skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "investments" I meant shares owned by retail investors, and in case of a market crash options can serve as a cushion. Also, everyone has a different understanding of a difference between "trading" and "investing", in most cases when the investment horizon is less than 1 year ppl call it "trading"

You say that "options are high risk coz we cannot predict the future".. well, everything is a high risk then since most people imo cannot do that :) Stocks can be no less risky than options - when the company goes bust shareholders oftentimes lose 100% of their investment. But with options people can fine-tune their exposure and risk profile. For example, owning stocks and reasonably OTM puts would mitigate the investor's exposure to that particular company.

I find your concerns about options trading reasonable though, especially after the Robinhood experience. Just like you said RH doesn't provide any meaningful tools effectively turning options trading in a compulsive gambling. The way how they treated their clients (in fact not clients but an inventory, MM are their real customers) leaves much to be desired, and yes, retail options traders should have an SLA in place with their broker unless they don't mind being an inventory.
I see how the parents wording is confusing. IMO, they weren't saying African Americans "may have been treated poorly" in the past (I suspect this is quite uncontentious), they were saying that even this algorithm, now, applied back in the 1700s may not have eliminated bias. Instead, it may have simply applied the prevailing biases emotionlessly. It's hard to see the inequities of your system when you participate in it.
- Treadmill

- under desk bicycle pedals

- any exercise equipment that you’re interested in that you can’t use while working

- sunlight lamp

- good chair or chair alternative

- good mechanical, ergonomic keyboard

- upgraded webcam/mic

- upgrade any part of your home, like better coffee maker or whatever would make your daily life a little better
Grape tomatoes in plastic containers are usually more flavorful because the seller doesn't have to ship them underripe to keep them from squishing.
I've noticed there's been several suspect comments from Oculus 'owners'.
Stalin also sent the NKVD to the Spanish Civil War to mostly root out “trotskyites and anarchists” from the Republican side(!) rather than against the Falange.

This is what disillusioned leftists who saw it first hand (like George Orwell) with the USSR
> Every single life form on Earth today had exactly the same time to do its evolution in. Us, bats, dolphins, tapeworms, birch trees, amoeba, mushrooms, all of that had exactly the same chance(s) in the same time span.

This is patently false as these species have very different places within the phylogenetic tree. Emphasis on tree, since their adaptivity experiments did not have a linear timeline either; we didn’t evolve to have speech from scratch, we’ve adopted existing partial solutions, e.g. having a tongue, to develop it.

And we don’t need to delve into phenomenology of being a mushroom, adaptivity gives us an observable proxy to the “intelligence” of an organism; how general and efficient of a problem solver they are, the ultimate problem being surviving genes onward. Turns out humans do exceptionally well, for the problems they’ve encountered so far. We’ll see if/how we can solve anthropogenic coordination problems of our day.

> That Star Trek trope of "everything in the Universe is just like us with different faces" really needs to be put to rest.

You need to cook a "complex adaptive organism" solution with the same periodic table and a handful of forces. It's like coding a CRUD application with slightly different sub-requirements and the exact same programming language. How different can they be?

If you need more creativity you have to break apart from physical requirements and the right genre for that is fantasy.
Bach at the Burger King – How classical music deters anti-social behavior
Retired neurologist with Alzheimer’s knows firsthand the risks of Biogen’s drug
The Karen meme ridicules people trying to bypass the blankfaces to directly talk with the policy-makers. It also puts them into the same category as racists calling the police on minorities quite literally minding their own business.
It's not just training ourselves, it's companies training us. When people talk about dopamine hits from getting a like on a post, or feeling a buzz from an app, they are explicitly setting out to create a behavioral pattern that benefits them in some way. They are training us like Pavlov's dogs, and while humans are smarter, we do respond to operant conditioning.

At the end of the day, we as people have to react to this environment that's been created, but the people who created it knew what they were doing.
Draghi Declassifies Documents of Gladio and P2 Masonic Lodge
Something kinda similar happened in Japan after the second world war - from cities burned to the ground in 1945 to first japanese nuclear power plant and bullet trains by the 1964 Olympics. Pretty remarkable IMHO.
Standard sql:

select key, value, asof
from (
select *, row_number() over (partition by key order by asof desc) as rn
from <table>
) t
where rn = 1

postgresql:

select distinct on (key)
key, value, asof
from <table>
order by key, asof desc

The DISTINCT ON clause takes the first row that the query returns, which the ORDER BY makes sure is the latest value

Disclaimer: I've used both methods, but haven't tested the perf against each other or the self-join.
The publicly richest citizen on Earth doesn't believe that at all - in fact, he believes earth is savable, and is the best home for humans and should be kept pristine by performing all (polluting) manufacturing in space. Sure, it's not as romantic as "Let's colonize Mars", but IMO, its a lot more practical. Not polluting earth is far easier than terraforming Mars
We don't organize into socities solely to eek every drop of value out of people economically that we can. The goal is to create a more stable and less miserable life for people. Some people are never going to be happy spending years in formal education. And creating an incentive so strong that even people without the slightest interest or compunction towards it creates its own inefficiencies.

