skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oft-cited quote is that it's very, very, very rare to make money working as an employee at a Startup. The farther you are away from the founding team, the harder it is. And 99 times out of a 100 even the founding team doesn't make anything, if there's an upside exit at all.

If you want to work at a startup as a non-founder employee, go into it knowing that you're taking the risk and getting little of the potential upside reward. If the pay is good and you like the company and the work, then do it. But any stock options will be mostly meaningless.

I wish Founders would just let Employees participate in seed stage financing and be in with the same terms as early investors if the employees want to truly risk it.
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Not that I support a wealth tax – I don't – but the article doesn't seem to appreciate that this kind of gradual redistribution of idle wealth is not an alarming side-effect of such a tax, it's exactly the point.
One-offs, maybe, but trends are less likely to be fake. For example, when buying a dryer, I looked at many 1-2 star reviews for each product to spot the problems that most people reported. Finally I found one where the only problem frequently reported was that the lint trap would snap in half after a couple of years, because of the plastic hinges. No other problems, and the replacement lint traps were easy to acquire, so I could live with that.
Very helpful; thanks again!
> Is there a bug report for this in the Qt bug tracker that you can share?

"A" bug report? There is like tens of them. A 5 minute search reveals many:

Main bug:

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56851

Similar bugs:

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-67170

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47069

Bugs already filed back in qt4 release when the default was changed (but the x11 code could still be enabled):

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-19636

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-25761

People complaining whenever the new X11 render path gets broken on qt5:

* https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70387

In stackoverflow, plenty:

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22017200/is-there-a-way-...

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28782162/serious-perform...

Bringing back the option to draw using X:

* https://twitter.com/peha23/status/1037294277859131392

* https://sourceforge.net/p/qwt/mailman/message/36418978/

> compressed video solution is the clear winner.

This is enlightening, but it is still comparing apples to oranges, or in this case, compressed to uncompressed. The cost of encoding video cannot be disregarded. And for starters, even if you use hardware encoding, they hardly do any type of variable bitrate; you are likely to get almost the same bitrate even if the screen only changes slightly (good luck sending partial damages to a hardware encoder). On the other hand, NX compresses all traffic by default, and so does SSH (but not by default).

Not to mention that compressed video at this rate would show artifacts. Even at bluray rates artifacts can be seen in motion film; let's not even get started what you would see for this type of content.

Do note that I am highly biased here since we (my company) constantly evaluates potential solutions almost every other week to do remoting (e.g. RDP/extremeFX, PCOIP, Blast, you name it) , and _every_ _single_ _time_ customers end up falling back to an ANCIENT NX version (cause the newer ones also use video "sometimes") which is so full of bugs I consider it the a modern equivalent of torture. (By the way, xpra, freenx, and every other open source NX fork are also the same -- ancient NX 3.xx versions). I really would like to kill that with fire but there's absolutely nothing comparable in terms of (in)sensitivity to high-latency links, low bandwidth usage, image quality, and even economy (no GPU video encode farm thanks).
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I always need a label to understand how icons are supposed to be used the first time. e.g., my best understanding of one of them: https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/output/2020...
780K out of 7.8 billion = 0.01% that is very low and over time death rate will be lower because of increasing number of immunity on the population and better method of treatment.
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Are you sure? Ask your body not to grow old!
Well, some applications open a webpage just when the uninstallation finishes.

Basically every single browser window that is open from an application, or its uninstaller, is an unwanted one.

It's not even about the fingerprinting, now that you make me think about.

It's more about my browsing habits: Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about.
Here it's the Northern Electric 500, which is the same as the Western Electric 500 in the USA. The fact that I can no longer place a call from mine (due to the central office^W^W line card not supporting pulse dial) is deeply disappointing.
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Nobody sits on cash. Even cash on deposit in a bank isn't in the bank - a multiple of it gets loaned out to businesses and home buyers.
let's say magically the number of tax dollars taken in by the government doubles. How would your life change for the better?
this is what has always annoyed me about basically every space movie ever made. even life a star away, let alone another galaxy away, is likely to be startlingly different from the oxygen-absorbing, ossified calcium-braced, protein-enriched, atp-powered water blobs with heads, legs, and feet we have on earth. and that's just the the biochemical stuff we're familiar with.
Causality and motivation are complex issues, so I'd like to read a well founded elaboration of your last statement. Did long-term strategic considerations of these bureaucracies truly lead to such foresighted, high-level decisions by governments and the public? If so, climate change might have been only an aspect of this.
Yeah, I agree about the freezer. One of the things I love about using sous vide for batch cooking is the bags go from the cook to the freezer without being opened. The liquid in the bag acts as a sort of jacket that prevents freezer burn. Based on the science I know there's a texture change, but I'd be surprised if you could spot it in a blind test.

