skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is arguing that ending the war on drugs is going to directly reduce these crimes. It may have an impact on these crimes from second order effects, but to really tackle those crimes you would need to go one step further than ending the war on drugs and replacing it with more progressive policies.
Yeah, this sounds like an artifact of some kind of tax shenanigans rather than a real number
Yeah, the way the story was told the thought they could save some money and the hassle of making a deal with a warehouse. Why pay for something they're never going to use? So they agreed to pay for transportation in the event of delivery, thinking they'd never get charged for it. But I could well believe this was a trader urban legend.
Every big company sees employees as cogs. Most just wont admit it.

But see Netflix. “We are a professional sports team not a family.”
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I read that data as showing that the USA has had a sharp excess death event for each of the last four weeks reported. I'm seeing a much greater excess death rate than the official Covid19 reports.
Passing classes is just a small part of what it means to attend a university.
Yes. This seems to work even when you pass it Chinese while maintaining ja-JP as the language

function tokenizeJA(text) {
var it = Intl.v8BreakIterator(['ja-JP'], {type:'word'})
it.adoptText(text)
var words = []

var cur = 0, prev = 0

while (cur < text.length) {
prev = cur
cur = it.next()
words.push(text.substring(prev, cur))
}

return words

}

console.log(tokenizeJA("今天要去哪裡?"))

still seems to parse just fine. so most likely just using the passed input to parse.
Yeah, this is what I mean

Kotlin is fine, and GraphQL is fine, but when you combine those, you have a very small niche.
Not a year... 1 trillion over 55 years (or what ever it is) isn't that much.
> People are praising countries like New Zealand, but what's their endgame? Be in a situation where their citizens can't even safely travel from their country until global herd immunity is achieved because every vacation or business trip is a chance to end up being sick far from home?

Yes. And I’ll have this over every alternative I’ve seen so far. I’m in New Zealand.
There may have been more violence among various radical and extremist factions in American politics in the 70s but that doesn't mean that America was more divided politically over all. There wasn't nearly as much partisanship in the upper-echelons of power in 70s and I suspect that there was more consensus among people in more moderate circles. There also wasn't this huge epistemological divide running right through the middle of the country; people were generally working from a common understanding of reality. Not so, today.
Too hard to know is not a business justification. Imagine if you floated that argument as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, or even a truck driver. Your license would be revoked.
I'm greatly concerned people are now cancelling, or making virtual, August events. I honestly don't understand what the end game is now. I realize Defcon draws in a lot more people that regular conferences (plus it's all cash at the door), but we cannot possibly keep things locked down this way until August. That's not even remotely sustainable.

I wrote this thing about my frustrations with the ever moving goal posts: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...
A source to back you up, this is precisely how it works. The CME link goes into more detail on how physical delivery works for base metals.

Other physically settled commodity contract have different delivery locations, /CL (WTI crude) delivery takes place at a terminal and storage facility in Cushing, OK.

https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-b...
More people than farmers (or manufacturers, or whatever picturesque production business) buy futures without speculative intent. Most futures trades are for (indirect) hedging purposes. E.g. if I made burger buns I would buy and sell wheat futures even if I never actually took delivery of wheat futures, because I can hedge part of my exposure.

Modulo the fact that almost no one a naive observer might accuse of "speculating" is actually speculating, I do agree that speculating on commodities futures is dumb, because taking a directional bet on anything you don't have inside information into is dumb.
"one of the worse economies of all time". What economy are you referring to? Are you launching a SaaS in Venezuela?
Let's be specific: managers prioritized chip output over safety. The call came from the top -- the board of directors.
Your rights ended where the rights of 60,000+ now dead in the US began. Too bad nobody had enough respect for their rights to stop travel from China 2 or 3 weeks before they actually did, when the disease was shown to have pandemic potential. Too bad nobody thought to implement containment measures when we had the first recorded cases of community spread. Too bad our president was too busy politicizing criticism of his "response" to do anything at all.
Put the racers in simulators that control real race cars remotely. iRacing with more real stakes.
“Five days, including the weekend, with the coronavirus going on and a complex system where we have to make many changes, was not a sufficient amount of time,” he said. “The idea we could have bugs is not, in my mind, a surprise.” He also acknowledged the error in the margin model Interactive Brokers used that day.....We have called the CFTC and complained bitterly,” Peterffy said. “It appears the exchanges are going scot-free.”

Thomas Peterffy must think we are idiots. Anyone who trades commodity contracts for any period of time knows that the real cost of the contract is the actual cost of the commodity - storage costs. When storage costs spike and the actually commodity spot costs go down, the future will become negative!

