skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black Diamond makes a lot more than just walking sticks. But even if that's all they made ..

You're seriously underestimating how hard it might to to engineer and test even something as seemingly simple as a walking stick. These are lightweight, high-tech materials we're talking about (carbon fiber), which even SpaceX gave up on for their latest spacecraft. They're also collapsible/foldable. Simply put, this is harder than you think it is.
A Florida-based bar did the same with the Fijian equivalent of Aloha: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45675016
That is one interpretation of several pages of judicial thought. Although not disagreeable, it throws out a lot of the subtleties about why the decisions were made and what specific circumstances and conflicting rights contributed to that decision.

Looking at the cases you linked, I suspect if GCP were to deny services to gay people or abortion service providers the courts would determine that circumstances were different.
Sigh... I wrote the above while sleep-deprived, and it came out garbled. Thanks for the corrections.
African governments must stop creating stumbling blocks for startups
San Diego Airbnb host accuses group of Marines of trashing her home
I have no idea, I've never made an artificial walking stick. Good strong wood is quite sturdy however, but not nearly as light as a synthetic walking stick. Trying to replicate the strength of a hard wood in a very lightweight synthetic material is probably a challenging engineering task.

Anyway I'd think production/manufacturing and quality assurance would be more to blame, particularly if the same products used to perform better than now.
I know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here
The "center" of a black hole is not a place in space. It's a moment of time (that is to the future of all other moments inside the horizon).
I'm a founder and have been getting spammed hard-core lately for small business loans. There are many companies offering 5-6 digit business loans and revolving lines of credit to basically anyone who can fog glass, and there are salespeople and spammers pushing them. I'd say I average 2-3 e-mails or cold calls per day. Feels like they're trying to stuff loans down my throat.

I've spoken to other founders and small business owners and they say similar. I've also heard anyone who can fog glass can get a car loan.

It reminds me a lot of how people were being basically nagged and cajoled into taking out huge mortgages in the early 2000s. There seems to be a lot of demand again for debt mystery meat to make debt sausages.
Think of it as the end of rural sprawl.

Most small towns were built to support surrounding farming and ranching. Once that stopped being labor-intensive, the small towns lost their economic reason for being. Farming today is something like 1.2% of the US workforce. Most of the income in many small towns is now from Social Security, disability, and welfare for the people who didn't leave. In time, they will die off. Their town will then go on this list.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Uni...
ISAs are not wage garnishment though. My ISA would be tied solely to the amount you're making and a non-interest-bearing predetermined price. Wage garnishment is a form of interest sharing, sure, but the underlying liability is growing at an exponential rate, which is what would be wrong.
With an anxiety disorder, tracking your mental health more frequently than weekly is very likely seriously counterproductive.
Given that they were destined to be sold for $15 a pop, and already assembled ready to go, I very much doubt that this would have been economically workable. Even sourcing a paint that would adhere to the plastic body of the device would be a huge headache.
I think it's worth pointing out that this headline pops up every time there's a minor improvement to CRISPR/casX regardless of whether it's a substantial improvement or not.
The principle itself is odd. It’s not clear how freedom to speak does not also cover that of association, and in turn, militating against the freedom of others. The threat of ostracization is essentially blackmail, and while not necessarily violent, there isn’t really a more succinct description. The right to blackmail probably wasn’t intended, but that’s what unpopular views are subject to today. It just didn’t scale before social media.
It’s a very risky bet for sure. But there is a very small possibility central banks will go back to gold standard to instil confidence during a Great Recession when markets fall by 50+% in a very short time.
What did you switch to, IB?
> the seemingly secret Swift magic that's used to implement some features

What magic are we talking about? I thought all the new stuff was RFC'd right after SwiftUI was announced.
Pretty good. It's not all sunshine but it's all workable. My strategies are:

1. journaling for the feedback loop

2. meditation in times of stress or uncertainty

3. exercise, regularly

4. quality sleep, as close to 8 hours as I can manage

5. a mix of intentionally alone time and social time with others - time alone builds me up, but time with others maintains important relationships
1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (1984)
I mean Zinc Finger technology, while not as advanced, is much farther along than CRISPR and has the potential to change the world.
What exactly is the motivation for Backcountry.com to invest the time and money in doing this? None of the tiny companies and groups they're going after would cause confusion to customers. Nor is that the intent of the other businesses. So what's the point?
Achieving optimal query performance in a distributed time-series DB on Postgres
Neither could info on birth control or abortions (or in fact most things we'd consider part of "sex ed" today), but we generally regard those restrictions as having been a bad idea.
https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/tutorials
Yeah but like, is it really also not "pocket change" to just actually give "unlimited" service? Or what about the effectiveness of the "unlimited" lie, was that worth spending an extra $60MM on the marketing?
Slowly dying from all your first-world problems?
There is no way you would be able to estimate throughput without doing any benchmarks.
string is a typedef of the template basic_string so you don't have to type as much I assume.
I've read that gold is a hedge against unexpected inflation, but this dumbed down to 'gold is a hedge for inflation'.
You could have asked the same question when last Great Recession was unfolding and Lehman was going under. I believe that central banks will find a way to prevent a really bad scenario from happening.
As a RH user, the fact that this is possible really scares me that there will be intervention/repercussions and that Robinhood doesn't know what they're doing. Is it possible for the FTC (or whichever entity) to freeze these guys' operations? Should I liquidate and move all my shares elsewhere ASAP?
> But laws and elections have been singularly ineffective at stopping global warming.

...in the US. I am sorry that I keep pointing that out, but global warming is being fought by most elected leaders right now. With some moderate success. The per capita emission in the world has plateaued, despite a positive economic growth. OECD countries have seen a decrease, China seems to come close to plateau as well.

US' leaders are the ones who unilaterally pulled from Kyoto and Paris treaties.

And I mean, even in the US, CO2 emissions are diminishing, in huge parts because of environmental policies.
>I’ve long thought this is an issue of changing definitions.

Yes, everyone understood that unlimited meant "not limited". And then telecoms started trying to change that definition to mean "limited".
> We gave up on farms in the 80s.

1880s or 1980s?
It is a great quality of the Law that it allows both rich and poor alike to pay a lot of money to avoid jail time when caught committing a crime.
Who would go to jail? Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability.

Like, I know the sovereign citizen stuff is all nonsense, but this is kind of their point. They're trying to get away with the same things corporations get away with on the regular.
"The cost to British taxpayers was estimated at roughly £3.3 billion."

That's an average of over £100,000 per tax payer. Again, to clarify, tax payers are not some "egos at the Bank of England", but ordinary people like me and you.

There were only 33,000 tax payers in the UK in 1992?

I don't know how many tax payers there were, but dividing by the population at the time comes out to £58 per person.
Although I am still on A/D meds, I am the best I have been in years because I escaped an emotionally abusive relationship a year ago. Since then, I have reclaimed stability and self-esteem by hitting the gym daily. The freedom to live without that influence is still amazing to me.
> But most of the other things it suffers from — control by special interests, regulatory capture, buying elections and politicians, are caused by billionaires and rich corporations.

Billionaires and rich corporations caused WMATA and MTA to completely neglect maintenance for decades and let their systems literally catch on fire (despite being just as well funded as European systems?) Billionaires and rich corporations cause our education system to underperform (while being among the most well funded?) Billionaires and corporations cause our intractable housing issues?

