skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that for piston engine aircraft, it is critical that the engine be properly warmed up before takeoff. Otherwise, the engine would likely stall shortly after liftoff, leading inevitably to a crash. This is a common cause of accidents.

This is not true. Engine start to takeoff is usually at least a few minutes, but there is no critical temperature factor for the engine (barring extreme heat or cold).

It's a lot like a car, you don't want to overly stress by flooring it when cold, before oil is circulating comfortable -- but running for 10s of seconds is plenty to get going.
I doubt Chinese the written form can be learnt in 12 months...

I have learnt English for at least 10 years, still take some efforts to read a novel, specially in a fantasy setting...
Sorry, those are the hexadecimal representation of the underlying IEEE-754 binary floating point number:

0x3FB983D7795F_4140 == 0.09966799462495590234
0x3FB983D7795F_413A == 0.09966799462495581907

0x3FA2F684BDA1_2F68 == 0.03703703703703703498
0x3FA2F684BDA1_2F67 == 0.03703703703703702804

> but all the digits after truncation appear to be arbitrarily different between platforms anyways

Not random at all. If you follow a properly characterized algorithm and execute it properly on IEEE-754 hardware, the result will be the same as if you carried it out on infinite-precision hardware unless you get unlucky and hit a Table Maker's Dilemma instance. And, in that instance, the only difference between your algorithm and a slightly different algorithm should be 1ULP (unit in the last place).

5 ULPs is a bug or a garbage library. Both are possible when Javascript is involved.

> I'm just suggesting that if you want repeatable results cross-platform with different implementations, doesn't truncation seem reasonable? Or perhaps rounding, to avoid bias?

Yes. We call that IEEE-754--it has round-to-nearest-even and a guard bit.

Note by William Kahan from Berkeley about exponential functions and keeping the accuracy to about 1ULP.

"A Logarithm Too Clever by Half"
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/LOG10HAF.TXT
Those organizations aren’t the same thing. It’s not in debt to itself. I’m not sure what this means. You could make up new money, perhaps, but it’s tough when you’re still running $1T in the red each year, knowing you need to do it again. This seems like a gross oversimplification of an extremely complex problem (whose complexity you mention) whose answer instead should maybe be “maybe $1T is too much money to be in debt - how about $200M and we plan to be neutral in 10 years (or something rational) so we use serious debt for real catastrophes instead of made-up ones?
Do you have any worries about how Brave makes money? That was my concern but perhaps that's been allayed now?
You can look at the open interest of the option chain, check out the SPY Dec 21 LEAPS, there are hundreds to thousands of open put contracts at most of the strikes, which start at $25
The US still spends more than any other country on Earth and indeed more than almost all of them combined. Any random country can spend more by GDP or by percent, but by dollar the US is the clear largest spender.

Focusing on those two points does say.. something, but it doesn't rebut the point being made, and does serve to obfuscate it.
You are right that nothing will magically change by itself. Perhaps there are things you can do to make yourself genuinely care. Faking it sounds like it’s draining your energy and making you less successful. So what can you try out, other than continuing to fake it?
My tax bill went up, as did many other people I know. I assume a large number of people in high tax states had a higher bill due to SALT changes amongst others.

> The perception that they only benefit the 1% is propaganda. It’s also patently false.

The primary benefit went to the ultra wealthy, not surprising given lobbying. You can write off the cost of a private jet, for example.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/03/07/private-jets-re...

https://www.businessinsider.com/private-jet-trump-tax-bill-d...

But what did you save? $500?
I know this is meant to be humor, but realistically, as I understand it, you can just tap into the muscular signals with electrodes - that does not need any such dramatic step.
You're basically telling them to rewire that entire section of the plane with a new wire harness - that's not without risk.

How much risk, I don't know. But slavishley following rules without bothering to understand them isn't a good idea.

Either those wires are safe, so leave them, or they are not, so rewire 6,000 grandfathered planes.

