skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the more abstract philosophical meanings of freedom and liberty:

> the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views

> the absence of arbitrary restraints, taking into account the rights of all involved

> to be free is to be self-determining, autonomous

And the more concrete applicability is that of:

> "giving oneself their own laws", and with having rights and the civil liberties with which to exercise them without undue interference by the state

Fundamentally, it is the idea of rights. Things that you are allowed, and that no one can take away from you, even if democratically ruled against by the majority. Such as: the freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, the right to security and liberty, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to equal treatment under the law and due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to life.

Democracy in that system isn't supposed to supersede liberty and freedom. What happens is that free people can come together, and if they agree, they can be governed by the rule of law, laws which must be clearly laid out, which can not take away fundamental rights, and which are enacted fairly and with due process. If the individual does not agree to this, they should be free to branch out and have different laws to be governed under. That last part is the idea of the states retaining power over themselves, with the possibility to even decide to remove themselves from the US if they so wish.

All this is very much possible. Though some people argue it necessitates a virtuous culture as a prerequisite. In the sense that it requires people to be reasonable, rationale and of the same belief that freedom and liberty matters most.
hmm, agree. Am still figuring out the way to bring these in, without adding more chaos to an already chaotic system. :)
> Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same day)[...]

For our two (both born in Amsterdam) we were out of the hospital 3-4 hours after birth in both cases (both induced, and with epidural). They do the bare minimal to make sure you're not actively bleeding (and stitching), measure the baby and then you're out.

When you get home the kraamzorg is there waiting for you. I think it's a much better system. You don't need hospital services (surgery, anesthesia etc.) anymore. Why would you want to stay in a hospital?
you want a mod?
Actually darknet drug sites do have a review system, it's not like people just order randomly.
One factor for me would be if the company was aggressive enough in its 409a valuations of common stock.

If they are valuing the common stock based on the last funding round which sold preferred shares, you are likely significantly overpaying both for your exercise price and in AMT tax, and that makes the investment significantly riskier.

If common share FMV is discounted appropriately, IMO a 409a valuation will reflect the extreme risk of common shares dilution in an unprofitable venture with large investor preferences, and you should have a very low exercise price with little to no AMT unless the company is already well into planning an IPO.

At past companies I saw common stock valuation that matched the funding round valuation, and you should never be paying that price for common shares. 1/10th that price is a good rule of thumb.

The second most important factor is that you can’t ever sell shares in a company that doesn’t have a market for its shares. That vast majority of companies do not have, and never will have, marketable securities.

The third factor for me would be if the shares are eligible for QSBS Section 1202 treatment (tax free up to $10 million), which ISO options are not, but NSOs can be but the 5 year holding period starts at the exercise date.
Yes, the analysis paralysis tribe starved a few thousand years ago.
For whatever reason I had multiple teachers in K12 who thought MBPI was a fun thing to do in class (not sure why) (really, I even had a teacher in college think that after it'd been somewhat been debunked) and I remember at least one of the times I did it showing scores for each category on an axis rather than just telling you your "type." Which finally revealed to me why I seemed to switch between J and P randomly when taking it: mine was just barely over the middle in one direction on the J/P score and I finally realized "oh, no wonder it changes, I'm right in the middle." And then I realized it put you solidly in a category when you were only one point away from being in a different one and thought "this is kind of ridiculous."
Another approach - non-THC based CBD's. I started taking this most nights and it works incredibly well. I'm not typically anxiety prone, but having just gone through a very stressful period (started a new job a month ago, opened a commercial store with my wife 3 weeks ago), it's worked really well. Sleeping really well, waking up refreshed and seems to take the edge off the day too. I was skeptical it could do much about sleep or anxiety issues but in my case, it's worked very well.
How do you assess its goodness? Any how can you be sure you're not just experiencing confirmation bias?

A lot of people believe horoscopes are good at what they do.
It grinds my gears too. Mnemonic for anyone that struggles with it:

ColOmbia is the cOuntry.

ColUmbia is the shUttle (or University).
Well, as everything is life, you need first to learn and practice the basics, until you master them. With time you will get proficient, when you know how to combine color, shapes, distributions, layouts, etc. It's all about self-development.
Creating a data set and a challenge for deepfakes
>Perhaps the future is: you buy an old laptop with specs like today and then you buy one additional piece of hardware (TPU, ASIC, Graphics for gaming etc).

