skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be a lot of investing content on HN lately. A contrarian indicator perhaps? ;)

In any case, I posted these links in a previous thread and it seemed to be popular so I'll post again--if you enjoy this you'll probably enjoy the http://bogleheads.org forum (one of the oldest and best investing forums on the web based around Bogle's philosophy) and also the http://capitalminded.com newsletter (kind of new, but the last few weeks I've read are like Matt Levine's money stuff for index fund investors, really good).
I like it though, so let’s get separate cars.
For one, they're getting a platform for UWP applications that are written in JS, which I would guess is pretty important.
Ironically I work as an insurance broker, but I assure you I am acutely aware of how absurd some of the premiums and markets can be.

I've become pretty cynical as of late. So like, sure, if you are working for Google or some other tech company that subsidizes 90-100% of an employee's health care costs, then you are getting a great deal, especially if you have a family. If you want a really large network with lots of doctors and you want a very very low deductible, then for a single person this is going to be $1100 for a single person, $2200 for a couple, $3100 for a family PER MONTH!!!!.

Now, that's for ridiculously good coverage of course. If you want the cheapest coverage possible, then it's about $500 per month for a single person, $1000 couple, $1500 family etc. But here we are talking about $6,000 deductibles and so on.

But, if you have literally no income, then you can get something like FidelisCare in NY for $20 a month, or Medicaid. There might be trouble with finding a doctor who accepts it. But that's the reality we face in this country. Unless you are 65, then you can get Medicare + Medigap for pretty damn cheap.

So, I am someone who is neither eligible for medicare, nor a large employer subsidy. So I only have catastrophic insurance- and that's from a full-time job! If I married my girlfriend, I would have better coverage from her employer. And when I was eligible for coverage from my parents, that one was pretty good.

The easiest thing is to just not get sick. But if you own your own LLC and you are charging very high hourly rates, your client (the one who would have employed you as a W2) is probably happy to not have you on their payroll, because the rates I quoted you above are the rates they would pay to offer you insurance.
Consider the following situation:

There are two groups, A and B. For both groups, when a person is labeled high risk they have a 75% risk of reoffending (ie no bias).

10% of Group A people are labeled high risk. Which means that (1 - 75%) * 10% = 2.5% are misclassified.

20% of Group B people are labeled high risk. Which means that (1 - 75%) * 20% = 5% are misclassified.

As you can see, this is simply an artifact of the higher reoffending rate of Group B. If 1) the two groups have different reoffending rates, and 2) the algorithm for labeling people high risk is unbiased, it necessarily follows that the two groups will have different misclassification rates.

The entire ProPublica piece (and your arguments) is based on misunderstanding this. Part of the issue is that extremely misleading table titled "Prediction Fails Differently for Black Defendants", where "Labeled Higher Risk, But Didn’t Re-Offend" actually refers to P(labeled higher risk | didn't re-offend).
I don't think the distinction between legislative and common law is really meaningful in this case. A judge making a decision in a case like this is bringing a new law into existence.

Suppose I the owner of a small retailer based out of Oregon but have a location in Ohio. Should I be exempt from collecting sales tax simply because my company is registered and HQ'd in Oregon? The previous ruling was no, Ohio has the right to require my company to collect sales tax for sales in Ohio, but the ruling required that my company have a physical presence in the state. All that happened today was that the requirement to be physically present was dropped.

I mean the law is fairly narrowly scoped and certainly doesn't give states a blank check to write laws for citizens of other states.
...4mph average speed for the transit option? How is that even possible? Walk 20min, bus 5 min, walk 20min? That's not really what I have in mind when I think mass transit in a city.

Not that 20 minutes to go 3 minutes in the evening by car would be that great either, of course
I completely agree and having your blood and stool checked by a doctor or a lab is certainly a good mitigating control, especially for people that have preexisting issues such as; but not limited to, kidney or liver diseases.
Not enough info to say.

Jira is extremely flexible, so it can be used well or poorly.

If this becomes a major issue for your company, it's probably a management issue and not a tooling issue.
I have, but... not anymore.
I thought it was reported that the actual affair occurred long ago well before he was the CEO but is only coming to light now.

This seems to be a way to oust him without having to admit that he wasn't doing a good job as CEO.
If this is true, why don't countries with universal healthcare have a proportionally larger/more active startup scene than the US? They don't, so that means, logically, healthcare isn't that important to a country's startup success.
Student loans are secured. They are secured to your future income, tax refunds, and social security. Only dischargeable in extreme hardship. They are basically the most secure debt in the country.
"...and some states will collect sales taxes for others as well."

I'm having a hard time coming up with an example where this makes any sense. Can you elaborate?
I'm confused. What's Nintendo's attitude? Not being successful in the market?

