jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. The standard way of valuing a bond is future value discounting. If the annualized interest rate between times 0 and T is r, then a payment of 1 unit at time T is worth

exp(-r * T)

and a stream of payments C1, C2, ... CN at times T1, T2, ... TN is worth

C1 * exp(-r * T1) + C2 * exp(-r * T2) + ... + CN * exp(-r * TN)

In particular, N can be infinite, so that the value of a never-ending stream of payments is

C1 * exp(-r * T1) + C2 * exp(-r * T2) + ...

which can sum to a finite value. For example, if all the C's are constant, and T1 = 1 year, T2 = 2 years etc, then the present value is

C * exp(-r) + C * exp(-2r) + C * exp(-3r) + ...
= C * (exp(-r) + exp(-2r) + exp(-3r) + ...)
= C * exp(-r) / (1 - exp(-r))

so, for example, if C = $1,000 and r = 4%, then the value of this infinite stream of payments is about $24,500 - so if you had to lend more than $24,500 for a 4% consol paying $1,000 you would be getting a bad deal.

This is before taking account of the possibility of default, which means that what you thought was an infinite payment stream turns out to be quite finite.

Right now, when interest rates are low, a 4% consol looks like a great deal. But you obviously can't buy a 4% consol at the moment. Maybe you could buy a 1.5% consol, if you're lucky.
4chan? They've only started to serve static content from a cookie less domain about a year ago http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-a.... When it's a known web performance technique for quite some time. Jeff Atwood did this at Stack Overflow in 2009 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvemen...
Both things stand. It's a formula for a form then.
There are screenplay formulas though, which are more granular than form he presented in that text. Forms are useful in screenplays and, for the most part, expected because they work. Formulas are shunned.
Building an empty city from scratch and then populating it sounds utopian, and people are pretty skeptical of utopian thinking these days. But I guess it makes sense under China's combination of rapid urbanization and central planning.
>everyone worries too much about what's proper /
but not Razz -- no shame -- that don't stop her!
Ha. Fair enough
Why? The Pinterest UX is god awful, but I often find stuff on there that I can't find elsewhere(easily).

Maybe you can filter out those results by domain? It would be nice if you could just add it as a setting, though.
That makes sense, I probably parsed it differently than the author intended.
This used to be a feature of Google search. They removed it and published a Chrome add-on that does the same, client-side. I have switched back to Firefox and there are similar add-ons there too.
> The crews were rotated every three to four months. Over this eight year period, some 3,000 men did duty on the stranded Suez ships.

Why did the ships need to continue to be fully manned?
I didn't mean to talk down to you or invalidate your completely justified response to your own situation, I apologize. Nor did I mean in any way to belittle your accomplishments or the amount you have already done for others. You are absolutely right to feel the way you do; you were failed, this is not your failure, you have done nothing wrong.

You have no obligation to anyone. I'm just trying to offer you an option of where to look for aid with those practical realities. Maybe you have already thoroughly exhausted your options, but this is just one more place to reach out to if you haven't already. I don't know where you live, but it's possible they may have a similar program at your local chapter: https://dsabuild.org/medicaldebt
So like military service except the dancing
Or install uMatrix, by the author of uBlock. It spoofs your referrer all the time, unless you trust a site explicitly.
The technical summary here seems to be: patreon shouldn't allow usernames/url slugs to be reused.
The very public shuttering of facilities, the absence of military doctrine, etc. Yes, there could be secret congressional funding for a secret research lab serving a secret component of the military that secretly maintains readiness to do something that is strategically counterproductive and categorically denied. Do I really need to go on with how silly that line of thought is?
Interesting, I had no idea! Going to look into this. (I don't need it, but from a technical standpoint it should be pretty interesting.)
While I disagree with the authors completely, comparing GPT-3 to a working plane is also wrong.

GPT-3 can produce human-sounding pieces of text that don't have any meaning. I am quite certain that it will prove a dead end in the advancement of NLP, simply because trying to learn human writing by matching lots of text is unlikely to create an accurate model of the world that you could use to produce meaningful communication.
Inverted totalitarianism at work when you outsource government services to unaccountable corporations.
Well, these are the numbers we have and which have been confirmed by the proper trials. I am sure, there is more research getting performed to optimize the vaccines, but we fortunately can vaccinate with good results based on these numbers.
Not just that it is blank, it is expected that certain things that you fill match what they already know.

It is more like a test, where you get nothing if you answer correctly and penalty if you make a mistake.

Note: IRS does provide a way to download what they know as a pdf (what banks reported, for example), so one can get some help with the "test"
All are fraudulent from the 20 or so I've looked into or talked to the founders and realised they were criminals
I ended up with a Likebook Mars as it fulfilled the entire criteria I had. Very similar design to the Ares.

headphone jack

runs new enough android to run syncthing

supports SD card
Capitalism fuels everything because capitalism is the system where people consistently generate a surplus. The problem is social norms that permit fascist / imperialist /socialist systems to expropriate the value produced by capitalism.
try getting rid of the cookie
Sure, core concepts like vms are still around but the practicality and common usage and comfort and ability to understand how they can be applied (like containers) does change, and does affect your ability to get jobs, or at least interview well.

I'm also older, over 50, and I'm frustrated at all these people who are similarly experienced and complain that companies don't recognize their abilities. You have to update your skills and be able to talk about the current stuff. You are foolish if you don't practice before an interview. Before I switch jobs, I take it seriously and do something like 1 hour practice every day for a month. I look at current software engineering topics (I'm usually wasting time on hackernews so I'm up to date on the latest gossip). You have to try, people!
I don't understand. Are citizens of countries that do bad things not allowed to point out issues in other countries as well? I'm more than aware of, at least some of, the bad things the US has done and in some cases is still doing. I get mad and voice my dissatisfaction with those issues as well. I don't think any of that prevents me from doing the same for other issues globally. I can think what the US is doing is horrible and think what China is doing is bad as well. Your first two paragraphs are basically just saying "US does it too".
>Middle-class Americans have captured gains through cheaper, higher-quality products than would have otherwise existed without trade and development.

Cheaper products, sure, but higher quality? Retailers like Walmart and Amazon are essentially operating cartels, they dictate the prices they are willing to pay for manufactured goods. For manufacturers to meet these demands, cuts will have to come from somewhere--cheaper materials, less R&D etc. Consumers may benefit in a cheaper price for their widget, but that widget is not as likely to have the service life it would have in the past. Shorter service life results in buying 'cheaper' goods at a higher frequency (which is likely to result as a net loss for the consumer). This is rhetorical, yes, but not hard to defend. Clothing, appliances, electronics (in price-point verticals) all reflect this 'trend'. This is not even going in to 'Planned-Obsolescence', which is another symptom of the same problem.
How the West got China wrong; It bet that China would head towards democracy and the market economy. The gamble has failed

http://archive.vn/5VQR9
It was the policy of China before Xi Jinping as well.
It isn't risk-free, but the risk is low.

Michael Pollen literally wrote a best selling book about taking LSD, eating shrooms, etc. earlier this year.
I was wondering the same thing. But do you think it's possible that this process causes backpressure that forces the gases through a trap?

Maybe it shouldn't cause backpressure if done properly, but maybe some construction companies carelessly block one side of the pipe while it's curing?
This can happen for various reasons, but a fairly obscure one is that someone on the network can mangle the transaction

If it's a way to swindle people out of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of dollars, then people are going to drive truckloads of money out that hole. it goes from "an obscure case" to "holy hell people are just stealing all our money".
According to their public investor reports, they've been EBIDTA profitable on Rides for years. They're also profitable in more rationalized Eats markets (markets where there aren't other VC funded companies burning hundreds of millions of dollars on subsidies). What do they need self driving for?
"Elite" animators in Japan are being paid pennies. it's a joke basically compared to western regions.

In Japan, you are expected to deliver no matter what, working extra hours and grinding is normal. you are not compensated for any of that.

Very very few publishers care about the quality of the content they ship as long as things pan out.

You have so many numerous examples of that in the industry.
Just because you don't have allergies now it doesn't mean you'll never have one. Until a few years ago, I've never heard of ragweed alleries. Guess who's allergic to it now?!
Imagine they use your appearance to sell insurance to your relatives...
Not only do they develop these technologies (wifi location db, ibeacon, deep linking, findmy, etc)

They don't give you the ability to block them.

and of course, you can't find out what is going in and out of your phone over the network, and you definitely can't firewall it. ("content blockers" are nerfed)
Lowered the cost of solar power? He acquired his cousins company and idled it, tough business, resi, more of a securitization play. I support the mans intent nonetheless, hard to hit all homeruns at his scale. But for the record you could say Germany (paying high FIT conract rates) and China (scaling module mfg capacity) did a lot more for solar, granted those are nation states it should still be a complement.

But ze electric cars and push to megapaks.. No one!
I just opened some of my PHP code from July 2020 and started fine-tuning it.

It is understandable, not completely foreign, but a lot of the context around my previous decisions evaporated in the meantime.
You can change the animation time from the terminal [1]. There was some awesome list on GitHub that had a nice script that changed most system animation to a minimum, but I can’t find it right now.

[1] https://osxdaily.com/2012/02/14/speed-up-misson-control-anim...
At this time we're limited to US-based remotes. Sorry about that, and I've updated the post to make that clear.
Google and Facebook have particularly not-great privacy reputations because they are advertising companies whose business models are precluded on collecting your personal info.
The important idea of the Erlang approach is not to leave things unchecked; the idea is that the proper response to most errors is to restart from a known good configuration.

Of course, restarting the service discovery client may not help, especially when the service discovery system's state is stable but broken. I don't know what you're supposed to do if you're dependent on services, and the service discovery system you use to find the services is not reachable or is returning garbage information. Better logging is always nice, but you can't serve the traffic.
> Can this to some extent explain the huge differences in death rate between Italy and Germany?

Italy has a couple severe disadvantages compared to Germany:

- since the financial crisis young ppl are forced to live with their parents and often enough grandparents in cramped conditions due to exploded rents - which means that symptomless infected can spread coronavirus in their families

- Italy's healthcare system has been wrecked by forced austerity after the financial crisis - it's exactly what everyone warned of back at the time.

- many young nurses and other medical staff have fled to Germany and other countries for better pay
Let's figure out a way to be sure and scale that and save the world!
I love this idea! Is this true? 100 000 people doing this would be awesome.
A few months before COVID-19 broke out, I started working with the founder of a platform called eTAP, which the founder first build about 20 years ago. We haven't begun the platform redesign yet, but it is fairly thorough platform for K-12 students who can benefit from an online supplement for math, science, language arts, and social studies. Parents can monitor progress, but don't need to be involved in lesson plans etc. as it's essentially ready to go.

https://www.eHomeschool.org

The free trial can be extended as long as necessary. Just message us.
Reinwheeling is what the modern web is.
False advertising is normally a crime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising)

I think (suspect) the trick FB is using is not unlike Uber / Airbnb where they fall just outside regulation. Meaning that sponsored content on FB is just "self-regulated"
I saw this in WIP. Looks good!
I think the intent is that new users don’t really have to care about what version they’re on.
I haven't logged in to twitter in years. I'm not sure if it qualifies but I sure hope my account gets removed without me having to log in and do it myself.
beyondcorp : hardware keys and certificates for access to everything essentially
Placebos also have known physiological effects on the brain and there are clear differences when taking a pink placebo vs a blue one:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This is not to downplay the effects of psychadelics - I've taken plenty and of course the psychoactive effects are undeniable. But the effects are from far more than just the chemicals. For example smoked DMT hallucinations are very different than Ayahuasca, despite the two being the same chemical.
But Twitter isn't a shop. If in 10 years Amazon goes bankrupt (or any other big shop) and it won't get archived, I don't really care. But Twitter has a lot of discussions or other information that may still be important. I think Twitter is more of a library than a shop and you wouldn't throw away books from a library either.
Pdb works fine in notebooks though, and that's one of the numerous reasons students should learn it first, before any GUI debugger.
No, you won't ever really learn that stuff until you just do it. Reading code is part of writing code so you should read some actual C code in your domain before ever writing code.
I'm already incorporated yes. But hopefully he is not partner.

thanks
They have an entry for "Why does the service shut down?" [1], but it doesn't say much other than "We will continue to work on our vision of the "reimagined doc" at Dropbox"

I guess Dropbox is soon going to announce new documents editing features.

[1] http://support.cloudon.com/mobile/knowledgebase/articles/489...
> India had a relatively peaceful transition, considering what it could have become.

You are probably ignoring the Hindu-Muslim riots that took place during partition and the immediate Indo-Pak war after that. These were a result of the british policies.
I just read it once a day — because I have shit to do. So revisiting old stories is rarely a problem.
I like the idea of "synoptic" reading to learn about a concrete topic. It makes sense when different works offer different versions of what happens and why.

But it seems weird to do it with fiction. If I'm reading fiction, I want to get into the world created by the author. I think repeatedly stepping in and out to compare it to other works, or analyze its construction, or think about a GoodReads review, all of that is going to impede that process. So I usually just get into the book's world, finish it, and then step back for 30 minutes a day or two later and write a few paragraphs of my thoughts.

This little essay often includes connections to other books, and articulating thoughts on a book right after reading it contributes a ton to my appreciation and understanding. It makes it a lot easier to pitch the book to somebody else, for example (easier than saying "it's...it's just so good, just read it"). And for me this process works best if I refrain from doing it too consciously during the reading process. The experience of immersing your unconscious in something is pretty unique.

That said, I don't finish every book I start, and I don't write comments unless I feel like there's something to work out. But there's usually something to work out!

Unrelated pedantic comment: TFA attributes this quote to Edgar Allan Poe

> Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

But it doesn't sound like him, and the internet suggests it's actually a quote from this other Adler guy also referenced in TFA?
Could be. I use a true IMAP server for personal mail and Exchange for corporate, and have it set up so I have a copy of all my mail locally, in part BECAUSE of the excellent search.

