested in the subject.

This really depends. For example, maybe I'm an American with a grandparent from Volosianka, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine (again, I picked this semi-randomly). Population is about 1500 today. There's probably a handful of people in the world who speak English and who have a particular interest in that town. Maybe my grandpa is from there and i'm looking to learn more about his life and i'd love to chat with someone else who knows more about the place. I think that there are a lot of articles on the long tail of wikipedia where there's probably only a few people in the world who care about the topic and if I'm one of them, I'd be interested in meeting with others. Obviously, there's plenty of topics where this isn't the case. I don't know how you'd implement this feature, because I don't think you want to turn wikipedia into a meeting room for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [1]. But for these very very niche things, it could serve as an interesting meeting place.

[1] In other words, I am stating a problem here... not a solution
I do honestly find that the most enjoyment in the game is when you leave yourself one or two tiles too little and you end up trying to spaghetti your way to success anyways.
Attempting to analyze hospitals in particular, or healthcare in general, as if they were "normal" businesses is a fool's errand. "Who pays?" and "who benefits?" are hopelessly complicated. And corrupt.

As for the CEO salary: it's probably shaped by competition for those few slick operators who really understand how to milk the system.
it could do something sane but smart, like returning the error for whatever argument is an error type, and nil the rest.
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One of the early entries in this "genre" is Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos, from 1910.

"The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects," Loos proclaimed, thus linking the optimistic sense of the linear and upward progress of cultures with the contemporary vogue for applying evolution to cultural contexts. Loos's work was prompted by regulations he encountered when he designed a building without ornamentation opposite a palace. He eventually conceded to requirements by adding window flower boxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime
I wonder if there is a legal way to demand Hetzner/Linode comments on this situation. Likely, the entity behind the interception is some government agency or police.
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IIRC there was a phase in between with a hierarchy based on salaries. Surgeons were in charge. They created a salary scale above filled with people who know nothing about healthcare. Not to forget about investors in stead of public funds and donations.
This is a level of delusion I cannot fathom. I'm sorry you feel this way.
> A subsequent caption stated that Winters had “beat the shit out of” his girlfriend. Though Winters had a protective order filed against him, the counterclaim states that he has not been charged or convicted of domestic abuse

As much as i hate cops (qualified immunity), i hate this guilty until you are proven innocent in court but always guilty in court of public opinion about anything related to female directed domestic violence/r4p3/assault/red flags laws to take your property away without due proces etc even more.

Im not saying he didn't do it, im just saying these things need to be private until its likely true (quick determination), then posted.

Same way the asylum system in the us works where you can show a credible threat to cbp at the border than years later you get the actual court case to get the final approval.
I'm fairly sure the US does this
At this point, professing the greenness of your products is like mentioning benefit to minorities in a research-grant application: it is simply a step you have to do to play in the market. On one hand, we might excoriate an individual company for being hypocrites, but on the other hand, that makes us open to criticism that we are missing the game-theory implications in a whole world gone mad.

I just looked at the website of a camping-equipment brand that extols its care for the environment, but if you read through the lines, you find that the brand is just taking an existing Chinese manufacturing and having its own logo stamped on the goods. Again, companies seem to feel that if you have any web presence, this is the kind of stuff you have to write.
Sure, because only the most trivial forms of utilitarian are act-by-act. A rule-utilitarianism could easily require us to pay one another for things, even things we could just take, to maximise overall utility. If you think it needs to be act-by-act, you prove it. But start with why consequentialism is a better ethical system than any other.
I love love love how tiny the motherboard is. Patrick is holding it up in the opening shot, and it's like 60%+ compute module & ...chipsets? GPU?

The 480GB on-module ram means no dimms, so the motherboard is basically a huge vrm & io breakout. Io being gobs of mcio, I think?

Seeing so much io in such a small space does make me more than a bit wistful for Intel's integrated OmniPath cores, which has 1+ 100Gbps link on module for many many years. That seemed like such an obviously excellently sense solution then & it feels only ever more excellent of an idea now. With ram and io both onboard, the motherboard is practically only there to input power.
Big Banks Are Quietly Cutting Thousands of Employees
Back in the 90's, many of my co-workers would bring me their computers for various reasons, mostly viral because Win 95 and XP were, well you know.

Some would tell me they had teenage boys who may have gone to porn sites and they were afraid that's how they were infected. I would tell them to please get their personal stuff off the machine, because I would be looking for anything out of order. I explained I may have to reinstall windows and I didn't want them to lose their files. They never would! So I would burn their stuff to CD-ROM and then reload it all and give them the CDs.

I was a friend, not a business. If we expect businesses to be decent or prudent with what's on our devices we are naive. Get your stuff off first, then bring in the device! Human nature is always unpredictable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use
You addressed my first point

Either from a growing economy: Good for the stock market.

By saying the economy might not grow. Fair enough.

But you did not address my second point

Or from freshly printed money: Also good for the stock market.

Since 2008, the government has reacted to every problem by doubling, tripling, quadrupling the money supply. If we face a recession, won't it do that again? Then, the dollars you get back are worth less than the dollars you lent to the government. And assets that can't be printed - like companies - would go up in dollar value.
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> You're giving them your device with full access to troubleshoot problems, they're going to look around in the process.

Only when it is necessary to solve the problem, it does not excuse the tech looking for or even copying personal images.

How would you feel if you hired a plumber to fix a leak in your home, and you found them in the master bedroom rifling through the lingerie drawer? Or making copies of your family photo book they pulled out of a cabinet? Sure, they need access to the entire home to find the leak, but that does not give them blanket permission to just do whatever they want.
Cops in the USA are trying to act like kings with their power. Crying crocodile tears when someone mildly inconveniences them.

Youtuber is an absolute loser though. Imagine getting-off on distracting people from other jobs they could be doing.
> A "real" one is issued by a judge after interviewing both parties

A judge who doesn't want something bad to happen, under any circumstances. Therefore, they are extremely likely just to issue a PPO "just because."

> The real ones though are very reliable indicators that something fucked up went down.

TPOs/PPOs are absolutely not reliable: In most states, they are civil and issued subject to a preponderance of the evidence and not beyond a reasonable doubt. Evidence is not subject to any verification or real evidentiary standards: you could fake text message screenshots all day long and net a PPO before you ever had an issue with perjury.

FWIW: someone with ill/violent intent couldn't care less about a random status violation that would pale in comparative severity to whatever other crime they wanted to commit.
I don’t understand, did Jeff robbed somebody to get the money?