skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks took almost 3% of the total bailout funds for loans that have almost zero risk (government backed and almost exclusively made to existing customers).

On a $350k loan, the fee was 5%, or $17.5k.
On a larger loan, the fee as a % goes down, but the total value goes up. These larger loans, to my knowledge, carry no more risk, nor any more work by the bank.

Yes, the banks should earn a minimal (and probably fixed) filing fee. No, they should not receive 3% of the amount set aside for small-business assistance.
Happy LiveView user here :) Can confirm it can be used in many scenarios. One of my favorites is streaming realtime data to a chart. I serialize my data as JSON in the LiveView template and read it back in from a Hook. Saves me time by not having to create a separate API endpoint. e.g.

<div
phx-hook="MyChart"
data-days="<%= Jason.encode!(days(@balances)) %>"
data-amounts="<%= Jason.encode!(amounts(@balances)) %>"
>
<div phx-update="ignore">
</div>
</div>
Their products were originally only offered to/available to government employees. The name was purely - and accurately - descriptive. There was no intention to deceive, in this case.
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npr has never been apolitical and has gotten more political over time, through editorial choices like what stories they pursue/ignore, what angles they take, what guests they invite, the amount of airtime given to stories/guests, etc.

they were overtly pro-clinton and anti-trump (as was i) during the 2016 election cycle, and lamented the election results for weeks afterwards. you see it with this election cycle and the covid coverage too.
> Duke Nukem Forever (though it eventually did come out)

Duke Nukem (took) Forever
The OCI image format is a standardization of the Docker v2 image format, but they are generally compatible and interchangeable. That FAQ entry is misleading and slipped past the engineering team working on the project. Just removed it :)
It is ultimately, in a certain sense, a mathematical optimization problem to determine the optimal configuration of the entire infrastucture of additional power sources. Perhaps like finding the optimal location position set of cell phone towers, perhaps using k-means clustering. Furthermore, additional issues must be resolved like legal regulations compliance—the decision maker or engineering agent has preferences or desires to satisfy.
to be clear, I don't think america should have a national vote on quarantine or just let people do whatever they want. the current situation has degraded too far for that.

what I refuse to accept is that the notion of individual responsibility and reasoned debate is over forever. maybe this is naive, but I do believe that it's more effective to convince people they should work towards a goal than to impose rules by force. I will concede that the US is missing many of the prerequisites to make this realistic. people not being able to reason about exponential growth is a failure of the education system, not an intrinsic limitation of the human mind. people distrust information/directions from the government because it has repeatedly shown itself to be untrustworthy. people are unwilling to sacrifice months of income because they were barely getting by before.
Seems unnecessarily divisive at a time when we need to pull together.
I'm currently using it to make a restaurant POS. It's very flexible. Everything composes like lego pieces in a very clean and straightforward way with surprisingly little magic.
VR is doing fine in gaming. The headsets are sold out everywhere and there are a lot of great games available. It won't overtake 2D gaming anytime soon but there's a healthy market.
Good point; one would hope this would do it. :)
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I think that any funding source would still be subject to US money laundering rules and laws. If I try to invest $5M in Magic Leap, I have to be a qualified investor and the funding has to be received by some US bank. Also, it seems like having these holes in a company’s books would be found by reputable investor’s due diligence since it’s a pretty huge risk that could impact the return.

Not speaking from direct experience, only logical first principles. I think the money needs to be laundered before i vesting in US firms.
> Nobody wants to share VR or AR gear any more. The whole idea of location based VR / AR entertainment centers is deadly now.

There's a price range where I could see buying one to be shared by everyone in my house, but not one for each individual.

For example, Valve Index is in that category for me.
> allow for them to use an alternative system without locking them out

That's not what I'm arguing against, though. I was not saying: forbid screen readers. I said:

> do you have to think of all possible edge cases? What if someone uses dictation because they can't type, does that mean you'd potentially capture social security numbers if you use the microphone for gunshot detection and process the sound server-side?
I disagree, I think regardless of the implementation, there are so many businesses that didn't get money, that banks are getting sued anyway.

I also agree that a lot of banks probably aren't losing much sleep, but that's different than saying this whole thing is risk free to the banks.
Could/Should these be added to the Graal project as compiler optimizations?
Internet has been all around wonky in the region lately. I'm in Cambodia but opennet routes through vietnam. Things like S3 buckets getting bps download speeds on the regular connection and jumping to mbps on vpn. Hours versus seconds of download time.
You can read their actual 2018-2022 strategy here: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/usda-stra...
Why do you assume demand will eventually recover to prior levels?

