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myroon5on California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

> AMA was lobbying for more residencies for years

The AMA lobbies for more _subsidized_ residencies while downplaying that unsubsidized residencies also exist and could expand without waiting on more taxpayer funding

myroon5on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

For those ok purging the whole newsfeed: https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

myroon5on Pareto Front

(A few years outdated) AWS EC2 instance type pareto frontier:

https://github.com/PatMyron/cloud#compute--memory-unit-price...

myroon5on In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

Seems more common in media fields (Van Gogh, Lovecraft, etc.)

myroon5on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

Discounting from higher default prices rather than penalizing from lower default prices is more of a branding difference than an economic difference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952034

myroon5on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”

JSON schema's docs also have a recommended regular expression subset:

https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...

myroon5on Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers

Social Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets):

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

myroon5on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

> no reason they can’t publish valuable work with the right collaborators

Despite h-index claiming to balance quantity and quality, it obviously incentives quantity over quality (no single publication can increment h-index as much as churning out a few worthless publications that cite each other); med students overwhelmingly follow those incentives trying to secure better residencies

myroon5on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

> As of 2024, 38 states have passed bills and executive orders designed to discourage boycotts of Israel

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_th...

myroon5on American Wealth, Sliced Up

Musk and Bezos don't even own that percentage of Tesla and Amazon respectively, let alone all American wealth

myroon5on American Wealth, Sliced Up

That graph literally just has fake labels. In reality, millionaires collectively have more than an order of magnitude more wealth than billionaires: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4zjnFxGWYkEF4nqMi/...

myroon5on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

> (1) Insight scores

> (2) ETF management

(1) seems like their (stated) differentiator itself; plenty of organizations already offer ETFs that omit selected companies

I doubt their data is cleaner internally than it is on their website. They're bringing in millions annually from their expense ratios:

https://www.inspireetf.com/etfs

and overpromising/underdelivering on their ability to diligently deliver (1)

myroon5on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

> international subsidiaries

Secondary listings allow entire companies to trade on multiple exchanges (not just corresponding subsidiaries)

So I agree that it was likely just a mistake to list multiple listings of the same companies, but the fact that they usually receive different scores proves their process isn't diligent:

* $GOOGL.MX is dinged for multiple non-Mexico-specific violations that the other listing isn't

myroon5on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

Most of the examples I provided are due to differing country codes; their site fails to recognize things like Alphabet trading on a Mexican stock exchange is still the same company: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL.MX/

$GOOGL.MX scoring differently than other $GOOGL listings makes me extremely skeptical that humans are diligently creating these scores (finance professionals should've recognized that secondary listings like $GOOGL.MX don't need their own scoring)

myroon5on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

Guess who organized decades-long misinformation campaigns to make them as essential as they currently are: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial

Regardless, most companies I checked have multiple different ratings because that site can't even do basic data cleaning:

https://inspireinsight.com/AAPL/US https://inspireinsight.com/AAPL/PT

https://inspireinsight.com/GOOGL/GT https://inspireinsight.com/GOOGL/MX

https://inspireinsight.com/MSFT/AU https://inspireinsight.com/MSFT/US

https://inspireinsight.com/AVGO/US https://inspireinsight.com/0YXG/GB

https://inspireinsight.com/TSM/US https://inspireinsight.com/5425/TW

https://inspireinsight.com/LUBEREF/SA https://inspireinsight.com/2223/SA

so even they disagree with their own ratings ;)

myroon5on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

$PTL "screens" for:

* air quality

* environmental risk

* GHG emissions

* ecological impact

* product sustainability

https://www.inspireetf.com/screening

yet weights ExxonMobil, the 21st largest company:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

as by far their 2nd largest holding:

https://www.inspireetf.com/etf/ptl

myroon5on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

> account for education

and nutrition, pollution, infectious diseases, etc

myroon5on Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket

https://www.wired.com/story/volodymyr-zelensky-suit-polymark...

myroon5on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

One difference between federal-level prediction markets and state-level gambling is that most states had limited gambling to 21+, so most state governments wanted more nuanced options than outright bans

myroon5on AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

> outside of China

[Nitpick] There are a few more AWS partitions like GovCloud:

https://jasonbutz.info/2023/07/aws-partitions/

myroon5on San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

The intersection of Bellevue Place, Bellevue Court, and Bellevue Ave in Seattle:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4RyEKj3ArdhoJYp69

myroon5on Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

But can a wool shoe company? https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/a...

myroon5on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

Step 1: don't pitch from a conartist6 username

myroon5on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

And claim large bonuses were handed over as cash? Because payroll software like ADP sells employees' compensation data

myroon5on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

> $4.99/mo subscription would yield more revenue than Facebook makes in ARPU

Even ignoring the adverse selection of who'd subscribe, their ARPU is higher than that in North America: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

myroon5on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

'Median total farm household income has exceeded the median U.S. household income in every year since 1998'

'In 2024, median farm operator household income exceeded median U.S. household income by 22.7 percent'

'In 2024, the median U.S. farm household had $1.6 million in wealth'

'In 2024, fewer than 3 percent of all farm households had wealth levels that were lower than the estimated U.S. median household level and over 97 percent had wealth levels higher than the U.S. median'

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-...

myroon5on $3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/2025-evaluator-research

myroon5on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity

At AWS, a team asked for help maintaining a bespoke internal Java service that diff'd json for manual reviews.. replaced it with a jq one-liner

myroon5on Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming

> The math of feeding 10 billion people only works if we farm the ocean

Even for marketing puffery, "only" seems reductive when most resource usage seems specific to a few animal products like cows and lamb: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets