skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of their long lived talking heads said it was all bull to begin with: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cf5wyy/rush_limba...

A look at the state of the countries finances after every one of their presidents leaves office agrees.

They’ve long been a bunch of hucksters, gambling away public wealth. They care about paying from their pocket. Not anyone else’s.

So long as it’s only a choice between shit sandwich and complete nutjob every 4 years, I’ll hold my nose and eat shit.
These forests take a lot longer than a couple decades to recover.
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> As a tax payer

Every man, woman, and child in the United States is a tax payer, unless they live off the grid, in the woods, in a cave.
I'm sorry, but if you're generating the inputs to your model based on a model, you've invented a pathological chicken and egg problem. I suppose as long as your model never changes this will work well, but what happens when you want to change your model, but already have stored synthetic data?

Tangent:
I suppose humans choice in models and statistics to use can be argued to be a similar thing, but I'm still dubious of how this concept is being communicated.
Probably not. As another commenter noted with Seattle, the needs of larger organizations often exceed the capabilities of smaller banks and credit unions.

Holding cash is easy. The backend processing—processing check deposits, sending checks, corporate cards, etc.—requires a lot of investment that most smaller banks and credit unions outsource. Wells Fargo and Bank of America have the benefit of having built all of this already.
Then: attention. Now: attention and money. You kind of summarized my comment.
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I think that's not pseudo random, it's really random. There can be problems with how you sample the noise and feed it into whatever you're using.

Also, if you need random numbers there are usually better ways to get them.

http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html

http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm
> Vue and Angular are leveraging them. https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/#Relation-to-Custom-Elements

It literally says that Vue doesn't leverage Web Components. It is, however, interoperable with them.

> React community is kind of hostile to the WebComponents idea.

It's not. It's just more pragmatic. I've seen way more hostility from web component community towards React (and frameworks in general).
It's plausible but holy hell will scientific papers be really imprecise in that language
Heck, I think they mostly write the laws for Congress...
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The Allegro IDE puts syntax highlighting in the undo stack.

Better to use SLIME or the eli with it ;).

That being said, there are things you can do in the IDE that I don't believe you can do in SLIME or eli.
When I see a headline like this, I know it is time to sell bonds.
If the US can sell treasuries at rates not much above inflation, then it is because they are not loaning enough -- is there really no bridges or other infrastructure that could benefit the economy if they are built?
> But as fewer people need to borrow

The problem with this theory is that debt is quite high globally and in all sectors (households, corporate, government).
Gain via interest is a function of inflation. That is 4% interest in the context of 5% inflation is a 1% loss.

Long to short, in the context of deflation (and associated financial uncertainty) these bonds would be good to have. With the bond curve currently inverted and to many a recession eminent, if the "smart money" is holding these bonds then please sign me up.
What's the notional value of all negative nominal yield bonds? Surely it can't be that much? Though, if you expect rates to go ever lower, I guess you could argue that a negative nominal yield bond could be a good investment.
There isn't really a substantial difference between grants and scholarships. Attempts to differentiate them usually winds up in splicing hairs, because there are always exceptions.
As a tax payer in my state I'd very much not be okay yanking the rug out from under kids educationally.

This isn't about politics, or it shouldn't be; these kids deserve to finish out their educations.
Implying that they will in the future?
That would help the unbanked, but would not help cannabis businesses or give the cities an entity through which they could invest funds in the form of loans.
Until now, technical innovation has been able to stave off that prediction...
It was never the party of fiscal conservatism. Notions to the contrary were a neo-conservative retcon. It never stopped being a party of bibles and social-conservatism.
The average multiple on a healthcare services business is 10x and HCIT assets are trading on revenue multiples. It works exactly like this everywhere. Livongo, Health Catalyst and Phreesia just went public at multiples that didn’t exist 5 years ago
Long story short: They solve a problem that is attractive to solve in a way that is not super useful for how most people want to develop an application. They're client side only (in practice) and poorly compatible. The developer problem they set out to solve is mostly solved elsewhere, better, by other frameworks. What those frameworks don't solve is usually not the parts that are useful about Web Components.

Which is a shame - as there are some genuinely good ideas in the set of tech that makes up Web Components. They just aren't very attractive to work with.

I kind of feel they need to scrap it and come up with a compelling v2 that uses what we know now.
I use 12x6 bitmap font with double width CJK characters. Many kanji are simply balls of pixels with fuzzy edges.

