skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your hypothesis explains part but not all of the situation. Complicating things, inflation is surprisingly hard to measure. One of the main components of CPI is rent (or rent equivalent for homeowners). It seems unlikely that rents are going to skyrocket anytime soon, which means that by the official measure, in the short term deflation might actually be more likely than inflation.

If you are looking for "futures" on CPI, you should probably look at the pricing for TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities). There was a new issuing of a 5-year TIPS a couple weeks ago, and the pricing was about the lowest ever. Which is to say that the market expects very low inflation as measured by CPI-U: https://tipswatch.com/2020/04/23/real-yield-on-new-5-year-ti....
Google was wildly successful under Eric Schmidt.
He would be able to see a circle the same way you can see a sphere. Do you feel like you can only see discs, not spheres?
> To the fluent reader, the kanji/kana switching breaks up the text enough to lex it. I'm non-native and actually reading all-kana is much more difficult for me than the usual mixture.

Don't leap to conclusions about the benefit of breaking up the text. For example, reading Mandarin pinyin is much more difficult than reading characters, but neither of those involves a mixed script. (And heck, the pinyin might have word spacing! [1])

The reason is pretty obvious - characters contain a lot more than just phonetic information. That makes things harder on the writer, and easier on the reader.

[1] Pinyin produced for foreign learners usually has word spacing. Pinyin produced for Chinese children usually doesn't.
We would be more than happy to chat about how we migrated to AWS, the differences, benefits, down-sides, surprises. Will be a fun post. I'll let rbritton know and we'll put it together, and of course you can try the product too if you like. FastOrSlow has a blog, so we'll post it there.
Imagine you have 3 people, A, B and C and give each one of them $10,000.

Person A is very conservative and puts the money in a savings account, and spends small parts of money over long periods of time.

Person B is not as conservative, and invests the money in a diversified portfolio.

Person C is an idiot, invites all their friends to a party that lasts an entire week where all the money will be spent at once living them all bankrupt afterwards.

In this analogy, the $10,000 are the finite resources of our planet, Person A were Native Americans and other cultures with strict attitudes towards nature, Person C is our "civilization", and Person B is what we should be doing instead of being idiots.
Have you considered looking into Trilium[1]?

I'm not sure if it meets all your criteria, especially as the meaning of certain features from program to program can vastly differ. However, if I've correctly understood what you're looking for, it matches at least some of them.

Natural hierarchy: notes can be organized into any tree that you like because notes can be cloned (not just copied) into any location.

Very easy to create references with automatic back-references: bi-directional linking is built in and is as simple as typing @notename or Ctrl+L. It also includes automatically generated link-maps and self created reference-maps to see all the links between each document.

Embedded documents: You can embed any document into any other document and have it referenced live and thus updated anywhere it's embedded.

Self-hosting: You can either run it on a local machine or host your own sync server (which also allows you to access it from a browser), super simple to setup.

Large file support: I haven't run into any issues with this, seems reasonably limitless.

Full point-in-time history: From the official wiki: "supports seamless versioning of notes by storing snapshots ("revisions") of notes at regular intervals.". You get to choose this interval.

Programmatic access: Full built-in scripting support.

Every link/bookmark I add could download the webpage and cache it: You can definitely script this yourself but the web-clipper extension for Trilium allows you to save directly from the browser into a new note (text, screenshot, or local copy of site). Not exactly what you're looking for but a derivative that could be modified to suit your needs.

There are so many other features that make it the best note-taking application for me (saved search queries represented & updated as notes in the note tree, full theming support, encrypted notes with timeout function, customizable keyboard shortcuts, active developer that you can speak to, etc).

My multi-year search for an advanced customizable note taking application has finally come to an end. Frankly, I like the application so much that I created an HN account just so I could pass the link on to you.

The best way to understand the benefits of Trilium is to give yourself 10 minutes to read the documentation[2] and take it for a test run.

[1]https://github.com/zadam/trilium/
[2]https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki
Not sure but I’ll submit a hypothesis that many people here sit inside mainly dark spaces all day and don’t always feel great. And because that doesn’t seem avoidable, hacking the system is a natural action of many here.

We all know we should probably get outside more for health.
Yeah, I got my parents to start using Uber. They are not very technologically literate and could definitely not be bothered to download a new app to save 10%.
I thought something as simple as this would have been tried out long ago.

Here are some related ideas. Instead of pruning channels, one should try to prune connections. Say with a 64x64x3x3 conv layer, it might be that the matrix (or tensor) can be brought to "block diagonal" form with a "change of basis", similar to singluar value decomposition. Except here we have 9 matrices of size 64x64 that we want to diagonilize simultaneously. This process itself might be formulated as an optimization problem that one solves by gradient descent.
I don't want to leave my friends here.
I actually did the same.

