skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extremely easy for the parent company to abuse the minority shareholders in the child company even if there are laws against it, because it can be hard to prove malicious intent.

It's outside of tech, but a recent case I have followed all the way through is Katanga Mining (TSX:KAT), now delisted. It was a company engaged in mining in the DRC, owned 88% at the time by mining conglomerate Glencore with the rest mostly by retail shareholders. The mine was still being built, so there were no or minimal revenues, but lots of debt from financing the construction. All that debt was contracted from Glencore directly and put on Katanga's book. The rates were pretty insane (12+%) considering the risk of the venture.

Now this is where the obvious conflict of interest arises. First, it's obvious that Glencore benefited from raising the interest rate as high as possible. The debt was becoming so large, and with interest rates so high, any future earnings from the mine were mostly going to go to repayment of that debt. If you're a holder of Katanga directly, that means you get to see no earnings, but if you're Glencore, you still receive all of them from the debt payments. Funnily enough, the DRC was also part of this venture, with a stake in the mine under deployment, thus sharing some of the debt. They complained about the scheme, as it was plainly obvious to them as well, and asked Glencore to eliminate part of this debt or risk seeing the mine nationalized. Glencore complied and moved some of that debt to Katanga's books. It still had an impact to them, but there was an even more disproportionate one to retail holders of Katanga.

There is nothing shareholders could have done because Glencore called all the shots due to their 88% ownership. The stock obviously tanked over time and Glencore eventually swept in to buy all of the remaining shares at extremely depressed valuations. Shortly before that happened, they had even done a stock offering for "debt recapitalization", which attracted no interest but tanked the share price even further.

In less extreme examples, you can still see it with royalty payments to the parent company, or other dubious transactions like that between the two.
Yes because people choosing to work based on their own free will is the equivalent of kidnapping people from another country and if you try to escape once here, they are chased by dogs, shot, hung, whipped, kids taking away at birth and sold.

If you don’t believe that a company shouldn’t exist unless it can do so profitably. That means almost none of the companies that YC invests in should exists.

If a country has a health care system that is tied to your employment status, just maybe we need a sane health care system.
Good quote. Love it.

“Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.”

― Gustave Flaubert
What worries me about AI (2018)
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Which has taught them: if you sink their ships, they will stop. We just need to figure out what demands these orcas have!
I learnt CSS long before Firebug. Which means that still to this day, I’m vaguely paranoid that I’m underutilizing Firebug (or its successor dev tools) when I write CSS. The interactive model Firebug exposes just never clicked for me. I feel like said model is maybe more easily-absorbed when you’re starting from scratch, and don’t have the “iterate by editing the CSS file and refreshing the page” model burned into your muscle memory.

Are there any video tutorials someone could recommend, where a proficient user of the dev tools uses them to interactively develop and tweak the design of a web-app?
Ok, so standard PAL is 25FPS, but half vertical resolution PAL is “50FPS”. Thanks for the detailed explanation of why you call it 50FPS (as seen from game’s perspective, not the PAL spec as GP implied).

> And the result is half the vertical resolution but at full frame rate

This is incorrect. It would be correct if you said “full field rate” here. The PAL standard is 50 fields per second. Two fields comprise one frame.

Now as to the NES specifically, this link breaks down more precisely the game’s FPS (tl;dr, it’s neither PAL or NTSC’s frame or field rate exactly):

https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=492
CEO claiming all the allegations are false, factual refutations totally exist, but they can't publish those refutations until the SEC "finishes their job". What a scam artist. Always some excuse, always delays, just milking the fraud as long as possible.
Why would you want to do any of those things while camping or hiking? You are outdoors, surrounded by nature and, perhaps, people you appreciate the company of; enjoy it! Live in the moment!
I don't know, anything that implied dogs being raped would have been rejected by me, a layperson who grew up with dogs.

