skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA you are under constant financial scrutiny, and yes, subject to enforcement on things like structuring. You're a fool if you think otherwise

I am familiar with Austrian economics. It's widely regarded as bullshit, and its adherents generally immature financial larpers with bizarre, extreme views like "inflation is theft".
Public corporations grant their investors and executive management immunity against such charges unless it can be traced directly to their involvement and even then, most of the time someone is made into a scapegoat and hung. Much of this is out of necessity. The problem stems from privatizing the profits and socializing the losses; people want accountability.

I think the correct approach is if a corporation wants to be a c-corp, they need to pay 2\3rds profits through approved accounting mechanisms to non-management staff which can include things like company stock, and should include requirements about openness of the books with staff. The "Public" seldom owns a company, and I am sure the public is very interested in making sure other people are rewarded for their hard work vs investorship.

What you end up with is people have disposable income to invest in things they care about, and thus, the executive management is motivated not to do BS crap like this. It does make it more difficult to get large sources of capital together, but it also forces companies to the whim of people and investorship and employee's which is a much more tenable balance.
You mean NPAPI, right?
Sales of 622 M is pretty low for successful enterprise SaaS startups of Zoom's size. For reference WebEx was 380M in 2006! and likely somewhat larger than 622M today.

I would actually say they are probably undervalued if you are looking at Zoom's long term prospects. Video Conferencing is here to stay as primary means of work communication, and as with any communication businesses like messaging and now VC market will consolidate towards few players - network effect and ease of use, and the friction in downloading and installing more apps all play a factor.

Zoom have not gained the paying customer traction they should be having in the Fortune 2000 kind of companies. Sales cycles in these companies are no so short to reflect within a quarter, and many of them have to readjust from existing

Market expects their sales to multiply few times in next few quarters, so do I and perhaps also you, the difference is how we each price growth and risk. I think the risk is low, and growth easily can be more than market anticipates as of today.
>Canadian "venture" capital.

I love this. I wish it were a thing, "The Canadian Model".
I hope he sold at june 8. He would have made some serious bank. But even if he sells today he will turn a profit
That's because CAPM isn't the only way to price stocks. Some stocks can be priced like options, if they have contingent cashflows. Consider a biotech startup with a product coming to market. If they get FDA approval, that company is probably worth a lot! But if they don't, it might be worthless. Similar for an oil & gas company drilling for resources in a new area.

You might like checking out Aswath Damadoran's videos on valuation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmQ7oMiQrM#t=9m23s.
Github is not making money on its ICE contract though. They took that money to donate it to causes to support immigrants and policy change. I actually think they doubled the amount.

Github from a political standpoint cant drop one govt agency because they stand to lose all their other govt contracts. And any other buyer who now has to now consider they will be dropped if they come down on the wrong side of Github employees' moral compass. Github as a business, especially one now owned by Microsoft cannot do that.

I think Github has tried to do as much as it can to support policy reform without irreparably damaging their business. If that is still not enough employees need to leave at this point. There are many others who would love to work at Github and can reconcile with the situation that Github is in and accept that they are trying to change policy rather than drop the agency and hurt their business.
It also never made it out of beta though, right?

I think it might have gotten better in time, particularly as mobile hardware itself got more powerful, and creators designed flash apps with mobile interfaces in mind.
And >95% of screens don’t support pen drawing.

I expect a screen that supports or is designed for pen drawing to be somewhat more likely to be above 60Hz. All of these things are niche things that not many care about, but in any case, it’d be nice to be able to do better. And like with Formula 1 race cars, benefits from high-end techniques tend to trickle down to other more mainstream targets in time.
Analysis – Who will be the Amazon or Shopify of food delivery?
"fast" can (and I would say "will be") often associated with runtime performance. "Quickly" instead is less confusing to know it's about development speed.
In a your version of a free society, what happens when everyone refuses you EVERY single service because random-reason? They sure as heck aren't murdering, stealing, nor threatening you. They're just refusing to sell you anything because of random-reason, forever. Those services include sales of any food, water, shelter.

Taking it further, what if a majority of businesses gradually decide to be racist and refuse all services just because they can? Not serving minorities wouldn't really impact their bottom line all that much. The minorities would literally die off.

It's easy to talk about "rights" as if they exist in a vacuum i.e. my rights are mine and they do not affect anyone else, ergo my rights should be absolute. They are not, and should not.

Reality is usually a tenuous balance of rights (usually tilted towards the majority) that people participating in civil society share.
No the disparate impact I'm talking about has nothing to do with sexual preference. I'm talking about disparate impact on sex.

