skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too late. There is no "enemy" to lynch or forgive because most of the individuals responsible for such abuses are long dead. Their legacy has now subtly ingrained itself into the edifice of Western culture, our norms and institutions. (Now _that_ is really scary stuff. Like "ubiquitous totalitarian death cults, complete with loyal oposition" level of scary, at least if you have an aversion to cognitive dissonance and want your culture and ethics to make sense anyway, only we call it business as usual. Either way, it's disheartening to realize how humanity can ruin things sometimes.)
You can make a toasted sandwich in a Dualit toaster using the cage:

https://www.dualit.com/recipes/toastie

Or using a bag in a conventional toaster that lacks a cage:

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/10724/2-Lakeland-Toastabags---Toa...
> why can't poor people invest?

That has to be satire, right?

On the chance it isn't: Because they are poor. You know, spending all their income on housing, food, clothing and getting to and from work. A simple car repair, or broken cooker could tip a poor family into crisis. There's nothing left in the pot for investing.
> Can we please get standard battery form factors, voltages and connectors: like AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt, etc, but in a larger size similar to lantern batteries and car batteries?

This exists already. 18650 is in widespread use and now 2170 is gaining traction. Each cell is already a standard voltage, 4.2V at the top end, 2.75V on the bottom end (or lower depending on whether you want to risk permanent damage).

> Can we please get batteries with built-in protection circuits? I want to wire them in series or parallel at any voltage and have them "just work" and never explode. Bonus: please do this with solar panels as well.

These also already exist. Tesla will never use them because the BMS handles that job, which is more effective and cheaper.
Basically they create new stock to issue out, which increases the total number of stock in the company in turn diluting the percentage of stock you own
But it’s both not very accessible as well as you’re resetting what you might want to keep as the default.
Say you have 50% of the company and your cofounder has the other 50%. That's all the stock, right?

If you want to raise money you need to sell some stock. So the company creates new stock and sells that -- increasing the total number of shares. You don't get any of that new stock yourself, so your total ownership percentage goes down.
The Manhattan Project also cost something like $40 billion in today's dollars and had the benefit of conscripting some of the most brilliant minds in the world (including many Europeans who fled the war) to work on it for modest salaries.
Carbon is a C API.
The information on your check is literally the all of information needed to take money out of your bank account.

Crucially, if you give one person a check, you're giving that information to one person (and their bank). If you email it, you're giving it to (potentially) all the people. And I'd hazard that the sorts of people who actually try to intercept emails are precisely the sorts of people who wouldn't have qualms about misusing said information.

In the US, at least, your doctor's office won't send you anything of substance by email for this reason (probably actually because HIPAA won't allow them to by law for that reason). If email isn't considered secure enough for medical information, it certainly isn't secure enough for bank information.

I'm not actually interested in investigating what security has been added to email in the several decades since it's been invented. If banks[0] and the government don't trust it, I'm not about to either.

[0] Mine was aghast that anybody would be so foolish as to send a check image by email. They got the wheels moving to close the account and start rejiggering stuff with surprising alacrity, like "this is what you need to do, and Alice the manager will assist you right now."
Homebrew in general is very aggressive about dropping support for older versions.
Simple ten-year-old 64-bit Cocoa apps will generally run on modern macOS with no changes. The more complex your app is the more likely it is to have been broken by an OS change since macOS is not especially concerned with backwards compatibility, but the actual APIs you're programming against won't have changed much in that time.
There are a few health code issues too. We too easily forget those days when it was possible to pick up disease when getting a haircut. That has never been much of a thing for cabs.
> Global food loss and waste[1] amount to between one-third[2] and one-half[3] of all food produced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste

Start here?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=food+waste+story
My dream setup is two 2x2 clusters of square monitors siding a camera. Sadly, it's hard to make the camera glow red and Douglas Rain is no longer available to do its voice.

It's also probably not well suited for software development work, but it'd be a killer operator's console.
You and I can create value, but we can't (legally) create money. The government does that. If the very wealthy are able to take money out of the system faster than the government puts it in, we end up with the pool of money the rest of us have access to shrinking.

