skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, there has yet to exist a condition under which the political will to really tackle this problem has been present, so you would not expect to see an example of a country successfully addressing it. This is pretty normal for humans -- waiting until a problem becomes catastrophic to do anything about it -- as we have seen in other areas recently. We will see how things are going in another few decades.
As I understand it, it was a mailbox installed at Amazon's insistence under very specific conditions. It looked thoroughly dodgy through and through, though of course legally was probably kosher. Amazon aren't dumb, and they have good lawyers.
You short the USD by borrowing in USD, spending USD while it is still valuable and then wait for it to devalue. Deflation is a bad thing so the Fed won't let it happen.

Of course the flaw with this is that I get 4% interest on personal loans so I actually can't make money off of this strategy.
By Western values, China is evil and America, despite it's many faults, is not. So there is no contradiction here.

For example, take the Western value of freedom of conscience. China does not believe in that and forces those who disagree with its regime to renounce their beliefs (for example, their religion). The West finds this abhorrent. In any western country, such things would be unheard of.

So again, by western values, China is evil. Thus, any policy that prioritizes china is a bad one, whereas policies that prioritize the United States can be evaluated on their other merits / demerits.

Agree or disagree, your attempt to point out hypocrisy relies on moral equivocations that are false by any world view.
The photos in the post show quite clearly what this is.
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I think the issue isn’t that shorting and other functions exist, but that these aren’t carried out by most retail investors. So frequently financial firms will benefit on this functionality using the base accounts of their customers.

So the introduction of this intermediation creates value possibility for large firms away from individuals.
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I find that when making soup, adding a second chef improves the quality. I also routinely change horses while crossing rivers and streams. Usually about half way.

Sarcasm aside, when there is a disagreement between coleaders, whose point of view prevails? When you know that then you know who is really in charge.
Comments like these make it really difficult to not argue on the internet.

* He was deemed a racist for many reasons. One of which was using his leadership and influence to stoke anti-Asian sentiment. You're not debating this point, right? Whataboutism is one thing, but worse when paired with denialism.

* "Politicians who willingly infected people with covid" - Does it bother you that politicians would downplay the safety of American citizens related to an infectious disease to suit their own political ends? Or is this is a criticism you only levy against your political rivals? Do you really want to compare scorecards on Trump vs. his political rivals on public health?

* Ignoring that the vast majority of BLM events were peaceful, which superspreader events are you referring to? They were outside, in the summer, often mobile, with a large share of mask-wearing attendees. I don't see any evidence of any of these events becoming superspreader events.
No it's not. Not at all.
> Earlier, you mentioned that beaks can't make spaceships. Well, maybe neither can hands.

Except hands did create spaceships...

The "beaks can't make spaceships" is a comment about crows not having hands. Crows use their beaks to manipulate objects. This does not imbue cows with great motor control. The use of tools is very different than the ability to finely manipulate tools. Aliens could have beaks, but these would not be their way to build spaceships. Similarly they wouldn't have pincers. Such grasping mechanisms just are extremely inefficient and don't allow for certain tasks.This excludes a lot of classes of tools from crows. This isn't biology, this is physics.
I wish! in the book, the guy has created it and was giving samples to farmers. However, despite the vastly superior flavor, it wasn't quite as productive as the flavorless ones yet.
If the sticker is just left to weather the same will happen.
This is pretty meta. If I understand correctly, this list of SaaS products is aimed at people building a SaaS, ostensibly as a helpful free directory.

But this list is actually a form of content marketing for "Apideck Ecosystem", which--trying to get this right--is a SaaS that sells to SaaSes who want to call attention to how many SaaSes they have in their own ecosystem ("SaaS Integration Marketplace builder"[0]). Phew!

But to evaluate the submission on its own, as a personal project, setting up this page would be a cool achievement. But I don't think there is any value in these list-of-resources "products" that pop up from time to time, especially when so transparently sponsored by a company. Would anyone actually bookmark this site and refer back to it as a source of expertise when they're looking for, say, financial integration tools? Many of the categories have 1 item listed, and there is no value-add discussion of why you'd choose one option or another.

Just a strange submission overall.

[0] https://www.apideck.com/products/ecosystem
This is half true there are NFC API’s to use the NFC chip. What they cannot do use their own implementation. This results in a way better experience in the user since there’s no pointless fragmentation.
Just one more consultant doing "branding".

What causes estimates to fail are the unknowns: unavoidable surprises when implementing something new, unexpected change in requirements, etc.

It would be easy to have accurate estimates if there were no unknowns. But every innovative project must always be a march to unknown territory.
Lots of people argue over whether or not their [REST] API is RESTful.
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Please don't break the site guidelines like this, no matter how ignorant someone is or you feel they are.

If you know more than someone else, that's great—please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. If you don't want to do that, that's fine, but then please don't post.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm sure you'll also agree that the fact that the Covid vaccine is 97% effective doesn't prove it works.
You’re being selective.

Crypto transfers are slow? jesus, did tou ever do a wire? have you seen moving something take days? compared to that minutes is instant.

You’re gonna tell me about CC processing next. Hate to break it to you but when you’re paying with a CC you’re not actually paying. An auth happens but the real payment happens when the transaction is settled (days later). So: days vs minutes in BTC case. wow, crypto sooo slow.

Macro economic policy? Oh yeah. That is working really really well. The government working to protect you.
Why is the virus going to worsen? Are Europeans more resistant to the vaccine? Death rates in America are almost entirely the unvaccinated by now
https://github.com/abhijat/matchboxdb

I'm trying to build a database system from scratch (without using third party libraries) in modern C++ (I do use googletest for unit tests).

I've mostly been stumbling around but having no prior experience writing anything like this, I think I am at a place where things might start coming together soon.

Initially I had very different goals but now I think I will focus on things like indices, full fledged SQL support and more data types later, once I have the basic model working.

I did get to learn a lot while working on it, and hopefully will get to learn a lot more as things come up.

Some of the resources which were very helpful were the CMU database course on youtube and the book called "database internals" by Alex Petrov (I just read parts of it as required). Also the book Writing an interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball was very useful when writing the sql parser.
No indeed, I did not perceive it as an attack, rather as hinting at concerns that I am not aware of and I'm grateful for your comment and the links (and thank you for your compliment).

Reading what you've written I wonder if this is about configuration rather than the nature of a library starting a process per se.

In my case there is no configuration, the agent state is a pure-counter, I think firing it off is harmless as other users of the library would just bump the counter value. Your point about testing is a subtle one, I'm not 100% sure I have the right mental picture yet (something I struggle with most of the time anyway).

What I think you are getting at is a library starting a process that does have configuration around how it works, should be less automatic giving the user a chance to make choices about how it works.

Do I have that right?
Honestly? I'd just void them, nationalize any banks that go under, and give everyone who's actually using the underlying assets free-and-clear ownership. If you bought a house in the middle of a bubble in 2020, good job, you get a house and your mortgage is cancelled. The Sunk Cost Fallacy is a fallacy for a reason: there is always ultimately someone who pays for a speculative bubble out of their own use-values, and that's the someone who should be made whole, not the speculators.

And again, I don't mean to be inflammatory (well ok, I do), but I really feel that constantly reflating asset bubbles for the rest of time, rather than accepting a one-time severe penalty whose moral hazard applies only to people who need things for their use-value, really is a Sunk Cost Fallacy that amounts to throwing good money after bad.
It doesn't matter who had it first. I don't think Elgato has the deep bottomless pockets that Valve has. They both wouldn't stand a chance in court for years of litigation. I'm not saying it's fair but that's just the way it is in the US court system.
This is not a new product. It's the author's configuration for an existing product, the Elgato Stream Deck.
Wow, had no idea AngularJS hadn't hit it's EOL yet
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Do you remember that MMT thing? That thing that says the government can create as much money as it needs and if there is inflation (doesn't matter if CPI or not) then you tax the part of the economy where inflation happens to return the money.

A wealth tax on deposits and land would be ok. The rich can buy bonds or stocks if they want. If there is a shortage of companies you can always create new ones. If there is a shortage of money or land it's much harder.
I agree. I usually write these as more high-touch. Was doing a bit of an a/b test. We’ll see.
That's backwards.
exactly. HN threads about india tend to take a warped eurocentric view. which makes sense.
“ China as a country and culture only cares about one thing. Making the entire world an empire for the Han. They see everyone else as inferior, barely human.”

Easy does it MAGA. The PRC is a different animal than regular Chinese people.
I would wager that studios can more easily divide projects into two silos than most companies.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against, because it destroys the curiosity that this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That would require giving money to Blizzard, which there are an increasing number of good reasons to not do.
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Some people like being able to choose their reproductive habits, and like being able to choose differently than you think they should. You're right that you should expect apocalyptic levels of resistance from them, though.
Hindsight is 20/20 of course. I guess they wanted to prevent a 2nd USSR, and thought that stimulating capitalism would also stimulate democracy.

