skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then explain, by your own quote:

> Research by John M. Griffin and Amin Shams in 2018 suggests that trading associated with increases in the amount of tether and associated trading at the Bitfinex exchange account for about half of the price increase in bitcoin in late 2017.[29][11][23]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)

:)

In the past, ethereum was also highly automated trading.
i never want to go back to this, and i'm not sure why people love to relive 'glory days'
Genesis Therapeutics raises $52M Series A for AI-based drug discovery
The idea that FB wants to underpay any employee is preposterous. You are aware that FB & Google pay 2x other companies such as Microsoft and Amazon?

If you join tech companies such as FB, Google, Amazon or MSFT as an H-1B immigrant, if your performance is good they want to keep you, so they sponsor you for greencard. Once an employee gets a greencard he/she is free to leave the company, so if the goal is to underpay you want to NOT sponsor for greencard.

As part of sponsoring an employee for greencard you have to post an advertisement for the position the employee is already doing a good job in, so most employers see this as a formality and don't recruit as vigorously as they would for a position that is actually open. This should be expected, and the problem is the stupid rule, not the companies. The rules need to be changed to advertise before the position is given to an H-1B candidate, not afterwards.
People do this all the time for pay-per-view fights and the like, where they cost $50 and up. Have a bunch of friends over, throw a party.

I regularly pay $4-5 to watch streaming 4k movies, even ones where I know I own the DVD and hence have a copy on my NAS that I could watch for free.
No, conda is not calling pip
Slay, Queen
Like I said, run through a basic risk parity strategy holding SPY and an uncorrelated ETF. Calculate the beta, volatility and return over 10 - 20 years. It does beat the market continuously on a risk adjusted basis. With leverage it also beats on total returns with lower volatility and beta.

Beating the market is not mysterious, it's just difficult to do it by a lot or at scale. Just because well performing portfolios are well known doesn't mean they cease being effective in principle, the way you seem to think would happen. These days a risk parity portfolio isn't enough to solicit funds from savvy investors because it's well known and they won't pay management/performance fees if that's all you're offering. But it's been a staple since Dalio developed it 30 years ago for good reason.

You can find code for running through the kinds of things I'm talking about, as well as more in-depth discussion here: https://qoppac.blogspot.com.
"Who do they hire to replace her?". That is an excellent question, and a good time to remember that Identity Politics != Ethics. Most big ethical questions in AI have nothing to do with race or gender, instead affect us all. Some say AI is an existential risk for Humanity at large.
On some level this makes sense. Unions murder margins and productivity so you'd want to be circumspect.
I believe the author is attempting to say 'start with the problem not the solution'.

Another name for UX is Service Design, which if that term was used might have made it clearer what the intent of the article is.

The issues of starting with solutions are well documented and understood in IT (law of the instrument), but despite that are often not avoided. I'd go so far as to say almost never.

Focusing on the problem, exploring and defining it well, being clear on user needs and then considering possibilities and constraints, moving to testing and validating/experimenting quickly before sinking too much money and time into whatever random solution 'technology' wants to throw at it has so many benefits.

Getting that right and spending some time on it generally pays off for everyone, users, sponsors and those working on the technical side of delivery as they are working on more valuable and better appreciated pieces of work. It is quite often the case that the resulting technical work is more interesting and enjoyable to work on too as the eventual solution you work on is more novel than building out the bulk standard solution that would have been the default proposal.
Redgate software produce tools for SQL Server that solve some of these problems
>That depends, sure you can point to examples where the Union did improve peoples lives
But then i can also point to examples where they did not, where they ended up driving business out, bankrupting people

The answer to this is not airy theorizing or anecdotes but statistical evidence. There are many people who do this. See for example figure 9 here:

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
I don't drink coffee, but I bought a JLC Geophysic last week.
That's right, SHA-256 of my (unimportant) identity, with salt
I prefer to always use the `test` command instead (it’s the exact equivalent of `[`), and never use `[[` bashisms (well, almost never).
Question for others running marketplaces: how does Stripe Treasury and Connect play with other payment systems? Or they simply don’t?

The issue we have is that a large percentage of our customers want to pay with PayPal and I suppose in the future that will expand into other payment methods. Because of this we have to be payment method agnostic and we run both Stripe (for CC) and PayPal.