The frequent example is pretty crazy. I work for a small software company. We have a low-cost product that we sell that uses actual license keys we have to generate. The task of actually generating those keys, and thus doing the formal "this is your delivery" emails, falls to me b/c it involves SQL. Takes 2 minutes, so nobody wants to spend the time writing a front end for it, etc. Familiar story I'm sure.

Anyway, so I send out the fulfillment mails. Boss always gets a copy. They always have a PO number in the subject line. He'll search his Outlook, and VERY VERY OFTEN Outlook can't find it. I'll search MY mail in Mail.app, and can forward it back to him in seconds. I've watched him do it. I've duplicated the failure myself -- I have true-blue Outlook running in a VM, bc sometimes you need it for calendar stuff -- and it just plain fails. A LOT.

It sure seems like "search" would be an important part of a good email client, but Microsoft appears to disagree.
They’ve done it in the security industry. Look at Hikvision for an example, who have recieved billions of USD in direct loans, and even more billions of USD in credit from the Chinese government.
This does not look like a pathway to reduce the cost of your laptop by throwing out junk you don’t need. This looks like every part will be more expensive due to the focus on sustainable materials, e-waste and modularization. If you’re price-focused, are you really willing to pay a premium for ethical sourcing and repairability on the subset of components you want to populate your laptop with?
> does not lead to any significant changes

Revisiting this the next day, perhaps it might be usefully thought of as like a customer acquisition funnel? One with lots of friction/leaks. Say a bad landing page, broken install instructions, no examples, poor documentation, no community, and unreadable source. Given that, still, some visitors will survive the gauntlet, to become minor and major customers. And customers will spend far more time working the product, than working around these not-critically-significant-for-customers frictions. And no amount of fixing, will make most visitors into minor customers, nor most minor into major. And yet. You'll have more visitors, and more visitors will become minor customers, and more minor customers will become major ones, if these frictions are improved. Perhaps similarly, for tool quality and people's skill?
> people just shorted too much, and market efficiency tend to punish those errors.

That's not the efficient market, that's the market failing due to logically out of bounds behavior regarding negative numbers of theoretical real objects. The shorters were right, with respect to efficient market ideas about value.
they still contributed to the Nazi economy. They employed Germans against the US embargo and made profits from a people exterminating a number of populations at once.

Not quite IBM's level of evil, but still scummy.

Hiding profits to avoid taxes is what they do now in every country. They're going to hide behind "hurr tax shelters, me no support nazis"? How about you just don't setup shop in Nazi Germany as US law demanded of US companies.
As someone who has spent time in Asia the drug laws can sometimes be quite draconian. From what I’ve gathered it’s mostly due to the association of drugs with crime. Of course that association is often (but not solely) driven by the laws themselves.

Combine that with a more conservative social view (either Confucian or Islamic) and your end up with a lot of agreement with the use of severe punishments.

The interesting thing is that many parts of these countries where the central government wields less power you see a pretty laissez faire attitude. If problems done arise it’s ignored.

I saw this in Morocco as well. An official policy of marijuana prohibition but small towns had pretty open marijuana use.
Even the hot dog stand near me (UK) has separate equipment to cook vegetarian hot dogs. I don't think it's a big deal, that's just one of the obligations of selling food to the public, to honestly label things.
Oh I see, yeah that's pretty much the default way to render large lists in a SPA (the term of art is called windowing). React-window is really well designed[0]. It is a shame that there is no native HTML element for this though.

[0] https://github.com/bvaughn/react-window
I’ve used the Langer probes in so many shops that I almost forgot there were other manufacturers of near field probes.

https://www.langer-emv.de/en/category/rf-passive-30-mhz-3-gh...

Generally these are connected to a high-end spectrum analyzer, but recently I’ve been working on a method to use a WiFi transceiver as sort of poor-man’s spectrum analyzer. This is useful only in applications where you want to snoop power levels in the range the chip works in. In my application we want to measure internal interference issues, within a device, where some non-WiFi subsystem creates noise in WiFi bands. Using the device’s own WiFi front-end to measure power becomes a very effective way to debug these issues.

The cool part is we did a correlation study between a $100k spectrum analyzer and the in-device WiFi chip, and across all noise sources and relevant frequency ranges the two agreed within 1-2dB. Not perfect, but good enough for our application.
Employees (as long as it isn't negative and their job isn't at risk). Customers. Anyone who doesn't own stock.
The trick is that they only need to agree on how multiple simultaneous edits merge.

Each URL specifies a Merge-Type. If the algorithms implement it, they can merge conistently.