Suppose (per your comment) a company indeed had a policy that says "we only hire people attracted to women". Given the current sexual orientation distribution in the world, such a policy would result in a disparate impact in which the vast majority of people that qualify would be men, and not women. This creates a disparate impact on the basis of sex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Is that typical for QNAP to allow alternative OS installs? I know with Synology you cannot.
> There is no way a retail business would be established to service the needs of 2% of the population

Slow down there, you're going to need more evidence than that to claim that an underserved segment of the population isn't an attractive commercial target.

I agree that wheelchair users might be comparatively expensive customers, but if that 2% stat is correct they would be profitable to someone. A business with 2% of the market as a captive audience is going to be profitable.
A few things:

There are many ways how his tenure can come to an end. I am expressing a hope that he figures it out while he is still in a position to change things with his power as CEO.

As for people who lose their job for doing the wrong thing, the media is currently awash in those stories.

Even he if loses his job, he’ll still be quite privileged given his wealth and status.
I mean, we make the rules with government. We can change the rules whenever we want.

Maybe a rule should exist for such edge cases to protect unsophisticated investors in a country not known for financial literacy?
That’s an impressive savings for a 23yo. Imagine all the work and discipline going into it. I wonder how much work and discipline he put into betting on Hertz.
No, because at the time they "need that" first time, they suddenly need a lot new things simultaneously. Then there is not progression. And they get owerwhelmed, frustrated and conclude that "I am not technical person" or some such.

Like, I have contact with kids. I do see them interact with things.
Interesting to see this article here, and I'm surprised this is news. Archeology in Barkerville has been going on for a long time. I remember seeing a dig when I visited as a child, they were pulling out opium pipes and bottles.
No, Minneapolis city council has unanimously voted to completely disband the police and are rethinking public safety from scratch. Reform clearly hasn't worked.
> I use Fossil, which uses "trunk" as the name for the default branch. I don't know what reason they chose this, but I don't really care much

The "default branch" of a tree is a trunk, from which branches emerge.
Shortcut Learning – A generalization problem in deep neural networks
Isn’t the US system of justice adversarial in nature? Why would the prosecutor make the defense’s argument for free?
> and that it doesn't believe that Assange illegally published this material

This is not correct. They could believe this, and believe they have a strong enough case without this specific evidence that they need not include it.
Excalidraw can store the files, although it's a little hidden: the link option in export gives a link that downloads an encrypted JSON from their server.
That is a non sequitur. Per the article: "The prosecution case alleges Assange risked American lives by releasing hundreds of thousands of US intelligence documents."

The video is but one of those secret military materials. No need to include it in the indictment and risk debates or scrutiny on it, it's much more efficient to select bulletproof documents that show beyond doubt that he acted improperly.. of which there are already thousands.
It's a very overloaded term. if someone says `master` I know they're talking about the git branch. If they say `main`, they could be talking about `main.c`, the `main()` function, or just using the regular English word 'main' as an adjective. `master` is very unambiguous due to not otherwise being a commonly used word in software. `trunk` or `mainline` would be better names than `main` for that reason (though mainline sometimes refers to specific people's master branches as with Linux, so that would unfortunately be colliding with that).
Maybe they were hired because they would blindly follow orders.
There is probably a lot more scientific research like this buried away in the vaults of the superpowers. Even more if you include the "scientific" research done by programs like MK-ULTRA (most files where successfully destroyed AFAIK).

For example, when Project Orion was being seriously considered the scientists had to find ways of making large quantities of fairly powerful nuclear weapons cheaply and quickly. Based on something Freeman Dyson said, I think they succeeded to some extent, but that secret now has died with the scientists who worked on it.

There has to be a lot of writing squirrelled away somewhere, because there are restrictions like "You agree to obtain a validated export license when exporting if this product is incorporated into the design, development, production, or other activities related to chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons, or ballistic missiles." but no available literature on how these packages may actually be used in this context. (https://welsim.com/download)

One of the reasons Nuclear Testing is now very uncommon is because computers and software are now advanced enough to simulate them accurately. And yet, despite that, there is no "Nuclear Weapons design: A modern approach" available for public consumption. These are worked on by physicists so someone must be wasting time by writing books somewhere.
Actually, its best left to the courts. Public opinion and support of Assange has already been diverted through malfeasance on the part of the US military. Omitting this video from their charges is an admission that this is not really about accessing military secrets illegally - but rather, punishing a legitimate publisher for exposing war crimes.
They might, but I doubt it. Especially if I made the comments in jest. "What's all that rope for?" "A lynching wink"

Home Depot (the company) will not make any effort to ban me from using their chain even if an employee did make me leave the premises. I could just go home and order it online from HomeDepot.com and have it shipped right to me.
true, but elephants dont speak English.
That is one pretty scary "glitch" as it seems to want to enforce the loss
R&D ML software dev --> Implementations Consultant seems like a pretty drastic change in roles. You're going from a very technical role to something that is very fundamentally soft-skills based. You'll be a communication pipeline between your company's sales and product teams, and your clients. You'll need to learn how to deeply investigate a client and figure out their needs, in a short amount of time, and then translate that foreign data into your internal company "language" and goals framework. You'll be dealing with two sets of politics at once, and be expected to move and translate seamlessly between the two. You're fundamentally a diplomat. Your technical background will help you establish authority for what you're talking about, and your problem-solving skills will be invaluable when investigating new clients.

