skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how what you are saying is contradicting me. The point is that the scientists generally don't view it as their job, whereas the ml engineers/research engineers typically have it as their job to do the software architecture/engineering side.
Risky mortgages and delinquencies were only a problem because:

the lenders* themselves had borrowed too much

the lenders didn’t know they had borrowed so much

the ratings agencies were not judging the merit of the investments that lenders had invested in

*by lender I mean the ultimate party reliant on payments from the mortgage borrower

much was done to add transparency and safeguards to that specific issue, so just because lending standards are loose again doesn't mean there is systemic incestuous exposure to losses and collateral calls to the world’s most financially important institutions

happy trading
Actually, I just checked again to make sure I wasn't a liar, and we did get a dedicated outdoor goods store but it wasn't until toward the end of last year. I did also finally get a leather repair shop for my boots who also moved in last year. Hopefully smaller retailers are recognizing a gap in the market and starting to move in. If someone wants to start a hipster ice cream or donut shop, the Cedar Rapids, IA market is all but uncontested.
I agree, that's impressive, but... every time I upgrade, and even some substantial portion of non-upgrade updates, I have to go in and fix my Grub config or else my Windows dual boot just infinite loops. That's somewhat less impressive, and it affects me much more substantially.

The more immediate usability issues mean that I have a clear divide between the OSes I prefer to use for my daily driver (OSX/Windows) vs. the OSes I prefer to use for servers (Linux). With WSL2, the virtualization capabilities are good enough that I pretty much never need to explicitly boot Linux on my laptop/desktop anymore.
Do you have any sources for these numbers? They seem low given the value of works of art and real estate held by the church; I'm just curious what the $10B USD figure includes.
Then why do I have the following results?

const a = [...Array(1000000).keys()];
const m = 8;
let leftAvg = .0;
for(let _ of Array(m)) {
const t0 = performance.now();
a.map(Math.tan).map(Math.sin);
const t1 = performance.now();
leftAvg += (t1 - t0)/m;
}
let rightAvg = .0;
for(let _ of Array(m)) {
const t0 = performance.now();
a.map(x => Math.sin(Math.tan(x)));
const t1 = performance.now();
rightAvg += (t1 - t0)/m;
}
console.log(leftAvg, rightAvg, leftAvg/rightAvg);
// JS Firefox 70: 264 360.75 0.7318087318087318

var a = Enumerable.Range(0, 10000000).Select(x => (double)x).ToArray();
double[] xs1 = null;
double[] xs2 = null;
var m = 16;

var leftAvg = .0;
foreach (var _ in Enumerable.Range(0, m))
{
var watch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
xs1 = a.Select(Math.Tan).ToArray().Select(Math.Sin).ToArray();
watch.Stop();
leftAvg += (double)watch.ElapsedMilliseconds / m;
}

var rightAvg = .0;
foreach (var _ in Enumerable.Range(0, m))
{
var watch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
xs2 = a.Select(x => Math.Sin(Math.Tan(x))).ToArray();
watch.Stop();
rightAvg += (double)watch.ElapsedMilliseconds / m;
}

Console.WriteLine($"{leftAvg} {rightAvg} {leftAvg / rightAvg}");
// C# Results: 505.75 602.25 0.839767538397675
How much memory does a "hello world" app use?
Please don't take HN threads further into national or regional flamewar. It's not necessary and never ends well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pretty impressive! This is what I got (my initial text is in italic):

One day I woke up suddenly after a bad dream. I was sitting on my bed alone. As soon as I turned over I found myself lying down in a strange bed. It had no bed, no mattress and no cover for me. I was just lying on that thick carpet. I looked around to discover nothing but a white bed. There was no window, no furniture. No door. The only clue was a single white mirror that stood beside my bed. And there was a single candle lying on my bedside table. I was not worried or scared. I was fascinated.

I could see the floor.

I could see the walls.

And I could see everything that was around me.

I could hear the wind.

I could see everything from the windows, from the door that was always slightly open. I could even see the light.

I was in a dream world and I knew that I was in a dream. But what I wanted to know was what was happening in this world.
Python: Better typed than you think
It’s not that difficult to learn how to fly a helicopter, you only need 20h with instructor before the first solo flight. While that’s just the beginning it shows getting the basic controls down is not the problem. Thus, these VTOL aircraft are only going to be game changers if they are vastly cheaper, which seems unlikely.

The real issue is unit sales being so low. The R22 is a popular and ‘cheap’ helicopter ranking #8 in total sales, but it’s sold less than 5,000 units worldwide over 40 years.

PS: Fixed wing aircraft are popular because they have a huge range of inherent advantages. VTOL sounds great, but the downsides are enormous.
That's a little over an inch, for us Americans. Either way it still seems pretty good, especially if the person is skinny.
Political ads are "paid" free speech.
If you wanna have a good laugh:

Go to an AT&T store and purchase a plan with a phone using installments. Then, wait a day, and try to return it at a different AT&T store.