If Google has its way, the future will be: you buy a Chromebook and do all the real work on Google Cloud. Note that John Hennessy is a chair of Alphabet. And in case someone here forgot, TPUs were developed by Google and so was Tensorflow.
> Amazon delivered packages have been: thrown from the street

i watched a USPS driver do that. i'm amazed he could heft the package that far.

> USPS consistently rings my doorbell

i don't know that they've ever rung my doorbell.

> Amazon's last mile service is a complete shit show

they all vary in quality by location. fedex was nearly unusable at my last residence, but is great where i'm at now. anecdotes simply aren't valuable here.
In this case we are living in the alternate reality where Samuel Adams's proposal was adopted into the text of the consitution. I'm arguing that his phrasing would allow for more restrictive gun laws than the current 2nd amendment. So using his quote to defend a less restrictive gun policy seems counterproductive.
One can have safety without the absurd bloat though.
"Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution"
That's your opinion. Not everyone shares that opinion. Advertising has its place in society - as a revenue stream for publishers, as a way to build awareness of a product or service. Just because you personally don't like something, doesn't mean it is harmful to society.
Those are royalty free.

It should be easy to determine if they are more profitable assuming some kind of percentage going to the brands. If the mark-up is lower than a small percentage they are likely not more profitable, otherwise likely they are more profitable on a unit basis (per set).
If you haven't already...

Applying differential privacy to that Netflix case study would be a terrific exercise.
Sure, because it's still unstable, as more and more people use it the price will become increasingly stable.
There's a distinction to be made between the framework and the tests.

The framework is ultimately literary. The tests might be terrible at telling you what's your type, and therefore nonscientific. I mean, this was literally a meme with Harry Potter characters like six months ago.
Show HN: Kotlin Native/JS/JVM Annotation Processor Library
Astrology.
Assigning people to boxes indefinitely and regardless of context.
Only idiots believe this sort of nonsense.
Yeah, I'd rather not order early and be caught with a very unfinished build, only for someone who ordered later to get a better one for the same price.

I'm excited about what's happening here, I'm tempted to get like a PinePhone to play with, at a lower price point, but go iPhone this year, and hold off with switching to a Linux model until there's more robust manufacture out there.

I appreciate folks who can invest early in important projects like this, but I'm not in that category.
It doesn't seem silly at all. I agree with Michael Burry; I think passive investing is a bubble -- by definition. If you spent $10 million to make a cafe in your small hometown, you would never get that money back for the obvious reason that you could simply never sell that much coffee. The fundamentals aren't there.

So if you invest in "all coffee shops" or "all shops in my hometown", you're not looking at fundamentals, you're investing to invest. And, by definition, (assuming all shops are priced correctly) you're artificially inflating.

If someone invests across a group of stocks, it's because "the market always goes up over time." And if enough people believe that then it can be true for a very, very long period. But eventually it becomes your $10 million coffee shop. It's a bubble. And even a bubble that lasts decades will eventually pop.
I believe what’s missing from the recent analyses of beta/index investing is that alpha continues to lag when in theory stock pickers should be able to find more mispriced assets. Although volatility around earnings (which serve as valuation reset) has generally increased. Unprecedented bull market and 3/4 of investable wealth now pooling into passives funds simply cannot be overcome. What it does provide is significantly asymmetrical opportunities shorting single stocks.
Personally, whether or not Google actually sells raw data isn't that important to me. My objection is that they (and all other companies that do this) collect the data in the first place.
should have put an /s
I wrote a game of life screensaver for Windows years ago using the optimizations recommended by this book in C# if anyone is interested. https://github.com/masterwok/Game-of-Life-Screensaver
Close but I don't think it applies until they actually announce v2. The effect is about how the announcement effects the psychology and thus sales of the current version.
Been using Pulumi for last couple of week for small cloud setup (< 1000 resources in total).

Pulumi's Typescript eats Terraform's HCL for breakfast
Sports cars are sometimes easier to track and that makes them easier to successfully pull over. I asked a cop about this after he pulled me and my red Stealth over for having a missing corner on a sticker on my license plate.
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-pillow-for-side-sleep...

I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just to see if it's much nicer.

I've spent years trying different pillows (usually super-expensive ones) and the memory foam is by far the best for me (I am also a side sleeper).

