skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To get each of the signs officially signed off with formal budgets and professional designers allocated, I would imagine the administrative red tape involved

You don't need to get "each of the signs officially signed off with formal budgets and professional designers allocated".

You could expedite his current process, with just a series of templates made on an el cheapo design program (even Word) and a vinyl cutter.

Here's a guy making custom signs nobody asked for. Why would a replacement for that include "formal budgets and professional designers"? One could leverage the same informal process and budget, and instead of duct tape and lots hours, just use a run-of-the-mill printing service (the kind that does photocopies)...

>Sato just keeps making signs on the spot where he notices a need for them, and rips them off when they're no longer necessary.

Sure, and that's just "write message, add arrows/icons, sent to plotter, stick, unstick" -- the same as today, minus the time to painfully create by hand.

Of course this way you also lose the artisty and quirkiness, but I'm only responding to whether this can be done.

And my answer is: it can be done, cheaper, faster, easier, and doesn't take much. Not any big budget (not much better than the duct tape budget), not "professional designers", nothing. You could keep the same unoficialness, and just use a printer and a PC to get the signs (you could even skip the plotter, and just e.g. stick A3/A2 signs with tape).

As for whether it should be done, I'd say no. His efforts, even if wasteful, make the world better and more quirky and charming, in a way that an automated replacement wouldn't.
Yeah, except it usually would be (in the best case scenario) more like "520 with a SD of 40" for 10 people and "1 outlier", which you wouldn't really be able to properly conceptualize let alone explain, since your "outlier" is freaking 10% of the group.

That is, ignoring the fact that experiments without a control group can be hardly considered valid at all.
“I told them it was illegal and they still wanted to do it and so I helped them do it” is one of those sentences that prosecutors dream of.

Please be careful about what you choose to do, and be especially careful about what you write about what you are doing. You would not be protected from prosecution for following orders that you know to be wrong- especially if you acknowledge that you “know” it would be illegal.

If you are faced with a situation like this, the smartest move is to quit. No salary is worth your freedom. You might be covering your mortgage for now- but you won’t after you are fined and prosecuted.
The media neglects to report on this because it's not accurate.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/immigrants-free-leave-dete...

https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2...
In many countries a 12 years old is not eligible for prison. All minors do silly things. It is expected. If they tell to the child that can put him/her in prison they are lying and they parents must talk with a lawyer ASAP.
I have spoken with several people recently who tried to time the market by selling their equities, then lost out on these recent all-time-highs.

I don’t know what the answers are and no one does. In my opinion there has been a global phenomena of easy money in various ways for a decade, and it has filtered out in all sorts ways, from the premium in equities, the absurd rise in housing prices, the art market, basically anything that can eat excess cash has been eating it. A crash and hangover is coming but it will primarily affect richer people though it will bleed out to the non-monied classes via job losses and retirement accounts falling in value.

But when this will happen? It could be next year or in 50 years! The governments of the world have so many options to keep the party going.
Does that mean more capital will enter non perishable commodities (like gold) and cryptocurrency?
It's an amusing thought experiment. China? They seem to be focusing on the topic of environment.
Literal cash under a mattress is not a good option for a pension fund.
You’re right, I should. Was on mobile and in a bit of a hurry.

Quote from the second link:

> with respect to the Brazilian forests in the central Amazon - about 50% of their above-ground biomass is contained in less than the largest 10% of their trees
I don't know enough about crypto to know if specific curves would work, but why couldn't somebody just guess/leak the curve they're using and ruin the whole thing?

What the Twitter post truly doesn't address is key escrow, which is still extremely dangerous but seemingly crypto-sound. It's not impossible to build the system just a really, really bad idea.

>It's disingenuous to argue its a bad idea because its impossible to build.

I think this is a really key point. I hate the idea of govt backdoors as much as anyone, but we shouldn't need to win by misleading, even with good intentions. People can understand that the government is trying to fuck them over without hand waving.
I'm soldering a a LoRA-based board right now. During design process we calculated the power budget and found out the power consumption is so absurdly low the main factor is battery shelf life.

We live in the future.
CO2 Science is a fossil fuel funded climate denial center.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_the_Study_o...
> Of course, the real question that needs to be asked is "if affordable housing isn't profitable, what do we do?"

Right, and that's a good policy question. But once you answer it, you no longer need a politician-operated bank.

For example, the main thing that makes affordable housing unprofitable is that artificial scarcity created by zoning rules puts the creation cost above the price threshold for what's considered affordable housing. So you have to fix that, but once you do, any ordinary bank will fund those now-profitable construction projects.
Can This Ancient Greek Medicine Cure Humanity?
Gold Dust 4-1/2 percent on sums over $1000; 5 percent on sums under $1000 (1849)
Couldn't they just go with a local credit union?
This is a thing larger companies do now too, and that we are here talking about the product which otherwise would likely never have graced the front page of hacker news is testament to the approach having some kind of marketing value.

