skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are often dividends attached to preferred shares. This is basically interest, and may or may not accrue, and has to be paid out eventually. That's even more money off the top.
This reminds me of Borges' Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html
Pretty aggressive timeline for someone with no big idea.

OK, how about a digital "yarn board" for crazy conspiracy theorists to collaboratively piece together things?
> the other tool we tend to overlook is immigration. grow the economy through internal demand and upstart labor rather than external.

The thing about immigration is that it can be good or bad. Immigration of entrepreneurs and skilled workers can grow the local economy, but immigration of unskilled workers into a country that already has an oversupply of unskilled labor only serves to suppress wages and increase the unemployment rolls.

And advocates of increased immigration typically use the numbers from legal immigration, which is (by design) disproportionately immigration of the first kind. But increasing immigration implies relaxing those sort of restrictions, and then the numbers change.

Immigration also can't be a global solution since it's a zero sum game. You take a doctor from one country and move them to another, it helps the destination country but harms the source. It's not helping us to take in another country's cab drivers, but it's also not helping poorer countries when we take their engineers away from them.
There's no dilemma. Just do it.

The best way to get information about this is to ask you question and then shut up. You'll get a BS answer first. Just sit there and don't say anything. Most people break down after 30 seconds and give up more information. The longer you keep your mouth shut the more you receive.

It's totally OK to say 'this doesn't seem like such a great deal.' Don't answer questions about what you want - just reply that you don't know enough about their financials to know what they could agree to, only what you can agree to. If it starts going round in circles, think of it as a preview of future experience and decide whether you want to be in that position.
Home air compressors produce so little compressed air that they generally can’t even keep up with the needs of a small tool at 100% duty cycle.
was that an array[array[Tesla Powerpack]] or array[Tesla[Tesla[Powerpacks]]]
You'll almost never get preferred shares unless you at C-level or put your own money.

The only thing you negotiate is more salary in cash and assume your options are just lottery tickets with very high odds
Those companies that have spent years building reputations as nice places to work, with high salaries, and good perks. It's a bit unreasonable to expect everyone to be tempted by some possibility of equity.

I'd tend to assume that if you want highly skilled engineers at a reasonable price, you probably have to know them personally and sell the idea of building the company together to them.
Would you mind elaborating? I'd love to hear more.
You can't possibly actually values your shares at zero. Test: can I have all of your shares? No? Well then you must value them at _something_. What if I gave you $1? 10? $100?

Just because something is (even incredibly) risky doesn't mean its value is zero.
> How does the ribbon hide functionality compared to menus?

Did you tried to use it ? For every god damn thing i try to find in the ribbon i lose 5 minutes. That's what i call "hiding functionality" .
Microsoft Is Awarded DoD Jedi Cloud Contract
You are assuming that a publicly run utility would have the same cost structure as a private corporation - so the dividends that the private entity paid out would be available for further investment.

If anything, I would expect a publicly run utility to be less efficient at capital allocation. All "excess" capital may get used up in the inefficiencies instead of investments.

Consider the challenges of city-wide transportation networks in providing service, maintaining infrastructure and investing for the future.
just FYI the tower that started this fire was recently inspected and repaired. this it's not as simple as more maintenance when we have piss poor fire prevention
This comment should get more upvote. Thanks for the more
accurate information.

Also, the page pointed you to this one https://psps.ss.pge.com/ to check if your address is in the impact zone or not. Seems like it works this time.
What's incredible is that once you factor in PPP, this is equivalent to $200B in local purchasing power.

