skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street", which the author praises, is one of the worst books you can ever read if you have worked on compounding your knowledge in a certain field and understand how businesses work. The book essentially tells you to give up on trying to pick good companies and buy an index fund. It pompously asserts that even the best investors are only successful because they got lucky. For most people, buying an index fund is the right thing to do, but if you truly think you understand businesses, the book simply tells you that you do not and you should give up.
Cars should be more expensive to cover their externalities but considering that cars spend 95% of the day parked and most people are not driving hundreds of miles per day, it seems likely that the combination of charging points at parking garages and similar structures, homes, streetlights, etc. is going to reach a level where most people can charge more than they need to. In fact, since solar has such massive daylight spikes we probably should be thinking about what we can do to get people to charge their cars at work instead of overnight.
This is living in a fantasy world. You’re not feeding 330M people in the US without factory automation handling most of the work.

Well, you can, if you want to pay 3x for your food because of the lack of scale and increase need for manual labor.

No thanks.
internet computer is the only true web3 project right now. everything is fully on chain and nothing is in the cloud.

web3 is all bs right now with everything on aws and then scam defi stuff in the background on chain moving tokens around. building sites on chain is the next step in blockchain tech
It's likely that the stations around you switch to a winter mix.
People in apartments must be parking their cars somewhere. You just need to put chargers wherever people are already parking their cars.
I think you made a mistake in your first sentence. A turing machine is something different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
the problem with this is also that it tends to lead a life on unbalance

if you focus on saving money, you skip $5k vacations

what’s a number in an account worth if you never use it?
They’ve all actually read Kundera.
Where does Person B live? In a hut in Siberia?
Sounds like you're thinking of a Chinese Room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
I'm in Canada in a house built in 2012. Attached garage - my living room is above it.

The breaker panel is in the garage so it'd be easy to add, but my only 220V devices, the dryer and stove (along with their outlets), are inside the house.

I've never heard of a dryer in the garage before. It isn't heated, and in winter months, it's cold enough that snow doesn't melt. Would that have an effect on drying my clothes?
Haha, did someone actually tell you the weather is fine? I was born in Texas and I've lived in Austin for 13 years and I've always thought the summers are unbearable.

Although my perspective is tempered with what I experienced around the gulf, in Mississippi and Florida. The humidity there is so bad I literally don't think it's fit for human settlement.
I had the same idea. If you get attacked by a social media mob of 100 people, hit back and demand, say, $10K from each person. Some people would pay to avoid being unmasked.
Bulletproof counter argument, you sure showed me.
More wind chill? More weight by thicker clothing?
I hope you find room for Christ in your life. He suffered and died so you can be saved.
Hilariously, I suspect an algorithm like ChatGPT is likely to reproduce the ACTUAL argument Fermat thought he had when he left that note in the margin - prove the theorem for n=3 and perform induction by the "and then obviously yada yada yada" method.
I think the efficient markers hypothesis kinda accounts for that.

Like, if Mongo is mispriced relative to Amazon, and you confidently see it, you will trade accordingly and erase the price difference.

In what I recall from my CFA studies, research shows that only genuine insider information can consistent outperform the assumption that all information is already priced in.

And for example, let's say you perceive Amazon and Mongo as mispriced, but what if that's because some even bigger expert than you saw something you didn't and traded accordingly?

(For what it's worth, I used to work for one of the world's most significant hedge funds. Our win/loss rate on trades was something like 52/48. So even as literally the worlds top investors who spent more effort, brainpower and money to gain insight, we were right just a bit over half the time. It really drew the point home that a random non-insider individual who thinks can do that over decades is likely delusional)
> Anyone who believed in a moderate government has already jumped ship

So how is that different to Bolsanaro?
Second Migadu, great company.

Never worry about deliverability. If your DNS provider has oddities that make it annoying to setup they will run your DNS for you.

For $30 a year (domain plus Migadu) you control your email domain. No possibility of being randomly banned by Google either.
The Twitter Files Archive
Just because someone doesn’t believe something doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Just because some don’t believe something doesn’t mean it should count as news.
For what's worth, I simpatise with the "spending any money causes me visceral pain" feeling, even though I've been earning a comfortable amount for some years now.
It’s more than twice as losses are lower boosting 220v to the 400v or 800v the pack actually needs.

As an example, a charger in some EVs is 87% efficient when charging from 120v and the same charger is 94% efficient when charging from 240v.
>What cities will survive in 2300.

That all depends on whether or not we avoid nuclear annihilation, which is a risk ancient people did not face. In the age of air travel and superhighways, human beings are much less reliant on waterways than they were in the past (though we are still reliant on them).

>What's the biggest city that's unlikely to be underwater?

