skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's incorrect. It's not 100% loss on those funds unless they take the money and bury it in a pit. The money will just return to the treasury, not the fed. The fed's balance sheet is imaginary anyway.
I'm comfortable making that claim, and yes I had a mixed education of roughly 1/3rd hard STEM (CS, math, stats), 1/3rd soft STEM (Econ, Law), and 1/3rd non-STEM (economic history, philosophy, required undergrad writing elective).

Things like the Sokal Hoax are difficult to impossible in hard STEM fields. Non-STEM fields are more difficult to falsify and thus more difficult to apply similar levels of rigor. Smart and clever undergrads figure out their professors' biases and are constantly submitting lesser versions of the Sokal Hoax for their writing assignments (been there, done that). You can't do that in hard STEM fields, and its more difficult in some logically rigorous soft-STEM ones like law classes. Non-STEM fields tend to be held in the fuzzy-logic-based natural language you grew up with and know intimately, while STEM fields require learning an entirely new language (math, code) where fuzzy logic does not work and precise logic is required. It's more difficult for a variety of reasons.
To determine whether a company is undervalued you must have some prediction of future business prospects.
Industrialized countries with more deaths per capita than USA: Belgium (2.1 more) UK (1.6 times more) Spain (1.5 times more) Italy (1.43 times more) Sweden (1.3 times more) France (1.1 times more).

Yes it is a shitload of deaths. Lets talk about it being more than every other industrialised nation in proportion when that actually happens.
I caught the same issue, from a slightly different angle. Using key caps with that much protrusion surface will render them unsanitary in a relatively short time due to dead skin deposits, which will cure and fill the ridges. It’s not great from a health point of view. From what I remember when I was doing 3D printing, an acetone cloud bath could help to achieve a more glossy, thus more sanitary finish.

Incidentally glossy finish on porcelain-ware for plates, bath tubes, toilet bowls and sinks are specifically for this reason — gloss is achieved when the surface is flat to a defect rate smaller than the wavelength of visible light, which also gives bacteria and organic matter very little to hold on to.
I've gone down this particular rabbit hole before, it's pretty deep. Make sure to view the landing gear timelapse. Crazy attention to detail. I can't help myself and wonder if you'd stick a couple of ducted fans in it and a remote control whether it would fly.
Anecdotally the WU customer service agents (usually at third party check cashing/money service places that) are much, much less suspicious of questioning people on money transfers when the ethnic appearance of the person matches the destination. Since sending money to family members and friends is one of the most common uses of WU. For instance a person who looks south asian sending money to Pakistan. Or a person who looks Filipino sending money to some small town in Palawan.
We need more inclusive web performance metrics
Clear code and clear tests shows both the what and the why. With the additional advantage that they can’t diverge and be out of sync like the comments because otherwise the tests will fail. Comments should be used to explain something unexpected. Commenting each line of code is a recipe for disaster.
>The country did not sign up for a quarantine until vaccine was released

Approval of quarantine until vaccine was released =/= approval of social distancing in any form.

The poster claimed that most people are not in support of quarantine until vaccine, not that they oppose any quarantine.

The poll you linked did not ask about quarantining until the vaccine was available. In fact, 50% of the poll respondents expected social distancing to last no longer than 2 months. Note the poll was taken in March.
The fed might not, but the treasury does. The Fed balance sheet is imaginary anyway.
How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands
Looks good, have you tested the pref of the realteks nics? Would be cool to see some ipref stats between two of these considering they're running 2.5G.

Are you running Linux or BSD?
It’s ambiguously worded (up to vs up to and including), but the article actually specifically describes humans packaging the final product: “Just a few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks -- two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.“
You don't need a second propulsion system, you could use reaction wheels[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel
The first mistake was allowing the federal reserve to exist.

Here's Jefferson on the topic [1]:

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150711012438/http://memory.loc...)
Spoken like someone who has either forgotten (or never experienced) the authoritarian, creativity killing nature of the public education system.
A loss for whom? It is all taxpayer money. Does it matter if the Fed makes a profit or if the money is refunded back to the public? It is the equivalent of a stock dividend.
These threads tend to bring out the Fed Truthers on HN. There are a lot of borderline cranks.
Why did you work there for so long if you despise it so?
> 720p or 1080p is fantastic video resolution, especially on a mobile phone.

720p is far from fantastic. It's noticeably blurry, even on mobile.

1080p is minimally acceptable, and is now over 10 years old.

> Less than 1% of the population cares or wants higher resolution.

That's a very bold claim. Have any studies or polls to back that up?
Buying bonds is not spending. Those bonds will either mature and the funds paid back to the Fed or the Fed will sell the bonds on the open market. Either way, this is very different from handouts to the public or "socially productive spending" in that the money will get paid back.

