skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, it was this quote

> For all I love about it, it seems unlikely to ever progress beyond its current role as a pleasant book reader largely disconnected from all other sources of content.

that summed it up for me. That's all I want. I want it to be disconnected from all other sources of content. I don't want to be interrupted with a notification saying that x website uploaded a new article or whatever.
The entire point of joining a start-up is to 'play the lotto'. You are deferring salary now for a chance at millions later. You would not do it if the expected value was negative[0]. However, it's becoming more and more obvious to even freshmen undergrads that it's all a load of hooey.

Not only are the founders going to need to be super transparent with their finances to get good interviewees, but some other event will need to take place in addition [1]. That makes hiring good employees even more difficult, especially as the company grows.

This behavior by the current unicorns can be overcome, but man will it take a change in the funding ecosystem. Since the current crop already has two unicorns (Uber, Wework) with major funding rounds by a shady group (the Saudis), I really doubt the ecosystem will change for the better of prospective employees.

Like it or not, the wild west phase of tech is over. It is better to join up with the FAANGs at this point for most folks. The expected value of joining a start-up is unlikely to be positive.

[0] Yes, there is a sucker born every minute, but in general, that's the idea.

[1] Events like the prospective employee will require really good healthcare that only this company provides, or the prospective employee really really needs a job for some reason, or the prospective employee lives 5 minutes away, or the prospective employee really is super passionate about the idea, or the prospective employee is a good friend of the founders, etc. Each prospective employee you hire is also unlikely to share any of these events with any other prospective employee, and these events are likely to change over time.
My trusted friend decides to try to access all my online accounts, and requests access to my Passbox. Passbox sends me an email informing me of the request.

Oops. The email from Passbox ends up in my junk email folder by mistake. I never see it.

After the waiting period, my trusted friend gets the information from Passbox and proceeds to wreak havoc with all my online accounts.

No thanks.
The ASN will only tell you the traffic is from Akamai, not that it was for apple.akamai.com or steampowered.akamai.com, etc.
Doing Business 2020 Rankings
The genius of Microsoft is in the long-term thinking. The individual products are easily critiqued. Their planning often mistimes stuff or gets caught out by new developments, and they play a lot of hardball to get where they want to go (which has never made anyone look good), but when they hit, they hit big, and make not just a product but an entire kingdom, which has all the downsides of monopoly but also substantial upside too.

While the Ballmer years saw the company coast along on its old crown jewels, missing nearly every opportunity, Nadella's MSFT has shaped up to be one that is building a few new kingdoms - in the cloud space, open dev tools, new consumer hardware (see the upcoming Surface lineup) - it's definitely not the Windows + Office company of old.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312609
> To evaluate readability you should look not at the average rating from all users but the lowest average for each condition/group as they will be the ones who cant read it.

I mean, how scalable is that in the long run?

Every average obscures a bag of unknown causative factors that we have yet to tease apart.

As our medical knowledge increases and the number of conditions we can diagnose rise, the 'lowest average for each condition' monotonically decreases as a simple mathematical fact.

Without an automated solution to making things accessible to every condition, designers and implementors will be buried under a mound of individual cases.
No, that is not how the original Monty Hall problem was formulated.

The original said: "the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, which has a goat."

Your formulation of the problem changes it from the original Monty Hall problem to something more similar to the Tuesday Boy problem, where the trick is that you have pre-selected a bunch of outcomes and discarded others, changing the probabilities.

And going back to the comments above this, it's not the case that Monty choosing a door by random is the thing that matters, it's the thing that in this version he chose a door by random and you discarded all the outcomes where Monty chose the car.

It's not the case that people are confused by the problem because they interpret the problem like you did. People understand that a goat door is always eliminated as part of the game, and they still don't agree that switching is better.
That's a nice answer but the question really needed a lot more information for it to be the right answer. There are quite a few ways in which small shareholders can get screwed, this article illustrates just one of them and quite possibly not the one that bit the questioner.
Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition
Arguably, news articles have been written from the start (even in physical newspapers) so that the most important information is listed first, knowing that many readers won't bother to flip the pages to get to where the article is continued. Giant page-ending ads online just continue this tradition, they'd rather you click three more headlines than keep reading the mostly-redundant article body.
Please don't falsely accuse others of logical fallacies. It's totally inappropriate for HN.
I think that you are wrong and am demonstrating that with my willingness to put my money where my mouth is.
I've been trusting 1password since the pre 1.0 days and was never disappointed. They seem like stand up people who always try to do the right thing.

The switch to subscription slightly rubbed me the wrong way, like many, but then I paused, reconsidered how much I usually pay for upgrades and the value I get from 1P. I though it was fair.

