skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it a problem that they are still on the balance sheets? The instruments that have maturity will eventually vanish on their own, and the Fed can sell off the rest later.

It's better to do QE than "wait out" a recession, or wait for Congress. (Plus QE keeps the national debt service costs down too.)

The asset bubbles are not the real signs of inequality. After all, if every US citizen would have some savings and some of that in passive index funds, no one would complain about this. The problem is that people have no money, no disposable income, no savings, no job security, etc.
Show HN: KwickBox – The Digital CV Revolution
You spent four hours of your life thinking about a rich guy that likes to have sex with young women and underage girls?

At most, he was working for intelligence agencies creating blackmail material. Not even the story of the year, let alone the decade. Even if he was actually murdered in prison by powerful people or an intelligence agency it wouldn't be very interesting. There's no broad trend. No betrayal of public trust. Just run of the mill spy stuff.

The strongest result of the Epstein incident is that it will serve as a strong warning to powerful men not to put themselves in a compromising position.
Most telecoms in the world are,In Canada Bell Canada,Telus and Rogers own almost 90% of the market. When Verizon tried to enter the market the big three lobbied so hard against Verizon, even Verizon with all its capitol could not get in to Canadian.In the end customers in Canada are still paying very high fees for data plans anywhere in the world. Eventually India will get there.
Perhaps, but it's not enough of an advantage to keep the rest of the planet from using metric in construction. Generally you don't need more than 2-3 decimal places at whatever scale you're working at.
Have you tried contacting Apple customer service?
Active control of bsound through the open aperture of a full-sized window
I teach mathematics at a large R1 state university. His comments echo my experience. Online is really different, both for the instructor AND for the student. Most instructors don't know how to teach online, and most students (even very good ones) don't know how to learn online.

- Reading the room: students, by default, turn off all their cameras and microphones, despite my request (we cannot require this) that they turn them on if there are no privacy, bandwidth, or other issues. Whereas in a classroom, a student can signal confusion merely by frowning or half-raising a hand, I now need to ask a prepared question or give them a real pause.

- Avoiding distraction: there is not much one can do. The things one can use to hold attention in a live in-person lecture -- telling bad math jokes, etc -- don't translate easily. In particular, if you can't see or hear your audience, it can be a little dangerous to try to be funny.

- Establishing command: did not have this problem. I would in any case say this differently: the issue is building rapport with students. Since we switched to online in March, I had half a semester to get to know my students (small class, 20 or so) which really helped.

None of this says online is a non-starter, but it should be organized very differently. One can do recorded lectures and live structured problem sessions (i.e., flip the classroom), or give students more preparatory activity to do, etc. Many of these are sound things to do in a live in-person classroom anyway; online is just not so forgiving and exposes many of the flaws of the traditional lecture format. And students need to be taught how to learn in this environment from the get-go.

Finally, I'll say that the technology has a ways to go. It would be really great if multiple people could talk over each other as if they were in the same room. If video degraded more gracefully (because many students do not have stable enough connections at home) while maintaining audio. If various apps with white boards gave students the ability to "see" your previous boards. (A couple programs do this, e.g., MS Teams, but AFAIK not Zoom.)

And he didn't mention the nightmare that is assessment. I taught a small class to a group of bright, emotionally mature juniors and seniors. Teaching first year students is a completely different story. This is something we're working hard on, with a summer to prepare instead of just a week (our transition happened over spring break). But it's not easy.

Edit: I suppose one way to summarize the above is to say that all the issues can be addressed, but online makes the energy barrier higher (or friction greater, whatever analogy you like) for both instructors and students.
> Of course I also always argue against using the cloud for anything sensitive as “the cloud is really, just someone else’s computers”.

This is too simplistic: employing that argument obligates you to show how you’re mitigating the same threats on your own, especially with regards to ops and security staffing. I have considerably more confidence in any major cloud provider having robust internal monitoring than the typical corporate VMware deployment, and that even extends to bare metal unless you can air-gap it — if you get a bare metal server from AWS, Azure, Google, etc. they’ve still put more work into the firmware, management interfaces, etc. than most IT groups do and those are very juicy attack surfaces.
That would probably be illegal in most jurisdictions in the US.

I don't understand the big fuss over rounding in the discussion of eliminating the penny. Rounding happens. We already round sales tax up or down to the nearest penny--this would just round up or down to the nearest nickel.

