skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fair question, and there's an argument that's been made (though I'm unable to recall precisely where I ran across it, possibly in a New Books in Economics podcast) that while interest rates might once have been considered exogenous (market-determined) they are now endogenous (central-bank determined).

Which would mean that interest rates are (more or less) what CBs want them to be, at least within the bounds defined by inflation. Which presumably they want to be kept low presently.
I have some visibility to a tiny community bank started by some folks and then grew into a larger bank over time. They were mostly a consumer bank (consumer banking, small business type loans, etc) with some side banking related activity.

Paradoxically (well seemingly so) the best time for them to buy or merge with other small community banks was if there was an area they wanted to be in ... that was doing well economically. That was the time to look around at the local banks that they might want to pickup, or those banks actually came to them.

Local small (usually rural / suburban) community banks would find themselves in a bad spot as the locals were doing well financially, paying off loans early, not really borrowing much, and the locals with their extra money started stuffing it into the local bank. Businesses expanded, but they were able to do so with short term or very limited loans.

The local small bank found itself flush with cash, and nobody who wanted it (well not nobody but you get it). That was the time for the other bank to swoop in and save them as they could provide a larger regional reach (and some side businesses that benefited from being backed by all that cash) to areas that still wanted that money for loans.
It's fun and all to dump on WeWork, but at the end of the day they are going to get what they want. Why? Because no one on planet earth pays more fees to the banks than Softbank.
> It also seems clear that e-cig manufacturers are hoping to hook young non-smokers to expand their market.

This is mentioned a lot, but I find it questionable. I’ve never seen an ad that made me feel like Joe Camel or the Marlboro Man did when I was a kid. My teenagers haven’t ever thought vaping was cool based on ads or plenty of people doing it. This sounds too much like a general truism of capitalist enterprise—always find ways to expand your markets—while combining it with a direct accusation that it’s being done perniciously to “hook” them. Everyone who is selling anything is trying to hook people on their product, if that’s the terminology we’re using—new clothes, new cars, new TVs, the latest deals ... every company is using advertising to hook people on their products. People go into financial ruin for cars and homes and stupid stuff. Maybe we should just ban advertising to people so no company can try to hook young people on their products to expand their markets.
>It has nothing to do with the prime rate, and I have no idea where you got that idea.

Everything you say is true, but its also true over 90% of subprime loans were ARMS (adjustable rate mortgages)[1], leading to the subprime mortgage crisis, where the interest rates started off below prime and gradually increased to over prime to compensate for the risk of the borrower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
I like your point about incentivizing high turnout (and the resulting inter-state race for turnout). I wouldn't necessarily equate it with lax election laws though.

Oregon (where I live) is blessed with vote-by-mail -- it affords high turnout with high vote verifiability. Being able to consider & research arguments on both sides of the issues and candidates in detail before voting is fantastic.
Again, you keep bringing these up, by they are not the same thing as WASM.

Graal does not have a standard binary interchange format for compiled C/Rust/etc.-style programs; it requires per-language support for them and works in terms of program source.

The CLR's C++ support is nothing like WebAssembly C++- you either FFI to native code, bypassing the VM, or you compile a limited subset of C++ to unverified bytecode- and the latter doesn't support newer language standards and is being phased out.

WebAssembly solves both of these problems- existing compilers for any unmodified language can target its standard binary interchange format the same way they would target a hardware architecture, and run within its sandbox. WebAssembly doesn't need to add support for them, or know anything about their source form.
You should consider The JAMstack, a new web paradigm where a user requests an HTML file and the server gives it to them.
I think your point about rehabilitation and "paying one's debt to society" is very valid. Unfortunately in Epstein's case the punishment hardly fit the crime, ultimately he served 13 out of an 18 month sentence. "after 3 1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours"[0]

Ito visited Epstein several times at Epstein's residences, which all apparently are plastered with enough "art" to make someone question if he really was a "reformed" sex offender. It should be perfectly clear to everyone that Ito understood two things: Epstein wasn't rehabilitated and Ito could claim enough plausible deniability if his dirty laundry ever got aired. His apology would be more meaningful if he actually donated to charities out of his own pocket rather than promising to externally raise funds...

