skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're setting up a strawman here.

First, although it's besides the point, I never said that we're destroying the earth by inaction on the climate crisis. Earth will be fine. Life on earth will be fine. Earth has seen much worse and will see much worse in the future, so there's nothing to worry about when it comes to Earth.

What I'm worried about is that we're destroying our life support system by willful neglect and even malice.

But inaction on the climate crisis doesn't even necessarily have to damage the fundamental requirements for our own survival for a libertarian to be abhorred.

Let me put it into a libertarian parable.

Say we both own land, next to each other. We are both homesteading, can support ourselves and our families.

Suddenly, one day, you build a shit house on my ground. Sure, it's far enough from my house so I don't have to smell it. But still; you are shitting on my land! You don't get to shit on my land! Even if you claim that it's not as bad as I make it out to be and and that I don't even have to face the stink; you don't get to shit on my land!

It's the same with the atmosphere. It's a common good, so it belongs to all of us dependent on it. So you just don't get to dump CO2 into it. It's warming my planet, it's melting my antarctic, it's killing my corrals in my oceans. You just don't get to do that kind of things. As a libertarian I say; you must not infringe on my freedoms and my property.

Next, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, India: hey, these are good questions worth discussing. First, let's point out that each signed on the Paris Agreement. To put that in other words; every country you list has made public commitments to action on the climate crisis. These commitments are not sufficient, by far. Put in contrast to say - the USA - whose administration made no such commitment and that is actively trying to undermine federal actions and scientific discourse on the topic (not very libertarian, btw.)

Now, if for some weird reason the USA suddenly starts to take the climate crisis serious, there are many ways she could go about. Together with the EU it has the largest market for consumer goods. That's something we could leverage.

Beyond that; it's good that we started talking about how to address the problem and start having a discussion about feasible approaches!
Zune was announced on November 14th, 2006.

iPod 1st Gen was released in 2001.

What are you raving about?
There is a general problem with platforms and fake entities of various kinds posing as friendly, relatable individuals. This problem surfaces far less deeply than you have to dig to find a well-crafted fake portrait.

Is that really a crafty artistic person turning out handmade items on Etsy, or is it a front for a factory in China with dozens of pseudonymous identities on Etsy? They take on multiple fake identities in order to appear to be humans handcrafting their items in small batches. If one identity gets their cover blown, it is shut down and replaced.

Is your AirBnB host with a woman's first name really renting out some family-owned cottages, or is "she" a BPO messaging contact center who won't talk to you on the phone? AirBnB's UI makes you sift through tens of pages of reviews to glean hints. And that usually happens after you have suspicions due to a foulup with a rental.

I haven't yet tried one of those "sharing economy" car rentals. But I suspect they, too, have attracted aggregators posing behind multiple fake identities to escape bad reputations if need be.

Social media and all kinds of other platforms need to look for and mitigate damage to their brands from fake identities. These fakes are made, in part, to game the platforms, and, in doing so, reduce their value.
Well, good luck for them. The problem is that unless they manage to pull some incredible technological feat, it won't really happen.

Physics is a bitch, there are some real reasons why you can't make AR glasses thin and sexy like sunshades and costing sub $1000 to boot.
Hey man, posting this from my gold plated yacht.. want some trading advice?
The clearest explanation about the bond market crash that I have seen is Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets of Money series, but I'm sure there are others:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE88E9ICdiphYjJkeeLL2...
Why Distraction Helps Ease Anxiety
No. It's a shared mission. Both the NSC and CDC have significant national security crossover. And I would encourage curious people to research the reasoning behind some of the proposed CDC budget reductions.

I can see how the term "fake news" annoys certain people as I'm sure it invokes a certain discomfort in knowing that it refers to the immoral fabrications and contextual transformations needed to maintain mass discontent with one individual person. It's got to make at least some of its creators and consumers feel dirty.
I've been on a team with a super productive whiteboard user, who made ideas more clear by the ability to draw diagrams. I have also been on a team with a unproductive coworker whose whiteboard drawings were confusing, took lots of time to draw, and were generally unhelpful.

