skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the CME website using the wayback machine, you can clearly see a hi and low limit for the price. There is no high limit, but the low limit is set at "0.01". [1]
This is kind of weird, because the snapshot is pulling current market prices, and still showing an incorrect hi/lo limit. It looks like they have since removed the hi/lo display: [2]. Someone should take a screenshot of this.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200117115242/https://www.cmegr...

[2] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/crude-oil/light-swee...
I doubt many of Uber’s casual users understand how insanely unprofitable the current business model is. 2.9 billion is 3 unicorns. Even before COVID they’ve been losing something on the order of a billion a year.

It’ll be interesting to see if they can turn this around.
> Automation will eat everything, it's just a matter of time.

> Platitudes like these give false hopes to workers who should be training and preparing for the next phase of industry

These seem incompatible to me. If automation will eat "everything," what exactly is the next phase of industry that we should all be preparing for? What's left after everything has been eaten?

My resolution to this conundrum is: automation will not actually eat everything. It's not like automation is a new concept; we started automating things over 100 years ago, and contrary to fears back then and along the way, automation drove tremendous job creation. There are far more human beings with well-paying jobs (even in May 2020) than there were 100 hundred years ago.
Agree with this, then you come across a more philosophical debate: should the very nature of written language change to adapt to the needs of technology, or the other way around?

On one hand, language has always been an amorphous thing and has changed throughout history. On the other could some changes change the very nature and heart of it? No one agrees on those trade-offs, and I argue likely never will.
Generating Spotify playlists using colors and emotions
I opt in when Facebook prompted me to test out the new UI in Chrome browser, immediately I regretted and frustrated to find the button to revert back to the old one.

But then I found out my "old" Safari browser wasn't supported in their new fancy UI. Now I only check my Facebook once per day in Safari and never sign in again from Chrome.
I wish I could turn to the same genre of music to increase my performance. Like you lyrics are out with exceptions (for some reason I can sort of tune out vocal trance), but some programming I find lend itself well to something like bossa nova, while others I need something highly repetitive like house, and I can't determine ahead of time which will be better. And what really throws me is that usually something like funk will slow me down, but there are times it's the only thing that works. This would all be fine, if I could just roll through the dial, but it takes at least 15 minutes before I know, and it's distracting messing with music until I find something suitable. usually I opt for no music if I'm somewhere quiet, even if there's a good chance music might make me more productive.
There are contracts that specify physical delivery, but they also specify the warehouse or storage facility the commodity will be delivered to. The buyer can either collect the commodity or pay the storage facility to hold it for them. It's not likely it would be delivered to someone's house unexpectedly, because someone would need to pay for the additional cost of transportation.
This is a cool project I've been watching for a while.

But off topic from this, what is with all the sourcehut links on HN lately? Where did this suddenly come out of? Looks like a lot of cool projects are starting to host their code here. Wondering how it got the traction.
> Yes, science can be pedantic at times, but I do believe that it's necessary to describe terms before you discuss why they're important.

Yes, it's necessary to describe terms, but there's a big difference between giving a definition of "strain" at the beginning of your talk, and explicitly correcting everyone who has misused the term. One is necessary for clarity, the other is unnecessary and combative.

> What this pandemic has taught me over anything else is that wielding scientific terms without proper understanding is damaging to progress of science itself. It becomes difficult to tease apart legend from fact, especially for those not trained to do so. I go crazy every day listening to half-baked hypotheses and conspiracies that don't understand the foundations for the things they're claiming.

I don't think that's true. It's not the terms being misused. You can still say the wrong thing with the right terms.

Let's take a summary of the story that was going around for a bit, "There are two strains of coronavirus, the S strain and the L strain. The L strain is more deadly but it isn't spreading as quickly because sufferers are more likely to be identified and treated/quarantined."

That statement is wrong, because there isn't enough scientific evidence to declare any of that. But is the problem the misuse of the word "strain"? I don't think so. Consider the following: "There are two variants of coronavirus, the S variant and the L variant. The L variant is more deadly but it isn't spreading as quickly because sufferers are more likely to be identified and treated/quarantined."

I'm not an expert in the field, but as far as I know, the word "variant" doesn't have any specific meaning that would say it's being misused here. But nothing has changed: the summary is still 100%, completely wrong, because there still isn't adequate scientific evidence to say there are different variants with different mortality rates.

And, critically, even knowing the definition of the word strain, I can still say the first version of this incorrect statement and be wrong, not because I'm misusing the word, but because there isn't adequate scientific evidence for what I'm saying.

> All this said, Dr. Racaniello is very gracious and humble. He has dedicated his life to teaching, both in the classroom and through his podcasts. I highly suggest sending him your concerns about his discourse and subscribing to his podacast TWIV [0]. He and his colleagues respond to every email at the end of each podcast.

