skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Should Everyone Have Access to VC, PE, and Hedge Funds?
In other words, should everyone have access to investing in Venture Capital Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Hedge Funds?

Right now Rule 501, Regulation D, requires that only "accredited" investors be able to invest in a private partnership such as those mentioned above.

Current requirements for individuals seeking investment into these firms:
- Any natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with that person's spouse, exceeds $1,000,000 (excluding residential equity)
- Any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person's spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year
- Any relative, spouse or relative of the spouse of a purchaser who has the same primary residence as the purchaser

Exceptions can be made for certain friends/family of fund, but that requires connections, which would preclude a subset of the population from taking part.

Lastly, ignore the expected returns and the money tie up period. As the poorest can "invest" in the lottery, expected returns are irrelevant to the question. Additionally, assume the people who can stomach the multi-year tie up are the ones that will invest, the ones that cannot stomach it, will abstain.

The question boils down to this: should everyone have access to invest in these places, regardless of their ability to do so?
Well, the data might not eliminate them, rather quickly identify them for "special tasks", like when machiavellian directors intentionally seek bully managers to control their unit with fear. Identifying someone who has certain negative traits might fast-track them to positions of power.
Last semester when I had a course where scribing for notes was required, I would first write down everything in pen and paper. And then transcribe them into LaTeX with Overleaf. This two part process was pretty effective: get the basic ideas first, then look for extra resources as supplements and then combine them together into a single note.
Ask HN: How do you describe pre-existing IP for contracts?
For one of those contracts that have an appendix where you list any existing IP that you own, how do you fill that section out?

a) Is it just a bulleted list of project names and dates begun? An in-depth description of every class/method/function you've ever written for your own use? Something in between, and if so, what?

b) How do you describe ideas that are still in the ideation or design stage?
IDK, the advice is sound, the examples aren't. There needs to be a clear distinction between cancel and disabled, and I just don't see that here.

In fact, I think the light border is better than the neutral one in the first example since you shows that I can cancel.
This will be a huge. As bad as I will feel for the victims, I hope that it causes us to take genetic information security seriously.
Found a clip of that part from that info (thanks!) Can confirm it's undiluted crap. That's one film definitely off my list now.
Because the Communists were just so darned kind and gentle to their environment.
It's a paraphrase of a quote from a well known Polish comedy film Seksmisja. Highly recommended if you know Polish language and some culture/history! Also, you may then find out that numerous quotes from the film have entered the popular language :)

https://youtu.be/lwleaxA0ps0?t=266
As others have mentioned, sourcing files based on hostname / uname might help:

try-source () {
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
source "$1"
fi
}

try-source "$HOME/.localrc.$(uname -s)"
try-source "$HOME/.localrc.$HOSTNAME"
try-source "$HOME/.localrc.$(uname -s).$HOSTNAME"
Arguably, point 2 is the only real concern about releasing the source code - 1 and 3 are optional responsibilities that people take to a varying degree, with "Works On My Machine (tm) - no documentation - here be dragons" being a valid (though in my opinion not very kind) option.
Can you give more information on why this is? Any recommended reading to better understand where and why the costs increase?
I went to college in a town in Michigan. If the wind blew one way, it was the pickle factory, and the other way, the pig farms.
Interesting this gets quickly downvoted. I totally agree with what he/she says. Screwing up once, then the site is fucked for total human eternity, and you have a no-go zone on the map forever. Afterall, "Anything That Can Possibly Go Wrong, Does".
https://np.reddit.com/r/hackernews/

Reddit offers an extensive API to do just that: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

It makes tons of business sense to let things like that happen. It is in no way a legal can of worms or in fact any trouble at all.
FTA:

New nuclear power plants are hugely expensive to build in the United States today. This is why so few are being built. But they don’t need to be so costly. The key to recovering our lost ability to build affordable nuclear plants is standardization and repetition.

...

Currently, as M.I.T.’s Richard Lester, a nuclear engineer, has written, a company proposing a new reactor design faces “the prospect of having to spend a billion dollars or more on an open- ended, all‑or‑nothing licensing process without any certainty of outcomes.” We need government on the side of this clean-energy transformation, with supportive regulation, streamlined approval, investment in research and incentives that tilt producers and consumers away from carbon.

...