Finally, it's not the Federal Reserve's role to be socially helpful except as to fulfill their dual mandates to 1) minimize inflation and 2) maximize employment.
Another question. What type of dependencies between tasks are you using ?
> When I want to share a photo, clicking the share button inside the app should open up a system dialog for me to pick which photos I want to share — and the app should only ever have access to those!

That's how it seems to be working in iOS 14 - you get asked if you want to "select more photos" or "keep current selection" and afaict, it looks to the app like your photo library is only those photo you've selected for that app. e.g if I pick "keep current selection" in WhatsApp, it currently only sees one photo in the Recents album, nothing in anything else.
This fits my theory of programming, and theory of bugs - We take a problem, create a plan, and then write code that implements that plan.

Defects can come from:

* having/being given the wrong problem

* right problem, but plan does not actually solve it

* right plan, but your code did not correctly implement it
The feds balance sheet is imaginary who cares if it gets paid back.
Hushpuppi and Mr.Woodbery, BEC Scammers: Welcome to Chicago
Yeah, that is great that iOS did that! They released that last summer I think.

There are times that you do want anyone to call you, or you don't even want unknown callers to leave a voicemail.

My friend's mother would freak out with every little thing always, including the voicemails from robotic voices saying their SSN will be invalid unless they call back at some weird number.

So my friend got the app on her mother's phone and set it to the strictest mode, and her mom hasn't freaked out anymore. This only works because she uses her phone for talking with family members and a few doctor offices.
Consumers are already buying as much as they can from Walmart. There are shortages on items that are not being produced. Walmart is incurring on new debt because the upstream actors failed. It is a healthy business that will come back the moment the situation stabilizes.
Cool, but impractical.

Someone should do a practical one for an overview of what all your containers and AWS accounts are doing. AWS monitoring provides a reason for a map of the world with lines and markers. There are AWS monitoring tools which, with better color choices, would look like something from Hollywood. Dynatrace is almost there.[1]

[1] https://cdn.comparitech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dynat...
Not more "difficult" - more expensive. A possibility that every company should have foreseen with financial modeling, and so avoided taking on more debt than they could handle during a recession.
Show HN: Time travel on TV subreddits to avoid spoilers
The federal reserve is not spending money, they are buying bonds, when they buy a bond it is like adding a number in a spreadsheet, when the money is paid back (or even not) they just add the number back. The federal reserve is not allowed under law to go pay people UBI or something. What exactly do you expect them to do instead? And why should it be instead? You get the federal reserve has no inherent limit to the amount of bonds they could buy, so even if there was some other "socially productive forms of spending" they could undertake this is in no way mutually exclusive to buying bonds from Walmart.

It is astounding how little people understand of what is going on here.
I really hope he'll stop tolerating that crazy person or waiting for something sufficiently outrageous to happen. Assuming nothing changed since that 2018 comment [1], nothing will change for at least a few more years.

Suing for libel and making a formal complaint with Berkeley would be public service [2] at this point.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164707

[2]: not sure "public" is the correct word here, sorry
Read past the headline and it is in fact Oakland that is gentrifying. San Francisco was almost entirely too rich to be considered.
Why not though? It makes it easier for developers, instead of the need to address yet another proprietary API. Simplifying things has value.

That API was created by Sony when something like Vulkan didn't exist yet, but today there is no good reason not to support Vulkan.
ah, sorry, i misread it as $9B, which would have been a significant portion of their outstanding debt.
With unprecedented power comes unprecedented responsibility.
Here is little demo of codeBERT - https://youtu.be/oDqW1JHmaYY

codeBERT is trying to predict if a certain function and its docstring are associated or not.

Thought about sharing it, I guess it is interesting in this context
Buffett's utility holdings (i.e. PacifiCorp) are aggressively shutting down coal plants and ramping up their wind/solar capacity in their service territories.

One perhaps far-fetched possibility here might be that he is vertically integrating the natgas based aspect of their utility business instead of buying natgas from another company while as you say dealing with the intermittency of renewables, although that would require some kind of merger with those utilities so that the natgas input could be provided at-cost to them.
Show HN: Deep Learning] Easily import large files without API integration
Pretty much all of them. Encode complexity for most codecs is way higher than decode complexity (on purpose).