We’ve always been interested in things like Stripe Connect and I’m sure Treasury is interesting also but it all seems very Stripe-locked-in and would only work with payments going via Stripe (credit cards mostly and Apple Pay) which means that marketplaces that support PayPal are out? PayPal has its own marketplace product as well but again, that is too locked into the whole PayPal platform.
The US doesn't have an active separatist movement within its borders. The last time an ethnic group of US residents was suspected of disloyalty (without any terrorist acts actually being committed) they were all arrested on the basis of ethnicity alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
While I generally don’t condone them normally, I’ve used them to debug devops pipelines which didn’t have any other mechanism for access :P
Based on the prices at a local theater, $20/viewing is about par for one ticket + snacks, and $30 is generally better than two people + snacks:

n=1: $13+food
n=2: $26+food
n=4 (2 kids): $46 + food

When you factor in being able to have cheaper food, not to mention intermissions whenever you want (bathroom break, making popcorn, etc), I feel like streaming is still better than theater, price-wise, even at $30/movie.

Unfortunately, it doesn't _feel_ that way. We still haven't seen Mulan yet, though, and I'm not sure if price is a factor in that. I suspect it's a small factor -- we subscribed to Disney+ to see Hamilton, for example -- but it just hasn't come up in months. I forgot about it until writing this comment.

It's hard to convince myself that I should pay $20 or $30 for a screening, when a year from now I can likely rent it on Prime for $10 or less.
> As a doctor, this author should know these are questions her field cannot answer

While this is true, it's also true that this doctor made actual practical suggestions, like pushing for stoves with smoke sensors and automatic shut-off valves. She's not trying to argue that science has all the answers. She's just pointing out that there are many cases in which science does have answers, and when it does, we should use them.
Yeah. I run a private wordpress instance on my NAS for this purpose.
I could maybe understand the anonymity, but I don't see why the substance of the feedback that let to the whole paper getting retracted was kept secret at first. At least give the paper's authors an opportunity to update the paper.

The reasons Jeff Dean cited in his email for the retraction sound like things that could've been fixable.
> I will merely present the facts.

As always, there are many ways one can arrange facts until they fit one's world view. Particulary in the polarized field of energy policy, where the urge to win the argument often leads to brushing-over of details (like the difference between primary and secondary energy).

But the author is right: Germans pay the highest price globally per kWh. This results in 289.000 households being cut off from electricity in 2019 alone [1]. Grewing up poor in Germany, I still remember winter's incredibly cold showers…

[1] https://www.hartziv.org/news/20201008-soziale-katastrophe-st...
The underlying argument is that they would probably just do it again with another competitor down the line, I believe. At its heart is anti-competitive behavior.
You're a bad man.
@dang the original source seems clearer:

Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...
I remember writing code on a pdp-8 where we had to write code to display the character which was typed.
http://bitflippin.net/news

That page took me some time to make.
A copy is easy, so I had some chances to copy.
As I approach a time when I think I am done, I get
excited.
I make mistakes.
That took time. But I perservered forward.

Then I realized I had posted a page that has dead liinks.
That is redundant, so I fized the first one, then I will go back later and remove the dead links, all at once, with all my other automation skills, I just wrote the vi commands
in my head
it is
coprocessing. we shoul dtake advantage of it,
Yes, it could be seen that way, but in practice, are people really going to collect a few dollars from everyone who's watching a movie in their house with them?

There are ways to justify a $20 movie rental, but it feels different to go spend that at a theater vs paying it at home. I will wager that it's a much harder decision to make as the value proposition is different.
Okay, I think this idea has legs. There's a proven market for Serverless offerings, so how would people react to a SaaS product that:

a) Did database management for you, a la Amazon RDS (perhaps later supporting BYO Cloud Database)
b) Provided a software programming layer that simplified coding, versioning, deployment and rollbacks of Stored Procedures
c) Perhaps provided a language environment that lets you program with an SDK in your language of choice, and then "lifted" that into stored procedures

My first thought when faced with this is, how do I do application monitoring, logging, exception handling, paging? Perhaps this is a solved problem, but I'm curious.
I don't think the terminal emulator matters that much below some number, it's just that you picked a really high number and that the perception of slowness is neither linear nor the same across types of activities. I think this is generally a little bit of a weakness in the article itself.
Regarding Dominion, are you referring to this?

https://www.infowars.com/posts/firm-that-owns-dominion-votin...

Even according to that (notorious) site, what actually happened was that "its parent company, Staple Street Capital, received hundreds of millions from UBS Securities - which is a Swiss bank that co-owns UBS Securities Co. Ltd. with the Chinese government".

So the money came from a Swiss bank, not a Chinese one.

UBS Securities Co LTD, the Chinese entity mentioned in the article, is a joint venture of the same kind which plenty of other big Western banks (including US ones) have in China. Until recently, such minority-owned joint ventures were the only way for them to operate there. See e.g.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morgan-stanley-china-idUS...

As far as I can tell, the "story" is an attempt to exploit confusion between a Swiss bank and the Chinese joint venture, which wasn't actually involved at all.
I don't have a ton of "legal" analysis but if you'd like partisan analysis of Citizens United I recommend the Libertarians — https://reason.com/tag/citizens-united/

(you will of course notice the usual partisan ramblings you'd expect from an overtly Libertarian outlet, but, well, they're the ones with interest and motivation to cover it).

