skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed operates on a shorter time scale than T-bond maturities.

Basically, every night banks are required to make loans to each other to ensure that they meet the reserve requirements on deposits. If they made more loans than they took in deposits, they must borrow on the open market to settle. If they took in more deposits, they can lend. All of these transactions are for extremely short-duration securities (when people talk about repos and money market accounts, they usually mean this). The security itself is simply an agreement to repay $X + interest in the near future, usually the next day. And just like the stock market, there's a market for these: banks with excess deposits offer repos at a variety of interest rates, and banks with excess loans take the best available interest rate, and eventually the market converges on a particular market-clearing rate (the "Fed Funds Rate").

The Fed is a participant in this market. But unlike a normal bank, they aren't subject to reserve requirements. They have an effectively infinite balance sheet consisting of the T-bills etc. that back all the other repo agreements. So when they say that they're setting a Fed Funds Rate of 2.35%, what they really mean is that if banks are fearful that day and want a market-clearing interest rate of 4%, they will sell enough securities in the overnight market that the interest rate goes down to 2.35%. And if banks are greedy and are willing to sell securities at 0%, the Fed will buy enough of them to push the rate back up to 2.35%. This serves to anchor the rate, because if you know that it's going to be in that vicinity, there's no incentive to try and push it higher and lower.

It's very much like a stablecoin in the crypto markets. When Facebook pegs the Libra to a basket of currencies or Bitfinex pegs the Tether to $1, they are effectively trying to become a central bank. Decentralized stablecoins like Dai try to distribute that power among a number of ordinary people: the holders of MKR collectively act as a central bank for Dai, with their collateral being ETH rather than T-bills.

When you have 0% interest rates, it basically means that banks can borrow as much as they want for free. So it literally is "handing out cash". The actual bonds backing them are held on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, which is why you might've heard about the Fed's ballooning balance sheet in the last 10 years. The Fed's under no obligation to pay these back, though: its mandate is to keep employment high and inflation low, and so its job is to release just enough of those securities as to soak up inflation.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/a-closer-look-at...

https://money.howstuffworks.com/fed10.htm
this one has a 2U option for 99/month https://www.dallascolo.com/index.html
This is why "lying to investigators" is such a bs charge.

It's incredibly easy to do what you think is the right thing but still "lie" because you didn't know/understand all the facts, implications, and details.

Always, always, always, get qualified legal/accounting counsel involved.

No, your uncle the family law attorney is not qualified.
No, this was written by Alvy Ray Smith 25 years ago in response to incorrect filtering in computer graphics in general. This has nothing to do with whatever you are seeing.
Well, you did it wrong then. Unless you already had a partita Iva, we are talking about 5% tax on 67% of your income (depending on the activity you want to perform) plus about 25% inps for gestione separata with no ninum. That means that if you don't have taxable income from the Partita Iva, you are paying no taxes. The accountant is going to cost you less than 400 yearly if you pick a decent one (like the guys at fiscozen).

My advice is to do some more math and research and maybe being more open to advices ;)

By the way, opening an srl in Italy can be done autonomously without the need of the notary by following online wizards like the one from iubenda. It's kind of cheap and gives you limited liability. Saying that opening a company is complex makes me think you kind of don't understand how complex running a business is.
Well, it's an overloaded term (like pretty much every term in software development).

But there's good information in this article. In many contexts you should be thinking in terms of point-samples, not squares or other areas.

I think it's not such a great idea to try to simplify the definition of pixel in this article because it distracts from the useful info.
I’m not aware of any evidence that that’s actually the motivation behind preventing deflation. Just about every economist will tell you that deflation is undesirable because it incentives hoarding accumulated currency rather than investing it in productive capital because of the decreasing value of production relative to currency.
Looks like we're moving in that direction for some things with organ on a chip systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ-on-a-chip
Fellow humans, I acknowledge the above assertion: he is totally not a robot.
google Kubernetes engine, alerts you when a cluster is under used and shows the amount you could save if you reduce the number of machines.
Ask HN: Do you also hate long conference calls?
I hate conference calls / meetings which take too long because some people just cannot cut to the chase.

I have some ideas how to improve this via software. Imagine zoom with some special features. Anybody interested?
I know it could be copied easily, but it’s an existing problem without a proper solution.
I am not looking for a cofounder or anything, just wanna bounce the concept.
Think about this way- in your 'people can call market crashes ahead of time' mental model, you need to include all the market crashes that were called incorrectly. Everyone who said it would crash in 2012, 2014, when Trump was elected, that it would crash in 2017, etc. Does that kind of make sense?

In terms of the Fed/Boe/the Economist/Market Guru Person- what you're missing are all of the various calls they've made over the years that have been incorrect. You have to look at the overall track record- not just pick out the predictions they made that we know in hindsight are correct, but ignore their misses. Anyways, there will always be recessions & crashes in a market economy, so 'a guy called the crash' somewhere sometime is pretty meaningless. To be honest I'm not 100% sure what we're discussing here.

> It isn't hard

I mean, it [calling market crashes] is not only hard, it is literally impossible. If you have a preternatural gift for calling them, feel free to make billions in financial markets with your once in human history gift.

>If you think being a contrarian is fun, I would take up investing

I am in investing lol. I am invested in index funds that track the broader market, because I'm aware that neither I nor literally any human that's ever lived can time what the markets will do ahead of time. Nor do I try
Did p95 latency change due to the migration?
Figma- the Startup Which Brought Google Docs-Like Collaboration to the Design
Long read but worth it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
LLC is usually the right answer but it can vary depending on what state you are in and what you are doing. One key thing is in a lot of states a single member LLC as a disregarded entity (IRS) will not have all the same protections as a multi-member LLC. Of course those protections are only critical in terms of like a personal bankruptcy or lawsuit etc, but nonetheless you should understand them.

A lot of the information can be found on legal zoom and other corporation creation sites. If you are just trying to run a small business in your state, the like best scenario is an LLC within your state. I dislike sole proprietor for the fact you are more exposed personally in most cases.

A corporation also isn't a bad thing you can elect a Subchapter S in which case your taxes are pass through and so it is very similar to an LLC and can be better in some circumstances, especially in some states where single member LLC's don't have the same level of protection a multi-member LLC does or a corporation does.

Also, typically, you can chat with an attorney during a consultation and figure out which one to use and then use something like legalzoom or the company corporation etc to setup the company. Just remember if you setup an LLC you need to have an operating agreement etc or the company really isn't safe, and the OA isn't something most corporation formation companies do for you, but you can find templates .

Last point, if you plan on any VC type level of fundraising then all the above is not what you want to do. But just as a point, you can raise money for an LLC from some angels/high net worth people, it isn't rare to see happen -- but VC's won't do it in general.

disclaimer, IANAL but do have current LLCs and have had both LLC's, corporation (S & C) in the past for various businesses.
Very useful tool for a engineering manager and a devops!
Reeeaallly? I haven't made the images, but my intuition is telling me that text will be noticeably blurry compared with a box filter.

I basically agree with your points regarding compositing in a linear space, except that I suspect that thin black-on-white lines will come out looking thin and spindly.
If you go to old.reddit.com, each link takes three lines (the title, the metadata, and the buttons). If you check that box, it goes back to the old two line display (the title, and then metadata and buttons on one line).
OP here. I am no corporate shill. My friend had some guests visiting who were grown adults and seemed totally addicted to their juul. It was kind of sad how they talked about the device and worried over its whereabouts.

Also, I'm not sure but I think that this post was hidden from display?
Knowingly? Against presidential campaigns? While setting up "insurance policy" in case he gets elected? The "Russian collusion" hoax was invented the day after Clinton lost. It has served democrats well, but it's now time to retire those talking points and come up with some new ones.
A tree stump that should be dead is still alive; here's why
No, your pixels are displayed using little squares (sort of).
I agree, but only in areas that Sprint has band 41 deployed. In areas that Sprint only has band 25 and band 26, its data speeds are at the bottom of the pack...
Huawei’s First 5G Phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, Hits the Chinese Market
Good laugh at instant karma apps and 10-minutes a day meditators.
Thanks for the heads up. There is one specific section where he compares pixels to lollipop graphs and that is mainly what I was referring to, I didn't mean to suggest that all the principles in the video apply to graphics in the same way that they apply to audio.
It's not outside the realm of possibility to organically build multiple accounts that reach the karma limit eventually, then automate them.
>Why couldn't the driver be left in the kernel I have no idea.

As far as I can tell, the driver is not going away. It's just no longer being maintained.
As is often the case, simply reading the abstract gives a much better idea of what happened

http://www.jbc.org/content/294/27/10564

It's also faster and easier. It's faster because it's shorter (2k vs 5k). It's easier because 'abstract format' is a tigher constraint than 'popular science story format'. (Much as Wikipedia entries are often easier than random web pages because they're constrained to a standard format.)
Users were unhappy when it came out.
To your point, I thought Columbus, OH, would be a good candidate for a large city limits population. According to Wikipedia, "Columbus adopted a policy of linking sewer and water hookups to annexation to the city." This means that Columbus proper includes low density areas which would typically be suburbs outside the city limits of most cities.

