skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it cannot be exploitative to give something of value for free

One of the (many) criticisms of Nestle is that they went to 3rd-world countries and gave new mothers free supplies of bottled formula. Then after the mothers switched to formula and stopped lactating, they took away the free milk offer and forced them to pay out the nose for a life-essential product that their bodies would have otherwise produced naturally.

Just like with Nestle, giving away limited Internet that can only access Facebook/Wikipedia has the effect of forcing those services to become critical architecture. It denies nations the autonomy to decide how their own networks should be run, and puts them at a massive disadvantage when competing on those networks or building their own services.

In exchange for giving away access to their product (and only their product) for free, Facebook gets a monopoly-level stranglehold on how information is transmitted across those regions -- and that's not just bad for the Internet as a whole, it's bad for the countries and their citizens.
Seems like a good place to put it then. S1 readers know to look here.
> its website confirms the refrigerator does have social media capabilities, and the tweet source confirms it was sent from the device.

Imagine waking from a coma after 10 or 20 years and reading this in the news.
You don't even need that. You can just start using a new name - perfectly legal in the UK.[1]

You need to execute a 'deed poll' if you want the new name recorded on official documents, or accepted by organisations like banks.
[1] www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll
It's honestly harder than it should be to find well-written primers on linear algebra with a geometric focus, which I find to be the most intuitive way to "grasp" the subject and the motivations for it. I like the video lectures on MIT's website a lot for a variety of topics, and the one on linear algebra is pretty solid IMHO: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...

I also like the posts on this blog as well: https://dhruvp.netlify.com/2018/12/31/matrices/
The hedge fund must have been doing a different strategy as I did much better than 7.1% from 2007 to 2017. Left at 1500 got back in at 930 and then ignored the market for 10 years.
SQLite Ported to WebAssembly
My first laptop was a Toshiba. It died a month after the year long warranty and would have cost more than a new laptop to get replacement parts for. So, I'm already on the don't buy Toshiba bandwagon.
Exploring TensorFlow 2.0
I would think that would mostly apply to DSL ISPs that are just using a telcos infrastructure. I suppose AT&T Fiber may be charged by AT&Ts backbone for traffic transiting their network or something like that. The major ISPs AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc... are building their own networks at least in part.
It's important to include counter motions into hands, especially if wrists are used all day behind a computer in a flexed position.

Simple wrists exercises, such as [1] or [2], took only a few minutes a day and did wonders to my hands.

[1] https://gmb.io/wrists/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBbQ1FUpewk
The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
Stop selling your stuff on Amazon. eBay is better. If you're too large to sell on eBay, then get out of retail right now, are you crazy? Selling products other people make used to have bigger margins because it was a lot of work (opening and running a store). If your only work is buying stuff wholesale and boxing it up and sending it to Amazon then you, frankly, don't deserve much profit for a few hours of monkey level work.
Google’s internal activism is spreading across tech companies
Paying back debt?
Creating a Pop Music Generator with the Transformer
On the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture
Timing the market is exactly what you said about saving cash. Changing your asset allocations based on age or other milestones is not timing the market in any way. It’s reducing risk if you are about to retire.

Changing your asset allocation yearly or quarterly based on news is foolish. I’d call that timing too.
IIUC

In spite the press artice cal the device "simulator", they did the experiment in the real world using real rubidium atoms in one group and superconductor in the other group.

Apparently "Schrödinger cat states" is just a fancy name for a state that is formed by the superposition of two states, something like |phi> = (|psi1> + |psi2>) / srqt(2). The difficult part in a system with so many qbits is that you have 2^N states and it is usually easy to isolate a single state or get a mix with a lot of states, but picking exactly 2 is more difficult.
This is blogspam. The original article is here: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
I'm reading a book called Capital in the Twenty-First Century right now, which is all about this stuff. I'm only about halfway through right now, but here are some points from the book I find interesting (all of them iirc since I don't have access to the book right now):

* the author chooses not to use the terms lower, middle, and upper class because doing so just leads to arguments about where to draw the lines. Interesting that so many comments on this thread are just people arguing about what "upper class" means because it's a personal term. He instead splits the distributions of income into three parts, the bottom 50%, the 40% above that, and the top 10% and simply refers to them by centile and decile. The "top decile" has an unambiguous meaning, whereas "upper class" could mean anything.
* there are three distributions: income from labour, income from capital, and combined total income. The people at the top of one distribution aren't necessarily the ones at the top of the other. The book analyzes inequality across different countries across the past two hundred years or so, super interesting stuff
* only when you get into the top 0.1% are you earning more income from capital than income from labour
* inequality of income from labour is far lower than inequality of income from capital and always has been in every society in every period
* inequality from income from labour is _easier_ to morally justify than inequality from capital, but still not necessarily just in any absolute sense
* the bottom 50% owns only about 5% of the total capital
I've never heard of a negative stereotype about Kyle in America either.
American, never heard anything bad about the name Kyle.
I'm surprised that everyone blindly cites the inverted yield curve as a recession indicator without considering the "why". Seriously, if you were to ask ten people why an inverted curve predicts recession, you'd get ten completely different answers.

I personally don't think this is necessarily the inversion that is going to be predictive of a recession because the inversion is occurring at the long end (the 10/30 years spiking as opposed to the 3 month/2 year selling off). I think the short end is far more important than the long end because the short end tells you about monetary conditions in the economy. If the short end yields start moving up, that means that it's going to become more expensive to borrow money so spending and capex contracts, which is what can bring on a recession. Even that depends on the degree to which monetary conditions deteriorate.

Why are long bonds spiking? Because other central banks around the world are even more dovish than the US Fed, so money that is looking for long-term safe haven investments is coming aggressively into US long bonds.

Take a look at three month commercial paper rates, which are actually in a major downtrend (not surprising given Fed policy): https://ycharts.com/indicators/3_month_aa_financial_commerci...

Three month commercial paper rates represent the cost at which businesses are currently borrowing for short-term expenses on the open market. That cost is going down, too. I take that to mean monetary conditions are very good in the sense that there is no shortage of money floating around the economy looking for a return. Without some major fundamental change in economic conditions I don't see how equities can be expected to drop a whole lot from here. I think this is a blow off the top for rates that is going to be short-lived, especially if other central banks start tightening policy which nobody seems to consider a possibility. But if inflation starts creeping up, then they will likely start raising rates or keeping them where they are. Ironically, when central banks raise rates that is usually an extremely bearish indicator. It's a bit puzzling to me that everyone seems convinced that lower rates are bearish.

Also, I can't think of a time when literally everyone focused on a single indicator at the same time, used said indicator as a predictive tool, and were proven correct. That's just not how markets work. People get scared and excited at the worst times tactically.
Firstly, a big well done to you. This is absolutely amazing. I am pure backend dev struggling to get my idea up and running. This will solve my worry of auth and the initial design right away.

My questions:
Is there a way to contribute?
Are you planning to monetise this?
I'm guessing you aren't American. Forgive me if that's incorrect.

When I was a homemaker, workers at grocery stores where I shopped would joke about getting me to talk to their wife do I could convince her to cook as much as I did. They could tell by the frequency of my visits to the store and the contents of my cart that most of our dinners were home cooked.

A lot of modern Americans don't really know how to cook. One expression for a woman who can't cook is "Microwave queen."

I hate microwave food and seldom eat it. I think most stuff that comes out of a microwave is pretty revolting.

In recent years, it has been my observation that grocery stores are simply mobbed in the days before a big holiday when the stores expect to close and a big home cooked meal is thw norm. I also routinely see comments on the internet about how impossible it is to cook for one person or how impossible it is to stay on budget and eat healthy when you don't have time or energy for anything but takeout.

I strongly suspect a lot of Americans don't do all that much cooking. Fast food seems to be basic survival for many Americans. They don't have the money or time for fancier restaurants and they don't have the skills or time to cook from scratch.
Index funds will do exactly as well as the aggregate of the individual stocks that they track (whether equities, bonds, treasuries, real estate, metals or something else.)

The selling point is that investing (as opposed to trading) is a long-term method of increasing wealth. And, historically over any reasonably long period of time, broad index funds grow (between dividends and selling price) more than inflation, and do so without requiring the individual investor to "bet right" on individual companies, or to time when they buy and sell.

Of course, some people panic when index funds see massive drops (which are often much worse than 20%) and sell when the price is much lower. They lock in the losses thinking they can perfectly time the "low point" and buy back in at just the right moment. (A few are right. Most are not!)

Investing does include personal tolerances for risk, an ability to be patient, etc so you have to figure that out for yourself. But the most successful investment plans are a combination of diversification and sticking to your plan through the bad times as well as the good.

You shouldn't be reacting to the market (as a long-term investor.) You should have a solid plan in place. If you have a firm asset allocation of 80% stocks and 20% bonds with a line item in your investment policy statement that says "Re-balance when there is 5% or greater drift" then you wait until you cross that drift threshold, sell and buy what you need to get back to your target asset allocation, and you go on with your daily life.
I think Fairchildren is his best work yet, especially the back half. "Harwell Dekatron" was a fantastic standout and I hope he experiments more with branching out in that direction. My favorites off Mir are tracks 2-4, and off Skylon I loved "The Queen of All Everything", "Rogue Bagel", "Signals from Bob", and "382 Seaside".
Try for example FHS environments. That should make it possible to install software in a conventional way.
We've already seen this in 2008. The funds will go down, then once the recession passes will return to normal. Long term holders have little to fear.
> This is exactly the problem, where bonds are no longer providing interest payments.

