skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you give them Restricted Stock, though, they have to pay tax on whatever the 409(a) value is -- which is what the strike price would have been with options.

You can give them a signing bonus to cover the tax, but at this point it's easier and actually better for the employee to give them the cash separately and say "you can use it to exercise if you like".

Really the difference between options and Restricted Stock is measurable in dollars, so might as well just give people the dollars.

(Note that Restricted Stock is not quite the same thing as Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)... RSUs are for later stage companies. But the principles are similar.)
In other news, the mayor of New York "increased spending on homeless services by about 60% since he took office nearly three years ago, reaching a historic $1.6 billion this year." [1]

Despite (or because?) of the increase in spending in homeless services in NYC, the number of homeless has increased significantly close to a high of around 76k on a single night in 2017 [2]

Is the Seattle plan [3] somehow different (aside from the dollar amount) from that of New York?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/nycs-homeless-spending-surges-t...

[2] https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nyc-homeless-popula...

[3] https://3y7tq440s8xk37pci616zkly-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Similar story here. I had SMILE 1.5 months ago with great results so far. No noticeable change in night vision, although definitely noticeable dry eye.

SMILE is available in the US, but not if you have astigmatism. I had to go to Canada to get my surgery because of this. SMILE with astigmatism correction is undergoing FDA review currently, with approval expected sometime this year (according to the US optometrist I spoke to).
A waste for society? No. A waste for the people doing it who are never going to be appropriately compensated for the value of their failure to society? Yes.

The churn that arises as a consequence of the fact that we don't know how to reward failure (or even merely punish it less) is the real waste.
I wasn't able to lose weight and keep it off until I permanently eliminated certain categories of food: added sugars, refined grains, all flours, potatoes, dairy, eggs, most oils, and most meat. The only grain-like things I eat are rice (mostly brown rice), amaranth seeds, and buckwheat groats. My staples are things like steamed Brassica oleracea vegetables and legume soup, which are easy to prepare in bulk in advance. The only oil I use during food preparation is a couple of tablespoons of uncooked olive oil per day. I get most other fats from avocados, nuts, seeds, and fish. I cook almost everything from scratch. I also do some calorie restriction and water fasting (3-5 days at a time).

I lost about 70 pounds and now am easily maintaining a normal BMI.
...they're Microsoft developers. They don't use Linux regularly...

Sure that is my first thought, but we're told that is a prejudice from the bad old M$ days. Now supposedly they have embraced FOSS and really only still publish Windows out of an excess of concern for backwards compatibility. Other than that they're UNIXing all day long over there... although what you say is certainly plausible.
The title looks like a really good idea for a modern-world pen&paper RPG system.
Not to pick on Amazon, but isn't Bezos someone who would support Seattle's intent here? And how much would it have cost Amazon, considering their revenues and the fact their Seattle workforce is ~10% of their total workforce?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-employe...
> To that specific individual, it doesn't because they are dead.

I wasn't clear enough. The decisions one makes during their life are affected by whether or not they care about anything that happens after they are dead (any many specifics beyond that). Many people do things whose primary impact won't be felt until long after they are gone. So it isn't true to simply say that nothing matters after the individual is dead.
Even the bun is just a carb.
What do you put in the videos? Would you mind sharing some examples (in text form)?
At no point was anybody talking about normal numbers. "Normal numbers" doesn't mean "numbers with random digits", it has a much narrower meaning that. There are non-computable numbers which are normal, there are non-computable numbers which aren't. There are computable numbers that are normal that don't look random in the least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant
They have recently warmed up to the RPi being used in commercial products.
No one else in the space gets the volume/goodwill discounts the RPi foundation does and the Chinese SBC producers are yet to provide decent software support and might have to raise their prices if they did.
I had trouble getting more than one zero at a time when it was new. Maybe it's still the same in some places.
Really, Chrysler? They must've gotten a deep discount.
mathematicians like to skip steps, generalize and the like. 'randomness' for numbers is not really a well defined mathematical property. what i like about the summary is that you can understand the gist of what he is trying to do and why.
"Many, many things are smaller than the Planck constant."

Do we have a proof of that? Honest question. I know strings are often postulated to be smaller (by many orders of magnitude in some cases) but we are not yet particularly confident they exist. I'm not aware of us being reasonably confident that anything is smaller than Planck's size. ("Smaller than Planck's size" isn't even all that easy to define.)
Agreed. There's also been a strong link between birth rates and education (especially for women). And education leads to strong knowledge based economies leads to higher home prices... Or, if you like, places with high housing prices require higher earners to pay the rent/mortgage, who tend to have higher education levels and thus fewer kids.
Huh, that actually seems like a great idea. What services were you mainly using before?
I remember learning that in the 90s some companies had this useless asset: gas pipelines that spanned the country, but had dried up and were not being used.

