skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, reminds me of "Roam Research" which calls itself a tool for "networked thought" [1]

[1] https://roamresearch.com/
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Though this particular package doesn't, you can certainly derive confidence (or better, credible) intervals for non-normally distributed data.
At a previous job I had different Linux boxes I had to run a browser “on the box” through ssh connections. Both FF and Seamonkey have socks proxies in their UI so it was handy to have both to point to different machines.
Anecdotally most people I know who have made that move just want the modest home they couldn't afford in CA, not a mini-mansion. Many have realized that owning a huge house beyond your actual needs is a maintenance nightmare.
There's a price known as the "price of spousal consent." It's the price where you have to ask your spouse for "permission" to buy something. It's around $100.
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I sat in the same boat as OP and that page wasn't that helpful. It's starts backwards with

- How many of things I know nothing about should I have.
- Don't use this aspect in the thing, use the other.
…

And every article is a text wall of minutia addressing questions which are going to be relevant later on, but are just information overload if you try to understand What is it?
I think that is avoided because an annual-only plan at the bottom tier prevents you from charging monthly at higher tiers, or offering annual discounts.

Attempting to do both increases the complexity of your pricing scheme, and that translates to abandoned and lost sales. At least, that was my understanding of the reasoning.
The MER cost of an ETF could go below zero too. Many make some extra money from securities lending.

In theory a regular shareholder could earn this money too, but it's not worthwhile except at scale.

But I doubt anyone other than Vanguard would do this at scale.
Centrist political analysts of The Atlantic sort hate Twitter. They have to engage with the platform with their job and are constantly dunked on by the online left, who are far better at Twitter than they are.

The Twitter users are the same volunteers canvassing, phone banking, and donating to drive the left’s resurgent mass movement.

Also, note how the article accepted the Warren campaign’s story about Bernie Sanders making a sexist statement as a matter of fact.
This has been true for at least 2 years now, but readers here should have realized this in the past year. I am shocked this is on the front page of Hacker News.
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He's the CEO of the self driving car division. I'm pretty sure he's well aware of their tech.
Isn’t the point of the microphone to allow the speakers to adjust based on the placement of the other speakers in your toom?

Oh and also for alexa integration if you enable it?
Since when has VW been at the forefront of self driving cars? Is there a reason their insight would be especially accurate?

This just reflects VWs ideas to accomplish the goal... ie: they have none.

Let me know when Google says it's not possible.
Lived in Juneau Alaska years ago, and my first year there it rained every day except for three. Those three sunny days everyone called in sick and met down on the beach!
> The police proceeded to collect surveillance video from houses near the torched Accord, and noticed the suspects getting into an older model Honda CRV and a white pickup truck shortly after the failed robbery.

I suspect this will be enough in the future. Short of entering a rave and switching clothing, I can't see how you can avoid law enforcement following you from CCTV to CCTV.
I'm trying to avoid Google. Someone else said iCloud, but it's not very cross-platform.
What sorts of things do you track and model in Excel? I've been looking at fundamentals and the business landscape. What should I add?
Pedestrians are lumpy compared to cars however. Even the self driving car that hit a pedestrian, did identify the person.
A walk on a beautiful campus while going to work does not sound all that terrible. To your point, including free or reduced cost parking for staff and not students sounds reasonable.
100 years ago the difference in life expectancy between the wealthy and the working class was narrower.

With the much larger body of knowledge today around health & wellness combined with the fast growing anti-aging sector, the wealthy can afford lifestyle & healthcare options previously unavailable.

Here’s a Machiavellian question:

What does the National balance sheet look like if intervention leads to life expectancy of the poor matching that of the wealthy?

Is it a net positive or a net negative?

If it’s net negative, then will anything be done to change it or will it be conveniently ignored?

As price drops and efficacy grows for anti-aging lifestyle & active treatment options, surely it’s going to start having non negligible impact on the national balance sheet.

I wonder what contribution the relative physicality of employment( occupational health & safety risk) has on this result?

And can that be comparative physiological wear and tear be substantively changed?
Governments have retaliated against protesters for centuries. They don't need face recognition to do it. Even now, motivated individuals regularly identify and shame individuals involved in various public demonstrations. I find this fixation on the anti-protest use case of facial recognition to be very bizarre. Is a ban on smart doorbell cameras really going to prevent a state actor doing what it wants?
We have just started trying to answer this question on my team, and our first take at it is pulling out specific questions from various emails and conversation, and documenting them (in our wiki) as a decision to be made. We write up the question, various answers on the table, pros/cons for each, and then have a call to talk through them and decide. That decision is recorded on the wiki page, and we have a running log of the team's discussions and decisions.

There may be better ways, but it has done a number of things for us:

1) Improved our documentation of decisions.

2) Helped us pull focused, answerable questions our of free-ranging discussions.

3) Allowed everyone to have a voice, not just the people with vocal, strong personalities, as any one of us call just write up a page to discuss, and then set up a call to do so.
There are no brokerage fees anymore.

But fractional share ownership is not widely popular and would require an aggregator anyway.
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Please review the case of Elizabeth Warren. She became a Harvard professor by saying she's a native Cherokee.
I'm not sure that there's ever a turnkey method that will save you from needing to do a careful experiment and a careful analysis of the results.
Yeah, some guy named Elon might not agree.
I have smart lights in the bedroom. They come automatically as a light-alarm and it's fantastic. It would be hard to go back to waking up in the dark and turning on a massively bright light.

It's also remote controlled at night so I can turn it off from bed. These are all useful features.
In fairness, I think we want a panopticon. We just want to intentionally blind it when it comes to us; however, if there is evidence of a crime, I'm okay with accessing normally forbidden parts of the panopticon to find the wrong-doer. But yeah, they reach for too much power almost reflexively. IMHO every time law enforcement asks for more power, the people should be reflexively skeptical, even derisive. Tell me, are local police so bad at their job that they need these superpowers? This level of surveillance is akin to a WMD. They just don't need it and shouldn't get it, and should get punished (e.g. fired) for asking for it.
Fantastic.

How do you get the fund to vote on the investors behalf ?
The actual mechanics of owning the shares is incredibly complicated. It’s unlikely that any of us have index fund holdings that represent integer share counts.

Handling stocks when they move in and of the index without spiking the price is a finely calibrated, high skill trading desk action.
Well, now you have to visit Bielefeld if you'd like to see one :) But Hamburg and Lüneburg are also nice places to visit! I highly recommend!
You nailed it. Having encountered some of those kinds of agencies before—the other bad option seems better.

It just seems like we need to incentivize ourselves in the better direction all the incentives currently seem to lie in (at least what is coming to look like) the wrong places.
I find PayByPhone pretty convenient, especially now that it's got a few years of polish on the app. The key thing is that the signs are legible, and have the number you care about (parking zone?) right there in bold print. And hey, - at least that money isn't going to Impark.
There are other use cases than returns, sometimes it has to do with availability of funds or tax issues that constrain the possibilities. Even something as simple as the full spectrum of risk tolerances and time-horizons isn't well served by existing index retirement funds (they all skew to be highly risky and equity focused). It's better to have the running of an index fund be a separate service from the selection of its holdings or the choosing of goals. Right now if you have a slightly different goal than the horde, you can only go to expensive active funds, advisors, or spend a great deal of time self-managing.
If it was a Netflix competitor launching for $5 per month (and without the reputation of Disney), I might think that, but for Dropbox, especially if they have clearly different personal and business plans, I think people are smart enough to know they're just buying less storage.
I'm not naive enough to think any ban would be easy, but the logistics aren't insurmountable. There has been a ban on assault weapons before. Eventually, there must be legislation to reduce access to military-style assault rifles such as those used in mass shootings.
Feedback is welcome !
This is arguably one of the biggest competitive advantages Tesla has. For $47,000 I can get an EV from Tesla with a better self-driving system[1] than a $100k Audi, BMW, Mercedes, or Lexus. I haven’t pulled the trigger on a Tesla yet, but I can’t imagine paying $40,000+ on a new car that isn’t a Tesla right now. For many people Tesla has made EV and self-driving table-stakes and nobody else is delivering on that.

[1] Yes, I know about the accidents
98% of Top YC Companies by valuation use a .com domain
I was wondering about the statements here (2015) and they not only hold true but seem even higher for .com use in 2019:

Per: http://paulgraham.com/name.html

> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do.

Top 20: 100% (2019)

Top 32: 100% (2019)

Top 50: 98% (2019)

Top 100: 95% (2019)

(Twitch #21 actually owns twitch.com ... xendit #53 owns xendit.com .. cleartax owns cleartax.com ... quero owns quero.com )

Ref: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
I'm not a stats person! But I have been burned in real projects by doing the wrong thing. I just have learned --- the hard way --- to honestly appreciate it.
This laundry bag of personal grievances could only have made sense at a coffee machine on the premises. It is worthless in a public forum.
Level 5 means no human intervention, under any circumstance. Ice, snow, night, fog, unmarked roads, tunnels, mega-urban, isolated rural, parking lots/structures, etc, etc. I think he's correct. It's hard to think of any technology that works without human intervention whatsoever, no matter the conditions.

We've had autopilot for decades, we're certainly not flying planes without pilots. Or even getting them from runway to gate without humans. Nor is anyone claiming that pilot-less planes are coming soon.
good idea. i'd go further and advocate a government option for every utility-type service, like banking, internet, healthcare, etc. businesses would be free to compete with these government services, but they'd also provide a competitive anchor to help keep markets efficient.
> Plus, one have to draw a line somewhere on what to include (a Python interpreter? A Go version? awk and grep?), and third party vs in-house is a fairly robust one imo.

If your code/project/company uses the dependency in any way in production and it is not a part of the base system (which should be reproducibly installed), you include it; either in source or binary form.

Why is the size a problem? Developers should only be checking out once. If your repo hits the many-GiB mark, then you can apply more complex solutions (LFS, sparse, etc.) if it is a burden.
cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
The average investor’s portfolio wouldn’t be large enough for them “self host” their own index fund. Most people probably couldn’t afford to buy even 1 share of each of the underlying companies their index fund holds. There’s also a lot of work/judgment calls that are made in the rebalance process and with corporate actions and such. Granted, not nearly enough to justify most of the fees. But unfortunately (as it stands right now at least) the only way the index fund really works for retail investors is by way of pooling money.

All that being said, I’m optimistic someone can come along and find a way to shake the industry up. The status quo is great for the investment industry and pretty shit for everyone else. Tale as old as time.
One reason is because an individual investor has to go through a broker-dealer in order to trade and that usually has fees associated with it. If retail trade volume went up, you would see those fees rise.
Can we protect our selves by spacing fake accounts with our image? Could that confuse these systems?
Landlines are still expensive. You can easily shop around with cell service though, thanks to public management of the spectrum.
I think it is relevant, that you listed professions where

a) compensation is very high

b) hours of work cannot be 're-arranged' due to critical life-safety or court-rules.

Clearly, STEM Academia is not one the above (even though apprenticeship hours are grueling).

I presume there are other professions that do not compensate that well, but have similar 'cannot move dates' constraints.

And it would be interesting to see women participation rates on those.

Perhaps this is a specific factor that has gone received proper attention in various analysis.
i definetly feel in the wrong job and I want to change it, but in the meanwhile
For authors the access barrier is pretty high, IMHO. It seems like there are millions of authors and posts fighting for the top home page position. I once wrote a post because I thought Medium is a great platform to reach a lot of readers. It isn't. It took around two weeeks until I got the notice that my post is eventually being ignored because there are to many posts to be reviewed. What I understand. But this also means, Medium is not the platform that gives you millions of impressions in the blink of an eye.

Publishing on Medium on one side takes away the pain of hosting your stuff on your own premises. That's all. But - as far as I understand it - you need to put a lot of effort into writing dozens of posts before you are actually being considered from the "post-review-team". I would rather spend time and effort into SEO to push my self hosted content. Seems easier and more sustainable.
Ok, we switched to that from https://github.com/AidanRocke/AutoDiff. Thanks!
Did you try using keyless start from your phone? I’ve relied on this before when I forgot my key but I’d worry about lack of service making it ompossible to start my car.
This loss of privacy is just another consequence of our perpetual focus on and devotion to competition against each other -- everything gets weaponized. Privacy hinders the real game-changer, the weaponization of you.
Yes I agree to this. It has some very nice concepts which can be adopted to a software solution, but he designed it for his personal use.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04295 this paper is the statistical basis of time measuring in Julia. It is, at least a good read when trying to measure the execution of some program seriously at low level. It uses also a predictor of the estimate number of evaluations via a logistic function
Are you aware of a firm that offers free trading in fractional shares?
Thanks! Appreciate the links
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Exactly. Every payment has a transaction cost.
The past few days I keep thinking the noise cancellation is off and try to turn it on, only to find it is on. It’s almost as if turning on noise cancelling also turns on transparency mode. I hear the outside noise clearly, just at a different pitch or something.
oh, I will, I just don't want to end up in another shitty job like this. Unfortunately this is not an area for high quality tech companies id like to work for
> Both of which are more expensive and a bigger hassle for everybody.

That's the point. The university was crowing about how they deployed 40000 of these things already. They wouldn't be able to tow 40000 people as easily.
This article feels like a big reach. Airbnb wants to keep its platform from being used for sex work (in my opinion this is understandable as once a platform begins allowing "sex stuff" it easily gets pigeonholed into being that platform - think Tumblr or Craiglist personals). So their algorithms to prevent advertisement for sex work caused at least one false positive. This, according to the author, means we now have social credit scores a la Black Mirror. (and was the vandalism at the end really necessary?)
It's incredible they are still pushing to fly this plane without changing the plane itself (engines etc.). This is, as most software issues, an issue of trust. After Boeing killed almost four hundred people with an airplane they knew was unsafe we're supposed to trust the latest software update? Again? That's what they said after the first crash.

This is a prime example of software (these days sometimes called artificial "intelligence" or other nonsense) running amok and the dire consequences it can have.
well my job is not coding per se. it's more like handling third parties that actually do the code
For me 'family friendly' means
4-day or less work week, 6 hours a day.

Flexibility to take time off with a short notice, office politics that does not induce constant stress and suspicion of being stabbed in the back.

And being around your young children (before 7 years old), most of the time they are awake.
That's barely two applicants per opening? There is no way that's a technological problem.
notlukesky was talking about admissions to selective universities, not employment as a professor.

Following your tangent, yes, I have reviewed it, and not, she did not. There is no evidence, despite considerable review, that that happened, and you are repeating false propaganda.

Eg, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elizabeth-warren-wealthy-n... :

> But specific evidence that she gained her position at Harvard (at least in part) through her claims to Native American heritage is lacking. Warren denied applying for special consideration as a person of Native American heritage during her career, and when the matter was examined in 2012 in response to Brown’s claims, people with whom Warren had worked similarly denied her ancestral background’s factoring into the professional opportunities afforded her ...

> In the most exhaustive review undertaken of Elizabeth Warren’s professional history, the Globe found clear evidence, in documents and interviews, that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty, which voted resoundingly to hire her, or by those who hired her to four prior positions at other law schools. At every step of her remarkable rise in the legal profession, the people responsible for hiring her saw her as a white woman.
Please don't editorialize titles. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Submitted title was "Richest people in US andUK live 7-9 years longer without disability than poorest".
Thinking of this is important, especially as you've framed the need to think of consequences of your actions. I've been working on this issue and trying to educate myself on the topic by learning more about systems. I often come up with something different from the accepted expectations of the "good" things to do. So my short answer is that you think and act locally first rather than try to do something top-down for the entire world (where scaling and other effects can produce unexpected results). Here's some of my writing on this: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
Here's a summary of his entire background in order: Formula 1 engineer for many years; Technical director for a Le Mans Prototype vehicle; Head of VWs self driving division for the past 1 year.

He has no software background... he specializes in making gas cars go fast. He has no idea how to make a self driving car.. and honestly, why would we think he would? He hasn't exactly been pioneering vision systems, or anything else related to the tech.
I don't know the situation, but I could easily imagine parking violations being common where parking is inadequate. Instead of improving the situation, the school simply rakes in money.
If you have any interest whatsoever in liberal arts ( Geisteswissenschaften), you should really have a look at Luhmann. Maybe peek into "Einführung in die Systemtheorie". I found him to be one of the most insightful sociologists of recent times.
So, considering the accidents, maybe Tesla is "better" at self-driving in the same way Intel was better at speculative execution before they had to patch it.
Yeah, but further down in the article it mentioned that students illegally parked junkyard cards to get booted so that all the boots would be in use when the cops found someone's actual vehicle they wouldn't have any boots left.
If you're driving around in a private vehicle as a college student you're probably already pretty privileged.

There's no way in a million years I could have afforded my own car as a student.
Sorry, I used 8M people as the denominator for growth instead of 3.5M units, so it's more like 0.7%
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>to my first disappointment, it wasn't wireless. You had to plug an Ethernet cable

I've had the exact opposite where devices that could easily have had Ethernet (i.e. enough space on the device) were Wi-Fi only >:(

For stationary devices, Ethernet seems perfectly fine to me. Why force me to use Wi-Fi?
But this is not supposedly true for index funds by definition. They are passive. They just buy whatever is in the index. No other decisions made.
Even assuming that the concept of "game" would exist elsewhere seems like a ridiculous assumption. All of the things you are saying, even "purely mathematical" are just reflections of the way humans sense the world. Any alien species you are imagining here is just a reflection of mankind.

Anyway, since probably won't know anytime soon, and perhaps never, this kind of speculation is a bit useless. But if we ever found an alien species, it seems unlikely we would be able communicate with them any more than we can communicate with a piece of rock.
Using a car cover daily will do a lot more damage to your paint than a parking ticket is worth, very quickly.
Not reaching Level 5 is not synonymous with "giving up." We could get to 4+, with 90+% of driving being automated, but never actually reach 100% (the definition of Level 5)
Read an book on space/aerospace engineering from the 1980s and look at how many things happened. Supersonic was a huge bust. (The Concorde is closer in time to wooden biplanes than to today. Routine supersonic travel still nowhere on the horizon.) Energy technology has been a huge disappointment. When I grew up, we were going to have nuclear fusion, expanding the scope of what society can do. Today we’re back to windmills and we’re told to put on a sweater. AI was of course a huge bust once.