skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What it does is increase borrowing.

But only in the short term, since lenders will catch on and increase their interest rates to offset the inflation. As you said, you're transferring wealth from lenders to borrowers, which means a larger incentive will be needed to induce anyone (other than the Fed) to lend money. To maintain the effect you would not only need to maintain the inflation but also continually increase the rate of inflation to exceed expectations. That's a quick route to hyperinflation and worthless currency.

The Fed can keep lending at arbitrarily low rates long after every other lender has been driven from the market because they're "lending" newly minted currency at essentially zero cost, and moreover don't particularly care whether they make a profit. However, even they can't sustain ever-increasing rates of inflation without destroying all confidence in their own currency, and it's pretty hard on the other lenders. ("Lenders" including anyone with a savings account, or with a significant fraction of their net worth in currency rather than inflation-proof assets and other investments; the poor are thus hit harder than the rich.)

> ... the people who want to build new factories need money to do it ...

That's an over-simplification. The people who want to build new factories need materials and labor to do it, not money. Giving them more money doesn't increase the amount of material or labor available, though it may allow them to claim a larger share of the available goods provided they do so before the inflation becomes generally known and devaluation takes effect. Naturally, if they're getting a larger share then others are making do with less. It only works out to a net benefit under the assumption that you know how those goods should be put to work better than the people directly involved—despite apparently being unable to persuade people that your plan is better rather than resorting to underhanded tricks.
I don't work with hardware, but this looks fantastic for viewing visual changes and sharing feedback. Looks exactly how I'd imagine it should work.
Goodbye Mozilla. Does anyone know if they have an IRC bridge set up? The matrix-ircd is good but it doesn't seem to be implemented yet.
Ahh, I see. I think I understand the confusion now. I believe our primary disagreement here lies in the fact that you don't see /u/airstrike not differentiating between fiscal and monetary policy in his/her original comment, as a major red flag, whereas from my perspective I do.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Landing on Venus is actually fairly easy; the atmosphere is so thick that even with a minimum of parachutes, a lander will touch down at a comfortably slow velocity. The hard part is keeping it cool enough to function; all the Soviet landers used a phase-change material to cool them, which worked for a little while until it had all changed phase at which point they rapidly overheated. Keeping a lander operating for more than a couple hours is a very difficult engineering challenge for that reason.
Envoy Timeout Demystified
Without having heard of or tested the solution, I'll bet anyone $1M that I can produce an image that produces an incorrect answer. Which would mean it's not "solved".
Honest offer.

"Starting this week, we will begin rolling out free access to our advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally including:

Larger meetings, for up to 250 participants per call

Live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a domain

The ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive"
There is no rigorous study that has proven this. I wish there were because I strongly prefer static typing but it’s more a belief than anything proven.
I think of it as the assembly of data viz.
It was this company per the Wired article about the incident.
They said this isn't the case - https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?...
Not a 'math person'? You may be better at learning to code than you think
One problem is no one is paying for the externalities of air pollution and noise pollution and fuel resource extraction issues of soil and water pollution until decades later, and in the USA government subsidizes air travel to rural areas and smaller airports. The alternative is maybe we do not need to travel so much and do not have to make it cheaper for people in rural areas to travel by plane.
Hey!

The core features work great (albeit the schematic and board preview are a bit sluggish compared to the rest of the website). I would also like to point out that the design of the page is really eye-pleasing. The GitHub-like file browser is visually pleasant and feels familiar without being a direct ripoff of GitHub.

Unfortunately I found a few minor problems concerning authentication. Namely there is no way to use ssh keys when pushing with git. This is a real bummer since I use generated passwords which are stored in my password manager. Pasting passwords with special characters (which are a requirement in your registration form) in terminals is sometimes a bit cumbersome on some platforms. The second problem I noticed is that you cannot change your password when logged in (without using the "I Forgot My Password" option).

Cheers!
A team of researchers from Plex Corporation, Bruker Scientific LLC and Harvard University > has found evidence of < a protein inside of a meteorite.

there is a mismatch between the title of that article and the level of confidence these researchers were expressing.

the preprint is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11688
I think to answer your question, yes, the company absolutely should have an infrastructure that can support this kind of load. The product that RH is selling is execution of trades, and failure to do so has drastic consequences. They are not some social network that can afford to go offline for a few hours due to high traffic, the stakes are significantly different.

Another thing to consider is that there are so many great alternatives to RH that were online, despite encountering similar load. If the whole stock trading network went down that would be a different conversation, but users of other platforms were able to trade, and thus RH not being able to provide the infrastructure to handle the load is a huge disservice to its customers.
While the rest of the world is following, we already had the example of quarantine.