Other companies had a problem: how to acquire the rights to lay fiber from one end of the country to the other.

Some very smart person realized you could lay the fiber in the old pipes.

Question: what can be done with all that retail space? Is there a new use of space that will come up?

Related question: what are the properties of malls that we might use? (parking, close to residences, easy to walk through)
In the common conception of markets no seller has enough power to sit on their laurels, they must sell their product in order to survive. It seems wrong to me that in the real estate market liquidity would drop as prices drop. There needs to be a cost associated with holding real estate so that there is turnover in good times and bad times.
1. 8 years ago delete my Facebook account.

2. 5 years ago stopped looking at my phone in bed.

3. 2 years ago delete my twitter account.

4. 6 months ago stopped looking at my phone & computer from dinner time to my son's bed time.

5. 2 weeks ago removed email from phone.

Each step along the way, I feel better.

Also regular exercise and a healthy diet.

TODO: Meet more people and increase my social friendships. Also more meditation (Headspace app works great for a beginner like me.)
Very true.

I think a good way of mitigating this is by having built good rapport with your coworkers previously: people you're in great terms or are friends with are more likely to miss you, and thus less prone to forgetting about you. So ideally a remote worker would spend some in-office time first, building those relationships (of course, that's not always possible).
I've had issues with sticking with exercise all my life and at some point I figured out that it has to be really fun for me to want to do it. When I lived in Sydney close to the beach I was always itching to go to play beach volleyball and I still miss it. Here in London I decided to go to Krav Maga and it has the quadruple benefit of being fun, learning a really useful skill, building confidence in not being afraid of confrontations (the office boss kind of, not trying to pick bar fights) and being a very serious workout as well. Highly recommend Krav Maga, it is much more approachable than one would think, for anyone!
Would you call it meditation?
But just because its primary purpose is education doesn't mean it will/would/should always be that. Its sort of like curb cuts, something that starts out trying to fix one problem but then its quickly seen how many other problems it helps fix or other capabilities to enable.
Where/with whom do you practice? If you're willing to share here.
The Impact of Building  Restrictions on Housing Affordability [pdf]
how do you deal with power surges during start up and shut down. I imagine the inductive loads/peak inrush would be massive?
> What service doesn't let you outright buy the modem?

I suspect many (most?) people may not know they can buy their own modem. Internet providers don't typically advertise that fact, since they'd much rather have the steady income from the modem rental.
I started sshing into my desktop at home to write code. I've never been so liberated. I can literally code from any computer I borrow (friends or library) and pick up exactly where I left off (tmux session) with the same text-editor configuration (vim) instantly.

I realized that my previous desire to have the latest macbook so excessive, and now I'm happy with just a light and durable $200 chromebook.

I teach a few people how to code, and I created accounts on my desktop for them to ssh into and they are loving it as well.
If you're just learning to be open, you'd probably enjoy the book, Conscious Loving. There's a whole section dedicated to telling the "microscopic truth" in your relationships.
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Loving-Co-Committment-Gay-H...

Painful to do in the beginning, but as people get use to your new truth telling ways, they learn to appreciate the honesty.
Exactly, turning them into parking spaces comes to mind in areas where parking is awful. Museums or even a botanical garden. It's hard to feel bad for landlords who throw in the towel before thinking outside the box. I'm sure online retail giants wouldn't mind buying more warehouse space in prime locations either.
Lifting weights.

30 years later than I should have, but better late than never.
You can always take a packed lunch to the lunchroom, or to a park, etc.
mediKanren: PoC for reasoning over SemMedDB using miniKanren+heuristics+indexing
The original point of the RPi is meaningless if the majority of the use cases are something completely different.

For me, doing embedded consulting, the Pi is a cheap, simple way to get a touchscreen and/or network capability without jumping through the hoops of Arduino add-ons.
Then I would argue that they aren't startups, they are fully formed businesses.
You can often email distributors and get more than one at a time, they mostly want to provide good general availability.
D.E.Shaw was my former employer. I wish him success.
Unless you live in SF, which just banned flavored vape juice. SF -- a place where you can buy pure THC crystal, but banana flavored nicotine is banned.
This is a part of CBT and loving kindness meditation. Laurie Santos has done research on this topic which is worth checking out.
“Almost every” is a term of art in mathematics. It means basically “100% wherever you look, but not really 100%”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_everywhere
I don't think people are drawn to it because it's giving an excuse for bad behavior. The Stanford experiment resonates with a lot of people because it mirrors civilization as a whole (hierarchical class based system)

The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Anyone else hear echoes of Cisco Meraki? I can see that model working in commercial environments where the network itself is often managed by a third-party. But for home users, it's paying a premium for nothing of value.
I don’t think the “Giant Graphic” format was the right choice for this kind of post.
That's exactly my problem as well. I wanted to hack a Pi Zero W into a presentation machine (for giving talks) and I didn't want to ruin my only Pi Zero W on account of how expensive it would be to replace (with shipping etc, it comes out to 30 euros or so).
Oh great, somebody at the NY Times wants to ruin Lasik for us all too.
i’m pretty sure i’ve heard of compilers generating a perfect hash (since the key space is known) also
What makes a great leader, explained in eight counterintuitive charts
> No, my teacher insisted. Milkshakes aren't dessert. They're dairy.