I remember when I was learning I did something to cause these characters to appear on screen in front of a Japanese friend (maybe cat'd an anki dump or something), and being absolutely blown away that he had zero trouble reading them.
I grew up in Singapore. The heat drives me crazy, I lose all ability to think straight and want nothing more than to run into a cold room or get a cold shower.

Once I’m in an air conditioned office, I’m what you presumably call driven, smart and productive.

I hate the heat so much I refuse to return to that country.
Uhh, there's a practical human problem with that notion and it is that when you're younger if you don't save for when you're older then you'll be destitute. Social Security alone is pretty hard to live on. As for what the bond market is telling us an alternate thesis (supported by the public statements of Trump and the Fed Chairman) is pretty much they don't want a recession in an election year and have eased interest rates not because it's good for the economy but because it's good for the incumbent. In short it's interest rate policy not the market which is setting the price.
2,500 students in a state with a total population of less than 750,000 seems pretty substantial.
Comparing VB desktop app dev to web app dev is a little bit apples to oranges.

Regardless, Django gives you everything you need on a silver platter, with fantastic documentation. To make your life easier, you could probably just use SQLite for the DB, and just run your app locally w/ the dev server to avoid having to deal with deployments, security, and possibly exposing your financial data online.

Maybe avoid Vue/APIs to start, and just do old school backend rendered templates. Bootstrap + jQuery + Highcharts will get you very far.

Since you brought up VB though, maybe an Electron based desktop app is actually what you want?
No, that's the charging time! It will only work for 90 minutes.
It’s hard to argue that it never existed at all, because it definitely did at one point. But they have morphed into something else entirely whilst managing to keep the fiscal responsibility moniker in the minds of a lot of voters.
Pretty sure my kids (4, 4, and 1) don't pay taxes.
It's already saturated IMHO. Hackernews is an obvious example of it. There is more tooling than you can shake a stick at, but the real question is who is going to leverage all these tools and curate them so that they pick the right ones, and most importantly, leverage them at the right time? I say the right time, because tools come and go, depending on how many people are using it. Some tools simply stay because they have a loyal userbase/customer-base, others vanish because they are under utilized. I doubt there will be higher funding requirements since these days we have nearly infinite leverage, and leverage without permission. It's now permissionless to invest, use tooling, train people, etc
Yes I agree with you, it's been a very interesting decade where we went from "the sky is falling" to "let the good times roll"!

However at least for me, my current earning potential in my job is not that high, and my cost of living therefore has been what I've sought to optimize instead of capital gains.

For people who have lots of taxable income, lots of asset exposure, and a high cost of living, then a mixed bag of investments is definitely crucial to preventing those people from going bankrupt.

But for me, as long as I find ways to continue to live healthy, have a good network of friends, a job, money in my main bank accounts in case I need to put up a security deposit or take an extended vacation, then I am very happy. I therefore would never want to keep $40,000 or something in a market account when I really do need all of that money at any time.
I really hope this tech doesn't take off - the web has been so successful _because_ it was declarative and not imperative. Now we're going to be baking in all the subtleties of Chrome and/or Firefox's handling of callbacks in a language that was never really designed to run inside of a layout engine.

Yes, a declarative web API is _far_ harder to get right, but the web community has created an amazing long-term compatibility story. It _should_ be difficult to add things to the web-at-large precisely because it has to live, essentially, forever.
Guess I should have read further in.
> The time value of money is the expected risk of inflation.

I don't think that's the only source of time value of money.

For example, I'm fairly certain I can buy a car for the same price a year from now, but I am willing to pay a huge premium to have the car now so I don't have to ride the bus for two hours a day while I save up the cash to pay for it.

That is a preference for present consumption over future consumption that has nothing to do with inflation.
It’s true ladders are mostly leg. It’s not the best analogy perhaps a better one is pulling yourself up onto a box. You wouldn’t put your hands close to the center of the body, you’d have them out wide as you push.

Not sure what you’re referring to in terms of lifting diagonally, but as another comment noted in swimming you’re rotating around the center line with each stroke. If you were doing right-arm cable pull downs, you likely aren’t going to have the most strength with your right hand level with your left shoulder. You may rotate, using your core an back to bring the arm down but in those cases I doubt you’re crossing the center line high up in that motion.

Because of the rotation in swimming you can end up with your arm that way which will impinge on the rotator cuff.