Even still, the city population was about 880K in 2018, with a metro area of 2.4MM. So even in a US city with a somewhat aggressive annexation policy, still only about ⅓ of the population lives within the city limits. And Columbus has no passenger trains, anyway, neither intracity nor intercity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_indicator

Housing starts will predict the future of the economy. Inverted yields will predict the future of the market.
Vultr is excellent. Especially for customized Linux distros and unique options like OpenBSD. As well as Linode.
The IRS and Coinbase are starting to track the money flow, so even if you used some other exchange, you can still be traced. Pay your taxes
A serious answer that isn't just "lobbyists":

Even if the IRS had perfect info about all your income and investments, there are decisions you can make which effectively make taxes non-deterministic. Suppose on two different dates, you bought shares of a company. Then on a later date, you sold one share. You get to choose which purchase date to count the sale as being against. This is important because you pay on the profit made based on that assumption. It also effects whether you pay short-term or long-term capital gains taxes for the sale.

Say for example you bought 1 share for $100 two years ago, and another share for $500 one month ago. One week ago, you sold one share for $1000. If you count it as selling the $100 share, then you must pay taxes on $900 in profit, BUT you enjoy the lower long-term capital gain tax rate. If you count it as selling the $500 share, you must pay taxes on only $500 in profits, BUT you suffer the short-term capital gain tax rate. Which of the two should you do (if you're a hypothetical perfectly rational actor who always makes absolutely optimal decisions)? Depends on what you plan to do with the other share, what you think is going to happen to the stock price, and so many other factors you could write a 10,000-page book about them...
Then I very much hope they do indeed get what they deserve.
A little off topic, but what a world we live in when a prominent browser maker is advertising a new browser with a webpage that doesn’t properly display its main tagline on small devices (iPhone SE) https://i.imgur.com/WkqsUEZ_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

If they can’t get it right, what does that say about the state of the web as a platform?
Linode is good.

DigitalOcean is fine, too. I find some of their distro tooling to have annoying and longstanding bugs that never get fixed, though. I eventually moved all my servers back to Linode to avoid the small pointless hassles.

They're all probably more or less equal.
Thanks for this post. See my other comment about noticing friend's adult guests who were addicted to their Juul. I'm deeply suspicious of this company and its products.
Yeah, our software manager gives everyone new new projects, that of course are never completed.

Lol, some "managers"
> What is used in embedded makes sense for embedded only

Certainly, with that attitude. Personally, I fight that mentality when I can. The reason to lean on technology that is used in multiple disciplines is to increase the pool of viable programmers. If it's the wrong tool, then it's the wrong tool. But otherwise use the tool that the most can use.

On porting libraries...well, the WebSockets client I play with is only 60 lines. So, I don't know, you tell me: https://github.com/danni/uwebsockets/blob/esp8266/uwebsocket...

And yeah, that's micropython (because I love inviting the wrath of embedded developers). But that will run on your ESP8266 just fine. I use the D1 mini :)

You're definitely right on having to implement more of the pub/sub on your WebSockets server. I misspoke in saying WebSockets gives you those qualities.
The driver isn't being removed, at least not for the foreseeable future. This patch set just fixes a few bugs, and marks the driver as 'orphaned' since it no longer has a maintainer that's capable of testing it on real hardware.
Although exposure and feedback are great, I think that exposure via a $1000/$1500 exhibit is a very expensive way to validate parts of your SaaS product at your stage. It isn't that it won't generate leads, it is just a pricey way of doing so.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533096.
The article is paywalled for me. Anyone have another link possibly?
There are weird voting behaviors when Trump is involved, yes, but nothing to suspect it's botting.
Maybe they won’t bother until a 5G deployment in the future? The merger will probably take at least a year, probably longer, to fully integrate anyway.
Not so private thoughts at IETF 105
Instead of a non-profit, it should simply be nationalized and run as a utility. This not only eliminates the "tax on transactions", it would also transfer Visa's enormous power to structure markets (by cutting entities out of the payment processing system) from a private corporation to a body with at least some democratic accountability.
Been on Linode for about 6 years with nearly 0 downtime across 5 servers. Absolutely no complaints.

They did get hit with a nasty DDoS attack a couple years back which did suck for me, but it was short lived and I think it taught but them and me a lot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLp7LtXmy68

02:35 - "But once a month, do you know what happens? They load the contents of our offices and papers into big, plastic trunks, and they put those trunks on lorries, and they drive them nearly 400 miles down Europe’s motorways to a French city called Strasbourg where, for four days, the contents of our offices, and our papers, are put into a new office, and the parliament then sits there..."

