skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let me introduce you to the HELOC

Home equity loans are predominantly used by middle income households [0].

The rich can borrow against securities at the call money rate, currently 2% [1]. Much cheaper than borrowing against real estate [2]. The less rich swap it to a fixed rate for added security; the richer take the rate risk. (They likely have natural hedges.) The super rich seek to borrow at or close to the SOFR [3], typically having Treasuries or similar structured products for the purpose. (If they have a business with float, that could be even cheaper than SOFR.)

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.574...

[1] https://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/call-money.asp...

[2] https://www.bankrate.com/home-equity/heloc-rates/

[3] https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/SOFR
I genuinely enjoyed my S2 ( I9100 ) and I only given it away to my sister since she kinda annexed it during my trip to the old country. It was a solid device for the time. Since then I also used asus zenfone ( interesting features there ) and now LG v20 ( prolly last android phone with changable battery ).

I honestly don't get why people are so addicted to a brand. I used to drive Acura when 2004 models were still good. I wouldn't buy one today.

Still, LG failing does seem like a marketing loss. My experience with their hardware was not bad.
Thank you!

I built a basic first version that a company started to use in 6 months during weekends and early mornings and then another 6 months to get to the current version.

I think it could be done faster but I also have a family so I took my time :)
this is not interesting? hes comparing raw murder numbers. differences of 150 murders to 160. what WOULD be interesting is the change in murder rate per capita, and compare that over a longer period of time to see if that number has actually increased significantly in the wider picture, not just for the dates that were cherry picked here
I'm genuinely curious, how do you feel about erotica or written smut? How about drawn porn?
A couple of excellent GIS related links I would recommend to anyone interested in this area.

Talks and writing by PostGIS co-creator Paul Ramsey (who is incredible): http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/writings

The mapscaping podcast - a lot of intros to the complex and overlapping worlds of GIS: https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast
He didn't start most of them to, he jumped in at the right time bringing money.

Its still a good skill picking winner in a hyper competitive environment, but he's closer to an average trust fund kid than a jobs or a page.
Most of the problematic parts that make it difficult to support into the future are from third parties like the chipset maker and the camera sensor maker etc.

OEMs don't really have what you'd need to make the phone "open", even assuming that they were legally able to.
Are there any technical limitations on wordstar? A lot of DOS text editors had a 64k limit, or document+software+(d)os had to fit in 640k.
In the world where entire sites are pulled over some silly Q conspiracy theory, we can surely do more to combat porn. We've largely dealt with smoking, also addictive, also once prevalent, also while cigarettes are still available at every gas station and grocery store.
What’s the Big Deal Regarding Case Counts?
This seems like an actual case where you could use machine learning to detect and remove instances of this video, or automate the sending of takedown requests. That would however require that the aggregators actually care.
They don’t. Suppose I incorporate a company in Grand Bahama “Shell” and fund it with $10,000. The company turns around and buys $10,000 worth of Apple stock. A year later, Apple has doubled and I sell my company Shell to my friend John. If John and I are both non-Americans then the US taxing authority will never hear about this transfer or be able to tax the capital gain.
Thanks for the reply. That's definitely very fair criticism that I generally agree with.

I suppose I personally don't mind the inconsistent and lackluster device ecosystem support because I currently prefer an outdoor watch over a "true" smartwatch. The OneUI additions were therefore what stuck out to me the most, especially from the perspective of a Pixel user. While I would appreciate the privacy and consistency aspects of iOS, I really don't like the often confusingly obscured UI elements, and the limited feature-set is the deal-killer for me as I at least occasionally depend on having decent file management, FTP/SSH, etc.
I would argue the copyright argument goes the other way. If you're a big vertically integrated corporation who has greased the right cogs it's incredibly easy to get content taken down wholesale without any oversight or accountability. Whether it's having content removed or restored, the burden somehow always falls on the individual.
But they pivoted models (twice, if you count both streaming and the shift to original content over other companies IP). There’s a ton of spending with that, and they are still gaining subscribers.
IMHO, you would lose leverage on your negotiation.
You can subdivide large geometries. You can decide how much by controlling the amount of vertices a polygon can have before it’s chopped away.

Intersections with large polygons will perform faster if subdivided.
If it's paid out as ordinary (W-2) income, then your top federal tax rate right this minute is 39.35% (37% regular tax, 1.45% medicare tax, 0.9% medicare surtax).