I say all this because I found all the alternatives to be clunky, buggy or insecure. This is the sweet spot for me.
That's a totally different and unrelated assertion. If the Gov't wants that traffic, they can just go to a Level3 fiber regeneration site in the middle of nowhere and tap the fiber traffic of hundreds of companies.
What are Trump’s tariffs a lever for?
“ Any patient denying alcohol ingestion but who have elevated blood alcohol levels or positive breathalyzer results should be investigated for ABS,” they concluded.

How you know an academic has never worked the ER.
Nice, I'll add the format to my crawler
from experience: I am very big on transparency and honesty and while that feels good and no one ends up surprised, the problem you run into is that other companies are not particularly honest or transparent.

I would not change what we did (which was basically full disclosure) but it was challenging to deal with.
Probably not a company with any professional investors on board.
https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...

Book is here
I had an ISP that intercepted my requests, and would return bogus (ads) results if the resolution for that particular address failed. Moving off of port 53 was enough to bypass it, but it was easier to just tunnel my DNS requests. The sad thing now is google thinks I need extra captchas because of my weird DNS geo-location. I can't win.
Only in the UK, despite the name of the site reporting it.
Why is patriarchal used derogatorily?
Enlightenment and the Discovery of Human Extinction
What's baffling about it? If someone were to only read the title and not the article and came to the comments section, a summary about the title would be desired. What you're probably baffled about is why do people only read the title and not the article.
Unfortunately, "voluntary" doesn't mean "opt-in", it means "Technically there are hoops you can jump through, costing time and/or money, to avoid it"
As a former founder, I am often surprised by the incredible spend at some startups I've visited. The biggest is headcount - so many fluff jobs.

How many designers does an early stage startup really need? 1, 2, 10, 20, 50? How many SREs do you need when your site is just a handful of AWS instances? How many sales people do you need when your product isn't ready for sale yet?

Each employee fully loaded in the bay area is what like $150-$300K? 20 people like that will chew through your Series A before you know what happened.

Bad (for startups) deals get done when you start running out of runway. Once you're out of runway, you'll sign a 4x liquidation preference at a low valuation because it gets you an infusion of cash now. Now the VCs own you.
Odd. Works relatively well on my 2014 MBP. (With LR running in the background, too)

I mean, it goes further to your point -try it out. It seems that it depends _very_ much on the use cases.
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patient
Not that I've found, but you may find Color Oracle[1] to be a helpful arrow in your quiver.

[1] http://colororacle.org/
I'm considering coasting back to a Thinkpad for a while and check if they manage to un-fuck the MBP next year.

I'm fine if they just re-print the old sacred & holy Unibody with recent hardware, X62 style.

Perfection cannot be improved.
Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about... your mother.
I think that points to how most people let norms influence them.

It was perfectly normal in the 19th century along with street children, an unusual artifact in the 20th and blatantly out of place in the 21st.
As much as I agree with your statement, the parent is arguing that climate change is a diffuse threat that's not immediately visible. Just like underfunding pensions will lead to possible issues later but we get money to spend now, or eating the seed corn instead of planting it.

It's not sustainable, but our political and economical systems are structured in such a way that we sacrifice long term sustainability for short term gains, such as getting reelected for a four year term or making the quarterly goals.
No, I clearly do not dismiss other cultures as inferior to my own, though.
Standard Model 3 is the average price of a new vehicle in the US. 17 million new cars a year in the US, and I assume China is a big market as well with Gigafactory 3 coming online.
> How is a legitimate startup supposed to recruit the best people under these conditions?

So, I'm post-exit from a startup I founded. It was >10x on returns, but not a supermassive company. I've also been part of a few other exits now in various capacities. So let me just tell you:

Startup founders get better stock than they give employees. They also often write themselves in super powers or special exit clauses. So for founders, the deal is nearly always better unless things get very bad (and it's usually better to wind down the company rather that push if things look that bad, a tough call).

Most folks have a very distorted view of what startup equity is. People think the equity will be worth a lot. And it could be in very specific cases, like an IPO. In those cases, stock is often great. In acquisitions, it's usually not quite as amazing.

If you do find yourself holding stock in an acquisition as an employee, usually what happens is either your stock is bought from you for a fee, or in rarer cases it's converted into company stock (which is usually the better option if it's a publicly traded company). You can expect some modest five digit sum from even the best outcomes here. But what will probably happen to said engineers or staff is that they'll get "retention bonuses." For engineers, retention bonuses for folks they want to keep on are roughly double-pay wages on a non-incremental payment schedule (e.g., 25% the first year, 25% the second year, 50% the third year) to try and get folks to stay on and embed themselves in the company. This is often a lot more valuable than the stock you're awarded if you can stick it out.