Dallas, Phoenix, Denver? Hard to say which will be larger in 2300.
> it does not have random access to individual letters

this presumes it works by understanding the components of the question and reasoning based on them. But it doesn't access down to that level, instead just guessing the most likely next word based on statistical tricks. so it doesn't need to "know" about letters to generate a reasonable response involving letters.
I hope you (yes you, the person reading this right now) have a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!
Raw ingredients will always be cheaper than food produced in a factory. If not in monetary cost then in the cost to your health.
> The party-planning process will be streamlined and more administrators will be hired to help facilitate student social life.

This could be a line straight out of "Brazil" or some similar work, I laughed out loud.
I like living in suburbs better than cities, so I choose to live in a suburb, but I don't try to keep other people from being able to live in cities. You like cities and not suburbs. Why can't you be content to just live in a city yourself? Why do you need to make it your mission to destroy my neighborhood?
SBF?
The sorta defeatist attitude in this essay contradicts his own life story. If being wealthy requires so many family connections or luck, how did he do it then? I think there are still plenty of opportunities for smart, hard-working people to get ahead in society without favoritism.
If you want visually pleasing results, even English needs layout processes like kerning.
FTX founder SBF was 'chilling' at JFK lounge before flying business class home
I don’t know the answer here but I imagine a cultural attitude that reserves the greatest shame for anyone expressing authoritarian attitudes of any flavor.

The problem we have today is that people will look at disdain for one flavor of authoritarianism as an argument to impose a competing flavor of authoritarianism. Those with an authoritarian tendency exploit this dynamic actively such that societies are constantly oscillating between the different authoritarian policies, accumulating more liberty reducing rules with each swing of the pendulum.
Your point isn’t coming out like you think. What you just said was 80% of the student body is middle class.
Large language models aren’t magic, they are tools. Most tools are potentially harmful in the hands of a novice and potentially powerful in the hands of an expert.
Should We Tax Robots?
Wait, this is terribly confusing. Why would "220 volts" not refer to a completely objective measurement of current?
Even if it's including all support staff that seems like kind of an insane ratio to me.
It's unfair to put 100% of the blame for this on Stanford. A lot of the things they're doing are responses to the current political climate in the world today. Any discrimination, or even perception of discrimination, is likely to have non-zero consequences for Stanford. Furthermore, people are actively looking for discrimination, because "$27 billion university has discrimination among its fraternities and sororities" is a juicy news headline, if you can make it stick. Is creating an "associate vice provost of inclusion, community and integrative learning" the right thing for Stanford to do? Hard to say. What would _you_ do?
Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums
I would rather not have to live in a world where google uses my credit profile for authentication.
Are they trying to destroy your neighborhood or simply stop subsidizing it? Suburban living costs more and a lot of those costs are paid by the cities they’re near but don’t contribute much to economically.
"Lovely" as in was settled only after AC and refrigerators were available widely.
Merry Christmas to all! Wish this community the best.
Great initiative, but the homeless probably need to stay out of the cold more then anything else today...
Wow, interrupted sleep every day is not good. Maybe auto-feeder once a day would help?
> They have done so multiple times in the past and will do so again multiple times in the future. Earth has a long storied history, we have been on it a brief fraction of that time.

Why do people repeat this platitude as if it is at all obviatory (or even relevant)?
I was just trying to get a development environment going for windows 2.0.

Anyone got any pointers what software to use. It feels like win 1 and 2 are skipped over, I can't find much info on how to develop on them.
Extensive research shows that short of genuine insider information (which is illegal to trade on) - just having good research is not enough to consistently outperform the market.

As I mentioned in my other post - even top hedge funds are "wrong" nearly half the time, despite having the best insight and resources.

I learned a long time ago to visualize "Goldman Sach's industry X special fund" as the counterparty to any trade I do. Give me a bit of humility.
It could have been much worse. A battery that froze solid can develop some interesting issues when used after it thawed, such as thermal run-away (or interesting exothermic episodes, as we call it, but funnier to watch in a reinforced calorimeter than in your driveway), or short-circuits (lots of smoke if you are lucky, otherwise a fireball). Batteries have operating range for a reason, and that operating range is exceeded routinely in winter and summer, even in nominally temperate regions.
So, pick a random rgb hex code. I used https://www.gigacalculator.com/randomizers/random-color-gene...

On a group description:

Describe the colors: #bf44d1 #1adf24 #909374 #39527a #610042

#bf44d1: a bright, pinkish-purple
#1adf24: a bright, grassy green
#909374: a muted, grayish-brown
#39527a: a deep, navy blue
#610042: a dark, reddish-purple

For a single description:

Describe the color: #610042

This color is a deep, rich purple. It is a dark shade, with a hint of red.

While it doesn't understand red or purple in the same way that you or I do (and I would contend that this gets into some rather interesting philosophy and questions about the nature of perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_color ), GPT does remarkably well at describing those colors.

