skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to echo the advice about interns from David Wind. I have hired a few interns. While relatively cheap, which is attractive at an early stage, they took up a lot of my time and most of their work couldn't be used in the end. The latter was probably my fault, but the reality is that I didn't have the time to properly train/mentor them. It is better to go without interns at least in the early stages in my experience.
For the building company it's a 3% discount wrapped up in marketing.
The difference between two bubbles was the float involved in them, and liquidity. Currently a big portion of the market cap is due to "to have 1b dollar market cap, pay 1$ for 1^-10 of the company" phenomenon.
As a Gen-X'er I was told in my twenties that Social Security was going to run out by the time I was forty. Here I am, in my forties, and it hasn't run out yet. That's not to say that it can't or won't. But in those twenty years, if I've learned anything, it's to not trust the headlines.
I don't think that changes the premise of my point which is the government supports all situations where a bail out is needed.
(I wrote that answer)

A few principles that may be useful:

- have a regular cadence of communicating, usually monthly, usually he last day of the month

- have a standard format and stick to it

- numbers are better than words

- preview the updates where you uncover scary stuff over the phone / in person before sending an update

- always include an ask
Sometimes researchers need things to study so they can justify their existence.
Why are we still facing all the seats forward then? Is this by regulation? Why not rethink seating to be more communal and comfortable.
I'm not sure we're disagreeing, but perhaps talking around each other. The point I was trying to get at is that I don't believe Google represents the extreme left, nor does DaMore represent the extreme right. And that's the problem. Google and the national media are not fringe elements which we might dismiss the way we do with people toting swastikas or hammer and sickles.
The number one asset is the ability to tax an economy of $20 trillion(ie. 320 million Americans) to extract $3.7 trillion annually(2016). Holding the equivalent in 3% 30yr US bonds to give you that income would be about $125 trillion dollars. So this asset is 100 times the student debt one.
> I thought I should be like Elon Musk and tried working 100h a week and sleeping under my desk. I learned that in fact I’m not Elon Musk and found myself on the brink of a burnout a couple times.

Not even Elon Musk is Elon Musk. He is doing a lot of things right, very few entrepreneurs in the world are as good as him.

However, checking and writing emails at all times while playing with your kids and doing things in parallel isn't smart.

As a great entepreneur you also need to be excellent in mindfulness, not being that manifests in poor private life quality (women, kids, friends), not to mention exercise. Musk mentioned himself that he doesn't know much about these things.

I wonder what he came
up with if became an expert in these things.

> Learning how to create FOMO is the most important negotiating dynamic you can learn. FOMO = fear of missing out.

Needs to be added that you need traction or big social proof to create fomo, otherwise you'll see founders running around trying to create fomo with a few hundred users, no term sheets, no revenue.
The wealth destruction was immense too, looks like you forgot the losers of the tech boom like pets.com and kozmo.com and many others.

That was Buffett's point you could not pick out the winners beforehand.

Now do you understand the point?
How successful is the risk-selling in terms of getting the risk off the federal government, in practice? I can believe there's some level of success, so sure, 100% of the debt-repayment risk in securities managed by the federal government's mortgage entities shouldn't be counted as really being the federal government's. But the way the 2007-08 mortgage mess played out suggests that in an actual mortgage crisis (which is the only time the risk exposure would be seriously tested), the US government does quasi-officially backstop a large portion of the market in mortgage-backed securities that it manages, so it's shouldering more than 0% of the risk represented by those nominally repackaged-and-sold-off debt instruments.
Presumably because it allows buyers who would not qualify for home loans based on cash flow (impeded by student loans) to be eligible.

Or at least, that's my guess.

I know home loan standards are pretty static, so I'd guess it's to allow indebted students to qualify.
Maybe is just another Optional type, but with a much weirder name, so that's pretty obvious. But this makes me wonder - does Haskell optimize `Maybe`-like types down to a null-pointer, like Rust does?
Thanks. I agree with you about the fact that what I'm doing isn't a direct influence on the bigger issues. However, consumers play a major role in these larger issues.

For example, If we as a society would stop buying cheap food, it would force the hand of these industrial operations to change their behavior.

So I'm taking the time I have now to learn and improve my mentoring and educational skills when working with the local community. In addition to regulation, I also think it's critical that sustainable change occurs from our within society.
How’s the F35 going, WSJ?
I did the same thing most of a decade ago. That pathway has unfortunately closed since the cheap college i went to tripled their tuition.
I don’t think flyover country is as cheap as it used to be. I’m willing to move anywhere, but after much house searching, the only places I consider affordable now are Idaho and the deep rural south.

