skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, yeah, but at the same time, stocks are different from inventory because they (can) appreciate in value. Inventory in a store depreciates over time.

There are two and a half reasons to sell a stock: because you need the cash, or because you think the stock has stopped appreciating and will depreciate going forward.

Once a stock has become a depreciating asset it's really no different than the bedroom set that's been sitting in the corner of the showroom for too long, and before too long they'll be happy to take 50% or 40% or less of what they were originally asking just to get it off their hands, even if they end up selling at a nominal loss at the end.

So I'd argue that a stock being "dumped" really is no different than a printer being sold, but that that doesn't look any better for the stock than the negative term would suggest.
I think you have to ask whether Tesla would have the same or similar valuation in any of the following circumstances:

- If literally anyone else were CEO.

- If Musk hadn’t used twitter to gather a cult-like following of people who idolize him, think the tech is cool, and can’t afford a Tesla but can afford a few shares of the stock.

- If Musk hadn’t repeatedly inserted himself into the WSB “meme stock” & crypto counter-culture to cultivate fans within that group of risk-taking investors who are known for ignoring fundamentals and buying stock on their intuition (or even the internet’s intuition!) alone.

I’m not saying Tesla is worthless and I even have to give Musk credit for creating an internet persona where he’s helping middle class millennials “stick it to the man” while _being_ the billionaire man. But IMO its very obvious that at least some substantial portion of Tesla’s valuation comes from Musk and his internet antics/persona and is completely detached from the underlying value of Tesla itself.
What is LKFS aka LUFS? Seems equivalent to dB. Couldn't find any info on weightings or perceptual models of loudness.
I don't think you use a large response when there are other alternatives. One problem is see is with tests. You can expect that there are some problems that might arise with very large data sets, but it may take some computer time to set-up and break-down such tests.
That would necessitate changing the gearing ratio between the hands, which is beyond the scope of this project.
Stature or size of teeth is really not a good measurement, especially to declare a new species!

Humans come in various shapes and sizes. In fact, given that the remains were found in a sinkhole, small stature might have something to do with their inability to escape.

For example, "little people" have adult teeth:

https://www.lpaonline.org/

Also, there are several types of common, modern humans that then to have very short statures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples

On the other end of the scale,

https://stillunfold.com/people/10-real-life-giants-known-for...
A dark pattern is tricking the user into doing something they didn't mean to do. I don't expect or intend my email address to be uploaded before I click submit. I expect it to happen after.
Op-eds exist to be hot takes. Abolish the police is not even close to the consensus among defund the police supporters.
> Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here.

It does appear that this piece was written by Mozilla, themselves… on their own blog.
All meats are represented, not just pork! https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/126... See Section 2518 for the elimination of Shark Fin soup.

I agree with eliminating shark fin soup, it is a cruel and destructive harvesting practice. But it absolutely should not have been a part of a bill on funding tech innovation. Argh.
U.S. Housing Became Much More Affordable over the Last 40 Years
Until you have children, then they come first.
Dimwit: politics is like a gang fight

Midwit: politics is actually about making good decisions for society

Topwit: politics is like a gang fight
Personally I don't think that researchers have any more business doing this kind of surveillance than Google and company do.

The idea that this will benefit society seems naive to me. I feel like it will only serve to legitimize the practice by putting ostensibly trustworthy faces on the packaging.
Learning and experimenting about building a highly scalable streaming service using golang. Also learning about microservices and currently working in a company where we are migrating from monolithic Java code bases to scalable Go microservices.
Japan is an insular, rigid and heavily values oriented society. Overall their crime rate is exceptionally low.

It would be hard to apply Japanese policing styles to fundamentally different societies. That doesn't mean we can't learn good lessons from them, but we need to remember it's never an apples to apples comparison.
I'm not very interested in TES, but how often do you choose to go to prison? I can't tell if you're saying going to prison is just lose stats and then cut to the end of it, or lose stats and have to break out.

If it's the former, maybe you tank the stat loss and deal with it. If it's the former, how many times are you actually going to tolerate going to prison rather than loading your save file from before you got caught? In a multiplayer game that's probably not an option. Breaking out of prison multiple times is both annoying and immersion breaking, especially if its the same prison over a short period.

