skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is happening, right now, is literally what happened in the Great Depression (with the concurrent reemergence of nationalism) and is what led to two back-to-back world wars

Note: I understand that "yield curve inversion" does not mean "recession, depression, war" is inevitable or likely - only that these things are indicators at best. That said and understood...

Either our society is the dumbest there is (in aggregate - but possibly in general, too - with small pockets of intelligence, just not enough - and they are under constant attack) - or "someone" (not saying an individual or a group - or even planned for that matter) is wanting us to "go to war" - which if the past is any example, could very well be - or turn into - "the final war" (hah - who am I kidding - any survivors would probably battle each other with sticks and stones).

It's like were either really, really stupid in some regard - or there is this almost innate need by some portion of the species (or at least our American society) that desires and needs mass death and tragedy on a worldwide scale. If either is true, it points to a vast failing of our own making.

The sad thing? I can see it, others see it or have seen it; heck, those who were leaders and/or have been in "large-scale combat" have seen it up close and personal and don't want it.

This isn't a new observation at all; it is thousands of years old: "War is Hell" is a recent colloquial form of the message, and nobody (sane?) wants it.

So why, why, why do we keep doing it? Seriously - why?

I'm not expecting an answer; the possibilities and such are vast, likely rooted in various philosophical reasonings, etc - but seriously - all we have to do is...stop. Stop doing it. Stop being...dumb.

Education, even from an early age, does not seem to work - or at least, it doesn't seem to work on everyone. Many internalize the message, the idea, that "violence is bad" - and try their very best to avoid it. The "reptilian brain" keeps trying to reassert itself - but with some minor effort, we can avoid the issue mostly.

I'm not sure what its going to take for it to really stop. The Star Trek universe was built on the idea that humans had to first go through a massively devastating war before they would finally stop. Nice idea, but I think even that wouldn't be enough. We seem to be a species that constantly performs a "tragedy of the commons" experiment - and ultimately this need for "war" won't be won until only 0 to 1 humans are left. Even with only a single human around, I'm sure it would find a way to war...
Only various C pitches, and only the fundamental. I believe that this is also how most Shepard tones are made, except that when you play a different Shepard tone you vary the note (i.e. A, B, C, etc.) but keep the average pitch the same, whereas I want the opposite, where you keep the note the same but vary the average pitch.
Neil degrades Tyson talked about this on the Joe Rogan show. Jet engines became more efficient and were mandated to be quieter. I'm not sure about altitude because I live near a major airport. Always have lived near airports. The general noise is flat out less.
Architecting a Roles and Permissions System Using Rails, GraphQL and React
If they required/subsidized better insulation, they could pre-cool the buildings to a bit lower than optimal temperature and have a huge thermal reserve. But it's Texas, so...
What "three primary functions" are you referring to?
>Not sure how it's relevant here.

It is relevant if you are trying to dismiss the message by painting the messenger as untrustworthy.
WRT making billions of dollars, clearly he didn't. WRT getting elected, he got 3mil fewer votes than his opponent, so you can thank the dysfunction of the EC. WRT to the votes he did get, it's pretty obvious- people dumber than he is, who are apparently blind to seeing his completely obvious con artist act and voting for him, that's how. By completely obvious I mean, the-sky-is-blue, 1+1=2 obvious.

That's how obvious it is that he's a bullshitter and a useful idiot for a lot of shitty people, and has no idea how anything works, and basically has the intellect and integrity of a first grader. Downvote me all you want everyone, but that's the truth. Every downvote I will take with great, great pride. If you voted for him, you're even dumber (or more selfish, if you think of him as your own useful idiot) than he is.

I have had a lifelong problem with constantly doubting my own perceptions about things, and always thinking that I can never be 100% certain about anything, and being hypervigilant about my own potential sources of bias and irrationality and unreliable information, but multiple years into this thing I have no choice but to admit that everything I wrote above is just plain true. It's not rocket science, it's not brain surgery, it's not even grade school arithmetic. It's OBVIOUS, and if someone doesn't see it after all these years they either don't pay attention or are as bad or worse than he is. Or they're literally children who are just that sheltered and naive about other people and the world and how it works.
> If there is a backdoor, it is almost guaranteed China, Russia or any other country will eventually break it and potentially use it for blackmail to get their hands on corporate or national secrets.

Hell yes. Solidarity.
Your point would work better if you said "eat healthily" rather than "lose weight". Because just dropping sugared soda from an already-unhealthy diet is a fantastic weight loss method. :D
PNG is a very similar format to IFF, though for some reason, despite have essentially the same needs and despite the PNG working group being aware of IFF, they chose to be incompatible with IFF.