And to be clear, when I say "access to," I don't mean that we should have the ability to just spend someone else's money. I mean that while they hold that money, and do not spend it, as far as the entire rest of the country/society/system is concerned, it does not exist. The effective pool of dollars is smaller.
Dilution:

https://startupxplore.com/en/blog/dilution-shares/

The fundamental mechanism is that new investment is met by issuing new shares. If you hold options on a constant number of shares, and the number of shares into which ownership is divided goes up, then your fractional share of ownership goes down.
People were, essentially, sold an investment asset with the implication that it was going up, the seller not disclosing & misrepresenting the fact that they intended to glut the market and thereby drive down the price. It's technically not securities fraud, but it has a similar flavor, so I wouldn't characterize this as a market working as intended.
ImagePlay – Rapid prototyping tool for building image processing algorithms
Reminds me of the fees airlines charge. So you think you're paying $400 for that flight? It's $512. Because there are things like "fuel surcharges". The cost of fuel should be built into the price. It's core to what I am buying, not a tax and not an optional add-on.
As a kid who learned computers on Mac OS 7, that's beautiful
>So you ignored the most important parts (forum sliding, consensus cracking, infiltrating moderation, high level political/press management techniques, etc...) and jumped straight to the most dated, divisive, and clearly dismissable and irrelevant piece?

No.. I literally started my comment pointing out that it would be useful for pointing those things out:

This clearly describes a number of methods that can be used by trolls and bad actors to disrupt a forum.

What I objected to is its utility in uncovering "disinformation agents," plants, spooks, spies, etc. Most of what's described in it is the normal low bar for any argumentative forum, biases and cognitive fallacies that anyone - particularly those of a paranoid persuasion - might fall prey to, and the result of taking it seriously will be to see bad actors everywhere.

And there's already too much of that sort of baseless paranoia on HN. People accusing each other of being shills or agents, or seeing nefarious motives behind the site's moderation. My point was that people should be just as critical of that as anything else.
If I had to read journal articles, I would download and print the PDF - still paper, but didn't require a trip to the library. It never even occurred to me to go to the library for the hard-copy of the full journal.
The War on Fun rages on as ever.
A fight over the library in my hometown taught me about go-it-alone mythology
Sugar is missused word in the diet world. Some groups of people (mostly keto and carnivore group, but others too) use sugar for every type of carbohydrate, lumping simple sugars, fibers and starches together. Lusting from what I remember does make distinction from the different types of carbs. And yes, not all carbs are the same. Some ARE bad, like simple sugars and processed fructose (unless eaten rarely and very moderately) but some are not, like starches from whole foods and fiber!
This model focuses on numerous secondary factors while ignoring two of the most important variables, dilution and probability of success.

Dilution will continually decrease your stake... Likely at the same rate you vest (year).

Most important of all... The entire upside needs to be multiplied by the likelihood of success. No matter how much the company is 'valued' today, more often than not it will be worth 0 in 5 years.

Pouring one out for the WeWork employees this weekend...
> The tone of your last paragraph also makes it sound like you would not give credence to ideas of choosing food options that reduce water depletion or CO2 emissions

I am not the writer of that comment, but yes I don’t give credence to choosing food choices based on water consumption. Water is a renewable resources water “shortages” aren’t a problem with actual water supply, but distribution of water. The Pacific Northwest is really wet, the Mojave is really dry. One could claim a dire shortage of water in the Mojave, which would be true, but that isn’t indicative of actually running out of water.

As far as fearing CO2 output from food; that’s just religious jibber-jabber for the doomsday cult du jour. The world isn’t ending.
I know, my point was that since the reason they can't invest is because they don't have enough money why don't we work towards making it so that the poor have enough money to be able to invest instead of dragging down rich people to the level of the poor which is the impression I get from some of the comments here.
This is not a causal analysis.
However, the authors do state this as a limitation in the paper.
I'm really happy to see that a Technology Connections video made HN, this guy produces really entertaining and easy to digest videos about technology most people don't give too much thought to. While I can't say I learned anything new most of the time (This video and the one about TOSLINK are exceptions), I was entertained and can use these videos to send to someone who doesn't have a huge technical background on stuff.
>> Fascinating. I’m always intrigued in these style of answers.

Me too. Does anybody know a technology site/community, focusing on the theoretical limits of what various technologies could do, and how do they work , instead of the day to day news?
Performance Analysis of Multithreaded Applications
Right you are! I wonder why 10.6 stuck in my head, I even got the first Xeon MP (as a free replacement from Apple for my G5 PowerMac liquid cooling blowing out and destroying my system utterly) in 2006 and it was Tiger. What a time since then. I guess 10.6 Server was the first officially virtualizable version so maybe that's why, but yes you're absolutely right, 10.4(.4) and 10.5 should both be runnable in a modified VM in principle.
Chemical spectroscopy. You might have spectra collected from a variety of samples, and want to highlight how they actually differ from one another, possibly en route to identifying an impurity or a manufacturing variation.
I am not going to downvote you, but that's just not always correct.

Plenty of people have come from nothing to become billionaires. (Oprah!) But plenty of people are trapped in a situation and can't just remove themselves from those traps.
Not everyone can learn Python and make $65 per hour by next week. Let's have empathy for people who really want to do better but can't, and see if we as a society can help them.
Insert the word “fucking” into “This is Just to Say” once
Right, but all of that behavior by those people is immoral/wrong/bad. I said nothing about whether moral behavior should be expected at all times (or any time) from large companies or frankly most of the people we do business with.

I'm trying to point out that people who think there's nothing bad about it (as the original post I replied to stated) are completely missing something about the basic definitions of bad behavior. It's like some shared delusion or psychopathy that people seem to believe, because it's in their self-interest to believe it.
Ugh stop turning everything into an American lawyer singularity. I said FB Messenger isn't very popular outside of NA and it isn't. What more do you want from me.

Here is a picture, convince yourself: https://www.messengerpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/w...

There is north america, a few african countries, france and a few eastern European countries and australia. The rest is practically WhatsApp except for china which is WeChat.
Fast food has never been a cornerstone of healthy living, and I reckon few people eat hamburgers at home.

The real benefit, in my mind, is not removing the staple treat of fast food from the market, while vastly reducing our need to farm red meat.

I would posit adoption of plant based diets "under the hood" of fast food (and hopefully restaurants) is one of the easiest, most effective ways of dramatically reducing red meat consumption. This has an enormous impact. Most cropland is used for livestock feed, and 1/3 of ALL US LAND is used for pasture.

This is why a plant based diet is on the top 10 ways to fight global climate change (4. Plant-rich diet), and starts to remove incentives for slash-and-burn agriculture (5. Better tropical forest health). Growing a lb of meat requires significantly more land, water, (and therefore fertilizer, etc), than the equivalent macros from plants.

"That is, even if nothing about our energy infrastructure or transportation system changed—and even if people kept eating chicken and pork and eggs and cheese—this one dietary change could achieve somewhere between 46 and 74 percent of the reductions needed to meet the target. "

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-everyone-ate-beans-ins...

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

https://www.drawdown.org/the-book

Next we should tackle ethanol (1/3 of corn yields go to ethanol).

Any "well it may not be better for you" argument against this approach does seem to ignore that we believed red meat was bad for you for decades and we still spend so much of our resources growing red meat.
It's shocking to me that the best solution we have for climate change gets downvoted on a site that's generally pro-science. But it seems to happen with every discussion about nuclear energy.

Also surprising how even Bill Gates gets ignored on this issue. He's talked repeatedly about why nuclear[1][2][3], yet doesn't get a lot of traction.

1. https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2...

2. https://youtu.be/d1EB1zsxW0k?t=520

3. https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
The way a credit (or debit) card works in the US, is that the onus is on the merchant to prove the transaction was legitimate. This includes notifying you what the total price is and you accepting that.

No bank in my experience (as a merchant or customer) would stand behind undisclosed or unspecified charges.
>limits the number of cars on the road"

Would it though? If the supply of taxis was more ubiquitous is would drive down relative demand and therefore prices, as well as making it much easier to find one. The net effect could be fewer people driving their own cars and an overall net reduction of cars on the road.

Though I think better, ubiquitous mass transit would do far more in that direction, though the infrastructure costs for that are enormous: The figure $1 billion per mile of rail comes to mind. Better bus transit might work much better though for cheaper.
No paywall
https://deadspin.com/columbia-university-wipes-out-its-delig...
chaotic-1838467749
Pretty much every modern appliance is polarized.

The key to note, in most houses when the unpolarized stuff was new, there were alarmingly few ground sources nearby, so the fact that one side of the appliance was hot, doesn't actually matter that much - so while it's safer now, it wasn't that unsafe then. I'd also point out, these choices make more sense when you consider the lower voltage of US power distribution.
I'm not expecting someone to hand me an answer. I was merely asking for experiences in this area. You think I'm going to rely merely on internet stranger to decide course of action on production systems?

God forbid I ask for experiences from people who seem seasoned in this area on Hacker News of all places. The gall I must have, right?
It's not as if similar toasters don't exist. I have a similar one in my kitchen.

https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/toasters/tw...
There is a lot of content like this on HNews. There are many factors that go into startup options. Definitely worth more than 0 on average though.

On the other hand, many startups nowadays pay market level comp + stock options. So in terms of opportunity cost it's just plain upside. (unless you are getting FAANG level offers, thats a whole different game. those are above the majority of startups)
The commentor did not do a good job of elaborating but I think it's actually not an unreasonable thing to wonder. If Netflix is trying to promote their documentary, getting Gates into the news as much as possible doesn't seem like an unreasonable strategy.
An alternative: mix californium and natural uranium and you get a solid state subcritical reactor with no need for regulation.

Though, there will be no way to turn it off until Cf burns out.
It is a heat source for thermo-electric generation - basically just a way to boil water[1] not the "unlimited" power its always promoted as promising. We don't have unlimited water resources[2].

