skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree if you assume all future halvenings are priced in. It has been claimed that there is a relationship between halvenings in the past and in increases in the price of Bitcoin. If true this would suggest that at least in the past halvenings are not priced in.
Not necessarily if it's challenging enough. Based on CS/SWE knowledge and requiring a lot of focused effort. Not a requirement to create software professionally, but a requirement to be a "Software Engineer".

This would reduce the need for crazy interviews for those that have passed it, since it proves a level of competence above scraping by for a CS degree, etc! Maybe you need a few years of real work experience to have a chance at passing the Software Engineer accreditation. Just like if you have a long work history at GoogAmaFaceSoft, it's assumed you're already pretty capable.
According to Professor Damodaran's data here : http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
(See Historical Returns on Stocks, Bonds and Bills - United States ), Average returns from stocks from 1994 to 2019 was 11.36% and returns for T-Bonds were 5.51%, pretty close to their 1928-2019 average returns of 11.57% and 5.15% .

These results are not inflation adjusted.
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I was also wondering about this. There are two issues in OpenAI's GitHub repo related to the removal, with not much information:

- https://github.com/openai/universe/issues/126

- https://github.com/openai/universe/issues/160
CMU's Iris Lunar Rover Meets Milestone for Flight
Oh, no. The FAANGs are competing for the group of people who are willing to work in a small chunk of California and, to a lesser extent, small chunks of Virginia, Washington, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts. Remove those restrictions and the relevant group expands.

This is as silly as competing for men, or competing for US citizens, or competing for 22-32 year-olds. Demographics like that have very little power compared to testing for relevant skills, or having a visible track record.
Similar, on a smaller scale, for Blogger. Google acquired it.
xloudcraft.com auto-generates and updates from live account and gives you info like cost etc.

Looks really.i.ptessive
This makes sense. In my team it’s the same: the young guys like going out together after work and also often don’t have the space at home to set up a good workplace. They also need the most handholding. I remember some discussions a while ago where the conclusion was that it’s hard to onboard juniors remotely and remote is more suitable for experienced people.
Ubik by Phillip K Dick.

I'm kind of shocked that it wasn't cited already.
That headline should also be the title for this submission.
yeah, I've heard that. Its also flexible. When there isn't a way to overrule and the individual people of nations don't have a say, anything is possible.
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Levelling up an Express API (CORS, caching, rate limiting, linting etc.)
Let's all give this 12 year old kid some applause. Me water-cooling my xbox 360 (yes, and I wasn't alone in doing so) at 13 felt cool, but this is on another level.
How do you use AI in it?
> What if the other person costs less because they're being paid under the table? Unfortunately, that's been the case in a lot of lower income and manual labor jobs.

> Construction and landscaping are notable examples. If the buyer only cares about cost, and the government adds 20-50% to the cost of wages, then the employer who bypasses the government thrives.

This complicates the landscape, but this is a problem which should be addressed separately. If the system of taxing and enforcement effectively incentivises evading them and disincentivises law obedience, then taxing and enforcement system is messed up.
Hackers hit A-list law firm of Lady Gaga, Drake and Madonna
> "Ultimately the purpose is avoiding meaningless filler, not discrediting your knowledge or performance, and avoiding speculating in such a way that you are dodging responsibility ..."

this is a better framing of purpose than the advice provided. as you've laid out, the advice needs too many caveats (i.e., it's too specific) to be so absolute. i generally agree it's better to minimize bullshitting under duress, for reputation, responsibility, or otherwise.

good leadership focuses on laying out purpose, providing examples and intuition, and letting teammates determine the needs and implementation(s). bad leadership tries to distill desires into rules to follow, short-circuiting the creativity needed to adapt to dynamic circumstances.

embracing and adapting to uncertainty is a hallmark of good leadership, and politics (like blaming others), a sign of bad leadership.
Yes, but the author is a student making use of their open source software. I think that's in the spirit of hacking.
One can dream, but you can imagine if the Fed really wanted to implement UBI, it could probably do something like:

- Give everyone in the U.S. a guaranteed loan for $2,001, 0% interest, payable at the end of the month

- Before you "default", enter in a "negotiation" where the Fed can buy back the security from you for $1, writing off "the losses"

- Do it all again the next month

Tada! Monetary policy as fiscal policy! If you don't want to write it off immediately, guarantee 0% interest and have the timeline for the loan be 200 years, then write off the debt as nonpayable after death.

But seriously, I'm not sure if there's a clear line between monetary policy and fiscal policy anymore.
The issue is that those "in the know" will just rig it in some other way as soon as the peasants start to try to mimic them. Its a cat and mouse game and we are not all that sophisticated to play it.

I do expect that at some point this pumping of economies (by increasing money supply) will fail miserably. I am not really that confident of how to position myself to profit or at least not loose my wealth when it happens.

My position is in mostly in real estate that I purchased during the last housing bust period. Hopefully that turns out.
Wow, that looks like a lot of work went into this RFC. I'm glad it's being taken seriously, and I anxiously await the outcome--whatever that might be.

Thank you!
How can such a small investment hamper Google stock growth. This might be even less than the average daily volatility in the stock price.
Real-estate and cost of living drives compensation which is a main issue for most companies.

Biannual "retreats" for companies that are fully remote sounds like a good idea, and I wonder if there is somewhere between "biannual retreats" and "butts in seats 5 days a week" that companies will meander towards.
I quit a great job to work remotely 4 months ago after about 15 years of trying to do it. I feel like the universe is having an absolute riot at my expense right now. This is not a fun time to be new at a company. It's so hard to focus and sip the koolaid when the world feels like it's falling apart outside of my skype meetings and facing customers and selling products is the last thing I'm energized to do.
It is unlikely the vaccine will be perfect. Strains mutate. Plenty of people still get the flu despite a flu vaccine.
Before the current situation, I've had this discussion with various people in the context of space getting tight in some offices. Basically, I was told that a lot of the younger people (mostly not developers in this case) would be looking for another job if they could no longer come into an office. I do know I would probably have hated being forced to work out of my apartment right out of school.
Time to develop a vaccine.

Time to develop better treatments.

Keep a lid on the virus with track and trace (I'm doubtful we can achieve this in the UK).
I think a bit of both #1 and #2, I think you will see a large exodus of people from SF as it is very densely populated and you have people with many roommates who make very good money compared to the rest of the US. I see that crowd leaving for cheaper pastures in droves(#2). There are alot of companies that have positions that are tied to location, hardware engineers, execs, etc, these people will stay and that will point to #1. So I think the prices in SF will drop, and prices in the south bay will at worst stay flat and possibly go up as it is mostly single family homes and the companies in the area are doing very well, (google, apple, netflix, zoom)
Except that a lot of tech companies are out in the suburbs...
Working directly with ESMA for several years now it’s really not unusual.

Their entire workforce comes from the financial industry.
Kinda sad that this is getting downvoted, regardless of whether you agree it is certainly a cogent argument.
Am I fine with you passing my house on the street and writing down the house number? Sure am. I'm also content with you going to the county website and finding out what I paid for it, and my name. Even if you have a violent criminal record? If you're on the street, I assume you've paid your debt to society.

There are some interfaces where private information becomes public because a private person has to interface to the public.
OTOH you need to have a mac and there are cheaper Live versions to get you started.

Also if you buy a midi controller in many cases you get a free version of Live which is plenty for people getting started.
This is a disease of governments and health systems.

As an individual the odds aren't too worrying in isolation.

Everything functioning well, few people get sick and those are treatable and death rates are low.

But it's exponential growth.

So cases can swamp any realistic health system left unchecked. At this stage the low fatalities (0.5%) goes out of the window and start looking at just under 10%.

So a good strategy seems to be to slow the spread to managable rates at which level actual disease impacts are quite low.

Imagine, in the limit, theoretically, you could keep everyone seperate and expose a batch size you could treat, lead them through and then take the next batch.
You could have death rates under 0.5%.

The only other realistic objectives I see are tactical: ramping up treatment ability and postponing cases until a cure/preventative measure is available and when disease progression and treatment are better understood.
Why would people fitting this description not prefer the flexibility of working remotely?

As an aside -- I prefer not to use the term "work from home", as the ideal (for me) is the ability to work from anywhere at my option.

Also, for what it's worth, co-working spaces can be a workable alternative to a traditional office.
Bitcoin Becomes Scarcer Than Ever in One Historic Day
Skype lost its crown to Zoom
Lockdowns, like quarantines, are primarily aimed at stopping the spread of infectious diseases. Hopefully keeping the number of hospital patients under control is a side effect.
> people WFH 3 or 4 days a week with one day of the week being designated as a "meeting day" where everyone is in the office.

I sort of had this setup before covid: the company I work for does consulting and my coworkers and I will often be at client's offices. When we write our contracts we make sure to always designate Friday as the day where all employees come back to the 'home base' for meetings, catch-ups, socializing, etc. It works quite well, and we'd always look forward to Friday's because of it.

If I could continue to WFH 3-4 days a week and then go into the office on Thursday/Friday, that would be great.
This was discussed publicly months ago:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/ben-bernanke-and-janet-yelle...

That's not proof. But considering the markets have largely "recovered," I think it's safe to say that it was semi-public knowledge that this was in the works.
Possibly slowing transmission enough to buy yourself some time to develop treatment and vaccine. The problem epidimiologists were looking at was that with no immunity, treatment, or vaccine, there was nothing to stop the spread to a large percentage of the population very quickly, potentially leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US, at least. And yeah, the medical system would have collapsed under that load, as happened in parts of Italy.

The other problem doctors are worried about is people with life-threatening conditions--heart attack, stroke, etc. not going to hospital out of fear.
I've ridden a motorcycle for years, seen countless riders, and yet never once have I seen a single person ride down the highway at 300mph with the front wheel at 12 o'clock like (apparently) everyone else in the world. People really seem to hate motorcyclists because "oh I saw one time on Facebook in some video where a guy wheelied his bike" blah blah blah. All those events are, are anecdotes.

Bikes a) take up less space, b) don't cause traffic jams, c) are only more unsafe than cars because of people in cars not paying attention. Funnily enough, bad behavior on a bike is regarded as 10x worse than bad behavior in a car, despite the fact that a distracted driver in a car can easily cause 10x the damage, and that no one on a motorcycle is scrolling through their Instagram feed while riding. Let's be realistic - more people are distracted in cars than on motorcycles because you need all of your limbs to operate a bike.

You say you've seen someone pulling a wheelie and it "needs to be banned" (it already is illegal, so I don't know what your plan is here), well I have seen easily hundreds of distracted drivers of cars who can actually end my life because of their actions. No one in a car is going to get killed by a motorcycle, but the exact opposite happens all the time.
Density distribution can be transformed to position with spherical shell slice processing from what i understand.

This visualization is an interpretation of all of the math we could get our hands on. Hopefully we get closer to what the atoms are actually doing. Quite literally, electron volt can be considered momentum, so we did our best to illustrate this...simplifying it to rotation speed. In all cases, we are trying to get closer to what the physical object atoms are doing to provide for the phenomenon.

For instance, ionization means delocalized surface of the atom in this illustration because we can't imagine the electron to be a bead that flies around magically and moves through the wire providing motive pressure, per se. So we use shell gearing instead as a rationalization that fits the math and makes more intuitive sense.

Our belief is that QM is absolutely correct in its descriptions but lacking in its interpretations. There is a lot of woo out there because of this.

If you know any other QM experts that would be willing to help us develop the model further, that would be great- can you PM me through the website?
Nokia just announced a couple dumbphones:

125: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-125
150: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-150

They have a huge range of "classic" phones anyway: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/classic-phones
This is what bothers me about USA 2020. We thoroughly divided due to relatively small differences in political options, but the real division that no one seems to care about is the political elites stealing money from the poor and middle class. We draw political allegiances so arbitrarily, and totally ignore that it's BOTH parties renewing the PATRIOT Act (which is happening now), and both parties giving our tax dollars to their friends.
It's hard to force WFH people to create non-job related relationships. Like if your jobs don't overlap, you'll probably never talk in a WFH setting. In an office setting, forming relationships is both personal and functional. Maybe some of this communication isn't efficient but it probably has value.
This was my thought, too, but then I remembered that Blizzard asked me for a photo of a government issued ID card to delete my Battle Net account for some reason, and no, that wasn't a phishing attempt; it's in their documentation: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/2659

So, maybe it could be legit.
I definitely think differently then you. I dont see the whole UK in such derisive way, despite me disagreeing with decision to leave EU and me thinking the country handled covid badly.
One oft-repeated line about driverless cars was that they would improve the world by reducing car accidents, and possibly helping with congestion and parking problems.

The pandemic has proven that these goals and many more can be accomplished without any complicated, speculative AI technology, simply by taking full advantage of telecommuting and delivery. Obviously there is no profit to be made so it would make no sense for investors to do so, but I wonder what $3B could accomplish if it were put to the purpose of reducing the need to travel, rather than finding new ways to burn gasoline.
I'm a director of engineering with a team of 20 engineers. Been successfully remote for 6 years or so now. I guess I make it work, but hey, maybe at some point in my career I'll understand.

Great. I stand corrected when I suspected you were an IC.

Do you have the same non-technical responsibilities I mentioned having? How have you approached the portions that I cited as being challenging without high-bandwidth communication channels? And if you have you held this role in a non-remote office, how do you know whether you're being as effective as you were then? (I always like to hear more about how people measure their effectiveness.)
No. If he did work at home (which is what I'm assuming you mean by "fully remote") on classified material it was not part of his job, and thus if he billed the US Government for that time it would be timecard fraud. If you have knowledge of this, you should report it to DCAA ( https://www.dcaa.mil/ ).
Doesn't even need to be that complex.

There are really good USB mics these days that are just plug and play. The Blue series for instance (Yeti, etc).
Not really. It means that federal government is backstopping certain types of debt. This ensures that market liquidity happens such that mid-tier companies without ease of access to capital can access capital at lower interest rates.

With the fed backstopping debt, they're effectively the debtholder for these smaller companies - so yet it's a bailout. However, unlike when the fed took actual stakes in GM and Chrysler they don't hold shares. They merely receive the interest payments and coupons on the associated debt.

It's pretty hard to argue that there's EVER been market based capitalism. Much like communism, it's a bogey that has never actually existing - instead we have systems similar to them.
Any news on how/if compensation will change at Twitter as a function of location? I know many tech companies have fractional multipliers depending on the COL of the area you plan to live in.
Another great book by Calvino is "If on a winter's night a traveler". It has some mind-bending parts.
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The purchase link isn't working for me. I get a certificate error.

Edit: It appears that by connecting via my VPN, it gives me a certificate error when the link redirects via gum.co... goes away when I disable it.

Seems worrying...
Reading literature's pretty different from reading easy fiction. It takes a different approach and mindset to appreciate it but it's incredibly rewarding when one does. Think "acquired taste", or maybe the difference between reading a pop-math book and a math textbook. Ditto reading non-contemporary fiction, so that's two hurdles to overcome in this case. I don't have any sage advice on how to gain the ability to read and enjoy literature, aside from that for most people it takes practice and persistence before it's comfortable, like getting used to the temperature of a pool. Starting small helps and is probably how most people work up to the point of being genuinely excited and gripped by something like Moby Dick.

I guess if I had any advice to offer to someone wanting to achieve that (if it's an achievement) it'd be to try older popular literature (try King Solomon's Mines, it's amazing, then work your way to even older stuff) to get used to older English (nb not Old English, which is another thing entirely and you're not likely to encounter much of it in anything but an extremely deep reading of English lit) and to read short, relatively easy "literary" works that are more recent. Vonnegut's way at the easy end. Maybe try Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby or his short stories? Salinger's Nine Stories? I'm not sure—at this point I have trouble judging what's approachable. I'd make a terrible teacher of literature.

Lots of things kinda work this way. Jazz and "classical" music usually take some work on the listener's part, to personally learn and develop, before they yield their greatest fruits. Most folks have trouble enjoying silent films, but there are some damn good ones out there. Just takes effort and time.
What do you mean by out of the box for RISC V?
I perfectly fit the profile you described. I live in SF in a small apt. I can easily afford a much bigger place for the same amount. But working with collegues @ office is a soo much fun. if the company gets fully remote, its really hard to connect with coworkers and hangout.
GoogleX projects can 'graduate' and become their own companies that issue their own stock.

Employees of Google that work on GoogleX projects that graduate no longer technically work for Google, but for the new company and they no longer receive Google shares, but new company shares (in this case Waymo, Loon is another example [0]).

This forces the company and employee incentives to be aligned since the value of the employee equity is tied to the success of the specific GoogleX project and not Google itself.

When a company graduates if a lot of employees don't want to stay on the project and choose to stay at Google, that itself might be a bad sign (though it could also just be employee risk preference).

I think companies graduate when they're less pure R&D and closer to marketability. If they can't survive on their own at that point it may be because there isn't a market, the timing isn't right, or any other reason that can cause a startup to fail.

This system prevents Google from pouring money into something that's never tested in an environment where it can actually fail. It puts moonshot projects in an environment where they're truly tested and don't just become places where money is spent without any ability to measure success.

It's my understanding that graduated companies have their own hiring methods and can make their own independent decisions in general. They would also need to raise their own money.

[0]: https://loon.com/
photons are transactions between atoms.
Lowered exclusivity doesn't require the requirements relax though. If, before, there was one student passing the exam candidate, and now there are 10 passing, where have the requirements been relaxed (assuming there's no cheating going on)? It's less exclusive because now there are ten instead of one (well, eleven total) but the bar hasn't been relaxed, there's just higher supply.