Because in the end, let's face it, the real problem is the CCP and not China itself. If China was a democratic country, the threat would be way smaller.
Microsoft delays office opening until October, will require vaccination
As this ruling shows, the drive for unionization does not end after one failed vote.
I mean the obvious answer is the radio waves that leave our planet are an observable affect.
I've had good luck with ANTLR4 and ObjWeb ASM for my JVM language Imp https://github.com/mh15/imp
Sadly the damage from this stuff is already done.

Glyphosate should be banned, destroyed and removed from the planet.

Its impact will last generations.
Henry Kissinger's foreign policy blunders will be looked back on with the same disdain as Chamberlain's. He set us up for practically all of the FP problems we face today.
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You misunderstood the idea. These aren't two leads with the same power. The decisional power is split between them and each has and bring their own responsibilities and specialities.
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I tend to agree. Let astronomers use a rotation-synchronized time. (Aren't they bothered by jumps anyway? They probably need a more gradual skew, which is to say, not SI seconds.) Let everyone else use TAI, and in a few millennia when high noon isn't noon anymore, we'll worry about it then.

Oh by the way, unless you live smack in the middle of a timezone, solar noon isn't clock noon anyway. Plus it gets all jacked up with daylight savings (which should also be abandoned), so the whole notion of leap seconds is farcical on its face.
Return terminates the function or thread of execution. Yield (may) provides a value but leaves the thread of execution alone otherwise, only pausing it. It’s resumable where a return is not (without a lot of extra bookkeeping).

https://blog.golang.org/waza-talk

A good talk that expresses the current sentiment and helped establish it. Concurrency may be parallel, but doesn’t need to be. This does go against the common (outside programming) notion of the meaning of concurrent which means it provides a strong potential for confusion.
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You want more fun? Here is the Portuguese Central Bank, some time ago, mandating all banks to apply negative rates to their mortgages within 10 days, in case the corresponding Euribor happens to be negative.

(link in Portuguese)
https://www.bportugal.pt/comunicado/instituicoes-obrigadas-r...
There is so much excel voodoo involved to do things with that software. I still believe that the learning curve of excel is no harder than the learning curve of doing the same exact thing in R or python, plus you'd end up having the data and the formulas in different places which brings loads of benefits (for instance, git). People are just familiar with excel because thats what they used to make a chart in science class in 7th grade since 1995, but they really could have learned to make the same chart in 7th grade with a language like python too, if it were only taught python instead of excel in school. And then we'd have a generation of workers fluent in a language like python rather than fluent in the very limited use case by comparison Excelese, and we would no doubt reap the benefits in our GDP. Its like we are limiting the knowledge of fire among our tribe when we don't really have to, it's perfectly learnable.
> It's only the case because you see roll backs of previous relaxation as a sign those were "mistakes" proving that those were "scandals".

No, this isn't really it. I'm actually making a more broad claim that that is the Boris Johnson government mechanism. That it is reactionary. It doesn't have plans. It doesn't have a vision for the future. It is reactionary. It only makes a claim to being better than the other alternatives. Which is hard to disprove because the alternatives didn't happen.

a) No. I mean there are a bunch of models. You say they are inaccurate? Oh how so? All of them? By how much?
b) No. It doesn't follow even if a is true, so no it's not a consequence.
c) Just no.

Recasting doing things that fly in the face of expert opinion, that rejected the plans and efforts to handle pandemics that already exisited as 'tests'. Is well, hilariously sad.

These weren't mistakes they were 'tests'!

That 'test' to move elderly people who had covid back into care homes? I guess that 'test' showed that was a bad idea. But we needed to do the 'test' because there was no possible way of knowing that might be a problem. That 'test' for herd immunity that flew in the face of the governments own plan. That 'test' pushed back efforts to slow the spread. Lucky we had that 'test', you know just to try it out.

I mean I could go on.
Sounds like it's a convenient place to store the key that's not on the disk. When it's time to retire the machine, wiping the TPM or just disposing of the TPM separately from the disk renders the data on the disk unreadable even if it doesn't get wiped.
No, the central bank can't just write off the debt, because that's so many peoples' retirement. The government has been able to create that much debt without causing too many other problems because people keep investing their money in the debt.
If you don't believe that the government has the right to make laws, then that's one argument.