What if the recovery looks different?
> Aluminum Foundries in particular are extremely power intensive and have been run during off-peak times (or are built in areas with cheap plentiful electricity like nearby hydro-electric dams).

Fun fact: this is a big reason why aerospace congregated in the pacific northwest during WWII (eg Boeing in Seattle).

Aluminum is key to aircraft because it's lightweight, and at the turn of the century the US went on a dam-building spree with a lot of hydro (ie large consistent baseload) being located in the pacific northwest.
While the treasury can be blamed for advising. The amount of funding is completely and absolutely up to congress.
Trier on that list still has a lot of Roman architecture standing around, a time-traveling Roman would have no problem finding their way.

One of the city gates still stands, the throne hall of Roman Emperor Constantine (Basilica), the Amphitheater ruins, the large Roman baths (ruins), even the large Dome is built on top a structure Emperor Constantine built.
In my observations, ORM use has a perspicuous relationship to piles of arcane spaghetti code.

Not to mention, 50%+ of ORM managed DB schemas that I've observed don't have proper constraints, indexes, relationships, etc. Because the developers using the ORM think it's a magical tool that makes understanding SQL and relational databases optional.
My take always was that their long-term vision remains very hard to implement in practice, particularly in a consumer-friendly form factor. They should've kept working on it in a R&D capacity in the background, and pushed a more limited AR (or even VR..) product to build a brand, ecosystem and start generating some revenue. And, of course, figure out what the hell their product-market fit was going to be! The quarantine era, in theory, could be a golden age for AR/VR products that deliver a compelling experience.

Which is also to say, the charismatic/ crazy founder with a reality distortion field is great and all, and can move mountains and often succeed - but sometimes reality hits with a thud. To some extent, their challenge was one grounded in physical limitations of our technological capabilities in the 2010s. In the 2030s though..
I don't mean to sound flippant but there actually seems to be lots of different hard problems in computer science, or computing (to be honest I'm not sure which we're talking about here) but all of the ones that I know of are hard due to complexity. Our science is good at reductionism, finding fundamentals, but when it comes to complex systems it simply informs our inadequate simulations. So I think the hardest problems in computer science will exist where we try and apply it in the real world to complex machines. In computing there are many hard things to make, databases, operating systems, programming languages, the list goes on - and they are hard because they are big and complicated and so making them is hard because to some extent it doesn't matter how much resource or intelligence you have because the problems that arise in complex systems start to get chaotic and intractable.
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I know a lunch counter (closed down last year, sadly) that offered a "gyro fries" meal, which was a big plate of fries topped with gyro meat, sauteed onions, feta and tons of tzatziki.

It was good!
Hololens V2 is still not average-consumer-ready, but it is leaps and bounds closer to it than v1.

I tried both myself, and the biggest improvements in v2, in my opinion, are:

* Field of view. That’s the biggest one, as it felt like just a staring into a small rectangle with v1. With v2, I was actually able to read a NYT article in a web browser rather comfortably, moving the web browser around the room and such, with no significant field of view limitations felt. The limitations are still there, but you rarely ever hit them, while with v1 it was more like “almost the whole time you are using the device”. And it felt really annoying.

* UI/UX. Everything is much more intuitive and smooth to operate. After the initial 5-10 mins, i didnt feel any jankiness and was able to perform all operations with no struggle. Also, v2 works without that annoying clicker/pointer device (that was pretty much a must for v1) rather well, just by tracking hands. And i would say it is even more precise without that device than v1 was WITH the device.

* Ergonomics. The headset is lighter, feels more comfortable, doesn’t require as much fiddling around to get it sit well on your head. The flip up/down visor is such a great quality of life improvement, I am baffled that current consumer VR devices like Oculus or Vive haven’t implemented it. Especially since it would provide way more utility for VR than AR, because VR completely blocks out the real world.
how about handling their applications, eligibility? They don't. It's not like every business for $500K each so let's deposit it
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack
> Duo seamlessly handles switching from Wifi to LTE

Maybe they can teach the Waze team to do this since they're both part of Google. Relevant because in my driveway my phone will still be on my wifi, and when I drive away, Waze becomes unusable for a few minutes.
I found it at https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/rss.php
Maybe, although I believe that it's not too hard to have a basic argument about negative v. positive rights. Some people debate and feel passionately about the things they believe. As long as they're making arguments, I am not sure what the problem is.

I oftentimes find that good debates are more often disrupted by the person who insists on this mythic ideal of "unemotional" & civic & rational debate than the person who feels strongly about the issue.
Why portability will not come back? Also when the ability of working on non-multiple-of-8-bit integers was lost?
Admittedly also hardware-related, but:

Arbitrary bit-width integers are great for writing computer emulator code. There's a ton of odd-width counters and registers in microchips, and being able to map those directly to integer variables instead of having to do a "bit-mask-dance" after each operation at least would increase readability (and probably also add a bit of type-safety).

