skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the largest index funds use free-float weighting. This adjusts the weight of a stock in the index by the proportion of the stock that trades freely in the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization-weighted_index#...

In the example you give, this should result in Berkshire Hathaway Class A to have a very small weight in an index fund weighted this way.

Looking at the holdings of VOO, as of July 31, 2019, It holds 806 shares of Berkshire Hathaway (Class A) (worth ~$249 million), but about 37 million shares of Class B, worth ~$7.6 billion.

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/portfolio/VOO/port...
The real relationship between your age and your chance of success
You've just been through what 16-17 years of education where professors and teachers have been grading you. If you get an A, you feel good about yourself, and if you get a C, D, or F you might feel like a failure.

Now that you're making a transition to the workforce, it might be tempting to look at the world through the same viewpoint you viewed college. If you didn't get a job offer say, you might feel like a big failure. You might even have replaced your college mascot sweater with corporate logo wear.

Employment should be seen as a business relationship first. If feel your ego wrapped up in your company as if it were your alma mater, maybe it's time to take a step back and ask yourself how you're going to feel when your services will no longer be needed. In the end budgeting and large corporate strategy are really not judgments about you and your abilities, but rather whether your skills map to the companies future. Microsoft simply chose to go a different direction -- and feeling disappointed is okay.

The fact is, you get to decide what is a failure and what is not. I don't see this as a failure for you, though I suspect you do. Who knows you might even be in a better company in two years, right?
In another quote from the article:

"Negroponte pressed on: in the fundraising world, he said, these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, and it shouldn’t be reason enough to cut off business relationships."

Welcome to today.
That reminds me of this guy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512815/Briton-jaile...

He went to jail for four years because they found 0.003g on the bottom of his shoe in Dubai.
I use the automatic cruise control on my 2018 Subaru pretty much 100% of the time I'm on a highway, and I've never noticed this problem.

The only limitation like this that I've noticed is that the range isn't long enough for me to trust it to slow down if I'm traveling at highway speed and there's a stationary vehicle far ahead. Is this what you are referring to? Because I don't think that's the same problem. If I'm not traveling at highway speed in the same situation, I'll let the cruise control do its thing, and as soon as the stopped vehicle is in range, it will start to slow down.
I like that they specifically call out research on consciousness/mind as well as more straightforward therapeutic studies.

This has been a long time coming.
I think the fund managers know this and will collude to prevent it from happening. They are smart enough to know about game theory, it's not their money. So they can sit and not go on a selling frenzy.
> His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all

This is misleading, I think. Depends on the fund. Some seek to match the benchmark through a certain exposure to derivatives and synthetic things. Others hold the stocks in proportion.

The vanguard funds I'm invested in don't have much synthetics - they own the stocks
Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature
He also built a computer out of Tinkertoys and more recently designed a clock that would run for 10,000 years [0]. Danny Hillis has done many very interesting things.

[0] http://longnow.org/clock/
Yes, I went from the Xperia Z1 Compact to the XZ Compact...and not only is it larger, but worse is every way except raw speed. It is more buggy, difficult to find a screen protector that stays on, screen often freezes, the large size makes it far less comfortable to use. I am seriously considering buying another Z1 compact even though it's years old and slower with an out-of-date Android...but the form factor and reliability was unbeatable.
>> With the still lacking independent confirmation that LIGO sees events of astrophysical origin

> False. GW170817.

One observation does not independent confirmation make. Obviously from context Sabine doesn't mean independent in the independent group sense as the observation itself is collaborative and there aren't exactly other ligos around.

Why are you so defensive?
A bit of a contrarian view. This stuff tends to go like a pendulum and it could very well swing too far in the other direction, and a lot of people will get fucked up in this case.

We're seeing this with marijuana right now. I live in a state where it's legal, I voted for legalization, and I think it's wonderful that people aren't being thrown in jail for possession anymore. But I categorically DO NOT want this shit to be aggressively marketed to the public and normalized. It is harmful in most cases. Smoking MJ is not that much better than smoking tobacco, if at all. Certainly not great for the lungs. You can get really ill from THC if you consume a lot for an extended period of time, especially if you're fat, which most people are nowadays. Long term impact of TCH on the brain is poorly understood, etc.

Now, granted it's better than alcohol in most ways. You're very unlikely to even contemplate driving a car while stoned, for example, let alone be able to do so successfully. You're unlikely to be aggressive. You're unlikely to destroy your liver by smoking weed, and so on.

But that does not mean that it should be something people just do willy nilly IMO. Same with psychedelics. I'd be more OK with it if it's legal but socially frowned upon, and all marketing is forbidden.
If I have the choice, I will not be starting any project with them in the future after the crap they pulled with CircleCI 2.0.

