skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not explicitly mentioned: The research they reference links droughts in the middle east during 2009-2012 to the migration and refugee situation which has played out in last decade from the Arab Spring.[1]

The casual factor that I don't see talked about much: increased local food prices[2] caused by droughts, which in my opinion very much provided the kindling of the "Arab Spring", whose consequences are still very much being played out today.

Related aside: When learning about ancient Rome, it stuck with me that the emperors and ruling elite were acutely aware of the importance of providing sufficient "bread and circuses" with the goal of quelling revolution and uprising. When the political situation is not popular in the first place, revolutions are often sparked when food and basic necessities suddenly become difficult to acquire. This has been true since antiquity. [3]

When looking at the impact of climate change, I am very concerned about what the impact of a small number of poorly placed natural disasters could do to the world's food supply and prices. Much of the world's food production is concentrated in a small number of breadbaskets, and global commodity markets can be very sensitive to relatively small changes in supply. These breadbaskets are often close together, represent only a small amount of the world's land area and when conditions are good are highly productive.[4]

I'm sure the security agencies of the world are aware of this and are deeply concerned about this, but unfortunately I can only see our global situation getting worse before it gets better. At some point we need to realize this as a serious, shared issue that ignores borders.

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190123-climate-stress-dr...
[2] https://www.americansecurityproject.org/climate-change-the-a...
[3] http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/plebians.html
[4] https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/agrcultint.jpg
Good luck finding a full-featured browser grid product that doesn't do virtual rendering. They all have to, even Google Sheets.
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For my personal workshop, Harbor Freight storage containers can be good for small parts. For larger parts or where you have too many of each, large mouth plastic jars from peanut butter and pickles work well.
Incredibly helpful remarks, thanks!
What makes a good country?
I was seeing a CBT therapist for severe OCD at the time I was diagnosed with this. Unfortunately there isn’t really a specific therapy targeting DPDR like OCD, but anxiety reduction does help overall.
>> This is where I put on my speculation hat, but — I think certain disorders are caused by the inability to resolve the tension caused by living a lie to maintain a social myth, inability to integrate socially taboo knowledge into a persona acceptable to others and being unwilling to lie, or being unable to articulate an insight and subsequently being pushed out of social interactions for being incoherent.

This hits close to home.
It can be legally binding.
Share HN? Anyway people here should definitely check it out and give it a "try"
We need to stop calling people who write articles about memes or what random people are saying on twitter "Journalists".

Your listicle is not defending democracy, and confusing these two groups has led to a great devaluation of trust in the remaining real journalists.
Ask HN: I feel I work with an incompetent team. How do I deal with it?
I work in a startup as a back-end engineer.
We have a very big B2B product with paying customers but I feel we're being drowned by our product team.

A few issues I have:

* They share 0 UI components.
Even all buttons look different.
This means our Web team is constantly writing a lot of code and is always behind schedule and product is inconsistent.

* Almost every UI design looks absolutely broken to me.

* After 3 years, we're still "redesigning" core components and views, but making rookie
mistakes in the new designs as well, rendering them unusable and triggering a new
round of develop-deploy-gather feedback-redesign every few months for each component.

* Most of them have no idea about the core of the product, business logic, etc.
Engineering team comes up with almost all the flows and logic. They are
only interested in "ui design" without understanding the core logic.

So I have 2 questions:

A. How do I know that I'm right and they are incompetent? Maybe it's my ego and they are
doing a better job than what I give them credit for and I'm quite simply wrong.

Here is a recent example of this. On left, it's the UI created by them and on the right is my "fixed" version which they thought "is weird".

https://imgur.com/a/zzt5VWH

Am I wrong to think they are incompetent due to their judgement?

B. How do I approach this issue?

* A few times I redesigned some of the views. They got offended without looking at the work.

* Instead of redesigning them myself, I pointed out the problems in their design
and pointed out to known patterns on the internet to resolve them.

* Ignore them and just do my job. But it's very painful
as we have a great product inside but it's being suffocated by bad UI.

Note that CEO of the company is a member of the product team so I cannot take this to anyone higher.
Question: how did you think about giving pro-rata & information rights in this term sheet? It looks to me that the Other Rights & Matters section grants it to _all_ investors. Is that typical in your experience?
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One possible example of this phenomenon is called depressive realism, the hypothesis that depressed people more accurately interpret the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
I feel like that "feature" saved me from Bird Box, at least; I turned on Netflix, turned my back on the screen to focus on preparing food, and found out there's a level of painfully bad acting that comes across through sound alone.
It's accepted physics that all defects of character will be removed at the heat death of the universe :)
Support our troops! (Unless they have ideas which threaten our world view...)
Curious to know what the "typical" ranges are for some of the bracketed sections:

* What are typical / optimal post-money option pool sizes?