And of course, you validate the market for the product actually exists with real paying customers.

Canon recently did the same thing for a new action style cam that’s a little outside their traditionally much more conservative camera products:

> https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/3/20680982/ca...

In the case of Sony and Canon, one probably doesn’t need to worry too much about not getting a product if funding goals reached, or your money back in the event the project doesn’t reach its funding goals either.
There was no American flight that crashed. The crashes were Ethiopian and Indonesian where the FAA has no jurisdiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
Same with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8
They link the value provided by updates/maintenance to a tangible cost.

Unfortunately, they do not guarantee that the value added and the extra cost are proportionate, or even have the same sign.
> negative rates forced people to reach for junk companies

Negative rates don’t force junky investment decisions. Inflation does.

Inflation is low. Investors choosing junk yielding 4% are not being forced to do so by negative yields (or, in America, low yields). They’re choosing to reach for yield.
I see your 71572km and raise you a 3.5W radio signal received on Earth from the distance of 1.2 billion km:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2005/2005020...
This is probably obvious, but what do the “free” stock image sites do? My guess is only the thumbnail is watermark free? And anything bigger than 75x75 has watermarks without paying?
Do you blame a certain class of investor for being extremely risk-averse?

Imagine if you're managing people's retirement money. How would you invest it? People's nest eggs.

To put it into computer-nerd context; remember the saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

Isn't this the same kind of thinking?

By the way, what do you think about the idea some are proposing that crypto-currencies are more solid than a gold standard?

Instead of transitioning from this central bank backed fiat currency malarkey (which in theory ought to work just fine but doesn't because of greed, collusion, corruption, hubris – i.e., human weakness) back to the gold standard, some say we should move to crypto-currrency standards. I'm not at all versed enough in the tech and theory to know if this is a good idea or not.
Some of the rich folks are pension fund managers. Therein lies the problem.
Only when talking about standard bitcode that everyone has access to directly from LLVM.

Apple's toolchain uses a modified version of bitcode, making it more portable.

There is a session on WWDC 2019 on how using bitcode made the 64bit transition of watchOS apps relatively easy.
Given that the San Francisco now has the highest crime rate in the country thanks to lax enforcement, this is a step in the right direction..

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/02/16/property-...
Why not just put it into a bank deposit then? This has positive rate and won't burn as well.
I've long wondered if genes are more like seeds to a fractal. Evolution works great, but I suspect it results in a chaotic system.
For what it's worth I found the Wikipedia article clearer.
> Not sure where you're getting the "10% believe the earth is flat" from,

I think OKCupid got numbers like this for the question, or something like "is the Earth bigger than the Sun". To which I attribute to the smartass constant -- or rather that dumb questions elicit dumb responses.
Ok so they're still selling location data to brokers who may do something other than sell the information on the black market.
Our system prints money for complex and highly debatable reasons, so what a bank pays in interest to its depositors is rarely ever enough to offset all the inflation they create.

It's not "getting paid" so much as loss mitigation.

The modern racket of fiat money and lending at interest (which all of the Abrahamic faiths prohibit or restrict) is an assault on the plebes.

People like the game too much to care.
I wrote a tool for this called CX_DB8. It's better than any other "TextRank" based extractive summarizer in that it utilizes the latest in word embeddings, and supports queryability. Furthermore, it is the only word-level extractive summarizer to support all of this. Mostly aimed at the competitive debate community but anyone can use it.

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8

Hopefully you'll see my paper about this in EMNLP 2019 System Demos...
The real problem is that the browser does not give enough ropes for the user to hang themself and also a few more just in case, and gives too much control over it by the data received from the server instead.
Vanguard as well as iShares (Blackrock) funds are readily available in Europe unless you are looking for niche stuff. But then there also is Xtrackers, Lyxor, HSBC, .. which offern funds based on the famous and not so famous indices.

And they not hard to buy at all.
What exactly feels like satire to you? As your comment is content-less I can't tell.

