skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to tack on this comment by adding that everyone seems to ignore the fact that QE is essentially just printing money.

This is actually inherently necessary and the fact that the government hasn't been doing it more has been the cause of the debt crisis.

Money is created both by the government (directly) and by banks (whenever they make loans with less than 100% reserves, i.e. whenever they make loans). As the economy expands, the money supply needs to increase with the demand for currency to use for transactions, or there would be deflation (very bad).

When that money is created by banks, it necessarily leads to an increase in outstanding debt. And paying the debt back destroys the money that was created by borrowing it, so the only way to maintain the money supply at that level without the government creating any is for the amount of outstanding debt to never go down. Which, of course, means that it only goes up.

If you print unlimited money at some point it causes inflation, especially when people use it to buy stuff. But if, instead, they use it to pay down debt -- which is what happens when people have a high debt load -- all it does is replace the bank/debt money with the government money.

Which is actually really healthy, because it it gives people the few bucks back in interest-not-paid on the debt they no longer have. That has a much smaller immediate effect on prices (interest-not-paid per year is only a fraction of the principal paid down), but a very beneficial long-term effect because it leads to more wealth in the hands of people rather than lenders.

It also has immediate positive knock-on effects because with less debt, people are more financially stable. If you're leveraged to the hilt and an emergency comes up, no one will lend you anything more. You also pay lower interest rates if you can e.g. make a bigger down payment, which reduces the lender's risk (the asset is worth the whole loan amount even if it depreciates some), enhancing the positive outcome of people paying less in interest.
HashiCorp Consul 1.3: Envoy
Alot of people have been unemployed for quite some time and certainly aren't going to be able to negotiate that. I mean what are they going to do if it doesn't work out? wait another 3 years for another job.
Obvious flaw:

I write a contract with you: you will deliver me a "widget" in 6 months, at which point I deliver you $300,000. This contract is negotiated in good faith - we both at the time believe it is a good deal (this is important, as lack of good faith is a different issue). It turns out that after 6 months I don't need the widget like I thought I did, and fortunately for me there is a clause that I now discover is illegal. Now you have a widget neither of us want, and are don't have money to show for your last 6 months making it.
10% of the us military budget could cover it (60 billion). There's the potential to use the volatiles there to make local enclosed atmosphere, we'd eventually have the ability to grow some food locally, but yes, it's probably going to cost 100 billion. There are plans to build in things like lava tubes to protect against gamma rays.
Ah it seems this is misquoted. Not the best source, but it gives a more plausible explanation https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f-35-cant-run-on-warm-...

Tl;dr: if fuel stays in the sun it gets too hot and the plane won't run
"what is an effective way to communicate that you want to be an effective do-gooder, without triggering the cynicism? "

Be one and don't worry about telling people.
Jack Dorsey doesn't use a computer
Yeah this is 100% not the case when it comes to athletic wear. You are far more likely to get a comfortable well fitting shoe made by Nike, Addidas, etc than you are from one of the high end fashion designers. And it's pretty obvious why. At the end of the day your $300 Jordan's need to look good but they also have to be something you can be active in. Ball players you know actually play ball in them. Your $1000 Balenciagas just need to be expensive. The quality of the shoes is directly related to what you do in them. If you are buying trainers to run in, you probably want to replace them yearly if not every 6 months. If you're buying them to walk around in and because they look nice, yeah they'll last a lot longer. People treat their shoes based on the price they paid. You're not doing gardening in your $1000 sneakers but you might in the $50 pair of nikes you picked up at Nordstroms Rack.
There's thrift, msgpack, Avro, ASN.1, JSON, XML, BSON, S-Expressions, EDN, etc.
If a company can't hire when they need it - they may die just as well.

Although I must admit, it's not correct to compare human life with a corporate entity's existence.
> *Our way of life just doesn't support hyper local governments [...] No one has the stomach or the constitution to go back to being local farmers.

Er... guys, your American states are as large as European countries (the largest ones being in the range of France, Germany, Spain down to UK, the smaller ones in the range of Switzerland down to Belgium). As bit less populated (and even that is not really a drawback since it typically means more available resources per inhabitant), but otherwise... why wouldn't they be able to support themselves? Furthermore, having different governments/countries does not block the flow of goods.
O'Reilly then:

We're NOT looking for:

Books that overlap too heavily with our existing books.
Books on proprietary technologies that don't have a huge user base.
Books on miniscule (i.e., personal or nascent) products, even if they are open source.
Books on topics that have dismal sales despite quality books being available. (If you're addressing a topic where good books have sold dismally in the past (for instance, LISP, LaTeX, or Web-based training), you have a much higher threshold to clear with your proposal. Convince us why there is a revival of interest in your topic, or why your approach to a deadly topic will provoke interest nonetheless.)
Books that have been rejected by other publishers, in most cases.
That is currently how things work, and if you were to topple the current system and try to do the exact same thing over again you will get the same result in a couple of decades: a few entrenched aerospace firms with deep connections to congress on corporate welfare and eye-popping flight cycle costs.
12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World
After ten years at Google, I returned to my field of interest and work for a drug discovery/machine learning startup.
no more of an over-simplification than kissinger's concept of realism, to be blunt.

countries routinely do things that are contrary to the interest of maximizing their net power, and claiming "but it's anarchy out there!" isn't very accurate.
Tools like this are the only way most descendants of slavery can trace their heritage AND find relatives.