But while we are on the subject, I think we should eliminate nickels and quarters at the same time as the penny and just round to the nearest dime. (Let's put the 50 cent piece of of its misery while we are at it too--just dollars and dimes). Rounding to the nearest ten cents is plenty specific enough given the accumulated inflation/devaluation of currency over the years and you basically get to simply knock off one decimal digit of precision for each transaction which makes things more straightforward. Also, US dimes are small and lightweight, making them easy to carry relative to other coins.
Funding curators: Techmeme becomes inaugural discovery partner (with Scroll)
I've had this game sitting in my backlog for months.

I've got a few days off work this week so need to give it a shot. I was never sure looking at videos and screenshots what sort of game it actually is.
BigQuery Omni
$12.50 an hour, how does someone make a living from that?
Just like how GCC and Clang/LLVM know all the quirks of various CPUs and can optimize accordingly, GraphQL compiler aims to know the quirks of various databases (down to individual database versions: e.g., in Postgres 12 certain kinds of CTEs are no longer an optimization barrier) and optimize accordingly.

This is clearly a massive challenge, but one made easier by the fact that GraphQL compiler queries (unlike SQL queries) operate at a much higher level of abstraction. In SQL, you write "here's a CTE, now recursively JOIN X.foo to Y.bar" where X and Y could be just about anything, even something where a recursive JOIN is nonsensical. If you want to put a WHERE clause, you have to decide whether it goes in the recursive CTE itself, in a separate CTE that is ordered before the recursive CTE, or if you want to wrap the recursive CTE into another SELECT and put the WHERE there. The correct answer varies from database to database, and as a function of the size, layout, and index coverage of your data.

In GraphQL compiler, your queries are much more declarative in comparison: your query would say "find all subgraphs where vertex A's field 'foo' has value 123, and where A has a recursively-expanded edge (i.e. 0+ hops along that edge) to a vertex with field 'bar' with value 456". It's then the compiler's job to figure out which of the many equivalent SQL statements (or other db language queries, if you aren't using SQL) is going to be the best way to compute the result you asked for.

Here's an example from our test suite:
input query: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/graphql-compiler/blob...

Microsoft SQL Server-flavored compiled SQL output: https://github.com/kensho-technologies/graphql-compiler/blob...

I'm writing a blog post about this with more detail, follow me on Twitter if you'd like to see it when it comes out.
> It’s not an enormous amount of space, really, hence IPAM. You could divide it on non-8-bit boundaries. Oof.

Why not? I do this all the time.
this is a fair point, but isn't resilience against outside interference a key feature for any political system? we haven't exactly achieved world peace yet.
Yes! This has been driving me insane. I spent an hour on support with Apple, was sent to Best Buy, but do to COVID-19, cannot get an "appointment" for a replacement for 2 months... I should have opted for a mailed replacement. :/
Self hosting is only best if you want maximum control. But most people can't handle that imagined level of control in reality, at least not on the same level as a major cloud platform. AWS (or GCP or Azure) infrastructure is overwhelmingly more likely to be able to do security better from a maintenance, intrusion handling or physical security perspective than any single organization can do, especially organizations smaller than AWS. The tradeoff is that despite how much AWS can claim to not touch your data, and all the feature, contract and compliance documentation they have to show for it, you can never be sure they're not touching it (deliberately or by accident).

Self hosting is not about confidentiality. For nearly all categories of "confidential data", I would much much rather have it in a major cloud platform than running in some closet somewhere or in some random colocation center somewhere, all other circumstances being equal.

Self hosting is about how much you want to be in control, regardless of your capabilities to actually be in control.
Homemade yes, DIY not really.
The power indicator on my rack mount server has a single blue LED that projects a 2 foot blue circle of light onto the wall about 2 feet away from it.
Plenty of people will charter a yacht for anywhere from $10000 to a million a week.
I use Mint Mobile (a T-Mobile MVNO) and I also get an IP Address that officially belongs to the UK Ministry of Defense. I have always found it weird.
> I've tried both podman and lxd with success but I'm curious, what do you use a tool like that for, mostly?

I use podman for dev and test environments, CI and CD workers and testing OCI containers that I eventually deploy in K8S. No production use cases. Hoping to soon see K3S working inside podman though, and then I would use it for deploying K3S :)
Now adays I simply don't care about spam. It goes in the spam box and is a wasted effort for the criminal
Re cameras, mine is the opposite: a colleague in a different department was told one cannot require that cameras be one. Most students do not volunteer to turn them on, and very few leave their microphones on. No feedback this way either.
The US actually has one dollar coins, and it's common for vending machines to spit them out as change. They're the exact same size as the Canadian loonie.
I desperately want to put an actuated camera on that, and wear a VR helmet, so you can see the arms from your point of view.
You bring up an interesting point. How do people feel about boot camps? I looked into them a while ago when a friend asked me for a recommendation since he was interested in switching careers. The reviews and experiences I came across were mixed. Some positive and a lot of mediocre ones. Boot camps didn’t seem like they were the disruption to 4 year degrees they were once billed as.

