skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what's happening with bonds. The underlying fundamentals do support a higher price if interest rates go down. The price would then stay there until interest rates rise. In all of these cases the market price is fully rational and fully supported.
Upwork yeah, not top talent they claim to use top 2% of devs I feel more top 40% I'm definitely good but not 10x good. I've been holding off till I'm more confident.
Seeing as it's making fun of a fossilized religious fundamentalism, it's appropriate to leave out more contemporary positions.
> Because China exploits their loans to have leverage over the countries they deal with - there won't be any criticism of the Muslim Gulags or the oppression in Hong Kong from any country that has loans to China.

What developing country getting a loan from China was ever going to change Chinas domestic policy otherwise? If all of the West who does billions in trade can hardly make a dent I doubt its worth reducing trade and capital flow to African, latin America, and South Asian countries as a consequence.
It's the same topics as first-year linear algebra, but now done "for real" using algorithms that scale.

Part I: SVD = bread and butter in industry with lots of applications in ML and stats, engineering stuff too, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UoFyqJca8 )

Part II: Solving Linear Systems = 70% of science can be describes as A*x=b where A is a matrix and x and b are vectors. Spoiler alert: the "find the RREF algorithm" that we learn in first-year LA is not the most efficient (or numerically stable) option.

Part III: Eigenvalues "for real" this time = e.g. iterative solution methods that scale. The flagship application of this idea would be the initial PageRank algorithm that works on the adjacecy matrix representaiton of the graph of all webpages (millions of columns, see http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf )

So to summarize, this course covers all kinds of topics that you don't need to know if you want to apply LA to small and medium data, but for large scale stuff would be really good to know.
I think Rust macros and C++ templates are not lazy wrt execution.
I wonder what are the possibilities of that happening? It is sort of the indicator of how much Vietnamese hate China, by settling with US.
Flashy cars and houses in nice neighborhoods make for nice status symbols. Who sees your credit card, beyond you and your server, cashier, etc?
Ask HN: How would tech ecosystem of your dream look like?
In the context of this post,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20754592/ (A dream of an ultimate OS),

I wanted to ask what you're missing in our current tech, which hangovers you would get rid of first.

As if everything was being designed from scratch, taking into account all the mistakes we've learnt.
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Every non-swing state (including Texas and Wyoming) is when it comes to electing the president.
I already sold 3 companies doing the agile thing, I'm quite aware of the known problem/unknown solution approach. This time I'm more interested in the unknown problem/unknown solution space and, for this particular project, that meant inventing a new branch of mathematics to solve a particularly hairy problem.
Really, whether or not it's new or old is a complete red herring. As is whether or not it has historically helped on candidate or another. The issue is whether or not it's a vunlerability.

Complaining that "it's always been that way" is like saying, "We've been pwned that way for a decade. Why should we fix that security hole?"

I find it incredible that people don't look at elections with the same critical eye that they do software security systems. The other cool thing is that all of your candidates for president are chosen by proxy vote! So as long as you can subvert the people who have all the proxy votes, you can choose who can even enter the election! Heck, you can stuff up both sides just for giggles. How much is the POTUS worth? Surely billions.
Then you make it worthless I guess
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Ahh ok thanks for the information and the links I appreciate it. So the tax cut brought us from the top of the pack to the middle of the pack.
With a lot of the music played on tv and radio, sure. Same old recipe where friendly corps are trying to capitalize on "pop music" they can pump out with their many song writers, hand crafted stars, contracted labels, and the handful of companies that own every radio station across the country. Never been a good barometer of where everything is headed IMO.

There seems to be this resurgence of not-that-stuff coming out. Sturgil Simpson, Brent Cobb, Colter Wall, Cody Jinks, Jason Eady, Tyler Childers, etc. (there are many)

I say this as somebody who has never been a fan of country. Some of the most interesting stuff feels like its in their category. But I do agree almost none of it is what I've ever heard on the tv or radio. Not much new there, in my experience.
People adopt this primarily because the card is titanium. It's a status symbol. Remove the card and you kill adoption. Paying with NFC will never seem as sexy as a paying with titanium. It's somewhat orthogonal to Apple's long-term goal of getting everyone to pay with Apple: in entrenches the coolness of physical payment methods over contactless.
>> No such lock-in exists with WeWork. In fact the entire reason for WeWork's existence is it doesn't have lock-in.

This isn't true for their expanding customer base: Businesses who are paying for blocks of co-working memberships to expand through services rather than finding new leases themselves. There is significant lock-in when this occurs, as people may move close to those WeWork locations, arrange their life around it, etc.
> Decontextualizing the nature of the interview and soundbite into a headline is not responsible journalism IMO

No, not particularly. However, having read both the contents and the piece the and summary of the "rebuttal", I find the headline sufficiently accurate. If find the headline more accurate that your attempt to characterize it as "the kind of headline one would engineer to dismiss Chinese perspectives"

>as for the balancing Chinese perspective, it was one paragraph of people who are disturbed that the publication is "synonymous with government propaganda" and a more detailed examination of one named individual who is apathetic towards the role of journalism to further support the narrative that Chinese students are "melon-eating masses".

