skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might as well be a REIT, and as its books stand, its a crappy one. I wouldn't touch wework unless it had a dividend. What their CEO has done with inside dealing should be considered fraud to investors.
If we've managed to move the entire commerce and financial sector online we should be able to security digitize voting too with proper authn/z.
Trump was talking about him "liking girls on the younger side" in 2002. Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underaged prostitute in 2008, sane people had been distancing themselves. Anybody who had anything to do with Epstein after ~2009-2010 did so in the face of active public castigation.

The 2005 investigation stemmed from a mother bringing her daughter to the police station after she had been at Epstein's mansion. And the evidence included over 50 underaged girls, before the prosecution dropped it to two counts and then one count of assault... and NOT for lack of evidence. The girls' high school report cards were found in his house.

The man was a pedophile and a predator. The fact that anyone was willing to associate with him in any capacity after 2008 is just insane. In 2009 the flight logs were leaked and the smart people in that list cut contact. Anyone who continued to associate with Epstein after that did with the full knowledge of what he was, because people would actively reach out to them to ask about it.
I also think Azure has preset deployments on their repos.
i want to love all these cloud run app engine cloud function type things (and amazon type equals), but it seems like stuff takes like 30 years to start up if it hasn’t been touched for a little bit even for super simple functions... is this stuff just near unusable unless you’re patient or like super baller with billions of hits per second?
It's called Azure DevOps, but beyond technically being (transparently) hosted in Azure data centers, the "Azure" part of the name is pretty meaningless.
It's cheaper than a bank vault and more secure than a home safe. I can't think of any other reason to buy them, though.
Even bad_user's assertion that "Once a piece of software is [legitimately] released as open source, it can be freely distributed" is not 100% true. There is a mechanism in US copyright law through which copyright holders and their heirs can unilaterally retract copyright grants and licenses 56 years after the initial grant or license.

Granted this is quite the esoteric edge case... at least for now. ;-)
Because the interest rate will soon be less than the bonds. Negative interest rates coming down the pipe globally. Only way that I can see it getting justified.
> “Like all multi-hue color maps, the non-equidistant hue changes are perceived as especially important contours, which they usually are not.”

That’s basically the objection this mapping is aiming to address.
>That’s frightening and sad

Yeah, discipline and dedication to mastery of one's psychical self is for weirdos. Furthermore, what's the point of combat skills in a world with law and order? He should really just spend more time sitting on the couch consuming media.
oh likewise. I remember being completely amazed by the thing.

To extend the other comment about FM being digital (in the UK): so much tech we take for granted now is built upon layers upon layers of underlying technology. Devices have never been better but at the same time it's a real loss that we can't build stuff from scratch any longer. I learned so much as a kid from building - often bad - things.
Yeah, it's using Let's Encrypt. There are a lot of DNS names listed on the cert, showing their webmail URL too.
Clonally transmissible cancers are typically only seen in highly inbred populations. Tasmanian devils qualify because they went through a population bottleneck when they first colonized the island. Dogs qualify because of human breeding. (It's pretty unlikely that CTVT could be transferred to a wolf, even though pet dogs and wolves are the same species.)

The reason most cancers aren't transferrable, is the same reason that organ transplants are so hard. Most individuals in most species have unique antigen profiles. The immune system attacks any foreign bodies without matching antigens. An internally generated tumor works because it's cloned from an individual's own cells.

But a foreign tumor, is very unlikely to have a matching antigen profile. Therefore the immune system will attack and destroy with extreme prejudice. However a highly inbred population may lack the sufficient genetic diversity to have individually unique antigen profiles. In the extreme case if we were all clones we could pass tumors back and forth with ease.

The short answer is that it would be virtually impossible to see any widespread cases of clonally transmissible cancers in non-immunocompromised humans.
Wait, so, more women than men get bachelors and graduate degrees. And, women are almost at parity with men for faculty positions [1]. But, yet only a small portion of women get tenure. I'm calling Occam's Razor here.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_315.10.a...
> I agree some people would do it... but I doubt it would be such a large number. Do you have any data about this?

No, nothing more than anecdotal. But I'd argue 'some people' when you're operating on the scale of the hundreds of millions-billions that Apple operates at, would still be hundreds of thousands of support requests from users who have inadvertently made their phone unusable (using some jailbreak tweaks as a reference) to extremely annoying (referencing many android apps that abuse push notifications for advertising).

> Users can already do that in Windows, macOS, and Android. From my anecdotal experience very few do it.

I used to work IT for a school system, and I had an entirely different experience. Teachers would occasionally ask for help with their personal laptops (without our AD) and they were near universally a minefield of toolbars and adware. There's obviously some self-selection in there, but if the 5% of teachers couldn't handle a computer responsibly, that would be a big problem for Apple if they added more ways for users to screw themselves.

