skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You change the ratio independently of the budget timeline just like the fed adjusts the it's rates.

BTW you seem scared of inflation, inflation has been running low except the upper areas of the economy where the Fed has over low rates - so stock prices are inflated. What is really needed is injection of easier flowing money from below the economy.

If you invest in good programs then they deliver a positive benefit to the economy over time. Like more roads means easier connectivity, less time spent in traffic, or increased network flow. I'd suggest the biggest bang for the buck is universal healthcare and paying public college for all.
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They finally finished that game ... RIP
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I'm not old, I don't look sick, or act sick but I have an autoimmune disease and take immunosuppressant medications. If one more person tells me not to freak out, I too will throttle them.
Ok but what I’m looking for is an actual example of an intractable problem.

Breaking crypto is one, I guess, but it’s also one that makes everything worse, so I don’t take that as a useful outcome.
From reported cases it looks like it started in Asia, and also that you are peddling last week’s racist conspiracy theories.
This is so much fun! Wish it could handle accented characters, though.
Yeah, most people eventually outgrow that.
In many cases the logical answer to this question is that the home owner would still pay.

There is a process that is to be followed that gives the home owner a chance to explore options or simply to get through a temporary financial crisis.

In some cases they actually foreclosed on houses that did not actually have mortgages. Bet a review would have caught THAT.
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> Over the past few years, hundreds of websites with innocuous-sounding names like the Arizona Monitor and The Kalamazoo Times have begun popping up. At first glance, they look like regular publications, complete with community notices and coverage of schools. But look closer and you’ll find that there are often no mastheads, few if any bylines, and no addresses for local offices. Many of them are organs of Republican lobbying groups; others belong to a mysterious company called Locality Labs, which is run by a conservative activist in Illinois. Readers are given no indication that these sites have political agendas—which is precisely what makes them valuable.

> Many if not all of the sites were registered on June 30 and updated on the same day in August, according to online domain records. The sites say they are operated by Locality Labs, a Delaware company affiliated with networks of local websites in Maryland and Illinois, according to The Lansing State Journal.

> But when Twitter employees later reviewed the activity surrounding Kentucky’s election, they concluded that the bots were largely based in America—a sign that political operatives here were learning to mimic [foreign tactics].
I thought most MacOS applications compile to universal binaries that are something like bytecode, not direct x64 code? Assuming I understand this correctly, most applications should run correctly on ARM without any modification?

Anyway, one of the big appeals of Apple computers and MacOS is that I can run whatever I want in a VM. That little one-off Windows utility that I use once a year that never made it to Mac? Runs fine under VMware. I also hear of plenty of people who dual boot.

What happens when Apple switches to ARM? Are we going to loose dual booting and rich virtualization? At least for me, as much as I love MacOS, virtualization has always been what made it work for me.
Eventide’s classic DSP4000b has algorithms for phone call sonic simulation. The patches are highly modular (and thus can be inspected for analysis - at least down to the blocks used to construct the patch) and it would be interesting to see how that old school hardware DSP approach compares to the author’s design and implementation.
Yes, it does. All of the processes that have driven growth in the past are still working, and they will until they reach their limits. That's what it means for them to have limits. Why would people stop engaging in economic activity while it's still possible to do so?
The founder Paul Singer was anti-Trump, but had since become a big donor[1]. It seems more opportunistic than an ideological shift, but I'm just speculating.

When Elliot took the position there was some press that hinted that it was politically driven, but I couldn't find any reason to believe that over the obvious: that replacing an absentee CEO is an easy way to unlock value in a floundering company.

1. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/08/trump-megadonors-g...
This essay, and really, most of the content on A List Apart, have been instrumental in championing accessibility, progressive enhancement, and separation of content from visual flourish, so that the web didn't become a pixel-pushing medium.

While their shoulders are giant, their message was often ignored, because many designers -- often instructed by their customers -- continued to think in terms of layout inseparable from their visual design.

Web users also valued consistent layouts, but it turns out, not enough websites actually cared! Marketing pressures for visuals and refreshes would frequently be at odds with the UI's UX. This is perhaps excusable for websites whose sole reason for being was to be a digital billboard, but this would be a point-of-contention for news sites, e-Commerce, social networks, and productivity sites too.

