skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best explanation I've heard for negative rates is this:

Imagine you have a million dollars worth of cars. If you want to store that in a bank, you'd pay them money to do so. Why? Because the car has no value to the bank. The only thing they can do is store it in the vault, which requires security personnel, space, climate control, etc.

Now instead you have a million dollars in cash. In the current environment, where more people want to put money into the bank than take it out, the cash also has no value to the bank. They can't loan it out again because no one wants to borrow that much. So they charge you for storing your money. This is how they make a profit. By slowly taking your balance, since they can't make money loaning it out.

A negative interest rate basically means more people want to save money than spend money. When the government offers negative rates, it's because they want people to spend money instead of save it. When a bank does it, it's because more people are putting money in than taking it out.
So we're supposed to lock people up until everyone has forgiven them, else for life?
The simple C-style linear memory model is the most important one IMHO, since this preserves the explicit control over the entire memory layout of an application which languages like C, C++ or Rust allow. Optimizations for efficient use of CPU caches carry over into WASM. AFAIK both CLR and JVM use a much higher level model which is built around fine-grained allocations managed by a GC.
Voting does not have the same privilege level as driving. Also thought your argument equating voting to voting was snarky dismissal, not a typo.
I want to point out this article was written in May, and is a bit out of date. For example, Nevada (heavily mentioned in the article) never adopted the National Popular Vote compact because the governor vetoed the bill after the legislature passed it.

FiveThirtyEight published an article last week on the current state of the compact: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-movement-to-skip-th...
The fact that they hate each other lends even more credence to my theory - it’s that much easier to put tariffs on them. 25% of their imports and 14% of their exports are with China [1], China could definitely hurt Vietnam if they become too close with the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam
We should demand that he both resign, and donate a large sum of money to organizations like International Justice Mission that fight sex trafficking.

https://www.ijm.org/give/

To be clear, he has pledged to do the second already, sort of.
Blog post co-author and Timescale engineer here.

Thanks for the advice. FWIW, though, TimescaleDB supports multi-dimensional partitioning, so a specific "hot" time interval is actually typically split across many chunks, and thus server instances. We are also working on native chunk replication, which allows serving copies of the same chunk out of different server instances.

Apart from these things to mitigate the hot partition problem, it's usually a good thing to be able to serve the same data to many requests using a warm cache compared to having many random reads that thrashes the cache.
> To these I will add a crucial tip: make it obviously apparent that you aren’t copy-pasting. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder finds that a huge number of messages on OkCupid are mass copy-pasted spam (he figured this by analyzing keystrokes: if it took you two keys to write 50 words, those keys were Ctrl+V). These spammers aren’t only gems like ‘u R hot want 2 cum ovR’, but also generic missives like ‘Hi, I read your profile and I find you very interesting. I think we should get to know each other.’ Since mass-spamming is so quick and easy, it only takes a few spammers to fill every girl’s inbox. Experienced users sniff these out quickly. I strongly urge against being a spammer yourself: most of your time should be spent searching for the best potential matches. Once you find a great potential partner you should take the time to write them the best message you can come up with.

Rudder also talks about why message spamming isn't banned, though it is trivial to detect: they often led to successful exchanges. The rest of the article is in this vein; favoring the most politically correct, and gracious to women, interpretations of the data, and not the most rational.
We have ID cards in Massachusetts, you can get one of those without needing to take the driving exam. There is a "LiquorID" card that lasts five years, I can't find any information on the "MassID" card but it's probably good for five years as well.

Thank you for asking the question, I had assumed these cards lasted as long as a driver's license and that is not the case. :-)

You make a good point in that these voter ID cards might have a longer expiration then a driver's license. To my knowledge the expiration period of the ID isn't a part of the legislation. In that case we can probably expect to see the length of time vary from state to state. In that case I would suspect that state's with a shorter valid period might be trying to manipulate the number of legal voters.
The problem is that the purchasing power of gold isn't relatively constant: what you can buy with 1 oz. today and what you can buy with 1 oz. tomorrow are not necessarily the same — so you have much the same problem.

Moreover, the relative constancy of the gold supply is a problem, because as the economy grows that makes each unit of gold more valuable … which leads to deflation, which is far worse than inflation, and can lead to utter economic desolation.

I hate fiat money, I really do: I hate that governments can inflate their way out of debts and inflate away my savings. But gold — appealing as it is — is even worse.
This might explain why the idea is more popular on one side of the political spectrum. What's interesting though is that thus far it doesn't seem like the expected inflation has been happening in the US, despite significant deficit spending. Any idea why that might be? What I've heard is a lot of, "Current levels of deficit spending are sustainable because we're not yet seeing a resulting increase in inflation." Which makes sense. But.. what's the mechanism for that? Like, taken to an extreme, if a government did indeed stop taxing and pay for everything with deficit spending, but there wasn't inflation as a result, how would that be?

The only explanations I can think of are that 1) many other countries are also doing significant deficit spending, so all major currencies are being devalued together, and so they're not actually being devalued at all, and 2) in as much as (ie) the US currency is being devalued faster than others, there are other, strengthening factors that are counteracting this. (Such as higher interest rates.)
Bank collapse is pretty rare. Even accounting for 2008, there’s now a de facto government insurance plan for banks. i.e. Too big to fail.
Left hand of darkness was published in 69, highly recommended.

Also heinlein? Look at I will fear no evil...
What do you think about their fee and stake?

Looks like it ranges 60-80k [after their fee] for a 10% stake.

That feels pretty expensive for an accelerator, especially one that's new, with little network effect yet.
Nicotine is also, itself, a known carcinogen.
Then why have an admissions process? Just take the first N applicants who can pay in full, and the first M applicants who can show they qualify for full financial aid from outside sources (to meet any applicable state or federal funding requirements).

I don't think it's that simple. Due diligence is organizational security, and a good amount people have a lax attitude towards security.
Classic Hangouts will hang in there a bit longer
of course they don't, but when presented side-by-side, it makes it harder for this sort of deception to fly
I think what was meant is if only UI was the bottleneck of creating great dashboards... We would all have fancy dashboards in no time. Unfortunately, the real work is in talking to your hellish backend and make it cough up the data and then convert that in a format the beautiful frontend understands.
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Africa like the poster above mentioned.
I used to have one of these knives :)
>>> LGN cells send a pulse to the visual cortex when they detect a change from dark to light, or vice versa

This looks like an binary toggle encoding (and that the receiving end must remember and count how many pulses received to know if that part is dark or light).

I vaguely remember something like that the neurons in that part or nearby send pulses periodically, and the time between pulses is smaller (or bigger?) when there is more light. (Or perhaps keep the time between pulses, but use double/triple/... pulses more light.) Perhaps add some slow adaptation to the light level, so after a time at a fixed light level the neuron uses the default interval between pulses. I'm not sure about the actual encoding, but all of what I remember are very different from the encoding in the article.
Yes I'm aware that I oversimplified with "side projects". It was not my intention to try and sell fairy dust.
The property taxes example doesn't seem right.

Cost of a small apartment in NYC is equal to the cost of several acres of farmland. Proportional property taxes would impact both demographics similarly.
Interesting ideas. I really must learn Rust properly.
I guess they’ve tightened the screws a bit - in principle
Whats the benefit?
--With todays bandwidth and storage prices, do we really need to compress audio for delivery over the net?
To add, it would be less likely that we would be reading and commenting on this story if a university like MIT was not involved here: Ito would just be some venture capitalist that did not perform adequate due diligence.
So it sounds like voting in this system would be similar to jury duty. Except better because the voters aren't selected at random and the algorithm makes sure they are the most representative possible group.
China would rather not play with fire here, the Vietnamese night invite the USA to establish a naval base or something if pushed too far, especially considering the current South China Sea contests.

(Ironically a reversal of USA support for China during the sino Vietnam war)
Technically every single voter in Nevada could vote for one candidate yet under certain circumstances all their votes would go to the the opposing candidate under the Compact.

Yeah, I don't think all the people in smaller states falling over themselves to join the Compact are really thinking this through.
> I don't see any of the politicians addressing why the didn't also ban cigarettes.

It's because tobacco is regulated by the FDA but ecigs aren't.
> If that is a big concern you can fork

Surely you must be joking.

Yes it is a big concern and the solution is to use repositories that aren't so volatile.
Not to mention a plurality of voters in the entire country in 2000 and 2016.
Isn't that kind of petty?
A friend built this crowdmna.com . Check it out.
Wouldn't you be able to do the same simply by looking at the file system without any access to admin privileges?

I'm not arguing that this vulnerability isn't one, it's a privilege escalation vulnerability, however in your situation you got physical access which is as far as I know, pretty much game over for your system.
> they used user agent sniffing instead of feature detection even though it work fine in Firefox

This is one of my pet peeves – and which is why the User Agent strings are so asinine (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15A5370a Safari/604.1).

Whitelisting features based on Browser type, version, device type, OS type or version, or any version for that matter is almost always wrong. Like 99% of the time – if you think your case is special, you are most likely wrong too.

