skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't (directly) compare semiconductor node sizes across manufacturers -- it no longer corresponds to any meaningful physical measurement and is just a made-up number from the marketing department. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nanometer:

> Since 2009, however, "node" has become a commercial name for marketing purposes that indicates new generations of process technologies, without any relation to gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch. For example, GlobalFoundries' 7 nm process is similar to Intel's 10 nm process, thus the conventional notion of a process node has become blurred. TSMC and Samsung's 10 nm processes are somewhere between Intel's 14 nm and 10 nm processes in transistor density.
Agreed. Bottom trawling was the first thing I thought of. The machinery is probably relatively nearby, possibly with shreds of net caught in it, sitting on the bottom.
Good to know. I got the free 1st Chapter and am considering the entire book. D3.js is awesome. You buy the std or the deluxe version?
their argument makes perfect sense to me. they're complaining the article makes a claim, then fails to support it, and provides a pretty straightforward counterpoint (the variable in questions seems at best weakly correlated with the activity), which contributes to scientific illiteracy (general problem with poor scientific journalism).
His point about the increase in volume leading to price discovery is laughable. More algos than ever are trading with each other on the subsecond scale but that means nothing for long term equity values. With the rise of index tracking there are fewer than ever investors actively positioning themselves against a standard indexed allocation by picking good and selling bad stocks. Indexing is riding the boat buying everything in equal components due to market cap weight.
It would only leave you stranded if you lock the keys inside the car, and expect the zip card to open it back up for you.

"Locking keys in car" is a well known failure mode of cars, and it is entirely OPs fault.
Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
You must be authorized to work in the US, but we have no citizenship requirement. We probably won't be able to sponsor a work Visa for this position.

If you have a more specific question, I recommend that you apply and we can help you figure it out if you are one of the top applicants.
> It's odd that the presentation doesn't discuss alternatives to using silicon.

You must have missed slide 41, which has a "beyond silicon" bullet.
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I keep a tab pinned in Firefox. Runs great if you never close and re-open it.
Clojurescript HAS types. It has pretty awesome type system - Clojure.Spec. You can use Spec to enforce all sorts of things in your functions. You can use them for data validation, for data generation, for human-readable error messages, etc. Specs can be shared between server and front-end.
> basically need the entire market to become illiquid.

Which came dramatically close to happening in 2008, see, e.g. [0].

[0] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/pschnabl/kacperczyk_sch...
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Easiest way is to pay them as contractors. It's simply an expense then.
It must have contained some data that could lead to the arrest of Hilary Clinton.
requiring installation of the FB app is a nonstarter.
But when the in-group is defined as "is blind"?? I'm not just talking about programmers in this context, or any other cross-section wherein there's some sort of shared vocabulary and context other than the disability itself. I don't think it's been studied, but I've noticed, my parents have noticed, in general enough people around me have noticed it over the years that I'm convinced the effect is real. Is whatever mechanism you're referring to typically general enough that the group can be defined this broadly and still have it happen?
And invite FTC scrutiny?
Can we not pretend your employer wants to use this for better search results and be up front that it's about better ad revenue, which isn't beneficial or desirable to consumers?
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OnionScan tests 'dark web' sites to see if they are anonymous – ExtremeTe
Good questions =)

1) Note that the "min/max" example trivially leaks individual information: for example, releasing the max salary of employees of a company leaks the salary of the CEO. More generally, there have been numerous attacks on privacy notions purely based on aggregate data. One of my favorite is this one: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/15/trajectory-recovery-from...

2) Typically, PII is not the only thing that can be used to reidentify someone, and matching records from different databases can sometimes infer sensitive information about people. One example: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/netflix-faq.html
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Targeting existed long before computers. The difference today is the massive amount of very personal data being collected on people without their knowledge or consent and the risks it puts on them.

Imagine if you went back to say the 1920s, and you told a marketing director that you could install a one-way mirror room and back door into every household in the country, and staff them all with analysts who will secretly observe people in their homes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. People would think you were crazy. In fact, I bet most people today would be completely against that idea, yet wouldn't realize that what companies like Google and Amazon are doing today is effectively the same thing, except _much more_ invasive.
I work in games doing mainly graphics work - it's amazing how many of these concepts still exist and have been recycled in interesting ways. Well worth the read if you're in my line of work.

For example, the concept of "sorted spans" in Quake is conceptually the same as how "light culling" is done in deferred and forward+ rendering pipelines. The first I'd heard of the technique was how Battlefield 3 used the PS3's SPU to do light culling for 64x64 blocks of pixels at a time.
Not accurate or not useful? These are two different things.