Imagine how much new economic activity that is for a country whose GDP is only $2.5T
Questioner probably owned options for which he paid no money. Therefore there is no loss. Nor is there a gain on which they owe taxes.
A more numinous ending at that.
I think if a venture is unsuccessful employees shouldn't expect to make money from their options. A venture that raises $60MM and sells for $100MM 4 years later is a failure. Making nothing in a case like that seems fair to me. What is perhaps unfair, is if the employee worked for substantially below market wages all of that time, and particularly if they were given a much rosier picture than was accurate. But we shouldn't assume those things are always true.
Understanding Tracer Performance with LightStep Benchmarks
Ask HN: Why using “system font stack” when you can just use “sans-serif”?
I've read dozens of articles about how various websites set their "system font stack" up and tutorials on it [1-5].

From what I can see, the goal of "system font stack" is trying to use native system font when possible, particularly on mobile. And all these articles gave rationales about how it would be superior than some of the traditional stacks such as `font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;`, which I fully agree.

However, none of them seem to address an obvious question: why not just use "font-family: sans-serif;"? The only discussion I found that is on a "notable enough" project is this issue on normalize.css repo: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/issues/665

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By assigning only "sans-serif", it will fallback to exactly that: system's default (san-serif) font. For example, there is no need to manually assign, say, "Roboto" (a typical choice for any of these "system font stacks") on Android, to accomplish so: "sans-serif" uses Roboto already. Similar can be said for iOS etc.

Wikipedia (desktop version, not mobile version) perhaps is the only "notable" site I knew that uses simply "sans-serif", and it seems to work flawlessly for years, on all devices.

Another plus for just using "sans-serif" is that for ends that have finer control over fonts (such as desktop browsers), users can assign their own preferred fonts (therefore overriding the system default ones) and it will be immediately applied to the website. This won't happen for sites that have hard-coded fonts (including these "system font stacks").

Disclaimer: I'm not a designer, but a end-user who is relatively sensitive to fonts.

[1] https://woorkup.com/system-font/
[2] https://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/
[3] https://furbo.org/2018/03/28/system-fonts-in-css/
[4] https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012937927-About-the-system-font-stack
[5] https://flaviocopes.com/css-system-fonts/

(Just search "system font stack to get more)
What if your brain is the bottleneck?
How is a utility even allowed to "shut down" outside of some Act of God? If they can't run the utility to an acceptable SLA, it should be nationalised.
I think its more nuanced than this. Being pro-worker and anti-tariff is not a contradiction if you don't think tariffs will actually help workers.

Democrats have more or less embraced that markets can work and policy makers have picked battles accordingly. I'm not sure what full throated free market policies US Democrats have put forward that overreach their GOP counterparts, although they have certainly become very complacent.
Think author may be confusing a Microsoft issue with broader issue. Type A personality management was all the rage back then
> More and more it seems like some sort of UBI or welfare system is the only real option. Give people an income floor and don't worry if they flourish above that, at least to a certain extent.

Except: 1) UBI is unproven and 2) it strikes me as a bit of a band-aid solution designed mainly to avoid confronting certain ideological assumptions.
Yes, it is a quite good, somewhat dynamic choose your own adventure that works well on touchscreen devices.
This does nothing to address the issue of how poor management is to blame for this situation in the first place. Yes, the blackouts are probably a reasonable response to the current situation, but what are they doing to make sure this never happens again? Basically where is the accountability?

If they need to do rolling blackouts to prevent fires that's fine. Are the people that designed the system so poorly being blamed for leading us to this situation or are they being handsomely rewarded?
To expand on your example:

I invest $100 for 20% of your venture, implicitly valuing the company at $500 . You sell for $200.

- Standard preference: I get $100 or 20% of the company ($40)

- 2x preference: I get $200 or 20% ($40)

- Participating preferred: I get $100 and 20% of the company ($140)

IMO, 1x preference, non-preferred is entirely fair. In the event the company sells for lower than the valuation, the investors get their money back first. The vulnerability it protects against is that I found a company for $0, you invest $100 for 20%, then I immediately turn around and sell for $101. You get $20.25 and I get $79.75.

