skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yield curve inversions could be forecasting either bad stock market performance or low interest rates. If the Fed drops interest rates in a year back down to near-zero rates, nobody is going to be selling a 3 month treasury for 3%. In that case, being in a 10-year treasury for 2% will feel like a pretty good idea. Interest rates put an upper limit on federal bond yields, and it's possible that the yields represent a forecast of a very low upper limit.
Ooh, boy, rant time. I used ROOT all through my PhD, and it is a royal mess.

As a starter, there is a mass of global state. It maintains a "gDirectory", which is the currently active directory, either referring to a location on disk or in memory. Many objects in ROOT will register themselves with the current gDirectory on creation, and will be destructed when the gDirectory closes. This includes objects that were declared on the stack, leading to destructors being called twice.

Since large data requires good performance, you might be wondering how this interacts with multithreading. Not well at all. There are many ROOT internals that assume a single-threaded environment. If you call TThread::Init(), most of those are avoided. However, ROOT has some memory tracking code that gets called on the constructor/destructor of all ROOT objects, and that memory tracking code is entirely thread unsafe. In any program that links against ROOT libraries, the memory tracking would be enabled based on a user's .rootrc configuration file. Tracking down why a program segfaults for some users but not others, and those segfaults happen at any point in the code that interacts with ROOT, was quite irritating.

The histogramming, which is the most used form of plotting in high-energy physics, has a broken class hierarchy. TH2, 2-d histograms as a function of x and y, are implemented as a subclass of TH1, 1-d histograms. As a result, there are all manner of functions appropriate only for TH2, but are able to be called on a TH1. This includes getting a Z axis for something that inherently doesn't have a Z axis.

And it has a web browser, TGHtmlBrowser. I don't know why it has a web browser. It doesn't support https, css, or javascript, so I couldn't see how it performs on any modern website, but it was rather amusing to see it break on the Acid tests.

Many of the issues with the interpreter were fixed with ROOT6, which uses an clang-based interpreter. However, every command executed increases the memory usage of the program. This becomes an issue with automatically updating histograms, because the main way that GUIs can be updated is by issuing a command that is then run through the interpreter.
Warren Buffet made the same bet, S&P 500 vs some hedge funds. From 2007 to 2017 S&P gained 7.1% vs 2.2% for the hedge funds. The hedge funds arguably know more than you.
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I don't want the economy to tank anymore than the next guy but if it blows up before the 2020 elections and kills President Trump's chance of re-election that would be a fantastic silver lining.
I want a no cap connection and I want a fast (200mbps+) connection but I’m also perfectly happy to accept that I can’t have (don’t want to pay the price of) a connection that allows me to use 200mbps 24/7 for a year.

That’s why I’m thinking there should be some kind of tiering where I get unlimited 50 mbps (still ok for round the clock 4K) and also N terabytes at the 200mbps for those occasional big downloads.

My current broadband is 500mbit without data caps, but I suspect that if I do use 500mbit 24/7 for long then they’d start throttling of contacting me. I’d be happier with a model with public caps than one with secret caps and throttling. It could be that I really do have a true 500mbit no-cap subscription, I don’t know!
> That's partly because the market boom is itself a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stock markets go up because other people think they're going up.

I'm really curious how the index funds will behave in the upcoming recession, afaik that was one of their main mantras and selling points, so to speak, i.e. that the market only goes up (or a certain part of the market, the most important part of the market) and that you'd be a fool not riding the wave by investing in said index funds which were in turn investing in that part of the market "assured" to always go up.

In other words, what will people do when they'll see their index funds go down 10 or 20% yoy? Will they take their money out of said index funds? Will they wait for the next uptick?
I agree for a single person streaming 1080p and lower. However, the move to 4K and HDR are causing data consumption rates to rise to the point where 1TB isn't sustainable, especially if you have family sharing the same network and streaming at the same time. Here's how long you it takes to stream 1TB of video with Youtube's various resolutions/bitrates/framerates:

1080p: 370-740 Hours @30fps, 246-494 Hours @60fps
1440p (2K): 171-370 Hours @30fps, 123-247 Hours @60fps
2160p (4K): 65-171 Hours @30fps, 44-111 Hours @60fps

Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702
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Just did, and I do. But I'm not going to start doing it until someone forces me to, because I'm fallible.

Edit: but for what it's worth, I do spend all my free money on trying to create wealth and jobs for people who don't have it.
Not my kind of music but the web app/site is phenomenal 10/10, I really liked the design and smoothness of it.
Patiently awaiting the sparc64 ones for my Tadpole Viper.
The 2/10 relationship is not the curve. The curve comes from the traditional visualization of all the yield/term points at any given time.

