skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But unemployment is low, so why not focus on job quality?
Can someone put this in layperson terms?
Everyone should go listen to Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. They have lots of recent episodes that dive into repo markets very clearly.

tl;dr Banks have money in the Fed that they normally loan each other over night. This is mostly money they are keeping in reserve. At quarterly period ends, taxes and other payments are due so the big banks can't provide the same amount of repo loans so the Fed steps in to do the lending instead. Non story, click bait.
I would like some perspective on what a 6-8 IQ point difference actually means in real life.

I know IQ is on a curve so if I'm on the lower end and dope up I might not qualify for the military against had I not doped up by such a margin window.

For an average person, what can the person sitting next to me do +8 IQ that I can't? What can the person sitting in front of me not do at -8 IQ that I can?

Granted I've encountered "slow" and "fast" people in my life, but I have little idea how to relate that to an IQ number besides "higher" and "lower" like a water faucet for temperature.

This is a genuine, honest question.
Which nation had a better model at that point in history?
Indeed, we seem to have ample evidence that Tylenol seems to be strongly associated with autism[1] and weakly with ADHD[2], yet its use is not only widespread but unquestioned. The problem, of course, is that it's complicated; correlation isn't necessarily causation. So how to respond? Should all high school students be taught how to think critically of bioscience results? It's not easy to distill down to distinct usable facts. Suggesting at all that it is safe for teens to vape THC is a very dangerous proposition. I think you'd have to at least prove that it is safer than lead in gasoline, and that is not easy.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18445737
[2] https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/10...
Sure, like when it’s a side gig. If you’re picking up a bit of extra dough writing a few articles a month on something you care about, and then the State of California suddenly says you can’t.
Of course! This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. As long as people overlook the vast wealth that’s right in front of us (or rather, underneath us — more on that below), there will always be a struggle between labour and capital.

1. Labour struggles to keep wage increases in lockstep with the cost of living.

2. Cost of living increases are primarily driven by rent increases (this includes property values, which contain capitalized rents).

3. The struggle between labour and capital remains as long as those rent increases are privatized and only flow into the hands of a few, namely property owners and banks that finance property ownership.

Once you truly start sharing rents, this binary struggle will disappear. Marx had it wrong, Henry George got it right.

See: unitism.com
Isn't the quality of BMWs different in Germany than in NA?
Response from the author: https://twitter.com/AlexiaCampbell/status/120696741694690508...
That's why I wore a shirt like this in college

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/637761-i-write-code-progra...
> The very first article of the Dutch constitution actually says that people have to be treated equally in equal cases.

Is that supposed to apply to the Dutch government? Or to everyone? Constitutions normally say what the government can and can't do; they don't normally directly tell ordinary citizens what they can and can't do.
Hey, I can relate to this! I also started a company based on a specific pain point in my spouse's profession. Although the best situation is to solve a problem you've experienced firsthand, having a significant other be able to give honest feedback on a specific challenge is pretty great.

I think the tough part that engineers have with these types of side projects is that it's hard to assess how much time to devote to developing the product. A lot of people will try to convince you to spend all your time talking to the customer. I mean that's important too, but it's so much easier when you can show them something that's great rather than just tell them about it. And that's the thing - product development isn't most important thing to do in the early stages, but it's still very important.

I wish there was more insight into why the project failed though. It wasn't clear to me the project had to die. If he started focusing on customer development, could the project have survived? Could he win back his wife's interest? I was a tiny bit disappointed because his project is an adjacent area to one of my company's products and I want to see it succeed!
I always thought about the market here as a healthy competition. With car2go gone, I wonder what that'll mean for the market now?

Also Evo has even less of an incentive now to fix their broken Android app.
That's expected, right? Their freelancer database likely has a long tail of occasional or inactive contributors. It's not like it makes sense to assume they have the equivalent of "hundreds" of current freelancer FTEs.

Wasn't a goal of this to convert "jobs" with low/unreliable hours to employee status?
I would agree but there is quite a benefit to having these smart devices connect to technology already in the home. With the absence of a proprietary radio, it's easier for me to control them as well.
I currently have firewall rules on my network that blocks all communication between my smart devices and the internet. They can only communicate on the LAN and cannot send/receive information outside of the network.
I feel like if more proprietary communication protocols were implemented it would be hard to determine which devices were communicating, and which are accessing the internet(for example if a device has an embedded LTE chip to make up for lack of WiFi connectivity).
Some promote the drug itself. Probably a lot more are behind the freedom to use what you want (and against the heavy criminalization). There are probably a fair number that would see the drug continue to be banned, but are just against the biased, fear-mongering, moral panic inducing "journalism" we see from once reputable establishments like the NYT.
> Apple’s smart home protocol famously does not support multiple users.

