skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the point of the article. The author specifically says:

>it’s clear that two things can be true. She should be held accountable for her actions as chief executive of Theranos. And it can be sexist to hold her accountable for alleged serious wrongdoing and not hold an array of men accountable for reports of wrongdoing or bad judgment.

The take isn't "Elizabeth Holmes is good," it's "Elizabeth Holmes committed fraud, but so did a lot of other tech billionaires. Why aren't they also being prosecuted?" Now, clearly her misdeeds were much more dangerous than Uber using misleading ads. They're both fraud though.

I do think that a lot of the author's comparisons are a stretch. Toxic workplace culture is bad, but somewhat unrelated to the central point of the article from a legal perspective (note: IANAL).
I think the target is low power consumption server applications.
It's quite simple, the market for paid end user applications on Linux is tiny. Canonical was saying years ago that they were going to add paid applications to the Snap Store but seemingly never got around to it. Elementary's App Center has integrated payments but they are optional and ~99% of users do not pay anything.

You can certainly make a living selling a cross platform application that supports Linux, but it's probably quite difficult to make much of a living selling Linux-only applications.
Might be fixed in the iOS 15 beta.

Also could be workaround, but looks complicated:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39665367/how-to-prevent-...
I know you're attributing lack of motivation and loneliness to lack of romantic success... but it might just be a symptom of a deeper issue. I say that because I can relate a little, I have no issue getting romantic partners, but I get bored easily and I'm inherently a lonely person - even when in a relationship!!

I would recommend being unapologetically you - do what you love outside of work and, I promise, you'll meet someone at your level of weird. Don't be ashamed.
Thanks for posting that. I was going to say -- it's interesting to think about the reasons why Goodhart's Law might hold if it does.

I've always assumed the problem is that the metric is always influenced by other, nontarget variables that become more causally important when the metric becomes a proxy target. So, for example, "gaming the metric" becomes important (in a percent variance sense) after the metric becomes a target. I think the paper's adversarial scenario is closest to this maybe.

They discuss some other factors that seem more relevant to individual cases at any moment in time than an explanation for why a metric's utility might decline over time. In that sense the paper seems to be more about Goodheart-like phenomena in general.

It would be interesting to demonstrate Goodheart's law conclusively with real data in some domains.
But what does "yield" mean? It means slow down, and proceed when it's safe to do so. If a pedestrian starts crossing a 4-lane road and I have time to turn across his path without making him stop or deviate, then I can proceed safely and I think I've met the definition of "yield"
Crazy how much old software had ties to universities ( tamu Linux, BSD, wuftpd ). Are there any modern examples of this or have universities gotten out of the software game
Minecraft servers? ;-)
In the spirit of "how could I not have known that:" back in college there was a terminal in a room in the physics department basement where I could log in and check my email. Nearby was a bookshelf with a bunch of tattered books that seemed to have been left by former students. Some Asimov, some Douglas Adams, books about Fortran and C, and a book about Unix. Absent-mindedly flipping through those books one day (as one did before one discovered the web) I noticed that the Unix command line prompt looked like what I saw when I logged in to read my mail. Huh. I tried some things from the book, and they worked just like Unix was supposed to. This thing I had been using to check my email all year could do other stuff! That was really cool, but not all that personally useful to me, until I read something in the book that made me realize there was probably a C compiler. There was! Even better, there was a C++ compiler. From then on I was hooked. Programming for me had been a hobby before I came to college, a way of avoiding real work. I had heard of C++ and wanted to learn it, but I had read that the compilers were really expensive, and I was afraid of asking my parents to buy me one. Here was one I could use for free! So naturally I ended up spending a lot of hours writing C++ code in that basement instead of doing my math and physics work, and that's how I acquired the skills that landed me my first job.

As for Linux, there was a CS major in my dorm who installed Linux and BeOS on his PC and did his programming assignments on them, but I never had the courage to do that, because I was afraid that if I screwed up my computer and couldn't immediately fix it, it would mess up my work for other classes. I didn't take that risk until years later, when I no longer had to turn in writing assignments in Microsoft Word format.
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I have configured local Unbound to use four different open DNS provideds, round-robin, the rationale being each one gets 1/4th of requests. On the other hand, I am sending requests to four providers instead of one, so I have to trust four providers instead of one. What’s better?
> the autopilot was programmed to go in a straight line and at an intersection decided to steer into a crosswalk.

Agree this is a weird and very concerning bug.

> Not to mention the fact that it seems entirely legal for a company like Tesla to test such dangerous functionality on public streets with other drivers and pedestrians, with zero permission or regulation.

