skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the fed did not buy those US treasuries.

The fed bought a bunch of crap bonds from the market at above market value (As prior to their involvement, those bonds were tanking), and the people who sold them those bonds then went on to buy treasures and securities.

It socialized the risk, and privatized the profits.
Embrace - complete

Extend - in progress

Extinguish - todo
She was pushed out, so that she cannot succeed Merkel. She was promoted out of her target job.
A lot of people in the Rust community (yours truly including) are trying to work out how to build UI frameworks in this paradigm. It's a really interesting question, if anyone has any good input, I'm alll ears.
I've got no idea about her being corrupted or not, but for sure citing "common knowledge" doesn't prove anything.
You missed my point; perhaps I wasn’t clear. Manufacturers can charge whatever price. Price gouging is only when you scoop up already made products to sell at a higher price, no value add.
I sure appreciate these show notes with the time stamps. I wish every podcast and YouTube lecture had them!
Product Planning, OKRs, & Harry Potter
A framework for better product planning cycles, illustrating good (and bad) OKRs in the Harry Potter universe
That's not really helpful as there is no discussion on that post
Ripcord,Inc. – Senior Software Engineer – Platform – Hayward – SF, CA
The nanny state... I heard this expression about 15 years ago, and it is still true today.
air conditioner; does that mean adding a smell to the air?
We're working to make the UX a lot better. For now just click "share" (you have to be signed in) and share the "join" link.

Here is a tutorial: https://docs.repl.it/tutorials/05-pair-programming-using-mul...
Great article. A snippet from the conclusion that I found particularly interesting: "History of science all too often highlights "superstar" scientists who have illustrious careers, overcoming great obstacles and resistance to new ideas, leading to a public vindication, sometimes followed by a Nobel Prize. Miescher’s story is different. There was no immediate recognition nor ultimate vindication in his case, yet his discovery proved fundamental for the whole of modern biology. Excavating stories such as his from the past, and incorporating them into the history of genetics, helps us portray the process of science more realistically."
I'll be disappointed if Super Metroid doesn't make this list of yours.
Back when I was in college, GoDaddy let my at the time close friend break into my account and steal several of my domains, including https://strategywiki.org. This was while I was on an overseas study and couldn't regularly check in. GoDaddy gave me no recourse to dispute.

He had server access because I trusted him. He wasn't supposed to have access to my domain account, and I didn't share my credentials.

I had another friend on the account because I was paying for his domain and wanted to let him administer DNS. They conspired together and were able to leverage this access and the lack of account ACLs to transfer everything away.

This was well over a decade ago.

They never invested in StrategyWiki, so it never realized the vision I had for the site. I had started to pay contributors and invest in content to bootstrap.

This guy came from the MediaWiki purge of video game guides and felt like he owned and deserved the site, despite the fact that I had created most of the original content. He was ten years older, well paid, and threatened me with a lawsuit. I was a college kid and couldn't do anything.

I learned a hard lesson. It's stuck with me.
Just doing my part to make the user experience a good one!
Since this seems very common, I would suggest use GoDaddy to search for Domains, whenever you are sure, that you never would buy it. Let them eat their own dog shit.
Why is this article so filled with question-marks? The opinions and anecdotes attributed to various names from around the world do not seem to form a coherent thesis nor address the headline.

I'm not even clear whether Betteridge's Law applies. The answer seems to be "maybe?".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I am working with a small company and this is an ongoing debate regarding how to best bill our customers for the work we do. Our product is an extremely long-term, high-value proposition. It effectively replaces & automates large swathes of our customers' legacy business processes.

For our customers, an hourly rate is a non-starter, despite the appealing nature of using a rate-based billing approach to head off scope creep and change requests. They need something more concrete with comprehensive up-front terms. We are starting to look at a model where the features are on individual contracts based upon their specific complexity:

"<Some Business Feature> will cost you $X to implement, another $Y/year to support and will take ~W months to reach acceptance testing phase. Minimum contract term is Z years."

This gives each customer an opportunity to prioritize specific sub-components of the product that are most important to them so that we are not implementing things without net positive business value.

We also figured out that we need to push acceptance testing and delivery timing back onto the customer so that they understand that longer timetables are a direct consequence of scope creep, change requests or their non-participation in the process. Since this is kind of a marriage between the organizations, we have built a "core" product that is a lower-stakes implementation and covers a few basic business processes. This allows for a less intense trial phase of the product where the customer can see how the overall process works for them. If they decide it's what they are looking for (i.e. they can see the business value), then we talk about tacking on the additional discrete feature modules and signing longer-term contracts.

