skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the exact opposite of what the Fed does. They have many instruments by which to influence interest rates, but mostly what they do is target the federal funds rate. This is the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight. The Fed mostly hits the target rate in two ways. One, by directly lending at the top of band rate and borrowing at the bottom of band rate, so banks will never lend to each other outside of the band. Second, by engaging in open market operations, which is primarily the buying and selling of US Treasury notes. Buying them increases the demand, which in turn increases the price, which decreases the interest rate. Selling them increases the supply, which in turn increases the interest rate. To buy treasuries, they simply create money from nothing, thus inflating the money supply is what lowers interest rates. When they sell treasuries, they simply destroy the proceeds, thus deflating the money supply to increase interest rates.

The Fed doesn't offer anyone yield on holding dollars. You get yield from holding treasuries and interbank commercial paper. The Fed influences the yield on these instruments by buying and selling them using a theoretically infinite supply of its own dollars.
I added Nim support to an edge platform for that reason. I think it fits in with the others. Crucially it boils down to machine code and can be debugged with GDB.
I don't see how this is the case here:

- the nested CSS proposal supports everything the SCSS syntax does, plus some potentially useful combinations

- the SCSS syntax would literally lead to a worse user experience, both for the end user whose browsing performance is now degraded, and anyone implementing parsers for CSS (since the infinite lookahead is quite a bit more complicated)

- the committee isn't just "coming up" with the new syntax, they are asking for feedback. Let's not pretend this is the same as a committee deciding something without taking input from the affected users.

I understand that generally a de facto standard will be more useful than a de jure one. But this isn't some committee coming up with their own convoluted version of a standard because of NIH - they are communicating clearly and openly around why the established standard would be problematic. Shouldn't we as a technical community try to find the best solution for the problems we face, instead of taking principled stands and ignoring the technical hurdles in our way?
> The opposing point of view would be that Ads on FB/Google are so profitable that working on anything else pales in comparision (in terms of profit generation). And so they dont innovate, but iterate and optimize.

This argument is basically the same posed in the Innovator's Dilemma, and IMO it's more on the money at least for Google. The high hiring bar for Google was arguably much higher in its earlier years, when they were still innovating like crazy. Becoming a larger company, having a larger executive team instead of Larry and Sergey, and optimizing for profits rather than moonshots and "creative" projects like Loon, Wing, and even projects with a lot of internal support like Inbox all have an effect trending towards "less entrepreneurial".

People also seem to generally have a pretty big bias towards Cloud not being considered "entrepreneurial", while still having a huge engineering opportunity cost. You're comparing Facebook and Google but Google has spun out a #3 Cloud provider in the last ~7 years that people largely ignore despite that making up almost half of Google's employee count at the moment.
But it is, just the government. They refuse to cut down on deficit spending, keep a hopelessly intractable tax system, and they keep the money printer running non-stop to keep up. It doesn't help that they keep one of the most unenviable levels of corruption, either.

And it's not limited to the current government, their previous one was woefully incompetent at fixing deficit spending. But it can't also be denied that the party in power is the one that refuses under any circumstance to address the underlying cause.

Everything else you mentioned: Loans, bank runs, rampant inflation impacting land value, and business trying to protect their investments from the governments' byzantine rules and outright thievery through price controls that expects them to produce at a loss, is just a byproduct of government policy that is rotten to the core and a population that keeps electing the same incompetent buffoons that do not dare or desire to make the necessary changes.
The only structural issue I'm concerned about is years of cheap debt. As a result we've seen a lot of growth in debt across individuals, corporations, and governments, and I wonder what happens when we reach a point where debt simply stops growing significantly.
this is fantastic! congrats
Nvidia isn’t getting shit from this bill. It’s basically all going to intel with global foundries and other boutique fabs fighting for the scraps TSMC and Samsung leave behind.
I think the dressing nicely implies that they’ve had a job interview somewhere else.

I usually only dress formally when I’m presenting outside of my company and people usually joke about my having interviewed somewhere else that day.
The covid response was fine.

A lot of what we're seeing now is bullwhip effects from the massive evaporation of demand due to the pandemic (spot prices for oil actually went negative at one point, which is one of those things that everyone seems to have entirely forgotten). That will be transitory. So will the impact of the stimulus checks.

Secularly we're seeing the impact of cracking down on immigration combined with death and disability due to Covid and the retirement of baby boomers.

There has also been a 40-year long secular trend of tax cuts for the rich and free money policies which has blown up asset bubbles and increased the Gini index of wealth disparity (give rich people money to spend and they blow up asset bubbles and create evaporating risk premiums as investment money goes looking for gains).

The covid stimulus to average workers was actually overdue and did create some wage inflation (which would offset the asset bubbles and decrease wealth disparity) but that is what is now being cracked down on by the Fed. I suspect it will be entirely successful at what it is trying to do in the short term, and unemployment will get driven much higher because we can't tolerate the lower class doing any better in this country, that's a disaster.

Then I suspect we're going to oscillate between periods of sharp recession and sharp inflation as the secular problems (inequality, lack of immigration and retirement) won't be addressed. 10 years from now Putin and Covid will be long gone, but we'll still be dealing with the secular trends.

What I don't know is how much pain that investors or homeowners will be put through either deliberately or unintentionally by policymakers. Everyone has forgotten the problem of "pushing on a string" where no matter how much money you give to investment banks it just gets hidden under the mattress and can't stimulate demand. If they break the economy hard enough we could wind up there and the trajectory of the economy could be out of their control.
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The beginning of the undoing of globalization, countries will start bringing industries back home with bills like this.
“I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be”

Sure, because they could get the information they want without having to wade through the mountains of crap you’re pumping out of the septic tank into your users faces. You’re optimising the wrong metric you fucking clown.
It's quite obvious that certain country is trying to manufacture support for war, same way it did with Middle East.
Such a monumental scam and a gross theft from taxpayers. Companies making billions of dollars in profits don't need free money. I could be onboard with a subsidized loan, but handouts are not needed.

FWIW, I work at a company that stands to benefit from this bill.

Does the US need to secure reliable semiconductor supply chains free of China? Sure. This is not the most cost effective way to do it.
One thing that made me really reevaluate being a penteater was when I talked with someone who'd been a pentester for years and when I asked him about it he said it was basically just a mean type of QA.

That being said right now security is becoming a very lucrative field and you know what to do to make money in a gold rush especially if you're a software engineer.
Scraping Google's maps tile by tile would take forever, and you'd never be able to keep up with the daily changes submitted by users, much less the network effects (traffic, live busyness, reviews, speed traps, etc.)
Please follow HN's guidelines and be respectful.

I've no particular respect for the current government, and I did mention "it's not just the government", meaning I believe part of the blame is theirs.

Do you deny the agricultural sector is one of the most powerful in Argentina, and one that speculates on the dollar and has a vested interest in it going higher?

Do you deny the illegal dollar market is relatively small but has a high impact in people's minds?

Do you deny the real estate sector trades in dollars?

> As this comment illustrates, partisan propaganda

Your comment is autological!
Yes, the US (Funimation?) version and original has different soundtracks, both for the opening and for in the show. I'm not sure which was used in other regions where the show was popular, my guess would be south/central America got the Funimation music.

For example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgJ1heSrskY
Can you support that last claim? Might have been good for the S&P, but I'm not so certain the average joe off the street has seen said benefits. I could swear I recently saw a stat that locally born men in the US have only shared in like 3% of new job growth for the last decade or something like that.
My guess is a major client got pissed about this reported it ages ago it got no trancation. The client is currently super pissy about other things and mentioned this in their list of greivances and it gets fixed now because Nikon is worried that the client will go elsewhere.
Hasn't happened, but it may actually happen in the next half-decade or so. If not, it's almost guaranteed to happen ~25 years from now.
I turned my productivity routine into a self-care routine (profile, Task BATL or Whole Productivity). Feels way better this way and I still get everything done, or more if I'm not careful.
I think it does. As much as companies want to believe that product runs the product, an engineer that can create new things that influences the product is massively more valuable. Amazon commonly has engineers drive new innovations, product people nowhere to be seen
Julia Computing changes name to JuliaHub
Wow, who would have thought?
Sounds like a bad idea either way, the trespasser might return the favor.
> Abstract — We investigate what data iOS on an iPhone shares with Apple and what data Google Android on a Pixel phone shares with Google. We find that even when minimally configured and the handset is idle both iOS and Google Android share data with Apple/Google on average every 4.5 mins. The phone IMEI, hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI, handset phone number etc are shared with Apple and Google. Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both iOS and Google Android send details to Apple/Google. iOS sends the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location. Users have no opt out from this and currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing this data sharing.

Leith, D. J. (2021). Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google. URL: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf
357 million to family and 7 billion punitive damages.

Those sound really really high...
What's important here is that, like all other funding and stimulus bills, we know that less than 25% of it will go towards the actual thing.
I hear you, and I respect your resolve.
What creative culture? A billion user beast does not know, need or want creative or culture.

It wants profits and more of them, every quarter.

TikTok's only 'innovation' is paying billions of dollars to teenagers to create meme videos. Instagram isn't losing to TikTok's 'creative culture', it's losing to American elite's favorite move - throwing money at a problem until everyone else quits, at which point you give talks and write books about how it was due to innovation, freedom and democracy, oh and LGBTQ+ or whatever the term is nowadays.

Source: know a couple of people who could barely scrape by on Instagram/youtube, switched to TikTok and are all of a sudden making more money than me. The infinite money faucet at TikTok will soon run dry and it'll become just another shit social media platform, like all the rest.
TikTok is banned in my country but friends from UK and US say that the algorithm is much better at recommending videos.

True or just plain individual bias?
Hardly! If you put an object in empty space, without any other objects nearby, it will be completely unaffected by gravity. Unless the object is large enough that its own gravity can overcome its structural or material resistance to being crushed. Further, unless an object is actually in contact with another object, it is unaffected by gravity from its own reference frame. The apple falling out of the tree (neglecting air resistance) has no way of knowing that it is falling.
I think we (the west) did that ...
Then US should also remove the cap on social security taxes.
I was just about to ask how is this any different than faker!
There were some versions of the bill which had subsidies for chip designers as well. Not sure where that ended up.
I think there is certainly a discussion to be had around gain-of-function. I think that discussion should include how gain-of-function is actually used in research laboratories, and what mitigations are already in place.
"Every one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die" – this comes from the film The Big Short.
I interviewed at Amazon in 2008ish and it was very leetcode-ish in its interview process. I remember whiteboarding a garbage collector.

In any event, few companies have product direction set by engineering. There might be influence, but product tends to be a different set of employees than engineering.
Unlikely: developers do not decide what features to implement, at least in companies of that size, so whether they interviewed with leetcode or not shouldn't matter
And actively harmful in implementation. It spreads bad information, confidently posted for others to trust and duplicate.

Bad information labelled with an appropriate confidence rating can be useful as a starting point to others. ("I'm not sure but this looks sort of like a rail spike nail, maybe start there?") But labelled as good, to others that can't label it themselves, it just degrades the average value of the other information and also the confidence in it too.

HN loves this "hack" and often tells others to use it but then unironically complains about the quality of answers on Stack Overflow and the overconfidence of Dunning Kruger
> Yeah, and you used it in a way that made it sound derogatory.

> "Creole bullshit"

They didn't write that it sounds like "creole bullshit", they wrote that it sounds like "investor creole language bullshit" ie) bullshit in an investor creole language ie) investors saying bullshit in a language consisting of words which mean one thing in English but which have a different meaning in the language the investors are speaking.

You've clearly totally misinterpreted the original post due to an unfamiliarity with the linguistics term "creole language", a term which does not even derive from the Creole peoples of Louisiana (although both the people and the term share a common French root).
Let's do something crazy and look at what actually happens with a vibrated split washer[1]. Maybe you can explain how this demonstration differs from the situations in which you are asserting the split lock washers are effective. Is this hardware not crappy enough to be used in the "value priced widgets" where the washers work?

[1] https://www.boltscience.com/pages/helicalspringwashers.htm
You can also take the life out of any willingness to innovate with enough compliance policies, controls, code standards, and bureaucracy. That's why large companies fossilize.
>Note regarding location: This is a remote position within Colombia only. This position is only open to people living in Colombia.

I've never seen anything like this before. What's the reason for hiring this way?

If all their jobs were in Colombia, I'd assume that there's something legally that makes it hard for them to hire internationally, but they have roles lots of roles in the Philippines and a few roles elsewhere, so I'm stumped.
Most of these street view imagery was done by private individuals, in private spaces. Security and Privacy concerns didn't allow google to send Google's camera down the streets snapping pictures. Which imo is not a bad position to take, I wonder what changed.
Depressing that even a PL savant amongst us has to go and ply his trade around town instead of being financially independent.
Honestly even if he isn’t famous why can’t Wikipedia keep his entry? Why does Wikipedia even have “notable” requirements anyways?

There’s not a storage issue. Wikipedia can literally have billions of articles and still be easy to maintain.

There’s not really a quality issue. Wikipedia is known for not being 100% reliable. But moreover, they have tons of ways to denote “this article needs citations” and “this isn’t a reliable source”. If Wikipedia is concerned about quality, they can have “verified” and “contributed” articles, just like how distros have “stable” and “user-contributed / experimental”.