Of course, all this is anecdotal, so I'm not expecting this conversation to really convert either of us.
Reminds me of two works of science fiction:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

and

Red October
>"If it was a high-return fruit somebody would be doing it." Not necessarily.
With high likelihood given current funding of ML with $$$ applications but yes, not necessarily.

> AI benchmarcks are what direct progress in AI

Sadly this is largely true.

The AI benchmarks + culture around it are the bullshit.

What actually moves forward the field of AI is:

- accessible

- reproducible

- comprehensible

results done with some thought and reasoning which is explained well, published well, and justified by more than some #$!& "our F1 score went up by 2 therefore our approach makes sense" bullshit.

AI benchmarks have done as much to retard progress in AI as they have to promote it.

Current AI benchmark top scores are gamification for big companies to waste even more resources running algorithms they can't explain. They are not machine learning, they are machine pissing contests.
The article doesn't attempt to control for any variance that would lead to unequal outcomes even if there were no bias.

For example, men make up the majority of people with very high (and very low) IQ's. If you randomly sampled the general population, binned to the IQ distribution of tenured professors, what gender ratio would you get?
Okay I gave this a chance and while it has a formidably long citation list every argument essentially boils down to difference found between men/women =MUST BE SEXISM.

The rest is generally the author like most 3rd wave feminists using these few vague usually deeply flawed correlative data points as a jumping point for wild theorycrafting and speculation. And they salt the article liberally with words like 'patriarchy' and a generally hostile tone to the point that this reads more like a forum post on resetera than an actual technical/scientific article.

Which is fine as long as everybody realizes contribution quality to HN is apparently now random blog musings the likes of which hundreds? of thousands/millions are generated everyday by the vast swath of upper/middle class privileged coeds of the western world and their male hangerons.
Not exactly on topic but after skimming the article and then the comments, there seems to be — albeit a very understandable — misunderstanding of what is being done in the field and how the public views and uses terminology.

People hear or read the words Machine Learning and assign a HAL like technology to it.

It’s definitely hard to explain an idea like SVM, it’s applications, and how it works/what it does without a background in some linear algebra.

And then to broach more complicated topics like temporal real time neural networks in computer vision for something like anomaly detection.

From my conversations with people because it’s something that isn’t understood there is almost a cognitive dissonance. One of which expects so much now, but at the same time denies the future application space when the conversation becomes more personal. “Why aren’t self driving cars a thing yet...” and then “A machine couldn’t do what I do.”

It’s worrying that there will definitely be regulation coming to the field, where the people writing the laws and the people the writers represent have a hard time understanding what they are trying to regulate. Add in the fact that the tech itself is somewhat cheap and will only get less expensive. You only have to look as far as the Deep Fakes fiasco on Reddit. The guy creating fakes of celebrities being superimposed on porn is a self proclaimed amateur and was able to accomplish a quite a bit at home with Keras.

Edit:

I do want to mention that a lot of the papers I’ve read recently on real time anomaly detection rely on automated labeling and not having human labelers.

It’s only important to have human readable labels if a human has to interpret directly.
Lone star tick proteins&red meat allergy–IgE production&hypersensitivity in mice
From what I understand it’s moreso for institutional investors that have lots of capital they need to park somewhere. Making the bet that the gov will be around longer the bank

But for retail investors who can store their money in a FDIC insured savings account it’s not clear why they would buy negative yield bonds.
I'm also curious about this. Does it mean that people are betting that $Y will be more valuable than future cash equivalent of $X due to inflation?
Haha no problem, you're not an idiot! You still explained why this is relevant to pilots, which is helpful to know.
Googler not on Cloud team, but using Google Cloud Platform for an internal project. I've encountered my share of bugs and other flaws while using this platform. I think all these platforms are just too damn complex and brittle. It's easy for even a smart SWE or SRE to overlook one little thing that will bring down a bigger part of system.
The problem with that is most people don't have the time or inclination to open up and review and learn about every aspect of all the issues facing the world today. Because of that people with large audiences should be careful of trying to be a neutral platform for ideas in general because just by bringing a person on you're saying something about the worth of listening to that person.

For example news shows have for decades presented both sides of issues like climate change by having a representative from both the denial and the pro side on their shows on equal footing, out of a fear of seeming biased. That from the jump without framing puts the two sides on equal footing making it look like it's two equally supported side of the argument where it's not.