If interest rates drop even more, the value of bonds go up.

Right now, a 1.68% 10-year bond looks like it sucks. But next year, a 1.68% 9-year bond will beat the pants off of a 1.3% 10-year.

You can sell a 1.68% 9-year bond for a lot more money when everyone else only has 1.3% 10-year bonds. If the 10-year drops to 1%, you'll make even more money. A falling interest rate market benefits those who buy bonds, especially if no one knows where the bottom is.
And that was on reddit before buzzfeed found out :P
I wasn't debating, I was explaining. I'm a securities attorney so I'm quite familiar with the "finest points" of federal securities laws.
Remembering Woodstock: Naked Men, Bounced Checks and LSD
Hashing the password in the client isn't very effective because the hash of the password now is equivalent to a password. If you have the hash you can just send it to the server and authenticate. Implementing this looks like a lot of trouble with little to no benefits, since you also have to take the regular precautions server-side anyway.
You say election funny.
If WeWork goes broke it's mildly annoying to have to find other tenants, it's true. But it's not like they can't plan for that.

For instance if WeWork goes down, there are still tenants that might want to stay in the building. That's a sensible place to start.
> Saying that talking about a book is meaningful but talking to a person about their life, is not is immature inferiority-complex bigotry.

I would include talking to a person about their life as meaningful conversation. But lot's of extraverts like to chatter about nothing at all. Like, they literally cannot let there be a silence. (because it helps them think / keeps them stimulated).

To introverts that's infuriating, because they can't think while the chatter is happening, and they are over-stimulated.
I don't have experience with it, but I have heard of what you are saying and I believe the technical term for it is "hyperacusis". If you haven't already done so, search that term and I'm sure you will find people with similar experiences. I would also suggest trying to find communities on Reddit, it looks like they even have a subreddit with a few hundred people subscribed, "https://www.reddit.com/r/hyperacusis/"
China's Meituan Dianping to join maps service battle
As I said a fixed asset ratio is timing the market. The expected returns for socks are higher than bonds, it’s rebalancing that makes fixed ratios a good idea.

As to changing asset ratios, it likely reduces maximum returns. But, wealth has diminishing marginal utility. I can save a little more to make up for a small loss in returns for a few years, it’s much harder to make up for a 50% market dip.
Does Australia really have a giant ozone hole? It doesn't seem so according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology[1]. Also see [2].

[1] http://www.bom.gov.au/uv/faq.shtml

[2] https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/06/30/australia-never...
The Griddy rate was pegged at $8.99/kwh for about an hour and 15 minutes.
You've answered your own question. Spin is manipulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(propaganda)

The theory of well-regulated public markets is that all investors and all seekers of cash are put on an equal playing field. The goal is to maximize public confidence in the markets, which in turn maximizes the total useful investment. If hype becomes dominant, that will reduce overall returns and increase return variability. That in turn will reduce investor confidence, which reduces available capital, which reduces economic growth.

I understand that in the US we spend ~$500 billion a year on commercial manipulation, so it can seem normal. But it doesn't have to be, and maybe it shouldn't.
Another great resource for Systems Engineering is the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/nasa-systems-engineering...

NASA's guide is a more general engineering approach, since their projects are aerospace instead of IT. Chapter 4 has a great overview of requirements and traceability.
> and make an announcement in a news paper with a certain amount of readers

And even that depends on what state you're in. For example, Texas doesn't require it (source: I legally changed my name in Texas in 2014).

And some states that do require it can waive the requirement if you can demonstrate that you have legitimate privacy concerns and the judge is sympathetic; e.g. if you're changing your name to hide from an abusive family member or if you're transgender.

On the other hand, many states require a clean record in order to change your name. Using Texas as an example again, I had to do a fingerprint background check before they would even schedule my court date. My record was clean, but if I had a criminal record, I would've only been allowed to change my name under limited circumstances.
Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change
The Texas grid is not integrated with other states. I'm guessing breaking this "independence" is a tough political sell.
The 2-10 year is the "official" indicator. The other inversions were signs that the 2-10 year was going to invert.

The 2-10 year is the actual news. When the 3-month / 10-year starts to invert, its basically inevitable that the 2-10 year indicator will trip eventually.