One way to get a handle on storage costs is think of them being inversely proportional to the value density. The higher the value density, e.g. gold the less the storage costs. Oil is not so dense so storage costs matter. Financial instruments like the Treasury Bonds and the S&P futures contract have zero storage costs. Storage cost is of-course different than carry cost (the cost of funding your long position).

On another aside, I have known folks who have worked at IB in the past, and their systems absolutely suck dead goats. Huge masses of legacy C++ code with poor testing. Most of these brokerage firms have legacy code base from the 90s that is poorly understood. They also have nonexistent organizational quotient around code validation, correctness and testing their risk models. A futures margin model is not something one can whip up over a weekend but a good CS undergraduate can program one over a couple months.

Sorry for the IB customers but I have zero sympathy for IB or should I say negative ;)
Vim isn't a GNU project and is licensed under it's own GPL-compatible license (see: :h license)
It could be more work than you had in mind, but you can very likely jailbreak your phone, export the database (or keychain?), then restore from backup (assuming you don't want to keep the jailbreak)

Back in the old days, when iTunes would backup phones to your Mac, I have personal experience decrypting the backups to extract files, but I don't know that the approach works anymore
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I do truly believe that almost any reasonable person will look at the death rate and realize that the US has fucked up the response in a big huge way. The conspiracy people saying that the death rates are a lie are not that many. This is one where the silent majority does realize whats going on and how bad the administration is fucking it up.

Anyone can go look and see that south korea, a far more urbanized state is open for business right now.
You’re missing their main goal: having an easier-to-change codebase.

Apparently this is way more economically rewarding than performance for Facebook.

With that in mind, who cares if the site is slow (btw this is the only complaint of your rant). If the software requires a few devs to change and a few eyes to maintain, they can literally scale as much as they want. And actually now they’re probably in a way better position than they would if they had developed a super performant but unmaintainable site.

The quote, premature optimization is the root of all evil, is still very much valid imho.
"Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. of $2.9 billion, which includes $277 million in stock-based compensation expense and pre-tax impairment write-downs of $2.1 billion. Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. excluding the impairment write-downs, net of the tax benefit would have been $1.1 billion."

So a loss of $1.1bn is an improvement on $1.4 last quarter, not including write-downs associated with investments in Didi and Grab. This explains why the stock went up not down after earnings.

>https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/uber-plows-forward...
No it doesn’t. Informed consent is not the same as shoving a ToS/EULA in front of someone who may not have the legal or technological education to understand it or its consequences.

From the Wikipedia definition[1] of informed consent (in medicine):

> An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and consequences of an action. Adequate informed consent is rooted in respecting a person's dignity. To give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts.

What tech companies do is obtain the minimum legally required consent - and sometimes not even that. This may be legal, but it’s far from ethical.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent
Uber never had $2.9B to lose.
I'm loving React at the moment, but I'm also learning Svelte for this very reason too.
This seems redundant. Who else would be?
This is much, much better on Emacs 27 with native json parsing. Once the language server is fully loaded (which can take a little while sometimes), input lag becomes insignificant again. Strongly recommend upgrading.
Famotidine use in NY Covid-19 patients associated with 58% reduction in risk of death or intubation (22% vs. 10%)
The median age of New Yorkers is around 36 vs. the median age of covid patients of 63. That's a huge difference. The point you seemed to be making is that the demographics of COVID deaths are close enough to the demographics of the general population, implying that these demographics aren't indicative of anything. That is not an accurate statement.

The usage seems fairly obvious to me. The risk to young health people is somewhere in the range of 20-200x smaller than someone who is old and in poor health. It's not a surprising claim, but it's clearly a useful thing to know for medical planning. It's also useful at an individual level to get a sense of their personal risk level. Finally, it is useful in understanding past outcomes. If two different countries have different mortality rates, but also different demographics, and both of them had similar mortality rates normalized to those demographics... that's pretty useful to know.
This article really misses the point. Sure, there may be times in the long past where there was a lot of divide. America once had legal slavery too. But it would still be absolutely appalling if slavery were to come back today.

The article almost gives off the impression that "oh it happened before so it's ok and normal". No, it's not ok and normal. It wasn't ok back then and it's not ok now.
No blog, sorry. HN comments are the only place I've commented on it.
The contract is for a particular kind of crude delivered at a specific location. Most hedgers would still be better off closing the futures contract and taking the delivery they actually want instead.
I wonder what it takes to take down Uber and alike. These companies keep losing money but still going on.

