skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italy is similarly stuck in contraction mode.

Gross exports represent 46% of EU GDP, up from 39% in 2008.

For China, gross exports are 20% of GDP, down from 33% in 2008.

For the US, gross exports are 12% of GDP, the same as in 2008.

A trade war is a nightmare for the EU. It's amazing they've stayed above water this long with 46% of GDP dependent on exports. They'll get economically thrashed if it keeps getting worse.
> I always understood di­ffizil to be the correct translation of the word difficult.

I think that’s misleading or even wrong. Source: native speaker.

First, it’s a very rare word that would definitely stand out, even in an already formal conversation. More importantly, “diffizil” is mostly reserved for problems that require a lot of fine motor skills or finesse. It would be wrong to say that lifting some large boulder is “diffizil”, for example, except as a joke. You might use it for repairing a watch or a complicated negotiation (“eine diffizile Angelegenheit”), however.
In Hungary the equivalent would be Roma families naming their children after foreign soap opera characters (e.g. Bobby [Ewing] in the 90s), footballers and other famous people, especially Latin American ones. By law names have to conform to Hungarian orthography (except if the parents have immigrant background)

Examples: Rikárdó, Armandó, Rodrigó, Dzsenifer (Jennifer), Dzsesszika (Jessica), Brájen (Brian), Dzsásztin (Justin), Brendon, Szamanta, Eszmeralda

Seems to be a universal thing across many countries that people in low socio-economic classes (black people in the US or Roma in Eastern Europe) give more, let's say, "unusual" names to their kids.
Not in their stores they don't.
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I envision a machine that takes in desert dune sand, arranges four individual grains into a tetrad, and uses concentrated solar light to melt some sand into glass, to bind the tetrads together. Then it ejects the tiny glass-bound pyramid into a collection bin and repeats.

Like a Spacechem/Opus Magnum puzzle that has a dune sand input and a construction sand output.
It is thought that multiplication is better explained to mean scaling a by a factor of b. This is better illustrated by a diagram. I believe that 3Blue1Brown covers this graphically in several videos. For one, it better unifies division with multiplication as an inverse scaling.
> We will be treated as an “emerging growth company” pursuant to the JOBS Act for certain purposes until the earlier of the date we complete this offering and December 31, 2019. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified exemptions from various requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies in the United States. These exemptions include:

> - an exemption to include in an initial public offering registration statement less than five years of selected financial data

> - reduced disclosure about executive compensation arrangements and no requirement to include a compensation discussion and analysis

> - accounting standards transition period accommodation that allows for the deferral of compliance with new or revised financial accounting standards until a company that is not an issuer is required to comply with such standards.

Number 2 seems surprising. Is that par for course in these dealings?
My synopsis:
The only way to understand text is to learn the original language. When I compared Arabic text with translated versions for example, although done by supposedly professionals, I couldn't help but sense awkward misalignments in context. Perhaps the interpretation (understanding) of both reader and writer differ, and so does the translation. The transcending misunderstanding can not be rectified unless a glance is made at the original. I know learning another language just to read a book is indeed way too much, but it is worth it, for you will not be reading one book eventually, and learning a language like Mandarin in this instance is an exciting experience. Examples of books I've read in original language and translation include Political Ideals by B. Russell, 100 years of solitude By G. Marquez, Spirits Rebellious By Khalil Gibran. I am also learning Mandarin, but rest assured, I still need another 5 years to be able to read and write decently.
Options require the stock to go up to be worth anything. So if the stock price increases ten percent, that would be $420M (120-110) * 42M shares. Still seems like an awful lot.
Is it acceptable behavior for a web application to check license during startup
We have a web application that customers deploy in their own infrastructure. We are thinking of adding a license check at startup. Initially a json blob with date and maximum active users signed with our private key and validated with public key shipped with the code should do it.

But it can not protect if there are multiple deployment with same license. Now if there are multiple deployments we could suggest the client to buy separate license for it- but to do that we need a call home API call to determine there are multiple deployments. We plan to include this in the privacy terms and a configuration to disable this so that its explicit decision on clients part and not missing it accidentally/ unknowingly. What will you think if I tell you that the application calls home to validate license during each startup?
> We looked at the information provided by [a BuzzFeed News] reporter

Buzzfeed is worried about HIPAA violations. Good thing to worry about in general, but perhaps this is not the best case to champion that cause...