Both people thought their whiteboarding was indispensible. Neither person's actually were, even the guy who was quite effective at drawing his ideas.
Private equity and public markets get money from the same source.
Yes WTF, this is not about interest rates, it’s about test kits for sick people, sick leave and pandemic risk
A collaborative text pad is way more productive for 99% of the use cases.
Please keep this kind of stuff in /r/politics. It has no place on HN.
> drone

Not in my country and I would imagine that you may be allowed to shoot that tin can down in the US.

But legislation is both easy and effective. There is a huge difference for privacy if compromising information is legally obtained or not. Sure, some will ignore it that can be addressed separately. Again, legislation would be extremely easy.

ISPs can use your data because it isn't legislated otherwise. But even there are limits and not all information can be legally accessed. A solution would be to use the network of your neighbor, but I am sure we wouldn't want to escalate this problem further.
U.S. Stocks Extend Losses After Trading Halt
The article begins with a misunderstanding.

The semantic symmetry of the OSI layers is clearly an 'interaction': there is a computer talking to another computer. The stack diagram is obviously only considering a single object, a system. Would not be surprising that should we introduce the 'user' as the peer to the system that we can in fact derive a similar symmetry in layers. Yes, the user side of the layers would be mostly logical 'organizational' concerns.
It's not about stopping but delaying.
Nah, humans are just missing about a twelfth of a finger.
The syntax looks like C but it's not, and causes bugs, e.g. in this loop:

i =0;
for (j = [1:5]){
echo(i);
i=i+1;
}

keeps printing "1" instead of 0 to 4
Maryland officials considering preparations for election by mail
The point I was trying to make is that there's many scripts which are easy to write as shell scripts, so developers will write them as shell scripts.

But they are time-consuming to write in mainstream languages, so developers often won't do it if that's their only choice.
In school they taught classes and inheritance like it was the biggest thing since sliced bread.

I feel like they're but one tool, and necessary in limited cases.

For example I recently encountered an API that had to intake 100+ key/value pairs and manipulate these values, and send them to various places.

I tried to do the mappings and data manipulations and everything in one long piece of code functionally but it led to some serious spaghetti. When I separated things out into classes, it was much cleaner code, with a more well defined domains. It was definitely not perfect but ended up being much cleaner.
This is a simple example but classes can be useful. It's arguable that the API could have been better written and that's true but sometimes you have to work with what you're given.

Otherwise I would venture to say most code doesn't require classes.
> Obviously this program [in C] contains a lot of things that deal with the computer and not the problem of calculating a sum.

Stack based languages replace "dealing with the computer" with "dealing with the stack". Except the stack is always invisible, because it's a runtime artifact and not a code artifact. Their front-page example neatly dodges this, but their examples on the about page make this much more visible. For instance, here's their prime finder:

: prime_list
1 - iota 2 + dup dup dup
'* outer swap in not select
;

100 prime_list .
give it json graph output and kiss uml goodbye
Not this specific outbreak, but it was from the meat trade (wild caught or farmed). We keep stressed out animals in disgusting conditions in close proximity which is a breeding ground for disease. We then interact with them.

And of course, wild animals (like bats) can transmit diseases to other species (like pigs). Who can then transmit it to all the other pigs around it.

Then we pump them full of medication so they don't get sick, and end up creating antibiotic resistance.
I go the other way. I wish all laptop manufacturers would stop making 15in laptops with numpads. The way the keyboard is offset makes it terrible in my opinion. Of course I don't do a lot of stuff that requires me to make use of a numpad either.
> usage defines language not the other way around

I say we start referring to cryptocurrencies as "cyber cash" and then abbreviate it to "cyber". If anyone should suffer from appropriated terminology at the hands of blockchainiacs, it ought to be the insufferable sales staff at security industry conferences.
We're using GitHub Enterprise (self-hosted)
I'm very happy with a middle way, the 200 EUR Withings Steel HR Sport, considered a "hybrid". Good usability and excellent 20 ... 25 day battery lifetime. Will run even longer if you synchronize it sparingly.

It looks like a regular mechanical watch at 40mm, with two complications: a step counter, and an AMOLED screen for notifications and other readouts. Supports the usual functionalities: pulse meter, step meter & other sports tracking, visual & tactile notifications and Bluetooth synchronization with smartphone.

About the only think I would add to it is time synchronization from atomic sourced radio signals, to make it truly independent from a cellphone for extended periods of time. Mine tends to drift about a minute ahead after about a month without phone synchronization.
> Its why convicts cannot vote in elections even when they get released.

Just felons, not anybody who's been convicted of a crime. Not justifying it, just making the distinction. I still believe it's wrong.
I was curious about that, so I went and found this and played around a bit: https://dqydj.com/nikkei-return-calculator-dividend-reinvest...

It looks like if you invested in January 1990, you'd still be slightly negative as of January 2020, even after including re-invested dividends when calculated in Yen. But, when calculated in dollars, it's positive, unless you adjust for inflation, then it's negative again.
Buying put options are a great way to protect yourself against downturn risk. I think of it like an insurance policy. You pay a premium to protect yourself in bad times.

However, I'd recommend always having a put contract outstanding, not just when you predict things getting worse. You got lucky this time, but next time you may be too late.
I don't know. A whiteboard alone isn't a solution.

I think it depends on the communication skills of the team.

Anyone who plays some form of "Win, Lose or Draw" or "Pictionary" will quickly realize that most people aren't as good at visual communication as they think they are.

Myself, I've been in too many whiteboarding sessions where the whiteboarder either spent too much time trying to "live bake" their idea on the whiteboard or simply produced an incoherent mess.
>His two front teeth (red box) are different shapes and sizes. The teeth on the right side of his mouth have not been rendered properly at all. An analysis of Max’s facial features suggests he has more in common with an AI-generated fake than with a real person.

Or a real person who didn't have braces?
One reason why it’s not a great example is the exchange rate of the currency. The Yen is worth about double now what it was in 1989.
If we talk about "mass of land" - and wanna split hairs :) - it does not include the ocean I guess.

Remember that UK is very close to continental Europe

Strait of Dover is just 33 km wide.

One could almost swim from one side to the other.

And there's a tunnel connecting the two, you can already go by train from France to UK.

Ireland and UK are even closer than that (about 20kms)

And they are all the same "mass of land" as in tectonic plate.

Iceland for example cannot entirely be considered Europe, the Eurasian plate cut it exactly in a half.
No. The rate of decrease is not constant.

But Venus and Mercury have lost their rotation, not having a massive moon to keep them rotating, against solar tides slowing them.

Mars has kept its rotation by its distance from the sun. Its tiny moons help only a little.
I've heard the following advice:
Hold a % of bonds equal to the % of life you've lived and a % of stocks equal to the % of life you have left.

Ex. If you're 40 and think you'll live to 100, try to hold 40% bonds and 60% stocks.
I was starting to like Microsoft, with Github and all.
https://archive.md/9qmD1
"Norway is now third by population". "On 3. place" is a direct translation from Norwegian ("på 3. plass") plus a typo.
Most of this article is talking about fake photos, not fake Twitter accounts. He goes on to say that if you use your Twitter account for politics, then you are fake.

The only thing I agree with is 766 posts in a week is extreme and is an indicator of bot-like activity.
Dividends mean investments can have positive returns even if the companies value goes to zero.
Nope. Studies show it's riskier.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=820004

>Risk-averse investors who prefer dollar-averaging can accomplish the aim of risk reduction more effectively by lowering the fraction of funds invested in the risky asset and investing them all at once.

