skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but all of this probably depends on a tiny detail: did Revlon instruct Citibank to pay the $176.2 million to Brigade Capital?

(1) If the answer is yes, then this qualifies as a payment instruction. In a payment instruction, a bank sends someone money on behalf of the payer and in return claims that amount from the payer. In that case, citibank would have to recover the 176.2 million from Revlon.

(2) If the answer is no and citibank sent out the money by mistake without having been instructed to do so, it should be able to reclaim it from Brigade Capital.

The article mentions that citibank never deducted the paid amount from Revlon's account. This would hint at option (2) being the case.
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I added a shunt based AH meter to my RV that does this, seems pretty standard tech, not sure what the big deal is:

https://www.magnum-dimensions.com/battery-monitor-kit
As a Data Scientist, what challenges do you face?
Some of the challenges I feel prevalent are finding value in data, integrating open source software, not enough platforms for feedback and improvement.
> Those issues usually aren't that big they couldn't be calmly discussed if only they didn't reflect on and resonate with larger things, either personal to either party or long-brewing friction in the relationship due to earlier issues not having, in turn, been discussed at the time.

I'm having a really hard time parsing this sentence. I think I can guess your intended meaning by keywords and tone, but it would be nicer if I didn't have to :)
Famed mathematician William Thurston has a good response here (from On Proof and Progress in Mathematics https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236.pdf):

"The rapid advance of computers has helped dramatize this point, because computers and people are very different. For instance, when Appel and Haken completed a proof of the 4-color map theorem using a massive automatic computation, it evoked much controversy. I interpret the controversy as having little to do with doubt people had as to the veracity of the theorem or the correctness of the proof.

Rather, it reflected a continuing desire for human understanding of a proof, in
addition to knowledge that the theorem is true. On a more everyday level, it is common for people first starting to grapple with computers to make large-scale computations of things they might have done on a smaller scale by hand. They might print out a table of the first 10,000 primes, only to find that their printout isn’t something they really wanted after all. They discover by this kind of experience that what they really want is usually not some collection of “answers”—what they want is understanding."
Fair point. Animals eat each other, and that process is pretty cruel at times. Do animals have a mental concept of cruelty though? Of guilt? I suspect most don't. That does not make their actions less cruel, but it reduces the blame perhaps.

We humans know exactly what's going on. Wr do it anyway. We keep animals in horrible conditions. And we know it. Yet we keep doing it. We treat each other horribly. We have really terrible weapons. We use them anyway. It's cruel and we know it. We spread hate and participate in racism and dehumanisation. Many of us thrive in either participating or at least watching conflict. We celebrate movies depicting humans mistreating or killing each other. We know it and we like it. Oh but it's only against the bad guys!!!1

I think it's not a fair comparison.
There is nothing inherently unhappy about nihilism or what Nietzsche wrote about. Personally, going into existentialism/nihilism has felt freeing since I do not feel obligated to follow societies view on what happiness is or how I'm supposed to have fun or that I have to share a common set of morals. TL;DR "The universe certainly doesn't give a shit, so why not have a bit of fun before it's over?"
Who gets offended then, if not the people the word is about, at all?
> Unless you're in a cushy rent-protected situation, all the municipal services in the world don't mean jack

We can’t afford the our affordable housing program without a quarter of our budget. And if you think homeless services “don’t mean jack” in a city that freezes in the winter, you’re asking for a humanitarian crisis.

De Blasio is an idiot trying to stay relevant by tweeting obnoxious drivel.
As I have long suspected, though computer science is a subset of mathematics, cosmology is actually a subset of computer science.
Lisp also had a reputation for wasting memory. The joke, from back when 4MB was still a lot of RAM, was that emacs is an acronym for "eight megabytes, all continuously swapping."
Sucks how oppressed the billionaires are in today’s society. I hope they can achieve liberation one day.
> How does a hedge fund decide they want to keep money that’s not theirs and fight it in court?

$175m

> And they manage people’s money as a business.

Seems like they are protective about any money that lands on their accounts.

> Who would entrust these people with their money after learning of this case?

If they are giving this money to the fund (that is their customers), whom of them is going to complain?
I'm not sure we can ever tell the difference between the two models. Given the assumption that both produce a "boring" universe, and that models are never completely verifiable, it could be that either pathway appears the same to us at this point in time.
I feel like this is more like if I lend you $1000, and you give your friend $100 to give to me.

Your friend typos the bank transfer and pays me $1000.

I don't think it's unreasonable for me to assume you're paying back the whole loan at that point. Maybe you've come to an arrangement with your friend, maybe you've paid them in cash, whatever, that's between you and your friend. As far as I'm concerned we've concluded our business.

I am not certain that this logic scales to 9 figures.
They're both variations on information theory.
Proving that TikTok is just a money-making enterprise, not a CCP tentacle manipulating foreign elections. Otherwise they you just run it at a loss, like Voice of America or RT.
you'll end up with a skewed rating anyway (either 1 or 5 stars for most ratings).
I have absolutely no sympathy for Citibank in this instance. They're a bank. Their job is to do stuff like facilitate transfers and keep records. That's their primary mission. If they're too incompetent to do that properly then maybe they shouldn't be in business.
so, what's the purpose of this thing. Because taking out "fossil fuels" of a senseless activity just to use up 20% less of our liveable environment, seems -ehm- idiotic?
I'm not the physicist (my mother was), but as I understand it the 'came into existence' is not part of the big bang model.

Big bang only makes sense to a particular energy/time/space limit. All the energy that came to be all the universe already existed. What happened 'before that' doesn't even make sense. I was told that 'creation' type language is a misunderstanding of the big bang.

Is that not still the way it works?
The way I'm put together, both ideas makes me uneasy when I _really_ think about them. There used to be no universe? Ugh :( There's always been an universe? How's that possible? Ugh :(
The bank doesn't have the right to take money out of my account to pay a loan except for what was arranged as a payment plan.

If you accidentally paid off a loan early do you think you would be able to get your money back from the bank?
Headline says Billionaires. Article uses numbers from tax payers that make more than half a million. Classic NYPost.

No billionaire of anyone with any sort of income near those people will benefit their local economy. They will use all sort of tax and financial gymnastics to avoid paying local taxes.

The article talks about people who call NYC their "second home". That's too accurate! Because they make sure their primary residence is Florida to avoid paying NYC and NYS taxes yet park their cars in streets of NYC and enjoy all of (even more of) benefits of being a NYC resident
Ask HN: Are software UX patents still used/enforced?
The last big patent issue I can remember is the [1] Samsung vs Apple on the slide to unlock lawsuit.

Which is strange because it seems software is more homogeneous than ever. Everyone's using the same standardised components and UX designs. Hamburger menus, pinch zoom, pull down to refresh... etc

Have companies given up trying to protect their UX ideas? Or is everyone somehow using open and free ideas, which can't be patented?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/amp/news/tech/apple-wins-120-million-in-slide-to-unlock-patent-infringement-case-against-samsung-1569345.html
Yes but the "theft" in this case is Citibank's incompetence resulting in a decline of shareholder value. Brigade isn't stealing anything.

Imagine three friends. One owes money to another one, and a third acts as some kind of financially responsible intermediary. A owes money to B, and C is the intermediary.

A says to C "Hey pay back B" and even though A means "pay back the portion I owe this month" C "accidentally" pays the loan back to B in full.

Does B have to give the money back? If B refuses to give the money back to C, is B "stealing" fron C?

If anything, the matter has been simplified. Instead of a three-party contract, it becomes a two-party contract between A and C and B can merrily go on her way.
Guys with union cards in the right union can make as much as an average software engineer
This assumes Oracle employs software engineers. Only as a legacy positions grandfathered in.
While there's something to be said about wealth inequality, but the current atmosphere of demonizing the successful/wealthy is a perfect example cutting off one's nose to spite the face.As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I second this. I have recently switched from legacy development to AWS DevSecOps (I was/am an ASC in both roles). I do less development now, but I do more configuration-type work. It's more difficult than straight development, especially since the company doesn't really train us and we don't get a steady diet of one kind if work (today it might be a Python Lambda, tomorrow it might be Java ECS; I've never done the same type of work more than once in my 6 months on the team).

In my case, the salary stayed the same. So with more responsibilities and the same pay, I'm wishing I could go back to legacy development.
It's a nice puzzle, and when I first saw it several years ago I was pleased to solve it. I then performed it live as my 5-minute talk at one of the Annual MathsJam Gatherings, I think in 2015, so I probably solved it in early 2015.

It's been around a lot longer than that - it was on Reddit in 2013, and I'm sure it's older.

Edit: Here's a reference from 2010:

https://eucalculia.blogspot.com/2010/10/prisoners-and-chessb...

Now found in a January 2009 maths journal:

https://web.northeastern.edu/seigen/11Magic/Articles/Two%20A...

The College Mathematics Journal Contents—January 2009
Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 2-76
I wonder what discount they got!
I agree.

There was one short term gig [small start up needed short term help, I was available] and they wanted//needed me to bring my own laptop for work. "Fine by me, is it OK that my laptop runs off of Linux?" It was fine. Everyone was happy. If similar would happen more often that'd be great, but I'm going to cooperate otherwise within reason.
Does anyone know what their current status is? Their FAQs haven't been updated in over a year:

>How many boats have you delivered?

>As of March 2019, we have delivered 10 boats to customers in Sweden, Finland, Austria, the US and the British Virgin Islands.

>When can you deliver?

>We still have a few production slots available for deliveries for the summer of 2020. Scroll down and go to the order page to reserve one.
So ... rootless.h does nothing? I can compile a bash without it that does exactly the same thing? That seems like it would contradict previous comments. What am I not getting?
More like, someone owes you $3m, they have a guy that comes to your house and pays you the instalments for them. They accidentally pay you the full $3m out of their own pocket. As far as you're concerned, that's the money owed to you, so it's their problem to recoup that from the debtor.
Yes, we can be. But most of us are just not.

You raise many good points though.
"However, they are like closed systems, everything that is produced by the forest is used by the forest."

No, they are not. It depends on the type of forest of course, but in general forests produces excess.
We get oxygen out of them. Wood. Meat. Mushrooms. Berries. Herbs .. and recreation.

Also forests grow with the right conditions and they can even create the right conditions to grow, if not bulldozed down, or dried up, or set on fire.

But I agree very much with the point, that it is a very annoying idea, to suddenly be able to feed all the people of the earth with ancient methods, that were not at all able to feed so much people.

(my bet is on highly automated intensive greenhouses, btw.)
The Connecticut Compromise had to do with getting small states on board with the union, so their sovereignty wouldn't just be overpowered by population centers. I think you're thinking of the 3/5 compromise which doesn't have much to do with the electoral college vs direct voting. It's just plain partial-disenfranchisement of blacks.
Bingo! They were supposed to send $1.5 Million "Instead of sending the money from Revlon’s account, Citi transferred $900 million to a group of lenders from its own account," so it is a mistake. Something they said as soon as they found out. Whatever is owed is separate and has to be solved based on that agreement.
We don't need billionaires, we need their money. So tax them heavily and be done with it.
The video reports they have delivered 12. Not exactly producing at scale!
The article claims to be about why billionaires are important, but only really talks about why multi millionaires are important. The difference between a 10x millionaire and a billionaire is basically a billion dollars. I'd be curious how much tax money comes from people with net worth 500 million and up, and I'm betting it's not a lot, relative to the entire budget of the city.
In Italy the TV tax is now auto-included in the facilities bill. You have to explicitly declare that you don't have a TV and repeat it each year.
Stop lights (which maintain a safe flow of traffic) and not paying arbitrary people arbitrarily high sums of money, are not meaningfully comparable to enforcing a single, inflexible schedule on all employees regardless of their work or personal circumstances.

If there is no actual business purpose for it—beyond "I'm the boss and I want it that way"—then why shouldn't the boss be compassionate, and allow flexibility? Meetings with coworkers, as we've seen in the past few months, can work just fine being scheduled at times that actually work for everyone, rather than expecting everyone to be constantly available (and thus never able to truly focus on their actual work).
It's not just for farmland folks. You can have you own mini food forest in your backyard in the span of 5 years. You just have to start.

Check out my YouTube channel [1] if you find yourself wanting to learn more. I'm trying to get 1,000 subs to unlock mobile streaming so I can go live during weekends while tending to an establishing food forest.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini
I thought the mortgage was given to you and you transferred the money to the seller when the deal is completed?

I'm scared to think what would have happened if it were me, the money sent to the seller, not suspecting any error at all and unable to return anything.
Evan Miller argues that it's probably simplest to stick with thumbsup/thumbsdown, but not to fall into the trap of using dead-simple analysis methods like "Score = (Positive ratings) − (Negative ratings)".

Instead he argues you should use the "Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter". He provides that equation and example code to calculate it (Ruby, SQL, and/or Excel).

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709405

https://www.evanmiller.org/bayesian-average-ratings.html

https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...

https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin...

(Found these links shared by another user a couple of weeks ago[0])

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089960
I don't envy anyone whose world is ending because you have some issues with IMAP (but I guess it's not so serious that you can't temporarily use their web interface).

Also, if it actually is urgent, you don't send a support email, you call them on the phone.
The issue with this view is that in the universe we see today the gravitational force is not strong enough to do what you describe here. There is acceleration of the expansion i.e. energy is added to the system (in the form of vacuum energy possibly).

To say it in another way, the energy used to expand the universe today is not only the initial force imparted by the big bang but is added to as part of quantum processes in empty space. However as the universe expands, the amount of matter (dark + luminous) does not increase so the proportion of gravity/matter to dark energy (the force that accelerates the expansion) is getting lower and we get an acceleration.

These observations exclude the possibility of a "big crunch".