They could look into the type of plea deal he got previously and why he got it. Or, say, comb through all the recently unsealed evidence and compile a spreadsheet of who flew to his island and how often. Now, that would make some good investigative reporting.
Dissecting a Dweet: Breaking Broke (Analyzing a 140 Byte JavaScript Program)
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They do a lot more than healthcare apps, or even healthcare. They conduct R&D on behalf of every Federal agency/branch of the military.
How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome
Also note the dams removed from the Elwha River in Washington: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwha_Ecosystem_Restoration
The main issue here is that events like these become a self fulfilling prophecy. Since 100% of inverting yield curves have resulted in recessions in the past, stock market investors will start behaving as if an recession is inevitable which in turn starts the recession.

The only way this would not turn into recession is if the tariff's are withdrawn or fed lowers the rate even further or with quantitative easing. Any of these would prolong the recession
And things will be worse because China is also heading into recession.

You know, you need sell all these products to somebody... And when US consumer stops buying new iPhones (or what ever) combined with recession then situation is going be really really tough.

So this will be worse that 2008. Much worse. Back in 2008, China was growing and helping to ease the recession. I do not think China's economy will grow during this cycle.
Nitpick: Twitter doesn’t allow anonymity, all posts are associated with at least a pseudonym.
> Capped broadband is a new development in the US.

No, it's not. Published cap policies are relatively new, because a lot of caps weren't published, despite caps existing and being applied to customers, prior to the transparency rule in the Open Internet Report & Order (the Title I net neutrality regulation that, except for the transparency rule, was struck down by the courts that came before the Title II net neutrality regulation which was repealed after Republicans took control of the FCC.)
Centrury of Plane Crashes
I know nothing of finance, but I have a normal liquid savings account that's paying 2.25%, apparently "permanently". Why would anyone buy a less-flexible product that pays less?
They also started billing advertising services through a separate UK branch with UK VAT. However, they're definitely not big on corporation tax: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/02/amazon-ha... (Aug 18)
I missed the big downturn twelve years ago because I procrastinated. My 401k money was in some fund that was no longer being offered, so the money was transferred into a currency fund (I don't recall what it was). I kept meaning to move it to an index fund, but never got around to it and then the market dropped. A year later I did the transfer and as a result I did very well.

I haven't touched it since but now with yield curve warnings popping up, I'm starting to think I should.
That’s great. You state you have two people in your household. Have a couple of kids and add several more devices that play games, download apps and updates, stream hours of video, and get to download ever increasing ads. I bet that 1 TB wouldn’t be very adequate anymore.

Or, just wait 5 more years. Those files you remotely access will be even bigger, your video chats use even more bandwidth as quality increases, and Netflix defaults to 4K for nearly all content.

They’re playing the long game here. They put these data caps in place realizing full well that 90% of people won’t hit them today but in 5-10 years when 90% of customers do hit the caps they’ll cry out about how the caps have been in place for years and were never an issue. You’re playing right into their hand.
Sure, the relevant comparison is roughly the US with all of Europe.

It seems like tons of people here are talking about actual real big cities in the US that have microscopic caps, though.

We're not talking about the outback.
The audio in the link appears to only be a 5 minute excerpt, not the full 50 minute lecture.
Ok, I read that (sort of). Ignoring the nonsense about 'healing frequencies', the rest seems to be middle-class advice about taking time, becoming an urban beekeeper, visits to the zoo and other time- and money-consuming hobbies that work for first-world educated people. Not a two-job parent in a too-small apartment.
QE is unprecedented. If you look at the absolute yields, we're talking about rates below inflation (1.8%). It's an inversion but the magnitude is so low it's hard to compare it to past inversions.
Equity valuations are pretty much in line with earnings with the S&P 500 index as a whole trading around 20x earnings. Considering how low the risk free rate is (US treasuries), that's not a booming valuation and is probably undervalued if interest rates stay this low considering most of these companies return at least 10% on tangible equity.
Unemployment is low right now, but so are wages and so is inflation so it's not like we're booming there either.
I wasn't speculating on the content of the article so much as just speaking to what it's actually about when many commenters were focusing on the fact that 4chan was in the headline.

I generally had otherwise considered correctional facilities to be rather mum—but it's a little different here in Canada.
There are plenty of retailers that go out of their way to fight against the race to the bottom, charging a bit more and taking a bit more care to ensure they only stock good stuff. Amazon even owns one such store, Whole Foods.

If other people would prefer to buy dirt-cheap jerky from whoever can offer the lowest price this week, I don't see why it's bad to have stores catering to them too.
People don't buy home internet to max out their connection 100% of the time. It does not make sense for the capacity to be designed for 100% load from 100% of the customers 100% of the time, otherwise you'd price out most of your subscribers. Ergo, you're never going to get it unless you pay some pretty high rates. Even many datacenter connections are billed on some bandwidth percentile billing and not always max link speed as often connections are fairly bursty.
The JOBS act seems to get them out of some of that disclosure. On page 126: The JOBS act entitles them to "reduced disclosure about executive compensation arrangements and no requirement to include a compensation discussion and analysis"
They are effectively a staffing agency focused on technical positions and security clearances. They staff roles almost entirely for the government on an as needed basis when there isn't enough experienced engineers/physicists/software developers for a particular project.

