skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

Even if you get all the information when signing up at an early-stage startup, you have no idea what the founders will negotiate in future rounds
I really can't upvote this enough.

I've experienced both sides of this as a transgender woman. As a relatively effeminate man, I failed to fit in with the culture of "cocksure masculinity" as the OP calls it. But as a woman it's a whole lot worse.

The problem has the same cause and hits both genders, but it really does hit women harder. For instance, men might find they need to shout to get their voice heard because 'that's the culture', while women might get admonished even when they do that because it doesn't fit the gendered expectations of them.

As an effeminate geeky dude, I had employers tell me I needed to step up and take more of a leadership role. As a woman, I've had interview candidates assume I couldn't be an engineer because of the way I dress. I had a boss who treated me more junior the more feminine I was dressed. It's way worse.

The toxic boys club culture can totally make life hard for men who aren't like that - but it can be almost impossible for women. The hill is just that much harder to climb, in part because performing those behaviors that would make you fit in with the boys club can get you slammed for not being feminine.

It's important to remember that this isn't just about men and women, that it does negatively impact men as well - but it hits women a lot harder. Voices that don't match get ignored in that culture, but if you're a man it's much easier to make your voice sound like what the leadership expects.
Yep. That's what they do.
> "I want every other free email provider out of business right asap. Lose money on it, I don't care, just make us the best!"

Every single large company I've worked at has had mandatory training classes where lawyers explain why you never, ever say or send e-mail with anything like that. If that ever got out on the front page of the New York Times, or worse yet, as part of a discovery effort from the FTC or state attorneys generals investigating abuse of Monopoly power.... well, it would be bad.

If there is anything like that from Zuckerberg, "I want every other social media company out of business ASAP" which is subject to legal discovery.... we'd be looking at a very nasty consent decree lasting years at best, or a forced breakup of Facebook, at the worst.
CS 696 Functional Programming and Design
These two belong together: https://xkcd.com/221/

Also really interesting to think about that you shared a comic that's almost 20 years old. Where did time go?
Hey! I'm in Krakow, personally I'm React/C# guy, buy have couple Java friends that would love to work fully remotely. Can give you my contact www if ur willing to network
The three finger unpinch on a phone is miserable
Google is to blame for this. If you run your site through their usability wizard, it will warn you when links or buttons are too close together, along with insinuating that you won't rank highly for mobile devices if you don't fix it.
This is the end game^

This of course can't end poorly as the second such a bill is passed, all incentive to maintain equipment goes out the window.
Yep. Red Hat employs quite a few people who work on Gnome and Gnome apps, as done Canonical. Despite being employees for a company, they are extremely involved in the open source Gnome community. It's an amazing example of GPL success IMHO.

Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat but not on Gnome
The probability that that's the case is 1, but that's not the same as a proof.
I see that you have not thought this through. Yes, some of the heat will not be recoverable, but controlled expansion of highly pressurized air creates a large temperature drop that would readily absorb heat from the ambient water.
> People also like building and living in these areas.

Edgier take: People are forced out to these areas because California cities allow very little housing to be built.
I’m not defending them... but what are the chances that the state mismanagement of forestry leading to an excess of fuel that WILL eventually burn, and their hefty fines for the previous fire have made the power company cautious to the point that delivering service is a dangerous business prospective?

Is a utility forced to make decisions that could put the entire company at risk? IDK. I’m asking.
If there is one way a small shareholder can ensure that they are going to be treated well it is to see to it that they hold the exact same kind of stock as a much larger shareholder. That way a bigger fish will fight for your rights with a lot more power than you ever could do by yourself. There are then still quite a few ways in which you could be screwed but far fewer than without that precaution.
FWIW, I kind of don't believe that this question is real. Questioner clams that he is a VP but also:

> He has no idea how liquidation preferences work

> He was "told" that the company was being acquired (instead of being involved in the sale)

> No one at the company walked him through how his stock was valued, even after the
acquisition. To the point that he thinks he needs to hire a lawyer.

It's a fine question to use as a lead in to explaining how stock options work, and that's a fine thing to write about. But I'd bet money that the author made up the question.
People said the same thing in the 1960s, and a hamburger costs me less now relative to purchasing power than it did then.
Honest question here:

as an employee (non-founder) do you have a say in liquidation preferences of future rounds of investment?
Electric vehicles also come with an enormous low speed torque simply because of the nature of electric engines.
I always thought they should be first. They are order of magnitude more utilised than passenger cars (at least 30% of time compared to 5% or so). They produce tons of noise and are more complex than electric.
Now I'm adding √-1 to all my passwords.
If you want to learn more about Don and how influential his work has been, I recommend listening the recent Acquired episode about Don and Sequoia [0].

