skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should definitely read the take linked by a sibling comment, it's a very good explanation. There's another angle from which to look at it, however, that I tend to prefer. It amounts to the same thing, just a different perspective.

There are basically three ways to make money in the stock market: gambling (attempting to predict what other market participants will do, or other events that affect the market), exploiting liquidity issues (market making / arbitrage / other HFT activity), and value investing (finding investments that should to directly give money back on some time horizon, usually through dividend or stock buyback).

When an external force (like principled noninvestment) forces the stock price down, not much changes for most of these. HFTs will generally find ways to make money either direction that the stock moves. Gamblers can also either make or lose money either way the stock moves, depending on whether they are long or short.

Value investors, however, are the ones who will ultimately end up owning that asset you've just sold. They want this asset because it will give them money down the line; they don't care about the short-term stock price. The share of future dividend or buyback that the asset represents hasn't changed, but the price of that asset has. The asset costs less, but returns the same -- exactly the sort of thing that a value investor wants.
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How can he stop this without inviting criticisms of being a Russian asset or some such accusation?
I understand all of that, and what a journalist is, thanks. I simply didn’t realize they were suing over the book and not, say, they yers of reporting from the Guardian, Le Monde, Intercept, etc based on documents passed to those publications’ journalists by Snowden.
It's not necessarily the number of features but the process of preparing oneself for changes likely to be surprising, unpleasant, require workarounds or length research as to workarounds, etc.
Climate change could put insurance firms out of business
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The same people who say "Arresting someone is violence" are the same extremists who call Trump supporters N-zis (I refuse to write out their slur for conservatives)
Sorry about that!! Will get on it ASAP when I have some spare time
Educate yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China

Like the united states China is by no means perfect, but fearing for your life? lol. Your movement talks about ignorance, but please note that ignorance exists everywhere including in those who talk about it.
Saying your code is uniform because the syntax is the same is about like saying developing a website with Java and developing an Android app is “uniform”.
UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer [video]
IPv6 is really just IPv4 with more address space. There are a bunch of extensions that nobody uses, sure, but nobody uses them and they can be safely ignored in most cases.

The only other significant change from V4 to V6 is the use of multicast instead of dumb broadcast for V6's equivalent of ARP on LANs. That's an improvement as it allows smart switches to more easily scale address lookup.
Very underwhelming, but it's good to see some people are seriously working on this problem. It's a fun little tool.
I really appreciate / admire the care you all have for devs by being a part of the conversation on HN. Support is _hard work_. I am a dev at a similar startup (Sourcegraph) and always try to take a page out of your book by being responsive and caring online in a similar manner.
Any prototype aircraft that is too fast to get good video of and does not have a recognized transponder will be a UFO. That just means some contractor is building great things and doing publicity stunts, perhaps for funding?
I'm not arguing for keeping communications private. I'm arguing for not trying to trigger a social media chain reaction with a general public, with an intent to harm someone, every time you felt angry reading that someone's post.

There's a difference between information being available to the general public, and putting a spotlight on that information.
Are these numbers calculated the same way in the US and in China?
Why cycles at all? Why not look at what features have been integrated, whether they make up a set that you want to release, and then release?

Neither long cycles nor short cycles make any sense. Some features take a long time to develop, some take a short time to develop. Sometimes features that take a long time to develop aren't user-facing enough to be worth releasing for, and sometimes a quick fix has a huge impact that's worth a release, like a patch for a vulnerability that's actively being exploited by a spreading malware. Features simply don't line up with a single length of time. The problem isn't long or short cycles, it's cycles.
He seemingly did have intimate relations with people other than his wife but there's a very wide spectrum of marriages out there.
When you watch an A380 land at SFO it will seem to hang in the air, because its size will make its apparent motion slower than that of another plane. And the A380's enormous fuselage makes its slightly-larger-than-average engines seem to be the usual size.

On the other hand Moffet field has a runway that crosses 101 and the usual runways at SFO are parallel to 101.
It's not necessarily the number of features but the process of preparing oneself for changes likely to be surprising, unpleasant, require workarounds or length research as to workarounds, etc.

Even if it's just a matter of reading the release notes, having to do that twice as often is a non-zero burden.

Of course there is Firefox ESR but I seem to remember Mozilla's website basically explicitly recommending against it with language along the lines of "This is only for people whose corporate policies require it, don't install it unless you have no other choice."
No, it is not just that. You are apparently intent on ignoring the point of my post, so let me rephrase:

If someone has a history of complaining about absurd legal results, it would not be surprising to hear them use this situation as an example while beating that drum. (It may be a tacky example to use, but that's a different question.)