I get the whole 'dominant position' argument. It just seems dumb to me to behave like this when you're in a dominant position. Seems that big corporations learn the same lesson over and over again - in the meantime customers are left holding the bag.

BTW, full disclosure: I'm a Nintendo Switch fanboi, so take everything that comes out of my keyboard with a pinch of salt.
And they are first class citizen on UWP (aka WinRT), long before Electron was a thing.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj891058.aspx
There is a blind (since birth) painter who is considerably famous - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTDQcSS809c
I always find it funny when people say it's only 15USD when a wire transfer in Europe in free
No, there is no warning when you link your Epic account to your Sony account, as far as I know.

As for why accounts are linked to a console, linking your account means you can have the same friend list across platforms, which makes it easier to play with your friends no matter where you're playing. Also, and maybe more importantly, you have access to all of your cosmetics across platforms.
Cryptocurrency Mining Affects AMD Stock While Nvidia Overestimates GPU Demand
I think you are conflating several different types of liability here.

If: i)your accountant messes up due to negligence or worse, ii) you get audited, and iii) it turns out you owe far more than you thought, then you are liable to the Govt for the extra amount owed. The accountant may be liable to you for professional negligence, damages etc. Your damages against the accountant are not the extra amount owed (because it is what you should have paid in the first place), but losses caused by the mistake. In the above scenario, the Gov't may assess a "penalty" and/or "fee" for late payment of taxes, but those fees are usually waived and/or extremely nominal. In the above-scenario, criminal liability simply does not happen. The above is not legal advice.
Ah, brings back memories. Very nice.
I can speak for "data science" tutorials: there's A LOT of people saying you don't actually need to know the math!

Learning math makes you feel stupid.
I would not rule out 3D from processors yet. Such an invention would be able to reduce die size and likely cost. Heat density is probably the real problem and may need some additional inventions.

The 3D memories will probably see some planar (x-y) scaling, they just don't need all of their scaling from it. 3D scaling will still increase bits/die area, and thus reduce $/bit. If doubling the stacking height doubles capacity but adds 30% to wafer cost with extra processing steps, its still much more efficient than 100% cost for two wafers of the previous design.

Scaling efficiency shouldn't be too dissimilar from planar scaling, at least until the next wall is hit.
As a practical matter you cannot implement a localhost secure websocket. Essentially all of the methods for communicating between a web app and a native app are some kind of ugly hack and none are supported well enough that you can feel confident they'll stick around for any length of time in all the major browsers.
No, they are forced into being tax collection agents. But they aren’t being forced. They could just not sell to people in that state if they don’t like it.

For example, at my company, I won’t hire anyone from Kentucky because their employment costs are too high. It’s a choice I get to make. I limit my employee pool but I also avoid costs I don’t like.

Being based in California I can’t choose to follow California tax law or not, but I also get to vote here.
34 billion is less than 4,000$ per NYC resident. Considering we are talking about infrastructure it's what 15$ a month in interest? That's basically pocket change even excluding how many tourists and people commuting from outside NYC use the system.

So yea the system is poorly managed, but without it NYC would not function.
> The company managed to convince California Assemblyman Miguel Santiago to introduce a series of last-minute secretive Tuesday night amendments that were then voted on without debate during a Wednesday morning hearing...

How is this legal?
Why is this legal?
Average Division III teams used to beat pro chinese teams, but this was back in the 90s. They probably are better now.
They are not forcing the business to pay, they are forcing them to collect.
I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about more workers in other industries who are affected by this as the trend continues. I'm not a facebook engineer or somebody in the googleplex, but one of my major clients just switched over to a coworking space and is constantly shaving benefits and putting people into contractor positions which are more vulnerable. Nearly all of my colleagues in the same industry at different companies are going through the same.

If we let it slide for members of the middle class then it will eventually lead to an ever greater portion of the population unable to earn a dignified quality of life for their work.

Engineers, web developers, etc. are paid very well now, sure, but as more and more people enter that industry and those skills become more commonplace, do you really think things will remain that way? As more of the industry is able to be automated, do you think as many people will be able to stay in the middle class?

And when people in the middle class start accepting things like company housing, contractor jobs over salaried employment with benefits, longer working hours, etc. what do you think that will do for the lower classes of society? I think we're starting to see that now with pseudo-jobs like Favor and Uber, which have even less security than the service industry has traditionally had.

It's not just about facebook engineers or whatever, it's about society as a whole. The problems faced by society are largely the same, different only in degree; we shouldn't separate them up and devolve into infighting because these yuppies or whatever can afford something like the quality of life an average worker a couple generations ago could have, and that's considered fabulously well-off now. If industry starts treating middle-class people badly, they're treating lower-class people worse for the same reason. The whole scale slides.