[0] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/sequoia-capital-part-1
It's my understanding that ikea meatballs are made from mdf materials and dust that is produced as holes are drilled in their flat pack furniture. Not a single piece of material is wasted and the meatballs are a staple of their store cafes worldwide. I'm assuming the huge build up of these meatballs will be re routed to other locations during this Christmas experiment. Perhaps future mdf meatballs will have all meat additives removed and we will begin a new era of vegan foods.
Because his figures are as outdated as he is. You just joined the same bandwagon. ISRO launches rockets into space: Oh but the toilets and slums. News about a tech startup getting funding: Oh but the toilets and slums. We, in India, call you lot the toilet brigade who regurgitate stuff shown on your news channels instead of actually travelling to India. But I dare not ask you to travel to India as your favorite destination would either be the Taj Mahal or a visit to Mumbai's slums. It's as if the rest of India doesn't even exist. So it's best you stay out of India. Now when Indians downvote your ignorant and condescending comment don't get upset. You deserve it.
> It didn't prohibit innovation and optimisation on PC

And PCs don't have their architecture determined by legislation, so that further proves the point.

> Having half a dozen standard phone sizes seems reasonable, along with standard sockets for CPU, GPU, memory etc

There are a lot more possible sizes or form factors, CPU and GPU aren't necessarily separate, and memory is typically either soldered-down chips or built into one of the other chips depending on quantity. Separating any of those into removable boards will necessarily make phones larger, heavier, and otherwise suboptimal.

> You should also have a standard battery connector

Modern devices often don't use a single discrete battery; they distribute battery cells through a device anywhere they fit and wire them together.
They're pretending the demand is somehow going to magically go away, or will be reduced to the point where the massive scale farming techniques aren't doable anymore. I also don't see it- it's a phenomenon that is Extremely Online. Normal people don't give these ideas the time of day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181228
CO2 is super weird. In a CO2 tank it's actually two-phase, CO2 gas and liquid in a steady state equilibrium that is exclusively a function of the temperature. Since the outlet was connected to the HPLC pump inlet, if the temperature between the tank and the pump head was exactly equal, when the pump piston draws liquid in it every so slightly reduces the pressure, which results in the liquid CO2 boiling inside the pump head producing bubbles that make metering the flow rate impossible.

So the cavitation in this case is indeed temperature driven (albeit indirectly) but it's really just a side effect of the pump type. A syringe pump style system just is well, a syringe, so the problem goes away.
C++ fixes many of C's problems and introduces so many more that are not fixable. ("But why don't you write const-correct code? Why don't you use move semantics? Use the rule of three!")

> malloc() with sizeof, really?

One tiny macro to solve 20% of all the problems people are whining about.

void _alloc_memory(void **ptr, size_t numElems, size_t elemSize)
{
size_t numBytes = safe_multiply(numElems, elemSize);
void *p = malloc(numBytes);
if (p == NULL)
fatal("OOM!\n");
*ptr = p;
}

#define ALLOC_MEMORY(ptr, numElems) _alloc_memory((ptr), (numElems), sizeof **(ptr))

int *myArray;
ALLOC_MEMORY(&myArray, 25);

I've been using this for years without a problem.
I was the third employee at a startup. I was young and stupid and thought "20,000 shares" was a lot. I worked my ass off, it was immensely stressful, but we built and launched a product. I later found out it wasn't much of a stake at all- .1% and that's even before any dilution shenanigans and all that. We took a paycut part of the way through, had our 401k contributions slashed and such.

A company in the space (but doing something different) called and made me an offer for twice what I was making. I was the lead developer by that point, had my hands in every significant piece of code, understood how everything fit together and such, and was appalled when I found out that I had such a small piece of the total pie. I demanded more, like 20x more, and they made it sound like I was asking to sleep with their wives. Then they absolutely howled that I was screwing them over by leaving right at launch- they asked me to stay for 3 months, which I said sure- if you match my new salary plus a little more as a retention bonus and to make up for some of the paycut, and again they howled at how could I do this to them...

It was a painful lesson, but I learned something very important- Do not work like you are an owner if you are just an employee! I still to this day (this was 10 years ago now) feel very taken advantage of. I was working tons of late nights and weekends, was a super fanboy of the company, at one point I was going to buy us a company logo made out of Legos to hang on our wall, and now I just cringe at the thought.

There are so many ways to lose in the startup game, just so many, its really not worth playing anymore IMHO unless you are a founder or very early stage employee with material access to the financials and such.
Mine as well and a similar feeling, 33 years later and still a programmer, never wanted to do or be anything else.
> What did the litigators think would happen?

