skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t mean to be dense but I am still missing something. I appreciate the fact that the counter party is locked in when you buy a ‘put’. But what if the counter party wants to get out of a bad deal and they declare bankruptcy? After all if they have to buy Tesla at 620 (using the example above) and Tesla is trading at 400 that’s a significant loss.
Yea, dollars put into student loan forgiveness actually pay themselves off many times over due to the high velocity of cash in the hands in young people - money injected into the market has a comparatively low velocity and tends to just get exported overseas.
I agree. It's more of a sketch than a proof which is why it's so short.
Hopefully not being a tool about it, but mmwave and backscatter are different imaging technologies. Backscatter imaging is an x-ray technology, which, while very very low energy, uses ionizing radiation. Mmwave is not ionizing radiation.
Thanks :) we need to figure out the right pricing but we did not want to lose some potential users as a result of pricing too high. what do you think would be a reasonable price?
I'm in the industry and I have to agree here. All of the devices we develop and use (third-party) either already have this capability built-in to the device or are working on it right now.
Laws pushed by large companies so that others can't compete against them and they are able to price gouge the customer.

There is a large supply of housing that is available to customers that want to purchase it. The idea that two people can't make a consensual exchange of value is antithetical to a free society.
You can just save and print out the QR code onto paper and put that in your lockbox. Then your bequeathed can just scan those with their MFA device. Be sure to label them ;)
What group and month? in case someone out there might have their own copy...
I approve.

Seriously tho, I wish most s/w vendor would do this. I wish Slack would do this for the next 3 months.
No "About" page, no privacy policy. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but there's probably a lot more to be made off collecting data from the cameras than you could expect to charge consumers.
It's great to cancel the in-person fan experience, but it's bad that they're cancelling the games. The more things we have to keep people at home watching TV, the better.

In fact I think emergency 'friendly' off-season college football and NFL scrimmages should be organized. (Other off-season sports too.) The increased spread caused by a few healthy young people getting the virus from each other would be more than outweighed by keeping sports fans at home.
I honestly don't think this is going to work. Markets and investors are notoriously greedy and have a very short memory. This infusion will lift the market for a day (if at all) and institutions will make money and the next day the news cycle will take over and the selling will continue. We are in the early phases of negative news so not sure effective this will be.
It's 2020. You're preaching to the choir on this.

I myself use classes just fine. I love CLOS and I'm having a lot of fun with OOP on Forth as of late.
Sparkles of inheritance can be good. I use them sometimes to aid functional combinators.
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Printing Money Cures the “Covid-19” Crash
This will still definitely slow down the total amount of infections.

>You'd have to literally be picking up and flying in planes full of active cases to even match what we have here already

Even one person with corona can do a lot of damage.

For example, a singular person boarded Diamond Princess. The ship had 696 confirmed positive cases and 7 deaths from 1 person who had the virus.
The Warren Abstract Machine has a bunch of Prolog-related opcodes mixed in with a bunch of opcodes for maintaining linked lists and other data structures. Once you figure that out the WAM becomes slightly easier to understand.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Will Read Your Mind
My comment was more a romantic one about the forces in play rather than a literal question. I'm also in awe of our solstice declination moments.
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He can do the mea culpa later. Lets fix this asap!
The downside is that all these "smart" devices contain radios which you can't put off, with firmware you can't upgrade, and contain batteries you can't replace. They were never made to last as long as your Quartz. Full disclosure: happy owner of a Fossil Hybrid HR (which spits out Bluetooth signal, has e-ink yet has a traditional look).
Nikkei is a price index. Total return with dividends reinvested probably surpassed the 1989 peak a while ago, but it's hard to find that data on it.
Oh, I thought startups were abandoning expensive cities for remote work and cheaper living costs.
> When will it stop? How deep run the flaws in Intel's platform? Is AMD equally exposed?

We're seeing the tide turn from x86 to ARM pretty quick in both the datacenter and laptop markets. AMD should come through relatively unscathed as they're pretty diversified, but Intel is fucked. Graviton2 (Amazon's proprietary ARM stack) absolutely crushes x86 from a $/performance perspective, and there are plenty of other companies building 80+ core ARM chips.

Combined with the persistent rumors that Apple is shifting the Mac to ARM along with Microsoft reviving ARM Windows are a pretty strong signal as to where the laptop / desktop market is headed too. x86 (and by extension Intel's platform) is definitely headed towards a more niche role in the computing landscape.
I was a bit confused by this article, especially given the headline. As I read it, the research was something along the lines of: We looked at cities that are known for having a lot of startups. Some of those cities have decent transit systems. Others don't. Where there were decent transit systems, we saw businesses generally clustering around transit. (Which seems fairly obvious.) Where there wasn't decent transit, businesses couldn't very well cluster around it, could they?

I don't actually doubt the general statement that startups are tending to abandon suburban office parks for certain cities--some of which have decent transit systems and commuter rail. And there's probably some connection between transit and attractiveness to young urban-dwellers in particular. But the headline seems only sometimes true.
Think of everything posted as possible suggestions. The need to feel a mental separation between work and not-work is real, but what it takes to feel that separation is different for everybody. Try as many of the suggestions as you can, stick with what's practical, effective, and gives you enough of that feeling.

Having work-specific rituals seems to help, like make an effort to do the usual shower and get dressed even though you don't really have to. Maybe listen to a different genre of music, get lunch from a specific place, etc.
Are lichen fungi life forms?
Americans have short memories when it comes to politics, and a remarkable ability to endure cognitive dissonance.
I still love the fact that if you only implemented the first rule or had the knowledge to implement all 3 rules, it would totally work, but if you implemented 2 of the 3 rules you were wrong.

It taught me a great lesson about results not proving correctness as how you got there could bite you later.
> on the whole little more than a sophistical hustle.

Funny, this is also what philosophers think about modern tech companies.
Well the President thinks it will go away when it's warm out. He is trying to play to stock market fears and is failing all of the citizens.
I lumped them together on purpose (xray was previously used and was eventually repurposed for prisons by TSA, now millimeter wave is exclusively used by TSA), but your point and context is important and taken.
Disneyland, Theaters, Casinos Exempted from Coronavirus Ban on Large Gatherings
I always wondered why Doraemon didn't just bring Nobita some lotto numbers.
"Piracy" is a buzzword too. Copyright infringement is a crime so victimless they feel the need to compare it to literal high seas piracy in order to make an impact.

> This break is great news for everybody that wants their computer to remain under their own control, rather than an increasingly locked down Big Tech WebTV.

Completely agree. This "security breach" is only bad for corporations who want to track users and implement DRM. It's great for the freedom of the people who are actually using the computers.
What should be considered money is subjective and the value of all money comes from people's perceived future value in it. Even gold coins and dollar notes.
No, I don't believe so; the whole point of a jury is to verify that a single authority figure's decision to imprison someone is not invalid.

If a judge wants someone imprisoned for a valid legal reason, they should be able to get a jury of that person's peers to agree. That's what prevents our judiciary from becoming arbitrary tool of oppression.
Not sure if "completely false" is appropriate. There was some Russian activity. The scale of which appears somewhat underwhelming:

> Through our supplemental analysis, we have identified 13,512 additional accounts, for a total of 50,258 automated accounts that we identified as Russian-linked and Tweeting election-related content during the election period, representing approximately two one-hundredths of a percent (0.016%) of the total accounts on Twitter at the time.

If that small of an effort can make that much of an impact on the core democratic process, then we need to consider a significant scale back of XXI century globalism to allow for second half of XX century democracy to survive. Not a popular opinion on a tech forum, where more users means more money, and there are always significantly more users outside one's national boundaries. Sigh.
I think this is a misunderstanding about how banks work. The board of directors or CEO of HSBC didn’t decide to get into the cartel money laundering business. Rather, some middle managers decided to turn a blind eye to some dodgy transactions, which got past the Bank’s AML controls, which were not up to scratch. I’m not justifying anything, they reneged on their legal responsibilities, but banks aren’t conscious entities that decide things like that.

Also it’s highly unlikely a bank could hold vast BTC reserves without the regulators finding out about it. Anyway BTC is used for money laundering, but that doesn’t require holding reserves. Most money laundering transactions transit into and out of BTC very quickly. The only reason to keep BTC for very long is speculation.
The goal is "to prevent ominous trading conditions from creating a sharper economic contraction", according to the article. Whether $1.5T is sufficient to accomplish this goal obviously remains to be seen. My guess (but don't bet your retirement portfolio on it) is that the economy will dip for 3-6 months, then as the virus exsanguinates, it will rebound.

There's massive efforts in several countries to develop or adapt vaccines to covid-19: Israel, Maryland, and Texas companies all have candidates ready for human testing, or about to be ready. It's likely that in about six months there will be one or more vaccines well into human testing or perhaps even fast-tracked into the market, at least for vulnerable populations, and the panic will die down.
Reminds me of the legends of the Plunge Protection Team (PPT)[0]. A group of people who report directly to the POTUS who're attributed responsibility by pro traders to do large buy orders when the markets are dropping sharply.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plunge-protection-team....
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After reading your comment including edits it's still not clear when you plan to travel so I understand the negative reactions you're getting.

Buying flight tickets might be cheap right now but the point is if when your trip starts X weeks from now and the situation is still bad and you don't cancel it, then you are indeed selfish and deserving of the negative comments and down votes.

Further, since nobody knows when this will end (it could continue into 2021 for all we know) and you didn't say you'd cancel your plans if it did (instead you expressed concerns you'd lose money if travel was banned), I feel like you're drastically misunderstanding the 2nd order dangers your actions would have and likely deserve the ire and down votes you're getting.
More generally, all tradeable/redeemable issueance of the sovereign are royal peers: cash, treasury bonds/notes/paper, US savings bonds series I/EE, even agency bonds.
And they are entirely one sided. Try suing Google for patent or trademark infringement. I've seen the attempts: it's impossible to get justice. The entire system is rigged and serves as yet another way for powerful interests to extract value from productive members of society.
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F1's Australian GP to be cancelled after coronavirus case
Nope, sorry - this is literally an injection of cash into Wall Street. Political spin can do massively crazy things but this particular injection is specifically going straight into Wall Street - saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.
> Can you use bitcoin without the internet? Can you use bitcoin without someone else mining and being allowed to connect to these entities?

The answer to both is, simply, "no".

All cryptocurrencies (not just Bitcoin) are incredibly reliant on the availability of unrestricted communications between all participating parties, including miners. Where those communications break down, the cryptocurrency is likely to become unreliable or entirely unusable.

(As such, Bitcoin is an incredibly poor choice if you're planning for some sort of apocalyptic scenario -- it's likely to be one of the first things to stop working.)
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As a home user, I had software on my old computer (80286 XT from end of 80s) which ended up saying we were in the year 00. Don't remember if time/date was otherwise correct.

I do realize it could've been a lot worse if it were not thanks to the many efforts of people in the tech industry.

And in case you wonder: I would bet the same is going to happen with regards to 32-bit and 2038.
For sure. People still get up in arms about the 2008 bank bailout without realizing that it ended up resulting in a $121B profit to the government: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
I wonder, then, how many experts in the discipline, and lay people (including me) come away with exactly the opposite conclusion.

If you're going to fault Sartre and talk about 20th c. academic philosophy, you may as well also fault Hegel or Nietzche or Marx for their 18th and 19th c. philosophy, and then Heraclitus for his 4th century BC obscurities. Maybe you only meant "continental" philosophy, but you'd probably need metaphilosophy to argue the point as to what is genuine and a "sophistical hustle".

Apparently the people who study Sartre come out with some pretty interesting ideas[0]. It's a little tiring to hear people reading 50 pages of a French philosopher known for his difficulty and concluding that 20th c. academic philosophy is sophistry(?!)[1] A non-mathematician might just say the same thing about Erdos. The fact that people feel comfortable making such sweeping judgements on a wide-ranging and deep discipline is frankly shocking. You're not alone, however; the gwern.net guy has done the same.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/

[1] Sartre mostly wrote books on philosophy, rather than publishing in academic journals, alongside plays and novels. If you mean to talk about "academic philosophy", Sartre is certainly not your best example. Neither would Marx or Nietzche be good examples. Heidegger and Hegel maybe.
They refused to explain what IP problems there are, and given it's Apple, I doubt they are valid.
Harmony will soon be the only proof of stake sharded blockchain in the whole industry (as far as I'm aware) and I think more than just me would find that intellectually interesting considering, especially as ETH 2.0 has been building towards this for years and we are near to roll it out in production on mainnet.

Perhaps there are new accounts because many new people from Harmony community who are doing things like running validator nodes for the first time, or using the shell, linux or knowing about this site.

This post definitely is about something technical, testing slashing for double signing in a sharded blockchain. That is something novel to industry.

(I am a protocol coder at harmony)
We have a fiat currency. The Government creates “money” whenever it pleases. The money is “Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States”.

I completely agree that in the long term this is completely faulty and just helps to exacerbate the underlying causes of economic crisis. But our government (typically) does not act in long-term interests. We as a people do not hold our politicians accountable.
I don't know, to be honest. Seems better to stomp on it and then slowly relax and see how that goes?

I'd love to read an actual expert's advice on this. I'm just going by what I saw happen in Italy. By the time they shut things down hard, it was too late.
we're about to witness the limits of Quantitative Easing. I predict this will be the first of several such moves, to diminishing effects.
Generally the VR offerings that are in a wider use are sane. Just because some companies peddle fake products it does not mean it's a market of lemons.
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Self plug for my dead man's switch: https://absentplan.com/

You can configure it to do anything including scan your social media for signs of life, cURL your own servers, and send out text/emails with attachments. Uses client side encryption if desired, or just give us your own self encrypted files.
+1 to the Rust Discord being _really_ helpful. If you can provide an example on play.rust-lang.org, someone will definitely help you.
>The hysteria over Russia as an excuse to ignore the concerns of Americans who support populist positions is pretty transparent at this point.

