skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's start by defining "bubble".

A financial bubble isn't just "asset prices are going up". Asset prices can go up because the fundamentals for the asset are good. For example, stocks can go up because earnings are good. They can also go up because bond interest rates are low, and so 4% return on stocks is now a good return.

Then next stage comes when people start buying an asset because the asset are going up, rather than because the fundamentals are good. That's the start of a bubble. It's not yet a dangerous bubble, but it's becoming a bubble. (It's dangerous to those who invest in it, but it's not dangerous to the economy as a whole.) And of course, people buying into the asset cause the price to rise further. So more people see that the price keeps going up, and buy in because they want to make money. So the price goes up some more. That's a bubble - the price is rising because people are buying, and people are buying because the price is rising.

The dangerous stage comes when people start buying the asset with borrowed money. This is dangerous because, when the bubble pops (and it always does eventually), people will lose money that they don't have. This can destroy banks, not just individuals. When it destroys banks, it can threaten the economy as a whole (think 2008, or, worse, 1929).

So: Are we in a bubble? I'm not sure that we are in the Nasdaq, given current interest rates. I'm not sure that the price is totally disconnected from the fundamentals. We could be in a bubble, though.

One metric I'd be interested it, but don't know how to get my hands on: How much borrowed money is invested in the Nasdaq (or S&P 500, or the Dow)? How does that compare to historic values?
I swear that google once supported minus as a search term, but can find no evidence to back up my memory.
Does anyone have the 411 on the API to this thing? How will apps be developed?
Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collectively Bargain?
I don't think I'd want or need to try that...
Sounds like it's being used in Crackdown 3 to run multiplayer destruction physics. I suppose that makes sense. Run the simulation once on a beefy machine and send the results out. Of course it's one more thing that stops working when they shut down the servers in 5 years.
My experience is generally that it's safer to cross the street away from crosswalks. Typically, crosswalks are put in places that have subpar visibility in one or both directions, or at intersections where there are many more variables in play and potential decisions that multiple parties can make. Drivers will do unpredictable things if you are on foot and merely in the general area of a crosswalk.

If you cross the street on a straight-away with good visibility, you can gauge the speed of the traffic, determine a safe window, and cross easily, without disruption.
I notice AdNauseam blocks your adds even when I have it set to allow non-tracking ads. What sort precautions does DDG do to protect users who use your ads?
How do you see Nvidia enforcing it on individuals?
They may not be as nice as in Germany but they are not typically hostile either.

The streets in town here are ~20-25 feet wide and mostly don't have much traffic. 3 or 4 extra steps to cross an empty street isn't a big problem.
About the most fascinating thing I read all week.
> A "smart", unnecessarily Internet-connected kettle or lightbulb or juicer isn't going to usher the second coming of fascism to the Western world.

Each individual one isn't, but in aggregate they start transferring more and more control over your daily activities to faceless corporations thousands of miles away.

That is dystopian.
That's a possibility, yes, but I think Amazon's success is too extreme a case for an accident to be the most likely explanation. If it was merely a "decent" success or a "pretty good" success, then yeah, but it's many orders of magnitude beyond that, in a very cutthroat industry. To get to this point, the company has had to consistently make aggressive, unintuitive, massively beneficial decisions, many dozens of times per year over several decades.

Imagine Lebron James — Could he just be lucky every play he goes out onto the court? It's possible. But I'd say the more likely explanation is he knows what he's doing. He's got a fundamental understanding, an underlying theory, and a set of skills that map well to reality and give him an edge that contributes to his success. So does Amazon.
What an awesome way to use blockchain technology. Love it
Jacob that stuff really has no effect on the stability of the CI system and private runners, which is the real problem.
Apple typically isn't the most innovative. People just feel that way about them because in the past they get things right. This will probably be like Apple Watch where its true value is subtle and only apparent once you own a bunch of other Apple stuff and use them in conjunction with one another. In this specific case since Amazon and Google are so far ahead & haven't stumbled, Apple's only real advantage now is privacy; it currently has no incentive to monetize your data.
By the chosen people, whom have had developmental access bestowed upon them by the grace of Apple.

Seriously though; there is little to no chance that this will not be another locked down device with which Apple will try to monetize your home to the fullest possible extent.
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Employer "benefits" are things that are all freely available a la carte. There's no reason contractors can't buy health insurance from a marketplace or contribute to an IRA and wind up with the same end result. You as a contractor just have to factor those additional costs in to your decision-making process when evaluating compensation packages.
Well, presumably working class people are as able as anyone else to decide what is in their best interest. And we will have to disagree on laissez faire economics.

With Grenfell, exactly the same cladding that exacerbated the fire has been applied to buildings in Labour as well as Conservative boroughs. And the cladding only existed in the first place to meet climate change targets. I really don't think that you can claim that Grenfell is a party political issue.
which fulfills the prophecy that healthcare is expensive because large call centers must be created to support all the people who aren't smart enough to submit their claims online, which in turn either raises taxes or makes the taxes go towards a call center and not care.
We should be able to get health insurance and bargain based on community groups or individually tax-free rather than by employer. If the entire Mormon church could collective bargain for health insurance for its members it would be WAY cheaper than any employer
(because they don't drink alcohol or smoke).
At least two (and this one's probably more egregious, in the SEC's eyes): https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16869998/kodak-kodakcoin-b...
This is a really easy read if folks are looking for easy-to-digest papers!

From the results:

> Although the two-neuron network controller works well for a range of speeds, one thing the controller does not do is to try to dampen the instabilities that can arise when riding too slowly or in too sharp of a turn. (This would probably require a third neuron that is dedicated to this task.)
The SiriKit and HomeKit SDKs will apparently have HomePod APIs. Primary control of the device still has to be done from an iOS device as far as I know.
If they can build a stable, private, secure system which can increase the quality of life, then I am all for it.

The data seems to be needed to be able to adapt to the ever changing conditions.

Two big issues they can help alleviate, homelessness and addiction.
It's an useful standard for a JS only web app.

Once you work a bit with React/Angular/Aurelia, you start noticing that having your styles somewhere in a stylesheet is somewhat clumsy for reusable components or overly dynamic components.

You end up having to refactor with your stylesheets very often as your app grows and things can quickly turn into a mess.

You are then tempted to put style="" declaration in your .jshtml (or equivalent) templates but that's a also mess. So your start developing a way to inject styles into dom elements. This then grow up into some strange frankeinstein that no other devs can work with because you documented nothing... so you simply start using https://www.styled-components.com instead.
I Tried to Watch Woody Allen’s Movies to See If He‘s a Molester but I Got Bored
Improving privacy is great, but I find the extreme approach to erase all history taken by DuckDuckGo and others make them difficult to adopt.

I often use the history feature to re-find sites I remember visiting before. Bookmarks don't solve this problem because even if I tried to remember to bookmark anything that might be important later, I wouldn't be able to nor would I always be able to make that judgement accurately.

So, what I like to have instead of the nuclear option (erase all history) is a browser that protects my identity but also my history (e.g. behind a locked gate) that I can use always without having to think about so I don't have to choose between privacy or history.
The Power of Bayesian A/B Testing
I like his expression of opinion. It’s probably closest to my own that BitCoin is neat and a good technology, but not the investment hype that currently exists.
I wonder if something like this could be modified or extended in some manner for LOGO programming; graphical turtle on the floor (or wall) - no need for a physical robot turtle.

I'm just not sure how you would do the "coding" with the paper?

Maybe the paper could represent certain functions or subroutines, and somehow they could be "connected" together (kinda like a flow programming system)?
> That's because any shop that needs to get job done quickly is a Perl shop.

Be careful with that wild generalization. I’ve seen lots more “get job done quickly” in Ruby than Perl (but neither as much as with Python recently). I have nothing bad to say about Perl, but it’s not really defensible to claim it’s used as commonly as other languages.
You can't just unilaterally decide that laws don't apply to you.
Pretty much anybody using Unix is using Perl one way or the other.

Its a bit like C. The language is so neatly integrated with the OS that its hard to beat it.
Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (1972)
I don't understand the appeal of styled components at all - what's the benefit over simply having `import './MyComponent.scss` at the top of your file? I can't imagine working on an app where the css is mixed directly in with the JSX.
Trick 'em into thinking they aren't learning and they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTCEVAAEfo
Testing iOS In-App Purchases Makes Your Device Unusable
Keep this in mind when looking at the government's monthly job reports. We've set the wrong metric, so while unemployment may be low the power that would normally flow to workers from a tight job market doesn't exist here.

“We find that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,” said Krueger. “And over 60% was due to the [the rise] of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers.” In other words, nearly all of the 10 million jobs created between 2005 and 2015 were not traditional nine-to-five employment.

https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...
It's not a race to the bottom. It's a correction. Why should your health care be determined by your employer? It's a ludicrous system that should have died decades ago.
There is a difference between what the crypto community needs vs what the government thinks it needs. One of the goals of crypto is lack of regulation like you identified, but that doesn't mean the government doesn't want to regulate it any less.