We will see what the best strategy will be, the hardest work is now for China, South Korea, Iran and Italy.

The rest will learn from them.
- Atrocious input lag

- Lagging menus and widgets

- You misclick in Google Maps? Better if you start over the route

- 30x more resources for something done under 80MB, such as Discord vs Kopete. The later had inline LaTeX. And video previews. In 2007.

- Invisible scrollbars with no intuitive use

- Flat design not being able to distinguish a button for the background layer. Compare it with Motif, W9x, BeOS, KDE3 with Keramik.
and based on that nobody else (like WHO, local authorities near me or my parents, or even journalists) says that.
Perhaps, but how does static typing make a language 'boring' or dynamic typing 'exciting'. I certainly consider Elm and Haskell more 'exciting' than Python or PHP.
Could you stop spreading a hoax.....
Robinhood denies this was the issue.

https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434
https://archive.md/2JRJK
Thanks for your strong points. I guess I would say that it's still interesting to me how close it is to current details of evolution theory. According to my other reasons for believing in God and the value of the Bible, it seems wiser to assume that the scientific community has yet to observe enough. But, I understand how someone would prefer the current consensus of the senses.
Which cynefin (domain) would this belong to? Does it describe a class of problems that is not easily categorized within the Cynefin framework?
Do you write your own dom/data/event binding systems in vanilla javascript or simply not use that approach? Genuine question, I have written a ton of ground up code across multiple languages but couldn't imagine reinventing that particular wheel for what we do.
Good post! I really liked the concept of ROC curve in there. Will read more about it.
See Gall's Law:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.[9]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
> You can write extremely safe code in any language

I said that at the end of my comment. But like you said, you have to opt-in to more rigorous checks instead of being forced to do them.
Be careful with this, too. When somebody brings up problems they’re having, they often just want the catharsis of complaining and empathy about their situation. Proffering a solution, even couched as you have described, can change the conversation dynamic from empathy to a semi-combative back-and-forth which serves no-one’s purpose.
I've been following MEDCram¹ on YouTube recently. It's a medical channel for students by doctors I believe, but currently it's all about COVID-19 obviously². It often speaks to other medical practitionners.

The quality of information on such a channel (prob. not the only one, just my own serendipity) is outstanding compared to any 'mainstream' media out there — with good reason, it's not sexy to downplay mass hysteria or talk about actual RNA mechanisms with schematics.

Here's my point, using an image: when the boat is leaking, I stick with the guy who built the boat (and help him if that's the right thing to do); while the poets and dramaturges aboard make noise for the sheep, eventually the fish if we only listened to them.

Reality ≠ fiction.

Global information ≠ mainstream news (sad but true, whether medical or financial or else).

[1]: channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDCRAMvideos

[2]: COVID-19 updates: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ_IRFkDInv-NvRRUN0aq...
GCC is the open-source compiler that is used all over. Not every AMD EPYC system people are using AOCC2.0 on. Likewise, people do not only compile code on ICC that is used on Intel Xeons. Arm has focused efforts on getting optimizations in GCC because it is so popular.

Generally, that is why we prefer to publish "compiler optimized" as best-case performance as well as "GCC" as more of the least common denominator. Both sets of data points are important.

Official SPECint published numbers will not use GCC because the organizations that submit them always want to see the best performance. Ampere used a scaling factor off of published numbers.

If you want to see the impact, we have some numbers from my ThunderX2 review: https://www.servethehome.com/cavium-thunderx2-review-benchma...

You can see the impact clearly there even though that was from a few years ago. Cray has a better performing compiler for ThunderX2 but we did not get to use it due to licensing restrictions.

I hope that helps. The bigger need is for more data since this is one view of performance. There are other needs as well such as FP performance.
Turning a DialogFlow or Watson chatbot into a digital human automatically
"With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19"

Would be interesting to know how it is determined that it does not spread as efficiently as the flu.
Isn't that convenient? The government is not spying on you and if you think otherwise then you are a paranoid schizophrenic.
A moderator changed to that from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1233569586332618752.html.
I used to use D3.js as the default go-to for data. Now I start with Vue.js, and use D3.js only inside some components when I need, animations between transitions.

D3.js, as someone else already noted, is "jQuery for data". And yes, it has its good parts, but the same as for jQuery) the problem is with:

- mixing static HTML/SVG with generated

- no modularization (every modularization is custom)

For the latter, while it may not be a big deal for small projects, for bigger it sucks.