Participating preferred and >1x preference are unconscionable.
I have seen this from some US sites in response to EU customers cos they couldn't be bothered making a GDPR compliant version of their site.
very rarely, 2-3 times maybe but just today I encountered it: https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Janga... is unavailable from my location at least. ( got there from the tweet linked related to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357841 )
Trojan malware infecting 17 apps on the App Store
The outcome of an election is representation in parliament - which was clearly respected. Elections aren't a popularity vote.
KPIs and Metrics for DevRel Programs
Ribbons aren't easily scannable, because the controls don't line up. Menus line up vertically, toolbars line up horizontally. Granted multi-level menus are evil because what you're looking for may be in a submenu.
Simplify: Move Code into Database Functions
1) How much of those pay increases is just keeping up with inflation? What's the income multiple earned by a manufacturing worker with 20 years experience vs. a fresh hire in the same role?

2) It's true that supporting a family requires a higher salary, but younger people can have families, too, and in any case retraining for a job that allows you to barely scrape by is better than nothing. Better to get mostly screwed than to get completely screwed.
Electric bills have always been such a small part of my utilities bills that I think a rate hike would be the right move.
They would be making closer to 3000 every two months instead of 300. It wouldn't be a utopia, but it'd be a lot better than if we hadn't bled Latin America dry for our benefit.

My point is that a factory moving overseas isn't some platonic transaction. There is a history and a context to why labor is so cheap and regulations are so lax.
Mobility of capital without mobility of labour. Surprise, it's not just.
Ah, apologies, I should have been able to figure that out. As it stands, it currently only stores on the machine where the app runs.

I have put thought into storing it into something like an HSM as I think that would only raise the confidence, trust and security of Certera. I have that written down as something to pursue in future versions!
(GitLab employee... of course) Sorry this thread kept you up (no sarcasm). If it helps at all, I'm responding to you right now because I'm here gathering all of the feedback, since there was so much discussion on here/reddit/twitter/the issues that need consolidating. I'll be making a lot of noise so the people in charge can truly see the impact this had
For years they have been deferring maintenance in order to pay out dividends and buy back stock.

They have been negligent.
PG&E’s legal team is pulling these stunts to manipulate the jury pool and establish a defense of duress due to the public’s pressure on them to keep the power on.

The solution is going to take cooperation from PG&E, the state, EPA, Municipalities and land owners.

The state and epa need to make it easy for PG&E to maintain fire safety on public land. The counties need to make property owners bear the burden of paying to cut back trees if the planted them
Under lines or cut it down at county expense, PG&E must reform. They have operated in a bloated Bureaucratic hybrid with malicious corporate vulture behavior
A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)
> And that is a good thing.

Curious - why is Left Hand Traffic better than Right Hand Traffic?
Seems some people are trying to answer that question: https://iborderctrl.no/act
Often enough that it is mentioned in the article.
Ask HN: New IT System
We are a small manufacturer and need an up-to-date IT system. Needs to cover both worker activities for engineering and administration, and, light manufacturing. I'll toss in physical security as well, since I'd like everything to integrate together nicely.

The company has 50 employees. We'll be keeping it under 100 over the next 10 years.

Some of the big blocks we need:

- MRP/ERP system as the backbone. Manage BOMs & procurement of electronic components and subsystems. Needs to integrate with SAP-scale systems at our customers and vendors.

- CRM/RMA

- Engineering support including CAD systems, Engineering Project Management, Version Control, PLM. Needs to integrate directly with MRP/ERP system.

- Standard cubicle+wfh+remote workforce platforms:

> Mobile computer, Windows
> Phone (all mobile?)
> E-mail
> MS Office

- Physical Security
> Employee Badging
> Secure entry
> Visitor Badging
> Security Camera
> Alarm system

I'd like to utilize cloud where appropriate. We need to have a business continuation plan that shows we can relocate and be up and running in 2 weeks after a disaster.

I'm looking for any best practices or modern approaches to assembling all of this.