Obviously the concept of a prison break is fine for gameplay. There are whole games dedicated to it. But implementing it as a punishment is by default going to be viewed as either not a punishment, due to it being rewarding, or tedious, because the player doesn't want to do it. Generally speaking, there's intrinsic loss to being put in prison already because you're forced to stop what you were actually trying to do already. Ocarina of Time had the gerudo sequence where you could get thrown into prison if caught, but then hookshot yourself out immediately. That's probably the better choice for most games because having to deal with consequences of prison are very boring. If the system to escape is easy, it should be very short. If it's not easy, you have to question how annoying it is to the player and whether it actually makes the game better.
Install the cuda-toolkit- package instead of the cuda- package in that usecase.
China went from a colonial backwater to the #1 real economy in the world, without endless foreign wars. Recent history irrefutably disproves your "might is right" framework.
AOC hasn't been in the arena long but she defeated one of those petrified 10-term bozos at the top of the party hierarchy, which is a notable event.
Event streaming/multiple views into your data based on whatever the listeners care about. It sounds nice, but it's a lot different than the usual CRUD apps I'm used to. Still wrapping my head around when it's best used, how to generate the event (do you just generate the event, or do you save to a db and then use CDC to emit the event) etc.

Think of Facebook. You create a post and see it on your wall right away. The rest of the world doesn't need to see it right away, but you should or else you think the post wasn't saved. Does that post get saved in some db/cache specific for you, and _then_ an event is emitted?

But yes, I'm learning things like that.
Similar story. I left tech for about 5 months back in early Spring to refocus after delivery of a huge project (contract). Now looking at re-entering with a product/company I actually want to contribute to.
They see the writing on the wall. Big Auto is going to dominate electric vehicles. Take the Ford F-150 as one example.

https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/
> My 15-year old nephew who isn't part of the game development scene almost certainly noticed this game before I did. Just think of all the other trends you and I are likely missing no matter how close we think we're paying attention.

People like to make fun of me when I talk tech with teens (TM?). This is exactly why. Because as much as we think we're on top of all the latest trends, sometimes we're just too not hip.
Oddly, this has become an environment where something like WeWork could actually make sense. I might like to have a workspace without any coworkers.
When you're negotiating, it's useful to keep in mind not just your own viewpoint, but the viewpoint of whoever you're negotiating with.
All domestic Covid restrictions lifted in Iceland
I still pay for Fastmail, yet I route all messages over to HEY. There's just no replicating the UX (Fastmail's web UI is…suboptimal…and I'm thoroughly over using Apple Mail). And there are a ton of neat little touches throughout HEY beyond just the immediate filtering of incoming messages. It's simplistic to think you can just add a few rules on some other system and you're done.

I seriously thought about quitting after the Basecamp fiasco, but ultimately realized my entire email workflow is now centered around HEY and it's greatly improved my quality of life. So I use it like I use any other online service from a company I don't particularly like. _shrug_
>Also surprised that AOC never sleeps.

Well, she slept once according to your results.
I think this point is key. Musk was fast out of the gate and did well out of it. Existing car companies are slower to adopt innovation, but they've been doing it for 100 years at this point. Musk is a darling of the early-adopter market, but that's a small percentage of the total market. The more established car companies have huge advantages there, and Tesla's going to have to work very hard to overcome them.
> I tend to look on commit count as a negative when reviewing open source projects.

I do agree that tracking commit counts isn't very useful but tracking commit frequency, in my opinion, is quite useful. I'm obviously biased but I use commit frequency to tell me how fast a project is moving and what is the investment.

Take the following for example:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=impa...

by breaking down how frequently contributors commit on a daily basis, you can get a very good sense of investment and speed. In the case of the vscode project, Microsoft is investing a lot of resources into vscode and it is evolving at an extremely fast pace.

Software metrics in general isn't the issue, it's the lack of context around them that is the issue.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool that I'm linking to
Same thing with stool collection.
This will upset the diaper face cult.
I don't think so either - but the ones that are being punished aren't in that position because they're happy with or believe in department policies.
Presumably-armed police loitering outside a democratic process even when there's nothing going wrong seems very strange to people outside the US.
> But maybe the ACAB crowd truly does think all cops are bastards.

I once had an interesting discussion with someone about this who had obviously thought about it a fair bit. Their position was that the institution is set up in such a way that your own intentions, regardless of how good, are systemically constrained into a narrow channel and the function of the job is to be "a bastard".

In other words, it wasn't a commentary of the nature of the people in the job, rather the nature of the job.
Most jobs don't demand a steady stream of life and death decisions on 12+ hour shifts with terrible pay. The closest would be the medical industry, and typically screwups are disciplined but rarely result in firing.
That's the story people might tell, but it's untrue. Interest rates are low. Panasonic has a medium investment-grade credit rating. Yields those bonds would be something like 3.5%. Panasonic would rather sell Tesla shares to fund a project than pay 3.5% interest.
> Would appropriately rigorous independent scholarship be considered as a trustworthy source within your sphere?

