skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstract away all the money supply stuff.

Banking systems have multiple equilibria [1]. That is one way of saying that financial crises are like floods. They are a fact of life, and happen from time to time.

Who should pay for flood insurance, the public or the people building on flood plains?

If the public pays for the flood insurance, there will be too much construction in the flood plain.

The fact that TARP provided a small accounting profit to the Treasury is sort of immaterial. It was a free put that was never exercised. People should pay a premium for insurance. An efficient market prices risk...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%E2%80%93Dybvig_model
I confess to being ignorant of how a security update could possibly apply to a transistor radio.

Was it a joke?
Art of problem solving volume 2!!
This article is incredibly ignorant, and is more of the same realities detached day dreaming that the left likes to partake.

Why should American businesses voluntarily abandon an sizable overseas market and supply chain when China keeps getting access to our home market? In effect, placing a punitive tariff over our own heads and puts our American firms at a competitive disadvantage over our European and Chinese counterparts? Why should such a tax be born by the American corporation, workers and taxpayers?

If America has decided to decouple from China, then the solution should be legislative as it creates a level playing field for all firms involved, such that no one in particular is punished by a voluntary withdraw.

The saving grace is I believe world leaders are aware of this “you withdraw you loose” dilemma and are starting to cooperate to form a unified front against China. Donald Trump did well in waking the world up against the Chinese threat, but I’m afraid we now need a diplomat to finish the war.
Or - get this - he genuinely believes that and isn't playing some three-dimensional career chess contrivance.
Exactly. If a single test becomes important enough, it will be very heavily gamed. Conventional education avoids this somewhat, because there are so many models by which you are measured against, over a very long period of time. This makes conventional education much harder to game.

You need a system that encourages people to optimize for maximum problem solving ability, but a formal grading scheme encourages people to optimize for that instead. This is the single biggest problem with online classes and is why online degrees are not considered as highly as in-person ones.
On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
> I'm sad that it has turned in to "but they said masks did nothing" as an excuse to not wear them. It was never that they did nothing, it's that masks ALONE is not enough. Masks and proper behavior are necessary together.

If you have the correct behaviour (hand washing, distancing) the mask provides you no benefit.

The only point to wearing a mask is if you are unable to maintain that distance, or you're stuck in a room with symptomatic people. But if you're doing that you're also provided with eye protection and gloves and a gown and copious water for handwashing, and you've probably been trained to don and doff the PPE correctly, and maybe you even have a person acting as a PPE spotter helping you put it on or take it off correctly.
Nah this is not really essential.
"implement a CSP for their site, pretty crazy not to, especially for a bank."

I just checked some of the local banks. Oh dear...
A "barrel" though is way larger than a tennis ball, so we're not close to the limiting case.
Was the firmware at that time complex enough that you can attempt an OTA brick? Are radios from 1984 mostly analogue?
It took me some time to find it, so for people looking for it.
Here is the link to page you can delete your account from.

https://www.airbnb.com/privacy/manage-your-data
I'm reminded of the Tank legend [1]. It's nice to have a clear example of the really happening.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
I wish I read this before taking college-level Calculus

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
The linked article suggestions would work on a holiness-neutral topic like emacs vs vi, but I don't think the suggested tactics would work against holy virtue signalling.
Authority bias is systemic.
I mean Spotify has completely eliminated my desire to pirate music. I did when I was younger but $10/mo easily worth the price.

If such a thing existed for TV and movies it would be a no-brainer too. And Netflix was that for a while. Sure, it didn’t have everything but it had enough that I had more good content than I could watch. It’s not that it’s fragmented, it’s that too expensive to maintain 7 streaming service subscriptions. So most people seem to pick one or two, account share to get coverage, and then pirate what still isn’t available.
Im a white man who looks like a wrestler, while also the CEO and founder of a pair of very well known companies and I without fail will get "bro" talked to upon first meeting by other guys in all contexts.
I'm enjoying using Boost. I'm actually using it to reply here after following this post on /r/hackernews. :)
Oh it looks like you can set up a user page under their users subdomain.
The WHO and CDC were telling people that masks don't work because there is no good quality evidence to show that masks work, and there's plenty of evidence to show that masks do not work.

Look at the most recent CDC mask advice. They're not saying "masks work", they're using much more cautious language: "masks may work". https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
Point out your "flaw" before the mob does. Classic tactic. I can't even tell if people are sincere any more, that's how far the PC culture has gone. Nathan now gets a free ride since he has acknowledged his privilege, and has now unlocked new avenues to market his work. Maybe he can get a job as an economic diversity consultant to ensure a perfect racial balance is admitted to conference from now on, given how self-aware he is.
> And regardless: there's not NEARLY enough air space behind your mask to store a full (~1L) exhalation. What you claim isn't even physically possible.