Thanks for any guidance you can offer!
How hard can it be to put it behind Cloudflare caching really?
Yes, bankruptcy court. If they are liable for another fire before they get out of bankruptcy, then the victims of the new fire will be paid before existing victims, creditors, and shareholders.
https://twitter.com/jared_ellias/status/1187523144505937921
Then you'd have to pay more.
In certain fields, sure... but even SoftBank isn't investing in EVERY market. Not everyone has a SoftBank funded competitor.
Right near 92 and 101 here - pretty urban - and we're on "possibly in the next 24-36 hours"
I wish electronic ink hardware were not so expensive. I have a lot of ideas that would like to use it.
> common stock is 99.9% worthless, you want preferred stock

TLDR: For the vast majority of folks, stock options are opium of the people.

If you take a 100 steps back from the legalese garbage, all this is just a more nicely dressed version of the good old country fair scam.
For a perfect example, try learning APL without having any background or reference names for its symbols: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_APL_symbols.html
OpenFly – an open source flight sim graphics engine
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/gomezgregg76; my proof: https://keybase.io/gomezgregg76/sigs/NxV4Hs6P94yZ4Euu6JneeN9... ]
Coinbase avoided design forever—using simply twitter bootstrap and uh not much of a logo.

Not every startup can pull this off, but template designs—particularly for web are great and cheap now. Custom UI controls waste money in development and design.
Totally get it - part of it was that you could fully control and understand that machine. It could do so much and you were able to fully master it!

Modern computers are largely black boxes full of software that you can't understand and end up using through experiences that sit on top of dozens inscrutable layers. Not the Spectrum - you had the full power and control always!
> The thing is that US workers have a lower bound on the fee they can charge for their labor, due to minimum wage laws. Those laws were enacted because we as a country believe there's a moral duty to ensure a minimum quality of life for it's working citizens (and in extension humans in general).

Also: things cost more in the US. You can't survive on 3rd world sweatshop wages in the US, even if they were permitted by abolishing minimum wage laws.
I'm more of a fan of the Nook and Kobo series (ability to sideload DRM-less ePubs is non-negotiable). But I like the less-is-more approach for e-readers; if anything, I'd prefer they had even more spartan/minimalist UIs, mimicking the "zero UI" affordances of a physical book as much as possible.

I'm just being finicky, but I still find the e-ink screen flash a little distracting from the flow of reading (even in newer screens that only need it every 6 pages or whatever). Just had a stray idea: what if an e-ink reader had an accelerometer and a screen on either side; the next page is already ready to read, and flipping it over silently preps page n+2 on the screen you were just reading? :)
Some people use it by dropping files up to share with people, and don't use the syncing capabilities. It's a reasonably common use case, I've noticed.

Some people also use it like a USB dongle, and drop files up manually, then download them on computers they don't have installation privileges on.
It's not the ideal solution and certainly not as easy as clicking a button but, for a quick 'n dirty solution, you might look into using "offlineimap" and configuring it to sync only your notes folder instead of all of them.
Isomorphism != equality. Formulas in greek numerals are trivially isomorphic to ones using arabic numerals, because they are different representations of the "same" concepts, but nobody would argue that arabic numerals aren't more practical (at least for us).[1] So even though the concepts the aliens come up with might be technically isomorphic to (a version of) lambda calculus on some extremely abstract level, there is no guarantee that either we or they would be able to recognize this, owing to a vast difference in representation.

[1] Similarly, a basic theorem in algorithmic information theory states that all programming languages are about equally efficient in terms of program size,[2] but that doesn't mean that all programming languages are actually equally good for every problem in practice, as the constant debates about "the best language" among programmers clearly show.

[2] The basic argument is that, if programs written in language A are vastly shorter than those written in language B, it is possible to write an interpreter for language A in language B of constant length c. So all programs written in language B are at most c chars longer than those written in language A.
I guess "virtue signal" is the cool new catchphrase used by cynics.