(Zig also has arbitrary bit-width integers up to 128 bits, but other then that I haven't seen this outside of hardware-description-languages).
Yeah... I was doing some quick math the other day. There's about 100M americans that make less than 50k year. We could've given over $20k to each one of them with this 2.3T bailout. I feel like that would've been a more impactful use of money.
On the off chance you check back on the thread, please be safe out there. I just saw the news about the fatal crash on universalhub :-(
Constant time w.r.t the input values for a given bit length. For example a multiplier that is faster when one of the value is 0 would not work.
I've glanced at an approach augments an existing document by adding likely search terms generated by BERT model specialized for Q&A

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/Nogueira_Lin_...

Do you have any thoughts on this or similar approaches in production?
Constant time operations in the context of cryptography means that the runtime of the operation is not dependent on the data being manipulated.

As an example, suppose you were checking a 256-bit number for equality. This would be unacceptable:

bool eq256(uint32_t a[8], uint32_t b[8]) {
for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
if (a[i] != b[i]) return false;
}
return true;
}

Why? Because depending on the data this function takes longer or shorter, and timing attacks might be used to figure out secret data. Instead you need an implementation like this:

bool eq256(uint32_t a[8], uint32_t b[8]) {
uint32_t diff = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
diff |= a[i] ^ b[i];
}
return diff == 0;
}

This implementation always takes the same amount of time regardless of the contents of a and b.

It goes further than this as well, you're not supposed to take branches based on secret data nor access memory locations based on secret data as those can be recovered through the branch predictor and cache respectively.
Obviously.

This the obvious result of letting banks be the middle-men to every attempt at helping people, and refusing to regulate companies because that would "stifle innovation".

"Innovation" in a bank usually means finding a new way to suck more money out of other sectors while staying just far enough on the right side of the law that the profits outpace the fines. The financial services we need, for the most part, already exist.

You think people were clamoring for "overdraft protection" that doesn't tell them they've overdrawn their account, gives them the money, and then charges them $35? FSAs where any unused funds are kept by the bank and/or your employer? Housing loans that the bank knows you can't pay off, so the bank gets to take your house and get a government bailout? Would that we should stifle such innovation.
Any platform that wants to can host all legal content. Nobody's preventing them, as an outside force - people are complaining, but the complaints have no force, other than people don't want to be there. Platforms with explicitly free-speech agendas (see: 4chan, voat, gab.ai, hatreon) have reputations as absolute cesspools of hatred and bigotry, and people who don't want to deal with that choose on their own not to go there.
When outlined like that, it's totally fair to doubt, assuming that's the only or primary defense. Do you have some links to mainstream media outlets directly correlating questioning origin as being racist?
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Yes, we can easily experience this by writing code in an unfamiliar programming language, or playing tennis left-handed. The theory is all there, but the muscle memory is missing.
Absolutely agree here. However the change from surface laptop 2 to surface laptop 3 made it a lot more repairable. Hopefully this years model will have an easily replaceable internal battery.
Don't be such a wuss. None of that is something a little Lysol can't fix, and these places should have always been using such (though I imagine they don't).
Some more discussion on the difficulty of creating reward functions: https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html#reinforcem...
As a programmer who is admittedly attracted to Mongo, a large part of it is simply its ease of integration. I'd happily spend more time familiarizing myself with SQL if it were less of a pain to integrate into my projects.

The first time ever using Mongo I had a cloud cluster connected and working in about 10 minutes after signing up. Trying to integrate SQLite took me around 1.5 hours before it was functional. To this day I have yet to set up a real cloud SQL database because the one time I tried it with PostreSQL I just couldnt get it to work.
Taxes are explicit market intervention. How are they a libertarian approach?
> But the expertise and the manpower around vetting the mortgages is a _lot_ of work.

Not to be snarky, but the Great Recession didn't give me a lot of confidence in the expertise involved in vetting mortgages.
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absolutely well said
True. However, you can buy up 10 years in advance and still add one year of renewal every year.
"To the students" was supposed to be my shorthand for this quote from the original article: “Harvard is actually allocating 100% of the funds to financial assistance for students to meet their urgent needs in the face of this pandemic.” I see that my shorthand was ambiguous at best.

While I understand your point, my point is that surely Harvard - with its huge endowments and staff expertise - could easily have planned for this contingency.

Did they really do no planning, or did they assume the government would step in and give them money?

