skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent and real estate are artificially low because of rent control. In a free market, the value decrease of money would be more visible compared to these assets.

Calling the prise increase in equities a "bull market" does not change the fact that the prise increased.
For reference: A month ago, economists predicted just 3MM for 1 week.
Yes, these are two very different things.

Differential programming is about building software that is differentiable end-to-end, so that optimal solutions can be calculated with gradient descent.

Probabilistic programming (which is a bit more vague) is about specifying probabilistic models in an elegant and consistent way (which than then be used for training and inference.)

So, you can build some kinds of probabilistic programs with differential programming languages, but not vice versa.
Tourism and travel will resurge in 2021, when people who missed this year's vacation (i.e. everyone) will book for the next summer.
normally when i see new versions on hacker news it's because there's something interesting in the patch notes, just posted that to save others the time of reading through the notes
White Sun of the Desert is a very good movie, too! Somewhere in the vicinity of Indiana Jones or the Man With No Name westerns, but with more heart and tenderness.
What does the build system have to do with the language?

The current trend of combining the two concerns by having language-specific build systems (like Cargo) was a mistake, IMO.
The History of the Handshake
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22654250
> That question can be generalized to "since <Turing Complete language> can do <anything-we-want-via-library/function/macro/codegen/customcode/extension/whatever>, can't we just do that instead of modifying the core language?"

Not really, since that usually requires using weird syntax or APIs, but the Rust proc-macro solution has the exact same syntax as the Swift one:

@differentiable
...cube function
let grad = gradient(at: cube);

vs

#[derivative]
...cube function....
let grad = gradient(cube);
If it supports Windows half as good as it does currently support Linux, that isn't much better than not supporting at all.
Higher-level data such as country data and state data are frequently reported and updated at least every 3 minutes.
County data is not as frequent because it depends on their individual reporting. Our server fetches the county data every couple minutes and updates numbers that have changed.
I made a few observations regarding masks, but never concluded "racism".

1) The original messages favored the individual over the group. From the onset, masks were pushed as a way to protect oneself. The thought that it can also curb the effect of a contagious individual on the mass was second. So, many people rejected wearing one, because they thought that they were probably ok (see point 2).

2) The COVID-19 was said to affect only a portion of the population that most people do not belong to. People thought I'm young, I'm healthy, it's just like the flu, I'm going to be okay. Why wear a mask, right?

3) The message that anything short of a N95 is not sufficiently effective to protect one self did nothing to encourage people to wear anything. There was a prevalent all or nothing attitude that became detrimental.

Today we know that any sort of face protection applied on the individual would have the compounded effect of also curbing the entire population's contagiousness. Unfortunately, that's not what we were going for originally.
The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change
>It's because the true, severe deflation is accompanied by mass unemployment and contraction of the economic output.

That's not the case with deflation in general; there were deflationary episodes before the 1930s where this didn't happen (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Deflation). The difference in the 30s is that a wage floor was imposed, so wages couldn't fall to adjust to the increased purchasing power of the dollar, so there was massive unemployment. Labour economists nowadays refer to this as "sticky wages".

Imagine if there was 90% deflation now. A dollar would buy ten times more, but a minimum wage worker would be ten times more expensive. If the minimum wage wasn't adjusted downwards to match the deflation, then suddenly nobody could afford to pay minimum wage, so a huge amount of people would be out of a job.
I don’t know any other “systems” language whose language definition changes every six weeks. When you say Rust changes slowly, what are you comparing it to?
Can we please have more information about this? And better pictures?
It’s also easy to do in lisp: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/ADIL.pdf
Yeah. Probably lots of people who don't know what they're talking about said that and he just assumed they are correct. A thin layer of egg in what is essentially a convection oven is going to heat up very fast.
"If you’ve ever used PyTorch, TensorFlow, or any of the other big machine learning libraries, they all support this feature, but only if you’re using their particular library specific operations. What’s more, working with gradients in these Python libraries is not as lightweight, transparent, or well integrated as it is in plain Swift."

This reminds me of concurrency and transactional memory in Clojure. You can have all of those things at a library level, but building it into the language... Well it kinda FORCES you to deal with them, for good and ill.
Because it is there.
> In this piece, we take a look at the helicopter money model, its role in the economy, and the related shortcomings that may emerge in the long-run.

> What’s Helicopter Money?

> The concept of helicopter money first appeared in 1969 in The Optimum Quantity of Money by a famous monetary theorist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman. It implies transferring money to individuals or cutting taxes for households.

This section tells me everything I need to know: the person who wrote this article has no idea what they are writing about.