I count 11+ paragraphs that detail the opinions of 3 different Chinese individuals (Xiao, Fang and Huang) and they are not presented as monolithic.
Maybe it’s their way of celebrating 100 years of the Bauhaus?

To me, the weirdest thing is seeing a customer service webpage for a credit card in the design language and rhetoric of computer hardware support.

It somehow feels similar to the recently discussed WeWork criticism of them not actually being a tech company, yet masquerading as one through design.
Someone understood that stock options and promises are not reliable guarantee of compensation in case of an exit in a SV startup scene.

Fairness lesson learned?
It's the literal financialization of a technology company. But, to be more specific: Apple was the company to make such a move. Apple is a brand people identify with. Even if adoption is tepid, imagine how well a "Microsoft Card" would do.
"Authoritarian regimes are rarely fair and are not particularly interested in the financial well being of the population."

if you think Chinese government is authoritarian, then it is an exception coz it does care and try its best to improve the financial well being of the population. and it is the social contract between China government and its people. you need to realize that even "authoritarian" governments are quite different.
> it's very convenient for making simple UIs.

It's not that convenient on Linux though...
>I am deeply sorry to the survivors,

This is very strange phrasing. I would certainly say victims.

Perhaps English isn’t his native tongue, but I doubt he wrote this himself or alone. It seems to both eschew responsibility and subtly remind everyone to be grateful it wasn’t worse.
I have been using Apple Card now for about two weeks and I have to say the physical card is nothing short of marketing genius by Apple.

The 2% unlimited cash back now has me using Apple Pay everywhere. At places that don't have it, I have to pull out the titanium card. Almost every place I go to people ask what is this card? Am I an Apple employee? Keep in mind, most places have never seen a titanium card before because they are typically given to extremely high net work individuals by AMEX and Visa.

After explaining what the card is. They invariably ask what is the benefit of the card. Being a nice guy, I explain them the benefits of the card.

The card is a conversation starter. It serves as an advertisement for people to sign up and it also serves as a way to get the establishment that you used the card to start accepting NFC payments.

None of this would be possible if the card was a crappy plastic material.
Have you tried vaping using those e-cigs that look realistic, have a light up tip, and deliver a reasonable throat hit?

For me the addiction was partly psychological around the form factor. Using "light sabre" style vapes didn't work. However I was able to wean myself off smokes using realistic e-cigs (which I also eventually quit).
Alternatively, have each congressional district elect its own elector instead of a statewide pool. It gets even more interesting if the ballot only shows the potential electors’ names, without any party affiliation.
Why EdX and not OpenCourseWare (OCW)? Before Coursera, a lot was freely available without having to go through the agreements and overhead required to access via a MOOC like EdX.

Harvard and UC Berkeley used to have an excellent OCW sites but they migrated a lot of content to EdX or elsewhere and removed it from their OCW sites. Stanford also took a lot of stuff off of their multiple OCW type of sites and moved it to Coursera or elsewhere. Thankfully, MIT still kept much of their stuff on their OCW site even after adding it to EdX.

Ten to fifteen years ago a lot of universities had sites imitating MIT OCW but now very few do. The trend has been to move very good freely available notes, etc., off of faculty webpages to behind Blackboard or similar logins; now there is little left that is publicly available and easily accessible without having to login to some site (or be tracked).

I spent a lot of time searching for reasons why universities went away from OCW. Apparently, people with hearing disabilities sued universities to get transcripts added to OCW courses that had videos on the grounds that lack of transcripts left them at a competitive disadvantage. This didn't make sense to me: many OCW courses had great course materials but no videos; courses with videos could simply release one video at a time with the next video held off until the general public / free users / people like me completed a transcript on a wiki type site of the previous lecture. (For some of those course materials, I would have gladly worked on transcripts on a wiki for free!)

In case there is anyone out there that isn't aware of any of these:

* https://www.oeconsortium.org/

* https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

* http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

* ...
I guess you can say that, but I think what I'm saying is a pretty standard position in QM:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32665/why-positi...
Maybe if Clinton had bothered to campaign in the Rust Belt, she would have won. Trump's politics was aimed at industrial workers, and Clinton thought she didn't need them to win. She bet wrong.
> As a consumer in North America, it's not easy. Japan has stronger national regulations, however, and beverage bottles universally have labels with either perforated strips or peel-up corners, to facilitate removal. Plastic caps are also easily removed from glass bottles - peel the cover back and it splits in half and releases from the bottle.

OTOH Japan wraps pretty much everything in plastic, usually multiple times over.
> When you do ironing, incremental cost of 5 shirts @ 3 minutes per shirt is 15 minutes.

3 mins? I iron my shirts, five a week, and it takes me 10-15 mins per shirt, depending on the shirt.
>until everyone has forgiven him

? The point OP was making is that the justice system is meant to have punished/rehabilitated him to a point where they are satisfied that he is no longer a danger to society.

If he hasn't served his time, then he shouldn't be walking free to do business with people.

Either it is legal for him to do business or it isn't, and it seems that it was legal for him to do business at that time.

The fact rich people seem to be able to manipulate the system to do easier/less time than others is a separate and very valid point.

Like OP said, if you or I did what he did, we'd be in jail forever.

Maybe in this case people should have known, but taking it to the extreme, citizens can't be expected to hire private investigators to learn about their business partners.
I don’t agree with it but people you go out with diner and pay for? There are plenty of times people see my card outside the server/cashier.
One aspect of the Electoral College is that it's a built in corruption firewall.

Right now, if an election system is "compromised" (electronically, corrupt officials, etc), it will affect that precinct, the local elections, possibly the state-wide races, and rarely the Presidential.

With a simple majority vote, a compromise anywhere in the system - adding or removing votes - impacts the system as a whole.
Wow. For me personally, that sounds like Distributed Event Sourcing Storage at scale.

I don't know if anybody observed but the article is so damn intuitive, it literally covered almost all the things. Often times when such articles are published I have to google it deeper to get a sense of its practical use.

I have one query: How efficient is the deletion (from disk) of chunks in a new distributed model?
My toy project that I ported from a Gtkmm article done in the days of "The C/C++ Users Journal" takes around 25 minutes to build from scratch on a Asus 1215B netbook (dual core, 8GB, HDD).

The original code, after being migrated to an up to date version of Gtkmm, takes a couple of seconds with GCC 7, not more than one minute if at all.

The big difference? I don't need to compile from scratch all the 3rd party dependencies.

With every release from Rust I do a clean build to assert how much it has improved.

It was much worse, so congrats on the work achieved thus far, but it is still a pain to set up a project from scratch.
The compact explicitly requires a much longer notice period than the time between Election Day and Inauguration Day if you want to pull out.
I think the physical card is (in part) an attempt to stimulate digital usage (especially in North America where adoption of Apple Pay is pretty low compared to other places like Europe). Give people something they're familiar with (a physical card), reward them with cashback (which they will likely use digitally), and eventually wean them off the physical card completely.
Oh yea, MemSQL and ClickHouse are also indeed relevant and in this category, except that ClickHouse doesn't support all of SQL and any table structure, so it's not a full-fledged DBMS.
Be carefull with this info, much depends on the factory. In the Netherlands we separate plastic and much cannot be recycled but new techniques and factories are being developed as a results of the constant stream of (at the moment!) worthless plastics. [0]

[0] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/06/18/weg-met-plastic-in-laag...
Need to make up you minds, did women 'work' long hours doing house work in the olden days or not?

Did they just laze around like the men did in this fantasy?

The whole idea is garbage, getting water can take half a day for men or women, is that not work?

If you're stuck starving and have malnourished kids, which was common, is that work or leisure?

If you start working hard at 13, does that count towards your hours that mostly only adults have to do in modern society?

Many people live in conditions pretty close to serfdom/pre industrial today, go tell them they work less.
Just curious, why did you got this card? There are tons of Chase and other cards with much better cashback and terms. Just wondering what advantage did you saw in this card.
OpenAI wants to move slow and not break anything
Telling addicts they "just need more willpower" is condescending and worthless advice.
I have a hobby: when I meet Americans I'm starting to tell them how lazy we Europeans tackle working. I mean the work / life balance for us means nothing since we do life first then work.

And I'm telling them another thing: for me it seems in America everybody is working. The president, the millionaire, the middle and lower classes. Nobody does the `healthy meaninglessness`.

Of course all these are friendly provocations. What surprises me is the cognitive dissonance they cause.
The risk is to agree to take a risk in a hope of a future payout without having any control over cap table and liquidation preferences.

Lesson learned?
More and more, my personal experience is "I'll Venmo you". The server doesn't want to deal with N cards. One card gets thrown in, everyone else transfers cash digitally.
In short, a non-static, continuous, non-deterministic neural network that can span infinite state by estimating an NP-hard convex optimization problem.
The integration with the wallet app is really nice, and it makes Apple Pay cheaper... which makes me want to use it more. I also appreciate the privacy stance.
What’s important to realize is that as a first time buyer, your goal is not to make an investment, but it’s to change your numéraire.

