skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I worked for BlackRock for about 3 years on an investment team (but its been a while and I don't have a dog in this fight)

BlackRock is a very simple business to understand. First, they only investment money on behalf of their clients and they take investment fees for making decisions on behalf of their clients (investing their money).

They break the business in to two parts:

Alpha: old school mutual funds, new school quant funds, real estate etc. Anything where managers get paid big bucks to make investment decisions on behalf of clients.

Beta: passive investment vehicles that blackrock tries to deliver for the lowest price with lowest tracking error (i.e. deliver as close to what the index returns as possible).

What BlackRock is doing here, is a VERY, VERY big deal. They are allowing clients to now pick passive investment strategies which exclude coal or other businesses that people find morally objectionable. What that means is that if you care about the environment you can move your money to these new passive investments. As more and more people do it, it will decrease demand for equity in those companies and increase their cost of capital.

On the active side, they already had that feature, and many of their clients already ask BlackRock to exclude investments from their active portfolios and were willing to accept less return. (BlackRock has offered that for a very long time).

I find very few things interesting that asset managers do, but I am going to look at all my passive investments and try to get them moved over. I bet passive funds without coal etc. will outperform while more and more people move money from vanilla S&P500 to S&P500 without coal.

Eventually those coal companies may fall out of indexes all together which will really increase their cost of capital.

Brilliant move by Fink, and I applaud it.
Neat! I've actually never had a problem with the delay in VS Code, and 10ms is basically the way I like it anyways (immediate).

Some people might still be annoyed by the code completion menu placement, which isn't configurable (yet).
My understanding is that this process was driven largely by pressure from the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Really not that easy to release a PDK and get the industry familiar with it particularly for anything that is high speed analog.
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Tom Kurz talks about this (the relationship between stretching and strength) in "Stretching Scientifically". Generally you weaken the muscle when you stretch it so its important to combine stretching with strength training. Static stretching is pretty mild though.

also re: Yoga ... there's lots of Yoga practices that combine strength with flexibility... Yoga tends to pop up as something that has been proven to be beneficial for back pain while pretty much everything else is as good as placebo (including surgical intervention).

People that sit all day tend to have shorter hamstrings (because the muscle is contracted all day) so I think stretching is important. An imbalance in leg muscles can tilt your pelvis and propagate up to your back...
Lightning cables are by far the most fragile. Either they get frayed, tarnished, or just plain stop working.

Edit: it's not just me, a simple Google search turns up the following: [0]. Apple phone/tablet hardware is great but the cables they ship are unfortunately not very good.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/these-are-the-lowest-rated-product...
You're right about the conflicting goals. But if you look at the trends in recent years, it's clear it is moving to get off of fossil fuels. It's just going to take many years to turn that huge ocean liner around.
Denver and, as far as I can tell, people keep moving to Austin.
And where does that $45B evaporate to? They will invest that money somewhere, which can spur on Australian business. Even if they don't invest it, it'll still be in a bank account, which means that it can still be loaned and invested. The only way I can think of where it wouldn't benefit Australia is if the investors of the mining companies are not from Australia or don't invest it in Australia.

>because the companies have massive tax holidays and find ways to legally avoid the upside.

Another thing to note is that quite often the way companies legal avoid taxes is by investing that money instead of taking out profits. That's still beneficial for Australia. The world doesn't only revolve around how much people pay income taxes.
those poor VCs, how can they live on 52M
Let me just preempt the whole comment thread:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

https://thebestmotherfucking.website (actually significantly worse)

https://bestmotherfucking.website (the best design of the lot)

and probably other niche ones
Please let’s not have politicians legislate connector hardware. People can vote with their wallets, Android has settled on USB-C and has captured a lot of market share. The market is working here.
Who's investigating the reasons behind all the burnout and erosion everywhere ?
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Trying to understand Plaid's business model. Seems like they suck financial data from brick and mortar banks like Wells Fargo, then offer it to anyone via web API. Few questions

1. What is the bank's incentive to allow Plaid access to their data?

2. How did Plaid compete with whatever solution companies like Mint.com were already using to access financial data?
The Glass is half empty
The reason i was referencing export % vs production % is that a change in the availability of coal for import would change the market price differently than if we assumed that all coal produced is available on the international market (which is false).

But yes 6% in absolute terms is worth caring about.
Yes, that's what the USB working group needed. A larger committee, with a new entrant telling them they're all wrong, dragging them through the gravel until they submit.

Better to crush them in the market.
In no way do these people disprove the argument or other EMH-like arguments (efficient market hypothesis).

In many random distributions, if you sample enough you're going to get outcomes at the tails.
Actually I am wrong. NSA divested their fab a while ago. Instead they use the Trusted Foundry Program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program
I picked up a pair of AirPods Pro a bit ago, and was surprised to see a Lightning connector. Not only that, but the included cable was USB-C to Lightning.

I don’t know why they bothered at all, honestly.
Yes, my point is just that the one-dimensional "raise prices on bad stuff" strategy invites circumnavigation efforts which make it ineffective. Tariffs for economically punishing bad actors is a useful tool in the right scenarios.
Once one's basic needs are met, which has a upper limit on how much needs to be purchased, what else is there to buy? In the olden days people needed to buy things to keep themselves entertained, but in this day of age we just hop onto the internet for free (effectively).
Government mandated technology. What could go wrong?
Not really. As someone pointed out above, cables wear out fast. It's not like you're going to save the planet by buying one cable that will last the rest of your life. Most people go through several cables over the lifespan of a device anyway.

What it does sound like a good way to get stuck with an obsolete and substandard cable format forever, because once the One True Cable Design is mandated by government fiat, changing it to something else is going to be hell.
The "Gig Economy" will ultimately go down in history as one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the broader public.
I have lived with both the UK and the "Euro" "standardish" 2 pin with earth on the outside plug for my formative years. I'm a UK army brat.

I'll take the UK plug any day. It is bigger by far in two unimportant dimensions but thinner by far in the important one. The chord runs downwards on all UK plugs not at 90 degrees to the wall by default but I will accept that many Euro plugs also run downwards.

A UK plug is a big old beast which means it is easy to wire and it does not wobble and is very safe to insert and remove. The long earth prong of the UK plug makes it easy to insert even when blind/blinded.
> kids whose parents delay kindergarten a year to make them better at sports

Unrelated, but could you explain this?
>Larry Fink sent a strongly worded letter about how companies needed to make society better

On the topic of executives needing to improve society, Fink here was important in the creation of the MBS market.
Just a random note, I recently switched VSCode to a white background and loving it! I guess, I'm over dark mode everything. For me it seems to help focus better to code on white background.
This is a nice guide for people who are interested in this much effort to get to the facts. They would also be willing to spend the time. Though most people don't have time/willingness/discipline to read the entire article, let alone take the advice. Most people look at something, apply their own mental filter, and react.

I remember seeing much of the 3rd party advertising/viral posts during the 2016 election and seeing that much of it was obviously troll bait trying to get people to fight. After flagging several items on Facebook, the feedback I received (from Facebook) was that it was legitimate content and they had no intention of removing it. Later, my suspicions were confirmed when I watched the news about the Russion campaign to affect the election and saw images from the exact same content I reported to Facebook.

During that time, I also noticed that people consistently shared that content, regardless of it obviously (to me anyway) of being fake. BTW, it was coming from all sides of the political spectrum by people I regard as being intelligent. People were too willing to re-post/share/retweet something that supports their world-view without verifying the veracity of the content.

A few people might read this article and be more informed and have valuable tools to bring them closer to the truth, but many more will keep doing what they do today.
Neither of you two provided a source, so I would tend to not believe either statement.

I think society will learn to handle fake news in precisely this way.

Worrying, however, is when the academic research that is given as a source, is guided by ideology rather than by empiric research.

And there seem to be more and more such cases.
Well, FWIW even without these kinds of forcing, Apple still will move on to the USB-C connector... USB-C is literally an Apple designed port. The iPad Pro is adopting USB-C, I suspect that the next generation of iPhones will also adopt USB-C. It's just that the current market of lightning is too big and they weren't prepared for the overhaul yet.
Yes, well said. Government enforced constraints can foster economic culture shifts too.
YMMV, anecdotal, etc. but my Apple-brand cables have never done this, while some walmart $5 ones have.
Anything specific you would like to point to that is good?
The ones that Apple sells, at least. The braided cables are seriously durable.

My favorite variant, though, are the magnetic Lightning chargers you can get for basically nothing on Aliexpress. Never have to worry about plugging in/unplugging your phone ever again; just put it into your phone once, and then whenever you need to charge just connect the magnetic cable to it.
Lightning is smaller, case closed.
>> There's just too many drivers I think.

That's fascinating. Seems like the free market really would drive the wage to 0. DoorDash's "innovation" is the black box to obscure the fact. If they paid more fairly like their competitors, they wouldn't be growing as fast.

Seems kindof like a cyberpunk future, with corporations negating regulations through advanced technology. Also in those cyberpunk futures, society breaks down into a lonely free-for-all, where the poor masses escape drudgery by playing with high-tech entertainment fantasies like games and VR and ...

oh wait...
In my case had to do with diet. Eating food I was allergic to being careless caused kidneys stones that the doctors could not detect. MRI, X-ray had it all done after two years saw a natural path gave me kidney stone cocktail, pushed out some kidney stones and been back pain free for 7 years now
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I would be all for it, as long as there was some strong and small magnetic Qi charger that allows you to charge while using the phone at the same time as you hold it in one hand. Maybe it already exists, in which case, great, I am all for it already.
$45 billion in 1913 would be $1,179 billion today purely through inflation. Money that's available right now can be invested to make life better in the long run. That's why governments usually borrow money.

I think it's not that straightforward of a situation.
British intelligence secretly funded Reuters in 1960s and 1970s
Patriotic to "China," yes, but those in ROC who believe in "one China" in general don't support the PRC. There is some talk of reunification but even among the pan-Blue, it is generally assumed that reunification would only be possible if the communist party in PRC collapsed.

Even older generations do not support reunification, at least in any specific sense, if I understand correctly.
It only means that device makers will have to agree on a new standard before they can drop the previous one. I agree that it will slow down things, but there is no chicken and egg problem.
Yes but those voluntary hours are necessary signaling to justify one's place in the contemporary social order. Without them, someone's peers might think them undeserving of their salary and/or status. So they wouldn't want to be the one VP at the company who has adequate leisure time, fulfills family obligations, and regularly gets a full night's rest. Or if they are somehow that person, they keep quiet about it!

I began typing this intending it to be sarcastic, but at its conclusion, I am no longer certain about that.
I remember picking it up after LotR because I loved Blind Guardians concept album masterpiece “Nightfall in Middle-Earth” about it. I ended up enjoying the Silmarillion quite a bit more than the main trilogy (and am not alone in that). What was crucial for me was printing the family trees and maps and putting them somewhere closeby (e.g. a wall) for quick reference.
When people think about using computers for Natural Language Processing, they often think about end-tasks like classification, translation, question answering, and models like BERT that model the statistical regularities in text. However, these tasks only measure indirectly how much the system has understood the meaning of the text, are largely unexplainable black boxes, and require reams of training data.

NLP is good enough that we can now explicitly measure how well a system reads text in terms of what knowledge is extracted from it. This task is called Knowledge Base Population, and we've released the first reproducible dataset called KnowledgeNet that measures this task, along with an open source state-of-the-art baseline.

Direct link to the Github repo: https://github.com/diffbot/knowledge-net
EMNLP paper: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-1069.pdf
It's bullshit as far as I can see.

Most Android flagships with Type-C are either similar or thinner than the iPhone (Samsung S10 for example which is 7.8mm and Moto Z3 is 6.8mm!).
Indeed, or the result of some specific starting conditions in the early universe.

But I must assume that these cosmologists have already considered and discarded that. I'd just like to be able to read more about why that guess doesn't fit what they're observing.
>Well, congrats, you have defined what a personality is.

That's still worth it, especially if people think personality can't be defined, or needs tons more subtly to define (whereas I did it at a specific abstraction level) or that people are unpredictable, so there's no "static personality" etc.

Against all of those approaches, I make a statement that personality exists, and there are certain types of people, and that it's still worth it to classify them in a few simplistic inflexible groups personality-wise -- subtlety is not necessary for many purposes.

>The whole point is that the colors thing is BS. Humans are much more complex than that.

Which is neither here nor there. Complexity is only relevant based on the abstraction level on wants to work with, and what they want to use the model for.

Same way that real-world physics are also much more complex than Newtonian model, but for tons of purposes the Newtonian calculations are just fine (and we can even use vastly simplified constants, like PI with just 4-5 digits) in our calculations and still do fine.

>That can easily happen, depends on the context.

Depends on how often it happens. If it can happen, but 9/10 times it doesn't it still totally worth abstracting someone as "analytic, careful, meticulous" for predictive purposes -- you'll be right 9 times out of 10, which can give a huge advantage over other approaches...
From Australia to Chile, a visualization of the distribution of wildfire smoke
Is it meaningfully smaller? Side by side, they look the same size to me.
Seems pretty easy and reasonable to write a wrapper function for mmap for all 3 OSes in common use...
In my experience, the connector has never been implicated in a failing Lightning cable; it’s always been the cable itself. By contrast, the average lifespan of a micro USB cable in my household is a couple months, before the connectors themselves get bent beyond repair.
Most of taiwan doesn’t want to be part of mainland.
> - spellcheck is always on, why learn real spelling when the computer fixes it for you?

Why is this a problem? Augmented spelling isn't bad, and you still have to know the differences between similar correctly spelt words. Learning Chinese, I de-empahsized writing them by hand and being able to write them on computer instead, you still need to know about them, what they look like and how they sound, but the muscle memory isn't necessary.

> - The de-emphasis on handwriting is mentioned in the article. In-class assignments are still handwritten, but take-home projects can be typed.

As a lefty I would have loved this. Our handwriting is already worse because our hand is occluding what we are writing. I got plenty of flack for it in elementary school (to the point that some teachers thought I should I should use my "right" hand instead). The computer was a great equalizer to me, which is one of the reasons I got into them in the first place.

As for the screen time issue, I'm more worried about their eye health, but ya, it is an issue all of us parents are facing these days.
The MTA's Second Avenue line in New York comes out to more than AU$2Bn per km, on my reckoning (US$2.6Bn/mile). It's the current world champion for expensive holes.

The fact is that megaprojects basically never come in anywhere near their schedule or budget. That's because of a selection bias. When you crunch the numbers honestly, megaprojects come out as a terrible on a cost-benefit or ROI analysis. The ones that get built are built by people who choose to ignore the honest figures in favour of the shiny, optimistic ones. Et voila, another farce.

There are lots of other factors, but that's the core one that precedes the others.
I was thinking they might keep the lightning standard until they would finally remove all connectors from iPhones. But then the whole AirPower charging pad didn’t work out, so not sure why they wouldn’t switch over finally.
Isn't the issue that Apple charges 3rd party manufacturers a licensing fee to use their proprietary designs? This raises antitrust issues (using dominance in one market to control another market).
> are you referring to the need to be invariant here

Yes, or contravariant.

> erased generics already break type safety

They don't, they just don't enforce type safety across languages. BTW, most languages erase types (including Haskell).

> Why doesn't that work?

Because platforms with safe casts do a runtime instanceof test, and if the platform reifies generics, then it is not true that the runtime type of Collection<Object> can be cast to Collection<String>. But if the generic parameter is erased, they both have the same runtime type.
More likely is that there is no objective "free" market. Is it more "free" to include pricing information from externalities (say with a carbon tax)? Or is it more "free" when those participating in the market are able to harm me without my consent through those externalities?

There's no ground standard for non-interference in the affairs of others.
Vim can be used to do that, but not by me. After 12 years of using vim through MIT and various software engineering jobs, I've accepted that it would take a person of my mental abilities waaaaaay too long to set up.

Or, can you recommend a good book on vim package management and debugging?
something tells me Europe doesn't care much about the limits and fallibility of regulation
It seems like it’s essential right now at least. The Apple Watch has a hidden lightning port that I have never even seen.
if He backed it up, presumably that's to restore the backup, so yes, we would exist, and we'd be happy about it since I'm already happy now.
https://youtu.be/l9ag2x3CS9M

One of the best visualizations I've come across of just how dominant the US industrial base was in the 1940s under full mobilization.
You can't make a determination of connector dimensions based on device specs, because they're not strongly correlated.

The simplest explanation is that Lightning came out before USB-C did, and Apple did not want to risk another PR backlash from getting everyone to move to it after they'd just switched from the 30-pin connector cable.
Direct link to repo: https://github.com/MasterScrat/Chatistics

I started this project years ago just to create word clouds - but it turned out it to be useful for many more things!

If you are interested in support for other platforms (Discord, Slack...), just create or subscribe to the relevant issue, we'll use them as a simple voting system: https://github.com/MasterScrat/Chatistics/issues
"The stigma around MSG fueled — or, perhaps, was fueled by — long-held racist stereotypes"

The term is a little outdated (I've never heard it before actually), but I see no racist stereotypes here. At the time the term was coined, I don't think there were very many Japanese restaurants around) and Americanized Chinese food has historically had tons of MSG.
But isn't that how USB and lots of standards are designed? Not political but still committees. It might not be perfectly elegant but at least it's a universal standard, which is the main point of it.

I don't want the return of Sony Memorysticks and all that nonsense as every company tries to be the winner. 18V powertool batteries currently suffer from pointless brand fragmentation even though they're all basically the same capability.
An interesting nugget in this otherwise okay article is the suggestion that DoorDash is still indirectly keeping customer tips, because orders with low/zero tips are more likely to get rejected which means that they will have to keep increasing the base price till a driver accepts it.

As a customer I suppose I should start adding tips only after the order is finished rather than when I place the order.
Just adding the many great tips here already. Crossing your legs while seated can
Wouldn't neglect from passive index investors simply mean that active investors pick up such undervalued assets themselves instead? I don't see this sort of divestment as fundamentally altering the price discovery aspects of the market. All that changes are which individuals (or institutions) benefit.
The MIC whispers in the ear of the movers and shakers of Washington to ensure conditions are good for business. General Eisenhower witnessed this happening. They are directly responsible for the last 100+ years of American military adventurism.
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