skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been reading Lords of Finance, which covers the early 1900s. It's eerie how the current situation reflects the pre Black Thursday boom. Investments started to concentrate into a few stocks (then RCA and Montgomery Ward) as retail investors piled in. Folks were buying on margin, credit was easy. The difference now I think is the willingness of the Fed to reduce interest rates to support the stock market as well as a too big too fail ethos. At the time, the Fed wanted to drive out speculators which exacerbated things. I wonder how long the Fed will keep it up.
> Unilever said Thursday that it felt Facebook has made enough progress for it to feel comfortable resuming advertising with the company.

> Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have committed to better management of harmful content on their platforms, agreeing to common definitions for 11 harmful content areas, consistent reporting on the prevalence of such content on their platforms and independent auditing, Unilever said in a statement.

If they had stated upfront what their conditions were to return to the platform I would have believed it. But now without evidence of any measurable improvement Unilever suddenly feels like Facebook is "fixed".

More likely is Unilever thinks with the US presidential election over and Trump out there won't be such a big "hate for profit" backlash anymore. They probably don't want to miss out on the revenue the Facebook ad's generated.
I think you have a very narrow view of an expats life. If you live in a country for 10+ years, it is impractical to not have a local bank account. You can't even get a rental contract easily without a bank account.

Buying property exposes you to capital gains tax, which is essentially double taxation, because the UK taxes the buyer unlike the US.

GILTI tax is limited to company ownership. Which is what hit me. I realize that won't affect a lot of people, but for those in the IT field it is very common in London to have a one man or small group consultancy. Because of this, I was essentially retroactively taxed on all company revenues despite not having access to that money (since it's in the company, obviously). Truly insane. Then to pay the retroactive tax, you have to withdraw money from your company which obviously incurs local taxes. Massive double taxation.

This is all the tip of the iceberg. There are many ways to get screwed as an American abroad.
Owners equivalent rent is included in CPI:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/

I can’t speak as to how accurate it is compared to real life.

What I know is CPI figures don’t and can’t incorporate volatility. For example, I assume healthcare expenses will skyrocket, and government assistance such as Social Security will be reduced. Therefore, I act as if life will be more and more expensive.
Don’t bothsides this. Only one person decided that millions of Americans should have their unemployment insurance expire today.
What do you call it when you mistake "I know OF x" for "I understand X". I used to do it all the time; I think that because I have heard of something, I somehow know how it works or how to use it. For me, it's kind of like going "Oh, I've seen that meme before!" and somehow going meme++ in your head, so of course I am 'more familiar with it', but I am doing that for advanced topics I have no demonstrated practice in. I am much better now at realizing my incompetence, but I wish it could be studied in more detail, instead of people just looking at someone who is demonstrating confident incompetence and going "Dunning-Kruger?" "Dunning-Kruger!".
A game developer released their game as open source after the Steam discovery algorithm killed traffic to their game [1]. It was nice to see a thank you on their GitHub [2], and I recommend people try to support developers with both gratitude, and when possible financially if it is a project that truly helps you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589545
[2] https://github.com/egordorichev/BurningKnight/issues/223
Yea, the original limitation was the manpower cost of manning the sails which is why they where eventually dropped. With modern systems they are almost completely automated, which makes them far more viable.
Everyone invert this. Poor OP's going to get slaughtered again.
Two times recently I wanted to express thanks (or just ask a question) and couldn't. In both cases there was no way to message the person via GitHub because they'd not publically shared their email address. In one case there was no way to open an 'issue'. And in the other, it wasn't relating to a repo, but a really excellent tutorial.

In the olden times, we all just used email all the time for everything. It would've been bizarre for someone to work in open source and not have their email publically available. The funny thing is, I haven't shared my email on my GitHub either! I'm going to fix that today.
I take issue with dumb journalists who blatantly abuse the term "investors".

Its not rocket science.

If you use margin and/or engage in derivatives, you're not an investor, you're a speculator.

An investor is someone who has a long-term interest in the market and takes time to make reasoned decisions as to their actions in the markets.

If you're just jumping in and out of the market in the hope of making a quick buck here and there, you're not an investor, you're a speculator.
All old is new. There was a monitoring system written in shell in the 90s called big brother. Its didn’t scale very well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(software)
Any company where that is asked is a terrible software company and you should leave. They also almost certainly make shit software, and staying there is bad for your education and career.
I can't use a single public service with E2E encrypted email, whether thats private or commerial.

General state of encryption technology is that it's arcane and unusable outside of like a couple of chat apps
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It might only come up in later life when the IRS come after your inheritance "sorry your parent just died - but that house they left you we want a slice"
I think it has reached a whole new level
> I feel like every 2nd man on planet earth bought TSLA at this point.

Now that it's been added to SPY you might not be wrong, it's very possible more than half of investors own shares in TSLA one way or another.
That's just a misconfiguration of the GitHub app I haven't gone around to fix yet. We certainly don't act on your behalf, we only check basic information.
Price and value have almost no correlation though. As future cashflows dwindle in number, the cost to buy a chunk of those future cashflows go up, and the people who have the most free money to buy that stuff are the ones getting free cash from the Fed.

Not to make the connection, I don't think we're at any risk of hyper inflation, but the Caracas stock exchange went up 200,000 percent in 2018. Had nothing to do with value creation.
Was expecting something like DESCRIBE but for less technical audience.

As a heavy SQL user, I don't see much benefit in this as of yet. It is very misleading in saying it is the "most human readable" format, when the example shows the "format" to be identical to the original. Just by upper-casing keywords doesn't make it any more readable to be honest.

Anyways a good attempt, hope you're not offended by critical feedbacks and hope they are useful for some ideas to improve the tool.
While this is a cool idea and attempt, I don't know that there's much that can beat pen and paper.
Real estate pricing has become more local
Ethical companies make sure they have rights to the training data before making models.

That said, now a lot of privacy policies make sense.

ALSO, it makes me wonder about "Your call is recorded for training purposes"... is it a coincidence or is it very carefully worded?
You should not be actively investing.

To be clear to the three instant downvoters, I'm saying parent is deluded and is going to lose repeatedly, not that active investing is a losing proposition in general:

> 2) Momentum driven companies where tons of liquidity is flowing to (TSLA etc)

Put the money in the money thing! Yea! Parent is the portrait of sad hype-driven retail investor.
I’d like to see a discussion of the potential of space-based solar power in light of this analysis.
wow this is shortest way to localhost
I think it depends on the scale of the project. If it's a project that isn't full of all kinds of bug reports and issues already, thank you notes aren't a bad thing.

As a developer what I like even more than thank yous are thank yous that explain how my code helped you in some specific way.
There are some citizenships you cannot loose, I think Afghanistan is one such case. And Austria as well. The latter are also really picky with dual citizenship.
I believe this would work at most scales.

Have you noticed how, for example, you can identify a guitar player easily, no matter what guitar they're playing on?

When guitar players are first learning or are transcribing, they often slow the music down. If you slow it down enough, you can hear a pattern of the player slowing down and speeding up (behind and ahead of the beat). I believe that has a lot to do with that instant-identifiability, even though it is so hard to detect at speed.
9/10 times I see the problems getting solved in the same way you can do without docker, except now the application is also running as root and several more containers are added to work around other issues created by running in docker :(
People bored at home with excess cash from saved discretionary speding engage into online speculative investment. Ditto with cryptocurrencies.
FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing
Not necessarily "any strategy" - if you have interactive kingdoms it may be better to slow your opponent down (feed them curses, feed them junk, make them discard,outpace their Province/Duchy-driven victory points via alternate victory cards, etc). In "engine vs big money" or "engine dittos", you are totally correct in that you need to have the superior engine.
After breaking myself from a particularly addictive game, I made a website for cataloging dark patterns in games. https://www.darkpattern.games/
In practice you add large gaussians to the deltas, which gives you reasonably strong guarantees.
> A surprising number of Americans seem to think it's reasonable to tax non-residents, so such legislation may be hard to get passed.

So let's get this straight. On one side you have Americans who think it's reasonable to tax people who don't live in the country and thus don't use any of the services that tax pays for and then on the other side you have Americans who believe that all tax is theft under the threat of violence?

Talk about extremists at both ends.
Selected Statistics on Slavery in the United States
http://civilwarcauses.org/stat.htm
Facebook is a mimetic competitor and thus a huge target: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...
Ocean liners (and certain types of cargo) makes sense. An increase in speed can work economically even though it's not efficient. From what I was reading, sail went out in most military ships fairly quickly but that's a different set of constraints and priorities.
Correlation does not imply causation. Regression to the mean and other statistical artifacts haven't, afaik, been proven to explain any part of the dunning kruger effect. This is, like the article, of course, speculation.
iOS automatically recognizes and labels buttons and UI features for blind users
The GPT-2 weights were released by OpenAI when GPT-2 was released. (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2)

Around that time (since no one else was doing it) I released a wrapper to streamline that code and make it much easier to finetune on your own data. (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple)

Nowadays, the easiest way to interact with GPT-2 is to use the transformers library (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers), of which I've created a much better library for GPT-2 that leverages it. (https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen)
Since the pandemic I’ve been effectively off grid in the city. Kind of interesting Recently Verizon cut me off (despite their promise not to) and their agents don’t seem to understand the concept of my not having enough power to call them and wait on hold for a possible resolution. So I’m stuck living off grid with a carrier who I can’t explain the situation to, actually I got a temporary SIM but I still can’t access my phone number. I know it sounds like a sob story. The point of sharing is to emphasize that nobody really understands the ramifications of not having unlimited power available on tap.
There's a lot of advantages to API-first.

1. You're not bound to one supplier, you can integrate multiple.

2. You don't need to manage the security for a large application, instead, the responsibility is distributed to each API.

3. Scaling becomes a non-issue (unless you abuse the rate-limits/grow too fast).

4. The cost of sysops and development goes waaay down.

The dis-advantages: it might be way more expensive, but at least you'll have shipped! (And of course GDPR/data control might be an issue)
The best way out of this is the EU asking for reciprocal measures in future trade agreements and tax treaties (fatca reporting, residency based taxation).

If US banks had the same reporting requirements to EU countries regarding EU dual citizens accounts, this absurd situations of being denied banking relationships in the country you work and reside would stop promptly.
> I've opened "thank you" issues before, and wondered "how much will this annoy the owner/watchers?"

I've deliberately not opened "Thank you" issues, because I didn't want to annoy the owner/watchers. Certainly frustrating there is no way to express gratitude.
It generally doesn't make sense for companies to get involved with Twittersphere activism. It doesn't solve the purported problem and it's impossible to please the crowd, as you can see in the rest of the comments on this thread.

Here's what I wrote about the boycott four months ago on HN:

"I'm also a FB advertiser. Here my thoughts on it:

1) Facebook's reach is unique. If you want to share a message that's important to you with groups of people you care about reaching in the world, there's no better way to reach them at scale.

2) Facebook has had a number of negative sounding news cycles in the past few years (Cambridge Analytica, etc.), and data shows that the average American hasn't changed their behavior based on them. 70% of all Americans and Canadians use Facebook or Instagram at least once a month, and 55% of all Americans and Canadians use it at least once per day. Facebook's monthly and daily user counts have only grown, including this last quarter.

3) Very few advertisers ended up cutting spend during the boycott. Many who did so wanted to cut ad spend in a COVID environment anyway. For instance, Unilever and Coca-Cola also paused Twitter ads, which has nothing to do with the boycott.

4) I myself believe that, at least in comparison to other companies like Google, Facebook does try to police hate speech, and it's a hard job."
Weee, I recently read a book on the last burning of witches that occured in Europe, it does not feel that far off sometimes :)
I reported this (0552167673) about 3 months ago, for having the wrong image, nothing has happened yet...
> What aircraft did he interfere with? It will surely be visible on that aircraft's path. Let's see? In actual reality he didn't even attempt to interfere, not by choice nor by accident.

He operated his drone recklessly to such a degree that shows nothing but blatant disregard for air traffic and human lives:

> "These clips also revealed flight in hazardous conditions including heavy rain, fog, snow, and close proximity to buildings in downtown Philadelphia. There was also posted proof of the pilot intentionally losing radio signal, and control, of his drone."

Every penny of his fine is well-deserved.
I confess I’m slightly annoyed to be trolled. Maybe I just don’t know enough to appreciate it.
> I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in.

Not exactly, as star numbers are made public, meaning it's also a form of public approval.
They may "unleash intercontinental lower-than-fiber latency", but they also unleash light pollution.

Where do you live? In most of Europe and SE Asia you can get gigabit broadband.

I think SpaceX is a cool company and I could see myself work there, but StarLink is, IMHO, a shitty project that ruins the night sky and space for everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Criticism
> You should not be actively investing.

Someone is.
Some companies did 600%+ in less than a year. Everyone wants a piece of that.
3D printed houses (extruded concrete)
3D printing hou
That makes sense. Doesn’t that then seem like a perfect problem for a neural net type system to solve? Watch a bunch of games, figure out empirically how effective different units and combos are and try to come up with a scoring rubric that is incrementally more accurate than before.

I am not trying to trivialize the problem at all. I don’t know much about it and that’s why I’m asking why it isn’t simple.
Agreed, and yet looking at the Biden transition team the wealth transfer is going into hyperdrive. I can’t see the Dems winning progressives again with the “other guy is real bad” argument, so let’s hope the next Trump isn’t even worse.
It's been my experience that most natives of a country know little about the immigration and citizenship laws of their own country, much less another. Why? They've never had occasion to find out, until they find themselves having to sponsor a foreign spouse or do anything that forces them to interact with the system.
> Why is that? why is it cheaper for banks to borrow from me than from other banks? I say it's due to the lack of competition.