Definitely. Academia doesn't have a monopoly on excellent technology and society research. The Markup's data-driven investigative journalism, for example, is outstanding.
Unless you think investing in yourself is better than investing in other companies.
How would you know if you were correct?
Depends on how ‘better’ is being judged.
Premium fit/finish, interior quality, handling, etc. - i.e. the things that the legacy Porsche business was already good at, Taycan is better.

Battery tech, motor tech, vertical integration, and (arguably most importantly) overall efficiency, Tesla is ahead, and probably by many years.

Tesla also far ahead in effort/time out into developing self-driving, though the jury is obviously still out on how meaningful their approach finally turns out to be.
It's a great question. Future potential, leadership, tech stack, manufacturing capacity, etc. There is a lot of "soft" aspects of running a company and valuation is one of the most difficult/error-prone things to do.

Damodaran's Google talk kind of does a good job describing valuation of high-growth companies (it is deceivingly simple): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5chrxMuBoo
Im skeptical of this kind of educational material.
It seems like they want to provide the feeling and the aesthetic of learning, but aren't willing to dig in to the hard work of it.
In the US we have a society where people walk around wearing suffering like a badge of honor. We worship work. I was brought up in a Midwest culture where "work ethic" was everything - if you worked hard enough, you would be successful. In contrast, if you were not successful it was because you didn't work hard enough.

Then, I got into tech. I hear "war stories" from people about sleeping under their desk at their cubicles. I hear people tell jokes about how their career strains their marriage. I hear about people wasting their 20's working every hour they can for a FAANG to get ahead... It was like that whole "work ethic gets you ahead" culture from my childhood got turned up to 11.

I'm meandering here but overall that poem reminded me of a blog post from long ago stating "Never Save Anything for the Swim Back. Ever." [1] which was introduced to me by a manager using it as justification to work a 60+ hour crunch week. I guess where I'm going here is these sort of idealizations of fiction where "work ethic trumps all" really clash with this poem. I feel like idealizations like this serve the interests of those who are capitalizing off of labor more than they do the general worker/person.

[1] https://joshldavis.com/2013/08/31/never-save-anything-for-th...
> Imagine that, when everyone is social distancing, we have our lowest amount of influenza ever..

And yet the explanation for Covid spreading so much during the winter is popularly held to be that people weren't social distancing and were selfishly refusing to follow the guidelines. I mean, how is it that these measures were simultaneously almost 100% effective against influenza and clearly much less so against Covid?

I think viral interference is the real explanation here: https://www.insighttherapeutics.com/publications/insights/20...
I'll note that "inferior" to somebody on HN may not be very much like "inferior" in the judgment of a mainstream consumer. I agree with you that traditional car company software is terrible. But if there's one lesson I've had to learn over and over, it's that terrible software is not much of a barrier to market success.
I love the flow state of folding laundry.
Academic research in the social sciences is rigorously based on the concept of informed consent (i.e., opt-in), in the first place.

There would be no change in terms of research design and the ability to draw scientific conclusions.

edit: also, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27633212 for details on research design considerations when conducting social science.
I’m willing to bet you’re still comfortable. Especially if your effective tax rate is anywhere near that.

The point is to see past your own pile of coin and think about society as a whole. If people were up for sacrificing that second holiday house and their stupid expensive watch or whatever, so much good would come of it.

Inequality fuels crime , public services like trains suffer etc...

I think ‘giving money to free loaders’ is a bit of a straw man, as the second order effects benefit everyone. Including you. And note I’m not advocating communism.
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Same. My workflow is as follows:

About once a month, I unsubscribe in bulk, and delete in bulk. Other than that, I scan my inbox once every day or two and read anything that seems relevant (maybe a handful of emails per week).
> particularly when people are scared by elevated violent crime numbers.

Crime has been down from the 1990s to 2020. People has been more and more scare of less and less crime.

> "defund the police" led Minneapolis to actually start working towards dismantling its police department

That is not the case, reading your link they are creating a "Department of Public Safety in Minneapolis to oversee policing, violence prevention, and community safety programs". So, from your link, nobody is dismantling the police department but they are changing its responsibilities and structure to be more effective with the current challenges.

> some extremists literally want to do that in New York

"extremists"

> need to see a policy framework worked out in smaller cities before they can be applied to New York

That is reasonable. Even better is to apply it to New York but in small scale. A little town and New York have little in common.
Interesting. I can see that RAPPOR seems to be deprecated in favor of something else called ukm (Url-keyed metrics) but not why this change is being made. Is there somewhere I can read more about it?
Good question. The proof is in the pudding. Run a well powered RCT and if the intervention helps patients live longer and/or better, then we should consider using it! It will be hard to design a study that includes all possible detected cancers, but there are ways around this - perhaps we begin by studying those cancers that are most common and lethal, and go from there.
> $4m/year means I could retire before I'm 40 and live the rest of my life with the lifestyle I have now with comfort.