A strong middle class with strong labor rights helps all of society. We can't do this crab bucket thing where we say it's foolish to defend people with some amount of privilege because there's people over there who are worse off--what is the ultimate end of that strategy, a search for the most downtrodden person on earth and delay all progress until we work our way up the list?
That's not a good argument for ugly and agitating.
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Does nobody care about specificity?
I would be so highly interested to know the internal YC discussion and analysis about two main points mentioned in that previous thread you discussed, specifically:

- moving away from open-plan offices to something that allows most works hours on most days to have a high degree of quiet & privacy

- addressing the many points about how start-up compensation, even when discounting equity risks for unsuccessful outcomes or low exits, is just not competitive, even though offsetting factors like working on interesting projects, flexible work/life policies, etc., are generally no worse in traditional corps than start-ups, and quite often much better.

Any concrete feedback about the analysis that came from these points would be fantastic.

I think it’s very exciting to hear that YC is directly discussing these things!
> If Linus had written the reworded email the author is proposing here, this author wouldn't be writing this blog post, and we wouldn't be clicking it on HN and reading the contents of Linus' points.

It is actually a positive rather than negative if author was not motivated to write his blog post by the Linus rant/abuse. It would have meant the Linus was able to get the message across with his abrasive style.
Sure, but in the mean time this trend is taking some of those buildings that are worth preserving and turning them into ones that aren't.
It doesn't really work very well together at all unless you're using Stripe Orders for physical products. You can't make the Stripe checkout.js show taxes, and it's just a big pain to integrate the API. There's a big opportunity for Stripe here to make it really simple, I would be happy to pay extra to have them completely deal with it.
"News headline claims Tesla whistleblower is saboteur." Runs both ways ...
> none of those are something a chrome dev rel person can help you with.

Chrome dev rel persons are Google employees. I've been surprised by how much can be fixed once somebody on the inside are aware of it.

Also it seems a lit of googlers hang around here so it might get picked up based on that too.

> People like you are the reason we have to deal with three layers of low-level tech support before we can actually talk to somebody who knows what they're doing -

Blame Google, not me. Where there is a bug tracker I often use it.

Unfortunately there isn't a public one for Search, Calendar etc.

When they choose to only engage on HN, and only with one guy from dev rel, that's where I'll post.
I had a G-Shock in high school and wore it while surfing all of the time. It was a fantastically durable watch.
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$100,000 in sales is a very low bar. That's equivalent to a business with a single employee, the owner, and they're probably not making a livable wage yet.
> ETF providers use indices to create a very simple to maintain trading strategy and investment vehicle for low management cost, but they do not create the indexes.

It's rumored that Vanguard 'bribed' CRSP to create its Total Market index (and etc for other funds) so that its licensing fees to MSCI / Dow Jones would be lower. So while it is true they do not maintain the indices, it is possible they have a heavy role in creating the indices.
What needs fixed is the doctor visit.

How much could be done with a minimally licensed person doing most of the basic stuff.

1. look,listen to eyes ears, throat, heart, lungs - digital camera tied to a special lenses, or audio recording device

2. strep test - seriously I watch the my doctor swap my throat and put it in a little tub and shake.

3. taking blood - why do I need a doctor visit.

A lot of that could be charged a lot cheaper. And free up doctors, nurses for other tasks.
Work ethic is still the determining factor. Some people are better suited to institutional learning like some people need "fat camp" because they can't discipline themselves to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
My advice to young folks - education has INCREDIBLE value, but err towards buying low. It's a racket industry and you must navigate the options to find best long-term value for the money you spend, including having a strategy for how the investment will pay for itself. Even kids who know they have the entrepreneur bug can benefit from the creds of a formal education. Just be smart about it.
What's true intelligence?
>"could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"

This deeply irritates me also, but we should not see it as important here, surely?
I think you're underestimating the popularity of Minecraft and Fortnite. There are absolutely people out there who only play Fortnite and nothing else. But you are right in that the Switch doesn't compete with the XBoX the same way the PS4 does (Nintendo consoles always played by their own rules). But Microsoft has already said that they'd be fine with crossplay with PS4, it's Sony holding up the line. Epic already accidentally (or so they say) enabled XBoX and PS4 crossplay once before for a short amount of time [1], so the work is already done, too.

[1] https://kotaku.com/epic-accidentally-allows-xbox-and-ps4-cro...
Aesthetically, people love old buildings. However, people also love modern building code that keeps us safe in things like earthquakes.