It is possible that there was sufficient data in https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/commen... but there's a lack of response like "tough one... what the hell do you call this? it's pink, but not totally pink, but it's purple, but not totally purple. well, mr. xed, if that is your real I name, thank you for what will surely stave off any hopes i have at a
decent night's sleep." when asking the colors.

Philosophically, I find asking it about colors to be the most interesting.
The maximum state+local sales tax rate in California is 10.75% not 10.25%. Wikipedia lists 68 jurisdictions in California with effective sales tax rates greater than or equal to 10%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Local_j...

Nationwide (as of 2021), three out of five of the cities with the highest effective sales taxes are in California. Californian cities are very much over-represented on this list.

https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/#High...
UCSB has an informational page about the former bay area coastline [1].

In general, we have excellent models of the late Pleistocene coastline changes for most of the west coast and the ease of access from major universities means there's been a lot of surveying, especially in places like the channel islands. Our understanding of the first settlers is immensely better than our understanding of their immediate ancestors because we've found so little in Siberia/Alaska/Northeast Asia.

One of the big issues holding back progress has been the difficulty of improving the glaciation model resolution, which has become increasingly important as the evidence builds that humans entered the new world pretty much as soon as it was possible rather than waiting for conditions to be "easy" (read: still incredibly hostile).

[1] https://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/2_infopgs/IP2IceAge/cSFBayF...
Expectation Fields
Uh, in every possible way? Not once did I see him censoring anyone. Not even himself, in the numerous moments where he really should have kept his mouth shut. I didn't see him try to reappropriate private property to illegal invaders. He didn't create 10+ bullshit ministries, he instead sought to reduce the government machinery, bureaucracy, expenses and taxes.

If you think the next four years are going to be anything like the last four years or even the last two decades, I really don't know what to say.
#2 Sounds like your typical Angular 1.x app.

For some reason everyone tried to be clever with code reuse in them which almost always resulted in an unsearchable mess.
Kind of. Any problem is easier with a much smaller number and commercial vehicles are more likely to be stored in places where they have power available.
xmonad pairs nicely with the suckless `dmenu`.

For the programs I most frequently launch from my desktop, I have hotkey sequences that do a switch-to-this-program-window-or-start-the-program-if-not-running. For the remaining programs, `dmenu`.

, ((mod3Mask, xK_f), raiseNextMaybe (spawn "/usr/bin/firefox-esr") (className =? "Firefox-esr"))

(I've tried using i3wm for a year, and tweaking my config of it, but going back to xmonad is always a relief. The one thing I like better about i3 was that I got the autohide system tray working how I liked it, which was better than I've done with xmonad.)
San Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US (so much that mold can be a problem in some cases). Relative humidity is on average higher than Wash DC --but lower than Port Arthur, TX.
Merry Christmas!

Waiting for my dinner to cook in a shared kitchen of my rented home, my friends on skiing trips, my family on the other side of the earth, and my girl friend thousands of miles away, I have all the Christmas decorations to myself for now. And it's a heart-warming moment seeing a "Merry Christmas" post here. A reminder that on this internet-connected globe, even when physically isolated, we are not truly alone.

Stay happy and stay healthy!
We have those as well, for similar uses. And for folks for whom any connection to the public internet may want to be avoided. The stuff's expensive, though, so they are not for the day-to-day end users.
"man you do that really fast, you must do that a lot!". Typing, swiping at the checkout, asking "would you like fries with that", look to see what struggle they might be having, or what might annoy them. Get into their space and see what is going on and commiserate.
>this is not the first time in history that glaciers are melting en masse worldwide. They have done so multiple times in the past and will do so again multiple times in the future. Earth has a long storied history, we have been on it a brief fraction of that time.

That's irrelevant, as the other times we weren't 8 billion of us, in a highly fragile, interconnected, civilization, with thousands of cities and hundreds of megacities, for the impact to be the same. Nor is the mechanism for the current issue (or the speed of it), as explained by scientists within the current consensus, the same as those times...
This is basically it.

There’s a balance of course, but I know a few people who go too far into the “save everything” category. They are slaving away in their 20s and 30s, prime time for exploration and fun, for a retirement when they are older and have other responsibilities.

I have a family member who had a serious health scare when she was younger, and still lurks over her head. It’s really a different perspective: why have no fun now saving for a day that might never come?

Of course, you do need to save something, because retirement will hopefully come. Balance is everything.
>> Congrats on getting back to floss. I keep trying to but it’s been hard to make the time this year.

One thing I see clearly in open source is that people have lives. Participation varies a lot even among great contributors. Some very active people disappear for months only to return later. When you realize it's because everyone has a life outside where we see them, it makes them seem much more human than say coworkers in an office where we show up regardless of other things.

