skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, since excel can be used for everything from budgeting to making a list of your favorite movies. Cryptocurrency is for transactions and speculation, not much different than any other financial product when you shuck off the technical mumbo jumbo surrounding it. Why would that not be regulated?
Thanks a lot Lucy, happy to hear this !
Sounds like more marxism. What is wrong with 20 year olds today?
CYA, so you can blame someone else for breaches or stolen material. It's really for enterprise IT departments, not end users.
I'm sure this varies from company to company, but it's at least been my experience that a lot corporate executives see their jobs as vehicles for their egos. I'm not sure how to make this sound less trite, because the reality of the situation feels pretty shocking and alien to me. Why would anyone be _proud_ of having some status at some company? In my relatively short experience, it's quite common.
> Encouraging births isn't hard if a government decides its important

Do you have any examples or even just any precedents how decades of declines and lowest birth rate in the world have been easily and successfully turned around, or this is all just hypothetically probably not hard?
Pretty much zero mainstream politicians believe that economically "America First" is a bad thing. The only disagreement is in how to implement it, that is to say, in rhetoric and methods instead of in ends.
Good point. I guess what I should have asked is “what should someone unfamiliar with the bond market understand about this article”
Whoa, I didn't know this existed. This does seem to address a lot of what I want. I wish that were more prominently linked to from https://stedolan.github.io/jq/.
The stranger danger scare predated the Internet being commonplace. I was a kid in the early 90's and by the mid 90's the kids going trick or treating was noticeably down because of "razors in apples" and everyone went to the mall instead.
Responding to Social Justice Rhetoric
This is what you wanted democrats.

You people are pure fucking evil.
Also introduces that same time delay for getting security patches released by package maintainers into your build pipeline.
The "problem," such as it is, is that an increasing number of people don't want to carry wallets any longer--carrying at most a few cards in a sleeve on their smartphone. So to the degree just a photo on their phone isn't good enough, they want a digital ID on their phone.
Security theater in order to generate headlines and sales.
Facebook to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it
And prepare for them to give you strange faces! I had a manager look at my estimate and then told me to multiply it by 3, which I thought was ludicrous. Turned out to be accurate.
Designing a Scalable Design Organization
> Even more interesting, no part of the image spectrum was primarily responsible either. We could get rid of all the high-frequency information, and the AI could still recognise race in fairly blurry (non-diagnostic) images. Similarly, and I think this might be the most amazing figure I have ever seen, we could get rid of the low-frequency information to the point that a human can’t even tell the image is still an x-ray, and the model can still predict racial identity just as well as with the original image!

Im not totally ignorant of what the models are supposed to be doing, about as much as "the boat should float" makes me a qualified sailor... This doesn't sound like the boat is floating the right way up?
Could you put these on the backs of solar panels to capture some waste heat?

Or tack them on ice engines.
Long term evolution of deez nut in your mouth - commie faggot fuck.
Kind of a toxic comment imo.
6 months is an incredibly long time - very generous on your part!

In the past, I've given 2-4 weeks, w/ option to pay for consulting separately (for more pay of course!)
Eager to see what a RESTful SOAP API would look like.
> Rich people don't hold much of their wealth in cash and would hold even less if such policy were in place. You would just inflate asset prices (what rich people hold) and dilute cash (what poorer/less educated people hold).

Please explain how this works. If I buy stocks then the money goes to the seller of the stock. Most of the time that is another rich person because rich people own a lot of stocks. Then it's companies issuing new shares and finally it's some retail investor owning an irrelevant fraction of a company.

So, how do I as the class of rich people protect myself against inflation/negative interest rates/wealth tax on money? I can't.

Rich person -> Rich person is net zero.

Rich person -> company is net zero because I own the company and thereby own the money it has in its bank account. Worse, if that company employs people the peasants get my money.

Rich person -> retail investor. I lose every time.

If anything, rich people massively benefit from 0% inflation or even deflation. As a millionaire you can afford to throw $100k into Bitcoin and get another million out of it with zero work done, meanwhile those stupid stocks have to employ peasants and pay them.

Here is another paradox: If the rich have very little money and the poor have most of it, why are they poor?
> Real 30-year yields are steeply negative in the US as well, with nominal yield at 1.85% and year-over-year CPI above 5%.

year-over-year CPI is backward looking: it compares one year ago to today.

Treasury yields are forward looking: If I tie up money now, how much more will I get one year from now.