You're calling it "hysteria" to dismiss facts you don't like. "The Russian Hoax!", where have I heard that before?

But, to your second point, I completely agree that many on the left want to pretend it was _mostly_ because of foreign interference. I tend to think that had a pretty small impact, and the fact you pointed out is probably much more consequential: Americans are more receptive to a populist message than people think.
Just a heads up, the video is blocked everywhere except USA/Canada. Here's a link to the trailer if anyone is interested[0]. It's a fantastic movie by the way, a definite watch if you're interested in hard sci-fi.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD-yj9o664&
The Fed isn’t responsible for cutting checks. Congress can direct the Fed to sell bonds and then distribute the money but the dollars were never the American people’s to begin with.
you could lose on both ends. a quick double dip crash would wipe out your RSUs all the same and your options finish out of the money as 90% of them do.
There are various cameras on the market claiming to have smart alert features but in reality the only AI features that they are currently offering (that we are aware of) are person detection, unfamiliar face detection, facial recognition, activity zones, some limited object detection... if you know of any solutions offering beyond those, we would love to know about them... also these features come at a high price both in terms of the initial hardware cost and monthly fees (e.g. Nest Cam IQ selling for $300-$400)
I 100% agree that the Fed's actions are troubling and it's boxed itself into a corner, and has very ineffective tools for what it's trying to do, but ...

This injection isn't really comparable because those other things are expenditures, while the 1.5t refers to short-term loans to very creditworthy borrowers. It really doesn't come at the cost of providing universal healthcare.
In times of panic, remember that in the worst likely scenario, this virus will slow consumer spending, increase demand for hospitals, stagnate productivity for about 12 months, and kill about 0.4% of the world's population (using Spanish flu infection patterns for reference, which infected ~25% of the world population). At that point, there will be sufficient herd immunity (and likely effective treatments or vaccines) to allow the virus to decay into obscurity.

Then the economy will pick up the pieces again, with actual technology, hard capital, and active workers in the workforce still existing after the hard times. I expect this market crash to look most like 1987, which saw new highs 2 years later.

The long term consequences, besides loss of life, are that most market interventions will protect interest rates for large businesses with huge credit lines and existing debt, while small businesses go under, furthering consolidating income inequality.

Would a crash be worse without intervention? Perhaps. But the long term consequences would also be more natural and redistribute resources more fairly, in my opinion.
> It's only a win-win from the political perspective of the house majority

sounds like American politics in a nutshell to me, aside from a few rare exceptions!
So what makes this different from the myriad other attempts to build a flying car?
You have to read between the lines here. They did this because there was not enough liquidity to cover the institutional sell off in the bond market. In other words, had they not done this, there very well could have been a run on the banks. That would be very very bad. You can’t fight the virus if hospitals can’t pay doctors.
It's already happening with Russia and China having their own networks.
Mirror: https://archive.is/Ka7zO
No idea how you get downvoted. Market has already sold off the gains from the stimulus. Lasted a few minutes. Not very well spent money IMO.
Not sure what effect this stimulus will have, if any, but long term economic fundamentals are sound, so right now might be a buying opportunity.
Because the two alternatives we’re talking about here are ‘foo(bar, baz)’ where foo, bar and baz convey meaning and ‘object.doWork()’ which means nothing and explains nothing.

Yes, it’s a spectrum and there’s a lot of space in between those alternatives, I simply believe being closer to the first option is better than to the second.

Pure functions are conductive to transparency, objects, methods and class hierarchies are conductive to obscurity.
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And since a put is an agreement to sell at a certain price, how can you even sell such an agreement if it’s value has skyrocketed beyond the value of the underlying stock? Certainly the counter party would like to buy the put and let it expire (so they don’t have to pay 620 for a stock trading at 400) but how can the value of the put exceed 620-400? If I paid so much more for a put I would lose the amount that exceeds 620-400 (the amount I would gain)
The Fed isn't printing 1.5 trillion greenbacks and handing out fat sacks on Wall St. They are providing short-term loans to increase the amount of money in circulation (liquidity). The intent is to increase the total amount of trading occurring so that the market can return to equilibrium sooner than later. The Fed wants to prevent firms from not making trades solely for lack of liquidity in the market.

edit: "from making profitable trades" -> "from not making trades"
Humans aren't either. We need food and water and a hospitable environment to get to a point where we can do that.
Moreover, even if centralized banking stops functioning, individual banks can continue operations. This isn't true of Bitcoin -- if the network is partitioned, there is no mechanism for it to be resynchronized without massive rollbacks.