skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analogy is interesting because it kind of proves you're both 'right', depending on the environment.

In middle/high school, there is often 'that kid' who _is_ the best at all skills - they are the pitcher, they bat cleanup, they do everything.

In the pros, though, that's virtually unheard of these days, because the amount of time it takes to specialize in a skill sufficiently to make it to the majors is so extreme it precludes you from being able to do that for multiple skills, with rare exceptions.

Not disagreeing with you, or at least I don't intend to, but I definitely remember playing against 'that kid' when I played baseball in middle and high school. Same analogy for the kid who's great at several sports in HS but has to specialize to get the DI scholarship or go pro, etc.
This is one hell of a way to learn C but I'm glad you're enjoying :P
I'm confused. My understanding is that all cars showed discrepancies between in-lab and on-road tests, due to overoptimizing the ECU for lab conditions.

However, AFAIU, only VW had an "if in_lab: reduce_polution()" line in their ECU. It could be that the "final result" was the same, but the intentionality behind it was waaay stronger for VW.
I don't think Volkswagen is reliable (nor any German car), at least compared to Japanese cars.
Pebbles and sand might be safer to hold if they are less volatile than BTC. A company like Paypal needs stability, not a directional bet on an asset.
Why bother with the higher level jobs, when my basic needs are already met? I think the assumption relies too much on trusting human nature. from personal experience, I’ve known people Who have become complacent after receiving state aid for a while.. obviously, the level of education and culture are strong factors here.
Having expicitly optional/nullable types is great in languages which are religious about it, since they remove a lot of useless branching and complexity from the code. If it's just tacked on, then it just tends to look ugly, without solving any problems.
> The same is true of masks. The outcomes in places with and without mask mandates are roughly similar in terms of spread and mortality. But god forbid you suggest that wearing a mask while working out is counterproductive at best.

Mask "mandates" in the US were largely unenforced, and therefore ignored by enough people to cause uncontrolled spread. Expecting a mask mandate to work without enforcing adoption is like expecting a "no smoking" section on an airplane to work.
I found this podcast series really good for the fall of the Roman Empire. Long, but really good!
https://soundcloud.com/fallofromepodcast
This, along with "belief" in supposed scientific facts, drives me insane.

The best is when someone tells you that 100 scientists agree on it, so it must be true, but it turns out that a few claimed it and a bunch of other scientists back them up without actually doing any science.

Don't even get me started on all the fraud we've been seeing lately in scientific journals.

I no longer really fault people that don't believe what a scientist tells them. The ones that make the news are the least trustworthy and usually have some bias towards what they're saying.

If I didn't understand science as well as I do, I'd be tempted to join them in disbelief.
> The more Warren Buffet I read, the more I want to become a value investor due to the above premise.

I love Buffett, but probably it's expected to be convinced by whatever you're consuming right now.

If you spend a lot of time watching Ben Felix[0] you'd probably think "the more I listen to Ben Felix the more I want to become a factor investor".

Replace with Kathie Woods, Ray Dalio or whoever. They are all convincing!

[0] a pretty popular youtuber/investment advisor/passive investor
Really? Did the Nazis give their prisoners a day out of the camp and 50 Deutschmark to treat themselves with?

I don’t think it’s fair to compare this to genocide camps.
> how would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly?

Hopefully anyone with that level of wealth would look into fixing the actual problem instead of trying to cover it up with fake testimony. The point is, he has the money to build a working culture where people can feel like they are treated fairly, he just chooses not to
> Has it always been this way? I’m not that well versed in stock market history, but I hear it claimed that when companies gave out regular dividends, then the stock price would be correlated to (present and future) performance, as that gets reflected in dividend payments.

no, because dividends are equivalent to buybacks.
Equating every action of a million person company with their (soon to be former) CEO is disingenuous. Jeff Bezos isn't personally directly every action of every employee at Amazon. I know it's popular to hate Amazon, but we don't even have any evidence that this handful of Twitter accounts was created by Amazon employees in the first place, let alone personally directed by Jeff Bezos.
I agree to this observation. Especially in teams with hight fluctuation they spend most of the time refactoring their code in cycles to fit some personal taste.
Yes, that's right. The "clerk" title covered a lot of ground, like "engineer" today.
You don’t even need a phone number to sign up for Twitter. Just an email account.
Nobody said better things require more resources. If anything, modern manufacturing uses far less than it did decades ago, with less pollution, people renting things more than wasteful owning, etc. E.g. when driverless taxis come along, expect to see car manufacturing plummet.

