alexpetralia

The issue is moreso that they exclusively control their brand, and by letting someone else - who doesn't work for them and need not listen to them - control part of that, they are indirectly loosening control of their brand and narrative. They probably do not want the additional headache of buying this product, onboarding it, managing it, etc. The easiest but unfortunate solution here, to limit risk and liability, is to shut it down.

This is exactly what "small government" and "big business" means

I think that, on the contrary, government contracts will increase. There will be increased privatization of government services. These services cannot cease, but they will cease to be performed by the government. I imagine government contractors like Palantir will actually do quite well. A smaller government is good for business due to privatization, but perhaps more often bad for people subject to those businesses with less government oversight.

I have reflected on a good definition of causality and would be curious if anyone has thoughts or critiques of it. I am repasting part of my essay below. (https://alexpetralia.com/2023/02/25/statistics-only-gives-co...)

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Can we nevertheless extract causality from correlation?

I would argue that, theoretically, we cannot. Practically speaking, however, we frequently settle for “very, very convincing correlations” as indicative of causation. A correlation may be persuasively described as causation if three conditions are met:

Completeness: The association itself (R²) is 100%. When we observe X, we always observe Y.

No bias: The association between X and Y is not affected by a third, omitted variable, Z.

Temporality: X temporally precedes Y.

I find this nicely captures the difference between "rationality" and "reasonableness". A system can be rational but rest on unreasonable assumptions; a system may not be entirely rational but at least can have reasonable assumptions.

Aha, Chekhov's coffee as well it seems!

Technical debt is a former technical asset without its owner.

Also called the fabula and syzuhet!

Actually Matt Gaetz, who will likely be her boss, calls himself a "Khanservative" in support of her

What used to be the "Oracle Effect" has now become the "Salesforce Effect".

iCapital | Analytics Engineering Manager | Full-Time | NYC (on-site) | 150k-190k+

iCapital is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $179 billion in global client assets invested in 1,445 funds, as of January 2024.

This role involves both management and individual contribution. You will be expected to work with various department leads (e.g. sales, marketing, finance, product, operations), understand their pain points and business processes, and ultimately develop data-driven solutions to solve their needs.

The actual outputs of our work can be: clean and well-governed data models, management dashboards, exploratory/statistical data analyses (with attendant recommendations), documentation, machine learning models, or data apps.

On the technical side, you will interface with our data stack of Airbyte, Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Python, Tableau and SageMaker (among others). On the business side, you will work with our sales, marketing, operations, product and finance teams to drive top-line growth metrics (e.g. sales, usage, conversion).

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $190,000 (plus equity options and bonus). Employees in this role will work in the office four days, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/icapitalnetwork/jobs/770517...

(If you apply to this job through HN, please note that in the application!)

Bingo.

If you have a doubt about the right thing to do insofar as the company is concerned, you should ask the company. The fact that you asked HN first suggests that you already know the answer.

"End-to-end data engineering and analytics" is quite a bold claim from a single service provider.

Here is the link for anyone interested: https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/ and a YouTube explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGRCTTjLfQ

Given you've used it, just how self-service is it? To me this seems like such a large claim that - if it's doable - I'm surprised there are not more competitors in the "vertically integrated data providers" space.

Perhaps due to inflation?

Interestingly this is exactly how I've come to define truth/correctness: https://alexpetralia.com/2023/01/25/how-do-we-know-if-data-i...

Focus on the data centers, and the inputs into them (the really boring ones).

Get involved in local politics, Jerry! It's a satisfying way to impact your local community, and they almost always can use some help.

If you want to learn more about this amazing process, I recommend "Material World" by Ed Conway!

I ordered mine over eBay. They only ship from resellers in Japan.

1. It may (as I do know it has OCR) but I am not sure for handwritten notes

2. Yes

3. I download all PDFs onto my phone, then NFC "tap" them onto my device. Similar vice versa

I use it "off and on" (say 1-2 hours each day) for several days.. I probably charge it once every 3 to 4 days (and by then maybe it's 30-40%)? I haven't noticed a battery issue at all. My intuition is it lasts a week with normal usage. I always make sure to keep Wifi/NFC off of course (as it is not an Internet device).

I use the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 as my daily reader and notetaker (PDFs only).. it is absolutely fantastic. Simple but extremely thoughtful design. Extraordinarily light, durable, long battery. "It just works".

What about the counter incentive, that lowering rents lowers valuations, which affects creditworthiness and financing by lenders?

You should Google "the risk of ruin".

Don't just think about the deaths.

Think about all the injuries too. All the environmental damage. All the people that don't hang on the street because of the fumes and noise and danger. All the road rage and cortisol that boils within otherwise sane people the moment you put them behind a wheel and into some traffic. All the sedentarism and obesity from people opting to drive 2 minutes rather than walk 10. All the forgone housing for parking stadiums.

I am all for convenience, but the costs are noticeable in more ways than one.

In my one trip to China so far, this is exactly what I observed!

And something about sleep

Downtown areas in Tokyo have virtually zero public parking spaces.

They made it very, very inconvenient to drive.

But actually, it does, because more housing supply (even on the high end) means fewer higher earners are forced to bid up generic housing for the masses.

On the other hand, refusing to build any housing at all (for whatever the reason is: too unaffordable, too gentrified, too out-of-place) means those high earners will live in generic housing for the masses, and those places will be expensive.