Nerdier trivia: Erlang's BEAM VM emits compiled bytecode files in an IFF format. (Which is a strange choice, honestly, since they could have easily chosen to use a purpose-made executable-binary container format like ELF, which would have made .beam files more amenable to analysis using standard compiler toolchain tools.)
Translation: WE slurp money - for granted.
That work is awesome, but don't they need changes over time in order to achieve the magnification? How would you get changes over time with the plastic pollution in order to view it this way?
> Why are people assuming racism? There isn't actually any evidence for that in this case, is there?

As you may have noticed, the trouble with the word racism is that nobody feels they are racist. Nobody feels like they are consciously participating in the behaviors described in books/movies from a prior time as being part of intolerable indiscretions. All while the threshold for getting statistics for an individual event is impossible, yet the demands for sensitivity and societal change are numerous, imperceptible, seemingly random and difficult to understand if they are valid until broader consensus is reached.

Martin Luther King didn't have a statistics or spreadsheets or studies either, but we still accept the shared experiences he brought to the national spotlight as "racism". The things experienced then in Alabama were normalized "what? you think I hate black people? I've never consciously put a single negative thought in my head" behaviors as well. Behaviors that were often economically rationalized, as much as a yellow taxi driver in NYC today not wanting to drive to Brooklyn and assuming black customers in Manhattan want that and decides not to stop. There is a shared worse experience amongst people with similar phenotypes that runs parallel to the user experience people expect and commend.

Here, the disparity of the interactions people experience and expect with police merely continue to confirm what people already believed.

It is accurate that there may be more consistent socioeconomic drivers to this experience, than merely race-based ones, or socioeconomic drivers which correlated to race-based experiences.

But when people highlight "racism", they want a consistent experience in line with their trust in the fabric of society. They want to not experience total derailment and marginalization of their life in a random pitfall that their whole family has experienced in one way or another. Its not "assuming racism", it is just recognizing that this is the colloquialism for understanding how institutions will marginalize people. Does it accurately reflect the experience that many white people are also subjected to when they can't/don't procure good legal representation? Probably not. Fixing accountability problems with the state will help them too.
Using the trivial BTc encoding, you could archive a good compression ratio and generate audio without using a DAC .
https://www.romanblack.com/picsound.htm
Adam is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. Those who invest will inherit all this, and Adam will be their God and they will be his children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the shorts -- they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death.
Where are you getting those wholesale prices from? Do you mean the price you can buy an unbranded generic version? Because that's not wholesale, you can't buy it and sell against a listing that's branded.

In general the products that sell well will have a very competitive wholesale market and you'll be lucky to squeeze out 20% margin. It's certainly possible to get large margins in closeouts if you buy items that aren't popular, but it's difficult to scale that. And that's arguably liquidation anyway.
Cataclysmic collision could explain Jupiter’s fuzzy core
It's not. Since home prices are linked to interest rates (prices go up/down depending on interest rate movements), all that's going to happen is that home prices will go even higher. In the end your monthly payments is going to be the same.
Planet global imagery is 4 band sampled at ~4m (oversampled to 3.0m). Skysats (Planet's high-res satellites) are 0.8m, but image only small areas. (Numbers are based on https://assets.planet.com/docs/combined-imagery-product-spec...)

Nothing is global at high resolution for anyone. Google's imagery is only high res at locations people are likely to look at.

High resolution satellites have a very narrow field of view. You can't image a large area with them. Ditto for aerial. There simply isn't 1m or better imagery globally, let alone 100cm.
Apples, tea and moderation – the 3 ingredients for a long life
The photos don't show a scale. What magnification microscope should I get to look at the rain droplets falling where I live so that I can see how much plastic there is?
>> An awful fact of life in pseudo-capitalist America: if a corporate entity can charge you more, they will

It's a bit myopic to say this only about America.
If your enemy is incompetent and he eludes you are every turn, what does that make you?
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This is really just shorthand for saying "our employees don't hate working at our company as much as the typical large company because we try to limit bureaucracy and politicking and we value / recognize good ideas and actual execution"
This is just my opinion, but I think it will be one of the most shorted stock this year and next year.
Serious question: how do these work, and can you actually make money off. or can you only limit cash losses with them?
Regardless of the man himself, historically the "deep state" (for lack of a better phrase) has so much inertia that radical changes (even if desired) by the White House end up moderated.

I think it's more correct to say that people are realizing that the old order under the president is gradually eroding and its moderating effects are weakening, which adds compounding risks (directly in the trade war stuff but also hidden ones that may be lurking as that erratic behavior starts more directly impacting all aspects of US policy).
That describes making some "bad" values illegal, where I believe the problem here was that they didn't expect the value.
Not only possible but fast too. I was amazed how fast South Africa went from 4mbps adsl to fibre with gigabit available. Not throughout of course but still...was surprised how fast things move if there is a sense of competition.
One option is the http://www.fbpurity.com/ browser extension.

