skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but inflated salaries for who? US nurses typically start out at double what nurses in the UK earn. They can top six figures, which a nurse in the UK won’t touch. If you look at smaller US cities, the hospital is typically the largest employer. Cutting down to European levels of healthcare expenditures will require cutting jobs and cutting salaries for upper middle class people, and there is no political will to do that.
> Republicans play to suppress minority voters.

What are they doing to suppress minorities?
> long before we ever started using CO2

That’s not technically true. While unrelated, humans have been burning coal for at least 5500 years where the current Sahara desert is only around 4,500-8,000 years olds. Considering how long we have been using fires, coal use could actually vastly predate this event, though again the impact of such usage would have been minimal.

Again, several vastly more likely causes exist from livestock grazing to purely natural climate shifts.
HIGHLY recommended. This summary got me started on a long journey - after 3 years of off and on meditation with apps, reading this article, and then MCTB made meditation one of the most exciting and important parts of my daily routine.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-...

Also highly recommended: The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa
It will be a learning curve, but a much, much smaller one than learning C.
>worst side of gc is that it is unpredictable

This is simply not the case. Its still just code after all. The problem was you were fighting the GC but that's just the symptom. The clear problem was leaking something every frame. With all the tooling these days its pretty easy to see exactly what is getting allocated and garbage collected so you know where to focus your efforts.
The Mind Illuminated as a tactical guide, and Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha as a map of the overall path
Valve could do it, only if re-sale takes place through them. What if it doesn't? Nothing mandates using some middleman for it. I.e. consider some proper DRM-free store like GOG. You can just copy files and charge for it directly (and then delete them, to finish the transaction). In that case, neither the store nor developers will get anything out of it.
Yes, the idea is that you must invoke the GC when you’re not in a critical section. Alternatively you can just avoid allocations using arenas or similar. (You can use arrays and slices without the GC).
I don't. Maybe we're thinking about different kind of caches, but if these are transparent, no-performance-impact caches, then why wouldn't you prove the system works well with caches off (guarantee deadlines are met), then enable caches for opportunistic power gains?
You are referring to the ability to hop around the stack during debugging and inspect variables at will? Whereas with logging you have to log it before you will see it.
Markets are feedback driven. If enough people believe there will be a recession there probably won't as the recession will already be priced in.

If on the other hand everyone starts saying "it's different this time!" that means it's time to run for the hills and start stockpiling canned food and shotguns.
US has the strongest economy in the world and it’s obvious that it is going to grow since its main competitors (Europe, China, Japan) have declined. (Think market share increase and capital increase, in terms of a company)

The main two problems that faced US economy in the last 60 years - energy and jobs, have been solved by US. For energy, US is now the largest energy producer in the world. For jobs, US has climbed out of the hole of threats from globalization, increased internal labor force and automation, by using tariffs, deportations, border walls, upgraded workforce via increased education, and splitting threat from its main outsourced competitor China.
No. What you’re dancing around saying is that unethical people steal when they don’t want to pay.
Some combination of time and votes where recent highly voted stuff comes first, but honestly I don’t know. It’s probably a formula that needs to be tweaked to what looks right
>There’s been much talk in recent weeks about China’s potential role as world leader, during a time when Trump’s America is erecting walls. China has nearly all the characteristics to lead effectively, with its willingness to engage in global trade and its promises to fight climate change, all backed by its economic and military gravitas. Despite all this, China still isn’t beloved abroad, at least not to the extent that America is. China’s music, movies, and fashions are relatively unpopular. Put another way, China is not seen as cool; its pop culture and pop stars lack global swagger. The question is why, and whether that matters.

First, when we say "soft power" to the "world", by "world" we often mean "the US/Europe". As for Africa and Latin America, most of the countries in these places were for long European colonies, and so, inspired and conditioned into a mix of indigenous and western culture. But there are billions of people in Asia, in countries that are not China, who do look up to some degree to China (and historically, even more so), and which we don't even count.

Second, the eastern cultures and western cultures had not really much of an exchange between them, and and different priorities, lifestyles, sensibilities, and heroes for millennia. So there's a gap there, that doesn't exist between the US and Europe or Latin America for example, and makes transmission more difficult.

Third, it's usually the richer (in money) country that gets to enjoy the soft power. China might be coming close in GDP, but that doesn't make it as rich, because the per capita is still lower, and a population three times the US are still poor. Japan itself didn't get to enjoy its influence in soft power (gadgets, anime, manga, street fashion, food, etc) until it got economically strong in the late 70s and 80s, to the point of US media always fearing about the Japanese buying companies etc.

