skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps as a back of a line thing - not those about to enter it. It is already infamously grueling. Graduating and being six figures in debt could try the patience of many. "Staying in school in a high stress environment till near my thirties is bad enough without being in debt practically big enough for a house for years afterwards. I'll just go into banking after four years so I can actually enjoy the money while I am young." Whether you want doctors with such am attitude is another question.
How so? They successfully expanded into IT/cloud infrastructures and services, consumer electronics, original video/music production, live/game streaming, brick & mortar grocery, and adtech.
"Then he got in a Tesla Model S and drove himself to the airport. En route, Mr. Musk typed his fateful message."

Don't text while driving.

This going private thing is a strange idea. Sell Tesla to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund? The one dedicated to keeping oil a viable industry? Does he want Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as a boss? That makes no sense. Softbank might make sense.

Part of Musk's problem seems to be "Only I can fix it". Tesla desperately needs a chief operating officer. They have a VP of manufacturing, Gilbert Passin, who's a car guy, but he does not seem to be in charge. He's not the one living in the plant. There are people who have fixed broken production lines. Musk is not one of them.

Tesla finally produced 5,000 Model 3 units a week for two weeks running. That's encouraging. If they can sustain that rate for two months, and the quality complaints don't go up, they have the line working. Profitability is another matter. Tesla Fremont has a huge headcount for the output.
Only for active duty military. However,

1) not all active duty military have security clearances

2) most people with CACs aren't active duty (civilian employees and contractors have them too.)

3) not everyone who has a CAC has a security clearance.

So has nothing to do with security clearances.
Easy to say if there is none
Nope, not in most architectures. In a 0-based indexing system, the base pointer points to the first element of the array. In a 1-based indexing system, the base pointer points to the slot in memory that isone spot behind the first element in the array. This is how Julia (and Ada) does arbitrary indexing.
Was a nice surprise when I last flew out of YYZ. Although had to have the Global Entry card on hand. Almost wasn't going to carry it with me since its not all that useful when flying.
Guess what their main cost is? Your main cost: rent

Tax land, not labour.
You're being unusually oblique. It's conventional wisdom that liquidation preference multiples are tied to higher valuation, but you already knew that. Do you disagree with this or have some more interesting theory regarding liquidation preference?
Interesting! For many years on 4chan, that quote can be seen in a daily basis and produced hundreds of memes, which trolls and trolls trolling each other for being trolls. But it in fact was actually originated from Hacker News?! Even more interesting, it was originally intended as an exact critique to the 4chan community, but then completely picked up by 4chan and became part of the collective consensus of 4chan, and now ended up as a self-fulfilling prophecy...

I don't like the shitposts or trolling, but always fascinated by them as a social and psychological phenomenon, and the way how idea travels and spreads.
If you've read the biography by Ashlee Vance this shouldn't surprise you. Musk has always been a guy who runs at 100%, even at the sake of his personal life. On the one hand it's inspiring but also very concerning. The board should insist upon a COO.
I'm on Hacker News since eight years. My life would not be the same without it.

A lot of what I know I know through Hacker News. HN has shaped my world view. Over the years I learned about starting a business, databases, programming languages, meditation, web development, interpersonal relationships and many things more. Writing HN comments and getting immediate feedback through comment score has improved my writing skills. Even more significantly, I found my previous job which was amazing through Hacker News. I moved halfway across the globe to California for it.

But over the years, I feel like HN becoming less and less valuable for me. I feel like I am wasting a lot of time here these days. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I just know a lot more about startups and webdev so there are diminishing returns. It's becoming more and more like addiction.

I'm wondering what the solution is. I tried blocking HN in my host file, but I found worse ways to waste my time on the internet. Maybe a reading later app is it, but I doubt it.
Seconding this, I can't remember ever hearing of founders getting preferred, so their incentives are generally aligned with the other employees.
I think you missed your opportunity to learn something because the parent post was being too subtle.

Both student loans and the housing loans leading to the crisis are blinding examples of the government interfering with the risk assessment process of large loans resulting in a failure.

Students get loans they can't realistically payback because the issuers know they are (mostly) safe from bankruptcy.

In the early 2000s the 'gift' of the affordable housing bill was to issue a bunch of mortgages to people who realistically couldn't pay them back either. Leverage against loans by the banks made it systemic, but the root cause of the housing crash was trash loans that would never have been issued if it weren't for the government offering guarantees.
Faxploit: Breaking the Unthinkable – Check Point Blog: Check Point Blog
That was true several years ago, much less so today
> At the same time, on the company's official website, the Red Core browser was also described as "breaking the US monopoly, China's first independent innovation smart browser core."

They clearly sold it as their own rendering engine, not just a UI shell. Although I guess due to vague wording it wouldn't necessarily preclude being a fork of Blink.
I don't know the policy on secondaries. But yeah, founders are almost always common stockholders in my experience, and they certainly don't want a preference overhang.

And to be clear wrt my original comment, I think DoorDash is an excellent business, and I have no reason to believe that the valuation isn't fully justified, I'm just speaking more generally about the funding environment of companies doing large rounds at high valuations, and if a macro trend pushes startup valuations in the other direction.
Almost all of the high-value parts of an iPhone are made in the US. Yet there is a lot of hand-wringing about the low-value, labor-intensive work done on iPhones in China.
Why is it so popular to call for free college? Why not something more reasonable like 50% less?
Have all 15 male engineers is not THAT improbable. Assumed 80% male applicant, each hiring is independent event of others, and equal chance of hiring for both gender, it comes out to 3.5%. Or 1 out of every 30 companies with 15 engineers to have all male teams.
Hearth Surgery (2009)
What It's Like to Be a Cutter in Prison
It’s one of these Borges moves: The book doesn’t really exist, outside of the remarks of elusive Google interviewers who, so legend has it, expect you to master it.
This source [1] is not tabloid and has conducted thorough investigations of other stories [2][3] that MSM ignores.

[1] https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/queenslan...

[2] https://independentaustralia.net/jacksonville

[3] https://independentaustralia.net/ashbygate
>In Germany for instance higher education is free everywhere, I don't see how this could work with private fundraising.

Germany isn't a good example. Germany stands because it can exploit its weaker neighbors, the east block out of their resources and force the companies to book profit and get taxed in Germany.

Germans see each others as bothers. Show me a few German companies where a foreigner is in the executive role?

The whole point of Germany is Germans first. Ofcourse, they can make education free in this setting.
Bret Victor wrote this post for you some years ago: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
If that's what you got from what I said, then I didn't explain myself well enough.

Your replies to other comments indicate, however, that you're more likely to take the inflammatory interpretation. Which I find most ironic given the message you seem to be trying to convey.
My assumption is that you sell a given stock with 1x liquidation preference, and the price of that stock is used to determine the valuation for the company, pretending the price is the same for the common stock as the stock with 1x liquidation?
It strikes me that it's rare that you hear an outcry about things being "marketed specifically to women" unless those things are ones that have traditionally been the domain of men. If an offer about makeup or diapers or Zumba class was clearly targeted at women, or even jobs that orient around similar themes, my guess is that it wouldn't merit much of an outcry on HN.
https://themighty.com/2017/11/amazon-alexa-helping-child-dis...

https://growingupbilingual.com/2018/tech-and-gadgets/8-ways-...

There are tons of examples on the net
Re: semiconductor fabs. It is interesting to note that US still holds a lot of cutting edge semiconductor fab capacity, at Oregon, Arizona, and New York.
It's also on MacPorts.

(I discovered this halfway into writing my own portfile.)
I'm not sure exactly how I feel about talking about hobbies etc. in interviews, both from an interviewer and interviewee perspective.

As an interviewer, you're potentially going to be spending 40 hours a week with this person. You don't really want to hire a robot.

As an interviewee, my private life is none of my employers business. Maybe my hobby is some super kinky shit that I don't really want my employer to know about. There are certainly a lot of things that I do in my own time that I won't talk about at work, some of it because it's not exactly legal and some of it just because I don't really want to deal with my colleagues judging me.

It's useless to pretend though that our work life and private life are firewalled from each other. Our work life does leak into our private life, and vice versa.
Is Adrenaclick available in Canada?
Experienced biotech VCs and entrepreneurs talk about value creation
That's a genius way to avoid fence post errors (http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Opinions/fencepost-error-...).
The presence of an SEC investigation is cause for concern. But why not just say that? Why repeat absurd rumors about billion dollar investor lawsuits? What does it gain you to spread, by your own admission, completely baseless rumors?

I keep thinking HN is not the place for this sort of nonsense but then maybe I'm the one in the wrong. Certainly most discussions about Musk here are not based on any kind of rational analysis of the facts. Yours is the popular position, if a bit wearisome.
1980s quality healthcare has been dropping in cost. The problem with healthcare prices today is that it covers many new advances that are still expensive.

The only fair way to compare healthcare over time is if the exact same quality of care drops in price over time.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
In social settings, absolutely no one asks how much debt you have but everyone asks which university you went to.
Facebook and Google want that 1 billion of possible users to comply with the thirst of the stock market that has been accustomed to user growth metrics as a signal for sustainable tech company. They have already expanded on where they can and you can smell the desperation. Specially with projects like Free Basics, Internet.org, Aquila, Loon and Skybender which are not charity, they just want more users with internet to adopt there platforms to keep with the growth metrics. It's going to be an interesting next 10 years for Google and Facebook.
Or hack the team who signs.
A big maybe. While 20MHz TMS32010 DSP in 1985 was around 386DX 33MHz horsepower wise, if you ignore things like single cycle 16x16 multiply(10-20 faster than 386), it might still be too slow. For comparison ~3x faster DSP56001 in Atari Falcon needs 16MHz CPU assist to decode MP3.
Political correctness is the practice of pretending and acting as if the reality we actually want actually exists and then hoping it stops being a pretend reality by acting as if it was actually the case.

In this case, the pretend reality that we are acting as if it is actually the case is that engineering aptitude and interest is evenly spread amongst all peoples regardless of gender,race,sexual orientation, gender identity, and whatever they come up with next.

All the statistics in the world that show that the pipeline is not even close to getting filled because of lack of aptitude or interest by certain classes is just handwaved away because it is not the pretend reality that will soon become real if only everyone would just believe in it....
Don’t we have a general problem where voice interaction is primitive on all devices?

I use Siri and Alexa almost daily. I feel like we have a very long way to go.
Right, I need two keylocks 7 feet apart that need to be turned simultaneously after a security code has been punched in.
More examples of the same vowel modification due to the following consonants:

ruble, super, ruby, Sumer (as in Sumerian)

rubble, supper, rubber, summer
Your perspective is an interesting distillation of a popular meme.

In it's abstract form, the idea is something like "Anything I do is justified, because if I didn't do it, someone else would."

From the way I see the world, it seems completely insane but it obviously seems like common sense to a huge part of the population.

I just don't get it! How many other Facebook sized companies, with Facebook's staff of engineers, willing to completely disregard the ethical consequences of behavior, do you think are competing for Facebook's market?
Bit of a tangent, but out of interest, why KickStarter as opposed to CrowdSupply?
sounds familiar. I work as an ASE mechanic in a small chain of shops in the midwest. We had a deal with a company that provides code readers for long haul trucks. mostly its just to license their expensive software as the readers themselves are off the shelf. we still have to buy pricy laptops to run them on windows 10.

Recently I found out we could read codes using a raspberry pi and an adapter. I rigged up a cool little doctors cart with a monitor, a small keyboard, and the pi. I spent a few nights writing a simple python program that takes codes that are output from the reader and compares them against a database I laboriously typed up for techs to read.

This went all the way to the owner of the company before I found out, but the owner loved it. Later on, after we started culling our software licenses and stopped buying hardware from the vendor, they demanded an audit. The final verdict? we owed then just short of half a million in back licenses and damages for "copying" their patent on reading OBD type codes from an engine computer. Our formal response to their threat of a lawsuit was something along the lines of "try it." I was pretty terrified the whole legal thing was happening, but the owner himself came down to my shop, promoted me to a shop captain, and personally told me to keep making the little readers if people wanted them.

We never did hear back from our old software vendor, but every time someone rolls over a pi accidentally or drops one out of an engine bay, I wonder what theyre up to.
The biggest factor in the rise in tuition is easily austerity policies lowering in-state school budgets.
Banking and tech aren't guaranteed the way medicine is. Other fields are result based, and it's often easy to get fired and be replaced.

A risk averse person would rather stick to what they know (student life, exams) for a guaranteed reward.

The debt isn't really that much. Probably the average is 200k. You can pay that off within about 1-2 years of residency, and interest rates tend to be low since they're low risk loans for banks to give out.
> Google/Facebook are used to sell things and spy on users.

Easy, China want to use Google/Facebook to spy foreign targets.

Google withdraw from China exactly because of this.
Time for buzzword bingo!
Excellent and balanced read.
Well... you are using a website created by silicon valley millionaires in the heart of America using a technology called internet created mostly by a military organization (DARPA) to check news about american startups and american technologies so that probably puts you a bit on the hypocritical side of things...
It's not a foreign/local problem, it's a service good/bad problem.
> Character flaws aside, Musk is the only billionaire alive (or even in recent memory) whose business ventures are netting any actual positive effect on society whatsoever.

Wait, what? How can you possibly justify that?

> Heck, he might be the only one not having a seriously detrimental effect on society right now. You don't have to like him to acknowledge that.

What about all those recent self-driving crashes? At best, they're poisoning the well for sensible self-driving legislation. At worst, they're killing people for no reason other than corporate hubris and greed. Then there's the matter of creepy corporate policing, such as the remote lockouts whenever somebody tries to examine the firmware, or the humiliating public accident reports whenever something goes wrong with one of the cars, or the forced corralling of all self-driving taxi business into a Tesla-exclusive service in the future.
That was because states covered most of the budget. Austerity policies changed that. And supply and demand is not applicable to macroeconomics, which education is part of.
For context: the blog post itself is sort of rambling and a bit hard to understand, but the email back and forth below the post is pretty interesting and features some of the most prominent people in the biotech startup world.

Steve Holtzman (the author) is a very successful serial biotech entrepreneur. Jeff Tong is a venture partner at Third Rock, sort of the Andreesen Horowitz of the biotech world. Mark Levin is a cofounder of Third Rock. His reply is really good. John Maragone is the CEO of Alnylam, one of the early RNAi companies, and chair of the biotech industry trade group
>Because who in their right mind wants to sacrifice 16 years of earning potential, take on 500K of debt only to become an MD with long work days and now prices that are fixed with no other form of negotiation leverage in sight.

Asians/Indians make most MDs in the US because being a doctor is valued a lot in their communities even if you've infinite debt, you still get respect.

Second, most doctors come from doctor families. They've already transversed the path once, and their kids can reuse the knowledge and connections.

So yea, my father is MD and he can easily support 16 years of MD education for me. If you don't have a family with similar resources, obviously either you can take debt which comes with enourmose stress/worries which decrease your chance to complete or not compete at all!

Individualistic people aren't going to find it easier to compete with community backed people.
Great article! The only thing I wish was explained a bit better was the 2 TiB CFG memory reservation. What's that for, again?
I decided to do more research, and it seems the -tuple suffix may have actually come from the word quintuple.

> -tuple
1863, word-forming element abstracted from quintuple, etc.

(from https://www.etymonline.com/word/-tuple)

A dictionary agrees:

> Origin and Etymology of -tuple
quintuple, sextuple

(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-tuple)

But then the pronunciation of quadruple can go either way. Although the "oo" is listed first, so is probably more common, I guess any of them would be considered OK:

> \ kwin-ˈtü-pəl , -ˈtyü- , -ˈtə- ; ˈkwin-tə- \

(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quintuple)
> ... and john deere tractors

Not if they're < 100hp. Those are all made in Japan by Yanmar and rebadged. Ditto New Holland(merged with Ford) which is built by LS. There's not a single company that makes a compact tractor in the US that you can buy.
I understand where you are coming from and there are certainly people in tech who flirt with the idea of quotas. Ignore radical ideologues for a moment, though. It's possible to take steps that increase diversity without discriminating against, say, white or Asian men.

Maybe we can start by increasing that 10%? I think a variety of approaches can be taken that don't discriminate against anyone. Introducing coding in K-12 is one small example. It helps because it exposes the possibility of a career in tech to girls and minorities. At no point, it denies that same opportunity to boys or white children.

A company may value diversity and still base their hiring decision solely on competence. You could ensure that your job posting reaches a diverse audience, for example. Instead of just posting it through your regular channels, you could reach out to, say, organizations for women in STEM. Thus increasing the number of diverse candidates who apply. The idea is to give equality of opportunity. Nobody reasonable is expecting enforced equality of outcome.

If you have 10 positions and 100 candidates who apply, and instead of the usual 5 women applying, you get 30, all things being equal, you just x6 your odds of hiring a woman. It doesn't necessarily mean that you'll hire 3 women either. But you increased your chances of diversifying your team. Notice that, at no point, you discriminated against anyone or favored them in the hiring process.
I'd rather a huge, Dr Frankenstein style throw switch that produces sparks and lightning when I pull it.
You often do because the cost of administering financial aid and loan programs is much more than if the government simply funded education. The same applies to healthcare: you need dozens of administrators because you have dozens of insurers to deal with. Simplify the system so all costs are paid for by the state and your costs go down.
College is inefficient because instead of just paying out of the taxpayers, we created a roundabout system of loans and banking that serves no one except shareholders.
> I think this is probably an attempt to compete with other medical schools for top students.

But what do they get from these top students? Clearly not tuition anymore!
The best thing both of them can do (and every other tech giant that is not Chinese) is to put up a moat around China and contain all the competing Chinese tech companies to only China. This means putting extra effort into every country that borders China and every country with whom China has a strong economic relationship.

This isn't too different to how Facebook conquered universities where it was #2 to some other social network. Instead of trying to replace the social network at that university (A) with Facebook, it focused on all the universities (B, C, D, etc.) around that university (A) so that there would be a strong social network composed of the secondary universities (B, C, D, etc.) and that would lead students at the first university (A) to join Facebook when they made friends with students at the secondary universities (B, C, D, etc.).
Basically, one byte of CFG memory "controls access" to 64-bytes of executable memory - indicating which addresses are valid indirect branch targets. With appropriate compiler and OS support this can help stop some exploits.

Unfortunately it quickly gets really complicated so a bit of hand waving is necessary.
We can't create enough doctors because medical school is prohibitively expensive. Universal healthcare and universal higher education go hand in hand.
> How can you possibly justify that?

Rockets! Cars propelled by faraway vibrations! Is there no room in our world for the brilliantly mad?
Sure, but it's almost absurd to argue that Musk is the only billionaire alive whose work is a net positive on society.