skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While yes indeed some employees have waited many years for a liquidity event and want a payout for their hard work, the other shareholders are LPs with a venture capital target date on their funds.

This means that the company will either need to keep raising money to buy out earlier investors that need to hit their fund target dates (Rather than raise it all for themselves), or they'll need to go public at some point, even if they don't need the money per se. Keep in mind that investors get lot's of sway via their board seats.

If you're in the business of losing money, this game of hot potato becomes harder and harder to play over time.

(Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)
What happened to the Mac bug bounty program?
This is supercharging your spreadsheet for prediction. Give it it few examples in the first few rows, and it will automatically learn from your data and predict the others.
You can totally use google sheets with this.
The US has "acknowledged" the "One China" position of both sides of the Strait since the 1970s, but it has never supported the notion that Taiwan (and Kinmen, Taiping, etc.) is PRC territory or that the mainland is ROC territory. "China" is not a nationstate. There's only the ROC (1912) and PRC (1949).
> quite racist to say factually that a lot of charity money goes to fund terrorist attacks and the proof for this is nada

The more commonly accepted fact is that Muslim terrorist organizations have laundered most of their money through Muslim charities (or at least have done so in the past).

As you state, this doesn't necessarily imply the opposite: that most Muslim charities fund terrorism. But it doesn't not say that either. In any case, this seems more like a lapse in logic to me than overt racism.
I'm currently full-time on my side project as I'm done with graduating, tired from searching for the right job (it has been months) and I just need to do some actual coding, to get it out my system or something.

It is a code vacation, because when job hunting, I'm not coding that much.

I'll try to be brief:

1. I am passionate about digital creation again

What I find really cool is that learning to program has been worth it. It has taken one bachelor and 2 masters, but it has been worth it. Studying computer science has been worth it. I'm capable of deep diving if I have to, and otherwise just stay on a web stack flying on a high level zipping code together by gluing npm packages but creating my own ones if I have to.

2. Passion has downsides

I'm seeing my friends less, I'm seeing my girlfriend less. I feel that everyone around me tolerates my behavior, but I don't suspect they like it too much as I'm thinking 24/7 about this thing. It also makes me a bit mentally absent when I'm with them. The issue is, I can't help it. IMO, it's a good lesson on how passion is overrated as the downsides of pure passion are not being discussed. My sleep (and code quality) is terrible as I'm too excited to get up again, and the problem is: I can sustain this a lot longer than I thought I could.

3. It allows me to do some much needed self exploration

Why do I like this? Why am I now procrastinating on creating the backend but am neck deep in learning how to rearchitect the backend to a p2p architecture (easy: because p2p web apps are more unusual ;-) ). I'm getting a lot of questions and answers that I need.

4. It feels like a game

I think the reason it feels like a game is because I have my own agency. I get to decide to solve a problem that I think is worth solving for whatever reason. That type of agency is quite common in games: you're in a big world with tons of quests and you can decide what to do (even abandon the whole quest line!).

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All in all: doing your own side project on a full-time basis is a much needed and interesting exploration for me. For 9 years people told me what I should do. It's interesting to see what I do when I tell myself what to do. It's a much needed break from just doing what other people want.
A small quibble about the Huawei executive: she was arrested for fraud against a US bank, not for dealing with Iran. Huawei knowingly lied, telling the bank that they had no dealings with Iran. This caused the bank to unknowingly violate sanctions and get fined by the government.

I always see this glossed over by people supporting China's position but it seems like a crucial distinction to me.
Thank you! We published a fix for this and are waiting for it to propagate on the interwebs.
> The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off.

Not yet.
I don't know about this somehow being proof that "Apple doesn't care about the Mac" or something, but I remember distinctly when Apple themselves, and the fanboys, were ragging on Microsoft for UAC (which really only asks you to confirm occasional administrative operations).

As for the general quality of Catalina, there seems to be a deluge of amateur-hour flaws that affect real workflows for real users.
Have you tried complice?
Counting sorts are super neat and O(n), if the number of unique items is really small.

Imagine a list of all 0s and 1s that you wanted to sort (like 001110101). Why bother sorting? Just count up how many 0’s and 1’s there are (four 0’s, five 1’s) and generate the sorted list. O(n).

Clearly this doesn’t work when you have real world data to sort, but it is the basis for a radix sort, where you sort a batch of numbers digit-by-digit, giving you O(n*d). Though I think it’s rarely used.
> A presidential candidates stance on China and its abuse of human rights will be a key issue for me in 2020.

Your presidential candidate need to fix human rights issues in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Democracy installed by the US government gotta have a warranty and customer service.