* What are typical / optimal founder vesting schedules?

* What are the usual ratios of lead investor / follow-on investor amounts?

It seems that the majority of the Preferred can vote to change the # of directors - wouldn't that offset the initial founder-friendly board setup or am I missing how that vote is used?
How would that work? Docker is based on container technology inside the linux kernel. Docker on mac and windows uses virtual machines to provide a linux kernel. If Kite doesn't support linux, how would their technlogy work inside a container, which is an isolated linux environment?
Your foolish fringe-science delusions and intellectual arrogance are going to drive your descendants to despair and death. But I have no doubt you'll go to your grave unconvinced no matter what the evidence points to, blissfully leaving the outcome of your decisions to future generations. It's ironic that you mention falsifiable claims, since literally no amount of overwhelming evidence can ever convince deniers that their claims are false.

Climate models are not "wrong" or "right," they are models based on finite variables which resemble reality within an expected margin of error. Thus they will always have slight but expected variance from actual measurements in the future. Science doesn't reveal absolute truth, it gets us fractionally closer to absolute truth. Right now 97% of scientists have reached a consensus that even based on the most conservative extremes of the margin of error of our climate models that anthropogenic climate change is real and is marching towards catastrophe. That's a higher degree of certainty than plenty of other scientific concepts that we have put into practice. You are claiming to have better knowledge than the utterly overwhelming majority of evidence and expert observation. Is it because you are miraculously the smartest person on earth, or is it because you are a deluded crank? It's pretty obvious which it is to everyone but yourself and other conspiracy peddlers.
I'm not sure what you mean about my view. Perhaps you can explain?

It is a fact all atmospheric climate models have failed. The temperature rise predictions based on atmospheric CO2 have not materialized.

It is a fact there are other models that are more accurate than atmospheric models. It is a fact we will find out in a few years if those models are tracking or not.

Are you against performance scientific inquiry if it conflicts with your assumptions? Isn't that the entire point of science, to find out the truth?
And it still happens today.

Search for Dr. Gunther von Hagens series of public autopsies. These were broadcast in the UK a while ago and were extremely interesting.
Thanks for sharing and congratulations on breaking free from it!
I was hired >6 years ago to work on CI as a build engineer and such and am now a tools engineer. Even though I do not work on our CI systems personally myself and moved out of that role after the first two years, I still use much of what I learned daily and have more insight into how the build process works than a lot of people. I'd say that foundation has definitely helped in my further work endeavors.
>The idea they merged the ZFS and Btrfs teams is absurd, the two file systems are nothing alike either in terms of design, on disk format, or code base.

You've never seen the same team working on two very separate code bases or products?

I have no idea if the btrfs and zfs teams at Oracle were merged, but I don't know that "they are two separate products" is actually a real argument that they weren't. Product teams working on separate things get merged all the time.
How does a VC deal without at least a 1x liquidation preference work? The founders have taken $X from investors and control the board. What prevents them from selling the company and pocketing their share of $X? In what way is a 1X liquidation preference unfair?
Incron[1] is pretty great for "do X when file Y changes"-style rules.

[1]: http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en
Removed, or frozen in perpetuity?
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On the other hand, my options are underwater due to a down round. Some incentive, right?
> you aren't on a PIP

Should you also not get a paycheck for your last two weeks of work if you leave, while on a PIP?
I think it's very reasonable for someone to raise an eyebrow at this, though I'd love to know where I'm wrong rather than just lacking in relevant experience.

More importantly, though, the article I was being interviewed about is one I cowrote with Michael Nielsen, who does have a lot of first-hand experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen. (And, as part of writing it, we spent time discussing the questions with many practicing scientists across a lot of different fields.)
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OK, thanks for clarifying.

I don't tend to agree that contrarian / negative information is typically very useful as an indicator of the quality of a given piece of tech. There's no shortage of "Foo sucks" or "disadvantages of Foo" available for literally any value of Foo, and I rarely find them to be very useful; they generally feel like they're either written by someone who doesn't understand Foo very well, or who is evangelizing in favor of competitor product Bar. (Or, typically, both at once.)