But the other big thing for me is convenience. It takes maybe 10-15 minutes for me to prep say 5 lbs of meat this way, depending how elaborate my marinade/base is. Then you just put it in the sous and ignore it for a couple hours. I can use the sous to thaw a frozen portion very fast with no worries about food safety or overshooting and overcooking. Past that making a plate is just getting the rice cooker going and then again maybe 10 minutes of active time to bring it all together with some fresh produce.

The convenience of all this is what really clinched it for me. At this point it'd take more active time for me to go get takeout.

I've tried bread a couple times, but so far all I've learned is I'm not a great baker. I intend to make another stab at it though.
"Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it."

Is the author speaking for himself, or making a generalization about all wealthy people?
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Oculus was always trying to do this. When they first launched they did the same purchased exclusives stuff epic has done. Their software isn't compatible with other platforms except through unsupported hacks and they have no plans of changing that.

This was the whole oculus spirit since the beginning.
> The floor of the wealth tax doesn't really refute the central argument, because it just means that it impacts anyone who owns a business worth over $50 million. This is a LOT of businesses in the US!

We can actually look at the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances and get a reasonable number here. Household's with >$50m are top 0.07% percentile and there are approximately 84k of them out of around 130 million households....

[1] https://cdn.dqydj.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/millionaire...
The author really likes to beat up on these apparent snobby elitist programmers, without any consideration for all the programmers who are excited by no/low code tech. This article could easily been about the benefits and excitement without paragraphs 4-6 and the first sentence of 7.

There are purists in any industry (you're not a writer until (physically) printed, you're not a scientist until published, you're not a DJ unless you spin vinyl), but also those that accept, adopt and champion change. Some may be risk averse for good reason (perhaps because of experience with past solutions that they inherited because the company outgrew the original), others wholeheartedly try new products and paradigms in an attempt to find out what they can leverage to provide value to others.
"It's unfortunate that CMake is the least bad build system we have"

I think build systems (and packaging and installers and...) are sort of like doing your own taxes.

Things start out simple, and but at some point things become complicated and you want to just get through it and get out and forget about it until next year. (just pay someone else to do it!)

It's really too bad, I think in the software development process, there are some friction points that if they just had a little lubrication, would make everything go so much faster.

I suspect these sorts of things aren't "sexy" like machine learning, or game programming or writing a new language. But things that are important don't always correlate that way.
Is this the worst game ever made?
is it such a big deal to create a fb account though? Can't you just use a fake name if you don't care about having a fb account?
https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/chapters/basics.html

^ Is that a good one?
I have to disagree, many assumed there would be some kind of hamfisted integration even in 2014. The only surprising thing is how long they held off.

I had huge concerns regarding FB's purchase of Oculus at the time and I wasn't the only one. It was the single reason I did not buy an Oculus. It wasn't that I thought they would be brazen either, I just assumed they would be hoovering data up behind the scenes, and trading data between Oculus and FB.

If this announcement had occurred in 2014, it would not have been surprising, I think the concerns were clear from the outset to most of the community. The only people who were starry eyed were those who just wanted Oculus funded well and were happy to take the word of the founder.
Are you sure it's really a bad thing for a company to keep cash on hand? The airlines this year were bailed out because they chose not to keep cash on hand, and then they suddenly lost most of their revenue. So maybe it's actually a good thing for companies to keep some savings available, so inefficient bailouts aren't necessary.
It doesn't matter if the UA or IP is stored, even using them to fingerprint a user requires GDPR consent.
How about eg. phone chargers or toasters? Cooking pots? The list of things that can seriously hurt you far extend edible goods.
Wondering if creating burning accounts for everything would prevent any tracking. Basically

- create burner gmail

- create burner oculus name/account

- create burner Facebook account

- always use a VPN

It seems like you could completely remain anonymous and provide Facebook with data they could never correlate to a real person.
People got used to alcohol tests in traffic
Whether or not it's fair to judge people for things they said 16 years ago when none of their subsequent actions or statements give any reason to believe they're a different person today isn't germane to the point, which is that Facebook/Zuckerberg's poor reputation are not new.
Hanson is very skilled at asking questions whose answers end up confirming his biases.