This driver seems to be someone who I would be ok with testing this. He's got his hand an inch from the steering wheel and obviously paying attention. I would rather this scenario happen, than Tesla be restricted to no public road access and they just unleash an untested system.
You need to measure the KPIs.

The reason we use metrics is because things have scaled out of control, and using a "real" judgment system is no longer possible. Not for everyone, anyway.

Using hiring as an example, but this should work for nearly all metrics driven workloads. Hire a small subset of your staff using a real judgment system, hire most of your staff using metrics, then take a sample of those hired using metrics and take a real look at them compared against those hired using real judgments.

If they are reasonably close, the KPIs are working. If they are alien to each-other, you need to either stop using KPIs or alter them significantly to fit with what the more effective people are doing.
Renounce, pay the tax once and live free?
> Your idea of a militia standing up to a government is essentially historical cosplay.

I'm not saying it is going to happen, I'm only saying it can happen with an armed population, and cannot happen without an rmed population.

"Political will" is something that happens in populations, not a leadership class. The US chose to end a war of attrition because they lost. Plain and simple.

In the event of some domestic problem going that far there would be basically no political will to continue military action, and if the government continued without that it would quickly be viewed as illegitimate, lead to instability and a larger uprising.
I don't see the relevance of how the average person might respond. People associate the term "censorship" with badness, and thus react with cognitive dissonance when an idea that they like is characterized by an appropriate technical term that has negative connotations. I suspect this is exactly what's happening here - I've basically made some pretty dry analysis based on a straightforward definition, while you've reacted with a larger pro-third-party-filtering (ie censorship) narrative that goes way beyond anything I said.
Keep watching the HUD pane - before the driver takes over, it corrects and decides to go straight. In fact, it's turning the wheel to the left before the driver stops the correction.

I think this is a navigation issue. This is exactly what I would have done if I had a passenger yell "WAIT TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT oh nevermind GO STRAIGHT"
France is an interesting example. I believe their wealth tax targeted more than just the super rich and it led to a heavy exodus of millionaires from France. Also by not having an exit tax, it was easy enough for people to leave France to avoid this.
The term "Esoteric Gap" applies to beliefs that religious cults try to hide from outsiders because they know they will make them look bad. Indeed, hiding your core beliefs is always a sign that something is amiss. The problem with today's aggressive left, though, is that it inspires people to hide even their most rational and reasonable beliefs. Especially their most rational and reasonable beliefs.
Microsoft Teams?
Engage and Convert More Visitors into Customers, Sales and Leads
I think we’re missing the point that this is currently designed for a driver to monitor at all times, the driver intervened appropriately, and thereby provided another training example for the network. This is also a beta version that is being tested by humans who have the legal and moral responsibility for control of the car.
What is the size comparison to a system with x86 cores and similar RAM etc? Epyc has 64 cores right?
The fossil fuel company executives are still walking free, too. As is Ted Cruz (who I have no factual reason to believe is the Zodiac Killer).
>These Lab Notes document my research in progress. My research area is in the future of personal computing.

This is a classic web log. What blogs really should be about.
Starting strength is a good program but only for beginners. The intensity ramps up quickly after the first few months and it's hard to stay consistent at that point.
This Show HN post from 2017[0] for the Monica personal CRM has quite a bit of good discussion on personal CRMs in general. For some reason this anecdote[1] in particular has stuck with me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14498590
You're not really missing anything, but there's a giant loophole.

If you have $84 billion (or even $20 million) in stocks and assets, you can borrow against them without converting them to income. Then you can die. Then your estate pays off the debt without paying income taxes. Thus, 0 income taxes over a lifetime of converting wealth to income.
This is cool. Never seen the local application take before. I'd be interested to know how people respond to having a dedicated app and if they enjoy that UX more than a website.

In a similar vein, but more focused around finding similar sounding names or creating a mashup of two words is Mashword (https://mashword.com). We're working on improving performance and reducing noise in the result set, but if you are patient, then even in its current incarnation, it produces some novel results.
welcome to our dystopian corporate future.

video of company dumping toxic waste into the ocena? DMCA takedown !
You lose a day off your life everytime you declare a String variable.
Ah, Yggdrasil Linux!
The Fall 1994 CD has been my first ever contact with the Linux world. I was with some colleagues doing some shopping for my company at that IT store, saw the CD and recalled that some friends on the local BBS (social media? What social media?!?) were praising it, so bought it and that's when it all started. Well, not quite, because the CD was damaged with errors about in the middle of the operation, which was very long, therefore hard to spot, and the installation procedure would continue anyway, so in the end I had a system which was bootable but often gave errors about files missing, this and that. I had no Internet connection back then, so I played with it as much as I could, but in the end had to wait a couple years before finding a perfectly working copy of Red Hat bundled within a magazine, and that became the actual start.
> . Renouncing to US citizenship would still be an option of course, but I'd expect the opportunity cost would be much higher than the cost of the tax itself.

