skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points:

1) If you keep it under your mattress it will be much less than what I described, because every year your nest egg will shrink due to inflation, so you'll just be able to take $25k non-inflation adjusted, which is a big difference from my $25k inflation adjusted (in 60 years, $25k will be $150k at a 3% inflation). My assumption is 0% real growth, not 0% nominal growth, which is what you'd get by keeping it under the mattress.

2) The 4% rule is based on a shorter retirement interval (30 years) than what I'm looking for (60 years). Try to go on firecalc.com and look for the statistical odds of 1M giving you 50k/y for 60 years: the failure rate is higher than the success rate, and that's based on historical data.

3) Yes, my assumptions are very conservative, but I don't believe index funds will return 7% nominal over the next few decades, the world is going to face too many problems in my opinion. That being said, pretty much all I have is invested in index funds despite my opinions (mainly because I wouldn't know where else to invest it, since both cash and bonds are sure losers to inflation), so in the best case I'll be pleasantly surprised.
>At a certain point, we'll have to resolve this societal cognitive dissonance. //

It appears that the majority of the World, setting aside the question of the the truth of the notion for now, believes that this is entirely solved as the child has a soul and the pig does not?

So, for most there is no dissonance?
> They need to know where you were in order to charge you properly.

Not sure why that would be true. Perhaps it can help them a tiny bit, but not worth my privacy.
> But I don't believe that empathy requires ... putting of oneself in another's shoes...

put oneself in another's shoes is basically a definition of empathy...
The entire partnership is incredible and does a huge amount of valuable work, and startup advising, that they don't get nearly enough credit for.

I'll still be involved (and will ensure we continue to take risks and grow!), and obviously Michael is amazing.
There's a reason we call it beef and not cow. There's a reason we generally don't serve food in a form that still looks like the animal (most common exception being fish, which people are less likely to see as an emotional being). Meat is delicious and nutritious, and it's easy to avoid thinking about what goes on in the feedlot or the slaughterhouse, so the cognitive dissonance is easy. This is one reason videos exposing inhumane practices are so powerful, even to people who already knew such conditions exist.

How about animals we eat that are treated well? If a cow lives a happy life, is slaughtered as humanely as possible, and wouldn't have existed if not for our demand for meat, does that make that meat ethical? Maybe even more ethical than not eating it? (Of course this is an incomplete picture if you want to consider externalities such as cow farts contributing to climate change.)
Cryptocurrencies will replace cash and eventually most of our financial system. But it won't be Bitcoin. Bitcoin has massive uncertainties in its security model (https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-security-a-negative-exp...). Ethereum has a much greater chance of winning.
Your point is good of course, but I think the question has already been answered in society. If you aren't explicitly allowed into someone else's property, you aren't allowed.
This is mentioned in this article, as the design used in Phoenix came from Riak.
Video of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule returning to Earth is pretty stunning
The problem is that those who defend Amazon will continue claiming it "isn't a monopoly" as long as there's so much as a single person selling 5 widgets per year on the internet, reducing Amazon's market share to only 99.9999999999999%.

"See, they still have competition!"
It’s funny that Clojure is not even on this list. Is it completely off employers’ radars? I have Clojure experience but I am finding that libraries and projects are getting abandoned by the dev community, so maybe nobody even cares about it any more?
Would anything meaningfully change if React was a paid product?
Conversely, bulk buying saves money -- you buy toilet paper and paper towels in bulk, buy a bag of 20 lbs of rice instead of 2 lbs at a time, etc.

So it probably depends on the individual's financial situation and where a car ride falls in terms of buying bulk vs incrementally.

A lot of the expense about physical servers is also the maintenance and having employees' time to manage them. A car requires some maintenance but arguably less so than that, so perhaps not the closest comparison.
They are unlikely to do this at this point.

The big problem is that while the capsule will be reusable, since NASA killed the propulsive landing for Dragon 2, it now needs to splash down in saltwater and therefore is not considered safe for humans after the first use.

This makes Dragon 2:s too expensive for large-scale space tourism. Unless there is suddenly a huge market for this, I think SpaceX would prefer to sell interested space tourism customers flights on Starship instead.
> what is a good way to generate a long sequence of reasonably random coin flips in one's head?

I tried the modulo 2 length of the words in the text on the site.

This was effective enough; at the end of three paragraphs the guesser had 50% correct and I had a positive balance. It's also pretty broadly applicable, there's a lot of texts in the world one could choose to use (anyone with a nearby bookshelf or internet connection is set, anyone who can memorize song lyrics, bible passages, poetry, etc doesn't even need that).