Spammers and useless content? This is an issue. But this guy is clearly not spam, the proof being any of his official works. I do agree that Wikipedia authors should remove “spammy” entries and entries on complete nobodies and random things, but you shouldn’t need to be in an Oxford journal to not be considered a “nobody”.

Even things which are famous in small towns and 1000-member groups should be on Wikipedia IMO, because most of the stuff is already on there is about as relevant to me or anyone else (which is to say, pretty irrelevant). If you want relevant content, that’s what the search tools and indexing are for.

Wikipedia is supposed to be “the grand encyclopedia” where you can find info on basically anything. There are already tons of Wikipedia articles on obscure people, places, and things. Way more obscure than this composer even if he isn’t truly well-known. Why does “relevance” even matter?
Exchange rates are indirect measures of the country's production vs. others. ex: 1 usd is worth more because its population has a higher output (GDP) relative to Argentina
Wow, my antiwar comment seems to have been censored. Good job guys.
So same price in 2012.

Dunno how HNers still keep falling for this.
If you just pick a worst case optimal join algorithm with a limited table cardinality, i.e. triples like in the case of OP, so that you can materialise every possible index, you can perform a dynamic _instance optimal_ search (i.e. you can ignore skew), if you choose the best possible variable every time you have to pick a variable. This can be done by estimating the cardinality and jaccard index of the variables, which is pretty straightforward with the right datastructure.
If you don't want to limit yourself to just three columns, you can also go for cutting edge succinct data-structure magic. https://aidanhogan.com/docs/wco-ring.pdf

Either way, using a WCO join combined with a data-structure that allows for efficient range estimate and dynamic variable ordering, completely obliviates the need for query planning.
High G factor correlates with high creativity. I see a direct correlation to coming up with creative solutions and being able to solve a battery of tests.

A lot of the leetcode hate mostly exists because it's hard. And a lot of coding interview problems actually require a lot of creativity to solve.

And imagine thinking that facebook isn't innovating. Facebook is leading the future of virtual reality, and leading AI breakthroughs. What do you think facebook marketplace usage is like? Just because you don't like getting tested doesn't mean people who test well can't innovate. No matter how much you trick yourself into thinking that Facebook/Meta won't stand the test of time, it has and it will.
I mostly agree with you here.

The other big thing is that Zuckerberg is really good at seeing the business value in other people's ideas. He chases financial value by copying what other companies do.

Instead companies like Amazon and Apple are obsessed with generating real world value for the customers and let financial value follow.

Without a doubt Zuck sets the business culture, people that think like him and solve the problems he sees get rewarded. This has a massive trickle down component to the entire org.
> a failing of modern corporate culture. There is nothing wrong in reaching a stable equilibrium, becoming profitable, and if you are a public company, paying dividends

It’s the failing of a culture. Plenty of companies do this. (I cautiously venture that most American companies do this?)
What would be a good way?
Amazon is definitely leetcodeish, but they also extensively test behavioral. You need some leetcode, but its more mild
So, "E."
WaPo article, which has more details about the bill and less details about what different “personalities” are saying: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/senate-ch....

Overall, it looks great. We absolutely need to fund more semiconductor manufacturing. Losing that ability to China/Taiwan was just a terrible strategic mistake.

The US hasn’t lost this battle (over semiconductors) just yet. While current manufacturing is indeed dominated by East Asian countries, the vast majority of research still happens in US universities. This legislation allocates more funding for that research, fantastic.

Theres some political gamesmanship over some silly stock options of congresspeople… my response is, who gives a single shit. The country needs this bill.
maybe, not everyone has an iPhone or a OnePlus device?
That's a lot of hysteria over asking ships to sail 10% slower to save fuel, which they were already doing because not buying the extra fuel increases profits.
Here you can see recent news in Argentina, about one of the millions of persons who live for 'free' and who published a video in internet that became viral: https://www.clarin.com/politica/planes-sociales-cobra-mujer-...
Well they did finance and train several members of the dictatorship's Junta[1]. Same as in other countries in the region.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Unfortunately many of the grandfathered symbols in the emoji block have ambiguous width and there is little recourse for applications to determine the terminal display width of any particular codepoint. Gnome VTE gives you a setting to force them one way or another but that can interact badly with fonts that expect a different width.
I can’t comment on Argentina specifically but something I find people often forget is that government is downstream from culture. It doesn’t matter what your structure of government is or the text of your laws are if the culture they sit within is corrupt and/or decadent.