skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
depends what you mean by "Fed uses" as blanket term

TIPS use CPI like a lot of other things in bond math:
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...
Yes, but some people's bodies will burn excess calories by generating heat while other's will immediately store it as fat. When it comes to nutrition, nothing is quite as simple as you hope.
Will this result in C, C++, or Fortran codes to solve linear equations faster?
> I have a hard time imagining the cumulative effect of “you’re wrong because you’re female” over a lifetime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion
Currency in most countries already is, effectively, digital. The vast majority of financial transactions are done digitally.
Kind of amazing that a super slow, super expensive computing architecture like this has actually turned out to be very useful for some things.
If you add the massive Starship+SuperHeavy in for scale, it looks even smaller.

https://twitter.com/Caspar_Stanley/status/136834862870895001...
Signal Appears to Have Abandoned Their AGPL-Licensed Server Sourcecode
This is everywhere not just major newspapers. I experience it frequently in verbal conversation.

There is solipsistic change taking place in discourse were people assume you already have their knowledge in your head.

It's to the point where I have to play 24 question and then summarize the story to include all the facts to make sure I have it correct.

Totally possible I'm the strange one and see ambiguity where others do not.
If it's pure fascist voter supression then whole Europe takes part of it as well? Besides the UK I guess who are similar to Americans when it comes to voting.

Every single argument against their current system and arguments against ID is what we all do here? Think you're too deep into their political rhetoric here and peddle misinformation.
This is a well researched article touching on some key points as to why Excel lives on. Interesting for me is the unbundling of Excel, and the birth of many B2B SaaS products. I'm not sure Excel was ever the right program to generate many of these products, and so it makes sense someone built a specific program to house it (product boards, CRMs, calendars all fall in this imo). Others however, absolutely, I'm not sure the long term value in some products that can simply be done in Excel - often when a startup goes after one of these verticals it's hard to create value for the user and the business, because by building a product you are by definition limiting the potential/power of the program by limiting what it can do. So you're asking someone to pay for something that is more limited than it's Excel-cousin, but might be simpler to use and look prettier. An example to me of this is financial modeling / flightpath type apps for businesses. Instead of paying for a bunch of saas, maybe a company should go back to hiring more Excel ninjas, ergo Excel Never Dies.
I have replaced redux with just react-query and hook,context. Simple for noobs as well.
I do think Ethereum will overtake Bitcoin eventually in usage. In some ways it already has. Ethereum's transaction fees are set to drop like a rock over the next few years, and so many useful things are built on it already.
It enables people cut off (in one way or another) from traditional banking to actually have an account.

You want to kill bitcoin provide a real alternative else it is most definitely not "worthless" as you say?
The new app supports membership cards and at least personally they were migrated from the old app.

https://support.google.com/googlepay/topic/10167683?hl=en

* I work at Google but not on Google Pay
Which proof of stake systems currently exist and work well?
An Unwitting Monument: On Egon Schiele’s Pandemic Year
> The Mediterranean is a comparative advantage that can be leveraged.

How? There isn't much trade between Africa/Arabia and Europe other than oil, some agricultural products and used cars/outright waste.

> The natural beauty that attracts tourism can help repatriate the talented diasporas.

That's already the case in Croatia, many pensioners who worked in richer European countries retire back in Croatia because they can "live like kings" from pensions that would barely fetch a 1br micro apartment otherwise. For 500€ you can get a 75 m² flat in the center of Rijeka - in Munich that would be around 1500-2000€.

And those in working age... it's rare for them to return to their homelands for that reason.

> The question is whether brain drain, crime, and corruption are due to incurable pathologies or symptoms of transient disadvantages.

Neither, in my opinion. "Incurable pathologies" is bordering on racism, but it aren't "transient" issues on the other side. What's needed is massive amounts of wealth redistribution across Europe, combined with throwing the whole lot of political elites into jail (and that's also sadly valid for Germany, just look at Andreas Scheuer or the MPs who allegedly got huge kickbacks for anti-corona masks).

Basically Europe would need something like what the US did post-1945: a complete clean-up. Absent that, I'd also accept a revolution of the masses, but that isn't on the pipelines anywhere except in France...
Nice work. Reminds me of some of the work of Pete Cooke of Tau Ceti and Academy fame on 8-bit platforms.
Yes but...

Its like the Options market. You can be the seller of a call option without knowing who your counterparty is. Similarly: you don't necessarily know who the counterparty to your CDS is.

The CDS was not a standard instrument like the options market. The details of each-and-every CDS changes with each prospectus. This is very common in the bond market: bonds change (callable vs non-callable vs puttable, vs tax free vs taxed, in a CDO or CDO-squared or Synthetic CDO, or a SLAB or an MBS or... etc. etc. Lots of differing details).