Offline functionality isn't there yet, but generally my goal was just to build a system that allows you to arrange notes in lots of different ways, especially in ways that make it easier to occasionally share notes with other people (something that I've always found myself wanting to do with some frequency).

https://supernotes.app
It's just poor communication, anybody who parrots 'evidence' to the average audience will know full well that 'no evidence' => 'evidence _against_ something'. That's a really, really basic way to mess up when communicating this. I don't know why it's so bad. I think this is certainly a case where an educated journalist should not simply consume literally the WHO's output, and should instead term it in ways commonly understood to be closer to the truth.
Please be less racist.
People keep using my mac.com address to register for various things, including one bank account. For Instagram I had to register all the mac.com/me.com/icloud.com variations as new accounts simply to stop people from creating accounts using that address.

So, please verify the address. You can decouple it, ie allow someone to go through the flow they're in, but only lock in the transaction (commerce, comment, whatever) once they've verified the address. If they don't verify the address in N hours or days, cancel the transaction.
In full support of the boring club! See my other comment but essentially, I find ActiveRecord hasn't worked great for our use case because we don't really work with individual records.

I would like to have more flexibility in the client specifying what attributes and relations it wants.
Seems like they are over hyping the margin call risk. It says in there that his total borrowing is ~500 million and his paper assets are estimated at $39 billion. The debt is a lot in absolute terms but relative to his assets it is less than 2% of his wealth which seems really low to me.
YouTube and Facebook
I wonder how this will affect recruitment ?

Regardless, I am guessing this is going to be the norm for 2020 and will be replicated by a lot of companies in areas where Covid is not yet under control.

Assuming New Zealand goes down to level 2 next week (we have done level 4 and are currently in level 3), my three major clients will be opening their facilities to normal staff who wish to return to work while allowing home working if they want and where possible. Visits between different facilities will still be prohibited but it looks likely by june or july with a fair wind these will be eased too.

I personally am getting used to home working so I may use this as an excuse to cut down on working on client premises however I will miss the office banter
Hey, I know the host of that podcast! He has some weird opinions about visual programming. Makes sense he'd be interested in Orca.
You sound like an employee ;)

On a serious matter, doesn't Peterffy owns a huge chunk of IB and a brokerage is as riskless of a transaction business as you can get to in the financial industry as possible.

IB's frontends used to lead the market and their pricing is decent too. Who else lost $100 million because they did not program futures and span margin properly?
Yup. But for cars, a lot of functions will always be needed and will never change. Also, there is such thing as physical function keys that change contextually and can be remapped in the future.
... or Postgraphile
We have to start thinking about how, long term, we are going to start managing the 7th and 8th wave as well.
It’s not just HN, people are always intrigued by the idea that they can improve themselves by taking supplements you can buy at the store.

I think it speaks to everyone’s desire to improve themselves, but also to our desire to improve ourselves without putting in too much effort. Taking a pill every day feels like a small, token accomplishment for your health without breaking a sweat.

There are also a lot of narratives floating around about deficiencies, or speculation about optimizing levels. This leads many people to assume that more is better, which in turn leads to excessive dosing. Hypervitaminosis D is a real condition that can happen with regular, over the counter supplements.

The truth is that yes, the average person in North America could use a little more Vitamin D. But it’s also true that most of us could get that Vitamin D from paying even minor attention to our diets and getting a little bit of sun in moderation.

There’s not much harm in taking small doses of Vitamin D, but beware of taking some of these excessive doses discussed online for extended periods of time without bloodwork.
Thanks for contributing the stats! I appreciate it.
Good point. Maybe "additional"?

> I'm sure we all agree (even Julia and Maggie, it would seem) it's not practical or clearer to talk like this.

Yeah, I'm just having fun trying to play by rules I haven't fully grokked.
1) see info here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-gallery#... I’m not going to say more here, but if you post an issue someone will get back to you. :)

2. I’d recommend just finding an extension that does this. It wouldn’t be hard for an extension to implement, and supporting multiple extensibility classes in core when we don’t need to probably won’t happen. What exactly are you looking for in an “official path“?
That’s literally the article?
Yes Elon has a reality distortion field but that's allowed when pushing for real progress. A reality distortion field becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and it has the ability to change the fabric of our reality. I didn't expect the kind of naysayer here on HN.
Oh good, I made it look up itself and was worried I broke it for everyone.
$600/wk bump = backdoor $15/hr min wage
> Think back to the Roman Empire, when the letters were etched in stone or wax tablets, with only capitals (before the invention of minuscule), drawn with straight lines that are easy to chisel.

To choose some random capital Roman letters, how about... SPQR? Those got inscribed all the time.

Roman letters don't really show any bias towards straight lines. Don't confuse the fact that we split the Roman letter V into two letters U/V with the idea that they didn't carve curved letters. Check out this awesome plaque from the year 90: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-bronze-inscription-a-remn...
Hit the web button at the top and then the first link
No, the problem isn't that the new FB acts like an app, the problem is that it's clunky as hell.

It's like a bad copy of "the new Twitter" and even Twitter isn't really good.

The only end-user software from FB is Messenger Lite. It's quick and does what I expect it to do.

Even the voice chat is good and I didn't expect a lite version of a messenger to have it.
> Musk said it wasn't reviewed:

Huh, I hadn't seen that. You're right (upvoted you).

> His tweets in general are not reviewed. He does not respect the SEC:

I'm perfectly aware, I'm the sort of weirdo who reads the court filings in these lawsuits. I was hoping that he would have been ... cautious ... enough to get this tweet reviewed against the general policy since it is pushing the boundary of the agreement.
Everything he does is for PR. That tweet came out right before he got his bonus payout.

He's had controversy with the virus and his factories. By tweeting that out, he gave off a "billionaire doesn't care about money" vibe.

What got more coverage? His payout or his rambling tweets. He would have got more flak if the press covered his payout while he has been pushing his workers to get back into the factories.
UV-B makes your body produce Vitamin-D.

So, special LED that can emit UV helps for that, too, but carefully.

Oh and ordinary window glass completely blocks UV rays.
And that's a near best case scenario in the US, UK, etc. In most of Europe and many other countries, you have to officially register a SIM card with an ID/residence document to use it.
The outside the US part, I think, will greatly narrow your universe of choices. Have you looked into Lime Brokerage? They are now owned by Wedbush but they used to have top tier technology.
Ask HN: Working part time and focusing too much on money?
I work part-time and would like to stay with this workload.

Therefore, in my spare time I focus strongly on projects that might bring in money. But I am not really productive. I have trouble getting anything done at all because I think, oh, this project doesn't bring in any money. I don't do many projects that are really fun.

Yes, I want to earn more, but I don't want to do stupid projects where I just get bogged down.

Do you have any advice for that?
I'm stuck.
> Neighbors advanced enough to instantly blast expanding civilizations that don't expand?

Yeah, omg, right? It's like they have a completely different value system. How impossible!
Can't speak to the general point, but for COVID-19 in particular, it's starting to look like this matters. And not surprisingly, we're all kind of obsessing on that. If something so simple can keep people off ventilators, it's surely worth pursuing.

Past that, someone I know who lived in Alaska a few years started developing weird symptoms, including a declining ability to balance. Turned out she had low D, and once she fixed that, the symptoms all went away.
As addition to this advice one can use history autocomplete tool like for example this one:
https://github.com/dvorka/hstr - very useful!
You realize that's an un-question, right? It doesn't even parse out.

You can't have consent without the assumption that there is a choice to be made, and that the choice is not yours to make, and that the one giving consent is aware of the choice. Anything with the characteristic of producing an implied voluntary choice without the chooser being aware the choice is being made is very specifically not consent.
I used OpenCV in WASM to create a RoughJS version of an image a couple of years ago. https://pshihn.github.io/rough-draw/
As a layman observer of the scientific debate, the Vitamin D guys have been quite persistent about the correlation between Vitamin D levels and deaths. Is there causality? Beats me. The best I've heard by way of explanation is that inflammation depletes Vitamin D stores. That idea is usually followed-up with the additional theory that CV-19 causes inflammation and high platelet activity, clogging up small blood vessels and producing most of the major effects that are observed.
It's not seen as an app for old people. A lot of college students use fb religiously, and it's still the place to go for nearly any college discussion.
Austin? A growing tech city, gets in the 70s nearly year round, no state income tax. I hear a lot of devs are moving there from California
All cause mortality is down 9% over the last couple of months in Rome (sorry, on mobile, not easy to add reference which I would have to trawl for) - just to get in front of any covid-seriousness deniers, Rome has not been badly hit.

In Australia, significant decreases in STEMI (serious heart attack presentations) although nothing published yet. Everyone wondering what’s going on - going to be some interesting studies coming out after this in terms of population health and additional/reduced morbidity and mortality
Thanks! I'm glad I added that I was sure you didn't mean it that way.
Aaaaarrrgggghhh! I feel like I post this same comment whenever the discussion is about GraphQL.

I love GraphQL. What I hate about GraphQL is that it has "QL" in the name, so it confuses people into thinking it's somehow comparable to SQL. The question "How is GraphQL for aggregate queries?" doesn't even make sense.

GraphQL is simply another format for APIs. E.g. you could do APIs with SOAP, using REST, or with GraphQL.
I have thought about that as well. I think it should be pretty straightforward. You need an algorithm that can divide your graph (weights and activations) into batches where no member of a batch depends on values that have not yet been calculated. I think, but am not sure, that this will result in alternating batches of weights and activations.

Then you can calculate the results of applying the weights in the first batch to every example in a minibatch in parallel. Then you move on to calculate the results of applying the activations in the second batch to the results of the first batch, and so on until you have finished all the batches.

The hard part is making the batches, although it feels like the kind of classical algorithms 101 problem that has some great solutions out there already. Maybe it is an application of graph coloring or something.

I have not really pursued this because I'm not sure if there is a benefit to breaking the neurons out of their orderly layers. It would be interesting to just try training a few randomly generated networks, but I haven't had the time so far.

Email me at hi at jehan dot email if you want to talk about this.
Be careful, Kurt Goedel once caused a crisis in the fundamentals of mathematics by doing something similar.

Also: If you type "Google" into Google - you can break the internet. Nobody has ever tried, not even for a joke.
That's true, but as noted in another post, this seems to result in first shipping the crappiest interface anyone can think of, with the knowledge that "we can fix it later". And often, it never does get fixed.

Also, if it's my car, no, hell no, you're not allowed to reach out and change the interface. Get it right the first time, or go home.
A similar idea I practice. After I solve a complex problem I usually leave a big comment at the top of the main file, explaining how I arrived at that solution, the caveats, how it works, and how it interacts with other files and dependencies.

If I need to, I also use Monodraw to produce ASCII character graphs and add them to the comment to explain concepts.

It helps to cement the solution in your brain and it's a system of record on how it was accomplished in case you forget.

I do this only for personal projects though. I don't think co-workers would appreciate an essay with exhibits at the top of a file, lol.
People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we?

I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter).

We did not have to "innovate" with those lockdowns, prompted by completely wrong doomsday predictions amplified by the hysterical media.
It depends. For HN, an email is immaterial, but for Amazon shopping you want to be very sure you have the correct email.
BJJ Gi or No-Gi
Tried, was nice
yes great agree on all of you
It's more fun for me trying to host a site on S3 and I get to learn more about AWS in general. My goal is to have a site that costs a dollar a month baseline and even if something goes viral the expected bill can never be more than $10-20
Curious what you think we should listen to economists on for those things.

For most of the things you specifically mentioned, there's not much consensus today.
I wish more of these note taking apps were fully encrypted. I know RR can encrypt parts of notes, but it's not the same.

It's probably paranoia, but if I'm journaling my life, business ideas, thoughts on contacts - I just want it to be encrypted on my devices before it goes into the cloud. I want each device to sync and decrypt locally.
> If a manager ranked you based on a statistic of your lines of code produced per day, you would rightly be derisive

Yes, but this wouldn't make "lines of code" metric "pseudoscience" or "swindle". The metric is real, even if its applications are not correct.
Wordfence is a solid product. I 'inherited' my wife's business's website a few years ago from a small marketing firm. It was heavily infected with malware. I tried several tools to clean it up and Wordfence is the one tool that consistently helped me remove all malware and keep it off. I was using the free version for quite a while and just upgraded to a paid license yesterday as a matter of fact.

In the world of Wordpress plugins it is a gem in the rough.
It's the sort of problem that is easily prone to extreme optimism extreme pessimism cycles. You get 90% of the way there and then the difficulty skyrockets. Getting to 95% is as hard as going from 0 to 90%. Getting to where you need to be for it to be mainstream is like 10-20X as hard as making an impressive looking proof of concept.

Space flight is another thing like that. We were supposed to have manned flights to the outer solar system by 2000. We're getting reusable first stages that are actually economical to fly and commercial orbital spacecraft in 2020. That was supposed to be 1980s stuff according to 1950s and 1960s space hype.

Putting someone on the moon? 1969. But that was done with a monstrously expensive finicky one-off architecture that could never be anywhere close to economical, and it was dangerous as hell. Routine trips to the moon that could even approach economic sustainability are at least 10X as hard as Apollo.

I strongly suspect safe, sustainable, and affordable nuclear fission power is yet another one. Getting some atoms to smash and boil some water? Easy! Build some power plants? A little harder. Then you hit the edge of that bath tub curve and the problems (waste, safety, fuel cycle, cost management) multiply and it gets brutally hard really fast.

We should learn to recognize engineering problems that have this kind of "bath tub curve" for difficulty vs ones with gentler learning curves.
I don’t really understand why the traders would end up owing money. If they thought they were paying 0,01 $/bbl but we’re actually “paying” -37 $/bbl wouldn’t IB owe them?