skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but for this retirement problem you're comparing outcomes within 1-2 orders of magnitude. If you don't have scale invariance you'll get a different answer if you put in $100K, $1m and $10m starting portfolios, but that difference wouldn't tell you anything useful.

IMO best way to look at γ is an arbitrary tunable smoothing parameter, just tune it until it looks like what you're most comfortable with, trading off smoothness for maximizing cash flow.
> What tasks that we accomplish with code today will be accomplished with data tomorrow?

"Eventually" all of it? (mind the quotes)

If you save the config of a neural network, the "meat" of the NN so to speak, it's all "data" (matrices), but OTOH it's "code" (it tells the NN what to do).
Pricing needs to correlate to value or it is unsustainable.

Do you ever pay extra when you get a seemingly disproportionate value for that subscription?

If you got the a la carte pricing you are looking for it would likely be more valuable to the service provider as a sales mechanism. So, it would be priced just right to get you to convert to the subscription model.

I'm not debating the merits of any of this, but trying to answer your question with given market realities.

The previous comments about AWS are the price/value correlation in practice. AWS prices will go up, but right now, it is more valuable, in a strategic sense to grow market share. I switched from Rackspace to AWS because I received credits from AWS/Y Combinator Office Hours. It was a big hassle to switch, but I also received disproportionate value, and not just because they were credits, but because the AWS ecosystem is great.

I am getting ready to launch my enterprise SaaS and pricing/value was a significant consideration. Not just to calculate how much I can earn, but to stimulate growth and prove useful to my customers - which is the key to eventually getting to the first two. At the center it has a marketplace and the pricing is based on the gross value of the transaction. All fees are paid by the suppliers. The service is otherwise free to use. So, I only collect fees when I help facilitate client business. The bottom-line is that this is how I can be of the greatest value to my clients.

I think AWS, and my pricing follows a similar model, is the evolution of the basic subscription model, which in turn was an evolution of the standard enterprise license model, which collected fees upfront with each new release installed.
"Unfortunately, due to health privacy reasons, Lisa was not able to put me in touch with her patients directly"

You mean: "Fortunately..."
"In BC, Canada the provision of electricity and water are by provincial/municipal governments, have very similiar requirements in terms of running wires/pipes, and in my experience have delivered much better services."

The internet is not 'electricity'.

The internet evolves rapidly over time, there are competing technologies etc.

My friend, the Province of 'British Colombia' delivers some of the worst healthcare in the Western world - and they don't even have your records online. How do you expect they will manage bleeding edge technology?

Also - you are gouged on pricing. Have you seen your electricity bill? In Ontario, we pay artificially inflated fees. The government subsidizes irresponsible solar installations to the tune of 85 cents / kwh. They charge massive 'transport' fees. Hydro One is a massively bloated public entity with masses of retired people earning $100K a year from age 55 onwards. Have a look at their staffing budget - it's downright scandalous.

I'm not saying that electricity should be entirely privatized, but the internet, at least for now, should probably be.

Unless there is a big 'build out' (such as they have done in China or S. Korea) - I don't see government taking a direct role, other than perhaps regulation, and sponsoring access to rural communities and the poor.
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I'm not sure how much I can trust the results of a site that claims an email address I only use for one site has been breached on sites and services I've never been to. However it's calculating if what you enter into the form appears in the leaked content sure gives a lot of false positives.

Which I suppose forces more awareness, but it doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Damn, thanks for this. It seems that I've actually been pwned at some point.
Slack already does this on paid accounts. If a given user isn't active for a month then they don't get charged.

I guess the small difference with Slack is that they know you'll nearly always have more than 1 user.
"Invisible hand is something I trust far more than anything else to guide the society."

And I don't. The invisible hand has said that the Kardashians are more valuable than teachers. So to me, any argument that says the "invisible hand" should be used is completely invalid.
This was a strange way to find out that I have a Tumblr account.
It used to be called just 'zstd' but I guess that wasn't very pronounceable.
Depends on how well does it scale; here is some back of the envelope math:

If we take a Topaz reactor design and build a spacecraft say 10 times bigger than new horizons this gives us a mass of 5000 Kg.

We'll dedicated 2000 of those to the reactor and fuel, and 2000 of those to the instrumentation (this alone is 5 times the dry mass of New Horizons) and 1000 KG for the platform/chassis.
A Topaz reactor weighs around 300KG, let's say ours weights 500 because we want to be able to swap fuel in and out and we want to make sure it generates 5KW of power.
It can operate for about 5 years on 15 KG (12 in the original design) of fuel which in this case is UO2 gas (spent fuel might be used as propellant so we might be able to have a secondary Ion drive cycle to maximize the thrust we get but won't use that in our calculations) this means we have fuel for 100 years.

4 of our 5KW would be dedicated to our propulsion system which would give us a ~4.8N of force which at a mass of 5000KG means we get 0.00000096 m/s2 of acceleration.

Given V=V0 + at after one year or 31622400 seconds accelerating at 0.00000096 m/s2 we'll have a velocity of 30.357504 m/s after 50 years our velocity would be 1517 m/s or about 10% of Voyager 1 and 2.

So yeah not so great unless we can scale it much much better, that said if we do figure out the physics behind it we might be able to design more efficient emitters with considerable better thrust to power ratio.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPAZ_nuclear_reactor
Why do they post release information about Safari on webkit's site? I know, both are implemented/started/driven by Apple, but I would have expect webkit.org to be dedicated to the engine, only.
Yup that's definitely true, population centers rank highest for most topic lists (especially New York where meetup.com was founded)

The original use-case I envisioned for something like this is someone deciding which cities they might like to move to by choosing cities that have a lot of people with shared interests. So should the metric for that be total people that are part of a topic, or the % of total city population engaged in that topic? I've currently chosen the former, but interested in what others might think.

Thanks for the feedback,

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No. Are you trying to shame me?
I genuinely don't understand the use case for this since, for example, Dropbox already just syncs the changes you make to a file and not the whole file, automatically and does so bidirectionally, which this tool does not. So, if anyone can help state more clearly what this is adding over and above the features that the various cloud storage vendors already provide I would benefit from the explanation.
The literature I've seen does not purport that no conceivable change in the minimum wage would have any effect on unemployment levels.

It instead concludes that changes within certain specified ranges have not, and should not be expected to, have significant effects on unemployment. (And, much of that academic literature reaching those conclusions is pointing to the actual results refuting earlier models which projected stronger responses.)
You keep mentioning exits - are you talking about being close to a network of partners that will BUY your portfolio companies, or being close to companies that can exit / go public / etc? A large number of exits have occurred in the Midwest over the past few years. Payments, Enterprise Software, Aerospace, finance, etc. What concern is there about a shortage of exits or exit source? It sounds like I'm missing a very valid concern.

Note: I also disagree with people lumping the entire Midwest together as a thing. Chicago != Milwaukee != Cleveland != Minneapolis != Detroit, but neither does SF = LA, so not sure how best to aggregate.
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Nest also now uses the Google Internet Authority for its certificates.
Imagine having the last few years of your life publicly defecated on because you opted to ship instead of delay.

Ryan Holtz (of Minecraft/Mojang/EA Tiburon fame) was on the release team for Superman Returns. The game (and especially the parts he worked on) was very competent; it just didn't mesh well as a whole. He's understandably really sensitive about the whole thing, even years later. It would be good to keep in mind that there are human beings with emotions behind these games.

NMS underdelivered, but it was still a beautiful game. In this era of DLC-as-bugfixes, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the features people complained about were implemented later.
I used to contribute a lot to SO a few years back into a pretty niche tag, and I've noticed the same trend which drove me out of participating. Still a pretty good resource, but the number of opportunistic people who are there just to get these silly points is too damn high.
Wow. That's scientology-level bullshit.
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Just because the thing that works for another person isn't the same as what you do doesn't mean that you need to be insulting towards them.
True, but PE might have had a positive effect on many people other than you, both physically and in other ways, so at the very least it's more effective than doing nothing.

That said, I do hope of course that they offer more variety than they often do in high school. I was pretty lucky with my high school and definitely benefitted from being exposed to sports that I still engage in occasionally (rugby and ice skating).
I agree with erex78. The former measurement doesn't tell me much; I already know what cities have the most people.

The latter measurement better indicates the probability of a chance encounter with someone who has your shared interests.
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I use it to back up a linux server to amazon drive via a cron job. I don't think amazon drive even supports linux. Also if I decide to use backblaze or dropbox in the future its the same command to sync the files.
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> So should the metric for that be total people that are part of a topic, or the % of total city population engaged in that topic?

Ideally, both. You want to have a community with at least N people, but cities with a high % should rank higher.

Could also account for the number of total meetup.com members in that place.
There is very little evidence to suggest it would be. A space program is a monumentally impressive achievement, but it's one that was generated by fiat. The Internet is the result of countless different responses to market pressures.

