skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is with how records are mastered and remastered now (the loudness war).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
The big difference is with commerce and finance, we want to keep track of who moved what where. With voting, we deliberately want to keep votes secret, so no one can figure out who voted for which candidate, and only know the total votes each candidate got. To minimize coercion, we also want to make sure that a voter can only prove they voted, but not which candidate they voted for. These constraints make electronic voting at least an order of magnitude harder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_migrant_carav...

> Drought and crop failure in the Central American dry corridor and Climate change in Honduras has been a factor in the formation of the caravans.[17][18][19][20][21][22]
IIRC commercial support for GCC is included with some RHEL and SLES subscriptions (probably all except the lowest-cost "desktop"). Red Hat also has a Developer Toolset product that includes a (more recent) complete native toolchain, and SUSE has a similar SLES 12 Toolchain Module / SLES 15 Development Tools Module.

https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/over...

https://www.suse.com/c/suse-linux-essentials-where-are-the-c...

I haven't heard of commercial clang support though.
Can they?

Most 'central banks' dont really offer banking services. Eg: you can't deposit to the federal reserve.

So the question is what to do with your money, that is both (a) easily transferable (b) auditable (c) safe

Government bonds are the traditional answers to these. They offer all of a,b,c. And until now they even offered extra money, aka interest, as bonus.

I think the best way to understand bonds is the old fashioned paper bonds. There was 2 parts: a primary part representing the money down, and a detachable 'coupon', say 5 of them for yearly interest for five years. So every year you'd bring the appropriate coupon in and get your interest. At the end, you'd get your money back which is represented by the main bond. Or more likely trade it for another bond.

All this means is the coupons now represent how much you have to PAY the government for issuing the bond. So it's more like a maintenance fee, rather than 'interest'. Or another analogy, safe deposit box fee. Bank account fees. Etc.

Money in the mattress, in physical vaults, safe deposit boxes all have the following property: (a) difficult to value (gotta count all those bills! who's doing the counting? is it auditable? did any 'shrink' somehow?) (b) costs quite a bit of money to just store ($100m is a lot of bills! it weighs a lot! it can get set on fire!) (c) not so easy to transfer.

As a result of all of the above, it's unlikely to be usable as collateral. Since the primary target is banks, they need 'liquid' assets that they can present to their auditors to prove they have reserves for their deposits.
Ask HN: How can I prepare for an interview in a week?
I am about to be interviewed for team lead post.

I know there are a ton of resources online for interview preparation, but I wanted to seek suggestions on an efficient/quick resource.
We can either have a trustless, public (as it's happening), digital system or a private paper-based system, we can't have both.

I'm not sure electronic voting convenience is worth the privacy implications of having a full public ledger of who everyone voted for.
This is how I've always voted in Florida.
This is an example of how to write a good article, I think the first sentence answers your question:
"Germany sold 30-year debt at a negative yield for the first time, as investors desperate for safe assets bet that further falls in yields will boost the value of the bonds in the future."

The investors buying these bonds are simply betting that these bonds will increase in value (which will supposedly happen if central banks cut interest rates more in the future).

These bonds don't pay out for 30 years and I bet few if any of the institutions buy them intend to hold them that long, they plan to sell when the value of the bonds rise.

So why not just park that money in cash? Well let's say you have $1M and you think bond yields will continue to fall. If bond yields fall further, then the value of these bonds increase, then you can sell them and realize a return.

However, you also want to think about any way that your cash holdings could increase. Could a dollar (or euro, or whatever currency) tomorrow be worth more than a dollar today? Yes, if there's deflation then it could make sense to just hoard cash under your mattress and realize that it's purchasing power is growing!

But these investors are assuming deflation is not too much of a risk - they believe central banks will act to quickly slash interest rates - both increasing the value of these bonds and decreasing the risk of deflation.

Markets are pricing in future interest rate cuts, which is probably not a bad bet to make. Markets a probably predicting interest rate cuts because they think various economies are weakening and central banks will cut rates.
I read somewhere that it was comparable to Fargate and got confused. Thanks for clarifying it!
> I can see my purchase on a map, and Apple can't - nice.

Why on earth would you think Apple can't see where your purchases were?
The ECB deposit rate has been negative since 2014. The role of central banks during slow growth is to coax banks to lend, not to hoard cash. When growth is high they increase deposit rates to take money out of circulation.
Cash has risks:

* risk of physical destruction

* risk of physical theft

* risk of forgery

etc etc

There's some nonzero cost to accept, handle, vet, store, etc for cash. That's not even including if there are extra reporting laws or other for large amounts of cash, which just adds to the overhead.
Awesome! Thanks for the quick response on that!
Off-topic but I think Dockerfile allows downloading remote URLs, e.g.:

ADD http://example.com ./file.txt
The beautiful thing with paper ballots is that the case is clear cut and strong enough without even dredging any of that up... it's just that partisan politics has become so entrenched that even mutually beneficial bills need to be passed with concessions to the less interested party.

I'm fine with a debate on the specifics but paperless voting machines have no place in the world. What you're giving up far outweighs the marginal benefits.
Well, bonds are easier to deal with than cash AND you do not run the risk of binge-spending them.

In some sense, bonds “do not burn” whereas your house may, or tour bank account may collapse, etc.

The premium is the guarantee.
Yeah I get that. What about for people like me who are trying to enter the market? I'm wondering if it's worth it to wait and see, or if I should just not worry too much and invest now anyway.
A large amount of cash is expensive to store safely (fire) and securely (theft).
Blink forked off from WebKit long after WebKit forked off from KHTML. Maybe you wanted to say that, but it reads more like Blink (Chrome engine) forked directly from KHTML.
Totally unrelated to this topic which revolves around the "Right to be forgotten".
As with any investment, don't put in more than you feel you can afford to lose.

While gold and precious metals assets can appreciate in these times, at some point paper gains need to be converted into cash, so make sure you can liquidate your holdings if you need to. Many crypto investors for example have been burned by being unable to convert their gains into cash due to exchange related shenanigans.

I'd guess the gold market is more mature in that regard, but I've never invested so I don't know what it's like for consumer-level investors.
>> what are you doing to weather the (inevitable) storm

Investing every two weeks into my standard allocation that I've decided on, rebalancing when necessary. Anything beyond that is speculation. Especially the concept of an inevitable storm coming. When, how, and where that happens is not something too many people know.
> I feel like I still don't understand negative yields, despite really trying to.

There isn't anything to understand. It's banking lunacy.

You only put money into negative yields if you are forced to do it.
> slow to compress

Although you're correct, this is because it spends a lot of its time optimize for decompression time: a PNG will be compressed once, but decompressed thousands or even millions of times. It makes sense to trade off compression time for faster decompression.
My BIL is on the hiring committee for his CS dept at a state school. They recently have been barred from ranking candidates because it was embarrassing for the administration when they would offer positions to lower ranked candidates while no-offering higher ranked candidates.

Though, he said, in most cases it doesn't matter, because the lower ranked candidates who received offers were usually preferred minorities who received several offers from other more desirable schools.
You don't put the docker image in git, so you don't need a conditional in the docker file. You'll only download the dependencies when you make the image assuming you've made it available in that way.
Because you’re a European and have to pay your taxes (or your investors, or other people) in euros, so don’t want any exposure to the Euro/Dollar exchange rate.
The next $1000 I put into my retirement accounts is no different than your first $1000.
Zipper-Based File/OS (Haskell Workshop 2005) [pdf]
Not sure why this was downvoted.

I'm a big fan of Heinlein. His racial and gender politics were strikingly progressive for his time. It's no insult to say that we've moved past his time and can do better now than he did, in part thanks to the efforts of people like him.
Your confusion comes from focusing too much on what happens at maturity.

This is the least important thing here.

Bonds have two ways of providing a return. The yield, and the price of the bond itself.

Lower yield means greater price of the bond. They are always inversely correlated.

Even lower yield means even greater price of the bond.

Because of worldwide policies, Its a bond bull market. The greatest bond bull market of all time and there is no exit.

Government creates new bonds at market price. Their independent Central Bank buys those bonds at market price giving newly created money to the government or traders. Market price is always a premium to the prior price. This action devalues the currency, otherwise known as causes inflation, otherwise known as people’s share in the currency stock is diluted.

So nobody needs to care about the yield. Nobody is thinking “well golly I’m going to use a few fractions of a dollar for the next 30 years” theyre thinking bonds to the fckin moon

Buy high sell higher directly to the central bank.

Benign attempts at economic stimulus have turned into a full blown currency war between monetary unions and nation states. The whole point is to get people to think “hm maybe my money isnt doing so well in a bank or in my mattress, maybe I should circulate it in risky investments” , and since people are so willing to pay for the privilege not to do that, the yields will go deeper negative. This prompts other monetary unions to cry foul and consider these actions unfair and uncompetitive, and so they do the same thing to devalue their currency to compete.

Any time you hear someone talk about responding to currency manipulators or reacting to the trade war by lowering rates or devaluing their own currency, just remember:

Bond. Bull. Market.
Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck? – Tilt Blog
"Does the future of farming (something indoors) ?"

No. It never will, despite all of the admittedly cool proof-of-concepts. The energy required to photosynthesize will never be more economical from artificial lighting than the sun. The future of farming (in the U.S.) is better soil management, agro-forestry, and removing archaic systems of subsidies which favor corn and beef to the detriment of human and environmental health.

Underground crops are cool, but they cannot feed the planet
I've been using wget like a sucker?!
Slightly tangential, but Planet Money did an interesting podcast on how an econ student was shocked to find rampant misogyny in an econ job forum, and she ended up using the data to quantify sexism in the field as part of a study:

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/720139562/episode-910-economi...
Could it be that JVM and CLR were technically correct, but policy wrong?
Except that's not how science is done. Some people are bad writers and just don't touch the paper at all. Sometimes you have a grad student do all the work for a paper and someone else writes it, or the majority (common in the first year or two, or with undergrads). Just because they had no or little commits should they not be the main author? They did the work after all.

Another example, my advisor doesn't like git. While writing papers I and my collaborators use git but send an email copy to my advisor. Clearly he's going to be on the paper because he's my advisor but you'll see zero commits from him.

I think it's just too easy to think that technology solves this in a trivial way. It's complicated. You have people from different eras working on things. And this is in a CS program, mind you. In different fields it gets much worse very quick.

Side note: go look at papers from top tier universities. You'll notice that they frequently cite colleagues at their University. Is this because they are gaming the system? Is it because they are doing the most related research (which is VERY common for a single University to work close)? Or is it a combination. In all likelihood it's a combination because citations matter. The h index is used in your performance because this is meant to be how impactful your paper is, but the system can definitely be manipulated (and likely isn't happening for malicious reasons nor necessarily unethical reasons)
"Is inflation really never going to show again?"

What causes inflation?

Inflation is too much money chasing too few goods and services.

When populations are growing, you need to expand the money supply to avoid deflation. What happens when populations stop growing?
Which combines the best of both (speed and audit-ability).

But you'd need mandatory random audits, and a legal requirement to keep the paper originals for up to years.

There's been cases of the paper ballots being destroyed while legal action was ongoing, and a never audited system cannot be trusted (because there's implied trust, not tested trust).
I'm also okay with a recipe based system, where a snazzy machine UI is used to produce a paper record of the vote.
I mostly agree with you, but it's important to point out that the big difference between WASM and the runtimes you mentioned is that WASM works in the browser, so you get out-of-the-box support for the world's biggest app platform. That's something that no other cross-platform runtime has achieved in any meaningful way, as far as I know.
Continue investing passively through your 401k, Roth, and HSA. But start spending less, and sock away that extra cash into high yield bank accounts. That way you're investing for your future, while covering any emergency needs in case of job loss. I've been working my way up to a 6-9 month buffer for the last year.
No conversation there though.
An account that large would require insurance, management and security/auditing. Stuff you don't need with bonds since the government provides those.

I'm sure if government bonds were negative for a long enough time an alternative product would appear.
Hearing and seeing this constant complaining is starting to have the opposite than intended effect for me. All the really competent women I've met don't talk about this stuff, they just get it done. It's only the girls that aren't capable of achieving anything that seem to complain in this way.

P.S. there are plenty of incompetent men as well but they aren't given a platform like this.
I think issuing fiat money and setting price of credit by fiat are two faces of the same coin. I think the way real interest rates behaved under the "Gold Standard" would be close to an answer to your question.
I think using RUN wget/curl is actually cached better than ADD [URL], which will invalidate your build steps cache more often unless I'm mistaken.
There is an org that does something similar in New Jersey: AeroFarms. Their greens are sold at the local Whole Foods. It's pretty neat to get your food grown locally.

https://aerofarms.com/
Deposit guarantee in Germany is only like 100k Euro. This is for institutions buying tens or hundreds of millions of Euro.
I think the answer to both your questions is because there are costs to securely storing cash. That also makes cash risky compared to bonds, where you are not responsible for the security.
Economics falls under the business umbrella at most US universities. An Economics degree will almost certainly have included finance, accounting, and marketing classes. Some schools, like my own, don't even differentiate between majors on the granted degree - any students in any of those majors just get a BSBA despite the different focus.

Wharton is similar in that all undergrad degrees are in "economics" even though students still select a major.
Also, look at it this way, if you have, let's say $5b on deposit at a bank, and you need to give it to someone else for some reason. Well transferring that money could destabilize the bank. They might refuse to let you withdraw it quickly. etc.

Bonds are easily and instantly transferable privately without causing major market loss.

This is the thing about huge finance like this, there's a gravity to money, and your intuitions from having bank accounts, money, etc, doesn't apply because entirely new problem appear you will never have. What if every time you paid a major bill at your credit union you threatened the solvency of that institution?
Paper ballot tied to a voter via a strong voter ID + electronic counting is the best of both worlds.

You get the speed of automation with a paper trail in case you have to go back and audit.