[I]n 60 years of nuclear power, only three accidents have raised public alarm: Three Mile Island in 1979, which killed no one; Fukushima in 2011, which killed no one (many deaths resulted from the tsunami and some from a panicked evacuation near the plant); and Chernobyl in 1986, the result of extraordinary Soviet bungling, which killed 31 in the accident and perhaps several thousand from cancer, around the same number killed by coal emissions every day.
Ha ha, nice try. People in the UK get arrested for reading about those things. It does seem that those charged are usually guilty of some other crime, however.

https://www.google.com/search?q=anarchist+handbook+uk+arrest
seems like air travel, a crash in Siberia with 57 victims makes world news. 1200 car crashes and deaths at the same period don't. (made the numbers up but air travel is much safer)
Fukushima was an excellent demonstration of what can happen. You devastate huge areas of land and make them unlivable for generations. This is especially applicable to the United States that has proven entirely unable to handle it's own nuclear waste and just accumulates it at the sites where it's generated, waiting for disaster to happen.
Thanks, this is really interesting. One thing that is theoretically possible with Maildown already (although I haven't tested it yet) is inserting raw HTML into your emails, and this is possibly something I could look to expand.

Ultimately emails are rendered using Django HTML templates, and it supports most of the Django template syntax. I'm thinking there is probably way more that Maildown could exploit here to give it the ability to create richer content within emails
This is the same Gandhi who advocated passive resistance in the face of the Holocaust?
That's the essential genius of Catholicism - it is monotheistic in doctrine, but polytheistic in practice. It absorbed and adopted the most compelling aspects of pagan practice. If the people want talismans and relics and patron saints a midwinter feast, let them have it.
If this interests you, I would highly recommend reading this article on molten salt reactors [0].

TL;DR: Molten salt reactors are safer (can't have a meltdown if it's already melted), smaller (could fit on the back of a truck), able to run on more abundant materials like Thorium (which in turn come from more politically stable regions), and to top it all off: not only do they leave much less nuclear waste, they can actually use up current nuclear waste, turning it into much less harmful and shorter lived stuff in the process!

Also, Mike Shellenberger [1] is a great proponent of nuclear power and has some great points on why the current focus on renewables is damaging. Well worth the follow on Twitter.

[0] https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/nuc...

[1] https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD
I put the odds of that happening at pretty much 0.

Sometimes it is fun to think about the odds of me getting hit by a meteorite if I leave my underground bunker, but I'm not going to let that dictate my daily life.
The US cannot do infrastructure, or really any serious investment, period. Our laughable incompetance would seriously hinder any strategy. With other strategies, that is one of many impedements. With nuclear that is the only impedement.

Hopefully US figures that our rampent cost diesese on sll the things is just embarrassing, and we need a "time out", a throwing away of the actuarial pessimism, and a command economy "probation" in these important matters. Get the costs under control, and then we earn the right to do capitalism for essential goods again.
You are right, and I fear the Polish Council is going to rule against me on this one.
“and i’m one horrible day in mid-August, they mixed”
And got super lucky in who ended up being the folks in charge. Or maybe Washington really was great at identifying talent.
nuclear was being phased out before fukushima anyways in germany, it was just accelerated a few years. New nuclear power plants are just way too expensive - take a look at Flamanville, Hinkley point C, Olkiluoto 3, Wylfa Newydd and Hanhikivi and you'll see that they are just too expensive. You can argue for having the old ones run a bit longer but the older the plants become the more maintenance issues arise.
3blue1brown has some of the best math exposition I’ve ever seen. I’m consistently impressed with his videos.
You certainly aren't expert on polish culture, otherwise you would instantly recognize the reference to a famous polish movie.
Thanks. Its theoretically possible to insert HTML into mails in Maildown, opening all sorts of possibilities in terms of layouts, but this is not something I've actively explored or documented yet. Something for me to look into a bit further
I only see a potential problem with No. 2. The rest seems like a non-issue. Nobody is forcing the creator to spend his time writing extra documentation or build instructions - just post it and let the community sort it through.
Just as nobody is forcing people to sit and figure out the code - some are just interested in how the tool works and why AV software is really handing out ""false positives"". Personally, I just want to skim over it and see his style of writing and commenting.
European officers knew it, too, and had a habit of coming to America and demanding to be commissioned into the upper ranks. Von Steuben initially tried that, was refused, and only came back as a volunteer because rumours of homosexuality had kneecapped his chances of promotion back in Prussia.
I don't know anyone who does.
The idea is that saints, or for what it's worth Mary, cannot really do anything on their own, but they have a direct channel to God to relay your prayers. So it's still monotheistic, the trinity is where things get weird, but it still gives people something they feel "closer to them" than a single omnipotent divinity.
The US never had the ability to build affordable nuclear plants. That's a major reason the first nuclear construction boom fizzled out here.
What if you need twice as much electricity in the winter as in the summer? You're either going to need double the renewable capacity (4 x if you're solar-based) or some kind of super battery. Which doesn't exist yet.