Also, preservation laws are wild [1]. If you own an old building, you usually have to agree to the preservation laws that came with it. They usually state you can't mess much with the exterior, but go nuts on in the inside.

In face of all these barriers, facadism is the loophole.

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/hpg/
Warren bet that the S&P 500 would out perform a managed Hedge Fund.
This reminds me of the Potempkin Village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Yes, I believe the term for this is "use tax".
They are not participating in the study though, at least not the regulated portion of the trial.

The rule prevents negative outcomes for risky non-qualified patients from harming the trial, but the converse is also true. Positive outcomes for patients outside the regulated trial will not help gain approval at Phase II or Phase III.

On a board like hn, there's a tendency to look at all data as useful data, but this isn't true in the case of a clinical trial.

On further thinking, I'm not even sure what happens in the case of a patient receiving a pre-approval drug outside of the trial. Handling their data would likely need to meet the same standards required in trial (consent tracking, electronic signatures, etc) without any of the machinery of the trial to help. It could well be the case that nothing is collected if the cost to keep it and use it are too high.
That's because they don't count martial arts.

They claim it's an "amateur" sport in china. Which is just this side of ridiculous.

Even basketball is growing faster than football in China. This despite the government propping football up. Which is not an indictment of the Chinese, just pointing out that the people there, left to their own devices, would just as soon do something other than play football.
More like there was a huge trash problem and they don't want it anymore... how is them handing the world a problem when the root cause of the problem is unsustainable packaging and recyclables?
Sure. New York and New Jersey collect sales taxes for each other as an example.

http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/pdf/pubs/sales/prio...

It’s a big deal for cars — without this people in NYC metro would have a hard time otherwise.
well thanks for doing your best to ensure they stop engaging on HN, i guess...
One could make a case that an employee in a relationship with a senior manager puts them in a position where they could receive preferential treatment, while the employee’s peers may not, even if they are more skilled/experienced/credentialed/etc.

Given that the other employees did not seek out or allow relationships with managers, their relative disadvantage can be seen as a sort of inverse sexual harassment, as they may see themselves having to put themselves in a sexual situation for the sake of career advancement, even if it’s not explicitly stated by anyone in higher management.

I think that in this case #metoo applies, since the subject is a matter of sexuality and power imbalances, although the content is far, far removed from the Weinstein scandal.
Fi is largely predicated on saving you money as long as you're near accessible wifi, right? I have concerns about switching it and using it when I'm away from a connection.
>There are countries where you can see buildings from 100 and 200 and 500 even years ago, not just the exceptional ones, but rows and rows of them (e.g. the whole historical center of several European cities left mostly intact). And they still come across better than very expensive buildings by famous architects done in the same premium areas.

Most buildings that old were consistently renovated, updated, and added onto over that time, so what we get of them in the modern day is a sort of agglomeration of many periods' styles and sensibilities rather than whatever fad happened to be cool in the decade they were built.

I think one of the reasons modernist and postmodernist architectural styles tend to not age as well is because we just don't let buildings to do that anymore. It's almost always easier to tear something down and rebuild it anew so, that Burkean sense of letting the slow evolution of norms and taste build something up doesn't happen. We just get stuff that's pickled in its time.
I'm skeptical of the quality of machine-generated news, but the sentiment is still chilling. I think this quote from the article is relavent:

> “News agencies have a huge, huge role setting the tone of the conversation, much, much more than we give them credit for.” (Emphasis theirs)

So much of the global conversation is dominated by a few players, and if any one entity gets the leg up, that's a significant imbalance. This doesn't bode well if the dominant player is a state-run propaganda distributor (I'm aware of the problems that American news outlets have, but this is a whole different ballgame in terms of biased reporting). Even if Xinhua dominance doesn't affect the coverage Americans see, countries with smaller reporting capacities probably won't be so lucky.
300,000 GPU dies is maybe 30M worth of inventory to NVIDIA especially considering that if these were "mining" cards those were likely GP104 or even 106's which are worth less than $100 per die.

NVIDIA made a $3.2bln in revenue in the last quarter with gaming accounting for more than half of that so do the math just how many GPUs they actually sell.

Short sellers are becoming really desperate.
You can't receive texts from other Twilio numbers

That seems like it would be the easiest thing for them to get working out of all the wireless stuff, did you report that issue to them?
I would also like to echo this question, always interested in what people listen to while working.
In the U.S. this is how employees work as well -- they can leave a company for any reason at any time. Conversely, employers can dismiss at employee for any reason and at any time as long as it's not illegal.
That's exactly what this is.
> "Future generations will laugh in horror and derision..."

Is there anything in the past that we laugh at in horror and derision? Future generations will probably understand why we did it, or just tear it down. There is not much reason to mock the architects.