We know this is what happened, because when the Web 2.0 "age of mashups" came, most websites were caught by surprise. The coolness factor and emerging business cases finally pressured them to make available snippets of their content that can be surfaced independent of presentation -- but as a twist, instead of sending composed documents, they largely turned to shipping around context-free snippets of data. With content having been separated and spliced into pages using JS, the tight combination of HTML+CSS became a layout engine.
Sorta. This feels more like Jack/activist investor coming to common ground on the direction of the company and also a proper succession plan for Dorsey to walk away from Twitter.

He only owns 2% of the company, and at this point I’d imagine his only options were to strike this truce & have control over how he exits as opposed to be outed right now with a power vacuum causing Twitter to destabilize a bit.

I’d expect to see a succession plan where Jack is out within 12-18 months but getting to help pick the next CEO.
Eh, if Apple releases and ARM based Mac, they will start with notebooks, something similar to the Macbook Air. People should appreciate a laptop with better performance and longer battery life compared to the Intel versions.
Most of the software should compile just fine, and if not, maybe a version from the iPad OS will be an ok stopgap. I'm assuming of course that most Mac Apps don't have any Intel assembly code in them. I'm guessing that may be the case for something like Photoshop.
I don’t believe this is correct.

My understanding is that these automatic limit down rules were added in response to the flash crash in 2010, during which the Dow Jones lost 1000 points over the course of minutes.
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The virus originated in Wuhan. This is no more inappropriate than calling the 1918 pandemic the "Spanish Flu". Ironically more so because the Spanish flu is thought to be a misnomer because Spain was simply the first place to report the flu in the news.

>deliberately implies a link to specific area and people, which is countereffective

No, what's counter-effective right now is social policing according to bleeding heart policies. Now is not the time to clutch at pearls and treat everyone "equally." Example: weeks ago Chinese Nationality and especially travel from Wuhan was a statistically strong prior for virus contact, and therefore the "xenophobic" travel bans were justified.

Sometimes natural disasters are politically incorrect. Your response must match else you risk putting other people at risk in the name of prudeness.
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Indeed, if anyone things the Virus panic is as bad as it's going to get they're going to get some pretty rude shocks over the next few months.

Right now it really isn't that bad. I'm in London and going to work normally, the city is busy and the trains are still full in the mornings. Our company is starting to migrate people to working from home though. So a proportion of each team is wfh and staying there, for 14 days or until otherwise notified, and more will probably follow not because there is immediate danger, but because we want to be well prepared when there is.

If the markets are like this when there are a few hundred cases in the UK and US, what will they be like when there are tens, or hundreds of thousands of cases and major cities are in lockdown?

Back to investing, stocks are down significantly and it's quite possible now is a good time to start buying, for those with the capital. Maybe spreading out a balanced equity investment portfolio over the next several months. I don't know if or when the market might go lower, or by how much, but it seems unlikely it's going to rally all that much given that we can be pretty sure there's plenty more bad news still to come. So investing too much now might miss further falls, but IMHO buying over several months is unlikely to miss the dip. That's how I see it anyway.
Love the WASM remark on his tweet.

Think WASM coding like the original Demoscene demos.
What's the appeal of Robinhood over, say, Fidelity? Is it for people who are making so many trades that the $7 or whatever commission is a big deal?
I've been watching the firehose of pre-prints, raw data and community analysis at reddit.com/r/COVID19 and

* Initially it looked like maybe smoking was a notable risk factor.

* Then some data from a different population seemed to indicate maybe smoking was protective.

* Then further analysis indicated that all this data was likely skewed by upstream sampling bias (like pretty much all CV19 data so far).

* The latest speculation is that maybe smoking makes one less likely to catch CV19 but if you've are a heavy smoker currently (or recently), once you have CV19 your outlook is worse (but nowhere near as bad as being over 60 or immuno-compromised). This was based on a more recent study which seemed to have better data because it went narrow and deep on a few cases, however, it has the disadvantages of small sample size.

* My best guess is that the last bullet might be directionally correct but effect size is small enough that it could easily be swamped by other factors.

