skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal experience - I tried one of the newer trendy domains, .shop, .store and .<you name it>. My results were underwhelming in marketing campaigns across facebook for E-Commerce related products when I A/B tested the new TLDs vs dot coms. The dot coms won over by a huge margin. My target demographic isn't old, mostly consists of millennials and younger.

The new TLDs are simply just over-hyped and over-priced. For example, some .app domains cost as much as $50. I suggest getting <youridea>app.com vs <youridea>.app.

I also don't recommend .co's in particular since they lead to a lot of typos .com's. Unless you control the .com, .co is a bad idea.

I wasted so much money with these hyped domains so much so that I'm starting to think it's borderline scam. I'll publish a medium article soon-ish.

Maybe they should pay us to use these new TLDs instead.
No you do not need a dot com, but you do need a reliable registrar. Since the domain name is your "storefront" your "corporate HQ" your "main campus" on the Internet, at some point you have to ask how sure are you that resolving your domain name will get you your servers going forward. There is a tremendous amount of security, monitoring, and protective layering around the .com root servers because they serve names that everyone depends on every day. On the 'lesser' domains you get stories like this : https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/io_hijacking_in_tra... which is kind of scary.

Bottom line, from a customer acceptance perspective pretty much any domain name works, but from a corporate longevity perspective you need a TLD that isn't going to get hacked.
Interesting I'll add it to my back log. Maybe there are some interesting conclusions that can be drawn from it. Do you think It'd be possible for me to get in touch with him?
Nest is also down. My apartment is burning hot, help! :/
GCP Pub/Sub is giving me a 502 Bad Gateway, as does the Google Cloud support/docs page... seems bad
My code is having some trouble with Firestore as well. I was getting 503s ten minutes ago but now it's just really slow.
really puts my mind at ease
Finally got time to try out Flutter but couldn't download the SDK for a while from storage.googleapis.com
The shadow banks are back with another big bad credit bubble
Not familiar with Nest. Does your thermostat not work if your internet doesn't work?
But there is still a big difference between also blowing up lots of innocent bystanders because $cause is deemed more important and having bloodshed done for show and paying for the privilege of cheering it on. I find it quite unsurprising if someone who does violence professionally isn't turned on by violence for entertainment.
He was not politician back then.

Edit: I don't mean it as defense people. Just that, he did not said it to gain votes back then. He said it because that is what he believed and who he is, nothing to do with politicians as a group.

Being genuine racist is not better then playing up racism for votes. Maybe even worst in impact (as pretender will be less zealous in pushing for such policies). Don't understand why people think otherwise.
My views on the state of CI using docker
Swapping the order of a subtraction just flips the result vertically, doesn't it? So you'd see the same trend and just have to look at it the other way.
>Good abstraction does not require decompression

I think there's a misunderstanding. What I'm calling decompression has nothing to do with digging into the implementation of a particular abstraction. What I mean is merely tracking down all the indirections in the public interface and breaking them down to their concrete meaning in a specific case.

Some languages allow for a lot more moving parts than others. For instance, in Java obj.otherName means that otherName is an instance variable (or theoretically a class variable) and access time is guaranteed to be constant (tbd: caveats). It's not redefinable as it is in C#, Python or Swift. So there's one less thing to track down but also less flexibility.

Or take an extreme example like Go's range loop. It's defined only for a handful of builtin data structures. When you see a range loop, you know what it does without following any further indirections. It can be extremely annoying and create a lot of friction when you have to work with custom data structures. But it can make other people's code easier to read than in other languages.

Or take something like this:

a == b

This simple expression has a far greater number of possible meanings in a language that supports operator overloading and generics than in a language that doesn't.

So transforming an expression's possible meanings into its concrete meaning is what I call decompression. There may not be a need for looking anything other than public interfaces.

Also, you're talking about abstractions purely from the perspective of users. But we are often creators and maintainers of abstractions as well when we model a particular problem.
Gotta love the conclusion:

"In summary, it is preferable to not eat spent nuclear fuel."
The 10y-3m has been 1:1 preceding the last 3 recessions by about a year:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=o3LQ
You mean, you want to prevent people from comparing public images against public videos on the public internet, by requiring them to obtain licensing?

