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As a man in my late 30s, I began to see older male relatives of my own and of friends dying of the usual things like cancer and some even of opioids, but the thing that struck me was how many of them depended on hiring the funeral home staff as fill-in pallbearers. I made it a priority to be sure that however things go, I'd like to be able to convene a party of six. One of the things I did was get involved with a fraternal organization, as weird and anachronistic as that sounds, it has been very rewarding, and you get to see what a mixed bag other guys at different ages really are and how you are both similar and different. Another was setting better personal boundaries and committing to owning and prioritizing my own social life in romantic relationships, and made a commitment to a set of long term hobbies that I should be able to do until I am completely incapacitated.

I heartily recommend all three things to anyone who felt the original article resonated.
I think that's probably trivializing it. I happen to be reading the (or a) book about Theranos, "Bad Blood", and it seems like something worse might be the issue. Maybe not just with one person either. She founded the company at like 19. And had a relationship very early with Sunny who was like twice her age.
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All "profits" come from regulatory credits. Even then, there's plenty of aggressive accounting going on. It's arguable Tesla has never been profitable and still isn't.
What possibly could they have to offer for Toyota? It doesn't look like they did any work or even had anyone capable of researching hydrogen cells working for them.

Instead of advancing technology, they might have taken funding and credibility actual companies could have used.

The founder has so far answered just one real question on twitter, about what they were going to bring to the GM produced car:
"100% a badger. We will use common parts for example; tires, window regulators, hvac, brakes & batteries to drive down cost, but the badger is completely a badger. The infotainment, displays, software, ota, app, cab, interior, user experience, sales, service, warranty etc is ours"

That's a long way to say they'll use their software and sales team.
Look I don't mind that defence.

But can we like all get such good defence. Where do I sign up or who to vote for so every American citizen gets a legal representation like this.

Normally if you defraud somebody, you are going to prison for a long, long time very very quickly.
The presentation they're referring to is at [1]. I wasn't able to find a transcript or a video, perhaps it's necessary to become a member.

What I'd be interested in is how they deal possible confounding. Eg, that sick people tend to visit doctors more and sick people tend to have more health problems. Or, that people who have cardiac arrests tend to have other health issues. Is anyone with access able to help?

[1] https://programme.escardio.org/ESC2020/Abstracts/220608-cont...
> I’m not sure it’ll be successful here.

"Affluenza" worked as defense for a white male. The defense is betting on the fact that practically anything will work for defense for a young white female.
Thanks for the kind words!

I spent enormous amounts of time tweaking the computer's strategy so it would play a reasonably competent game. Curiously, each decision looks like a sequence of input values with a coefficient.

What does that look like? You guessed it, a neural network! I obviously had no idea what I was doing. I never hit on the notion of generalizing it, and then doing training to find the best coefficients and the inputs that mattered. (Of course, I didn't have the computer power to run 10,000 game iterations, either, when it'd take an hour to run one game.)

I bet now one could use neural networks to turn the computer strategy into a formidable opponent.
This thread went to the second page of hacker news in 4 hours, while the amount of upvotes beats anything on the front page. Looks like throttling.
"Police have said Reinoehld was found with a handgun but have not said if he fired any shots at officers."

"At 4:49 p.m. last Thursday, a Multnomah County judge had signed a warrant for Reinoehl’s arrest on charges of second-degree murder with a firearm and unlawful use of a firearm"

Cherry picking quotes can lead to whatever conclusion you prefer.
> I can pick up almost any text editor and be productive immediately, even if I've never used that editor before.

It's true, but I don't see why this is being given much importance. If you pick up any editor and use it only to the extent that you can without ever having to read up documentation, then simply go ahead - you likely do not need power features. If you need to do powerful things, then I suspect you will need to read docs regardless of the editor.

Emacs is a powerful tool. If you only need basic editing, then don't use it. That you can't do basic editing with Emacs without even going through a tutorial is not a flaw of Emacs, and you are clearly not the target audience for the program.
Stack Overflow prohibited employees from selling shares privately, while also setting an expiry date on the options that has forced some of the company's longest-serving employees to choose between surrendering their equity, or paying a ton to exercise options that they may never be able to sell.
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If the state puts you on trial, do you automatically qualify for state-provided mental health services?