There's a reasonable question of whether this distribution is itself biased. If you take one list of the 500 most common English words (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qh3MvdKLfTadXWZMIsaq... ), it turns out that there are 278 with an even length and 222 odd, so that's an indication there may be an exploitable bias. There's also the question of whether relevant N-gram patterns confound that beyond recognition ... or add another layer of predictability.

But then again, there's such a wide variability in potential text choices and the function is so lossy (while being simple enough that most anyone could use it) that it seems like it's a pretty good choice for generating difficult to predict coin flip sequences.
I agree it is quite worthwhile. However, it will take longer than expected for a new person, and most of have obligations.
We're nearly always worried that we're past our prime, which is part of what drives us to try new things.

Rather than become more risk averse, I've actually seen us take increasingly large risks in the five years since I've joined. A few examples: investing in a greater number of sectors, investing in new markets, investing in different stages, advising thousands of companies (startup school), challenging the norms of fundraising (series A program)...The list keeps going.
How have you solved it? If you really have, then you're in a position to clean up, since nobody else has managed to crack that nut.

Your mention of "gdpr anonymous" doesn't really give much reassurance, as you can be GDPR compliant but still expose your users to de-anonymization.
Given the rest of the threads, why do you think he shouldn't? Do you think a bear shouldn't eat salmon?
One could have made the same observation when Paul and Jessica stepped aside. But instead of flattening or falling, YC bloomed to new heights. As long as the folks who take over are as capable and motivated I think it will keep getting better.

As for the comments about the partner ages, I don't think that's true because they keep brining on partners. Also, I'd say they had the opposite problem before: to many young partners who were only enamored with new stuff and not interested in "boring old things".

As to the risk averseness, that one I agree with you on. I get the impression that they have so much data now that they rely more on the data than on intuition which of course probably gives them better consistent smaller returns but might mean they are missing out on the next AirBnB or Dropbox.
I wonder how often this would need to be physically replaced/maintained. And for that matter what size is required - would this work for unpowered earplugs / would it be better than conventional foam earplugs?
Now we just need to hook this to the cloud so I can save the state of any puzzle, and add new puzzles to my personal puzzle repo easier.
> It's very common to think about computer security primarily in terms of fixing vulnerabilities. In reality, security teams spend a lot of their time on a different goal: making bugs hard to exploit. This often takes the form of lowering privileges and introducing exploit mitigations. Windows 10 has a lot of investment in those areas, whereas Windows 7 doesn't contain any of the improvements made in the last several years. That's why even though Windows 7 continues to receive security bug fixes from Microsoft, it is considerably less safe to use.

I mean...
> It is an emotional reaction, like rage at a perceived slight, and does not require thought.

Of course, we can't know this.

It seems reasonable to speculate that other animals don't subvocalise in human languages,[1] though that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't capable of thought.[2]

1. It also seems reasonable to me to believe that dogs (some dogs?) might be capable of understanding some human language beyond simple commands. I typically have more luck with my two 2yo Border Collie cross if I explain to them why we're doing a new thing. More research is needed. Please deposit funds in my offshore bank account.

2. We could debate what is meant by thought, I believe that would be a distraction
In the US yes, but the US companies would be at a disadvantage to their foreign conglomerate counterparts in foreign markets.
Yea I can’t believe this whole comment thread either... I’ve only been visiting in Austin but I’m from Madrid, Spain, widely considered a warm or at least temperate city, and Austin is like +5C on average every month... we’re talking about it being “cold”?
How big is low latency issue for you? What happens if it's more than 100ms? Also we do offer our software to be deployed in your kubernetes couster via helm.
Interviewing in NYC has much less to do with testing the waters for a new location than simplifying the application process for a greater number of good founders.
> emotions are subconscious predictions produced by the brain

Thank you for sharing. Such an interesting thought.
At sufficient speed too. A build on our build farm takes 2 hours, my local mac does it in 50 minutes.
There's Something Weird Going on with Cars' GPS Systems at the Geneva Motor Show
I haven’t tried Houston, but it looks ok for such a sprawled Texas city. DFW’s is a joke. That area lives and dies by the very Texan belief that you should get where you are going in your own truck by yourself while sipping a beer and also the poor are poor because they are lazy.
Microsoft Confirms Skype for Web Does Not Work in Safari, Firefox, and Opera
Facebook Places is good, but don't be any more reliant on it than Foursquare - they deprecate APIs without warning too. I run a local news site and made heavy use of their Events API (public events indexable by Google and visible without signing in to Facebook available to anyone with a browser even today) until they unceremoniously ripped it away without providing any advance notification, a deprecation warning, or even any reason as to why it's gone.

I still use the Facebook Places API but I have no doubt it too will disappear without any warning.
We're still experimenting with our ad strategy, but one of our target markets are previous employees of companies who have used to have a go link system. It just happen to spread to current employees that use a go link system, probably through word of mouth.
A fun fact related to the subject: experiments have shown that dogs will actively try to make eye contact with humans to get help with a difficult task, while wolves will ignore nearby humans.
Where exactly does Uber get the cars for this? Are they just going to maintain all of this, then they're literally a robot taxi company and I have no idea why that is so much more lucrative than being a human taxi company, especially given that urban traffic is probably not going to be fully autonomous for a long, long time.

what stops anybody from spinning up a p2p solution for car sharing that cuts out Uber?
If you are interested, "The New Science of Consciousness" [1] is a solid read (it can get a little tedious in parts though) about the "easy" and "hard" problem of consciousness.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/New-Science-Consciousness-Exploring-C...
I don’t think it necessitates pansychism. You can still think of consciousness as a by product of a specific configuration, or just sufficient quantity of neurons or whatever.

However it emerges remains a mystery, but it’s possible that some configuration of them does not produce the consciousness affect.

For example, a million neurons is not enough to turn the lights on, but X amount is.
Maybe if you're out driving on a salt lake bed with no other vehicles or structures around.
This. Maybe the AI needs to know somehow that it's the same image it saw a few seconds ago, but now presented at a different angle or the AI itself should look at an image at different angles, just to be sure, that is how humans sometimes look at pictures if they are confused. Something to contextualize every image wrt to what it recently saw and make the current decision a little less overconfident.
I have limited mediation experience, so I don't claim to be definitive at all, but I'd equate the feeling to asking "what if..." and never finishing the question...indeed, getting COMFORTABLE with never finishing the question, but the question is there. Or maybe you're trying to be aware without asking the question, and I'm still terrible at it.

Definitely an aspect I'll consider more of. Thanks for the thought!
> I'd like to say this is just politics but I'm not even sure it's good politics. How many people are really concerned about the size of Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc

Oh, lots and lots.

> If people are that concerned, why do so many people I know have Prime?

The reason so many of the people you know have Prime is because of Amazon's dominant market position.

> The fossil fuel industry continues to run rampant. As does the Military Industrial Complex. The former is a key player in the degradation of the planet; the latter is a money sucking Hover that is sucking the life out of infrastructure, education, etc.

> The environment and peace are much bigger issues than taking down and busting up the tech giants.

Good points, but can we not do all three of these things? (1) Shrink the Defense budget and (2) Invest in renewables including nuclear tech, (3) Tackle Facebook and Google's dominance of net advertising and search and social media and Amazon's of e-commerce and so on …

> Editorial: I want to like Liz Warren. I can related to some of her ideals. Unfortunately, as a politician she too often comes off as inexperienced, out of touch and/or naive. This is another one of those times.

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“Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and academic serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013. Warren was formerly a prominent scholar specializing in bankruptcy law. A noted progressive leader, Warren has focused on consumer protection, economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Some commentators describe her position as left-wing populism.[2][3][4]

Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School. She taught law at several universities, including the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University.

Warren's initial foray into public policy began in 1995 when she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals. Her profile rose due to her forceful stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and was instrumental in the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for which she served as the first Special Advisor.”
>because humans have higher abstract intelligence/thinking capabilities, they should obviously be less emotional than animals? //

I'd imagine that the thinking goes that emotion requires self-reflection. Being depressed isn't really a thing if I don't even realise it's me that is depressed because I have no conception of self.

If there is no higher function that can decide to suffer pains then pain is irrelevant, reaction is not emotion.
This is a great example of why it's irritating when people suggest antifeatures like telemetry or cumulative updates justify using old obsolete operating systems.

I'm sorry you find it irritating. The fact remains that we have experienced far more downtime due to Microsoft than due to malicious attackers, consistently, over many years now. Moreover, the only actual data loss we have experienced was also due to Microsoft, and the only attempted data exfiltration that we have detected has been due to software telemetry, with by far the worst offender being Microsoft.

Microsoft's behaviour in trying to promote an OS that forces updates even if they are broken, forces reboots even if you're in the middle of a long job, and requires uploading any sort of data of any kind to Microsoft without your meaningful consent is literally indistinguishable from malware. On an objective risk analysis, based on consistent patterns of actual behaviour over an extended period and known information about the behaviour of and intent behind Windows 10, I'll take my ten-year-old OS (where, by the way, we still have the option to not install either telemetry or non-security updates) over your antifeature-laden junk any day.

If you think I'm being unreasonable here, ask yourself why Windows 10 Enterprise doesn't require any of those antifeatures to be used.
I have a former manager who is in his 50s. As soon as his kids graduated he self demoted to a full stack developer working with React/C# and Azure.

I have another friend in his 40s who took a job that let him work from home who is in his 40s and it pays less than he was making when we were working together.
I regret trying to give you advice. You have clearly planned your life much better than I have. :)
No, the reason OP made that comment is because duckduckgo uses Bing by default to power its search. So duckduckgo is literally just Bing with a duck taped over it basically.
I would just like to point out that many people who have been incarcerated have little chance to build a career outside of starting their own businesses. Once they get out of jail they would actually be unemployed most likely for some time if it wasn’t for sheer necessity of some paycheck. Often people would rather stay incarcerated for 3 meals, a bed, a roof, and basic medical care.
Yeah, someone's word seems to count a bit more in smaller towns from my own experience too. I grew up in nothern GA and between the methheads and bill o'reilly fans, there's a lot of goodhearted, honest people there with old-school values. If you break down on the side of the road, you'll certainly have a couple people stop to help you in a bit. I never got that in LA. I have done my part though. :)
I took it to mean it seems self evident that other animals don't have a x-thousand year history of oral and written ponderings of the mind.

I don't necessarily hold that belief, who knows what the birds and dolphins are jabbering on about.
Well, among omnivore animals it is certainly true that some individual animals would fit the literal definition of vegan. You probably wouldn't ever know about it unless it lived in a zoo, however.
Don't you also get predictive variable and function names? Types? Control structures? enumerations?

The space is much more limited so you should never need to type more than a few characters once you've written something once.
Happy Women's Day to all the women Shine on – Not just today but everyday
I put almost zero faith in Bay Area governments fixing the mess that is Bart/Caltrain/etc.
Percolation theory [1] is touched on in 3-4 pages in The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [2] as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eerie_Silence
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory
I added SSH agent on ChromeOS support to my CAC/PIV middleware (which supports many platforms), but I have not yet released it. Is anyone interested in testing it out ?

https://cackey.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact?ln=on&name=f9156a5...
Even with the built-in aliases?
> how random is the parity distribution of digits in pi? If the answer is "perfectly random"

Nobody knows! Everyone in math is sure that it is, but nobody had found a proof yet. (It may be false...) An extension to this question is if pi is a "normal number". More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html
You can't "fall" for a metabolic state. While there are plenty of people pushing faux keto diets as a means to sell you something you don't need, putting yourself into a metabolic state is a biological reality.
They (Uber and Lyft) radically reduce drunk driving in every city they enter. They also radically simplify access to transportation for people of color, women, etc.
Yeah—Ford overstates it for my taste but I think the key realization is that if there's no inflection point at which the magic thing that is "consciousness" arises, our intuitive conception of consciousness-as-such is wrong in a deep way.

What I take out of this is not that consciousness doesn't exist, but that generally when people use the word "consciousness", the thing they think they're referring to doesn't exist in nearly as substantial a way as they think it does.

We talk about ourselves as special and animals as fancy pattern matchers because we can't intuitively accept that consciousness isn't a binary phenomenon. If we accept that it's an emergent phenomenon with no clear boundary, there are only two possible conclusions:

* Panpsychism or dual-aspect monism, where matter is imbued with proto-consciousness; or

* "Illusionism" is maybe the best descriptor? Where consciousness exists but not in the way we think it does.
Was this up for debate? My understanding was always emotion is just animal survival instinct kicking in. The BIOS. The dumb part of your brain the should fight to override.
It's also worth noting that recent python versions have added tremendous quality of life improvements. If you haven't kept up with the language, then the code you're writing may still run, but it's not "pythonic" anymore.
Maybe, but for example the value of the diapers and wipes isn't during transit, it's while I'm at my destination and have an emergency to respond to. Same with the change of clothes and the towels. The car would have to be waiting for me the whole time, or there would have to be a service that could bring me those things in a couple minutes.
The general thrust of this thread is that there is no advantage in hiring an experienced developer over a younger one.

You might be getting a mid-six-figure salary in your first job, but you probably ought to be socking it away because you can't expect raises.
> How in the world could they give each driver a meaningful share of options while also maintaining a controlling interest in the company?

Not commenting on the practicality, but when choosing between traditionally cab companies, I preferentially go with ones that are driver/employee owned.
That's exactly what I've said about three days before handing in my two weeks notice in the past ;)