On the other hand, if someone has a history of doing and saying things that other people take indicative of treating women as less than fully equal, and, having never before shown any interest in a particular legal argument, trots it out to defend (and yes, that exactly what it was) abhorrent behavior, people are going to take it differently.

> That's the point: in court you could be charged for saying it.

You lost me here. Do you mean to say someone could claim I libeled them? Well sure. In the US, people can sue over anything they like. But if that's what you meant, I still have no idea what "charges" you're talking about.
I would say if you focus every waking hour then you could maybe get 1 year of knowledge crammed into 4 months, because of the compounding effects, even though the actual time spent would only be about 8 months (16 hour days vs 8 hour days).

Programming comes down to a ton of practice, which turns knowledge (books, videos) into a skill.
This is the main reason why I always advocate for using ad blockers. It's not just about annoying adds, not even just about trackers. Ad-supported content is always, to some extent, ad-controlled content. Advertisers have successfully taken control of YouTube by demonising anything that could be controversial.
Well, I don't get an idea if my extension would break changing from version 2019-10 -> 2019-11 without reading the release notes.

I would know it there is a big chance of breakage if I moved from 76.0.0 -> v77.0.0 and I am reasonably certain it won't break if I moved from 76.0.0 -> 76.0.1
Annoying pedantry, (but fitting for HN), calculators are actually a very nice tool for initiating students onto the idea of a limit by having them calculate closer and closer values to a limit that can't be evaluated on the point. Of course, analysis fundamentally is about just that, approximation in calculations although people don't manually calculate derivatives or the like today.
Perhaps SCIgen should write a paper about it.
TclJBlend: A Tcl extension that uses JNI to communicate with a Java interpreter
> They made a far better browser than the Mozilla organization of the day could

I'm guessing this is not the case, because the demands and requirements of browsers would have increased massively since then in terms of the breadth of the developer APIs and security issues that need to be dealt with, plus an every increasing demand on speed and having the largest company in the world with effectively unlimited cash, the best minds and some sharp practices as your competitor.
will impeachment, if successful, bring to us President Pence?
Isn’t the Clean Air Act statute — itself an act of Congress — the Commerce Clause in action?
Edison spent a large part of his career:

1. being sued for patent infringement

2. suing for patent infringement

3. being hired by companies to find workarounds for patents

It's doubtful any of that was worthwhile in the end.
Bad analogy - the banking system doesn't fall apart if you miss lunch
and that hes best buds with Putin
Do you have any idea how gasoline tax for the roads is actually used in California? It does not go to the roads that I can assure you. It goes to a giant general fund that until very recently Jerry Brown was using to susidize the train to nowhere.
let the two of us bake roll-cakes, and be fast friends forever
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Ask HN: Is a Recession Coming?
I know, hindsight is 20/20 and nobody can look into the future but the media seems to be doubling down on this "a recession is coming". Is it going too well with the economy? Or what is going on? There seem to be so many little signals and things being framed (remember when Deutsche Bank's status was being covered 24/7 a few weeks ago and now you barely hear a thing about it?) a certain way I don't know what to believe anymore.

What's your take?
I completely agree with you. But the problem with markets with strong network effects is that those network effects usually aren’t obvious until you’ve struck gold. The markets with obvious network effects tend to be too heavily competitive to actually ever get there.
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It sounds like you agree that this is the mechanism of choice used to push down overnight interbank interest rates to keep them in line with the federal funds rate. IOER, by design, provides just a floor. Discount rate is, by design, quite a bit higher than the fed funds rate, and is only tapped for credit in emergencies.

Also this is what Wikipedia says on the topic:

> The (effective) federal funds rate is achieved through open market operations at the Domestic Trading Desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which deals primarily in domestic securities (U.S. Treasury and federal agencies' securities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate#Comparison_...

So, WAI. We just haven't seen cash injection through this mechanism in a while.
Absolutely agree, the whole WeWork IPO has been a dumpster fire. They should have had their house in order long before an S-1.
I knew a guy in Toronto that would do 3 hours each way. Seemed absolutely bananas, but there he was, every day.
Possibly -- you sell stock in fossil fuel companies, and reinvest in some other, hopefully more sustainable, company. It's not the divestment part that helps, it is the reinvestment.
95% of what we think as "Federal workers" are in fact contractors.