I'll do that.
Well, yes... but anyone who doesn't use service-oriented architecture should be fired, right? (=

I mean... we've all seen some of the shit Amazon put out back in the day, the one-offs, the impossible to maintain or integrate with shit some team in a silo built... easy to have silos when every team has to be small. I don't know, I really feel like the SOA memo wasn't so much a threat as just a joke to bring home the point that not using SOA is dumb and impossible to work with.

And I honestly felt like Amazon was a startup at scale. Man, I really loved my time there. Met some of the best people I ever worked with.
Network; network, network. Get known outside your stream. Discord and twitter are very good platforms for that. There are several hashtags on twitter and multiple discord servers for content creators which are highly moderated. This blog and the OPs discord has helped me a lot: https://medium.com/@jomosenpai/a-growth-hackers-guide-to-gro... there is also the subreddit /r/twitch_startup... avoid /r/twitchstreams at all cost. No moderation there

Visibility. Dota and the likes have a large audience and are very easy to stream. Take a twist on it, or stream something else so you are easier to find.

Stream quality and viewer interaction. Talk to your chat and say their names as often as possible. In addition to that, have fancy overlays, a good cam and a good mic.
That's fake. Delivery doesn't work that way. The contract will specify one or a few acceptable delivery locations, always some industrial shipping depot or something.
You don't need to trade a physically settled contract for that though! Just hedge on a cash basis or hedge directly on the item you do need delivery on.

Seriously, do people enter into contracts like this in other parts of their life?
You want to change a written language for the express purpose of enabling computers to be able to detect word boundaries easier?
where can I read more about SDx? never heard of that term before
To my understanding skimming the paper, the analysis must compute "call contexts" of functions, which use information from call sites. I wonder if this will impede incremental compilation and modularity. As programs get bigger, perhaps this approach may not scale.
There are almost no good studies on any question of software engineering. We all go our entire days based on feelings and anecdotes, it's not just about Javascript frameworks.

It would be good to change this, yet, software engineering is a very hard field to study.
Great DIY video
> Anyone who avoids frameworks is going to be in for a world of hurt when they have to explain to their boss "I know the project is 3 months late but I saved 100kb in bundle size"

Perhaps they failed to educate management on the consequences.

3 billion people in the world have slow Internet access and pretty old phones and PCs.

Many websites can be too slow for every day use and this leads to increasing digital divide and inequality.
> Don't forget the gaslighting "100k people dead is doing a good job" BS.

It always looked bad and looks worse the closer 100k becomes. It can’t be too long before some measures will say it has been exceeded. Then what will the claim be?
My understanding is that they were built to treat more minor cases, where someone does need monitoring, but they weren't intended to be ICUs.
>Why quibble over a measly one or two orders of magnitude when the amount we're dealing with is so outsized?

I am not quibbling over the exact figure. I am quibbling over the fact that he only "makes" that much by having most of his eggs in the Amazon basket, the basket that he founded and therefore owns the majority. If Amazon had failed and gone bankrupt, say, 10 years in, should all of his employees at that point have paid back their wages from over the years? It's only fair since Bezos lost everything, right? Tell me, if Bezos liquidated all but the minimum amount of equity required to remain CEO, would you still hate him just as much? Who would you hold at fault then? Or is he just your punching bag regardless?

>It's reasonable to hold powerful parties to a higher standard because they have more ability to enact both positive and negative change.

It's more reasonable to hold everyone to the same standard. If not, then where is the line when you go from "anything goes" to "we expect better from you"? It's only reasonable to go after the biggest one because it has the most cash to bleed. That's not noble, that's just greedy. If you actually cared about the cause of helping people that are treated the worst, you would go after much smaller and dirtier entities. And if you want them to be laws, then why the protests against Amazon specifically? Go to your congresspeople that are supposed to represent your views and make them change the laws. Amazon has zero obligation to you but your representatives do and yet Amazon is at fault here? Maybe you should start wondering why politicians you keep voting for keep getting bought out by big money.

For the record, I don't even like Bezos or Amazon.
> If you get into the market for physically settled contracts with no intention of taking delivery, then you're almost certainly a speculator.

Hard disagree. There are lots of reasons people with legitimate hedging concerns who don't intend to take physical delivery prefer the physical contract to a CSC (if it's even available).
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Who would be both interested in and able to champion such a change, though? Spaced Japanese text would look at least as jarring to someone who is used to its present state as English text following the German capitalization pattern (all Nouns to be capitalised in all Contexts) would to an English speaker, and I doubt the present anglophone world could be persuaded to adopt the latter change even if it turned out to convey immeasurable advantages to computational processing of text.
As of 2016, NewEgg has been owned by Hangzhou Liaison Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd. Some people have said the customer service has worsened, though I haven't noticed anything myself. I don't like Chinese companies buying out American companies for brand recognition though.