If it's paid out as some sort of investment income not subject to long-term capital gains treatment (e.g. interest, non-qualified dividends), then your top federal rate is 40.8% (37% regular, 3.8% net investment tax).

That does assume $500k of taxable income not counting the payout we're talking about here, to hit that 37% tax bracket.

If you have kids, you can hit these sorts of marginal rates at lower incomes too, because of the 5% marginal tax rate from the child credit phaseout.

I should note that money is fungible, so the fact that some of this is claimed to be "medicare" tax and some is claimed to be "income" tax is irrelevant to both the person paying the tax and the government collecting the tax. Medicare is not funded solely by the "medicare" tax in practice, so the fact that there's a separate tax is more or less an accounting oddity.
Wow! This should be in the first paragraph of the man page. Thanks for this tip
Is a lot of gore footage created for the sake of selling videos? Allowing child porn has the consequence of incentivizing more to be produced. Is anyone producing gore videos in any quantity?
Why Some People Think They're Great Even When Their Work Is Terrible (2017)
If you want a lightweight launcher with few features and an atypical UI, try https://kisslauncher.com/ (available in the Play Store and in F-Droid). It shows your apps in a "frecency"-ordered, scrollable and searchable list.
They are still growing, growth can happen at any and often multiple times
It sounds like other sites (not pornhub.com) have the porn video she’s trying to remove, and she doesn’t understand that Pornhub isn’t in control of them. Doesn’t really seem like Pornhub’s at fault here, and I question the motives of a journalist who writes something like this
This is part that is aggravating to me. I know you are right, but why does it have to one thing. A discerning consumer should be able to determine if a given product works for its use case.
I tend to think about it the same way as you. Having an algorithm for multiplying two numbers is qualitatively different than having a lossy compression of a huge dataset of multiplication tables. The latter is what GPT3 has and it just doesn't scale.
I've experienced the same issue across 14 different WD red drives, mixed 10/8tb and helium/air filled. Whenever the pair in my Synology do it, the sound resonates so loud you can hear it across the house. I've tried everything to get them to stop, but sometimes they still make the noise for 30+ minutes at a time.

I initially thought part of the issue might be due to the drives being mounted directly to the case so I bought a set of anti-vibration rubber drive mounts, but it didn't help at all.
Been using Next.js and Chakra. Big fan of Chakra, it's the best UI library I've used hands down.
Maybe Java should catch some inspiration from the spread operator from JavaScript? In JS you would write {...p, x: p.x * 2}
Average salary is $6,000 a year. But those numbers are according to the official statistics and I don't think those are true because of huge gray economy sector. I think that it's more like $3,000-$4,000 a year for most people (but those numbers are after all taxes, we usually don't pay taxes from our salaries, our employer takes care of that).

I agree that's one of the reasons that repair is more common. Very few people would darn torn socks, because those are cheap enough just to buy them.
Florida declares state of emergency over toxic wastewater leak
I suspect you’ll be downvoted, but I agree. People take the internet waaaaaaay too seriously now. Not downplaying their trauma. Crazy stuff happens online, but everyone’s attention span lasts for 30 seconds, so just move on, get some therapy, and try to ‘let it be’. I suspect stories like this will facilitate additional mass-censorship via complaints similar to “think of the children!!”, but framed towards adults who don’t understand how web archival works.

But is this what we want? Don’t we love the internet because everything lives forever? Remove the story in the OP from your mind and respond without any emotion.
I know I sound like a contrarian, but I really miss when the internet felt more dangerous and unhinged. People starting these justice campaigns for every little thing about the internet is not only futile, but also short sighted. Do we want more “mass deletions” of content like Tumblr, Pornhub, etc ? This is what happens when the internet is slowly homogenized into this business friendly, marketable, “safe space” for casual users. Sorry for the rant, but I’ve noticed this so much lately.

YES terrible stuff happens online. YES it has been happening since before the author of this story was born. Deal with it the best you can, but stop using emotion to convince everyone that you will be “fixed” until every “bad” site is fully regulated and monitored.
Dotplot – the single most useful yet largely neglected dataviz type
To realize that gain you actually need to sell the Apple stock. It would be perfectly possible (as I am proposing) and viable to make that transaction be forced to go through US. You could still sell the "Shell" to someone without US knowing about it, but once you actually would want to do something with that gained money - you would need to sell the underlying stock and deal with IRS.
agreed, if you think this article points to a real scandal you are an ignorant rube - netflix’s low tax bill is justified by reasonable tax spending
Nitpick but I've always preferred to say it as "naming things and cache invalidation" in that order, which IMO emphasizes the irony of creating labels for things and then needing to forget about them.
Why investors got interested in EU carbon market
Let's for a second assume that we bound the weights within [-1,1], considering that we are using floats to represent them which are a subset of real numbers, by increasing the number of hidden neurons, you increase the class of models that you can select from, any single bit change in the weights means a different model. By increasing the class of models in your search space, you increase the number of models that perform good on training, but perform worse on test, i.e. underestimate true loss.

