dlokshin

9 ms·

1.
by dlokshin 1y ago
"Interventions" might be experiencing the effects of Goodhart's Law. I agree that I intervene in my Tesla about once every 2 weeks, but not because it's about to get into an accident, but because it's doing somethin
2.
by dlokshin 3y ago
Was fun to google image search "car drives into wet concrete." Humans are worse drivers than I thought! https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=557782243&sxsrf=AB5stB...
3.
by dlokshin 7y ago
If you're in a Physics masters or Ph.D. program and are thinking about dropping out because academia is not for you, please email me: david [at] TraceUp.com. We are hiring people like you.
4.
by dlokshin 9y ago
Interesting marketing choice that all of the images are of the actual glasses, and none of the images are of what your eyes see.
5.
by dlokshin 9y ago
45 million people died over 4 years in Mao's Great Leap Forward from starvation and execution. 10+ million people died in Stalin's gulags alone. Are you really trying to equate this with healthcare in America?
6.
by dlokshin 11y ago
This added to real GDP being more than 25% higher than it was in 2000, makes this surprising in the opposite way than the article's intent (to me, at least)
7.
by dlokshin 12y ago
Esri is completely bootstrapped, not in a tech hub, and doing north of $1B / year in revs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri
8.
by dlokshin 12y ago
I meant it in this sort of comparison: if you uproot the house, and drop it in Palo Alto on the same size plot of land it's worth more. If the programer gets up, and moves to San Francisco, his labor is also worth more. Same person, sa
9.
by dlokshin 12y ago
Because demand is less. The wage is still dictated by supply and demand. The supply is probably less, but the demand for that labor is far less. The demand for an engineer in the midwest is higher than the demand for an engineer in Thailand
10.
by dlokshin 12y ago
:0! Thanks. Added.
11.
by dlokshin 12y ago
Went to Harvard, had a bunch of friends and interacted plenty with people at MIT and would be happy to jump on the phone with you and give you a more in depth view of my experience. Email is in my HN profile.
12.
by dlokshin 13y ago
Except for the part where this is 37 weeks and not 25 weeks which is 30% of the entire duration of pregnancy. The story is from AOL is at the 5 month mark which means it could be even earlier than that. Can't go back to watching Fox Ne
13.
by dlokshin 13y ago
My first comment was directly pertinent to the French model, but same for UK--US survival rates are higher for sub 37 week old babies.
14.
by dlokshin 13y ago
In the UK they give services, and reasses on an ongoing basis, so different than the French. Added some info for under 37 weeks, where the US comes out on top.
15.
by dlokshin 13y ago
The assumption here being that a live birth is as likely in France as it is in the US. What we should be looking for is percentage of survival for infants born sub 25ish weeks or something like that (I don't have that data). UPDATE: An
16.
by dlokshin 13y ago
The irony is that if we were to have a single payer or other form of universal healthcare like they do in France, this little girl likely would have died. In France they use "Statistical prognostic" approach which in these sorts o
17.
YouTube is down(youtube.com)
54 points by dlokshin 13y ago|30 comments
18.
by dlokshin 13y ago
My recent search tendencies are very similar to the OP but for an entirely different reason: Google results have gotten really bad for me. I almost never find something I'm looking for on first try. I often do with StackOverflow and Ye
19.
by dlokshin 13y ago
One response is to get offended. Another response is to realize that college is as much a social exercise as it is an academic one. Men expect there to be women on campus, women expect there to be men on campus (even at an all women's
20.
Trace, an action sports monitor(kickstarter.com)
2 points by dlokshin 13y ago|0 comments
21.
by dlokshin 13y ago
I'm not a law expert, but in this case Chevron is the prosecuter. It's a civil case.
22.
by dlokshin 13y ago
If Hacker News has taught me anything, it's that people try to masquerade a lot of conclusions behind a wall of "Science" when in fact the process is neither scientific nor conclusive.
23.
by dlokshin 13y ago
I think that when a founder is no longer at the helm, companies have to do more mainstream things when it comes to appealing to wall street.
24.
by dlokshin 13y ago
I don't have any specifics, but after touring the River Rouge plant (Ford) about a month ago, it looks very, very similar (except that the Ford plant is much bigger). Robots everywhere, working in tandem with humans. Interestingly, whe
25.
by dlokshin 13y ago
In Russia, Google search YOU! Sorry, I had to.
26.
by dlokshin 13y ago
I wear contact lenses. I hate having to put contact lenses on every morning. The idea of having perfectly good eyeballs, but putting contact lenses on anyway seems very depressing to me.
27.
by dlokshin 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why does it matter what Android or iPhone I have. Is the unit actually different? What happens if I get a different phone in a month?
28.
by dlokshin 14y ago
A Finance sector perspective: In reading through the threads, there's a common underlying assumption that if you don't get the problem right, you won't get hired. That definitely is NOT the case in finance. We use the brain teasers and puzz
29.
by dlokshin 14y ago
> but it's still just as corrupt as it's been since the collapse of Soviet Union In the Soviet Union you not only bribed police, but the grocer, the mail man, your child's principal, and the list goes on.
30.
by dlokshin 14y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with the erosion of personal freedoms in the favor of laws made by people 'who know better.' Speeding is a perfect example--any law that 80% of people on the freeway break is a terrible law.

More ›