I would be able to retire after 1 year, $4M is enough to just stick in an index fund and live the rest of your life on 4% a year, unless you live in a very high COL area.
Yeah, exactly, it’s about expressing interest, communicating intent, and offering a way to opt out. The broader point is that form submission is not the criteria for saving an email address at all, explicit consent from the user is. When the site itself provides an expectation that a signup process can be “cancelled” they are signaling an expectation that the information will be discarded and not used to market to you or sell your email address to other companies. When they do that despite having communicated to you that the process was cancelled, they’re playing dirty. And I do think selling the email address to third parties is the bigger danger here, not getting a couple of direct marketing emails from site you visited.
I think it is an idea that alienates people who actually want and can achieve pragmatic change and attracts people who have passion more than sense, and ultimately either accidentally or intentionally (by someone) ensuring that the broad motivation to make positive progress is derailed by the disorganization of a movement that doesn't really know what it's about or what it wants.

It is vague "on purpose" because the things which actually need to change are subtle, require understanding of specific circumstances and deatails, involve compromise and human understanding of the failings of people, and generally nothing else fits on poster boards.

If I were a little more paranoid I might be suggesting that the bad slogans of protest worlds are actively being encouraged by sophisticated opponents of these movements in order to ensure that they achieve nothing.

If someone really wants change, they should say it instead of accusing people who question them of not understanding their poorly chosen message.
The point they're trying to make is, I believe, that metrics shouldn't be targets. In a sense I think that this is obvious to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of applied statistics.
> The bigger thing is that this particular deprecation is probably going to mean that fewer people use utilities and other programs written in Go.

I kept hearing this about Python 2->3, specifically in the context that people would start writing stuff in Go instead. And it was a little bit true, sure, but there's plenty of stuff that's still in Python that people still figure out how to use.

So I'm deeply amused to hear that people are going to switch away from utilities written in Go and curious what language they're switching to.
The thing that is weird about her is that she can be hyperbolic when making personal appearances but she's one of the few in Congress who take their jobs seriously when in committee. She's not as prepared as Katie Porter, but she usually does the work she's being asked to do by her constituents instead of simply grandstanding during working hours.
Cops make $30k a year at entry, work insane hours and are closer to a blue collar labor force than a bunch of college grads arguing about microservices.

If you want to hold them to a higher standard, you have to pay them to a higher standard.
YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
Tyranny is progressive.
you should exit any trade, winning or loser, the instant you have a better plan for deploying the capital.
This would be accurate, if only those school age children didn't have older teachers or parents. Although children are rarely (though in some cases fatal) symptomatic there is evidence that they spread COVID, just as they spread many other colds and flus every school year. This is not a virus that should make us question the germ theory of disease. I understand the want for children's education and emotional well being, but that shouldn't require other adults to be hospitalized or die.

We already had hospitals in many states fill-up and turn away other ICU patents, because they were full.

When would such a scientific decision have been made? Certainly, some time after October 2020, so maybe January or February of 2021? Many schools were re-opening at lower density and with testing by early 2021.

Now that we have a vaccine and adults can choose to be immunized (and/or immunize older children) that's less of a question and more of a family decision, but in May of 2020 there was much we didn't know. Almost certainly, opening schools would have sped up the spread/development of variants.

Flip it around and ask, what if the virus was only deadly/debilitating to 10% young children, and parents/businesses wanted to mandate sending children to school so their parents (with <0.01% death rate) could work? Would that have been responsible?
It is a dark pattern - it tricks the user into thinking their data won't be submitted until they click "submit," but instead saves it right away. It would only not be a dark pattern if the form clearly said "your email address will be uploaded to our servers immediately after typing it."
It's been renamed but it's still there: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-backend--ud171
“Short selling is not a crime!”
> and that their strategists have learned that in a two party ONLY system, with low voter turnout regularly, that just agitating those already on your side to do something, in any way that happens, is more return on effort than convincing people or other variations.

That's totally the case. I've read article after article for the past few years about the "disappearing center" and how elections are now won by getting your side to show up at the polls.
Just open your eyes and look at reality. TikTok, HarmonyOS, a rapidly advancing space program, and Shenzhen's 100% 5G coverage, and so on, did not come out of Silicon Valley. The writing is on the wall.