But the amazing thing is that you can't say "look at this small nonprofit the FEC was trying to shut up" or even a talk that acknowledges the conflicts between what seems fair and enumerated rights. No, no, instead we must bring nonsense memes with negative information: "corporations and people are the same and Koch money has ended our democracy forever".
Part of the reason everyone switched to GMail is because, unlike the other free online mail providers, they didn't do this kind of bullshit.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25248073
> Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store...

This writing style is hard to read any more. My eyes skip over whole paragraphs to get to the one or two sentences that really matter, then my fingers hit cmd-W out of habit.
"LAMBDA allows you to define your own custom functions using Excel’s formula language. Excel already allows you to define custom functions, but only by writing them in an entirely different language such as JavaScript. In contrast, LAMBDA allows you to define a custom function in Excel’s own formula language."
Economics Browser – easy access to Federal Reserve data
Just to let you know that e.g. https://supabase.io/oss/ is broken.

Regardless, congrats on the launch! :)
tens of kilovolt electrons decelerating in a short distance? There'll be x-rays. However, CRTs used leaded glass to block (most) of it.
I've never heard a positive thought about anyone who describes themselves as an "architect" in the industry.
Staffing optimization opportunity for global retailer
Opps. Two monitors. One has my private browsing, the ohter had me logged in.

I typed the original into the other wone, not logged in.
Oops.
Copy paste, and leave a waypoint for ithers.
I do not know the details of this case and I can't speak to the subject's character. However I can't help but note that people who study the effects of race and gender tend to bring race/gender into anything and everything, because well, that's their job. If your response is that race and gender should be brought into only the areas where race and gender are relevant, I'd respond that the prevailing opinion among gender and race scholars is that gender/race is relevant everywhere.
Experienced Redux dev needed at DigsUp – search engine startup
We're a small, remotely-distributed team (HQ'd out of Boston) building something really cool - a new type of search engine to help people find the home of their dreams. I can't go into specifics, but nobody has built anything quite like it.

We work together from around the world using advanced CI/CD on an ultra-modern stack - Node, Redux, SASS + BEM + ITCSS + JS, Flowtype, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Jest & Travis, et. al.

Our application is consumer-focused for MVP and our designer has mocked up a wild, gorgeous, yet easy-to-understand interface. Now we're turning that UI into clever design system code and scalable, performant business logic. As a consumer app, it has to be rock solid stable, buttery smooth, and blazingly beautiful. We're talking ultra-lightweight client, seemingly-instant search results, graceful fallbacks and errors, prolific but useful animation, touch events... no jquery allowed here. Our standards are high.

This calls for a React wizard who is also comfortable with GraphQL and test-driven development... and if they're familiar with Storybook and design system philosophies, all the better.

We run two-week sprints and hold a non-optional daily scrum meeting on video chat at 8:00am NYC / 1:00pm London / 3:00pm Kiev. Outside of that, you can set your own hours, but the daily face-to-face interaction is important. If you're in the Boston area, our office will reopen when vaccinations are routinely available, and you're welcome to come in any time for more collaborative face time.

Note - this opportunity is not open to agencies / dev houses; you and only you are allowed access to the code; IP addresses will be tracked. Prospects will need to complete a code challenge, but we will only ask for this if we feel good about your odds.

Inquire at reduxwizard@digsup.com. Sorry, not accepting phone inquiries.
> underscores the fact that they are not seeking out rare skillsets

Have you checked out FB salaries? They pay upwards of $200K for a fresh CS graduate. Compare that to a mechanical or chemical engineering graduate that makes $60K at best. You really think they would pay 3x if the skills aren't rare?
Sure. 18Mbit/s for True HD 7.1. Buy I've had at least 50Mbit/s downstream for over five years now.
Plenty of deli counters do that with their popular items like ham, swiss, salami.

But prosciutto is more of a niche item that won't go bad quickly, which is why it's usually packaged at a factory in packaging that will last months.
How is that any true? From the article:

> An early prototype had a close resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard, but the arrival of 2007's Apple iPhone meant that Android "had to go back to the drawing board".
Congratulations on the current state of the project, it seems very promising. Do you plan on having some fallback to websockets for the realtime database? The thing about google is that it can be viable to request getting it whitelisted on corporate firewalls.
Thanks a lot. I have use for something exactly like minisketch but need to interface it with JavaScript. I'll take a stab at it with Emscripten.

Can you point towards other performant algorithms? IBLT, from the minisketch GitHub readme at least, seems wasteful in terms of space.