EDIT for those replying that you feel voting should be anonymous. With anonymous voting, how do you stop the "hey we just found this box of filled in ballots" ala Broward County Florida every election? If you can't tie a ballot back to a voter, how do you know the ballot is legitimate?
I think with quantitive easing this analogy isn’t really true anymore: there is a guaranteed buyer (the ECB) propping up the price of German sovereign debt, so making the yields artificially low.
I'm reducing margin (borrowed money for investing) to zero or near-zero. I'm also building up a savings account. Some of the Democrats could very well push for a pre-election recession in order to make Trump look less re-electable.
Why Chrome exists is missing a key driver - A significant portion of Google's search traffic came from business deals where they paid browser vendors (or others) to be the default search option. As they cannibalized the browser market they eliminated this cost or gained significant negotiating power.

"Driving innovation on the web" is the don't be evil slogan that motivates us all to allow them to "vertically integrate advertising and cut costs".
Veering a bit off topic here, but I somewhat recently used MJPEG for a "live preview" type of application and found support on the browser side to cause no end of frustration. Details escape me now, but some browsers could never be made to stop streaming without closing the tab, certain versions of Chrome didn't work at all.

It felt great to finally figure out the correct HTTP header incantations to get a working-ish solution with MJPEG... but if I had time to revisit it I would have tried instead encapsulating JPEG frames in WebSocket messages and blitting them to a canvas with JS.

MJPEG seems to be firmly in legacy territory and while browser vendors have to keep supporting it for IP cams, it's probably going to keep getting hit with the regression stick. Meanwhile WebRTC is notionally the correct replacement technology but the complexity is high and support is still hit or miss.
Ah, there it is, the JVM discussion in any WASM thread. I kid.

On topic though, I'll be curious to see how bad it really is. The demo video showed code that ended up looking and behaving like normal Rust code. Maybe you'll end up with some oddities like Rust enums not being supported, but w/e.

At the end of the day, I don't need to make weird and often gross C bindings in my Rust or Go code. Is that not a huge win?

But you're right, maybe this will go the way of the JVM and no one will care. Or maybe not. Does it matter?

edit: And I should add, maybe I keep forgetting where my well supported JVM Python <-> Rust or Go <-> Rust bridge is. Maybe someone can remind me, because I've not seen it.
A lot of "tech" companies aren't.

One reason, to avoid the scrutiny describing their actual business would expose them to more scrutiny, e.g., Uber is transportation company, not a software company.

Once the BBC described Google as an "American advertising company", now that's cold.
>> start spending less

This seems like overly simple advice but it's the best advice you can listen to if you think there is a storm coming. Cutting spending and allocating that money to cash reserves while keeping your usual investment strategy (401k / Roth IRA / etc) is the most effective thing you can do.
I understand that policy makers think that low interest rates will encourage people to put their money into investments like the equities or a business by forcing people out of saving. But, have they ever considered that they may actually be achieving the opposite? Someone who just turned 65 (like aging Europe), really really needs to save in safe assets. Negative yielding bonds don't change that need! So, instead of investing in risky assets, they may simply take the negative yield and save even harder to make up for the negative yield thus reducing spending even further and hurting the economy.
The thing with this man is that he assumed he had the flu:

> By the time I landed in New York that day in February, I felt a flu coming on. The next 48 hours was a marathon, so I resolved to push through.

And he also experienced some very non-flu like symptoms:

> by Wednesday night I was running a serious fever and my left leg was in a surprising amount of pain.

Despite having a high fever and pain, he didn't go to the hospital until he actually collapsed the next day. Had he sought medical treatment as soon as the leg pain manifested, his outcome might not have been as dire.
I wish Dell had gotten away from the 16:9 screen aspect ratio which is great for watching movies, but not so great for other stuff, to 3:2 which is much better for productivity work. When I was looking for a laptop last year, I also looked at the Matebook X Pro which had the 3:2 aspect ratio, and it had a lot more usable screen real estate. I ended up going with the XPS 13, but I miss the 3:2 ratio.
Your home view is throwing a “No entry is registered for key user_country” on iOS webview, it’s also spitting out a partial stack trace, you might want to consider not showing this to users in production environments, not sure how you do that with Zend but i would think it’s trivial to configure
The official websites are not always up to date.
But the bonds themselves are issued by the same organization that's also issuing the cash to be circulated in the economy.

Cash can lose value as well if it just sits, inflation being the key reason.
No. Bonds are based on their money amount. So as money loses value due to inflation then so does the bond.

If you want to hedge against inflation you would need to invest in something that either yields a positive return or something whose value isn't tied directly into a money amount, like land.
You're right. I goofed on my analysis. Instead of chose, it's indeed a factorial. You're also right, you can chose up to 9 dots, so indeed it is up to 9! combinations. Thanks for catching that.