If you invest the same total amount of money for a constant exposure to the market measured in funds*time in the market, you have higher risk choosing to rely more strongly on the later years (which is DCA) than evenly spreading out the exposure over time (which is lump-sum investing). Theory is very simple. Lump sum is diversification and DCA is the opposite - diversification is a "free lunch" producing lower risk with higher returns.
Oh, sure, I'm very happy to agree with the claim that it's very unlikely that he got the virus from this event. I wasn't trying to dispute that.
Um, yes. If you keep taking the same antibiotics (or feeding them in huge quantities to livestock) then yes, new strains of viruses that are antibiotic resistant will emerge. That's how viruses work and evolve.

Otherwise we'd have discovered a flu vaccine and then no one would have ever gotten the flu again. Yet here we are. The virus evolves and changes over time.
To me this article looks a lot like the kind of principle that looks very nice in articles but immediately breaks down in practice with even slight complexity.

First of all, the difference between operations and integrations makes no sense, even in his examples. All of his functions are calling other functions. All of his integrations are doing some logic (passing results between functions in particular ways). There is no fundamental difference between 'if a then b else c' and 'other_function(a, quote(b), quote(c))'.

Second of all, this idea that you don't have dependencies between Presentation and Business only looks like that because he's passing very simplistic data between them. But in real code you have complex data structures and complex interactions and complex invariants and they almost unavoidably introduce dependencies between 'strata'. Even if you force yourself to use maps and strings and lists so you don't have explicit type dependencies, you still get implicit structure dependencies.
Definitely a smart plan. I've got six months of expenses in my emergency fund earning peanuts but my mind is much more at ease because of it. Worth it.
Sure they did. Except those watches don't need several cameras to track your movement without which the AR overlays aren't possible.

Those cameras need video processing - that's big, hot and heavy compute capability somewhere nearby the camera itself because you can't stream that e.g. using Bluetooth to a phone in your pocket.

That compute also sucks batteries dry like there is no tomorrow, so a large battery has to be somewhere.

Oh and if you want to actually display an overlay to the user (and not only some text in the corner of your eye like Google Glass did), then you need fairly large optics - laws of physics won't budge only because it is Apple.

That's why the Hololens is so clunky and unsexy. Magic Leap has put the compute and batteries in the user's pocket, but then there is a cable between the two (and the goggles aren't much lighter/less clunky really).
But the 2008 credit crisis was structural in nature and this one is not.
Got out of Twitter after seven years using it like a breaking news website from few vetted sources: bots, venom, ads and shameless plugs just made the experience more and more unsufferable, so good riddance. Also unfollowed any contact on LinkedIn, the amount of motivational fluff and plain gibberish just astounding, something like facebook for professionals. Am I happier? Nope, but the void will be somehow filled by something more productive or just interesting.
In 2014 FB stock was $20/share. Now its closer to $200/share, so a $3B offer in 2014 roughly translates to a $30B valuation today. From the financial side it appears that Snap made the wrong choice.
Wow, the Trumpists are downvoting. I'm not saying anything that isn't in the article.
How not to write (factorial in) Java
I think you’re saying you shorted the entire US equity market, which I think is probably fine.

You probably won’t get caught, but buying puts, or anything modeled to behave like one, for your employer’s stock is almost certainly a violation of your employment contract if they’ve granted you RSUs.

“You will not short, or otherwise participate in derivatives associated with the stock” is standard RSU boiler plate.
Ask HN: Advice for Teaching Music Remote?
Hey gang,

My brother teaches classical guitar privately in a UK city. Things are normal right now. But my brother has been hospitalised with pneumonia the last two flu seasons, so he would be quite vulnerable if coronovirus spread here. He's self-employed and doesn't have insurance for this, if he stops teaching he stops getting paid. I want to help him prepare to teach guitar remotely, but this isn't an area I have any experience with.

He has some student exams coming up and they usually want intensive tutoring during this time.