I’m with that other commenter who suggested Eastern Europe is much more interesting.
What's to stop this network of drivers from building a new version of uber that they collectively own, along with engineers and other worker-owners that could manage the tech side? The point of ridesharing companies is to find drivers for people that want them. Now the drivers all know each other through this network and just need to figure out how to tell customers where they are. They could make a lot more for themselves if they didn't have to give a large chunk of the ride fares to highly paid management and investors.
The average doesn't really matter. The researchers are looking for "steps" in data streamed caused by changes in the video. If you're adding random levels noise it will drown the signal that the researchers are looking for.
> Claim 1

I respect that your opinion is that ISPs have a social responsibility to disclose this information so think tanks and academies don't have to find it. I'm curious if anyone thought to ask them, but that's neither here nor there. I don't generally expect businesses to provide data apart beyond that which is required by law, but I'll concede the point since it's unrelated to my claims.

> Claim 2: On this issue, I think it's helpful to discuss "critical studies" and related departments separately from the rest of "academia" and separately from the natural and mathematical sciences in particular. I don't think that the liberal bias in natural/math sciences has the same underlying causes OR the same long-term effects.

I agree, and I intended to. I should have done better, but I quickly authored that comment from my phone in the waiting room at the vet clinic.

> You also have to explain why political diversity is even important in the face of other forms of homogeneity. E.g., I'd rather a very liberal, very theoretical physics department hire a flaming liberal experimentalist than yet another theorist who happens to be conservative. The importance of political diversity in humanities and social sciences is obvious, but I don't see why science would suffer if all algebraists were libertarians...

Again, I don't mean to apply my "political diversity" quip to apolitical fields.

> My assertion is that if you want a politically diverse chemistry department, you have to 1) justify why that diversity is even necessary / more significant than other major problems; and then 2) probably also solve different underlying causes.

I agree, and I don't think political diversity is important in chemistry, since few chemistry topics are politically polarized.

> "Of course, I'm picking on the academy, but the same probably holds true for journalism."
And also literally every other profession, from clergy to CEOs to career criminals. There's even a trite quote about it.

Probably some degree of political diversity is good for all fields, but it's uniquely critical for politically polarized epistemological fields.
You're forgetting book value and future earnings valuation.

If a company earns $X billion per year, even if they don't issue a dividend, if their market cap dropped to fifty bucks an acquirer could swoop in and pay themselves the company's earnings directly for as long as it keeps running, or shut it down and sell off the book value for a profit.

If there's no dividend, any earnings + book value still exists as a potential profit to someone who would own the company. So you just have to assume that in the future someone would be willing to buy $X for $X-1.
Just a note to say that when I see a hell-banned commentator where there's no obvious cause, I email the mods to draw their attention to it. I can't recall a time where the account hasn't been reactivated, and I've received a courtesy email usually with a brief explanation.
I don't think you've thought this through carefully.

What do we think the median interval from "established intent to interview" to "offer" is at medium-to-large software companies in SFBA? If I had to guess, it's on the order of a month. Nobody's hiring homework process puts a dent in that timeline. On the other hand, when done well, "homework" makes it easier for engineering teams to make confident decisions, which expedites offers.

How much effort do you think it takes a typical candidate to get through an interview gauntlet at a tech company with more than (say) 50 employees? It's at least multiple full days worth of aggregate effort, almost always including one actual, on-site full day. To the extent that homework offsets on-site interviews, it reduces the amount of effort candidates need to put in.
This. I "retired" to Bulgaria last year for 6 months and lived lavishly: restaurants, beach/mountain vacations, travel, shows, massive apartment, etc and found that my cost of living was 1/10th what I paid in San Francisco for less than half the luxury.

I'm only back in the US now for a limited time. I've done the math and found that I need a few more years of work to live in Bulgaria full-time for the rest of my life.
Until this only-online "exchange" is "hacked" and suddenly you can't claim any BTC with their tokens anymore. Did you read the "counter-party risk" part of my comment?
Wouldn't that also present an issue with usual password logins?
While an interesting use, abusing DNS in a similar way has beena long known (15 year) security vulnerability. For example, OzymanDNS. Even then, that was just one of the first published exploits. People had been performing DNS tunneling for some time.

There are detectors of DNS abuse that I imagine the people who actually would store files in DNS would not want pointed at their files.
You answered your question. A degree is also a kind of 'license' (albeit a weaker form than a so-called professional license) but people frown at using them because it sounds credentialist.
Following your hypothetical: But if you didn't prove that diversity policies are ineffective and still say we should do away with them, that
does make you anti-diversity, to most rational, logical people.