Elon Musk decided big disposable rockets where just not worth building - well big thermo-electric plants are just not worth building. Solar and wind are the paradigm change in power generation, any Manhattan project would be crazy not to focus on them now and supporting technologies.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/t...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156408 - "Global groundwater extraction a ticking time bomb”
Why not just turn it off rather than actually unplug it?
He simply said "perhaps consumption is a better way to tax people than income." Which is quite the opposite of what you think he said.
I think that your example shows an unexpected outcome, but not as shockingly so as the examples that it replies to.

The naive (and incorrect) deduction that one might make is that you start with 1/365 chance, so by adding twenty people you make it 20/365 that is 5%. So instead of the estimate of 5% the correct results that account for all possible comparison ends up being 50% - an order of magnitude higher.

The difference is substantial but it is not on the same orders of magnitude that this problem or the other examples are.
Those links don’t work for me anymore, and besides, I’m fairly sure they only had Leopard and Snow Leopard. It is surprisingly difficult to get access to old versions of macOS, even ones that you paid for.
It’s time to ban cars from Manhattan
What you are saying is true, but at least in theory you don't lose any 'value', because the money raised makes the company worth more. It's like going from 50% of a $1m company to 25% of a $2m company.

Of course in real life things are much more complicated. And, if I was a cynic, I'd say they are purposely complicated in an effort to screw people over.
Then why do they need this VAT?
TL DR: The author argues that startup options are "better than they look" because you can quit (and keep your options) at any time.

The model is extremely naive: it doesn't account for (a) dilution due to continued investment, (b) investor preferences, and (c) (perhaps the most important), most options need to be exercised (or forfeited) shortly after departing.

A departure situation can trigger a significant out of pocket payment: from the actual exercise price PLUS a possible tax trigger (AMT in the US) that gets larger as the company value increases.

Many employees that leave with vested options often can't afford to exercise them (or all of them).
Totally a thing and "it is a marvel of miniaturization" --> https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/07/31/Motorola-unveils-wri...
Look at the level of effort and defense you needed to go to in order to try and explain this stuff away. We disagree on a few things, like, I do think it was an admission of corruption, but I agree that much of this can never / will never be litigated and certified as such in a court. The point wasn't to debate the eventual court decision, my point was that only in the Biden case does this type of evidence even exist. In the Trump case, there's only mind-reading and rumor.
It actually does reduce build time. Screenshots of the same for the sample project are shown just below.
Completely Automated Nuclear Reactors for Long-Term Operation [pdf]
The other responses in this thread are correct, but I suspect may have still left you confused.

You are correct that 50% is always 50%, but employee stock options are typically given as a number of shares, not as a percentage of the total, which is what allows for dilution. At least, that's how I understand it.
> It's been a constant of life in Western civilisation for the last 50 years at least.

A little longer than that. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

The difference is we didn't have nuclear weapons, genetic engineering, chemistry (for chem weapons), etc. We could actually do it now.

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
I would normally agree but at this point, hackintosh users are probably one of the largest groups of people making use of the Nvidia web drivers… the only others are going to be old Mac Pro holdouts and the tiny number of Mac users using Nvidia cards as eGPUs.

I think in my case specifically the graphical glitches are caused by having dual GPUs. That’s a somewhat uncommon configuration, but not so strange as to not test for.
The key argument of the authors, it seemed to me, was that because there is only low quality evidence (e.g. correlative) for the benefits of reducing meat consumption. Thus, there isn't evidence to suggest that meat is bad. This doesn't mean that there won't be overhwelming, high quality evidence in the future. One of the authors, in an interview with The Economist, countered this point, however, saying that it is extremely difficult to do sound nutrition research at scale, so the best evidence that we'll ever have is that meat is not bad for you. This signalled a big red flag for me.
macOS has third-party preference panes too.
Having worked at an early startup, I share the opposite view: startup options are much worse than they look. The expected cost of not working at a big company is much larger than mere 10% (go check levels.fyi if you're curious) that the author calculated. The upside of stock options is also bound by the slim chance of any startup's successful exit and dilution that comes after each round. Here's a good calculator (http://optionsworth.com/). If you have 1% equity (rarely given) of a company that exits for $100M, you gross ~$1M. That's before dilution and tax. Aside from the financial cost, you also sacrifice your career mobility because you are forced to exercise your options if you leave the company before a liquidation event (rarely happens before an exit). Do not work as an employee at a startup if your primary motivation is making a lot of money.

On the other hand, if you want to start your own startup, I think working at a startup is a great way to minimize your own risk while maximizing learning if you're like me ;)
True. I just like TI's as an example because they cover so many use cases and market verticals.