skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your case (LTV > COGS + CAC) is accounted for in a standard DCF model. If you're planning to be cash flow negative for 30 years because of R&D costs then that's fine but you better have a model where 30 years from now you're able to beat 30 years of interest (and by quite a bit given the risk profile).

Grandparent was talking about the case where CF never goes positive. In that case the company in theory still has some shareholder equity by way of assets. But in reality, especially for something like a software company, there aren't going to be a lot of assets to strip out when you unwind the company.
### Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

* I am urazali2719 on github.
* I am urazali2719 (https://keybase.io/urazali2719) on keybase.
* I have a public key ASADC8BhFtXLnUIAXTc2ZWalDt7IjsKRYUK6bcEbNZNN3wo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

```json
{
"body": {
"key": {
"eldest_kid": "0120030bc06116d5cb9d42005d37366566a50edec88ec2916142ba6dc11b35934ddf0a",
"host": "keybase.io",
"kid": "0120030bc06116d5cb9d42005d37366566a50edec88ec2916142ba6dc11b35934ddf0a",
"uid": "a7384b781017a51bd2850438b486e419",
"username": "urazali2719"
},
"merkle_root": {
"ctime": 1568063008,
"hash": "55e2a1aca29a97218ab28315d1079e1336b99b3aed46b60181b88198d0fad93587538e062da852f70b10e9b333add4f3ef9e5cd0c85b6633951ed0917725bf6b",
"hash_meta": "f57d9437e56e0706bcd46bb32c2515003b1df484ae7940a087e12d2f919c2ccc",
"seqno": 6255300
},
"service": {
"entropy": "pQ1KgMrybqclACOooqMs605+",
"name": "github",
"username": "urazali2719"
},
"type": "web_service_binding",
"version": 2
},
"client": {
"name": "keybase.io go client",
"version": "4.4.0"
},
"ctime": 1568063014,
"expire_in": 504576000,
"prev": "dcbca968d387888c4ab3f37e1d7d6f078287b7b24ee018c5b908da217b211454",
"seqno": 16,
"tag": "signature"
}
```

with the key [ASADC8BhFtXLnUIAXTc2ZWalDt7IjsKRYUK6bcEbNZNN3wo](https://keybase.io/urazali2719), yielding the signature:

```
hKRib2R5hqhkZXRhY2hlZMOpaGFzaF90eXBlCqNrZXnEIwEgAwvAYRbVy51CAF03NmVmpQ7eyI7CkWFCum3BGzWTTd8Kp3BheWxvYWTESpcCEMQg3LypaNOHiIxKs/N+HX1vB4KHt7JO4BjFuQjaIXshFFTEIOLvq0969sHy7qFboEd6fzJ3WvqppZhidrhBsa3cr/jFAgHCo3NpZ8RAo2qBHI7Uq5VzjyxJlJPafMcPx0Fhpe42vS7zIPV+hSCzuUTXcTntC+p6mLm0d+sBEOHvWX0fR9MLaomu65OuCKhzaWdfdHlwZSCkaGFzaIKkdHlwZQildmFsdWXEIOcZ1awz/uX7SpgEXR1NQxYUJ/3T35vm+UTgrF9wE68Eo3RhZ80CAqd2ZXJzaW9uAQ==

```

And finally, I am proving ownership of the github account by posting this as a gist.

### My publicly-auditable identity:

https://keybase.io/urazali2719

### From the command line:

Consider the [keybase command line program](https://keybase.io/download).

```bash
# look me up
keybase id urazali2719
```
It's deeply depressing to see climate-related activities portrayed as political crusades, moreover on this forum!

CC is not some subjective moral agenda we could disagree on. It's a scientifically proven disaster that had already happened, and have been known and ongoing for almost half a century now.
If you are manufacturing a vaccine in a tobacco plant, it really doesn’t matter if it is GMO. It’s not going to be food and it’s not going to have time to flower before harvest.
You may be conflating HSTS with public key pinning. HSTS doesn't care which cert provider you use. CAA and HPKP do. If LE go away or get untrusted, you can get certs from another CA, albeit not free in most cases.
They don't have a right to do it, but there's nothing to stop them.

