skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point, though the next question is what constitutes a community or group, or what kind of community/group is it? Think of it as a continuum where on the one hand you have the fleeting, shallow kind of community (including, I would argue, most groups online) and on the other you have the stable, deep kind (an increasingly endangered species both on- and offline). The more a group tends toward the shallow end, that means by definition that it is about, and membership in it means, not much. So the signifiers we're talking about become all-important. Speak the code and you're in. Speak the wrong code and you're out. Whereas a "deeper" group based on some significant mutual interest (let's say at the extreme, a life-or-death interest) - that group is going to depend less on talking the talk, because everybody is visibly walking the walk. And as a result, they'll accept more of your natural native quirks and things that make you unique.
I sometimes see this traditional, but somehow unpopular opinion, that is only required meaning of work is to bring bread home.

Meaning in life, however, comes from different things: family, spare time. It is called thus work-life balance.
Social media is a hall of mirrors that distorts reality and personalities, self-worth even. Entheogens give people the freedom to break free and recalibrate back to a more wholesome and natural identity.
> I think writing it down is really useful for people without the tech.

writing it down, sure. but publishing it is useful for SEO and recruitment purposes.
> This exposure could help you, or hurt you, but I would hardly call it a bad thing.

The problem is the amount it can help you and the amount it can hurt you are disproportionate; if the rates fall enough to significantly help you, you could likely have a similar reduction by refinancing a fixed rate mortgage. But, if rates go up, you can't refinance to get a better rate, and you may have trouble selling as you may have planned, because higher interest rates put downward pressure on prices.

For me, it seemed like the risk was not worth the reward; especially given I was borrowing in 2009, and rates had significantly more room to go up than to go down. In the 1980s 20+% interest rate climate, I may have chosen differently.
The authors of this research should really explain better to journalists what the difference between anonymized and de-identified data is. Their paper does a good job at this and does not claim that anonymization is impossible, most of the newspaper articles that were published about it seem to miss this point entirely though.

To clarify, when de-identifying a dataset you simply remove direct identifiers (like a name) from it. This protects the data from direct re-identification, i.e. from someone learning the identity of a person in the data by looking at an individual row. Anonymization is supposed to protect individuals from re-identification also when using external context information and can usually only be achieved by further transforming the data, for example by grouping it (as techniques like k-anonymity do), adding noise (as randomized response techniques do) or by synthesizing new data.

High-dimensional, de-identified data will always be easy to re-identify given enough context, I've done this myself in 2016 with a clickstream dataset (the authors reference our work in their paper).
Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger
Well the oil revenues did fall down a lot. Alaska has no state income taxes. Someone has to pay for that, and killing the Alaskan universal (very) basic income is too unpopular of a move. This is something worth remembering once more countries and regions will try introducing UBI.
So the FAA certifies planes that fly in US airspace but does not certify planes that fly elsewhere, and cannot therefore be held accountable for crashes caused by defective aircraft in those non-US airspaces?

Are you seriously suggesting that?
My education was funded by scholarship and two part time jobs. I know for sure that without the couple thousands from scholarships I wouldn't make it. The pressure to quit school and focus on the next paycheck/bill was very high.

Now I'm (gladly) paying more in taxes to the state of California annually than I've ever received from scholarships. I think it's not a wise choice to trade off the future earnings for short term Permanent Fund dividends.
Right, it requires nominal r > 0. I think the parent comment point was that violating that condition is rare, but as you point out below, apparently it isn't.
This is correct. When you order checks you decide The start number. Check processing is quite interesting. Banks can either be very lax or very restrictive in what checks they will accept.
You're very welcome.

For further reading of the abstractions that make up self, checkout The Five Skandhas (https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Five_skandhas)

As Hofstadter once wrote, "It's turtles all the way down." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down)

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In what industries or occupational areas has forcing people to work for a particular entity and imposing standards on them improved quality and/or efficiency?

Many in healthcare see fee for service giving way to value based care but it isn’t a simple knot to cut.

http://www.hl7.org/about/davinci/index.cfm
>It’s completely disrespectful to the artistry of the work.

It's not about the artistry and never intended to be, it's about the end result (functionality wise) and whether you can get it for less effort. (In fact, I've less several other comments lauding the artistry aspect, e.g. notice my comment posted an hour before yours above:

"Sure. I prefer the uniqueness, and quirkiness myself. It's something different than the usual industrial approach.
But I'm just responding to people who saying it couldn't be done in another way (have they ever been involved with sign making? of course it could) or that it wont save time to have it done another way, or that it would cost more...")
FYI: there is no state income tax in Alaska. They pay Federal tax though.
I am genuinely interested to know more about this time when it did exist. Do you have some reading you could recommend?
You're also likely to be charged for taking your money out in paper form and depositing it back later. Not much, especially if you're going to keep it under your matress for a long period, but everying adds up.
Consumption and investment are the same thing in a generalized model when comparing returns and figuring out how much interest to charge to keep up with inflation.
You would need to see that person communicate in at least two of their communities to begin to respect that person.
“The primacy of typography, presented as unformatted bullet point slides.”
That "postmortem" explains nothing at all about how real estate factored in. I'd have to be in-the-know enough to understand that people overinvested in real estate partly because they could get loans easily from low interest rates. But even then, doesn't cover how financial markets were repackaging mortgages and hiding or miscalculating the risk.
Debt normalized to cash flow or equity is probably the more relevant measure.

If there's cheap government money on the table, everyone would be crazy not to avail themselves, as long as the potential use expands one's business.
> because without a focus on raising a family and/or participation in organized religion, our careers/workplace have become the "things" that we now try to put all this meaning behind, and what was once separated from our "life" (e.g. work/life balance) has become our life, and the psychological burden of being forced to be 100% emotionally invested/devoted to our work has consequences.

This resonates with me a 100%. We forgot that we aren't machines and our mind and soul needs variations - clutching on to something, letting go/resting and moving on to something else is necessary physically and psychologically.

Absence of that we have sustained stress and resulting bad consequences.
AFAIK it's actually the other way around. Banks, hedge funds and other institutions regularly trade "swaps" - instruments that swap variable interest rate for some fixed interest rate - the variable rate is usually "FED rate" or some well-known benchmark, whereas the fixed rate is set to be such that the net present value is zero - so that you can establish such contract without any immediate exchange of money.

If anything, it's a huge anomaly that this facility isn't routinely available to retail customers, and an indication of lack of competition within the banking sector in many countries.
In this I would expect it to be similar to the precious metals market - The major moves play out suddenly after years of "relative" quiet.
Can you explain more in terms of the planet side of things? I get that you think the wealth can be generated, but I think the comment you are responding to is referring to how can the planet support that level of consumption?
This is false. There is a LOT of work to be done. A lot of houses can be made out of better material. A lot more books can be produced. A lot of drainage and clean energy systems can be built.

But why aren't they? Surely not because the science of it doesn't exit.

It's because the printing of money has inflated the bare necessities of humans. Housing, food, education have become crazy expensive. Heck, even a simple iPhone cable is expensive.

All these expenses impede progress.
Fixed rates are the default in Germany. You would have a hard time trying to find a bank offering a variable rate to a normal customer. They have them, but they are surely not standard and fortunately not offered aggressively. I am unaware of any such regulation, but there probably is one.
While I think data synthesis is a useful technique I never understood how most synthetization approaches can so confidently claim that there is no leakage of sensitive information into the synthesis model. The only approach I've seen for this is using differential privacy techniques to limit the amount of information that can be learned by the synthesis model from a given datapoint, but doing so also drastically limits the ability of the model to learn from the input data.

Another issue I have with data synthetization is that by trying to reproduce the original data as faithfully as possible you waste a lot of your privacy budget on meaningless features.

That said I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. Do you have a publicly available demo dataset that I could look at?
Sure, but the point is that money is cheap because government is throwing buckets of it on the table and not because people didn't want money in the first place.
good point - but if you actually search for "rabbit chasing dog", you do get a rabbit chasing a dog video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYdaPacHJg, as well as some for the other way around

In this case, could you even know which one was actually meant?

Technically, I'd think that the ambiguity is removed when you use "rabbit-chasing dog", but that is assuming the text available is sufficiently precise.
How could one know if this was a phishing site or not?
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long term rates are more than short term rates added together. while related, short term rates are much more driven by central bank reserve and regulatory policy, and long term rates much more driven bvy return and inflation expectations.

In a real dollar sense, the fed has zero ways to affect long term rates.
I suspect that much of the debate about "fiscal responsibility" is a political move to cut social services that the Republican party deems antithetical to their political views.

Of course when the defense budget comes up it's always not enough that we spend 700+B on our armed forces. If you look at the voting records of many Republican candidates, at least at the state and national level, it's hard to believe any of that rhetoric. The tax bill is just the most egregious example of such policies.
And it possibly still can. There is mentioned in that link of the theory being controversial due to automation, where there ends up being less workers and more production.
The spy etf has better liquidity and (probably) lower costs.
The cool thing about edge switching to chromium engine is the compatibility table here: https://www.webcomponents.org/?source=post_page-------------...