Look no further than Accenture and similar. So sure, there's whistleblower laws. But they're in name only, with no real power for those that work with fed stuff in day to day operations.
Sure, from a legal perspective since I guess it's in a grey area of international law. Morally speaking it's wrong.
All I know is the test results on the tdsb website were pathetic. Not sure about this other stat you're using.
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You can pay for lunch with a credit card without having the funds available.
The only thing you haven't accounted for is buying power. Income comparisons have to be normalized along with buying power.

$12K in China-2019 is likely greater than $32K USA-1984??
Well, a data scientist that started working 15 years ago will have a very different skill set...
If only there was some way for people to live decently while working on anything they wanted to. Like, if there was some Universal way they could meet their Basic needs without having to devote all their energy towards extracting an Income out of for-profit companies or contract-for-hire schemes. Wow, then maybe there would be millions of people interested in computers who could work on all kinds of projects!
But the managers' actions aren't leading to a drop in share price, it's divestors' actions that are leading to the drop in share price, and this would be obvious with any divestment effort large enough to create an effect.
I don't know if its a good idea to continue either, but Japan has been actively doing something similar for a while now. It hasn't caused catastrophe, but it hasn't pulled them into high growth either - but it could be argued that there are other factors affecting the overall economy there (the graying and shrinking of their population for one).
I don't think it's simultaneously fair to release code in an open source license that allows commercial use and then be demoralized by that commercial use. The problem there is clearly one's own.

Companies may use open source software but they don't directly or indirectly profit from it; they can only profit from the value they provide on top of it. Software that is free for everyone cannot be a distinguishing feature.

Contributing to open source software, even if used by for-profit entities, is increasing the total state-of-the-art for the entire industry. If you are demoralized by that then you probably want a job, not a hobby.
I gave a try to Backblaze but stopped using it when I noticed you have to send to their servers you private key to restore your files. For me it's not acceptable.
It was my response to the original statement that rich landowners do not pay taxes, but benefit from Crossrail, thus Crossrail is "rob from the poor to give to the rich".

My objection to that statement is that rich people also pay taxes.
Actually, that's exactly how banking systems fall apart, if you push it too far.
+1 This is how I solved for the optimal parameter: instead of inverting the matrix, which is memory-heavy and computationally expensive, I used the solve function from scipy.linalg.

I looked into numpy and scipy methods for symmetry and sparsity, but my kernel matrix is still too dense.
Presumably it's because if a bank goes under, the economy can quickly nosedive (see 2008). If you can't get lunch, you're hungry for a couple of hours, but the world pretty much goes on unscathed.

It's hard to make analogies between household finance and corporate/national finance. Modern finance is a huge and complex topic. If you haven't and are interested, start with some basic economics, then move on to more focused topics.
Yep I use that one
Another thing that I observed in our culture since we switched is that it is easier to coordinate cross-team efforts - if I know X will be done in Fx70, I can plan my work on top of it for 71.

Such logic is commonly performed without releases until you start depending on multiple features in multiple places.
Then it saves you.

The same "alignment" works also much better between engineering and non-engineering teams. Once we collect the focus areas and major features planned for release X, security, performance, accessibility, localization, platform integration, UI, UX, design, legal and marketing teams can prioritize their work to aid them.

Having no release cycle, or long release cycle, dilutes this effort and reduces visibility.

There is, in my opinion, somewhere, a threshold beyond which the release cycle burden outweighs the benefits and/or where the cycle is to short for teams to usefully react, but I don't think we hit it so far.
Not to mention, different builds per language for each OS. [1] This has never really made sense to me, but I'm sure there must be a good reason.

[1] - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.1.0esr/linux...
More than two years ago, I wrote this:

[…]

What do I mean with “the threat of Facebook”? In the old days, before today’s large “social media” sites, people made their own web pages on places like GeoCities or on simpler social-media-like sites like LiveJournal, etc. Those sites all had content and linked to each other. This is the web which the Google search engine and its algorithm was meant to find things in, and it worked very nicely, as it took advantage of the links other people had made to your site as a proxy for relevance in search results for your site. People making small web pages about their favorite topics (with lots of links to other people’s pages, since information was hard to find) could slowly and easily transition into making larger and larger reference web sites with lots of information, thereby attracting lots of incoming links from others, which in turn enabled people to find the information using Google’s search engine.

Compare this to now. Firstly, people having a Facebook account have no place to simply place information, no incentive to simply make a web page about, say, tacos or model trains, because that’s not what Facebook is about. Facebook is about the here-and-now, and whatever is yesterday is forgotten. As I understand it, there is no real way, in Facebook, to make a continuously updated page with a fixed address for people to go to as a reference point about some subject, or at least people are not directed towards doing this as part of their online activity (as opposed to in the past, when it was basically the only thing which people could do). Secondly, this makes it so that people have no natural path going from using Facebook to creating a larger web site with information, and there are no smaller model train or taco Facebook “pages” which could have links to your larger site and thereby validate its relevance. Thirdly, even if this second point was false, Google could not use these Facebook pages, because Google cannot crawl them. These pages are all internal to Facebook, and Facebook has every incentive to not allow Google to crawl and search this information. Facebook would much rather people used their own site to search, and thereby gaining all of Google’s sources of income: User monitoring and advertising.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295456
Because the move to hire so many moderators so fast was a big expensive move that seemed like more of an implementation for PR purposes considering some of the troubles the company was experiencing. When your motto is 'move fast and break things', and you implement features like live video streaming without much thought to the full ramifications of doing so, it would seem even if only to me, that company might not be afraid to take a leap on tech that's 'not quite ready'. Again, I know such a hasty implementation could hurt quality, but given what's at stake (human health), they might get credit for doing the right thing. Obviously, though in our society, where they wouldn't get such credit, and would only get flamed for having a bad user experience for the wrong videos being taken down, the mental health if a few humans who willingly signed up is a small sacrifice for profitability.
I don't have damages to sue for.
The assumption you're making here is that democracy is the better more "modern" way. In the united states your way of life is controlled primarily by business interests. Democracy has allowed corporations to come into power.

In China, the government still has great control. So great is their control that they've built one of the greatest public rail networks in the world for the public good. When's the last time the US did such a thing for the public good?

No whataboutism will change the fact that it is controversial whether democracy or centralized control is better. There are no clear answers and therefore no need to vilify one country as some despotic dystopia. The truth is far milder.
Fossil fuel divestment has zero climate impact, says a billionaire with capital invested in the fossil fuel economy.

>Those who want to change the world would do better to put their money and energy behind the disruptive technologies that slow carbon emissions and help people adapt to a warming world, Mr Gates told the Financial Times.

Divesting from the fossil fuel industry doesn't prevent people from investing in alternative, disruptive technologies.

In fact, it frees up more money to be invested in those technologies!
"colechristensen" is basically spamming this thread with the same message, repeated over and over again. I counted 20 similar comments. One begins to question this guy's sanity.
Does an acupuncture supply company really have enough scientific merit behind it to have a news article published on this hypothesis?
They were mocking Stallman's penchant for pedantics
Ahh gotcha, you seem to have pretty much the same feedback as this comment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/47149#note_.... Commenting on this issue (and tagging @ntepluhina, one of the owners of the issue) with your feedback would be the best way for someone to see it! I can pass on the info too, but issue comments take precedence when we're prioritizing.
How small.
Aside from the fact that you can easily borrow money for lunch in a variety of ways, the main difference is that banks almost never default, compared to individuals.

Only one bank has failed in the US in the last two years.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

The real risks are systematic (many banks failing), not that an individual bank will fail.
Very exciting, looking forward to it!
Wow, I didn't realise this was the norm in Germany. In the UK, a photo would never be expected, and would seem odd if received; I assumed the rest of the EU was the same, but especially the Western-most parts.
That is a good question, back when I was younger the question was "Could anyone kill Sears and Roebuck?" for much the same reasons. Using the history of Sears, and how they lost their lock on retail America, if Amazon dies the same way it will because there will be other choices that are give customers something that they want while Amazon fails to change (aka Day 2 type behavior).

For example, if your chance of getting something counterfeit on Amazon was 50% and to return it would take several days. Then a new company that focused on only legitimate merchandise and easy returns would start eating away at Amazon's volume. Now that is just an example, not saying it is going to happen, but another closer to home experience was Fry's Electronics where more and more often they would take customer returns, shrink wrap them and stick them back on the shelf. I once bought a DVD drive there open the box to find it contained a CDROM that clearly someone had taken out of their computer and replaced with a DVD drive (same thing I was doing). When I went to take it back the store said "How do we know you aren't the one who swapped it?" It took about 40 minutes but we found the serial number on the box had been previously returned the week before. From that point on I made a point of opening the package at the store to insure I wasn't getting the odd second hand "re-gifted" product.

I am already unwilling to go to Amazon for products that are easily copied.
Isn’t LaTeX just a set of macros? Is that not “lazy” compared to using plain TeX?

I would not think less of an engineer who used standard components.