I think our most important realization is that not all customers are compatible with our product, how much it costs, or the way we go about implementing it. The core piece of this equation is the customer being able to see through all the noise to the business value. If we cannot make the value clear to them, then we are not in any position to be talking about pricing or which features should be implemented in what order.
Her son worked in the silicon valley office in a very junior position at the time. That's very far removed from the German public sector consulting. And where did you get that bit about commissions? I'm pretty sure that McKinsey doesn't pay any commissions whatsoever to junior consultants.
>>We can more easily onboard new developers to just the parts immediately relevant to them, instead of the whole monolith.

>Correct me if I'm wrong but don't folders and files and repos do this? Does this make sense to you that it has to be broken down into hardware?

This entire post is literally about using folders (directories) and files to enforce boundaries...
I don't think people in the tech world use them. People in the non-tech world trying to do tech (e.g. small business owners) use them because they are the only hosting company and domain registrar with name brand recognition.
> It does seem like there are also legitimate concerns about refactorability and extensibility of DOD code.

On the contrary, that's why people adopt DOD designs. It's way easier to add new stuff without breaking existing code/designs in a way that harms them.
I don't think they ever said that it was a true mirror image, just that it was two antiparallel strands.

The original Watson and Crick model was almost perfecftly correct even without the need for explicit 3D crystal structure, the major problem being that the water content of the fiber used in the study was wrong, so they made a model of A-DNA structure, rather than B-DNA structure. If you look down the axis of the double helix in the W&C structure, there is significant free space in the interior because of the way the bases have moved, where in B-DNA, the itnerior is packed with tightly stacked bases.

[edit: I had forgotten that the original W&C paper says there are only two H-bonds between G and C rather than 3, which is another detail of the structure which was not completely correct.]
No, I mean $ usually means end-of-string (or end-of-line) in regexps. But TIL in BREs, $ means literal character in the middle of an expression:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd...
For reference, see this article in the Lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...
Nvidia Broadcast App
Nonsense. Von der leyen was proposed by the council, consisting of representatives from every country, and by extension representative for the voters in every country. She was then confirmed by a majority of the EU parliament, which is directly elected by the citizens. Every EU citizen voted in those elections, or had the opportunity to. So, if only a “very few” voted that is on them. If their elected representatives did things they didn’t like (like confirming von der leyen), that is on them also, in the next parliamentary elections.

What you are complaining about is that she was elected by newly elected representatives, but not directly elected by citizens. I find this to be hairsplitting and meaningless in a context of representative democracy.
An important assessment of invasive plants in Kenya
It does, in recent years, the flu death tolls have been below average mortality - Levitt's been looking at EuroMOMO for this.
There's a browser plugin called Octotree which does a pretty good job of this, but I'd prefer it to be builtin.
I do something similar to move small files via copy-and-paste to/from hosts that I have to reach through an intermediate jump host.

Rather than copying the file to the jump host, then to the remote host, I'll just gzip and base64 encode it, then copy and paste it to the remote host.
What happened to man pages?
Oh, I should have clarified, I was wondering about in home purifiers
Italian, Scorsese's short film ITALIANAMERICAN [0] is uncannily representative, @~7:20 the husband outright declares cooking isn't his line of work.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYl93p0ksc
Well, I was under the impression/illusion that Dropbox was profitable long before that but it looks like https://www.engadget.com/dropbox-records-first-profit-ever-1... I was wrong.

> While many companies struggle through the pandemic, Dropbox seems to be doing well. In its first quarter, it brought in $455 million, an increase of 18 percent compared to the same period last year. According to Bloomberg, last quarter was the first time that Dropbox recorded net income since going public in 2018. In other words, it took a pandemic to make the company profitable.
Show HN: Marker – open source hand-drawn illustrations
Fairly certain GP referred to the market cap, not the number of businesses on Shopify's platform.
Amusingly, if you query GoDaddy for "godaddy-is-an-ongoing-criminal-enterprise.com", they claim it is "unavailable", although it's not in "whois" and other registrars say it is available. I was curious to see if GoDaddy would actually register that domain for themselves. Network Solutions used to do that, which was really annoying.
Cheaters can still automate inputs, decision making and what not. Honestly, given how games these days are straight up designed to be addictive, I'd even say they should be automated in order to cure people of their addiction to stuff like daily rewards.

There's just no way it's going to work unless there's trust between the people playing. Can't trust randoms.
Influenza and Noro/Calicivirus (Winter vomiting disease) stats for Sweden this year. Social distancing and increased hygiene measures implemented mid March, about week 11, killed them off much earlier than usual.

Influenza: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/globalassets/statistik-u...

Calicivirus (Vinter vomiting disease): https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/0ad710ef37...
Unfortunately, the same rule that applies to shorting overpriced companies ("The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent") also applies to going long on underpriced ones. They can remain underpriced indefinitely.

The formula is reasonably well founded, as far as it goes. Take the cash and debt into account, figure that as a ratio to past revenue, and you can figure out what a stock "should" be worth -- if its revenue persists.

