skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nature provides both the ideal outcome (great weather and lovely-smelling laundry on the clothesline) but also a lot of much-worse scenarios that drive the use of technological solutions. Like a long humid rainy season where hang-dried clothes does not come out smelling nice at all.
Can confirm. I'm 5'9" but listed myself as 5'10" on dating sites. Adding that extra digit really seems to matter, and when I'm wearing shoes I am that tall anyway. Because of heels women often come off as much taller than they actually are.

Rounding up to 6' definitely would've been stretching the truth too much though.
So would it be a legit business model to just run a 1billion gigawatt heater to profit from those negative rates?
Have a look at the comments regarding the recent Crypto AG story here. There's some insinuation in there.
I would chalk it up to the fact that no one has tried (in the US). A startup could easily jump in on the cheap memory foam mattress game, but most mattress sellers are not startup folk. It's just so low effort to buy from serta, casper, etc. with absurd markups since that's the market rate. The "competition" looks a lot like the used car racket, but you don't need to join the car dealership cartel to sell mattresses. I'm guessing the big manufacturers have contracts that spec out minimum reseller prices with threats to stop supply. It's just ridiculous to think that all mattress sellers would risk easily being undercut running 2000+% markups.

As for a startup, generally people don't buy mattresses that often, but I know I would if they were 100$. Even cheap ones end up around 5-700$, which is nowhere near an impulse buy. As a result, I only replace a mattress if it's completely worn out, which takes a solid 10-15 years.

Funny how popular it is to replace the 800$ phone every 1-3 years but 1-3k$ has to wait until the mattress is unbearable. Everyone I know has this attitude for mattresses.
I don't believe it's just open firmware, but I think it's also an open hardware project.

While perhaps not as slick as yubikey, I do have several solo keys and they're great. Only real complaint is I wasn't able to get the NFC working, which I believe is a common issue, and I think they were working on an updated design that should work more widely with a range of devices.
Agreed. What led me to make my comment was more the name calling (“stupid” & “malicious”).
The high school I teach at starts at 7:30 and ends at 2 pm.
Also, at least in British English, calling someone a git doesn't mean "dumb" it means "mean/nasty/malicious".
seems to me google should be brown nosing more if it wants a fighting chance. else they will lose once trump is reelected.
Benford's law is probably the most known example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
The technincal insights were great but man I loved the writing, too:

> Apparently, an online dater’s imagination is the best performing mutual fund of the last 10 years.
> Do you happen to work for Stripe support?

He does work for Stripe. There are at least 4 Stripe employees in this discussion performing damage control: pc, patio11, nkohari, edwinwee, and anyone who has not yet self-disclosed.
Data Scientist: 40% a vacuum, 40% a janitor, and 20% a fortune-teller
"And we'll weep for him ... in the press".

My all-time favorite line.

> but I largely agree that it couldn't be recreated today.

I agree also.
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
What even is a tech company anymore
I think many. Maybe not a negative effect but no effect.
This comment is making me feel poor. I regularly wear a winter coat (and more) indoors instead of heating.
Advocate. Public institutions are strong when locals are engaged in their success.
Locast – non-profit using a legal loophole to stream live TV for free
Another example is Russian 2011 elections: https://akarlin.com/2011/12/measuring-churovs-beard/
Where did you see that? From the link I gave it looks like the average 25 year old is about 2” taller than the average 55 year old. Even anecdotally, the height difference is noticeable (although I am in NZ, the variation between cohorts depends strongly upon what country you are in).
It’s the same consideration when talking about male suicide. Are they necessary for others to feel good?

No.

There's no evidence at all to support this view. In fact there is evidence to support the view that people who feel good when others feel bad are more likely to have suicidal tendencies.
"look best" is open ended. Why should my "looks best" evaluation alter as I age? Just because I think a young woman looks good doesn't mean I want to marry her
Hm. There’s another comment above along the lines of: “I worked with these stores, they are all selling random wildly overpriced garbage, don’t fall for it!”. I’m confused now.
I don't see why you should get downvotes. You should get schooled instead.

For starters, you don't mean 1776. You mean one of the years from 1787-1789 when the Constitution was written and first used to instantiate our Federal Government. You certainly don't mean 1776 because the attempt to create the government in that year, the Articles of Confederation, was not at all the current government, and it barely lasted a decade, depending on how one measures it.

Opening a hospital, or any kind of medical practice, is generally regulated. In particular, regulation is done by a dedicated guild of medical professionals. Similar regulation covers legal advice, with bar associations qualifying legal advisors. In both cases, there is a monopoly on service providers. Two observations are important here. First, despite the monopoly, alternative service providers exist in the marketplace; quacks, fly-by-night veterinarians, alternative medicines, homebrew pharmacology, WebMD, etc.; or for law, anything from a smart friend to r/legaladvice. Second, only one of these practices seems to have had a cost disease. Perhaps the cost disease is due to something else! In particular, perhaps it is due to the 1973 HMO Act. You are right to be irritated at the government, but wrong to focus your ire entirely there. HMOs are to blame, too; in fact, they are mostly to blame.

Exercise for you: Rerun the previous paragraph's logic with mail and USPS, and double-check that it still holds.

I don't know where you live, but around where I live, it's legal to build a building, but not inside city limits or on protected wetlands. If you have title to the dirt below, then you can build things above. You might want to consult with local authorities depending on exactly what you're building, but you can generally build it. (Go ahead, I dare you to rattle off all the things that can't be built.)

Just like how banks can and do compete with Freddie and Fannie for securing loans to homeowners, there are plenty of private sources for student loans. Perhaps it is predatory cruel for the government to issue student loans; perhaps student loans are predatory and cruel in general, like payday loans or title loans, in which case we should outlaw them entirely.

It sounds like you might have studied economics. In that case, surely you don't believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis? Markets are clearly inefficient and there's good theoretical reasons to believe that it takes exponential time for an honestly-run market to find even one Nash equilibrium.

Finally, who cares about economics? You ought to study history. In particular, remember Enron? [0] This is the sort of thing that makes your position look like that of a stupid libertarian standing in the water with his waders and wondering why there's no fish in the river for him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
Do you have a link to the study? I'd love to check the study design
If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause
Your PEO is making the W-2 available to the companies you did work for? That's weird. I can't think of a reason why that would be necessary at all... the W-2 is between you, company who is paying you (your PEO), and the IRS.

I would clarify their policy around this, and perhaps ask the IRS what the rules around W-2 disclosures are.
Just need to regulate a flagman for self driving cars

https://66.media.tumblr.com/fdd6a0be1711940bd5a9e0f31e9f01ac...

then we can have automation without job loss into the bargain.
Why do corporations speak the way they do?
Taking a pill is a somewhat poor way of getting substances into the body because it must go through the liver anyway. It does have the advantage of slowly leaking into the body though.

If you read into this subject to avoid processing by the liver or other problems like this you want an injection, sublingual administration or rectal administration or a patch/cream. For want of a better word "sensitive" parts of the body such as the scrotum are more permeable to patches/creams. You could probably get tipsy by dipping your balls in a drink similar to boofing.
I’m cynical towards science press releases generally but this one sounds legit. Can any more knowledgeable HNers help deflate my optimism? Is this a legitimate use case where machine learning provides unquestionable gains?
Yes but post hog is also internet slang that means post a picture of your penis
Probably not as sick and tired as most people are of DJT.
I am still a student and this is for google's summer internship.
You should do neither right now. Just focus on normal healthy eating habits.
i'll just point to the last paragraph of the introductory section of the author's (oren cass's) companion article[0]:

> "In 1985, the COTI stood at 30—the median male worker needed thirty weeks of income to afford a house, a car, health care, and education. By 2018, the COTI had increased to 53—a full-time job was insufficient to afford these items, let alone the others that a family needs. A generation ago, the worker could be confident in his ability to provide his family not only with the basics of food, clothing, and shelter, but also with the middle-class essentials of a house, a car, health care, and education. Now he cannot. Public programs may provide those things for him, a second earner may work as well, or his family may do without, while his television may be larger than ever. The implications of each are surely worth pondering. But the fact that he can no longer provide middle-class security to a family is an unavoidable economic reality of the modern era."

what i called "basket of essential goods" is his COTI (cost of thriving index). more housing and more cars are exactly beside the point. he's making an argument about what it takes to be secure and solidly middle class in the US, not about having more stuff, which is beyond the "thriving point".

and he also encompasses your point that the average american (male) can no longer reach that "thriving point", because the average american (male) would need more than a year's wages in a year. but he's not actually talking about you, an upper- (or possibly upper-middle-) income earner, but rather the solidly middle class american (male).

[0] https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-cost-of-thriv...
I did not know that people actually added 2 inches to their actual height in dating profiles, a practice I discovered later when actually meeting the people.

Nevertheless, I always use real height (5’3”) in dating profiles, thankfully my current wife didn’t care (we met on OkCupid). Given that me and her only put exactly 1 or 2 profile pictures and zero description and we still able to meet, should be considered anomaly.
> If I am an enterprise spending millions/year on cloud infra

They do more than just VPNs. They do object storage, containers and K8. They have command line an API based tooling.

A small enterprise could do a lot with that.

If you were talking a $100 million dollar budget and you needed bells and whistles like IAM Lambda or Glacier I could agree.
Bumped into this recently and thought it was extremely interesting.

They have real antennas in each city, and are just streaming from those antennas to consumers over the internet. As the link mentions, it was previously tried by a commercial company that shut down after lawsuits. They're running as a non-profit which appears to be a legal loophole. There's an ongoing lawsuit, so it may end up being ruled out.
We can live in an internationalist world where we all compete with each other fairly.

Shipping jobs to the lowest wage country and shipping goods back to the country that lost that job and expecting that worker to buy things from low wage countries to prop up their economy to the benefit of big Corp while the union worker loses the job, the benefits, the healthcare and then imply it was that worker’s responsibility to support workers living under a government the newly unemployed has no say in kind of ridiculous.

Then people cry about wage inequality. Globalization enables that. Check out Europe, check out Germany, the iconic example of wage equality, they’ve all suffered from globalization.
Run a Bitcoin miner, and you can double-dip.
That the process is crooked and disgusting is absolutely the realest story that there is here. Again, I don't understand your point. You're just being dismissive and accepting of a bad status quo for no reason other than that you (but not others!) are resigned to it.

In other words, just because you don't care doesn't mean that others don't. And the news isn't writing stories catering to solely your interests; there's millions of other readers to consider.
Gee, why am I not surprised to not see a single mention of Prop 13, the obvious driver of CA’s housing crisis, including the market imbalances that have lead to high home prices across the state
Understanding Concurrent Programming Safety in Real-World Rust Software (2019)
COGS for Casper is ~50%, which doesn't quite line up with your $50. I suppose if you mean $50 in raw materials, plus construction costs, then fine, but that doesn't get you to 20x markup. The margin isn't that crazy. Typical retail markup is 30%.
buy a $30 camping sleeping pad
If you slowed everyone’s traffic by 25%, how many human lives are wasted (though not ended) per year?

If you assume people drive 10K per year at an average speed of 33 mph, you’re driving ~300 hours per year. Slow that by 25% and it’s an extra 100 hours per year. If you assume 7.5 hours of sleep, you’d spend an extra 1.6% of your waking life in a car because of the slowdown. That’s killing a lot of time, even if not directly killing people.
Geoffrey Hinton on black box AI for health applications
Velvet and fava beans seem to be the ones mentioned most. I don't think going all in on an L-Dopa 'diet' would be a good idea unless you consult with your doctor first, as is standard. Either way, no point in rushing to eat more beans, just eat healthy.
Costco and Ikea (mentioned many times in earlier comments) seem to share a business model based on avoiding dark patterns
Because most professors are scheduling classes for THEIR convenience, not the students. You don't typically keep your professorship and grow in an academic career by teaching students. They're scheduling classes in a way that maximises productive time for them (pitching sponsors, supervising research etc)
Shame its pointless because all browsers are forced to use webkit anyway
Dupe? from https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.ht...
Correct, both companies can see the same combined income W-2 within the PEO's site.
I agree that HFT don't buy order flow in order to make trades execute better for retail investors. They buy order flow in order to make money. The retail order flow is, as you say, non-toxic. That is, HFT can reasonably expect to make money with the data and not get rolled over. The question then becomes, who is paying HFTs and why. The highly simplified answer is that HFTs are allowed by the regulatory agencies/exchanges to pay themselves a slice of the bid offer spread in return for the liquidity benefit their market making activity provides. How do they do it? By using the retail order flow information, which allows them to "front-run" the order (step in between offers and asks) and provide liquidity. The offeror gets a better fill and the askor gets a better take and the HFT gets a profit and the exchange has vastly higher liquidity and everyone is happy with this type of front-running.
I wonder if you could get the same result by throwing it in a woodchipper and bagging the mattress-mulch.
> Corporate fluff article on Forbes.

Sometimes it's difficult to ascertain whether something in a magazine is a legitimate article or paid advertising. Or maybe it's self-serving enterprise by both sides. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.

I always wonder, who decided on this article. Did coinbase call forbes to "commission" an article? Did the writer/forbes call coinbase? Did forbes have an online poll asking their readers for suggestions on an article topic?
Even better: Anyone on the internet can start fires in your house.
I'm not sure about that. Looking at this system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCWL0XF_f8Y
it is disconcerting how people pop in and out of view.

A human could see a group of kids looking in the direction of the street at someone occluded from view and realize the possiblity of a child dashing out onto the street well in advance. The self-driving car would have to detect, classify and react after the child comes into view. It is this kind of common sense AI that we cannot engineer our way out.

A couple days ago there was a viral post about how self-driving cars react to a 35 mph sign vandalized to look like 85 mph. A human would know that the sign is wrong - the self driving car would need this 'use case' programmed in - maybe have location based speed limits programmed in.
This 'Iron Law of Human Nature' is a corollary of Goodhart's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Not being a smart ass but how do background checks work for foreign persons?

Note that there are many different types of background checks, varying from things like "working with children" checks, to financial status checks, to security checks of different kinds.

You are correct - it's very hard for a foreign person to pass some types of these. In some cases that means it's very difficult for them to get one of these jobs.
> you can never reach 100% renewables. So you need a backup, which is either gas or coal.

Why isn't nuclear the backup? "90% renewable, 10% nuclear" sounds politically-viable; it's still "moving away from nuclear."
In Germany you'd need to license as sole trader ("Gewerbeschein") costing about 25 Euro, depends on city/county. You're still an individual and keep your personal tax number, but now indicated you plan to make money besides being employed. Same procedure if you want to do freelancing. Or write newspaper articles for money. Or anything that generated income. So if you're a freelancer it would be already covered. Any accountant can walk you through the steps. Invoices will carry your name and home address. You're fully liable with your money.

Starting a limited business is separate. Then you need a separate bank account, register with the tax office, get a separate tax id. Depending on type of business you might need to bring in money (25.000 Euro for a German GmbH) or you need two founders. Year end taxes are more complex. Disolving a company is a pain.

VAT is also separate. Freelancers in Germany for example are exempt until 17.000 Euro, the limit is even higher in the UK.

So legally you probably need to register. Since you're already fully liable even when registered some people delay it, even months and then backdate. Not ideal but afaik there's no fine. I delayed by 5-6 months, tax office didn't care.

Individual customers won't notice, when is the last time you looked at the imprint of a website? (I do, but I might be the exception). B2B customers probably care. And larger account will already wonder "will this website still be online in 6 months" regardless.
Aha, I have done a bit more digging into this after my post and found https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house... which seems to clear up much.

Thank you for putting me on the right track.
Deadpool feeds off the genre, it does not criticize it.
Hopefully they don’t buy any car.
Ameritrade and Schwab are almost the same age and have similar customer bases. Schwab has superior economies of scale and can make more money per customer than Ameritrade. Schwab's move to no-fee trading put Ameritrade in distress (Ameritrade was more dependent on commissions than Schwab), which created the buying opportunity.

Which of those dynamics exists for Robinhood?
That begs the question of course: What are normal healthy eating habits?

Our eating habits have been formed by mass marketing for many decades so I would not call them normal. Even the fresh fruit and vegetables I see in the supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths in Australia) do not look normal.
Dopamine doesn’t cross the blood brain barrier— sorry to burst the bubble of a lot of the posts here. In fact, for the dopamine deficient disease, Parkinson’s, L-dopa is the treatment because it does cross and is the converted to dopamine after crossing.
Royalties for use of the likeness of an actor was a fought for thing with the actor's guild after they did various tricky things to put Crispin Glover into Back to the Future 2 without his consent. I dunno that that really applies to locations in the same way.
The really nasty issue with heat pumps that I suspect is going to start biting countries which go for them in a big way is that a lot of the costs of supplying electricity depend on peak demand, not average demand, and because they're so much less efficient in cold weather when heating demand is at its highest they simply don't reduce peak demand in the same way that they do average.
If you want to define front-running that way, then I agree HFTs don't front-run. But they do step in between buyers and sellers. If you want to call that something else, shrug.
Try something like https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(Remember to add a dot before the domain to confuse the autocompletion in Algolia :) )
The real punchline is that it has a /reminder/ to blow out the candle. If they were remotely concerned about safety it would involve local timers which reliably extinguish it even if it lost power and the battery died. That would still have "cat knocked it over onto flammables" risks but it would actually be less dangerous than conventional candles.
If only human drivers erred on the side of safety, we wouldn’t have over a million deaths a year due to drivers.
It is very common for families of 2 drivers to have 3 or more cars. My brother in law has his truck, his project truck, his commuting car and his wife’s car for instance.

Frankly that’s not a lot weirder than me owning 1 car. He likely drives each of his cars as frequently as I do mine.
It is not delusion, but simple economics what makes it impossible to build new nuclear plants. The Obama administration granted permissions to build new plants, but few people were interested because fracking made gas cheaper - but even the ones that were built required loan guarantees from the government. The private sector wasn't able to find a solution by itself.

A nuclear power plant requires billions in up front costs, which take a long period of time to recover, a time which can not be calculated reliably because nobody can predict the future and nobody knows how technology may evolve during that time and how will it affect power prices, how future wars will affect supply, how much demand developing nations will bring to the markets, etc. Even if nuclear power is cheap, the margins are not static and betting billions without knowing when you will get them back is not something everyone wants to do.

Nuclear is going to need a lot of government subsidies if it wants to have a renaissance.
I guess it is an old site, before Kepler discovered planets around many of these stars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_exoplanets
Yup - the page has basically not changed since it was first crawled by archive.org ~14 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060401051712/http://www.atlaso...
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