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> […] it seems bizarre not to spend some time on packaging and getting distros to accept it.

My personal experience is that it means, at the minimum, having a VM for that distro hot and ready to go, reading a bunch of documentation about how that distro does packaging, consulting an oracle to tell you which versions of that distro you should target, learning how this particular distro wraps your particular build system, translating all the dependencies, etc.

So it doesn’t seem like just “some time” to me. If you pass this off to a maintainer for that distro, they’re usually fairly experienced with that distro’s ecosystems and the tools.
It seems they haven’t really learned.

Granted, some aspects are better. You can get to the .NET download in about 10
seconds [1]. But, why can’t they make Visual C++ easy? What does it have to look
like this?: [2]. Or this?: [3]. Why can’t they just have this?: [4]. Why does it
need to be buried in a blog post, or a help article?

And then there’s the new Microsoft Terminal, which was only available in the
Microsoft Store until people complained [5].

[1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core

[2] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jagbal/2017/09/04/where-...

[3] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-...

[4] https://microsoft.com/download/visual-c

[5] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1386#issuecomme...
Using this website:

https://www.angio.net/pi/digits.html

I can search for the sequence 0123456789. It is not found in the first 200M digits.
Like other pathologies in the startup ecosystem (e.g. acquisitions like FoundationDB getting acquired by Apple and promptly killed, yanking the rug out from under everyone who built a business on it and so making it less likely anyone will trust database startups in the future), this is a tragedy of the commons: it's rational, if extremely scummy, for an individual founder to accept liquidation preferences that fuck over their ICs, but as people keep doing it, it's gradually emptying the talent pool as engineers realize the game is rigged.

I don't have a good answer for this. Humanity in general is terrible at coordination problems like this, even when our survival is on the line, so I'm not sure how a purely capitalist endeavor like startups are supposed to do anything about it.
I have found that in job negotiations, many startup founders are highly reluctant to discuss what the value of their stock option grant is worth, much less what other conditions may impact the payout.

Has anyone else had this experience and what do they advise others to do when faced with the dilemma of turning down an offer due to a lack of transparency into the option grant?
Is there a proof that says that any arbitrary finite sequence of digits will appear somewhere in the digits of pi? Are there finite sequences known to never appear?
This choice is also good for search optimization.
I'm inclined to give the player all it's health back, since you're the second one to suggest that
A Survey of My Right Arm
I've seen the ones here do shit like yelling these animals are starving and abused while you go home to your luxury apartment, keep on ignoring their cries-esque stuff
Could wooden buildings be a solution to climate change?
Use a lock-up (like public markets) or have the preferences expire / reduce (like the contracts some banks gave pre-IPO Uber employees). Or be like Softbank and demand a 7% dividend on invested capital. Or if you don’t actually have a constructive relationship with the founders, don’t invest.

The only warrant for preferences is for fueling carry and information arbitrage within the VC circle. There is zero benefit to employees, who thankfully know more today.
> IBorderCtrl’s lie detection system was developed in England by researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University, who say that the technology can pick up on “micro gestures”

Aren't "micro-expressions" pseudoscience? Furthermore, AI based micro-expression "detector" sounds even more like snake oil.
From what I can gather, the chambers are quite small due to the pressure issues. This has the result of making aerogel, typically produced with supercritical carbon dioxide, come in comparatively small chunks, especially at the hobbyist level. It's a pity.
This same bug hit me when I upgraded. I literally thought they removed the feature. Then I thought surely not, and went back and tried again. Took me a solid 2 minutes (which felt like way too long) of poking around to realize to scroll like your wife.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons with the Past
There's a sequence of thirteen eights, and twelve of each of the other digits, documented at [0] which covers the first 2.7 trillion digits. Based on that you can be all but certain any given ten-digit sequence, including 0123456789, has also been found.

[0] https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html
I have no knowledge of the startup world, but based on the article, if both the founder and employees have common shares then their incentives are aligned (i.e. the founder wouldn't want to sell the company unless the price was well above the preference overhang). Of course, deception can pay a role in making this less fair.
Paul Krugman is much more of a pundit than he is an economist.
Awesome!!! I was about to link this video only!
That's because most vulnerable workers are either skirting labor laws through the gig economy or have given up and dropped out of the labor pool altogether, which means for whatever reason they don't get counted in the unemployment rate
Better yet: get everyone to walk. Forget unions - just say: "We get a payout or we're all leaving and your $100M investment is immediately worthless". If it fails and they call your bluff, of course you're going to have a hard time getting a job elsewhere unfortunately.