[1] With Japan it's a little different, because Japan itself got obsessed with certain western ways and fashions and incorporated them into their output - so people in the west e.g. consume Anime (an art form itself west inspired, in fact whose technology and first works originated in the west (animation) -, not so much traditional Japanese culture and its modern developments. Kurosawa, for example, which somehow made it to the west, is still heavily inspired by western cinema. Mizoguchi, which was far less, is ignored. Even someone like Murakami might as well have been born in Boston, as far as his work is concerned. Food of course, whether Japanese or Chinese, is more easily shared.
They absolutely do provide a rating. Equifax, Transunion, and others provide a FICO score (or similar) based on the data they have.
"Banks" don't write mortgages, bankers do, and they worry about making their money now. They aren't on the hook for the long run.

Even banks aren't, they are going to package up the mortgages and sell them to someone else.

We know mortgage writers don't care about the long term viability of their loans, just look at the subprime mortgage crisis from last decade.
But would just the 3 US credit report companies would go bankrupt if the judicial system was doing its job ?

I agree that the government should not rate credit worthiness.

But we need a trusted third party that tracks your credit history (just the data of what/when you got credits, and missed payments). Something that the banks and loan shop could consult and compute their own risk assessment.

In some European countries, the central bank is the notary authority that keeps track of bad actors (missed payments, bounced checks, etc.) and private banks or loan shop can consult the registry and make their own decision if you are not credit worthy.
That's why I tried to shift focus to density based layering rather than the more complicated oil water interaction.

And the reason it happens is because it doesn't magically get the corresponding external energy. However if we artificially, like gods, arranged everything to be non layered but the same temperature, the entropy would be higher than if layered and same temperature.
Please don't split hairs on a hypothetical example, it misses the point. You could achieve the same effect with no raise but high inflation. It's irrelevant to the point that the amount someone is earning directly influences how much they are spending.
> Under this proposal, Americans would be able to receive credit scores for free

I have never paid to see my credit score, so I'm not sure how this is novel?

Also, are things not going well at Vox? 900px (height!) of ads at the top of the page along with Outbrain trash and numerous right-rail ads and inside-the-content ads (on desktop) do not give the impression of a thriving publication.
You realize you are suffering from the human "ability" to make patterns from things that aren't with this theory, right?
If you want to get past the paygate to read this article, disable JavaScript for www.bloomberg.com.

> “the message is growth is slower, yes, but the risk of recession is grossly overstated. As long as the Fed continues to do the right thing” by cutting rates a couple more times.

Apparently a healthy economy is one the Federal Reserve manipulates by keeping interest rates as low as possible. How long can they keep this up?
They want to require people to show government-issued photo IDs when voting to prove they have the right to vote.
The critical factor when considering these numbers is schools chose metrics that fit their desires not the other way around.

The direct weights given to each category is only part of the story, it’s also where the breaks exist within each category. Allow more people to hit rank 1 in a category directly reduces the impact of that category. Basically, does an academic 5 start at 27 and below ACT or 25 etc etc.
It’s factually correct. My other post got downvoted for pointing out that not every GC is optimized for throughout. Seems like I’m touching on some cherished beliefs, but not sure exactly which ones.
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No it wouldn't. Which is why you keep hearing about Carbon Tax.
No, you're wrong on two accounts.

First, this argument chain is about unions in general. Please read up on the full response chain to understand the context of my response, starting with stjohnswarts.

Second, this thread and story is not about Google. It's about Google's contractors. There's a very important distinction there, because contractors are often treated worse both by the companies they're working under as well as the contracted companies they're working with. Google might treat its own employees better (although the jury is still out on that with many stories alleging discrimination in terms of pay and what not) but this story is obstensibly about the anti-union behavior occurring at companies Google is partnered with.
Unfortunately your suggestion will lead to a flood of scam phony prototypes to scoop up grant money. It'll be like the worst of Kickstarter on a larger scale.

Deploying capital with discernment is extremely hard. VCs put a lot of effort into it and often fail pretty badly, and VCs are probably better at it than the government bureaucrats who would administer the program you're suggesting.

Part of what makes it really hard is that there's often an inverse relationship between appearance and reality. Fakes, delusional nuts, and con artists usually appear more polished than the real innovators. The real innovators are spending all their time and energy innovating while the phonies are spending all their energy on flash and self-promotion.
>For the vast majority, soft real-time is fine, since an occasional deadline-miss results in minor inconvenience, not property damage, injury or death.

A "minor inconvenience" like a recording session going wrong, a live show with stuttering audio, skipped frames in a live TV show, and so on?
Yeah, C compilers optimize much more than Go compilers. Performance is C’s most noteworthy advantage over Go.
The terrorist watch list is a good example of how the government runs and rates "risks" within its clear jurisdictional areas: https://www.thetrace.org/2016/06/fbi-terrorist-watch-list-gu...