For big stories, I created a game in D3.js. Modularization was... well, argument why I rewrote it a few years later to Vue.js.
Seems like this should be bigger news
Ask HN: Is option trading as bad as gambling?
I guess many people here would have expected the Boeing stock to drop in value after the news emerged that a second one of their brand new plane models fell out of the sky.

Would it have been an irresponsible financial decision to buy Put options on the day of the second crash with an expiry of 3 months hoping that at some point in the next 3 months the stock would drop a little to sell with a profit?
Good article but strategic influencing on social can help change outcomes.

The Russians apparently have put up a lot of FB pages, invented 'movements' with FB pages out of nothing, have agitators posting contentious content all in the hopes that it gets picked up by secondary or mainstream outlets.

They've met with at least some success, though it's doubtful they've changed electoral outcomes.

The issue is that sometimes elections are narrow, and more often, there's a single 'event' or bit of publicity that can overturn momentum of a political group.

In Canada, Trudeau has all but completely disappeared during and time when dozens of aboriginal protesters put up blockades. Same for the Premiere of Ontario. Same for the Ontario and Federal (ie RCMP police) police leaders. Nobody wants to deal with the issue due to the risk of someone blaming them for any violence that happens, or images of RCMP in riot gear with smoke etc. having to physically disarm/dismantled protests.

Cynically, the politicians are right to run for cover because if the public gets angry and blames them, the shift in support would have very material consequences.

So this is one example of an issue, that if perceived the wrong way, could have significant outcomes. Agitators who effectively try to run the narrative might have the ability to swing the outcome.
> I know because I was assigned the feature, and I went over to the PDF guy to ask how I would determine on an arbitrary PDF what was probably a "block" (paragraph), and I got a huge explanation on how hard it would be.

The funny thing is that creating a universal algorithm to convert PDFs and/or HTML to plaintext is probably comparable in difficulty to building level 5 self-driving cars, and would accrue at least as much profit to any company that can solve it. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars going into self-driving cars, and like zero dollars going into this problem.
It's not just a Jupyter Notebook But In JS, though. Dynamically interacting with the DOM is perhaps the core feature of Observable, while Jupyter/iPython very much embraces the strict imperative style (ipywidgets etc being more a nice hack than anything)

While I do think there could be UX improvements, I don't think this is a flaw in Observable.
People saying the leap year thing is a hoax need to review what happened precisely four years earlier. (Hint: the same damn thing)
It rotates three times per 2 revolutions, right?
Everything I just described is implemented in userspace at the X protocol level.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
I wonder if you realize that both your points wildly miss what I said.

First, there's no need to stretch my argument to the point of it being ridiculous. I don't have to reach for a watch to suffer from PDF. Even a tablet is enough: I don't see many 14" tablets flying off the shelves. I also know for sure that the vast majority of ubiquitous communicator devices, aka smartphones, are about the same size as mine, so everyone with those is guaranteed to have the same shitty experience with papers on their communicators and will have to sedentary-lifestyle their ass off in front of a big display for barely any reason.

Secondly:

> Likewise, when layout makes the difference between reader understanding or confusion, it's hard to trust automatic reflowing on unknown screen sizes. PDF is simply better than HTML when it comes to preserving layout as the author intended.

As I wrote right there above, still no explanation of why the layout makes that difference and why preserving it is so important when most papers are just walls of text + images + some formulas. Somehow I'm able to read those very things off HTML pages just fine.
I guess the main question to be asked is should be:

is the complexity appropriate for the goal (i.e. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. )

Hence, often a required step to fix complexity is to change the goal, in such a way that it can be implemented with less complexity.
Except it's not: https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434
That is the whole point, one of the original use cases was passing around buffers between different GPUs on dual-graphics laptops (PRIME)
From my observations, for data vendors "anonymization" generally just involves replacing a name or credit card number with some other identifier. That's the reality and that's all they are required to do by regulators. People on both sides of the market know and leverage this. There are legitimate use cases that people are after that can only be achieved by having the ability to correlate pseudonymous entities with some kind of history. Lots of data sets would be significantly less valuable, and lots of industry standard analyses unachievable with those identifiers out of the picture. As long as there is no Personally Identifiable Information (which, no, metadata, location history, medical claims, transaction details, don't count). I would imagine that this is something regulators are aware of and that the privacy tradeoff has just been shrugged off so that the market can carry on and do its thing.
Well, it looks like they make money mostly through a product that doesn't work literally you need it most, but sure.
Is there a way to join the hosted version without having to sign in?
They are. A lot can just mint money in volatile markets.
Why do people keep saying this? I've seen interviews with disease specialists that are plugged in to the community and say that the China numbers are not only as accurate as they can be[1], but that it would be really hard to fudge them given the transparency they've already engaged in - my sense from that was that the numbers can be cross-checked in various ways, and that it would be mathematically obvious if there was major fraud going on.