"We're introducing this new, 2.0, version. It has some benefits, but is also missing a lot of features and bug ridden. It's easier for us though, so you're going to have to waste a couple days converting from 1.0 to 2.0."
I had lots of unpleasant experiences with Dropbox when I was travelling in foreign countries back in 2011-2012, so I got rid of Dropbox not long after.

I found that, for me, it was simpler in the long run as well as more secure to implement my own file server accessible from anywhere in the world.
why is this upvoted? it's completely wrong.
People understand drunk drivers. They understand distracted drivers. They’re angry, rightfully so, but it’s a known problem and easy to comprehend. We can make laws tougher and feel good about it, even if it doesn’t help much.

It’s harder to emotionally cope with, I speculate, when someone you love is killed by a software bug, or by machine learning where no one can precisely explain why it made a certain choice.

I’m not saying I’m against autonomy. I just don’t know how to prevent it being caught in a backlash when people who didn’t have to die, do.
I don't understand why they don't fix either one so it stops giving you left turns onto busy highways at intersections without traffic lights. It's just idiotic. And surely there are already guidance systems for delivery companies that optimize routes with all right turns. That would be a nice checkbox option along with avoiding tolls.
They just got into FPV and I really hope they fail with their lock-in DRM, for the sake of keeping the maker spirit and FOSS innovation around in that field...
There is no market rule that requires a single stock from not being halted.

Please show me a one day 99% drop on a stock. Trading would be halted well before that to prevent manipulation or errors.
Sounds good in theory, and I think that's more for automated trading. In practice if real people panic and are selling, no circuit breaker will stop it, each break will just build up massive pressure and every time it's removed, will result in more drop. If the market is frozen for a long time, all trust will be eroded since it will be seen as pure market manipulation which is what it is.
I see a lot of streets where I live that have signs saying no trucks except local delivery. I wonder at what level that is instituted and enforced.
If the battery is flat on the car then you are still pretty much out of luck even if you can get in. The only advantage to being able to open it is to use it as shelter in a emergency situation
Could artificial intelligence be the solution for detecting Alzheimer’s disease?
Yeah, I always use strict and specify return type. IMO, still counts.
Yeah, that seems dangerous. There is usually a hard 45mph minimum on the highways near me.
I know someone who likes to create a fractal generator when learning a new language. He says it gives you a bit of exposure to the strengths of quirks in the language from implementing algorithms, working with data structures, and displaying a GUI to render an image to screen.
Seems like graphene batteries are just around the corner and safer than lipo, with a few time the charge, that'll be interesting to see!
I took that sentence to mean "independent" as in having some confirmation other than the gravitational wave signal. That's provided by the optical observations of GW170817 which confirm independently that the event is real.

> there aren't exactly other ligos around

One of the three currently operating GW detectors is Virgo, of a different design and build by different people, in Italy. It's true that LIGO and Virgo collaborate extensively.
Zipline raised a $190m at a $1.2b valuation. Someone who seems credible (works for the government) told me their business model was questionable.
They're also occasional problems. A typical household does 1-3 loads of dishes per day, and a few loads of laundry per week. The easy-to-automate parts of these tasks have already been automated, and now only the hardest/suckiest parts remain.

Restaurants and hotels do dozens of loads of dishes and laundry every day, so that additional expense and complexity required to automated the final 10% of these tasks is much easier to justify. So if you want to build a machine the folds laundry, don't build something ridiculous like the Foldimate, build a machine that folds bedding for a hotel.
Google’s Structured Data
The folks at Skydio are building something different. It's the first autonomous thing (car, boat, plane, drone, etc) that's widely available to consumers.

They're releasing a new product soon and if it's better than what they had before DJI or anyone else won't be remotely close to having a similar product.

Maybe a lot of the weaker companies have folded, hardware is hard, but would be very sad to see the innovation happening there collapse at this point.
It always blows my mind when a highway patrol scolds me for not stopping immediately on the side of the road, instead pulling off at the first exit/intersection to make it safer for us.

I'd estimate it's about 10% of the time. But on the contrary, I've also had them express appreciation for doing the same thing.
I have never tried to drive into NYC, but when I think back on being there, there were a lot of cars...I guess. So someone drives there, and lots of them. I don't want to, but I wonder what it's like, and just how the people in the parking spaces managed to obtain them.
"Forced" by human nature (hunger, cold, etc), but not forced by other people.
I don't see anything saying they can't play ads? They can even target them without having to collect any info. If you are watching a kids video its pretty obvious an advert about toys or kids games would be relevant.
Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution
The War on Drugs is a racist policy. You can ignore the reality of it, but the facts speak for themselves.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/analysis-finds-racia...
You'd have to try it yourself.

Personally, I have very limited technical skill when tripping. I'm a semi-professional musician, and I can keep up with folks, but I don't think I sound better or worse. There are a lot of interesting aesthetics that you can pull from that kind of visual hallucination, but IME it's not super "realistic" or "rational".