Basically it boils down to: "why do I care that this software is running this specific version?" If you are not writing a deployment script and some such and the answer is "because it implements feature X, or displays Y behavior", well, check that.

I've also seen iPhone apps trying to figure out which device it was, to display assets. If you care about screen resolution, that's what you need to check. Your device table will become obsolete.

Features may be backported(like in this case), bugs may be fixed, new weird hardware combinations may be released. Your application is not guaranteed to be in sync when that happens.
Voting systems are done on a state-by-state basis; this a feature, not a bug -- decentralized systems require a larger attack to compromise.
This is fantastic. I look forward to finally having much easier authentication on the web. Imagine browsers syncing between devices a single encryption key that will authenticate you to all sites, which you can easily back up to a piece of paper.

EDIT: Unfortunately, it looks like the WebAuthn credential is only used as the second factor, so you can't use it to replace your password yet, let alone your username.
Most tech people only have tech solutions.

I see it constantly here on HN when there's a story about privacy and there's countless comments suggesting how you as an individual can do some jury rigged thing to protect your privacy.

Politics, policy, and law never enter their brains.
FWIW, I am pretty sure that the rich cavorting with pretty young women (and some of it in an exploitative manner, and some of them under 18, and most of it for compensation) is going on in a lot of places, and certainly in many parts of the Middle East, Asia, Africa.

In fact, it's probably safe to assume that anyone accepting investments from the Middle East or Asia has very likely dealt with or taken money from people engaging in the same or worse conduct, only that it hasn't been prosecuted there.

If this here is the standard by which things ought to be measured and decided now, then I would expect a lot of money be returned and/or given to NGOs and charities.

But then, I suspect this is mostly moral posturing and virtue signalling, so nothing substantial will happen.
CA voter here - I believe that's correct to an extent. This is a blue state so you cannot influence presidential election here. However, there are local policies/measures/propositions and that is why people turn up to vote.
No, they just have to offer ads without tracking clicks or impressions.

Something similar to the former service of Project Wonderful.
With that much syscalls assembly actually looks kind off clean.

; TODO: It's possible to climb outside the web root using ../

But (not) doing stuff like that in asm is where I remember why we use high level languages like C.
Sure, somewhat, and it's accelerating now.

What were the locations of small, nascent local software industries perhaps bootstrapped by some ancient incumbents are now becoming real hubs. The cycle will continue as the cities with small/no local software industries grow and those in turn become hubs. What's clear is that the more stable, hyper-profitable software companies are not expanding as much in the bay area as they used to
This would explain negative bond rates down to -0.40%. Because if you need to park a very large amount of euros safely, banks will start to apply that rate to your deposits so it's better to get any rate that is less negative.

But curiously 10y german bund yields have recently hit -0.70%, and a couple other EU countries (France, Netherlands, Belgium) have also dipped below -0.40%.

So it must be more than the negative deposit rate. It's also the QE program which buys bonds (though it's on hold since the start of the year), and the expectation of lower deposit rates, and the expectation of more QE.
I uninstalled Steam the moment I read the previous disclosure and Valve's approach to it. Any company that treats security as it used to be in the 90s ought to be shunned.
Glad to hear that :) Please let us know how we can help. We also have an active Slack community [1] if you want to chat with others who are storing sensor data in TimescaleDB.

[1] https://slack.timescale.com
In the example I gave about anomaly detection, what’s being detected as normal or an anomaly doesn’t need to be labeled by a human. This just comes down to probability of temporal data. This temporal data can come from segmentation which again doesn’t need human readable labeling and can be produced from an automated process. You can automate such a system to alert someone if something is an anomaly.

Edit:
Also want to add there are more traditional avenues of which non-labeled data can be used.

Unsupervised Learning where you read in arbitrary data and cluster for some sort of probability based system.

Another good thing to look at is a system with “some” labeling like Semi-supervised Learning.

Any situation where you can do binary classification doesn’t need any true labeling as long as you can evaluate attributes of some object, complex or not.
I thought they didn't know about the fact they were dealing with a criminal at all. So if anything to me, assuming the above is true, an apology isn't appropriate at all. If I deal with someone in good faith with no knowledge of their monstrous doings or the accusation of such I am blameless. If I am aware that they are doing things like that I should be reporting them but that's a different scenario.
There is definitely politics involved, but not H1 internal. The issue is that every program handles disclosure itself, so H1 itself doesn't really have the power. That could be changed at a policy level, but I'm not sure that'll happen (or should happen, honestly; I don't really know where I land on it).
Does anyone have experience how this compares with citusdb (also postgres)?
My point is it could be done, and these guys specifically claimed they don't need a DC-DC converter, so either they're lying, or there's something you and I don't understand. I'm just speculating on ways they could solve that problem.