A curve is a pretty normal way to visualize a bunch of Cartesian points at once.
I agree with what I think you are stating implicitly that bandwidth caps a blunt instrument. ISPs don't really have a lot of nobs to turn without setting off the network neutrality crowd. I wish there were more QoS nobs that could be turned to allow for lower latency and traffic prioritization as that would probably have some interesting applications.

Most ISPs are constantly upgrading parts of their network. Earlier this spring AT&T came through my complex and installed fiber in every apartment. Average broadband speeds have increased significantly over the last decade, and for that to have happened significant network upgrades would have to have taken place.
We had one close call in the mid 90s, about 1995-1996. I don't think it actually inverted but it was within less than one percentage point away from inverting. Luckily, 1995-1996 was the start of the Dotcom bubble, which gave us a few more years before the recession of 2001 hit.

We could stave off the coming recession if we had another Dotcom-type bubble, but market corrections are inevitable so it would just be a delay.
Stealthy Startup Promises Cheaper Flying via Renewable Hydrogen
Am I the only one that was taught to adjust your resume for the position you are applying for?

I get having a resume that encompasses everything to make bulk applications easier, however would it be best to have the "bulk resume" be the template to which you adjust for the job offer.

If you are applying to be some social media manager for an Instagram influence or something, I could see a flashy resume being a benefit. For anything else give them the information they want and cut out the crud.

In a corporate environment cut through the crap and get to the point without the extra fluff I feel is an invaluable skill. You could even have a traditional resume listing your certs/skills etc with a link to a resume blog you have, on the blog you could put all the flashy imagery/junk for them to look at if they want.

I remember is psychology class our instructor would have us write our names on the back of essays so he could judge them by the content of the essay and not who it was. Obviously he learned the writing styles of the students and towards the end of the class this didn't work anymore, however to eliminate initial bias this was a great lesson.

I feel this should be applied to job applicants where you should base hiring someone off the merits of their skills, not what type of latte they like.

I also get wanting to feel out who the person is and get a grasp on their personality to see if they may fit with a team or not, but that can be determined in the follow up interview/tests not in the initial screenings.
I live in LA which as far as I can tell is pretty densely populated. I have one provider to choose from (Spectrum) at $70 for 100mbps. That's it. Why is there no competition in this area?
> With SBA, Amazon also exerts control over the product’s sale price, by dynamically pricing products to make sure Amazon’s prices are lowest.

> Since only brands in Amazon’s Brand Registry can apply for SBA, the pitch is that SBA will guarantee that the brands themselves won’t be priced out of ownership of Amazon’s buy box by other gray market sellers that focus on undermining retail prices. The buy box all but ensures the product listing on Amazon that will get sold over competitors, and sellers “win” the buy box by offering the lowest price.

> To ward off concerns over margins, Amazon is offering SBA sellers a minimum gross proceed — which guarantees set profit for sellers based on a set selling price, even if Amazon lowers the price — for each product. The catch: Amazon wrote in its FAQ about SBA that MGP would be revisited “typically once every six months,” and that brands would have seven days to accept the new MGP, or reject it and deactivate a product from SBA.

So basically, Amazon always promotes the cheapest products, and they'll automatically lower your product's price to make it cheaper than the knockoffs. You get a guaranteed profit no matter the price, but that can also lower every six months.

This strikes me as a bad deal for sellers.
Do you have a source for "overhead LIDAR flights"? I was under the impression that data was coming almost exclusively from their StreetView cars (with perhaps a few companies that provide helicopter-based data from time to time). True enough though that Google has a staggering amount of data about the earth.
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I recommend the documentary Sand Wars from 2013. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAPfwwb59uY

I believe it's available on Prime.
When a market crashes, we will see 20% drop becoming 40%--its all exponential drop offs, as people pull out money, when not many buyers around.
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How to Catch a Cat with TLA+
Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years
There have been instances where the power spot price has gone negative, too. They have not had major outages. I don't see why they would reconsider.
First sysmerge, syspatch, then sysupgrade, now this. Seems like my biggest complaint about running OpenBSD (difficult to keep up to date) is pretty adequately addressed by 6.6.
>I don't understand the mocking.

Try swapping out the 'wrong' and 'good' with something else and the reasoning seems far clearer.

"Hey, I've done my two hours of volunteering at the orphanage, now let me go back to running my child sweat shop."

If you feel the scaling is unequal, change it. At any scaling I can imagine the initial reaction to someone seriously holding that view is disbelief and then mocking.
> I said "accusing" and not "charging" for good reason.