Disclaimer: I am a statistician not a cosmologist but this is how I have understood it.
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Why would they do that? They’ll no doubt control the credit agencies so there is no need for them to track anyone that has a credit card :/
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That presumes that the "IT system" is capable of making huge actions by itself (or by itself via a bug or operator error): that immediately makes alarm-bells ring in my head because it says the IT system's security/authorization system isn't operating on the basis of least-privilege.

There are ways to engineer automated processes to prevent things like this from ever happening, for example, all transactions over, say, $10m, could be required to be signed using PKI keys held only on smartcards physically held by those involved - and the big-fat-table that holds transactions in their IBM Z-series would be automatically audited to undo any transactions lacking the necessary signatures. And all of this should be evident in the printed hardcopy that the gov-level auditors would love to see.

...and that's just an idea off the top of my head right now at 5am (and a bottle of IPA) and I've never worked in fintech or banking.

Given that shady stuff happens at the highest-levels inside legacy banking institutions (e.g. HSBC and the South American drugs trade - or Deutsche Bank and sanctioned Russian entities... and the current White House occupant) - and because I know that these banks do hire great engineers for their internal systems - that "clerical errors" don't happen like this - something fishy is afoot and I guarantee that we'll never know the truth.
The chaining of requests/method-calls is a really interesting concept.
Lol, it's not an economic loss, it's money paid back. Its not that hard to understand.

If the money doesn't get paid back, THEN it would be an economic loss. For the hedge fund.
I thought the universe is too big as to contract again?
How many persons is he planing to put in the prototype and in the final version? My guess is that it will be very small, more like a base in Antarctica or an off-shore oil platform.
A circle doesn’t have a beginning or an end, yet folks seem to be okay dealing with them.

Personally, I’m stumbling on understanding physical fields. This looks like another field is being added, which is nice in some sense, but why do we have the number of fields that we do and what conditions are needed to create/sustain physical fields?
Ok. They put an electric motor on a hydrofoil. Where is the innovation? This isn't new stuff. Anyone can buy a hydrofoil hull and install an electric motor. The limitation always was, and remains, the wild impracticality inherent to hydrofoils regardless of power source.
The Kubernetes resource model is the real lingua franca
Seeing that most of the URL's have unique strings in them that could be expected right? ;)
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This also seems like a recipe for soil degradation and erosion.
People need to enjoy the outdoors in order to care about preserving it.
Actually doing mapping ideally requires a bit more understanding than a map user might want to acquire. So it may make sense to provide a correction and then let people with more expertise apply their knowledge to the problem, rather than stumble about and maybe make more work for somebody else.

Perhaps you notice that (as a gross example too large to be likely) the big field a few kilometres away from you that's used to fly aeroplanes isn't labelled on OSM. You don't know much about maps or aeroplanes, but it's not on there.

If you go into an OSM editor and tell it that's an airport you're probably unintentionally adding false information. Because it probably isn't an airport, there's a good chance OSM cares exactly what it is, like maybe it distinguishes controlled and uncontrolled airfields, maybe it would prefer you label the area one way, and then also label any marked runway (perhaps there isn't one) separately. There's a Wiki full of instructions about the best way to label things. Sometimes there are also local conventions, maybe the Wiki says not to distinguish uncontrolled airfields, but in your area a convention has arisen to add a specific marker for them. All this is stuff that an editor ideally should know, but a random person who thinks "Hey why isn't this on the map" doesn't know.
My biggest problem with the big bang is why didn't the incredible density of energy (it hadn't cooled enough for matter) just turn into a black hole?

The big bounce avoids this particular problem.
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From my understanding, Taleb criticizes the native use of synthetic quantitative models with strong assumptions like VaR because they give a wrong picture of the real risks. But I don’t think that his point is that risk management is worthless.
There's one for sale in Florida for 295 grand. I can't imagine it's supposed to cost that much, so I'm assuming that either it's someone scalping one of the first 12 due to scarcity, or they'll be dropping prices significantly as they increase production quantities.

A super nice diesel boat like this would cost 20-50k. And 50 nautical miles range is... not much. I love boats, but it's hard for me to imagine the use case here. Hopefully it's like Tesla and all improves very rapidly (price, range, etc) after the early batches.
Take a look there: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx... Couple test cases: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/avs_dx/Co...

The transpiler is in C++/17. The source language is something called NSEEL, implemented in Winamp couple decades ago. The original runtime was a JIT into old-school x87 code. The target language is Microsoft HLSL, specifically it’s for shader model 5 for Direct3D 11.0.

I have little to no background with compiler development, but IMO my transpiler ain’t too bad, and it’s very efficient.
Look into Ubiquiti. I use their UniFi line of products from networking to security cameras in 2 places and I’m very very pleased. Everything runs on PoE. They also sell some solar accessories called SunMAX.

Most of their products require a phone to set them up. My father in law has an AP I setup once 2 years ago and never needed the mobile app again.
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