According to Wikipedia, normal level exhalation (tidal) volume is ~500 ml and has ~5 % CO_2. If only 10 % of exhalation (50 ml) is breathed back with 90 % of fresh air, then one is breathing equivalent of ~5000 ppm CO_2.

I am sure that improvized cloth facemasks have bigger air 'buffer' than this. Although measure it precisely would be hard.
Why so many billionaires are fleeing to Teton County, Wyoming
Nah, you and I have done this dance about a month ago, where you were posting retracted articles to support your point.

Is there a RCT showing masks don't help (or better yet, are actively harmful) against respiratory illnesses spread via droplet? Do you have an explanation for why healthcare workers have "droplet precautions" that require masks when dealing with, for example, flu patients?
Can we ditch the "virtue signalling" meme? It comes across as a simple dismissal, which doesn't improve any situation.
> The post you're responding to literally links an SAA magazine section wholly devoted to rebutting just one of Hancock's books.

I didn’t say there weren’t rebuttals. I didn’t even say he wasn’t a crank, only you can’t exactly apply the “we are to busy forwarding our field to stop and address every idea from every crank” argument to someone whose ideas (for better or worse) are gaining notoriety as potentially true and correct.
Oh hello, its July 2020 already
> The basic rules of soccer, etc. don't evolve.

That's absolutely not true, unless by basic you mean things like "played with a vaguely round ball". FIFA change the actual rules every year. The new handball and wall rules are pretty big changes.

https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2019/06/02/new-handball-goal-ki...
That's very likely. Nobody is immune from this trend. Despite his great accomplishments in a field in which you usually need a degree, he is now feeling guilty about how maybe he only achieved success because he was white. This is the 2020 version of imposter syndrome. Everybody feels imposter syndrome when they have unexpected success. This is the woke Twitter version of it.
The AM/FM headset linked in your grandparent does not support streaming.
> In some ways it's safer to use ambient audio on the trail rather than headphones.

It is also good for warning the bears that there is a group of people coming so the bear doesn’t get startled and attack.
TIL. I wonder why that myth is so commonly perpetuated.
The authors spoke a common notion on how there exists no valid excuse for the prevalence of "mandatory security updates" for appliances by shedding light on how few (possibly zero) of these gadgets from a bygone era possessed either firmware or the need to "update" it.
That is some awesome, vintage mall footage right there. Definitely giving me some 80s and 90s vibes from my early childhood. A little wild to think that this fixture of late 20th century life is on its way out. The clock tower is a nice touch!
Section applying Chinese national security law to whole world chills activists
Have we really got to the point where we talk about “reclaiming” the Ok symbol from white supremcists!?
I've never seen a Walmart attached to an indoor mall. Maybe it's a regional thing. Your description is interesting though. The whole purpose of a traditional anchor store is to draw people inside the mall so that they visit all the little stores that they'd never be bothered to visit if it weren't for the anchor store. If you make people go outside again to enter the mall that defeats the purpose to a significant degree.

Which is fine for Walmart. Not so good for the mall.
Here you go:

https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/r...
I suspect that they mean "griefer". A grifter is a conman.
Police are doing a very different job than any other service worker likely to interact with a dog (as I explained in the other comment).

The general public has very little interaction with police officers at all. A random member of the general public should have approximately zero fear of their dog being shot.

The people having their dogs shot are usually doing something to attract the attention of police and/or not being responsible with the care of their dogs.

In other cases police officers are wrongfully shooting dogs. These are almost certainly the minority of cases but clearly this number should be as close to zero as possible. Police officers should be fired and sued in cases of negligence.
I have a fun anecdote about this one. I once misattributed this on a podcast and called it Godwin's Law. A listener pinged me about it to correct me on the next day.

Cunningham's Law is self-healing.
> In the absence of evidence,

We don't have an absence of evidence. We have lots of research around mask wearing to prevent the spread of respiratory disease. It's really hard to see a benefit from mask wearing from those studies.

> Also, as for sneezing or coughing

If you're symptomatic you need to self-isolate. Masks will not protect the people around you if you're coughing.
What are the exact differences between this "new generation" of reactors and the failed AVR(1) and THTR-300(2)

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
I suggest an external DAC for your phone unless you have very specific requirements; I use a iFi iDSD Nano (which is no longer being made, but there are equivalent models), what's best for you depends on your use case (what kind of headphones or speakers would you use?).
> If the finance industry can encompass 100% GDP

There are ideologically pro-finance economists who strongly reject this assessment [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4b70ee3a-f88c-11e4-8e16-00144feab...
Time Series Momentum in the US Stock Market
Do you want to work in a big company as part of a big team? That's the common place for specialists. If you want to work in small businesses that's more of a generalists niche.
Define efficiency - marbles are more dense and will fill the barrel with more mass.
People are talking elsewhere in the thread about glasses fogging up. That, even with an extremely non-airtight mask, that is reused, touched constantly, etc. seems like prima facie evidence to me that it deflects the stream of droplet-laden air from your face, thus inhibiting it from spraying on to others.

Like others have said, if this were a different disease, maybe it would be spread more by contact and masks wouldn't be worth bothering.

And if you're only focused on how a mask can protect you, maybe it doesn't help that much. But if you are infected without knowing it...

Edit: my pun was unintentional...really, I swear.
The First “Dummies” Book – “DOS for Dummies” (2011) [video]
This is a striking point. In most "real life" communities, there will be someone who gets the final word on whether something said is acceptable. Think mom or dad at the dinner table, the CEO at a private company, or the principal at a high school. They are effectively the moderators of the public forum they physically inhabit.

We do, however, structure this moderation as a hierarchy and it self organizes. The mom has the final say on acceptability, but in her absence, the older sister takes this role. We rarely see this structure in online communities. Should downvotes be weighted by the karma of the voter?
I worked at a research institution for several years and you couldn’t be promoted above a certain level without a PHD.
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Absolutely. Thanks for pointing this out. If difficulty adjusted in factors of two, the ability of the network to accurately maintain its 10 mins blocktime become impaired.

I try to keep these concepts rather simplified to ease the reading and learning process. Perhaps there should be a note for these situations.
What's with all the weird communist references?
Unexpected class of astronomical objects which have not previously been reported
And bowling alleys and McDonald's playgrounds, and really most restaurants had a smoking and non-smoking section, but it would still drift over and foul up the whole space.
Clear, concise and to the point. Looking forward to reading the rest. If you finish the whole series and fix/improve the posts in this sequence using the feedback from here, I think it might serve as one of the go-to pages for technically inclined people who are interested to learn about Bitcoin and blockchains.
Interesting article, but it feels like it's grinding some weird axes. Like the way it harps on his lack of a degree, and awkwardly mentions the political alignment of people Tankus learned from (like "[he read a book] by the liberal John Maynard Keynes" or "[he studied with] with the leftist economist J.W. Mason").

Is this standard for Bloomberg?
So it's not worth doing anything because there's a line somewhere ahead? At some point whatever startup you're working on will definitely reach an end in some form, so you should definitely stop working now.
FWIW, you already can use postgres' logical decoding / change data capture to make queuing more efficient. Depending on what you need.

If it's the type of queue that various consumers need to see in their entirety, then you can just use pg_logical_emit_message(transactional bool, prefix text, payload data/bytea) to emit messages , which logical decoding consumers then see either in time order (transactional = false) or in commit order (transactional = true).

If it's more the the job type of queue where exactly one subscriber is allowed to see a message it's a bit more complicated, but using logical decoding will probably still be more efficient than querying a queue table with ORDER BY etc.

Being able to do queue submissions as part of a transaction (i.e. queue submissions will only be visible after commit) can be really useful to integrate with external systems.
But colleges aren’t about testing, but educating. Taking people who can’t pass a test, and turning them into people who can.

The test is merely to help discern how good a job the schools have done.

The etymology of educating is to “lead someone out of” something - namely ignorance.
Humanities departments becoming de-facto meetings of the party, as opposed to a cafe where philosophers of all strokes meet to exchange ideas.
It was called industrial design in those days.
>Online classes simply don't have the value that in person classes have.

This is debatable. There's pros and cons for each.

>Telling an employer you got your degree remotely V the in class person, who are you gonna hire?

This never happens in practice. If that's the schools are the only things we're comparing then of course I hire the one with the more reputable pedigree. I don't even consider courses taken or dive any deeper than that.
RIP computer science, materials science
Because Monetary History is a long, complex book and someone willing to make the effort is going to be more interesting.
Yes, I confess that I was just riffing on cbm-vic-20's clever comment.

An original Sony Walkman had nothing in it that could ever require a "security update". It had no network access, no wireless connection, and as far as I know no microprocessor, nothing that could ever enable someone to hack into it - unless they had physical access and were skilled at soldering.

Even more so, the transistor radios from the 1950s were just simple circuits with as few as five transistors. Now these were radio receivers, so by modern standards you might worry about someone hacking into them. But with five transistors all soldered together on a simple circuit board, it would be difficult for an attacker to send a signal that would somehow reprogram the radio.

Maybe a lightning bolt though! That could cause a permanent denial of service.
Loans are the driver for this quest of yours. Imagine two stores one of which can pay 100 moneys, and one of which can pay 110 moneys. Not much difference right? But if you have to pay 105 interest, then it's a huge difference.
Or he recognizes that part of his success came down to skin color alone. That a black person who took the exact same actions as him would’ve come out less successful.
> If you don't trust them, don't give them your data or your money.

I already don't, but they still build a shadow profile of me with the data my friends and friends of friends leak.
The course is hard though

NP-hard, at a rate of one problem per week.
You remove their face and change their voice in the video. At least, when you're talking about body cam footage. You also blur license plates, addresses, etc. That's what is already being done for information requests to law enforcement.

This isn't a hypothetical btw. This is actually how it happens in many jurisdictions, and some law enforcement agencies are being proactive about this and thinking through how to be more transparent without risking privacy of innocent or guilty parties (both deserve privacy).
Sweet, it's in Cape Town - well, all online, but I happen to be in the same timezone (opposite hemisphere), and the times of the talks are perfect for catching them during the day this weekend.
True. I sometimes stream university stations in Canada but there are no college/university stations that I can get on broadcast radio.
Good observation. I have noticed that people very vocal online do not do so well in person. They forget what it's like to have people looking at you disapprovingly or to be forced to express your views coherently the first or second attempt, without the chance to craft the perfect 140 char response.

Unfortunately, as more and more young people grow up with digital spaces as their primary domain, they are losing the ability to communicate in person. I have a few friends that are high school teachers, and they all notice this trend. Every class discussion involves short sentence answers, low effort, very little passion. But if you let them use a digital space to post opinions (like a class discussion forum) things can become polarised, or at least more passionate than they were in class.
I've been watching economics and trade Youtube videos recently.

The summary is:

- even the idea of China "liberalizing" is nonsense, since that is not their system. What worked with Japan, SK, etc. is irrelevant for China

They feel that their rightful place is the center of the world, as it was for 5,000 years (with the exception of the last 200 years "aberration")

- the last 40 years of Westerners appeasing China at the WTO, postal, etc. was entirely a misunderstanding of the above

- China captured almost the world's entire pharma market by dumping, which is their playbook. So their rare earths processing dominance is what the endgame looks like for every industry

- China's goal is to build a navy as large as the US. You don't build such a navy without planning to use it.

The US sent 3 carrier groups to Asia recently to "change their behavior." That's the reality.
Please don't capitalise the term 'black' here, leave that to political pamphlets like the New York Times (who seem to be the ones who started this). The more people start identifying themselves with their inalienable characteristics like skin colour, hair colour or eye colour , the further we'll get away from the ideal of a colour-blind society.

Yes, that is the ideal, that the colour of your skin does not matter. If you don't want to take my word on it, maybe Martin Luther King can convince you:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

[1] https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
> too many people think that they can behave normally if they're wearing a mask

I don't know how most people are thinking, but it's a pretty wide spread idea that masks (apart from the ones used in health care settings) are more for protecting others from you, than you from others.

If people are thinking like this then it seems logical seeing someone with a mask would remind them that the asymptomatic can be a threat and encourage distancing.

On the other hand, if most people are wearing masks then the few who don't stand out as abnormal, and so others might be wary of them too.

I guess your generalization might be applicable to some states/cities more than others; under current circumstances, I think most people are not seeing what it's like in other places first hand.
Either is fine. I'm at my first "enterprise" after coming from startups. I would prefer to be a specialist on a big team or work for a company providing some sort of specialist service/product (for lack of a better term).

I'm just looking to focus my knowledge and obsess over a small number of things.
I think it’s more about subjects that yesteryear were “studies”. Social studies, etc.
A very interesting article, and it highlights an attack vector that I wasn't aware of. So, thanks for publishing!

One thing the article lacks - it talks about (and even recommends) being able to pick a different passphrase, but offers no guidance for how someone might go about doing that.

I looked, but couldn't see anything. Not in Chrome, not in passwords.google.com, not in Android.
Cool link! Regarding music players, I personally switched to simpler/less-costly solutions because I do a lot of hiking and I can get caught in sudden storms or just end up dropping things. Along those lines I tried a lot of agptek devices and they've been really good.

http://www.agptek.com/index.php/product-category/portable-au...
Translations for SI units:

1000°F = 538°C

2000°F = 1093°C
NLP has come pretty far: "Released by Symantec in 1985 for MS-DOS computers, Q&A's flat-file database and integrated word processing application is cited as a significant step towards making computers less intimidating and more user friendly. Among its features was a natural language search function based on a 600 word internal vocabulary." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_(Symantec)