And you're giving so much salt back that I have to ask, do you believe they are lying? If so then don't beat around the bush. Just say it. You think they are frauds.

> Yet somehow it works just fine for car batteries over the last 100 years, and for most every other battery we use these days (laptops, etc.).

Every time I've replaced my car battery, it's been because one cell failed after I let it deep discharge. Except once where 2 cells failed.

I thought Tesla did something more sophisticated with their packs, but I'm looking at a picture here and there are for sure ~40 cells wired in series. At best there are 4 batteries per array (or they may be connected on the back side). But you don't have to use that bus architecture. It's mechanically simpler and more robust. It's the default. But it's a compromise, favoring physical robustness for reduced chemical robustness. Some day I hope to see other solutions, perhaps like what I described.
As far as I could tell at the time, it's not that Georgia only had problems in heavily blue districts - they had problems everywhere. The mainstream media just only reported the problems which happened in heavily blue districts. Republican voters in red districts saw the same kinds of multi-hour waits as the folks in the district which was supposedly sabotaged via missing power cords (apparently that didn't even really delay voting), some of them even started theorizing that this was some kind of vote rigging attempt, the difference is that was treated as a nutso conspiracy theory whereas the idea that queues in blue districts might be vote rigging was regurgitated by AP and the rest of the press.
The plurality of the geography of NY State may be agricultural land, but that is not the same thing as saying that the majority of its people are farmers. If you cut NYC off from the rest of the state, yes, you'd have a majority-rural population, and probably a red state—but not majority farmer and farm workers.

I live and work in rural NY State. For every farmer out here, there are dozens of teachers, janitors, computer programmers, hairstylists, restaurant owners & workers, and every other type of profession you have in hamlets, small towns, and non-mega-cities.

And yeah, there are a lot of people here who don't want property taxes to go up. They don't want any taxes to go up, because they're rural Republicans who have bought into the line that taxes are bad hook, line, and sinker. But as rural Republicans, they mostly don't even make much noise about wanting taxes to go down. The signs you see along the side of the road are clamoring to repeal gun control laws that prevent violent criminals and the mentally ill from purchasing guns.

Just because New York City has enough population to drown the rest of the state in doesn't mean that we should give the rest of the state disproportionate power.
Gold miners. With physical gold you have to worry about storage, but gold miners solve this problem. The gold miners have run pretty hard already, but the developers (those building a new gold mine) have not yet moved that much.
> James Wong

The guy is a must-follow on Twitter. Lots of good info.
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It's not difficult to average 3% or more with a stack of credit cards, if you're willing to juggle them. Obviously going with an across the board 2% rate is easier.

Uber Visa 4% on dining
Costco Visa 4% for gas
Amazon Prime Visa 5% on Amazon and Whole Foods purchases
[add more to cover your major spending categories]
Citi Doublecash for 2% on everything else
The TCK is not open, it isn't governed by a standards body, the TCL is completely in Oracle's control.

If Java is to evolve as an open platform, it needs to break free from the TCK that disallowed Apache Harmony to exist.

We don't need it and an independent TCK could be developed.
I’ll look it up later but if you look at any of the recent computer vision conferences and search for things like anomaly detection with either or attention or lstm networks you should be able to find stuff.
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Parsing long opts is trivial; just determine if the string exactly matches. E.g., "--version" only matches "--version". Short opts is what takes slightly more effort, because you have to accept both "-ld" and "-l -d". We already handle the "hard" case, we just need to support the easy case.
In this case it's because it's in the kernel (why don't they unmap it? There's presumably a reason...) and I've no idea whether it might contain something useful or not.

There are systems, typically older ones, where all addresses are valid, including whichever NULL corresponds to. Real mode x86 is one such system - the bottom of memory there contains the vector table.
AFAIK, Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of hiring a 16-year-old prostitute.

This may be a controversial opinion, but... in the great list of mortal sins, I don't find it ranks particularly high. Sure it's not a great look. But I think prostitution should be a woman's choice, and 16 is the age of sexual consent in 32 out of 50 US states. It's hard for me to get too worked up about something that would have had far less legal consequences one state over in Alabama.

So while it's a red flag, I'm not sure the conviction alone would stop me from accepting grant money. You might feel differently, that's fine. To me, money is pretty amoral.

These other things that have come out since - rapes, fourteen-year-olds - if true, are much more disturbing. But that wasn't part of the dialogue in 2013.
Drama aside.

Valve...I have your software installed. It has a hole. Fix it.

This mudslinging isn't helping your PR or making me feel more secure about my steam install regardless of the details.