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pscsbson The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)

That's a San Diego Burrito. A San Franicsco (Mission) burrito, for example, does not have french fries but has Avocado/guacamole.

pscsbson Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP

Shouldn’t IPFS + Filecoin be well-suited for this exact use-case?

pscsbson The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19

The guidance is usually given for exposed arms and legs.

pscsbson My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards

Never underestimate the power of poverty and desperation.

pscsbson Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

No it is not.

pscsbson Living skin can be 3D-printed, with blood vessels

Bladders have been successfully grown and transplanted into patients.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/bladder-grown-from-3d-bi...

pscsbson Company Update

Tesla is profitable.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019048/tesla-earnings-...

pscsbson Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia

Not that it makes it any better, but they only took down the episode in Saudi Arabia, not globally. The headline makes it sound like they took down the episode altogether.

pscsbson Killed by Google

This is why Google struggles to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise cloud space - the trust that these services will be maintained and legacy support provided just isn't there for large enterprise clients.

pscsbson The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context

No.

pscsbson Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Minor clarification: LinkedIn primarily runs on Java not Scala.

pscsbson Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

Likely it'll be a transition technology for businesses still using phone appointments as their primary API, and eventually it'll ease the path for more direct integration.

pscsbson Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

That’s assuming they are going to plateau at 6k/week, which is certainly not their plan.

pscsbson Tesla Is Facing a Crucible

Benefits of an electric engine vs. ICE:

1. No oil changes. 2. Fewer moving parts, fewer repairs, longer life. 3. Instant acceleration. 4. Zero emissions. 5. Ability to be fully powered by renewable energy.

pscsbson CEO of porn cryptocurrency disappears with investor money

I think FileCoin is pretty interesting, and actually based on the economics of scarcity (file storage) thereby providing some concrete value.

pscsbson We’re Going to Need More Lithium

If I wanted to invest in lithium, what companies or ETFs should I look at?

pscsbson Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

The POTUS has nukes and one of the most highly trained and best-equipped militaries in the world. Facebook can be shutdown by POTUS in an instant.

Power is not measured by “users.”

pscsbson Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation

Takes little time to set run Tensorflow from a docker image, or learn from Jupyter notebooks, etc... with fully open source projects where you can consult the source code and see how an algorithm is implemented.

This is exactly the problem -- what you're describing is not easy for anyone outside of tech to do. If you want to, say, run a simple text classification task and have thousands of labels, this is way overkill. Machine learning has the opportunity to become a common place utility for automating repetitive tasks, and the barrier to entry does not need to be learning Tensorflow, Docker, and Jupyter.

pscsbson Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation

This is awesome! I've been waiting for someone to release an Excel-type ML product to make machine learning more accessible. This looks right up that alley, and will probably "democratize" access to ML in a number of fields that tend to be less coding-savvy.

pscsbson YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the blockchain

Surprised CoinList isn't mentioned here, as they did a successful ICO for FileCoin and serve as a platform for pretty much this exact use-case.

pscsbson Ask HN: You have $1BN, how do you disrupt Facebook?

Focus on making the concept of a "social network" less disruptive from a personal standpoint, and more "complementary." There is a wealth of evidence that Facebook, as it exists today, is toxic to mental health and relationships. If you could create a social network that is seamless and complementary to your existing interactions in the physical world, that would be a compelling product.

How to do it? That's the $1B question.

pscsbson S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate

Passive funds are still actively managed -- just not by the end consumer. I can see the appeal of a passive fund manager being able to make active decisions to benefit their investors.

pscsbson Lyft's Business Is Growing Faster Than Uber's

I disagree. Uber does not having a positive impact on its own employees, although they're proactively trying to change. Lyft seems to have a much stronger reputation of treating people the right way.

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This appears to be a hack, or data corruption.

See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected.

It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.

pscsbson Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance

This appears to be a hack, or data corruption.

See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected.

Edit: It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.

pscsbson Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely

I prefer https://www.justbeamit.com/

pscsbson Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

I guarantee you that my comments here will not influence the market rate for top-tier ML experts.

pscsbson Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

The top of the range you're quoting is for a typical Staff Software Engineer at Google/Facebook/Microsoft. "Top ML experts" garner much, much higher comp packages.

pscsbson Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

Depends how close to the "top" you are, but yes. 20-30 million/4 years is not unheard of for the very top -- comparable to an acquisition.

pscsbson Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

The equity packages tend to be in the tens of millions for a 4-year vest.

Source: I am a manager who has given offers to top-tier ML experts.