skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'd just love for congress to increase the IRS budget again and then maybe they could actually audit a few of those companies
These team blogs were formerly run by actual fans of the teams they were covering. The content of these blogs is going to slide now that those responsible for them don't have a personal stake in them.
Supermicro never sued Bloomberg despite having lost a chunk of their valuation because of that article. Just saying.
Uber creates AI to generate data for training other AI models
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> Unless you need docker-compose!

There's a solution for that :) (Note: still somewhat beta quality)

https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
> it's a project they contribute to.

One hell of an understatement. Search for Apache Arrow and look at the top results.
I'm not so sure it's falling afoul of 'not-notable' so much as WP:COI.
Z-wave takes less time to get working and once it does it stays working. I've bought Wifi switches that worked for as little as 2-3 months before dying. I've never had a Z-wave device die. Zigbee maybe be open but if it can't penetrate walls then it's just not worth the hassle.
I will no longer install apps on my phone to pair devices. The reason is that then everyone wants to link my phone number to the device and create an account. There is nothing that intrinsically says they have to, but companies cannot resist asking for a unique identifier that happens to be linked to everything else in your life. No thank you.
How about a version to try out right in web browser? PWA maybe?
The fed purchased long term assets like mortgage backed securities to provide liquidity and relief to corporations that held too much bad debt on their balance sheets. This provided immediate relief for distressed institutions.

The fed also expanded the balance sheet by selling long term bonds, which offered relatively lower rates in comparison to short term notes and bills, this provided the cash infusion needed for QE to stimulate the economy.
> But you ignored the whole actual line of argument around the guns used for defense, so you could get a little snipey comment in here.

What argument negates the fact that owning a gun is dangerous for the owner, in some of the exact ways a gun is meant to defend against (and some of the ways rural men seem to think they're immune to)?

> Seriously, everyone knows that epidemiological studies, and even case control studies suck, in large part because of just how prone they are to finding associations that are actually caused by unmeasured factors that affect multiple measured variables.

What superior alternative are you proposing?

> And if you're going to buy a weapon just for suicide, everyone knows a rifle is less convenient than a handgun and only equally effective.

Again, this is precisely one of the reasons why I recommend owning a 22 bolt action.
In no way am I saying the business has _nothing_ to do with the product. Simply that it’s probably far less than the developer in many of us wants to accept.
The content of these blogs is going to slide now that those responsible for them don't have a personal stake in them.

Or the content will improve because they have a professional stake in them.
Oh it's so much worse than that. Swivel-chair / copy-paste integrations are often a better solution than RPA in today's world.

It was one thing scripting mainframe terminals, but the equivalent today are SaaS apps. The major enterprise vendors like Salesforce are pretty good about roadmaps and release schedules, but a lot of the smaller ones work on more of a continuous deployment model. This means your RPA integrations are constantly breaking, and suddenly you have to hire a whole bunch of RPA analysts to deal with fixing them. Or you can just hire a few more data entry people to do it manually.
It's not "out of their hands", they're just borrowing it.
Paxos Lecture
Not only that, they denied Lee the chain-of-command, plausible deniability shielding that top level leaders usually get:

"While Lee claims there were many areas he did not know much about, [we] cannot give him immunity only due to the fact that [he] was not aware of the peripheral areas," the judge in the case said.
If he wasn't a traitor then he wouldn't have fled to Daddy Putin's arms and don't act like I'm wrong because that's the same thing Hillary Clinton said during her campaign. Then you have Trump who as Putin's asset would jump at the chance to pardon Snowden if he wasn't 100% criminal. The only politicians who support Snowden are Putin assets like Tulsi Gabbard who is actively trying to subvert the Democratic Party. That's why Wikileaks lied about the DNC subverting the election because actually it was Russia. Next thing you know the Russia controlled Libertarian Snowden defenders and jokes like Ron Paul will be in control of the United States of Russia. You should watch the news and be aware of all of this, but I guess HN is just a breeding grounds for fake news stories.
British Columbia’s essential prohibition on Uber/Lyft definitely propped up car2go/Evo.
> There are seniority based unions, and there are merit based unions.

In my observation (going by reports from both my own teachers back in the day and from friends and family members who are teachers), teachers' unions are squarely in the former category. Tenured teachers get raises, competent teachers get pink slips.
There was a podcast I listened to years ago that stuck with me. Every time it comes up I vow to find a link but never get around to it.

The guest proposed a model of software features and why “agile” fails for a lot of people. On a two dimensional graph of difficulty and profitability, everyone avoids the high effort, low value quadrant. That’s a no brainer.

Problem is a lot of policy ends up avoiding the high-effort column entirely.

Low-effort features are only short term differentiators, if even that. They offer no long term viability.

To have features your competitors don’t have is going to take real work.

The only loophole I know for this is if my code quality is good, what is a moderate effort feature for me may be a high effort feature for you. If my pockets are deep I can just run my competitor down, by setting an agenda they can’t afford.
>UAC is even more useless, it just tells you "Do you want to allow xyz to make changes to your computer", without telling you what any of those changes or permissions are.

The UAC prompt is essentially "sudo" - it grants root to whatever program is running. You really can't really implement a more granular permissions system without significant engineering effort, because you need to ensure that granting one permission doesn't result in privilege escalation. For instance, granting permissions to modify Program Files/Windows directory can be abused to get steal permissions from other applications, by replacing existing executables with malicious ones.

>Android permission prompts are way better.

Not really comparable because "regular" Windows programs aren't sandboxed. So they kinda already all the android "permissions" already (eg. contacts - they can simply read off disk). A better comparison would be root, which essentially has the same ux as Windows UAC.
No one is stopping anyone from making side money doing freelance work. Vox just has to play by the rules that every other company does.
> And because the UI for revoking access to individual files would be a complete nightmare, there's no UI pathway either.

Why would this be a complete nightmare? There's no way to override a permission that's been granted to your ancestor - so why shouldn't the OS be able to remove the flag when you remove the permission in Settings? Why shouldn't the OS be able to maintain the invariant between the permissions dialog and the on-disk representation, given that the on-disk representation can only be set by the OS? That's just sad.
Perhaps it is an "anti-brain hacking" mechanism essentially where not being swayable at the wrong moment kept them collectively from getting killed in band vs band conflicts? Which is sadly is more "prevent it from getting hacked again thing".

Also past evolutionary importance of course doesn't tell us much about the how relevant it is in the here and now. Smallpox resistance for example doesn't mean anything after we eradicated the illness after centuries of effort.
I think all current and ex Microsoftees can agree (and probably other workers in Big Tech Corp) that this is not only obvious but ongoing and dastardly resilient to getting solved! At some level this must be a sociological thing because humans seem to be hardwired into repeating this mistake.

This happens at smaller companies in smaller ways but the effect is the same.

It's worse than the "Mythical Man Month" in that production is not simply slowed down but it is slowly made rotten until it gets burned, buried, or passed off to out-sourced maintenance.
Corporations have no such obligation. This is an imaginary and destructive construct. Destructive because mandating this, forcing it, does nothing less than destroy jobs and even entire industries. How much more evidence of this do people need before they realize we are destroying ourselves from the inside?

The consequences of the $15 per hour minimum wage will be felt in due time. Anyone running a business in the context of a global economy knows this with absolute certainty.

This isn’t about greed, it’s about a mathematical reality and a destructive positive feedback loop: We keep doing one dumb thing after another to push jobs, businesses and industries towards China. Our consumers lose jobs and income and, as a result, apply downward pricing pressure to the goods and services they consume. Sector by sector, over time, pricing structures become such that it is impossible for these businesses to exist in the US or Europe. The Chinese government knows this, they apply further pricing pressure and very soon they own one sector after another. And so continues our positive feedback loop, deepening economic wounds that assure bad long term outcomes.

I really wish we actually taught kids from K-12 and into university a lot more about business and entrepreneurship. It is truly sad to watch young adults get behind some of the most destructive ideas this nation has had at the table in quite some time.

Simple example: Medicare for All.

Despite what people believe, this is already the largest private property grab by a government in, perhaps, world history. It certainly will be if we end up with Medicare for All.

Why?

Because Medicare is NOT insurance!!! After 55 years if age YOU OWE THE GOVERNMENT FOR EVERY PENNY OF MEDICAL CARE YOU RECEIVE.

Don’t take my word for it, read this and do your own research:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-medicaid-recover...

So, if everyone was on Medicare/Medicaid the government would eventually have liens and the power of asset forfeiture on EVERY ESTATE IN THIS NATION.

Now, stop and think about that for a moment before you support politicians using the general ignorance of facts by the public to generate votes. This is a travesty, and everyone supporting it is a participant in what would be the largest private property grab by a government in history.

Think.
makes sense to me!
... for a few, and unemployment for more. I'm calling out the quiet part. It's easy to say "This will lead to better jobs available." It's not as easy (but should be required) to say "... but not for everyone, and a bunch of people will be completely out of work."
PewDiePie shows how difficult it is to take a break from YouTube
Wow. This is what a functioning criminal justice system looks like. Meanwhile the co-founders of the opioid epidemic, which has killed at least 150,000 people, paid a few million dollars in fines.
This rarely works. And it's not the company that would lead such a lawsuit, it's the shareholders.
I don't agree that companies should have a responsibility to provide a minimum standard of living. Not because I don't think people should have a minimum standard of living, but because I don't think it makes sense to push that responsibility onto tens of thousands of entities that have different financial situations and structures.

Far better would be for the government to take care of this (via single-payer health insurance, possibly even something like UBI), and tax companies an appropriately higher amount in order to fund it. This would of course require a major overhaul of the tax code in order to eliminate loopholes that allow companies to hide revenue/income and dodge paying their fair share.

Given all the issues around this in the first place, it is clear that expecting companies to provide for their employees isn't working. AB5 is just a band-aid that treats the symptoms and not the cause, and comes with a ton of negative unintended consequences.

As much as I don't like how Uber/Lyft run their businesses (and yet I still use them), they have completely revolutionized (in a good way) how I get around my city. Every driver who I've talked to about AB5 has reacted negatively to it. Either they believe it'll be the end of Uber/Lyft, or they just point out they won't want to drive for them anymore because their flexibility will be destroyed.
Why should the government get in the middle between people who want to freelance at a rate they negotiate and Vox?

Because we, as a society, decided decades ago that this is important to do for the good of the nation and that's why it was codified into law.
Because it's actually a pretty big deal for the (python) data science ecosystem.
If we're paying on an individual basis, I want to pay based on my physical health. We'd still pay out the ass because people don't take care of themselves here - it's not healthcare, it's sickcare. People go to the hospital when their bodies start to die and that's why your hospital bill is enormous until the insurance company comes back and says "$25,000? We'll allow $1,200. And we'll pay $800 of it. Here's your bill for $400 - you're welcome."

I'm tired of this model too. People should pay what they're costing. It's just that, the costs should be reasonable. I work out, I eat extremely healthy, I'm never sick, and I don't require medication to keep my heart pumping. Why am I still paying a fortune on healthcare, including premiums and deductibles? I have a great insurance plan, ffs!
I'm sure an order of magnitude more of "hundreds" of companies use paperclips.
Seems like an overly simplistic view. If you take your logic to the extreme why have taxes/government at all. It’s interesting to see people complain about government but never take action on making their government better. The saying you get the government you deserve rings true here.
Why can’t there be an independent party with top secret clearance do a code inspection and see if the hypothetical theory holds water? It seems like there should be a way to testify about it without compromising secrets.
Have you got an example?
How did you come up with the opinion that their customer service was bad? It is not my experience with them.

> Good riddance.

Like they deserve to have to stop their service in NA?

> soapbox shaped small cars

Smart cars.
In my opinion, "move fast and break things" turned out to be one of the more corrosive and harmful philosophies to come out of SV.
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<slow blink>, yes, we know that the best funded arms restriction organization in the world recommends tighter gun restrictions. Obviously.

I have to say: I think that you have stopped making sense or putting in any effort to this discussion so I'm just going to move on.
That's encroaching into a false comparison. Is the money politician's 'waste' any less in the economy than the money the corporations spend? Of course not, it's still going to trade hands after leaves the government.

I feel there are two real issues here that the article (which is mostly just click bait) doesn't get into.

1. Are any of the companies violating current tax code? (i.e if they actually owe more taxes then the IRS should intervene)

2. How are they achieving these low tax rates? And when/should we fix the possible loopholes.

It's really stupid to get mad at companies following the letter of the law. We should be made at the politicians who refuse to close the holes. And who knows, if it results in companies just spending/reinvesting more money to still avoid taxes than at least it's more in line with the intent of the tax code.
You're saying if Google is powerful, it might do something bad.

That's of course true, but it's also true of Turkey.

To me, having many actors with limited power is better than having a few with lot of power.
The arithmetic vs. geometric mean distinction is a good one to note. Since you mention risk-adjusted return, do you favor any particular approaches to optimization? ReSolve makes a pretty strong case for numerical optimization, summarized by this decision tree based on prior beliefs:

https://twitter.com/gestaltu/status/1044977487556595714
I thought 25 was chosen because that's when brain development is mostly completed.
Except that there are 49 other states that don’t have meddlesome legislation like this.
I remember reading if you drag an NSAttributedString with background/foreground color, that will change your terminal colors too.
So wait, is throwaway2048 correct that this type of analysis misses companies who dropped out? Or are the gross return numbers including selling the shares of 'leaving the index' companies at a loss? I would imagine the latter and so his point is wrong, but I'm open to being corrected
Education is a very "enterprisey" market in which the purchasers are not the users, who are essentially powerless.

Pearson doesn't need to deliver quality, they need to deliver functional + whatever sweetener on the rest of the contract to keep out the competition.
This is a great comment; I'll just add one other thing, which is something I've mentioned before in arguments about Wikipedia: Wikipedia's goal is verifiability, NOT truth. "Truth" is explicitly a non-goal of the Wikipedia project. For any given subject, Wikipedia is not meant to provide the truth about that subject, it's meant to be a summary and distillation of the existing reliable sources about it. If there are none, that's neither Wikipedia's fault nor its problem.

You can take issue with this goal, but that's how it works, and it's also how encyclopedias have always worked.
While that hurt car2go, I think Uber/Lyft would have ultimately killed them in Toronto anyway.
They had some incident earlier in the year where 100 Mercedes went missing in Chicago. I can't find the article that described it but apparently it was a wild night.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/transportation/twenty-one-ch...
It's certainly written very carefully to avoid saying anything. My interpretation is much simpler:

"We can't compete, so we're leaving."
Other industries employ a significantly larger amount of people. Ford has 85,000 employees. Facebook has 35,000.

It's a wealth concentration issue.
> The thing about statistics is that they have causes. More people having guns causes more criminals to be shot (or, better yet, deterred), but also more accidents.

Actually, people tend to more often die of homicide if they own a gun.
Keep in mind that these are cherry-picked, they only include American returns. The 20th century was an exceptional one for the United States. The 21st century may also be, but you should definitely be diversifying globally.

The worst case return definitely isn't on this list, it's the returns from 1914 Germany, which didn't break even until 2014...
I'd love to see this plugged in to a tool that asks 1) What allocation percentage of stocks/bonds do you want, 2) What length of period in years (i.e. 20 years, 40 years), 3) What confidence level (50%, 75%, 90%) and yields what APY you can expect. (The higher the confidence, the lower the APY.)

I'm still convinced that the general advice out there is highly out of whack, and that someone's expected returns should be very low. I'm currently modeling under 2% (post-inflation, more like 4% with) for the future, for a simple allocation model and a 10-year window.
Disconnecting healthcare from employment would be such a boon to small businesses too.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to ban other options, but it'd be great if everyone was covered by default.
They pulled out of Minneapolis a few years ago in part because the state wanted to charge them the state rental car tax of something like 14%.
I fix computers in my neighborhood. When someone approaches me they say, "hey, I need this fixed. How much will that cost?" I give them a price, then I fix it, then they pay me. End of transaction. That's as complicated as a market needs to be for things like this.

The government has nothing to do with the market. They exist to complicate it and take their cut.
Hopefully this will clear at least some of the Gödelian misconceptions that pop up from time to time here
Good, imagine trying to ensure your employees are powerless. Disgusting. Unions empower employees.
The title on HN apppears to have been altered to leave out the substantive part. The purported cause is unions.

" Teachers Pay High Fees for Retirement Funds. Unions Are Partly to Blame. "
That is the best book anyone has ever loaned me and some day I plan on returning it.
Everyone has an agenda. What agenda do you think I'm pursuing?

Do you think it's one of harm-reduction? Or legalization in pursuit of business opportunities? Or legalization for recreation? Or for medicinal use? Or is my agenda that I have another product in mind that solves all of these things without the side effects of marijuana?
as far as i know this is still supported.

i know this option has existed till atleast 2008.
> The rate of overall marijuana use held steady for high school students who reported using it once or more over the past year, but there was an uptick in daily use.

Marijuana use has NOT increased and more teens are vaping instead of smoking, consuming it in safer ways than ever before. Sounds like great news. Too bad the headline is clickbait bullshit.
Is there no ZipCar in Portland? When I lived in Seattle I didn't need to own a car because ZipCar filled in the gaps where transit wasn't appropriate.
The link on that page is missing an 'n'. This one works: https://transfer.midrive.io/
I guess maybe if I consulted with a CA company? Or rather, maybe they would choose not to offer consulting under the new rules? Seems like an overreach, and ironic that it was targeting the very companies that started in CA and disrupted the world (uber/lyft/airbnb etc)
> I am not a doctor but from what I have been reading, consuming THC on a regular basis before 21 (the commonly accepted age for the latest stage of brain development) is definitely a bad idea, as it will prevent the endocannabinoid system to develop correctly.

I've been smoking every day since I was 19 (currently 31), and my endocannabinoid system seems perfectly fine. Most of my peers have the same story, or have been smoking daily for longer. I think what you've been reading is incorrect. For future reference, I've noticed when people begin a sentence with "I am not a [lawyer|doctor|engineer]", they are typically incorrect.
Diversification only works under specific assumptions, it’s far from a universal benefit.

Low transaction fees being an obvious example. If moving from one asset category to another involved paying high taxes, it’s very rarely worth it.
Merriam-Webster is a popular a publisher of American-English dictionaries: emphasis on American. It also had a significant role in shaping American-English as distinct from British-English. E.g. removal of the letter u in British-English words like colour. Or, the unsuccessful campaign to spell the word acre as aker.
Ugh. So much text when the headline is a simple question.

Did they give an estimated year?
As a US citizen, I'm jealous they take corporate malfeasance seriously.
Are you saying that there is a huge untapped arbitrage opportunity?