Check out the his Wikipedia entry on how lax that sentence was.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
I've had a system with two quad-core CPUs running at 100% load under my desk for many days, whisper-quiet.
I was following the convention of putting my comments in plain text, and quotes from the article within quotation marks (with what I consider key portions italicized for (my) emphasis).

Apologies that that wasn't clear, hopefully this explanation clears up any misunderstanding.
C# is the largest language for sure but it was designed for multiple languages from the start. There are things you can do in CIL and other languages that you can't do in C# even. Functional languages and pattern matching can be expressed quite well in .NET which aren't in C# (at least not yet fully).

I think the statement that the CLR ties you to C# is not justified. Can you elaborate why you think this is the case?

Also, WASM is not tied to JavaScript. You can't even compile JavaScript to WASM because it doesn't support the necessary primitives. In fact other languages that are completely different than JavaScript compile to WASM much easier.
This is incorrect. A Mass license is valid 5 years.

https://blog.massdrive.com/2012/03/26/renewing-your-license-...
In the traditional paper ballot process you can observe and verify that all the votes there are recorded correctly, you just can't tell which one of these was yours, they're indistinguishable. (The local practice is that if you mark your ballot to be distinguishable - e.g. that the observers could record that Bob voted that way - that invalidates it).

And it's not just a theoretical possibility to observe - I don't know how USA does it, but for my area the counting at each district is generally observed by multiple people, including (but not limited to) the representatives of all serious parties.
Yes, that's how everything is valued. This is why transaction data is used to determine valuations of just about anything.
Well hindsight is 20-20, and anyone commenting on the bombs has the luxury of decades of historical analysis of the war.

My understanding is that the nuclear bombs were approximately as destructive as the fire-bombing technique. (Commonly used in the war) If we fire bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as many lives would be lost but we would never talk about it.

The difference is that fire bombing required many more planes and many more bombs, thus increasing American military risk. Enemy civilian casualties would be similar.
It even works both ways. I know people here in NYS who don't go to the polls to vote Democrat because they know they don't have to—the state as a whole voting Democrat is a foregone conclusion, so what does their vote matter?
Google and apple coming to San Diego with decent sized offices. Lots of biotech investment here as well.
I suppose it depends on their individual immune systems. If they didn't live in close contact, they may not share the same immune system. One may have a weaker immune system than the other making it possible for the cancer to spread easily one way but not the other.
Looks like great stuff. Wonder if I can use this with Web Scraping Language (https://scrapeit.netlify.com/)
Goroutines only require a slightly fat runtime. Haskell uses basically the same mechanism, with C interoperability, and all it takes is starting (and optionally, stopping) the runtime.
The key is basic competence in configuration management, siem and most importantly segmentation.

Patch and have configuration standards.

Segmentation is harder. Keep systems separated and minimize admin privilege.
RDS is always behind when it comes to their extensions, especially for PostgreSQL.
While not exactly cheap in absolute terms, there is the Blackbird from Raptor. It's a single-CPU board, cheaper than Talos.
It really depends on the platform and how you go about communicating.

(Note: I'm a guy.. so consider that for my experience/opinions)

OkCupid doesn't really do much for those who want to communicate. (It should close you off to people who haven't already said they're interested) As a guy, unless you're a sadist, you have to spam. The best way that I've heard of is to have a generic/catchy text and slightly modify it based on the profile. Most women who are looking at the messages aren't giving a lot of consideration to each message. (Pure economics) Plus they won't pursue. (Nothing is stopping them. They don't even on Bumble [hi and . aren't starting messages ladies])

Also, from my experience the best thing you have to do on these platforms is to:

1. Boost your pictures

2. Boost your profile content (get it reviewed by people who know what they're talking about) [See their success, r/OkCupid is really low quality feedback, but it's better than a lot of other feedback that I've gotten]

3. Find a way to get ranked better by their algorithm (i.e. boosts on tinder)

4. Prioritize messaging people who have already stated their interest in your first (Buy A list to see who liked you)
With all the advancements in ML, there's a new set of lowest hanging fruit, and it's incredibly exciting.
In many ways, if you can wait, this is good for you. It means at some point in the fairly near future, people will take advantage of this, the lenders will realize they made a terrible mistake, a crash will happen, and prices will deflate a lot.