There are all sorts of industries that would be ecstatic if avoiding regulation was as simple as opting out.
Reasonable for hackers, horribly optimistic for the defense team.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/c...
Agencies goals are to negotiate for themselves while keeping compensation of the contractor negotiated to ensure the highest profit margin. Many companies use contract agencies because it shields them from the burden of dealing with unemployment.
But most applied maths courses/books focus heavily on ODE/PDE which are rarely of help to CS undergrads.
His books are also quite funny, particularly Antifragile.
Kodak has a plausible argument for pursuing BC; the iced tea company is just flagrant.
Not necessarily now, but if you decide to turn that little ML project into a startup, staying on the same infrastructure at first, Nvidia might just come after you.

Considering this is HN, it's a pretty safe assumption that people are running these side projects to turn them into startups.
If you are a public company, then you signed up for SEC regulation...
I don’t disagree with the first part. That’s a legit reason to stick with what you have.

But yes, it is going to make hiring more challenging.
WeWork is going back to school
Uber and AirBnb seemed to make out alright in the end (or middle as it may be).
Being on your own in the workforce often means you don't have the safety net of benefits and other forms of support that traditional workers do.

Even the first sentence is kinda stupid. Benefits are a form of salary. Independent have the freedom to buy the benefits they want and spend their income as they please. What's wrong with that ?

The best antidote to fear, she says, is to create a new social safety net where freelancers can rely on each other

I fear people like her trying to force us "for our own good"
Compile-Time Dependency Injection with Play (Scala)
Not at all - other billionaires are opponents, not enemies... they work together to continue extracting wealth from the common person.
My government takes a 20% cut from my salary for the exact same reason. Nevertheless, our public health care is so shitty that every self-respecting employer includes private healthcare in their package. So the government is basically forcing me to pay for something that I don’t intend to use (because I don’t want to die from nosocomial infections in a moldy hospital room).
You are free to develop your own crypto-currency and do whatever but this isn't about that.

What the chairman is talking about are publicly traded companies suddenly turning to claiming blockchain-based pivots without substantial evidence to believe that they are being sincere and truthful.

This is almost a pump-and-dump scheme in just slightly different clothing.
A Reddit User Made Netflix Browsing a Lot Easier
That's historically the way it has been but it's absurd in general. Would you argue the same thing about housing, food, and water (they should all be provided by the employer)?

Really what we need is an expectation of being able to buy healthcare on our own with regular incomes.
Putting aside the privacy concerns, the home automation + home assistant combo is actually pretty useful. It definitely beats fumbling through apps to do smart home stuff.

Since getting an Echo, I notice my wife constantly changing the temperature on the Nest because, well, it's so easy to bark out a command when you don't want to get up or don't have your phone handy.

Prior to getting an echo, I only used my Wemo switches for scheduling lights to come on and off when we were away. I use voice commands for turning groups on and off all the time now. Since it's dark when I take out the dogs in the a.m., I use a "good morning" routine that turns on my downstairs lights and tells me the outside temperature so I know which coat to wear. I'm surprised at how dependent I'm becoming on Alexa for otherwise mundane stuff.

Having said all of that, I guess I made the choice to value convenience/functionality over privacy. I see the Amazon/Google assistants as "Big Brother with benefits".
Saying "this has no need to be regulated by a government" doesn't magically make it true.
I wonder if contract workforce will fade as unemployment falls. The last 10 years the job market has been bad so many people had no choice but to work on contract. Now they have more of a choice.
Don't have mba or ever studied economics, so that helps.
Is anyone here a member of the mentioned freelancer union? I'd be interested in hearing a member's perspective.
No, it will not. Because then we get a Linus who would have to maintain a filter as well as his technical expertise. The later would suffer, I'm shure.
I’m curious what you don’t agree with. Could you go into detail?
To be sure! I’m not allergic to Perl and I like seeing the cool new stuff going on there. But afterward, I prefer to take those learnings and apply them to work I’m doing in other languages.
I always feel bad when I read some of Taleb's work and come away empty. The guy is clearly smart, but I feel like he skips too many steps in his mental algebra and then misses his own mistakes altogether too often.

>This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.

Here's a great example. Does it really, Nassim?
We don't know for certain yet, but the AppleTV will opt to play music from iCloud as opposed to streaming from the AirPlay device if possible. You'd hope this functionality has been extended to the HomePod.
A cathartic exercise listing all the tiny cuts that make testing iOS IAPs miserable.

The biggest being with subscriptions, you will have to clear 5-6 login modals every time you unlock your phone. The only fix is uninstalling the app your testing, which is usually the app you are working on.