The are many, many banks who will pay you something resembling the fed funds rate on a savings account (0.5% seems to be the number at the moment). Bank of America and other banks get away with paying 0.01% due to inertia and lack of consumer education.
So copying an internet-published trailer of a Marvel movie is a crime, but my privacy is up for grabs.
Well, regarding the French citizenship, as long as the parents aren't registering their children born abroad at a French consulate the kids are not French citizens. Easy enough yo do all that later. And that part of citizenship is different from requesting passports.

Source: My own children, both dual citizenship, different names on each passport due different naming legislation for unmarried parents, one with two passports, the other currently only with one.
Saved you a click: the article doesn't present any evidence of possible ties to 5G conspiracies. The only "news" is that one person who was interviewed by the FBI was asked if there was a connection, and there were none that he knew of.
It's interesting the subtitle mentions "patients" when the entire text applies fully for very different contexts, say, cruise ships
If this article isn’t this, I don’t know what is. I don’t know why people aren’t more dumbfounded that the market is at all time highs when the world is dying and no one has worked for a year.

> As the story goes, one day in 1929, Joe Kennedy is getting his shoes shined. The boy began to give stock tips as he polished Kennedy's oxfords. In that moment, it struck Joe that he needed to leave the market. He reasoned, famously, if shoeshine boys have an opinion on stocks, the market is clearly, dangerously popular. Supposedly, he pulled out not long before the stock market crash that led to what we know today as the Great Depression.
My previous comment to this effect has been hidden. No idea why.

This is a very poorly written article and is steeped in mysticism and conspiracy-like rhetoric.
FYI, OpenDemocracy is run, written & edited by a Scottish Nationalist. The website is less about "open democracy" and more about anti-UK sentiment and is backed by like-minded funds/organisations (David & Elaine Potter Foundation, the Bertha Foundation, the Roddick Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Oak Foundation, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Luminate, and the Open Society Foundation created by George Soros, the billionaire investor - https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2019/05/16/how-open-democrac...).

It is very far from the neutral & transparent journalism it likes to present itself as.
Nice timing from the PR department : this is how its done.
Being a skeptic of free will, do you believe your belief in determinism makes the knowledge of living in a deterministic world a moot point?

Even with things being predetermined, our conscience minds still desire to optimize our existences with what we ultimately see as choices and decisions.

I’m this case, free will can then be preserved as an ideological concept that emerges within a deterministic system that breeds consciousness.
Interesting. So the Zergling is a weak individual unit but when amassed into a large group they become overwhelming and the overall effect is that the Zerg rush is emergent behavior.
>Example: most passports list the place of birth of the holder. If you are an American citizen, you must enter the US on a US passport

ooh, good point. I'd forgotten about that completely.
An idea as old as the stock market itself. And yet, decades later, it is still the engine for raising capital.

(1978) The Gambling Fever On Stock Exchanges [1]

(1986) Capitalism's Casino [2]

(1989) THE STOCK MARKET FROM THE ROARING '80S TO THE SOBER '90S [3]

(1993) How Clinton's Stimulus Plan Cuts Into Deficit; Stock Market Casino [4]

(1995) Are Stock Markets Costly Casinos? [5]

(1999) The Wall Street Casino [6]

(2002) Nasdaq 'Casino' Had Few Safeguards [7]

(2011) Gambler or Investor? The Truth About Why We Trade [8]

(2014) The Big Casino [9]

(2015) The stock market is a 'dangerous casino' that's disconnected from the real economy [10]

(2020) When Did the Stock Market Become a Casino? [11]

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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1978/09/07/t...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1986/10/08/c...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/12/31/t...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/opinion/l-how-clinton-s-s...

[5] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80562055.pdf

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/23/opinion/the-wall-street-c...

[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/11/11/n...

[8] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303499204576388...

[9] http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2014/0514orr.html

[10] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-stock-market-is-a-danger...

[11] https://stocksandcoffee.com/stock-market-casino/
This is not what you are talking about but I would like to mention that as a contributor I feel like I often get a thank you note after I open a PR or even an issue in stranger repos. In my experience gratitude towards contributors is the norm, not the exception.
Indeed. It's one of those recurring engineering memes that makes the rounds every decade or so. Id be surprised if it hasn't been on the cover, or in the pages of, Popular [Science|Mechanics] at least once a decade for the past 50 years.

What I personally don't understand is why these aren't themselves driven by a vertical air wind turbine. The rotational speeds aren't very high, and it seems like a no-brainer. A VAWT with variable vanes could easily be shut down in a storm.
For some reason I think the 53 year old Dutch hair salon owner would rather just be left in peace than brush up on American tax law.
"I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful software."
Both permanent residents and citizens have to pay income on their worldwide income according to the IRS.
Would you share any favorite sources for your bullet points? Thank you.
No I think we are talking about balancing units. It’s not super satisfying to play a game with hundreds of units if only one or a handful of them are worth building.