Save even harder now :)
>Just because Florida is

To be fair, I believe that is not the case across the state, just certain areas (i.e. county level).
Yes, that's the definition as it certainly "feels" like to many men. And because it's perceived this way, it's mission is hamstrung from the word go.
Curious. And yet a video I flagged recently that shows mice being electrocuted to death still hasn't been taken down. It has 7.8 million views so I can't imagine I'm the only one who's reported it.
Propylene glycol is a food additive. It is also used in "safe" anti freeze. It is not the same as Ethylene glycol which is common automotive anti freeze and very toxic.
Something I noticed in web searching for programming questions is to align your problem to the problems of others. That is, generalize and change your question until it hits a common ground. Or try to search for more "lower level" questions from which answers you can compose the original question's answer. Depending on your problems, the actual programming language might not be relevant. And the "verb" might be ignored by Google.

Furthermore, I find StackOverflow a brilliant ressource, especially for beginners.
WebGL bindings are on the same footing as DOM bindings- they're not an alternative in this sense, because insofar as we have one we already have the other.
Here in Russia (and I assume in other countries too) we have rules where the mark can be put and where it cannot be, so if you write anything outside of the box, it won't be counted.
Interesting, have a link to the Zillow prediction?
I agree that the root cause of a lot of it (although not all of it) is funding. I basically share your perspective about long-term funding. I personally would like to see indirect costs in the US eliminated, or much more heavily reduced, audited, and justified. I also think there needs to be dramatic shifts in funding along the lines of what you mention. Proposals have already been floated, by former federal funding heads no less, along these lines. Lotteries would be good, as would awards based on merit rather than application (Hungary's model of funding people based on bibliometric factors is a good idea, even if it runs into the problem of gaming citations as pointed out here). Longer-term funds also seem like a good idea, which is the whole idea of tenure in theory.

There are other factors at play too, that are harder for me to pin down. Funding models are a big problem, but there's something related to attention-seeking or metrification at play too. Some of this has probably always been around, but in talking to older colleagues I get the sense that things are much more splashy and fad-driven than they used to be, with much greater pressure to produce in volume. A colleague explained that when it's that much easier to write and publish a paper, there's more of an expectation that you do more of them, even though the idea development time isn't any shorter.
"The electoral college system is an absolute sham that deprives a significant number of people of their Constitutionally-guaranteed right to fair representation at the federal level."

Yet the constitution defines the presidential election as being done by the representatives of the state's electoral college: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors."

The NPV interstate pact may not even itself be constitutional as it ignores the Article I, Section 10 requirement that interstate compacts receive congressional consent.
"Winner takes all" problem refers to the Congress, not presidential elections.
It's funny how this comment in article about an American child sex trafficker that abused American children [1] somehow makes it about unprosecuted rich people in everywhere but the USA.

> I suspect this is mostly moral posturing and virtue signalling

Indeed, though I refer to a different "this".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Civil_cases
I've taught a few friends the basics by using codecademy's free javascript course while also tutoring.
Unless they've changed it, it has you build a simple console cash register.
It introduces each of it's concepts very organically, & if they get stuck on any of javascript's idiosyncrasies I'm there.
Here's a good presentation by Michael Ossmann on DIY retroreflectors with a HackRF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAai6dRAtFo
>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.

Its not a trick, just something the Borrower's en mass did not understand. They just understood the initial low payments, anyway as I replied above, leading to the mortgage crisis over 90% of subprime loans were ARMS that started off below prime and gradually increased. I did use the word "generally" because its not all, but I think 90%+ is a good use of generally.
The really open secret part is the weirdness about his homes. Nude art, chessboard with half nude figurines of his staff.
Why aren't they issuing updates on the hardware itself? Their website says they will begin shipping preorders in Q3 2019 - so they have about 40 days before they miss that (unless they're already shipping and we haven't heard about it, but I suspect the day the first device goes in the mail they'll announce it)
Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories (2015)
.... Hit the dead horse with the foam bat and win an iPod?

Those were the old days. Or, that damned monkey!
> The U.S. sounds more and more like a dystopia to me.

> Germany having an ID is a matter of fact

Having an id as a matter of fact sounds more dystopian than a country where you aren't required to identify yourself at any given time.
You're lovely.
> National Popular Vote (NPV) would reward states with lax election laws - the higher the turnout, legal or not, the more power for that state.