I just don’t buy this. European countries have billionaires and big corporations, regulatory systems that can be captured, etc. In fact they’re often the ones more overtly pushing pro-corporate policies. (Trump’s corporate tax cuts, for example, came long after similar cuts in Sweden, France, Ireland, and the U.K. Trump is fighting to cut the capital gains tax, for example, while many OECD countries don’t even have one.) Yet their trains somehow run on time, their schools are good, their crime rates are low, and their cities are generally nice and orderly.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but there seem to be arcane tricks that SwiftUI's native types can do but I can't replicate in my own types.
> imagine the limit case where the earth were a hollow sphere

If it were a hollow sphere with the same total mass as our actual Earth, as measured from the outside, then clocks everywhere inside the hollow sphere would run slow relative to clocks just on the outer surface of the sphere, by roughly the same amount as clocks at the center of the actual Earth. The "clock rate" in the interior of the sphere's material would decrease a lot faster, per unit distance down from the outer surface, than it does in our actual Earth, because the material of the hollow sphere would have to be a lot denser than the material of our actual Earth, in order to have the same total mass.
This is how I felt reading his post too for what is worth. He might have the expertise (outside of crypto(graphy|currency) to produce a technical opinion but has unfortunately not spent much time trying to understand libra.
The TensorFlow blog has moved
There's lots wrong with Saudi laws but 99% of HN readers, including yourself I am sure, know that no woman is the property of any man in Saudi. I've seen many comments about Islam from hyperbole to downright lies intended to promote hate. These comments are frequently allowed to slide without any rebuttal or attempt at moderation. What might seem like hyperbole to you is read as truth by others, and there is a tidal wave of hate and filth out there (not on HN) relating to Islam and muslims. In future I intend to call these comments out on HN instead of ignoring them as I have lazily done in the past, because in some ways they have a bigger impact than the simple slavering on right wing hate sites. My karma will almost certainly run dry at some point, because of the human tendency to dislike being called out for this sort of stuff, at which point I will have to return to letting it slide once more.
I thought the Linux kernel was C and not C++. Has Linus changed his opinion of C++ in all these years?
Not a Marxist text, but this is kinda frightening (the initial text is in italic):

Do not vaccinate your children! A number of studies have shown that vaccines do NOT prevent disease. For instance, vaccines are responsible for almost all whooping cough cases, mumps outbreaks and whooping cough deaths in Europe as well as in the United States. Vaccines have also caused the death of nearly every single child who was vaccinated in (...)
You know, I disagree about CBC. I get its newsletters, the daily Alexa bcast, and see its YT videos. From my US-based perspective, it seems that they went well out of their way to be balanced in their coverage. They could have buried SNC Lavelin but it was amazing how long they kept up coverage. Their YT channel had daily "Scheer campaign day X" but I didn't see the corresponding videos for Trudeau.
What in your opinion makes for a strong PE candidate? Is management experience a requirement?

I could pursue management experience at my bigco, but it seems really boring and frustrating.
> it's not quite correct to say that the center of the sun -- or of the earth for that matter -- is "older" than the surface

Correction: "younger", not "older".
Planck evidence for a closed Universe and a possible crisis for cosmology
It really depends, see my blog post on the matter (part 1):

https://smabie.github.io/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html

In short, assuming a normal distribution, your max leverage ratio should be the future expected returns divided by the expected variance.

I’m not at a computer right now so I can’t run the math on real S&P returns, but assuming 10% returns and 10% vol and a normal distribution, the highest leverage ratio you would ever be able to justify is 10/10^2 or 10x leverage.

In my blog post I looked at the beginning of 2018 up to present. The ideal leverage ratio according to my equation (I’m sure it’s not novel, but haven’t been able to find anyone else talking about it), is 2.99x.

Of course, the more skew or kurtosis the distribution has the less accurate this equation becomes.

Right now I’m working on a hypothetical S&P ETF that adjusts leverage bases on forecasted volatility and returns. Almost impossible to get right, but my preliminary model has outperformed (not risk adjusted) any fixed leverage I’ve thrown at it.
Let's Fix Academic Posters
There is a fundamental equivalence between unique pictures of a cartoon mice and automobiles. Any automobile can be mapped to any particular unique cartoon mouse picture based on the method of encoding chosen.