I assume incarceration also comes with psychiatric care. If I went to prison I’d probably need a lot of therapy even if I accepted my punishment. More, if I didn’t.
This entire thing is based off the ridiculous premise that the "family life" used to be some universal great bedrock. Have you ever talked to your parents generation about their family life? It often seems pretty shitty too, even if the accident of their birth forced a marriage.
FCEVs are the future. BEVs are a temporary stopgap.
Why should principles be given to countries that do not reciprocate? All major American tech companies are banished from China, and the only ones left are ones who agreed to transfer IP to be stolen by the CCP.
> I think most C level officers in a startup would be quite happy to buy lower level employees shares.

When I left my last job at a series d startup, it was small enough that the CEO had a meeting with people leaving and thanked them for their work, so the CEO knew me by name. I later emailed the CEO about connecting me with buyers. Silence.

I also talked to a few companies who lend you money to buy your shares, and one of the private markets. They at least said there wasn't interest. The company was doing ok and wasn't a sinking ship, but with zero interest from anyone, my options were effectively underwater, and I let them expire.

If you're thinking about exercising, reach out to some of those companies who either lend you money or run a marketplace. They're better at due diligence than you, and if there's no interest, you can assume the options are worthless. Even better, talk to one of these companies before signing at a startup. Tell them you're thinking about signing with X, I might want to sell some shares in a few years, but what's the interest look like now?
> I really believe that the "loneliness epidemic" is a product of a generation that socializes almost completely online, and has no connection with their community.

I agree about "connection with their community" but I'm less sure that socializing online is the root cause, though I agree it almost certainly a contributing factor at this point.

I live in a developing country which has substantially more street life, community, know your neighbors, etc than most places US/Australia/Europe. And a lot of it is simply due to the quality of housing.

When you've got 6 family members living in a house that might only be 300 square feet and there's no air conditioning...there's little surprise that in the evening so many people are sitting outside where natural interactions happen.

I can't find a reference now but I saw an academic article showing the same effect in the US South. There used to be a "porch culture" where in the evenings people would sit outside on their porches. This made it much easier for neighbors to interact. Then with the rise of air conditioning, suddenly being inside was noticeably more comfortable than being outside.

And it isn't just air conditioning. Consider all of the other changes in the past -- I dunno, 30 years? -- that have made "being inside" much more comfortable.

When I was a kid it was pretty common for kids to share bedrooms, for a house to have only a single television, there were only three TV stations anyway, definitely no handheld gaming/video watching/etc...all of those things were factors that would push you to go outside.
That's not the 'why' though. Plenty of people across the world grow up in similar situations as kids in the Midwest and they don't go around destroying other people's property.

I honestly think there's something really messed up about American culture. I believe you can draw a direct correlation between what I think it is - people being indoctrinated into selfishness from an early age - and behavior like that.

For context, my wife grew up in a small town in the Midwest. She used to tell me horror stories about high school and I used to dismiss them as maybe be it just being her experience and nobody else's. I changed my mind when one day we went to the wedding of a high school friend and we were sat on the same table with some people who were 'popular' in high school. Their recollection of those years were as bad as my wife's. One woman, when asked about her experience literally told me 'honestly, I try not to think about that time'.

These people grew up in a location that was by far better than my own upbringing in every possible metric: affluent town, very low crime, infinite resources when compared with my developing country schools, access to studying abroad, etc... And they fucking hated high school. That blew my mind.
I’m interested in reading some more on this concept, The Wikipedia, which usually my first stop for a broad overview and maybe some linked research, seems to suggest that profile directed/guided and feedback guided are the same thing. Is there anywhere I can read about the varying approaches?
I expected some level of hand-wringing here in response to this article. Maybe it's something in the water in rural America, but none of this is unusual or extreme, and if this behavior is foreign to you, then you and I grew up in different circumstances.

Getting together with the boys and breaking the law, pushing each other to go a little further each time, is a rite of passage all over the world. Maybe it's practice for the kinds of risks adults sometimes have to take to survive. A life without these formative experiences sounds dull and sterile to me. I sometimes wonder whether the outrage and histrionics people sometimes get into over seemingly trivial stimuli aren't caused by a lack of exposure to games with real stakes.
Huawei had a systematic campaign to steal American IP while offering direct cash incentives to employees who stole it.
What the author is describing are felonies. I don't think most kids around the country are out doing things this extreme, or it would have made the news.