Thats not the issue, its just not embezzlement.

I'll debate the finest points of embezzlement with you. They accept that people gave him money for the widest discretion of use, like in every other token sale, or securities offering, so "embezzlement" is impossible. They don't like that it was unregistered, and if it was a registered offering there would have liked disclosures that contradicted his statements.

The only similarity to embezzlement is that the agency is trying to recover a fraction of money on behalf of investors.

Yes, his moving the funds was the impetus for the complaint, we don't disagree there.
Question: While I'm sure economists have been studying this effect for decades, or maybe even way longer for all I know, it seems like this metric has been popularized as the key thing everyone looks at just in the last decade -- after the last recession that we had.

Given the popularization, any chance of an increased observer effect? In either direction, I mean, positive or negative.
Yeah, was surprised by lack of mentioning Shpongle. They're in a different league as far as musicianship/composition amongst psytrance artists (though more recent albums haven't been as impressive and varied).
I think a better comparison is to the size of the region in which this event occurred. For the event to appear to last only 2 hours to us, it can't have occurred in a region more than 2 light hours across. That's only 14 astronomical units, less than the diameter of the orbit of Saturn. There are stars bigger than that.
NASA Giving Away Apollo-Era Saturn Rocket to Anyone Who Wants It
Show HN: I guess I just solved a major first-World problem
Problem: People never update all their account password after there is major password scandal leak. Most people usually never update all their account after updating any one accounts passwords.

Reason- on asking people their reason was they were lazy to go into each website and then find that magical page in each website. It takes a lot of time.

Solution- I created this website https://www.updateyourpass.com which lists down all the direct link of most of the website's Password update page. Now in one-click, It will redirect you to the password update page without having to explore each website. It will save a lot of time and help you be upto date. I hope I could help.
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When Will All the Ice in the Arctic Be Gone?
Why'd neplus' comment below get killed? It's a bit jargon-y, but a decent analysis of the macro landscape at the moment.
Great quote: “But Amazon is smart and they know when your — for lack of a better word, addiction — to Amazon increases. Once Amazon is 20% of your business, it starts to claw back that profitability.”
Less slippery if they keep both a user rating and an Amazon rating.
To be fair to the Amiga enthusiasts, the Acorn / RISC OS group has a similar kind of -- well, I'll call it momentum.

Commercial software is still available (though not as much of it as was available in the past), and sometimes the prices are downright silly given the size of the market and the lack of maintenance on said software.
A militarized HK certainly won’t, but China may be convinced they could use military to bring Hong Kong back to approximately its pre-protest state. Hong Kong in its current state would be increasingly less likely to fill the economic role Beijing might need it to. It’d be reasonable to risk military action if they think they can repeat Tiananmen, with (western) countries repeating the appeasement policy on that occassion.

And honestly I kind of feel they actually might have a chance to pull it off. Prominent countries don’t have a good track record reacting to China’s bullying tactics (except Trump, as much as I dislike him).
I'm not the OP, but if the Fed decides that the stock market isn't going to fall, then come hell or high inflation it's not going to fall. Some people think that the recent history of interventionist monetary policy (QE) points to a Fed that is willing to pump up asset prices in the event of trouble. Does that mean the economy won't fall apart? No, but it does mean that holding cash could be a worse idea than holding equities.
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on What’s Next for Tumblr
I'm a complete layman in aeronautics, but Lilium's prototypes seem to look more promising (over-optimistic?) on paper and make me worry less about decapitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSDKmVoaIo
Milky Way's black hole just flared, growing 75 times as bright for a few hours
Tangent - ordinarily I would consider it obnoxious to point this out, but I learned something and wanted to share it. As a native speaker, "the crash didn't come" sounds wrong to me - it should be "the crash hasn't come", but it took me a while to figure out why. I think the idea is that since you are saying "yet", you need to use the present perfect ("has not come"), which can imply an indefinite time (it might happen at some point, but we're not sure when). The simple past tense, "did not come", would be if we were referring to a past set time when something was expected to happen but didn't. (This seems like a very subtle distinction that I would consider exasperating if I was learning a new language, but I take it for granted in English!)
Helpdesk software and room booking. But yeah _1000_ people in product development sounds absurd for "We".
> The central banks normally determine only the short term interest rates (up to 3-6 months).