I follow him on Twitter. It's quite remarkable how he structures his frequent polls, and subsequently uses them to confirm his priors, when the limited choice of questions funnel responses into Hanson's favoured response vs a series of straw man positions, with no catch all "other" to gather disagreement even from the choir that follow him.

The best thing about him is that his dubious evidence does sometimes support an interesting perspective; it gives him ammo to stick to a possibly unpopular position, which might even be true, or have sufficient truth value to merit thinking about.
You need internet to download games to your oculus quest, so it makes sense to have an account to keep track of what games you own no? I still don't understand what people have against this change. You needed an oculus account prior to this, now it's a facebook account, what's the big deal?
To be fair, IIRC OpenAI did release GPT-2-large after some community pressure, and it was somewhat doable for some people to actually train from scratch. GPT-3 is too large, so even if they released it, nobody apart from large companies like Google could do anything with it. If anything, they've made GPT-3 more open than it would have been if they just released the weights.

At least that's my understanding. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
That's one side of the story, the Quest wouldn't exist without Facebook
We used to use something similar (for office365/AzureAD), but the aws cli Version 2.0 in combination with the changes for aws sso late last year made that obsolete. You may want to check again if your case is now supported. I was pleasantly surprised, even though I had to do the saml setup dance again.
ok, so then hyper-specialize then reproduce at age 85.
and did nothing, Oculus didn't just need money, but a competent team behind it.
I guess I tire of that (second hand, mind) quote being brought up as if it's relevant to anything today.
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OK. I had planned to get an Oculus Quest for Christmas (since it is reasonably accessible, flexible and probably the best all-around headset out there right now), and how my gut feeling is... No. Just no. I don't want to have Facebook on anything.

I might consider creating a brand new, singleton account to use it, but to be honest my gut reaction is that if they do not have a non-Facebook login, I will just _not_ use it.
The overarching trend/correlation is....

All governments are increasingly competing with other jurisdictions on lower taxes and better services. The reason is people have increasing options because of better communication (internet), transportation (especially shipping), job mobility, etc. Covid has accelerated this trend with wfh.
Firefox with containers for multiple work accounts/social/browsing means I only use one browser now. Before containers I’d only open Safari/chromium for any form of social media. Bitwarden for cross-device password management can help too.
How hard is it to create a facebook account?
> they might decide to press charges or not

Exactly. In your initial post, you claimed it was a foregone conclusion that they would decline to press charges. And I don't know about you, but having my electronics confiscated for an indeterminate length of time would be more than bad enough. How are you even going to pay your attorney, if you can't do your job without a computer?

I'm pretty sure that in the end, you wouldn't be liable. But you might have to prove it. For example, it's perfectly legal to run a Tor exit node in the US. It's still strongly advised that you don't do it from your home, however.
If that is the case, you're not working at a startup. You're working at a actual, real, proven business.
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But it may be unwise for them to say anything overly critical via electronic means. We'd almost need pen and paper (which might be eccentric enough to attract attention too).
Unsure about Umami's performance, but Piwik was a non-starter for several higher traffic sites I worked with due to performance issues (even after throwing big hardware at it).
Does this work with unstructured data (such as cosmosdb?)
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Wait, they're comparing salaries to the US national median, while H1B workers are concentrated in the most expensive metro areas? Doesn't seem legit to me.
Use C#. Attempting to guess which note to use based on heuristics will just lead to irritated users.
The advantage is that you can measure anything that happens in the browser. As a product owner, what you really care about is the experience you give your visitor/customer, and that happens in the browser, not at the server. This advantage has become stronger over time as sites have used more javascript.

One disadvantage is that if your visitor/customer has javascript turned off, you get no data. This was a concern in the early days of client-side analytics, but not really any more.

A more modern disadvantage is that ad blockers might prevent your analytics script from running. However, this is only a problem for client-side analytics packages that are hosted by ad companies, like Google Analytics. It's not a problem with the concept of client-side analytics in general.

EDIT to add:

Another advantage is that only measuring things in the browser makes it a lot easier to exclude non-browser traffic like bots and spiders from your reports.

That's also a disadvantage because you can miss server-only events like "hot-linked" images or PDF downloads straight from Google. On balance, though, we care a lot less today about hot-linked files than we care about excluding automated traffic.