A famous explanation of a big (but not superhuge) acquisition is an old post by then-workaday engineer and founder of a small startup called GitHub named Tom-Preston Werner [0]. In that post he details the nature of his deal with Microsoft and why he didn't take the money.

Considering what he ended up with, it seems like a good deal, but only because he was one of the very few people who managed to pass a company into profitability.

[0]: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-...
I've used both, so you can't convince me with such a poor argument. I happen to think TeamCity is the worse of the two, so there.
> Are `meter` and `metre` pronounced differently?

I wouldn't imagine so.

Bit like how cheque and check aren't pronounced differently -- so not really homonyms, as the meaning is the same (or at least in the North American interpretation usage, one of the meanings matches the meanings of the standard English word / spelling).

In English, meter is a device used to measure something, and it's convenient to distinguish that by spelling (rather than relying on potentially ambiguous context) from the SI unit for length -- the metre.

Similarly, a thousand x 1kg (SI unit for mass) gives you a tonne -- this is also easily distinguished from the myriad variations of 'ton' that may refer to mass or volume (eg UK, US, long, short, harbour). Seeing US publications regularly use the phrase 'a metric ton' provokes a similar reaction of despair for my horse.
I want to know why Android has absolutely ridiculous scrollbars that change size as you're scrolling. This is the stupidest thing and it's been this way forever. It makes them absolutely useless.
The contracts in question aren't shady in the majority of cases.

Again, liquidation preferences are perfectly fair.
I don't mean shenanigans as a cutesy word for fraud (and to be completely fair, the author touched on how this is something the industry needs to improve at), but I merely mean that the explanation provided to most workers is "you own X number of shares in the company that are currently valued at Y", and anything missing from that summary that makes it untrue is, well, shenanigans to me.
Bakkt starting with a really low volume was actually a great idea. So now they can say it's increase x% every day/week/month.
> How is a legitimate startup supposed to recruit the best people under these conditions?

1. As a rule of thumb, you can't.

2. As an exception, you can if they really want to see you succeed (i.e. for your mission).

3. As an exception, you can if they're dissatisfied or bored with their FAANG career and the job represents growth or excitement that they want.

4. As an exception, you can splurge on a few key hires, in terms of salary and/or equity.

5. As an exception, you will find dark horses, people who are currently undervalued by themselves and others.

But as other posters mentioned, the reason I agree with the advice about pricing equity at $0 is because that's rationally the most likely outcome. Honesty about that fact is very much appreciated, but rationally the expected value is actually (approximately) zero.
We picked the wrong guy in 92.
I don't disagree with your sentiment re: Js, it's a problem for sure. But a jQuery project from 10 years ago is completely different from a pseudo-native app (aka electron). I guarantee the jQuery project doesn't provide an iota of the functionality that the electron app does (and if this isn't the case, why use electron in the first place?!)
The US did not embrace english, the US were a set of english colonists who managed to absorb lots of foreigners with the clear contract that not adapting to their culture/language would result in bad outcomes.
There was a whole campaign to make this happen a few years ago. Here's a link to the campaign and the HN comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6217103
that ... explains a lot about the menu lol.
I think this brief summary was nice. The title to linked article was clickbaity.
How does the ribbon hide functionality compared to menus? I’m a big fan of it because it exposed functionality like styles, using large buttons that intuitively show how the function works, to people who were never going to independently discover them and customise their menu for easier access.
but who uses the desktop web interface? don't dropbox users use the desktop app?
would be cool to have the same thing for other bases
Going off on a tangent, but KDE is lighter than XFCE these days.

Or at least https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-... has been making the rounds.
while economists dismiss tariffs out-of-hand, they can certainly be used strategically to dampen the otherwise sudden effects of free trade on industries. the tariffs should be implemented dynamically and smoothly, increasing and decreasing over time without a sudden dislocation.

the other tool we tend to overlook is immigration. grow the economy through internal demand and upstart labor rather than external. but that means the possibility of more non-white people--unfortunately a real roadblock here (in the US).
> I'm actually pretty happy this whole conversation is starting to gain more traction.

This exactly. I've been a Gmail user since the day when they've required an invitation in order to signup, and I'm not quite a Google hater, either, but it's extremely disappointing to see the number of people who simply defend Google against the wrongdoing irrespective of whether or not the complainant has a valid complaint, like in this very case.

What happened to the whole notion of believing the victims? Why no matter how hard you try to explain your setup, and the things you've tried, and that all the automated tests pass, that you still get blamed to be the culprit for the issues you experience when dealing with someone who has a monopoly on the service at stake, instead of considering the possibility that maybe it's Google Mail having the monopoly on email that's an issue here.
Particles with thin films on them, of course.
Watch it. Wars were started for less.