But if the short-term rates are manually set by central banks to be artificially low, wouldn't that be the primary driver behind negative long-term interest rates even if the exact number is determined by supply and demand? The article is talking about natural drivers like "negative time preference" which just sounds wrong.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurufocus_charts/yieldChart_curve_c...
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I agree with your larger point that his dealings are a huge red flag, but just to clarify, a bunch of that money was borrowing against his existing stock rather than actually selling to investors, which is quite different. Selling can imply a lack of confidence in future value, while borrowing against the stock implies some level of confidence.
So basically you have to manage your own inventory for Amazon, pay Amazon for fulfillment of orders of your product, pay Amazon for storage of your product, and also let Amazon control the pricing to get preference on the buy box. I can see that there may be advantages, but it seems like an awful lot of the burden is shifted to the vendor.

Edit: On second thought, if Amazon has dynamic control of the pricing it may be difficult for the vendors to accurately forecast and stay in-stock.
Here's another one, built with Scratch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx96CbjUZbA
How to start a data labelling company
I am from South India and I am interested in starting a data labeling company.I am sure I can find qualified,efficient and cheap work force here.Where do I begin?
Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study
A 100km/h head-on with a similar car going 100km/h should be similar to a 100km/h head-on collision with a solid concrete wall. However a car traveling at 200km/h has four times the kinetic energy as a car traveling at 100km/h so a collision at that speed is much less likely to be survived than a collision at 100km/h.
WeWork's litigation counsel might have wanted the pitch-deck stuff to go into the S-1 to make the information more understandable to non-business people. That way, the pitch deck would be an official part of the record; in turn, this would mean a couple of things:

1. If disgruntled investors were to sue WeWork, the pitch-deck material could be referred to by WeWork's counsel in tactical maneuvering such as a motion for judgment on the pleadings, without having to jump through all the hoops that might otherwise be required;

2. Worst case, if a lawsuit ended up going all the way to a jury trial, the pitch-deck material presumably would be sent back into the jury room as a "real" exhibit, allowing the jury to review the pitch-deck material during deliberations. (The jurors might even be given individual notebooks with copies.) In contrast, if the pitch deck were left out of the S-1, the judge might or might not allow it to go back into the jury room, especially if it were a so-called demonstrative exhibit prepared for the litigation.

(I teach my contract-drafting students to draft agreements with an eye toward being readable by judges and jurors, with tables, footnotes, non-legalese language etc. — and if the contract language is understandable to a juror, then the parties' business people will be able to get to signature more quickly and are less likely to get into disputes afterwards.)
But that requires that Googlebot be allowed to crawl the page in robots.txt in the first place.

How do you tell Googlebot to not crawl your site and to not index it either?

Previously, one could use the undocumented "Noindex" directive in robots.txt, but this will be disabled soon: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsuppor...
Human society is a self fulfilling prophecy. It is an ocean of slow moving mob mentalities, crashing against each other.
aaand we just ordered a Dell T3610 (from 2014) with four-core Xeon E5-1620v2 and Quadro K4200 4GB (also from 2014) and 32GB RAM. Just under £600. The loved one is looking forward to her new video production workstation and gaming rig.
I more generally think limiting your identity-surface is a good idea, because I suspect strongly-held identities do subtly hem you in and shape your choices (which can be exacerbated if your identification was mistaken.)

That said, I narrowly disagree that it's a weak distinction (I wholeheartedly agree it's a messy one) that only has currency because people are desperate to self-diagnose.

A few thoughts:

- We are (broadly) too quick to self-diagnose, but I think it's mostly a byproduct of more general behavior. We're too quick to identify. We lean too heavily on categorization and especially exclusive categories and once the categories are reified, have a hard time seeing the variety they were trying to carve order out of.

- I don't want to project, but I wonder if you find the distinction weak because you mostly experience the middle of a normal distribution produced by a messy attempt to quantify a forest of human emotion and behavior.

- I think the I/E spectrum has salience because it has at least a little power to explain how people, relationships, and societies all work at scale in a way that defuses/de-personalizes a common source of friction.

- About like I'd expect, I can only think of a few people I've ever known for whom their status as an introvert or extravert is so essential that it's part of my own model of their behavior.
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What about the second use - "So what about those stupid savages, doing their silly rituals on their Pacific islands?" ?

This is much less clearly tongue-in-cheek, and even if the tone is meant to be generally humorous, that wouldn't exclude it from being actually offensive.
Self-referencing my post in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695115

Summary:

- €5160/month is the German 90-percentile monthly net household income

- The US 90-percentile monthly household net is probably around $9k - $10k

- Major contributors to the differences in the gross are in my guesstimate (1) overvalued USD, (2) more hours worked in the US

- differences in the net are clearly mostly due to different taxation/collective spending
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