The point for nuclear isn't just to cover demand curves; it's that to decarbonize the entire economy you need to both switch current electricity production to low-carbon sources and increase the capacity by 3-6x to cover all other energy requirements (including sucking carbon from the air to counter chemical processes we can't decarbonize).

Nuclear has to be part of the solution.
If you like this kinds of stuff, a similar story: Milunka Savic. A Serbian war heroine who was discovered to be female after being wounded in battle. Although not accounted as LGBT, she just wanted to fight...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milunka_Savi%C4%87
And the same would apply to a political official who refuses to disclose their financial obligations to foreign powers. Except OP didn't call out an individual like that. They didn't call out someone who has substantial debt. They didn't even leave it as "anyone with a secret shouldn't run for political office". They singled out two and only two groups of people and equated them together as both being unfit for political office.

Bucketing LGBTQ individuals in with people who have a moral strike against them is one of the many reasons why some feel pressured into staying in the closet.
Regular VACUUM only marks space as available for reuse. VACUUM FULL returns space to the OS but it requires an exclusive lock and a multi-hour run for a large table.
> Your example of a song used in an ad: generally the advertiser would just purchase the rights to the song outright, and so the creator wouldn't necessarily really get anything like a 'share' of the value created by use of their work, but just a flat fee.

Sure, they don't literally get a percentage of the value created with their work, but the basis for thinking they deserve to be paid at all is that they created a thing that is being used to create value for someone else.

Furthermore, I think that if you drill down into the justification for why creators should be paid at all (despite the fact that someone else using their work does not deprive the creator of it's use for themself), you'll find that it is ultimately tied to the fact that a given creative work simply could not exist without it's creator. Literally no other person in existence is capable of making that exact work. And when that is the justification for why a creator deserves to have some control over the use of their work, I think life of the creator is a reasonable timeframe for the creator to maintain legal control over the use of their work (accepting that it may not be justified for this control to be absolute). I think reasonable people could argue that such a timeframe is too long by pointing to issues of public benefit, but I don't think life of the creator is completely unjustified or unreasonable on its face.
Percentages certainly can be misleading, but they aren’t always. Your hypothetical is an example of how they can be. Consider a different hypothetical: the price was $13.50 and he raised it to $750. Is it misleading to report that as raising the price 5000%?
I never really consider where cucumbers and in turn pickles came from.

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i do the same (dotfiles with symlinking script) and it’s mostly great, but I’d recommend against os-specific switching in the scripts and files themselves. it’s the way i’d always done it previously but i switched to git-branch-per-system and it’s much better. the problems started when “chromebook linux” was different than “other laptop linux” and then “server linux” (not to mention os x) and there kept being more and more messy logic. separate git branches is way easier and has the benefit of a sort of “inheritance” of the shared stuff (branching and rebasing)
I always thought that nuclear waste was a non problem. It is a minuscule amount of confined hazardous material. Even if you don't recycle it, the impact on the environment is negligible.

But I agree that the devastation of huge areas of land is a problem, but let's also keep in mind that the reactors that blew up where early generations reactors. More modern design do not present those risks [1]. Judging nuclear energy based on 1960s design is like judging aviation based on the safety records of 1930s planes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
Nuclear is not a viable solution, due to public opinion.

A nuclear reactor has an incident once every 10.000 years. If we divide that with the number of reactors we get an accident every 30 or so years. (Harrisburg, Chernobyl, Fukusima, ligns up well with that)

Every time there is an accident, the public turns against nuclear for 5-10 years. Add to that that it takes a decade to plan and build a reactor, and you realize that once we double or triple the number of reactors, accidents will be so frequent, that the public wont stand for additional expansion within the time it takes to build more reactors.

We need 10x nuclear to solve global warming. Thats a major accident every 3 years or so. Yes, Nuclear can be made safer, but probably not by as much as needed. Even a country like Japan, who has high safety standards, and a historical heritage of nuclear fallout, has had an accident, and most new reactors are likely to be built by China who has less then stellar safety record.
I would use this. I'm so fed up with rendering HTML (even with MJML) or dealing with WYSIWYG editors in web UI's.