It does? I'm added to my dad's account and can access everything just fine along with my own stuff.
Why is the volatility so high only recently on the 10 year note.

e.g. historically it only fluctuated low single digits, while stocks have always had large volatility ranges.
Stolen Airpods
I believe that somebody stole my AirPods because they no longer show up on the Find My app. Is there anyway to track the last known signal from my phone, and find where it is currently connected to? Apple won’t do this, but I have a feeling it is definitely possible. If anyone out there can, please let me know.
Permission fatigue ends up being nearly the same as having no permissions. Who just keeps clicking Yes without reading the fine print?
> The way to play treasuries are in massive highly leveraged carry trades.

Isn't that how you lose all your money when e.g. the Fed lowers interest rates?
So a $100 investment in an S&P 500 equivalent (not yet an established index) on January 1st 1928 would be worth $382,850 by January 1st 2019? That's over a 250x return after adjusting for inflation, pretty neat.
FYI, stocks show CAGR of 9.59%.
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I think it's worth noting that S&P 500 index funds didn't exist until the 70s. You'd be spending a lot of time and money to approximate it before that.
Oh wow I just wrote a very similar comment before reading the previous replies. All good points!
Quality is all great, but options, configurations, even engine choices vary.

In Europe they are much more a la carte - cloth seats, etc., available, making them the standard cars in many ways at any price point.

In the US and other "luxury" targeted markets, the country only offers certain premium configurations or bundles, such as how nearly all BMWNA cars have the "premium package", etc., significantly raising the MSRP to hit those premium luxury categories.
> He broke into computer systems he did not have the right to access, copied information, fled the United States, and illegally released the information he stole about government programs that were in no way illegal or unconstitutional.

Ugh he didn’t break in, he had access. Also if you know anything about his case or related cases, you’d also know the proper channels don’t lead anywhere. There’s a great frontline documentary called “United States of secrets”

Even the oversight committees aren’t privy to the full details and arguably they are where the proper channels should lead. There’s heads of agencies lying to Congress and the Senate about what is happening. The judiciary can’t rule on constitutionality.... which is part of its job.

The reality is, whistleblowing the way Snowden did was the only way to put evidence in the public, such that the judiciary And public can make a decision.
Right! This is twisting Capitals arm to pay the “true” cost of the labor it needs. ‘Cause if they didn’t need it, there wouldn’t have been contractors doing the job in the first place.

I am extremely satisfied to see labor rights advocacy making a comeback.
state secret should always be limited in time. I also think that NDA should generally have a short time limit. A NDA with longer duration should have a monetary compensation.
>before 21 (the commonly accepted age for the latest stage of brain development)

Last I remember from my psychology classes, it was 25 to 28. 21 feels like a number picked to reflect law and cultural norms, not the science. But my information is a decade out of date and there could have been new findings since.
Same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridesharing_company
Cancer testing absent symptoms has come under increasing scrutiny in terms of effectiveness. A "positive" test puts immense pressure on care providers to do something, even though doing something may not actually improve outcomes. It also adds immense stress to the patient.
True. I was looking at TheKarateKid comment about infringing companies. The country where most stuff is manufactured, white labelled and sold at a premium by brand names :)
Creating more restrictive employment regulations will result in job losses 100% of the time. Something that is very arrogantly dismissed by people who promote them. Also the idea that these jobs are better comes with its own set of problems. If you had one of the jobs that was outlawed by these regulations, you now possibly have no job at all. It’s self evident that anybody who had one of these jobs would prefer it to having no job at all. It also carries the not-at-all-self-evident assumption that anybody working one of these jobs would prefer to have a full time employment contract. I’m a contractor, I like being a contractor, if I lived in California I would have just had my livelihood taken away from me by the government, who would say they’re doing it for my own good.
> programs that were in no way illegal, or unconstitutional

I noticed you didn't say unethical.
Oh dear, well perhaps it's time to learn to cod.
Yeah, I'd need to see some scientific evidence on how those events were connected. I've never heard of that before, and it's not really logical from what I can understand.

And at least we have regulation now, you're welcome to buy weed with less THC. :)

>> "Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars" is objectively not great news

Bullshit. Smoking is far worse for you than vaping and I'm extremely grateful to read this headline instead of it being meth, crack, or Fentanyl.
Surprisingly close to their departure from Calgary, Austin, Chicago, Denver & Portland.. one wonders why they didn't just do it all at once. I wonder where all the used cars go.. literally disappeared overnight (no small feat), surely enough surplus to upset secondhand prices.

https://blog.car2go.com/2019/09/27/important-update-car2go-n...
I feel like this violates Apple's brand guidelines..
Solving the Two Biggest Causes of Wildlife Declines
Yeah, I've used like Citrix desktop before at my job, but I'm still using a computer to connect to that. I was thinking just a screen that just has the basic ability to connect to different cloud hosted VM's, and no OS other than that. I'm not sure I've seen anything like that before, either for enterprise or consumer.

