skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent article, thanks for writing it. I think more founders should do a bit of financial modeling.

That said, I think most founders should not be forecasting salary expenses on a per-position basis, even if they're under 100 employees. In my experience, you definitely won't know which positions you'll be hiring for further out than 1 year. If you're trying to impress investors it might work, but it will have limited utility for you personally.

Instead, you should group salaries by function (e.g. sales, engineering) and then make explicit your assumptions about labour efficiency. In the model described in the article, these assumptions are also there, but spread out over 40 rows in a table - not good! Assumptions in models should always be explicit.

For example, you could say that, in order to maintain your projected growth, you need to spend 10% of your revenue on sales staff. Or if you're aiming to be funded, you might instead work out how much labour it might take to make one sale, and then extrapolate based on how many sales you intend to make in the year.

You could look at engineering and decide you need 1 person in your engineering team (disregarding job title) per 100 clients. Then extrapolate, once again, based on number of projected clients. Obviously, software is meant to be scalable, so this all depends on how much up-front development you intend to do and at what pace you intend to add new features, so you might want to factor your growth targets in too.

Now, organisations normally bring in layers of management as teams grow. Do you need to account for this? Probably not. Remember, we're focusing on labour efficiency. These managers might increase your costs, but the idea is that they also help your teams function in a scalable way. And if you have good managers, the average tenure at your company should increase, leading to higher productivity.

The benefit of the above approach is that, now that all your assumptions have been made explicit, you can easily tweak them to see how they impact your model, rather than having to dig through many rows of data.

Lastly, and this is nit-picking, but ignoring income tax means this model should only be used to forecast up to periods where the company is not profitable. As soon as there's profit it will be completely wrong. Although it's a nice simplifying assumption if all you're trying to model is your road to break-even.
"Boom, the top result for any simple query was what you wanted."

I wish I could go back to that Google.

Today--I discount the top searches by habit.
I believe you are the one lacking context. I'll assume your are not being intentionally malicious and are just naive.

Abuse is almost certainly occurs in the presence of power structures with severe disparity. Children are being placed in the custody of people who lack appropriate training, background checks and supervision. Children can not defend themselves and they are separated from the people who do protect them: their parents. These are sufficient conditions for children to be mistreated; I can't bear to think of what happens when the people who run these systems choose to be actively malicious. These conditions are not only present in these "detention centers" (a thinly disguised euphemism for prisons), but also in places like poorly run orphanages and even some religious institutions, to name a few.

I am disgusted by the lack of empathy when discussions such as this one come up. I could care less by your stance on immigration policy; forcing children into these systems, especially when there is no real need for it, is abhorrent behavior.

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893...
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/us/undocumented-migrant-child...
- https://sputniknews.com/us/201806211065644106-US-Detention-C...
Thanks! I'll definitely look into that
I’m not entirely sure what it is that you’re asking. But if you’re asking if the heads for an audio cassette are angled, the answer is no. They’re perfectly perpendicular.

For VHS, yes, they are angled. 30 degrees, IIRC.

If that’s, indeed, what you’re asking.
It's worse than having neither hostages nor money bail, which is what it was offered as an alternative to.
I’m curious how you’re applying that to kindergartners.

I started using computers around age 4. I couldn’t read for shit. My parents didn’t withhold technology because I couldn’t read the manual. I’m thankful for that, as now I’m a software engineer and love it.

What insane gatekeeping.
Ah, thanks, they do list a 15TB tape. I looked around and could find the 10TB variety for $212 or so, but couldn't track down an actual 15TB tape for sale.

The 10TB tape I found was "IBM 3592 JD Advanced Data Tape Cartridge 10TB/30TB (2727263)"
> But the percentage is higher for black people for a wide variety of causes of death...

Let me quote the title of the link above: "Number of people SHOT TO DEATH BY THE POLICE in the United States in 2017-2018, as of June, by race".

Exposure to "toxic substances"? I don't think so.

Also, tech industry != "the internet".

If you're really interested in having a debate, go ahead and read Emily's book. Seriously.

While you're at it, "The Innovators" [1] is also a good read, and it'll be helpful to understand that the roots of our "tech industry" really started 100+ years ago, with a disproportional growth starting several decades before Larry and Sergey even got admitted to kindergarten...

The gender disparity we're seeing today is the consequence of several decades of systemic and widespread conscious and unconscious biases, that have shaped the perception of an entire generation.