Your argument seems to be more about "because some people were duped, it's ok to assume reasonable people were duped" and that doesn't seem right to me.
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We have used pseudocode interviews with good success. I also think toxic geniuses are worse than very good nice people and discounting soft skills and propensity for teamwork is a mistake so having applicants talk to other people without you present is super important
Of course nation states are not the determinant of technology outcomes. There are plenty of examples of failed initiatives. Remember "fifth generation computing?" But national soft power in chips, aviation, biotech, etc. is very real. Screwing that up is bad.
https://trefle.io/about#pricing Trefle is currently in beta and still learning how it can be most helpful.
Or, according to the last poll I saw, here we are with an average work week of something like 47 hours in the US.

But we did ensure that workers at the low end aren't allowed the same flexibility as the higher paid employees, along with a nice demeaning time clock to punch every day.
I meant productivity enhancers, but your contribution is also very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I don't follow what you're taking issue with. Naturally by "mathematical truths" I meant axioms and statements that are reducible to axioms - there isn't really anything else for it to mean, after all. On the "sometimes published theorems are wrong" part you've lost me entirely.
How so? Isn't the whole premise that working as a contractor is bad for low wage workers?
Presence of side projects indicates passion which is really really valuable.
Fiscally only - and yes
Croudsourcing the Value of 'e'
From the Department of Just Send Pictures Next Time
Different groups of orcas have very different diets to the point where for example dolphins know it's safe to hang out with some pods but not others. Since they are very cautious and picky eaters, its possible humans were avoided but now a group has added them as OK food
Sort of off-topic: I love looking at images of how the Earth's continents have shifted and moved over time. They provide a lot of inspiration for me when making homemade maps for my D&D games. Whatever nature has done makes for much more compelling and believable maps than what I can make on my own!

My latest map is based on a rotated view of what Pangaea Proxima will (probably) look like in a few million years. Looks pretty neat and provides a lot of inspiration.
> I have much better food at home

And it's probably also cheaper. For 5 € I can either buy a small lunch for myself, or cook for the entire family. With less salt, and more vegetables.
There's a simple antidote to the claims: ship products. The company appears to have trouble doing this, and AFAICT has not shipped a single production vehicle.

Nikola should focus on that, not trying to levitate the company's share price higher by jawboning.

The comparison to Theranos is apt in that the response of that company was to jawbone rather than ship.
I think you _are_ missing the point TBH.
The people who say that there is no real objective value, and that that knowledge is important, are claiming that knowing that nothing has objective value, has value.
sorry nuance like this doesn't fit in a headline this just won't work /s
4chan is a case study in why arguing with people arguing in bad faith is a waste of time
Is there consensus on what to use instead of weinre these days? I have mobile-only issues with my web apps rarely enough that I feel like I always have to start searching from scratch to find a remote debugging tool.
innovation in Europe can only scale if we achieve a higher degree of unity in Europe, including one common language, one common jurisdiction and law framework. Localization is just too expensive in Europe and hinders scaling.

Obviously we already have English, nearly universally spoken as a second or third language in the EU. So I assume you mean English, or some other language as the first language.

Which I think means all other languages would after a few generations become nearly extinct. Like Latin these days.

But despite how much I wish we had more innovation, I don't think losing all languages is worth it.
Hello everyone, Most electric scooters we’ve seen don't seem to be repair/maintenance friendly, so for those who aren't handy or have the tools necessary, it can feel pretty impossible to DIY it yourself: We fall in this camp. When we tend to try and fix things ourselves, we have a history of either breaking or making things worse, so we prefer having someone more professional to handle it. However, it seems that since electric scooters are relatively new, there seems to be a lack of repair shops for them.

Are you worried about having to maintain/repair the electric scooters yourselves? Garage is pioneering a monthly subscription for electric scooter maintenance.
There isn't a large amount of energy stored in the tether catenary or elasticity. Any hardware to recoup it probably wouldn't pay for itself.

Offshore, there can be a lot of energy stored in buoy motion, and utilizing this can help, but probably in a resonant way that doesn't require additional hardware.

"Rigid" is a relative term. The tether already utilized a carbon fiber core. It doesn't get much stiffer, short of going to exotic fibers or more of them, both of which degrade performance in other ways.