For a lot of people 'family history' stops at 3 generations ago. Not only are they denied heritage, they are denied a home, a land, and a people. A sense of connection to the past is denied them.

DNA services are the only way to make these connections. And they are not trust worthy.
I mean both, first 'prevent a two-degree shift' then 'transition to an zero-net-emissions economy' and finally even negative emissions. This was almost solved in the 1980s and wasn't but that's a sunk-cost fallacy. The chips are down and we are where we are, so let's roll forward and get this solved.
Facebook purged 800+ accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit
Massachusetts Pie bar lit up by portable solar/
Original title: "Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit" (1 character over)
> Why would it be public domain?

Not sure if that's the case but they do not have element of creativity. They just copy real world so why would they deserve any monopoly?
How to Train Your Model (Dramatically Faster)
> But you can't criticize from both directions.

I can't say I understand how that's criticizing from both directions. The research is underfunded, and as you noted more funds generally increases the speed of the research. There are layers of bureaucracy, which naturally slows down the rate of research due to waiting on various aspects of the research to get reviewed and deemed useful to the agency. How is that attacking it from two sides?

And your take on what I mean by "bureaucratically neutered" is fairly accurate, but I stand by it. I am referring to having non technical bureaucrats in the agency calling shots about research they may not understand based on non-related pressures (pork funds drying up due to political shifts, undesirable media exposure for research with uncomfortable results, sudden change in leadership that may not think the research is necessary after all, etc).

All this said, I have indeed never been involved with the agency so you might have a better perspective on the matter than I.
I agree with your position after reading the findings. Basically Kamala Harris was, acting on behalf of the state, attempting to set a precedent for physical violence being present before a client's case could be dismissed regardless of other prosecutorial misconduct.
Hey Tyson, yes definitely. I do plan to come back for IH NYC meetups on occasion.
If a company doubles in size every 2 years, then mathematically, you cannot have a median tenure of more than 2 years.
Guessed wrong!
What scares me worse than finding out about a mother's actual infidelity is the test, due to statistical variation, falsely reporting infidelity.

Could that happen? Or are the DNA tests correct 100% of the time?
> While it is true that venture-capital investment in the U.S. continues to rise, having reached more than $90 billion in 2017, such investment is growing even faster in other parts of the world, expanding by nearly 375 percent—more than twice the 160-percent increase here.

Looks like the story here isn't the U.S. falling behind, but the rest of the world catching up.
It's more than a big ego kill. In the most extreme example, kingship is hereditary, and people would fight wars over who the legitimate heir was.
> Sure, I'm working with Angular now. I might switch to Vue.js because I'm not crazy about Angular and I've heard very good things about Vue, but I'm also wondering if I'd like Angular more once I reached proficiency in it.

I am probably preaching to the choir here, but if you are looking to sharpen your skills, it's almost always better to stick with a single tech and learn it really, really well. That doesn't mean it's harmful to step through some Vue tutorials to get a feel for how it is different, however, if you're not careful you can end up losing a ton of time learning about the JS framework du jour and not actually making progress on anything. Especially if you are not in any hurry to build something useful.

Just about the only constant in JS frameworks is that any decision you make now on which one to use will probably be wrong in a year.

That's not to say optimizing for development speed isn't a good thing, especially if you are looking to bang out POCs as quickly as possible to vet startup ideas. But if you're not careful this can devolve into "funtime with tech" that could be a major distraction which might not even look or feel like one.

Speaking from experience :-)
Anonymity means you can do good without any risk of questioning intent.
Micron Plans to Invest $100M in AI Startups
Not really. A newly promoted engineer is very likely to get Meets Expectations, since the criteria for promotion is nominally that the person has already been meeting expectations at the next level.
admittedly there are tools like nipype that use pythonto create an interface for those different neuroimaging tools, but most of the time bash scripting works perfectly reasonably for this.
I work for a tech company and like you said, I've almost been there for 4 years and apart from my own department I would genuinely struggle to name anyone else on my floor (~100 people). I could probably count the number of people I know on one hand.

Whereas three years ago, I knew everyone's name across three floors.

Tech turnover is just so high, even our C Suite have almost all changed twice since I've been here.