Once you refine your understanding and start paying attention, you can see it everywhere. And unfortunately it'll take decades to fix.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-R...
I'm conflicted -- mainly because this doesn't seem sustainable, but maybe it works in Japanese culture. Not only are you not quitting in-person, but you're not doing it yourself. If you think quitting over text is bad, how would they feel if you asked your old buddy from college to quit over text for you? On the other hand, I could see this being the norm in some dystopia where nobody talks to each other anymore or employees are just fluid hands.
> Only extremists on the left would disagree that sex differences are partially/fully biological (depending on how you're defining biological and sex).

Unfortunately, there were enough “extremists” to get both Larry Summers and James Damore fired.
This line of reasoning is implicitely making the false equalence of "everyone who isn't with me is, by default, against me". Going down this route, you are forcing me to take a position on issues I don't nearly feel having sufficient amount of data, or nuance; nor motivated to acquire them, because giving a shit is a rapidly depletable resource, and I have my own life, and my own stuff to take care of.

Please do not take the position of neutrality away from me. Anyone who forces me using the reasoning above, is, by default, an enemy of mine, regardless of coincidence of wants.
I'd remind people that when dealing with a bad system, a less bad system that still has bad points is still an improvement.

What you really want is a system that allows further changes based on assessment of it's faults.
I guess I missed that. Yes, electric resistance heating is horrible on the wallet.

I have electric resistance as a backup to my heat pump, only because they wouldn't install it without it. It would cost so much to run I have the breakers turned off just so it can't be shocked by my bill.
Or maybe the solution is to remove the political (dis)incentive structure such that the will of an irrational population doesn't continue to cause harm.
Is that true? Why not get a bail bond??
Go does have binary packages, it just happens most devs always build from source.
Ketamine antidepressant could bring opioid-like addiction risks, study warns
The kitchen triangle (fridge-cooker-workbench) has been a "thing" since formica was available in classic grey or white. I truly don't understand how this can be patented.

Isn't this "vitruvian man" for TV binge watchers eyeballs?
If politics were "playing basketball" or "solving crosswords," I would agree. The problem is that reality and politics share the same space.

Alex Jones is a liar and manipulator. He goes on the air and presents theories for which there is not even superficial evidence as news and established fact. I'm not trying to be political, those are just the facts as I see them.

Just because I show up at work doesn't mean I become some sort of mechanical money making machine. If I was a TV executive at a company running that show, I would want to the show canceled, no matter the ratings or revenue. I suppose many would say I was bringing "politics" into the work place, and maybe I would be, but what's the alternative?

And sorry if upsets someone's political viewpoint, but there is scientific consensus for global warming, and in America we should probably cut back our energy consumption a bit. So, if I advocate that dress codes be relaxed in the summer so the thermostat can go up a degree, I guess it's political, but I'm not advocating it to piss off conservative people. It's just how I see the world.

I think the internal memo linked in the report makes the ever valid point to argue and attack ideas, not people. But honestly, that issue seems to be pervasive in our culture, so it does not seem specific to workspace behavior.

I think most people are just fighting for the world they want to live in. Why should that only be to do that outside of work, when we spend half our waking time at work?
I know from experience that clonsigna is broken :) I don’t think it would be difficult to fix, but, as is, it doesn’t work very well.
> I need to see how the slats interlock, I need to see photos of how the frame works.

For comparison, another furniture startup Aalo (YC W18) whose website has nice 3D closeup views of the interlocking components:

https://aalo.co
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17861861 and marked it off-topic.
I'm sick of hearing about Facebook all the time and I'm sick of seeing the same old recycled opinions of why people dislike or like Facebook every time Facebook sneezes. Facebook is not that interesting, and it's barely even academically interesting. It's a half-trillion dollar joke, laugh while it's still funny.
Don’t you mean the fine amount? I doubt any jurisdictions arrest for traffic infractions.
> Judge's biases exist in the money bail system too. Judges often set bail amounts from a range.

Or deny it because no arrangement can adequately guarantee appearance, yes. The fact that money is the key element used to guarantee appearance doesn't mean that money is always sufficient even in the money bail system.
I think the difference is A/C is more of a modern comfort that allows us to live in hot places. People could live in cold places without any modern technology or utility service. Fire and a pile of wood was all it took. Both are essential in either extreme, but we've had one solved for much longer.
I think it's devolved into mostly getting in the way and generating perverse outcomes.

Used to be if you skipped town the local authorities would have no way of tracking you down. And authorities where ever you fled to would often have no ability to tell if you had a warrant. That's mostly not true anymore.

So then you have people sitting in jail because they're broke, probably too broke to fee even. And for crimes where if they did flee might be in everyone's interest. The police will surely be heartbroken to find out a local trouble maker decided to leave town. /s
You can implement Clojure multimethods as an extension of CLOS: https://github.com/pcostanza/filtered-functions
Yes, ProseMirror is quite stable and it is well-used. Marijn released version 1.0 nearly a year ago and since then we made some improvements, but the interface seems good enough that we didn't even discuss making a breaking change in a component as far as I know. There's not too much maintenance work necessary either, since bug reports are usually pretty good and far fewer than for example with CodeMirror. I think how happy we are with ProseMirror and maintaining it is a major motivation for making these huge changes with CodeMirror, too.
Cyclists also willfully break traffic rules in SF with alarming regularity. Stop signs are generally regarded as ornamental, and even lightly traveled red lights. I am reminded of this every time my seven year-old cycling companion asks why such and such a person hasn't followed the rules when they blow past us.

Both classes of vehicles have to be diligent.
> The same enforcement mechanisms they were using before.

When you publish an MIT-licensed piece of code, you're basically saying "I don't really care about enforcement. Please be nice and leave the license information here."

There's practically no good way to enforce an MIT license, if only because you've given all rights to the product away already.

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But by saying "I don't want Microsoft to use this product", now you actually are saying you care somewhat about how your product is used. Which now begs the question: how do you enforce that?

GNU has lawyers who protect their copyleft license, and are willing to take you to court on the issue for example.
Imagine a white man lecturing a room that's mostly people of color or women about the importance of including all people as equal peers in discussions. Toss in a few incredibly loaded questions with Very Obvious Right Answers to round it out.

It's obviously just me, but I have a difficult time imagining anyone being well-served by that particular "bureaucratic solution". Which, caricature though it might be, is also an accurate representation of a lived experience.
That's true, but not always politically viable. You only get to muster up the political will to take a swing at the big structural problems every so often. If this turns out to be horribly insufficient of a measure, it'll be a few years before it's likely to change again, so for that reason it's understandable for organizations like the ACLU to be annoyed at what they see as missing their shot.
By that measure, we shouldn't have crosswalks at intersections, and walkers should walk into the street, past the right turn lane, to avoid turning conflict.
> Is it really more profitable

It is. Online, you can use statistics and probability theory to actually test what's more profitable instead of relying on ad-hoc metrics about what "feels good".

> They chase you around the web, even for products you already decided you didn’t want

These are a small minority of online ads. They're displayed in places where nothing more profitable or contextual can be displayed. (I.e., most websites, since most websites are junk.)
I’ve been really excited about Julia for awhile now.

Does anyone here happen to know why the decision was made to not allow “normal” classes in Julia? I know you can define your own types to get some of the functionality but sometimes in numerical computing with matlab or python it really makes sense for me to pack functionality into a class.

I know in matlab using classes causes a performance hit but I always thought that wasn’t because the feature was bolted on afterwards. Is there something I’m missing here?
> California did better with balanced government. Republican Gov and democratic legislature.

No, it didn't. It was nonstop crisis.
During the civil war you could get out of being drafted by paying someone to take your place.
You go to jail and that makes you more pliable for a plea deal.
I know about fit and positioning, but I haven't heard there are differences in safety due to shape or the "aero/race-inspired design". Where can I find out more about it? Has any research been done?
That's not correct however. Recognition can and often does lead to correction.

In the US, the percentage of children five years of age and under that were obese, dropped from 14% to 10% over ten years (2004-2014). That's due to first recognizing a terrible problem and then acting against it.

US obesity rates have stabilized. [1] I think we can be fairly certain that's in no small part due to increased knowledge and awareness of the problem over the last decade. The next step is to begin moving the needle the other direction, even if it's a slow process.

People think obesity in the US is a very old problem, when in fact it started just 30 years ago and wasn't a serious issue until the late 1990s. In 1985 no state had an obesity level over 15%. Today, 46 states exceed 25% obesity. I doubt the US will ever go back to 1985 obesity levels, however if it can change negatively that much in less than two decades, then you can plainly see meaningful improvements in a similar amount of time.

[1] https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2017/08/ne...
Improving mobile, touch and screen-reader support are from a user perspective the main reasons we are doing this in the first place. We are expecting to support most of the input behavior such platforms provide.
Sure, by now children can do some rudimentary typing and mouse flicking. But if you think trackpads are awful for adults, you should observe children using them. Tears, people.

Two days ago a mathematician was explaining a concept to me that involved math I’ve long forgotten combined with math I’ve never learned. When I told him I didn’t completely follow, he said “It’s super easy,” and repeated what he had already said - but more slowly.

Now, there were no tears involved, but anyone who is trying to explain or teach something they’re an expert in/at to someone (of any age) who is very much not would do well to remember the three sentences I’ve quoted above. Tears or no, at any age, it’s incredibly frustrating.
Likewise with Twitter
Honestly: I don't know. Seriously, I'm not saying these problems are easy, I'm saying that the current policies of anything and everything can lead to jail time results in long term negative effects that exacerbate existing biases. The current bail system feeds on this - if all crimes carry the potential for jail time, then all defendants can be threatened with jail time in exchange for a plea bargain that has a false confession.