If the outcome of US installed human rights means tens of thousands of refugees and jihad fighters how can your model of human rights even work in a 1.4B population China?
There is a cottage industry within academia for this kind of sophistry around terrorism.

I studied IR at a uni with a fairly good research reputation, one of the hot projects (funded to the tune of 7 figures) at the time (some time ago now) was the physical identification of terrorists i.e. by various body measurements...I am 100% serious. And this guy was not an idiot, in the conventional sense at least, PHd in Biology from Oxbridge, "genius", who (at the time) was talked about in breathless tones of wonder by the science departments (and ridiculed everywhere else).

Every few years a scientist will say: "Terrorism isn't solved...but I have a formula"...stop, we know why terrorism occurs but it isn't as simple as your calculus homework.

And I agree, it is totally unfounded to suggest that charities are funding terrorism (or that people who would give to charities and somehow be unaware of that fact, if it was the case).
> I know for a fact that they have large data and machine learning teams spread across SF, NYC, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and maybe more

That's going to be an awkward presentation to management when they present their revenue forecasts under different economic scenarios...
I think the most fascinating thing about Postmates is how they are behind is almost every market but for some reason have an abnormally high market share in Los Angeles.

Apparently they had early partnerships with celebrities like Kylie Jenner and it created a loyal following that stuck?

I guess I assumed in the age of the internet you wouldn't see something like a delivery app only "work" like that in one city, primarily due to local marketing efforts.
Looks like they're buying their bankers' bullshit.
Passion fades. How long have you been professionally programming?
You are stupid, Have unnecessarily complicated the answer to make yourself sound more sophisticated which you are not. Magic simply is an art of illusion and a bit of science. Where Human sensory perception is exploited to target messaging. That in-order to achieve desired experience and results.
PGP Auth would be _incredible_. Imagine being able to claim an account through keybase proofs!
There's limited upside because most of the growth is gone, but there's still value in the same way Unilever has value. The problem is they're priced for hypergrowth. That said, Uber's still experiencing some growth.

Ugh, old data, but https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbi-research-portal-uploads/2019/05...

A successful company will have a trajectory like a sigmoid function (see above). The problem is IPO investors want in when growth still looks exponential.
Microsoft still hasn't ported Visual Studio to 64 bit, so I don't expect Linux support is coming any time soon.
When my child was that age, I had some similar ambition. Now my child is an early adult. In hindsight greater patience and a longer view would have been better. Not that things are bad. Only that more patience and longer views are probably always better in the long run even if they are hard to develop.
Heh, I should be clear: I consider the aforementioned Tweet/RT issue a UI/UX thing, it's otherwise working as designed.

I'm perfectly happy showing my @replies, rando GitHub activity, etc. Nobody is actually reading that sidebar, short of a select few - I like having that junk indexed in search engines attributed to my own domain.

It's free real estate. :)
If you really want the Palantir of the Chinese, check out Novogene. Then ask yourself why they have a CLIA- and CAP-approved lab in Sacramento. Then ask yourself, what shameless, desperate, or just clueless physicians and researchers are allowing their patients' genomes to be sequenced by an asset of the Chinese Communist Party.

https://en.novogene.com/technology/quality-control/lab-certi...

https://www.linkedin.com/company/novogene-corporation

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Novogene-Reviews-E1790104....
What are your thoughts on StdLib.com?
House Democrats have been fairly consistently anti-PRC since 1989. The last (failed) attempt to repeal PNTR was spearheaded by Bernie Sanders in 2005.
I am assuming that this would be part of a wider reform of copyright. For the case you mentioned, already under current copyright law, creation of a derivative work does not prevent a work from entering into the public domain (albeit after an unconscionably long period of time). To prevent such a argument being made after the fact, source code should be placed in escrow at the time of publication, with copyright protection given only after it has been verified that the provided source code can reproduce the binary being protected.

This arrangement would also protect the public good in cases where the original company has gone bankrupt, or where the source code would otherwise have been lost.
40 people with this kind of breakdown for a product, sure. This huge team for a feature? Lol, no
Literally last week I got an email from WeWork looking for a Senior Data Engineer with "High Comp". I never understand these companies, aggressively hiring before they lay everyone off
Not being asked to grant all permissions that an application wants up front (before you even get a chance to use the app) has a positive impact on the user experience.

If the application asks for permission to access my contacts only after I select an option to share information with others, for instance, I can feel more confident about granting that permission.

Asking for all permissions up front is the permissions model that Google just abandoned.
Sorry, but "why does the NBA (a large corporation employing many people) need to make more money?" comes off as a far more reasonable question to me than "why do professional American basketball players need to make more money?"
There's a meme post in China Intranet, a HK guy murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan, so a mainland Chinese now can not watch NBA.

