skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh, Bloomberg how far you have fallen.

In the article this is the IMF talking, so we're talking about sovereign debt not commercial debt like credit cards or mortgages or car loans.

Sovereign debt is nominally repaid through the execution of the economy. A country borrows by selling debt securities, with fixed maturity dates and then redeems those securities once they mature.

Consider this really simple example in the US; The treasury department sells a note that has a face value of $10,000 and a maturity date 10 years from now, to Alice for $8,188. If you figure out what interest rate you would need to have $8,188 equal $10,000 in 10 years (monthly compounding) you would find that the "equivalent" interest rate or yield to be 2%. So they have "borrowed" $8,188 dollars from Alice, who, 10 years from now, will turn in her note and they will give her $10,000. They might end up selling two notes to Bob and Charlie just before Alice shows up at the window in order to have cash to give Alice but in either event the note that Alice bought gets "redeemed" (or retired) and it is off the books, it has been "repaid."

Over the course of the year revenues come in, and sometimes there is already enough cash in the drawer to pay off Alice without selling any more notes, in which case the total amount of notes out there goes down. The amount of revenue is proportional to the economic output or GDP of the country because, well everything gets taxed a bit. This is easiest to understand when looking at income taxes since the more income (the more people working the more people have incomes or more income) the more taxes you get. So more economic activity results in more revenue for the state, which means selling fewer notes. If spending levels are kept constant, and the economy grows, then you reach a point where you don't need any note sales to pay your bills.

So the IMF is responding to the news that the US deficit (which is that the US sold more notes than they had expected revenue) for the month of November was a record[1] to $205B. What does it mean to you and me? Well it probably means a some point someone in Washington DC will have to raise taxes if they want to keep the debt ceiling down.

[1] (warning autoplay video) http://fortune.com/2018/12/13/us-budget-deficit-record-novem...
Is education something we don't need?
TBH in most cases you're formally required to have an onward ticket and a proof of accommodation, even if you can enter visa-free. OTOH in many cases nobody bothers to ask for it.
Glad to see that Red Hat is still committed to the Open Source movement after so many naysayers predicted that all contributions going forward would be stymied due to the announcement of the acquisition.
Or get some Azzpadz https://azzpadz.com/ They're pretty comfortable. Used them for the first two years.

Also the wrist guards - save yourself an visit to the emergency.
Guess not. Huh. I added it to my 'about' block.
Plus snow tires/chains, a roof rack to carry the gear, and gas and maintenance to drive 1-2 hours (each way) to the pass. Plus non-bulk-homecooked food/snacks to eat while you're out. Plus losing a huge chunk of hours every week, which matters when you're an hourly employee.

I bet a good number of people on HN are software engineers who have never had a job where they made less than $100K with "unlimited" vacation. For an hourly employee, the opportunity cost alone of skiing for a month can easily be $1000 -- I could be racking up overtime instead (and then go shoot hoops in the park, for free).

The average software engineer salary is roughly double the average salary, which in turn is about double the full time minimum wage salary. For a lot of people, "a few grand" is an insurmountable barrier. When you're living paycheck to paycheck, you're not even thinking about "accumulation of wealth and advancement" yet.
Which is a cute line, but Reuters has the receipts... dozens of documents with experts from all over pointing out that the J&J talc sources have worrying levels of asbestos. My favorite one is a 2018 lab report in which they tested a sample of 1978 Baby Powder that they pulled from the J&J Museum and found asbestos:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5080806-2018-lab-rep...

> "Based on the results of our analysis, it can be stated, that individuals who used 1978 Johnson's Baby Powder would have, more likely than not, been exposed to fibrous amphibole asbestos."

Caveats that this likely came from a plaintiff's attorney, but the methods seem solid.

Another fun one from J&J's scientists in 1973:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5005205-April-26-197...

> "The talcs contain widely varying amounts of tremolite or fibrous talc. Our Baby Powder contains talc fragments classifiable as fiber. [...] It should be cautioned, however, that no final product will ever be made which will be totally free of respirable particles."

They knew their product had respirable particles, including nonzero quantities fibrous particles.. they lobbied the FDA to use less sensitive tests so that their products wouldn't fail tests, and they lied about it for the past 40 years. I'm shocked they only lost 10% of their company's value today.
Damn it feels super weird to hear something about my childhood village on HN.

There is also a recently closed refinery there. The funny thing is that they never budgeted the decommissioning cost when it was built. So there is no money to do it and it's probably going to stay like that forever.

