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New comment by lukejduncan in "Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board"

lukejduncan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:48:26 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board"

lukejduncan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:35:53 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Billionaires Build"

lukejduncan — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 04:06:50 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)"

lukejduncan — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:41:36 +0000

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/

New comment by lukejduncan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

lukejduncan — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:31:34 +0000

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

New comment by lukejduncan in "Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims"

lukejduncan — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:27:22 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus"

lukejduncan — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:09:53 +0000

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?

New comment by lukejduncan in "Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data"

lukejduncan — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:13:12 +0000

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

New comment by lukejduncan in "Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?"

lukejduncan — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:21:38 +0000

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

1) Be a sharer, but prefer givers as friends

2) Be a taker.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry"

lukejduncan — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:13:31 +0000

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

New comment by lukejduncan in "More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents"

lukejduncan — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 04:56:36 +0000

https://www.rate.com/loan-expert/nicole

New comment by lukejduncan in "More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents"

lukejduncan — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 04:30:00 +0000

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

New comment by lukejduncan in "Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk"

lukejduncan — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:01:39 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Introduction to Statistical Learning"

lukejduncan — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:21:56 +0000

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.

New comment by lukejduncan in "Introduction to Statistical Learning"

lukejduncan — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:04:20 +0000

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...

New comment by lukejduncan in "Inside Information and Kodak Stock"

lukejduncan — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:55:50 +0000

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

New comment by lukejduncan in "Inside Information and Kodak Stock"

lukejduncan — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 01:25:28 +0000

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...

New comment by lukejduncan in "Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?"

lukejduncan — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:36:15 +0000

Election season in the US seems promise if brief

New comment by lukejduncan in "Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database"

lukejduncan — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 05:17:02 +0000

Definitely not on the Protestant branch of things.

New comment by lukejduncan in "EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you"

lukejduncan — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:38:26 +0000

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...