Is there any way for a person or company to do anything of any good without being accused of this? Probably not. Anonymous commenters on the interwebs loves these types of throwaway accusations.

Actually, now that I think of it, mentioning "virtue signal" and "woke" is really just sending a virtue signal about how you're the truly woke one...

And I'm sending a virtue signal right now about how I totally get what's happening, and you don't, which shows how woke I am...

I don't think this particular hole has a bottom.
I'm not so sure it's easy to represent the exact behavior of a complex system.

What would your estimate be to: "rewrite facebook in language L, with the same behavior, bugs and all".
Nothing you said surprises me. It was fucking amazing. The v2 was a great leap over the v1, which was a leap over the other competitors. You could just tell how much effort went into those things. And you could tell that everyone was on board with making the best product possible, hunting for 10x+ leaps, and putting the user first. Thank you!

As a user it changed my life. I will never not wear them (on the Versa 2 now), and have years of actionable health data that has been life changing. And it's still so obvious to me that this is still the very, very early days of wearables and consumer biotech.

I was heartbroken when it was discontinued. I would love to read the high-level strategic thinking behind that. I understand perhaps the thought was Apple Watch would be tough to compete against, but the Band was years ahead of Apple (the first couple generations of Apple Watch completely missed the key point that the killer app for watches is health) so I like to think it had a chance, but more importantly I thought it was a fight worth fighting because of how much impact these things will have on people's health. It was also just inspiring that a new product like that could come out of Microsoft, and sad to see they didn't give it the 10+ years it deserved.
>I have never seen this implemented

Great argument for tags! Sure, it's never been done, but it's possible that someone will re-implement the inherent properties of filesystems with tags in the future, so let's take your filesystem away now!
> All this crap is too complicated.

If it was simpler, regular folks would figure out it's just a scam.

You're naive if you think there's any other reason for all this.
Archived OpenFLY source repo page.[0]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20011205183044/http://ariel.ucs.u...
Microsoft wins major defense cloud contract, beating out Amazon
2 start ups behind, shares worth 0. both companies took on half a billion (!!!) in funding combined - from VCs, gov etc. Revenue = close to nothing.

I feel that start ups mostly are cash burn machines built to pay cushy salaries to C-level execs and build "impressive" resumes again for the execs. For most other folks, they are a just stepping stone to a "real" world job in a stable corporation.

assume, your shares are worthless, basically a lottery ticket! In both companies i knew that some people put in real money to buy out options, 100s thousands of dollars amounts. Now they are sitting on a bunch of 0s.

Learn from others mistakes! They are free!
7M Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed to Hackers
> At least if a public utility is run poorly, we can attempt to fix it via legislation.

Because that's worked so well for our publicly owned security services (police)?

We definitely need to shake things up but bringing something under the umbrella of government doesn't magically make it not suck.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/what-is-nuget

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

you can Register-PackageSource and then Install-Package which is basically what Chocolatey is.

In fact, to install chocolatey on your computer you can run "Install-Package -Name Chocolatey"

"Set-PackageSource -Name chocolatey -ProviderName chocolatey" makes Install-Package more useful, at which point you dont need chocolatey installed, as youve already added it as a repo that Install-Package can access. "Install-PackageProvider Chocolatey" also works. I find it all a little confusing which is which but oh well.

I suppose its up to you which is more pleasant to type "choco install xx -y" or "Install-Package -Name xx"
I have worked on several flexible fixed cost contracts. It’s a more complex contract, but money gets handed out on a per deliverable basis with negotiation occurring during the contract period. They allow some back and forth but require designs to be finalized by the government at specific times.

The issue is it’s hard to scale that up to a multi year 2 billion dollar contract. However, I think individual large scale software projects are inherently a bad idea, which is probably a larger issue.
How does liquidation preference work, when companies go IPO?
I imagine that depends on if they can sell the unused power somewhere else.