I think as years go on the network access issue becomes less and less of a problem though. Plus, for home dekstop computers there is pretty much constant access.
I’ve been having a fantastic time lately with Rails and a bit of Stimulus for bits that need the extra interactivity offered by Javascript. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both of those came out of 37 Signals, who are laser focused on delivering just enough software to give customers what they need to do their job.
Crypto Thesis for 2020 [pdf]
Is there a Patreon that can reliably deliver to him?
For example, because I don't want people to have to sign a CLA to contribute patches to my weekend side projects? That's incredibly dev hostile.
I am by no means an expert but I thought these repurchase agreements served a different purpose.

Lets say that you are Lerrill Mynch. You have 2 clients, today client 1 has $10,000 in AAPL and client 2 has $10,000 in cash. Client 1 decides to sell $10,000 in AAPL and Client 2 decides to buy $10,000 in Ford. You go to the market and find that Soldman Gachs has a client that wants to buy $10,000 in AAPL and MP Jorgan has a client looking to sell $10,000 in Ford. Everyone agrees and everything is happy.

Overnight Lerrill Mynch needs to makes sure that Soldman Gachs gets the 10k, Client 1 gets the shares in the security, MP Jorgan gets the 10k and Client 2 gets the Ford shares. In order to make sure that this whole transaction clears, Lerrill Mynch has to make sure that they have enough cash to cover the transaction.
China Will Take over the World
I thought this was very funny
"get on the mike" what frequency? Modulation? What makes you think I am monitoring anything after say a relay got stuck keeping my gear permanently -unbeknown to me- in transmit.

A reliable out of band back channel is needed. Currently that is what it is. I am not saying there are no better alternatives possible, go ahead design them and start the political process..

Pseudonymity? Yeah, that's working so well on the internet. Trolling and Spam are not a problem at all. Lets see how that works in a much more resource constrained environment like our radio spectrum.
The crisis was created by Obama's DOJ breaking decades old precedent and allowing asylum claims for local crime or safety problems. This opened the floodgates so to speak. Before then valid grounds for asylum claims were (mostly) limited to the threat of harm caused by a government.

Recently, Trump's DOJ reverted policy back to the way had been for decades. This has reduced the incentive to send women and children first because domestic violence/crime are no longer grounds for asylum claims.
I've heard it from Unity expert themselves telling you can achieve the same quality (that's why I've included the performance and graphic comparison).

One thing that maybe the "poisoning the well" element is the fact Unity had a generous freemium open doors for hobby developers, which means there's tons of project that are meh while Unreal Engine is well used in creation of AAA games.

Have you tried them both? Is Unreal really that much better for rendering?
> The problem is that whoever implemented this change did not care to consider the full workflow lifecycle/consequences of enabling that change.

Why do you think this is the case?
Good riddance. They had very bad customer service at least in Montreal. It was worse than Communauto. I was also skeptic about the safety of their soapbox shaped small cars & their safety during winter riding conditions.
Everybody's primary goal is to put food on the table! You must be pretty insulated from the hard realities of life if you think people can simply treat survival as optional.
I don't develop web apps for a living but even I would have thought the obvious solution is to first get v1.0 up in Rails/Django or whatever you know and then try new frameworks etc.

Actually, if you want it to be a business, the first step would be just use something else out there.

Buy > Customize > Build

It would have been interesting to see what his wife uses at the moment. I think he could have given her functioning software by just taking her excel sheets (for instance, if that is what she used) and just put them online with Google, and connected them with Scripts and an interface with Forms.

After that was working pretty well, maybe he could offer to set it up for some others.

Only after that would he selectively take pieces of the system and change it to Django. So first, have the forms in Django talk to their sheets. Then have their sheets dump into his reporting system etc.
Seems like “opinion hysteresis” is probably an evolutionarily important heuristic.
> we bung in a whole new capability for this

It's not new.
Yeah I'd like to see too if you were Russian, Japanese or Argentinian for example what the returns would have been. I doubt the stock market would have been so kind.
I had to check to see if it was a repost of e.g. an April joke proposal or something like that.

Nope. One guy randomly wants to arbitrarily limit random Python things to 1000000, cite vague optimization potential advantages (in CPython, yeah, right...), and doesn't even want to detail the impact of said optims when further asked.