You twisted my comment into a false dichotomy. Societies obviously cannot fully subsidize people to enjoy a life of the most self indulgent or pretentious interests. But a society can acknowledge that not everyone is going to grow skills, discover talents or develop interests in the same way. Perhaps the most efficient thing is to shrink agriculture work to the bare machine assisted minimum with a dichotomy of skilled labor at the top and a balloon of grunt workers at the bottom. On the other hand, growing a wide professional class of ag workers with more stake in the system may lead to happier workers and perhaps a more sustainable and durable ag sector. If a society needs to subsidize that or create a pipeline that carries workers out of primary education into that kind of work it may be preferable for less tangible reasons. It's absurd that we should drive forward with efficiency no matter how much it emiserates people. And to insist upon it with so much of the reward for it accruing at the top is downright feudal.

Even still, it's not necessarily true that funneling everyone into the knowledge economy is in fact better. If someone would be happy and productive farming five acres but they go to the city, get half a degree, crash out and end up in a very low value labor market, society has probably lost out. It is my opinion that economists view labor markets aa far too fluid. They don't account for the fact that people are more like bits of rock, sand and clay than they are like water. They clump together, break apart and get stuck.
New delta variant studies show the pandemic is far from over
Archive link: https://archive.is/APzgD

> turned out that the retired Portland, Ore., neurologist ― who had treated Alzheimer’s patients before he was diagnosed with the disease himself in 2015 ― was experiencing some of the worst reported side effects of the drug. Doctors prescribed medicines to lower his blood pressure, which reached 206/116, and later to reduce brain swelling. But for weeks afterward, he struggled to read, follow conversations, and do simple math. He recovered but never again took the Alzheimer’s drug.
I think if FB offered a $5 “talk to a human” option or a premium tier for users, then people would be satisfied. But instead there is this clunky hack of buying an Oculus device.
I'm part of the community, several big production projects, several migrations from v2 to v3.

I was never confused.

The backward compatibility has a clean plan. For the bits that were complex changes, it was possible to do partial upgrades. From the beginning, the partial upgrade was in consideration. There was always early documentation, and you have access to v3 in alpha and beta all the time with complete documentation and complete guides. You also have standalone packages to start testing migrating bits of v3 to v2, like the composition API, class components, etc. It was one of the most seamless transitions I experience.
Well, leap something is arguably the right thing to do, but I'm not convinced that seconds are the best size. It's very possible that a leap minute every century or two would cause less disruption. It's also possible that making leaps a lot more frequent would cause less disruption, because good code is well-tested and oblivious code is less impacted.
Key words: in decades past.
Fair point.

To be clear, bias need not be conscious or deliberate. There's a great piece by Lippmann on the Russian Revolution that details just how profoundly the press got the story wrong, in large part because they were relying on official sources rather than getting "the street" view (paraphrasing Lippann generously here).

Spin is pretty much always deliberate propaganda. It may not be an outright lie, but the primacy is on persuading or manipulating rather than informing.
> Entertainment

Never understood putting barriers and quota on entertainment (as well as government subsidies). Companies like Disney and Marvel both made billions simply by making content people want to watch. Canada is pretty much free to export its content anywhere and sell it. Why not simply compete?
> Where in America are these magical semiconductors being made?

You're unaware that the US is one of the world's leading manufacturers of semiconductors?

For 2019 the US exported $44 billion worth of semiconductors. The third largest export for the US, behind airplanes ($130 billion) and oil ($152 billion for all oil products).

There are only a few major semiconductor manufacturing nations and the US is among them.
Could be like lead acid batteries. You buy a new one and return the old one. You just can’t sell it used or buy it used from individuals.
I was poor and didn't even think to steal other people's shit
I worry about systems like this, because if I were a thief and you pissed me off with the addition of the siren versus just the protective layer, I’d slash your tires and break all of your windows then run off.

So if I’m thinking this, how much worse will an actual criminal behave? Setting a car on fire only costs $5.
> On the other hand, she says, “If I had a tool that told me, ‘I’ve been tracking you. You seem to be writing better at these times, you seem to not be productive at those times of the day, this is when you should be taking a break,’ I’m not only going to be more likely to comply, but I’m going to be excited about doing it and following that.”