Concerning your point more directly, did they not consider asking for any of the $41 billion(!) endowment (in 2019) to include being used for this sort of contingency?
I guess that the criterion for inclusion is "does anyone have a vested interest in including their own city and is persistent enough to fight their way through edit wars." That is, it's a fun list, but shouldn't be considered authoritative of anything.

E.g., Seoul shouldn't be there. The ancient capital of Wiryeseong was a separate city that was abandoned in the middle ages (in fact we aren't even sure exactly where it was), and the most likely location is on the other side of the river from Seoul's old city area: the (suspected) Wiryeseong area wasn't part of Seoul until 1963.
I’d be willing to bet you could, for example, explain to a smart 6 year old what the “composition machine” or the “inversion machine” does.
It makes sense now, doesn't it?

You don't have to plan for a pandemic specifically. Just any kind of a downturn where you might not be making money for months at a time. It's called an emergency fund.

You always hear how people at home should have 6 months worth of expenses saved up in case of emergency. I'm honestly blown away how many businesses don't do the same thing. Basic fucking financials.

I understand a bit more if you're a smaller business, with small margins, and you're just getting started. But if you've been in business for years, with tons of money flowing through... and you can't get through a few months, maybe you should go out of business.
Surely that was their take on Palmer Luckey and Oculus?
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I don't have a proof, it's a belief based on anecdotal evidence and just thinking about it.
This is... one of the best comparisons I've seen and sums up the reason why I dislike SQL as well (although I know how to use it).

Sometimes it really feels like you're trying to give instructions to someone via chat which gets Google translated to chinese, japanese and russian on the way - it's this very lossy communication channel where you need to tweak the language "just so" to get maximum performance. I think it's no wonder that newer DB designes opted for more direct and tailored APIs.
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Hence the importance of word problems, I think. They force a synthesis of abstract and concrete that really tests/enhances understanding on all levels.
I read the paper on JACL. Unfortunately, it is too humble. My take-away message was that if I wanted some CL-like environment in JavaScript, I should probably try SLip or Valtan.
Just considering the 2008 bank bailouts, yes they should donate their time and resources. I wish terms like these were clarified prior to releasing the stimulus $.
The issue is the problems they were trying to solve required boiling the ocean. They did manage to boil a good bit of it, but didn’t see it thru all the way — their tech was very expensive and not that good in the end.
> We don't want money laundering

Can you explain this? It's never made any sense, at all.

1. If you earn excess unreported income, eventually the IRS will figure it out and come get their cut.

2. If you earn it through criminal means, you're already committing a crime for which, if caught, you will be punished.

Why is the act of obfuscating the source of income a crime? Who gets harmed by this, that isn't already harmed by either the potential crime committed or taxes evaded?
You take x seconds listened that month, and distribute to artists a, b and c.

As a nice easter egg, I mean distributivity in the mathematical sense. y.x = y.(seconds(a) + seconds(b) + seconds(c)) = y.seconds(a) + y.seconds(b) + y.seconds(c). And y = subscription amount per month / total seconds.

The alternative is of course to take x amount of songs listened to, but this does not distribute over minutes.

I guess you can have a hybrid approach too. If the song is >10 minutes it counts as two songs, or maybe you have a continuous scale. All of the above is better for me than what Spotify does. Even better, let the paying customer decide.

But I agree that finding new artists is tricky. You can pay people to listen to your music in the hope that they later go back to listen to that music when you aren't paying them anymore.
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> TLDR: A faulty loss function leads to faulty results.

This. The use of "gaming" to describe the observed behaviour seems strange. To "game" suggests some malfeasance in the algorithm; a deliberate effort to subvert the intended goal, which in turn implies knowing what the "real" goal was - and somehow deciding to shortcut it.

That isn't the case. Rather, the problem lies in appropriately specifying the desired outcome, and any relevant constraints that must be obeyed. Indeed, DeepMind has separately written about the "specification problem" elsewhere [0].

That's in no way to downplay the difficulty in specification. It's one we've wrestled with in software for decades.

> Either you have the mathematical and stochastic skills to describe your problem criteria as a differentiable function, or not.

Indeed. That statement could equally have been written ~30 years ago when Z, VDM and the likes were active areas of research. More recently, TLA+ has gotten some traction, but it's still very much in the margins.

Perhaps ML will spur the next wave of specification formalisms. But it will face the same challenge as its pre-decessors: how to make it accessible to more than a very (very) small set of sufficiently capable few.

[0] https://medium.com/@deepmindsafetyresearch/building-safe-art...
Imo enterprise and military were always going to be the first successful applications for this tech. Smart money will stay in those lanes until the tech is mature.
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