IMO this is just a waste of time for everybody and should be firmly rejected ASAP. Even just proposing to limit to 1M "source" lines is extremely naive and the sign of somebody without much real world experience: there are many cases when "source" code is not the actual source, and has orders of magnitude more lines.
I read it the same way, and I don't see how one would read it any other way? Removing the qualifiers -

"If El-Masri's allegations are true [..], then all fair-minded people[..], must also agree that El-Masri has suffered injuries as a result of our country's mistake and deserves a remedy."
"I don't think anyone can reliably tell that their issues are more ethical or less ethical than child slavery" are you seriously comparing targeting algorithms and child slavery and children dying in mining accidents?
> Edward Snowden did not go through the proper channels. If he had, doing so would not have led to his prosecution.

I'm not sure why you're so trusting of the government that is openly admitting they are unwilling to release their secrets, and not only that but the court system is designed to protect this. From what I heard, he tried to go through the proper channels, and was rebuffed. So it's his word against the government, when we already have substantial evidence of the government lying about surveillance programs time and time again.
Flushing away time: tilted toilet aims to increase employee productivity
Reasons not to upgrade yet.
This does not really work for things like tiling window managers on macOS—are you suggesting developers of such tools are up to no good, or are such system-control tools not fitting “normal”?
Delete your account already. No one here can act like they didn't know what FB is like.
Used to use Car2Go all the time on holiday, recently had major problems re-activating my account after they became Share Now. Staff still answered the phone as "Drive now", it was a very confusing experience, which concluded with "wait 7 days for a human to review your account". Perhaps if they made sign up easier, they wouldn't be struggling!
We spend 17.4% of GDP on healthcare. The OECD average is 9.5%, and we don't have better outcomes to show for it. That's ~$1.2-1.7 trillion of waste annually that could be used to improve our society instead of lining crony pockets. Employer-provided healthcare is one layer of the Kafka baklava that obscures the cost of healthcare and prevents better cost controls and price discovery in America. It also makes employees more reliant on their company, literally for their wellbeing. Our economy is less dynamic as a result, so my $1.2-1.7 trillon estimate might understate the problem.

I got the OECD data directly from the OECD's website: https://www.oecd.org/media/oecdorg/satellitesites/newsroom/4...
Cambridge Course Notes
You don’t need jquery either, native JS works just fine for most simple interactions like startup apps.

Time to say no to npm and packages like is_odd that somehow are depended on by thousands of packages. A sign of collective hysteria.
In this case, there is no option. You either work contractor or don't work. This law is in place to establish this option of "better job". You wouldn't have an option without it.
Sorry. Consider XR as an umbrella term for immersive technologies (augmented, virtual, mixed, whatever spatial reality comes next...)
Try hugo. You need to waste 1 day to build and config it, but then you can make pretty amazing stuff fast
> Google has a lot of influence in what people see and read.

Google only has as much influence as individual users of their services give it.
How does this law affect the many HN readers who have side “consulting” gigs?
The cash reserve system was introduced to protect against a 1920's style bank run. The idea being that a bank should have enough liquid assets to cover 10 or 15% of their customers pulling all of their deposited funds out of the bank.

The goal of a bank is to make as much money as it can with it's assets. It's in the banks interest to loan out as much as it safely can while staying above the reserve requirements. If a bank were to dump it's assets to ensure it met reserve requirements it would likely sell at firesale prices which could drive down the price of those assets for the rest of the market. By taking a loan from the Fed and using those assets as collateral that scenario is avoided. It's also worth noting that these loans are not free, the Fed does charge interest.

So the bank avoids dipping below reserve requirements (and flooding the asset market) and the Fed earns a small amount of interest.
You're not alone. At this point I'm pretty sure the majority of reports that there are lots of people lying on résumés and also being able to convince people in conversation that they know how to write software but who can't actually do [basic programming task] or answer [basic programming trivia question] are just cases of interview-stress-induced stupidity in otherwise competent devs being taken for savvy and insanely competent (but not at programming) grifters who were trying to trick the interviewers. Because I don't believe such ultra-convincing liars are both common and trying for software jobs (fucking why? Go into sales!), in numbers significant enough to explain widespread reports of seeing them in the wild.

I think it's the stress of not having any idea what you might be asked about over an unreasonably-wide field of topics, or how you will be judged on your answers, making people forget stuff or act dumber than they actually are, when asked to perform under such (unheard of in real work, "server's on fire at midnight" stress isn't even half as bad and certainly not as adversarial-feeling) conditions.
Plus as far as I can tell, I give permission once and the process "python" has access to my folders forever?
doh, and here I thought this was about british techno...
It once required the smartest people utilizing resources from the wealthiest nations. 80 years later North Korea is making a pretty good effort. In another 80 years do you think it's unreasonable to think a wealthy individual might be able to build something?

In other words, why would building an nuclear weapon not get easier?
> the community already exists, you just create a communication platform for it

That gave me a minor epiphany, it flipped my understanding of communities and their relation to tech.
Thanks