Why? In 2021, a lot of countries have US levels or better infrastructure. The owner can reside outside the US and still make products for the US and the world.

> Americans Gave Up Citizenship in Record Numbers in 2020, Up Triple From 2019, Reports Tax Specialists Americans Overseas

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/americans-gave-up-c...
The Snap Store server is closed source and controlled only by Canonical. There is currently no fully functional FOSS reimplementation of the Snap Store server.
Mm yes the old "criticism isn't valid unless it's positive" approach.
Everyone gets a free education for 12 years, and access to infinite knowledge (library with books and internet). Qualifying families also have access to dirt cheap internet (at&t offers internet for 10$ a month if you're poor).

Most anybody has the means to research how to set up an amazon store, a blog, or a youtube channel and start making business income. But instead of spending their time learning how to better their life, they waste it on social media, watching tv, etc.
Very cool. I feel like this is the early version of a "programmable Notion[1]" in some ways which is built on similar building blocks that are customizable.

[1] https://notion.so/
One of the oldest lighthouses in the world has been in continuous use since 1531
This is the discussion around prices/exposure swapping/speculation I wanted to occur.

If someone has the ability to buy yes exposure at 1 cent, subsequently kill me, and then collect 100 cents that's pretty high pay out odds. The potential hitman has 99 cents of margin to use to kill me and still be profitable.

If the hitman buys at 99 cents, he looses the majority of the bet if he doesn't kill me. The person who took the other side has significant margins to protect me (from their prospective they bought no at 1 cent).

at 50 cents we both loose or gain the same amount of money.

I think I'd be more concerned for my safety in case A,B than in case C.

The other dimension of derivatives is how much "Open Interest" (OI) -- or the quantity of contracts/exposure -- that exists for a contract. I think I'd be concerned for my safety if there was any appreciable "yes" OI for the contract that wasn't me. So my strategy would be to buy up all "yes" contracts -- e.g. the people who want exposure to me dying or believe I will die -- so no one has an incentive to kill me.
I, too, have a three-year-old son. They fixate on stuff arbitrarily. Especially shows. Watching the same one 200+ times.
Vgeek,

Unless that big 10 Lb. trout has a whole team of high priced smart lawyers, many of who used to work for the IRS. Small fish don't have the money for lawyers and so cave in and pay up - - - easy money for the Gov't.

<We love to enforce the laws against the poor>

Oh, and by the way, the $600 bank item was first proposed by none other than Joe Biden, the same guy whose only real legislation he sponsored in the US Senate was his 1994 crime bill to increase sentences for drug crimes and resulted in a disproportionate number of poor blacks being incarcerated for decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joe-biden-crime-laws.h...
>> Are there any positives?

Have you ever enjoyed solving a puzzle or solving a problem? We do that daily, even if we didn't decide which puzzles to solve.

Do you find satisfaction in fixing things or making them better?

How about designing or building things from scratch? Do you find that rewarding?

Flexible schedule? Remote work? Higher pay than XXX?

I think the point is that there are downsides people often overlook, not that there aren't any upsides.
Can't say I appreciated the suggested soundtrack.
This proves one thing - we need non-centralized application distribution mechaism which could not be censored. Neither Apple or Google or any 3rd party should control what I install on my phone.

I know that unlike iOS, Android users can install programs directly or via alternative app stores on their phones. Direct installation is burdensome and does not provide updates. Alternative app stores (e.g. Amazon) are also controlled by corporations. We need a trully distributed censon-proof app store!
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That's not going to happen.
Only the good ones.
I believe most of this is based on public reporting by propublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Slackware was a bit late transitioning from libc5 to GNU libc. I dropped a copy of GNU libc from Red Hat onto my Slackware box, and binaries that expected GNU libc pretty much just worked.
I don't think "escaping taxes" is a bad thing. I'm only upset these instruments aren't available to the common person.

This money belongs in people's pockets, not in pockets of senators and their golf buddies.
Yea, I wish lockdown was easier to access on Android. An alternative would be holding the power button for long enough to turn the phone off. Not great either though.
Using learning-to-rank to precisely locate where to deliver packages
Microsoft OneDrive is now a progressive web app
Not the same thing. Robots are literally programmed to perform a task. A travel booking agency? I don't give a shit if it's AI or 1000 gnomes making hotel reservations. In the former the software is part of the product, the later travel is the product.
SHIB is the way to go, bull millions of coins and hope it goes up a ton some day…
Do we want to tax money that's working? Money that's actively building things? I would argue we don't.
eBay is probably a better Walkman gallery
While there are almost certainly small variations, the high order bit is economics. By a wide margin.

