skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't take this personally, but you don't sound ready to invest in stocks.

losing huge amounts of money is going to happen. there's nothing you can do to avoid it, other than not invest in stocks. the tradeoff is that it always comes back higher.

being risk averse will actually cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long term. research cFIRESim and plug the numbers in yourself: the portfolios most likely to survive long retirements with money left are those with higher stock %s (i'm talking 90% plus).

you can't get enough growth with materially high bond %s to survive long periods of withdrawing. satisfying your risk averse reptile brain will actually generally lead to you drawing 100% of your savings down, which isn't great if you aren't earning via something else.

if you are interested in material long term growth, e.g. enough to outpace inflation, you have to accept the fact that you will lose enormous amounts of cash virtually overnight. your other options are to lose your wealth due to inflation/aversion to risk. it's regrettable, but that's the situation we are in with targeted 2%+ inflation.

best of luck!
Look into Bazel, so far it has been a dream.
It has been such a long time since I've seen it, may need to watch again soon. That being said I have heard similar things about their fanbase - but regarding the author comment. What do you mean? What did he do?
> That said, can we please all agree that a prediction of probable future action is not a defense of the status quo?

...no?
The people focused on free speech are missing the point. There is no market place of ideas. The premises of discourse in mass media are guided by corporate/government leaders. The ideas that align with the premise are allowed to circulate. Inconvenient facts are ignored or dismissed. This is accomplished by self censorship by leaders in mass media.

People are realizing that the social media is another lever of control. This is the game Facebook is playing. Liberty is just the post hoc rationalization for the masses.
Why shouldn't "millennials" be allowed to trade derivatives just like anyone else?
Wasn't that more or less a societal collapse situation? I'm not sure that almost any investment vehicle is going to be reliable through two world wars.
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> Even today no industrial country is even close to having even all its energy from solar and wind

There are reports that Scotland has been generating 200% of household energy needs from wind alone in 2019. That sounds close to me. Here is a news report, and wiki:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/scotland-has-produced-enough...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Scotland
This was in Colorado. The market's hot, and I think that's in part because people are afraid that Colorado is going full California on real estate. They want to get a piece while they still can.
Given how common Black Diamond equipment is, almost all climbers have been belayed with a Chinese made ATC, carabiner or quickdraw...

https://blog.weighmyrack.com/black-diamond-manufacturing-pro...
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some win, some lose. it's life
You're asking way too much. It's not as if the current system actively prevents you from opting out of all the safety measures and, say, irreversibly handing cash (or something else of value) directly to a scammer; nor should it. Reversible transactions come with costs, especially when the other side of the transaction is not reversible. Chargeback fraud, for example, is a big problem for merchants, and can only occur in a system with reversible transactions. Contracting parties should be free to negotiate both the form of payment and the degree of risk each side is willing to take.

The main problem is simply the novelty of it all. Once reasonable and customary structures to handle disputes are in common use asking people to bypass those structures without a very good reason will be just as much of a red flag as it is under the current system.

Facebook is not a party to a transaction between any other two Libra users and should have no liability in the event of a dispute over payments beyond maintaining accurate records and providing a fair and above all neutral platform to conduct business.
VTOL share most of those advantages of winged aircraft. The reason eVTOL may well be cheaper is that they have a lot fewer moving parts than a helicopter (and much lower vibration, plus using cheaper, lower-maintenance electric motors instead of turbine engines) and much less (and cheaper) fuel. But it'll take good designs. The Lilium one seems non-optimal compared to the Heaviside.

And don't rule out eSTOL. I think we'll see more of that.

Helicopters have an operating cost per hour an order of magnitude higher than a comparable payload conventional aircraft. The purchase price per payload capacity is also nearly an order of magnitude different. It's not the operator cost that determines the difference in price between helicopters and CTOL.
I think subscriptions are complicated because the surface area of the problem is so large. The Stripe Billing APIs (the recurring revenue/subscriptions part of Stripe) have gotten very good. But the challenges involved in the average subscription implementation are a lot bigger than the challenges involved in implementing simple checkout workflows for non-recurring charges.

We wrote a blog post detailing our Stripe Billing implementation: https://www.daily.co/blog/implementing-api-billing-with-stri...
The idea the police prevented access to a well protected site to move traffic to a site they had control of is fairly clever.
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> build tooling...is miserably underengineered for modern, dependency-heavy environments.