Consequently, the systems they build are whatever is a government priority at the time. Right now, the 3 letter agencies are spending big on "Cyber" so Mitre is building a lot of cyber related systems. https://attack.mitre.org/ is one of their interesting recent projects that is public facing.

Mitre does seem to treat their own employees very well. I've had mixed results working with them, but not really any worse than any other government staffing company.
Mocklets v2.0
Mocklets is a HTTP-based API simulator, which helps simulate APIs for faster parallel development and more comprehensive testing.

https://mocklets.com

Mocklets enables you to stay productive when an API you depend on doesn't exist or isn't complete. It supports testing of edge cases and failure modes that the real API won't reliably produce.
One data point: I have to shop there sometimes and it is the opposite of well-liked. It's a last resort. The employees are miserable, the shelves are disorganized (trash, items in wrong places, just a mess), and the customers are impatient and angry. They do have self-checkout at least now which helps a bit with my biggest complaint (the checkout lines taking forever), but definitely not a place I'd call "well liked". My above criticisms apply uniformly to the 3 Walmarts in my area.
"Automattic is still a startup — I’m sure there are deep-pocketed private equity firms that could have outbid us, but the most likely outcome then would have been an “asset” getting chopped up and sold for parts. [...] Instead, Tumblr has a new chance to redefine itself in 2019 and beyond."

I think Matt is right to point out the real story here. Automattic is simply the right home for Tumblr. Perhaps similarly to how SmugMug is the right home for Flickr.

Automattic is a company with a commitment to the open web and to effortless digital publishing. That was Tumblr's original vision, too, before it got lost in in the Yahoo/Oath/Verizon behemoth.

Automattic is a company with a long-term vision for what the open web means and how to monetize it so that valuable services can simplify lives for site operators, at scale. Just think of how many blogs and sites (and businesses) Automattic has enabled via WordPress.com, WooCommerce, etc. They can apply that same know-how to Tumblr's community, no matter how neglected it might have been in the Verizon era.

Verizon probably had no clue what to do with Tumblr as an asset, and I am sure they considered doing an orderly wind-down to focus on their core. This was a much classier alternative.

As Matt mentioned, Verizon does $130B in annual revenue. Tumblr was probably a strange distraction for them and had no chance of moving their KPIs as a business.

Automattic's acquisition of it was probably the best possible outcome, for Tumblr's technical & management team, for Tumblr's community, and, most importantly, for its future potential impact on site operators and independent web publishers everywhere.
Now do this experiment with reinvesting dividends instead of just looking at the chart.
It's uncannily similar to an old Monty Python sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
WeWork has $33.9 Billion in Non-canceable lease commitments, and it's lease payments are increasing 100% YoY. I think that is the true ticking time bomb for this company. In a world where billion dollar losses (Uber) seems somewhat normal, those lease obligations are still outrageous, and those payments will come due eventually, whether they have the money or not. In 2019 they attributed over $800 Million to operating lease costs. Every year, based on static growth that will double, and my bet is that it may even more than double in some cases. This isn't so much a company as it is a race to light cash on fire and run away.
> carbon emissions free

Are they not using concrete in all the buildings they're building around the world?
If there are bubbles, there will be corrections. And the more "bubbly" the economy, the more often there will be corrections. It's hard to quote other, wildly different economies as examples of why market corrections are not inevitable, but Australia, Japan, and Netherlands are not the same economies as the US.

>Recessions aren't some magical part of economies that are required to happen every so often

Correct, but they do seem to be some magical part of America's economy that is required to happen as often as bubbles happen. They're not regular and you can't set your watch to them, but as sure as there is expansion, there will be contraction. And the bigger the expansion, the bigger the contraction.
The problem is that underprovisioning uses some statistical average that will fail on special situations. Content streaming is so common now that there are peak hours where almost everyone is streaming video. If ISPs need to have that use case in mind, it should be possible for them to sustain that demand 24/7. If they don't do that, it's for one of two reasons. Either they can't sustain peak demand and they are trying to disincentivize usage, or they can handle a heavy demand but want to charge extra for off-peak bandwitdh usage, thus earning money for an already amortized infrastructure.
This is actually a beautiful commentary... kudos to Matt for writing this.
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I worked at Mitre for 5 years in the 1990s in their DC area campus. Some of their core business has changed since then, but not what makes them special.

