skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? In most usage I've seen, "return on capital" means on all capital, not just equity (and not just dividends on equity, which I think you are implying?).

But I'm not an economist, so maybe I'm misunderstanding you or the paper. In particular, returns on real estate or capital gains are certainly "return on capital". Are you saying otherwise?

> It's not immediately clear that increases in productivity growth or increases in innovation would necessarily lead to increase in returns - because if everyone innovates, you won't be able to transform those into increased profit easily.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I recall an argument (I can't remember who makes this) that as labor productivity decreases (i.e., cost of labor goes up relative to its returns), more money flows into capital investments, because (to take a factory example) lower and lower value capital investments now look attractive (relative to spending that money on more labor). So that suggests that as labor gets more expensive, return on capital may (on average) decline.

That suggests in turn that if labor productivity increases, less money is invested in capital improvements, meaning on average return on capital increases.

But that's a sort of funny way of arguing what I really meant, which is that there's a more direct causal relationship: capital investments result in labor productivity increases, which result in increased return on capital. That is, after all, the very rationale behind such investments.
It hasn't been approved esp faster than anywhere else - it's just the first out the gate. The regulators have had the data for a while now, you'll see steady approvals over the next couple weeks.

The only danger sign I would foresee that would indicate a rush is if some regulator declines to approve emergency use - but given the data that seems highly unlikely.
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I am a Front user, and I am happily paying for the features on top of the email protocol delivered by Front. I am on the other hand not willing to spend money on better encryption. So while this might seem like the important problem to solve, I am pretty confident the market is telling a different story.
That quote makes it seem like the short sellers were betting on economic downturn due to Covid, which they didn't. The trade was made long before in 2018/19 and the economic pressure due to Covid was a lucky coincidence that acted in their favor.

It's not like the CFDs in the article would have stayed up if they hadn't made the trade or made it long.

> "COVID-19 also revealed a dirty secret hidden in the crawlspace upon which many commercial mortgage-backed securities were built. A University of Texas at Austin study published in August claimed that banks knowingly inflated underwriting income for $650 billion worth of commercial real estate mortgages issued between 2013 and 2019, including by 5 percent or more for nearly a third of the roughly 40,000 loans. “A well-documented historical pattern is that fraud thrives in boom periods and is revealed in busts,” the university researchers wrote, adding that end investors were unaware of this hidden risk, a deception akin to buying a Ferrari secretly outfitted with a rusted-out Kia engine. It could be argued that CMBS had been a magic trick all along, with big banks one step ahead, luring investors to pick a card from a rigged deck. It took a global pandemic—an act of God—to reveal this financial sleight of hand."

Isn't that the real scandal?
That would be anything ever written in a Lisp, if I’m not mistaken :)
I believe a big part of speeding up was parrallelization(spelling?) of the phases rather then the usual running them in series. Also I would imagine that the teams working on these had all the resources they needed, minimal internal delays and no expense spared on budget. I can see how those things combined, coupled with 10 months of “crunch time” work from the teams involved could see a 10x improvement in vaccine production.
I love Herb Alpert, but the 'Whipped Cream and other delight' vinyl in thrift stores is a running jokes among specific vinyl collector.

I do love Herb Alpert self composed songs too like you smile, the song begins and fox hunt.

Read this article, and the comments for even more fun (the person who made the album cover even commented there!) https://dangerousminds.net/comments/every_crate_diggers_nigh...
I have always liked much longer functions then the average programmer. The main reason is that we read sequentially. It much easier to follow something sequential, then something jumping around. A lot of bugs happen when you see a function call that you think you know what it does but doesn't.

There is a reason regular front-to-back books are more popular then choose-your-own-adventure books. You know where you are, and you dont spend all day flipping back and forth.

I also find that when you start splitting up your functions down to 5 lines, it becomes almost impossible to differentiate what the different functions do clearly, and that makes good naming almost impossible.