Is it possible that they pivot the whole business to Uber Eats only?
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And download it every time? It is better to download it once and tell the browser to cache it.
And the interesting question is, for each of those conceptions, did we call it into being, or was it “there already” in some sense. Consider the case where aliens on the other side of the universe got there first (we consider only possibilities, not probabilities!).

With respect to the debugging of the Euler characteristic, one might ask what truth value formulations during those decades of debugging had, from the perspective of those on the ground at the time. Are we so sure in our present age that there no bugs in Andrew Wiles’s work?

Even if you use automated machine proofs (Mathematica and friends) you still can’t be sure that stray cosmic rays don’t flip a bit every damn time.

Fun times.
Has there been any attempts to visualize and project 4D objects to 3D space so that we could "grasp" them better? E.g. using colours, shadows, etc.
Charming and aesthetically pleasing.
Agreed. IB's data is also not so accurate much of the time; the way it reports volume in particular is misleading. I've seen traders abandon IB after big losses because their strategies required actual live volume data that didn't suck, and nearly any other broker provides this.
I maybe wrong in thinking about this way, but in the 1970s people were debating over topics that were debatable. Vietnam for example, an argument can be made it was the right move to get involved. And, an argument can be made it was a mistake. Same with socialism vs. capitalism and a myriad of other large, complex topics.

Now the divide is around the basics of the scientific method. People think that vaccines have killed more people than they help. They think that hydrochloroquine is a wunderdrug and Bill Gates is suppressing its use so he can make more money. I see disagreements that are not arguable on any merit.

I pointed out to someone on social media the other day that the post they were sharing was objectively fake news (with links to proof). They responded that they didn't care because they believed it anyway. Is that a divide that can even be crossed?
There are ETFs that track oil futures (basically like a stock, but backed by oil instead of a company). It's been a while since I've looked at any of this, but I think USO is still the most prominent.

There are plenty of things to watch out for with these ETFs. You pay ongoing expense fees. And ETFs, especially those that aren't just holding containers for assets, can have subtleties in their prospectuses that cause their value to fluctuate in counterintuitive ways. There's still a lot to be cautious about.

However, compared to the actual futures, they're more suitable for casual investors, for reasons such as what we see here. They can't go below 0 and don't necessarily involve margin. And the ETF will typically deal with things like rolling the futures position ahead of expiry.
From what I've seen, almost all financial companies developed a bunch of systems for different security types (which all have different rules and edge cases) independently, and only tried to tie them together as time went on. It's a recipe for a lot of confusion and inconsistency.

There are tons of opportunities in finance to make short-sighted proclamations like "the number of futures in this kind of contract is always 100" or "this type of security can't go negative", and have it be true at the time, but false 5 years later when they add a new type of contract.
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The root cause of the problem is that they have too many people working on it, and that's obviously not a problem you can hire your way out of.
An efficient market that don't let traders operate? Did you even read the article?

Futures contracts that CAN BECOME NEGATIVE don't let large leverage when price is near zero, that's NOT TRUE. Future contracts margin is calculated with SPAN, and if it's done correctly, it considers the scenarios where price can go below 0.
When the price mayhem was happening there was a discussion here on HN, and someone claimed that brokers would either never let retail investors handle contracts with physical delivers, or forcibly close the positions several days before the deadline.

Looks like Interactive Brokers fucked up in more than one way here.
Could someone w/ an understanding of accounting add to this report? Uber is "offloading" bike/scooter business to Lime, but also making an investment in Lime... is this just a way to hide losses? Essentially paying Lime to take the red off Uber's balance sheet, while maintaining an option in the micromobility market?
According to your first link, BreakIterator uses a dictionary for several languages, including Japanese. So I guess the full answer is something like:

Chrome uses v8's Intl.v8BreakIterator which uses icu::BreakIterator, which, for Japanese text, uses a big long list of Japanese words to try to figure out what is a word and what isn't. I've worked on a similar segmenter for Chinese and yeah, quality isn't great but it works in enough cases to be useful.
Where did you see media hysteria? Somehow that didn't enter my bubble.
I'm working on a mobile game using an ECS-based engine I wrote myself.

Almost every time I add a significant feature to the game -- a new enemy or object type, a state machine for enemy AI, etc. I brace myself for a drawn-out process -- and am surprised to find that things come together rather well and straightforwardly, with a minimum of bugs and glitchy behavior. And I think to myself, huh. Well, I guess I'm not as dumb as I thought I was, and made some actually good choices early on that greatly eased my development burden now.
I do think they're both important, but it's more important to me to clear up inaccuracies based on what people are trying to communicate, rather than the specific words people are using.