Basically, once you own your house you are no longer at risk with regards to the overall housing market. It may crash, and yes you will lose some dollar-value, but so will other houses, so you will still be able to sell/buy another comparable house.

If you don’t buy however, You may buy a better home in a few years (if there is a crash), but if the price continues to go up, you may need more money to buy the house you could buy today...
Yes, billions is right.

That's why I've always found "the Russians stole the election with $100k of Facebook ads!" comical.

Both Facebook and Putin wish they could get that kind of ROI.
Waymo Releases Open Datasets for Self-Driving Car Research
What is the situation for regular taxi companies - how often does this happen per 1000 drivers? What do taxi companies do that prevents/mitigates it successfully?
The link to join private beta isn't accessible, can you please look into it?
BBC seems blocked only on some providers. I can connect to bbc.co.uk now, but bbc.com is DNS blocked.
The only card I've heard people talk about due to it's benefits is Southwest's card. For 12 months, you can get a free "buddy pass" with each ticket purchase. For a couple, this means paying for only 1 ticket each way -- 50% off airfare, essentially. If you're a regular flyer, 2% cash back pales in comparison. Unfortunately, the card is made of inferior carbon-based materials.
> - Anticipated rate of inflation matters a lot because investors seeking return through yield focus on real interest rates (nominal rate - inflation). Inflation can be negative as well (deflation). If inflation is lower (more negative) than the bond's nominal return, that's a real positive yield. And that positive yield is locked in for the term of the bond, which in the case of the story is 30 years.

But for this and the other reasons you mention, wouldn't cash be in any case better than the bonds?
I'm a little surprised to hear that. The response you describe was normal when the Chase Sapphire Reserve was newly launched, but since then, and especially with Amex Gold and Platinum also making beefy metal cards, I feel like most folks handling cards have gotten completely used to it. Also, I'm not really seeing the benefit of 2% cashback vs. the Citi double cash card. I was just super disappointed by this card when I read up on it - I hope they launch a premium card soon.
Yah. Sorry for that. Just grabbed something quickly on mobile.

You're right in that 'nonpublic' information isn't really defined and there isn't real SEC regulation or even a whole lot of case law about it.

I think we can probably agree that

A) there are things that someone outside the company without unlawful assistance or misappropriation could figure out and use in trading

B) while someone within the company and knowing the same things based on their privileged role could not yet lawfully using in trading, because they have not been widely disseminated and are considered nonpublic information.

?
On the topic of "healthy meaninglessness" and somewhat related to the discussions around Universal Basic Income, I think Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" is a mandatory read.

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
I have looked at many cards. But most of them have annual fees, have categories that don't give the same percentage cash back on certain purchases, or they have limits.

For example, most cards have a 2% cash back limit up to $6,000 dollars. There is the Citi Double cash card that does have unlimited but really it is 1.98 percent because you get 1% on every dollar spent and 1% on every dollar paid. However, if you apply it to your statement you have not paid the balance so it really is a bit lower than 2%. Not to mention, you need at least 25 dollars in cash back before you can use it and it expires.

Apple gives the cash back the next day. Which is insane. While Citi takes 1.5 months to give it to you. It is easy to forget about it and one of the reasons why so many people forget and it expires out.

The only exception is travel cards. If you travel a lot it might make sense to get one of those cards for the perks because your usage will offset the annual fee. In that department, Apple does provide no foreign transactions fees and I think that is good enough for me.
I think he just explained it. The "Apple cool" factor is the selling point.
Yes it is bloat.

Just go at any iOS or Android conference discussing user monetization.

APK/IPA sizes are the number one reason why consumers uninstall software and the reason behind the ongoing module format efforts from Apple and Google.

I have written GUI apps that could fit in a floppy.
> They can't loan it out again because no one wants to borrow that much.

Which is why this is a signal that the economy is failing. The underlying behavior which drives the value of currencies is that the currency is being used. If people just stockpile cash then the value of that cash is eroding as people find fewer uses for it.

Since the productive use for debt is as an engine for growth, if there isn't anybody looking to secure debt for growth then we're seeing the long-term effects of a loss of dynamism in the economy, which is detrimental pressure on the underlying economy itself. It's not sufficient to try to persuade people to spend more on consumption (people are always incentivized to consume) - people need to be incentivized to take risks for growth, which they currently are not.

What the central banks will realize is that you can't incentivize people to take risks by holding a financial gun to their heads - that only incentivizes people to seek further safety. You need to, perhaps paradoxically, make it safer to take risks. If the ordinary control for doing so (reducing interest rates) isn't working, then there's a compounding factor which is preventing that safety from being felt.
There are many definitions of cooking. Do you hate cooking for thanksgiving, when step-parents are coming for supper on sunday or when you slap peanut butter on loaves of bread ?