Before you inevitably get further into semantics and burden of proof, you should read a breakdown of how Damore failed to prove his memo's claims, from the perspective of an Evolutionary Biologist:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
You can use the dig utility to see if a DNS server is recursive. Just do the scan in two steps. One major port scan using masscan, netscan, etc., then a smaller scan of the IPs with port 53 open to see if they are recursive or not. You'll see this in dig's output if the server is not recursive:

;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
Bcash and Coinbase: collusion, manipulation, and FUD
Not disagreeing with you, just adding: Debt is not inherently bad. If the concept of debt didn't exist our society would hardly have advanced in the last 2000 years. We owe a ton of our society's development to the fact that bankers exist, otherwise only a handful of people throughout history would have had the resources to build ships, open new businesses, build factories, new technologies, etc, and there would be zero competition.

Student loan debt has ballooned. That's because there are a lot of people going to college that really shouldn't be going to college. And yes, there's some greed involved too: people are willing to take out loans and pay for school, so the schools charge as much as they can get away with. But most schools (believe it or not) reinvest that money into better facilities in order to attract more and higher quality students.

The problem here isn't debt. There are people who want to go to college and who should go to college that need debt to get there. The problem is in the fact that people who should have learned how to weld in high school are pressured to go to college and find an office job, because we've told ourselves (or our parents have told us) that learning a trade is beneath us and that not going to college is awful (it's not).
Of my two grandmothers, the one that died had the most children.
Community-owned does not necessarily mean govt owned: look at peer-to-peer mesh networks (https://hyperboria.net/). Private citizens run their own nodes and connect to the nodes near them (and potentially help their neighbours by hooking them up and so on). The community members literally own the infrastructure; not through the abstraction of government.

They have incentive to keep things running well and efficiently because well it's you and your friends and neighbours!
The problem is that the up sides of new technologies are typically immediately obvious, while the down sides are subtle and can take a very long time to make themselves evident.

Example: let's make watch faces that glow in the dark by painting them on with radium-based paint! (Which was a real thing: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls)

Up side: everyone can now read their watches in the dark! Hooray! An instantly clear improvement.

Down side: radium is, well, radioactive, so the workers painting the watch faces slowly start having their bones rot and their jaws fall off. It takes a decade for the link to be recognized between these symptoms and unsafe procedures for handling radium-based paint. Nobody really knows how many of the workers employed handling such paint eventually died from related illnesses.
I don't disagree, but this was a cheap way to reuse existing R&D, like the front airbags specifically mentioned in the article.

Every now and then, various concepts come out with a cabin that has two rows of seats facing each other. These would require a much more radical (and expensive) redesign, and it may not even pass a baseline required by contemporary regulations without additional back-and-forth.
the article have one person who agrees it is insecure and another who claims it to be safe without absolutely no information whatsoever.

specially nice is the quotes: "and something you experience so infrequently, even if you’re a regular flyer—that you don’t have much to worry about."

such a glorious logical falacy. or they dont know what infrequent and/or regular means.

and yet, the author saw it proper to publish twelve quotes from that person with unbased, uncontested positive remarks. great journalism.
Buyer beware... "pension system that likely won't be there" is a right wing frame.

In reality, social security very likely WILL be there. But fostering cynicism about it is a prerequisite towards imagining it won't be, which makes it (theoretically) easier to dismantle. "Well it's in poor shape anyway, we should just blow it up..."

There are good informative comments below that are being downvoted, that are about how social security actually works. You just can't seem to avoid political crap here.

There is plenty of good information out there on various easy, non-disturbing ways to tweak social security if necessary. Google some of the ole trustee reports or publications by the late Bob Ball.
Got it - thank you.
When you have a job that pays a lot of money and requires no formal credentials whatsoever, people can and will try to get into that job even though they’re not qualified for it.

This is why there are programming candidates failing fizzbuzz.

It’s the equivalent of someone applying for a pharmacist position and not knowing what antibiotics are, but it happens, because anyone can call themselves a programmer.
Never heard "tisane" being used by anyone.

Most of the people in the US don't seem to care much about the distinction between infusions containing tea leaves and infusions that don't (when it's not just tea leaves); those who do, would often ask whether it's a caffeinated "tea" or not (infusions containing tea leaves usually contain caffeine).

Personally, I prefer to use the term "herbal infusion", because it unambiguous and relatively widespread.

However, in common usage people will say "herbal tea", both in English and Russian, even when aware that the tea plant is not in the mix. It seems like the crusade for "tea/chai" meaning something brewed from tea leaves is not only doomed, but has been lost before the West started to drink tea.
I think you underestimate many governments.
It's common for Corporations operating across borders to have such systems in place. When countries disagree, they often take it out on companies domiciled in the perceived offending territory.
I love the "this shouldn't take more than an hour or two" assurances.
Interns are great for practicing how to manage, but I agree, as anything beyond that, don’t expect much.
Only a small percentage would have jobs they could take with them / work remote. What would they actually do in Bulgaria or for it? And this is looking past language barriers.