You will go through the absolutely worst customer experience imaginable; so bad, in fact, it'll make you laugh out loud. Their printers won't work, they'll be too slow, the systems will go down, the batteries will die in their payment devices. At least that's what I experienced on every one of the three times they asked me to come back to the store to return the phone(because each time their systems simply were unable to do it).

So it's no surprise to me that they got caught lying to their customers.
But the real recipients of the money are the traders (hedge funds, market makers, etc) on the other side of the transaction.

So, it's a cash flow of billionaires -> teenager margin account -> billionaires.

"He stole from the rich, and he gave... Well, he airdropped the money over a gated billionaire neighbourhood." doesn't make the most catchy song for a folk hero.
If the USD is stronger than it should be, what should happen is that the USD becomes weaker, that is, that every other currency becomes relatively stronger. None of them need become the new "stronger than it should be". They can just all move up relative to the dollar.
Best laugh I've had all day; I hadn't thought about it, but I'm sure it's no coincidence.

Random trivia that the wiki article leaves off... The Anaconda Company essentially single-handedly helped get rid of state legislatures electing Senators due to having bought off most of the Montana state legislature - which was obviously bad enough for the federal government to step in and give a big nope to things.

Which is an odd thought in the land of big business lobbying and I'm sure has absolutely no parallels to today's situation. Nope, nope, nope.
Many non-profits have one or more sister 527 organizations that actually do the electioneering and other political activities.
So new "other charges" line on my bill?
Yeah I'm waiting for the backlash when companies realize this
I have only been investing for 2 years I am currently 32. So I think most investors wouldn't mind me keeping my stocks but I saw my mother and father loose hundreds of thousands of dollars back in 09 and I am not about to bite that bullet.
More != better. If it was, Princeton/Yale/Stanford/MIT/etc would not exist.
There is no convection in the core of the sun. It is plausible that material has mostly stayed there since the formation of the sun.
For the Model S my first thought was the M4, which actually does end up with the original 1/3 weight disparity I mentioned, but I think this is just a coincidence of my first choice. Compared to an E63 AMG, a car in a similar category known for carrying a bit of weight, and the difference is closer to 10%. Compared to an RS4 the difference is about 20%.

For the Model X I was really surprised how small the differences were. Compared to a G Wagon, which I'd say is really its competition, the difference in weight is about 8%. Compared to an X5, it's about 5%. If you consider the X7 to be the competition (which most people probably do), the X7 ends up being about 1% heavier.

And just to add it since I'm already doing this, I think the clear competitor for the Model 3 Performance is the M2 Competition. They're specifically meant to be track vehicles that you can comfortably use for your daily driver. This puts the weight disparity at 18% for that model. And just for fun: https://youtu.be/HycUgd6fTWI & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pu9046wX9g

So I guess the conclusion is electric vehicles are heavier, but as you move towards already heavy vehicles like SUVs the weight differences start to vanish. But as you move towards more smaller vehicles, the difference is much more noticeable.
Well a currency devaluation looks like decreasing numbers on USD/gold and also like increasing numbers on gold/USD.
These are the assets that your Robinhood checking account is giving you (with SIPC).

Aka, another bank.

Why the SIPC allows them to run a half-baked investment bank providing free leverage to all is I guess the real mystery here.
> we are all, for better or worse, participating in a radical large-scale experiment to test this hypothesis.

Well if you have a suitably sound and accurate economic model that you’ve been secreting away, let us know and save us the time.
Additionally, it’s not like it’s been exclusively Keynesian economics since the 70’s: there’s been a huge amount of neoliberal economics going around-do you not remember the popularity of austerity measures during the 2008 GFC?

To me, bitcoin and co’s dogged insistence on the evils of inflation feels more like someone along the way had some personal issue with inflation alone and designed something to counteract it, plausibly at the expense of numerous other economic factors.
Gold/Silver also tanked with the 2008 recession though.
Many brands are existing words. You don't even need to look at edge cases to support this:

* Apple

* Amazon

* Nike

* Oracle

* Visa

* Fox

....

The point of trademarks is to protect consumers from misleadingly identified products. Whether the word is used for something else is irrelevant. Basically all western countries take into account the context in which the term is used. i.e. your grocery store can still legally sell a fruit called 'apple'.
NPM has a fund command as of v6.13.0
I was one once, they may sort of be right. Gold will never become a "standard" again, but it could be extremely useful for preserving wealth from one standard to another.