Illegal voting is already illegal, and states can already in theory do shady things in their elections (and some probably already do). The courts should absolutely go after this, and I don't see NPV really changing this.

> The NPV system focus the most energy on states with a high population in this condition.

Perhaps so, but the one of the main points of NPV is for state boundaries to be meaningless for campaigning. Maybe politicians should spend more time in densely populated areas because, well, there are more people there.

> What would happen when there are charges of skullduggery? Would states really trust, with no power to verify, other state’s returns?

Do states currently trust that other states hold fair elections to determine how their electors vote? I don't see any change here.
>No, those are teasers with a low-fixed rate for 2,3 or 5 year,

Not "teasers" but ARMS, and 90%+ of subprime loans were ARMs leading to the mortgage crisis.
It's also one of the primary ingredients in most e-cigarette vape fluids too, and used in fog machines for the same reason.
Much less walking around while serving his sentence...

"While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was after 3 1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.

Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, before he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriff's Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not). He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments."

Info on his wikipedia page is well sourced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
There's a trade off here in that replicating data decreases the read load but increases the write load. If you have a chunk hot with writes, increasing the replication will make things worse, not better.
> The Vietnamese government is actually pretty good in terms of freedoms.

Wait, what? They recently kidnapped an ex-party member in germany. It was 2017 or so. I can't believe that a country which honors you freedom would do something like this.
Indeed. 500€ bill was known as "Bin Laden" because it was so hard to find one. It was estimated that 90% of the bills were held by drug dealers, money launderers and other criminals.
For a very long time, I'd show up to vote, say my full name, and they'd ask for a street name or house number, and I'd tell them, and they'd strike out my name and hand me a ballot to go vote. That was the identification process.

Now, same state, I get the ballot mailed to me, it has my name on it, it's bar coded, I vote, put it in an envelope, mail it back or drop it at a collection box for this purpose, and I get an email telling me I've voted. That kind of tracking gives me a frowny face. I don't know that they have a way to associated my vote with me, but they know whether or not I've voted, same as before.

Anyway, other states are different, where they have onerous ID requirements, including government issued photo ID, because the like that sort of thing. There's not much to be done about it.
Eventually, when the application reaches production, you'll have cobbled together a unique subset of Django.

That's the downside of Flask.
Osmo-fl2k – osmo-fl2k – open-source Mobile Communications
> A market economy and a political system that favors the middle class over both the first and fourth quartiles could defeat our current system.

That's pretty much been proven by Ch1na.
Thanks for your comment. This is good advice about keeping efforts to improve the system non-partisan - it's the only practical way to get people who disagree with each other to both agree to a fairer system.
I guess you don't remember ActiveX, do you?
I've worked with extremely competent security professionals before. Those people love and are fanatical about security. Based on my experience, it seems a near certainty that Valve doesn't employee even a single such person. These people raise hell if security is ignored and have a job freedom that makes typical software engineers look like panhandlers.
>Terrible consultants, middlemen, and lifers making progress too hard or impossible.

I can mostly only echo hearsay, however I have been tangentially involved in government-focused projects. The big issue I see with the government getting involved in tech is that they don't know what they really want, they don't know how to filter out bullshit/upsells, and they'll frequently overpay for things they don't need and underpay for things that would be very helpful.

I'm not one of those people who wants to defund the government or privatize everything, however I do think the government incentive structure needs to be redesigned and become less cushy while simultaneously becoming more lucrative, accompanied by a huge culture change. The government isn't inherently inefficient, it's only like that because we let it be, one has only to look at other countries (see: Estonia, China) to see how much more effective we could be here.

Regarding actual spending, I want to measure that by its effectiveness, not by the total amount spent. The government could blow all its money on tech initiatives and EMR upgrades and have nothing to show for it, and I wouldn't call that helping people domestically. To address your examples, a lot of those grants are for defense contractors (which only indirectly helps people, at best, and is itself a pretty corrupt old-boys industry). Others are for things like direct academic research though, which I do think is decently well run in general, but isn't really a direct government relationship to tech.
A 16 year old can't be a prostitute (they can't consent to have sex with an adult). It's called child rape, and yes most people consider that to rank particularly high on the moral failings list.