I wonder the best way to mitigate such situations without simply having to rely on VC/Founder goodwill. YC was a leader in their 'clean terms SAFE' which really helped set a 'good standard' for all parties that was a win-win all around, I wonder if there's such a policy framework that could facilitate the same in these situations. YC's concerns in their 'SAFE' situation was balancing VC<->Founder, not employees, that said, Sam Altman has always talked about sharing more equity with other team members.
This x1000.

Everybody interested in economics should read Ha-Joon Chang and study the South Korean phenomenon. Those who haven't and still feel obliged to put down their 2 cents praising free trade / markets are talking out of their asses.

The fact that people are still willing to listen to Krugman (even this FP article is sympathetic) rather than cast him out as a colossal buffoon - not quite Alan Greenspan status but close - whilst geniuses like HJC wallow in relative obscurity is beyond sad.
It surely does appear somewhere. But it isn't within the first 2 billion digits.
No, the black text on blue background is hard to read for everyone, but is overrated by the WCAG’s mediocre heuristic because human visual response to light intensity is not actually logarithmic, but closer to a square root. (Under a particular level of light adaptation; if you allow your eye to adapt for 30 minutes you can move the response curve up or down to see in very dim or very bright conditions.)

It would be better to come up with an estimate of plausible ranges of screen brightnesses and a plausible range of surrounding contexts, and then use a real color appearance model to decide on visual contrast at the extremes of those plausible scenarios.

But whoever designed the WCAG guideline was either not an expert in human vision or perhaps thought that would be too complicated to use a model which more closely approximated perceptual responses.

The WCAG guideline should be seen as nothing more than a loose suggestion, with lots of false negatives. That is, if it says something is illegible, then it should probably be changed. but if it says the contrast is okay, then that should be checked by a better model (or human inspection).

Both white-on-medium-blue and black-on-medium-blue buttons are inaccessible and should be avoided if possible.
Ah yeah, the terpenes in the strains do more than add flavour too. Different terpenes in different strains have been found to have different effects in combination with the cannabinoids in the strain. I doubt re-adding terpenes and flavouring after the fact has the same effect. I suppose I have tried CO2 extract, I have tried the prefilled oil carts with the added flavour. I don't like them. The high from them feels weird and the taste isn't great.
Just get a Spectrum+, a better keyboard than some modern laptops... :)
yeah, but who has time? Tips will spend 5 mins walking you through how to change the preferred colour scheme for the Weather app, when what I want to do right now is answer the phone.

Then, 2 months later, I want to change the colour scheme in the Weather app. Can I remember how? Or even remember where I saw to do that? Or even find the right tip? Obviously not...
Because the VCs are funding your salary. If the company goes under the investors lose their money. You get to keep the money (salary). So the risk is on them and there should be some protections.
> Ray Bull [...] told The Intercept that the iBorderCtrl project was “not credible”

What an aptonym!
It always baffles me when the top comment isn't discussing the article, but provides a response to the headline as if the article doesn't even exist.
For brevity I omitted all of the dot-com flameouts and also the Web 2.0 startups that never got off the ground, but IMHO they support my larger point.

In the late 90s we had a lot of companies that took a lot of money, and the founders and employees got nothing out of them other than painful experiences. When you look at one of the successful "fat" startups (PayPal), Max Levchin's take ($34M) of the $1.6B acquisition was on the same order as the Wufoo founder's take of their $35M acquisition, or the Viaweb founders take of their $49M acquisition. Even Amazon - probably the most successful "fat" startup in history - languished below its dot-com peak until AWS came out in 2007.

Margins matter. Capital efficiency matters. If you want to actually make money, you should make lots of profits on small amounts of invested capital, not lose lots of money on large amounts of invested capital.
I know I may regret saying this* but have they considered vaporising/heating/burning the air sample to produce a spectrograph and then running an image recognition for comparison to known smells. A bit like you can produce a spectrograph of an mp3 and get an almost instantaneous hit if the track is previously known. Subtract out the known smells and the remaining is an unknown. Find similar shaped molecules and return their likely traits (musky, floral, almonds etc.) with a visual keyword cloud.

It is two different things – you either recognize a scent OR you identify a scent. Why not speed things up by running it as a two step process? Recognize = Rapid results, Identify = Best Guess at what it might smell like. I’m not sure how a human determines that there is a smell of gasoline, freshly cut grass and a hint of something else/unknown in the air rather than thinking hmmm, I do not recognize a scent that has aspects of cut grass AND gasoline AND an unknown therefore the whole scent is ‘unknown’.