In general, us "armchair analysts" obsessively scraping the raw data sources and modeling on it quickly realize that all of the data is very noisy since different regions are using different criteria for what counts as a "case", "severe" and even "hospitalization". Plus no country is sampling the population in a consistent way because they have different criteria to get a test (which can also change daily and by area). For example, Italy's numbers look really troubling in terms of severity and progression until you look at the median ages of who they are testing, which skews 13 years older than their overall population.
OTOH, a more idiomatic version would be (and I would consider using the loop facility to be idiomatic):

(defun count (pair-list)
(let ((hash (make-hash-table)))
(loop for (val key) in pair-list
do (incf (gethash key hash 0) val))
(loop for key being the hash-key of hash
collect (list (gethash key hash) key))))

This drops us from 10 to 7 lines, which is clearly shorter. But, it's also relatively simple to change it from summing a list of (<count> <key>) to a list of (<key> <count>), something that I genuinely can't comment on for the K version. I suspect it would be as simple as first doing a permutation on the input, and (if needed) un-permute the result.
Definitely a good tip. I'll try not to make that mistake again.

You can now find the jupyter notebook code here: https://github.com/Ruborcalor/Age-Prediction-Via-Blood-Sampl...
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> Insofar as C# is nice to write, it's because the IDE writes so much of the boilerplate for you, and no IDE is set up to admit this kind of pattern.
No offense, but it kind of sounds like you haven't worked with C# since 2001 or so.
Semantics. Taking (income) and making (profit) are different things.

Both are true: WF took $3b, WF made $2m.
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Grokking a language in a few months is different from being able to just read a language in a few months. It's not just the paradigm change: Haskell, Julia, Mathematica or MATLAB for example are far, far more readable than K.
True, bad timing, but it doesn't matter, these are growth ETFs. You're gonna hold it for 30 years.

I say a 10% dip should be motivation for you to buy more of this ETF
As you said,

> Communities like r/china_flu or r/covid19 are moderated

If the moderation is any good, it should keep most advertising out. So it gets spent somewhere else.
Alternatively, what about something like,

"Oh, hey, we saw your message but we were just too overwhelmed to execute it. We did however, manage to do the next best thing, which was to purchase an option, expiring today, to sell at the prevailing price at the time of your call, and, to make things right, we'll go ahead and exercise that option, unless you'd prefer we just debit you the cost of the option and let it expire without exercise?"

'Debit! Debit! Just debit!'
Needs "Ask HN" in subject line.

I generally have about 5 meetings a week, totaling around 3 hours. I don't enjoy meetings, but they seem somewhat productive and the burden isn't too bad.
Looks like Firefox has issues with playing wav files in HTML5 audio blocks? Not sure actually.

Added an mp3 version, should work across browsers now.
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That was a big issue early on, but I think they were able to work past it before funding and interest dried up.
> Let’s face it, most meetings have always sucked because there’s often little to zero accountability for engagement

I don't think that's why most meetings suck. Most meetings suck because they're unnecessary, pointless, take too much time, and often involve PowerPoint.
I totally agree with you. Nobody is obliged to satisfy all audiences.

Just to make it explicit; I'm not suggesting Javascript for communicating this type of posts. Without strong typing, this kind of refactoring will immediately become a spaghetti of screaming ducks.

Defunctionalisation is a not-so-rare pattern to encounter and I humbly think choosing a non C-like language to explain it is a waste of opportunity to introduce it to people who can benefit it most (i.e network programmers, game scripting tools programmers, distributed systems programmers etc).
Did successive stories about the x86 change provide additional information before the actual release was imminent? The ARM stories are not.
This whole exchange being so cordial and positive makes me really happy.
I find these rumors continually terrifying. Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion is vital to my workflow. If Apple drops x64, they're dropping me as a customer.
It's always been confusing to me what twitter is as a company -- it feels more like a utility, or like the public service part of 20th century journalism without the profit model

In many ways it's more important to society than FB & G (picking them as the 2 of the big 5 that are pure information plays), in that it hosts semi-public conversations and helps experts stay informed

Would be interesting for some small country to create public utility versions of twitter and linkedin and see what the effect is. Sucks for free speech but great for experimental economics and welfare programs.
Finance uses it because it's great for sorting out medium-big time oriented data. The IQ test aspect of it is probably considered a bonus in some shops.

There are non-terse APLs out there; the most obvious one floating around is Nial[1]. Culturally though, once you've figure out how to read and write in the compressed ascii runes, it's kind of hard to go back to the other way. J is actually denser because of the hooks, forks[2], rank and full tacit aspect of things. Personally whenever I've composed an algorithm in J I feel like I really understand it in a way that pretty much nothing else gives me with all the extra typing.

