skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The increased correlation is a sign of more integrated economies (globalization).

For instance, the US is highly dependent upon China for manufacturing. So when the US hits a recession, and we spend less money, less money goes to China as well, causing lower growth or a recession on their side.

That's simple correlation example, although there are second and third order effects that are significant as well.

Independently, bubbles have their own flavor on top of that, but usually concentrated to a particular sector (could be a straightforward sector like "tech", or as large as "equities", as was the case due to central bank easing around the world).

Trading sophistication tends to cause faster reactions (e.g. currency goes down, but their stocks go up in the same day, or even same hour). Decades ago, the trading was not as interlinked, so people couldn't make a global decision an implement in multiple markets at the click of a mouse.
Yes, essentially it’s energy held by gluons and quarks inside the proton itself. What’s meant by “binding energy” is that it’s not the total mass of quarks and gluons inside the proton but their “field energy” which in QFT terms is, I imagine, their field tensor contributions and in heuristic terms is like the energy stored in a compressed spring, only the “springs” in question are gluons within the proton.
Yes, agreed but am wary of comparing any proper hedge fund's returns over a short time frame vs the market. They are supposed to be absolute return vehicles. By nature of (supposed) uncorrelated returns, a lot of funds are not going to beat the market if it just goes up and to the right but definitely should be outperforming in other markets.
You'd be surprised ... :)
They aren't the only AV company doing it. There is another who openly sells the user's history. I was really shocked how no one cares.
The point is that this is expensive to small companies, startups are small, with a budget that may not allow this kind of cost. To large companies, pay those things are fine.
> Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly.

Sounds like an antitrust issue. Great example of how it doesn't take full monopoly-scale control for markets to break down.
I applied to the open SRE position but got passed because they require EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) timezones. That was not listed anywhere on the posting or title/subtitle.

Can this get fixed?
What about the people that didn't have good intentions?

How do you feel about Lehman's Repo 105 maneuver where they intentionally used a Tobashi scheme to hide their losses from their investors?

The state of New York went after Ernst and Young on fraud charges for helping facilitate the scam and E&Y ended up paying a $10mil fine.

Is this justice? It doesn't feel like it.
Injections in rats, tested over periods of days? What about use in humans, over their lives? For an obvious counter-point paper:

Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife (2012)

http://m.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/40/E2657.full.pdf

(dunno about the team, but the paper was edited by Michael Posner)
I think its worth reading or getting the audio for the book Antifragility. It raises some good points about the financial system.
What is the easier, little-bit socialist solution to home ownership?
I don't feel like you gave the article due diligence; dislike of CNN aside, as you'd see that they are very open about the quote being contested (No surprise, given the sensitivity), but given the fact that Nixon contested pretty much all the things that we DO have on tape of him saying, (Some of which is in this exact vein, e.g. [1]) and that the end result of their policies WAS exactly as the quote describes, I find your disbelief somewhat surprising. (ESPECIALLY given Ehrlichman's role in watergate)

Nonwithstanding, I'm pretty sure the original source was via Dan Baum here [0], but given the preponderance of evidence towards an occams razor interpretation of Nixon's policy and the lack of any meaningful evidence to the contrary, it seems extremely reasonable to accept this as legitimate.

[0]http://www.antoniocasella.eu/archila/DanBaum_2016.pdf

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20... “going after all these Jews. Just find one that is a Jew, will you.”
>I find it difficult to see how startups would benefit from an intern who is not a software dev

Why would you seek non-tech intern position at a startup then? As another commenter mentioned, you're likely better off looking for an internship at a larger company, as there may be more going on to observe and learn from.
I would guess for these reasons and liability reasons: what happens when V8's sandboxing is exploited?
Being able to find shady people on one side of the fence doesn't absolve, in any way, the behavior of people on the other side of the fence.

Whataboutism is not a proper argument or defense.
The crime was massive fraud by the credit rating agencies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
I dunno. I'm grateful for simple things like sunlight and a good sandwich. None of these are related to "injustice". I even stopped intentionally following the news because the whole concept of worrying about injustice seems so draining and almost pointless.
I chuckled a bit when I realized the only thing I buy from Amazon anymore these days is... books!

Everything else I no longer trust Amazon for. Hell, even the books might be counterfeit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
Seriously, everyone suggestions a crackpot idea for sequestering carbon should do the basic arithmetic for how much annual human emissions are (40 billion metric tons).

I like https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-craz... for the perspective it offers: current human CO2 emissions are equivalent to the entire continent of Africa being covered in coniferous forest and burning to the ground in forest fires, every year.

