skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks insightful comment. Increasing inflation will help pay of the loan as it will get lower through inflation.

I personally think central banks have not understood that lower interest rates decreases inflation rate. Ie normally and historically central bank would try to increase inflation by lowering interest rate and thus how many have jobs. But jobs are now done automatically by software robots and that get cheaper by lower interest rate to invest in. But central banks thinks lower interest rate will increase inflation.
> 2. Chinese does not feature conjugation or much punctuation, and often leaves out verbs completely. [...] English (or most Indo-European languages) rarely drop the verb, and if the translator puts it there, they have to choose a specific conjugated form (ie person, number, tense, voice, mood...), thus necessarily interpreting.

While Chinese has its unique set of quirks, having a wide range of possible translations is just as much about the target language. Translating English into a language with gendered nouns, case markers, pronouns of varying formality, and/or a more liberal word order, also requires the translator to choose which possible nuance was intended by the original. For example, "I'm sure you're very busy." can apparently be expressed by any of 95 different Italian sentences: https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2046775 Not all of those distinctions are necessarily relevant, but in the end a sentence in any language is a fuzzy bundle of possible meanings, with no particular reason to expect that bundle to align perfectly with any other language.
It’s better for the user to assume they’re totally pwned and should act like they’re in the open, than for them for assume the bad encryption works.
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You could possibly spot container ships at one instance in a day (the constellation only goes over any point twice a day, ~10.30 AM (local) and 12 hours later (no sunlight)). To what end? You are roughly tripling your power, data storage, and downlink costs, with a loss on your power production (and orbit control, because the Doves use differential drag for phasing) for a poor product that doesn't really have customers.

If you want to track ships that want to be seen, basically everybody has AIS receivers up there (although I understand that's not trivial to sort out from space). If you want to track ships that aren't broadcasting, use radar.
As someone who has been out of BTC for years because I have no faith in it anymore and recognize it as the foreign controlled money laundering machine it is, its still probably going to skyrocket in this recession. I've been wrong every time before when I expected markets to grow wise to the pyramid scheme and centralized nature of bitcoin and how it doesn't function at all according to its creators vision and how it doesn't function at all as a currency whatsoever but the prospect of short term profits simply overrides all rationality in that fledgling market it seems.

Its basically digital gold where the value is expecting other people in the future to really want it by thinking its valuable, and a global recession is exactly the time when something like that becomes more valuable.
Okay cool I will!
If you look up "how much I make on youtube" videos you can see creator's dashboards to give you some evidence. The answer is that it varies vastly depending on audience, county, topic and advertiser's
interest.

"$0.25 to $4" $ per thousand views -- https://techwiser.com/how-much-can-you-make-from-youtube/
I know almost no professionals who shoot on manual mode outside of studio settings. The computer is almost always better at guessing things like light and temperature. The only time manual mode is used is when you're in a studio where light, movement, etc are controlled.

Instead, shoot on aperture mode. Adjust to your desired depth of field according to the ambient light. Use ISO setting to adjust further for light. Finally, when you see the camera is under/over exposing, use the built in exposure compensation slider to adjust for lighter or darker pictures. Pay attention to and trust your exposure histogram.

Now you can very quickly (I can't stress how important quickness is) adjust for the perfect picture. And when the action changes, you'll know quickly which of the three knobs you need to turn.

Leave manual mode for the studio.
> But, if everyone is streaming at the same time, if there was going to be an issue, it would happen if caps existed or not because at some point during the month you're going to have nearly all your customers with data to use.

It's a giant bucket of 'it depends'. If the CDN network serving the content has placed hardware within the ISPs network, it's likely a non-issue. This was a major issue before folks like Netflix started moving their CDNs closer to the customer. You might have a hard time finding the articles, but I recommend looking at the pissing match Level 3 and Verizon got into years back.

>it would happen if caps existed or not

I'm not convinced. You are essentially arguing that scarcity of a resource has no affect on consumption.
I learned a ton from the linear algebra section of the Stanford Machine Learning course on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
> In the first quarter of this year, about 4% of internet subscribers consumed at least 1 terabyte of data

How? I have a 4K TV (and a couple of 1080), I work from home, my wife streams all day, and my torrents are always seeding, and have a gigabit line (with unlimited data).

I only average about 500GB a month, and my peak was 772GB.

I guess the only thing I don't do on a regular basis is play games.

Don't get me wrong, the caps are just rent seeking and also totally unfair (how come watching Comcast on Demand doesn't count against the cap but Netflix does, even though both come from servers on Comcast's network?), but it blows my mind that people can actually hit that 1TB cap.