The Spectrum was my first ever computer, and the Commodore 64 my second.. Or rather, our computer, as it was shared by the adults in our family and their adult friends, who only let me use it with supervision so I wouldn't break anything. :)

My best memories from that era are the MAGAZINES.

The art, the wacky reviewers (some of them fictional characters), the slang, the in-jokes, the readers' letters, the tips, the maps, the type-in programs, the pull-out posters, previews, developer diaries..

It really was a great time to be growing up, and computers and video games were the best hobby, because there was never a period when there wasn't something NEW.

There was always something to be amazed at. Always something to look forward to. New software and new hardware were constantly coming out. All other interests seemed so dull and uneventful. Ooh, 16 colors! then ooh, 32! then omg, you won't believe this, 256!!

Entire genres being born right before your eyes. Sound channels were also increasing, music the kind you didn't hear anywhere else, speech synthesis to call your friends naughty words with, mice like they used in posh offices, game controllers like in that arcade your parents never let you stay long enough in, new operating systems... what's an operating system? Why do we need one? Computers run just fine without it..

I wouldn't pick any other childhood.

I fantasized about owning an Amiga but the C64 was good enough too. I still remember the very first game I played on it and its music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBHx5_8fms
Why would anyone pay? There needs to be some incentive.
There should be an HTTP-friendly GUI standard and we should have GUI browsers that implement all the common GUI widgets we know and love rather than emulate them with buggy clunky JavaScript/DOM/CSS. And be state-friendly to avoid having to use Ajax-like techniques to get desktop-like state.

The industry is simply missing a standard. Everyone was hoping HTML/JS/CSS would mature enough to solve it, but it didn't, despite being given 2+ decades. Developing in and using web standards for anything data-centric or highly interactive is a royal pain. You need rocket science to build a bicycle. Time for a dedicated bicycle standard.
Wow, your question led to some Wikipedia research on my end, and I found this:

'In particular, the popular claim "every string of numbers eventually occurs in π" has not been proven.'

I think I claimed this before. Oops!

Quote from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number.
The Washington Post absolutely can't be trusted to report on American affairs. Doesn't stop them from declaring themselves an arbiter of truth with their Pinocchio meter.

Honestly I don't feel I can trust an entire journalistic outlet as trustworthy after what happened during the Iraq war. I'll just individual journos but not papers.
The headline is grabby and precisely describes the situation she's explaining.
Let's guess. I'm going to say they are dissolving the 'precursors' into the co2, pumping it through the bed of particles with sufficient vigor to achieve 'fluidized' [1] state. As the supercritical co2 rises through the bed, the particles are dumping heat into it, ultimately flashing to vapor and leaving the solute (or at least the metallic part of it) behind as a thin film on the particle that did the trick.

This of course leaves the particle itself cooler, making it less likely to receive additional deposition and resulting in a more uniform thickness across the batch.

These coated particles are probably then going to be used as a catalyst in some other process.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My4RA5I0FKs

(alternate is that the the precursors themselves are the fluidized bed and the co2 is used to help move the coating from the donor to the recipient. If GP called them parts and not particles i would be more inclined to this option)
Annoying for sure. But Not exactly a hard hitting question. “The location was selected because I believe it has the highest chance of success”. What can they say to that? Pick a location that you believe will fail.
Not to mention the scrollbar slider is almost invisible on windows 10 with the dark theme, and there are no way to fix it.

That's an awful detail.
Arc Lisp! How is that going for you? Have you done other side projects in that?
Being 1% of Google's anything is a commendable achievement.
Perfect example of great physical comedy with no risk of death.
The lazy way of conforming to the GDPR
This is actually a great idea. We should implement this two-step approach for anyone trying to email us from Gmail.

Sadly, I'd imagine some users don't really have a choice, e.g., an employee whose company is using Gmail from G Suite for its email, so, it'd be an uphill battle for sure.
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin: Google’s quantum supremacy no problem for crypto
New Sport from Michael Guthrie “Tricking”, Defying Gravity
Why should investors expect their full investment back when they did a bad job choosing who to invest in?

I don't think it's reasonable to pretend that the current system exists because it's the fairest. Investors exert more negotiating power than employees, and that's the reason they get better terms.
> Most verification systems work in terms of hours or days.

What kind of verification does usually take hours? Just checked how long it takes to verify Raft using Coq and Verdi (pretty sizeable proof), and complete pipeline takes around 25 minutes (with Docker container creation, fetching dependencies, and what not). Verification of proof terms is a relatively easy task for a computer, as easy as type checking. Coming up with the proofs, on the other hand, that is hard.
I'm specifically referring to the Government giving money or forgiving taxes to business in order to help them. That is not "Capitalism".