skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Final sale price was $97 million.

> Crunchbase reports that Eero took $90 million in venture capital (the Wall Street Journal put the number at $100 million). PitchBook, a highly accurate source of VC information, claimed a final $40 million Series D fundraising round from December 2017 brought that number up to $138 million. Eero declined to comment, instead pointing to a March 12 blog post confirming the sale.

> An additional $10 million debt line Eero took out brings the total money put into the company at $148 million — 150 percent of the Amazon sale price.

> after transaction costs and debt, the actual price will be closer to $54.6 million.
> Amazon is covering around $40 million of the debt that Eero owes. Ex-employees believe the debt to be from hardware manufacturing costs

> Eero’s Series D investors, led by Qualcomm, will recoup 84 percent of their investments.
> seed round and Series A-C investors will all get back 31 cents on the dollar.

Investors are taking a 16%-69% loss on invested capital. You're not going to make any money by exercising call options unless the strike price is absurdly low for some reason.

The employees might have done okay if they were holding put options on the company, but alas, one's employer probably isn't going to offer one put options as some kind of incentive...
In almost all political disagreement there is underlying fear or concern being unaddressed. Simply shutting people out only amply it further.

For example, a very common topic in practically all discussion around trans right in the US is the issue around toilets. An obvious solution to it is unisex toilets, but the right never accepted it and the left abandoned it so it is now a centrism political view. When it comes to both the left and the right, it seems to exist a fear that unisex bathroom are more likely to cause crime, through there is no data to actually support it. Thus rather than settle the issue, they fight over it.

If we could convince both side, maybe by using data from countries which overwhelming use unisex bathrooms, we could settle those fears.
JS canvas has a great and very basic api, and golangs image packages let you set pixels pretty well too
How long were you there before the exit/payday?
The point I was trying to make was that 2 way charging infrastructure is not cheap[1]. And right now battery storage is really only cost competitive as a peak flex provider largely because you need to pay for the electricity that goes into the battery, i.e. a battery does not generate electricity, it merely allows for price arbitrage. So you would have to try and make your money back by only selling during a 2-3 hour window each day, and that window happens to coincide with prime commuting hours. So even if you weren't commuting during that time, ever, you would be making about ~$1 per day[2] and $365 per year. Assuming $5k in infrastructure costs you are looking at 13 year payback, and this ignores battery degradation entirely, among other things[3]

[1] Lets say $5000, which is pretty reasonable considering you would need a new charger, an inverter, and would probably have to modify your vehicle.

[2] You are arbitraging, so lets' say you but at $0.08/kwh and sell at $0.16/kwh. And in 2 hours you can discharge 10-15 kwh, which puts you in the $1 dollar per day range.

[3] Also assume the utility will pay you retail rates for you kwh.
The issue is that many of those requirements weren't in the law authorizing this program.
Sidebars are totally gone. There are subs I _only visit_ for the information in their sidebar and wiki, both of which are gone, as far as I can tell, in the redesign.

Also, I use reddit the most in bed, on my phone. It is a great aggregation service for news and interesting articles, but they have intentionally slowed down their website and regularly make it worse and more annoying in an effort to force users to use their app. I am sure that the app is fine, but I like the browser because I want to be able to open links in new tabs and then have those tabs available on my desktop the next day for further reading.
I'm pretty sure this is only obligatory on Reddit and other related goof-off sites.
I did something similar for myself using mpv's scripting interface (for Japanese immersion).

I can press a button and have the current subtitle analyzed for words with mecab, or press another button and have audio + screenshot + text sent to Anki for review.

mpv allows to seek previous/next subtitle, so even relistening a particular phrase is really convenient.

It makes language learning really fun.
This settlement seems grossly inappropriate. It seems very likely that this practice, which lead to deportations, caused far more than $12 million in damages.
Sorry to hear that.

The point still stands, however. For a program as controversial as this (loan forgiveness in general, that is), it's amazing there's any program at all.

Those wishing to be granted forgiveness have a clear list of requirements they need to meet in order to be considered - yet the article wants me to be outraged at the current administration because so few people that applied bothered to even read the requirements.
In no month has 70k been apprehended. The maximum was 66450 (so you are taking the max, rounding it up an projecting using that..)

Also the person you are replying to pointed out that this included people apprehended more than once.
I mean that he was an individualist as a person, not that he had some individualism theory. Actually he said that he hadn't a methodology. He considered methods a lack of honesty (or something like that). Calling himself a psycologist instead of philosopher is part of that.

I don't think he had any preference for political systems, except, like you said, as a way to create interesting individuals.
ok, this is funny
I started keeping a bullet journal a year ago. In my "monthly" view, I have a habit/mood tracker, so I track several things including:

- how my day went (good/okay/bad)

- predominant mood (happy/meh/sad/angry/stressed/lonely)

- talking to family (mom/dad/siblings)

- hours slept

- run / exercise / other high level of activity

- reading / podcast / music / writing

- dine out, order in, cook

- social stuff, like whether I hung out with friends or had date night or saw a movie/play or...

My original goal was that I was feeling depressed and angry sometimes, and I wanted to see if there was something in my habits/moods that would give me a clue as to what it was. It turns out that I have a TON of "okay" days and a lot of "bad" days, but very few "good" days. The only correlation I can see is that "bad" days correlate with "angry" moods, which makes sense. Beyond that, not much insight...

Like many others, I track my exercise through Strava and via the Activities app on my Apple Watch.

I'd like to track more things, but haven't figured out what other metrics I want to keep track of...
The plain English meaning of 'it was submitted for our comment' is not 'everyone is required to comment on every story'.

In the context of how it was used, that was absolutely the implication. Tptacek submitted that as the rationale to explain his commenting, when he (obviously) could have easily skipped the whole thread. Ultimately there was no real reason for him to bother commenting in the first place...
Please don’t quote that way, it’s very hard to read on mobile.
I saw there are PRs open from 2 years ago, like "added truck". Why hasn't it been merged, there are no comments, only thumbs up, and what's your general take on PRs? Are they welcome or not?
That's sort of the point of money - to convince people to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do, because they're able to spend the money to get things that they do want.
We certainly didn't want the post to disappear. It was flagged by HN (either the mods or people with enough karma to flag), we would happily have it be restored if it were under our power.

I've read through every comment on this page and there's nothing here I wouldn't stand behind, even if much of seems to be misunderstood as in this thread.
> you'll always get uneven frame-timing with 24fps content (3:2 pulldown)

Uneven frame-timing, fo sure, but does it really use 3:2 pulldown?

IIRC the monitor, at least when using most of players on PC to playback, will just display/repeat each video frame uneven times, but no 3:2 pulldown, i.e. interlacing two frames together to generate 1 more frame every 4 frames, is involved.

I'm definitely not an expert on this topic though so please feel free to correct me!
If you think of it as an economics problem, it raises a question, one which I'm not completely convinced I know the answer to.

Namely, is crappy software actually more efficient? Does it deliver more value for less cost? Or is it, instead, that crappy software is a bad value, but markets are not transparent enough, and it is too hard for clients to assess whether the software they have received is crappy and too hard for businesses to convince people to pay them for quality?

If you hire a maid who always manages to miss a spot or two cleaning your bathroom, does it really matter? Your bathroom is a lot cleaner than it would've been otherwise, so mission accomplished in the grand scheme of things.

On the other hand, if you hire a mechanic to overhaul your car engine, you might not be able to tell the difference when you drive it home from the repair shop, but if they did a poor quality job, it is going to come back to bite you. Quality is important even if you need to pay more to get it.

Which one of these two things is software more like? I could see it going either way. Maybe it depends. Maybe there are ways you can cut corners that are a win (more value / less cost) and other ways that are a loss.
C:S is limited by your CPU/memory, imagine having the calculations be done on a big server. But I guess you'd have to have a subscription to the game so they can pay the cloud services, and it wouldn't be cheap if your city needs a lot of (server) CPU power.
Correct. I use it rarely.
Again, if your offer includes a stock grant/option/whatever stake that doesn't have the same priority as those owned by the executive team then you need to treat it as having zero value.

If a company believe its stock is sufficiently valuable to be worth being used as compensation then it shouldn't feel the need to give pre-IPO employees low-priority "equity".

I recognize people argue that you're taking a lower salary because the potential return, but it fails to acknowledge that there is additional risk and cost to the employee:

* the potential to suddenly have no employment or insurance

* vastly inferior insurance and benefits

* significantly reduced job mobility - often this "equity" is surrendered when you leave a company, but that equity is ostensibly to make up for a reduced salary. It's earned income that can be stolen from people who earned it.

The first also has a future cost as well, because subsequent salary negotiations will happen with your prospective employer knowing that you need your job.

So rather than trying to pretend that "equity" justifies a lower salary, employers need to recognize that equity is being granted to compensate for the risk their employees are taking on. The more risky the stock, the more stock needs to be granted - so if the equity is structured to put employees at the end of the spectrum of exercisable equity needs to represent vastly more of the post-investor-payouts equity.
Anyone know how this guide compares to tinyrenderer?

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-0:-getting...
But if you're the guy doing M&A at Amazon how do you sell that to your boss, who has to sell it to Bezos, who at the end of the day has to sell it to stakeholders.
The NYTimes deserves a better tech journalist than Kara Swisher. She had some good coverage during the dot com era, but she is now a member of the SF technocracy she's supposed to be covering. It's time to make room for some new voices.
Thanks.