This approach will just entrench FAANG even more and squeeze out SMBs even more.
ACA Health Law Improved Access to Cancer Treatment, Studies Show
You might be right, but after the pomp and ceremony is over and syrupy vomit of 'special relationship' and some-such has been expelled, hopefully some real business will get done?
I did see and try messagease and it mirrors some of my ideas quite well I'd say. So from a mathematical point of view I really believe in it.
I suppose the fed could cut rates in the next three months, however currently they are mostly making noises about not moving it up or down. Other people's current predictions on this are all over the place and seem more dependent on what each author would prefer than neccessarily any reality. I can find mainstream articles telling me why the fed must move rates up and others that insist that they must move them down. This makes me suspect that the fed is probably going to remain roughly fixed, at least for a bit.
I’m talking from the perspective of the country the refugees are trying to enter. If a million refugees are headed your way and you don’t want to let them in, you can close the border and enact strict immigration controls and you’re fine. Sucks for the refugees, but the target country has no problem aside from the emotional burden. If a billion people are headed your way, you’re fucked.
> They recently announced they would stop doing that.

I'm aware. Markets are forward looking. As you can see, yields have dropped precipitously since the announcement, and the curve has flattened. This is consistent with expectations of increased purchases of securities in the tail end of the curve.
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You can use almost any TLD for personal projects, though a few have support issues and should be avoided, like .vg.

For business use, some domains are poorly managed, like .io, and the registrar can be taken over or easily DoSed. These would not pass a vendor security audit, so stick with .com.
Avoiding local mutation in JS for the sake of avoiding it is especially bad because Functional Programming Languages with immutable data usually have optimizations for these kind of things. JavaScript does not.
Mortgage insurance is required for nearly all sub 20% down mortgages in the US too. Most banks won’t do straight 0% down either, but will do ~3%. A notable exception to both of the above are VA loans, which will finance 100% with no PMI, but VA loans are only available to a very small segment of the population.
A discussion about the everyday occurrence of radioactive sources may be more productive.
I remember hearing this is a (common) misconception, and that solar panels will still be at somewhere around 50% efficiency even under heavy clouds. Maybe they weren't as efficient yet back in 2009.
Thank you so much for your comment and the links. Looks like a lot of tasty material for me to put my teeth in.

Yes it seems that swype's spiritual ancestor somehow is edgewrite / graffiti text entry systems.

please check out my rss http://tbf-rnd.life/feed if you want to get more info. I have a long backlog and I hope some interesting views as well. Also there'll be code!
In principle, it seems like it would be pretty easy to limit pensions to a short list of conventional investments specified by a regulator, such as the sort of thing normally allowed in a 401k.

The line would be fairly arbitrary but I don't see why that would make it particularly hard to implement?
I don't know what I was expecting to happen

https://imgur.com/a/7Rc3WsQ
Google Cloud Is Down
https://status.cloud.google.com

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003

Status page reports all green, however the outage is affecting YouTube, Snapchat, and thousands of other users.
I don’t understand why anyone would choose to do this.

If you have the knowledge to write a book that has demand, you could earn way more
money and be treated better by putting those skills into practice in an engineering team. And if you feel the need to write, sharing knowledge on a blog or open source project only accelerate your career and improves your earning outlook.

I guess the answer to this riddle in 2019 is that this dynamic just isn’t the case outside of developed countries
Not from my phone. I have to get up and change it, but it's too hot and I don't wanna move
I really resented my parents growing up because they would never let me play outside. I was raised in Central Brooklyn in the 90s and stories like The Central Park Five and Abner Louima were cautionary tales in our neighborhood. We were too broke for summer programs so I spent a lot of my summers watching daytime TV, playing video games and browsing the internet. Brooklyn has changed a lot since the Regan / Bush days, but when you look closely you can see the scars of crime hysteria and the drug war still here.
Yes that would indeed by an accurate description!
> I think that means the negative difference between 10y and 3 mo would be decreased by the fed not reinventing in long term securities.

When the value of the spread between a long dated (e.g. 10Y) and a short dated (e.g. 3m) instrument increases, the yield curve is referred to as 'steepening'. When this spread decreases (even when becoming more negative), the curve is said to 'flatten'.
> There is comfort, at least, in knowing that we’ve evolved the Philistine out of our blood lines

does anyone else find this offensive?
>It's become a trend in the industry to let superficial attitudes shape popular opinion.

Well, yeah. Popular opinion is always a trend, and it always follows superficial attitudes. That's basically a tautology. The question is why do you care? Why complain about being unpopular if you don't want to follow trends? If Perl were popular, it would be just as trendy to praise it. And just as counter-trendy to denounce it as over-sold.

People have perfectly rational reasons to use languages that are popular. If Perl is not popular, it has to offer something else. Is it as fast as C? As portable as JavaScript? As flexible as C++? As well-funded as Java? As easy to use as Python?

These 'popular' languages are also heavily criticized. JavaScript could be the worst language in the world, and it would survive all that criticism because browser compatibility is important. What does Perl offer? Look at the landing page at https://www.perl.org/ "It's old and does stuff! That's why we love it!" Who cares about that? The language basically bills itself with no more than "This is a programming language, but with different syntax!"
I'm having issues with the GCP console, but all our GCP services are working without issue. Lots of errors related to spanner popping up in the console.