Last year was pretty unusual. People expect the next year to be different.
This isn't just about aesthetics, but space efficiency. Putting an air filter in a usable side/end table has negligible additional footprint compared to a table with similar utility, whereas a standalone, whether a traditional unit or a box fan + furnace filter, has a substantial footprint for no utility beyond the filter function.
If you are exploring alternatives to the stdlib, you might commit yourself to no zero terminated strings and see where it takes you. A fundamental data type with a pointer, a length and a capacity does a lot to stop buffer overflows.
> OTOH, most of the arguments I’ve seen for it actually being important (in the near term) are the kind where you scratch the surface and underneath is pure racism, so I’m not all that concerned.

Can you go into more detail on that? In some respects "demographic suicide" solved with immigration has many (but not all) of the characteristics of colonization, and I think it's a reasonable speculation that colonized and diminished cultures would be unhappy with more than just the coercive aspects of their colonization, and that a non-racist person could have reasonable anxieties about their culture becoming diminished and dying out in the future. Though I suppose racists probably see an opportunity to exploit those anxieties to spread their racist ideology.
My first job out of college was as an analyst for a mid-level VC firm, and it is through that experience that I can whole-heartedly agree with you. Admittedly, I was just doing basic filtering of business plan submissions and validation of market and technology claims...but I had an up close and personal interaction with the partners of the firm as well as partners at other firms.

Three things in particular stand out to me:

* Most of them have had one success as an entrepreneur, and somehow think that everything that applied to their one success also automatically applies to every other company on the planet. This makes their "advice" almost completely worthless.

* Most of them have absolutely monstruous egos. One of our partners would start every meeting with the founders of a potential investment with "Well, you've got two founding partners of a $200M investment fund sitting here with you, let's not waste any time". They literally treat everybody like it is a privilege to just be in their presence.

* The incredibly vast majority of them are sheep...they refuse to lead rounds, and only commit to "maybe" decisions just to not lose out in case some other VC decides to jump the gun. They talk a big talk about taking big risks, but almost all of their decisions are "we will if you will", because they don't want to be the only one that investors can point at when something bombs.

There are exceptions to each of those points, BTW...but I've never met one that was an exception to all of them. And consequently, I can't help but roll my eyes whenever one of them decides to spread their "wisdom".
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> but when birth rate decline is discussed, the only solution on the table is open borders. I wonder why that could be?

Because people saying that are doing accounting with money, not productivity.

People need three things to live in retirement. Food, water, shelter[1], and some degree of medical care. We are not in a demographic collapse situation where society cannot be productive enough to fail to provide the first three to the retired. The latter is the only thing in danger of seeing some cuts.

[1] Housing isn't expensive because building four walls and a roof is expensive. Housing is expensive because there's no upward bound on the cost of a square foot of land in a city.
I've found a different kind of stickiness. I've been in enough circumstances that I now value sane management and co-workers who I like. I'm not in a hurry to leave a situation like that, because I know that it can be rare. I don't need to maximize my money; I can get decent money while minimizing my misery.
I think that they are each expressible with the other.

Monadic reflection can be implemented with continuations. Effects, specifically effect handlers, can be implemented with delimited continuations which weren't mentioned in this article. Delimited continuations and undelimited continuations can implement each other. Both undelimited continuations and delimited continuations can be implemented as a monad.

The main issue with all of this and why effects exist and why monads and delimited continuations aren't enough has to do with the fact that delimited continuations can't be easily type checked and monads aren't open for extension.

I did not like that undelimited continuations were not mentioned. They are so much easier to understand than call/cc continuations as they are the rectification of some segment of the return stack as a function which when called returns through that segment and then to the caller like a regular function.
Thanks for your reply! The scenario you describe is similar to my previous company, a startup with less than 100 employees.

My current company is way bigger than that, and the “style” of using Slack is way different. However, I just joined so I’m not sure I’m in the position of suggesting any change in the process.

To give you an example: when managers have questions for specific developers (such as: “how is the work proceeding on your ticket?”), they don’t send Direct Messages. Instead they send a message to the public room for the team, preceded with @you.

That’s an example of why (I feel) I cannot really zone out of Slack rooms, as they might be questions for me.
It's not true that Reuters do not do value judgments. They do, both in the content of their articles and in what they choose to publish or omit.

The US never ended nationalist economic policy. The debate was only ever which approach would provide the greatest benefit to the US, and this is indeed not a settled question.
> the governments constant shifting attempt to move past the current mistake/scandal

It's only the case because you see roll backs of previous relaxation as a sign those were "mistakes" proving that those were "scandals". Th strategy is balanced and thought throught if you consider that:

a) Not a single entity anywhere in the world has been able to come up with any model that accurately represent COVID-19 infection rates and evolution.

b) As a consequence, the only way forward is "test and see". Understand that some tests will be successful, and some won't

c) As a consequence, calling failed tests "scandals" works wonder for bumping read count on tabloids articles, but does accurately represent what's going on.

The initial herd immunity plan was one of those tests. That's how humanity has gone through all epidemics before - with various degrees of success - and how most of humanity will go though COVID. When it became clear that the tradeoff between covid death and society impact was not where the government wanted to go, they reverted the decision - before hospitals reached full saturation.

Overall, the UK has a bit more covid direct death than most (not all) western european countries, and had a bit less lockdown days (and with overall less restriction) than those same countries - which results to less suffering/death due to those measures. The tradeoff made by the UK government was a bit more on protecting the economy/societal model rather than focusing on COVID alone. You could argue that they could/should have made different choices, but it's certainly not the rolling mess that you are trying to paint.
> include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets”

Does that include PDFs, audio books, software, and photos? Web apps or plugins? “Asset” is monstrously vague.

Does Drivethrurpg have to worry about this?
Yes, what you say is true. I come from South Asia, and I live in NL, so I fully understand this perspective.

But rather, in the scope of this discussion, having a printer at home when you can afford one, makes a lot of sense from a cost/time angle.
I mean, the one politician to make America first a point of his campaign (Donald Trump) faced intense domestic opposition and a media scrutiny beyond that of other presidents.
Maybe it's not so weird to want the Metaverse when we've all just been through shutdowns and office closures. My personal feeling is that the power (killer app) of VR/MR is just creating larger, more interactive, and more private home working environments while keeping the space small and still letting you interact with the parts you need to.

Being able to RL see when someone is nearby and wants to interact (or kids are going crazy) can be somewhat distracting, but ignorable graduality is also key to preventing much worse distraction jumps.
It's easy.

If aliens turn up, everyone will be too busy worrying about aliens to care about some prediction being wrong.
Instead of 2:
Multiply by π for new kind of projects.
Multiply by φ for known projects.
I'm glad we are seeing people with their own take on this, this is something that Valve said they hoped to have hardware vendors embrace because the Deck really is supposed to be an "open platform ecosystem" instead of closed / wallgardened consoles like XBOX, Playstation, and Switch. Hats off to the developer and I hope we see more like this from commercial vendors as well.
The wealthy and powerful like to keep their heads, and have devised complex systems of liability laundering and misdirection to ensure that the general public never get mad enough at the right people to actually start chopping off heads again. In a democratic republic, politicians are ostensibly in charge but in reality are beholden to corporate interests; corporations which in turn serve to hide more degrees of indirection between the powerful and their whims. When something goes wrong and the public gets enraged, by design it is never obvious who's head they should be after. Layers upon layers of fall men and patsies soak up the anger, tanking the outrage, long before the mob makes it to the necks that would actually make a difference.
> Somebody is on the wrong side of this trade in a big way.

My understanding is that banks get negative interest on deposits in the banking system over night from many European central banks. So if you pay say -0.x% on deposits then 1.85% over 30y is a bargain.
Ask HN: Severe sleep problems since childhood. Anybody else with such problem?
Hello Hackernewsers,

I had from chronic sleep problems since my childhood. The earliest I remember myself being unable to sleep for 2-3 hours was at the age of 8 or 9 I believe.

I am passing my thirty now, and I only remember it was really few times in my adult life when I had good sleep for more than a few month in a row.

Anybody else here having lifelong sleep issues?
Maybe they could sell the GPUs to gamers who are desperate for even 3 year old cards.
>It would be somewhat bearable if it would at least have consequences for the CEO, it's fucking wild that he gets to walk away from this with $57 million. Do these people have no shame at all? (no)

It's clear to me that I don't really understand companies. Why give him such a huge exit package? Why would any executive get an exit package? What is the benefit to paying them so much money to leave? Why do most companies do this?
Too often the software project estimates are driven by some external constraints, not much by the understanding of the effort or complexity.

It's either some existing deadline or reporting/sales cycle, some budget caps, like in grant proposals, or some promises already made by/to 'important people', or some fear of 'small people' to underdeliver etc.

The estimation would all be fine if all involved people shared the same goal and responsibility.

I find it practical to split the desired outcome which needs an estimate into two variants: 1) the most desired/promised/advertized and 2) an at-least viable variant.

If noone can see the second variant, its viability and the effort it needs, then some details or skill force are clearly missing.

If the second variant is estimatable, then the estimate could be used as a basis in dealing with the external constraints.

