skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a result (in part or more) of setting a schedule for fed funds rate increases and sticking to it?
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4chan is a cult with a lot of traction among mostly male technical types.

There are lots of online cults though, not just on the chans. Tumblr is particularly bad. Lots of little Borg minds looking to assimilate young novelty.
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A friend of mine is a UI designer and I really like how she gets interviewed. Her first interview during an onsite is to give a presentation about herself and her prior work. The audience are the 3-4 designers who will be interviewing her that day. This helps her set the tone of the future interviews and also gives an opportunity to show case her best work. We never get this chance during software interviews. I feel software interviews are like QA testing. The interviewers will each enter edge cases and see if you break under any one of them. Your resume might as well be shredded by the recruiter, cause it never gets read by the interviewers. You never get to paint a fair picture of yourself and that is quite frustrating.
Good explanation. Thank you.

But isn't the demand for money going to go up because the US is running ginormous deficits? I would expect the demand for money to be through the roof.
Given that this was last talked about 50 days ago, and I have seen things explicitly reposted that stayed up. What is the guideline on when things become dupes?
Check the statistics of hospital admissions for being harmed by others, check the perpetrators, and you'll find the boys missing from your statistic.
Which is why i think that describing the yield curve in terms of rates of bonds running from now until some date in the future (which is what we do when we talk about raw treasury rates, or zero-coupon bond rates, another common form) is really unhelpful, because it disguises this structure.

We should instead talk about it in terms of expected instantaneous, or at least short-term, forward rates. For example, what is the expected rate for a three-month T-bill starting 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years from now?
> He believes it himself

Not necessarily a strong belief, just an amount of ignorance perhaps.
A quick explanation in layman's terms:

I have money on hand and I want to put it into something safe. The US government is constitutionally bound to pay its debts, and is generally considered to be very safe (if not the safest investment around).

The US government sells bonds with different terms. I can buy 1 year bonds, 3 year bonds, 5 year bonds, 10 year bonds, etc. The treasury sets a fixed interest rate and face value on treasury notes and then whoever pays the most gets the note.

Right now, (annualized) rates [1] are approximately as follows:

1 month - 2.30%
6 month - 2.56%
1 year - 2.72%
3 year - 2.84%
5 year - 2.83%
7 year - 2.90%
10 year - 2.98%

Notice that the 3 year rates are higher than the 5 year rates. Generally speaking, if I'm going to lock up my money for more time, I expect a higher return. However, today, the 3 year notes are getting a higher rate of return than the 5 year notes. Why?

Interest rates generally tend to follow the economy at large. When the economy is doing well, people will invest in stocks and other investments and are less willing to pay for the safety of treasuries, so effective rates go up when people bid less at treasury auctions (additionally, the government will take steps via the Federal Reserve to make rates higher). By the same token, when the economy isn't doing well, people want the safety of treasuries, even if they pay less, so effective rates on treasuries tend to go down.

In rare cases, the yield curve will invert. What this means is that investors think that rates of return on government bonds are going to go down in the future. In order to lock in a better rate now, they're willing to pay more for longer term bonds (in this case, 5 year bonds vs. 3 year bonds) in order to "lock-in" the good rates. The assumption is that they won't be able to get the same good rates if they don't act now.

Note that only the 3 and 5 years have inverted. If people were really panicked, you would probably see a more significant inversion, where for example, the 1 year was higher than the 2 year and the 2 higher than the 3, etc.

[1] these rates are actual rates of return calculated based on the auction price paid
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I mean, yes, being reliant on Steam is a large risk. But until you can convince your customers to diversify their purchasing, what are you going to do? Steam's dominance of the PC gaming market has been challenged by some big hitters in the industry. If you're selling many orders of magnitude less than CD Project Red, you probably have to either take on the risk or find another industry.
Not to mention, they need an alternative to Google. Russia has Yandex, China has baidu, and everyone else has dickall.
Awesome. Thanks. This is very very encouraging!
Self-correction: I forgot that Sharp is owned by Foxconn now!
I try to keep in mind that if a con looks obvious to me, I'm just not the kind of mark the con was designed for. Why will a fish bite on bait that doesn't look edible to me? Because it looks delicious to them. It was made to look delicious to them though a long process of trial and error.