I have seen some reports of Cloud pub/sub not working.
I thought about it, and it's genius.
At least if you want to understand human nature
That's a lot of money for one article.

We need a better payment model for this environment where we're all reading a few articles each from lots of different publications. Maybe a micropayment per article (pushing the pay button is less work than getting around paywalls), or a consortium model where a lot of publications team up and divide your subscription money according to how much you read each one.

I subscribe to what I read most, but I'm not going to subscribe to thirty different magazines and newspapers.
It was interesting to see that it truly was only "preferable" and not "mandatory" or "this will kill you" IMO
the command structure consists of lifers.
Looks like a GCP-wide outage. And you can't tell them because their ticketing system at https://cloud.google.com/support/ is down too :-)
I work on a similar team, with a mix of people who want to use functional styles and those who want something more imperative.

I lean toward the pro-functional style, but I also put a few strong constraints on when to use reduce. Namely, I would almost never use it in cases where I either want to (a) mutate something other than the accumulator or (b) include more than two branches of control flow in the reducer function.

This kind of goes for all the functional array methods. Many people are tempted to use them simply as alternate syntax for iterating through the array (i.e., a simple loop), where the loop body could contain several statements -- i.e., data mutation side effects, taking different execution paths based on certain conditions, etc. The functional style is way less clear in this sort of code.

The benefit of the functional style in the context of javascript array methods is when you can see at a glance what the shape of the resulting value is with respect to that of the source array. This is usually best done when the body of the reducer/mapper/filterer is a single expression.
I think that might remove to many letter perhaps. I'll get back to you if I find something in his PhD Thesis!
I suspect the real business is done slightly in advance, if anything.
The timing of this is interesting, one day after the DoJ announcement. A reminder of how important Google is to us, and how we shouldn't be jeopardizing it with anti-trust probes /s.
Interesting, this should be a good post-mortem about what happened and why the errors weren't showing up on the status dashboard.
I know you probably didn't mean mistake in this way, but for the record: the conviction was a mistake, but the corrupt investigation and aggressive prosecution were entirely intentional. NYC's criminal justice system is structured to produce these kinds of outcomes for minorities accused of crimes.
> They’re graphing 10y-3mo here. Is that what you mean? Minus is not commutative.

The synthetic instrument 3m-10y is referred to as a 'curve'. It can be denoted 3m-10y. Convention is such that the value of a curve is long dated tenor minus short dated tenor.
> And household debt has grown no faster than household income and is concentrated in households best able to pay it back.

I'm not so sure about this - what I'm thinking is that the next (current?) bubble is in auto lending. I'm seeing tons of advertisements saying "We will lend up to 72 months with very little down". With the average new car priced around $37500 that's a payment in the mid $500's for someone with good credit. And I suspect the people doing this only have an average credit score so theirs will be higher.
The market is providing 2 beds (one big, one small) because these are acceptable to young professional couples. When babies come (which is often what happens) then the apartment works for a short time, but then confronts the couple with a challenge. The second bed is inadequate, and if the babies are of different sexes then the law dictates that they can't share the room past 9(?) years old.

This causes the couple to seek a house (there are no 3 bed apartments) houses are very inefficient in terms of footprint, and affordability means that most young couples end up commuting.

Government has a role because developers just building things mean that the costs of the development are unanticipated and then later socialised as collateral damage. On the other hand if government manages development then the appropriate stock with appropriate infrastructure (doctors, schools, shops, transport) can be provided at the time and the cost socialised in the transaction and managed. This is economically much more efficient.
Fuckin' reds.
Indication of current-injection lasing from an organic semiconductor
This approach could change due to more evidence supporting a longer tapering period.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/depression-withdra...

"In a paper published Tuesday in Lancet Psychiatry, the authors argued that any responsible withdrawal regimen should have the patient tapering off medication over months or even years, depending on the individual, and not over four weeks, the boilerplate advice."
Good to know. I was worried for this girl :) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejZyDvtX85Y
Dementia Stopped Peter Max from Painting
It looks like a 10Y-3M inversion has predicted each of the last 3 recessions by about a year with no false positives in the last 35 year.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=o4ro

Of course maybe this time is different...
just had rolld20 in the USA blow out a game I wonder if it is effected
It’s funny. I have this little thing on my desk that lets me adjust the air conditioning, and it doesn’t rely on wifi or internet access or any “clouds”... it’s called a “remote control”.

If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.
The problem is, you're down playing this as regular and accepted behavior. We should never accept politicians calling for the execution of people especially innocent people, regardless of how often politicians like.