If online bootcamps and schools were killing it right now then I could see the argument that they’re the ones to watch. But as it stands I don’t know that there’s an obvious winner. Like you said, universities might be the ones who end up driving the change.
They don't

There's a lot of bad advice on secret storage that is Not Based On A Threat Model™
Yeah, kind of a bad way to begin a primer on financial statements... with a novice mistake. My accounting professor used the acronym DEAD: Debits increase Expenses, Assets, and Dividends.
> can't even figure out how to stop making a coin that is worthless

One might wonder whether the problem isn't bureaucracy per se, but rather that there are actually many larger dead-weight losses in the government that are being focused on, such that this one is comparatively trivial and doesn't even register on the priorities list.

For everything else you can say about it, the current administration has been heavily focused on "ways the government can be improved by doing less" (i.e. "red-tape reduction.") And yet, it has still not even mentioned considering doing this. I'm guessing the elimination of pennies is just not the low-hanging fruit it seems to be — there are fruit even lower.
Counterpoint: Jira.
UK Culture Secretary's statement on Huawei
Source on this? Maybe you can do it if it's combined with wifi/bluetooth signals, but I doubt you can do it with cell towers alone.
Change them to 20 cent, "fifths" :-)
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Fear not! I am a ~heathen~ American cousin and would have perfectly understood the reference to sweets. Though I can't speak for all my brethren, I would think most could at least infer what you were talking about.
You could imagine a scheme in which the company running the data centers ran hypervisor software made by intel on chips made by intel. You trust intel, and you trust their software and hardware does as advertised, but you don't need to trust the hosting company (Google).

The software would run your VM, and provide some kind of API which your VM could query to be sure it was running in a secure enclave, managed by Intel's signed software. The result of the API could be signed with Intel's key.
I think you can make the case in the US, some states like AZ or FL have cases up 10x but deaths are up only 2x, even accounting for a 2 week lag.

As for India, the climate doesn't readily compare to our conception of summer/winter, and if the virus only started to pick up spread recently, we have no earlier baseline to compare to.

Like I said, "disappear" is too string of a word, but the correlation is definitely there, just like with many other viruses.
This article isn't very convincing to me. I mean, I one hundred percent buy that eventually consistent stream processing systems can theoretically be subject to unbounded error. But eventual consistency isn't just a theoretical model. It's also a practical engineering decision, and so in order to evaluate its use for any given business purpose we have to see how it performs in practice. That is, what is the average/99.9%/max error? And we have to understand how business-critical the correct answer is. This article has some great examples of theoretical issues with eventually consistent stream processing computation, but it doesn't demonstrate that any real systems evince these problems under any given workload.
The name is good
I remember Polo mints going from 4.5p to 5p in ~1975. (I was 7 and such things were important...). It's curious that the minimum possible percentage increase then was 11%, but now, when Polo mints are around 60p, the minimum possible increase is 1.7%. Getting rid of all coins < 5p would return us to the same "granularity". (And possibly be inflationary.)
Definitely agreed for Devops. I have been searching for a new role and most the vendors prefer AWS over GCP/Azure. I think it's a 3:1 ratio in terms of roles available for AWS versus GCP/Azure combined.
it will survive just fine
That is common with Cloudflare... Never understood why so many tech. praise them when clearly many of their claims are false. You would think that 99% of the internet was under a ddos attack 99% of the time.
I think you're confusing non-US with non-English
How much water do these datacenters consumer for cooling purposes? Especially in dry and water-scarce areas like AZ/CA
First time I find an exception to Betteridges law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
In the linked thread multiple people have tried contacting customer support. Apparently this is one of the responses:

> Hello *,

> This is Paul from Apple Developer Program Support. It was nice to speak with you today. I have researched the issue for you.

> For one or more reasons, your enrollment in the Apple Developer Program could not be completed. We are unable to continue with your enrollment at this time.

> Best regards,

> Paul

> Apple Inc.
> Every language that goes all-in on type safety (Haskell, OCaml, F#, Scala) ends up being too hard to actually use in day-to-day programming.

F# is the most pleasant, practical day-to-day programming language that I have personally used. Scala is also quite nice.
I agree. There's lots of interesting services or functionality in AWS. I find that my company limits what we use, either based on money or lack of forward thinking. Plus, most of the problems we solve are trivial. There's so much I'll never get a chance to use.
The actual paper is available [pdf]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.054

[Edit] Notes:

• People tested have all 3 cones but reduced function of one type (‘anomolous trichromats’) — either green (‘deuteranomoly’) or red (‘protoanomoly’). These are the most common forms of colour blindness.