Exactly because you select a single model and you have more models that underestimate the true (read test) error, you *may* be more likely to get models with worse performance on the test set compared to using a smaller network exactly because in the smaller network you are searching within a smaller distribution.
This is so underrated as a comment, but so true. Samsung just kept at it with incremental updates to a single series and an occasional separate model if they wanted to try something new.

LG was constantly shifting markets. I had a G2 and really liked it. I would have bought other devices from them, but the things that appealed to me about the G2 disappeared in most future products.

Constant shifts in focus gained share but also lost share at the same time. They really needed a cohesive line.
the lg g2 was the best android phone i ever had. unfortunately the series ended there for me. lg was just making it huger and huger.
I would have guessed roestli.
But... you forgot to share your grandmother's recipe for making lemonade!
What current phone out there has a high-impedance 3.5mm headphone jack, user-replaceable battery, and IR blaster? Asking as a V20 owner.
I made my own app. server with built in distributed JSON database that can hot-deploy directly from your PC to a cluster of servers async. = instantaneously.

This means I have 1 second turnaround from idea implemented to testable on a copy of live.

Other than that I am still on manual HTML, CSS and vanilla .js!

JavaSE for server and javascript for client.

HTTP Comet-stream over XHR/Fetch for real-time.

Single serving database salt SHA256 for security.
That's a good point. I feel like there's essentially two groups: those that want the information and are annoyed by the stories, and those who want the stories. I don't know whether they'd read the article if it didn't come with a somewhat relatable story.

Unfortunately, many large media companies have adopted the story-first-facts-second strategy. Are those who prefer otherwise such a tiny minority?

To me, these articles look like those SEO recipe sites that are stuffed with random content because Google won't rank them as well if they just provided what the user is looking for.
>We’ve got you covered*

>*Applies to regular full-time employees.

>Don’t buy that dinner, don’t buy those school supplies, don’t buy those gifts because you won’t have that almost $500 you paid in dues. WHY NOT save the money and get the books, gifts & things you want?

I've seen better propaganda for EVE Online and most people are doing that as a joke
Many things are done over HTTP not for any particular reason of HTTP features, but because HTTP is the most accepted protocol across secured networks, and the fact that you'll easily find a package for HTTP support in almost any language you care for. HTTP is also the ultimate in portable GUI, so often you'll have an HTTP server for your product anyway, so using any other protocol besides it will add more problems.

If you try to use a new protocol over TCP, you'll quickly find all sorts of corportate networks that will drop your traffic; you'll quickly find that people are reluctant to open several ports to allow both your Web GUI and your backend protocol to talk to each other.

So at a very basic level, people aren't piggybacking over HTTP itself, they are piggy-backing onto "Most Used GUI protocol". It's true that they sometimes adopt some of HTTP's features, especially in terms of caching or common error formats, but much more often they ignore it completely (with WebSockets) or partially (binary data in POST requests with custom error messages).

Just as HATEOAS and Content-Type negotiation are extremely rarely used in application protocols, I don't think a Presentation layer would have ever caught on realistically speaking.
I wish RSS still excited people, but then again this is just like basically asking what's your favorite site.
Ugh, no followup to the Stylo 5, then. Got mine in 2019 shortly after it was released, and it's been rock-solid. Aside from the inevitable non-removable battery, I've had no complaints, and to be fair to the battery, I still get outstanding life from it.

I really don't want a phone that's all-glass. I know it's trendy, but, hard pass for me. The aluminum frame and plastic back are things LG got very right with the Stylo 5. Please put enough of a bezel on it that I can actually grab it without triggering something inadvertently.