The "helicopter money" phrase was used satirically, and every economist at the time and through, apparently, until today, knew this because of how absurd the term is. I haven't read the piece sited, but I'm going to go out on a limb and state that Milton Friedman would not have stated that the term was even equivalent to "cutting taxes" and definitely stated the term as creating money and giving it to households (via a helicopter).

Please ignore this article. It is absolutely awful and is probably effective at tricking people who have never read about these things before.
What magic does need to be invoked by the #[derivative] proc macro ?

For parsing Rust into an AST you just use syn, which also supports doing AST folds, and for semi-quoting you just use the quote crate.

For the symbolic differentiation part, you can use any of the hundred symbolic differentiation libraries out there to obtain '3 * x * x' from 'x * x * x'. Pretty much any machine learning framework out there supports AD and symbolic differentiation in some form, by using some libraries already. Swift people are standardizing standard practice, not discovering the americas.

If any of that looks like magic to you, then you might just be lacking the background.
By trimming out novelty and leaving only prestige, we are left with the Kidz Bop version of knowledge.
So the assumption here is that New York will be the last big outbreak in the US.
Doesn't seem like I can edit this post now, but please don't contact me about it any more. I got an overwhelming response and more than enough qualified candidates.

I reply to everyone but starting today I won't reply to new messages on this topic. Thanks!
I appreciate that the language I'm using is evolving, as well as the libraries and frameworks in the ecosystem. If I fail to keep up because I'm focusing on making the most out of the tooling I committed to, that leaves opportunity for growth. I care about creating solutions, not keeping up with the ambitions of a large, diverse group of high achievers.
It doesn't seem that things being "much too complicated" is the issue when maintaining separate proprietary and open source forks is on the table. Although it's unclear if it actually is or not.

OpenCV (and many other open source frameworks) never had a CLA so this wouldn't be an issue for that. In my opinion there is nothing inherently wrong with dual-licensing but it's expensive and many companies do not have the resources to pull it off correctly. Re-releasing under the BSD license appears to be the backup plan if the Qt Company ever goes belly-up.
Even though the consequences are going to be economic, I suspect that the helicopter money being offered by the various governments of the world has more to do with stopping a domino effect that would lead to social collapse. A decimated economy with it's institutions more-or-less intact may be a low price to pay.

As for all of these economic predictions whirling about: they are speculation based upon people's pet theories. Quite frankly, there isn't enough data to go on. There are very few economic crises that have progressed on this scale and at this pace. When there has been a crisis of similar magnitude, the initial conditions are vastly different. Go ahead and present your predictions, but also take the time to realize that its validity is more likely to be based upon luck than data.
Rust is OCaml disguised as c++ :)
It might have been a big surprise for the pilot, he's taking of for a training mission and BLAM the canopy explodes and his passenger is ejected.

But there was an important series of failing on many people involved.
https://vapor.codes/ seems to be the most popular one.

These guys are great: https://www.objc.io

I'm pretty sure their site is a Vapor server.
i used to do html/css/js in the past so from time to time i check in on them to learn new things. youtube videos/channels are a very effective way to get up to speed. some channels are especially worthy.

for instance traversy media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA

for the layout stuff, checkout their videos on flexbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSoEo8JSnc or this one on grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBhzSC455o

you can also get whole courses or books if you want...

but i have seen so much of the evolution of html/css/js that i want to say investing in a lengthy book or courseware is not worth it. you better invest that time learning tech that has been proven to last.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820255
>There are no counters that I'm aware of that have suffered a deflationary collapse.

Isn't that because long term deflationary currencies are quite rare? I'm genuinely asking, I was under the impression that deflationary collapse was rare because systemic deflation was rare, not because it was common and working just fine.

The arguments as to why deflation is bad always seemed fairly simple and common-sense (if you earn money just by having money without taking any risks nobody invests anymore and economy grinds to a halt, basically).

>If I look up the Wikipedia page for deflation I'm given hellholes like Hong Kong and Japa... no, wait, those are some of the places I'd actually prefer to live than where I am now.

You make it sound like these places became what they are because of deflation. That's a very peculiar read of that wikipedia entry IMO:

>Following the Asian financial crisis in late 1997, Hong Kong experienced a long period of deflation which did not end until the 4th quarter of 2004. Many East Asian currencies devalued following the crisis. The Hong Kong dollar however, was pegged to the US dollar, leading to an adjustment instead by a deflation of consumer prices. The situation was worsened by the increasingly cheap exports from Mainland China, and "weak Consumer confidence" in Hong Kong. This deflation was accompanied by an economic slump that was more severe and prolonged than those of the surrounding countries that devalued their currencies in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.