If a friend likes or shares a Page, try this: "On your Newsfeed, below the "(friend) liked this" line, hover over the page area's dropdown box and click "Hide all from (source)"

"If its not a direct status update or share from a friend, but the result of a friend posting a comment directly to the page itself, then you can block it from your news feed. Hover over the name of the Page when it appears in your Newsfeed (it will be in bold type). A down arrow will appear. Click on it and select "Hide". You will then be given the option to hide all comments made on that Page."
Probably means the 3 irreducable primitives in LC: applications, abstractions, and "variables" (ie. attribute identifiers)
Navarro said it best [0]:

Stop stealing our intellectual property

Stop forcing technology transfers

Stop hacking our computers and steal our trade secrets

Stop dumping into our markets and putting our companies out of business

Stop their state-owned enterprises from heavy subsidies

Stop the fentanyl

Stop the currency manipulation

[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/trumps-china-tariffs-not...
”The interest rates go below 0 because investors don't trust banks with their money.”

If investors didn’t trust banks, they would demand high interest rates when borrowing banks their money, just as they demand higher interest from those who want to make smaller down-payments on houses, or on credit card debts.

Looking at https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/european-government-bo..., many European countries (even Spain and, short-term, Italy) can borrow money from the market at negative interest rates.

That must mean those borrowing them money must be confident they will get that money back (not that surprising, given that the ECB keeps printing money)
I love the idea! please add support to vue.js too. Thanks.
They say they don't ring a bell at the top. But maybe there's a server that goes down...
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Op. 3 No. 2) by the same guys is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCtixpIWBto
Advances in NLP to better connect people
Amazon fees using FBA typically run around 30% depending on average price. More if you do private label and have to pay advertising.

Talking about gross profit without including fees is effectively meaningless.

My rule of thumb for a successful wholesale business is 50% cogs, 30% Amazon fees, 20% margin. There are companies that do a lot worse, and I'm sure some that do better but it's extremely difficult to beat 30% margins at any kind of scale without doing liquidation, getting some lucrative exclusives, or otherwise find a very uncompetitive niche.

Source: have done several million in sales across hundreds of thousands of units on Amazon in the last few years.
> It seems like if you already have high yield bonds, the value will continue to rise, as people exhaust other low yield options... however isn't this total value capped by the yield+face value? I don't really know how bond pricing works, but if you bottom out the yeild, or anticipated yeild... you should only be able to make the face value back or someone is buying negative yields.

1. Bond prices are primarily determined by auction.

2. If a big bank (and the US Fed is one of the biggest banks) decides to make a move, smaller banks, and the general market, will shift the prices of bonds.

> EDIT: I _guess_ the bond reaches "maturity" in a much shorter time, which is perhaps your point. "1.68%" over 10 years is shit compared to "1.68%" over 1 year.

No. Its 1.68% per year over 10 years. Bond pricing is standardized upon APY (its a "notational standard": bonds all have their own terms. But you can always math-out an effective APY given any bond structure). US Treasury Bonds physically have a coupon (every year, or maybe twice a year, they give a $$ amount), and a principle (at the end of the term, you get $$ back).

Anything less than 1-year only has principle (and is commonly called a "Bill"). So you get different APYs by shifting the price of the bill. Ex: You may buy a $1000 (principle) 1-year Bill for $980, effectively earning 2.04% APY in this hypothetical example.

In any case: the reason why a 1.68% 1-year is better than a 1.68% 10-year is because you only lock up the money for 1-year (in the case of the 1-year bond). So normally, a short-term bond gives a lower APY.
Access to more crowds though. Imagine someone crashing into an Oktoberfest tent
As a person who isn't in any way confident in my ability to time the market, I think I'll stick to the old adage of time in the market not timing the market.
Okay, then... am I crazy for noticing jet engines on airliners are significantly larger these days compared to 20 years ago? You did say larger fans. I always thought I was crazy when I noticed planes were quieter until Neil degrades Tyson mentioned it.
With Medium you don't really have your own site / brand though. You can't use your own domain [1], your users get a paywall pop up when they read your content and the discovery feature that convinced a lot of people at the beginning because they got so much traffic is also not so useful any more.

[1] https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003053487-Custo...
$1.50 is even a pretty high estimate. I've bought very similar dice sets from china for less than $0.50, and they have to ship them to me with that!
I feel the opposite. The boilerplate S-1 stuff can be very mis-leading and unhelpful when trying to figure out how the business is and can work.
In addition to what others said, this belongs at the top of HN because one of HN's primary missions is to be the social media platform of the California VC community. The IPO is the final crowning achievement of everything that YCombinator stands for as a start-up accelerator, so the S-1 is the first very important pulling back of the curtain of exactly what the incubator-driven, VC-fueled startup ecosystem has wrought.