B&H Photo Video has a surprisingly large selection of computer components and the filtering options seem comparable to NewEgg, so I may start buying more parts from there.
Thanks! That's where I was curious.
EC2 Price Reduction – EC2 Instance Saving Plans and Standard Reserved Instances
Hmmm, works on iOS safari 13+, you have to grant your microphone permission,Then invite your buddy listen you playing
If it's that rare, then shouldn't police be stripped of immunity completely?

Let's follow your logic. You claim that police abuse of power is exceedingly rare. In that case, to earn the public trust, and to punish the few rare cases that police do abuse their power, shouldn't the people be as free as possible to pursue justice in those cases?

If police abuse is rare, that argues for even more strict laws against police abuse, less legal protection, and more empowerment of the citizenry to address those few rare cases.
Hah. Visually identifying weeds and uprooting them is exactly what I’m working on. I’m designing a farming robot for work. Funny that he says it’s a massive problem. At least in a commercial farming context it seems pretty tractable to me.
>The head of a local hospital network has tweeted wondering where all the heart attack and stroke patients went - both in my lightly impacted region and in disaster NYC. Did the rate go down?

besides the deaths-at-home, shouldn't it be considered that the low-impact low-energy lifestyle that is being promoted right now is less strenuous on the body in the short term?

I imagine that the lack of deaths, after deaths-at-home are cancelled from the number, is just seeing a lag time where the lack of physical effort reduces short-term deaths but increases long-term deaths due to lapse in fitness.
They are still rising in a few states that have locked down.

I have to wonder, what do the people pushing to re-open expect will happen in those states?
Could be! It was definitely a friend-of-a-friend territory. But often legends of failure are used to warn against real dangers. Little Red Riding Hood is surely fictional, but wolves in the woods definitely weren't.

And at least in Chicago in the 1990s, traders and clerks could definitely be wild. During slow periods on the CME floor somebody would get a transparent trash bag, declare it a $20 bag, and then walk around with it. People would write their names on $20s and throw them in. Once they'd made the rounds, they'd shake the bag and have somebody draw from it. I myself saw thousands of dollars change hands like this. And clerks would regularly bet one another about jumping into the Chicago river from Upper Wacker, which is a fair drop.

Or there was one incident that was witnessed by a couple of our traders, as it happened in their pit at the CBOT. One afternoon among all the colored coats, they see somebody in a polar bear costume walking around the trading floor between the pits. One trader turns to another and says, "I'll pay you $100 if you punch the polar bear." The trader thinks about it, takes the $100, goes over, lays out the polar bear, and then in the chaos goes back to his pit. This turned out to be a bad trade, as the polar bear was there as a fundraiser for the Lincoln Park Zoo, and one of the people on the zoo's board was also on the exchange's board. Oops!
Have you seen the numbers and prices on Epyc Rome? All signs point towards Intel's reign in all areas being over. Short of a miraculous turnaround, Intel won't be competitive in three years. I want Intel to do well, but they've demonstrated over the past ten years that they are not interested in doing well.
OTOH, if I have a really nasty cold which doesn't share symptoms of coronavirus, I am absolutely NOT going to the ER or urgent care even though I normally would. The urgent care center near my house is full hazmat suits and a tent outside to do front line covid screening.

I think the effect you're describing does exist, but its certainly not the whole story. The fact is as well there's PLENTY of actual data available on this so we need not even be extrapolating based on our assumptions. The problem is any data that doesn't line up with our assumptions gets discarded because we don't know which datasets are good and reliable.
What you are describing is an ethics problem common to software. Developers are putting their self interest before the product arguing its necessary because otherwise it would take too long, be too challenging, or too expensive. Those could be valid arguments, but they are entirely unqualified, and without supporting data remain invalid and self serving to the developer.
> However, the most populous states have upper bracket state+federal rates that exceed 50% - so that well has already been tapped.

Hardly. The top marginal rate peaked at 94% in 1944. It didn't dip below 70% for the next three decades, either - and we still managed to have a golden era. We're hardly tapped out.
> series of data-flow analyses

Screems highly non-compositional to me. No thanks if so, I'll stick with good old types and proofs.
Isn’t this already there and called Omegle?
There's a bunch of ways FB mitigates this.
Even in 2020? Isn't ES6 standard now across all supported browsers?
Defcon Is Cancelled
I agree with the other responses. But to add on, when you do an across the board cut, your best people can find another job leaving only your lower performers at the company.