Ideally the fix would be for everyone to have and take the time to examine everything they're being shown on the news (though this gets hard because Google is much better for finding things that support your existing views than what goes against it and there's plenty of places out there with interests in misinforming, whether it's for their own business interests directly or it's just profitable to be the contrarian view point) but changing everyone's habits is hard so it's more effective to hold the people giving platforms to these fringe viewpoints and try to get them to realize that just putting a person on your show is taking a stance on saying these ideas are worth listening to (at the very least).

edit: In addition just bringing people on to a show has the effect of exposing them to new people who hadn't seen them before and may not know the context of who they are which can drastically change the interpretation of what they're saying.
Consumer demand is there because driving and plastics are extremely cheap compared to the alternatives, in large part because externalities are not priced in.
>what are you doing to weather the (inevitable) storm?

Stay invested in equities. Keep some cash on hand as an emergency fund in case you lose your job, but just don't sell your stocks when the market is down. Stay diversified and stay in the market.
FB post this is all based on is missing.
You are correct. For some reason, I keep seeing this history repeated over and over, but even the chart in the article confirms you're correct. Firefox was taking over like crazy before Chrome came along...
While color vision deficiency was considered, I wouldn't go nearly as far as saying that it was a first class citizen in the development of this colormap, which is unfortunate.

Per my reading of the blog post, they ran some images through a random color vision deficiency simulation website and decided that they looked good enough; while lightness plots are displayed for normal color vision, no such plots are shown for simulated color vision deficiency. Also, best I can tell, the simulator they used is based on a 1988 paper [1] instead of more recent and accurate techniques [2].

For an example of where color vision deficiency was actually properly considered for the development of a colormap, see Cividis [3].

[1] https://doi.org/10.1109/38.7759
[2] https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.113
[3] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199239
Afriend contracted a dengue like fever from Budapest. I thought he was going to die, and his joint pain was unbelievable...in every joint.
I see you arent merely satisfied with your neck being bent out of shape from looking down at a 13" laptop screen, you want to snap it straight off your body
I've written both a json parser and a C compiler. My point is that your argument is stupid and so are you.
that doesnt explain why every other interpreted language ive ever used doesnt have this problem.

its a julia issue that the devs refuse to acknowledge or even test
Europe’s top data protection regulator, Giovanni Buttarelli, has died
"That made him an appealing borrower to an unconventional lender, according to Tom Jessop, a loan consultant at New American Funding. Mr. Jessop arranged a $675,000 loan on the $1.1 million property, leaving the lender with a significant buffer should Mr. Licht default."

Also, this is a TERRIBLE example of a pending subprime crisis. A guy borrows $675K on a $1.1 million property.
The only reason I can think of is to mitigate the downside risk of financial collapse. These are banks buying these bonds. Banks which might be worried that short term financial pressures might tempt the governments might to reach for their cash positions. I would rather hold some negative-yield bonds instead of cash in that scenario.
Cool visualization! One thing that isn't mentioned is the difference between true and magnetic compass directions. The runway illustration shows a runway 05 with a heading of 50°. The illustration makes it look like these are true degrees, since 0° is at the top as it would be in a typical map aligned with true north.

But runways are not named by their true heading, they are named by their magnetic heading. It's generally not a huge difference, for example true and magnetic north are about 12° apart at JFK in New York. But it's something that one would want to take into account in any simulation or visualization like this.
If it's a large amount of money, you might decide to put it in a bank so that you don't have to worry about it being stolen.

Once it is in a bank now you have to play the game of trying to figure out the comparative risk between the bank not being around any more 30 years from now, versus the chance that the German government will have forgotten how to operate the money printing presses.

Of course, since this is the EU, I'd actually be rather worried about the latter. Unlike sovereign currency countries, EU countries do not just get to print Euros. A lot can happen in 30 years, especially to a country with 1.5 births per woman like Germany.
If you take out a bunch of cash you have to store it. If you move it to an international market you suffer currency risk. If you think that the Euro is going to go up like crazy (if you forecast deflation) and you also think that every other European government has a pretty bad default risk, then you'll happily accept negative yields. Don't forget that it costs money to guard a warehouse full of cash.
Certain investment funds and pension funds have mandates that require them to buy investment grade or sovereign debt
You have to be a grade A retard to push over a robot that is so clearly fitted with dozens of cameras.
We haven't managed such a thing for commerce and finances, though. Elections have far more consequences than money moving, as well, so failures are much worse and less tolerated.