Neglect of the developer experience runs downhill and consumers are the ones who ultimately suffer. I wish Apple would put some of their massive stockpile of cash into solving these solvable problems.
It's a delay with AirPlay 2, which isn't HomePod specific, and not the hardware from my understanding.
One often overlooked detail, which I just could not figure out by looking at their product page is which virtualization software they use. I haven't made particularly good experiences with OpenVZ in terms of flexibility and would rather have them use something like KVM.
Peterson's relationships with feminism and youth activism are very touchy subjects, both because of factors addressed in the article, and because Peterson engages them with a vitrol that's absent from most of his other work. I'm a huge proponent of most of his lectures, but readily concede that he gets combative there in ways that are unproductive if not shortsighted. The Guardian had a review of his new book that, while blind to some nuance, landed some reasonable blows against him.

My advice to anyone looking to form an opinion on Peterson: Begin with his Maps of Meaning series on youtube. They're ~2hr lectures on the intersection of biology, religion, and morality, and they are the most illuminating rationale of world religion, its motivation, and its persistence, that I've ever read. He's frequently referred to as "Christian" because that's an easy set of values for readers to recognize, but dig into the lectures and you'll find that he's only "Christian" because the christian framework of morality is a subset of a larger and more universal moral framework common across time and cultures.
i was a bit too young to observe but has anyone here seen something similar when the internet craze came out?

1) Were public companies changing their names to reflect the "e"/"i"? If so which ones?

2) Isn't the "i" from iPhone/iMac taken from the word "internet"? Okay it's a product and not a company name, but where does the distinction starts/ends?

Could we expect an incoming "bPhone" (blockchain) or cPhone(crypto), dPhone(decentralized) .. it actually sounds cool, right?
Rosie the Riveter was a general concept and cultural icon. Songs, posters, and more were made about her. Rosie was the cultural representation of "Women entering the workforce as the men went to war".

Naomi Parker is the woman who was photographed, and then her photograph was used to create the (repopularized in the 1980s) Westinghouse "We can Do It" poster, often called "Rosie the Riveter".

You can see the resemblance in the clothes: the polka-dot bandana on the head of the famous 80s picture, which Naomi Parker was wearing in those early photographs...

According to various news sources, Naomi Parker didn't know that she was the inspiration to the Westinghouse picture until 2015.
You can, and most likely would, do that, but they can't because it would split the word into two syllables so they're choosing the usage that would keep it monosyllabic.
This utopian streak running through the crypto community is what convinces me most that it’s going to be a heartbreaker.

> But Hayek used the notion of distributed knowledge. Well, it looks like we do not even need that thing called knowledge for things to work well. Nor do we need individual rationality. All we need is structure.

Irrational exuberance is a good thing!

And while these ideologues are busy demonizing the central banks a handful of individuals manipulate bitcoin to levels a central bank could never even attempt...
Another important consideration is pollution. If you burn a polluting fuel directly in the car, the pollution is released where the car is, which is generally where a lot of people are.

You can reduce the emissions by adding technology to process the combustion products to clean them up before emitting them, but you are limited by the fact that your cleanup technology has to be small enough and light weight enough to include with the car.

If you burn that same fuel remotely to make electricity, and use that electricity to power the car, now the pollution is being emitted at a fixed location.

We can pick that location to minimize the harm from the pollution that is emitted, and we can use far more effective cleanup technology at a fixed plant than we can on a vehicle.
The problem is when you have a hedge fund the education part takes a back seat. Anything that might undercut the fund is to be eliminated or avoided.

So too "economic power" does not really follow "pillar of civilization". The slave trade was economically very powerful and influential in the 19th century. I think most people consider it as something that eroded development of civilization.

https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php
It's not just that the tell them not to, they actively audit for it. It's a risk to the company, not just a personal risk to the employee
There's no almost about it. It is blatant manipulation.
> If this is about protecting the consumer, perhaps the consumer shouldn’t be meddling in a space that is still being developed where there are big risk factors at this point in time. Or maybe I just dont get it.

You assume consumers don't have needs and are immune to incentives, and also that people running the coins are perfectly honest, and it would never cross their mind to architect incentives in such a way, as to predictably exploit those consumers.

Also, what 'dmd wrote.
Do you blame your grandmother for propagating popups or do you blame the ad industry?
There definitely is a difference between talk and action.

Will be interesting to see if they actually do anything because in the end it will end up with a ton of litigation that they may or may not want to do.
I think we learn that there is value even in bad implementation. For example, a lot of what custom tags promised in ColdFusion 20 years are finding fruition in client-side components.

Likewise, I think there's value in scoped work, as opposed to the mess than can come of globals. Otherwise you find yourself hard-coding !important when you need to make something work.

I prefer "build on lessons learned from" to "going back to" :-)
How is the podcast functionality? My biggest frustration with smart speakers is the poor support for pausing and resuming podcasts.