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Ask HN: How do I explain “startup went bankrupt” to family and future employer?
The founder and co-founders lied about raising capital. They burned too much money scaling the team before owning the product market fit. The founder went full retard and psycho last week. He spent the last few thousand dollars on weed.

I noticed our burn rate was higher than normal eight months ago with the lack of capital to get us through this year and confronted them about it. I started a recon mission when they didn't give a clear answer.

One problem I've had so far is explaining why I'm leaving. I don't want to come off as bad mouthing a past employer.
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> I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments

I'm inclined to agree, but in the case of outright hypocrisy I think the point deserves to be made, because hypocrisy is literally the worst
Making a living as an artist has always been difficult and rare. The desire to create and the existence of a market for what you want to create are largely uncorrelated things.
Luckily the most RN devs come from the web and have a much higher pain tolerance.
Facebook does the same thing right? Not necessarily defending the choice but it’s standard. Wonder if there are similar examples outside of social media sites, like for banking pdf statements generated or something like that...
He finishes his critique with his main point that there's nothing better than the almighty US dollar. He also has no known knowledge of cryptocurrency
In this image: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/5/7/eaaw256... they describe their apparatus.

The light comes from bottom left, then gets into Beam Splitter (BS) and splits in two. The top-left detector has a pre-selected filter and a measurement device after a delay line. As far as I understand, this device gives binary output: either light received or not. The top-right detector captures whole image of the light ray, but does so only if the left detector has seen light.

The result is that the image from the top-right detector is highly correlated with the pre-selected filter of the top-left detector, even though they're placed in different arms of Beam Splitter! https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/5/7/eaaw256...
But then these giant corporations do not have any incentive to provide service like photos for free. Currently Google is feeding all these user photos to create ML models. There AI is getting stronger with every photo upload. With the approach you suggested its impossible for them to use this data.
Sure. But you'd have to argue that the social cost is more than a few peanuts and a nickel at this hypothetical water cooler. Or worth buying multiple subscriptions + hours invested in "keeping up" with television.
This is a perfect example for things like:

Techies: Well duh... what did you expect? Magic?

Non-techies: WHAT?

I think people often forget that most don't actually know how computers or the internet work. Since this topic keeps coming up it really seems like we need to think clearly about this and do a better job of informing people how things work.
I guess at the point where EVs and SDVs gain significant market share
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They do?
Since the earth is acting like a giant capacitor before the lightning strike, it may be easier to siphon off the charge before hand?
Physics has always been a pioneer when it comes to information. Didn't physicists basically invent the internet to make collaboration easier?

Also I guess some (theoretical) physics/math papers kind of stand on their own. If you proved the Poincaré conjecture, it doesn't matter if you post it in Science or on your WordPress blog: anyone in the field can verify the correctness of your work. Contrast with life science where reproducing work is hard and bona fides count for much more.

There's no inherent reason a non-profit can't provide those bona fides just as well, though. I also hope institutions do the right thing here.
Well, as with all things based in technical nuance, it depends on your definitions. Sure, control planes and data planes should be logically separated. But as you build and ship compelling products, your developers will gravitate to using well-built products’ (data plane) resources to build new products.

Imagine an IaaS cloud. It starts will Compute, Networking, Storage (block) and maybe Object Storage/S3. Next comes a fully-managed database product. The Database team may want to leverage the Object Storage data plane in the Database control plane. A year or two down the road, a team building a SaaS application will probably look to use the fully-managed database as it’s one less piece of infrastructure to manage.

To avoid or eliminate these types of delays in resolution, it’s imperative that the product team have a strong understanding of failure modes and dependencies. There’s a lot to be said for building completely isolated foundational services — it’s also a very expensive undertaking. Lastly, it’s possible to build out-of-band/break glass access without compromising security.

(I work at a global cloud but have no familiarity with CloudFlare’s internals.)
But Tobacco and it's components, regardless of how they are consumed, are carcinogens.

My post with statistics, while downvoted, is correct.
Go UC! I wish my alma had a similar backbone.
> - No matter what you hear about others, your severance will be a nasty insult and you will very likely have to spend to hire a lawyer to get what you are owed. Find one now and agree on a rate while you have a job.

While it's a nice sentiment for thought, severance pay isn't mandatory in the U.S. and there's no requirement for it in the Fair Labor Standards Act[0]. Severance seems more like a customary courtesy, like tipping.

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/severancepay
> I could be a lot happier if they gave me access to the analytics data (which they most definitely do log)

Back in the days us geeks would just fire up a web-server and call it a day.

What happened?
Because prestige mostly equals funding in research ...
Here's a higher resolution version: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/origin...
IIRC, site guidelines don't specifically say "no ad hominems," but it seems to be generally understood that "no ad hominems" is the correct interpretation of this guideline:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Should have made the distinction clearer but I was just saying JSX _and_ Angular specific templates. The fact of JSX being an abstraction over the React API that equates to what the DOM _should_ look like is must easier to grep then defining them as literal code, imo.

When I used React Native with Typescript (this was about a year ago) the initial setup to get all of the types playing well together either wasn't clear from the documentation or I ended up debugging/writing custom definitions to get things to work. It just felt sidelined or treated as a second class citizen, but I feel like this has been a common theme throughout the life of React generally.
You are absolutely correct.

Low quality coils can be very dangerous.

That is why open and free access to products consenting adults want to use is important.

Most quality vaping is done with ceramic coils.

There are facts and nuance and reason. Or reactionary emotive perspectives that only hurt everyone involved. The choice is yours.
I'm not saying the pin is a 'bad' feature (in fact, I'm using BitWarden now. It uses the same UI pattern [1]). The 'feature enhancement' I'm miffed about is when the master is only ever required when you fail at the pin screen, whereas previously you needed the master after every restart of iPhone.

It's a complex system. I had a use-pattern that naturally emerged from the UI (which required the master after reboot), and my habit of turning off my phone every night. So this "feature enhancement" seemed innocuous, but had, I would argue, the unintended consequence that I lost my memory of the master because of a new feature.

I believe this is exactly the sort of thing a smart company, making a security product, should think about before they decide to add a "feature enhancement".

I mistook the great design of the original 1Password product as an indication of a "smart company" who made great decisions, and great products through testing and design.

Now I feel differently. Now I just see another one-hit wonder, who makes improvements by the wiz-bang theory. New! New! New and improved!

The unpopular decisions to drop the standalone version (local vault) is just more evidence to me that AgileBits isn't special. I put them on a pedestal with devotion and evangelism, but they're no different, and maybe worse.

And if you like this rant, you might also like my rant on TransitApp. hahah!

[1]: Before with 1Password I would have to enter the master once every 1-2 weeks. Now with Bitwarden using the same 1-fail bin to master UI, I think I've not defaulted into master for, I dunno, 6-8 months? But I've learned my lesson. I wrote the master on a piece of paper and tucked it away in a book somewhere on my bookshelf. What could go wrong?
In addition to what you said, I want to remind everyone that a significant portion of money that is used to fund research at universities (and other institutions) is from the government.
I do wonder, though, if more academics working in the UCs know about sci-hub, than do not? In case not, start spreading the good news!
Before Netflix people were renting from BlockBuster who also had deals with studios.

Now Netflix is paying the same studios for streaming rights.

Netflix paid Disney $300 million for the streaming rights to Disney IP (https://www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18307539/disney-streaming-laun...) that doesn’t count all of the money it pays NBC/Universal, CBS/Viacom, and Warner.
Their revenue for 2018 was $56B, so while not 15/20%, it's higher than the maximum fine of the GDPR (4%) would be.

Though the GDPR is per violation, so technically one can be fined for more than that.
Incredible how the same people who denounce edibles also then go ahead and assume all weed is smoked.

It's like they want it both ways.
Book Summary: Measure What Matters Using OKRs
Yet another side effect of vaccines that it will take them 20 years to admit.
Ford is hovering around a 1.0 price/book ratio and has dropped below that as early as 2018.

Value is still out there. Then as now there are many reasons why people won’t pay more at the present time for these stocks.
Elsevier still hasn't dared to cut off the German Universities, or have there been developments I've missed?

Might get interesting now.
You can do images with javascript. It's slow since you don't have any hardware decryption. Wouldn't be a great mobile experience. You could build a site around limitations but if nothing else, it would eat up battery. There are probably faster javascript encryption libraries than what this random blog I found uses.

https://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/10/14/encrypt-i...
The issue is what is defined as "AI". From [1], some of those definitions include

- Thinking Humanly - the ability to problem solve, introspection, and learning (Cognitive Science)

- Thinking Rationally - the ability to perceive, reason, and act (Logic)

- Acting Humanly - simply do things that (at the moment) humans do better (Turing Machines)

- Acting Rationally - the design of intelligent agents (the focus of the textbook, Betty's Brain[2])

Yes, they all vaguely sound the same, but the point is, if you took the glass and had to select which definition it marks off, which would it be? My point is what about this glass makes it "intelligent"? The end of the article starts to talk about a combination of AI-glasses could form some sort of efficient image recognition process. Since we still don't have a clear definition of what intelligence is, is it simply a combination of tiny little perceptrons (from neural networks) that have specific differentiation tasks?

[1] http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

[2] https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/oele/bettys-brain/
Could add a simple security question. So when you want to share, you could create a question and an answer like:

What's my first name?
John

Most people you share with would know that. It could add a small extra security layer.
> functionally equivalent to a decryption key

Not from a security point of view.
That would depend on a lot of factors. We have sayings like "Its not what you know, it's who you know" for a reason and social bonding requires common ground, effective communication, etc.

This is part of why it's de facto exclusionary for "the old boys network" to engage in specific social activities that cannot readily be done by, for example, women as well in a "co-ed" fashion.

Which may not matter at all to your life, but could be the make or break for someone else's career.
Yes, I’m a student at Linfield College, and our IP gets us certain journals, like Chronicle of Higher Ed, among others. No authentication required
There are already several other big SDC alliances like Honda / GM Cruise, Toyota / Uber, and even the three-way Nissan-Renault / Jaguar Landrover / Waymo.
Doesn't seem to work with SPAs
What thing would not be addictive given that reasoning?

"Dopamine" make it sound sinister, but if everything which gives you enjoyment or feels meaningful is addictive, then basically everything anybody does by their own volition would be addictive.
A bell inequality is a feature of quantum systems by which they break our understanding of classical probability. A good reference is here [1]. The basic idea is to imagine a Venn diagram where the sum of the parts adds up to more than 100%. Bell inequalities are nifty because they heavily imply that our classical notions of “local realism” must be incomplete. Namely, that either quantum objects experience instantaneous action-at-a-distance (locality), or they do not have actualized measurement values when they aren’t being actively measured (realism).

This paper is showing a way to produce a visual image of a bell inequality and explores ways that these inequalities can be used for other visual techniques.

[1] https://youtu.be/zcqZHYo7ONs
The key to all this is that for a person to get a PhD or grants they usually need to publish papers. Self-publishing often isn’t recognized, so expensive journals thrive. Maybe that is slowly changing...
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Every uuid image link would be public, but virtually private. You would need to know the exact link to see the image.

Can't see how this is different from images stored in FB or other services.

There's no reason to panic, guessing the URL's is (virtually) impossible.
That's awesome, I'm happy the idea didn't die out yet. China's adoption of EV is very inspiring.
Part 2: A Gentle Guide to lattice-based key exchange cryptography
That was enough reason for me to cancel. So long netflix!
>Elsevier is rent-collecting, not selling an intangible feeling

Got it in one! And until that changes, the status quo remains - regardless of sites like schihub
It's a cell tower. It needs cables anyway.

I've seen plenty of remote communications towers that do not have cables. Solar powered with generator backup and microwave relays to the next hop. It's SOP in the railroad industry, and how Sprint got its first backbone. (The "SPR" in "Sprint" is Southern Pacific Railroad.)
Oh wow you’re right. Early morning confusion.
It's hard to identify the thesis here. Is the thesis that intelligence is a myth? If so, the post provides precious little evidence in support.

Is it that smart children are overburdened by expectations and anxiety? If so, the "evidence" is a set of personal anecdotes and hyperbolic generalizations. It is, quite simply, not factual that teenagers are made to study 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. If that occurred, the teenager would die.

> by junwuwriter 28 minutes ago

> WRITTEN BY Jun Wu Single Mom Writer, Technologist, Poet: Tech, AI, Data Science, Psych, Parenting, Edu, Life, Work,Poetry etc. Find Me: https://junwuwriter.com

Ah. Got it.
PV for baseload? How does that work?

Everyone will use candles at night?
FTC Reportedly Hits Facebook with Record $5B Settlement
GPS is one of many GNSS systems. I believe you mean other GNSS systems (EU, India, Russia).
Boycotts come at the cost of the participants but to the benefit of the greater good. You’re being asked not to cross the picket line.

If you don’t believe VWs transgressions were enough to warrant a boycott, that’s a fair point to make. I’m not in the car market so I don’t even have an opinion on it, myself. But to the parent’s credit: they never meant to talk about you benefitting personally. It’s about teaching car makers that actions have consequences. For the greater good.

Put another way: how bad does VW have to mess up before you consider more than your personal benefit?
> either you have to call both AI or neither

FWIW having worked with some serious ML heads at Google and Facebook in the past, none of them referred to ML as AI.
I think you can be honest without badmouthing anyone necessarily: "startup went bankrupt due to reasons beyond my control".

As for letting your startup founders know why you're leaving - it really depends on your relationship with them but i would got for a professional - "i'd like to expole other opportunities and i wish you all the very best!"
> It's just one layer of protection.

Exactly, and it’s important in cases where users are being convinced to install dodgy extensions because each additional step increases the chances of someone realizing that it’s a scam.
Typing the Numeric Tower (2012) [pdf]
Generally the firms that care are under 10 people in size.

As such, it depends. And yes, I've seen those exact conversations play out in the favor of the employee before, about a dozen times, even in the larger firms. I've also seen it play out badly too.
They've simulated a physical system using digital hardware and software that would operate like a read-only optical neural network analog if it existed in a physical substrate.

I suppose the next stage is to develop another digital analog of a physical system which can decide for readers if the original digital analog of a physical system is "real AI".

Presumably with sufficient training it would be able to read and assess New Scientist articles about its own development.
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Could they send the lightning into the ground and put capacitors at points in the ground where the potential difference is acceptable?
Online Safety Guidelines for Naive Users
Have semiconductor companies not been on the new architecture path already? It's not like they've just been doing die shrinks this whole time.
I was making a moral (and somewhat practical) argument, not a legal one about a particular jurisdiction.
Glad to know I’m not the only one surprised by the content of this story...
"Since the Volkswagen 'Dieselgate' emissions cheating scandal broke in September 2015, nearly every major automaker including--Daimler, General Motors, Suzuki and Mitsubishi have all been caught up in falsifying fuel economy figures or cheating on emissions testing."

I am not justifying VW's actions, but it's pretty obvious to any critical reader of news articles that VW was just the unlucky one whose head met the chopping block -- so in terms of a single targeted boycott of VW as a consumer, I don't think it makes sense. They still make great cars, despite some bad apples that work there (every company has them -- also see Lenovo / SuperFish).
Keynote: Some Mistakes We Made When Designing Implicits – Martin Odersky
Copyright has always been limited in various ways. Defining what those limits are has always been a back and forth with various interests.

Personally, protection that’s rapidly approaching 200+ years just seems ridiculous. I think a limit to 40 years would have basically zero impact on the creation of new works which seems like the entire point it was created in the first place. The only reason the current situation exists is people making money from other people’s works wanting to continue to do so. That’s got nothing to do with artists.

As to the low end, I would be fine simply abolishing the idea. Shakespeare did not need copyright and I suspect it promotes pandering in a way that’s socially harmful.
Exactly. Great design is hard to quantify and therefore justify.
Trump Warns Facebook over Its Plan to Create a Digital Currency
Yes, many value stocks are near the price floor, and have almost no room left to drop further. Of course, some of these companies are that cheap because they are basically the walking dead of companies (e.g. Gamestop). But for the companies that do have a future, now is a good time to invest in them.
A long URL is essentially an authentication check. It's long/complex enough it can't be guessed, same as an auth token in your cookie. I'm not sure what guarantees they have regarding changing access, deleting images, etc but those would be the trade-offs. The advantage is the CDN doesn't have to perform auth checks which speeds up response times.

That said, I was under the impression Facebook's CDNs did support auth checks from cookies, such that passing URLs around didn't bypass this. So I kinda doubt the claim.
> It’s a piece of glass that has been designed by a lot of trial and error to perform one specific task

And you're a peace of matter that has been designed by a lot of trial and error to perform one specific task: to propagate your species.
You know, you did not even get to read his post right.
How can you make such assumptions then?
(It was the daughter of a friend)

You kind of add to the cliche of a sjw. Quick to critizise, despise and condemn, before understanding how something works.
Google's PageSpeed Insights Fails Its Own Site
Follow up questions:

if I read out a nullable text field and write the same struct back into the database is it going to insert an empty string into that column?

Also related, how would auto incr pk work?
$20 per month times 12 months = $240, not ~$2,000
Not sure why you'd want to start making scientific papers non-copyrightable.

The easiest solution is just have scientists publish in open-access journals. Easy right? Nope, they are judged by the impact of their papers and it's higher in better quality journals.

That's the value these journals offer - exclusivity.

Scientists and universities could solve this issue immediately. Scientists publish in open-access journals and universities stop judging based on the journals "impact factor". However, neither one wants to do that.
https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/pdf...

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/123

The first link gets bonus points for the 40-year-old advertisements included in the scan.
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If we are going to doubt something that looks and acts like it has qualia, then the same is true for any other human.