Gold has always been touted as a hedge against inflation, it's not, it's a hedge against financial system instability, inflation being a major symptom of such instability.
Speaking as someone who came from a less-than-stellar high school, referring to concepts as being "from high school X" can be pretty demoralizing to hear, and it's almost never necessary to mention. Consider using "introductory" instead, unless your audience is explicitly only people who went to advanced high schools.
Probably a lot more in Europe. Density there is so much higher that you really can't compare their rural areas to those of the U.S. In Germany you can live on a farm and commute by train to work in a city.
Oh! Okay, that makes more sense.
Good fun, thanks.
I agree that the industry would be healthier if companies tried to become viable/profitable earlier. I think in particular many took the wrong lesson from Amazon's ability to grow without making money for ~20 years.
The land is great, the people are fairly good. It's the system that holds us back. That doesn't mean the government, although there are aspects of the government that should be disbanded immediately (hi CIA/NSA!). Mostly we need to put up with a lot less authority, including in this case that of the trademark courts.
Good luck with the robot. I wonder, if the individual steps are really that simple, why hasn´t it already be automated already?

And if you don´t mind me asking, what´s the best way to start a little home experiment to see if one may actually be interested in biotech?
since jan 2 2019 S&P 500 is up from 2510 => 3074 so if you read a doom porn article and liquidated on 12/30 you missed out on insane growth spurt

this is no different. you have to factor in potential lost growth when you go risk averse mode; it's against our loss aversion bias but has to be done when thinking long term.
There are several other tax-exemption provisions which do apply to political organizations, but with different tradeoffs involved.

To oversimplify, 401(c)3 are exempt from taxation and donations to them can be deducted from the donor's income tax liability. As a tradeoff, they cannot participate in political activity.

401(c)4 organizations are permitted to participate in politics as part (but not all) of their activity, and are exempt from taxation, but donors to them may not deduct their donations.

527 organizations exist explicitly for political purposes and are exempt from taxation. However, donors may not deduct their donations, and 527 organizations are subject to more rigorous regulation and reporting requirements due to their almost guaranteed exposure to campaign finance regulation.

The best way to think about it is this: while the IRS permits many types of non-profit organizations to not pay corporate income tax, the ability of donors to deduct donations from their personal income tax is a privilege specifically granted to charities. Charities are a subset of nonprofits which exist for specific purposes, and political advocacy is not one of them.

Subject to state law, it is often possible to incorporate nearly any type of business venture as a nonprofit (even a conventionally for-profit one, such as a retailer). However, the IRS does not grant tax-exempt status to any nonprofit. Only nonprofits of specific types are granted tax-exempt status.
It's one of many mutually reinforcing factors. I'm not trying to assign blame here (of which there is plenty to go around), but observing a dynamic.

That dynamic is essentially that success begets success. If you have a population that has the experience, from an early of age, of teams where everybody works hard at an uncertain goal and accomplishes their objective, it builds more than just the objective. It also builds trust among the team and the population in general; it builds a number of ancillary skills that were necessary to accomplish the objective; and it builds courage, and the belief that even if obstacles look hard, they can be surmounted. If you set out to build & market a computer game by yourself and fail, you've accomplished a lot more than failure. You've also taught yourself to program; taught yourself game design; taught yourself graphic design; taught yourself marketing and differentiation; taught yourself how to listen to early users and make decisions; and taught yourself perseverance.

And conversely, if you have a society where corporate leaders habitually throw young employees into the meat grinder, burn them out on busywork, and pay them little, there will be very little incentive for these employees to do anything other than put in the bare minimum amount of work and spend the remainder of their workday on Facebook or HN. They build no ancillary skills; they learn distrust rather than trust; they learn that perseverance is a waste of time; and they learn nothing about how to break down big goals and make them achievable.

Say that a nation full of the former has to compete (either economically or militarily) with a nation full of the latter. Who do you think is going to win?

There's nothing wrong with "Work smart, and look after yourself & your family" from the perspective of an individual. There is something gravely wrong with it from the perspective of a nation, which has effectively disintegrated at that point. We're talking about national currencies, which are an abstraction of the national economy as a whole. If there is no national economy, but a bunch of independent producers who search for whatever personal advantages they can get for themselves, that national currency is not going to be worth much.
That phrase alone gave me a poor feeling about the whole comment. It was unnecessary and glib.
On paper, this seems like a great idea. Not only does it allow for transparency but it also provides a non-intrusive way of advertising sponsors in the terminal. Let's see how it plays out in practice.
It didn't really, it sold off initially because it was "up", people sold winners in order to cover losses and gold was one of those winners. It didn't peak until 2011 at around $1900 and had risen from it's lowers in the early 2000's.
the thing that sucks about 501(c)3 is that there are no deductible expenses any more

So they can be used in conjunction with other entities to really amplify the tax benefits

If you think of them like 401k on steroids It can help, as deductible contributions are unlimited up to 50% income and anything above that rolls over into the next year, and you can do a bunch with asset prices and velocity.