Automobile ownership is saying that I own this particular result of turning a unique cartoon mouse picture into usable car regardless of starting cartoon mouse picture.

This is to say that we can't tell without actually decoding the cartoon mouse picture so we are in fact asserting that there is a chance we own any and all cartoon mouse pictures if someone later publishes the encoding that would turn your cartoon mouse picture into an automobile.
I’m a senior engineer at Startpage, and I can personally confirm all of the above. Our system is implemented in such a way that we never store a user's search query, IP address, or any other personally identifying information, and that will never change. If anyone is interested, I can answer specific questions about technical details.
One of the many Buffett-isms is to only make investments where, if the market were to close for five years, you'd sleep well. It is that premise that shapes my investing theses relating to China.
Ah, I misunderstood! And yes, absolutely. An even easier example

data Nullity a

This is a perfectly valid functor, too. Ignoring undefined, there are no values of it, but fmap cannot be used to create values of the mapped type, just manipulate them.
Going through mortgage application now, they grill the shit out of you on every little detail of your life now. They're aware of the last crash, and have done a lot to compensate.
Just to clarify. I come from a background where buying a fresh new BMW or Mercedes or Audi from the factory (latest model) is something rich people do. Middle class can not afford that.
Many years ago, I was looking into emacspeak [1], which seems like it could work for this. (I thought it would be a cool way to interact with a wearable computer; I didn't get much farther than those thoughts)

[1] http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
> Mortgage debt will probably not be a problem in this cycle.

Disagree if you consider that many people are getting mortgages on overvalued properties at or near market peaks now, and in another significant downturn those could easily be underwater by 15%-50%. The same thing happened widely in the prior real estate bust in many trendy areas, leading to many foreclosures.
I think its No one out there, but some people I respect say, IMF SDR, I kind of get it. But IMF does not have a NAVY!
We also have code like that. For example, that's the explicit goal of the Spinning Up repo: https://github.com/openai/spinningup/blob/master/spinup/algo...

In practice, it's much harder to use that code, and we tend not to consume code like that internally. There's a real tradeoff!
> Lenders have bundled more than $18 billion worth of these loans into bonds this year that they then sold to investors...

Compare this to the ~$17 trillion of mortgage backed securities that existed prior to the financial crisis. $18 billion is peanuts, and hardly a systemic concern.
For what it's worth, that Gore-Tex page seems to be pretty up-front about it being for the useful life of the product.
have you guys checked this hacker Andrej Boldiss at boldisshack@gmail.com ...dude's totally the word hack.Does from yahoo,facebook, gmail,hotmail, aol, twitter, instagram,snapchat hacks.Does bank jobs and credit card tops as well.paypal acct payments as well as your blank atm cards.He's currently upgrading a nephew's schoolgrade.lol.Top class hack tool he is..Top secretive and discreet jobs.dude's kinda picky so make mention of the reference.katty referred you. you're welcome
The Show HN: section should be a place above politics...
Americans aren't the only ones to overweight the shady monetary policy in China, and as a result it'll not become the defacto standard like the US Dollar is, as long as that shadiness remains.
Sometimes I start questioning our existence but then I realize there’s no point in doing that and just go back to doing whatever it is I enjoy the most. ¯\_( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Yes, I actually typed then deleted "beyond Apple's tutorial" because I assumed the point would be understood. :)
Sellout! :P
> Unfortunately, they don't get enough attention as Purism or PostmarketOS gets.

I didn't know of this project, however my first thought at putting the ideas "ubuntu" and "phone" together would be: another phone that doesn't respect you.

This comes from the way ubuntu forces stuff you might not want, like the amazon app, telemetry and stuff like snap.

I might be thinking unfairly.