• “All tests were performed without the glasses.” Hypothesis that the brain is being trained to compensate for the weak cones, like an audio equalizer [my analogy].

• They were testing a (patented) commercial product, in which one of the authors is invested. There may be specifics of the notch filters in the patent that were not in the paper. (I'm at work and not allowed to read active patents.)
>West vs East Germany was as good an experiment as anyone is likely to ever see.

Both the U.S and U.S.S.R pumped huge amounts of money and resources into "their" Germany. Both sides needed to show that their economic model was the correct one. This rather pollutes the results of any experiment.

Additionally, West Germany was heavily industrialised and had much more in the way of natural resources. East Germany in contrast was mostly agricultural. In the immediate aftermath of WW2 the western allies agreed to dismantle factories in West Germany and send the equipment and materials to the east.

A better example would be one where a country divides into communist & capitalist states and has no interference from the outside world. I don't know if such an example exists.
Tiktok is changing the mindset of our generation
What did Apple say when you contacted them? The dev phone support with real people has always been quite good for me, or the general Apple online support system or their Twitter support system? As those methods would probably be the most helpful since they would be able to see what’s going on with your particular account.
"It's only work if someone makes you do it"

how true
JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
Hello friends,

I'm a Full Stack Developer from India. I'm a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven't spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It's been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I'm the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don't have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org https://www.change.org/p/github-inc-my-github-account-suspen... some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.

My support ticket number: 763327

GitHub Profile: https://github.com/yg

Save Open source developers!

Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!
‘educational’ as in math blasters, so this war of mine is not ‘educational’

given that stream of thought u could also argue civ v or skyrim or any other game is an educational game. why, you are learning something while playing league, right?

it’s pedantic to claim this war of mine is educational when it was clearly meant for a general gaming audience. that is why it being on a reading list is significant.

you should try the game
“Ugly” is in the eye of the beholder. I for one can't complain about the font.
I saw a comment on 4chan recently:

"Social media was a mistake and the creators should be tried for crimes against humanity"
How about a catchy headline that tells me what I am looking at?
That's so insanely devoid of any information it should be framed and exhibited somewhere.
I was taught in elementary school (in the US) that punctuation inside the quotes is correct usage in the UK. It was good of them to note when we were so young that the rules we were being taught were not universal and that we shouldn't freak out if we encounter a text using different rules.
> For one or more reasons,

That's not a response, that's an insult.
>Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to converse on it is a secondary feature.

Isn't that just every social media or discussion site? This seems like a nothing statement.
Interesting. I wonder if a $1000/month insurance linked to a customer's subscription would be enough to provide a 1000x cover? Essential proving that the risk quotient is < 1/1000 subscriptions. Such an offering by a cloud provider might make a huge statement.
Confidential VM is essentially productizing AMD SEV technology. Intel will have something similar on the market in the (hopefully near) future.

Given that AWS and Azure also use AMD and Intel equipment, I'd expect them to introduce similar functionality. (AWS is probably closer as SEV support is built into Linux, whereas Windows has no support for it as far as I can tell.)
I’ve read over the plans, doesn’t look to be that hard assuming you already know how to weld decently.
It's an interesting question. Perhaps if you use fewer developers, a few humans will have another professional occupation which may reduce their income, and their CO2, or perhaps hiring more developers to do unnecessary tasks prevent a few humans to have jobs that produce more CO2. I feel like it's very difficult to model.

I also think that workers should be responsible for the CO2. Because otherwise, who is responsible?
I'd be surprised if anyone from Apple would reply here. The problem seems to be with the payment processing, so a quick call to their support would yield faster resolution. Sometimes they have asked my card details over the phone to renew my membership, so you could request a callback.
Get a load of this robot that plugs in cables
AWS encryption at rest comes in two flavors: their managed keys protect against the threat you managed (which is still important for some compliance targets) but if you use customer-managed keys you can go further and protect against compromises in your accounts - server A only has access to encrypt, server B can only decrypt, role C in account D can encrypt data before transferring it, even the account root user can’t update the policy to break that, etc. It’s considerably more work but also more benefit.
Odd that you are talking about security breaches with this..

I figured sites wouldn't want to accept it because they know you are most likely filtering their emails so they have a much less chance of getting through to you.

If someone is stealing emails/passwords from a site obviously they will just strip characters after the plus to obtain your normal email address?