[1]This is a different issue than numbers being limited due to testing shortages, or people with minor symptoms that recover at home, or asymptomatic people not being included in the count - problems that a lot of countries are sharing. We could also argue that US has been "fudging" the numbers because of how they've tested far fewer people than Canada.
Python is pretty boring, quite honestly, and it's as old as Java (4 years older than publicly-available Java). There are a variety of compelling engineering reasons to choose Java over Python, but a lack of boring conservatism is not one of them.
From the article:

> Finally, it's worth noting that the matrix-ircd project is seeing some commits again, many thanks to jplatte from the Ruma project - so if you are currently despairing the demise of moznet, never fear: you may yet be able to connect to the Mozilla matrix server via IRC (authing via Mozilla IAM, of course) and pretend that none of this newfangled Matrix stuff exists :D
Hiring pool for Java is orders of magnitude larger, let's not pretend this isn't an issue with esoteric languages like Haskell
>A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth

Perse probably didn't know it was a hoax.
replace boring with safe. you get the point.
Random example, baby kangaroos when born[1] know a) that they need to climb into the mothers pouch b) know _how_ to climb into the mothers pouch and c) know _where_ to climb in order to get into the mothers pouch.

They start climbing immediately after being born, before the mother can teach them anything. What else than genes could be behind that?

https://youtu.be/UpsnREY-6no?t=25
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/RobinHood/comments/48mep4/robinhood... Robinhood went down 4 years ago, off by one day, to the date.

Hard to take that reply seriously.
Ask HN: 3 yo loves robots. What robot for 4th bday?
She loves creative play,telling stories, drawing etc.

So something that she can play with without it being active would be huge.

But also something where she can make it do things to build stories around and bring other toys into.

They have loads of transformers, hotwheels, playsets and Lego. She loves vector but can't talk clearly enough but he is her little friend.

Any ideas?
Please don't respond if you are going to suggest 'go outside' etc, it's not helpful.
> you may yet be able to connect to the Mozilla matrix server via IRC (authing via Mozilla IAM, of course) and pretend that none of this newfangled Matrix stuff exists :D

That sounds good. I’ll keep my irc-client then.
Chaos Computer Club Hacker Bibel: Sell Computers to the Soviets?Hell, YES (1985)
KDE3.
Always viewed this as a good feature, not a bug
I've been following the reaction on WallstreetBets for my new project https://topstonks.com

I was wondering why mentions of Robinhood blew up yesterday:

https://imgur.com/a/iWxEZkS
Do you have the source data available? Or can you make an anonymou version available?
Perhaps, the "what" is less important than the "who" or the "how". Maybe any statement made by a member of a political campaign or anyone paid by a political campaign should be considered political advertisement.
Big events are getting cancelled and people quarantined, correct.

Seems to me that's a good thing, that is stopping the spread / not allowing it to go out of control.
Every presentation or explanation I've ever heard by an X.org/Wayland developer (many of which are the same people) says otherwise.
Indeed, real investment requires market interest, something the government is pretty bad at discerning

Saving goes hand in hand with investment since by putting money in the bank it can be borrowed by entrepreneurs and they can hopefully do something productive with it. Merely spending it doesn't have that effect.
Nice to know both Patrick and Ian ( Anandtech ) are on HN :)

When could we expect a review on Altra?
There is nothing in Xlib (that I'm aware of) that has a notion of complete frames - i.e. no buffer swap, no "frame complete" signal. How would the server know when a frame is complete then?
microservice vs monolithic is a shade of grey. what if all the code is in one codebase, but distributed to varying instance types that use some config flag to say the role it plays in that context. is that monolithic or microservice? I'd say the code is monolithic and the architecture is microservices. So it's some hybrid version.

what you're talking about (isolation of responsibilities) can be done and still be considered monolithic. you can also use the exact same instance type for everything and still be considered microservice.

I think what we're really talking about is containers vs machine images. And personally I think containers right now are suffering from the same abuse/hype that datastores suffered like redis/mongo/couch etc. Sure they have an application and solve problems, but they're being over used to the point of causing technical debt.