Hats off to y'all.
Are you hedging with REIT options? Or home builders?

Are you able to hedge specific city risk?
One thing not mentioned in the current set of responses is the REPL style and interactive coding style that you can have with a LISP that is different than what a traditional compiled language gives you in the edit-compile-run-edit loop or a dynamic language gives you in the edit-run-edit loop. When you are using a REPL you can poke and push at any part of the system like a debugger but the system is still alive. Without that interactive nature sometimes you end up doing print/debugger work to understand some quirk of a datastructure but in a LISP/REPL it's plainly visible and you don't have to think about it.

If it's integrated with an editor you can load functions or different versions of the function and see how each work with live data, you can slurp new data in, and all sorts of flexible dynamic things that let you find the program you want (which always helps when using third-party or unfamiliar code). This is more a feature of all kinds of REPL languages and not wholly specific to LISPs.

One of the basis of a LISP/Scheme language is that it is constructed of very few basic primitives that are assembled into a greater system and that greater system is part of your program instead of being things you don't touch (like libc), and you are (generally) welcome to touch them, alias them, or manipulate them to help your goal and program. This allows things like being able to temporarily hook a function call to add some debug information and then unhook a function call via a REPL and carry on. I find that pointing to people to r5rs https://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/ and focusing on sections 4, 5, and 6 help show off how little is required to describe the basics of the language.
I highly recommend getting to know the work of Randall Carlson on the subject.

Joe Rogan had him on podcast [1] few times.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ
Even if he is a lot poorer than he claims, he is still rich compared to what we normally consider rich vs poor. I'm not sure why we would suddenly change the baseline in this particular case.

If you want to claim he isn't as rich as he claims, then then I'm not disputing that at all (I haven't a clue), but to claim he isn't rich does not align with existing evidence without fiddling with how we define rich and poor in ways we don't otherwise fiddle with such definitions.
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SAG-AFTRA has weighed in on this issue, both to the press[1] and on their website[2].

From their site:

> Do you create your own content on YouTube or other social media platforms?

> If a brand reaches out to promote their product (paid or product trade) on your platform, that is a commercial and SAG-AFTRA can have your back.

> SAG-AFTRA covers advertisements on all platforms. Get fair compensation, access to health insurance and a team of experts making sure you are PAID!

[1] https://www.tubefilter.com/2018/08/15/sag-aftra-content-crea...

[2] https://www.sagaftra.org/get-involved/ads-go-union/creators-...
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These days people don't even wan to box it up. They contact the manufacturer and ask them to ship the item direct to Amazon, on their behalf. And they complain when they don't get a big enough discount…

But it gets even worse. They will send you a spreadsheet and ask you to fill it out… with all the information Amazon needs so that it's easier for them to upload into Seller Central.

And in the event of damage or customer service? They tell the customer to reach out to the manufacturer.

90% of Amazon sellers are just leeches. You can pretty easily make money doing it though. A lot of manufacturers still aren't savvy to the game. I had a company that literally had "Arbitrage" in their name reach out to me the other day.
The only thing less rational than the markets are voters.
Fundamentally I think the problem is that these platforms are not neutral, when YouTube's algorithm hoists your video to the front page they are "manipulating" the system.

Sure, and when someone puts weights on both sides of a scale, operating it correctly, they are still "manipulating" the scale. That's not what people get mad about. It's when someone puts their thumb on the scale, because they want it to read a certain way, that people get mad.

It should be fine if the YouTube algorithm finds things which go viral, then promotes them, so long as that's neutral. It's even fine when things which are clearly abuses of the system or people are squashed, so long as that's neutral. It's not fine when it gets to the level of pushing or squashing a political agenda, however. It's not going to be easy to draw the line, but in the case of pushing politics, it has clearly gone too far.
I can see that, but those of us interested in the topic have a lot of respect for examine. They tried very hard to make sure their incentivizes align with the readers (by selling subscriptions) when most supplement companies go for the far easier monetization strategy of selling or promoting supplements. They've worked with lots of great scientists and experts on nutrition. The quality of information on the website is high by any standard but especially high for the supplement industry which is filled with a toxic mix of fraud and ignorance.
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I admit I'm really confused as to why this particular comment is being downvoted.
Slightly off topic, but are there any "vegan leathers" that replicate the properties of leather (durability, strength, toughness, breathability, etc.) rather than just the appearance?
The problem is that our culture doesn't really agree on whether it's the responsibility of the speaker to avoid offense or the listener to "suck it up" or whether it varies based on the relative identities of the speaker and listener in a hierarchy of identities. I'm fine with expecting courteous speakers and charitable listeners, but running it through an identity matrix is inherently racist (and/or sexist, and/or etc).
It's accurate. The Federal government in theory answers to the President or at least Congress. But the comment was discussing people in the government who work directly and quietly against government policy, to 'moderate' it. The notion of civil servants found many layers down the hierarchy who have their own agenda and ignore orders from the top is the notion of the deep state.
The forward looking indicators indicate recession, the backwards looking indicators indicate recession, and the general pattern of the yield curve suggests a downturn within ~20 months.

Question is; what's a normal personal investor to do? Knowing that expectations are baked into the price and timing the market is a fools errand, what can normal people do to shield themselves?

I've been 90/10 asset allocation since entering the workforce (2013) and it's been amazing for me. I obviously plan to continue to contribute to my funds but at what point would a rebalance or choosing a different fund be wise? A majority of my fund holdings are in tech, healthcare and banking/finance.
This is backwards.

Your car will accelerate suddenly from the impact either way, so you want to increase the time-frame over which the impact forces of the crash are dissipated. If your car is in neutral, then the crash is less severe because only part of the other car hits you before your car starts gets pushed forward, so more of the energy of the impact gets transmuted to accelerating your car and less energy needs to be absorbed by your car's crumple zones.

If you slam on the brakes, you effectively turn your car into a stationary object, and that means you and the other car must absorb the full energy of the collision. At collision speeds where survivability is a concern, this usually means the crumple zones are inadequate to absorb the energy of the collision and so more of it gets passed on to your body.

Ideally, you would want to accelerate your car as much as possible before the impact to minimize the speed differential. Even a 10mph decrease in the differential has a huge impact on survivability.

[Note: bigger cars can survive crashes better because they have more mass they can act as crumple zones to absorb the force of the crash. Older, more rigid cars would frequently survive with limited damage crashes that killed their occupants, at lower average speeds than today, because the cars transmitted more of the impact forces to the occupants. Modern cars are designed to crumple to dissipate impact forces.]
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Yield curve inversion is the symptom, not the cause.
The problem is that "Deep State" is a loaded term. You could very well argue that the N-word is a historically accurate (and Latin) way to describe African Americans.

Instead of using "Deep State", it might be better to say "Agency Directors", if you wanted to use neutral language. "Deep State" is loaded. Of course, its more popular these days to value-signal which side of an argument you're on, rather than appearing neutral...

In any effect, the people who use the word "Deep State" wish to imply that government workers have their own agendas. In my experience however, government workers overwhelmingly just want to do a good job with the task they've been assigned (much like any other human who are tasked with a job).
Thanks for the data point. It's helpful, but I'd be worried about extrapolating too much from one outsized data point.

For one thing, BLS stats say that computer programming has grown from 528k to 1666k from 1999 - 2018 (the broad category of Computer and Mathematical Operations went from 2620k to 4384k). For another, just looking at the largest company only works if the distribution is similar.

Still, it is relevant that Uber is so big.
Exactly! On Amazon I know I can get (most) anything I buy delivered very quickly and I can return anything without a hassle. eBay, on the other hand, presents an entirely different and multivariable risk model to the consumer.

It's a completely different experience.
Can we extend from this another misconception then? That functional programming stems from the Lambda Calculus? When in reality, it might come from Lisp, which does not come from Lambda Calculus, thus making Lisp the root of the tree for the origin of functional programming?
Thanks for your interest! The ideal timeline is actually 5 years if we want to see the majority of the growth. However, since we won't be making any revenue from the agreement until at the end of the term, 5 years is too long for a startup to go without seeing revenue. So, it's mostly a way where we can see returns sooner, which is more attractive for investors.

On the plus side, our customers can choose to buy us out after 3 years, and see 2 more years of growth after, and they wouldn't have to share that profit with anyone.
Also capacity is only limited due to ISPs not spending BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THE GOVERNMENT has already given them to update our infrastructure. Trash companies
With the amount of raw footage coming from YouTube any given minute, I'm not sure there are many companies beyond Google that could do it.
I don’t think the problem here is that Amazon is doing something unhelpful. Of course, they have more information than anyone and can set prices better.

The issue is that (according to legal theories on anti-trust) market control, no matter how helpful, is anti-competitive in the long run. Even if companies don’t have to set their own prices, they would be crazy not to: over-price and they don’t sell anything; under-price and they leave money on the table.

I know those rules sound like we are punishing success and good service but the idea is that if a company dominates, no one will challenge them. The service won’t improve or innovate, new companies won’t be able to scale to prove their ideas. It has happened repeatedly in the past, for beloved services. Thinking about those things dynamically helps.
Your housing index link seems to say that housing prices increased by 4% per year over the last two years (looking at the differences Jan 2017-Jan 2018-Jan 2019 [edit: clicking "10Y" shows essentially the same trend since 2012]). So unless nothing else in the economy increased in price over this period, I would say that whoever calculated a 1% inflation rate did not weight housing costs adequately.
Did not become popular, or did not become implemented?

My understanding is that lexical scope was first implemented in Algol and Pascal, and then was first implemented with true garbage collection in Scheme. (Thereby leading to the restriction in Algol and Pascal that closures existed, but they could only be passed into functions, and never returned from them. That way the variables being closed over could live on the stack.)

But I'd love to learn that I'm wrong and that these things came before that.
I use to ask people what the right software was for a task. (I still do at times) The answers explained what people liked about the software they used but an objective A vs B was rare and it didn't do justice to the rest of the set.

Out of curiosity I decided to install every IRC client I could find. Connect to a few servers, open a good number of channels and learn to use them one by one while looking at memory and cpu usage.

Like many I have deep thoughts. Mine are as hard to find for their potential audience as the many are for me. We do however pay a lot of attention to people who make a lot of noise.

I had this hypothesis that people would copy other peoples political ideology that are copies from that of others in long chains that, rather than start with a persons deep objective thoughts, are just connected in loops long enough for us not to notice - with a number of thinking nodes insignificant to the result. [lets call them dictator nodes for laughs]

In order to test this rather absurd hypothesis I took the entire list of US presidential candidates and looked at their social media.

This quickly confirmed the loops to exist, fuck, my hypothesis was optimistic compared to reality. I found that close to 100% had facebook pages and youtube channels that didn't enjoy enough traffic to account for friends and close relatives of the person.

Eventually I worked my way up to the green party, they had 250 views on their youtube channel. I wondered about the meaning of it.... what does it mean?

I think it means even journalists didn't bother to look at it. The huge apparatus of international journalism did not bother to look at the top 5 candidates most screamed about while I took a look at a really large number of them.

For democracy to work we ALL need to look at the menu then make up our own mind. In stead what we got is NO ONE looking at the ideas. If 99% of the population had exactly the same opinion about everything and one of us would write it into a political program no one would vote for it.

The point I'm trying to get to is this: We've already build the machine that contains us. Small groups of people who cared about something gathered and implemented their ideas. These things are now bolted down so firmly that unmaking their actions takes such an absurd unrealistic amount of effort that we can at best imagine doing it. We have millions of implementations like that and they are here to stay. It doesn't even need to be stupid. The idea could have been brilliant 200 years ago.

The stupidity in Artificial-stupidity will not be in the AI, the system will continue to "liberate" humans from having to think deeply which will move us further from a position of influence. If it does a bad job it will actually be beneficial to the end result.
I mean, the same people would probably say that trying to imitate a robot in own speech is a sign of not being as intelligent as you think you are.
Google always already had the users. They're on Google's platform and won't move. That's why the YouTubers have to fight Google rather than just move.
Just as the government has been pretending that backdoors are possible without a loss of privacy, the tech community has been pretending that backdoors are indistinguishable from a complete loss of the benefits of encryption.

Don't get me wrong: I'm totally against backdoors, and I do consider them a significant weakening of any encryption.

But it's just disingenuous to insist that, for example, a system with the same sort of requirements as exist for search warrants is entirely equivalent to a system without those. Or that one-out-of-two encryption schemes do not exist. Or that it is totally impossible for an agency to keep a keyfile secure.

As but one example for the last: SSL certificate authorities are already entrusted with keys whose loss has just about the same sort of security implications as breaking messaging encryption might have. And that system is working somewhat decently, including in cases where those keys were breached and certificates had to be revoked.
Please allow me to introduce you to J. Edgar Hoover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Not that he was the first in US history, by a long shot.
It's useful to understand how manual mode works, even if you never use it. The best way to understand it is to try it.
That is cute!

I love the idea of visible RAM.

The Oberon OS & computer has a memory-mapped raster display. Emulator puts some "magic" bytes at the start (or end, I forget) of display RAM and you can see them on the screen before the boot sequence gets to drawing the background.
Here's an excellent video breaking down with extremely compelling data how the "trending" tab is very heavily manipulated in favor of mainstream media sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqBeXJ8Zx8

What's interesting is that extreme bias in the US is not seen in Canada. Though I'm not sure it's stated in the video, I think that Youtube has been propping up MSM sources so that they can make themselves seem more relevant in the eyes of the MSM. They're doing this so that they can partner with the MSM and expand their YoutubeTV service.

They desperately want some sort of service model to make money, and they're willing to destroy the goodwill of the community to achieve it.