Other random insomnia advice: try to focus on relaxing each and every muscle in your body so that you are totally slack. Mindfulness apps/podcasts can help you do this. It helps me a lot. Low-dose melatonin (1mg) is good when you're training yourself to sleep but I wouldn't take it long-term (very vivid dreams are a side effect).
This is a question of risk-appetite. I'm with the OP (I think); I like safety. Age is a factor (I'm no spring chicken, and anyway I can't wait that long for stuff to mature).

But I've also throughout my career aspired to be a skilled tradesman; I've tried to do a productive job well, rather than to try to lever myself up on the skills of others.

It hasn't made me rich (surprise!), but I'm happier than at least some of my colleagues who chose the more-enriching path.
They are economy class. I don't find them flashy at all. Their offices are tiny, glass enclosed, like fish bowls. I can't imagine working in one of them, and I've heard nothing but terrible feedback from others.
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1167897376876421120.html
If they need to hire aggressively for sells that means their customer acquisition costs are about to increase and there are still doubts about how deeply they can get into large enterprises where the lifetime value of a customer will be worth it.

Also, selling into the enterprise is a long slow process.
LEGO is very good at recycling shapes in different colors as special parts for sets. The biggest tooling costs are in the minifigs for special sets, those are almost always there because custom minifigs are an easy way to make a set unique. That way you drive sales because people can't make the set from loose parts.
This is the way it felt to me, too. The author seems to be cherry picking some incomplete statements from Burry's article and tries to make them sound ridiculous, and sometimes resort to adjectives rather than arguments.

I am not a specialist and would love to read an informed analysis and counters to Burry's article. I was hoping that this is what the author tried (as the title suggests), but to me he fell far short of that goal. My 2c.
Good questions, and good responses as well! I don’t think you should get downvoted for asking relevant questions.

Mars is definitely easier to visit, easier for robots, and much easier for humans to explore.

However, I think Venus is a treasure trove of data for planetary, weather, and climate scientists.

For example, the mysterious solar absorber in the upper atmosphere mentioned in the article; might it be something that has applications here on earth for solar power?

I would love Venus to hold as much of a sway in the public imagination as Mars does at the moment.
I'm a little confused about the point about index funds being a small percentage of assets, when there are constantly articles like "Passive investing automatically tracking indexes now controls nearly half the US stock market."
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/19/passive-investing-now-contro...

His graph shows an arrow pointed at the small sliver on ETFs, but that isn't necessarily the same as passive investing which would include a lot of mutual funds.
By symmetry, shouldn't the rapid growth of index funds imply the funds have paid inflated premiums to buy illiquid stocks? I suppose the 'bubble' claim is that they have, but that this is invisible because it has inflated the price of the underlying stocks as well so we still see the index funds priced the same as the underlying stocks.

At least for exchange-traded funds, it would seem that you don't have to actually destroy units of the ETF in the case of a sell-off. The ETF units would just sell at lower prices, just like when there is a 'sell off' of any stock - there are always equal numbers of buyers and sellers, you don't destroy units, you just move the price lower.

With index funds where you have an account directly with vanguard or whoever instead of buying units on an exchange, I'm not sure how it works in a sell-off. Perhaps they sell shares in the individual stocks, or perhaps they just try to sell off your shares bundled together by issuing more ETF units. I don't know what they do, but it seems like there are a bunch of options that should mean they don't have to sell off illiquid stocks on command.

I'm not sure. Happy to be enlightened. As much as I think about it, my intuition seems to consistently say that it's impossible for index funds to be broken in any meaningful way that's any different from the market itself or some sector thereof being in a bubble.
One individual that has always interested me - and for some reason, has seemed to be "black-holed" by those in computer science (but maybe that is my own perception of things) is Hugo de Garis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis

A relatively eccentric person, in the late 1990s - early 2000s he along with others created a hardware system called the CAM Brain Machine (CBM) - his bio above contains more information about it. Numerous papers regarding it were published, some of which can still be found on the internet today.

The machine itself never achieved the successes he marketed it as being able to achieve, but it did seem like an interesting project. Much like Babbage, though, de Garis was constantly moving to "sell" the system to get more government grants to do more research with the machine, hopping from one place to another as the grants (or the government's patience) ran out and cancelled the project.

Perhaps that's why you don't here much about him any longer:

A combination of his eccentricity, his work not panning out as expected (indeed, from what I understand, the whole idea of "evolving neural networks" didn't pan out), his funding model likely sowing seeds of discontent among potential funding sources (that future AI/ML researchers would run up against, generating animosity or disdain toward him?), plus his later ideas being a bit too far out there for researchers to continue to take him seriously (expressed in his work of fiction "The Artilect War"); all of that contributing to his imposed seclusion from the subject matter...