This is how thousands of small businesses and organizations the world over produce signs. What seems bizarre to you?
Many OS instances nowadays run on top of a type 1 hypervisor, Photoshop doesn't even notice it.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/diss-advice.html
For large institutional investors, government-backed securities can be safer than bank accounts, given that they need to invest sums that are much larger than deposit insurance (e.g. FDIC) limits.
I had my first major career failure this year and lost a very good job. I was able to land another good job quickly but I’ve been full of doubt and am seriously lacking in confidence ever since. I can’t sleep and have anxiety. The new job has significantly more responsibility and in many ways the pressure that the author describes in rewriting Slack is very similar to what I’m going through. Every time I have a setback at work I am afraid of losing my job. I finally recognized this as burnout and am trying to come back from it but it’s a slow process. I’m trying to exercise more and get enough sleep but the sleep part is still not working all that well.
Hello, uh, Mr. Doopler, I see that your current rate is 3.5% on your house. Did you know that at Bank Super Cool we're offering rates as high as 29.7%, and as you know, bigger is always better. PLUS if you refinance today, we're giving away FREE POPTARTS! Whaddya say, Mr. Doopler?
Likewise. I do grant writing for nonprofits, public agencies, and some R&D-based businesses, and I've been talking about this post: http://seliger.com/2019/04/29/how-jeff-bezos-turned-narrativ... with some clients, as it addresses another one of those Amazon-as-writing-machine essays. Reading and writing skills remain strangely underrated.
running on linux servers, too.
(as well as the ELK stack, which handles logging)
Their comment was clearly not an explicit denial they don’t hold the other side accountable.

Grow up. It’s a public web forum and no one is obliged to sooth your sensibilities.

Americans, right? All so tough but all shouting like a bunch of babies when someone else doesn’t fully sooth them.

This country needs to learn how to self sooth instead of expecting a quick fix to their problems be handed to them.

A sure fire sign of a society on decline: looking for everyone else to fix me cause I’m too clueless about myself to fix myself
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...
Again? Party like it's 1799.
Internet 1.0 didn’t have video...
> lower quality leases are being thrown into securitization pools

Shocked, shocked, do you hear me!

Not to snark at this poster, but in general,
if we learn anything from experience in markets, we learn:

People want higher returns without higher risks, and
other people can profit from convincing buyers that the returns are higher, or the risks are lower.

Also, money is more nimble than legislation. While
Congress is trying to outlaw the most recently
exposed scam or malfeasance, people are inventing the
next several workarounds to existing or upcoming law.
I'm not sure the algorithm would emit any answer in the case where everyone has an equal level of objective foundation for their subjective belief.

But it would probably help in cases where popular opinion is entirely misinformed about the subjective question, not having any basis other than (already misinformed) hearsay on which to form their own subjective opinion.

So, for example, if there was a musician who had an absolutely terrible song that somehow became the song they were best known for (being a "one-hit wonder" whose song wasn't really a "hit"), the public might believe that that song is their best song, since it's the only song of theirs the public has ever heard of. Experts (i.e. people who have heard more than the one song of theirs), on the other hand, would tend to agree that it's certainly not their best song.

(Given that example, I'm inclined to suggest that you could use this algorithm to determine when people are being judged overly-harshly for things, e.g. whether to ban someone from a website just because they've received a lot of reports about that person's behavior.)
That's assuming the Feds are going to do that. If they happen to be of the opposing political party at that time, good luck with that.

Keep in mind that the bailouts after the 2008 housing crisis were across the whole economy. If that many major banks failed, it would have had a cascade effect, and that was the argument used to justify it. But one bank, in one city? That could fail without anybody saving it and the rest of the economy would barely notice. Though the people in that city sure would.
Shameless self plug, but for anyone interested in the SOTA of extractive text summarization, I wrote a tool for this which allows for folks to use any type of word embeddings to run a modified queryable text rank on. This leads to SOTA text extraction.

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8

CX_DB8 also supports word and sentence level extraction. I plan on adding paragraph extraction in a future update.
I have patched the path traversal security bug in production, just haven’t pushed to GitHub. This project was coded upwards of 6 months ago I’ve learned a lot since then.
There are lots of smart people worried about a sub 0 percent interest rate, or worry about stagnation. Not to mention my peers in every Industry talking about slowdowns or unprofitable years due to tariffs.

The only people who seem to be enjoying it are exploiting the bubble with high wages and investing companies.

And if you didn't take the investment, your competitors destroyed you.

Fiat currency is a weird thing.
Broken heart (Takotsubo) syndrome may be linked to cancer, study suggests
Does Facial Recognition Pose a Threat to Consumer's Privacy?
Is there such a thing as a Chinese debit (pre-paid) card, and would that be accepted by either WeChat or Alipay? Or a Hong Kong debit card?

Alternatively, they could have a 2nd class foreigner version of WeChat and Alipay with whatever restrictions on it they want. The status quo is more of an imposition on Chinese vendors than on tourists.
with negative yields you are not even making inflation, you are way below it
Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester
There is packer I highly recommend to use it together with salt module to do all the configuration.