And, yes, that 3.5 mm jack is important. Music-making apps are basically impossible to work with when your audio path includes Bluetooth delay.
Everything on the Internet Is Content
The orbiters and solid boosters were but the massive external tank was not recovered. The time and complexity associated with the refurbishment of the orbiters and booters resulted in a program cost of over $1b per launch. SpaceX can launch similar sized payloads on FH for ~$150m.
Influencers are infiltrating ghost kitchens thanks to Planet Hollywood's founder
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?
Everybody forgets about Social Security and Medicare. Writing out the federal marginal rates for the different income brackets with SS and Medicare included is very eye-opening.
>entire sites are pulled over some silly Q conspiracy theory, we can surely do more to combat porn.

Remember that time the pornographers tried to overthrow the US government? Me neither.
Isn't this basically global price fixing? It seems tremendously unfair to small businesses, at the very least.
Why would another country, especially one that's doing just fine like Ireland, want to eliminate a competitive edge it has?
Loss deductions are not complicated. I have a small business and built a building year before last. Deducted the expenses from that half last year and half this year. It cost me 500 bucks for an accountant that I would pay anyways. It is no different from home office remodel deductions or anything similar.
Association of Loneliness and Wisdom with Gut Microbial Diversity andComposition
Can you elaborate a bit more?

I’m very curious because I think the existence and availability of porn and the sex industry is very important for the well-being of lots of people. Definitely some problems.. but I’d parallel those to problems with prohibition and suppression.

Have you always held this opinion? Are you religious?
Thanks for the perspective! It's always good to get a look at what the situation looked like to the people who were there at the time. And yes, I can certainly understand that you had to get a product to market within the applicable constraints.
"A future generation" will think poorly of our mass incarceration and meat consumption, but they won't have our body image hangups and literally every second of their lives will be recorded from multiple angles so they won't care about porn.
Here are some wonderful illustrations from a Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit'

https://mashable.com/2015/12/25/soviet-hobbit/
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From what I read about it previously I think they do actually re-render the backgrounds in post

But the LED video walls serve two purposes: ensure the lighting and reflections on real objects in the scene match up with the CGI, and give the actors a visualisation to work with.
When I read those papers, I feel, How much relaxed (less stressed) one must be to create this. Current dopamine inducing attention grabbing world makes it really difficult for such deep studies.
> Decades and decades ago, corporations paid most of the tax. People paid very little.

Regarding corporations paying most of the tax, according to the data at FRED (b. 1947) there has never been a point at which corporate tax receipts have exceeded individual income tax receipts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=CTxn

Regarding people paying very little, all taxes (the main federal types are income, payroll, corporate, excise, and "other") are ultimately paid by people: customers, employees, shareholders, etc.
my approach to caching

1. cache expensive computation on read.

2. invalidate cache entry on update/delete.

for CRUD like applications it is trivial, since you have separate interfaces for read (GET) and update (POST).
Isn't an employment contract a worker entering an agreement to give work to an employer? Why is it evil for a corporation to own the work a worker is paid to do?
LG was the best Android option. Glad I switched to Apple. I still miss the back button though, yikes. Samsung is particularly bad. I swear folks buy their phones because they oversaturate the colors on their screens.
Trying to decide for other people which parts of their sexuality are "tolerable" or not is actually a far bigger mistake, historically and presently
If you are in the breach, the site operator already has your name. And now they will also have your IP address. Yes I realize not all users will enter a phone number that is their own. But for those that do, they’ve just added valuable information to the data held by the site operator, in the nefarious scenario.
nice factoid, thanks.
As a Flemish person, I really hate dubbing. And so does anyone who grew up reading subtitles instead of dubbing.

I'm also certain that this is the main reason why the average person in a subtitle country (Flanders, Netherlands, Nordic countries, ...) speaks way better English than in the dubbing countries.
Both entities provide liability protection. And the taxes are simply differed not omitted.
g2 was the first to have it, because the buttons migrated to the back and there had to be a way to wake it while lying on the table
I'm not an American but my country's index roughly correlates with the DOW.

> Would an average American be able to do the same?

Probably not. How does that matter here though? Even if you are making the case that the vast majority of the population does not participate in the broader stock market, and even when that's true, the fact remains that the article is propagating a deliberately misleading idea that the wealth of billionaires 'increased dramatically during the pandemic' by using the lows in March as the base.
To be honest. I've been introduced to some translated soviet Russian literature of late that is absolutely fascinating. Especially in the descriptions of daily life and struggles in the soviet cities which do not deviate anywhere near as much as I expected from non communist life.

Even these soviet tv shows are slowly coming out and are just absolutely fascinating.