In NYC recently I did some ecommerce. I paid for 5 delivery meals and 4 of them were stolen by the drivers. Amazon is full of fraudulent products. Banks in the US are full of loopholes, like ACH not providing sufficient auth. Trust in commerce and finances online are low. Systems fail frequently, and "only money" is lost by big corps usually, so it's not considered a big deal to the general public. I would not use that as a model for elections.
When the time is right, Adam will change the company voting structure and get WeWork put into the S&P 500. If all goes well, it will be at a $500b mkt cap, and everyone in VOO and SPY will be the ones paying that price.
If you have several million Euros to invest in fixed income securities, that would be a very large mattress. Even if you deposit it in a bank, what do they do with the money if yields are negative? Charge rent for the space, I guess.
I believe the news here is a resurgence of growth in a mortgage type that has otherwise been declining or stagnant the last 10 years, not so much an alarm about the current state of affairs. So what you said is correct and all, but I think you miss the point.
They're not really comparable. If someone steals your banking info, the bank can use their funds to restore your money, and that also means they're incentivized to prevent fraud. What happens if something goes wrong during voting? Are the incentives of the people running the system aligned with voters' interests?
So for an institutional investor, a negative yield bond is essentially a hedge against bank failure?
To save anyone else some time if they stumble across my comment... It creates multiple revisions, even from distinct forks, based on what appears to be the repo name (cloud-run-hello).

First run from a fork:

This created the revision "cloud-run-hello-00001" of the Cloud Run service "cloud-run-hello"...

After changing the button's HTML to point to my repo on my fork:

This created the revision "cloud-run-hello-00002" of the Cloud Run service "cloud-run-hello"...
It's a fee for them to hold onto your money because you're a big institution and required by laws or regulations to hold a certain percentage in "safe" bond type investments.
Thanks for this. I had no idea this was possible. Nice little project to try.
After a quick browse through lists on both days:

- Where have all the IoT companies gone?

- Cool seeing machine learning being used inside applications (The audio analyzer to separate and boost voices for conference calls comes to mind)

- Surprised at how many "meh" reactions I had. Too many grocery/fashion and not enough bio/energy game changers and I left feeling mostly uninspired by overall visions.

More power to everyone hustling out there though.
Individual investors would probably not buy these. It's a lot harder to keep $100m under the proverbial mattress: not FDIC-insurable, literal cash requires guards, etc. And anything else you buy to store the value (gold for instance) has higher volatility and risk than these negative-interest bonds. So the theory would go, anyway.
Exactly. And voting on paper to me seems hackable as well, just with different methodologies, such as Gerrymandering.
You can have different forms of meet-ups as well. My current company has the yearly gathering, plus the employees who live locally have a monthly lunch. None of them are on my team, but it still makes for some nice work-oriented socializing.
They write faster than anyone who writes better.
Yeah, that's just not true. With appropriate investment alternative energy technology today can replace all fossil energy sources. You just have to build the wind turbines and the solar panels, and the batteries, and the power-to-gas facilities. It's expensive to change the entire energy supply, but its doable.
NASA have a cool 6 part series on how to use colour for visualisations here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/...
I've seen this on a smaller scale where a family farm would be left for the next generation when whoever owned it passed. The children who they left the farm to for whatever reason could not afford the taxes so the entire community would show up to the auction, and not bid on it so the original owner's son could purchase it and keep it in the family.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/farmers-stay-silent-during-a...
Well, you still can't do that—WASM doesn't have DOM bindings, you'd still have to ship out to JS. I believe that's a goal, so yes eventually that could be a benefit, but not at the moment.
>an email from my ISP

That's pretty funny. I am from Kazakhstan myself and our largest (pretty much monopolist) internet provider has been encouraging ""piracy"" for as long as I can remember.

About 10 years ago a bunch of local media companies (making money from selling badly translated Hollywood movies/video games/etc) lobbied a new law making operating all torrent trackers illegal, and banning access to everything they could find carpet bombing-style.

Well, the ban lasted for less than a week, and was lifted after some heavy lobbying by said provider, who was beginning to lose a share of their most valuable customers.

Here's another anecdote: in ~2012, when I was getting an FTTH connection, their representative used a popular torrent on my machine to measure the upload/download speeds through the freshly laid cable.
NASA: Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6)
Yea that’s a good way to think about it
This will make better sense if you treat money as a trading product with supply and demand.

Negative yield on an investment means the banks and investors believe the amount of money will shrink in 30 years due to less demand in the future or too much supply right now. They further believe that the yield while negative is still better than the amount of money shrinkage down the line. Thus a negative yield investment is still a sound investment.
Can't banks just deposit the money as reserves with the ECB and earn zero? I suppose in the 30 year case maybe you're assuming that the ECB won't pay zero on reserves in the future, but how does that explain the short term rates?
> Those of you (US) with large stock/cash positions: what are you doing to weather the (inevitable) storm

I follow the traditional advice of doing nothing and not trying to time the market.
Very true in Nicaragua, and not only a surge in cases, this year strand seems to be a really bad one, it lowers the platelets to very low levels, causing internal bleeding, while the body is dumping all the iron trying to fight the infection.