I hope the don't do the same for this project.
The full report can be read at :

https://www.nap.edu/read/25331/chapter/1
I don't know the first thing about snowboarding (despite living in one of the snowiest cities in the US), but this seems like a fantastic guide. Hits just the right level of detail to get you started without being totally overwhelming. Does anyone know of similar guides for other hobbies?
A little tangential, but check out "Prolog as Description and Implementation Language in Computer Science Teaching"by Henning Christiansen

http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/012/004/ecp012004.pdf

> ... Definitional interpreters, compilers, and other models of computation are defined in a systematic way as Prolog programs, and as a result, formal descriptions become running prototypes that can be tested and modified ... These programs can be extended in straightforward ways into tools such as analyzers, tracers and debuggers.

Also "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" By David Warren (and the work that followed on.)
That Comcast wrote.
Indeed, but the network benefits dramatically from - naturally - network effects.

Today you rarely ever see infrastructure projects in Switzerland which are incompatible with the existing network. If you build a hyperloop tunnel, only hyperloop cars will be able to use it, and only in the tunnel. If you build a rail tunnel, it is automatically integrated into the huge existing rail infrastructure.

Unless, of course, you built an entire new infrastructure, such as Japan and France did. But Switzerland doesn't need entirely new transit infrastructure today, just localized upgrades.

That's the same reason why maglev hardly ever caught up in the world.
And exurbs from larger systems that are accessible to a big city with, say, an hour drive but are still relatively rural. You don’t really get this in the Bay Area without a huge amount of money but you do in somewhere like the Boston area.
Yeah, people get confused by the idea of well water sometimes. Many people think of well water as the old fashioned, bucket on a rope, kind. In reality, many people get their tap water from a local well.

The main difference between well water and non-well water is that well water is not centrally treated by the water department. There will be filters and stuff, but it is not treated the same way.
I would not say that the "inherently" in that comment should be read as a necessary condition, since some false accusations are the result of e.g. mistaken identity, that entails no blame on the accuser. However, it certainly is the case often enough to deserve mention, entirely aside from what the specifics of Kavanaugh's case might be.
I've played where each player gets a sheet of all 2 letter words to balance this feeling.
They aren't even sustainably producing the 5k/week that they said they would be doing a year ago.

In both 2016 and 2017, they said they'd get to a sustainable 5k by the end of 2017. At the end of 2017, they pushed that to Q1/2018. In Q1/2018, they pushed that to Q2. In Q2 they give up on the sustainable part of that and just said they'd do 5k. At the beginning of Q3/2018 they said they'd get to a sustainable 6k/week in Q3. By the end of Q3 they still weren't able to sustain 5k/week. As we approach the end of Q4, everything indicates that they still can't sustain 5k/week.
I don't disagree, I just somehow got the impression they had way more chairs than employees
Good advice that we should all take into consideration. Were it not that New York is part of the United States. Whose idea was...oh wait

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Breda_(1667)

Mea culpa.
Yeah, you can sometimes build an adaptor to expose the old API on top of your new API, but other times you have to actually maintain 2 parallel implementations. It's always a hard choice. Or at least it should be if you are thinking it through all the way :-)

A lot of times I find that developers lack experience of how legacy applications get the way they do. Either they have only ever worked on green field applications before (a surprisingly large contingent!) or they assume that the crappy legacy code was created because the previous developers were stupid. The reality is that most legacy systems were made with very reasonable decisions at the time, but that the world shifted under them. The mistake was locking themselves into their original decision and making it very expensive to change. The decision to never deprecate old APIs is one of those decisions that makes change expensive. Such decisions should always be made looking at the trade offs in cost. How expensive would it be if we changed this API? How expensive would it be if we don't change this API? Usually the second is far more expensive in the long run, but you have to take it on a case by case basis.
"Have you ever used company computer to search for information unrelated to your job?"

Yes => We cannot hire you

No => Liar! We cannot hire you.
Century link is my only option for internet here in rural Utah at a max speed of 3Mbs per second. Luckily our municipal network is going up soon with max speeds of 10GBs per second. I'm very excited.
Lots, but as the article says not everything and they use the same model they did in GPS: information is dithered for assets which have orbital mobility and tactical importance like EMP busting comms in polar orbits.
I mean, you see a camera pointed at a crowd, then they stop on one person, and cops push through to arrest a specific person, its pretty easy to figure out what's going on. They used a lot of techniques, honestly, that until that point I thought were in the realm of Hollywood speculation, not actual reality. This was not the most concerning thing that happened, by a long shot.