I'm easily one of the longest standing members of staff and we have over 1,000 tech employees.
Sending you an email tomorrow
Researchers train AI to mimic 20 acrobatic moves from YouTube videos
This is true, and many more companies too. What I was getting at though was that tech companies have lots of influence but choose not to address this challenge and instead focus on advertising or other areas.
It goes up regardless of building restrictions in a booming economy, but restrictions can make it worse.

This is called the Law of Rent. Land prices function like monopoly prices, and rise whenever the value obtainable from the location rises compared to the best available rent-free alternative. Seeing how there's usually no rent-free alternatives, prices tend towards the entire value obtainable from the location for an average consumer.

For instance, the value of the location may be money and time saved on commuting. You'll generally find that the money and time you save on commuting about equals the higher land rents, netting out to no monetary benefit between the two options.
This is really neat, I used to do research in Bayesian networks, I had no idea they were being applied to astronomy, is their use widespread?
You have no obligation to answer the secure questions truthfully, or not to write a long random string of text... Starting with "Do not accept the answer if I can't spell this exactly" in case a human gets involved...
The only thing I could possibly see working for what you're envisioning is building it on top of the Neuralink if a version 1.0 ever comes out.
You can have your paywalls if you delete capitalism.

Otherwise, you're forcing a population that's trying to survive with less and less capital, to choose what information sources they'll agree to keep open. Network effects come into play, and you end up with a system where only the top information sources can survive and there just isn't the public support for anything else.

Ditch capitalism and treat money like something provided to people as a citizenship right (like a vote, or like UBI) and then maybe you can have paywalls and have enough superfluous capital that you'll have a functioning market that allows for challengers and alternate choices to persist.

Right now, both paywalls and data collection are pushing things towards centralized solutions due to network effects (when you can search for the 'one best' thing worldwide, people generally will wish to do that) and the results of that are proving catastrophic. Capitalism merely underscores this mechanism and makes it seem mandatory that you will pay to serve the centralized systems that control you.

Jaron's looking for more of a decentralized thing. If you asked him whether he supported a paywall for the 'BUMMER' stuff he talks about, he would hope that the paywall would bring down those systems, and he'd be afraid that the lock-in would be so great that it wouldn't matter.
DIY car navigation on Raspberry Pi
Researchers unveil Prescience, an AI that predicts problems during surgery
Series of Denmark scandals tests its image as one of least corrupt nations
Sounds like Product Hunt
Thank you. Very well done!
Or the children currently being separated from their parents at the US border.
Holy shit, how many farad was that cap? I've heard of accidents with really big ones that show up in vintage arcade machines, but a camera?
Automation doesn't work for everything. Like when the product being shipping is of varying size and shape. Like clothing, books, pouches all in one box. Or stacking the boxes in a truck. Or look at something like car assembly. Tesla still uses people to route wiring harnesses through the car body because robots can't do it well. Many simple things can get automated but there is still a lot not yet possible.
I regret that humans can suffer feelings of inadequacy like feeling diminished as a mother, and I certainly sympathize with your wife because she will almost certainly have to fight thoughts like that, but I don't believe for a moment that those feelings have any validity. I am sure she will be a great mother and should have no regrets!

That said, I believe everyone ought to have a right to know their genetic lineage. It doesn't make anyone any less of a person or diminish their contributions - but for the sole reason of medical insight it ought to be knowable.
I heavily negotiated my employment contract for my current job, including using an attorney to revise things. I was going from 1099 to W2, though, and my employer really wanted to keep me, and I really wanted to stay with them.
This was the main inspiration for the posts and I refer back to it. Software is everywhere and can absolutely make a difference. Hopefully this will inspire others too.
That's more a "freedesktop.com/systemd" culture and community than anything, thankfully. Their philosophy seems to be that if the user has a problem with something, the user is wrong.
So what am I supposed to do as somebody who works for an employer? Consult a lawyer with every ticket I get?
Please don't pick the dumbest-sounding thing you found in an article to start an HN thread with. Other than a cheap hit of oneupmanship, it adds no value, and it's likely to lead to a dumbed-down discussion.
> This doesn't hold water; nation-state propaganda doesn't have any effect on the funding this program receives.

Again, I wasn't offering up my father as an expert (other than having been in the Air Force, which is weak at best), just sharing his take on the observation of all the negative articles.

And you don't need to go to the Shuttle, look at the CVN-X program (21st century aircraft carrier, aka the Ford class) which has EMALS and a bunch of other next gen tech, lots and lots of press about boondoggle and how nothing worked, and this thing is a sitting duck in an ancient concept of what war will be like. The B-2 bomber, similarly maligned as over priced, under delivered, not worth the money when B-52s can be retrofitted. Or its earlier sibling the B-1 bomber cancelled then un-cancelled. Or the Seawolf class submarines, too expensive, not enough justification Etc etc.

So I think the press coverage, especially when it is effective at raising outrage over social programs, is effective at getting congressional action to limit the investment in new weapon systems.

Some citations for your perusal

[1] B2 Bomber program cancellation is urged (1989) -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/05/19/b...

[2] Seawolf cancelled [1992] -- https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/910802-cr.htm

[3] Penny Pinching Submarine Warfare to Death -- https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/01/opinion/l-penny-pinching-...

[4] B1 Bomber flew in 1974 but was cancelled in 1977 -- https://www.boeing.com/history/products/b-1b-lancer.page
Just today Google prevented me from logging in with the correct password and asked for a phone number as additional verification. Any phone number.

The account has no associated number so it's not a verification at all!
Decentralized Open Source Mesh Networks – Benedict Lau
I imagine earlier commenter suggested that fashion conference organisers should ID attendants on entry, this is a routine practice at many events.

What do you mean?
How about don't hurt people to begin with?
I think this is a false dichotomy.

I agree that the issue arises for current systems that allow broadcast (one-to-all) communications such as this forum. I also acknowledge that it exists for email (one-to-one), but I think only because in that case it's so cheap and easy to mass mail something that one-to-one has effectively been automated into one-to-almost-all. I'd also note that modern spam filters are quite good at their job.

But for example, SMS isn't meaningfully moderated in any way yet when was the last time you had cause to blacklist a number?

I don't see any reason why a newly designed system couldn't apply different techniques to (mostly) avoid the problem. Just off the top of my head there's personal whitelists and blacklists, federated systems (pick the centralized ruleset that works for you), community moderation (ex StackExchange), web of trust, the subscription blacklist model that adblockers use...
I love this analogy
Porto school asks 9-year-olds’ sexual orientation in survey
True, but ReFS isn't supported in consumer versions of Windows so not really worth mentioning.
I don't see what you're getting at, an equivalent virus on Linux would delete snapshots as well.
> I think a more plausible explanation is status envy.

Elon Musk could announce the cure for cancer tomorrow and many would decry it as a "PR Stunt." Philosophers deploy the term "ressentiment" [1] to describe this complex behavior. This isn't exactly because they fear their own particular status falling, though that might've been the initial origin, by the time it reaches this stage you're talking about a cultural phenomenon, a "morality." Real "anti-social punishment" must occur because these people feel confident that others will not blame them for their anti-social behavior, indeed they likely believe that others will actually praise them for their anti-social behavior. It's misguided then to think this is a personal/economic or "rational" behavior and not an ideological one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment
Hey, what did you guys use to build the feedback/roadmap part? (https://feedback.muze.charts.com) Is it a third-party service or something built in-house?
ZFS has now been ported to Windows. With some testing and polishing, maybe it will be something they could adopt in the future (I know, wishful thinking, but the technology is there).
Except their text messages only appear to be processed every half hour or so... which makes it useless for 2FA most of the time (the only reason I went with them).
Held two days at the monthly Norwegian Unix User Group meeting.
For some reason, my brain forgot you did this on KNL. I guess even with cross compilation and then passing it to the platform compilers and it performing well is a sign it's good. Anyway, it's great you guys got this through especially with a tool like Julia. At least in my corner of academia, people utilizing "untested tools" unnecessarily raises the ire and skepticism of peers (for rather stupid reasons). I appreciate you guys "making the first move" which makes it easier for the rest of us looking to branch out and use these tools for our own codes.
> they're not going to tell anybody

The angst they save their family still exists - they'll keep it to themselves.
Even without sharing, that's bound to have some social implications.
Indeed "Is It a Book That You Would Even Wish Your Wife or Your Servants to Read?"

This is a Quote from the LadyChatterley’sLover Trial in the 60's
T-Mobile has put in place some protections to prevent unauthorized transfers of your account to new SIM cards, I just had to deal with them last night - actually. Swapping SIM cards for a line must either be done in-store where your photo ID can be verified, or over the phone but only after confirmation of a OTP sent to account managers via SMS.

I know T-Mobile actually had some issues with this in the past, so even though I miss the convenience of going to t-mobile.com/sim to swap a card out I feel it's a much better solution security-wise.
DISNEY AUDITIONS
Core idea behind this approach is to expose API properties as web-component attributes so that you can compose your charts and visualization at markup level (and share/react to properties between components).

I do not see any reason why this could not work with your API. If interested, some concrete/simpler examples available from https://github.com/PolymerEl/multi-chart (also being ported / simplified; ETA next week)
Taking over the SMS functionality of any phone number in the US is trivial and can be done in 2 minutes. The phone will continue to operate as normal and the victim will likely take a while to notice anything is wrong. Never ever use SMS to secure anything.