Doing some sort of hybrid where you rewire these planes, but not those, just based on the name, isn't logical.
So are you saying the barrier remains the same? Earlier we had less access to stuff, and could write simpler software. Now we have more access, but software has become complex
Exactly that, and I'm reasonably sure the answer is no.
Those loans aren't simply from the government to itself, they consist of committed money to particular entitlements or programs. "Forgiving" those loans is equivalent to cutting those programs.
This is pretty much the same basic use case I’ve had for Zapier at work. My team uses it to write leads into both a Google sheet and Salesforce. The sheet sort of acts as a sanity check and a log of all the attempted lead creations. For one reason or another, they don’t always make it into Salesforce.
You might be surprised how quickly people shift to another currency once yours becomes unstable. Why don’t they use their own currency again?... something something hyperinflation / instability / bad monetary policy. Printing money to pay debt ad infinitum is bad monetary policy.
SH is the inverse fund for S&P 500 [1]. The fact that SH is non-zero should indicate someone has money backing that position. SPY has something like 20% short volume, although that is difficult to translate to long term short interest.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SH
Sidecar would be a lot more interesting if you could use it without Catalina.
If you are expecting a currency crisis, the best asset to buy may be gold. And people having been buying it a lot lately.
This seems like one of those accidents that create valuable backdoors for intelligence agencies with plausible deniability.
I mean I got 50 dollars back a paycheck too but some how the top 1% grew their wealth by something like 30%... that 50 bucks did not have the same effect on me somehow.
So many of these arguments assume that financial players will keep doing things the way they always have once the monetary playbook since Breton Woods gets thrown out the window. Why would actors continue to behave the same way given a massive change to the market and policy?
sure, but how much of it are actual shorts and how much of it is just hedging against long positions? it is a meaningless metric unless it's lopsidedly in favor of puts, which it isn't.
Can AI speed up a cure for coronavirus?
What’s an example of a well designed app that’s cross platform and not limited only to iOS? Is there a tradeoff between multiple platforms and attention to detail?
Playwright is a new alternative to Selenium, and besides being cross-browser, is focused on performance,
developer ergonomics and reliability (death to flakiness!). Might be worth checking out? https://github.com/microsoft/playwright.

Disclaimer: I work with the Playwright team at Microsoft.
>> However, walking into a noisy / crowded restaurant where the language is going 100 miles an hour is a totally different scenario.

I honestly don't get how people talk in noisy bars and restaurants. I struggle even in English. One almost has to shout in the other person's ear. If it's that close I am thinking more about how my breath smells after having a few drinks rather than topic of discussion - lol.
Don't worry, we'll just "grow our way out of it".

But seriously, buy gold.
Trying to explore that a bit: Is there any expectation of what would happen if the US did start printing money to pay off state/local government debt? The immediate thought is of course the inflation. But given that this money sponsors state/local projects which would otherwise not be funded, potentially both providing new jobs and improving infrastructure/services, maybe there's a line where it's a win overall?
https://archive.md/gSTD9
> 2500 miles * 2500 miles * pi = 19,630,000 miles squared

> So that area represents about (19.63 / 57.51 ) 34% of the total world landmass. So 50% of humans live in 34% of the landmass.

I've been telling myself that I have to teach myself Non-Eucledian Geometry, but lacking any real motivation, I've successfully procrastinated for 6 years.

The unfortunate itch to be pedantic on the internet will hopefully drive me to learn how to correctly calculate the area of a circle on a sphere.

Anybody has a good textbook recommendation?
Yes except very little of the deficit is being used for investments that will increase future economic growth. Most of the money is just being spent on current year consumption.
In case he doesn't reply, based on the profile in his bio looks like he has a degree in E.E. and used to manage technology projects for the government.
The fed expanded its balance sheet from less than $1 trillion in 2008 to over $4 trillion in 2016, practically dumping $3 trillion into the economy for all intents and purposes. What was the effect of that on crashing the dollar/making it worthless[0]?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/24/the-fed-launched-qe-nine-yea...
>but too much money supply would make the dollar as worthless as seashells.

Sure, but what is the number that constitutes "too much"? Right now the M3 money supply is 15.3 trillion dollars and the CPI inflation has been below 4 percent since 1991. In that period the money supply has grown by 12 trillion. If quintupling the money supply in the same period that GDP only doubled doesn't not only not tank the value of the dollar but doesn't even cause serious inflation, I'm curious what would?

That's a serious question, by the way - I have a background in economics. This is unprecedented.
Why can’t we do the obvious:

1. increase income tax rates on everyone

2. Remove ceiling on payroll. Or call it a tax as well.

3. Slightly lower the floor for estate tax and close loopholes (like buying an insurance to inherit...) and slightly increase estate tax rates (I think 60% estate tax of the estate value over a limit of about $5M is fair).

4. Higher Medicare and social security tax rates to pay for Medicare for all.

I hate how people treat this as an unsolvable problem: the solution is obvious: increase taxes and cut expenses where we can. It isn’t that hard.
Much of it could be part of strategies. It's meaningless without knowing the overall positions.

The only way to actually do this would be for some pundits/funds to come out and say they have built a massive short position on the SnP, just like all those Tesla shorts that got on TV from time to time. Is there any?
The bribe ends up in your pocket, the credible alternative only serves the general public.
I felt the same way. My friends and I obsessively waited for it to come out back in high school, but were all pretty disappointed when we actually played it. It was kind of nostalgic when No Man's Sky essentially followed the same trajectory a decade later.
Tbh, with direct printing to (large) canvas being reasonably priced now, this could be an easy sell

Especially if they can be generated at 300dpi+
I suggested other reasons than exchanged foods - it is because the dexterity is already present in those muscles due to talking and chewing in my opinion. I don't think the dexterity of your mouth muscles have evolved significantly in the last century. It is an ability that is a indirect benefit from other evolved traits.

Insight obtained from introspection or evolution in the 100 year scale will be mostly psychological/cultural. If you want to understand the big picture including physical justification you need to look at the large time scale perspective because it takes much longer for those changes, psychological and cultural justifications are dependant on the physical. Maybe that's too "booky or sciency" of a perspective, but I don't think so.
His interviews with Terry Gross are legendary, at least the last one.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/maurice_sendaks_emotional...
I'm a successful full-time professional grantwriter. There are about 100 tricks in the book for standing out from the pack, though not all apply to all categories or instances of grants.

But no matter what type of grant it is, the biggest point I tell people is this:

You need a story.

All other aspects flow from that. (E.g. how effectively you can communicate the flow of logic in the writing, and other technical aspects which include much more than just the text boxes and what this blog summarily describes.)

Find that story, then it will rise above the pack. Most people want grant money but have no idea what it takes to get it.
I teach Sanskrit which falls in this category (a religious / cultural / historical language). People show up to the class super excited to learn the language. They badly want to learn the language but have no clue how much effort it is to learn a new language. Learning the language is at the bottom of their priority list. You are not gonna be learning the language if it is the tenth item on your priority list no matter how much you "want to learn it". The semester starts with 20 people and by the end there's less than 10.
"Printing money" is a bit of a loaded term and has little applicability to how central banks actually work.

The Fed could basically convert the bonds into dollars in an account with the treasury - which is completely asset neutral. The bondholders before had extremely liquid bonds which are basically cash-equivalent. Now they have cash. Basically moving from one column in a spreadsheet to another, and suddenly the debt is gone. Yes, there's still a liability, but only in the same way that deposits in a bank are liabilities to them.

Would it create inflation? No, why would it? Inflation happens when money is spent (which happened back when the bond was issued, because it was probably issued in the same amount of Government deficit spending), and since the transaction is asset-neutral, it wouldn't necessarily change any of the bond-holder's spending patterns.

Of course, the thing at the end of the day is that people have bought those bonds because they want a safe interest-bearing instrument. The central bank or Government of a monetarily sovereign country doesn't really need to issue them to deficit spend, it's more that there's a lot of demand for them to exist...
Not only that, but it's easy to set up loading games from a hard drive with a broadband adapter and memory card exploit. From there, you can rip your own games or download rips and load to the external hard drive and play that way.
I'd be careful about running too far with that argument. Of the debt you've flagged as not "real", that would include ~$3T owed to the OASDI trust funds.

On the one hand: Yes, that represents a debt the US government owes to itself, and in a very real sense is not real. The SSA could announce they were tearing up the debt, and boom, the US national debt has now dropped by a hefty chunk!

On the other hand: That money is slated to pay social security beneficiaries. Tearing up the debt doesn't make the retirees go away, nor the obligations of the system. Assuming that the social security checks still go out, then cancelling that debt has done nothing.

The same is true of all of the rest of the debt too. "It's owed to a state government, it's not real!" True, but the state government is counting on getting that money. If they don't, they'll need to source it from somewhere else (via some mixture of taxation and cuts).
> near infinite debt like the US Government.

The US debt to GDP is not especially high compared to other countries.
I believe the new virus will trigger a recession. The global supply chain is broken, most people just don’t realize it yet. China’s economy has crashed. A couple more weeks of quarantine and a lot of small businesses will fold. This will have a cascading effect. The debt situation in China is bad. Banks will collapse when lots of people and businesses default on loans, a lot of factories will never restart. Meanwhile factories outside China will shutdown because a lack of supplies. Some car factories already have.

I will sell most of my stock this week.
Sure but who does most of the research, especially of new drug/compounds?
Employment is actually, as a matter of law, a boss -> servant relationship.
We can't both eat the same sandwich we can both read the same epub.
Have you heard of Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis? [1] There are a couple of parts to it but it essentially says that linguistic competence (a fancy way to say your innate knowledge of a language) only increases when you take in input. If you talk all day that doesn't really make you any better (since you don't learn anything new) unless you use a process like deliberate feedback to be corrected. Personally I think it's much more useful to thus focus on reading/listening to start and then later move on to speaking/writing. I learned Spanish through normal school and while I can speak fast the fact that I haven't had much real input really shows since I'm generally just translating English -> spanish and I don't know if I'm using grammar right since I haven't heard it enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_hypothesis
There was extraordinary demand for liquidity during and following the financial crisis. Because the Fed was expanding its balance sheet to meet market demand, it did not crash the value of the dollar.
The rivulrous nature of physical goods is inherent
No kidding

It's ridiculous how a brand new phone from Samsung comes with non user-removable Facebook spyware and all their Bixby stuff that all want you to create an account
Fx – Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer
Word is that internally at Google, among a few teams, and then also externally, Trax/Jax are putting up real competition to Tensorflow. Some teams have moved off of tensorflow entirely. Combined with the better research capabilities of PyTorch, the future of tensorflow is not bright. Given that, Tensorflow still provides the highest performance with regards to production usage, and has tons of legacy code strewn throughout the web.

I would argue that this is not the fault of Tensorflow, but rather the hazard of being the first implementation in an extremely complex space. Seems like usually there needs to be some sacrificial lamb in software domains. Somewhat like Map/Reduce was quickly replaced by Spark, which has no real competitors.
Engagement is a four-letter word
I appreciate art, not artists. You seem to either have misread what I said, or are actively trying to misattribute my words.
is it though?...
I am surprised no one in including Gauss.
The higher levels are used for things like remote code execution, and remote code execution that does not require user interaction. Things that are local only are not as big of an issue, especially on a single user device.
I really like this site [1] because it shows you just how big the gap between native and non-native speakers is. Non-native speakers generally know around 10,000 words while adult native speakers tend to know upwards of 20,000 words. I think the reason that getting to real native level fluency is extremely hard is that they have thousands more hours of input than you do and it's very hard to make up for that in real situations other than reading/watching lots and lots of Spanish content.