EDIT: Also, I dont understand why people complain about functions being longer then 5 lines making code hard to navigate, and then turn around and write header only files with 10000 lines of code....
I don't know much about this subject but i found https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243 to be quite interesting. Its from 2018, before all the covid stuff hit, so i think it gives a much more detached overview. However it might not be precisely about the current crop of vaccines.
> Its area is too small to have a notable effect

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Bumps protruding into my skin definitely reduce my comfort wearing a watch all day. Your measurement still doesn't match the official specs and even assuming it's correct and they're all that thin it's still not close to the Pebble Time Round. 30% thicker and 60% more volume.
That's the problem. Pretending to be grateful just encourages more waste of materials and effort, creating an Abilene Paradox. A card is better than a bad gift.
In the long run, honesty creates better relationships than seething resentment toward a disrespectful gift giver.
> hence you need to query _all_ the nodes or can end up in a split-brain situation and lose consistency (or availability if you choose to down the system or a part of the system).

No.Depending on the type of consensus algorithm you can get away with reading from a majority or nodes or even less: for example in a Multipaxos system you just read from the master.
So Ben Rickert is kind of a killer with a conscience, something like that?
You're right, but for a normal person Facebook meets the needs and that too without the hassle the details of contacts updated.
>"Wins"

...it's a vaccine, not a lottery! Anyway good news.
> All these companies trying to innovate on email by making user interface tweaks should really re-adjust their priorities.

My thoughts exactly. Some of us remember Google's attempt ~10 years ago with Google Wave(I think that's what they called it) which had the exact same concept. Needless to say it failed miserably. Good idea in principle but it tried to solve a problem people didn't have. And even with the WFH shift due to the pandemic, I'd still argue that it's a problem few people have.
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There is ghci for Haskell. It’ included in the default installation
It’s legal because there someone on the otherwise taking their bet. They’re not making money on the actual foreclosures, just the bonds going bad, which I agree is kinda similar. Some of those trades you could think of as catastrophic insurance policies.

There are a few bigger issues here: why did the malls go bad? Could they simply not adapt to online or were they saddled with debt like some take over companies do? And should a mall ever take out a position like hedgedund did to protect against their own downfall?

I’m not really trying to pick sides here but to me we should be more worried about why snd how the malls fell snd less about who made money when they did.
TIL: John Carmack almost shipped a game with 1 extra frame of latency unnecessarily...
I have always wondered why functions have to be declared inline when it is more up to the caller to declare whether to inline the contents of the function at call site.

So instead of

inline int f(int x) { return x * x; }
int main() { f(3); }

you'd want to do

int f(int x) { return x * x; }
int main() { inline f(3); }

I have seen this implemented in Zig for loops (inline for, inline while). Is there support for this in other languages?
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Decommisioning work might have been too expensive.
Hey is love to fix this, but I'm not seeing the same problem. The first link on the page you linked goes to the FP course page, and that page has a link to the demo (which doesn't require a sign in) and the demo is in JavaScript.

Can you point me to what I'm missing?
I’m also interested is the mRNA vaccine different or the same vis-a-vis stopping(or not) transmission
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Yes I agree. Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't expect cherry picking quotes here tbh
It sometimes seems to count, but then an interrupt happens or there is a backwards jump. That isn't counting. 42, 45, 47, 3, 4, 7, 37953, 37955, 37959, 11, 12, 15...

Actual counting on real hardware does happen. For example, x86 has the CX/ECX/RCX register for string operations. That has a far better justification for being called a program counter, but still that would be awful terminology. Another example is the CTR register of PowerPC, commonly used with an instruction that decrements it and then conditionally branches to do a loop. Even a cycle counter has better justification for being called a program counter.
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i installed fossil(a scm) with apt, but i can't run it.
Nickel would be a challenge for a man so dedicated to Tin.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/20/digitalmedia.y...
Did not know this existed, but I thoroughly loved it and agree with his findings. Thanks for sharing.
>> Why should it be legal to make billions of dollars in profit off of the failure of something?

Should it be OK to have unchecked long pressure on assets? You think prices are inflated now? They'd be insane without short pressure.
Sorry, I can't cheerlead for a bunch of corporate chains in an expensive real estate storefront marking up conspicuous consumables 500% and paying their employees minimum wage.

Fuck malls. They're reaping now what they sowed a long, long time ago when they killed the family-owned business on main street.

The footprint of the modern mall is outrageous in its size. I'd like to think that creative and forward-thinking cities will come up with a much better use for that real estate.
Wouldn't it better to receive gifts you value instead of wasteful junk?
Isn't there usually at least a 1:100 or 1:1000 safety buffer between vaccination and control to make a vaccine safe? At least for other vaccines that's a common threshold.
As far as I've understood it, the whole COVID-19 vaccine research has been going at a breakneck speed. First vaccine batches were made back in February.

https://patrickcollison.com/fast
How would the runtime know for sure when the container was ready to accept the request? The lambda model--with the container pulling the events instead of them being pushed to it--seems like the correct way to model the concurrency.
How is there not due process? You can go in front of court.
> These guys walk off with a huge bag of cash, a bunch of investors that were trying to invest positively get screwed, the mall dies, and all that money and economic opportunity vanishes.

There's nothing in the article to suggest they took any proactive steps to hurt the malls or the businesses in them. They simply identified some risky securities and placed a bet that they would decline in value. The investors that were 'trying to invest positively' should have perhaps some more due diligence on the assets they were buying.

Activist short sellers do exist too. For example Hindenburg Research who it seems have done very well off the collapse in the Nikola share price. They certainly provided value to the market through their exposure of corporate frauds.
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Just thought I would air my aggravation by posting this. Appears a ton of people having same issue. Since updating my iPhone 7 to iOS 14.2 a few days ago, I basically have “No Service” everywhere in the house now, whereas before had 2-3 bars (I’m on Cricket). I guess I will wait and pray for a new software update that might fix this...
> One reason that short-term rentals have been cheaper than hotels is because hotels had to collect and pay sales tax while Airbnb didn’t.

Seems like this isn’t a new tax from out of nowhere to disadvantage Airbnb but rather a policy designed to bring Airbnb in line with their peers.

It reads like Airbnb was put at an artificial advantage as compared to hotels because hotels had to charge sales tax. Now everyone does. Seems fair to me. What seems unfair is that they weren’t subject to this the whole time. Honestly surprised it’s not retroactive.
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Good to know - there is actually a feature to connect your Android phone to your Chromebook to share the internet connection, and I tried that a few months ago, but the location data wasn't shared. After that I realized while on vacation that using OsmAnd on the phone was enough for all practical purposes, so I forgot about this issue. But maybe in the meantime Google published an update which also shares the phone's location data? Would definitely make sense to have something like that...
It's just unbelievable to consider that Amazon, AirBnB etc. have been so successful due to tax irregularities, and of course, when at scale, they G and A can doe this via Dublin loopholes etc..

When bureaucrats are searching for ways to make money, and they always all, for god's sake why don't they go to the obvious places first?

We also have to consider how much our subsidized postal systems are really just subsidizing one form of business over another.
The same website the OP links to, which is an Australian site, has a page that includes the text, "Vitamin D deficiency may be a greater health concern for people with naturally very dark skin, as it is more difficult for people with this skin type to make vitamin D.".

It's unclear why an Australian site would be going into the question of who is "suited to" live in the UK.
It’s not very straightforward to create gmail accounts with proxies, and google loves to randomly ban fresh accounts.
Just curious, what's the primary cost in the case? I suspect bandwidth.
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If it's not one thing, it's another.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust

Now I know it's deeply comforting to think if you just had "safety" you could write all the code you want with abandon and the computer would tell you if you did it wrong, but this is a sophomoric attitude that you will either abandon when you have the right experiences, or you will go into management where the abject truth in this statement will be used to keep programmer salaries in the gutter, and piss-poor managers in a job. Meanwhile, these "safe" languages will give you nothing but shadows you'll mistake for your own limitations.

My suggestion is just learn how to write secure code in C. It's an unknown-unknown for you at the moment, so you're going to have to learn how to tackle that sort of thing, but the good news is that (with the right strategy) many unknown-unknowns can be attacked using the same tricks. That means if you do learn how to write secure code in C, then the skills you develop will be transferable to other languages and other domains, and if you still like management, those skills will even be useful there.
In terms of rollout. UK is the ideal country to be the first:

1. Heavily impacted by Covid-19.

2. Centralised health care system makes it easier to compare results and efficiency. E.g. it's UK which figured out that dexamethasone is efficient against Covid https://www.who.int/news/item/16-06-2020-who-welcomes-prelim...

3. Developed country with great logistics.
So, apparently I am crazy for thinking that running zip is trivial whereas the ridiculous stack of tooling that surrounds the awkward nested format of docker containers is extremely annoying :/... with the new ability to accept large containers, can I now send you a larger zip, or if I want a larger lambda function am I going to have to use the docker container interface?
Sounds like you want to compile a functional language. The best tutorial (in terms of being self-contained and being understandable in entirety) I've seen to compile FP to C is[0], I'd imagine that retargeting to LLVM wouldn't be that difficult either.

[0] https://github.com/jozefg/pcf
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Holy crap that sounds fun. Thank you for the rec!
Well for me i am in a complete different time zone so I have not the possibility to do it exactly at the start time, even if i wanted it is the middle of the night ... (5 in the morning)

I do it when I have time for it and if I have time for it in the evening I have fun solving it. Last year I did a few once since i remembered these far to late but came till 10 ? challenge and forgott about it again till yesterday, and now try to follow up each day if i have time and want to and dont feel pressured by it it is for fun and maybe learning something new! I actually loved the aspect of writing half a interpreter last year I hope for something similar this year!
cranelift is a better alternative.
It sounds like you are talking about an unrolled linked list[1]. I'd argue in most cases that while they are better than linked lists in just about every way (except data objects larger than the cache line), in most cases there is a better data structure to use. I'd find that the hashed array tree[2] would likely be a better/more versatile data structure solely due to the improved lookup time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashed_array_tree
User experience beats all of those things.
Nope, none of them have customised the protocol (at least of the ones we’re aware of and work with). They realise the whole benefit of Matrix is to speak Matrix rather than some mutant thing.
Not sure why the posts asking for vaccine risks are getting downvoted. Pandemrix, the vaccine for swine flu, caused a notable amount of narcolepsy cases in recipients here in FIN (notable here meaning the amount of yearly cases spiked by 3-4x) and as with anything that's taken quick to market there has to be some risk of overlooking some tail events somewhere.

It's not an anti-vaccine attitude, just healthy skepticism considering how much pressure there is to get this out and into distribution.
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> Why should it be legal to make billions of dollars in profit off of the failure of something? How does that make economic sense? These guys walk off with a huge bag of cash, a bunch of investors that were trying to invest positively get screwed, the mall dies,

The way you've written this kind of implies that the mall dies because they bet against it. That isn't the case at all. The malls were going to die either way.

> and all that money and economic opportunity vanishes.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Malls were part of what killed small mom & pop shops. Things change. Government programs should be in-place to protect people (especially like, normal people) from the worst/unpredictable outcomes of market based economy, but overall, markets are good at allocating capital to what people actually want (whether its actually good for us or not, see: social media).

> Are we _really_ to believe that the era of the physical marketplace, the Third Location where you can take your family and kill a rainy day, is really dead? Does nobody want this at all, anymore?

Can we please aspire to a better 3rd place than an advertising/consumerist mecca? How about community centers with pools, basketball courts, and arcades? With a mall's food court attached?
The everyone gets something they like and tells what they got "from" each other.
Restarting in the middle from FEN has another problem, the FEN doesn't encode past positions, so you could trick it into draw by repetition.
a) You can choose managed PostgreSQL services.

b) Fine but it's too small reason to choose database for serious service, isn't it?
Also what I don't get is why companies are entering this uphill battle anyways. It's like trying to inovate on chairs, just because someone fell down once. But you can't fundamentally change the nature of chairs anymore. We've all agreed that they're useful. Doesn't mean that you can't invent a new type of chair!

Email as a tool is mature and well working. Nobody denies that there could be more useful tooks when colaborating online than email. But upgrading and hence replacing or taking away email makes no sense.

Why not develop something on the side if you're not interested in investing in protocol development.
It is planned that it requires 6 weeks to acquire immunity with 2 shots (4 weeks apart) of this vaccine. Realistic outcome if enough people get vaccinated should be that spring/summer wave of covid is suppressed or at least death rate and amount of severe cases will be much lower.
Yes, Common Lisp does this right, see:

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/d_inline.htm
Wow I never thought of that bust so unique :D thanks for the stellar advice and bon soir!