However, the concerns would be:

1. Deliverability and everything to do with spam ranking etc.

2. Price. Email is a total commodity. It needs to be sharp.

3. Stability. Is this a 1 year "startup idea" or a company that's in it for the long run?
This.

I don’t know much about how things work in other nations, but in the US, the government is not as readily liberal with the necessary subsidies. When you consider the slow motion train crash that is Vogtie, you can see the issue. Government doesn’t want to out and out pay for everything, so they set up structures that actually turn out to be more problematic than simply handing over 50 billion would be.
This title is an art.
It provoke you and than it let you realize that it's actually a smart thing to do
Stripe allows you to set an invoice to “manual payment”, and they also allow the option to pay via ACH bank transfer. Stripe sends them the invoice via email, they click a link to a payment page hosted by Stripe, and they enter their bank info. Simple.
“Chernobyl in 1986, the result of extraordinary Soviet bungling, which killed 31 in the accident and perhaps several thousand from cancer, around the same number killed by coal emissions every day.” just that is all I need to know to prefer nuclear to coal.
It's more complex than that because in the movie it's Copernicus, Kopernik była kobietą, and, unlike Pułaski, the surname Kopernik would be the same regardless of gender.

That said, expertentipp's version is the one that captures the spirit and the humour of the joke.
Perhaps they will be less delighted when they are convicted of a crime based off of a false positive

Also a true positive.
> "Lisp has its own ideas about data and thus needs to implement its own memory and data management."

Replace "Lisp has ..." with "Pretty much every complex C program ever written, and all modern productivity languages have ...".
Huge areas of land unlivable for generations is an overstatement. Fukishima and Chernobyl exclusion zones are lush green forests that where wildlife thrives.
Solar is headed toward as little as $0.01/kWh, an order of magnitude cheaper than high capacity factor nuclear. At that price, you cover seasonal shifts by some combination of overbuilding and curtailment in the summer, plus production of hydrogen. You burn the hydrogen in the winter in relatively cheap gas turbines (simply cycle turbines + generators are around $400/kW). This would be much cheaper than seasonal low capacity factor nuclear.

The other thing that will happen is that energy-intensive industry migrates to lower latitudes where there's less seasonality. Sorry, Europe.

I don't think nuclear advocates have gotten through their heads just how dire the situation is for nuclear energy. It is just not anywhere close to viable now, or even needed, and you do yourselves a disservice by concocting flawed arguments that let you think otherwise. Nuclear is going to survive only by large reductions in cost (and those costs are not due to some conspiracy of your political adversaries; they are due to the complexity and difficulty of the technology). Otherwise, it's going the way of vacuum tubes and magnetic bubble memory.
Nope, the Windows ABI uses a different set of registers than the SysV (Unix) ABI. SysV uses rdi, rsi, rdx, rcx, r8, r9 (in that order), and Windows uses rcx, rdx, r8, r9 (in that order).
And my background is in genomic analysis. There's not nearly as much variation as you're describing here.
>Mr. Rogers is East Asia Team Leader at the human-rights organization CSW, deputy chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party’s Human Rights Commission

Hm, I wonder what the political motives of the author are.
They do not use the same convention. AMD did define a calling convention as part of their SysV ABI spec, and pretty much everybody adopted that ABI... except for Windows.

As to why, the best we have is informed speculation:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4429398/why-does-windows...
I confess I fail to see how outline.com (which is currently where this link leads) is anything but a massive content piracy machine masquerading as some kind of tech startup.

I find it incredibly hard to believe HN would allow submissions of warez sites and links to cracked app downloads, and fail to see the difference between that and the way outline is used here. I get that it's convenient to have free access to paywalled content, just like it's convenient to have free access to tons of cracked apps.
I try to take at least a two-week vacation every year, to travel somewhere new. Every 2-4 years, I quit my job and move somewhere. So far I've lived in four US states and the Cayman Islands for a few years each.

In between about every other job, I'll take an extended trip. I did six months around Southeast Asia. I've done extended around-the-US travel. A couple months in Belize/Guatemala. Currently in the middle of three months in Cayman/Honduras.

If you've got no mortgage, no debt, no kids, it's easy to do at any income level. I've made these choices. It's not a tradeoff that many people want to make, but it's available to most people should they choose it (I realize kids aren't always planned).

Most of my trips are low-to-medium budget. SE Asia and Central America can be done for $20-50/day. Cayman is expensive, but I used to live here, so I've got free housing and loaner cars from friends (yet it's still costing me close to $100/day). The US can be dirt cheap if you don't mind car/tent camping.
> It just loses out because it’s too expensive and worse, it gets more expensive with time.

"The estimated cost of the remaining border wall segments are between $15 and $25 billion, with each mile of fencing costing $16 million." [1]

"The total investment for the stellarator itself over 1997–2014 amounted to €370 million, while the total cost for the IPP site in Greifswald including investment plus operating costs (personnel and material resources) amounted to [$1.2 billion USD] for that 18-year period." [2]

It's more a matter of funding than cost, IMO.

[1]: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/cost-of-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X#Financing