My advice about build tooling is to use buck (from Facebook) or bazel (from Google). If you have an ex-Googler nearby, use Bazel. If you have an ex-Facebooker nearby, use buck. Otherwise flip a coin.
Here’s the corresponding paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p188...
Thanks! The reason it was not automated yet, is that non-biologists (including CS engineers) don't know that individual steps are that simple; while biologists do not have experience in thinking in abstractions, and so they simply not seeing that they are doing effectively same operations, just with different reagents.

In general, biologists are very busy pipetting faster than their peers, so they can secure scarce professorship positions. They simply have no time taking step back and looking at more general picture.

People who have skills necessary to build a robot and understand biology, have opportunity to work for companies that pay salaries 5 times higher than academia pays, so they don't bother.

I would not recommend doing any home experiments, especially without professional laboratory experience. Most of the experiments contain dangerous, poisonous or potentially explosive chemicals, and as for a newcomer, the risk is too high.

Instead, I would recommend finding a local biotech interest group, join them and go from there. Alternatively, you can find a local biotech lab and volunteer to help a grad student or postdoc with their project. This is more common than anyone may think. This way, there are no obligations, and you can leave if you don't like it; at the same time, you will get exposure to the state of the art biology.

Again, don't be afraid that you will not be able to bring anything good; biology as a science is ridiculously simple, and if you already have CS or electrical engineering background, you will have no trouble catching up within a month or two (that is how long it takes to our grad students who come from non-biology background to start bringing in new valid scientific ideas).
But if one wanted to, bioengineering ethnic cleansing (or whatever section of genome you're targeting) can be done with a couple thousand dollars worth of supplies in a garage, no nuclear or conventional arsenal required. The point of importance is the barrier to entry is so much lower.

DEFCON talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY (DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome)

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349202
One of the things about the mantras is that if you chant them , your breathing is improved. In fact someone I know who has been doing this for a long time says that a lot of breathing problems go away if you do this regularly.

If you don’t want to believe all this , Id go with the following : Just like music, your attention is drawn towards the chant and hopefully stay there :)
"The difference between this and word2vec is that the primitive atomic unit we are embedding isn’t a word, but a search query. Therefore this isn’t a language model, but a query model."

If a primitive embedding unit is a search query instead of a word, then I assume that a query vector model is trained on a limited dictionary of queries. I wonder if that implies that the trained vector model can encode only search queries that are already present in its dictionary? If not, I think it would be interesting to know more about how the closed dictionary problem was solved.
A problematic assumption, as we're already seeing with the ongoing stream of old-Twitter-post scandals.
Agreed. It's especially important not to confuse a chronic issue with something like stress. If you experienced a major event and it forced you to work long hours, introduced a lot of uncertainty, strained your family, etc. you'd "have issues" but they'd be transient.
>people who aren't doesn't have time or energy to try to change the world

They do, they just get framed by the media as "rioters".
Great incremental release.

Typescript really isn't the most exciting language, but it's very very helpful. Compared to regular javascript it saves me
a lot of time, and so many pains and headaches every day.
Looks like it was created by Fabrice Bellard of tcc, ffmpeg, qemu, etc. fame. Does he read Hacker News comments?
Hello! Spinning Up author here. I would love to hear your thoughts on this! So far I have had a lot of success teaching people about DDPG using this code example, but I'm grateful for every fresh perspective. :)

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128Kbps for 1 month is 42GB https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=128Kbps+for+1+month
The benefit is that people are allowed to use money of their own choosing.

Freedom is something that many people care about and value.

The benefit is also that different people want different things in their own money system, and a diversity of things and monetary systems is good, merely because of the money systems being different.

There is value in having differing money systems with different properties (merely because they are different!), and letting the market decide which one is best.

So a direct answer to your question is "because it is different from what we have now", and more diversity in monetary properties is a good thing.
They fellout of the EMS because their economy wasn not as tightly coupled to the rest of what became the Eurozone (whether that level of coupling is good or bad is a matter of disagreement). So if this incident hadn't happened it's likely they would have had a touch time under the Euro.

For a weak economy IMHO the Euro is worth the disadvantages (and I happen not to consider the inability to do competitive devaluations a disadvantage). These can be small (GR) or large (IT) economies. For a pretty solid (sometimes strong, sometimes less strong, but never "weak") economy (DE, NL, FR, etc) it's definitely good; the small amount you lose in freedom of action is far overshadowed by the benefits (who did better from the greek financial crisis: Greece or Germany?). But for a middling economy which I consider the UK to be, despite its large size, being coupled to the eurozone would give them the worst of both worlds.

BTW I don't think this is an argument for the UK getting out of the EU; I think they should fix their shit (which goes back decades) instead.
This feature was already deprecated in C++11...

Also, this is an "easy" breakage, in that it was glaringly obvious. That is, you didn't encounter a strange compilation bug and had to investigate why it occurred, or got different run-time behavior of the same code.
Wouldn't the ideal solution involve the const system?
Remove your truck's muffler and take note of how long it takes to get a ticket.
Meditating in the shower is pretty easy IMHO and you can easily go up to 15 min, even for beginners. Meditation is mostly about anchoring your mind to something, most people do it with their breathing because that's what we see in movies and stuff.

In the shower, you can use the sound of the water or the feeling of the water on your head to anchor your mind. Since it's something you don't control and there are multiple sensory reactions created from it, it's pretty easy to be present and observe your thoughts.

This doesn't necessarily work for everyone but I have tried many types of meditations and this one is the easiest for me.
I think 1RONYMAN is smarter than a lot of the people that laugh at him. Terrible judgement. But intelligent.
TS 3.7 obviates the need for using `lodash.get` or `just-safe-get`, but it does so in a way that preserves the type of your object
Ah, see I assumed there was 'some' pattern. Its interesting that it doesn't seem more deliberate. Why groups of 10 for 26 letters? Maybe the random pattern at the beginning is for better differentiation of symbols?
Player Permanently Banned from 'Fortnite' for Cheating
Samsung shutting down custom CPU division in the US
now if they can just add a compiler flag for "immutable by default":

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/32758
Triple the amount of money reasonably attributable to the misrepresentation.
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> over £128 per tax payer

> making a large number of ordinary people significantly poorer.

You contradict yourself a lot
I see.

It wasn't a "zinger," I just had no idea what you meant.

That said, one important aspect that even US journalists sometimes don't get is that most of the people who live in rural areas are doing it by preference. It's not because of urban sprawl or limited housing options. Most of us just like having lots of space and keeping our neighbors at arms length.
The trick of using more compile-time knowledge to avoid diffing the tree of elements seems similar to svelte (https://svelte.dev) in the Javascript world.
> built-in library support for logging, http, zip, gzip, json, yaml, template rendering, RFC3339 datetime reading/writing

There is a Boost library for each of those things.

> An opinionated, modern packaging and dependency story (like go modules, Rust crates)

> the dream: compliant compilers must be able to compile down to static binaries, cross compiling built-in.

You can use Conan or vcpkg. LLVM basically solves the cross-compiling issue since you can take the IR to any platform that has a LLVM target.

Neither of these are feasible to include in the International Standard because C++ runs on more than amd64 and would make a lot of obscure platforms no longer compliant with the standard. Rust crates are nice, but people building medical devices with C++ shouldn't need to worry about supporting an npm-like monstrosity in their builds.
In C++ there are almost never any overhauls - it's almost always new functionality that can replace older functionality. That's what compile-time evaluation is to template metaprogramming.
Excuse if this is a naive question. How does one go about evaluating one's own mental health?
It's the corporate structure. The CEO either grows the year over year profits or he gets punished/fired by the board. Boards pick CEOs based on a history of delivering growth at any cost (this is one of the irrational decisions, they should prioritize long term growth over short term, but they rarely do). This in turn provides a strong incentive to CEOs to make bad long term decisions if it means short term gains, because they either won't be around to see the eventual collapse (having moved on to another CEO position) or else they take the long term plan and get fired by the board for not providing enough growth (or worse, reduction).
So I agree with this idea, but how do you calculate the amount? I'm not asking for a rule, I'm asking someone to calculate me a number for how big AT&T's fine should be.
It's a good point, about children and reversing transactions.

Even when everyone's an adult, consumer protections can be very important -- e.g. to prevent things like lending crises.

Invoking family to make an ethical point is something I see often, in many different circumstances.
CPython stores integers above 256 as individual pieces of data, but a normal Python script doesn't. I think it's technically undefined behavior.
Universal healthcare and UBI aren't going to magically make a town economically viable. It'll just result in other places subsidizing some people to live in that place and sit on their asses mostly. It might work out if lots of such people congregate in one place, which will turn it back into an economically viable location, with people starting businesses (since UBI does help entrepreneurialism after all), but if it's just some little village, it'll just be some people doing little to nothing for extra money and complaining that there's no grocery stores there, because even with 100 people with UBI, that's still not enough to sustain a business.