I say this as someone that had a wonderful trip there and like the country and people quite a lot.
Yeap you probably hit the nail on the head. I'm a native English speaker and I only know a tiny bit of Hokkien. I really struggle with the aspirated/non-aspirated aspect of many of the consonants.

Not sure about the vowel sounds, I found those all reasonably trivial to distinguish.

https://mkdict.net/results?query=te%CC%82&page=1&q_type=tw&r...

If you click on the "+" button, there's a voice recording of how to pronounce it. It's from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. To me it sounds much more like "day" than "tea".
I love your attitude, but when I got out of school, nobody gave a flying eff about personal projects. This was before Google Analytics, so I had to track IPs myself, but I think something like .1 percent of companies looked at my website--and that might have been a false positive.

Even the company that eventually hired me didn't look at my website.
How is Rocket, compared to the others? (I don't know that the one I used before is still going.)
That may be so, but is it possible that children are what cause it more likely that your customers use the services your job provides?
Programming languages already use contextual parsers. C# and Swift both allow you to re-use some keywords as identifiers, function names, etc and use context to disambiguate.

Both inherited the restricted list from C so for legacy reasons they prohibit those keywords from being used as identifiers, but newly introduced keywords are always contextual due to compatibility concerns.
Contrary to the analogies being drawn by sibling and child comments, work is different from dating or interviewing potential roommates, in that you typically have to give up a previous job when accepting a new one and if you don't make it through the trial run, you're unemployed.

It would be great if the only reason people could be let go were legitimate, but that's hardly the case.
A separate list of corrections would definitely be a good counterbalance, but it would probably only matter to those who are already trying to verify the correctness of the story in the first place and not to those who took it at face value.
Maybe the only way to quantify 'moral hazard' at the present time is to count the occurrences of 'Lehman Brothers' in the investment media.
I don't think commit numbers alone tell you the full story either (e.g. FLAC going years between releases, not because it's abandoned but because it's basically done). The 1.14-dev branch seems active enough anyway: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/tree/1.14-dev
An idea whose time has come (or cyclically returned)?
A gold standard is terrible monetary policy, even worse than the status quo.

Good monetary policy would be the fed doing NGDP level targeting a la Scott Sumner: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/NGDP_Sumner_v-10%20cop...

Monetary policy only goes so far though, if you actually want to distribute resources in an equitable way, you probably also need good tax policy.

Good tax policy would be taxes which decrease wealth inequality (e.g. luxury consumption taxes, land value taxes).
Well, kinda. The Higgs and Higgsless proposals mostly go back to the 60s and mid 70s, even if some papers are later. The actual discovery was on 2012 40-50 years later and the Nobel handed out.

A random short paper from even a good journal like Phys Rev Letters is unlikely to be Nobel earthbreaking either, much less have effort to debunk it.

As an undergrad I had to discover that the 20 year olf PRL used as a basis for the 2 week Lab (Thorium C x-section) actually had an incorrect analysis. All data taken was at the wrong energies so we had to spot the error, rederive the equation and values to measure it correctly before the halflife brought our counts down too low.

That PRL was never corrected and the TAs comment was, "that'll teach you to trust some random derivation you found in an article somewhere". Similar story about the incorrect Hydrogen radius expectation value integrating factor in Baym. Even text books aren't always correct.
> No sacrificing video quality or freshness required.

Just drone battery life
> A key performance metric of computers is their energy dissipation. One contribution to dissipation
is friction at the rotary joints in each logic gate. Due to the joint’s small frictional drag, mechanical
computers constructed from them can, in principle, dissipate orders of magnitude less power than
conventional semiconductor computers, while still operating at relatively high speeds.

This claim seems dubious, perhaps someone has more expertise to comment. The justification

> Operating this lock involves rotation at the joints by up to ∆θ≈1 rad. The model system analyzed in [11] is an excerpt of the links and joints shown in the closeup on the right of Figure 24. From [11, Eq. 2], this rotation dissipates bout 2.4×10−27J per rotary joint when operating at f = 100 MHz.

Seems akin to saying "We operate our microchip at 1 microvolt / 1 pico ampere at f=100MHz, giving 10-26J per operation." -- which seems like a silly aspiration without carefully analyzing noise and quantum mechanical constraints. (without which it would seem almost any computing device could operate at arbitrarily low power).
It's still pretty difficult to find a laptop without Windows. I had paid about a thousand dollars of OEM licenses that I didn't want and never used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
I wonder if this was also true of the 'Great' Britain back in the day.

Note that there are bad people and bad emperors and everything in between, having vastly different abilities to affect people. They are hardly equivalent, though bad they all are.