As for Japan, while it's definitely still a extremely important economy they lost a massive amount of ground since the 90's. I don't know if deflation made things better or worse, but it's not like it's been a massive success story.
Also, it's now acceptable to use "literally" figuratively, but that definition may have been added to the dictionary after 2014.
Saraf Ali , a cybersecurity intern who uses AI to turn his home lights on
The definition of the Internet of things has evolved due to the convergence of multiple technologies, real-time analytics, machine learning, commoditysensors, and embedded systems .Traditional fields of embedded systems, wireless sensor networks systems, automation (including home and building automation), and others all contribute to enabling the Internet of things. In the consumer market, IoT technology is most synonymous with products pertaining to the concept of the "smart home", covering devices and appliances (such as lighting fixtures, thermostats, home security systems and cameras, and other home appliances) that support one or more common ecosystems, and can be controlled via devices associated with that ecosystem, such as smartphones and smart speakers.

"Long-term benefits could include energy savings by automatically ensuring lights and electronics are turned off", says Mumin Farooq, an expert programmer, a data analyst and a AI developer.

A smart home or automated home could be based on a platform or hubs that control smart devices and appliances. For instance, using Apple's HomeKit, manufacturers can have their home products and accessories controlled by an application in iOS devices such as the iPhone and the Apple Watch. This could be a dedicated app or iOS native applications such as Siri. This can be demonstrated in the case of Lenovo's Smart Home Essentials, which is a line of smart home devices that are controlled through Apple's Home app or Siri without the need for a Wi-Fi bridge.There are also dedicated smart home hubs that are offered as standalone platforms to connect different smart home products and these include the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple's HomePod, and Samsung's SmartThings Hub. In addition to the commercial systems, there are many non-proprietary, open source ecosystems; including Home Assistant, OpenHAB and Domoticz.
Aren't you conflating the lexicon of data management with specific implementations of a relational database management system (RDBMS)?

Sorry, but your response sounds snarky and reminds me of all the ego hurdles I had to overcome when leaving/loving databases and set theory. Please remember that your comment could be someone's first introduction or step early step in learning.
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That only matters if people are prepared to pay more for tomatoes, which I don’t think they are as evidence by inner-city real estate prices going up way more than the price of tomatoes in inner-city groceries.

On the whole people are drastically more interested in paying more for real estate / assets / buying or starting a business than they are in giving dollars to tomatoes producers.

Tomato producers will take whatever they can get at market, because the produce is perishable, whereas real estate vendors can (usually) afford wait to for a greater-fool with deeper-pockets.
If this video reminds you of anyone, I'd be happy to send samples of my MVP to anyone in the US.
The argument of just letting it run its course also assumes that the medical facilities will not be needed for anything _else_ during the epidemic. That's obviously a ridiculous assumption.
Even LGPL is banned in many companies. And some devs want static linking without releasing object files.
Leaders: Time to Wake the F*ck Up
Covid-19 and Wearables Open Data Research
Isn't the JS version just:

function f(x, ...args) {
return g(x, ...args);
}

Or did you mean forwarding object fields?

function f(x, params) {
return g(x, {foo: 1, ...params});
}
$35,000/yr for a BSc is the most well paid? It was a different kind of collapse in 2001, there was little demand or reliance on online services.
Google faces new legal action for violating COPPA
Money enters the economy via government spending. Money leaves the economy through taxation.

Governments don't need to tax in order to spend, they are the issuers of the currency.
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Landmark proof in computer science has solved the Connes embedding conjecture
Norwegian numbers are similar. Mostly only healthcare providers with symptoms, or close contacts with confirmed cases, have been tested. 95% of the tests are negative.
No mention about Google JAX is odd, both in the article and in the comments here. It was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812312
Lactose is just keeping a juvenile gene active and is a matter of life and death - the blonde gene is a single mutation that can take root from a genetic bottleneck. AMD even lactose isn't universal. Just being able to smell that soil is moist (instead of looking at it, or touching it...) is not as powerful a survival advantage as lactase or sickle cell or some of those life and death mutations for food or malaria resistance.
-I had the same issue, after cursing my bad luck I eventually got around to using a couple of coloured cellofan candy wrappers as colour filters. :)
* If citizens approve money printing to citizens, then it helps them out.

* Money printing to the privilege class (investors), creates permanent theft to citizens going forward, for these two reasons:
1) Salaries don't go up with inflation for low income and middle class. Only Gold-color workers.

2) That money going to privilege class has them bid up equities/stocks (and other) asset classes. Workers with 401k get far smaller percent of the stock market. Instead of 10% YoY return from the stock market for their retirement, they get a lower percentage.