That PG&E would stop paying out dividends instead of doing the maintenance they are supposed to be doing?

https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-...
The first missing prime in the first million digits of pi is 100057 (
https://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php?short=100057).
I'm not sure that other companies near the scale of Gmail have a lower false positive rate. Sure something niche like fastmail which is going to have, on average, much more tech-savy users, will have more accurate user-reported spam filters. Yahoo / Microsoft don't seem to do any better than Google here though, in my experience they're both actually worse.
The IRS has a pretty good incentive to value your options/shares as high as the can, their goals and yours are not aligned. Your accountant may be closer to the true value, but even then it may end up significantly lower or higher in practice.

The only thing that accurately values your shares is a sale.
And you can compress any data as the index at which it occurs in pi!!!1!
This is why you should get a proper salary even if you are working at a "hot startup". Were you expecting a $1m gross payout from owning 1% of a $100m company? That's the kind of gross income you'd get every 2 years of working at Googbookagramazon. Consider opportunity costs carefully.
This article is really weird, because the person in Dogpatch says they were granted OPTIONS not stock. So it's possible that this doesn't even touch on liquidation preferences and the strike price was just higher than the sale price.

But if we assume that this was RSUs, or that the strike price was just a fraction of the sale price, I still think the common advice of "consider start-up equity to be worthless" is a little overzealous. Unless the founders accepted some outrageous terms it's probably the case that your options are worth a lot in a company that's doing well. If the company stops growing or takes a down round that's when you should start thinking of your shares as useless.
Oh yes, all that terrible flat-pack furniture... which is literally just captured carbon, if you think about it, and makes extremely efficient use of low grade wood.
I'm with you on everything else (I'll be the first to admit that I love trashing Apple at every opportunity I get these days), but I find it weird that people criticize the dongle thing so heavily. Surely standardizing everything to USB-C would be an example of the exact thing you're talking about? (keeping it simple and functional). Somebody has to make the switch first, and if Apple didn't, wouldn't we all be using dongles anyway, just the other way round?

I'm happy to cop a bit of temporary pain in the pursuit of standardization. It's the one thing that actually isn't shitting me about my work Macbook.
Measuring sexual arousal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_for_Paedophiles

Testosterone effects on face structure and violent crime: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/019188... & https://www.healthline.com/health/low-testosterone/effects-o...

On deep nets having better gaydars than average human: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspa0000098 & https://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1036.full

On AVATAR (the US version of the digital border guard: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/lie-detectors-with-artificia... & https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321...

On Isreal airport security and training EU and American border agents: https://www.aerotime.aero/aerotime.team/19886-detecting-anom... & https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-israeli-airport-secu_b_4...

On 100% accuracy being impossible: https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atm... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
Towards a WebAssembly Standalone Runtime on GraalVM
> 1. Hold down space bar and you'll enter a mode where moving your finger moves the cursor.

Specifically, either long-touch the space bar or force-touch any letter. Just don't force-touch the left side of the screen, which will invoke the app switcher.
No bonuses for white-collar Boeing employees this year
This is not a fantastic job, IMO

He’s complaining like he’s a user not trying to fix the dysfunctional communication directly.

The CEO should own making sure ownership is clear and minimizing opportunities for such problematic outcomes in the first place.

To me this reads like Bill wasn’t paying attention to his company until 2003. Sounds like they were poorly supervised and made a sprawling mess before he seemed interested in wondering what they were all up to.
It depends on whether your role in the company means that you are part of negotiating the deal. If you are the CEO: then probably yes. If you're an IC engineer: then probably not.

Relatedly, most of these deal terms are pretty standardized. In the vast majority of cases there aren't a lot of negotiations around liquidation preferences, only negotiations around valuations. The exceptions to the rule tend to happen for very large or late stage fundraises.
Title is hyperbole. If you look at the maps most of the major urban areas are excluded, notably all of SF and most of Silicon Valley:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=64ec74b4d4...

The announcement is for 850K customers, while if it were really for all of their CA territory it'd be tens of millions.
I wondered the same thing, surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
I don't think they save anything because they're not getting paid for electricity they do not provide.
There is some chance that the questioner doesn't even exist and that question was just written to be able to write the article in response to it.
I would assume they aren’t billing for kW/hr when kilowatts aren’t being used. So, they seem to be turning off their income as well as some costs. Their expenses however still exist in the form of infrastructure, employees, etc.

I find it more likely they themselves are under contract to create, buy, transfer, use, so many megawatts over so much time than the customer will have to pay for service that was turned off.
Zomato, Swiggy and Paytm alone are expected to close rounds worth as much as $3 billion in the coming months - wonder where the other $8bn is going
Any equity that is offered with secret terms should be valued at zero. In my experience nobody will tell you, so always go for market rate salaries.
It's not based on Microsoft code, so that might have something to do with it.
They've done an admirable job on Krita, but I don't feel the same optimism about adoption. There is a social element to these things Krita is severely lacking.