Essentially you want to stabilize your shoulder with your lats and scapular muscles so that it doesn’t fall forward in the socket. That is what causes swimming repetitive use injuries. I say this as someone with two surgically repaired shoulders. I’ve done a lot of stroke work to keep them fixed after years of bad form.
I am sorry but you do not understand what we are talking about. Do not worry, we have all been there at some point and it is on my best interest to explain to you what's going on :)

The sentence "the bad design of node.js does not allow to manage the thread pool from outside" implies two things initially, 1. that there is a thread pool, which is part of the architecture of node.js and 2. that this thread pool cannot be managed by an external program. On the same sentence, they then try to use these concepts combined as an argument to "the bad design of node.js".

What I wanted to convey is that this statement -> "the bad design of node.js" is a huge hyperbole and it is blatantly wrong, since it is actually a very good "real-world" example of good software design and practices. Anyone that has spent at least a couple days interacting with the developer community behind node.js and sister project can attest their level of knowledge, talent and commitment.

Also, just bashing on a project that you're building on top of is an extremely tasteless display of vulgarity ...
> In animals or plants, for simple traits, yes.

No, complex traits too. Come on. Dog intelligence and personalities? The domesticated foxes? Any of the many mouse/rat selective breeding experiments like Tryon? Personality, intelligence, these sorts of traits are all highly heritable and about the only thing everyone can agree on that heritability means is that you can select on it. 'virtually unlimited interactions between genes and environmental factors'? Give me a break!

> Add in the serious consequences of mistakes. The limited supply of subjects. The difficulty of grading the success of any modification.

??? None of that is a real problem. You are wildly gesturing at hypotheticals and making stuff up. Being 'polygenetic' is not a problem, it's a blessing.

> For intelligence, we don't even know what kinds of changes we would want to make, even if we could make them reliably.

Yes, we do. The PGSes have identified hundreds of variants at genome-wide significance, and there are thousands at high posterior probability, with nontrivial cumulative predictive power in the general population.
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I expected someone to emulate houdini in css
> Contention: The cultural assumption that saving ought to be rewarded is misguided.

This is an odd contention that I don't agree with entirely based on the usage of "rewarded." Interest isn't a reward, it's simply the price of money, and depending on your personal current values/needs/wants (spend now or save now), it can look either like a reward or a punishment.

So this ends up reading only as a topsy-turvy ex-post-facto justification for central bank policy that favors / provides cover for governments that spend more than they earn, which they all do afaik.

I do agree with some elements of your extrapolation though. It is possible that we are going from a world of relative growth to one of stasis. Or, at least, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if economies do not "grow", especially not in cases where population growth is slowing or even reversing.
Funny new term "fresh working" -- a fresh new desk every day.

Archived: http://archive.is/aBNBj
Hmm, is the above supposed to be satire itself?

The Dropbox comment was about a startup making cross platform desktop/mobile sync easy, and a facile dismissal about being able to hack something similar together with FOSS tools which missed both the complexity of the domain and the main point which was convenience for the average Joe.

This is about a guy making subway signs for route changes and other such situations with duct tape working for half a day or more to produce one, and a suggestion that the same job could be more easily have been done much faster (and at a similar cost) with some desktop software (even Word would do it) and a plotter or a simpler laser printer.

The second suggestion is not just not outlandish, but also how such signs are done in tons of businesses and organizations all around the world.

Dropbox case:
Complex domain, difficult to simplify, main selling point being "works out of the box" -> Suggestion of a nerdy, ad-hoc process, that needs elaborate setup maintenance

This case:
Trivial domain, done in a labor intensive personal manner with lots of needless manual labor -> Suggestion of a much simpler, most common way businesses/orgs do it

You could argue that doing it with printing misses the quirkiness, personal touch, uniqueness of the process, and I totally agree.

But not that this process can't be automated and replaced with a simple PC+printing for less manual labor and low cost.

I've done it for a couple organizations I've worked at, and it's trivial. You can print black and white A0 and larger signs for a dollar (and color for $10 depending on size, up to A0 which is 33.1 x 46.8 in).

In fact the whole point of the article about this Tokyo subway guy, is that it's a unique case because this (duct tape and hours of manual labour) is NOT the way such things are usually done.
Lower your interest rate mortgage calls are very poorly targeted. The companies that do this get lists of people with mortgages, which is easy because mortgages need to be publicly recorded to be effective, and call all of those people without any attempt to narrow the field; or maybe they just call everyone they can. They usually call and offer "new lower rates" when the rates have gone down in the last few months, but they probably don't work very hard to estimate the original rate (it's not public record, but you could probably make a good guess based on the lender and the date it was recorded).

I had a mortgage originated in 2009, and then rate adjusted down several times to something in the 3.x range -- and would get calls and mailers promising "historically low" rates of 4.x; which I always found very amusing.
it is called bore out
I don't pay too much attention to this type of thing but I think it might be related to wages not going up but the cost of living skyrocketing.