I’ve personally found it to be not that accurate but still tremendously useful.
The US experiment with social democracy in the 1940s, which was not terribly comprehensive in the first place, has been slowly dismantled as the employer and political class continues to concentrate as much wealth and power for themselves as possible. Key to this has been to weaken and villainize labour unions at every opportunity.
Chrome was shipping differential privacy (RAPPOR) before Apple.
This will probably result in very few jobs. The number will decline as the technology gets better, too. The USPS's first machine sorting system had tens of thousands of people keying in the ZIP codes as envelopes went by. Then that was automated for machine-addressed mail with specific fonts. Then for all typed and printed ZIP codes. Then for all typed and printed full addresses. Then for clearer handwritten addresses. Now there's just one national center where a few people look at images of illegible addresses.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/us/where-mail-with-illegi...
Can anyone point me in the direction of good resources on how to short IPOs directly on the first day?
Funny, in a thread just the other day I was asking why we use different icons in new updates and focus less on optimization. This was in response to a commentor that suggested apps will use all available resources. If graphics has taught me anything it's: use what you need and make it fast. Other programs are relying on you.
I hope there are never bugs in the things you bake, unless you want some extra protein. :)
> Congress forbids the federal health research bodies (NIH, CDC, etc.) from funding or studying research into those effects.

That's not actually true. The limitations set in the Dickey amendment were only regarding the use of funding to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for the purpose of advocating gun control.
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I thought that was only in certain jurisdictions. Maybe it was universal though.
Does this guy not see the contradictions in his own argument? He simultaneously believes that active funds are doing a fine job of price discovery AND that managers at active funds who deviate too much from their (passive) benchmark are likely to be fired.

Also he jumps around Burry's arguments by focusing on liquidity and in AAPL and FB. Burry's whole point is about less liquid components at the bottom of indices which are getting dragged upward by a lack of price discovery and inclusion in widespread passive funds. Since they're market-cap weighted, this would have a cyclical component, more passive purchases -> higher market cap -> higher weighting in passive indices -> more passive purchases. This would result in another cyclical component where that cycle causes: passive fund outperformance -> increased investing in passive funds -> passive fund outperformance.

Then in an event where people start liquidating there is no one there to purchase those stocks and they've been dramatically overvalued anyways so their price gets crushed. This is specifically why Burry likes small cap active.

If you pay attention to finance discussion on this board then you've definitely heard the phrase: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” The argument here is that irrationality has persisted long enough to crush most 'rational' price discoverers.

>Do you know what didn’t cause the Great Depression or Japan stock market crash or 1987 crash or 1973-74 bear market? Index funds. Index funds also weren’t around for the South Sea bubble in the 1700s. Do you know what did cause these bubbles and subsequent crashes? Human nature.

Imagine doing this but replacing 'index funds' with mortgage CDOs.

Look I'm not even saying Burry is right but the absolute inability of the finance commentariat to actually address what he's saying is giving him more credence.
>You'd basically need the entire market to become illiquid.

Yes. It has happened before.
Search.social, a search engine for the public posts/profiles of the Fediverse
Could you elaborate about the architecture? I'm really interested in learning this.

At which level the interface between admin panel and apps is? Is it a dedicated app for the admin panel and just a front end to an AD or database? Like there is no real admin panel on the app itself.
(for the average user) the CPU speed isn't relevant anymore, even the number of cores. Internet speed plays the biggest factor when watching a movie, opening a web page, using some cloud-based app. Then memory speed and GPU speed (even in cell phones) come second: how fast will your CPU grab that data and process something.

In niches, of course, CPU speed matters. I want to compile something in half of the time. I want to train my AI model faster. But what really bugs me is when I have to wait for a refresh on some site, this really makes me loose focus (and then I come to HN to see some news and time goes by).
This reminds me of the Skinner Air Crib (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Air_crib)
This is the part that I believe is a bit deceptive to retail investors:

>> Over the past year, SoftBank committed to invest $4 billion in We at a valuation of around $47 billion. It also spent $1 billion to buy existing shares from We employees and investors at a valuation of around $23 billion.

It makes it seems like SoftBank believed the company is worth owning at a value of $47B. I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect that they have a liquidation preference for their investment so that they get all their money back even if the company is much less valuable than $47B. That is unlike common share investors who may think they are getting the same thing at the same price. When they actually bought shares from employees they only paid half as much.
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Their previous (otherwise equivalent) submission a week ago did have a "Show HN", this one does not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20828173
If an index selloff could cause a drop in underlying stock price, wouldn't we see this effect when stocks are relegated from various indexes? Does this effect exist?
I found an inconsistency in the article.