One of the causalities of the Trump era is how fatigued everyone is to the constant lies and ugliness that we've become densentized to it and are expected to dismiss it.
Yes, by inflating asset values.
I wonder why everyone seems to be using Gmail. Nobody I know (mostly in Germany) really uses a Gmail-address except for registering their Android device.

Why is it so popular elsewhere?
That's the interesting thing: it's not really very hazardous, but it is awfully annoying.
Air conditioning itself is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, via energy consumption:

https://www.rehva.eu/knowledge-base/rehva-journal/chapter/ai...

See the pie chart on page two: eletricity consumption from cooling systems is 17% of global consumption. The IPCC expects this usage to rise as temperatures rise.

I would also like to challenge the notion that human beings understand how to use air conditioning units. In pretty much every building I visited or vehicle I boarded with air conditioning, if the unit was on, the windows were also wide open at the same time. In Greece, where I'm from, in the summer, you can cool down just by walking past stores, with their doors thrown wide to signal they're open for business and their air conditioning blasting cool air onto the street. It may be 42°C in the shade, but in front of our shop, it's 15°! Come on in and buy our stuff! But put on your coat first.

Contemplate for a second the futility of this behaviour: air conditioning pumps heat out of a room, into the environment; leaving the windows open allows the heat to circulate back into the room. The unit typically has a thermostat, also typically set at an unrealistically low value, that would cause the user to turn on the heating in winter. The unit goes to work and pushes the warm air out trying to reach its target temperature. The warm air cycles back in from outside and tries to raise the temperature. The unit keeps working, and working, and working, wasting energy all the time. Eventually, this contributes to warming, which causes more people to buy and misuse air conditioning.

We might know how to survive a heat wave, by our clever use of technology, but we don't know how to use technology to avoid more and more severe heat waves.
Yes...and therefore, this recent yield inversion may not be related to growing risk of recession in the US. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I don't know. That's why I'm leery of predictions made based solely on the inversion of yields. Things are different this time.

That's my point :-)
Interesting, thanks.

I'm curious if it's that most banks "won't do" or "legally cannot do"?
I'd rather only have Windows and actually own my games then be able to play on Linux with some shitty subscription streaming service.
> Huawei’s loudmouth CEO

Um, from the interviews I’ve been reading Ren has been nothing but gracious and well spoken.

He thanks all the US companies that have helped him and urges his compatriots to not “retaliate” because the US companies need to follow US laws.
Being too poor to not have enough food, or experiencing a crop failure, does not meet official definitions of refugee eligibility:

https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/what-is-a-refugee/
US banks, overall, have the highest reserve ratio in recent history. US banks currently have a reserve ratio of nearly 100% or apx 1x leverage (see https://seekingalpha.com/article/2484795-u-s-banks-are-now-o... for more details). IIRC, the reserve requirement for large banks is 10% and historically, as cascom alludes, this is about where most US banks were at (i.e. about 5x to 10x leveraged) historically. But the that has not been the case for almost a decade now. So US banks have plenty of capital assets to offset loan losses.

The "shadow banking" services that are rising are coming about because normal banks are unwilling to take on even moderately risky lending. Their demands for loans are now extremely stringent, especially for smaller and middle-tier business customers. This demand is thus being filled by different, non-traditional, sources, i.e. "shadow banking".

The situation in overseas, especially Europe, is very very different. Many large European banks are currently operating with reserve ratios of only a few %. I don't know if this means there is less "shadow banking" in europe or if they just have far too much sovereign debt on their books.
This works until two sensors fail in the same direction:

>The aircraft's computers received conflicting information from the three angle of attack sensors. The aircraft computer system’s programming logic had been designed to reject one sensor value if it deviated significantly from the other two sensor values. In this specific case, this programming logic led to the rejection of the correct value from the one operative angle of attack sensor, and to the acceptance of the two consistent, but wrong, values from the two inoperative angle of attack sensors. This resulted in the system's stall protection functions responding incorrectly to the stall, making the situation worse, instead of better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_Airways_Germany_Flight_88...
Videos played for me, but none of the surrounding text (comments, playlist, etc) was there.
Let them release it now for normal desktop Linux.
For me, gaming is an obsession that comes and goes on a quarterly basis. Sometimes I just have a hankering to blow a weekend in a gaming binge, or I want to try a new game that I will play for a weekend ( I'm a sucker for a good single player game a la the Half-Life series ) or some tower defense maps in Starcraft 2 but other than that I am easily bored. To that end, if I could spin up a cloud instance to play games for a nominal monthly fee and have all the best GPUs and CPUs available but not have that large capital expense tying up my disposable income that I could then throw away at the end of the month I would sign up right now.
> In fact, your car is too: you change your oil every 3000 miles or 3 months.

Most synthetic oil I’ve seen can last 10,000 miles or even more.
youtube streaming is also down