Our telecom networks used to be effectively nationalized. You couldn't even choose your own telephone. Back when the government had a role in running the actual backbone, there were restrictions on commerce on the Internet!
I worked for about a year and a half after college and then quit to do my own thing (autodidacting -> startup). At each job I was frugal and saved over half the money I earned. I also accumulated money by working small jobs in high school and college, and some from my grandparents. It I'm frugal, the money I saved should last at least 5 years or so.

While working my full time jobs I spent as much time as possible improving myself, rather than succumbing to Sucker Culture. The same applies to high school and college.
author of TFA here, I updated the descriptions a little, basically in year 25 you spend $2.321 in constant dollars (starting portfolio in the example is 100, so 2.321% of starting portfolio adjusted for inflation) plus 8.218% of the value of the portfolio in that year.

Using that strategy, over all 59 cohorts 1928-1986,

- median cash flow in year 25 was 12.16

- worst case 3.756

- best case 27.38

- all as a % of starting portfolio, in constant dollars.
> Having people ask you the same questions over and over again who don't care at all about wasting your time drives away the people most able to answer questions.

I see this mentioned a number of times but it seems nobody cares to do the obvious thing: impose a tiny tiny (e.g. $1 or wait n hours after creating your account) threshold to get the privilege of asking questions.

It is almost as if some people enjoy the current situation :-/

Furthermore the current situation has already driven off a number of contributors, not everyobe because they are bored but because they find it toxic.
Internet is a private good => private corporation claims general regulatory powers over what goes through the Internet.

Thank you?
They get a more insidious kickback. They get to be lazy. They mandate the "textbook" with 1 time access code that results in them having to do the least work, and the students pay. Publishers have sold them on this value prop to kill the used textbook market.
You're correct, but unfortunately there is nothing about personal sovereignty over one's own biochemical processes in the constitution. The constitutional also permits the Federal government to enforce laws on interstate commerce, which effectively allows this kind of prohibition even if the states disagree internally.
Via the same implicit counterfactual on which you rely - that is, that had the Internet remained a publicly funded, primarily academic project over the last two decades, it would nonetheless be substantially similar to the Internet we have today.
Arguably the most distinguishing benefit is transparent en-/decryption of the contents of your sync-set, such that the cloud copy is always encrypted by your key that's only available at your endpoints --- this is unrelated to being encrypted with a vendor-controlled key.

EDIT: Also, most 'official' cloud drive clients place a folder into your homedir, like ~/Google Drive or ~/OneDrive or ~/Box Sync. Only files placed into these folders get synced up and down. This client allows arbitrary local paths to be synced up or down.
Does google drive work the same way as Dropbox? Cross platform, acts as a folder in your home dir, selective sync, etc? Seriously ready to move on from Dropbox and my google fiber account comes with a free terabyte of google drive.
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What I remember as most shaking about Tetris the cognitive dissonance caused by it's originating from the USSR. How those people who were ready to nuke a child such as me create a video game? Particularly when they spent all day waiting in line for potatoes and shoes...when they weren't polishing their tanks.
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...yeah, why didn't they claim part of a namespace that only has room for 26 (or 36) things? Everyone else is doing it!
The fundamental thing we're doing when writing code is specifying computations. The difficulty of it comes from the fact that when we conceive of some computation we'd like executed, we do so with human brains, whereas the thing that's going to execute the computation is a totally different kind of thing: they each have something like their own 'internal format' for representing program concepts.

Our strategy has been to write stacks of translators to bring the machine's internal format nearer to our own.

The last line of code will be written when we develop translators for languages near enough to our own internal representations that we no longer require special training to learn the machine's representation. It won't make sense to call it 'code' anymore.

This kindred language/representation may be natural language (and maybe not), but if it were I'd imagine there'd have to be a tight feedback loop in the machine's attempts to sort out ambiguities in a developer's specification. So, programming would turn into a conversation with a computer: you ask for something, it proposes a solution ("Thanks John! How's this?"—it'll probably be like that. Ugh.), you express your modifications, it proposes another solution etc.

That's my guess anyway.
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There are also wide quality variations across implementations. Kornel Lesiński has made some nice contributions to mozjpeg which improved quality significantly for images with sharp edges compared to the standard libjpeg:

https://kornel.ski/deringing/
Oh, D language is dlang now? Looks like you guys did a redesign of the website and stuff too! I hear good things about D, keep up the great work!
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Comparing to overall profits is necessary when the discussion is about whether the penalty financially screws Monsanto's shareholders over. Nowhere in the parent thread is there a discussion going on about whether this is an appropriate penalty, just whether or not it "screws" Monsanto - in the context of their 2015 earnings statement, it's obviously not.
> If you don't understand the answer, leave a comment asking for clarification.