Different parts of the tax code pull deductions before or after AGI, so you can game this forever all while the masses can only express their discontent by targeting “income tax rates” and the edgiest of them all says “marginal income tax rates”
C++20: Concepts, ranges, coroutines, modules
What should I have said differently to substantiate my point that that circumstance wasn't an inherent necessity?

Citing "they're already doing X" is the best way to refute "things have to be not-X", right?

I wasn't trying to start a national flamewar, and I don't see how what I said was unnecessarily inflammatory. If no one has a better way, I think I was within the guidelines.

In case it matters, I don't live in the place I was saying does things better.
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If you look at the graphs, gold stayed kind of flat during the heights of last 2 recessions but it had a rally 1-2 year after last 2 recessions.
They should just come out and be honest and call it the 'middle finger fee'.
Why is this a weird question? I work 90% (36 hours) many of my colleagues work 32. In the Netherlands (in my bubble) it seems almost standard for both parents to go to 32 (4x8) and both have one non-weekend day with the kid(s).
Can this be used with a Nitrokey?
You're writing as if food delivery was a new thing and therefore completely unknown. If my local bakery can get UberEats worked out, I'll boldly state that a company like Krispy Kreme can probably afford a lawyer or two to read a contract without evaporating 1.5 million dollars or whatever.

Fire someone, reduce bonuses, perhaps a stern look at the next regional meeting. Figure it out people. Good grief. Companies complain about slow revenue growth while leaving obvious money on the table. This example was a business refusing a $1000 or similar per month. That might not be much to you, but I'm fairly sure a franchisee would notice that. $12k/year is measurable for most small businesses even if you wouldn't even notice that amount.
Use the following strategies:
1. Meditate daily for 15 minutes. Try vedic indian meditations.
2. Keep track of your mood using some app.
3. If your mood is bad for consistently 3 days, then open pastebin and write down about everything you are feeling and going in your head.

Most small problems with mental health can be dealt by bringing in consciousness. Simple example, whenever you are feeling nervous, force you brain to just observe whats going on in your body instead of being an active participant in the process. You will immediately realize you start feeling less nervous. Similarly, you can try for anxiety.

For more serious problems, it is best to seek medical help on periodic basis. A meetup with doctor every 3 months is reasonable.
> the nihilistic will to power of the terrorist

I hate a poorly thought out reference to Nietzsche.

I used to be a big fan of Fight Club when I first saw it in high school. Then at some point I started to realize what the author did, that the fanbase was toxic, and it started to impact my appreciation of the movie.

I've noticed the same thing with other pieces of media, most recently Rick and Morty. I like the show a lot, but I've found, particularly online, the fanbase is pretty toxic.
> What's the difference between employees of a company pushing for political change versus company executives using their position and influence to affect politics?

The executives shouldn't be doing that either. However, the core role of the executive is to decide how to deploy a companies resources. That is a pretty substantial difference.

> We want change ...

'We' is presumably a group of people living in a democratic first world country. We have systems for deciding what 'we' want, and it frequently spits out results that suggest 'we' do not want change.
My bet is on 10k gold after next recession. I guess I’m a gold bug. But it’s still only 10% of my portfolio so I’m well diversified imho
Venezuela is proving to be too costly for Russia
Facebook had a working spam classification system, and they replaced the data dependency graph engine with Haskell as a performance experiment. It's not to do with failing open or closed. Note that they hired the inventor of GHC Haskell's concurrency engine to do it, and he is not available to work at the company :-)
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It seems like I'm missing something basic. I would like to understand when the inflation happens and where it comes from. More money chasing fewer goods, sure, but if we already have too much of a money-equivalent, why aren't bondholders chasing goods with it already? And, clearly there isn't any inflation.

It seems like demand should have increased when the government sold the bonds and spent the money.
Cool! If you dont mind me asking, do you use any specific software for that? Also, do you have people in different timezones?
Parallel construction. Advanced Persistent Threat. State Level Actor.

I think we ought to assume Big Corp doesn't delete anything and shares that not-deleted data with, at least, the Five Eyes.
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The "restrictions" are absurdly narrow, and especially when it comes to content. Technically, there's the "obscenity" exception, though I can't speak for how commonly it's applied (oftentimes it doesn't seem to stick, and doesn't appear to be heavily used). Generally, we don't have a discussion as a society over what speech the government allows* , in terms of content; everything goes. It's just that there are a few exceptions for inciting illegal acts, obsenity, fighting words, ect. The proposed change would require us to get together and decide what people are allowed to say, so nobody gets offended. That's a big departure from tradition in the USA.

* PS I know there have been high profile challenges to offensive speech (eg. Frank Zappa, Lenny Bruce, 2LiveCrew, Video Games, ect.), but certainly appears that in the long run free speech has won out in the USA.