But the stock price may not reflect that for a lot of reasons. A value investor should look into the market, management, and other broader conditions as well. This is a decent metric to start with -- one that you kinda don't need to pay them $200 a year for. Especially since a value investor would buy and hold.
There were only a handful of games that really required it. Most people I knew only used the 3D effect as a novelty every now and then.

I wonder maybe a VR 3DS emulator could emulate it the best?
RG3D: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game
google-sheets-as-an-app seems to make a ton of sense given you could write other scripts on top of all this + easily connect to apps ... really neat!
Design Guidelines for the Future of AR Eyewear
Tell HN: New Facebook Design Sucks
Does anyone here actually like the redesign of desktop version of Facebook? I am no UX expert, but it feels like it breaks all the basic UX/UI rules. I keep switching back to the old version, but I fear that won't be a option soon.

On the bright side, it could potentially help me to ditch FB once and for all.
The EU is not a great place for innovation, period. Here are the major problems:

1. No common language

2. Incredibly high taxes, particularly sales taxes

3. Unfinished transition out of Communism in many Eastern Countries

4. Preference for cheap illegal labor instead of automation

This could be solved by:

1. Formalising an 'EU English' language so that schools teaching it can open up around the continent and families can move from one country to another without having to pay for extortionate international schools

2. Eliminate payroll taxes, limit sales taxes to a maximum of 10%. Deport all illegal immigrants (who are huge burdens on the State and society) and raise pension ages to 70 in order to save money. Limit bachelor degrees to the top 20% of the population and Master's degrees to the top 10%, to encourage people into the workforce earlier in life. Raise taxes on land and pollution.

3. Limit EU funding for countries like Bulgaria that have not transitioned to modern Democracy or Bureaucracy.

4. Withdraw from the UN convention on refugees, deport all illegal immigrants, pay and help North African countries to guard their own coastlines, and replace migrants with robots and automation.

This will immensely boost the living standards of the average European, but hurt bureaucrats and old-money.
Data so far seems to suggest the opposite. Countries with harder enforcement of face masks seems to have had larger outbreaks later.

There has been earlier WHO studies that suggests improper use of masks may be detrimental, but it might just as well be confounding effects of something else.
I get it, I get it, enterprises find it easier to pay large amounts than small amounts or whatever and good enterprise salespeople can make that happen because “they’re good”. But jeez, $15k/month?! Yikes.
I've heard Lulu (https://lulu.com) mentioned the most as a direct competitor of sorts to Amazon's KDP (with a much wider reach than just KDP) if you still want something of a "real retail" type reach.

Also, I've seen a surprising number of DRM free novels turn to itch.io if you are looking for a "non-traditional" approach, but someone to handle a lot of the "storefront basics" for you. This seems to be an extension of itch.io becoming a major hub for indie TTRPGs, because a indie designer can just throw a simple PDF (and maybe a DOCX or an EPUB) on itch.io as opposed to the effort that DriveThruRPG/RPGNow want in PDF formatting. Then a few TTRPG related novels started using the platform, and like I've said I've seen a surprising set of novels that aren't even directly game related at this point. itch.io's flexibility in what they will publish/host is an interesting strength (though makes it a bit more caveat emptor than a traditional retailer from a consumer side searching for interesting books).
FreeCAD lets you do parametric modelling and well as seeing all of your changes while you're making them.

OpenSCAD is constructive solid geometry and you write a script then render it. You can essentially only create STL geometries with OpenSCAD, if you just plan to model and 3D print single parts OpenSCAD might be sufficient, anything more complex, particularly assemblies with multiple parts and you'll need a different CAD platform.

In general parametric modeling is far more popular it's how solidworks, onshape, fusion360, etc. work.
It's something that's felt by scientists who've developed a hypothesis they want verified. Keen interest in explanations of data, etc.
‘Dedicated’ only begins to describe CRJ’s male fanbase
A lot of languages have OOP built into them. If want to use patterns like polymorphism it’s the tool on hand. Associating data with functions is helpful for organization as well.
git send-email and git imap-send can send to a mailbox (the latter can be used to upload files to an IMAP folder). I don't know of a command that could download patches from a mailbox (though it would be nice if git provided one that would work with IMAP and/or NNTP).
Good luck with that. It didn't work out so well for the creator in Arthur C. Clarke's "The Ultimate Melody".

https://archive.org/details/1957-02_IF/page/n71/mode/2up
No, GP means exactly the old classic definition of "second/third world" countries.
The writeup in Mayr's book "The Growth of Biological Thought" is really enjoyable. Miescher started by working with pus collected from hospital patients, but quickly moved to Rhine salmon "because their sperm is filled with the substance". His work was so surprising that his advisor Hoppe-Seylor (a well-known biologist for many other things) redid all his experiments. It's actually one of the great examples of protein bias- they couldn't understand why the molecule they purified didn't contain sulfur (DNA doesnt' have sulfur, while many proteins do).
I've done this to get files into VMs that have poor or no network connectivity, too. If I can get a console session w/ the ability to paste keystrokes I'm golden... >smile<
If the domain was a a gTLD or new gTLD (more than 2 characters on the TLD), they could get sanctioned by the ICANN, if you decided to report them.

If it was a ccTLD (2 characters on the TLD), they could also be sanctioned, depending on the rules of the extension.

The sanction can range from a (huge) fee, to a revocation of their accreditation, so it's not nothing.
I have an open source project that moved from using Jira to track issues and changes to Github. Before, when the project made a release, it would fetch info from Jira to create a changelog.

With this tool, I was able to do something similar using Github as the source of information instead[1].

I fetch the info using the gh tool, output the result into json, and use a python script to format the output which results in a decent looking automatically generated changelog[2].

It's not the most exciting thing, and I could have probably achieved it in a different way using the GraphQL API directly, but for the needs of the project this fit the bill and let me get on with the release.

[1] https://github.com/aurora-scheduler/aurora/blob/master/build...

[2] https://github.com/aurora-scheduler/aurora/blob/master/CHANG...
I don't mean to come over as arrogant, snotty or something here, but speaking of proper engineering and maintenance in the context of high-voltage transmission lines in the USA instantly makes one burst out in laughter when comparing that to how they are built in Germany.

While we had some fuck-ups too, we have way larger pyhsical safety margins, as in more space between the wires, more space between the wires and ground, more space between wires and vegetation (which is cut back when growing into that space), while usually we don't even have weather which makes it dry like tinder.

Honestly, this all looks like toys to us. Inconceivable.
US$500 actually, just currently on sale for $300.

I point it out because I do think that's a meaningfully different price point.

Not forgetting your Windows licence or MacBook.
I left godaddy for hostgator but it’s just as scammy. They gave my phone number to local web developers who cold call me! Is that normal, or atrocious?
> Any house built in at least the last 20 years, by competent contractors and in a jurisdiction with adequate code enforcement, should have all of these features built in.

For those not in the construction business, this sentance needs the following addition ", but you need to check." Relying on code inspection and competent builders is like relying on software to follow RFC must and should. They should do it, but there's a significant chance they didn't and it's going to be your problem if they didn't, so you should confirm before you buy. You also can't rely on home inspectors to find this kind of thing; again, they should.
Naked Statistics Author Charles Wheelan on the Artists of Data Science
On this episode of The Artists of Data Science, we get a chance to hear from Charles Wheelan, a professor, journalist, speaker and author, who holds a PHD in public policy from the University Chicago.
Charles shares his journey into becoming a prolific author, and why he decided to write Naked Economics, Naked Statistics, and so on. He also warns the use of big data and the implications it can have if used improperly.
QUOTES
[11:56] “Big Data is...a powerful weapon...it really can be put to great effect. Used improperly, you can do some enormous damage.”
[36:23] “...if your data reflects some underlying problem, then any model you build from that data will just embed it more firmly in cement.”
[48:15] …”stop thinking about what you're doing and look around the world and see what's missing”
FIND CHARLES ONLINE
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-wheelan-a6220911/
Website: http://www.nakedeconomics.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlesWheelan

SHOW NOTES

[00:06:51] What is economics?
[00:09:19] Does big data impact how economics works?
[00:11:21] Does big data change how the invisible hand works?
[00:12:35] What is money and why does it matter?
[00:16:43] Money in a world of contactless payments
[00:18:18] The impact of digital currencies on society
[00:20:15] Money and intersubjective reality
[00:21:22] How to use statistics to make business work better
[00:23:12] Which form of bias should we be most wary of?
[00:24:40] How will COVID affect the election
[00:37:19] Charles Wheelan predicted COVID in his book The Rationing
[00:37:37] Draw parallels between the fiction you wrote and the reality that we're experiencing today
[00:39:03] How he came up with the story for The Rationing
[00:41:07] Which aspect of human nature do you think from your fiction has shown itself to become a reality with our current situation?
[00:43:18] What's the one thing you want people to learn from this story?
[00:44:35] The lightning round
(disclaimer: I have only used this software for rock-bottom basic 3D printing)

It seems to me the deeper features make for highly sophisticated and capable (read:valuable) engineering software. At the risk of getting pitchforked, is $25 a month ($300/yr) for an "advanced hobbyist" not ...reasonable? I mean an average cell-phone bill is 4x that.

Of course it is always annoying to get into a subscription model when you only use something infrequently - can you activate it 1 month at a time? Otherwise, if someone is using it often, then 25 bucks a month seems to me a more-or-less a fair value, in the context of status-quo capitalism.