> We’re just seeing a shift from closet indexing to ETFs and other index funds en masse now that investors have wisened up.

So active managers are copying the indexes.

> Index fund investors are simply buying what the active investors have laid out for them.

But indexes buy what the active managers pick.

The author appears to be confused as to who is the tail and who is the dog. Maybe this is resolved by saying some active managers do price discovery, but most are just copycats. It's not clear though.

For the record I think index funds are still the best choice for a retail investor, and the article is mostly true. Namely

> Many of the worries about indexing really boil down to career risk in the asset management space.

Some of the arguments seem to be hasty and not well presented though.
Okay, that makes sense, so it's less of a shift and more of a way to continue or return to business as usual.
This is my bet as well.
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Download Chrome's source code, it's been using DP for years (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...)
The 50% claim probably comes from the fact that heat loss through your head has a greater affect on core body temperature than other exposed areas. In [1], they did some submersion tests with head in or out for both insulated and exposed bodies (test subjects). Head-in accounted for a fairly large increase in core body temperature loss (39-45% depending on the configuration). While this study was in water, it seems reasonable to expect the same thing in air, in particular since you tend to spend longer in the cold outside than you might in water.

Edited to add this effect is likely due to the amount of blood flow to the brain and the short path (relatively) between the brain and the heart.

[1] https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.012...
These sections seem to address the point to me:

* "The tail is not wagging the dog" - index funds are a relatively small percentage of total share ownership.

* "Benchmark huggers have always been around" - owning ~the index was not started with index funds.

* "Active funds literally own the market" - the sum of portfolios of non-index funds ends up having the same profile.

* "Price discovery is a cop-out" - relatively small part of the trading volume.

* "Liquidity is not a huge problem for index funds" -no market impact to sell (v dubious if you ask me), unlevered.

* "Humans matter more than fund structures" - the absence of index funds did not prevent bubbles/crashes.

You can disagree with those points (I do with some of them) but that's a large part of the article.
You want to downvote the story, because you don't like what it's about, rather than you think it's bad reporting?
I'm not sure you'd need to bring your own water, the sulfuric acid is produced in the upper atmosphere when sunlight splits carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen which then react with water vapour and sulphur dioxide. We could harvest that water vapour and CO2 to produce oxygen, water, and rocket fuel. We've got lots of experience with sulfuric acid and resistant materials are rather common place plastics (including teflon) and stainless steel.

I have no idea why there hasn't been more of an effort to get a flying robotic probe to Venus. I think it would be mindblowing to have high res pictures and video of the upper atmosphere with a bright sun over head and an endless sea of clouds.
But the original critique was silly. And surprisingly so given the source.
Great. I am not sure about using yugabytedb now.
Exactly. The article, starting with the title, is pompous and overconfident. Burry made the unanswered point that in a sell-off large index funds will have to dump their smaller holdings at large discounts. We have never had a market crash with passive holdings this large (and consolidated in a small handful of funds)-- we're in unprecedented times. Burry's point is entirely plausible. And although that it wouldn't immediately cause a problem for investors who don't sell (price is not value), the newly discount-price firms may struggle immensely in terms of raising new capital and financing.
My phone can give me real time traffic jam information by traffic cameras which are placed along highways which can gauge the motion of the traffic without tracking me or my phone at all. I actually don't want anyone for any reason to be applying machine learning to my photos.

Again, differential privacy is about finding excuses to justify the existence and protection of a company that is actively harmful to society. And we need to stop pretending your employer cares about it for any reason but protecting ad revenue.
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Does Regus/IWG have the capacity to absorb the demand?
It's odd that he incidentally refers to "architecture" a couple of times but doesn't include that in the hierarchy. I'd put architecture above models because it defines not just how your models are partitioned and connected but how they communicate. Also, good architecture isn't an answer to here-and-now requirements but anticipates how an entire system might need to adapt to _future_ requirements.
Facebook had better add an "Extremely Polyamorous" option to their relationship status pulldown or this will fail miserably. :)
very groovy, thanks!
At least he's willing to go 5 years older: https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-case-for-an-older-woman-99d8...
Canadian Startup Clio Raises $250M for Legal Tech
Sites that actually really care about accessibility, like gov.uk, seem to disprove the performance claim at least
The early exercise avoids the AMT exposure.
No, it's not, because you have to pay the tax bill whether or not you ever see any returns.
>Note that they still can't vote

Isn't that contradictory? Why not require them to be a member of the club to influence the club?

>when some of them have been in the US longer (and legally) than anywhere else in their lives

And not electing to become a citizen.
And ignores the current example of the neil woodford equity income fund.

This is a smaller example the liquidity problem that Mr Burry was making - it would much worse if a market crash did this to the realy realy big index funds.
I have a close family member also dealing with cancer/end of life anxiety - to the point where she cannot sleep and gets physical stomach pains from anxiety.

She has tried meditation but I don't think it's been very effective for her. And we are in Australia and so cannot sign up for the John's Hopkins study. Can anyone recommend another effective way to reduce her anxiety?
A high percentage of ex parte temporary protection/restraining orders are later found to be unwarranted when the restrained party has their chance to argue against the order.

Also, lazy family law attorneys often include requests for protection orders as a matter of course in divorce filings. These often have similar firearm restrictions as so-called red flag laws.
In my country facebook is by far the #1 dating site people use. In fact "Facebook dating" is reduntant
Hypothesis: this practice prevents or delays atrophy of the brown adipose tissue used for non-shivering thermogenesis.
Yes. Millions are already doing it. Considering how much press privacy enhancements such as ad blocking gets, and how basically nobody is discussing how their search result quality went down afterwards, it seems pretty clear what people have chosen.
FWIW our California-born babies slept with us (and was never taken away from me, except to be cleaned and weighed, and I was right there next to them the whole time). The "room of cribs" was the neonatal intensive care unit. It was, thankfully, empty when we were there.
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Reminder: "index funds" are also managed by humans. For example, all stocks in the S&P 500 are chosen by Standard & Poors. Stocks are added and removed as they see fit based on various criteria such as profitability, float, market cap, &c. The only things that I can see that truly differentiate S&P from other active managers are that they

(a) have very little skin in the game.

(b) they get to make decisions about what other people have to do with their money

(c) they tend to recommend more stocks with less turnover than typical active managers

(d) they tell the public ahead of time what will be bought or sold, so traders get to buy/sell ahead of time

(e) their actions are relatively predictable, thanks to a long history of sticking to their stated goals.
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They just have a long list of likely host / service names. It misses things all the time for me, but gets an awful lot correct.
I can't believe the hero image does not feature an interracial and/or homosexual couple... I've come to expect more from you, west coast
> DSP

Just so I don't misunderstand, does that stand for Delivery Service Provider?
Because it is a useful framework to discuss your personality and social preferences.

That's it. This obsession with everything in life having to be either total nonsense or perfectly predictive scientific theory is silly.
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> pragmatism must be considered. I know I railed against pragmatism in my post, but that was aimed at over-reliance on it - it doesn't mean it should be (or even could be!) ignored.

It should always be ignored. If the states want to ban people from having tanks and jet fighters, they can adopt a new amendment. There's already a process to account for these types of things.
Finland also has some of the best primary and secondary education in the world. I work in an education company and we regularly make trips to Finland with teachers to show them how modern education should be.
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I'm 25. I use Facebook. I've noticed many of the people younger than me don't use it at all and many of the people around my age do have accounts but rarely actually use it.
I don’t mind text notices, but it will always have a higher latency than ringing my doorbell. The best though is getting alerts about a delivery and then going on a scavenger hunt to find the package. Will it be on the front porch? Will it be tucked behind a bush? Maybe I left my garage door open so the driver helpfully left it there...
They are mostly not doing physical replication (physically owning all the shares) but using synthetic means.
I do landscape photography. When I post a photo on IG, I'll get hundreds of 'likes', and they're largely the young, under 30 crowd.

When I post a photo to Facebook, the 'likes' seem to come almost entirely from over 40 crowd. Lots of retirees.
The numbers don’t really add up. Computers are a hundred times (replace with actual value, but it should work even for a 10x increase) faster, yet the feature set hasn’t increased by anywhere near that factor. Also “feature” is a big word, usually a single feature doesn’t even eat up that much performance.

I think it’s rather — just as Moore’s Law — a psychological phenomenon rather than a mathematical one. There’s just so many seconds we’re willing to wait and at one point, we don’t even care. Also the Internet hardened us for long wait/download times.
I don't think so (although bubble is clearly a loaded term). As I understand it, the other part of Burry's argument is that the passive funds distort the market such that if there's a rush for the door there wouldn't be sufficient liquidity to prevent a crash.
If they are citizens of another country they are by definition foreign.