There is also NixOS together with NixOps it has some steep learning curve, but I think it is worth it. You edit configuration.nix which is like Dockerfile, and then you can either use standard AMI and provide the configuration, that will result in setup similar to salt, ansible, chef etc. You can also use NixOps to provision such machine, you can then place /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE file which removes state after next reboot, stop it and generate AMI that essentially emulates what packer is doing. You can also use nix build to generate an image file and upload that to AWS.

NixOps is also a great tool to test, you can deploy your configuration to local virtual box, or public cloud provider.
They're assuming, not verifying and the information they use is specious at best. It's sourced from 3rd parties and not verified by the individual. A perfect example of lack of verification and the weakness of their data is your history of addresses. Divorcees often find their ex's new residence will show up on their credit profile as their residence for years after being divorced.

An identity verification system would require the individual establishing their identity with the credit agency and provide as much or as little credit establishing information.

When a B2C transaction is established, the customer would provide the business with a token identifying the credit profile they want to use and the business would request a credit chect with it to the agency, and if the business accepts the credit score they can both acknowledge to the credit agency they wish to do business.
I thought we were arguing over two things:

How much value is created through publicly funded education beyond basic literacy and numeracy, which Caplan cedes.

Whether Caplan's proposed changes to the education system are good ones.
It’s sad if paying union wages makes some service “cost-prohibitive”. Every cruise I ever took was 100% union (in Europe).
As other have mentioned, it's not "risk free" in a way that makes it "insane".

You could buy a 10-year bond paying 8% in 1970. That's a high yield by 21st-century standards but it performed quite poorly [1]: when you got your principal back ten years later it was worth less than half as much due to inflation (and not even by reinvesting the interests received would you break even).

[1] not worse than stocks, though
So FB is much like Yahoo a generation ago. The cool kids have checked out but the parents are still hanging on.
Universally Accessible Operating System
> Airo Security (AiroAV) has recently discovered that a Comscore product for macOS, called PremierOpinion

> PremierOpinion is a decade old [0] spyware developed by VoiceFive, a ComScore company (NASDAQ: SCOR)

The "news" does seem a bit overblown. It looks like it always had HTTP MITM functionality, presumably now also for HTTPS.

[0] https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/intego-security-ale...
Not a very meaningful poll, if you ask me. It's currently hot in Northern Europe and people are tired of the Brexit discussion, and the two issues do not have much to do with each other. It's like asking whether apples or oranges are more important.
while your point about negative interest rates is valid, note that your conservative investment strategy is misguided (as you've already noted in foregone gains). there is no way to time the entire market, going up or down, without vast and extreme insider information.

so the safe strategy is to make sure you have an appropriately balanced portfolio (among cashlike securities, equities, bonds, etc.) and to leave your equity investment in place while riding out the downturn.
I apologize for an excessive amount of anger. But you were commenting on my situation. Saying you weren't does't change that.
My github name is "Hellisotherpeople" which ideally would be lengthened as "Hell is other peoples code". Yet, I like the alternative variation in the title of the article
Hey Dalton, submitter here. Saw this on 1kprojects and thought it was a clever idea!
Titanic was never the largest ship - her sister Olympic had identical measurements. Titanic was the _heaviest_ ship however.
There are many people whose lives are such that they do not consider principles, only outcomes. This is "ends justify the means" thinking, and it is short-sighted and dangerous. There is a famous quotation from Gandhi to that effect, and he is probably the greatest human of the 20th century of notoriety.
Obviously in exchange they would shave off some part of it?
That analogy is spot on. Absolutely the perfect way to look at burnout in my experience.
Yes I agree with that theory, but I don't see how that proves that pain is completely decoupled from physical damage, and just randomly happens to some people solely because they are upset or "disturbed".
I did say “mainstream”. Despite the HN bubble, development is not in the “mainstream”. Besides, personally, I can’t stand developing on just a laptop screen. I need at least one external monitor and preferably two.

If I had to do a lot of development on the go, I would have invest in a portable USB monitor or use my iPad as a second display.
One interesting thing about the paper is that it seems that the Wikipedia article incorrectly describes the procedure: respondents were not asked to guess whether the majority would agree with their position. They were asked to guess what per cent of other respondents would agree. I think that's a pretty severe difference in the method.
how do generics help with subtyping?
Investors Are Usually Wrong. I'm One of Them.
> I design and build technology in Vancouver. I spend most of my time working on Slack, a paradigm-shifting tool for team communication. In my work I strive for usefulness, beauty, and positive impact on the lives of others.

From this chap's tag line on his home page it seems like he still identifies strongly with his work and over emphasises the importance of it.
Yeah graphene is like lasers 40 years ago.