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So when you buy a CDO-squared in 2006, you didn't necessarily know that AIG was providing the CDS-insurance associated with that CDO. (Hypothetically. I'm assuming that such a product existed back then...)

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If it helps, consider a $600 call option on TSLA that expires a month from now. Lets say you want to be the seller of this call option (which is a kinda-sorta insurance-like product on the price of TSLA).

You can sell this Tesla-insurance on the options market. But you will NEVER figure out who is on the buyer-side of your deal.

And vice versa: the buyer of the TSLA insurance (call option) will never know that you were the one selling that insurance. A middleman handles all the details. Neither side really cares "who" is the counterparty is, they just expect that the other side can pay up.

(In the case of options: the clearing house / middleman is a very large bank who guarantees the payment. It turns out that the middlemen of the CDS deals in 2008 were less reliable)
Some of my university professors and assistants were too nerdy or decrepit to be sexy, but most were smart, interesting people that students listened to attentively for hours and found attractive beyond their moderately plain appearance. There were several couples (and triangles) among faculty, evidence that they made a strong impression on each other too.
Julia didn't come about because a bunch of CS people wanted to make a pretty language. It came about because people experienced with scientific computing were frustrated with the current state of affairs and wanted to improve the situation.

If Python works fine for your use case, then indeed, Julia probably seems like a waste of time. But if your situation - like mine was, three years ago - is that you program mostly in Python, but then constantly hit the performance wall and begin doing questionable gymnastics with Numpy, Cython or Numba to try to scale it, before eventually giving up and writing C code that is 15% business logic and 85% pointless boilerplate that segfaults if you look at it wrong... well, then the point of Julia is obvious.

Right now, Julia mostly attracts the users for whom Python is obviously not good enough. Eventually, I hope the ecosystem matures enough that even a user who might otherwise use Python would use Julia simply because it's nicer.
I have the same problem when talking politics with my father, or other people who follow the scene very closely. Instead of saying "the prime minister" or "the minister of education", they will use their names. Sometimes even for mayors or people who may have appeared on TV (which I don't watch) once.

Like the author I feel exhausted and always have to ask who's who and why is that important. Of course one option is to get interested in politics, but already being very bad with names and faces I feel like it's a waste of time.
That's great stuff, I wonder how it compares to wdt[0] when there's only one TCP path. This has been my go-to tool to transfer files on the network.

0: https://github.com/facebook/wdt
I mean, I'm not everyone but I can and do both buy and recommend phones with close to stock android, even if they are more expensive.

Like Sony and Motorola used to be pretty good about that.

Problem is, it's hard to search those phone finder sites for "Android purity" so I have to dig deep to find out how bad it will even be. The more fancy features listed on the manufacturers marketing page the more confident I can be that the features are all preinstalled spyware that might offer a cute gimmick as a bribe, at best.
> How valuable is TLA+ for non-concurrent applications?

My understanding is that TLA+ is for concurrent applications, but with a broad definition of "concurrent." For example, it could be...

* multiple hosts messaging each other

* multiple threads in one process sharing a data structure

* multiple API calls that all use the same Postgres DB

In other words, any sort of system where different actors can step on each others' toes.
Good catch. There's another more detailed response I just left to a similar comment, but the TLDR is that we do some logging of metadata of the dataframes passed to the tool, and what features are used.

If you're interested in using the tool without any logging, just let us know and we can make sure to turn it off for you!
There is no such thing as a perfect defence, against an enemy with unlimited resources. But it is much more expensive to attack an enemy's power plants with $1 million cruise missiles than it is to cut their underwater cables by dragging anchors over them. Also, you can plant bombs on underwater power lines and set them off later - that's a huge problem re: how much energy capacity could go down at once.

Anyway, we definitely can protect installations from stand-off weapons: CIWS systems like the Phalanx can shoot them down these days, and they're relatively cheap. It's not perfect protection - eventually one will get through - but it does raise the cost of a successful attack substantially.
To me, the shape the code should be is largely the same as easily-testable code anyhow.

You want functions that do small, self-contained things so that you can reason about them efficiently. That also makes them easier to test.

Yes, sometimes you end up with a monstrous function because of requirements... But then, that's how you have to test it anyhow.