While the idea of creating a "robotic kitten" (Robonoko) controlled by an "evolved neural network" didn't work out, the machines he created are still among the most "aesthetically pleasing to look at" computers around (I place them second only to the Cray Supercomputer designs); they were systems that weren't only technically advanced for their purpose, but also pleasing to look at and display (handy from a marketing perspective I suppose). Only a handful of them were built - I often wonder what happened to those machines; at least one example should belong in a museum - ideally CHM in Mountain View.
> We’re also adding a new member to our Board of Directors. XX brings a wealth of experience in building world-class organizations and his/her skills will allow us to execute more effectively on the opportunities and challenges ahead.

I'm not shocked that people do this, but it really makes you understand how little the text around hiring descriptions is actually applicable to the person they plan to hire here.

I guess, reading charitably, you could say they would only hire someone who met this criteria, but the truth is, they're saying they're going to hire someone, and say this nice thing about them, regardless of who it is.
Okay, walk me through this - do you, say, see a cute girl (friend of a friend, someone in your city, etc.) that you might fancy, and just randomly send her a message?
> Are you saying that having beer on tap is either unprofessional or not conducive to actual work? Color me shocked!

>> Didn't wework have to switch to kombucha after someone realized that a place where you pay money to hang out all day and drink is in fact a bar and you need a liquor license?

A "liquor" license and a "beer and wine" license are 2 different things. A beer and wine license is a few hundred bucks (depending on your location), and just requires some paperwork. A liquor license can be over $100k depending on your location.
I find them hard (sadly) to justify as developing on POWER brings me no palpable benefit over doing so on a low-end workstation-class Xeon box and their performance is way more than what I need. I find their work on the single-socket system commendable, but, if IBM wants people to have POWER9 desktops, they'll need to offer low-cost SKUs.

I really don't know why they don't do it - it's not like the CPUs are a significant part of the overall BOM of their p and i series machines and the profit margins are very thick. Their lowest of the low end box is already quite insane.
> they protest their own company when they feel it is not having properly

You're right, but I don't understand that perspective.

If my company is doing something that I think is morally wrong, I'm going to be finding employment elsewhere and telling them why. I might even speak out about it... after I leave.

If we're doing something that I think it's great but doesn't justify my quitting, then I'm going to be speaking up internally about it. Going public with a grievance against your employer just strikes me as being counter-productive - you're risking being fired, you're damaging your future prospects for advancement there, and you're potentially damaging the entity to which you've tied your financial future.

The way I see it, when I work for a company I'm part of their public face. Even though I may not (certainly don't, actually) represent the company, my actions and statements still influence people's impression of the brand. If I'm upset about something enough that I'm willing to damage the company's brand to speak out about it, then I'm upset enough that I don't want to be providing material support to them by continuing to work there.
That's not actually what's going on. You can find an explanation here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-...
It's a good system for those who believe the country is in better hands when we weigh the votes of those in rural areas and still connected to the land as more important than the votes of those who dwell in the nihilism-inducing urban centers.
It's prima facie absurd to categorize human personalities across 4 arbitrarily chosen dimensions. Why those 4 specifically, and why not 3 or 5? There's no real justification for any of it.

But as a way to break the ice when introducing new team members I suppose it isn't terrible, as long as no one takes it seriously.
For the last year or so, I've been fascinated by this concept, and I've been exploring language oriented programming with Racket. There was some discussion on this topic and the Beautiful Racket book here a while back [1]. That book is the best introduction I've found to the idea that you can build your notation to the problem you are solving.

Re: painting yourself into a corner, it is true that you can't retreat to Stack Overflow for help debugging your DSL, but the Racket documentation is some of the best I've seen, and common problems do pop up on SO.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232068
Check out Blox bricks for a scary good clone for regular bricks. I can tell every other clone from LEGO bricks with my eyes closed but that one is very good, even the color is fine and they age well too.
I prefer to see hypervisors used alongside Unikernels in what concerns security.

For me the benchmark that counts is "does it deliver in production", winning ms in laboratory micro-benchmarks is kind of useless.

Specially when so many are willing to waste those ms running Electron apps on userspace.
That will be great!
For me as a Portuguese mother tongue guy... masticate is easier to understand than chew! =P

"Mastigar" => To chew in pt-br
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