Mitre serves two primary roles. First, they're a technical advocate for various US military and intelligence agencies, representing their interests at conferences and in committees and helping them shape policy and practices in that advisory role. As such, Mitre is granted levels of trust and access to agency materiel that no contractor has. As such, Mitre is not supposed to take work that might compete directly with the financial interests of contractors and thus must engage only in activities that are non-competitive: advising or coordinating, rather than building systems.

The second role Mitre plays is as a FFRDC (Federally Funded R&D Center), a long term R&D facility dedicated to one government agency, directly serving their interests (as Jet Propulsion Labs serves NASA). In Mitre's case, the clients are the FAA, Homeland Security and cybersecurity, or the US military's (C3I) Command Control Communications and Intelligence interests (mostly run by the army).

An FFRDC maintains staff with various specialized technical subject matter skills that serve the needs and plans of the agency, who often act on behalf of the agency with the internal access and authority equal to that of a government employee. But this close relationship with the government often extends to the non-FFRDC parts of Mitre too.

https://www.mitre.org/centers/we-operate-ffrdcs

Advancement at Mitre is unlike the typical contractor, where you manage increasingly large parts of contracts. Mitre benefits most when you establish an ever closer relationship with the government agency and people therein. The higher the governmant authority you report to, the more valuable you become within Mitre.

Publishing papers and reports to and on behalf of your agency makes you (and your team) more visible and useful to that customer, increasing the agency's desire to engage more Mitre services and rely on them for more uses. Mitre tech staff (usu software developers) often build and show lots of demos before agency managers (and generals) that prototype capabilities they want to explore and advance.
10y/2y inverted also in 1998, but recession only came in 2001. so 3years later.... it can be long time until recession ;)
note that the 10y/3m already inverted though. its more reliable....
It’s valuable because you can compare what the media reports to what was posted on 4chan and look for discrepancies. It may also keep the media reporting more honest as they know the story broke on 4chan and deviations will be noticed.

Twitter is an ultra short form platform that has already demonstrated political censorship. It also requires account verification through email and sometimes phone number. I don’t think it compares to 4chan for something like this.
I have a relative who has a farm that sells products wholesale to a large supermarket chain (not Walmart). One of the supermarket's tactics: place huge orders from you so that you have to ramp up production and invest in new equipment, labor, livestock, etc, and then, once you're ramped up, they stop ordering as much so that your supply is significantly higher than demand and they can dictate very favorable pricing for themselves.
Ah, axion searches! Who said you can't get paid for staring at a wall?

How come you didn't go with Julia? (or Fortran for that matter?)
In my opinion, this is why workplaces should be neutral and no personal ideologies or beliefs shouldn't be allowed to be expressed to keep it that way.
Total Eclipse, Infinity Project ... I think this was the first goatrance cd I bought mid 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KccBLlyOmE

And then all the Distance to Goa compilations.

And let's not forget this stomper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrNMGvd9bY
It is a myth that the market can’t be beaten.

You can beat the market if you take more risk and it works out for you.

I’m beating the market right now, I’m up 33% this year still in my portfolio even with all the bullshit that’s happened. And recently, I’ve dumped all the extra margin I was holding so now I’m holding 100% equity in my stocks and paying no interest.

Beating this market since 2010. That’s why my net worth is well above a million with little to no effort.

I took a risk yes, but it’s not greater than the risk of building a startup and trying to make it successful which people seem to have no problem doing around here.
>A game can easily get up to 50 GB these days

Final Fantasy XV is the biggest I've seen, 100GB recommended on Steam. No doubt there's even bigger.
I have no issue with this. Unfortunately people have failed to recognize that pricing methods used by ISPs aren't related to the cost of providing some amount of data, but provided to cover their entire business + profit, divided out amongst the customer base.

The only thing data caps do is ensure that heavy users pay more. The alternative to them, is that Comcast would just raise all customers' bills even more.

In an ideal situation, we'd have pure metered data usage, and pay by the MB, similar to how we pay for electricity or natural gas usage. Then people who barely use it would pay drastically less, and yes, the heaviest users would pay even more.
Pescatarian, but very little dairy or fish, really. I live by the sea and can buy fresh on the piers or I'd probably skip it.

More detailed fruit and bread for breakfast, salads or soups for lunch, and a highly variable dinner. Usually healthy but I like to buy what I feel like that day and make it, rather than plan the whole day out.
If you don't want discontinuities at the seams between tiles, you need communication between nodes processing different tiles.
Agree. I would argue context makes all the difference in real intelligence and we can never define context because it's multi level, slightly different for everyone and constantly changing.

On top of all that forcing a certain context across the board can have countless unintended consequences.
It probably does: https://www.space.com/24073-how-big-is-the-universe.html
IIRC, the 3DS puts itself into a DS hardware mode when playing those games. It even has a GBA hardware mode, although Nintendo only used this for the "Ambassador" games they gave to early adopters of the console.