The 2-10 year invert doesn't happen instantaneously. It slowly moves into place. Yeah, we could see the signs for months.
Happens in hardware too: the way Sony made the PS2 compatible with the previous PS ("PS 1") was simply to place an entire first ten playstation on a corner of the PCB. Cheaper and more compatible than writing an emulation mode.

Object encapsulation made physical.
The Feynman lectures is one of my favourite books ever. Yet, this chapter specifically is the least enjoyable for a mathematician. Somehow I find he's trying to explain very simple concepts using way too many words, which is the opposite style of the rest of the book.
The biggest tech challenge they have is figuring out how many conferences rooms to build out per X number of offices.

Not enough, and you have a huge queue to use them, too many and you have lost office space rental.

Outside of that there isn't much tech to go around.

We used them before they were WeWork, when they were still GreenDesk in Dumbo.

Overall it was great, and it's a great product given the flexibility and move in ready amenities that it provides and if you ever step foot inside of Regus you will immediately notice the difference.

Though now there is a lot of competition from smaller companies and of course I'm sure Regus has stepped up their game in response.

Their growth is amazing, but ultimately it's still a real estate holding company. The same is true for E-commerce. Though their volume is immense, they trade no where near their multiples for revenue as other tech companies given the different margins they have, cyclical sales cycles, and many other factors that make that sector much less attractive than a pure software play in the B2B space.

But looks like we will see how this all plays out.

Really the exposure that Softbank has here is the real worrying issue. It's a massive stake, at a massive valuation, and if this IPO doesn't perform well (and most people think it won't), this maybe a real red blot on their performance.
Yes, the truly big backbone ISPs aren’t generally paying for interconnection to the others. Instead, they have the capital expenses of maintaining and extending that backbone to handle growing internet traffic in general. If they don’t keep up with demand, they’ll lose customers and potentially their settlement free agreements with the other backbone providers.
I use it under Ubuntu (19.4) and pipe it into Mathematica.
In the UK the "faux unlimited" providers actually are unlimited (source: downloaded about 14TiB over 3 months, nary a complaint)
Exactly. He can probably afford it given the otherwise low cost of living and lack of state income tax.
Jeffrey Epstein's death was predicted by 50% of the population before officials announced it.
so one of the 1st responders has a 4chan account. what exactly is the big deal here (besides the fact he/she probably broke the law)
Here is a bit serial RISC-V: https://github.com/olofk/serv
Also worth noting that if you go long, and there is a stimulus required, you may be in trouble as rates are low enough that you can lose money to inflation. No free lunch.
Here's an interesting visualisation for names and ages:

https://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html
This is a key component of cable company advertising: they stress the _speed_ at which data is delivered to your home network and, somehow, leave out how much data they will allow to be delivered.

To be more precise, they stress download speed. Comcast’s 1Tb plan has upload speeds of 30Mbps
Let me try to explain with an example. GAAP requires straight line depreciation of a lease. So if I gave you a 2 year lease on a facility and required a single payment of $1M at the end of the term, you'd account for that as 500K expense in year one, 500K in year 2. In year 1, your cash balance didn't change though right? I only wanted payment in year 2. So you record a 500K deferred rent liability to indicate that the expense has yet to hit your cash balance.

Basically over some set of future years they'll have to pay out 2.8B of cash. But they don't disclose the timing on when those payments come due.
There was a funny story going on in 2005: Ferrero changed the face on the packaging of the popular "Kinderschokolade" and many buyers didn't like the new face and were hence calling the boy "Kevin". There was even a campaign "weg mit Kevin" with 20.000 supporters, which handed over a petition to Ferrero.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/kinderschokolade-wuetender...

Translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
i remember about a call for volunteers for an experiment treating hearing loss with some proteins and/or adenoviruses (not a specialist). this was a couple of years ago and it sounded pretty much exactly like what this article describes. a 90% success rate was expected.

as this was in the u.s. (washington dc, iirc?) and i'm not a citizen i didn't apply. i thought it to be a game changer, but found no follow up articles.

the original search even was on HN, but i have little hope of finding it again.

edit, after a little bit of googling:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464776/ and
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225386/
It’s not only knockoffs. A friend of mine works in CPG and their company’s biggest problem with sales through amazon is that they sell at a loss to compete with grey market sellers who are selling stolen at a much reduced price.
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Both of you are correct (I'm a German tutor (over here: https://lingoci.com/german-lessons-skype)).
Advice also squeezes like a vice ;)
For an opt-in program, how is that a bad deal? Either being the lowest price seller isn't worth it (and so you don't care to opt in) or it is, and you spend a lot of effort to constantly deal with price fluctuations (at which point you want to opt in and get covered by the minimum profit limit..)