Butterfly effect.
>And actually, we have to move up this value chain anyways to justify our higher standard of living.

This is the part that makes absolutely no sense to me. The farther you move up this value chain, the fewer and fewer people you can find that can actually do those jobs. They require advanced degrees and highly technical specialization and experience. Not everyone can do that. Unless you have a parallel plan to, perhaps magically, mint more and more PhDs every year what is everyone else supposed to do who was just a "low level unskilled dirty manufacturing" worker?

>American business people were happy to...

You're sure right about that! I think what people are questioning is if, as a state and society, that was a long-term good strategic choice. For the bottomline it absolutely was - for those businessmen and their company's earnings reports.
Microsoft Files 'VR Floor Mat' Patent, Possibly Aimed at Xbox VR Headset
On the other hand, if you are VI Arnold, you can teach an honest version to motivated high school students in a relatively short timespan, https://amzn.com/1402021860
Calling the term "punching down" just a way to frame speech that one disagrees with in order to censor it just sounds like a way for you to censor people who criticize you for punching down.
It's hard when you build a global business on a scripting language.
Geopolitically, would it not be better too have a world economy that is to interdependent to support war as a viable path to resolution of differences.
How much “skills development” do you think you will achieve by going against your manager’s goals? You won’t last long enough at the company to do too much of anything.

If your manager is of the type that stunts your skills development, it’s time to leave the company. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Resume Driven Development but I’m not going to go against my manager and not be seen as “team player”.
Your brain needs glucose. When you are on keto, your body produces glucose for your brain.
> "2A is absolutely not about individual rights. No Founder ever talked about it in this way."? I just gave you two Founder quotes; there are many more. There's a lot more in that report that proves you wrong. The state constitutions they wrote also prove you wrong.

They're not talking about 2A.

> So much of what you say is wrong. A good source with a lot of historical references is the 1982 Congressional Research Office report on the matter, with hundreds of citations for you to check.

I sincerely hope you're not saying a document written by lobbyists (NRA's in there) for a committee chaired by Strom Thurmond is an authority here.

> States blah blah

Yeah, my position is that 2A lets the States regulate the right to bear arms. So that's fine.

> This is not appeal to authority. You keep misusing that term in this thread to belittle things you dislike. Appeal to authority would be to say an argument is right solely because an expert said so. No one has made that argument.

More than one person has said "the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution and Heller is the law of the land" (paraphrasing). That's a direct appeal to the authority of the Supreme Court as experts. But the Court is wrong all the time, and is deeply political.
Your comment is not an interesting take at all. But it is incredibly patronising.
AWS consultants most definitely exist already.
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All this effort to distill user behavior and user intent from logs... why not just ask them?????

I'm still waiting for the option to see the ads that I want to see. I want to see movie trailers, something that I rarely see now because I don't watch TV. I want to see new video games. I want to see new books, what sports event are going on, etc. Why not ask me? It's literally not rocket science here but billions are spent on machine learning, clicks, storing exabytes of data or more trying to figure this shit out.

Just ask me for fuck's sake, I'm more than willing to watch ads in exchange for a useful service!
I found this from another front page article about Automattic:
https://automattic.com/about/

If you go to their about page, they show a little table, where they have 163 million monthly active users and only 966 employees. Not sure how good this comparison is with Google and Amazon because the kind of tools Amazon builds vs what Automattic builds (WooCommerce, Wordpress) are totally different.
I think it will cause a lot of cognitive dissonance if you treat large companies like you'd treat a single person. Imagine there is one person in charge of everything; it would be super weird if they bring you in for an interview on the day they're firing everyone else. But that's not how these large companies work; one person made the hire someone and some other person that's never met the first person made the decision to lay everyone off. You have to look at it like a distributed eventually-consistent database. In that context, everything should make sense; there was a netsplit and the consensus algorithm produced a different state in each cluster.

(There's a reason why we try not to design database like that. Perhaps there is a management lesson in there somewhere.)
upvote for learning stats. very valuable.
Windows isn't free. Nor is the source available to be viewed, modified, extended, learned from, etc. Also, you're comparing one of the biggest tech companies in the world, to an individual who is trying to make a living. This is an unfair characterization on every level.
They, like many companies, would love to have their cake and eat it too - they want the positive PR from looking like "A Real American Company" with patriotism and all that - while actually having no obligation toward (and making no effort to support) any given country.
Markets are efficient. You could also have bought Pets.com.
What was fasting for 60 days like? Any negative experiences?
To be an anti-totalitarianist is to acknowledge that even parents sometimes make mistakes, not to say that what the majority says is true is right.