[1] http://testyourvocab.com/
Probably cannot induce the local machine to connect, but if you enabled agent forwarding, and then connected to a machine, someone who compromised that machine may be able to use your credentials to connect to other SSH servers.

Source: https://heipei.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-considered...
I don't know what any of this "znc", "package manager", "SSL", "auto-join" mumbo jumbo is.

I'm just going to use Slack and move on with my life.

Actually I lied, I do know what all that mumbo jumbo is, but I hope you get my point.
When people recommend buying gold, do they literally mean purchasing gold bars/coins and sticking them in a safe?
Most countries have, at most, one or two aircraft carriers, maybe four little ones if they're really ambitious like France or Japan. These are the pinnacle of power projection and are extraordinarily expensive to build, own and operate.

The United States has eleven of the largest carriers in the world and a bunch more that are smaller that are still bigger than what other countries consider a carrier.

That's an example of how disproportionate it is in terms of overall size. Not manpower, not GDP percentage, just size.

Where other countries have one or two of something the United States has at least ten. This goes for planes, tanks, cruisers, helicopters, missiles, pretty much whatever, they've got more.
This resonated with my own personal experience building a messaging app for my closest friends and family. It's been a steady 8-12 daily active users for the past few months.

I'll probably write a blog post in the future about what it does and why we use it. I'm also considering open sourcing the entire project!

https://get.thread-app.com/
Problem is that publishing a trial that fails doesn’t get you tenure.
Yes they can. And they will, considering that the alternative is default and an even massiver crash
This is not about the national debt. That's been measured in the $trillions for many years. This is about the deficit, which is the short-term delta between tax revenues and government expenditures. (The debt is basically the time integral of the deficit). For the deficit to be over $1 trillion really is a big deal, and it's not good news.
Industry does. Industry R&D spend is almost double that of gov’t spend. Academia does most of the basic science.
What of the folks who have watched countless hours of anime, but still can't speak Japanese? Input alone is not enough, at least not for adults wanting to become fluent from what I've seen.
The Guardian SecureDrop
100% agree on the opportunity cost. I taught myself Sanskrit to the level that I now teach two batches of students at different proficiency levels. I really wanted to learn it and I did it. I spent a lot of time to get to this level. Now I am learning to play guitar. I am finding it even more difficult than learning Sanskrit and everyday I find myself questioning the opportunity cost. Do I really want to play guitar that bad that I spend 1-2 hours every day practicing after coming home from my full time job? Instead of that if I practiced 1-2 hours of Leetcode everyday I could get a significant pay raise. Am I crazy to be spending time on something that is almost guaranteed to have a negative ROI - I ask myself everyday.
We already have the evidence of how well it can work with the Intel transition. If anything, adding ARM to the Mac platform would be dramatically easier than the PPC-Intel transition because the ground work is already done:

— Unlike in 2006, a greater proportion of current Mac apps are developed with architecture independence, whether intentionally or not.

— Unlike in 2006, nearly all Mac developers are already using Apple's Xcode as their IDE.

— Unlike in 2006, many Mac app developers will already be familiar with the ARM CPUs, because they'll have already worked with them on the iPhone and iPad.

— Unlike in 2006, Apple has an additional motivating force called the Mac App Store. Apple would almost certainly require all new/updated apps in their store to be cross-compiled.

So no, you're wrong.

We've seen this before. We know how quickly it played out in 2006, despite that being objectively more difficult. This would be easy. All it would take is a 6 month transition period where ARM Macs are only marketed towards developers (and informed early adopters) combined with an x86 binary emulation layer to cater for straggling vertical/corporate apps.
XScreensaver is also available for Android, and likely for windows/Mac as well.