If there is any way we save ourselves from this, it's from reduced emissions.
Hmm... all small scale projects. Point to point Drone delivery as killer application is still not possible in Switzerland. Need special permission for each flight/route.
Heh. I feel ya.

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My first real gigs were CAD/CAM based. I really thought both constraint and parametric programming were the future.

Finally gave up on constraints for UI layout. My alternative was to hand code the heuristics, esthetics. I created DesignGridLayout (for Java), based on canonical grids (a graphic design notion). It's now defunct, but if I ever circle back to UI work, that's where I'll resume.

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That impedance mismatch has tripped me up my entire career.

I forfeited in a different way. I inverted the work flow.

I now use working examples to generate the code.

In the case of databases: instead of an ORM to generate SQL, I use SQL to generate the JDBC/ODBC wrappers.

I can't speak to implementing a query planner (way beyond my intellect), or your notion of starting with a different mental model, but it's food for thought.
So... does that mean this is the best time to start a fund because there is little competition?

Or the worst because there is little opportunity?
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Julia works great on clusters, I use it all the time. It's learning a lot from Chapel too. Chapel has an amazing parallelism model, and a lot of Julia's parallelism is learning from it, including the near future hierarchical task-based multithreading. Julia was designed for interactive usage that can generate fast code, while Chapel was designed for the more traditional HPC usage. With more and more people using interactive languages on the HPC to avoid the translation step of the two-language problem though, Julia seems to be eating into the domain where more hardcore people used to write C++ and Fortran with MPI (I was one of those for a bit!). But while "no need to rewrite code, just take your interactive script and throw it on the cluster" is right for some, other applications will want a statically compiled language with a strong parallelism model which is Chapel.

The issue I see with Chapel though is that HPC is such a small community compared to larger scientific computing, and Julia has such a good design that it is very easy to improve (using Julia code!) with a large developer group (currently 736 contributors, that is quite a bit more than CPython has ever had and Julia is a lot younger), Julia is a lot more nimble. So when Chapel gets a good idea, sure enough there's an MIT programming languages or HPC fellow who proposes it in Julia, and so you get stuff like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631 soon after. That doesn't mean Chapel is bad, but Julia already has the largest contributor base of any of the open source scientific computing languages still being developed, and that manpower is definitely useful for keeping up with the current research trends (working on Julia is a good way to get a math/CS PhD at MIT :) )
I did say a small amount of assembly was fine. By "cheating", I mean something like converting the perl interpreter to assembly code and claiming that perl thus doesn't require code written in some other language.

Leaving out libraries is normal for a systems programming language. It is fine unless the language entirely doesn't work without the libraries.
I'm not sure how it happened, but at one point I had two of the same product in my cart -- not Quantity of 2, but it was listed two times. Both of the same Amazon product ID. And each at different prices. And, over time, as they sat in my cart, their prices changed, differently.
If this is true, they have turned from an online store which fulfilled your order from its warehouses to now, basically, an advertising network with incidental products that attract users so they can shove ads at them. That’s a sad thing to see happen.
Throwing out one strategy for Afghanistan - leave it for Russia and Iran and Pakistan to be in charge. They are all actively working against us there via proxy and right next door. Otherwise we are never leaving.

Hussein was terrible but we bungled the rebuilding of Iraq when we had total control and created the environment that made ISIS possible - we broke it, we owned it and we still fracked it up and have ended up giving Iran an almost client state right next door.

The borders of both Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be both artificial constructs that are proving impossible for us to build a nation around, the Iraqi Kurd's have done a much better job administering themselves and deserve the opportunity (the problem there is a.) local oil and Iraq's central government b.) Turkey a NATO ally opposing any Kurdish national state).
Right - strange that the article didn't mention Australia.
I don’t see how this means Babel is better than macros, except that it’s harder to write syntax transformations if you have to “write a compiler”, so fewer people do it.

Is your point that you shouldn’t use new syntax until it gets into the ES standard?
"an agency so entrenched in bureaucracy, that the will of the people is far from them" should be the definition of the term "Deep State". Doing BS for so long, they ignore the people.

How people maintain cannabis as schedule I is Vogon levels of incompetence.
Not a convincing argument from Osama.
A quick look at the market share numbers instantly renders this article false.
> The funny thing is that many Americans are perfectly happy with this... but if you bring up, say, universal healthcare they rage against the very idea of the government spending so much money.

You're over-simplifying the healthcare issue. It's not just about money. It's about individual rights and responsibility of the government.
It's pretty obvious, actually. If you tell people you're doing it, and they still choose to give you money in exchange for the good or service you're actually performing, it cannot possibly be fraud.

Banks are very up-front about the fact that they're doing fractional reserve banking. You set up accounts in full knowledge of the fact that some of your deposit will be used for investments and that - if too many people try to withdraw the full value of their account at once - the bank may run out of reserves and you will be unable to withdraw.

Even an outright Ponzi scheme wouldn't be fraud in any moral sense if it specifically and openly said you would be investing in a Ponzi scheme and that any returns entirely depended on the extremely unlikely gamble that you would be among the first, rather than last, people to invest. (In fact, there are quite a lot of Ponzi schemes like this in cryptocurrency; at one point they made up a fairly significant proportion of all Ethereum transactions. They were treated - correctly, I think - as basically just a form of gambling for entertainment.)

And whatever your opinion of fractional reserve banking, even if you do think it's fraud you have to admit that it's clearly much less fraudulent than an outright Ponzi scheme.
Well, so far everything I am doing is 99% automated based upon my own tools, etc.

Edit: Dr. Ernest Chan has written 3 really good books on Quantitative/Algorithmic trading. Essential reads.
A pure Julia program got >1 petaflop on Cori, so it's quite in the HPC realm.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/celeste.html
All (except Rodney King) trending nicely down during that time.
> I do wonder whether the scope of what's deemed "mental illness" is being widened

There are two questions here, I think.

One is whether we're confusing regular moods with larger conditions, and the answer is generally no. Conditions like anxiety have time thresholds of persistent symptoms to avoid this issue, and other conditions like panic disorders describe things that many people never experience.

The second is whether the scope of what's diagnosable is broadening on any axis. And there, we can say: yes, consciously so. The US standards for diagnosing mental illness (the DSM definitions) have been steadily moving away from attempts to determine who has a 'real' mental illness in favor of symptoms-based diagnoses. The standard for e.g. anxiety excludes anxiety from drugs (legal or not) and physical health problems, but says nothing about whether the long-term anxiety is 'justified' or a reasonable reaction to circumstances.

It's partly an acknowledgement that lots of appraisals are made quickly and on circumstantial evidence, so we might as well issue circumstantial decisions instead of assigning grand theories that might not apply. And it's partly about the fact that many treatments are circumstance-agnostic; absent other options, someone who's constantly anxious because they have high debt and a stressful job will see basically the same benefits from CBT or medications as someone without circumstantial issues.

But it's also a concession to just how little we understand a lot of mental illnesses. There's no particular sign that anxiety-the-disorder is anything but high activity from the system everyone has, and we're not sure why it seems to be so much more active in certain people, so there's no objective test to run. Which means either relying on a clinician's judgement about what's 'justified' anxiety, with all the cultural biases and doctor-shopping that invites, or admitting that it's an unclear question and bypassing it.

(This looks a bit different when we do understand the biological mechanisms of a disorder, or at least know that certain treatments are conditional. As an example, nicotine helps decrease the symptom intensity of schizophrenia, but doesn't for most other hallucinatory or delusional disorders. And other conditions like ASPD or ADHD have foggy partial understandings that leave them in the middle.)

One way of framing this is that we're pathologizing normal reactions. But another is that we have a system built to treat certain unpleasant conditions, and we're recognizing that it can operate on more pain than we'd previously realized. A lot of historical support mechanisms have ceased to support most people, both formal (priests running confessionals and doing relationship mediation) and informal (the death of the 'third place', fraternal organization membership, etc.) If the problem is "many people are sad and stressed by their work", assigning the care of those feelings to our sadness-and-stress support framework makes sense. Ideally we might change people's work circumstances instead, but this looks like at worst a return to the historical approach.
That's a fair description, yeah!
We haven't guaranteed student loans since 2010 when the government started directly issuing student loans.

Today 91% of student loan disbursements are public loans that are funded directly from the treasury. The remaining new private loans aren't federally guaranteed (although we still make it difficult to discharge them in bankruptcy).
Yes, data by terminal degree would be a lot more useful. Zoology is basically useless at earning more money than a generic degree unless you go onto becoming a full-on vet, so it's not the zoology degree that's increasing income but the graduate degree. And that graduate degree is expensive. Contrast with CS, which didn't make this list, but which by itself does substantially increase income over the generic undergrad degree.
The french wiki on GAFAM is really interesting because it gives an outsiders perspective on American tech companies and it is pretty biased [0]. (If you are on chrome, it should offer to auto translate for you and google translate is ridiculously good these days)

Here is one of my favorite qoutes: "In terms of competition, GAFAM has the power to buy up all up-and-coming innovative companies and thus prevent competition from being dethroned (as competition becomes a subsidiary). This situation is often denounced by the European Union , notably by its Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager."