If the devs are saying that in a given timeframe they can see a prototype done at least and you're fine with that, then no one should be damned if that pans out just to be the case. So it has to be clear from the beginning if it's at all acceptable to put such variant/prototype into production.
Repulsive Curves
The Many Faces of Awk
The difference between chemical/fission and fusion are orders of magnitude. It is <10km/s for chemical/fission. And 1000km/s for fusion:

"Today’s best chemical rockets produce propellant exhaust velocities up to 4.5 km/s. Fission (nuclear thermal) rocket engines could roughly double that, to about 8.5 km/s. A working nuclear fusion core producing thrust through direct exhaust of hot plasma, could readily generate up to ~1000 km/s exhaust velocities" - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10894-015-0034-1

Likely necessary for advanced space flight. Likely necessary to allow for "clean energy" on earth. Unlike advances to flamethrowers.
They massacred 45M people for their commie agenda.

Now these same fucking people - we call them "liberals" here in the US are doing it here.

FUCKING KILL YOURSELVES LIBERAL FUCKS!
The US has been a spectator for 30 years, as the CCP has kept up an onslaught of economic attacks on the US.

The ban on Huawei was a good 1st step, which should be followed with an protectionist approach to trade with China. (as long as it refuses to act in good faith with the US.)

It will affect the US economy in the short term, but the US has felt like a frog being slow boiled for the last 30 years. The CCP is now accelerating because they finally have the leverage to twist the US's arm in economic retaliation. Globalist trade is based around bi-directional open channels. The way the west has resigned multiple industrial disciplines to China, cannot be defended under any economic school of thought.

Post WW2 America knew what was up. They knew to export low-margin industries to nations they could tie up in stringent trade rules and had the militaristic asymmetry to enforce said rules. (They weren't necessarily unfair either)

With Africa, India and SEA being at the point of 1980s China, now is the time to pump some money and get large-scale low-cost manufacturing setup in these nations. It would be a win-win arrangement of monumental proportions. It helps that some of these countries are either deeply suspicious or are already in an exploitative neo-colonialist arrangement with China, making them willing to look at alternatives. (I do not mean doing stupid things like Belt-and-road though)

Now like all tug-of-wars of power, this is going to appear quite 'unethical'. But, I can't think of a single instance in history where an 'ethical' player beat a motivated 'hook-or-by-crook' player in a competitive setup. Also, as far as war goes, this is the most peaceful way to engage in it.
Can't we just accept Mark wasn't the visionary mostly but the lucky guy? They all had some degree of luck but Mark seems to have had not much visionary insights since the start. Jobs, Gates, Musk, Bezos even Ellison and McNealy all pushed or push visions: I cannot find anything when looking at Zuckerberg, from basically day one: there seems no greater vision and this article seems perfectly in line with that. Maybe I don't get it?
One person, one vote is proportional representation, which is not widely practiced.

What is actually practiced is 'One collection of zip codes, one vote.'
Airtable is a great example of what I would like to see. Basically, the ability to create sheets that are are like airtable-like that users can reference as usual in other general-purpose excel sheets.
This is neither here nor there, but "leap second gyroscopes" has turned up some of the weirdest google search results I've seen. A few examples:

> Downward movement of work quality? He drew in step a leap second? Gyroscope and accelerometer. Gunfire this weekend outdoors and enjoy shopping here!

> Successful troll was a leap second? Gyroscope and accelerometer. Blissful for you. Both inconsequential from a class. Miracle whip classic macaroni salad?

> Had lent thee all a leap second? Gyroscope and accelerometer. Shah is threatening hearing or sound. Been fired from their roost and lay siege to the renovation ...

Now it's not unusual for webpages to pad their text in order to trick search engines, but these are downright weird.
>because the guy who fought against it was deemed a racist for saying it

The guy who was against it was a racist because he couldn't articulate anything other than "China bad" and his policies to address China were useless at best and harmful to America at worst. He only wanted to look tough against a made up enemy but refused to change anything at home.

If he was actually serious about competing with China, we would have been talking about Trump's infrastructure bill and had a plan on how to ween us off Chinese high-tech manufacturing (which is the best in the world), but now 4 years later we are scrambling trying to figure out how we will build fabs (one part of the equation) at home. For all the crying about China, he did shockingly little in actually addressing the issue (like almost all the issues he cried about).

Anyone who looks at out current situation and comes to the conclusion we need to bomb China is a racist in my eyes. They are only motivated a fear of a rising eastern power and have no motivation in actually investing stateside to improve American hegemony.
Well said, I wonder what kind of recent events triggered Fred to write a blog post about "leaving well". In other words, were there any leaving not well turbulence in the companies he invested?
China and Taiwan had been compared a lot. China's cities look much newer than Taiwan cities. But people's general way of carrying themselves differs a lot. Technological advances also varies.

If your "modern country" means "modern buildings", then I can agree. But if you're saying people, culture, art, technology of South Korea is more "modern" than other countries, I would disagree.
I'm pretty sure they just mentioned those places as examples and are available everywhere. Hopefully the founders will show up to confirm!