In SO this will get shot down and clarifications will get edited away. It's brutal there and not helpful. I firmly believe the benefit (since it is a QA site, or is it a lets re-write the manual site?) outweighs the detriment.

> Having people ask you the same questions over and over again who don't care at all about wasting your time drives away the people most able to answer questions.

Honestly a lot of the people that answer and moderate questions there are unfriendly, the snark is high, it might be good to get a new batch of answerers in there and have the old move on. Obviously my opinion.
Really excited to see a new addition to the open source self-hosting platform space. When we all move towards decentralization, everyone wins.
I can't speak to the rest of the country, but that's not the case in NY. It's a complicated story with lots of wrinkles, but the long and short of it is that you can buy a long term care policy of a certain length and then the state (under the medicaid program) will take over payments after that. You don't need to change facilities. In any event, I have yet to visit a nursing home that the word "attractive" would be even in the ballpark of appropriate to use.

Separately, optimizing for being able to pay out of pocket for a top tier nursing home seems like a strange life goal to me. Maybe people really do have that preference, but it looks to me like a lot of people in the greater "personal finance" hobbyist world just like saving for it's own sake. Nothing wrong with that of course, but the sanctimoniousness of this group is a way over the top IMO.
I'm really hoping that the specific name of the software package comes to mind. There's a super old ground terminal command & data handling (C&DH) package that is very very common. It runs on Linux, and has a UI that looks like it's written using Motif.

I haven't worked in the space industry for almost 10 years now, but that was everywhere when I was there. And I'm hoping that the name will come to mind over the next few hours and I can edit this post :)

Edit: Success! ITOS: http://itos.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php
See: http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/robinhood-part-1/ about the implementation in Rust.
There is just so much awesome stuff in this article. Finite State Entropy and Asymmetric Numeral System are completely new concepts to me (I've got 7 open tabs just from references FB supplied in the article), as is repcode modeling. I love that they've already built in granular control over the compression tradeoffs you can make, and I can't wait to look into Huff0. If anyone outside of Facebook has started playing with it or is planning to put it into production right away I'd love to hear about it.
This code is syntactically valid in PHP and Java and produces the same output
This is a limitation of the Cloud Drive services, I remember reading on the rclone FAQ that none of them support this.
Great to see more of meaningful programming/connectivity being put in the hands of people who aren't necessarily computer scientists.

Also love the idea of an Internet of Cake. I mean, yes, please.
Fine, "not traceable by arbitrary people on the Internet".

I know the credit card company and everyone they share your data with can see your transactions, and that's a problem some may wish to avoid, but that is still a much smaller number of people who can see your transactions than Bitcoin. Bitcoin does not inherently include privacy.
I've also read about the Syrian bombs targeting Iridium users. Maybe they used triangulation to locate the source of the signal that was being broadcast from earth. Does/did the Syrian govt have that tech? Would they need satellites, or would helicopters be enough? And which government/supplier did they buy it from?
Money can change hands where you want it to change hands, and profit can occur where you want it to occur. In this case, Apple Ireland buys an iPhone from the manufacturing division for (say) $300, sells an iPhone to Apple Italy for $800, and Apple Italy sells it to a consumer for $800. Apple Ireland made $500 profit, Apple Italy makes $0 profit, and so pays taxes in Ireland and not Italy.
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I'm not convinced they hired any in the first place, based on what their branding and internal processes.
Is there any chance that it could be intentional? Everyone knows Amazon's product page, for instance, is some of the most optimized real estate on the internet, I don't know any designer who looks at it and doesn't immediately want to start saying everything that is wrong with it. Could they, in this case, also be optimizing for something that we aren't considering?
When i viewed the print preview it seemed broken too - the content in the first on-screen page (which was too long) became two pages, and then in the print preview it forced a new page before the next block of content.
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I would love if my internet service was as good as my gas or electric service. Those are both so reliable, that I've never once had to contact customer service. They deliver a standard level of service, according to fair, legally enforced rates. If they ever do have an outage, I'm entitled to pro-rated credits for the service interruption. They will also roll trucks any hour of the day to restore service after major weather incidents, unlike any ISP I've ever had.

Honestly, we should start holding the major ISPs to the same standard as our other utilities.
> Diversied portfolios such as the Permanent Portfolio have averaged 9.3% CAGR over the last 40+ years.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Price trends of the used textbook market have interested for for quite a while:

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