Most of the migrations I've seen have been from PS/SAI to CSP. There are a ton of artists creating custom brushes for CSP now, and you can't import them into Krita. If you're in a particular artist community/discord and want help, no one is going to know what you're talking about. That's classic lock-in.

CSP and Procreate are the hot tools on the Twitter/Instagram scene right now and I don't see the growth slowing. Krita ATM is unfortunately perceived as an outlier tool, like Medibang or FireAlpaca.

It probably isn't an issue to you personally, but those are the factors I see stymying adoption (and to be honest, I have literally never met another artist using Krita)
This is not a very scientific study. However, it seems to me that the conclusion is that our brain does not generate signals of surprise that it will die, but rather for others, perhaps because there is no "event" to generate surprise for. If you die, you die. We all know that. Someone else dying is surprising, to die ourselves is inevitable.
The Hapless Shakedown Crew That Hacked Trump’s Inauguration
A Centaur in the Gateway to the Jupiter-Family Comets
I have never clicked on this before, but mine on Windows 10 isn't what you described, and even if it was... why would I ever click on it? My files are backed up and show up on other machines. They could put animal porn in the UI and I don't think I'd notice.
Ignoring the fact that this doesn't work, can you imagine if you could accurately detect someone is lying with devices that everyone carries with them?

Just imagine the power that such a technology a totalitarian government could wield using this.

Jethro's phone beeped incessantly to remind him that he had not completed his patriot assessment in the last 24 hours. He groaned internally, and even though he was running late for work he decided that he had better take the 5 minutes to complete the test. He couldn't afford to lose any more social credit points this month.

Opening the app, he could see his face in the top corner of the screen to help him know the camera was centered on his face, not that he really needed this after doing the assessment almost daily since his 10th birthday.

The first question flashed onto the screen, "Have you committed any crimes in the last 24 hours"
such a great idea !
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I'm curious too. Anecdotally, I've never seen anyone use it for anything (I work in an office where Macbooks are standard issue). I think when I first got it I dicked around with it for 5 minutes, changing the colour of my terminal using the hue slider, and it was cool, but I haven't used it since. It just feels like a sales gimmick that serves no real purpose except to look fancy in an ad.
PG&E was forced to spend an extra $1.5B to $4.5B per year on green energy, which almost doubled the electric rates in CA.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/pges_bankruptcy...

Perhaps the money would have been better directed at upgrading transmission lines, etc.
Sorry, there is no underlying point.
Well, if you are allergic to soy, nuts, wheat, legumes, peas, etc. it may be challenging to find an off-the-shelf vegan meat substitute. Mushrooms are meaty/umami tasting and widely available but not high protein; perhaps nutritional yeast would be something to consider for savory dishes.

Also you can get enough protein just eating vegetables, fruits, and other grains (and pseudo-grains like quinoa and amaranth.) Spirulina could be another good ingredient, although algae is more fishy than meaty.
Being in the business of selling power, I would think they're losing money when the power is off. They've got power plants idling and nobody racking up kwh's. I guess the calculus is that the lost revenue is less than the liability of a fire.
You haven't so much responded to my comment so much as yelled incoherently at it. Can you instead address it directly? You made an argument: that the "1 in 5 ACA claims are rejected" stat is damning evidence of the system's failure. I rebutted. Am I just right, and that stat is no longer part of your argument?
Try holding a piece of paper over them, so you can only review each independently.

In isolation, for me, the white on blue, has contrast bleed which makes the text fuzzy.

Again, in isolation, the black on blue is much sharper.

Together however, when presented side-by-side, the black on blue feels to be lower contrast. It's almost like my brain is using the black on blue to help compensate the weakness of the white on blue.
Comcast has a virtual monopoly in most areas which leaves most people with zero choice. There needs to be a way that physical infrastructure is owned by public utilities and the ISP's only sell network connectivity and other services.
Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter
In regards to swapping cell phone plans, sure: If a cell phone company were to die because too many of their customers switched to a better competitor, that would be difficult for the employees of that company.

But that's an entirely different situation than the matter at hand, where we're talking about the United States government's policies on trade and the impact on our entire labor class and their fate within our own borders.

The entire point of an economy is to serve humanity. We're all participating in this circus to put food on our tables, provide for our children, grow, and enjoy life. We cannot lose sight of that fact. We have an obligation to see labor not as just cogs in a machine, but rather as constituents whose well-being we have an obligation to protect.

(I have to say, and I'm sure you don't mean it, but you comparing a human being to a cell phone plan is among the more callous things I've read on these forums. It might behoove you to sprinkle a bit more empathy in your language, just a tiny bit.)
This is the sentence that is the core reason:

"if you raised more than your company is now being sold for, you will get nothing"