I've gotten a lot out of psychadelic drugs but the realizations are usually far more poetic than practical.

The longer-term revelations I've found have more to do with realizing that, say, a lot of my relationships have been validated by caring for my partner because I didn't get a certain level of care growing up, and that I've probably worked to find partners who need a certain amount and kind of care... so as long as I keep doing that I will probably keep failing in those relationships.

That's an example of something I realized in my last session, and it holds up well even now that I'm sober. It was also something that I have been working though over the last couple of years, so it's not like big astounding fact... it was just really brought home because it feels (once again, maybe just to me) much more inviting to really examine those kinds of thoughts and conditions in that setting.

On the other hand, I can't program / do calc / do about anything technical... when I look at designs while sober it's all wingnuttery with obvious flaws.

You might have a different experience
The facts speak for themselves.

> Last year, the NYPD stopped and interrogated people 532,911 times, a 448-percent increase in street stops since 2002 – when police recorded 97,296 stops during Mayor Bloomberg’s first year in office. Nine out of 10 of people stopped were innocent, meaning they were neither arrested nor ticketed. About 87 percent were black or Latino. White people accounted for only about 10 percent of stops.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/analysis-finds-racia...
Kids shows on traditional tv shows have story lines (conflict, resolution), educational content (numbers, letters, basic math), some level of basic logic/moral dilemmas. And at the very least they didn't have disturbing violent and sexual content that you get from kids youtube.
I remember a long time ago reading an article about the bus system in Curitiba, Brazil, which supposedly was innovative and worked particularly well at a much lower cost than subways, but more efficiently than most buses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede_Integrada_de_Transporte
2020 Corvette Fans Are Working Together to Avoid Dealer Markups
front page fails to explain what it is, or what value it provides me. About page (tiny link waaaay far away from the content) says "Lock away messages, links, secrets... or even cryptocurrency in a unique, encrypted URL that wholly contains your KeepMe. " o...k... but what is a "KeepMe"? and
I don't get it.

Why would i want to use this? "A KeepMe link is never stored or captured and is only unlockable by knowing the correct answer." again.... why do i want this? Why not save it in a password/secret manager that I control instead of some site that may disappear next week/both/year? Plus... i now need to save the password in a password manager anyway...
Twitter disables tweeting via SMS after CEO gets hacked
Perhaps motivated by the submarine here, I was moved last night to try the drive-through at a local Popeye's. Here follows a transcript of my experience, which as one might imagine I don't reckon I will soon repeat:

Please wait to order.

Ok.

Go ahead.

Yeah I'll have that shrimp po'boy.

We ain't had that for four months.

But it's on the menu?

That's not us, that's corporate!

That's not you? OK, I'll have one of those new chicken sandwiches.

We won't have that until October. Then they get a new sign.

What? So the sign will have been wrong for six months? How does that... ok I'll get the two-piece meal.

We only got white meat mild and dark meat mild and... that's it.

Uhhh... no spicy? I'm gonna come back another time, when y'all get a few things worked out here. You have a good evening.

You can't expect much food left. It's only half-hour 'til we close!
A lot of people here have built solvers. What about Sudoku generators?
The more I read about WeWork, the more I am convinced that it's the Webvan of the current bubble.

A huge amount of hype and money involved. They have the biggest and "best" investors behind them. Those who point out seemingly huge problems with their long-term business model are dismissed as "just not getting it".

Sometimes business models really are new, and I admit that I often don't grasp the importance or viability of a new model at first glance, but when a business seems this wrong it usually is.
This is completely ridiculous. Adults drive into stationary objects all the time. 4 year olds walk into stationary objects all the time.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one criterion that matters when evaluating self driving cars: is it better than human drivers?

The fact that we are still discussing this _one_ accident that happened _a year ago_ indicates to me that the answer is a resounding yes.
Government Failures (2017) [audio]
Yeah that's basically my point when there's a new shiny framework or even a headless cms or something, we (devs) like to test it out a bit, and we might come back to it 5-10 times before actually pulling the trigger and using the service.

Even all the major cloud platforms have free tiers for this reason - to get devs hooked on their platform so there is no other option they'd rather use.

Not saying the free tier should be outrageous... maybe 100MB and 10k requests per month or something small like that.
In my experience the actual Lego stores ... are terrible price wise. Everything is solidly MSRP, I've yet to see a good sale from them.

Sales online and local retail shops are far better pricing wise.

Although I've visited the local Lego store, I don't really need to visit to get a good feel for a given product, and the prices mean I don't buy anything.
And the lawyers will become very wealthy putting these companies into bankruptcy... as they should.
As is well known to any homeowner, typically anyone who owns property has certain responsibilities to care for the public property adjoining it. For instance, you have to clear snow off in a timely manner where I live. Isn't it logical that if you have responsibilities for public property next to where you live, that you may also have some rights as well?