Should turn solid green.
“How to definitely lose graduates to the other 49.”
This fundamental issue with the economy is driven by a couple of factors. Increases in inequality and wealth concentration means there is more money to loan, and an aging population means there are less young people to borrow the wealthy's money.

We have a couple of levers to increase the interest rate. We could reduce inequality to reduce the supply of loan-able funds, we could allow large amounts of immigration to drive up the demand for loan-able funds, or we could keep interest rates high enough that we have a permanently high unemployment.

However I do have a strong worry that natural interest rates are too low for our current inflation. This gives the fed very little room to deal with the next crises. They should probably be targeting an inflation rate closer to 3-4% so we don't run into zero lower bound problems.
The point of the original comment is that it's the Republican party (which has tried to paint itself as the party of "fiscal conservatism") that wants to spend more money than is available from the Permanent Fund, and is holding other programs hostage to achieve this goal.
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Dead ends aren't interesting, but they do heighten tension rather effectively if you're being chased. Pillar dancing: yeah, it's tedious, but I do think it's hard to have a game without an ability to reset a fight. And yeah, that's what I meant. The relevance is that, of course, they increase the chances of you getting cut off when things are going wrong.
Also the statewide sales tax in Alaska is 0%. Municipalities might have their own sales tax rates, though.
The GOP seems to have become (if they were ever anything else, and just hid it better in the past), across the board, a party of petty attacks on anything that helps anyone who isn't rich. This isn't about fiscal responsibility, as the holdouts wanted more money for the dividend. It's about hurting people least able to cope with the fallout. It's a sickness and it's happening in every state and at the national level. Socialism for corporations and the wealthy, capitalism with a stacked deck for the poor.
Absolutely.

We get stressed when job requirements mismatch our abilities. Usually there's too much work, and we deal with burnout. Sometimes, however, the mismatch goes the other way round, you are overqualified for the job and it becomes excruciatingly boring. That's boreout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout
> I’ve been complaining about election security for twenty years

Or longer. For me, personally, it was the "hanging chads" in 2000 that forced me to consider how insecure our elections are.
Web Components are a very good solution if you're YouTube or Twitter and you want to let people embed your content while providing your own styling/behavior for it. It's basically a lower-overhead version of <iframe> that can set its own dimensions.

Web Components are probably also a good solution if you're a news site that serves 90% static text but occasionally wants to embed an interactive chart or something. It's basically a slightly more standardized, isolated version of the `<div id="chart"></div> <script>$("#chart").makeInteractive()</script>`-style code that sites like that normally use.

They might also work if you're trying to build a library of standard components (like "toggle switch" or "stepper control") to be used in apps written with a variety of different UI frameworks. Although this depends on good "cross-framework" support which hasn't really materialized yet.

Web Components might not be the best solution if you want to render your entire site in client-side JavaScript, SPA-style. But on the whole, there aren't many websites that want to do that—remember, 30% of the Internet is WordPress blogs!—and there are even fewer where it's actually a good idea.
You are wrong. Groovy had lambdas even before Java 8. Netflix used Groovy only because of that exact feature.
Forgive my skepticism, but has Brexit really been the dominating priority for over 3 years?

Isn't that the promise
primary purpose of the recent PM + Cabinet shakeup after three years: to actually make Brexit happen?
But the firmware upgrade messed up the clock.

I'd be very curious to see what causes things like this, and especially the code... but then again, maybe seeing the code will just put me off ever riding in one.
One of the biggest risks with a natural interest rate of 0 is monetary policy loses all effectiveness. We need to either increase inflation or start playing with other forms of juicing the economy like helicopter drops.
Amazing. Traditionally kanji characters (and most Eastern Asia glyphs ) have individual typesetting layouts (a lot of horizontal lines of different elevations, for example 一干十土士王田甲由中申)

Aligning the horizontal strokes seem controversial at first (makes characters deform from their “normal” look), but reduces a lot of noise, that you can probably subconsciously parse more at a time?
Seriously, how long do we have to wait until the browser is just a language VM and a drawable surface and you supply your own programming language and layout engine?

Like, hey, this URL just points to say, a QT app, and then it runs in this "browser" window over the network. Where have I heard of this before...

Everything else just feels like loads of duct tape on top of an over-stressed document browsing paradigm. Just rip it out completely.
Some institutions are bound (legally and/or contractually) to hold (a certain percentage of) their assets in government bonds. So they don't really have a choice. Also, their performance isn't measured in absolute percentage terms, but only as relative to the benchmark - so if the benchmark goes just as negative as the fund, they didn't actually "underperform".
Hahahah ZippyDB landing page is hilarious. At least on mobile, interactive text elements sitting on top of interactive text elements...making it both difficult to read AND difficult to interact with.
I don't if/how the banks make money with high-yield accounts, but you might be better off with treasury bills if:

1. You're in a high income tax state -- interest is taxed as income but t-bill yields are exempt from state taxes.

2. You have more than the $250k FDIC limit (although that limit is per bank, so you can safely exceed it by opening accounts with multiple institutions).

3. You expect interest rates will decrease in the future and want to lock in your rate for a certain amount of time (of course, a high-yield CD would do the same thing, potentially at a better rate).
Literally no one thinks this can't be done another (automated) way. This is HN! This is a beautiful post about a true craftsman in another domain, as is appreciated here, and you really think no one has heard of laser cutters? We all know this.

Insight is also about calibrating ones response to the audience.
A bunch of intellectuals can talk about fiscal conservatism, but a major political party is a party of vast swathes of the population. Even the term sounds like political science jargon for passionate young students. Voting energy is not sufficiently galvanized by something as icy as fiscal policy.
California had repeated fake financial crises until we decided to kick the Republican charlatans out of power.
You don't have to agree with the bible to read it. You can read between the lines to see how the stories portray the human condition. They were real people who repeatedly promised to do better, and then failed, and then tried again. They may be wrong about the existence of a deity, but still have understood some essential truths about the meaning of life.
Shares do actually have a fundamental value, based on their lifetime dividends, buybacks and liquidation. So unlike, say, Bitcoin or the Dollar, there is something to be gained from knowing the zeroth-order reality.
>Most countries in Europe don't do this.

It's way worse where I live in terms of jarring patchwork, and it's still one of the more forested areas in France.

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/@45.5731524,1.8908994,18497...
According to the article, the translation of his twitter bio reads, "I live in harmony with the cats who have arrived in the tetra pot of Kashiwahama, Chiba Prefecture."

The cats didn’t arrive in a tetra pot, they live among the tetrapods, which are artificial concrete objects that are ubiquitously placed along the Japanese coastline, ostensibly to prevent coastal erosion, although some have said they are basically government pork projects for the all-powerful construction industry.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2007/07/22/general/tetrapo...
They are a thing in New Zealand and have been for a long time. Our rates are a lot higher than the US.
To put it in perspective, the cut is equivalent to something like 7% of all college-aged people in Alaska. As a proportion of the actual student population, it's presumably higher.
Perfectionism in the Startup Workplace
I also worry about the increase in security surface area. A ton of additional C-level operations exposed to JS in all browsers. What could go wrong?
This is exactly it.

"Fiscal responsibility" basically means "we shouldn't spend money on things I personally don't agree with or find important."

It is a supremely selfish view that unfortunately makes for a compelling political talking point.
Government rates are set by the market at auction. The government does not set the rate of their own bonds, they just offer to sell a certain amount, and the auction determines the rate.

In the US, the Federal Reserve sets the Federal Funds rate, which is (supposed to be) determined independent of the federal government.

The reason rates are low is because there is a lot of demand, and participants are bidding down the price as they compete to acquire the bonds.
The low taxes/low spending rhetoric started about the same time as the party embraced the religious right.
Money is a tool we use to facilitate trade. Price assignation has been distorted by "corrective action." Traditionally, bonds would be purchased as a hedge/guarantee of future value, and not to be charged a loss of that value instead.

Anecdotally, I am slowly raising my service prices as my costs rise. To me, this is evidence that my dollar (I'm in the US) is not going as far as it used to. And yet costs in a healthy financial system should normally be driven down, by typical Austrian Economic thinking.

As I posted elsewhere, my observations are for a different time scale than bonds are usually measured against. Sorry for the confusion. :)

I have been spending too much time thinking macro...
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Lightning transactions are both low friction enough for consumers to use, and inherently ephemeral.
Central banks control the supply of some very safe investments and usually that determines the price. But, someone still needs to own government debt and that depends on demand.

There are plenty of other choices for investors, like the stock market or real estate. So, you could either spend the money or choose a riskier investment.
That would imply ethical (actual) use of this tag. I cannot thing that any advertiser would ad this, just as they ignore the "Do not track". I fear that we will never we able to rely on the ad-makers honesty, as the hunt for the bottom-line never ends. It looks like this will be a war we will continue fighting with AdB+, NoScript, uBlock(s), hosts, and other tools.

It has been a cat and mouse game. The tech changes, but the game goes on.
Check into it and let us know.
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