This has been an issue with AV1, it's got relatively high decode complexity and there's not a lot of hardware acceleration available. The encode complexity is fantastic though and is very slow even on very powerful hardware, less than 1fps so ~30 hours to encode a one hour video. Even Intel's highly optimized AV1 encoder can't break 10fps (three hours to encode an hour of video) while their h.265 encoder can hit 300fps on the same hardware.
Judgement, taste, sensibility, intuition - this is what human professionals are for. The value of an experienced worker is in the biases he has accumulated.
This will further encourage universities to offer in-person instruction. Paying top dollar for a sub-par online education is not what students are after.
If you want your cake and also the ability to consume it, you might want to consider what functional programming can do for you regarding the ability of your codebase to self-document itself. Having type systems that are very closely aligned with the abstract business model is the best way to avoid frustration when you are trying to figure out why something is the way it is.

The trick is understanding that functional vs imperative is a spectrum, and trying to force 100% on one side or the other is how you wind up killing any project. We find that keeping our business-level abstractions functional with the underlying infrastructure code imperative provides the best of both worlds. The code that is changing and analyzed most frequently is in the functional domain, whereas code that we touch maybe 1-2 times per month lives in an imperative domain (but sometimes functional wherever it makes sense here too).
Specifically, in the context of assembly, as long as dimensions and locations of each connector stay the same, it does not really matter for the automated assembly line.
It’s about size: 50 is about 30% better than 70, which is 30% better than 100.
We will never eliminate human greed or selfishness. It is a common thread throughout all societies and historical eras. Our challenge is to build a political and economic system that will produce optimal outcomes no matter the "moral fortitude" of the agents working within the system. At its most basic, it probably requires a re-work of currency, though I think we need innovations throughout our economy and government. It's clear to me that this "ism" has't been invented yet, because once it is, it will quickly dominate the world economy as it organizes our labor more efficiently.
Probably enough to get them on a blackmail list
Try it live: https://diffgram.com/user/new

Docs: https://diffgram.readme.io/docs/importing-files-using-connec...
How do fans participate in the creators financial success? The money has to come from somewhere (the fans) and go to somewhere else (the fans and the creator?). I don’t see how such a system could work.
Definitely. I'd also love to have the busking model applied to music and videos online. I block all ads, including on Youtube, because they are annoying. But I'm often watching a video or listening to a track (like I am right now) where I would definitely click a button that donates 10p. Sometimes I'd click it multiple times. Youtube has the technology to identifier the rights holders for music and videos so this should easily be possible.

I first heard this idea from Richard Stallman many years ago.
I think that's truly fantastic.
I came up with two more explanations for not noticing productivity drops that I find as plausible as the ones you described: Companies are bad at measuring productivity and companies are trying to save face. I believe there is some truth in all of these explanations.
Promote good mental health.

There are so many social dynamics in employment that are detrimental to an employee's mental health: Arbitrary/unclear goals/deadlines, management not responding to criticism/feedback, favoritism, career stagnation, overwork, etc.

The most common reaction to an employee's deteriorating mental health is for the employer to get confrontational with the employee, and demand that they fix all the side effects. This just piles an extra stressor onto the employee. Very rarely is the deteriorating mental health addressed directly.

Employees are not machines; they are humans. Machines work with very tight tolerances, but humans are better suited to diverse problems. Machines require physical maintenance, but humans require a different sort.

Vacations can help, but they cannot solve or redeem the day-to-day frustrations an employee has. Paying well can help, but that is only valuable if the employee has enough personal time to spend it.

There are external factors, too. When an employee rolls an ATV during the weekend, and needs a few weeks to physically recover, it's totally normal to give them that time off; but when an employee is going through a divorce, losing their religion, etc. it is very uncommon for their employer to even know, let alone help.

The real goal should not be to retain (hold) employees, but to cultivate a workplace where they want to attend. Don't turn your workplace into a cult that demands too much of an employee's time or focus. Instead, make it a place for people to fulfill their need to work. Make it a place where ideas are shared, and things are made.
The page you linked to only accounts for a few hundred million dollars of direct purchases of individual bonds. It also lists several Billions of bond ETF purchases.

The largest bond etf holding is LQD, at $1.7B. 0.74% of LQD is Walmart corporate debt. 0.0074 * 1.7B is $12M. So just in one ETF I find the fed holding more Walmart debt than your "exactly" total number of walmart debt held.

Maybe you don't quite understand this data well enough to be 'correcting' people here? It's likely that your quoted total is an order of magnitude too low, but I don't have time to go through every line item. (Position-Summary ETF tab in the xls file).

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239566/ishares-iboxx-inv...
> I'd drop out for the next year. Take some community college courses

Harvard students have better things to do other than taking community college courses... it is absolutely a waste of time to take classes that are a joke.
What’s up with no-transform?

MITM proxies will still use this on HTTPS sites. I am using a MITM proxy to post this message.
With the new ICE Directive, I wonder how much of “this is the right thing to do” will change.
From a physical well being perspective, remote is right.
But with International student visa statuses at risk, the onus is now on Harvard to enable in person classes for those at risk?
Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel
Maybe the first 20-25 years were better.