That said, some of the more intense testing things, like dependency injection, definitely change the shape of the code into abnormal forms. So I can agree there that it's adding complexity to the code that it shouldn't, just for testing. Some projects may warrant the increased complexity to trade for stability. I don't think most do.
That is currently a non issue since software is lagging hardware. So you can join 2 systems together fairly inefficiently and still make a go of it. Sure, a good language for people down the stack can topple python from the top, but it won't be easy. It'd be far easier if we were approaching software limits on current hardware and needed to pull everything into one language and system to make it work together.
One key difference would be vvvv is a desktop app while cables lives in the browser.
FYI - If I click to accept cookies in the middle of filling out the form, it wipes the form of any information.
Why is 'rich billionaire has uninformed or possibly self interested opinions' newsworthy
why is it a poor way to communicate anything useful?

if sending someone a dollar through venmo costs $0.0000001 worth of electricity and sending someone a dollar through the bitcoin network costs $1 doesn't that communicate everything you need to know?
"In short, human traffickers do use bitcoin as their primary asset."

https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/87371/how-often-bitco...
Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books
The machine is just a fancy new toy, although it does have the added benefit of your card not leaving your control. It's still possible to put the tip in after your chip card has been read.
I've been on the Google Play version of K9 for years and I must say that it was perfectly fine. I changed to FairEmail as I thought having a very old version of an email client might not be ideal from a security perspective. At the moment the biggest change from my workflow is the UI, which looks better that the old K9. Now I am not switching to K9 F-Droid version just because I am lazy to configure everything again another time.

But please bear in mind that my way of using email on my phone is very minimal. I usually just need something to read and for most of my productivity task I use mutt.
A lot of publications have gone really bad in just the last few years. Back home we learnt English from newspapers. My English would be terrible if I attempt it now.
British publications FT and The Economist still hold their standards high. They both have quality, well-researched content with commendable language to back it up.
Teleport is a fantastic tool. The main difference are: 1) Runops doesn't require you to have tools (kubectl, psql, etc) installed locally and don't download temporary credentials to access resources, commands execute in the Cloud. 2) Runops has synchronous reviews workflows on the command/intent level, again as opposed to getting an open session for a period of time. 2) We automatically remove sensitive data from the results of every command. 4) Runops uses Git as the source of truth for the audit trails.
Just watched The Front Page recently, which showed that sensationalist driven journalism was alive and well in 1931:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021890/
Microsoft's success has objectively been a step backwards for computing.

Anyone who has used a NeXTstation with 32Mbytes of RAM and an 68040 CPU, which did not even have accelerated video, can certainly understand how bloated and wasteful of resources all the various Windows applications and operating systems have been over the years.

How many resources does Xbox use? It's not essential either...
You might love this color coded description: https://m.imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r
The BLS does not include a CPU-megahertz (or gigahertz) in its market basket. It uses CPU speed (and other characteristics) to divide the market into "high-end", "mainstream", or "economy" computers, then substitutes new items in the correct slot when as the new items become available, rather than waiting for the price of the older computer to plummet.
Hey HN,

We're Joe & Stopa, from https://zeneca.io. We're building the successor to Goodreads. For now, you can create public bookshelves (i.e https://zeneca.io/stopa), discover like-minded readers, and share your favorite quotes and thoughts (i.e here's all I learned from PG: https://www.zeneca.io/stopa/details/shycAgAAQBAJ)

We left our jobs in June last year to build a company together (but we didn’t have an idea… yet!). Since then we’ve shipped several projects. Our criteria for each project was 1) it had to be something we wanted for ourselves and 2) each project had to be more ambitious than the previous.

One day, Joe said that he wanted to share his favorite books online, but found most places did not do this in an elegant way. We noticed that the people we admired used plain lists on their personal websites, rather than Goodreads.

So we thought, hey, surely this can’t be the best way to do things. Maybe there’s a space here to fill what’s missing. From there, we built a static version of the site, and shared it with our friends: https://zeneca.io/joe + https://zeneca.io/stopa

This got enough interest, that we coded up the backend, so anyone could create public book pages. So far, 300 people have created their own public book pages.

Once book pages were in, more ideas start to sprout. We try to discuss books all over the place: from twitter comments to sparse reddit groups. What if there was a place just for this? You could find like-minded readers, have deeper discussions, and save all those conversations. When you wanted to share a book with a friend, they'd be able to "see" your experience of going through it.

To support that, we introduced quotes and thoughts. You can write thoughts about your favorite books, and they'll show up on your public page. Others can send you super cute hearts.

This is still very rough. We want to hack together more features, that can help you really engage with books. One thing we hope, is to siphon time off of Twitter and FB, and move it to something much more enriching: discussing and exploring favorite books.

Please try it out, we'd appreciate your feedback : )

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For the technically curious, the site was all built in Clojure. It's been a joy to use. One surprise for us, was just how powerful Postgres is. Coming from big companies, it's easy to move towards more complicated setups -- however Postgres does a phenomenal job of helping you handle a few users without getting in your way, and going much further.
Neither are regular hormonal pill abortions. In fact, the pill (monthly pill, not morning-after) is the most common birth control method and most prolife people support it, even though technically there’s a possibility that it may prevent implantation (if for whatever reason ovulation happens anyway).