Let's say we go for something like "no direct victims" e.g. possession, drunk and disorderly, etc have no jail penalty, theft or violent crime does? But then how to you class smashing a window during a protest: Is that deserving of jail time? If not, then why is there the threat of incarceration pending bail? Again: I don't know, none of this really has easy yes/no answers.
Are they doing this and putting it on youtube, etc? If not then there is apparently no demand for it. And JOVE is a useful tool.

I wanted to try researchers wearing go pros or similar while collecting the data and all of this archived. You never know what detail someone may care about later.
Yes, there have been a lot of concern about novels spoiling girls.
> People who are anti-illegal immigration generally only use it as a more polite and socially acceptable proxy for what they really want, which is to reduce or end immigration altogether (except perhaps from places that they share a common identity with).

Could you explain a little about how you made that inference? Nothing in my daily experience leads me to reach the same conclusion.
Firefox focus and DDG is the best combination on mobile. Leave no cookies behind.
> My own views lean pretty strongly towards one end of the spectrum, and I simply can't understand why people would hold the opposite views. So I suspect I'm missing something.

Congress and CSpan are good starting points.

Yeah, everyone hates Congress. But its literally their job to raise up points in national debate. They kind of talk past each other, but listening in on the debate tends to be a good "introduction" to any particular topic of politics.

The House has less time per member, leading to rapid-fire but low-information kinds of debates. Senators keep talking on-and-on-and-on... so you can spend 10+ minutes with just one speaker giving their point of view. A back-and-forth on a particular topic can last literally hours in the Senate.

So listen in on House debate issues if you want a quicker summary of points. Listen in on Senators if you want deeper discussions and a bit more back-and-forth between members.

Bonus points: the Senate and the House are where the laws are written. So learning about the political viewpoints of those in power tends to be more useful than the opinions of random pundits on news channels. Its not like anyone on Fox News or "Colbert" will actually change a law, ya know?
In way of a reply, I will juxtapose two quotes from your post above. I think it preserves context, but please tell me if you think I left out something important.

Quote 1:

> This line of reasoning is implicitely making the false equalence of "everyone who isn't with me is, by default, against me"

Quote 2:

> Anyone who forces me using the reasoning above, is, by default, an enemy of mine
If there's a 5% loss rate per mission, then there's a 35% chance that it will survive 20 missions.
Perhaps you mean a careful, educated, adult speaker (by definition, since there's no governing body setting English grammatical rules).

The term "native speaker" is ill-defined enough that there's no reason a native speaker can't make grammatical errors in speech. For instance, a child is a native speaker, but children make plenty of grammatical errors. Even adults misuse who / whom and was / were all the time.
The same way the gp expressed it, that the robot was bad at dealing with the cats excretions.

Do you not see the cold irony in expecting the cat to poop in a way the robot can handle?
Tesla needs cash, now that take-private plan has fallen through
A majority, 54% of teens, said they spend too much time on their phone, and nearly that many – 52% – said they are trying to limit their phone use in various ways.

Knowing is one thing and actually getting rid of it is a completely different ball game.

There's a gulf between the planner and the doer. The far-sighted "planner" in us knows that social media/Netflix/cigarettes are bad for us. When you conduct a survey, we are conscious and reasonable people who know what is good from what is bad and hence 54% of use agrees that we spend too much time on useless stuff.

But when it actually comes to doing, the myopic "doer" part of us keeps on snoozing that alarm clock in the morning and goes to Facebook to check the number of likes & comments received every five minutes.
Counterpoint: is Stallman not an activist, one who many of the same people panning this license change would claim to support?

> Members of the free software movement believe that all users of software should have the freedoms listed in The Free Software Definition. Many of them hold that it is immoral to prohibit or prevent people from exercising these freedoms and that these freedoms are required to create a decent society where software users can help each other, and to have control over their computers.

Choosing an open source license itself has political implications and moral reasoning behind it, at least historically. People complaining about getting politics and morality "into software" honestly just look uninformed. It was already there, you just happened to perceive it as a neutral stance.
I don't use keybase, I just want you to know that I'm not downvoting you...as I see that you have been.
Is the ability to “forgive oneself” sustainable? Does the initial “help” from MDMA empower the person to learn to permanently see themselves and their experiences in a new way? As someone who believes that developing ourselves comes from the traditional hard work of life and spiritual development (or whatever you may call it) with no quick fixes, I find the prospect surprisingly compelling.