And in this case, the emperor appears to have no clothes. Good luck everyone. See ya in the breadlines!
But surely you agree that as soon as anyone realized that slavery is wrong, their duty is to shut it down immediately?

Capitalism did not do that.
The important question, which according to the article the union won't disclose, is how many people are included in "they". Is this something that Youtubers in general are rallying behind, or is IG Metall just trying to bully Youtube and advance its own interests?
Part of the reason is Paul Graham's essay about his experience using Lisp at a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Nigeria's logistics startup, Kobo360 raises another $30M
I would rather liken this to running a soap making company, but the governmental society where you do your soap making keeps changing what ingredients are legal on an arbitrary basis, causing you to need to recreate your product constantly, much to the chagrin of your customers. It makes much more sense for you and your fellow bath products producers to bind together and have a sit down with the government on everyone's behalf.
in a recession, is short term, flexible office space more or less desirable?
Once again a click-bait headline that misses why these companies domination continues to grow.

First - a link to actual FAQ:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FulfillmentByAmazon/comments/cl7jll...

Second:

This is an OPT-IN offer to sellers who want it.

Third:

Amazon will be seller of record. That means Amazon will handle all sales tax issues. That alone is a big win.

Amazon is handling all return costs (huh?). So in short run until that changes another win.

Amazon probably thinks they can do a better job pricing products than sellers, increasing the cut for both parties potentially. I'll let reader decide if amazon has any skills in pricing.

This continues a trend towards automation that amazon has adopted when they think computers can do (on average) a better job than people.

If this is a stupid idea, ebay won't copy it. If it isn't a stupid idea - look for SBE (sold by Ebay) in the future :)
Do they have to be boot style? My favorite steel toes were slip-on shoes. Way more comfortable.

Timberland has several safety shoe models with canvas or synthetic uppers.
I did start that quote with "isn't always" meaning there are certain situations in which I agree with you. However, I think intent has to play a factor when judging comedy like this. It is not just intent to insult that is inappropriate, but knowledge that your comedy would insult and doing it anyway even if that isn't the primary intent. I think a lot of people were just ignorant of the repercussions of their jokes. That doesn't make those jokes acceptable today, but I have a hard time judging them retroactively like that. If we judge everyone by that standard, basically anyone born before 1995 is an awful person in one way or another.
We have 7 people in the house and I can breakdown the usage like this:
Mac sync between 5 machines (this was surprising to me)
Instagram/social(I thought YouTube would be 2nd place)
YouTube
Netflix
A calculus is a system for calculation, so traditionally a specific system for calculation is named as the X calculus: the integral calculus, the pi calculus, the lambda calculus, the situation calculus, etc.

As a loose analogy, think of how specific instances of the general idea of systems are named: the court system, the cooling system, the moderation system, etc. Some uses are a bit archaic though, e.g. people now usually refer to integral calculus as a standalone name, without the definite article. I think we're somewhere in between with (the) lambda calculus; you can find papers that use "the" and others that don't.
No, Mitre is not an FFRDC. Mitre is the administrator of a number (about 6 or 7) of FFRDCs which are run as an identifiable separate operating unit of a parent organization pursuant section 35 of the FAR.

Further more, Mitre has several positions posted right now that have nothing to do with FFRDCs and are in fact, just providing personnel for government projects. Splitting hairs on the terminology is a great game to play on the internet, but what would the average person call a company that produces no products and provides administrative, research, and engineering personnel on a basis of awarded contracts? The fact that Mitre employees seem to continually conflate their work as engineering contractors and their roles as FFDR administrators is a large part of my "mixed" experience in working with them.

And frankly; by your definition Honeywell would be an FFRDC which I don't think anyone would argue.
i'm not a huge fan of the way twitter presents threads and conversations, but the few times i've tried to follow a conversation on tumblr i've only found it to be even worse than twitter. i'm not sure tumblr is the saviour we're looking for here.
Thank you, 4ntonius8lock for your insight. Yes, I have social phobia or social anxiety disorder and had been thinking from the start to make something specifically for this group of people but decided then to do this social network for every one with mental issues. I know that start small is the way and I'll give it a proper thought too. But I think this site can be for any group of mentally troubled people too why not? Thanks again!
But it's not foundational to America's success. That's just propoganda for people who want to diminish and belittle America.

America grew to its present power due to its industry not because of southern plantations.
Probably for the same reason that some people refer to regular calculus as "the calculus".