*anon-experts that go ‘gosh, why didn’t those idjuts with multiple PhDs think of that’
Dragging things around is not required on macOS. There are always ways to do things without it. It's just that it's a generally pretty intuitive way to accomplish a task, and it's something that macOS embraced in a way that Windows never did. Want to trash an app? Drag it to the trash. Want to print a PDF? Drag it onto a printer. You can do it other ways, of course — right click and "move to trash", or right-click and "print".
I think that's somewhat intentional? The name stands for [Intel [Single Program Multiple Data] Program Compiler], not "SIMD"/"Instruction". I'd expect switching lane depth (4 shorts or 4 bytes) to work fine, but switching SIMD width (8 or 16 lanes) seems out of scope for "run 4 instances of this program in lockstep".
I’m going through the thread and the answer comes down to reputation...is that really a technical measure of the issue rather than a social one?
Amazon adds nearly 100k people in three months
You should think of it as a weak heuristic pointing in vaguely the right direction, rather than a careful scientifically validated metric.

Similar in its technical sloppiness the “color rendering index” advertised on light bulbs.
And if the seller in turn uses your $1 to buy a lottery ticket you both would have roughly equal chance of getting rich :)
Yup, that was Windows Phone.

Everything was laid out so that further content was partially clipped. It was awesome. The OS was butter smooth and great on battery life.
yeah, I absolutely loath these gestures with a passion. Impossible to get right when you need them, and impossible to avoid doing by accident when you don't
Lo! Technology: https://www.angio.net/pi/
If this is the kind of technical advice you provide, which merely assumes that Google can do no wrong, and the user on the other end is incapable of pressing a button on a yet another website that checks email configuration, merely to confirm that the configuration of their mail server is not in any way incorrect, then it's not a surprise that you get downvoted into oblivion, according to your own statement earlier in this thread.
Yup, it's just another redundancy.
Good point. I am not going to read this article anymore.
To whatever extent that is happening, there is no evidence that it has happening more today than it was happening 50 years ago (before globalization) so comparing the unemployment rate of today to the unemployment rate then is still a perfectly valid comparison.
17,387,594,880 http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiDigits.html
I think you're taking it a bit too far. The friendly image from the 90's applies just as much today as it did in the 90's, it is just that we know a lot more about how the whole machine works because of various publications and parliamentary questions and answer sessions.

We don't have fascist 'burgerwacht' controlled by the government, if anything they are the opposite, operating outside of government oversight and control and considerable manpower and expense goes into keeping track of these groups.

The reason I'm concerned with the linked article is because it might cause 'off the books' characters to reveal themselves and if they have been near the periphery of something illegal even if they themselves were not part of it or if their skills are judged unique enough that those skills themselves start counting as a fingerprint of sorts that it might get people in trouble who do not deserve that.
Realistically, I truly wonder if the consummate versions of such tech won't become the keystone of the future world's pyrrhic utopia. In some paved global labyrinth of potted plants, designer integrity and perfect safety, where lies are only fiction of the past and dissidence is a vestigial dead synapse in the collective mind.
Having a list of people who visited the site (possible via DNS records) is definitely a way to drastically narrow your suspect pool. Now you don't need to be a global passive adversary - you just sit on the links used by the "bad" people.
The article features architect Andrew Waugh who builds high-rise buildings in cross laminated timber.

I saw him make the case for wood as a replacement for concrete in the Dutch "Backlight" (Tegenlicht) documentary series "Is the Wooden Revolution Approaching?" [0]. Very cool concepts.

[0] http://waughthistleton.com/news/19/10/18/wooden-revolution-a...
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I dunno about "known" but you can get a billion digits pretty easy.

$ wget https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/pi-billion.txt
$ grep -ob 012345678 pi-billion.txt
956753746:012345678
$ grep -ob 0123456789 pi-billion.txt
$

So close, and amusingly close to the end of the file!
Better that than “random personal anecdote only loosely related to the title.” Those are too common.
I just watched the video and it was well worth the hour! The "Illustrated Guide" I linked to is like the perfect lead in to this very informative and clear talk.
Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
Yes; alias the symbols that are macro operators or special operators via macros, and alias other kinds of symbols in their respective namespaces.

Variables may also have to be done with macros, because you want an assignment to a translated variable name to appear in the original variable. Some Lisp dialects perhaps allow a variable cell to have a binding to two or more symbols which could do the same thing.
It's also a very convenient way for oil and gas companies to suck all the renewable subsidy money in the name of "carbon sequestration", when the reality is they're developing new ways to get even more oil and gas out...
What questions (specifically) should have this person asked upfront when having their options offer prior to employment?

What should have they asked long the way to check on when there were fundraising rounds?
I feel for you.

I don't know how old you are, but my guess is that you are young, and you get another shot. Don't be dismayed. Try again.

$100M is an awful lot of money - I'd consider $1M to be a lot. I I understand that you got zilch, and if I were you, I'd be angry too. But you seem to be clever - get over it, and have another go.