Ha! I suppose fruit roll ups[1] are also "fruit" then right?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_roll_up
Hey Jared. I think the most noticeable appeal a startup has is equity. The rules of equity are skirted, obscure and the level of trust is low.

Stratups cant compete on compensation to big-co but can compete on equity compensation and its just not competitive.
Not really. It took a while for this design to be commercialized and the industry isn't ready for anything new yet. There's plenty of newer academic work like Jellyfish but I would expect Clos to reign for 10-20 more years.
please show specific details on your claim that teachers are well-paid
Club soda would probably be fine.
Replace AI from the title with Deep learning and it would make sense but of-course in todays world any computing related news just don't make sense until you have AI in it.
Small commuter apartments and/or mixed space.

[1] https://youtu.be/HmL2l-bcuUQ

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mall-of-the-future-will-hav...
>We have the information...

No, actually you don't. _That_ is the problem.

Here's the original comment I responded to:

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>How is the average American going to figure out what the truth is?

Basic education that was provided for free in middle and high school?

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This person's comment is that a simple black and white "basic education" solves the problem of "how is the average American going to figure out the truth?"

I disagreed with my initial comment stating that, education is simply not enough.

I have a good friend with a PhD, and he's believed some incorrect things before, and I showed him more data, and he agreed he was wrong.

So, no, just "having an education" doesn't automagically allow anyone to determine the "truth" of a matter.
I always feel like every developer on HN is making like $200k-$400K without blinking, maybe that's true. Just for a perspective on these numbers, the top 1% of income in CA is $450K - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8qhh3x/ann...
Reading books. I was never a reader as kid. And, for the last 10 years or so of my adult life, the only reading I've done was programming tutorials, documentation, and whatever I ran into on the web. Certainly, there wasn't any reading done for fun.

But, last month after picking up lunch one day, I actually walked into the used book store and bought a book. Yesterday, I started reading book #4. Kinda surprised I went through the first few so quick.

I've been reading on my lunch hour most days, but spent this weekend going through 2/3 of one I started last week.

Not sure how much it's "paying off", but I'm definitely staying off my phone/web at lunch. The stories have me more engrossed than I anticipated too.
> Even more paradoxical ... running a marathon

As a runner this feels like a statement that shows some (very reasonable) ignorance of feelings and motivations. Achievement through empowerment of hard work can be a very healthy way for a successful marathon to be pleasurable.
Fwiw I don't think it's even possible to order anything from them at the moment. I can't figure out how to (but also have heard other stories of late or non-delivery). Seems like a cool product until you realise it doesn't exist.
Daily meditation and gym.

I have realized changes take way more time that I ever thought it would. That being said, before long, you are different and a little proud of your better new self.
Reminds me of the No S Diet (http://nosdiet.com/). Also created by a computer programmer :D
Burroughs, Olivetti, IBM and DEC were hardly academia and their languages were quite advanced.
Thanks to both for the info! Will do some more research now.
Just did this, the only good part about the GDRP spam tornado.
> Early-stage companies should offer sufficient equity such that their employees should in expectation earn at least the same as they would at a public company.

This would still be underpaying people for a few reasons: expectations are not risk-adjusted, it also doesn't take into account the timeline you get paid on, i.e. the ROI you would get investing your Google salary in an index fund and taxes make getting paid a regular amount over time more valuable than getting a large startup check.

Maybe you were taking these factors into account, but most startup equity offers are massive low balls.
It could be a whole new flavor for YC or other incubators - don't come to SF and fight to find housing... come to the new Coding Mall - offices are in the East Wing, apartment in the West Wing, demos and sales kiosks in the former Sears, VC offices in the former JC Penney, and everyone meets up in the food court (which is still running, btw, to keep everyone fed) for informal discussions.
A meaningless anecdote here:
Sunday while waiting in the grocery store line I looked over at the line next to me and saw a mother feeding a boy a coca-cola. The boy was maybe 3 or 4, small enough that the mom had to hold the bottle for him. I'm not a parent, but I have no idea how you end up in that situation.
73% of podcasts available for download are inactive
Inside Scotland's 'village of dreams'
>Edit: but yes, human behavior (often) doesn't satisfy von Neumann-Morgenstern utility axioms (the coherence conditions for scale-free origin-free utility functions as prefered by behavioral economics).

In specific, the VNM axioms assume that preferences aren't over histories at all, but instead over states, which severely constrains the kind of outcome-generating process they allow an agent to care about. They effectively state, "only the end-point matters, not the trajectory". This doesn't really make sense for humans in the first place, since we're made of meat and need to do things like eat and sleep cyclically.

What it does make sense for is bank accounts, which is why economists think it makes sense.
I wonder if it makes sense to turn malls into office spaces. That'd keep the food court busy, too.
When I started going to the gym, I had to deal with a lot of internal resistance. Feeling embarrassed about being old and fat and obviously totally ignorant about what I was doing.

A few months with a personal trainer got me past my fear of the gym. That was huge.
Mostly C.

While C++ is easier to write, for very low level code, it is harder to maintain when you need to understand all of the side effects to maintain code safety.

C++ compiler support is also sometimes not available. (And of course it's very like there'll be no Rust compiler available either in this case.)
Like property taxes, perhaps?
(unfortunately(?), many states do not have them)
I’d love to do this but on roads I find cars very anxiety producing and on trails I find getting around walkers very anxiety producing :-(
not that I know of. The devices themselves were very fragile and undependable. The new generation is reliable though. But in the old days you had to have a backup somewhere or else you lost all the data.
Stupid ClickBait Headline:

"That’s proving difficult, with just a shallow pool of investors who are willing to take on a declining mall and even fewer who would pay what the landlords want."

How is that practically giving way?

You know what? I'll sell anything you can find in my garage for $2M USD. Anything and all things. Is that pratically giving away?
I didn’t cut out sugar completely, but choose as low sugar as possible. For example, most bagels contain around 6 grams of sugar at the supermarkets I go to, but one brand only has 3 grams. So I go with 3 grams, even if zero would be better. My daily sugar in take is still under 30g.

Also, many sports nutrition bars will rely on sugar alcohol, which has its own problems but isn’t (probably) as bad as sugar.
Reductions in User Interface Complexity
That sounds exhausting.
I think this is an arrogant attitude. You may think you would never be stupid enough to force /bin/sh to /bin/bash, but other people who are brand new to Linux may not know that random things on the system behave differently depending on what /bin/sh points to. That's if you even know what the hell /bin/sh is, because maybe you just read some installer instructions that said that this file has to point to this other file.

People make mistakes. Not everyone knows everything, especially when they are new to something. I'm sure the package author is sufficiently shamed now.
I would move into such place.
I don't blame a mall operator for not wanting to invest huge sums of money in renovations in order to run an entirely different, probably much less profitable, kind of business.
I remember an article showing up a while back about a unionized BART janitor raking in nearly 300k.
Owners of real estate already pay property taxes. Are you just proposing that those be increased? And you think that will make real estate more valuable? I'm missing something here...
It's a known result in thermodynamics. The amount of information that can be contained within a sphere of radius r is bounded by O(r^2), surprisingly. An object can attain this bound if and only if it is a Black Hole.

This result is related to the fact that black holes evaporate. If black holes can contain information, it must be possible to read that information, or else it's observationally equivalent to the information having been destroyed. The evaporation of black holes leaks the information contained inside, avoiding a paradox.
How to Get Away with Scientific Fraud
>There IS a reason why rent in high cost areas are so, well, costly.

Yeah, it's the ratio of population to number of housing units.
Sleep 9:30 pm. Wake 3:30.
I don't think the question is if the space can be used, but whether or not there are legitimate uses of the space that can also make up for ongoing maintenance costs of such large structures.

I honestly don't think it can. I've seen them turned into office spaces, but it's really not an efficient use of space and the lack of sunlight/windows just makes it depressing.

As far as demolishing goes, most malls really aren't in areas where the space for parking is needed. If they are, then that land is probably highly valuable anyway.
That’s a great idea.
I've found Muscle Milk to be great if I'm in a hurry. It's basically whey isolate, vegetable fiber and aspartame. The fiber and protein make it really filling. I wish I knew where they got their fiber because I want to add it to my own whey.
Well, 741 million, I don't believe the road network figures were restricted to EU members only.
It looks to be plateauing.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-co...
As someone travelling though pioneer square every day I can see homelessness is a problem.But I am not sure how the tax can help,lot of the homeless that I encountered seems to be the under the influence of drugs and interestingly lot of them recently moved to Seattle area.
The land is probably more valuable than the building configuration. It's a little different from the pipe example in that way. You can't easily tear up the pipes and do something else with the pipeway, but you could demolish a mall and build an entire live/work district.
I would be happier if they didn't lie to me and claim that $39 will get me the full book. I would be even happier if they didn't go the video game route and add several purchase tiers including day-0 DLC. It's manipulative and will make me feel like I missed out if I opt for one of the cheaper options.