When it's giving feedback like "here's when to take a break", maybe people feel good about it. But almost any other feedback would be less welcome and more creepy. And even this feedback is also creepy when you think about the information required for it.
Because we have stopped persecuting most non violent crimes here.
“Compas” was also the name of the test used by Wisconsin community colleges to assess students.

It was legally required that all community college students take it, even if they were only taking a single course.

It seemed like a really corrupt arrangement. Want to take a language class to complete a high school requirement? You have to pay $100 to a for profit company to assess your math skills.

Seems community colleges no longer use a test branded as “Compas”.

Edit: it was “Compass” and discontinued in 2015 over concerns of its accuracy.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/18/act-drops-pop...
> But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind.

All those billions of fools being tricked into using them! I can see an argument that the downsides of social media outweigh the benefits of access to nearly unlimited knowledge, but I don't even agree with that argument. I spent more of my life without smartphones than with, and I still 100% would rather have them than not. The access to the knowledge alone is amazing. Stuck out in the middle of nowhere? A quick google search gets you home. Traveling around in the middle of nowhere without a map isn't actually that great of a life lesson after the first time or two. And I live in the "first world" - the benefits to third world countries are profound.
Setting up a self-sustaining colony on Mars is orders of magnitude easier than fixing all the problems on Earth.
My small team uses and loves Mattermost. It's a great FOSS project.

And, direct access to the PG database has been awesome for integrations. (Watch out tho, seems to be missing a bunch of FKs (that I think should be there))
I think he was saying that sufficiently powerful languages provide enough features that you won't need macros in the first place. If you feel that you do for some reason, go find a more powerful language instead.

> What does D do, then?

Most mainstream languages, D included, very intentionally don't provide any features that could potentially be used to extend the language itself on the fly. (At least not in a straightforward manner. Obviously the C preprocessor kind of sort of facilitates a bit of this.)

As a counterexample, Rust does provide some of this in the form of procedural macros but doesn't provide (to the best of my knowledge) an equivalent to Lisp reader macros.
> hardly beyond standard practice in the industry. The SLS is

Perhaps explaining GP's surprise: I've heard SpaceX's testing philosophy contrasted against this sort of thing. That none of their tests are "too big to fail". On the other hand, according to this narrative they also stress iteration speed over success rate, and ramping up fast works to that end too.

Maybe they were getting diminishing returns (in terms of lessons learnt) in small scale tests though. No doubt there are phenomena you only see in larger tests, and (as you say) their confidence in getting the smaller stuff right might be quite high.
The whole top vs bottom 50% attractiveness bit was a gag thing. It's such a common outraged-post topic that the okcupid subreddit has a FAQ about it in the sidebar.

OKCupid used to be substantially weirder than it was before it was swallowed up by IAC. I mean really fucking weird. One of many examples: the signout page had a clipart photo of an airport firefighter (ie silver suit head to toe) in a veeeeery suggestive pose with a firehose.

However, dating sites absolutely engage in the same techniques to hook users and reduce "churn" that free-to-play / cosmetic-sale-funded games do. Tinder is basically ELO applied to matchmaking coupled with the same psychological tricks (like initially showing your profile to much more attractive people / showing you much more attractive people, before dropping the liklihood of your profile appearing in anyone's stacks, and periodically re-boosting your profile just a tad to keep you from deleting your account.)

Edit just to say I forgot: why on earth is okcupid allowing links at all? Seems ripe for abuse. I guess it would encourage people to switch to off-site messaging quicker...
I think it's because many engineers underestimate how much the force of habit shape people behavior.

habits that shape the consumer, employers, companies making decisions for automation.

maybe drug store managers would feel like they have no one to manage? it would be too disruptive for labor.

From a consumer perspective even available tech like voice recognition doesn't seem to add or change much for me personally like I know Siri is on my iphone right now, but how often do I feel comfortable speaking to her? almost never.Why would I speak if I could type?

Virtual game characters like assistants would look too odd and uncomfortable, except maybe in japan, it's uncomfortable to make eye contact with human strangers, let alone 'robot eyes stranger'!.

maybe if younger kids were exposed to virtual assistants they would be comfortable in adapting to them, just like gen z adapted to preferring typing over answering the phone.

maybe that could be the future of post-gen z generation.
Come on, they are right next to a world class math department (Berkley).

Instead of paying for a committee of bureaucrats (with generous pensions!) to write about "racism in math", why not hire a couple of undergrads as extra tutors for students of color struggling with math?
One can still say "to moot an issue for discussion (bring up an issue)" but what also fascinates me is the other meaning for mute involving bird evacuation. I have to wonder what happened in Latin?
I've started weening myself off of everything that's instant-gratification. No reddit, no imgur, no short-format news stories or list articles. A week ago I drove 9 hours for a camping trip and spent several days without my phone and smart-watch. For several months I've made a point to walk at least an hour a day (to go about 5 miles) without looking at my phone -- but I still wear my watch to track the distance. I still feel like I have to have some form of audio going in the background - maybe something educational, maybe ASMR - while I'm browsing hacker news. If I play a game, I still choose one without a narrative so that I can listen to a podcast while I play. I'm not sure that any of these habits are beneficial.

I think Nicholas Carr had a great point in The Shallows (2010) [1] -- our brains have a lot of plasticity, even into late adulthood. The way we use the internet probably has a much larger impact on the way we think than we are currently willing to acknowledge. There is a healthy way to integrate electronics into our daily lives, but I don't think many of us have found it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)
Elon has special information about whether humanity is worth saving? Lmao
Ahh yes, the big-ass table.

https://youtu.be/t2ty_QIWspE
What sort of waste water do you produce? What is the local ecosystem impact?

Edit: Also, it’s great that your de-carbonating the ocean as part of this project. Ecological damage to the ocean is out of sight, and usually out of mind.
> because some of the struggling kids are black

What about the black overachievers? Princeton certainly didn't lower the bar for him [0]

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/princeton-first-black-vale...
I wonder at what point the insurance cost starts to outweigh just paying for more staff to provide a higher-touch experience for certain categories.

But then, I get the impression that supermarkets are saving on staff by using self-checkout, at the risk of increased casual theft.

Would be nice to see more jobs rather than more insurance pay-outs though.
> Compared to the US, venture capitalists in other countries tend to be more cautious, demanding much more equity for the same investment, and often much more interfering as well.

Why not simply... follow the model that worked?
Stealing a $3k catalytic converter is a felony. It would absolutely be prosecuted (or plea bargained) if the cops find the thieves.
I have a feeling Musk and the FAA have very different standards around public safety. He has his differences with the SEC and NTSB too, but I feel the FAA hews far closer to the public safety end of the spectrum, and not the "move fast and break things(bones)" end.
You're even more-so the product with a FB device on your head. You're just paying to be tracked in a much more intimate way than before, why else would they now require a FB login?
I thought that when it came to chess men do dominate as well. So it would make sense to also have a women’s category.
Do any of your examples have women in general as competitive as men and still having their own category.
It also really takes the wind out of the sails of their whole "you must give us your phone number for security" song and dance and makes it clear the phone number was only for tying your username to your real world identity.
Why I Love Prince of Persia
Silicon Valley's Remote Work Lie
Staples-as-a-Service. I would totally buy that service vs overpriced meal boxes or on-demand grocery delivery. An app could be used to coordinate your order/inventory levels, and a reusable cooler could sit on your porch or lobby for exchange and temp storage. Pop a cheap tracker and lock in it if piracy is an issue. There are major efficiencies associated with route delivery vs on-demand ordering- pick&pack in batches, delivery in batches, consistent staffing needs, etc. somebody should pitch this for Winter 2022!
Then next time it won't be just a siren but something more injurious.

And if you start setting cars on fire, the cops won't be so lax about catching you.
A while back, I'd agree with you but I'm starting to think this is a generational issue and that the younger generations are internalizing the truth about Israel. We could see a massive shift once they get control of the country en mass. I think it has already started and is moving faster than I would have predicted even a year ago.

There is also the chance of the US losing a lot of its power through various means (ie. Dollar losing reserve currency status, US military being tested by China and losing etc.). If this happens, they may be forced to cut Israel loose. Israel has no other solid allies and so they will flounder for a while but eventually sink because once the US is out others will be free to begin economic sanctions and the country cannot survive that indefinitely.

In both of these scenarios, the lobby groups become less effective and possibly get defeated. Long term we are moving towards a world where lobbies become less powerful. Its going to take decades though.
I understand that. And I'm not opposed to creating rewards for educational attainment. But we as humans have to realize that cognitively people come in many shapes and sizes. And we should consider that it's possible that a certain amount of people are going to flunk out of the modern world. The more homogenous and narrow we make the singular way in which we expect people to live, the more some will fail to find their footing. So far, modernity has widened what it accepts from people in many ways. But in one key way it has narrowed. We expect virtually everyone to become employed and pay rent. And we paint a pretty singular path to better employment, formal education.
once maybe, twice maybe. Eventually you get caught, and arson will get you jail, even with SF's current DA
And yet elsewhere in this comment thread we have people saying that "NPR is the Ikea of radio". So it seems that people's take on "what NPR is" is fairly varied, and it seems likely that it varies in part based on specific "touchstone" issues that are important to a particular group of people, but far from everyone.