This is stupid because a) "anti-LGBT" just means "not actively supporting" and b) this has no bearing on AI. Wish we could rewind even five years to when you did not have to be in lock step with the DNC to have job security.
This seems like it is primarily an academic/learning project but I think it could be a good way of learning UML. I especially liked this part of the philosophy - "P2. An Umple programmer should never need to edit generated code to accomplish any task. The need for round-tripping (editing generated code and then reflecting the edits back into the model) common in the Model Driven Engineering world is not needed."
It just shows that the real risk takers in a startup are not the founders but the early employees.
Because roughly nothing that measures data files uses that standard. Using the wrong standard can easily be misleading.
I still don't understand why the last investor is the first one to be able to cash out. Is this common in startup?

I was thinking the first investor is the one that took the big risk investing in the company, shouldn't they have the rights to cash out first when there is a liquidation event?
What Toronto Learned by Giving Its Streetcar Its Own Lane
I believe the simplest database is this:

#!/bin/bash
db_set () {
echo "$1,$2" >> database
}
db_get () {
grep "^$1," database | sed -e "s/^$1,//" | tail -n 1
}
Given the long-standing decline in violence over recent centuries, the real "delusional butterflies" are the ones who think that their ideas shouldn't be called evil because might inevitably makes right, and therefore everything from slavery to genocide is simply the natural order that we shouldn't try to escape.
I take it you're in favor of the rumored glass keyboards coming out soon in laptops. I'm not.

Physical buttons are key when operating a vehicle IMO. Furthermore, I'd prefer big ass buttons and knobs so that there is as little reason as possible for people to take their eyes off the road.
Seems more usable than most "modern" websites. Content loads quickly, no modals or notifications that I need to click out of, important information is visually easy to find...
How? Do you have a link to any info?
The article argues that it's an even more unstable proposition: you must not only safely use the heroin, you must convince others to invest in your business while you do so publicly!

Even if you know in your heart of hearts you will spend responsibly, you must find others to extend the same trust.
Heya, you're marked as [dead] on newer posts - might want to hit up the mods
possibly because the people who acquired the company saw some quality in the executives that they judged to be positive, even in the face of failure.

Failure isn't really a great measure to judge individual performance or character. Companies can fail even with good executives and catch a lucky break with awful ones. In the technology space in particular were failure is very common, and to a degree encouraged.
Ian Goodfellow, Inventor of GANs Joins Apple
> Your barber/chef cannot bullshit you, but your economist/software engineer can.

I strongly disagree. Nearly all of the serious misunderstandings of the world I have harbored in the past I believed because I trusted the words of key individuals I held in high regard.

Your reference to r/insanepeoplefacebook actually demonstrates that many people are able to recognize false information online.
I've been using Netflix DVD since it started and I'm still using it happily, mainly for the selection. I think there are a lot of movie buffs like me that use it just for that reason.
I completely understand that... it's simply that some of the hard requirements only make sense for those without sight, but you cannot effectively use the app without at least some sight. (there's decent zoom and contrast support)
People aren't qualifying because, as the article points out, the requirements for the program are absurd. It's really apparent when you look at how little student debt has been forgiven compared to the amount allocated for the program.
> Kind of odd that Skylines is developed by a Finnish company and published by a Swedish one, given how US-centric that model is.

I totally agree, and maybe there has been some discussions about this in the past (I forgot about those early webcasts) - but for a company to align to the US market (probably the largest & most uniform around) is usually probably the safest bet - I still admit of being a little bit sad :|

> There's no real concept of medium-density, either

Now that you say it, I think that (a realistic - see previous posts) medium-density would be absolutely important to model european cities.

> limited to no more than 4x4 tiles

You're right but personally I don't really care about this for the time being (meaning that the other problems have for me absolute priority compared to this) - maybe they just randomly put a safe limit for their first release to avoid indirect potential complications... - I would have most probably done the same, so I won't dig into this hehe.

> I've also written elsewhere in this thread about how Skylines doesn't have a concept of class stratification

I agree.

Summarizing after all these posts & remarks, I feel sad that the studio so far developed only add-ons that do not improve the core of the simulation but only add more distractions and/or superficial complexity around it :P

(E.g. I did buy "Mass Transit" but it didn't give me the feeling that it improved the game but just gave me a few more alternatives - and actually "mass transit" is in my opinion associated to trains & metro, therefore absolutely not fitting cablecars/blimps/ferry/etc...)

But maybe.... they be working on aggregating key-improvements for their next CS2? Who knows... :)
Blockbuster, from what I heard, was pretty data-based with both predictive (demographic driven) and continuous modeling/monitoring of demand for each corporate location (they also had franchises, which may have been different) which drove quantity and selection of stock.

> Good independent video stores had a different model of catering towards viewers with more discerning tastes, so had extensive selections of more obscure films.

Of course independents had to focus on the market underserved by Blockbuster, even if that was a less profitable segment.
What I'm saying is that property rights (tangible or intangible) are not strictly about public value, regardless of the arguments used to originally justify copyright laws.

Try applying your reasoning to a trademark. If you have two companies using the same trademark to create identical products, there is no affect on the value to the public. But there is a huge change to the value of the person or company that originally started using that trademark. And the reason we restrict the use of that trademark is because the originator put a bunch of effort into making it valuable and we recognize that this effort should result in some kind of ownership because that is what's fair.
I think parent meant "one of the main benefits" = safety not as useful because anyway no dynamic allocations are needed to implement a basic flight control algorithm.
Totally different situation. You can't think of this "getting screwed" as employees qua employees getting screwed. These are common stock holders getting screwed while creditors are made whole and preferred shareholders recoup some of their investment.

Employees who had been stiffed on pay are effectively the first priority creditors. Common stock is last.
Hi...So, if you read the article, it does talk about how charter schools in CA are managed and how extensive govt involvement is and how there is no oversight. So I still stand by my title. Maybe I could add ‘California’ (if I have enough words left) but otherwise I am comfortable with my choice of words for change in title.

Eta: looks like I can’t edit it now.
You make it sound like the founders winning while employees get screwed is specific to acquisitions on crappy terms — it’s not.

For most startups that raise a series A or beyond, founders win no matter what, even if not financially: they build connections with funders and founders, develop experience with management, extend their networks, and get a broader view of their sector. This is true even for companies that just straight go bankrupt.

Emoloyees usually get none of these things (but often get even less of those things at a big company).
This doesn't surprise me. I assume that as soon as it became clear that the Lion's Air crash was caused by a failure to deactivate the MCAS system, every 737 MAX pilot in the world immediately got out their manual and learned how to do it. And every airline that flies the plane immediately set up a training program.

So when the Ethiopian Airlines pilots started having problems, we can be pretty sure they did what the manual called for. And that it didn't work.
I want one, and am willing to spend a bit more for the work they do, but not having a ethernet jack is a deal killer. I don't want to carry around an adapter.
Teaching OpenGL 1.1 is like starting a chemistry course by going over alchemy. Begin with modern ideas, not the attempts to find phlogiston.
FYI, Shudder has "Re-animator" for streaming. No, I'd never heard of Shudder either. It's a streaming service specializing in "Horror. Thrillers. Suspense". $3.99/month on an annual subscription, $4.99 month to month.

$5 would be a bit much just to watch one movie, but if you had 3 or 4 horror/thrillers/suspense movies you wanted to watch, subscribing for a month, watching them, and canceling might be reasonable.

I suspect that is where we are headed for now. That's certainly how I plan to deal with Disney's new streaming service. There is no way that I'm going to become a regular subscriber to that, because most of the Disney movies I've watched over the last few years are Marvel stuff, Disney/Pixar animation, and Star Wars. For most of that I'm content to wait until it shows up on FXX/TNT/TBS/Freeform.

If something comes out from Disney that I do not want to wait that long for, I'll subscribe for a month to watch it, and catch up on all the others I've been waiting for at the same time, and then cancel.

I just did that with Netflix for MCU. I want to catch "Avengers: Endgame" in theaters, because I'm pretty sure that it is going to be nearly impossible to avoid major spoilers for the whole thing before it reaches non-premium cable, or even streaming, and so took advantage of a weekend stuck at home due to snow to sign up for the Netflix trial, catch up on Marvel, Disney/Pixar, and a few other things, and then canceled.
Anyone else have info. on this?

I started by writing games and game engines as a teenager (now ~14 years ago), reading "Real-time Rendering" and the "OpenGL Superbible". I've done a lot more with computer graphics since, writing pixel shaders for fun, building a web-based domain specific CAD tool (for a client) etc. Also been doing some computational geometry stuff more recently.

I haven't had much luck finding positions for 'graphics programmers' though. I've found things like 'lead engine programmer' for game companies—which is a bit out of my league, IMO.

But I'd love to work on things like the VR youtube player that Google did (doesn't have to be VR; 3D UI design is interesting to me regardless). Don't how to find these sorts of positions at companies like Apple/FB/Google etc., where I would hope they pay quite well (comments on that also welcome!).
Even if you have a point, your comment is off-putting and it sounds like you're demanding someone cater to your specific use case. Maybe offer a better solution if you want your comment to be constructive rather than whiny.

EDIT: I also just checked this comment in the iOS app as well as a mobile browser and it looked completely fine. So, again, offer up a solution or provide details of your device so others can inform on how to fix this.
F# or Rust! The former is never talked about, but from the little I’ve seen it definitely looks interesting. And well, Rust, because...Rust.
If you create a company that fails, and then take 100% of an 8 figure bonus while your employees get nothing, then yes your employees got screwed.