A foreign power can have any law it wants, and no other foreign power has to respect it. You can try to sue them, but sovereign immunity, and foreign sovereign immunity, stops almost all of these attempts. The exceptions generally are human rights abuses (by the same state doing the suing...) and commercial transactions.

In this case, the USG stole from money launderers in a foreign country. So not only can people in the US not sue the USG over it (sovereign immunity), people in the Ukraine can't sue the USG over it (foreign sovereign immunity). The thieves would have the best claim, but it doesn't work out well when you claim your illegal business was stolen from. And since it's a foreign power, if the US balks, it would be covered under international law, and guess who enforces international law?
Or resolved at all.
Ironically I suspect it is the lack of telemetry for this action that allowed this performance problem to linger this long. If Microsoft had this action Perftrack instrumented and had their usual 100 ms performance target then they could grab ETW traces from the field and would have figured this out.

Instead they appear to have been dependent on anecdotal evidence and nobody taking responsibility.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this action was instrumented but was then ignored. That would be sad.

Perftrack reference: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Rel...
This got me thinking. I believe I saw last year where there was something like over 200k unconfirmed transactions on the blockchain. Right now it says 5000.

So, what is the minimum amount you could send with a proper transaction fee? Could someone flood the network with millions of unconfirmed transactions?
Hmm. I'm a big fan of breaking up Amazon, but that's not the line I'd draw and I'm curious why Basics should be removed from Amazon. Most large retail outlets have the "store brand" for value shoppers. Walmart, Target, Meijer, Home Depot, Staples, etc, they all have the store brand. I'd certainly split Amazon Marketplace and AWS apart from the rest of Amazon, but I'm curious why Amazon shouldn't have their own store brand?
Google started down the evil path when they had their IPO. Before that their incentives were aligned with those of every citizen of the net. After that they were only incentivized to make money and grow, by whatever means necessary.

It may be possible for them to change, but I doubt they'll do it on their own. The real driver that changes a company's culture is competition. And that's why I applaud this antitrust investigation.
> I think it’s crucial to distinguish strategic cash burn vs unsustainable business model

The only thing I don't like about the idea of a strategic cash burn is that I'd much rather see a strategic cash dividend or share buyback. Any company can hire someone who will find a way to justify spending assets for some potential ROI, and it's pretty easy to spend a company right into bankruptcy.
Nadella's Microsoft is the new Microsoft. Before Nadella, Microsoft looked doomed to a slow demise behind the increasing irrelevance of Windows, with revenue from (local-only) Microsoft Office as the only future source of income.

Nadella has changed the course of that staid ship by changing the underlying culture, no small feat! Some specific actions: Microsoft Office on iPad and Android, going all in on cloud (Azure has 22% of the market, ahead of GCP's 7%, at the start of 2019), being friendly with Linux (Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL, exFAT specs were released a few days ago), given up Windows Mobile (he “did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones”).

https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...

https://qz.com/work/1539071/how-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...
The first paragraph on that page covers that at a high level.

> Waltz is similar to existing log systems like Kafka in that it accepts/persists/propagates transaction data produced/consumed by many services. However, unlike other systems, Waltz provides a machinery that facilitates a serializable consistency in distributed applications. It detects conflicting transactions before they are committed to the log.
It's probably better because the delivery trucks can make multiple stops. Chances are that when they deliver something to you, they are making multiple stops in the area. And the delivery companies put a huge amount of computational power into optimizing routes and making sure they don't drive any further than they need to.
> "The 3-D space we experience might be generated by a two-dimensional reality or even a zero-dimensional system, one that cannot be thought of as residing in space at all."

But isn't this effectively saying that the dimensions-based model for universe is incorrect? I'm trying to understand the comparison when it seems to be saying the benchmark is wrong.
CircuitScheme – Lisp on CircuitPython
I used Rails for 4 years, then Django for 2 years, then back to Rails (now for another year).