For example people in their late 50s and early 60s might have been making let's say $30,000 back in the 1980s and 1990s and now today the same exact type of job pays the same 30k salary except the cost of living is crazy high now compared to back then.

Back then they had money to spare for investments but that same salary today means you're probably in debt.
$13 trillions. I don't know if that's "much" for you, though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-negative-yield-debt/
It is in regards to the fact that Brexit has been the main priority of the UK government since the referendum and it does feel that everything else has been paused.
I'm waiting for the DisCoCirc string diagram version of this paper to come out before reading it.
If your four-year-olds have ever bought anything (from a vending machine) they've paid taxes.
It never existed. “Conservatism”, as it as it is used in the US, has never referred to fiscal conservatism except whenever it’s convenient to an argument. Conservatism is and always has been about preserving the status quo.
Anyway, private notaries are a real thing in UAE.

See: http://www.adllaw.ae/private_notary.htm
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it's not taking a pick at the player move. read the code, even after the pull request that brought this up the nn performed the same. even if the nn was taking a pick at the player's move, which is not, the data is shuffled before the training
That would just further press housing prices up, and push people into bitcoin.
I really hope there is a hybrid MBP with an Apple chip running mac OS and first party apps along with an intel chip that runs on demand for third party apps that need x86.
Exactly, just because rates/inflation are low doesn't mean you can't have a bubble burst and a recession. It is just that the policy response is more difficult, because there is no room to maneuver on bond rates... nominally the only response is more (unbacked) currency issuance... which will cause inflation even without growth or requiring new loans.
They can, they just don't have a direct tool for doing it. Long term rates are just an aggregation of short term rates over a given time span. So they can adjust long term rates via promises and hints that they will keep short term rates low for a long time.

There is a ton of interesting monetary theory about how the Fed can do this and issues they run into.
This would start in 2026. But a small percentage (5%) of high schools (often in low-income areas) don't offer 4 years of math.

CSU = California State University
i think it is best not to idolise anyone, especially a figurehead like the subject of this article. This company's behaviour towards its employees is notorious, how did the style of writing help those people?
And even they might have a clear and important opinion on topics like these, given that they might want to get an education at some point and would probably have an issue with being promised money to then have it taken away later through no fault of their own.
In Italy almost all mortgages used to be on fixed rates until 2000
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What about people who aren't sure?

If you give an answer but its a guess, you'd be less likely to say people agree with you.
Do they purchase goods? Do you purchase goods on their behalf?

The point is every household is a taxpayer household. The statement "as a taxpayer" is not helpful.
That's because Brexit and climate emergencies are both essentially gradualist[0] topics. They are topics which will be sat on and dragged out for as long as possible because it's something to talk about in parliament. Brexit is something for them to do and make them look busy, but we all know Brexit and the climate emergency has been dragged out for far too long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradualism
Yellow badges are back. This time not by Nazi Germany but by U.S. tech companies
I want to give a shout out to Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert over at “The Keiser Report” on RT at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ojPk8CQns for pointing me towards this eye-opening Bloomberg article. Even though the Bloomberg article is titled “The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets” I decided to editorially change the headline to the more meaningful and less metaphoric “The time value of money has essentially disappeared”. I know this is usually against the spirit of HN but I hope you understand why I did it.

This is what's in the episode.

“In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the mainstream financial press turning to the metaphors and analogies the Keiser Report started using a decade ago about the obvious blackhole of debt that would put central bankers into a quicksand of negative rate policy trap. A full 25% of global sovereign debt is now negative yielding with a whopping 85% of German debt negative. This means that the time value of money has disappeared, hence a fundamental law of monetary physics has been broken. So, what is next? They look at the historical break from gold which had provided an anchor to time value, and how that hurtled us over the debt event horizon and into a negative yielding world. They also look at a recent exchange between a CNBC host and the treasury secretary on bitcoin and the dollar.”
If you still have the software why not just get it working in a compatible vm? Seems easier than learning all that.. Unless you just want something to learn, nothing wrong with that of course.
Isn't this fiscal conservatism? Spending <= Income?
If that were the case, the people who do take out loans etc should be realizing supernormal returns as they exploit the low-hanging fruit being ignored. Do they?
Wouldn't that depend on which part of the cycle we are in? I repeatedly read that prognosticators are expecting both deflation and rapid inflation, but they are arguing over the order.

And I am referring to large time cycles, the ones that play out over societal reformation periods, so I would not expect the bond market to reflect that scale of timing.