For a long while I was fascinated that people could get caught up in cults. It was very much not the kind of thing I would fall for. So I read a bunch of memoirs from people who had left/escaped cults and eventually it made a lot of sense to me. I would still never fall for one, but I can see how they take advantage of basic human drives and the weaknesses of their particular kind of victim.
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yes, but interest rates help drive supply of money, not the other way around. lower interest rates give cheaper access to capital which drives a higher supply.
I doubt that nowadays many of the average Firefox users are really average computer users.
We teach the idea of critical thinking but not the intellectual disciplines of doing it honestly and effectively.
Also the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just arrived at the asteriod Bennu today. At some point it will land and take samples to return to earth.
Do you think porn watchers don't buy Cheerios and Volvos?
Split testing can be used by companies who care about their users and companies who don't. It just tells you how your users react. It's not a substitute for user empathy or regulations.
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Read Epictetus if you liked MAs Mediations.
Haha. Yep.
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How bad a title for such a gem.

The unpretentious attitude towards science reminds me of Feynman. I wish there were more people in education like them.
No offense but that sounds like the most likely effect is promoting tech literacy and sneakiness.
Remember how Docker was the replacement of everything... 6 months ago? :)
Which moral principle is in violation? You are serving content and then complaining about people reading it. If you are so interested in protecting your IP then why are you giving it to me anonymously? In no way have I altered your means of distribution.
Nowadays the cost of a mistake can be disproportionally big.
They don't listen :(
A yield curve typically means taking not just two instruments, but as many as you can get, so there really is just one yield curve for any given kind of instrument.

Although there is enough variety in the details of government bonds that you could argue there is more than one there. The proposition that there is a single yield curve is more obviously true for things like interest rate swaps.
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And online, the most engagement can be had by trolling, not by agreeing with each other.

The example that screams out to me reading this cmoment is Reddit and it's ability to sort comments and threads by "controversial".
You're describing what protein design researchers have been doing already for years already. Except for predicting the desired function, which AlphaFold doesn't do either - as the structural genomics projects of the 2000s found out, having the protein structure doesn't magically tell you what it does in vivo.
I used to just browse Steam and collect games that looked interesting. Over the years I've slowly stopped doing that.

For certain, part of it is that adult life gives me far less time to enjoy "dedicated" gaming. I have plenty of time for mobile games on my commute (I walk), but I no longer have dozens of hours a week that I can dedicate to CS or Eve Online.

But part of it is that the Steam store is anxiety-inducingly overwhelming. It feels like there's more than a lifetimes worth of content in there, and I have absolutely no idea how to find the good stuff. Something about Steam's design appears to provoke this response, because I do not have similar issues with the similarly large Apple store. I think a redesign might be in order.

And the recommendation algorithm just keeps sending me the same games that don't look interesting to me.
Balancing free speech is easy, more speech the better.

'think or my child' is the absolute bottom of rhetorical speech, it ranks worse than '...but nazis'

Stop sacrifing my basic rights because you're terrified.
Possibly, but that's an untargeted and justifiable privacy feature in a browser who's primary shtick is being privacy focused.

I think if Mozilla included code that specifically targets Google, they would be crossing a line.
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Been using runtypes and it works well enough, but now I'm wondering if this may be a smarter option.
I have read several of the original books of Charles Darwin, and found it both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. Still definitely worth reading, even though (because?) a lot has been learned since then.
Amazon has Alexa for Business[1] which is a similar offering. It integrates with your conferencing platform (WebEx, Skype for Business, Exchange dial-in info) and you can use it as a conference phone and to control A/V in the room. It's pretty nifty and has some cool APIs for internal skills. The Echos have similar farfield microphones, so it should be around the same quality as the HomePod.

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I know this is getting downvoted, but the odds are very good that we each believe something that future generations will correctly see as obviously idiotic. History is just full of things where large fractions of society were wrong. It seems extremely unlikely that this is the moment in history where that stops.

I think it's fair to say that kids are more vulnerable, though, for the same reason that they also get physically sick more. Immune systems develop through exposure, and they just haven't had as much exposure.
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Haha :)
My comment is precisely aimed at reducing the energy needed to understand the value prop here. Why is that bad?

My assumption is that would be helpful to other readers and thus the author. Do you prefer having key information buried?
Banks borrow short and lend long.

Meaning they take short-term deposits (e.g. current account balances) and make long-term loans (e.g. mortgages). They normally make a profit, because they borrow short paying low rates, and lend long receiving high rates. Easy. Head to the golf course.

If the yield curve inverts, banks lose money ... their capital ratios and share prices fall ... they become more risky and less creditworthy ... people withdraw their money ... bank runs, ATMs stop working, bail-ins ... your current account is permanently unavailable (see Cyprus, Greece).

Note that many banks, especially European banks, are starting from an existing almost-bankrupt state, with plummeting share prices (DB, UniCredit, BBVA, BNP). If the EUR yield curve inverts, they all crash faster than an anvil without a parachute (DB is already giving the anvil a good race).