I think you're right, for the exact reason that you stipulated in your other post. I also think that our society is embracing technology in a way that makes this an increasingly difficult problem going forward. I don't want to put Kaczynski on a pedestal, as I significantly disagree with both his actions, and the conclusions he came to, but I think he and others were right to identify this as _the_ issue for western society going forward, when combined with wealth inequality.
Is there a way to set this up to have two windows? One window to type code into and the other to run my program? I have been fiddling with the UI for a while, but can't quite figure it out.
Crafty. Would have never thought to look in baby powder for a company report of findings.
> Much easier to use than writing code compiling it with -S to produce assembly

In any real-world, production use cases, I will vastly prefer to "objdump -d" or "objdump -S" the executable image (which is formed from dozens, hundreds or thousands of source files, with specific compiler flags and so on). I'm not going to be feeding these source inputs into some dialog box on a website.

What you might benefit from would be a browser which can parse the output of "objdump --line-number -S <yourexecutable>" and present it in a nicer way.

E.g. all the implicated source files could be identified and loaded into multiple views/tabs, with two-way navigation between those and the disassembly tab.
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Heya. This is only a minor point, but I thought you might like to know that "dice" is already a plural. The singular is "die". It's just one of those weird words, like "vertex" and "vertices", that don't fit the usual patterns we're familiar with.

On-topic, I agree with your broader point. There are times in development when I'm new to a subject that needs automation, and I'm trying to figure out what I should be doing. I can't really ask the "right" questions because that presupposes knowledge about the domain I'm supposed to be working with. It's a tough nut to crack.
Yes, I meant precisely what I wrote. Defending oneself entails discrediting the accuser. Knowingly lying, or insulting the accuser in a way unrelated to maintaining one's innocense is not necessary. But as you stated yourself, the subject at hand did neither of these things.

How you made the leap from, "Defending oneself from an accusation inherently entails discrediting the accuser" to, "knowingly lying and needlessly insulting people is okay" is a mystery to me.
I've found that the young men and women coming out of scouting programs are amazingly well rounded and hard working. Then again those that weren't rarely lasted that long. It's one of those things that's easy to drop out of.

A lot of the program involves hard work and dedication. Not many kids want to spend their weekends painting fire hydrants and working in food pantries sorting out expired cans. It's really easy for them to convince their parents too.
I pay about $45 a month between JetBrsins R# and Linux Academy ($300 a year).

That doesn’t count the money I spend money on Udemy and soon hosting costs for side projects.

$60 a month to do your job is not that much. I’m not even making money from the money I’m spending, that’s just to keep up with technology.
That's quite rare for debt to be repaid or defaulted upon.

Most of the debt is usually just rolled over. Think credit cards, treasury bills, commercial bonds etc.
That does not answer my questions.

So what should the penalty be for a 14 year old that contributes a bug into a project like Mastodon or OpenSSH or whatever, which then leaks the data of tens of millions of people?

All this would do is to have a chilling effect on the industry such that only big companies like Facebook will be able to develop critical software, due to being able to afford it. And yes, this happens in all the industries you're talking about. And it did not stop the market from crashing, it did not stop malpractice.

Also this regulation will probably not stop Facebook from lawfully violating privacy.
From the article, "If India had been able to invest its own tax revenues and foreign exchange earnings in development - as Japan did - there's no telling how history might have turned out differently. "

I love this sentence but it implies a huge leap that I am not sure could have happened. Japan was a unitary state for a very long period -- millennia -- thanks in part to its island nature. Sure, there were civil wars, smaller, (non-sovereign!) regional powers and the like but for the majority of the past couple of millennia Japan was independent and unitary.

What would an independent India have been over the same period? The evidence is: fractious. Part of the reason the Persians and the British were able to build huge empires there was that each arrived when previous empires had become weak and where they could exploit differences between smaller states, taking control piecemeal. Note that Alexander the Great was unable to get a significant foothold in the subcontinent, in part because of the size of opposition he faced.

It's better to think of a large region like the subcontinent as being more akin to Europe, where various tiny states amalgamated to form medium-sized countries. Which is something that I think could have happened, and would have been much better for India than the British Raj. But the much tinier Japan is probably not an appropriate model.
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It's more the "reaction to diversity" that's the issue, in my opinion. Some areas unfortunately are not terribly friendly to non-white or non-Christian people. This sometimes is reflected in certain laws and may reflect in other cultural ways. This probably is not something any international-oriented company would look positively on, since international companies will have employees from a wide variety of cultures.

I remember when one of the consequences of Alabama's 2011 immigration laws was them ticketing or arresting two automobile executives. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/02/alabama-car-bo...) I thought at the time that was a (sarcasm) great promotion to international corporations of the benefits of putting an office in Alabama.