Get back to it when you can, or when it's good for you.
Many in the gayborhood had grown weary of the size of the event and it was more of a last straw. Many locals were eager for it to end.

Now that it’s been largely gentrified, time is ripe to restart something, preferably towards Dolores.
Unless you make too much money to be eligible, like most of the target market who lives in CA…
It is probably not coincidence, but the existence of solstice celebrations that new religions attempted to go-opt/overwrite with their own event.
Speaking of things that I learned in a frat-like environment: there's a kind of accepted tyranny to actually doing a thing. If you plan a party, it more or less goes the way you want. If you run Twitter, same thing.

We're in some kind of horseshoe world where self-identifying Democrats are already more likely to be virgins than their Republican counterparts. Just looking at the 20 somethings I know, I don't see how this trend of progressives being less fit in life doesn't continue until we at least have 20 years of dominance from more conservative backgrounds by default. I don't see any way to reverse the trends that have become base parts of the progressive culture.

[Edit: anonymizing]
That hasn't been the case for me, and I've been taking the medications for a while now. I don't drink coffee or any kind of caffeine so I can't compare, but while the effect of the medication did reduce slightly after a while, I certainly haven't become noticed tolerance to the extent that the medication doesn't work any more. On the contrary I'm significantly better off since I started taking them. Perhaps some are more susceptible to developing a tolerance?
I'm using Pocket to keep track of things I'd like to read/watch later.
The EMH is not perfect but it seems to be the most accurate. When a stock tanks, usually this precedes negative developments about the company that are later made public. Price action precedes news. Markets are not efficient all the time, but efficient enough of the time to make it useful, at least from a theoretical perspective, anyway.
MongoDB sucks but the stock 10Xed. I probably could make money by betting against quality every time but passive investing is far less depressing.
Skifree-Linux
I think this metaphor is excellent.

The key point is the examples of things that seem silly early stage but obviously necessary later, like org charts.

Unfortunately, not everyone will immediately agree that it’s silly to have an org chart when you’re a small team or pre-PMF. And some people might never be convinced! But this metaphor sounds like a good way of trying to explain the fundamental differences between “where we are today” and “where we might end up”.
I've lost a lot of respect for Stanford lately. (The ill-conceived guide to acceptable words is a large part of it.)
At some point, the focal change from academic excellence to political correctness is going to tarnish many of the big schools. I hope they change course before this happens.
I’ve lived in the south for over 40 years. I’ve yet to meet a klansman.
> In the most polluting (directly and indirectly) wealthy democracies, the blame can mostly be placed on us as individuals.

It's a philosophical argument but I reckon if negative externalities were fairly priced into the choices available to us, we'd make much different decisions, even with the same wants and needs and values.
This absolutely seems crazy to me.

College students are adults, why the fuck is the college managing what they do off campus at all? You go to school for education, not for the school to manage your entire life. None of us would be okay with our employer telling us when and how we can have parties at our own homes, why is it fine for a school to do?

That Americans have become increasingly okay with colleges being surrogate parents for literal adults is just bizarre.
Eh. I’ve found with modern cars they can still start at -30f just fine. At least, mine can.

My first car? I had to constantly give it gas for a while even once it started. People gave me funny looks when I was essentially revving my engine like I was showing off in my ‘88 Grand Marquis at stop signs in the year 2005.
Late edit: s/broadband/bandwidth in the last sentence. That was a remnant from an unsubmitted edit, but I think my point got across.
I almost doubt Christian universities could be more straight-laced than this. It's just weird. I mean, I don't expect all campuses to be line Oneonta or Santa Cruz, but WOW!

To be honest when I went to Uni., I never really understood the hazing aspect and the overboard frat parties, but some partying as long as you don't have extraordinary excess or condone danger (ala hazing) it's part of growing up. Stanford is overcorrecting.
>there could be an alternate world where they simply did serve students in daily needs.

I'd say an alternate time[0] (up to ~50 years ago) rather than an alternate world.

That said, domestic servants are still common today in some parts of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedder
The evidence seems to be:

- One dude once blamed post-WWI treatment of Germany for the rise in nationalism that led to Hitler

- They once hiked using torches instead of flashlights. Only they're German so this was near Nuremberg.

- They named a mail server "Wolf's Lair." Only they're German so this was in German.

Is there a public record anywhere of any of them defending the Holocaust or making anti-Semitic statements?
> n 5 or 10 years the rest of the industry will eventually catch up in every single way.

Seems to have already happened? Mercedes EQS/EQB, BMW i4/i7/iX, Polestar, Ioniq

All seem better than the comparable Tesla vehicles.

Though Tesla does have better features for sitting at chargers, and obviously the super charger network which is a huge thing for anyone taking longer trips.
That last anecdote is too relatable.