And in my experience, culturally, client-side packages were a huge help in getting management off of pointless vanity metrics like "hit counts" and caring more about human metrics like visits and time.
As a former H1-B: they refute absolutely nothing. The trick is either to hire experienced people into entry level positions (thereby paying them "more than market", and yet at the same time much less than they'd get if they were native - they'd be in senior roles then), or to employ a bunch of people in an Indian sweatshop on US soil, where no sane American will apply due to low pay, discrimination, and horrendous working conditions. Or, indeed, both. It is bizarre for me to see "progressive" people on HN support H1-B abuse, and be against H1-B reform.
I mean at this point... seeing ads on VR instead of toothpaste might be a win
> You'll be treated as a cost center so long as you let other people think of you as a cost center, but if you can frame your contributions in a way that makes your value proposition obvious, it's possible to be treated differently while doing largely the same work.

So true! I have to drop this link, as it does a much better job than any number of comments at explaining this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
The rise of the upper middle class
Clinton and Obama for modern examples. Congress is full of them, like AOC, Jayapal, Murray, etc.
I found time tracking works VERY WELL going into the relaxation phase. It's just ending the relaxation phase where it's gets more challenging.
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In NL, you could choose ISDN and get a 4-port adapter, and the first port supported pulse dial.

Had a working T65 up to 2010. It was divorce, not deprecation which ended that.
I would like to thank you for putting numbers here too!
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I just remember when I was school in the 60's there were a lot of games played where one person out of 30 would 'win'. Very much like professional sports. Talked to my dad whose much older. He said they didn't do that when he was a kid. I think schools don't do that shit as much because they realize that one kid has a very temporary positive experience and 29 kids have a negative one.

Seems to me where the system is fair is unimportant, first we know it's not. Second is it designed to create disparities and a negative experience for most people. From a societal point of view that probably bad. And as I like say, the needs and wants of a couple of super wealthy people shouldn't be anything society cares about.
Copying your URL here and adding the scheme so it renders as a link:

https://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.html
No not really. I didn't notice any real 'cultural' difference when I worked from franchise to franchise in retail and restaurants. What mattered was the group of people there and the manager for the most part, and even then, culture was more an industry thing than anything about the brand of the shop you worked at.
I'm tired of reading these type of comments. Do you enjoy VR? Just create a facebook account, that's not a big deal. There's nothing evil there, people are just grasping for straws.
Genuinely think VR would be dead by now and considered a flash in the pan fad if it wasn't for the software and hardware Oculus has done. Valve and HTC just really didn't invest the time and money seriously in the platform and think HL:Alyx only shipped because Oculus dragged the format forward and showed the potential.

Just don't get why they're doing this at this point, I'd understand if they had iPhone level sales but although the Quest is selling great it's not there yet and it seems a misstep to push everyone into FB from it so soon lots of people will be turned off by the idea. Forcing the tens of thousand Oculus holdouts and saving a handful of engineering salaries surely can 't be worth the bad press and harm to the growing platform

Hope the 4 people who bought Quests after playing mine don’t whinge to me about this.
I don't know about lost civilizations, but ancient Rome was using concrete technology unknown to medieval builders[1]. Somewhere along the line, this super concrete recipe was lost. I find this really fascinating and some believe that ancient Egypt also created its pyramids using man-made stone instead of quarried stone:

> His most remarkable claim is that the pyramids were built using re-agglomerated stone, a sort of geopolymer
limestone concrete, rather than blocks of natural stone.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2009/10/super-concrete-in-the-us-milit...
Those theories don't have much in the way of evidence that would compel anyone to believe them, though. So citing them isn't much of an argument.
I live in the Netherlands. My son was 3 when we moved here; he's about to turn 6 and speaks Dutch fluently. I'm still working on it :)
The analogy would work better if the Nazis were still around and handing out rockets for free, to make it easier for them to hire engineers who know about rockets, so that they can launch better rockets at people.
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The terms are often the same, but the percentage is more like 1% than 0.1%. Also the easy way up the management chain is to be a warm body in a rapidly growing company.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
Those look very specific to using employee-only prediction markets to guide decision-making within a single company. Which objections, if any, do you think apply to Hanson's proposal for tradable archaeology prize obligations?
Dumb Fucks is Mark Zuckerberg quote about his users that leaked in 2010.

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

Really, comment got flagged?

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
He was 22 years old when Facebook bought Oculus. I assume he expected to stay a part of it and maybe things were different if he did. It's his fault, of course, but I think he was just naive.
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