If you want to call that abortion, then go right ahead but I think you’ll be in the minority (just like people probably wouldn’t call a natural lack of implantation a miscarriage because they have literally no way of knowing that it happened... a dewer containing 100 frozen undifferentiated embryos is just not the same as an actual child, and I think most people do not act like it is). I think the vast majority of people understand a sort of gradient between conception and birth. Most people who are prolife would be uncomfortable banning the pill and most people who are nominally pro choice probably aren’t too comfortable with later-term abortions. Reality is complicated and so are people’s opinions.
Digital currencies for central banks (CBDC) do not require a blockchain to exist. They are two different things, I don't think they will compete with each others.
I think countries are going to get their own digital currency and ban crypto. I saw some news on India that they are looking to ban all crypto and just looking to push indian digital currency.

China is developing digital yuan so i am not sure what will happen to bitcoin that you own if the country deems it illegal.
what? no they're not. just because transactions are done digitally doesn't mean the currency is digital. the dollar, for example is not a digital currency, but we in the USA are exploring it.

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/the-digitization-of-...
It's true for core of reporting. Being able to write clearly and accurately is important, but if the reporter isn't able to actually do the legwork of actual reporting, the result is clearly-written but empty of information. Being able to re-write a press release from the mayor's office isn't journalism.
the eastmed is passing though what is greek and cyprus EEZ, not turkish. According to the UNCLOS (at least according to the reading that Greece does) turkey does not have a maritime border with Egypt because of kastellorizo.

That being said, Turkey has been invited to join the eastMed pipeline
> Why do I get the feeling a competing centralized system will soon announced by one of Bill Gates companies or partners, if it has not already?...

You probably got it from conspiration theories, the same people that believe that Gates put a microchip inside Covid vaccines.
That doesn't mean I (or the person you're replying to) agree with it. I mean I don't agree with US politics and their human rights violations, yet here I am, commenting on a US community on US-designed hardware and US-developed software.

"We should improve society somewhat."
"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
Makes me think of the song "Eminence Front".
Well, everything is a symbol. Everything that you will ever do or say means something, whether you knew it at the time or not.
It isn't just that journalism has become an ideological battleground. Even without the cultural warfare, once-mighty publications would still be seen as in decline. The issue is the modern ad-based internet economy. Due to the pressures of swiftly producing content that draws maximum clicks, journalists at even august publications are now forced to create articles little distinguishable from a minimum-wage content writer hired off some freelance platform.

There is also the issue of declining attention spans as people consume snackable content on their mobile devices. Journalists have always chafed at limitations of space, but they are under even more pressure today to be concise and eschew subtleties and nuance. The same length as a traditional magazine article from a couple of decades ago, is now seen as a "long read", something for only a niche audience.
Willa Paskin at Slate had an interesting take recently about how content creation has become the default endgame for politicians: https://slate.com/culture/2021/02/barack-obama-bruce-springs...

"The content is not the same, but in both cases Americans are inhabiting a world in which one of the cushiest rewards for doing politics is to get into content creation, whatever form it takes."
Doesn't Ethereum have the same environmental issues?
Stadia wasn't canned. They shut down their first party game studio that was making exclusive title for the platform.

But yeah, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence either...
I disagree. While it would do a lot of damage, the advantage of a properly scalable and functioning decentralized cryptocurrency (not implying BTC is the right one) is that it cannot be controlled by any central bank, or anyone else. That is the inherent elegance of such a solution. While in the Western world there is little need for a parallel monetary system except for the black market, other countries are not as fortunate and do not trust their central banks with anything (classic example is Venezuela).

You could argue Gold is still a good alternative, but owning, transferring gold is problematic unless you actually store it yourself. Any "title" to gold somewhere else can inevitably be seized by a government (or your house raided). Encryption keys are much harder to seize if taken care of properly.
So's the arrival of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, which is still ongoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
I want news to return to the local level. Local news I am willing to pay for, because the information, and thus confidence in it, is closer to home and more identifiable.

Reminds me of a book by John Grisham{1} about a young journalist who buys a small southern newspaper, and turns it around by focusing on actual news.

{1}. The Last Juror
Could anyone explain to me how proof of stake works (as opposed to proof of work), and how it is better? Has proof of stake been proven to be as robust as proof of work?

EDIT: The wikipedia article is easy to find[1]. However it is really short, looks incomplete, and has a lot of “citation needed” after each point. So I would rather ask on HN.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake