skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Co-founders are supposed to have confidence in the business they built - if they don't, why should other investors?

But what's in it for the co-founder? Usually it's that they have lots of power over the company, e.g. being a CEO, and have more freedom than someone who still has to prove that they deserve that power. Jeff Bezos for example "only" owns 100 billion USD but controls a 800 billion USD company, with the freedom and power of a cofounder. After a certain amount of money, say 10 million, you can fulfill most of your dreams. And there are plenty of people who have that amount. But few can say they are in control of a 0.8 trillion dollar company.

As the other comments point out, Travis was kicked out though so he lost his power. So it's only understandable that he diversifies his portfolio.
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Can't do that either. They give you their laptops without access to install extra things unless you call someone from their helpdesk.
20%, you mean, for federal long term capital gains.

Plus 3.8% for Net Investment Income Tax.

Plus, he resides in CA, so tack on ~12% (he's making so much marginality doesn't really affect things) in state taxes.

~36% in total, which is a lower effective tax rate than many people here, but not quite as outrageous.
Slack's error page has a forest scene with interactive pigs and chickens
Someone with a congenital deficiency for the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme, or too young to express adult levels of it, will definitely feel bad after a drink.

Ethanol metabolizes to acetaldehyde, which is a chemical that causes several unpleasant symptoms. Among these is the so-called "Asian blush". (Asians have a higher incidence of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.)

Any amount of alcohol you drink in excess of your liver's ability to express acetaldehyde dehydrogenase will cause damage. If you get a hangover, it was too much.
I did not.

> The whole point is that you can have affirmative action without different standards

No. Measuring diversity (for some value of) requires a new standard (sometimes called a rule or requirement or some other deflection), minimum.
https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters-jr-on-discover...
> 37% down since IPO isn't great

basically every company drops from their IPO. indexes and funds and such don't include them for months (6? or more?) in order to give that a chance to settle out.
Could be just an act of politics (boost employee morale, investor confidence, etc.)
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Yes; that is why it is recommended that untrustworthy drives be mounted with the `nosuid` flag.
Also, from a control engineering point of view, a lot more unstable.
I've gotten to the point where I just suggest people skip Guns, Germs, and Steel entirely. Diamond is a really excellent writer, but he cherry picks his material to support a thesis and ignores all the prior art that shows that people already tried his thesis a century ago and discarded it.

Jump to 'The Power Broker' instead. Now that's an interesting read.
>I feel like if any one person can seriously subvert something, you've already lost.

This is technically correct, but most companies (at least in the US) take the easy way out, just like they do for hiring. No college degree means no job offer.

A well functioning IT organization will not be vulnerable to a single malicious person, but having been in the industry for almost 30 years at this point, the number of corporations functioning to that level in IT is small.

The fact that most organizations are more concerned about lowering costs and increasing profits instead of quality means that managers take the easy way out... it's cheaper to just not hire anyone they deem a risk and not worry about improving IT's functioning because they don't see any downside to that in the time frame that concerns them.
Suggestion:
Any fiction my Haruki Murakami.
I'm not a tax lawyer, but 20% is the long-term capital gains rate for earnings greater than $400k or so - https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/capital-gains-tax-rate...

That page also calls out a "net investment income tax" that sounds like it would add an additional 3.8% on such large capital gains.
No, it's people to blame. The reason people are anti-science is they don't like the idea that everything they know about the world can change regularly. The media are just the messengers.
It's worth being a little careful of some of the utilities available in Linux (et al). For example:

$ primes 1154487209300 | head -1

> 1154487209303

$ factor 1154487209303

> 1154487209303: 89669 12874987

In fact, this command is interesting:

$ factor $( primes 1154487209300 | head -n 200 ) \
| grep " .* " \
| head -n 30

YMMV, some care required.
Stainless steel body without impact-absorbing bumpers that can cut pedestrians in half and transfer a lot more of impact force to occupants.

What other info should a testing expert have to know that it likely can't pass EU safety tests?
As a person who's done hardcore HRM training, I think that the rants against wrist-based HRM are over-hyped.

Yes, it's less accurate than a chest strap, but it works fine for 99.999% of what pretty much anyone wants to do with it. Assuming you don't have mutant wrists, for best results, make sure the strap in snug, but not too snug, against your wrist.

And wrist-based HRM has improved quite a bit in recent years.
True, but not by outright cracking the encryption.

They will get your password instead, by implanting your keyboard, putting a camera behind you on the wall, or grabbing you just after you've entered your password.
I've curated my 2020 list over the last few months, eventually splitting it in two; 2021 has been started, but below is my 2020 list.

Brave New World

Catcher in the Rye (3rd read)

Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

War and Peace

Catch-22

Stranger in a Strange Lan

The Hobbit (3rd read)

The Illiad

The Odessey

Walden

Leisure, The Basis of Culture

The Seven Storey Mountain

Confessions

The City of God

Ways of Life St Augustine

Catechism of the Catholic Church

These Truths

Battle Cry of Freedom

The Complete Guide to Fly Fishing

The Lure and Lore of Trout Fishing

The Duck Huntingest Gentlemen
Yeah but he's not running Uber anymore. Also, clouds have gathered...
These are both web related.. but I think javascript frameworks like angular2+/react.. they have basically made it possible to make enterprise level applications on the web without the spaghetti code garbage that is javascript or hacking it together with jquery. After that will be webassembly/blazor type projects, but it's not mature enough quite yet to say.. it might change the way everything works in the next decade.

Biased of course because this is what I know, but it's really opened up web application design to people who were NOT web coders. I was a C# person for many many years and trying to do anything web related before proper frameworks was an absolute nightmare.
This also begs the question of whom exactly has an unobtainium pump that can withstand HF to put it into a cylinder.
Why is there never a Google talk entitled "Building profiles on people with Machine Learning?"
Oh, sure, Debord had his context and was experimenting.

However if you consider that philosophy is a useful field, full of serious questions that one ought to seriously try to answer, I think you have to dismiss the Lettrist movement as unhelpful at best, as a failed experience or a dead end of modern philosophy, if you are as disappointed in it as I am.

They may be an interesting literature movement, but they are as helpful to philosophy as would be people who would proclaim that all quantum theory makes more sense when expressed in Sumerian.
IBM opposed their removal in C++1x

From http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n291...

> The biggest argument against deprecating trigraph is the fact that we know there are source code from world-wide companies, based on an internal survey of our customer problem reports that make heavy use of trigraphs for one reason or another, and customer testimonials. Google code search doesn't find them because these are proprietary code. Further discussions with some of these customers have shown serious dissatisfaction with WG21’s intention to deprecate trigraphs, because they do not wish to make any changes to their source code. It doesn't seem fair to force this group of existing users to change their source code for no apparent benefit, other then reducing an annoyance to another group.

ISO 646 is probably nowhere near as relevant to their argument as EBCDIC is.

> Trigraph deprecation is vexing for existing world-wide companies (of which IBM is one
such user) because of their use of EBCDIC variant code pages. It makes it difficult to
start in a code page neutral manner, establish what the active code page is, then start
using invariant characters. We use a pragma filetag("IBM-1047") to toggle the code page,
then we can use #. Prior to that we are in a code page neutral environment and must use
the trigraph ??=
Or go dip into her novellas. There's a collected edition out now ('The Found and the Lost'). I think my favorite stuff of hers is in there. Or, if you just want fun, 'Changing Planes' is a delightful romp inspired by the misery of sitting in airports.
I think five different string datatypes are reasonable if they’re types like String, HTMLFragment, JavaScriptFragment, etc.

If you’re just dealing with interop with char*, std::string, Qt, LibICU, etc. it’s a nightmare.
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Here's a super fun one where you SSH into different servers and have to use Bash/unix tools to find clues to get to the next one: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
... which takes all of those renewable sources away from the rest of our energy consumption, so net net, their data centers cause more carbon.
Thanks! You can edit the shortcut by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts . But oh yeah, will add esc feature asap thanks for letting me know! :)
Thanks for the (second) apology. It looks like some details got fuzzy over 15 years.

Apologies on my end for mis-remembering that I already received an apology from the VP of product development at the time.

That would be great - I no longer have the email in question as I lost access to that account and virtually all email records from the early 2000s (mmastrac@canada.com, I'm assuming). If you could forward that to matthew@mastracci.com I can have that for my records so I don't forget the details again.
If you run your workloads in AWS us-west-2 or GCP us-west1 you're running on hydroelectric energy produced at the Columbia River.

These regions are also really inexpensive due to this fact.
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Good point. Another thing: even if they can decrypt it, they'd save that for Osama types, not ruin it over a small tax case. Otherwise bad guys would stop using it. Maybe decrypt but not use in court...
> if alcohol was "invented" today there's no way it would be legal

I see it as a good reason to legalize things invented recently rather than making alcohol illegal. The prohibition and the war on drugs should have taught people something.
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If I'm not mistaken the (first) Death Star's explosion isn't heard over the background music, right? Anyway, I think more people would have issues with TIE fighter sounds and their Doppler effect...ah, I mean quantum leap sound.
Amazon didn't really have bad unit economics. It just spent a lot on growth and R&D, but the core business was profitable from early on, unlike Uber and WeWork.
Are you still feeling ill now? So is it permanent?
> country's privacy regulator which seems to do absolutely nothing according to my experience.

Well, then move to another EU country :D I've had ours issue a couple of fines based on complaints I filed, even pre-GDPR.

True, I don't file for every non-compliant cookie banner or tracker, but if they start spamming me despite not having authorized that use of the data, I do. But it's been quite rare in the past couple of years.
Car dashboard lights meet most of these criteria and yet they are routinely bad. My partner had trouble figuring out the "flat tire" icon and they are a fairly intelligent, well-educated person. The icon was basically a circle with an exclamation point inside. The fact that it had a slightly flat edge actually made it harder to recognize as a wheel since we normally associate wheels as being perfectly round. It almost looked more like a steering wheel. There was no status code to look up, only an icon which they had to match visually against every other possible icon. And this is one of the most common warning lights to appear in a car, so imagine how much harder the more obscure ones are.

Roombas, which the article mentions don't use voice, actually did start using voice in the last couple of generations. And it's great. It tells you that it's stuck rather than just beeping sadly at you.

I'm not necessarily saying the car dashboard should speak warnings, as it may startle people on the highway, but I also think there's a lot to improve on.
ESR is the truth while this shill’s critique of the open source model is both incorrect and a waste of time.
You're definitely arguing with various premises of public policy economics. Although you believe monetary fines are appropriate, you also claim to think we can't trade-off sacred values such as avoiding crime against mundane values like money.

The beauty of a Pigovian system is it doesn't require any assumptions as to how much money is worth to different people, or for that matter how much actions are worth. It just calculates the harm to society of the action and sets a fine accordingly. This is very much standard economics, see https://www.jstor.org/stable/725557 with 300 citations.
Master and Margarita is one of my "level 0" books (the small shelf of books that get dumped in the suitcase when I uproot and change continents). It bears rereading over the years.
They explain in the article that below about 3nm, heat transfer due to phonon coupling overwhelms the heat transfer due to electromagnetic coupling.
Oh man- thanks for the Masters of Doom pointer! I picked it up right before my most recent flight and devoured it in almost one go. Nostalgia to the max.
> wine tastings are primarily for the social value, with the socializing eased by the alcohol

...but you don’t consume the alcohol at a wine tasting so this doesn’t make any sense. If you aren’t consuming any alcohol what is left but valuing the taste?
That is a fascinating way to describe this.
The font is not called "OpenDyslexics", it's "OpenDyslexic". Also, it's kind of odd to say you support multiple dyslexic-friendly fonts when it's really just one font in bold/italics/mono. Perhaps some people would consider mono to be its own font (though I've never known anyone who preferred OD Mono, and I work in the accessibility world). But for sure bold and italic are not considered to be separate fonts by lay people.
For anyone coming to this conversation now, the IPCC Summary for Policymakers Report[1] is absolutely required reading before you can have any opinion on climate science. It's not a hard read, put aside an afternoon for it, you won't regret it. It's written by actual climate scientists, for an audience of laypeople.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/
This seems....odd. HK is now a city within PRC. So is Shenzen a "developed" area? What exactly is the distinction between Shenzen and HK now that they aren't exactly proven to be a city-state?
My bottomline prediction: World won't change as fast as we always predict. Case in point [0] the prediction a decade ago on HN. Most of the items on that page are way off but precisely the reason why it is so hard to predict the future.

If I do have to add my guesses, I would say that:

- AI/ML hype will fade off and won't really be as mainstream as we want it be right now.

- Crypto currency will still not be mainstream.

- We will have driverless cars but not mainstream yet. Trucking jobs in the US won't go away as Andrew Yang is predicting them to be.

- China and may be even India (due to sheer size and open markets) to an extent will further become more important in World Affairs and US will continue to lose it superpower status even though US will still be very significant overall.

- Mainstream news outlets on TV will keep becoming less important as Indie Media outlets on youtube will become more mainstream. Looking at you CNN/MSNBC/FOX news etc.

- Gig economy will become more prevalent. A lot of people will start doing their own thing since they cannot find traditional jobs. Not always tech. related but freelance industry will grow even further.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
Crazy enough, the loud typer is much louder. It's kind of impressive, honestly. It's just a bog standard default keyboard, the kind that came with the tower.
Considering the (ex-)leadership of ICANN is behind both approving the sale and ethos capital, and effectively answer to nobody, I doubt they have much interest in genuine reform.
Yes you are, because that is exactly how you are able to watch the movie in the first place.