[1] https://github.com/danlm/qnial7

[2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html
Took my business almost five years to exit relationship w/WF (only a few months ago). Banks are super-sticky. But grind that process homie!! Once my account at WF closed I noticed the sun was brighter and I smile more often.
Too many, and nicely spaced out to maximize the loss of productivity from context switching.
I love the Saturday idea. It'd be implemented more seamlessly to most people.
> If the markets are like this when there are a few hundred cases in the UK and US, what will they be like when there are tens, or hundreds of thousands of cases and major cities are in lockdown?

Investors are trying to judge the likelihood of these very events and selling / buying accordingly. Markets are based on predictions.
It makes your voice hoarse, that much is for sure.
It's really not hard to grasp why it would spread quickly. This virus harbors in the respiratory system of an infected patient. The viral infection invades cells and releases more of the virus.

This is so contagious because:

1. Everyone breaths in nearly 8000 liters of air each day

2. Virus are so small that they stay suspended in air for a while, some estimates are 30min (think how smoke stays afloat)

3. We have no innate immunity to this novel virus
Are there any examples of Flu or anything else infecting a cruise ship in a short time period? That was the thing that stood out the most to me.
I fully believe that the former CEO didn’t actually know what was going on and was just looking at top line metrics. You have this in many companies, not the fraud part, but the mantra to be succcessful at whatever cost. In this instance, that permutated down to the branch workers who were incentivized to skirt the rules & meet the metrics set.

Kinda feels like the housing market when loan officers were paid a ridiculous amount for variable interest housing loans versus fixed loans. The banks and everyone were buying them up as that was their top line metrics but ignored how it was actually happening.

I hold the CEO and other top executives there for staying ignorant but I agree, this made minimal money for WF so I don’t think it was the true intent of the CEO to have this happen but they should’ve looked into how markets with not large enough populations had so many accounts. They didn’t and deserve the punishment.
Though this article is quite well intentioned, it seems to be written under the assumption that the web would evolve differently than it did. This is rather unfortunate, since the described features and uses of browsers that allow these design ideas to work didn't all come to be.

"...in the near future most web browsers will provide simple ways for readers to adjust the color of elements on a web page, via user style sheets, which can override your style sheets..."

While I believe that designing in an adaptive way, as described in this article, is the best approach, I wonder how much it has been handicapped as a method by browsers adapting to the web design methods that were actually used instead of the ideal approaches.
I thought that was a game of life
> how you identify requirements, design of solutions, tooling selection, and implementation of solutions

this sounds so un-Dao
Not sure why you think this. Recent trends have shown a massive influx to urban cores, including those of older ages that have families. It has nothing to do with "outgrowing" and everything to do with the fact that people no longer romanticize cookie cutter suburban neighborhoods like they used to. If anything, society is "outgrowing" suburbanization.
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Current processes for vaccine development take years.

If you're happy to have a significant chance of infecting the target with the thing you're trying to protect them from, you can make one in an afternoon with 18th century tech.

Considering that a major disease outbreak could kill millions, I think we should reconsider this approach. Thousands of people might die to perfect the vaccine making process, but thats better than millions dying from the disease.
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> This sort of thing is a privacy disaster. I wouldn't set foot inside a store that does this.

If they make it accessible enough, all stores may. Even if they don't, I imagine all stores will have something similar in some timeframe. So.. what will you do then?
I’d take a look at SVB, Brex and others (PNC is good as well) depending on what you need the business account for. I have one with Chase and haven’t had any issues but it’s a small account anyways so might not apply for you.
What about former smokers?

I imagine that, depending on the mechanism of action, and whether the "increased immunity" remains, there could something reproducible to reduce transmission.
Not cool enough. In all seriousness, from the features/UI/etc.. Robihood seems to be aimed more at speculative trades as opposed to 'playing the long game'.
What's stopping someone from using a temporary email or a dedicated email for each walkout shop?
The commercial ships are very simple and cookie-cutter[1], unlike military ships that are almost always new designs and involve complex, integrated systems such as communication, defense, hospitals, refueling, etc, etc.

So, subsequent hull numbers for San Antonio class ended up being cheaper than 100% over budget? Likewise, is it customary for STX or Chantiers de l'Atlantique or Fincanterei to have to double-check the status of every single weld in ship they've delivered, or are the owners of cruise lines tolerant of massive cost overruns && late delivery?
I certainly wouldn't describe myself as a C# expert, true. I interact with it on a weekly basis, but no more than that. Please make allowances for the fact that I am spoiled by F#!
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