Smoking pot and shooting out the occasional window in a house under construction with a BB gun, hell yes there are kids all over the place doing that.

I remember how 'jenkem' got thrown all over the news (which maybe like 3 people in the US tried, ever), and if kids were weaving around freeways blackout and shooting pedestrians with airsoft guns on any sort of an appreciable scale, I think we would have read about it in the news by now.

I think this kid just grew up in a poorly-supervised household around some really sketchy kids. Glad to see he's doing better, and I hope he finally apologized to Seth. Notice there isn't a shred of remorse in his description of locking his buddy in a room and giving him possibly severe burns.
If I were a C-level in a startup, I’d shy away from buying lower level employee shares as I wouldn’t want the frustration, jealousy, or other negative feelings if the company achieves a strong IPO or other exit.

If the company fails to achieve a good exit, I don’t need any more exposure. It’s almost a lose-lose.
Nothing wrong with having to pass in a config, though it’s a question of control for me, like being able to use the full power of Go to handle complex scenarios, hot loading modules etc.

Have you given this any serious consideration making it more API friendly for developers in this way?

My issue with modules is you will inherently be limited at a certain point
Does this mean that battery levels reported to the driver could fluctuate and be inaccurate when there is interference?
I think you're implying that somehow one has comprehension only before, and empathy only after. Why can't you have either in either order?
> Unlike today’s battery modules, which link up to an on-board management system through a tangle of orange wiring, GM’s system features RF antennas integrated on circuit boards. The antennas allow the transfer of data via a 2.4-gigahertz wireless protocol similar to Bluetooth but with lower power. Slave modules report back to an onboard master, sending measurements of cell voltages and other data. That onboard master can also talk through the cloud to GM.

I can understand why GM wants batteries to report their health to the cloud, but can anyone explain why they want wireless networking for in-car components?

I know Elon Musk bragged for a while about reducing the amount of wiring that was going into the model Y (AFAICT, that didn't end up happening, or it was very poorly communicated) as a sort of manufacturing advantage to decrease labor costs. Perhaps that is the rationale?

That just seems like a poor reason to reduce the reliability of component communications in the car.
Nice. :-) Having done somewhat similar stuff before, I'm curious if you were able to measure what the latency result of using linux and python was vs doing it with an MCU like a teensy or arduino and using C? I can see advantages to both approaches, and am genuinely curious. There must be some latency and unpredictability added, but maybe it's small enough to totally not matter. Off course whether this matters depends too on the controller keyboard and your playing level, I know what is ok to me differs from what what my Real Pianist friends tolerate!
Some people might think "10-20x growth sounds likely for a startup, no?". Frequently, at "Series A" a startup is valued at $20-40M. Getting a 10-20x multiple on that means it should get to $200M-$1B range. Only 5% of all YCombinator companies hit that milestone (~100 companies from ~2,000 deals). Odds for a startups not backed by YC & co, would be lower. So no, not that likely, even if you're as early as day 1 of Series A.
> The deconstruction of the male's role in society will contribute to the downfall of the west, and that's coming from one of these mistrusting, nihilistic, 4chan contributing males

You should get off 4chan if you actually think any part of what you stated here is real. You are stuck in an echo chamber but those beliefs are by no means universal.
Startup options have been like this forever. Maybe you could theoretically sell, but no one did, and marketplaces like Forge and Equityzen didn't exist.
YAML makes perfect sense until one of its many, many edge cases bites you.

There is a subset of yaml that is almost good. But even then, there are cases where yaml is interpreted differently the average human would expect.
I've been working alongside network engineers for thirty years in a variety of ISP, IXP, RIR, corporate, carrier, DC and public cloud environments, and do not recognise the people you are describing. These colleagues run the usual gamut of human personalities, but invariably the most respected and senior contributors are those that enable others through sharing their knowledge and experience. They were never anything but helpful and patient even when I was just getting started and full of basic questions about BGP and mixing up my fibre modes.

However, I have also contributed to Stack Overflow and managed IRC channels and servers. The negative traits you've described do correlate to the hostile attitudes endemic within many StackExchange and IRC communities. They are not correlated to my workplace experience of network engineers.
> You join a startup because of the many other benefits it provides

This. So much this. The exit is the lottery ticket. It'll likely fail.