(disclaimer: This is all assuming that "implementations" works the way it has at the several B2B software companies I've worked at as a developer. It sounds the same from the short description given, but you never know with a new employer.)
Visually impaired people aren't wasting their time on a CSS framework website.
I mean, Adobe Animate (the new name for Adobe Flash) still exists, and can target HTML/JS/Canvas/WebGL. It still supports ActionScript 3.0, so the same platform that could be used to create animations and interactive games should still be usable.
Well, they're using some larger system called "ProctorU", so it's not just the college board.
Both sides are so convinced of their moral superiority that they just can’t empathize with the other or anticipate their reaction. God save this country
Flash did not "work perfectly fine" on Android.

Arguably Flash never worked perfectly fine anywhere it ran. It was notorious for high CPU loads and security vulnerabilities. Putting it on a power-constrained mobile phone platform just emphasized these shortcomings.
> confident that it works on any client

LOL, I think you mean: on Chrome (and if we're lucky, Firefox).
> Police officers can be charged with homicide or assault in cases of police brutality without qualified immunity applying. The bigger question of why more cops aren't going to jail has nothing to do with qualified immunity.

> But we're underreaching if we focus on the fallback instead of the primary issue of holding people accountable for crimes.

This is a false dichotomy; we can want both at the same time.
IC -> manager -> director -> vp

4ish years to promote up, especially the first two level levels. Velocity isn't all that crazy.
> set back email UX to the BBS ages

I don't understand why that's bad or why e-mail needs an "UX" beyond being text. E-mail is there to convey information and text is the most efficient way to do it. If images are really important, you can include them as attachments and they'll be displayed even with remote content blocked.
Yeah, they’re nothing like the sophisticated, mature investors that are buying 30-year government bonds that probably won’t even keep up with inflation.

To phrase less trollishly: there aren’t a lot of good investments now, and even government bonds seem overvalued.
In some weird way the whole story is a pretty big acclamation for the newsletter though. I mean if you get directors of a multi-billion dollar company going after you personally for what you write.
> shrug And people jump off bridges. Doesn't mean we stop building bridges. The market is rough, them's the rules, sorry not sorry.

But it also doesn't mean we can't put barriers on those bridges that prevent people from jumping off. A rule preventing a company from selling stock when it's pursuing a bankruptcy would be just such a barrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_barrier
Sounds like he's been reading /r/wallstreetbets.
If the Supreme Court gets to redefine the meaning of one word, there's nothing to stop them from redefining any other word -- or all of them. As Cavanaugh pointed out in his dissent, it's not the role of the court to legislate, and Congress' recent attempts to amend the Civil Rights act proves they know the language is inadequate for protecting LGBT persons and that it's their job to fix it.
The message I was implying was that github would no longer be seen as a viable option for government agencies.
Almost no incandescent light bulb has a vacuum inside. They are filled with low pressure inert gas (mostly argon sometimes mixed with nitrogen, some bulbs have krypton or xenon for lower temps) not only because it makes them safer to handle and harder to break but mainly because it slows down the decay of the filament by slowing down its evaporation. It bounces tungsten atoms back on the filament.
My uncle put Windows 2000 on a new PC I got around 2001 or so. I liked the stability, but didn't like how it didn't run any DOS games. You really had to mess something up for it to crash. Fun fact: turning off the machine while booting would corrupt the installation, requiring a reformat and reinstall. It happened to me at least once.

I used it until about 2005, when running 2000 instead of XP didn't make sense anymore.
I think there's a solid point in this regard because when they rule on legislative issues (as opposed to constitutional) there is a remedy for the legislature to override if the interpreted behavior was not what the legislature wants (rather than just intended).

At this point, to reverse this, Republican (presumably) congressmen would have to actively introduce legislation excluding the protections for LGBT individuals, which would make it much more unpalatable than the current strategy of "dragging their feet" (as with gay marriage) to prevent the law from moving forward.