This is almost invariably left out of the equation when these things are reported.

Just like the so-called "gender wage gap", which is at best a "gender earnings gap", because pay is equivalent, dissipates almost entirely when you account for things like occupation and hours worked.
As it's told by Mandelbrot, the January effect was identified. Rather quickly it was exploited to the point where it no longer existed because the market exerted pressures to counteract it in the process of exploiting it.

"Consider three cases. First, suppose a clever chart-reader thinks he has spotted a pattern in the old price records—say, every January, stock prices tend to rise. Can he get rich on that information, by buying in December and selling in January? Answer: No. If the market is big and efficient then others will spot the trend, too, or at least spot his trading on it. Soon, as more traders anticipate the January rally, more people are buying in December—and then, to beat the trend for a December rally, in November. Eventually, the whole phenomenon is spread out over so many months that it ceases to be noticeable. The trend has vanished, killed by its very discovery. In fact, in 1976 some economists spotted just such a pattern of regular January rallies in the stocks of small companies. Many investors close their losing positions towards the end of the year so they can book the loss as a tax deduction—and the market rebounds when they reinvest early in the new tax year. The effect is most pronounced on small stocks, which are more sensitive to small money movements. Alas, before you rush out to trade on this trend, you should know that its discovery seems to have killed it. After all the academic hoopla over it, it no longer shows up as clearly in price charts."

-Benoit Mandelbrot, The Misbehavior of Markets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_effect
In fact I'm not interested in it being a standard in scientific publication nor in investing a huge amount of time. I just want a typesetting language which would be more practical and more powerful than HTML+CSS yet reasonably easy to learn and use in creative and practical ways. Unfortunately I don't know of any typesetting languages other than TeX and HTML+CSS.
From the admittedly not much footage of Tesla FSD (1-2 hours total maybe) I’ve watched, it seems to be roughly on par with a student driver who occasionally panics for no apparent reason.
One of my favorite questions to ask is how to find the first cousin of a node in a binary tree.

A lot of people try to start at root, enumerate the level of nodes for the entire tree, and then return non-sibling nodes at the same level as the node we want to find the first cousin of.

Which works, but it is O(n) and a lot of work. People who know about parent pointers in trees just walk up a couple levels and then down a couple of levels.

I consider it a fair question because, it has no gotchas, it is just understanding how to efficiently walk around one of the most commonly encountered data structures.

My other go to question is provided a library function that can schedule a callback to run anytime in the next 2147483ms, write a wrapper that can schedule a callback at any arbitrary time in the future. For advanced candidates I provide a library of date/time functions and they have to take in a date/time and using the provided limited functionality scheduling callback, call the passed in function at the proper date/time.

This is a very simple problem, and one that I've encountered in real life[0].

It is a trivial, but again real life problem of building functionality on top of a limited platform API. I have seen this question trip up countless candidates, who try to seriously over model the solution. I have no idea why a class with 1 function and a couple int64 variables counting down time seems so hard!

(Old school C programmers tend to get it right away)

[0] Windows timer APIs like their 100 nanosecond parameters, though now days they all have modern 64 bit FILETIME variants that side step this entire issue.
> If I was to start a new company again, I'd still apply for YC again.

Once you go through YC once, you have access to all the information and alumni community in perpetuity (via Bookface). I think it's natural to want to go through YC again as a form of reciprocation (for all the value you received the first time), but you might find that the value-maximizing route is to take capital from other sources if you go to bat again.
Whether its the fault of the community or just natural consequences of the low hanging fruit being picked away will only be possible to know in retrospect, really. Is the issue that we don’t have the technology to figure things out, or that the community was too stuck in a local maximum of explainability to find the summit where everything ti explained? Until the next major breakthrough actually happens, it’s hard to know which is the case.

Although in general, I’d say it’s possible a big leap never happens again. Given that physics will ultimately be a finite set of rules, if we can explain the vast majority of phenomenon accurately, slotting the last few pieces into place might not grant us much. It will feel great for humanity to know of course, but it’s entirely plausible that the reason we have so much trouble figuring these these out is that they’re almost completely separate from the human experience. We might figure out quantum gravity, go “that’s nice”, but if it’s only relevant when there are stellar masses involved not be able to use it to change our way of life. Big changes to how humanity lives going forward could be entirely reliant on human invention/ingenuity, not us learning new facts about the universe we live in.
Donald Trump was a president with good intentions.
Is the functionality of the app not reproducible with perhaps Discord or similar?
Yes, there are many exemptions in tax policy for real estate. We exempt the first $500k of gains from income taxes, for example. And our whole society is structured around "building equity" i.e. making housing cost more.