/me just another employee. Never been an entrepreneur. Not smart enough.
The clickbait title was what got me to this page, so why not? :)
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
Rad, didn't know you'd moved to Austin. We are using Rust for a couple projects at my startup now: bractlet.com
Meanwhile it seems like very few people in the industry actually understand statistics well enough to not shoot themselves in the foot. The number of times I've seen accidental p-hacking is absurd. Having to explain to people why they can't stop running a trial as soon as the numbers look good is like pulling teeth.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791
The grandparent asked if this was supposed to be discoverable and the answer is no, Apple does not expect you to discover it. If you want to learn about it, it’s in the Tips app (that they prompt you to use). Not wanting to use the Tips app seems like a personal issue.
Do the Chrome/Firefox developer tools have any easy way to simulate forms of color blindness and levels + types of vision loss? I'd love to see such tools front-and-center so that devs are always aware of the need to accomodate for it. My vision isn't that bad, but it's always bothersome to come across pages that don't support black-on-white text for prose. Yes, black-on-white doesn't look as svelte as a hint of gray, but it's so much easier to read.
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Side note:
ZX Spectrum was my first computer, and since then I have never ever experienced such a joy about working with new gadget.. I even thought it was some childhood effect, never to be repeated again. Can't describe in words, I think everyone here know what I mean.

Until I have made a Tesla test drive..
Is there a benefit in asking to get "paid" in both preferred stock and regular stock to spread the risk out? It seems "preferred" stock is really "preferred but with lots of dangerous caveats" stock.
You mean the linked article isn't just a 750-word essay version of "Huh?!?!"
Yep very little transparency. Ask these questions!! Don’t take the job? Take another job? Hope that the company will IPO? Or that an IPO is the path?
Thanks. I like this comment in the gist:

Сообщить("Hello Wold");
It saves a click for many people who are tired of clickbait.
Another solution is to share the data with friends and family why you are living. Most services and passwords can go with you to the grave no dramas. Bank accounts etc. would be covered by a will. Access to domains etc.: Personal blog, who cares (just author in Github then someone can grab the source if they want) anything valuable domain wise should be owned by a company. That company should have procedures if you die and probably will share passwords between trusted owners or employees.
You shouldn't be actively using, interacting with, and providing manual input to your device (be it a phone, garmin edge, or anything else) while cycling. An occasional glance at a navigation app (on a screen that is held by something other than your hand - a clip, stand, etc.) is probably fine - but taking your hand off a handlebar long enough to hold a device, and taking your concentration off your path long enough to interact with it, is asking for trouble.
The parasites writing these contracts are counting on people not taking the time to become experts in shady startup contracts. As evidenced by this article, it's working.
The “gray text” on the button analyzed in the article is dark gray text on light gray background. It has plenty of contrast.

https://uxmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cca-button...

You might find it aesthetically inferior to black on yellow (or whatever) but there’s nothing inherently illegible about it.

To the grandparent poster chadlavi:

> This is so stupid it hurts. It doesn't pass contrast guidelines because bright things on bright things are hard to distinguish

You are misunderstanding the author’s claims, and then responding with mean-spirited insults. Try reading the whole article again more carefully, and with an open mind. If you are confused about something in specific a person who has studied color science a bit can try to clear up any questions you have.

The author is not suggesting that you should put white text on a middle-blue (or whatever) background, but merely pointing out that the WCAG heuristic for contrast is not in accord with human lightness perception.

The white-on-blue vs. black-on-blue is just a demonstrative example, showing that even though white-on-blue has higher contrast according to human perception, the WCAG heuristic instead rates the contrast of black-on-blue to be higher. This happens because the WCAG heuristic assumes human response to light intensity to be logarithmic, an inaccurate model which breaks down quite badly when you have dark text on a dark background.

In practice both white-on-medium-blue and black-on-medium-blue buttons have relatively low contrast and should be avoided where possible. With white text a darker background would be better. With black text a (much) lighter background would be better.
This is actually a great heuristic.

Good founders (and companies) will be very transparent about how all this stuff works.

Bad founders (and companies) will not.

If a company that is trying to recruit you is squirrely about this stuff, it's definitely a vote in the direction of walking away.
you start your sentence with "as a woman" therefore you loose all credibility
Why would you wait until someone is no longer a pedophile before deeming them ready for rehailitation?

Sure, one could grant that gay people on average are slightly more feministic, and criminals on average are more testosteronistic (as are athletes and law enforcement officers).

How do you define "work"?
How is this information usable, even slighly, in a security context, overcome the completely predictable shitshow that it will create in practice?

You say "telltale", but that's not supported by the evidence.

> Israel has the most advanced airport security

Because they have highly trained officers interrogating people and searching packages, not running AI dowsing rods.
I find wood as a replacement for concrete - even for high-rise buildings - still more exciting, so I created a submission to showcase the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21359347