But the real lure is getting to wear a ton of hats and fly by the seat of your pants. Any engineer in a < 20 person eng team is going to have a ton of exposure to how the business works, to making real-time decisions, and just generally being impactful. _THAT's_ why you go.

(And, that said, it's definitely not for everyone)
Not sure I understand. Any defendant could claim this defense and get psychologically evaluated.
Can someone explain to me why this comment was flagged dead? It's also my understanding that the inflation of video times to certain intervals was driven by how many ads were allowed at a given video length.
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There's a time value of money question here as well. At FNG you'd earn the equity over n years. You can use this equity to buy a home, pay for college/debts, or build a diversified portfolio.
Heh. Growing up with a rough relationship to some of my family, I was always told that I would eventually not feel the way I did. I found it ironic at the time, as both my father and stepmother were estranged from at least one of their parents and siblings and generally did not talk well of them.
I have fond memories of sitting in front of my Tandy Sensation, black screen with two or three revealed pieces of a continent. Such a great game.
I'm fascinated by reports that Muhammad had lighter skin than most of his fellow Arabs, and had tinges of red in his hair. Also quite tall.

Possibly some Norse genes in there?
I understood your question to be around the potentially commonly held belief (read: what I've heard) that city folk are generally brought up with less responsibility bestowed upon them than rural folks (and the scale that exists between those two extremes).

Maybe not entirely "responsibility bestowed" but also the behavioural differences (distractions available, ability to deal with boredom) that come with the density difference of both things and people and space.

Edit: replaced the word "fact" for a more appropriate description of the truthiness of the situation.
I would saying playing the lottery is most certainly a risk (of the money you spent on tickets).
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Unfortunately this has ultimately led me to conclude that, purely from a monetary standpoint, it is just not worth joining a startup unless you're joining as a C-level employee or director and receiving several % of equity (which again, is going to be rare outside of that level). Otherwise the risk/reward makes little sense.

There are other reasons to join a startup of course-- more autonomy, you believe in the product, etc... but they come at a cost (lower TC and usually much worse WLB).
1 second trades are more an arbitrage thing, not a short-term vs long-term thing. I don't believe quarterly results have any particular influence over high frequency trading, other than in the minutes after the earnings are announced.

Arbitrage is like pouring water into the bathtub. The water will slosh around, eventually finding its lowest energy level, until the next pouring event. Arbitrage is the pull of gravity mixed with friction.

> taking on debt to fund dividends to give the illusion everything is fine

I know that some companies do this. I find it strange they imagine they can fool investors doing this, because they aren't fooling anyone. See the CEO anecdote I posted upthread.
Do you have any evidence for that or just speculating because some business/government people move around in the same business arena?
On another side of this - I've seen places where employees were essentially locked in - unable to leave, because they couldn't sell any stock, and exercising cost too much, or, more likely, would be a taxable event (and again, they couldn't cover taxes by selling so it's a huge cash hit to buy the paper)

I get at one level a company might like this - it's a "good" way to keep people from leaving. In reality, this means you have people that really want to leave and can't - which does not make for a happy, good employee.

Let them sell at least a portion of the stock back to the company. Or sell some during a funding round, at least enough to cover their taxes so they can take their stock and go.
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That sounds... worse?
> Where do I sign up or who to vote for so every American citizen gets a legal representation like this.

The legal system is built by the rich, for the rich. If money wasn't so powerful in systems like this, people wouldn't pursue it with the vigor that they do.
Sweeter than sugar. That's awesome.
Good luck if you don't have the money for a good lawyer
This is really interesting, thank you. Do you have a link to some good info on the phenomenon?
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Startups used to IPO or fail much faster
As someone that used to drive a lot of rentals, I think you overstate how seamless it is to get going in a car. More, I think this glosses over how difficult cars used to be, to operate. With how unreliable early spark plugs and carburetors were, it is hard to state how far things really have come.

And my point is I agree that vanilla Emacs can feel spartan. Thing is, my customizations have aged really well. My config for Emacs hasn't changed too much in over a decade. That kind of stability is hard to put value on. Especially when our industry seems to price itself on instability.
It takes a whole lot of money to retain an attorney that can craft a solid case around an argument like this.
What is the decision procedure for distinguishing between a woman who is being taken advantage of and a woman who is exploiting those around her? If she doesn’t flag as an exploiter is our decision procedure useful?