I do of course agree that any product's inventors can be expected to be biased in favor of that product, and that pro-Foo material in itself is not a suitable sole source of information about Foo... which is why I said I weight so heavily in favor of products where the developers "acknowledge points where the competitor might have the advantage," and (in a different subthread) that I'm "assessing the quality of the tech based on the humility of the tech's inventors". It's also why I spend time looking at stackoverflow Q&A (watching people wrestle with their actual problems with a framework is much more illuminating than reading their rants about it afterwards.)
I enjoy working on coffee shops, especially those that are branded as "coffice" type cafes. It's not an official coworking space, but the slight "time limit" (ie you have to keep buying coffee to stay) as well as having other people working around me definitely helps me focus.
I could never understand why you have a parser as a separate thing when this was presented as an up-front decision. Reading this series of posts, where something like a traditional compiler architecture emerges in the same way that normal program architecture emerges via gradual refactoring, made it make a lot more sense to me: https://hokstad.com/compiler .
Been using same stack for 10 years; php, mysql and javascript. A friend calls it ghetto coding however this unruly stack could have paid for my house.

Most side projects are about helping people who think pancakes when you talk stack. This is my advice for what it’s worth;

Solve a real problem.
Don’t create something you can’t support.
Be nice to people, they are the ones who will pay you.
Recieve input but ignore people who tell you work is rubbish (we’ve all been there).

Good luck.
Why should someone who has 4 weeks of PTO saved up receive the same 10 weeks of severance, as someone who was on paid vacation for 4 weeks, right before the day of the layoffs?
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Overoptimized systems often lose resilience and become fragile. Slop provides a buffer for give and take. This is analogous to materials that have a wide plastic region vs materials that have very high rigidity but a small plastic region.
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I have had a very similar experience. I would take 5-6 weeks off per year when I had unlimited PTO. Now I work for a more traditional company and I often hoard my PTO. I find the idea of time off more stressful now as it's a finite resource (I suppose it was finite at my last job as well, but less clearly defined how finite it was).
I haven't tried afl-fuzz myself, although it sounds like world-class awesome software, but I'm a real believer in testing things with David MacIver's Hypothesis, which invokes your functions with random inputs, and then does similar canonicalization and minimization kinds of things. I like Hypothesis so much that when I wrote Dumpulse http://github.com/kragen/dumpulse I added a Python interface to it purely so I could test it with Hypothesis. Which found bugs, of course, even though Dumpulse is around 100 instructions when compiled.
This sucks. Sorry to hear they did that to you and I’m glad you made out ahead of the game.

A company I worked with had the opposite approach — they not only allowed for early exercise, they allowed for immediate exercise of all unvested shares with an 83(b) election (and converted the vesting schedule into a clawback schedule). AND they offered a bonus for the amount of the exercise price.

So in effect, if you had $100k in stock vesting over 4 years, the company would bonus you $100k, you’d then exercise, file an 83(b) election, and you owned Common with a clawback provision.

You of course were liable for the income tax on the $100k, the company was liable for the employer portion of same, and when/if the shares were sold you’d be liable for capital gains accordingly, but overall this seemed like an eminently fair offer to employees and cost the company only the employer portion of the income tax on the bonus.

Everyone loved it and employees felt respected and treated fairly. Why don’t more companies do this?
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Which is why "standard" isn't an especially useful term; the better term is "market" --- what similar deals, negotiated repeatedly by people with similar leverage, have settled out to. These terms seem somewhat better for founders than market (but YCA might have unusually strong startups).
Recalls a fundamental lesson about nature/reality preferring redundancy to the detriment of pure efficiency by Nassim Taleb: https://youtu.be/AcTvkt8k0sE?t=563

Pure optimization is a very ruin-prone path to take over time.
I have a deep network of friends in Silicon Valley who jump from startup to startup, and I tried to educate them when it comes to this topic, telling them to absolutely make sure the equity conditions were reasonable. None of them has ever managed to change those on an offer, it always comes back as "It's the standard contract!", and they are in general strong performers.

In my experience, unless you are really an insanely high quality and senior hire, for a standard software engineer they're not going to do anything like that, since they have other candidates at the door who won't mention the equity pieces, you can't fight the system too easily.

I've personally been in an interview feedback loop, back when I was at a startup, where one of the founders (who was an interviewer) said: "This guy is technically really good, but asked too much about the details of the equity compensation, I think he might not be focused enough on our mission, let's pass".
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Apple watch and Fitbits wrongly sending healthy people to doctors
Yeah, that's actually a huge point that I didn't even consider. Regardless of whether the AI itself is playing with a limited viewport, the fact that its opponent has a limited viewport opens up the opportunity to learn attention diversion tactics during the training process, which would otherwise be impossible.
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This should be posted anytime someone asks about using a non-standard TLD. Do you really want it badly enough to take on the extra risk?
Well, this was just very refreshing to hear, and I'm happy it is the complete opposite of my personal experience when dealing with startups.
Ok... So how would you enforce it? It does not seem to form a contract.