I think you are assuming a naive dichotomy between public and private that doesn't reflect the way things actually work.
in https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/fb-3-2.jpg I see "update 2019-8-28", updated from where?
I was able to visualize four dimensional structures on LSD. I can't see it "instinctually" anymore, but I had a vision of our universe as the 3D surface of a 4D hypersphere, and from that perspective it's subjective whether you consider the entirety of the universe inside of you or outside of you.

After coming down I thought it was probably some nonsense that my brain dreamt up, but I analogized it as a 2D surface of a 3D sphere and it makes complete sense. Drawing a circle on a sphere and calling one side of the line you draw the "inside" is completely subjective—we just tend to call the smaller side inside. If you grow the circle to the greatest meridian of the sphere, which side is now "inside"? Is my brain on the inside and the universe on the outside, or is the universe on the inside and my brain on the outside?

I also kept seeing (when I say "see", it isn't the type of hallucination that appears like a real object in front of you, these all form in my mind's eye but are more vivid than what I can usually visualize) these grid-like, branching "corridors". I'm not sure what the best term for it would be and it may have not been 4 dimensional per se, but I don't think the way it's laid out would work in 3 dimensions. It was like I was floating in an intersection with rows (x), columns (y), and aisles (z) passing through me. A lot of this is hard to visualize when not tripping.
Texting While Walking Isn't the Scourge It's Made Out to Be
VMs might be more "efficient" in some ways but certainly not all ways. If you want to run 10,000+ sandboxes on a machine, you can do it with WebAssembly. With (hardware virtualization) VMs it would be rough.
They have set such an impressively high bar it would likely be a disappointment. I am a fan of letting things end on a high note instead of turning them into a never ending franchise and trying to extract every last cent out of the IP.
> If the battery is flat on the car then you are still pretty much out of luck even if you can get in.

With an EV yes, but not with an ICE. Just keep a jump box in your trunk.
> Any car that relies solely on wireless communication to start isn’t well thought out.

But this is not the case not just for Tesla but for most modern cars today. Not sure why you keep insisting this.

There is a backup method for modern electronic keyfobs (incuding Tesla cars) where you place it in a designated spot to start the car:

BMW:
https://youtu.be/BttKQ6K-Y74?t=70

Lexus:
https://youtu.be/9S8fm8UE9T8?t=57

Nissan:
https://youtu.be/lV_HLwlOS-8?t=54

Audi:
https://youtu.be/4gq4L9IQO7U?t=85

Tesla S/X:
https://youtu.be/0J1VbeDfQmg?t=64

Tesla Model 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxCgtXEMVY

As you can see, it's not solely "wireless". In the Model 3 this is the default behavior. For both unlocking and starting if using the keycard.

If you can design a better system than the rest of the engineers in the auto industry combined, lets hear your idea.
The constraint propagation bit is the main key. It still ends up being a DFS, but at most steps along the way, finding one number leads causally to several other spaces being found.

In most easy / medium puzzles, there are actually no points where you need to guess (i.e. recurse down the tree).

In many hard puzzles, there are only one of two guesses, which is where you would recurse down the decision tree.

Things get a bit more intense once you move into the puzzles specifically designed to be a pain in the neck for programs, but often those inputs aren't actually valid Sudoku puzzles.
There are some pretty good OCR tools, and it might be interesting to build a fixture with some 80x20 rail and a digital camera, to quickly capture some books to bring on the go
And having shelter from the rain while you wait for someone to arrive can be a great advantage.

I'm sure there are many other fantastic reasons to want access to your vehicle when the battery is flat.
I have often thought about how vector graphics should be extended to animations: instead of defining curves in 2 dimensions, define curved surfaces in 3, where the third is simply time.

I wouldn't mind conditionals etc, as long as it is held turing incomplete.
For reference here are the data for the so far, only reported collaboratively observed incident:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GW170814_signal.pn...

While I'm not a signals expert... I'm not exactly convinced.
The chance of a spurious signal from the direction, distance and magnitude GW170817 lining up with telescope observations by random chance is absolutely astronomically tiny.
When I think of non-rich people, I don't really think of them being in orbit.
While "human understanding" would be nice, detecting big solid obstacles is a solved problem. It just costs money. Until somebody orders enough LIDAR units to get the cost down.

Tesla's "autopilot" collisions are all very similar. They're all "hit big stationary obstacle that wasn't the rear end of a car". So far, a fire truck, a street sweeper, a stalled car at a freeway median, a crossing semitrailer, and two freeway barriers. This is a well-defined defect.
Show me where I advocated for doxxing. It's extremely dishonest for you to suggest that I did. I didn't.

You are a liar.
That's a pretty terrible reduction of the problem that prevents any further engagement. You cannot solve problems by ostracizing people.