skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of financial modeling is mostly in being able to run various scenarios quickly, not in the final report. You can plug in different assumptions for development velocity, labor costs, market segmentation, sales conversion rate, cost of inputs, financing sources, etc. and then see what their effect on the bottom line (= net income) is, along with other metrics like burn rate, IRR, etc. Then you use your domain knowledge to judge how likely all these scenarios are, giving you a much more complete picture than if you aren't conversant with these financial tools.

But yes, you can learn all of this from books & the Internet, you don't need an MBA for it.
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Indeed, I think they would be entirely appropriate for the specific case of Black Mirror -- and even more appropriate if they sort of suck, since Black Mirror is all about the unintended and depressing consequences of the abuse of technology.

For the general case of TV shows, I'm against multiple choice endings.
I manage our devices at work but not my personal devices.

If you have a lot of devices (think 10+) I guess it could be useful to keep them aligned. It could also be useful as training on how to centrally manage devices.

But I would not recommend using a MDM unless you have a specific reason. Personal devices that you have physical control over are easy to manage locally on the device. Adding a MDM also adds another attack vector, if the MDM is compromised all your devices are at risk.
1. Cost to produce devices
2. Assumes perfect processing rate
3. That seems like quite a lot of air. For reference, a 52 in ceiling fan does 2.8 , and you're talking about pushing air through some type of filter probably
Yeah, it's hard not to think that basically rebuilding the entire phone system would be a massive case of fighting the last war. People won't stop needing the phone system entirely but it becomes a piece of quirky legacy technology.

And probably just have to live with the fact that there will be situations where people are harder to reach quickly than they are today.
That sounds like an awesome project.
Having the top-comment doesn't lie, THE PEOPLE ARE WITH ME!

Also, is there a badge or sash I can get somewhere saying "Not a Real C Programmer"?
Great, so awesome to see the AV1 ecosystem grow like that. This will make the end of the old patent mafia.

One thing I would like to see is that this runs on RISC-V. Both are very important new open technologies and it would be great to see it run on that officially.
I think you meant "underestimate".
It would nice too if the user was put first and foremost and the user had to give each fine-grained permission approval before it could be used for the first time. And if the user denied any of those permissions the app would continue to function, (either because it's a requirement for being listed in the store, and/or because the framework sends randomized data to the app on the users behalf).
I think you read it correctly. As described in the post, it's a "technical test", not a product.

The gap between a "test" and a product is huge. I don't think it's wise to dump resources into building a product based on unproven technology.
Yes

And GEB's explanation of it is more complete/exact than the one in the article.

It is also amazingly mind-twisting. Not the explanation per se, but the theorem.

And I think its consequences are under appreciated: no (sufficiently complex) logical system is free from self-contradictions.
You seem to be starting from the assumption that the former is obvious and proven, and the latter is OK. Both assumptions seem wrong to me.

1) I don't believe gender imbalances today are due to past prejudices in past eras. Many other people don't either. There's overwhelming evidence that gender disparities have other explanations.

2) Well run governments don't rack up huge debts. The ones that are doing, like the USA, need more fiscally conservative governments to get it under control, although nobody in America seems to care much about the deficit or getting it under control. This is not true of every country however.
> Until the IRS makes the truly wealthy pay their fair share, not their legal share, they will find themselves in a position lacking moral authority.

This isn't the IRS's job. This isn't within their authority. Under these conditions, the IRS can't ever be in a position of moral authority.

Is it possible that you may be blaming the IRS when blame might be better apportioned elsewhere?
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> And this is a dream when it comes to modelling business logic, because it gives a common "mental space" so to speak to code that would have been spread throughout the codebase otherwise.

To wander down further tangential space, I did briefly wonder at a past job if I7 would have been a good fit for the basis of a business rule engine. At the time the answer was "absolutely not" because there was no way to embed the language, or a subset of it, in another platform and bend some of the IF domain assumptions.

Some of the work in modularizing the tools in the last couple of years seems to head in the direction that it is close to getting technically possible. There's still the problem that I7 is still not "perfect" for non-technical users (rules list oddities like indents and semicolon punctuation) and more importantly that performance guarantees with the I7 rule engine are hard.

I7 itself can work around the performance issues because it typically has complete knowledge of the domain world model at compile time and can memoize a lot of things at compile time and/or shortcut them at run time. If you were to try to build a business rules engine based on I7 you'd have a lot of fun trying to remove all the potential footguns that start to resemble the classic "paradox rules" to take down the system just like every other Shatner-era Star Trek episode.
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obligatory "I am a Strange Loop" reference here for anyone who wants a more polished introduction into the topic from many years later. He wrote GEB when still very young and had time to refine his points in this later book.
Thanks!

Not yet, but I am tracking this as a desired feature: https://github.com/anp/lolbench/issues/9. The benchmark plan generation, storage keys, and results presentation will at a minimum need to be extended to support a matrix of inputs to each benchmark function. Right now there are a number of implicit assumptions that each benchmark function is tracked as a single series of results.
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Roads are federally funded from the general fund as well as from the insufficient gas tax.

Entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are funded mostly through individual line items, and slightly through indirect means, such as interest paid to the programs by their bond holdings.

Income taxes fund so much. You can't say it "funds only ..." because it funds almost everything. Sometimes directly, such as the military, but often times, it's indirect, such as college professors who receive grants from the NSF.
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I don't see problems here. It's a tech pilot, not a product. The goal is to prove it viable, maybe the team size is even small. Spending much time on browser compability too early may not be that wise if they just need hundreds or thousands of testers.
VideoLAN has several projects, including VLC. But many people confuses both, so they are both listed.
PlayStation Now is interesting, mostly because Sony has a pretty great exclusive game library.
It's not that difficult to make MacOS run on selected non-Apple hardware or in VMs for people outside Apple, so it likely has next to no cost for Apple.
> OnLive is in the process of liquidating its remaining assets

it is not on liquidating (at least not yet)
The reasons are mixed. In some cases, it's a shift in entry requirements. One institution's admissions standards is another institution's market opportunity. Which is partially a regional thing, due to the sickening willingness of unsustainable institutional growth on the back of ever increasing amounts of student loan debt (which has special status in the US that makes it both incredibly easy to qualify for and almost impossible to ever discharge via bankruptcy).

But a more globally-applicable path is sideloading into an MBA. Many institutions offer "dual degree programs", where you get an MS in Finance or Management or what have you. And because the requirements overlap so heavily with an MBA, for an additional semester or two of classes you can get an MBA as well. So you get in for just the MS, then after you start you switch to the dual degree track. By that point you're already past the general qualifications, already within the graduate school, and already a student. It's mostly an administrative change internally, and as long as your faculty like you it's pretty easy for them to push through.
I see. Due to budget cuts, tax office ran out of tax enforcers.
That's a silly dispute. Any change in access and any change to a coastal property has to be approved by the Coastal Commission under California Law. And under California Law, the Coastal Commission is required to force the land-owner to provide beach access in order to gain permission for a change.

While at first glance that may seem unlawful, it has been thoroughly tested in the Courts. This is not an unusual occurrence; everywhere along the California coast you will find land and businesses who provide coastal access as a routine matter.

I assume Khosla has competent legal counsel who would have told him all this before he bought the property.
The content of an MBA program is probably useful. The problem is that it became associated with an easy path to a high-earning credential, so it self-selected for people who expect to earn a high wage, who want graduate education to be as easy as possible, and who want credential and status to be the main ways of getting money (instead of, say, working hard to have a skill).

The light got shined on this type of program, these credential-seeking roaches scattered, and now they’ll go ruin some other perfectly reasonable academic discipline, most probably data science.

I don’t blame the roaches. I guess I blame idiots who buy knowledge products based on credential, and thus either employ these credential roaches at high wages, or else generate the demand that makes it profitable for other consulting / white-shoe sorts of businesses to employ the roaches.
> Nice try, officer, people advocating against privacy and Internet freedom always use child protection

Oh get off your goddamn high-horse already:

1. I explicitly told you it was reductio ad absurdum.

2. I lampshaded it with a silly "crate with air-holes."

3. I outright told you to pick some other scenario if you wished in the final paragraph.

> if they actually find letters there it's not Ok to read them

Hey, didn't you read the final sentence of my post? This isn't actually about giant crates with air-holes, you know. It's about the problems of asserting an utterly inviolable right which is also fundamentally impossible to validate.

Let me put it this way: Your search warrant is to check the premises for threatened blackmail photos, the stolen military bomb plans, and illicit cash payoffs. The letter-envelope is noticeably thicker than normal and crinkles.

What happens?
> this sort of thing was historically confined to the elites, and now it's slowly creeping its way down middle class

I'm not sure that's true. I don't see much ongoing march towards giving most people more free time. Inequality is generally _growing_, not shrinking. There is no ongoing march of history, just humans in political struggle for how resources are distributed.
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We tried a variety of resources. For example this - https://betalist.com/

We were listed here before even had a product. Collected mailing list. After public release, this service brought us about (I don't remember exactly) 700 or 900 signups.

Try to spend a few hundred or thousands $$ on Google ads and add Intercom or Drift on your landing. Try to chat with visitors. I think you'll get some insight.

Be sure to read reviews about existing products on the market. What pros and cons their users write (Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustPilot, TrustRadius).
What I'm claiming is that excessive enforcement isn't worth the effects that come from it. The "bit of fear" you cite doesn't require extreme enforcement, only a certain amount, so that anyone breaking the rules knows they're gambling the odds and might get caught.
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Whether the motivation for their behavior is because of a promotion-based incentive structure or some sort of deep 3d chess corporate strategy, neither makes me excited to use their products when released. Fool me once...

I'll wait until my mom tells me about it.
I contacted Wells Fargo because their survey emails come from a third party email address and link to a different third party site. I was very specific in my feedback that I thought the survey was legitimate but that they shouldn't habituate their customers to entering even general data on unaffiliated sites. They called me and I reiterated the above and even got a fancy case number. After a month I got a voicemail that they completed their investigation and the survey was non-fraudulent... Hooray.
Totally valid criticisms
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its really not as hard as one might think. not easy, but php can handle it just as well as any other language, is my point.
I've had really random declines from time to time for no apparent reason--sometimes for very small amounts. I make a point these days of having backup cards across multiple networks (i.e. both Visa and Mastercard).

Also spare ID and cash. The one time I broke this last rule on a trip I was nearly really screwed. (I lost my license and the hotel didn't want to let me check in. They only relented when I showed other ID and was able to make a just large enough withdrawal from an ATM and pay cash.)
If the implementation of voice calls over the traditional networks do not improve (as you suggest, via improvements and regulations), then people will route around it. My kids only call me via FaceTime ... and the only way they communicate with their friends with voice is either facetime, or by sending videos of them talking over snapchat.

Obviously, my kids (and their friends/school) are only one data point ... but yeah, for them, it's already dead.
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You haven't so much answered my question as talked around it. Plenty of people disagree just as strongly or more strongly with the decisions their forebears made with the national debt as you do about the "overwhelmingly evidence" you claim to have about the cause of gender disparities. Are taxes that repay those debts a form of "blood corruption"?
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I'm sorry but this joke is getting really old.

HN loves to point fingers when company stands still. Heck, we made a teaching moment out of Kodak and others who failed to innovate and relied too much on their cashcows.

On the other hand, we proclaim nice-sounding ideas such as being aware of sunk cost fallacy and how everybody should say no more. We talk about being data-driven and dont go by what gut says. Beware of the vocal minority. Dont be afraid to pivot or let go. We tell others dont wait for your products to be perfect to launch. Get it out there, test the market and iterate.

HN has their biases (I can build that in a weekend!) but the recent discourse of "OMG! they are going to desecrate it" is very silly.
Each benchmark result is only compared against values from running on literally the same machine, actually. I agree that good results here would be extremely difficult to produce on virtualized infra, so I rented a few cheap dedicated servers from Hetzner. I'm glad that I decided to pin results to a single machine, because even between these identically binned machines from Hetzner I saw 2-4% variance between them when I ran some phoronix benches to compare.

I go into a little bit of detail on this in the talk I link to towards the bottom of the post, here's a direct link for convenience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFTbJKScU0.
Another rent-seeking opportunity on subscriptions that would allow AAA games on underpowered Chromebooks?
JavaScript Is ambiguous these days. How much percentage of the JavaScript popularity is from the backend language Nodejs and how much of it from the client side(html, react, angular, etc)?
Discussion of part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109182
Rule one (1) for voting machines should be something along the lines of making examples available for testing to all main political parties; and at cost price to all people who are electoral candidates.

The parties then can have them analysed and choose whether to use them or not, perhaps something like all those with more than 10% of the vote previously could decide whether to use machines or human counting; full consensus required.

Rule two (2) should be something along the lines of all votes requiring an agreed sampling to be counted via alternative methods.

You could even have a sample of electoral wards not use the machines at all - that would suggest irregularities if there was tampering, as the hand [machine] counted wards would have different voting preferences to the others.
Not at first. The real benefit to non-technical users will come once Google starts using this system to pressure extension developers to migrate to newer APIs with more limited permissions.

Right now, as you say, only power users will use this feature. But once suitable alternative permissions are available for the more common use cases, Google will start to transition to "When you click the extension" as the default setting, which will put pressure on affected extension developers to migrate to the new permissions systems to avoid unnecessary friction for their users.
If they make it work, Chromebooks just magically turned into gaming machines.
I wish I remembered it! It's something I've read as a kid, and for the life of me I can't remember either the title or the author, or even most of the plot; just the setting.