Many of these towns just need to shut down and become ghost towns. Whatever industry that used to sustain them decades ago is gone now, so they have no more reason to exist. This isn't new: the Western US states are full of actual "ghost towns" from the late 1800s and early 1900s, most of which died out because the nearby mine got tapped out and shut down. The towns died, and the people actually (unlike these days) accepted reality, and packed up and moved out. All that's left now is usually building foundations, though some places have some collapsed buildings left.

Conservative small-town people in the US these days are really a strange lot. They whine about "socialism", but then they complain about their little town dying out, but refuse to do anything to improve their situation such as moving to a city for work, and then seem to want a government handout.

I'll also add that universal healthcare isn't going to magically bring hospitals to rural areas. Lots of rural people are so far away from medical facilities that they're basically screwed if they have any problems that require help quickly. Hospitals require a lot of money, and a lot of highly-trained staff; universal healthcare isn't going to make all these people suddenly want to relocate to some small town.
Oh, in that case it's definitely fraud because, as you pointed out, it's clearly intentional (you have to repeat the trick many times).

But the $8 billion question is: are we talking about an obscure bug, a missed case in an otherwise perfectly sound valuation and risk management model, or is it actually a case of dodgy valuation and risk modelling? Which implies that many well-meaning clients are also seeing the wrong portfolio value, and trading with invalid margins?

Again, I don't have the details so I don't want to speculate too much, but apparently they've had similar "bugs", so it's possible that their entire valuation and risk model is dodgy. It has happened to more reputable organizations.
I'm just waiting for Bloomberg to add haupt91 videos on the front page.
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"we import more than we export. "
Doubt that. Before you answer with a statistic, Google "dark matter in accounting" regarding the deficit.

If apple sells an iPhone to Germany. In what export balance does it appear? What company makes the profits?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/typesafe-get works pretty good
> I can't think of any good reasons somebody would use *BSD over Linux

Well one reason could be that you are a commercial company and you make a proprietary appliance. FreeBSD's license (3 clause BSD) is way easier in that case then the GPLv2, let alone GPLv3 (which a lot of userland is licensed in most Linux distro's). Examples of some high profile appliances running FreeBSD: Sony's Playstation 4 and Juniper's Junos OS which runs on their firewalls and routers.

Ubiquiti is getting a lot of flak for not being GPL compliant and the only thing I can think of when I hear this is: "Why did they use Linux if they wanted to make a proprietary product? They wouldn't be in this mess if they had used FreeBSD.".

Another reason could be FreeBSD ships ZFS out of the box because combining the CDDL + BSD licenses is not a problem. However GPLv2 (Linux kernel) + CDDL is a problem.
They should just double the fine after every violation.
Big O notation tells you nothing about throughput in normal conditions. It tells you things about throughput in asymptotic conditions.
Is Walmart really the kind of one-size-fits-all solution you want, though? Can't you see the value in having specialized, higher quality stores compared to a giant store that may sell you anything, but only garbage?
I find that to be a sad perspective. You're literally placing the fate of entire towns in the hands of a single company with a de-facto monopoly. Free markets right, but how is that good? How much does the lower price Walmart offers you help to live a good and sustainable life?
Uber test vehicles involved in 37 crashes before fatal self-driving incident
that could easily be fraud. you should report things like this to your insurance company.
Add Mailchimp to that first list. When I do APIs I set Mailchimp quality as my documentation goal.
> You should find out from your HR

I'm so torn about this advice. It's probably OK in most companies, but there certainly are companies where informing your employer that you feel the need of mental health assistance would harm your work situation.

If possible, it might be better to find what resources are available without involving HR or your manager. That information may be in the packet of stuff you got during onboarding, or on the employee web site, etc.
There seems to be an abundance of posts about Soros himself getting flagged killed

There isn't. There are 5 flagged comments, all of which are short, low-grade and hardly about 'Soros himself'. There is nothing interesting said in them about his character or political ambitions. All of them look sensibly flagged. If someone commented 'Fire bad' in a thread about wildfires in California, that would be flagged too.
Is Glenn Greenwald less sane like how Julian Assange is less credible?
Ah those poor boomers! Paying 15% interest on their £40,000 mortgage. These millennials don't know how easy they have it, paying 3% on their £200,000 mortgage.