When people say something is “evil” what they mean is they don’t believe it’s in our long term best interest. Meaning even though paternalism got you to where you are today, doesn’t mean it will get you where you want to be in the future.

Finally you imply that those that stay calm and agree to disagree won’t write the future, while I won’t disagree, I would caution that if you let disagreement evolve into coercion and conflict without a channel for resolution besides violence, there will not be a future for someone to “write”.
It is true that the CCP loves capitalism without conscience. The owners of the NBA (and MLB/NFL) seem to like that idea too, but the league has posititioned itself differently, as having a social conscience. Which, BTW, is different to McCarthyism. (It's a real tell that you use that playbook BTW.)

Culturally, China is not an exporter. It imports culture massively, but it isn't IP it can easily copy.

Authoritarian regimes are usually pretty bad at creating cultural products, except the ones like gruesome museums. Though I'm looking forward to HK producing its own Ai Weiwei or Guo Jian.
I manage millions in ad spend. Targeting with individual, manual options is not efficient for most advertisers. Most performance advertisers target using lookalikes and algorithmic targeting based on optimizing for conversions.
To me it seems like now that all browsers support the prefers-color-scheme media query, it’s no longer a best practice to allow/force users to toggle between light and dark theme separately from the OS. Centralization of config is a good thing, freeing people from rote work.
> This means that the company will either need to keep raising money to buy out earlier investors ...

Isn't this the literal definition of a Ponzi scheme? Isn't using new money to pay old investors technically illegal?
There's a number of end users who would like to avoid JS on non-app sites.
It’s easier to add a background later than remove one after, so I think transparent bg is a good solution
Your statement is still absurd. Would you consider an Irish American player to be “exported from” Ireland?
Oh how I missed that. And I actually have an 8800b.
Can't imagine Woody Allen, Tarantino or Billy Wilder with no sound/dialog.
The guy you replied to is what you'd call a redneck in USA

No offence intended
Wireless router SoCs usually have at most one radio integrated, and the 5Ghz radio is still usually attached over PCIe. And even the integrated 2.4Ghz radio's firmware is running on entirely separate processor cores and in a different memory address space from the application processor.
Making Sense of Sensory Input
Let’s start with a definition shall we?

You are persistent if you keep coming back to the same task and advance it.

Let’s say that for an app, and with limited time, we can instantiate this definition as: if you keep coming back to developing your app regularly during a full year, you are persistent.

Now that we have a definition, what can you do to fulfill it?

Set time in your calendar, create habits, etc.
Consumer VC companies are businesses that require growth at all costs. So they need to invest in man-hours to churn out features.

If they were a normal company, they’d focus on the top x projects that generate value and spend as little as possible on the rest.
So, then, the only option is multi-factor biometrics. Everything else is just "not identity", right?

And even then, biometrics can't usually differentiate between twins.

For twins, there is arguably no way for software to demonstrate identity, ever.

Social security? Proves you're holding a card.

Biometrics? Proves you're one of multiple with these exact genetics.

Etc. I literally cannot think of a way to definitively and authoritatively tell twins apart in software.
Ah, so is that the reason why NRC will be conducted only in Muslim dominated areas? Is this the reason why no Muslims will not be thrown out but Muslims will be?

This isn't about illegal migrants, it's about Muslim migrants

And p.s. Assam NRC excluded an ex President's son and an Army Major who fought in Kargil, both Muslims.

The way matters more than the idea.
How is a vertex created between two nodes? Is it created when two words appear in the same sentence?

What do the different colors represent?
This information is dangerously wrong. I have asked several oncologists specifically about fasting during chemotherapy and they all recommended strongly against it.

Your understanding of how chemotherapy works with cancer and healthy cells seems flawed. Chemo harms all fast-growing cells, healthy or not. That’s why people have terrible tastes, stomach problems, hair and skin problems during chemo; those are all fast-growing cells. They grow fast whether you are fasting or not; but killing them in large numbers (what the chemo does) raises the body’s demand for energy and nutrients just to maintain health. That demand must be met with healthy food and drink.

Edit to add: Fasting by a healthy person may reduce their chances of developing cancer; that seems plausible to me. My point is that people undergoing chemotherapy should follow the directions of the doctors. In my experience, those directions are to eat well while receiving treatment.
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One other point is most automobiles are now recycled. Going what one reads on the internet about 25% of the steel in cars comes from recycled steel. And 95% of cars are fed into the recycling stream when they are scraped.
There are no systems running Windows 10X in production yet.