(meanwhile purism takes great pain to think of the user compassionately via GPL)
(Not trying to virtue signal) I pay for my news subscriptions and really think that is worth doing but I don't agree that news should be tax deductible for the following reasons:

* We already have enough tax loopholes.

* The definition of "newspaper" is going to get pretty ridiculous fast with this loophole. Do you want your tax dollars to support Goop Weekly? Maybe (I don't know you after all), but I certainly and vehemently do not.
I think there was a danger that France would've had to leave due to similar pressures the UK faced, Germany bent for France in a way they wouldn't for the UK.

I am thankful though, the UK leaving the ERM meant the euro was dead in the UK.
Interesting. From the comment in abseil's implementation:

// Compilers can use the information that a certain branch is not likely to be

// taken (for instance, a CHECK failure) to optimize for the common case in

// the absence of better information (ie. compiling gcc with `-fprofile-arcs`).

//

// Recommendation: Modern CPUs dynamically predict branch execution paths,

// typically with accuracy greater than 97%. As a result, annotating every

// branch in a codebase is likely counterproductive; however, annotating

// specific branches that are both hot and consistently mispredicted is likely

// to yield performance improvements.
We also have really simple prevention/treatment steps for basically all chronic disease: sleep for eight hours every night, replace sugar with vegetables, and get outside and exercise.

If everyone did that, we wouldn't need all these fancy new drugs.
The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken
> ... Countries weren’t ready to give up their national currencies, but they agreed to fix their exchange rates with each other instead of “floating” their currency and letting capital markets set the rates. Since Germany had the strongest economy in Europe, each country set their currency’s value in Deutschmarks. They agreed to maintain the exchange rate between their currency and the Deutschmark within an acceptable band of plus or minus 6% of the agreed upon rate.

Germany's economic policies in particular have had a big effect on the course of the last 100 years of European history. The hyperinflation following Versailles and ensuing economic dislocation led in no small part to the rise of the Nazi party.

The commitment of Germany in particular among European countries to strict budget controls to avoid another hyperinflation laid the groundwork for Soros' attack on the Pound.

Continued fiscal discipline has helped make Germany a dominant economic force in the EU. It set the stage for the Greek debt crisis, and several others in the works. These all resemble the Pound crisis in that the unusually strong vigilance against excessive debt in Germany is/was a driving factor.
I'd use privacy.com but I really like the points my CC gets me...
I found the code blocks a very interesting looking and authentic, but that's true for me: it was somewhat difficult to read.
The biggest damage was in non-trendy areas like Las Vegas suburbs or Orlando suburbs.
Yes, but "the dude can argue" can apply to the house example. "I planned to rent out the rooms". "I planned to get a better job". "The house is worth $1M to the right buyer", etc.

If someone lends you money on the basis of honest information you present to them I don't see how it is fraud. It might be unwise to take such loans, but that's a different thing.
Most of the companies I visited the last few months have a choice of systems plus a BYOD budget, but still most people prefer getting a Mac, and again, almost none of them are writing software for macOS or iOS, and are as in your example often working for web, cloud or managing *nix servers.
I agree about churnalism but do you really want your tax dollars to pay for "The Enquirer"? Cause you know they will get classified as a "newspaper".
I find the idea of a serious legal professional having to read through those threads on WSB actually makes me happy.
He bought 50k of Out of The Money PUTs expiring next day. So he bet AAPL would go down. When market opened AAPL went up and his 50k options would expire worthless at the end of day.

To get the leveraged money he bought stock and sold CALLs against it. RH has a bug where they give you credit for the premium collected instead of reducing buying power.
Algo – your personal VPN in the cloud
Personally I didn't, even though the markers were there. Not from a head-in-sand attitude, more that I did not want it to be a self-conjured certainty by constantly fretting over a 'what-if'. I figured that if lightning was going to strike it would and not worrying about it allowed me several peaceful and productive years. Equally if lightning hadn't struck then I would have spent my time here on earth stressing about something that never happened.