As an atheist I certainly wouldn't move into any very religious area, which unfortunately is a fair bit of rural places. (For examples why, see: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/24/atheists-in-the-bib...)
1,600 hours does seem excessive. That's basically a full year full time course with a summer break. There is a lot to learn beyond how to operate a pair of scissors (how not to chemically burn people when doing dye jobs for example), but it seems incredible that there is enough material to fill a full school year.

Maybe a big chunk of it is an apprenticeship? You learn the skills over a few weeks and then spend the rest of the year practicing before you're fully licensed?
Do you think this weaker conception of personal identity is one of the causes of lower crime rates in Asian nations? It would seem an ethos more invested in the whole would exhibit this, along with a lower level of materialism in general.
A lot of these discussions tend to draw contrasts between living in the middle of a major metropolis and living in the back of beyond. Neither represents even a significant minority of the US population.
Funding was reduced from those projections because they were for from a crash project that assumed tokamaks would work really well, much better than it turned out they did.

And in hindsight, even given optimistic plasma assumptions, fusion reactors would have been limited by materials and heat transfer issues. These render any DT-burning reactor problematic, independent of the details of confinement.
Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite
Me three! I can't imagine going back to soft boots. The initial cost is more but boots and bindings last far longer.
I think it's the opposite really, you black out at much lower g forces when accelerating head first compared to face front.

Not proof of anything but notice rocket crew always face front.
you say that like its a bad thing
If you look at the IAEA's Power Reactor Information System, French reactor builds took a long time even in the 1990s:

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

The originally proposed construction schedule for Flamanville 3 was 4.5 years. That was a very aggressive schedule. Even reactors completed before Chernobyl, e.g. Cruas 3, took more than 5 years:

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails....

The most modern operating French reactor, Civaux 2 (construction started 1991), took 11 years:

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails....

Generation III reactors like the EPR and AP1000 were supposed to be simultaneously faster to build and safer due to standardization and careful design. The actual experience of building EPR and AP1000 reactors has torpedoed the "faster" part of that justification. The troubled, prolonged builds have also killed the original lower cost projections.

At this point the the original cost and schedule estimates for EPR and AP1000 projects alike look so optimistic that they were basically fraudulent. These projects were troubled even before Fukushima aroused a new wave of anti-nuclear sentiment among the public.

I still believe the empirical evidence that nuclear power is a very safe way to generate electricity. I also believe the empirical evidence that nuclear reactors are expensive and slow to construct. "Generation IV will be safer and faster to build" -- ok, for a while I believed those same claims about Generation III. The next time I'll believe those claims about a new reactor design is after it has already entered commercial service.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. It's such a critical piece of Kubernetes.
Secret questions are why computer science advances by standing on toes not shoulders of Giants.

Secret questions imply differential reward to answering.

Secret questions imply harvesting public knowledge of public questions you know to validate the worth implications of holding your secret back.
Saying that the accuser mistook someone's identity is still discrediting them. It's selectively discrediting them, by specifically discrediting the part where the accuser claims it was the defendant that did the crime while not discrediting the fact that the crime took place. But it still is discrediting the accuser.
That's the stereotype, even if the facts don't bear that out.
That’s... obvious? Of course people have a right to their subjective opinions and preferences. What I’m interested in though is the objective reality of this matter, i.e. whether or not diversity is beneficial for child’s development.
In the age of shadowed passwords, that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. You already know there is an account called root and probably other common things like daemon and www-data.
The high level players will memorize all 3 letter words and sometimes 4 letter words as well. Their scrabble-dictionary vocabularies are incredible. Here's an old article about the highest score ever (at the time). It included a triple triple worth 365 points alone for QUIXOTRY.
https://slate.com/technology/2006/10/830-how-a-carpenter-got...
ECJ jurisdiction is the EU, and the ECHR applies to all Council of Europe members.
You've already got folks hopping from IC trains to regional ones in the major cities. I'm not clear on why you think a hyperloop between major cities (eventually replacing the current high-speed lines) couldn't possibly interlink with the regional/local transit options at major stations.
Yes, that's very incorrect.
Then they shouldn't hype up the real estate price so much, it is draining the domestic consumers dry.
Maybe there should be a chilling effect on the industry, and the drive to consume ever more personal data is harmful to society and wrong.
Phew! It's not like baby powder mixes with air or anything...
Education can be bought for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
A couple of Comcast employees were canvasing my neighborhood earlier this year trying to talk me into switching over from my amazing fiber provider. I told them I've read enough horror stories like this to ever even consider the possibility of getting into any kind of contractual agreement with them.