Same with IBM: they used to be great back in the day, but now I won't join them (except maybe if I were an IC manufacturing or quantum computing specialist, and the position were in IBM Research).
There are also many many soft skills and experiences you get at a proper university which you aren't going to get through zoom.

In fact, it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that the things you learn out of books and are tested on are secondary to everything else you learn and experience at university.
But not to me, I'm impervious to any disability or death, therefore everyone else should just suck it up
>For this year
Probably dead. No vaccination OR herd immunity === No travel.

If we give it long enough (next year), herd immunity is realistic and we'll likely see travel increase. IMO folks have now learned that most things you can do via travel you can do in a video call, though, and we'll see about 80% of previous business travel. Not a fun time to be an airline.
Underwater Panther
The user's first name was "Christian". He claimed to be Jewish. Most people ignored this bit of cognitive dissonance, and joined the mob. People only hear what they want to hear.
The fed does plenty of things that are outside of the scope of it's charter. Further, we can just change the law, this isn't some immutable truth of central banks. Even within the scope of the fed's mandate we could invent ways to invest in infrastructure instead of Walmart.

> It is astounding how little people understand of what is going on here.

No, you're just a smug asshole.
I'd rather have slightly larger files that don't take hardware acceleration only available on modern CPU to decode without dying (ie, h264). Streaming is creating incentives for bad video codecs that only do one thing well: stream. Other aspects are neglected.

And it's not like any actual 4K content (besides porn, real, nature, or otherwise) actually exists. Broadcast and movie media is done in 2K then extrapolated and scaled to "4K" for streaming services.
true and sad-reflective of the world's state (last 50y)
To be clear, I love Beam. It runs all of my startups stream and batch processing.

I just think the Java API's version...

pipeline = pipeline
.apply("FirstTransform, MyFirstParDo())
.apply("SecondTransform, MySecondParDo())

is much clearer than the Python version...

pipeline = (
pipeline
| "FirstTransform" >> MyFirstParDo()
| "SecondTransform" >> MySecondParDo()
)
> Honestly, the suggestion that software shouldn't be treated as a political issue is something I never thought I'd see being argued in a relatively intelligent and enlightened community like HN.

No, it's just that your definition of "intelligent enlightenment" is bring drown every aspect of life in politics.

I'm so fucking sick of this garbage, please fuck off.
Can you explain how it works: No money is paid from the government (according to you) but they acquire debts (on behalf of citizens) with owed amounts of $8B? How does the original creditor write it off their balance sheet if they don't receive anything?
Looking for a freelance dev to help me with a project
> It is a healthy business that will come back the moment the situation stabilizes.

Sure, then we don't need to finance their debt.
Cool. I wrote a Pascal-to-C++ transcriber in the late 1980s. It was mostly done with RegEx, on a command line.

What a nightmare.

You have cool hobbies.
how about counterfeiting the taxpayer's money?
I"m bullish on this and have been for about 12 months. Watching the growth of Twitch has really opened my eyes to the potential of a "participatory economy" (if that name sticks).

Youtube seems to me to be on the edge of a cliff. They are allowing advertisers to call all of the shots. You see videos all the time about how "Trending" tab or whatever other recommendation section on Youtube favours established/mainstream content. The reason is that brand friendliness is make-or-break for Youtube. If a big enough advertiser complains their ads are in front of CreatorZeke's videos then Youtube is going to do whatever necessary to appease the million dollar spender. That has a chilling effect across the platform as creators divine what kind of content gets the sweet ad $$$.

On Twitch, in comparison, some of the biggest creators don't even show ads. They exist very well on subscriptions and donations. This greatly reduces the effect advertisers have over shaping the content that is created. I think fans are starting to realize this and it will likely continue to generate a sense of freedom on Twitch when compared to Youtube.

It reminds me of the "100 True Fans" article on a16z [1]. It is reasonable for a creator to exist and thrive with 100 to 1000 devoted fans.

1. https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/
Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has only ever been one answer to that question :-)
ChainLink Transfers into Binance Hit $16M
So sorry — LinkedIn strikes again. Thank you for the heads up! Here is an updated link: https://bit.ly/31NLeUE
Yes. Floyd-Hoare logic is worth learning about in this sense — a formal system for imperative languages where the rules essentially say "given preconditions X and code Y, if X is true before you run Y, we guarantee Z to be true afterwards". I've never ever ever proven code correct using this formalism, but that way of thinking permeates my every action as a programmer.
As I understand it there has been no successful enforcement of a software patent so far, and it's ridiculously unlikely that I (as opposed to any other actor in this space) will be the first case. So yeah, I'll take that risk.