Copyright law focuses on the content that is copied, not the specific mechanics of the copying, because it is technology agnostic.
Cloud point of presence distribution. Most humans on the internet are now within 120ms. Speed is the most important adaption metric ;)

https://www.cloudflare.com/network/
I’d call you a person of taste and sophistication.

But more objectively, it is always a pleasure to come to some open source code base and know you have few worries about language churn incurring a maintenance cost.
> some of the characters described seem to me like they couldn't be real people

Could you elaborate? I'd like to hear what you find dissonant.
Transactional analysis comes to mind.
Yeah sure, you can sell 10$ pizzas for 5$ as long as you fill the gape with investor's money ... and by pizzas I mean taxi rides.

That's called a zombie company btw, https://www.bis.org/about/areport/areport2019.pdf
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Illegality increases harmful effects.

Methamphetamines were used legally long time before they became illegal. Paul Erdős was probably the most famous (amphetamine and methylphenidate) user. Using meth when studying was also common.

Methamphetamine derivatives have reentered the society in the form Adderall and other drugs.
Every unprofitable growth company says they’re doing it “by choice”. And every unprofitable growth company burns investor dollars (where else would the dollars come from?). During Amazon’s unprofitable years many people were saying the exact same things about Amazon that people say about Uber now.

Of course that doesn’t mean every unprofitable growth company is Amazon, but Amazon’s success means companies won’t stop trying to emulate it.
Which is why I stated my age :)
Hammerspoon is suited for tasks that keep working in the background. Plus it has access to stuff like arbitrary drawing on the screen, which AppleScript doesn't provide. The most used case is custom bindings for (almost) arbitrary hotkeys.

Automator/AppleScript are sufficient when you only need their standard hook points―services and such.

Btw, JXA is a big disappointment: it maps Objective-C/AppleScript's calls and especially structures very awkwardly instead of providing more JS-native experience. And afaik its official documentation is lacking.
No. If having a good drunken time with your friends actually does decrease stress in the medically important sense, it's in spite of the alcohol, not because of it. Metabolizing alcohol is inherently stressful for the body.
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Makes sense. You want to boil down the face to some sort of abstract representation of movement of lips, face alignment etc. Then put in different parameters and have it be photorealistic on the other side. Could do wonders for video chat.
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There's actually another 1% in CA on income over $1 million in California, so it's 13.3% + 23.8% = 37.1%
Doesn’t Japan serve as a counter argument?
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Sorry, I evidently skipped that paragraph. I only saw the bit where the cheese burial was mentioned.
How do you guarantee that the two trained autoencoders speak the "same language", i.e. the code learned by the autoencoder of the original face gives a reasonable output when uncompressed by the target autoencoder?
As I said in other comment illegality increases harmful effects. Culture among users is also important factor.

Adderall is the new reintroduction of meth into the society.
Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant is: if a female has a Jewish female ancestor as part of the female only lineage from which they get their mitochondria, then they definitionally have an “unbroken Jewish maternal lineage”, because it could be no other way. But it’s not really an interesting observation, since it’s true of most Jewish women that this line reaches extremely far back in time (since Jews generally don’t seek converts and, so, being Jewish is mostly a genetic matter, in practice).
No. GDP should always be rising. Markets not necessarily so.

1987 saw a massive market crash with no recession.
> I suspect your wife asks these questions to the religious ("theology"), which is a subset (bias).

How did you reach the conclusion she is primarily talking to religious people? That's such a leap I can't even hypothesize your deduction.
Neat plan! I'll add a tangent, that if the material on Thermopylae intrigues you, there's a really good trilogy of historical novels by Helena Schrader about Leonidas and archaic Sparta that tries to lay out the best of our current knowledge (which is very different from what scholars thought about Sparta even a few decades ago...it's taken a long time to peel back all the appropriation on top of the fact that most of our sources are Athenian).
Nice, thanks. Do you have a go to piece of work that lays out where Diamond goes wrong? I've only ever heard it in off hand comments from people in human geography.

I've read a couple of the LBJ books which are really amazing and plan on getting to power broker eventually.
If you could design your new building so that it was invisible to everyone but you, there would be no need for these mind of regs. Unfortunately every built structure haas an impact on those around it.
Not suggesting it can be used for recreational purposes without likely winding up causing more harm than alcohol, but:

Meth (actual meth, not a different amphetamine) can be prescribed. It's typically under the brand name Desoxyn in the US. There's people who take it for ADHD. It's not really all that different from the rest of the stimulants prescribed for that purpose when used as directed and in an appropriate dose.

As with many things, the benefit/harm relationship is highly related to dose, as well as the rest of the lifestyle associated with it.