This is true even during a normal recession. This time it’s different though. The entire job market has collapsed except for big tech and a few other companies.
Bessemer cloud index (EMCLOUD/WCLD ETF) is trading above its peak
> Airlines buy futures in Jet A or Jet A-1. They have no interest in crude oil

It doesn't matter. Airlines absolutely buy crude futures to hedge against changes in fuel cost. It might be impossible to buy futures in the exact good you need, or it might be too expensive due to illiquidity and slippage.

It's like how beer manufacturers buy aluminum futures even though they almost never take delivery on the futures. They're just going to buy the processed aluminum from their regular processed aluminum supplier, but they can still hedge some of the price changes with the easily available physical aluminum futures.
I have this problem with a codebase I work on now. Basically, the program flow is:
1. Download file
2. Load file to local DB
3. Load local DB to cloud
4. Load cloud to different local DB
5. Generate file for other system.

Really annoying, really over-engineered, and of course, undocumented. To boot, it also utilizes dependency injection because... There are no unit tests, no mocking, nothing. No reason to use DI other than to obfuscate. Very frustrating. It's 10Ks worth of C# that I could do in a few hundred in Python (and have it perform better).
> And that's how you come to Intel's situation on 2020: no 10nm node, no real new microarch in the last 5 years.

Chips fabbed on 10 nm have been shipping in volume since last summer. The Sunny Cove CPU cores found in Ice Lake chips, fabbed on the 10+ node, average roughly around 16 % higher performance vs. Skylake, clock-for-clock, before accounting for improvements in memory bandwidth. Tiger Lake (fabbed on 10++) will be shipping this year, alongside with Ice Lake Xeons.
Are you saving the tiniest one for when <insert noted eschewer of wearing masks in public> comes down with COVID-19?

(I'm curious who the tiniest one is for)
Fuck IB and this “trader”, idiots should lose their shirts, that’s one of the intended outcomes of an efficient market.

That said, there is an issue here with futures contracts: you can get very very large leverage when the price is near zero. This is the real issue with instruments that can negative price and just like their are “circuit breakers” in markets for big price swings, there should be breakers for entering the “near zero” range.
Seattle has no bike share now, Lime says it will relaunch bikes at some point
> 90's versions, like mbasic, of almost every website is better.

I mostly disagree and assume this is slightly hyperbolic, but I take your point. The web used to be documents, even for things that needed to be apps (like email). Now, the web is apps, even for things that should be documents.

Beyond that, the web was not the capitalist/SEO/marketer battleground that it is today, where many sites have so many costs behind them (devs, videos, etc.) that they need a boatload of ads just to try to stay in the black.

In the 90s, you could have a very popular message board with millions of pageviews a month for $30/mo.
You have been very wrong, and refused to acknowledge the rebuttals to your false points.

For example, you point to IEA'a current solar usage stats, so you are presumably using them for your far more controversial statement "not expected to grow substantially," which is a somewhat comical thing to say. The people who have been making that prediction of "not expected to grow substantially" have been ludicrously wrong, for a looooong time. This is from way back in 2017, and the IEA has not improved their projections since then:

https://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/photovoltaic-grow...

The IEA stats are probably correct for current usage. It's a lot harder to put your thumb on the scale when it comes to grid measurements. But when it comes to renewable tech, the IEA has been hilariously wrong because they are backward looking and refuse to acknowledge the reality of what's going on right now.

Accusing others of "wishful thinking" when you can't back up your own claims, is not a very civil thing to do. To ignore the cited examples of where storage has worked is also not a very civil thing to do. To make such broad proclamations about the feasibility of a technology without even being aware of the current deployments is not a very wise position to take.

Talking about shipping technologies low adoption rates as proof that they cannot grow is a logically incorrect statement. But to then propose technologies that are not shipping and are no where close to shipping (thorium, fusion), as more realistic, well, let's bring up again who is doing the wishful thinking and wearing rose colored glasses.
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The CLIN rates on contracts like Seaport-e/NxG are not extremely high.

I would agree that AECOM made out like a bandit on their field hospital contracts.
I'd rather rent a bike or scooter right now than get in a stranger's car. I don't get it.
Nah. Nowadays JQuery is a simple and small library with high-level abstractions and convenient synonyms for the standard in browser functionality.

Unless you need IE support. If so you need a different version that is quite large.
Society already has been down the road of banning alcohol, and it went over just as poorly as the war on drugs, with tons of social and economic costs.
You can use Orca online here: https://hundredrabbits.github.io/Orca/
Would you list some of those reasons, instead of just making the bare assertion?
It's not a popular opinion on HN but Microsoft really provides superior value with Office 365 [0]. Even though the quality or usability of their products aren't that great, it's good enough for most businesses, many which are too busy getting work done or just surviving rather than evaluating the latest collab/productivity darling that costs another 30-50 USD per employee.

[0] Zoho is the other alternative but even their offerings tends to become expensive once you start using more than a single app.