I realise that this is mostly US law and that my limited knowledge relates to British law. So with that in mind, my understanding is that a simple promise is basically not legally enforceable.
Another small datapoint, but I’ll shamefully admit I pretty much only adopt new tech (programming languages, popular libraries, trendy design patterns) if I hear a lot of people talking about them or using them. Programming for me isn’t so much about choosing the right tool for the job, as I as a single human will always be the bottleneck regardless of what tools I use. I’d rather maximize the chances that other people (hopefully better than I am) will come along or be hired who can help. I’ve experimented with most programming languages or interesting frameworks as I’ve heard about them, but I don’t really ever use them in projects as it feels counterproductive towards my goals. What point is there in choosing a slightly better niche technology that 1000 people know when the mainstream equivalent has 100,000 or even millions?
If the employer is applying a limit to how many you're allowed to take then they're acknowledging that they're really vacation days (that you can take at short notice). Otherwise there would be no limit, because it's not like you control how often you get sick.
I don't think you'd need to.
Just expose controls and camera to the internet, and you'll be able to charge people for the privilege of digging you a basement.
JetBrains are from Russia. It's harder for them to raise VC because of that.
This has received the infamous HN hug of death. Any chance anyone has a working archive link?
Not really arguing with any of the points you made, except that I think answer all or most of those questions you posed _could_ (and dare I say should) have been answered in one study. That would be my definition of good, thorough reporting (so Im pointing the finger at the article writer and what counts as "reporting" these days).
Are you under the impression that government corruption and injustice are things of the past?

I'm under impression that government corruption and injustice has little to do with kim kardashian reaction gifs. Yes, I know about Buzzfeed News, see below.

I think you may not understand the value of professional journalism, past and present, perhaps because you haven't been exposed to it, or its consequences.

Yeah, no. I can give you one recent example of professional journalism. Series of articles by John Carreyrou about Theranos, which were later followed by "Bad Blood" book.

Buzzfeed had 1700 (!) employees, as of Dec 2017, according to wikipedia.

Had the whole buzzfeed, news included, produced anything remotely comparable?

Do not degrade professional journalism by comparing it with Buzzfeed.
Major investors concept (investor has to have invested at least $X) is often added in the definitives. Longer term sheets just state a threshold dollar amount; shorter ones (like this one) just skip that definition and just add it in the definitives.
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> Insurers payed out $135 billion USB in North America last year for natural disasters, and business is continuing as usual.

Because they expected to. If you take in $145B in premiums and pay out $135B in claims, everything is fine. If one year they took in $145B in premiums and paid out $235B in claims, where does the rest of the money come from?

In theory they could collect the premiums and accumulate them over time so that by the time there is a claim there is the money to pay it, but that allows you to pay a single claim of that size in year 50, what is covering it in year one?

> Nuclear plants liability are capped in north america at 13 billion USD the nuclear industry is simply exempt from arranging full cover - unlike other industries.

What other industries? I don't see oil and coal companies each having to be insured against claims for billions in damages from climate change. PG&E isn't covering the full liability from the camp fire, they're filing for bankruptcy.

> This statement > "which is problematic since there are more than twenty nuclear power stations in the US" shows a misunderstanding about the insurance business. It is not necessary to have assets to cover worst case events everywhere simultaneously. I expect you do understand that but have not given this subject your best attention.

That's assuming you can consider them all to be independent. The problem with very low probability events like this is that if they do happen the cause is often another very low probability event. You get something like the Yellowstone Supervolcano or a coordinated terrorist attack and all the claims come at the same time.

Or even at the same time as other types of claims -- you get damage to a nuclear plant or three from a ten thousand year storm or an 8.5 magnitude earthquake and now you're paying that claim on top of the disaster claims from what caused it. Insurance companies want to pool risk, not assume 100% of the damages from a massive disaster with a single dependent cause.
This is something you could A/B test. Some new signups get the old interface, some get the simplified one.

There's a famous failure of this approach. Many years ago, there was a Macintosh graphics application designed by Kai Krause. It started out with a very simple interface. After you'd been using it successfully for a while, a new tool would appear. As the user demonstrated competence to the program, more tools would unlock.

Users hated that. When a rumor started that Krause was going to redo the API for Photoshop, user groups petitioned Adobe to stop him.
Instead of reinventing the wheel - here is a tutorial I found helpful: https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_webradio_with_icecast2_ices...
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You can if you're the government.
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