2008 had US Dollars at $800b (monetary base). 5 years later, it was $3.6 trillion. That is 450% as many USDollars as before. That money printed $2.8 trillion went to the privilege class. Workers adding to their 401ks get robbed for the rest of their life, on lower growth.
They were only interested in the platform inasmuch as it could give them a way out of the hole they had dug for themselves with Symbian. They threw out half-assed implementations of this and that and then abandoned them at the speed of light, because the only real focus was migrating their historical Symbian devs to something that could resemble XXI century tech. I know because I was mulling some projects in the space at the time - I even went to a usergroup event that was supposed to be about Qt and got sold what was clearly a "Qt for Symbian" slide deck.

Trolltech was skimpier but was much more interested in the success of the platform per-se. In many ways the post-Nokia experiences are an attempt at re-discovering the space Trolltech lived into.

> their open source OS based on Qt.

There was never such a thing. They had a Symbian OS skinned with Qt, and a number of Linux incarnations that started with GTK and were later reskinned with Qt. It didn't help that they stroke a high-level agreement to basically adopt Intel's Linux efforts, which were targeting GTK. By the end of these travails, they ended up with something fairly decent but that was just a lame-duck. Nothing was ever "based on Qt" at a fundamental level.
That is precisely what taxation is. Taxation takes money out of the economy, government spending puts money into the economy. For all intents and purposes, government spending creates money, and taxation destroys it.

The government doesn't need your tax dollars in order to spend. As the issuer of currency, it can will as much money into existence as it wants. So collecting taxes is simply a way to regulate the money supply, control inflation and provide a base level of demand for the currency.
China is not forthcoming with the truth, at all.
What's more bizarre is that they have a fully functioning Chrome app that works almost just as well as the desktop client. It installs in a click and doesn't go through any sort of installation process.
That link is dead too. Does archive.org update its archive based on deleted content?
The people with 100k in student loans (non graduate degrees) were probably not on path towards financial greatness anyway. I can't imagine looking at all of the available schools in the world and choosing one that costs over 25k a year. If it wasn't student debt it'd be some other form
I'd say it makes a very slight difference to me, but you're probably right.
The Italian Job for PC works like that too.
How can you use excess deaths to influence the IFR when excess deaths is across the entire population but the actual infection only reaches a small percentage?
Relax and learn software engineering through photos
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
I find this a pretty poorly written piece. It seems to have forgotten about the headline question after the first few paragraphs, and doesn't make any other clear point in the end.

Here's a very traditional economist answer.

Helicopter money is neither a way of of the current crisis, nor a fallacy. It is good to do it now, but it won't "solve" the crisis. It's still much better to do it than not.

Macro-economic recessions/crises, defined as a temporary drop in aggregate income/production (= GDP = GDI), are caused by a drop of (some combination of) aggregate demand (how much people will buy at a given price level) or aggregate supply (how much people produce at a given price level) [1], in economic parlance, negative supply- or demand shocks. If we have a pure supply shock, demand side measures such as lowering interest rates, helicopter money, government stimulus, will mostly just increase prices. OTOH, with a pure demand shock, most of such measures will probably help[2]. With demand shocks, the productive capacity is still there ("potential output"), but the demand needs to increase to "close the output gap".

Most post-WW2 recessions in advanced economies are negative demand-shock recessions (we haven't been able to identify short-term economy-wide drops in production capacity), so demand side stimulus is by and large helpful (except when they really overdid it in the 1970, when it did cause high inflation).

The current crisis is a combination of both a big demand shock and a big supply shock. This means that demand side measures such as helicopter money will help (in the sense that things will be much worse if we did't do it). But things will also become more expensive (either nominally in sticker prices if the demand stimulus is large enough, or just in real terms compared to people's incomes) due to the supply shock. The supply side shock can only be remedied by really controlling the pandemic.

All of this is very moderate traditional undergraduate level economics, and will explain most of the upcoming economic upheavals perfectly fine. Keep this in mind when you read stories cherry picked to make some point about current/upcoming economic or monetary policy.

[1] A drop in aggregate supply could be cause by e.g. a big natural disaster, war, pandemic. What might cause a drop in aggregate demand is still somewhat of a mystery.

[2] Most of the economic debate is which form of stimulus is more effective, and about more esoteric second order effects. But there might still a minority of hard core "Real Business Cycle" economists who doubt the existence of demand-side shortfalls.
Why would this be 'the next big thing' if Google seems to be committing to Swift as its DL language of choice?
Exactly. In the case of a video call with your colleagues, everyone collectively manages mute states so that the group can be more productive.

Then, if one asshole starts unmuting maliciously, they get shunned real quick and then fired if they keep it up. We don't need to limit ourselves with draconian measures when social norms and expectations will already suffice.