Here's the key quote:

> "Last year, the The Intercept published a government document that spelled out the process for putting suspects in the terrorist database. The guidelines say agencies can nominate candidates for the list if there is “reasonable suspicion” to believe they are a “known or suspected terrorist.” That’s a relatively low bar, and the guidelines even make clear that agencies don’t need “concrete facts” or “irrefutable evidence” to back up their assertions. The guidelines also give a single White House official unilateral authority to place entire categories of people on the no-fly list."

We can only guess whether the public credit registry will be run with the same, better, or worse level of care and due diligence.

And before you say "omg Trump!!11" note that this article is from June 2016 and the leaked guidelines are from March 2013.
Or save yourself the trouble and have an adblocker manage this kind of stuff for you if you're just looking to circumvent it anyways.
"Looks like this could be a false alarm. @nvidia publishes two keys, one for signing their cuDNN/CUDA packages, one for signing nvidia-container-toolkit. The one used to sign nvidia-container-toolkit just changed today. The new key on Github matches the new key fingerprint."

https://twitter.com/earlruby/status/1175274045169786880
> But much of Florida is not far above sea level and some of the issues they are seeing can legitimately be linked to climate change.

Yes. And also on very porous limestone and coral. So ocean and groundwater levels are linked. Seawalls won't help, and even building on stilts, the groundwater goes saline.

There was a recent article about finding a decades old car and skeleton in a pond in a Florida gated community. Zooming out on Google maps, you can see how they transformed huge areas of ~swamp. They used the classic islet and pond approach. But I bet that all those ponds are tied to sea level.
Recessions often tend to be global; they are not a zero-sum competition between countries.
No, the entropy would be lower and the phases would separate spontaneously because that would increase the entropy. The only reason you get layers in the first place is that oil and water don’t mix! Water and alcohol also have different densities.
A long time, if they want.

They can also print money, the second lever at their disposal.

There's a fascinating video about this, from Ray Dalio. Give it a look, it's pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
I don’t agree that the purpose of the article is misaligned from my criticism. This is based on reading the article.
Oh, come on. If high-performing employees were properly rewarded they wouldn't be voting for a union. Go peddle your feudal protection racket to an audience dumb enough to fall for it.
Building codes have changed dramatically for hurricane prone and flood prone properties in the US. Homes are built on stilts/pillars and with roofs designed to withstand Cat5 winds. It’s night and day to how they were built even 20-30 years ago.
You just agreed with the OC.

RT video/audio failing never results in death. Where as failures in "avionics, industrial control" absolutely can / do. That seems to be where OC was drawing the line.
Re: the ads - Facebook & Google are playing games and playing them dirtier than ever before: https://thechive.com/2019/09/19/facebook-and-google-are-curr...
This is a great article and now I am appalled at so many things. But the line that touched me profoundly is at the end where the father and the husband of 4 victims says this:

“I am empty,” he told the committee. “My life has no meaning.”

I can only imagine the pain he is experiencing.
I'm not claiming all ETFs are passive by definition, or without risk.

ETFs do have additional liquidity risk that mutual funds lack. If liquidity is lacking, it could lead to the bid falling below NAV, potentially quite significantly, and investors who chose to sell at that point in time would be losing additional money.

Mutual fund sales are processed at NAV at the end of the market day when the sale takes place, which ensures you will receive the NAV when you sell.

ETFs allow more flexibility, with the drawback of possibly trading below NAV or above NAV, which can be good or bad depending on if you are buying or selling.

If the price of the ETF falls too far below NAV, big traders will scoop up the ETF shares to redeem for the discounted underlying stocks as an arbitrage play, bringing the ETF's price closer to the NAV.
Because your brain likes questions and your brain thinks it exists. The world neither exists or non-exists, it just is , and has allowed the evolution of brains that ask invalid questions such as what is its origin and purpose. Origin and purpose are useful concepts to avoid dying when an arrow comes from an origin and aims to kill you. Our organic neural networks have a tendency to apply these concepts to everything, that's sometimes vaguely useful, other times it's just brain farts.
Yes, I've seen many satellites from the city. I even caught a iridium flare randomly one night. A good time is about 1/2 hour after sunset.
Yes. Those are the questions I'd like to see asked. Right now, it is the convenient talking points that Snowden already seems to have a reply for.

Can you really compare yourself to Daniel Ellsberg, when you take a job with the aim of leaking everything you get your hands on (without being able to vet it)?

Why did Snowden download the entirety of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia What abuses of the constitution did he expect to find in a secure data sharing platform? Were these potential abuses of the constitution worth it to leak its ~255,000 user accounts to a journalist who made his boyfriend travel through customs with an undecrypted USB-stick, thereby globally exposing it?