(Given, this video was shot after the election, not before, but Nigel Farage most likely spoke about this before too.)
People in daycares are punished, severely, if they harm a child. And they deeply care about the children.

But at most corporations, there are no large punishments, people are very far, psychologically from the results of their actions, they are guided by authority and peer pressure and the punishment for betrayel is pretty bad.

All those conditions are known to generate bad behaviours among people.

As for the self interest of big organizations ?

Eh. There are so many cases of big organizations with quite bad intentions, so it isn't something that could be trusted upon.
It seemed like they wanted it both ways, to seem like it was a movie with ideas, but couldn’t commit to it. They pulled their punches to keep it commercially viable.
You could sell your crypto to someone for cash
> US government doesn't specifically target github, but all commercial activities in Crimea.

And the only "commercial activity" in this case is if GitHub earns some advertising money from the data collection about its user from Crimea.

> The goal of sanctions is to weaken Russia's economy in specific sectors.

And Crimea is not Russia. It's a region which voted to separate itself from the bigger state, just like Kosovo, votes of which were even militarily supported by the U.S. And if the U.S. equates Crimea with Russia... it's as wrong as equating Kosovo with Albania.
The real question is what can you do to avoid litigation and possible criminal charges for tax evasion -- _any_ transaction needs to be reported to the IRS, and willful evasion will generally lead to criminal charges.
> The Coinbase customers whose information was turned over bought, sold, sent or received digital currency worth $20,000 or more between 2013 and 2015.

Is that in today's value or at the time?
Except very few want to manage their keys and are more than happy to have a custodian.

Blockchain doesn't solve human behavior, or much of anything IRL.
Lol, if the author tattoos themselves, it changes nothing. That would be equivalent to someone chopping off their own limb, getting a prosthesis, and then (being a mental giant that can put words in order) penning an article in 15 minutes (proof reading it for 5 minutes, of course) about why disabled folks shouldn't get prosthesis titled, "the hubris of man".

At the end of the day, keep your opinions about what other people do to/for themselves to yourself ... it's as simple as that. And when you choose to exercise your right to share that unrequested opinion, don't be alarmed when you get a middle finger in your face.
You are right, a more accurate critique would simply have been "click bait".
>To me this makes a lot more sense than the T-Mobile At&t merger that failed to go through.

I'm sure that's true. But public interest is not why the T-Mobile At&T merger was derailed.
Ida Momennejad and Ajua Duker discuss their research into how we might optimi
The also offer money for writing guides for them.
Where can I obtain these magical dollars whose purchasing power increases over time?

The purchasing power of all my dollars seems to go down the longer I hold onto them.
Sure - just get a root shell prompt on your thermostat and I'd be happy to walk you through the rest.
You could create a Google Alert with their names. You'd have to sort through crappy mentions, but you'll also be on top of most of their activities.
I was going to say, kids are a huge turn off. I run the hell away from any products with kids in their advertisements.

Meanwhile I pay for a membership to a dog park with alcohol and social events : https://fetchparkatl.com

My attitude towards having children may change one day, but it's just not the world we're living in right now.
This is nothing to do with my opinion... Social media is an echo chamber. Plain and simple. Opposing views are unwelcome!

Here's a small test for you: go into an anti-vax group on FB and present a reasoned argument as to why vaccines are safe.

You will be annihilated!

If people believe their social media was manipulated they either need to stop using it or at least stop believing it.

If they can't do that then how do you hope to have a reasoned debate about the pro's and con's of Brexit?

I don't disagree that the Brexit thing was a joke from start to finish but we are talking about politicians here. Everything is a game to them and in my opinion as a group they are inherently untrustworthy.

I honestly do not believe you will ever hear the truth from either side. Or if you do, it will be drowned out by the noise.

FWIW I think social media is societal cancer to put it mildly.
Only against the advice of most accountants. Exchanges between different grades of the same precious metal aren't considered like kind transactions, so it seems pretty unlikely this "trick" would work for crypto.
Yeah and after so many years of polish, it'll probably still work for decades without a maintainer.

Also don't forget that it's not required for people to update to a new version of Linux the way it is for Mac or Windows. If you want, just never update. Or, worst case, keep an old machine around at a working version of you don't want your main computer to go out of date.
I'd take out the floats section and replace it with grid; floats are completely obselete
In spite of the district court's merciful sentence, he has committed an aggravated felony in the eyes of immigration law and so is barred from ever entering the US again. For life.