It even coined the term NATU for Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla, and Uber.

[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
Fortunately, the United States doesn't have a monopoly on cannabis research. For instance, Israel and Canada are funding studies.
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Walmart has a history making suppliers cut costs to the point that quality has to drop. Often, suppliers will produce inferior goods for Walmart, and mark them the same as the high-quality goods they sell to other retailers.

I've actually wondered how many of Amazon's "counterfeit" items are genuine Walmart-class products commingled with Macy's-class products in Amazon's warehouses.
The entire TIC industry (I work for Underwriters Laboratories) does just that, we independently test and certify and then audit the factories to make sure it’s still made the same way as the original sample. Problem is... people counterfeit our certificates, and some retailers don’t care much
attrition.org doesn't even provide HTTPS.
I think there is something inherent difficult/impossible about what you propose.

From the data presented by the tor project, it seems clear that tor services many people in nations where they're likely to be targeted by the state or other organizations for online activity.

With that said, I think defining what and whose problem it solves has a limit imposed by the nature of what we're doing, which is giving people the option to be anonymous and connect to the internet. The more details you articulate, the less effective this system becomes.
Maybe Amazon is behaving badly, trying to scam customers by selling them fraud products at inflated prices. Is the best response to that to enlist the federal government to make them run their business differently? Or may we could just, you know, take our business elsewhere?
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Lehman went bankrupt. It seems they got precisely what they deserved.

If the only problem were the bad actors it wouldn't have been a systemic collapse.
When our corporate oligarchs consider a path to greater ownership and control over society.
you don't think people exchanging goods and services using money as an intermediate exchange (aka capitalism) can be a net-positive? Because any other aspect of our current formation of capitalism is negotiable. We can regulate to counteract negative corporate behaviours (though that has its own set of issues) so that companies are working for the benefit of the populace.
fakespot.com does this for you. Just paste in the URL for the amazon product and it will analyze the reviews.
CMSes get hacked every day now. It's the new entry level thing to probe for and hack into. Then the fact that most CMSes these days allow some form of creating code blocks in the content or injecting code into the templates, and it's not very hard to believe.
Researchers Figured Out How to Hack a Tesla’s Locks in Under Two Seconds
I like the perspective that the DSM-* is a collection of behaviors that don't fit the current societal norms and is the attempt to correct people who don't/can't subscribe/adhere to these norms through medicine.
I was thinking along these lines, too. But the problem with job satisfaction is: Do you rely on self-reported job satisfaction or objective quantitities like absenteeism or turnover?

Both are hard to make comparable between different fields: In some (think med, law etc) the cost of education will prohibit changing careers, regardless of if you make millions as patent lawyer or heart surgeon (assuming that the latter adds more "value to society"). So I think it is hard to come up with a consistent objective measure of satisfaction. On the other hand, if you poll people, you might find, that fine arts majors were very happy with their college life, but actually work in a different field to pay rent (I happen to know some music majors).

The problem with the societal benefit definition is: It very much depends on your own system of beliefs. Is an education in business and employing 5 people, more or less valuable than a job as a veterinary? Since most of the undergrad majors also have a variety of possible jobs they could lead into, this is even harder to quantify.

So maybe just do away with rankings :-)
This article and the associated discussion thread you're contributing to here has zero to do with recreational use. Is this the core issue? People can't separate the two? Do people generally not realize that because of how it's scheduled there is no possibility for medical use and that this is starting to look like a really bad thing given the circumstances?
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And Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan again back in the 80s...the interventionist policy has always been about U.S. corporate interests abroad, not about democracy or peace.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Overthrow--A...

^^ Not completely without bias, but probably contains a lot of inarguable historical facts that you weren't even close to being taught in high school or even college.
Personal anecdote- i bought a house with a wood pellet stove as a primary heat source. There was smoke damage to the paint everywhere.
That article talks about charging bankers for LIBOR rigging (a European index) and fining Europeon banks for MBS fraud. The only US charges are for TARP fraud, which was after the crisis started.

The article does not show any US banker or US Bank was charged for MBS fraud done before the crisis.
Is there a specific 5G standard? In comparison to 3G which had CDMA2000 and UMTS, there seems to be mutlitude of unnamed standards.
lmao if you think people are taking antidepressants because of a 40% tax rate