lukejduncan

No one is being restricted from bargaining collectively. They’re just being given the choice to opt out. Unions just get upset because they lose their monopoly status to police workers voices who disagree with their position and politics.

Right to work is pro employee. If unions want membership they shouldn’t be able to coerce it. They should have to earn it and compete for it. If a union can’t survive based on voluntary membership then that tells you something.

Having a lower tax rate is different than paying less tax. Not saying there isn’t something wrong with a lower tax rate, but it’s disingenuous to frame it this way.

Uber Engineering, SF and Sunnyvale, remote until July but on-site After. We’re hiring mobile, backend, and data eng for the Product Intelligence and Experimentation Teams. Want to build services in the 100k*n QPS, near real-time systems processing petabytes of data, powering human and machine decision in our marketplaces? Apply here or email me at lduncan at Uber

https://www.uber.com/global/en/careers/list/63377/

https://www.uber.com/global/en/careers/list/64019/

Uber Engineering, SF and Sunnyvale, remote until July but on-site After. We’re hiring mobile, backend, and data eng for the Product Intelligence and Experimentation Teams. Want to build services in the 100k*n QPS, near real-time systems processing petabytes of data, powering human and machine decision in our marketplaces? Apply here or email me at lduncan at Uber

https://www.uber.com/global/en/careers/list/63377/

The challenge with this framing is that you're equating social media to newspapers which provide editorialization. IIRC, one of the core distinctions that allow many tech companies to avoid liability for consumer generated content is not having an editorial role. If they embrace being media companies and editors I believe different regulations will apply to tech companies than currently do.

Why does an App Store have any say in the content of an online community? I’m sure there is plenty of content on Reddit that Cupertino censors may not like. Can / do they apply similar pressures to other social media companies with iOS apps?

Didn’t LinkedIn lose a lawsuit that forced them to allow scraping? How does that not apply here?

It's hard not to read "sharers are also acceptable" as either:

1) Be a sharer, but prefer givers as friends

OR

2) Be a taker.

“THE ENTIRE TECH INDUSTRY FITS AROUND A SINGLE TABLE.” Is incredibly reductive.

I just refinanced a jumbo at sub 3%. Definitely happening.

Wow it’s really creepy that there is a subscribe button that is prefilled with my email address. I realize that sub stack has this information, because I’ve subscribed to other newsletters, but I don’t associate myself with having an account with substack or with that any of my personal information or credentials should somehow cross the barrier between newsletters. Also, I’m just super paranoid I might accidentally click subscribe while scrolling.

Agreed. I’ve read both and would also recommend this first. The good fellow book goes deep fast. This was my review at the time https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2196621333

That said, if your choice is more general, statistical learning vs deep learning, I’m sure at this point you can find more approachable deep learning primers. This book just isn’t it IMHO.

This is one of my all time favorite technical books. I wrote a review of sorts a few years back[0]. It doesn’t cover any deep learning topics, which perhaps dates it at this point, but it gives solid fundamentals on a breadth of techniques common in industry. This is always in my recommendation list for folks making the transition from more systems or product engineering to ML.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-statistical-lear...

I actually prefer to post amp links for paywalled articles. It’s the only legal way around the paywall.

Matt Levine talks a lot about insider trading, and the emphasis he always puts on it is about theft. Insider trading, in the US, isn’t about trading on uncommon knowledge or inferences. That’s actually many professional traders job: information arbitrage. It’s about trading on information that is owned by your employer. Your responsibility as an employee or executive is to the company and using inside corporate information for personal gain rather than corporate gain is a form of theft. Here’s his piece on the distinction between thinking about insider trading as being about fairness vs theft.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/a...

Election season in the US seems promise if brief

Definitely not on the Protestant branch of things.

I posted this in the previous HN convo but reposting:

And this is just state surveillance. There’s a guy who’s building a private surveillance network in San Francisco, with the buy in of the District Attorney and local police departments, and a goal of complete surveillance of city streets.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/camera-surveilla...

I’m sure the true answer is ambiguous, but “personal data” by that definition seems to imply almost any form of account creation. For sure, that seems to imply you can’t use email addresses as identifiers. Maybe it implies that so long as the data isn’t de facto joinable with side data (phone numbers, email addresses) it may be ok.

Dumb question: can someone explain to me the implications on startups and side projects? Does data mean, any data? If I’m reading that correctly it’s illegal to allow EU users to use any website with a DB that isn’t hosted in the EU. That can’t be correct, can it?

And this is just state surveillance. There’s a guy who’s building a private surveillance network in San Francisco, with the buy in of the District Attorney and local police departments, and a goal of complete surveillance of city streets.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.c...

The Black Lives Matter protest is marching over the bridge today starting at Noon. I'm sure it'll be an eerie experience.

Pet Peeve: they break the back button on the browser

"Competitive internet is available in larger metropolitan areas." I'd debate the competitive qualifier.

My earliest memories are CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL. I remember AOL had a file share like service where you could search for and download images. I’d spend hours downloading a single Batman logo or Star Wars still. What stands out to me was when I went to work with my dad once and they had internet in a browser without having to connect to something first. My mind was blown. I was in elementary school at the time.

"luck is the residue of design"

It’s actually a pay deferral. They’ll get the money just at a later date

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2020/0...

+1 to this. I read this book when I was new to management but found myself wishing I had read it earlier in my career. At least 50% of the book is really about the tech lead ladder. The topics on the management career path which much less concrete and flushed out IMHO. But the sections on technical leadership were really good.