If you don't believe that the government should be allowed to attempt to tackle money laundering, that such crime is simply to be shielded at all cost from being reduced, then that's another.

So the question is "what do you want?".

And the cryptocurrency community has been completely unable to present anything that isn't literal anarchy or feudalism. And guess what, nobody will be able to sell anarchy or feudalism to the general public, or even outside a very very small community.

This other comment said it better:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047145
"Indeed, South Korea is the only country that successfully made its transition from a former colony to an advanced economy."

This is not right. Each of the following meet the same criteria, including the author's caveats - Taiwan (also Japan), Greece (Ottoman), Finland (Swedes), Ireland (British), numerous Central European nations (Soviet Union). Some others that are debatable - Cyprus, Malta, Israel, Singapore, Chile. At the time of their handovers, Hong Kong and Macau would each have met the definition.
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Yes, hence why I said as a country and culture and specifically left out the people. The average person. is typically not the one responsible for such decisions.

However, China's global ambitions and their xenophobia goes back much further than the PRC.
Please no!

Spreadsheets are broken. It's easy to be at error due to calculation issues, which you'll only find out when manually going over it. It's a calculator that can't properly calculate. Many business have made huge mistakes due to it.

Never ever use it for financial calculations.
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My impression after a few minutes of googling various bond-related terms is that this means:
"Investors in German government bonds can currently expect a negative return on their investment, in both nominal and real terms, regardless of the bond's maturity date".

which could be simplified further to
"If you were to give a loan to Germany right now, you would lose money in the end, regardless of how long or short a repayment period you offer".

Would you say that's close enough for a layperson ELI5?
I'd never heard of this until earlier this week I listened to an old episode of Damn Interesting which covers it in their usual gripping fashion. Highly recommended: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-debaculous-fiasco/
That's a dangerous bet.

If you're wrong, the consequences are dire.

If you're right, there's not much upside compared to being prepared for being wrong.

That's not a reasonable calculation.
> 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.

That's a first step, but not a stopping condition, IMHO. I'd say it should continue until there's less ideological conflict (e.g. movement towards political liberalization instead of away from it).

> 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)

More than that, it knew not to become too economically dependent/entwined with ideological opponents. IIRC, there were significant restraints on trade with the Communist Bloc (off the top of my head: CoCom, tying trade policy to human rights (Jackson–Vanik_amendment), and requirements that trade be conducted with hard currency (e.g. no credit)).
For inflation, you probably want to diversify broadly among productive assets.

For insurance against negative economic events... that's a more rapidly evolving, short-term issue. To the extent you can do it, it is a matter of identifying near term risk sectors, and minimizing exposure to the and/or having investments in areas negatively correlated with the at risk sector.
you're just upset because the LTTE terrorist organization was wiped out.
They probably aren't the only people interested in that...
I don't think there's a good reason to have eval in interpreted languages. Sure the REPL uses it but it could be implemented internal to the REPL instead of exposing it in the language.
I think part of the idea is that if you only use versions that have been released for a little while, you are hoping SOMEONE notices the malicious code before you finally update.

There are a number of issues with this approach, although the practice still might be a net benefit.

One, you are going to be behind on security patches. You have to figure out, are you more at risk from running unpatched code for longer, or from someone compromising an upstream package?

Two, if too many people use this approach, there won't be anyone who is actually looking at the code. Everyone assumes someone else would have looked, so no one looks.
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Long interview rounds are not only a significant cost for companies, but also for individuals.

Each hour of interview costs a company ~$100, in the time of the interview alone, not to mention scheduling overhead, frustration and recruiter's time spent. 5 rounds for 5 candidates == $2,500 (1 week's salary on average at big tech beginner roles).

For each candidate, that's 5 * (whatever they are getting paid, let's say $50) == $250.

If companies think of it this way, they might as well get some candidates for short amount of time to see a fit, instead of countless rounds spanning months.

Ideally, they should also compensate interviewees for their time, which I doubt will ever happen.
Doesn't Poetry do this by default in its lockfile too?
> Why can't someone make more then there boss, besides ego?

I mean, maybe, but I've never seen anyone even propose a solution to ego so that's still a hard blocker.
I'm down, I have a few properties. No mortgage and inflationary rent means I wouldn't have to work anymore
It does: https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/malicious-npm-packa...
That's kind of the key. We require c++17. Without that it gets extremely ugly and more verbose.
Data tables:

https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c?t=2268

Although no validation/types