skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great resources but why the hell would they make a comparison table paginated?
This hits at one ideological conundrum that I have been grappling with for a while.

All major developed nations did so on the back of dirty energy, exploiting resources and with huge climate change implications.

Now that the smaller developing nations are finally capable of doing so themselves, they are being discouraged by the same developed powers.
The developed powers did the same, but got away with it because there was no oversight. I don't see why these underdeveloped nations are now being expected to take the moral high ground.

We wouldn't need the Amazon as much, if we weren't pumping as many pollutants into our air and water supplies.

Plenty of species went extinct when the now developed powers expanded with reckless abandon. Now that Brazil is doing the same, the outrage seems hypocritical.

Some may say that the Amazon is special and not a resource that Brazil can singularly exploit, when it has global implications. But, the same has been true of fossil rich nations that have pumped cheap gas into the market indiscriminately, while they all individually became billionaires.

This whole argument extended to new developing economies like India and Central Africa at large.

Just to be clear I am not advocating for the deforestation of the Amazon. It can be seen as a right wing talking point, but I myself am completely at my wits end and do not have a retort to the argument.
Excellent question. There is a company, The Narrow Bank, that has the same idea, but they didn’t get a banking license from the Fed. Matt Levine, whose newsletter you should clearly start reading, has the details: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-06/fed-re...
Experts have been telling us to avoid Twitter/Facebook/social media for a while, not because they're easy to hack, but because they must prey on human behaviors and insecurities in order to thrive and exist.
Sierra Nevada shows off its large, inflatable space habitat
I do. I think humans are pretty bad at fitting data to curves consistently, but we're pretty good at learning to fit data to curves. AI doesn't work until you tell it which data to use and what output you expect, and then it functions quite consistently. Humans are also capable of trying new things and hypothesizing results.

The gap is certainly closing, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be to replace the need for humans. Maybe we'll get there soon, but it won't happen without some new approaches IMO.

Then again, I'm no longer active in the research aspect of the field, so it's hard to gauge how close we might be.
Mushrooms are an excellent source of vitamin D, but when they are grown in total darkness they contain virtually no vitamin D. Some supermarkets in the UK now sell mushrooms treated with UV light to elevate their vitamin D levels.

However, there is a simple 'hack' if you don't have mushrooms grown outside or treated with UV light. Place the mushroom in natural light (e.g. on a windowsill) for about an hour before you're about to cook them. The natural light will help raise the level of vitamin D in the mushrooms.

In case you're wondering about the veracity of this info, it's from a 2017 book published in the UK called How to eat better. The author is a botanist, science writer and TV presenter called James Wong. (He has appeared on a couple of BBC TV shows.)

Here is the relevant passage in full from the book:

> Doing one simple thing to your shop-bought fresh mushrooms can transform them from containing virtually zero vitamin D to one of nature’s richest food sources in as little as an hour or two, according to Penn State University. Popped on a sunny windowsill, the mushrooms (which commercially are grown in near total darkness) will react to the UV light, churning out loads more of the antioxidant vitamin to defend themselves from damage from solar radiation.

> The Penn State team found that a serving of white button mushrooms exposed to UV lamps for just 1 second could go from containing essentially zero vitamin D, to an astonishing 824 per cent of your daily recommended intake. When they tried the same thing with shiitake and oyster mushrooms, their vitamin D content skyrocketed way over a thousand times what you need to consume each day. In the world of food science, this really is as close as you can get to alchemy.

> With such tiny amounts of UV light needed to create such an enormous impact, it doesn’t have to be a blazingly sunny day for you to do this at home either – simply lay your mushrooms out on a windowsill for an hour or two anytime between 10am and 3pm and their levels should peak significantly. As the gill tissue (the brown underside of the mushroom caps) is more sensitive to light, placing them with the gills facing up will trigger the strongest spike. You can now even buy special vitamin D-rich mushrooms at a premium price in some posher supermarkets where this UV treatment has already been done for you. Just three of these mushrooms should give you your entire daily dose. But as tumbling your mushrooms out on the work surface for an hour or so will do the exact same job, you may want to save your cash.
Dems problem with requiring ID is that it just so happens that those proposals are always alongside attempts to make it more difficult for poor people to get IDs in the first place. Dems would have no issue requiring ID if republicans would agree to give every US citizen an ID for free.

Voter ID laws are simply an attempt to keep poor people and minorities from voting and honestly it's sickening.
I never understood why there is this tendency to make military leaders into heroes. They are not better and not worse than leaders in any other area. The top leaders most likely are just very good politicians.

If we want heroes then it should be the poor guys who have to go to battle for no payoff and often loss of life or limb.
If it makes you feel any better, central banks don't either.

Your question is actually fairly straightforward: people own these bonds because they have to. Most countries have regulations that force institutions to own these securities.

The more important question is actually: if you are a bank, what do you do now? You have to pay to lend money to people, it costs you 1%/year to just keep the lights on.

In Japan, most banks are (again) effectively insolvent. Germany is moving that way...and yes, the "point" of this action (according to central bankers) was to support banks...but it will likely end in most banks in affected countries going out of business.

...but don't worry, the central bankers will produce a brand new plan compose of intricate theories that clearly show how intelligent they are and how this totally wasn't their fault.
it's disheartening to think that so many (technically-minded) people actively configure their networks & devices to give google even more of their data for free.

fwiw, i use adguard dns[0] which i initially learned about right here on hn (edit: and figures.cc resolves just fine with it).

[0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
My point is that there is nothing astounding and indicative of extra credibility due to the 'obscurity' of Marvin Minsky coming 'out of left field', when any accuser, either lying or honest, would of course be naming known associates of Epstein. It is an invalid argument.
What gives you this imimpression?
A credit score is a shit proxy for human worth. Two thirds of bankruptcies have to do with illness or medical bills.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...

It is common to blame the poor for having trouble as if all their problems have to do with poor character. We start with the example that it's possible for A poor person to build themselves from nothing to wealth and success and somehow arrive at the thesis that everyone who is struggling is only doing so because they are lazy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/18/poor-...

In reality people have a varied degree of talents and make varied choices in life. Those who start out stupid and lazy at the top of the ramp end up well off with good jobs at Daddy's friends business and those who start off with nothing often end up struggling despite working hard.

Your idea would systemically privilege morons over their betters who had an illness in their family. Furthermore it would privilege the already privilege by taking votes away from the poor and gifting them to the rich. Like a perverse Robin Hood stealing crumbs from the poor to give to the rich's dogs.

Our government already primarily serves the interests of the rich and white but cannot presently afford to sufficiently alienate the poor or black lest they turn up at the polls in sufficient numbers to tip the political table.

Your suggestion intended on its face to to disenfranchise a tiny number of bums seems designed to disenfranchise minorities and the poor. I will be charitable and suppose this isn't the purpose.

Instead of carrying the political day with 49% of the vote or even 40% which is possible with our current electoral college such a suggestion would allow 20% or 30% of the population to rule by decree with little concern for the desires of their poorer kin many of which are far to close to the social and financial edge already.

When the rich rearrange the nation to even better serve their needs and service their wealth millions will see their lives destroyed.

This is my long way of saying that this is a bad idea.
How then a bond is different? It is also either a physical thing or a record in DB; both cases require protection and security.
The laptop itself is thinner than an ethernet port if I'm reading the specs right. If not, it's very close.
Please fix your jquery import, it's being blocked b/c it's coming over http not https
Careful, in addition to constricting/hardening blood vessels that is thought to lead to heart disease nicotine has other long term effects as seen in in this study of angiogenesis:

>In a series of experiments, the researchers found that nicotine could enhance new blood vessel growth in mice whose hind limbs were artificially starved of oxygen. They also found that lung cancer cells implanted into mice grew more quickly when the mice consumed nicotine in their drinking water. Mice susceptible to developing plaque in the arteries of their hearts also experienced more rapid plaque growth when exposed to nicotine than mice who were not exposed.

>The researchers believe nicotine works by binding to a receptor on the surface of endothelial cells that recognizes acetylcholine -- a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. Endothelial cells line the interior of blood vessels throughout the body. …

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/july11/nicotine.html
The researcher can still disclose it, they just aren't going to get permission to disclose it on the Hackerone program. Most things out of scope don't get publicly disclosed as far as I know.

Doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Nothing is really "clear" about the human brain yet in that regard because neuroscience is such a nascent field. What kind of answer were you expecting?

Also while we are on the subject, is there a general intelligence AI you would like to introduce me to?
I would be curious to compare this to smoking an actual cigarette to see if there is any difference. Inhaling any vapor/smoke that isn't meant for your lungs is going to cause damage and it would be neat to see a comparison between the two.

Anecdotal story time:

My grandfather who is currently 81, has been smoking since he was 12. He grew up in a very small town, and had 6 people in his graduating class other than himself.

Around January of this year, during a visit he seemed inquisitive as to the vaping device I was using. He still at this time was smoking 1.5-2 packs a day of roll-your-own cigarettes.

The reason he still was smoking so much is he has severe health issues from being legally blind from diabetes, and having extreme back pain since he returned from the service. In his hold age the only place he can sit and relax is this very old chair that sits on his porch that for whatever reason the angle on it relieves his back pain. He sits on that porch, smoking I would say 85% of his time, and the habit of playing with cigarettes while sitting there was the biggest factor.