Do any of you have advice for transitioning to remote music teaching?
But everyone else is talking about them as if it was a done deal.
Easy setup for a DNS over HTTPS Server (Ubuntu/DNSCrypt/CloudFlare)
Something ive wondered about these 'circuit breaker' halts...do they actually work to prevent mass sell off or are they just prolonging the inevitable?

Apparently not only can the powers that be halt trading momentarily, they can simply close the market altogether if trading is "bad" enough. How is that not manipulating the market? Why shouldnt we all be able to sell?

disclosure: Im firmly in the blue collar worker category. I dont own stocks.
That is true, you are right. What I'm saying is that eventually things that need be SQL are either SQL... or sometimes R. The language is more expressive and it takes less time to 'select something from something where conditions group by something', rather than drag and drop it. and is the reason why SQL is so fundamental to all areas of information technology and particularly when data is involved.

besides, SQL is DATALOG which is PROLOG which is to 'program logic', which gets as close as it can to 'wiring' logic. many attempts to visualize this process has failed so far, because... they are more complex and more specific.

SQL takes like 30 chars and dozen keywords to master. any visual paradigm - takes more.
Given that the user's name is "grayed-down", I'm pretty sure they're aware of that. It's an uninterrupted litany of standard tactics for distracting, evading, and ignoring. Poe's Law mean that it's hard to tell somebody pretending to be obtuse from somebody actually being obtuse.
> There is no force comparable to lunar tidal forces affecting the period of revolution.

But there are... The earth orbiting causes tiny tides on the sun. They might only be a few millimeters, but they're non-zero. Over time, tidal drag will tend to make years longer.

Anyone have the time and skill to do a ballpark guess the magnitude of this effect?
Commodities are getting hammered across the board, demand is dropping and everyone is cashing out to cover their positions and keep from going bankrupt.
> If you're already in the market, well you're kind of stuck now.

I don't think this really makes sense, unless there is some barrier to entry to selling. If you wouldn't advise someone with a free $20k to invest, why would you advise someone with $20k in investments to hold on, just because of sunk cost? It's effectively the same thing. If you don't need the money for a long time, you should invest regardless of what the market is doing. If you do need the money soon, you shouldn't be in the market at all.
Longest Bull Market in US History Ended by Fastest Bear Market Since 1987
This site has A TON of personality!

Both in the copy "I'll keep it short" and also that it's unlike anything else on the web.
I really don't think that changing one leader will change anything about the organization. In order to fix the situation you would have to understand their culture from the bottom up, see why they don't care about making models public (as far as I know this is the media's fault for not publicizing models they have already published, maybe the WHO is innocent), figure out what they needed to change, and then replace several leaders, being careful to only replace the ones that are part of the problem.
My suspicion is this is a very small number of entities going "sell our bullion on paper so we can buy the dip", probably why bitcoin is down 25% and change last time I looked too.

I've seen precious metals move a lot more than this for no apparent reason.
Personally, I've given up on begging the question. It just means "raises" now. The descriptivists always win in the end.
I agree with you in the sense that the debt was primarily a tax optimization strategy for them.

However, I still see it as a bit of a problem. I think it is partially a symptom of a market that has become too focused on a single metric (P/E ratio). The result is that reducing shares is more important than boosting book value.

I'd love for this hypothesis to be proven wrong, but I'm afraid that it is part of what is driving some very questionable practices.
Also:

http://www.implicitcad.org/

https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython
> How is that not manipulating the market?

Nobody said it isn't. In fact, that's the whole point: manipulate people to chill out, take a few minutes to think, and then get back to it.
> a normal distribution

Not really clear what you mean here. If you take the peak index value and its value two months into the bubble burst, the average value of this will be ~42% lower than the peak.
AFAIK, they have jumped the gun a bit. It is shipping but only to selected partners because they have some major image quality issues:

https://www.kguttag.com/2019/12/18/hololens-2-not-a-pretty-p...
He's shorting Chipotle and I doubt he works there.
By "I separated things out into classes", do you mean that you used the whole triad of inheritance + polymorphism + encapsulation?