My only fear, probably unjustified, is that the logic and precedent used here can be used to generalize the protections in unexpected and undesirable ways.
You're from the US? US is all about profits so that makes sense. Property insurance don't even have to compensate against flood and usual risks which is stupid IMO.

In other locations, insurances are not all about profit and reinsurance. Either they're public operated by the government, or they're private and have caps on how much they can charge compared to how much they return and they don't get to choose what they can cover or not.

I am pretty sure my last insurance was directly financing the government. I suppose it makes sense to store billions of euros long term (until a disaster) into dedicated government bonds, which benefits both the government and the company. That is to say, the money fits a larger purpose in the meantime, it's not all evil.
That analogy would be more apt in "not mentioning in an indictment for a thief that in addition to thousands of precious pearls, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds, one of the objects stolen was a loaf of bread to feed their starving family."
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; my experience differs from yours.
The ability to get away with such blatant and disgusting abuses like these is surely a large part of why there are so very many cases of police brutality and overreach.

If you can basically do whatever you want with no repercussions, it's no wonder.
>The argument in dissent is that none of the members of either house or senate intended “sex” to include orientation or identity in 1964. Despite society having a different opinion on that today, redefining “sex” is not the courts prerogative.

I read the court's decision and the test they applied was "if this person's sex was the opposite would they not have been fired ? ". In both the cases of orientation and identity, the answer is a resounding yes. If someone that was gay was female, they wouldn't have been fired, same for a lesbian if she were a man. Also same for transgenders, if their sex was reversed, they would keep the job. I don't see how this is redefining "sex". The decision does not say that sex includes orientation or identity like you claim.
Why on earth would unicode U+01F1, with it's obvious hex encoding of 01F1, be encoded as hex value 44 5A (a Han character https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/445a/index.htm)?
Tesla/Elon got away with what looks like swatting a former employee, and makes use of sketchy freelance sketchy private investigators.
To be fair, if this happens server-side then they can just preload all remote content at delivery time, negating the privacy impact of trackers because the only data they'll get is the IP/user agent of the email server.
A 23 year old with 50K in savings is doing fine. That’s not even 1 years tuition at a top business school. And he’ll learn A ton when he loses it all.
I wrote a toy shell using guile back in school and the jokes practically wrote themselves.

I like gash though. Where bash is a bludgeoning shell gash is more of a cutting one, if we want to be cute about it.
> I feel like the modern creativity has been channeled into YouTube, IG, and TikTok. Not as much interactive content, unfortunately.

Furthermore, all of these are privately controlled platforms. The notion of a web presence on today's web is dominated by behemoth social sites and their EULAs. Even if we create interesting interactive things, they're excluded from the primary modes of engagement.
Most offerings I opened seemed to be tweets with little context, and one was over a thousand words of requiring qualifications and asking applicants to do specific work beforehand.

None of them mentioned compensation. They ask ask ask and throw around generic empty promises, but skirt around (or don’t mention) what they give. A visitor to your website as no way to know which are scams, which are underpaid, and which are worth their time. The tagline on your website doesn’t help:

> Discover opportunities to work with content creators looking for someone to help them produce their best work

Maybe I’ve seen too many stories of “influencers” asking people to “work for exposure”, but that sentence (and the offerings in general) sounded like them, like the labourer should be thankful for the opportunity to work for the job poster.

In sum, it felt like you’re only serving one side of the equation.
> Buying insurance on something you already know is going to happen or not is fraud, plain and simple.

Better cancel all life insurance policies then.

Buying insurance on something you're going to cause to happen (cut down a tree so it falls on your car, leave flammable substances in a hazardous place in your home) is fraud.

Buying insurance on things you think are likely to happen isn't inherently fraud.
XP's classic mode looked somewhat like Windows 98/2000.
>Why should the government be able to legally control what I choose to do with my property and my goods. ... So why should the government force me to sell them to people I do not want to?

Because your property and your ability to sell goods is directly supported by the people you discriminate against.

How do people, customers and employees alike, get to your property? Roads? Helicopter overseen by the FAA? How do packages get delivered over the roads, semi, USPS, UPS/fedex. Who pays to protect your building from crime and fire, who pays for the energy infrastructure, who pays for the teachers teaching your workforce?

Your store isnt an isolated self sufficient entity, its part of a web of interconnected forces mutually benefiting each other. There is a social contract, that if you want to profit off the infrastructure of the United States, you wont discriminate.
The definition of "rule of law" is contrast to rule by a person (typically a dictator, king, etc.). "Rule of law" means that instead of a person or a group of people giving arbitrary directions, we observe body of law as answer to what is and what is not allowed.
I thought the left would learn the need for coalition-building from 2016, but unfortunately they seem to have doubled down on their old hostile ways.