Programming with Ruby and Rails is like a breath of fresh air compared to Django. Working with Django was just so painful and awkward (especially if you are trying to write tests for things). I used to have a laundry list of a couple of pages worth of things that I hated about Python and Django when compared to Ruby and Rails, but I can't seem to find it right now.
I might be misunderstanding your comment, but I have encountered source code that is not forward compatible in java. Some examples below...

Incompatibilities between JDK 7 and JDK 6: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility...

Incompatibilities between JDK 8 and JDK 7: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8-compatibili...

An exerpt from the Compatibility Guide for JDK 8 [1]:

>In general, the source compatibility policy is to avoid introducing source code incompatibilities. However, implementation of some Java SE 8 features required changes that could cause code that compiled with Java SE 7 to fail to compile with Java SE 8. See Incompatibilities between Java SE 8 and Java SE 7 and Incompatibilities between JDK 8 and JDK 7 for information.

There are also a plethora of deprecated and removed APIs throughout Java's history.

[1]:https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8-compatibili...
Like the article suggests, I've been using Goodreads strictly as a list-keeping app -- the recommendations are pretty useless. The star ratings, however, are somewhat useful if you know how to read them.
Why do nothing, when you could instead get a second (remote) job and then make 200% salary by doing your second job during your first job's working hours?
ActiveAdmin is just as good as Django's built-in admin system, if not better (in my humble opinion)
Maybe I should have said "competent". I myself am a generalist with relatively fair experience in systems, so I do SRE work at Google and got an offer in that range.

Many of my friends are developers who know Python (and just Python), have no deep understanding of underlying computing fundamentals (no network stack, no operating systems, ...) and no special skills (no big data, no machine learning, ...). They all still managed to get a really good offer from FAANG (in the same range I'm mentioning), they just had to pass the typical coding interview puzzles that are really not that difficult if you spend a few weeks seriously training for them.

One thing to keep in mind: Bay Area is massively expensive, so don't disregard my other point of being "very frugal": it is very easy to end up spending 150-200k after tax in cost of living, especially if you feel you "deserve" nice stuff, or you have kids. I grew up poor in a poor country, so living like a student at 32 still feels like luxury to me (I drive a brand new Honda Civic, live by myself, cook good food at home, ...) and allows me to save 200k+ a year, but many people wouldn't be able to do it In the Bay. Many of my peers routinely spend $600+ a month just on Uber Eats/Doordash, which is simply insane to me.
If you are right, that makes my point even stronger, doesn't it?

Do you think I am being downvoted for saying we have a lot of ingroup violence or for suggesting there is more ingroup violence in developing countries? These seem to be uncontroversial points.

I live in Nigeria. Children get beaten here. From their media, I know it's the same in other African countries, India, etc. Everyone accepts it and we are proud of it. But I know that in some developed countries you can be reported to child services for such. So I was careful not to imply that it's the same everywhere.
No, but you can write your own eBPF VM that doesn’t have the same restrictions.
Depends on your definition of "bad."

There are countless species of tree, shrub, grass, and moss in a typical forest. Also, fungi, bacteria, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, arachnids. In the rivers, lakes and streams within a forest ecosystem there's countless fish, crustaceans, algae, plankton.

If we "replace" the trees, perhaps through fire, then we lose the biodiversity that comes with them. The biodiversity is a naturally balanced system with finely interweaved chemical processes that mutually support the whole. We lose the trees, we lose everything that comes with them and end up with desert.

A desert world covered in plastic "trees" is not the future I want for my children, and I am sure many would agree.
True but just a quick heads up, HN changed the formatting options. The right angle bracket doesn't italicize quotes like it used to and isn't mentioned in the formatting help guide now. Many new HN posters aren't familiar with the old formatting style.
> I feel like you try very hard to establish a strawman.

This is the second time someone's told me that. Looking into what a strawman is again and reviewing my comments, I'm not sure I'm doing that. The examples I see on Wikipedia[1], at least, don't seem to have a strong relationship of implication. That is, the strawmen aren't directly implied from the proposals.

In this case, I do think that making one liable for damages their machine is causing to other people's machines does directly mean what I said, that one would be liable for behavior they cannot control as well as they can control the behavior of their car.

My intentions are to provide not strawmen, but counterexamples where the proposal fails.

> No one expects 100% perfection.

I do. I'm not really OK with laws where I don't have reasonable control of whether I break them or not. In this case, the only effective control I'd have is to not have an internet device, and that seems unreasonable.

I think we'd all like to think otherwise, but the traffic sent by our phones is very much out of our control because of the reasons I stated, and nobody reviews the javascript code received from an HTTP server before executing it. It seems crazy to be liable for whatever it does.

> And by the way, no one expects your car mechanic to [a] be perfect (you really never heard a story of a car breaking again just after leaving the shop?) or [b] be able to handle any kind of vehicle unknown to him.

I think the analogy isn't that strong. Visiting webpages is like changing car parts every second as the car is running. Malicious behavior of these car parts is not noticeable at all and they're not easy to spot from inspection either.

> The goal of rules like that is to punish the worst tier, thereby raising the bar. But this will probably be more hard to implement in the US with their everyone-sues-everyone mindset. Reminds me a lot of the great GDPR scare but now imo quite reasonable actual cases happening.

Well, there was a lot of things that scared people of GDPR, but I think I can assume your point is that a law can be broad and technically applicable to many people unfairly, but only applied to just cases in practice. I'm not sure I like that kind of law, though. Even if it works well in practice for the majority of cases, it seems like the kind of thing that lends itself well to abuse, the kind of law that everybody is guilty for, even if they're not all actively prosecuted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Examples
but a prediction is an explanation about what will happen in the future
This one is fascinating - especially the slides from the JavaOne presentation. It JITs heavily-used R3000 blocks into Java bytecode, which is then JITted by the Java interpreter. And he did it 14 years ago!
Using a client to connect to a prediction HTTP service would be my choice (Flask app?). Otherwise if you want to you can do something with the backticks, which will run a shell process from Ruby and get the return value:
`python3 predict.py <input>`
6. Pretty much everything about AMP: forcing sites to conform to a standard they created in order to show up in search, a standard that doesn't let sites control their UX or interactivity (then, just showing Google hosted caches by default instead of being a search engine.)

7. Overzealous GMail spam filters making it hard for anyone new to run email services

8. Google Groups: buying the biggest Usenet archive, breaking features, and embrace-extend-extinguishing it with groups that are on the same interface but don't syndicate to Usenet

9. Buying Meebo to shut it down, buying Softcard to shut it down.

10. Breaking reCAPTCHA for Firefox users, then maybe fixing it a year or two later after causing untold numbers of people to switch to Chrome (possible duplicate of degrading services)

11. Running YouTube at a massive loss for a decade to prevent anyone else from competing in online video

12. Not letting YouTube be run on Amazon devices

13. Bundling / requiring / defaulting Google services on Android phones, the world's dominant phone platform

14. Slowly allowing more ads in search (which has 90+% market share) and reducing their visibility so that people have to pay to have their own website show up when they are searched for

All this being said, my gut is that something with their opaque ad markets is what's really going to stand out in the investigation.
They use Cookiebot: https://www.cookiebot.com/fr/
Is this a Silicon Valley thing? People becoming far too attached with what their company is doing. Even if I had been working there for 5 years, I would never bat an eye at anything my company did in it's own name -- I'm my own person and have my own beliefs, why should I expect a multinational enterprise to buckle to my feelings? If at any point I felt like my company was doing something that went morally against what I believe is right, then I would straight up leave. The thought that I'd get up and go to my manager to complain at how the executives could do something as atrocious as go against my moral compass sounds impossibly childish. Then, on top of that, virtually skipping work so I can complain even further, I'm surprised no one gets fired on the spot.

I'm not concerned with whether or not this was sanctioned or expected, or if these people will lose their jobs or not, I just can't connect with this idea of assimilating my personal views into a corporation's identity.
Amazon's Cashierless Store Ambitions and Investment Revealed
Rebellutio: Official Open Beta Online
Wouldn't Bitcoin lose a lot of value if such an attack happened?
I can't believe I'm only now hearing of this.
Because I too followed the common advice and started with Django (I only knew Python back then). Well, I hated it and got burnt out as a result. So, despite the conventional wisdom, I decided to change my stack from Django/Python/Celery to Rails/Ruby/Sidekiq and I am very glad I made the leap.

I have seen both sides of it, that's why I decided to vent it out.

P.S. Don't get me wrong, I have tons of respect for people doing open source and don't want to badmouth Django folks. But in my limited experience, it just wasn't a great experience.
> Had they failed, the bank would have had to go the the Fed, discount window and borrow $1 billion overnight at the discount rate (which would have been substantially more than we were paying in the repo market.) Additionally, it likely would have triggered process audits and incident reports which would have been far worse than the interest.

> because someone had keyed in a start of day position wrong

I know basically nothing about this area, but I'm curious why what appears to be a mistake in data entry needs to be fixed by actually borrowing additional money, as opposed to issuing a correction. If you have the amount of money you're supposed to have, why is it so dire that you published a typo?
What are your thoughts on immigration policy right now? Specifically, what do you feel about Amazon's position on H1Bs and other mechanisms they might use to break up potential union-ish activities?
Parent was downvoted but I think they have a point. This sounds overbroad, to an extent that I'd worry will get the whole ruling tossed out by SCOTUS.

On the other hand, if the ruling stands, it sounds like it will finally be possible to do useful things with Craigslist.
Spireworks: Building scale interactive lighting installation
Likewise, I was pretty disappointed with The Three Body Problem after all the hype about it. Maybe it was because it was a translated work but it felt super flat for me.
Regardless, there is legitimate value in the collection, cleaning, interlinking, and presentation of existing data. How that is interpreted by the law is one thing but merely because the data came from a variety of other public/private sources doesn't mean it derived all of its value externally.
They are the same people behind the javascript port of the tesseract OCR engine: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js

Here's an online notebook for trying it: https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/tesseract-js-v2-alpha
> Capital gains are untaxed in a 401k.

Capital gains are taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from the 401k. The timing is better (since you're not taxed on sale, you can rebalance at will), but the rates are worse than a taxable account.

I'm just saying, if you count employer 401k match in your all-in comp figure, it doesn't make sense to treat it as untaxed; it will be taxed, the rate might be less, but it might not be that much less.
I think Keybase is great but I'm not really much interested in the Crypto Currency stuff. I would much rather they focus on good authentication services, there is so much great things you can do with what they have now.
>Is this a Silicon Valley thing?

I think it's more a "I don't want my children to suffer through average 50C summer days" thing...
The transformative, talismanic power of feathers
D3 is converted to 1,25(OH)2-D3 which is the active form. The transformation is limited by 1α(OH)-ase which in turn is regulated by levels of calcium and PTH and degraded by renal 24-OH-ase, which previous work has shown is upregulated by high 1,25(OH)2-D3, and 25(OH)D (formed in the liver from the oral cholecalciferol), thereby providing a brake on the system. It has also been shown that the upregulation of 24(OH)ase can be enough to actually decrease 1,25(OH)2-D3 levels, thereby resulting in osteoclastic activity. PTH is also suppressed by high 1.25(OH)2-D3.

tl;dr there are homeostatic mechanisms in place in calcium metabolism that result in a "counterintuitive" reduction in the active metabolite with supraphysiologic supplementation. Also, this is actually in line with prior work, though the authors don't mention any of it until the discussion at the end, and then only two papers. In about 5 minutes of searching, I found papers going back to 1995 suggesting the same thing.
Why should it be ported? What would be a game changer?
>Is this a Silicon Valley thing?

No. It's part of the planed 20/9 global CC strike, that was initiated by kids outside of US.
Nah, fossil fuel companies will just create subsidiaries that will be in charge of all their IT infrastructure... or just contract it out.

Are Amazon employees going to demand that Amazon not do business with companies that do business with fossil fuel companies? How many layers down are they going to demand?
If you have to login to access the data, that data isn't publicly available, and unlikely to be protected by this decision.

Page 31 of the filing specifically differentiates this case from one regarding Facebook:

"While Power Ventures was gathering user data that was protected by Facebook’s username and password authentication system, the data hiQ was scraping was available to anyone with a web browser."