> there is more to life than working 50%+ of our awake time to watch netflix and buy iphones

Life is what you make of it. If you want to write poetry or symphonies in your free time, or watch Netflix and play Candy Crush, I'm not going to judge you either way. You have the choice to make your life what you want. You can focus on yourself and you don't need to judge others.
People building real infrastructure with dumb money. If you cannot see what that would be in case of NFTs that’s okay. Other people do.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but yes, comp is very low at SpaceX for given level of experience.

I know a number of people working in engineering in SpaceX (as in, designing the rockets or modules), and most of them are making between 50k and 90k, despite having PhDs or years of experience in aerospace engineering. To put the salary in perspective, a few of these people took a pay cut when they left JPL to work for SpaceX.

They work at SpaceX because they find the work exciting and rewarding, but if you're in it for the money you'll have to work at one of their competitors.
This sounds like a possibility
That's really what all the "sensible" people (myself included) - were saying back in 1996 when P-E valuations really went off the rails.

Yes, there were drops, crashes, and those hurt a lot of people, but in the long run, growth has continued to go up.
> False equivalency; no one is arguing that.

Really? Can someone clarify what my earlier quoted passage was referencing then? I wasn't trying to straw-man the OP.

> However, a multi-polar world is appealing. The US is certainly not always a good actor here either: the US has 50+ years of foreign interventions to point to that span the globe, particularly the middle east, latin america, and southeast asia.

The Cold War (and most/all of those foreign-interventions that you object to) were products of a multi-polar world. I don't know that this is a good thing. I understand and empathize with the "competition is good" impulse, but I don't think it bears out in history.

> It would be in Europe (and other regions') interest to be able to defend their own interests on equal footing with the US. Currently, they cannot do that (military and economic dependence). Having China offers leverage. I.e., the US will be incentivized to behave better if other countries can say "well if you push us too far, we'll work with China."

I understand and empathize with this as well, as noted above.
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I think it's more so something founders can tell themselves to feel better about the situation. Deep down they know it's not true
Does anyone else think that Amazon news handle is doing damage to their brand? Silence seems like a better strategy. they must view this union vote as the beginning of the end.
> I feel like authenticity of online communication is an unsolved problem

Someone else pointed out Voice.com in this space, which at least is trying to do it. Although if you read the fine print, the seem to require you to send them a "selfie", I'm not sure how that solves anything.

https://about.voice.com/learn-more/
Hey! I'm Ansgar. I wrote Icecream.

f-strings's `=` is awesome. I'm overjoyed it was added to Python. I use it all the time.

That said, IceCream does bring more to the table, like:

- Stynax highlighting.
- Pretty prints data structures.
- Returns its value for nesting.
- Integrates with logging via `ic.configureOutput()`.

etc

I hope that helps!
They're also a very good indicator of which Twitter accounts to stay away from. Those soulless eyes don't lie.
Accent is an inevitable part of second language speakers. I've lived in US most of my life, but English is not my native language and I started learning it around the age of 5 and at the age of 25 after living here more than 20 years, I still have a distinct accent I can't get rid of. It's just the way things are, human brain seems to learn pronunciation differently when we're a child.

This same goes for English speakers too. I know how Volkswagen is supposed to be pronounced (I know some German) but that's not the way English speakers would say it.

I don't think there is anything to be bothered by any of this. This just adds to our diversity.
Understood, but I think the ability to adjust things tactile is more important in a driving scenario. Also, The UI lag on some of these infotainment systems feels like a 2010 iphone running iOS 13.

If only one could update the processor in their infotainment the way one does a phone, instead of having to buy a new car.
I've found this very disturbing, the generation I grew up in might be the most tech literate but I think that's a false impression due to the friends that I've chosen. When I joined a guild in an MMO and got to see some truly random folks from other walks of life that was a fair bit eye opening.

My concern about younger folks is that the world is shrinking as large corporations try and squeeze as much revenue as possible out of markets - the movement of Apple to lock down the app store and force people into safe walled gardens just so they can control the revenue stream might be one of the worst blows of tech literacy of the modern world. Instead of young folks getting devices and struggling with malware and hacking at programs to make them do what they want. They're growing up in a sterile environment full only of buttons: this button causes "A" to appear on the screen and this button plays a movie. God forbid you ever want to try and see if you can get "A" to appear over the movie - doing that is hacking and very naughty so you should never do it.

I remember programming solitaire for an introductory java programming course in uni and hacking a BufferedImage to force some cards to be overlaid by writing in the different card images at different offsets that is not the right way to do that but it works - we need to make sure that new generations are brought up empowered to hack things in creative ways.
>if i remember correctly he started investing money he made on is paper route in stocks early on.

Yes, and he should be credited with taking that initiative. But note that this was the 1940s. I would posit a high probability that Buffet got advice from his educated father, who had is own investment firm, that 99% of children would never get because they didn't have someone as capable as Buffett's father. And/or the other paperboys had to chip in and help feed their family unlike Buffett who could afford to lose his paper route money and not sacrifice anything essential (again, presumably, but I think it's a good guess).

Even nowadays, with the ease of the internet, I would say that simply having parents who know what a low cost broad market index fund is puts you a standard deviation above the median average in terms of how good of a start you have in life.
> if they went to war, would the remaining NATO states have to sit it out

An interesting question, which i think you would need some legal expert on the NATO treaties to explicate. But mercifully for 50 years or so they haven't ever done such a thing, and I don't see the military forces of either country wanting to. The bonkers Turkish leadership is another matter, but the Turkish (and Greek, to be honest) military have a tendency to remove inconvenient leaders.
That would be coupling a syringe and a substance. You want to have them as separate inventory items.

There's also the lyophilization[0] aspect, or water removal by sublimation, to dramatically increase the shelf life of the substances. It is a thing of beauty.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-drying
What are the catastrophic downsides to real names and verified identities? Those things weren't catastrophic downsides before the internet existed when publishing your opinion in newspapers or books or whatever.
It's funny how the ups and downs of evaluating a startup go:

Phase 1: "Okay, it's a Real Names social network, seems probably fine."

Phase 2: "Oh no, some sort of token economy. Well, maybe it--"

Phase 3: "Nevermind, it said the word 'blockchain,' abandon ship, this is doomed."
That sounds tough. Everybody else just voted Democrat.
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The EMH doesn't really say that a 20 % rally means an equally sudden 20 % improvement of fundamentals.

The EMH says that you cannot, in the long run, make money on your prediction that there will be a 20 % rally tomorrow, because this, along with the relevant probabilities, are already priced in.

This is related to something that used to confuse me too: the most thickly traded commodity futures are extremely efficiently priced. Yet they exhibit clear seasonal patterns. Why wouldn't someone just buy in the low season and sell high for a near-guaranteed profit? The keyword is "near" -- the prices are such that they counterbalance the risk of deviation from the seasonal pattern.

To answer your specific question about what happens when markets drop: information happens. Events can have nth-order consequences that echo through the markets for months or years, as we find out more about them.

Edit: I should also say that market efficiency isn't a black and white thing. A market can be efficient to me even if someone like Ed Thorp can find mispriced assets.

The market is only completely efficient in the limit. For every mispricing someone finds and exploits the market gets a little efficienter.
For decades, I never thought people who kiss ass could have been serious. I was sure they were just cynically playing a game of advancement, and I despised them for it. What I've come to learn -- as disappointing as it is to me -- is that some people view this sort of thing as actual, legitimate opportunity, and are acting out of internal integrity. They don't see the hypocrisy of the power imbalance and how the company is using them when acting this way. It just doesn't factor into their equation.

Higher-ups look for these suck-ups, of course, but I see now that the "real" ones are the ones that really advance because of it. The process optimizes for what I call the "true believers." They wind up in positions where they can, and often do, impede the progress of people who want to make significant contributions to the bottom line.

The remaining open question in my mind is to what percentage the "true believers" actually occupy positions of serious power in a Fortune 500 -- say, at the highest 3 levels -- and how many people promoting them are just knowingly using them and their precious lack of objectivity.
I was going post that link but you beat me to it. When I wrote that it was as I suspected, disingenuous but not wholly invented - these were real people being bribed with cold cuts to parrot scripts, if I'm honest I might have done it to get off my feet for a couple hours in that situation. It was stupid and risible but you could understand it.

Now it's gotten much weirder. There are fake accounts that, looking at them, you're not sure who they actually benefit. I think a bunch just got purged. No one took them seriously anyway, so navigating the motivations in the space is super difficult. It's fascinating in some ways but in others I just want to ignore the whole thing.
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IMHO, it is hard to run a sustainable business around sharing pictures.
Is there a law that prohibits a company from pretending to be employees to broadcast fake anti-union sentiment?

Certainly seems like there should be. I would love to see Amazon slapped with a billion dollar fine for these shenanigans.
Can't they sell before confirmation? Probably on the order of 99% of transactions that propagate to the whole network with a sufficient fee end up being confirmed, and that only takes a few seconds to happen.
The current climate change is not caused by increased volcanic activity, because there isn't one.

If volcanic activity were to increase, the effect would depend on what kind of increase. Volcanoes do produce CO2, and more CO2 would of course worsen climate change. But they can also produce SO2, which cools the climate rather than warms it. Unlike CO2, SO2 degrades, so the effect isn't as long-lasting.

Volcanoes can also put particulates into the air which block sunlight. Again, the effect is temporary, as the particles fall out. So it would take a permanent, ongoing change in volcanism to counter warming. It would also cause a lot of other climate changes, which are hard to predict.
It’s a common practice in journalism. They’re not using scare quotes, but regular quotes. They’re avoiding asserting themselves that the accounts are fake, and instead, diverting the assertion to the quotee (Amazon in this case).
Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account
Nice!

Also:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/laser-therapy-prompts-regeneration-teeth
> Imagine putting breakpoints in multiple tight loops in the stage of narrowing the search space.

If you have enough loops to make breakpoints impossible to use, you've likely got enough log output that you're not going to be able to parse. You're almost certainly going to look for other ways of narrowing the search space.

> stopping one thread dead for long enough for a human to investigate it can inadvertently resolve all sorts of race conditions.

Stopping one thread for long enough to do console IO has the same effect. Especially if you're using python, you'll need a lock to synchronise the print statement across your threads!
I was wondering what Unsplash's business model was, and I stumbled onto [1]:

> Nor is it going to slap banner ads on every page of its website. Yes, it’s unveiling a digital advertising business, but Unsplash is taking a specific approach — working with companies to create branded photos, which will then appear on desirable searches.

> Square, for example, could upload photos of the Square Register, which will then show up when Unsplash users search for “cash register” and other terms.

> Brands working with Unsplash will get prominent placement in relevant searches, as well as their own brand channel, but Cho said the real impact only begins on the Unsplash website.

So basically, without you realizing it, you may end up with paid product placement in your presentations and (pointless) header images on your Medium articles.

Sometimes I wonder of the answer to the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter is: eventually all alien civilizations end up converting their entire society and economy into advertising monetization, all corporations consolidate into one giant inert behemoth, all real progress stops, and the species converts its entire planet into fuel for AdCoin cryptomining and winks out of existence.

I miss the days where people just, like, started businesses that charged people for stuff, and people bought that stuff, and the business stayed in business without having to be acquired or snuffed out by a megacorp.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/10/unsplash-for-brands/
> what will people who are satisfied with the basics do?

Whatever they want, why would we care ?

What would you do if work stopped everyday at 1 PM ? Go to the park, chill with friends, read a book, learn music, go for a walk in the woods, play with your kids, take a nap, go fishing, ... live life ? Are we really so alienated that we can't imagine what we'd do outside of work ?
> During this portion, the NLRB will read off each voter’s name and both sides will be allowed to contest ballots, likely based on factors such as whether an employee’s job title entitles them to vote or an illegible signature. Any contested ballots will be set aside.

It looks like they aren't anonymous?!
"Inspired by". And yeah, the conditions are far less extreme, but the dynamics of using prisoner's dilemma to reinforce order in the warehouse is deeply cruel, psychologically. Please don't argue that.
That is a different entity than Getty Images.

https://www.getty.edu/research/library/faq.html#gettyimages

> No, Getty Images has no relationship to the J. Paul Getty Trust.

The "Getty" name derived from the same person, but the museum and Getty Images have nothing do with each other.
True Amazon workers try to deny their coworkers their basic rights.
calling it a lie seems disingenuous when it's a guideline based on worst-case bacterial multiplication rate, and food safety guidelines are primarily relevant in commercial situations where it's reasonable to be more strict

if you want to argue the advice should be based on how often an activity actually makes people sick, that's reasonable (though hard to measure), but is obviously a way lower safety standard
> Especially if it's a PHEV since WLTP expects a full battery all the time. Under 2L/100km for a 2 ton SUV is not realistic by any stretch of the imagination. The numbers on https://www.spritmonitor.de/ for example seem to allign more with EPA in my experience.

There's a question as to what you're trying to model; if you're looking at daily usage then relatively short distances from fully charged are probably relatively representative of a lot of usage (the mean and median distances driven on a daily basis are relatively short distances!).

https://www.spritmonitor.de/en/overview/0-All_manufactures/0... shows that data is somewhat all over the place v. manufacturer data, with some being close and others very far away from it.

In reality, I suspect what would be useful is to have a further cycle based on a 100km journey largely on a motorway, as a long-distance extra-urban cycle?
Doubtful. You need provable security and systems characteristics if you wanted to get approval for a household robot in for example the E.U.
Higher cognition and task solving? Sure, we can do that with blackbox methods, but everything where skulls could get crushed, you want, and by law need, the boring stuff.
On the other hand, wooden chopsticks are safer and work better. Similarly, I like my pizza slightly soggy after being bagged and refrigerated, though I don't always bother.
>She stated that she's come to believe the speculation of company value is nothing but a pyramid scheme divorced from any actual value of said company.

How so? What's the evidence for this, especially when you consider that the company's stock price goes up/down depending on their quarterly performance?