skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto! I have been at a startup that was pretty successful and generated a payout for me of about $1M post taxes.

The original grant plus all the refreshers would have originally amounted to ~$8M (I was within the first 3 employees), but joining early means that at each and every single round you'll be massively diluted (20%+, and there are many of those from a seed round up to a series D/E), and this is without counting the liquidation preference (which in my case was a good 1X non-participating) and other stuff (e.g. emitting new shares for the newly hired fancy CEO that will help us sell the company, refreshers will have a higher cost basis, ...).

If you join early, expect your relative slice of the pie to shrink by roughly an order of magnitude. In the best case.
Most really healthy people cook for themselves.
> who said that?

the World Health Organization in their constitution established in 1946:

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-right...

crazy radical stuff huh?
Didn't expect to see a PhilPapers link on HN! I liked your paper, definitely gave me something to chew on. I've never given much thought to attempting to falsify the simulation hypothesis in any meaningful way (on account of a general apathy to its oft "contrived" nature that you elude to). However, your thought experiment regarding this supposed x-x' property is quite clever. Now my mind is buzzing...

P.S. I appreciated your reference to Popper in the abstract. It prompted me to take my copy of The Open Society & Its Enemies off the shelf and peruse it for nostalgia's sake. :)
I don't think anyone was arguing it is a success, so not worth debating that non argument. The commenter simply pointed out something that exists.
This is what I do for anything I make that I think would be easier to find on GitHub. And vice versa for my own build tools so I can accumulate the projects I use from GH under one group on GitLab.
It is true that the US pays for a significant portion of drug R&D for the world. However the vast majority of that R&D is funded by the NIH which in turn is funded by U.S. taxpayers. It is a myth that it is the pharma companies who fund much of R&D even though they do spend some money on it. They set the prices so high because they can. The patents give them a monopoly, and they do everything in their power to "evergreen", or extend, the patents so they can continue their monopoly. One example is first patenting the left version of a molecule then patenting the right version (mirror image). How do they acquire these patents if they don't do their own R&D? They buy them.
"We won't know till it's actually used" - haha, which in crypto world means NEVER
What about offering a reward to unregistered immigrants in exchange for ratting out their employers? Works for other types of illegal labor... maybe a slice of the fine and the option of fast-tracked citizenship.

Anyway, policing businesses will always be easier than policing individuals... smaller numbers, immobile, already registered with the state, and they have stronger incentives to obey the law.
I had some time to kill and stopped by a Microsoft store to check out the Surface Go 10" 8GB. It was surprisingly usable and the pen digitizer had low latency, perhaps not quite as low as the iPad Pros but good enough not to feel laggy.

I kept on the lookout for an Android tablet for light work on-the-go but the Surface-Go hits the mark much better. I would also be interested in a similarly size/weight laptop but they tend to be much lower quality and performance at that size. The MacBook/Air is close, more expensive and I don't like the keyboard at all.
Surely not. However, once they are treated and are healthy why should they not be reported to authorities so that proper law can take course.

I think we should really revisit this whole notion of "sanctuary" state/city/etc, it just doesn't make sense.
Samsung, a monopoly? I don't know why anyone would say that unless you are a mainlander Chinese/Taiwanese.

And what gov't contracts? Unlike what China is doing today, there was no such overt protectionist gov't policies implemented here. Much of the demand for tech products and R&D were driven by the cold war between the WW2 and the fall of Berlin Wall. The stylized fact that there are now fewer than a few US memory makers, namely Micron and Intel, from two dozens in the 70's and 80's demonstrates how little the gov't contract has done to "protect" the industry.

China's policy of forcing foreign companies to give up their IP for access to domestic market and seeding unlimited gov't subsidy is based on the Japanese model in the 80's. Their model however fell apart as Japan's economy declined and the Japanese companies focused on quality, not on mass manufacturing to compete with emerging South Korean competitors like Samsung.

Unlike Japan's large domestic market, South Korea had very little market of their own and was geared toward purely for export. It didn't coerce foreign companies to drop all their patent lawsuits or future lawsuit like the Chinese gov't reportedly demanded Samsung and SK Hynix last week.

Needlessly to say, equating China's outright IP theft to the industry policy of the US or South Korea is a bit asinine.

* Noh, "Samsung, SK Hynix: Pay fines, or drop all existing or future patents lawsuits; China demands South Korean companies to give up their IP", Hankyung Economic Times, Dec 26, 2018
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=ko&tl...

* Kang, JoonKyu, A study of the DRAM industry, 2010, MIT PhD Thesis https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59138/6595145...
Not sure if its actually a stoner call-out, but often android products from a number of brands use "4:20" as their goto. I wonder if it's not marijuana related at all and infact has a similar sort of backstory?
Which government will prosecute?
Ok, so we are moving the goalposts from what you can currently buy as a desktop machine, to what you bought as a desktop machine 5 years ago, which likely wasn't even top of the line.

Then because you can run a web browser on it that makes it desktop class?

Please that argument doesn't hold an ounce of anything. For that matter the processor in the original iphone was desktop class because it was capable of surfing the web better than the Pentium II's common in desktop machines in 2000.

Which is why tons of people just bought ipads and stopped upgrading their desktops. I never made an argument that you couldn't replace a desktop with a phone/tablet/whatever, that wasn't what this was about. It was about claiming that apple's products were performance competitive with (current) desktop class machines. Which for some use cases they probably are, for others like heavy gaming, engineering work, or basically most of what people actually have desktop machines for these days (as opposed to laptops which is probably a better comparison) its not really a comparison outside of some great marketing.

Of course this is the usual apple crap, I've been hearing it since the PPC in the mac was a "supercomputer".
GarageBand has a crazy/arbitrary limit on length of like 640 bars or 30 mins? I would have loved to use it to make a long mix of multiple tracks but that simple tasks butted up against that limit and I wasted so much time until I had to google this weird thing where it didn’t lengthen any further... wish audacity existed on the iPad.
Ask HN: Remote companies that don't use location as an excuse to pay less?
What are some remote companies that don't use location as an excuse to pay less using the "Cost of living" thingie?
why should I pay my income taxes when someone living below the poverty line doesn't pay any?
Sebastian Junger’s work is relevant to this, and after a decade of thinking about happiness and looking back on my own experiences and others, he lays out explicitly what I couldn’t put into words. His book Tribe is worth the read, and he has two documentaries on Netflix, Restrepo and Korengal that touches on the issue lightly.

It answers the question of why cancer patients can miss being sick, why soldiers miss being on the frontlines and why I was happiest living in a third world hole in a beat up apartment vs the luxury I’m living in now.
My point is that you're bringing up an absurd, inapplicable standard to further justify your application of the just-world fallacy.
What percent of us health costs are pharmaceuticals?

You also have to factor in that americans take more pharmaceuticals than in other places, likely fruitlessly or even harmfully in a lot of cases.
What do you mean by crossover?
I think this lacks the "leverage" that excites a lot of the people on HN and which people (around here) believe make a business worth doing.

>"Startups offer anyone a way to be in a situation with measurement and leverage. They allow measurement because they're small, and they offer leverage because they make money by inventing new technology.

What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod, rather than the fish. That's the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you solve a technical problem that a lot of people care about, you help everyone who uses your solution. That's leverage.

If you look at history, it seems that most people who got rich by creating wealth did it by developing new technology. You just can't fry eggs or cut hair fast enough. What made the Florentines rich in 1200 was the discovery of new techniques for making the high-tech product of the time, fine woven cloth. What made the Dutch rich in 1600 was the discovery of shipbuilding and navigation techniques that enabled them to dominate the seas of the Far East."

>"If you want to understand startups, understand growth. Growth drives everything in this world. Growth is why startups usually work on technology — because ideas for fast growing companies are so rare that the best way to find new ones is to discover those recently made viable by change, and technology is the best source of rapid change. Growth is why it's a rational choice economically for so many founders to try starting a startup: growth makes the successful companies so valuable that the expected value is high even though the risk is too."

I recommend reading these:

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

and especially zero to one: http://zerotoonebook.com/

First chapter is free online.
That doesn't mean anything at all. The problem is dissipation of rents -- when an industry gets an economic rent, expenses will tend to increase to the maximum allowed by market discipline. This is true for all bureaucracies -- e.g. Universities are always out of money but keep charging more. Hospitals are always out of money but still charge too much. That a firm finds a way to spend the money does not mean that the amount charged is the minimum that is possible in a long term stable solution. Prices are clearly out of line in these fields with OECD averages, yet each specific firm finds that its expenses are great enough that they only earn the market required return.
It was sarcasm
Right. “Unlimited number of Limited Repos“
It stands to reason that the premium is based on providing the only opportunity for the would-be investors to buy a piece of the companies at any cost.
> They definitely do not have more applications than dogs.

How do you know this?
Human Terrain: Visualizing the World's Population, in 3D
So, what...U.S. should stop at around 62% upper marginal tax rate?

There's a huge difference between 70% and the current U.S. marginal rate of 37% for over $500k. Argue homogeneity, small, relatively rich population all you want, we're talking about nearly double the tax rate!
How? Sure, they pay sales tax, but they definitely do NOT pay income tax since for that you need an SSN or a tax-id which illegal aliens do not have.

Downvoters: please explain if I was factually wrong, or did you just not like what I said.
I feel like it's probably worth, to combat the false exoticism, pointing out that "epinephrine" is just a medical industry name for what is generally known as adrenaline.

There are no "real" implications to calling it one or the other, but people think differently about "a substance I've never heard of" and a common household name.
while saying yes to more jobs

How do local residents have any say in local job offerings?
How do you know? Perhaps if there were no illegal aliens the market would have set a different floor on the salary.
I've worked at a couple places that had developers build their own environments before I got there (I'm more of a systems engineer).

There was no thought to high availability, security, scalability, reliable backups, etc.

I'm not saying all devs are like this, but that's just been my experience.
I'm thinking of making sure you can make iOS apps on an iPad with GitLab.com

I've put it down as a goal for Feb to April https://about.gitlab.com/company/okrs/fy20-q1/#ceo-popular-n...

What do people think? Is it acceptable to have to program in a browser with a Web IDE?
What do you mean by "externally flagellating"?
Veloren is a community multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
"Never confuse an unregulated market with a free market."

---

(Yes, yes, I understand that to an economist, a "free market" is free of regulation, a product of laissez-faire economics. But to the lay person, a "free market" is one where prices are set by perfect competition, which requires a balance of power, the prevention of monopolization, and information symmetry.)
Maybe you've never experienced it because you've never read an article about something you're an expert on? Nobody said that everybody experiences it.
It's worth noting that a recent analysis of S.1804, the Medicare for All Act, "could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent" [1]. Even conservative analysis [2] has the program project to save in the trillions over a decade.

All while providing comprehensive, universal healthcare, free at the point-of-service.

Also, Medicare For All would theoretically be able to command substantially lower drug prices by nearly monopolizing demand.

Notably, given the study's analysis focus on OECD countries, the United States is (said to be [3]) the only of the top 25 wealthiest countries and one of two total member countries to not provide universal healthcare coverage.

[1] https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-an...
[2] https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/blahous-costs-medicare...
[3] https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2015/sep/01/d...
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> I've learned 15+ years ago, and I stopped paying attention around ~2010, which is just before significant changes were made.

Which probably means that someone who learned modern C++ will have significant difficulty with older C++.

Sometimes it makes me wonder if someone should just declare a subset of C++ as "good" and call it a new language.
Things like this piss me off way more than I should allow them to. And now the cable industry is coming with "10G".

Everything[0] is just BS now-a-days.

[0] Obviously not "everything", but the amount of BS is staggering.
US GDP is ~19 Trillion. If US Health care spending is 18% of GDP, that's about 3.5 Trillion annually. Pfizer's (largest drug co) net income in 2017 was ~21 Billion [0], less than one percent of health care spending. I didn't tally the rest of the industry up, but I'd be surprised if it hit 10% of total costs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer
I think the time for Android devices follows the version they are running, so 4:20 would be a device running Jelly Bean.
Having worked in/seen the internals of lots of companies, I'd say there's just varying levels of dirty...
I think the result would be the same no? Assuming the characters are stored in ASCII the result of a single bit flip can only possibly modify one character. Of course this assumes the program is resilient against modification in general and not just deletion (which seems to be the case).
Entire computers built with alternative technologies are a neat project and fun to look at, but I disagree that they make a computer any easier to understand, since they are still overwhelmingly complex to look at. I agree that they make a computer more approachable, by demonstrating that there is no "black magic" involved. I write this comment having recently taught a course on computer architecture to 11 year olds. In my mind hierarchy makes a computer easier to understand, and a physical incarnation makes it hard to hide the detail compared to a more abstract representation.

The approach I took in my course, which seemed to work, was bottom up:

* Information

* Bits: answers to yes/no questions

* Binary Numbers and Arithmetic

* Logic and gates: AND/OR/NOT

* Combinatorial logic: XOR, Half-adder, Full-adder, 4-bit adder

* Sequential Logic: RS-Latch, Master-Slave Register, 4-bit register

* A counter (=register+adder)

* Mux/Demux, Encoder/Decoder

* Memory (=registers+decoder+mux)

* Arithmetic Logic Unit (=functions+mux)

* Input/Output

* Program Counter, Instruction Register

* Fetch/Decode/Execute cycle

* Control

* A complete computer using gates

* Machine Code (write and run a program on our gate level computer)

* Assembly Code

The entire course was run using SimcirJS [1].

I think hierarchy is key, as each level of the hierarchy can be presented as a relatively small and simple to understand circuit. For example, the bulk of the gates in the final computer are in the memory, but the memory is presented as a single schematic symbol with the complexity hidden. The child understands what is inside the memory symbol but doesn't have to think about it while comprehending the computer as a whole.

It worked to present the entire computer in symbolic form (in SimcirJS), then demonstrate how we could use different easily understandable technologies to build a simple gate: electricity, mechanics, hydraulics, ... The students were able to see that once we had a basic gate in a technology of choice, we could just "turn the handle" to produce a complete computer by mirroring the easy to understand symbolic form and that there was no "magic" involved.

[1] https://kazuhikoarase.github.io/simcirjs/
I am similarly pointing out something that exists, the falling life expectancy in America. I am also pointing out that patents are not a good metric for healthcare success, whether or not the OP intended that it be used that way.

I'm not debating anyone with my comment.
This is why the rule of zero advocates are getting louder.
In Japan, blood types now underpin a pseudoscientific philosophy of personality types, operating a little like astrological signs. Type A’s, George writes, are considered “perfectionist, kind, calm even in an emergency, and safe drivers; B’s are eccentric and selfish, but cheery. O’s are both vigorous and cautious while AB’s, obviously, are complicated.” Employers make hiring decisions based on blood type, and young people make dating decisions on the same basis.

The article isn't primarily about types, but I found this amusing, and possibly self-fulfilling if you're raised on it. I am type A and 'calm even in an emergency' and deserve reduced auto insurance.
> "They could, but it would be futile. The politician is not going to govern anybody anyway (remember, straight to jail from the end of their campaign)."

You've a strange notion of how people behave. People still routinely criticize Bush and Obama, even though neither will ever be in office again. That's how people are.
Vive has an optional overlay with a weirdly-coloured[0] view of the outside world. It's pretty useful for quickly checking something in the environment, or grabbing a glass of water, etc.

[0]: Apparently the lens distortion makes it not map perfectly 1:1 and putting it in like, "night vision" mode makes that less nausea inducing).
Who is “they” and what was actually said?
Right. Much like avoiding pImpl because it might make a function call that occurs 0.001% of the time faster. That is the basis of the thread I was replying to.

Understanding what you are optimizing FOR and where the most attention should be spent is the crux of Knuth's argument. Trying to be clever up-front is often counter-productive.

There is nothing wrong with making some architectural decisions up front, but that is much different than avoiding pImpls at all costs because indirection is slower. Indirection doesn't always matter, and it should only be tackled when and where it does.
Omega: Make notes while you browse
At around the time the "Walking around NYC" video, there was a Feminist Frequency video about the "Male Gaze." Basically, men looking at women harms them, and we should avert our eyes, like we're peasants in the presence of the Emperor's entourage in Imperial China. Diana Davidson of the Lighthouse Project had an interesting take on this. It's like certain people hold to the medieval theory that physical rays come out of our eyes and somehow touch people. People who are so authoritarian, that they want to control the very gaze of others, somehow hold onto this medieval mental model of how we see.

Back in the 1990's, we thought the Internet, hypertext, and the web would make the world a better, more scientifically literate place. In the late 20-teens, we now know that it also empowers groups of the uninformed and empowers them as bullying angry mobs. It's quite telling that the powers that be aren't so much calling out and exposing the angry mob behavior as a whole. Instead, the powers that be are selectively suppressing certain angry mobs out of political expedience, which merely fuels more outrage to go around.

It turns out that the Internet is Douglas Adams' Babelfish. Instead of bringing us all together, it makes us more united in our ignorance and allows us to more easily find fodder for our baser instincts.
> Obamacare was a great first step

Disagree, it was a horrible first step directed at the demand instead of the supply. In fact, I couldn't think of a worse step of reducing provider-driven costs than heaping rules on the payers (insurers and their customers) to force paying into the system without equally significant rules controlling the suppliers. Obamacare has entrenched the ones charging all this money, not alleviated it.
That may charge 2 smart phones just fine, but it isn't enough for a laptop like a Macbook 13 or Dell XPS 13.

I'm sure we'll see ones that can handle enough output for a computer + phone in the near future!