Why did Snowden steal the passwords from his colleagues and clients to do the leaking? Had he already found documents with abuses of the constitution using this method before? And what about the first time he did this? Was this day-to-day exposure to material that required whistleblowing? Or was this an elaborate hunt for material that could eventually, in part, amount to whistle-blowing-worthy, thereby partly justifying your strange snooping behavior?

Snowden fled to Hong Kong (China) -> Russia -> South-America, and then makes it sound like the US put him in Russian exile.

Then, instead of facing justice in the US, he knew, that by handing over unvetted documents to security-unaware journalists, they would end up in the hands of other security agencies. The damage would be akin to having a administrator-level Russian-China spy embedded in the US IC, leaking everything out. So don't make the damage about "some papers published something about 0.001% of the leaks that was of public interest and of no harm".

About the extract in question: I really believe that if Snowden could have deleted all his old moronic internet posts, he would have. He could not figure it out. Talks about writing an easy script, but then goes on to bloviate about some Southpark "the internet should be a place where people can make mistakes" moral.

> I could put together one tiny little script — not even a real program — and all of my posts would be gone in under an hour. It would’ve been the easiest thing in the world to do. Trust me, I considered it.

And his girlfriend is still suspicious as hell, given that she visited China and Hongkong for months, before meeting up Snowden by 8'ing all the desk jockey looking men on Hotornot.
Exactly. Two pieces of advice, from investing great Jack Bogle:

1) "Nobody knows nothing." This means nobody can predict what's going to happen. Nobody.

2) Pick your asset allocation and "Stay the course". This means determine how much risk is appropriate for you, invest in an appropriate portfolio, and don't deviate from your plan.

Follow these two (and maybe a few more), and prosper.
> a11y

i18n, l10n, g11n, l12y, a11y... is it r4y so h2d to j2t t2e o1t t1e w3s!? (is it really so hard to just type out the words!?)
Disclosure: I work for SquareFoot

Unfortunately the real estate market (outside of a few key players) has struggled to change their offerings away from rigid fixed terms to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Their long term business models and predictions were based on the revenue streams from those rigid terms, but the segment of the market which requires flexibility above all else is growing fast.

However, that demand only had access to office space which specialised in the flexible office space market, meaning your choices are limited to providers which shove you in a generic box room, until you need to move to another bigger generic box room.

To square that circle, we launched FLEX by SquareFoot, where we work with clients to pick the terms of their lease with all of the concerns you listed, but without having to restrict their choices to providers which specialise in flexible solutions.

It's our way of exposing a lot more commercial real estate inventory that in the past required rigid commitments to the growing segment of the market which needs the flexibility.

https://www.squarefoot.com/blog/why-we-launched-flex-by-squa...
why not link to the actual iFixit article?

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+11+Pro+Max+Teardown/1...
...or insurance against bloody war.
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I meant as their primary purpose, if the government were to offer a similar service. They all started selling scores recently, but lenders don’t necessarily use that, they look at the details themselves and come up with a decision on whether or not to lend.
Stock market’s eerie parallels to September 2007 should raise recession fears
So he basically wants to implement communist china's dystopian social credit system?

"b-b-but, it's only financial credit! The story didn't say social credit! Slippery slope! SlIpPeRy SlOpE!" I hear you say. Is it though? Is it really beyond the realm of possibility for you, my hypothetical dissenter, from seeing how real and non-fallacious such a slippery slope is in this scenario?
Have you looked at Hiroshima on google maps?

This is where the detonation occurred

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hiroshima+Atomic+Bomb+Hypo...

It's not particularly relevant, but I thought it was interesting seeing the people living so close to the site of a nuclear detonation.
FWIW, after 15 years of consistent practice, mediation to me is simply isolating yourself so that you have no escape from the dramas in your mind. You eventually simply become bored of them and that liberates all kinds of creative energy within.
Money is extremely cheap to borrow, and companies have decided the interest rate risk is lower than the short-term share price gains from borrowing money to do buybacks. Perhaps current management assumes they won't be the ones left holding the bag.

I agree with you, when rates go up a large amount of zombie companies being held up by cheap money are going to go bankrupt, and it will have large ripple effects.
It will transform into what the CCP is doing. There is nothing else that can come out of such a move.
I just saw the ISS!

This was posted a few hours ago and told me exactly where and when to look and sure enough, there it was.

Thanks!
You know it absolutely would be used to target political opponents from both sides.
So basically they're not trying to suppress minority voters?
Note that this was published on September 9, two days before the email (September 11), and probably written even before that date.

> But as Stallman said — there is no other operating system than GNU, and “Linux is one of its kernels.”

The other working kernel is WinNT, Hurd is not finished yet.