After inquiring about my device and having me explain it to him he wanted to buy one right away and get on the e-cig bandwagon. I was skeptical as he has a whole multitude of health issues and if I were to switch him without consultation and something were to happen the guilt would be very great and I could not live with that.

I went with him to one of his visits to the V.A. and he brought up the subject of e-cigs to his doctor. We all had a conversation that pretty much came to the conclusion that continuing to smoke cigarettes wouldn't be any better than e-cigs, and there is always a chance that the e-cig could be worse but there was nothing definitive.

I was able to get him to transition to smoking 0% nicotine juice, with a higher PV/VG ratio (from what I've gathered online in smoker forums high VG juice tends to inflame those with asthma more than the PG). He did use nicotine patches for two weeks when he came off the cigarettes.

He slipped up and did smoke about 3 cigarettes during this transition, but starting the beginning of February he has been nicotine free and smoking the e-cig.

He recently had a lung test or something where they measure your 02 etc. He had said when he was smoking his 2 packs a day that his 02 was at 65% or so, and that it had gotten up to 78% at his last test.

Now I'm not a doctor and there are probably a billion variables that are unaccounted for, however he said that his breathing is much easier and doesn't have a hard time sleeping when it is hot and humid out as much as before. For him the switch seems to be working with regards to his lungs/breathing.

As far as other issues becoming more exacerbated because of this, only time will tell I guess.

He does want to quite completely, I suggested switching to sugar free candies or something to keep his oral fixation at bay while he sits in his chair. He seemed open to the idea, but like most smokers it really is a mental game and trying to get him to change his ways is pretty tough as he is a stubborn old man.
Negative yielding bonds that people only buy in hopes of unloading onto a bigger sucker?[1] Pre-crisis level of subprime lending? Time for the financial equivalent of going to the Winchester to wait for this to blow over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20760222
I didn't realize 690 was the cut off for "subprime." I thought that was generally considered "ok/good" but not really that bad.
Which GOP politicians made it more difficult for lower-income and elderly to get IDs? That would definitely be scandalous.
> Why are you asking your end-users to manually install your development dependencies, though?

If you want to run a legacy desktop Java application (without bundled JRE - and yes, there's still plenty of these apps out there), MacOS will actually do the prompting for you.

And it takes you to the commercial JRE download page, which isn't something I'm willing to install. So the only reasonable option I could find as an end-user who wants a non license-encumbered JRE is to install OpenJDK.

> This just isn't true - you can run Java from anywhere. It's just a tarball containing the binaries. Un-tar and run the binaries like you would any other program. I never 'install' Java on macOS.

From the command line, of course that's true.

But if you double click on a .jar file from Finder, does MacOS find your JRE in a random directory? I was pretty sure that it doesn't do that.
> I still don't understand negative yields

Safe assets sell a service: they’re a safe place to put your money. For this service, you pay a fee. There are other places to put your money, from cash to money market accounts to listed equities, but they aren’t safe. (They compensate for this unsafeness by promising you a return.)
Can't people already do this with a smartphone?
Such verification would enable a market for selling votes.
Quantum Plasmonic Immunoassay Sensing
It is learning. Better performance at a task over time (i.e. after observing more data) is how learning is defined in the community.
Unless you have a better definition.
"Please don't do thing"

does thing

gets banned

shocked
> Uber is not a bus company. It does not own a gigantic fleet of cars or large depots to store them in, nor does it employ mechanics and cleaners to tend to them, or have long-term contracts for gates at stations around the country.

Ironically, if Uber achieves its self-driving dreams it will have acquire all of these things.
This is lies. They did not require people to install anything. They MITMed only mobile internet. They MITMed only one city. On this city only few domains were MITMed. Only a fraction of connections to those domains were MITMed.
So in practice I think that most people did not even notice anything. And those who noticed could just press F5 few times. Or use VPN as many people do anyway.
I find it interesting that you've deflected their entire argument and made up a straw man to burn.
1. SOME of the equity can disappear in the blink of an eye. The lender has a nice cushion when the buyer puts down 40%. That's hardly considered risky, which is why this is a terrible example.

2. Subprime refers to the class of borrower, typically based on their less-than-ideal credit scores. The term does not mean that the bank is offering a rate below the prime interest rate to "trick" potential borrowers into taking on debt.
Attention New Devs: Professionals Google Stuff a Lot
How would that work for something like the Hanford nuclear contamination zone[0], which threatens the water supply for millions of Americans? The cost to clean up the contamination has run into the billions, and yet there's no apparent private incentive to clean up this mess. If the market doesn't present a solution, are those millions of Americans just screwed?

How would you effectively pay for services that maintain the community behind the scenes, i.e. police and fire department? Swipe a card every time they show up?

How would we pay for the military without taxes? Just sell contracts to private security firms? How do we hold those firms accountable when they commit war crimes, as we recently saw from a former Blackwater contractor[1]? But then how do we pay for the justice system to hold those accountable if not through tax revenue? Make it so only those who can pay can participate?

0: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hanford-cost-20161216-s...

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/politics/blackwater-ni...
Why not? I can think of one reason: SQL is generally poor at modeling tree structures. This may reflect itself in the application with comments without hierarchies (which is the case for StackOverflow and Quora), but that is a more minor part of the application. Similarly if you wanted to have a graph of relations between knowledge, graph databases might be better. But QA sites tend to just add tags to the questions, which is easy enough to model.
It would be pretty hard to stop. Many elections come down to under 50k votes, which will lead to either candidates or their supporters buying votes for cash (with 30% of voters not even bothering to vote, $10 a vote would probably be plenty to entice people), or each side finding a handful of cases where this did happen and claiming it happened on a larger scale. It would call the whole election into doubt.
Bring on the Technology Bans
Why is it so common to link paywall articles here?

is this just a strategy to get us to sign up ?
Is anybody else making the supposedly foolish decision to time the housing market?

I am financially ready to purchase my first home, currently living in the bay area, but I think right now just looks like a bad time.

- A lot of housing price growth is seemingly "priced in" since rents for condos/apartments significantly lower than total monthly ownerships costs (mortgage+hoa+insurance+taxes+etc.), even with 20% down.

- The major high paying tech companies are expanding mostly outside of the area. The fresh batch of big tech companies, outside of Airbnb, have an unclear path forward.

- Subprime lending, interest rates, the current PEs of REITS etc. seem to indicate an impending housing contraction. So interestingly, dumb money (the consumer lending market) is pricing in growth while the smart money is indicating a contraction...

- A lot of VC backed companies are looking bubbly, so if you are at an actually profitable tech company in the area, your relative purchasing power for housing would likely improve if the bubbly companies went under.
Evidence of what? Of Saint Elon calling people pedophiles because they laughed at his harebrained ideas? Of Teslaclaiming to have the world's safest vehicles when between Musk's marketing and serious product deficiencies they quite literally kill people? Of and Musk personally being regularly found making fraudulent statements? And so on and so forth. I didn't realize than I need to provide backing evidence that water is wet. But Tesla's PR troll brigade would just say that it is the shorts' conspiracy anyway, because Saint Elon says water is solid, and so it is.
They aren't even supposed to measure fiscal responsibility they actually measure how profitable you are to exploit by lending to you which we have hijacked to mean you are reliable.
> How did someone as ignorant as Bolsonaro ever managed to get elected as president of a democratic country, and get away with some of the things he says?

This has to be sarcasm right ?

You ask that question when Duterte, Erdogan, Trump, Brexit, LePen and the like have occurred in the last 5 years preceding him.

Bolsonaro was democratically elected. We may not like it (I absolutely despise him), but that is the will of the people. Naive, easily misled and disheartened people. But, democrated elected nevertheless.
By that logic, we should be terrified of everything.
> Have $xx,xxx in a checking account at a national bank

At the scales of financial infrastructure, bank deposits are not cash. They are debt issued by banks. The point of collateral is to give a bank’s word weight.
"AI doesn't work until you tell it which data to use and what output you expect, and then it functions quite consistently." -> you mean supervised ML, not AI.

Unsupervised ML is different. From what I can tell (I work in ML and have extensive biology experience), human brains use a combination of approaches that combine unsupervised and supervised learning and oneshot learning and it's not clear that a true "learning AI" requires more technology than what we have today. I think that's an open question in the field but nobody is really addressing it head-on.
From a pure standpoint? Any company that makes tech - hardware or software - is a tech company.

From a usage perspective? Any company that heavily utilizes tech in their day to day operations is a tech company too.

From a software engineer's career perspective? "Tech company" has become a term often used here, and usually refers to a company whose core business involves software engineers, and treats them as respected first class citizens.

Companies that fall under the first two descriptions may or may not fall under the third.
Physical cash should exist.

But your first question is much more interesting in what it seems to imply.

If i understand it correctly, the converse would be: entities are free to not invest their money when there are no worthwhile ventures.

This sounds all well and good on an individual level.
But by what logic or mechanism can the ~200 countries that exist have the ability to 'hold' money and not 'invest' it?
Are you talking about the ballot harvesting in North Carolina, or the fraud investigations in Georgia? If it's the latter, we don't have any good way to estimate the impact because the ruling party destroyed evidence and canned the investigations[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/26/poli...
Not directly racist, but it costs money and time to obtain a passport.