If you're aware: What'd be a comparable data structure to Pin Sketches for membership checks (whether "X" exists in a set of, say, 100M records). Minimal Acyclic Finite State Automata (MA-FSA) and Succinct Tries come to mind but those aren't optimal though deterministic.
Outsourcing KYC is standard practice. There are expensive systems you can license that do this as correctly as possible, ensuring banned persons (due to sanctions, international most wanted lists, whatever) are not allowed to transact with your system.

Yes, they are black boxes, but they work pretty well considering banks all over the world use them.
It depends... I went to see "New Mutants" and after the covid period, I think the ticket was something like $14, and the consession (popcorn and a soda) were another $20 and that was just for me alone... a date would be closer to $60-80 and a family close to $100...

Vs: $20-30 at home, where you can pause etc and microwave your own popcorn for under $2
Right, as I was trying to convey in the last - there are other corporate interests than research value, and I think all would agree there are situations where they reasonably trump the researchers or public's interest. And vice-versa; "This research shows we have been poisoning the public for 40 years" for most people probably really isn't the same as "This research exposes valuable trade secrets". The lines aren't always obvious.
It's possible that what happens and what you are told happens don't match up.
Thanks that is very interesting, I would imagine having all the data in one schema, and then few other schemas containing views and functions grouped together logically.
I'm trying to figure out what kind of code duplication that you'd be dealing with that you can get around by avoid stored procedures. Unless you're relying on an ORM to construct your queries for you, you're going to have SQL queries somewhere in your code. It's either going to be stored in application code or in the database but either way you're going to have the same problem.
I think OP meant in terms of GDP by PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), not nominal (the actual current value). But I agree it's confusing without that clarification.
Oh, oops my name is in there. Oh well, doesn't matter, everyone knows everything anyways now.
I think this is a very interesting project.

I am curious what direction you are going.

Does it support dilated convolutions, like Wavenet uses?

Can it implement transformers?
Google Takeout doesn't seem to work for me. Any time I setup an export, they appear to be scheduled, but never run. If I go to takeout.google.com now, I see:

"Export 1 of 1 will start on 18 November 2020"

Any idea what I'm supposed to do about that?
Amusingly, most reporting on the Chinese "social credit system" is based on uncritically repeating Chinese government propaganda about how capable it's going to be. It was originally planned to launch in 2020, but that hasn't happened so far. If it ever does launch, you shouldn't be surprised if it is not nearly as powerful as people have claimed it to be.
It seems like she has been working at Google for a fair amount of time. If so, I’m surprised that there was still confusion over when a paper needs to be taken through the internal review process. Outside of that, I found this to be a good summary of the situation. It omits her widely distributed email denigrating the entire diversity approach taken by Google, though.
Can you provide a definition that specifies the difference? The end result is identical: being able to run software compiled for foreign ISA.
You can think of these streaming tv shows as the Movie medium finally being liberated from having to fit between bathroom breaks.
Paper also works fine if you're ordering your prosciutto at the deli counter.

But even waxed paper isn't going to prevent the prosciutto from drying out for more than a day or two. The whole point of the plastic that prosciutto is often sold in is to keep it good for months, since it's usually a low-volume item that may sit on the shelf for a couple weeks or more.
Movies are as cheap as they have been for the past 20+ years, in real dollars. But many other things have gotten cheaper over time.
It's a slight annoyance, but far from hell. As long as it's not someone super old on a very large van then they go maybe 10k's less than speed limit.

Note most people driving in NZ at around speed limit. Going faster feels unsafe. Roads are pretty twisty and mountainous. Driving 2hrs in NZ is not same as 2hrs on highway with cruise control on.
It is quite a fascinating scenario.

Apple and Google wallet are integrated into the credit card processing infrastructure. So they don't compete with Visa, their payments still go over Visa's rails.

Plaid's killer feature has always been their private access to APIs that the banks won't give to anyone else. It's essentially like they're using modern web APIs while everyone else is using snail mail (i.e. ACH, bank transfers that settle in batches once per day). I'm not exactly sure how they struck those deals and why there is no reasonable, open integration path or payments protocols between banks in the US like there is in every other developed country. Is it just that the banks like making their $15 per wire transfer? It feels like there's got to be more to it but I'm not sure.

But regardless, where we've ended up is the banks have fought so well to keep everybody out of their collective walled garden, but somehow Plaid has snuck in under the radar and has become so large and entrenched that they are themselves being called the monopolist, rather than the banks that own and control the system but of which there are multiple. I don't know enough about the details of Plaid's business though to weigh in on whether there's any truth to these claims.
Doesn't the force behind that threat depend heavily on the outcome of Oracle v Google?
The Rapidly Falling Cost of Solar Energy Visualized
With the recent MS to Google hires, I would expect a lot of Microsoft like price squeezing to start happening on google services as they bring cost out of the business. The photo storage changes bring familiarity to the unlimited storage option ending on Onedrive