For example, if the narrative were, "The S strain and the L strain aren't meaningfully different", would that be a concern? Sure, but not a big one. Sure, it makes no sense to call them "strains" if they aren't meaningfully different--that's a misuse of the word "strain". But the layperson would have the correct impression of the situation from that statement.
You have a ten digit user base that you need to engage, so you have a four (five?) digit engineering team that somehow needs to coordinate their patches in a way that doesn’t cause the complexity of the site to explode.

It’s huge and pretty impressive.
Right, but the reason it went negative is that there was no place to store the oil (demand for storage went through the roof because demand for actual oil plummeted). So that if you held one of these contracts, you had to pay someone to store your oil (directly or indirectly, if doing a cash-settled contract). If the people in the article did cash-settled contracts they would have been in just as much trouble.
I think cases/1M population is a good variable though. Deaths depend on the quality of the healthcare system, number of infected people (per 1M) only by how quickly the virus spreads + number of tested people (assuming the quality of the tests is the same across all EU countries). Would you please elaborate on that?
> surely they are hiring world-class devs

What makes you think that?

Reddit seems like a place where the kind of experienced and talented people needed to turn it around could make a lot more money (via stock grants in addition to salary) and frankly have a lot more impact, at any of FAANG.

I've not seen anything to indicate that Reddit is hiring, or trying to hire, "world-class devs".
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Don’t we just hear about that now because of the internet? In the 1970’s we just didn’t know what people were thinking.
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You should double check your definition for loaded language as I agree with the article you linked but not your usage of it. To quote from your source:

> Loaded words and phrases have significant emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.

I hope 'ad hoc', 'judgements', 'csv' and 'comment' don't carry any strongly positive or negative reactions, nor stereotypes or implications. (Though I have known a few people to have negative reactions to the idea of csv files...)
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I have seen several articles over the last decade comment that the modern American political landscape is the most polarized it has been since the U.S. Civil War in the 19th century.
First, they were gonna make the jump to be an autonomous robotaxi service, but that's going nowhere fast.

Then they were going to be mobility service - cars, bikes, scooters, everything would go through them. But no more.

So what are they going to be now? Just milk their taxi service until Waymo, Tesla or whoever comes and wipes them off the market? Honestly, what are their long-term prospects? I've been staying away from Uber stock because they have a market cap of 50B. They're not going to be paying dividends, so what's going to make them be a 100-200B company?
So Play the guitar, sharing it real-time?
My guess is that Facebook is popular enough that they are not optimizing for first impression.
The webpage doesn't render at all on both Chrome and Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/iclK6Dl.png
They are cash-settled.
> Your rights ended where the rights of 60,000+ now dead in the US began.

This is a super simplistic view of reality. I get that my rights are limited and contingent on circumstance to some extent. But violating the right to assembly should be treated much more seriously than you are leading on.
It's just lighthearted pondering on the issue. Written language evolves, or is that only a standard applied to $YOUR_LANGUAGE when defending people not learning it?

I think having spaces is useful, too, for learning speed and expression.
Samsung Confirms Critical Security Issue for Millions: Every Galaxy After 2014
Does that mean that since 2016, they have started to feed the trolls instead of fighting? I honestly don't know who owned them before, so not sure the significance of this ownership change.
"The rationale was incredibly clear"

If you trust the same kind of "Scientific Modeling" that create Hurricane Path Predictions. Notorious for being hysterically wrong.

Then sure... that's wonderfully "clear"...

If, instead, you look at "models" and "projections" as junk science that's easy to prove wrong by simply looking at any model and how horribly wrong it's been in the past?

Like... the COVID models have been horribly wrong so far...

Then no... it's not "incredibly clear"
I'd love to have a "not interested in this game" button next to the game, which would add that game to the exclude list and spin the wheel again.
You might be surprised to see how many times manufacturing/warehouse employees ignore safety protocols for reasons of aesthetic/fashion, comfort, or convenience. Many managers have to discipline employees for disregarding precautions.
TL;DR: They did everything US leadership lacked the will to do, because it looked bad politically (locking down travel from China when the first cases appeared, early lockdowns, extensive testing and contact tracing).
It seems like it isn’t abnormal - what exactly is normal? Neither seem ‘ok’ for what that is worth.
> Now the divide is around the basics of the scientific method. People think that vaccines have killed more people than they help. They think that hydrochloroquine is a wunderdrug and Bill Gates is suppressing its use so he can make more money. I see disagreements that are not arguable on any merit.

The number of people who believe stuff like this is vanishingly small. They're just vocal in their ignorance.