The optimum is going to be closer to a strength limited tether than an overly stiff one.
I'm thinking of building a tiny keyboard using something like an Arduino Leonardo which could then be plugged in (as a USB HID) to an android phone.
If there's one thing that makes me regret pushing Rust, it's this. :P Although fortunately, physics engines in any language will always have exploitable, memory-safe bugs that make for great speedruns.
In my country (Tunisia), carriers are starting to shut down 3G networks, but not 2G. These are used as a sort of an IoT network that companies can use to communicate with connected devices all over the country.

I don't know why but I find this cool in a nerdy way.
Noice for Android: Relax and improve focus with minimal background noise
I'm not sure I'd call the social justice / cancel culture movement "fringe", actually.
“The point is that it takes some time to get all of these things running again after a reboot.”

I too would like my desktop restored to its last setting on reboot.
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Spunk also has field extractors where they automatically generate regexes from sample data that look a little bit like this.
> Doesn't this put everyone on an equal footing

Maybe it does, but that doesn't make people's job that were heavily relationship-focussed more enjoyable
I use PhotoStructure, but that shouldn't be surprising, as I'm the author.

PhotoStructure is a self-hosted webserver that runs on macOS, Windows 10, Linux, and docker, with a user interface that works well on mobile and desktop displays. In other words, your data stays yours: there's no cloud component, unless it's your cloud (it runs happily on very meager/cheap VPSs).

There's a background sync service that keeps the PhotoStructure library automatically in sync with my filesystem, and can automatically organize photos and videos into a single, deduplicated directory hierarchy.

Here's why I'm writing it: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ (and if you have any other questions or comments, please email me: hello@photostructure.com)

I use Resilio Sync to automatically send my mobile phone's pictures to my NAS, and PhotoStructure automatically takes it from there.
>This objection, though, is jam-packed with value-claims: It claims what we “ought” to believe and references “good” evidence. The very challenge pre-supposes the reality of value.

There's no reason those terms need to be taken as objective. They're as socially constructed as the rest of science and philosophy. We ought to believe things with good evidence because that's what our scientific culture values.

If another culture didn't value that, we'd pity them for being less effective at their goals - it turns out that updating beliefs on evidence makes you more effective. But there's no objective more sense in which they're "bad", they're just less effective.
I totally stumbled on to it - I was very lucky, and do my best to never forget that. I work as a consultant for a company that does deep technical due diligence on mid-stage tech firms getting acquired, mostly by private equity firms. I worked with someone who was doing it part time for the same firm, and then following that I was the CTO of a small startup for a year, which got acquired, so I went through the process on the startup end. When I decided to move on, I was able to get hired based on deep architecture knowledge but also the ability to interview people delicately in high stakes environments, and then write that up in an executive report and present to the private equity clients. It's an unusual job, and I think the average programmer wouldn't like it, but for me it's worked out really well and I now have the mental energy to do more open source and hobby hacking again. It's great to be in a role that actually capitalizes on my arts education and people skills as well as tech. :-)
You can do all these things on a modern phone, no need to dig out the Sansa, iPod or Nokia. Assuming you have a media collection at home and a working internet connection you just get any SBC - Raspberry Pi etc - and hang it off that internet connection. Install Airsonic or a similar media streamer, point it at your media collection. Install DSub or a similar Subsonic/Airsonic client on your devices and point these at your media streamer. There you go, self-curated music in your ears. Tell all those interruption-producing programs to shut up by either (the best solution) turning off sync, turning down notification volume to 0 or denying them access to notifications -> poof, no interruptions. People can still call you of course, you could turn that off as well if you want.

There is no need to go back in time to get more control, all it takes it for you to take over the reins of current technology. The added advantage of doing so is a reduced stress load since you get to realise that you actually can take control.
see above thread
>Cities are nervous that business districts are devastated since no one buys coffee, lunches or walks home and steps into a shoe store or tailor, or to a bar for drinks with colleagues.

I think this is more true than a lot of people think/or care to make known.

I know the business district in my city, Nashville, is hurting right now.
Left a few years buffer!
> has very conservative capital and tax and employment systems

I agree with you to a degree on capital and tax (although there are exceptions within Europe if you take the time to look).

However, if you say Europe should be adopting the US employment system, I'll tell you right now that you can stick that where the sun doesn't shine. Sure the European employment model is not perfect, but by god is it a gazillion times better than the Wild West model deployed in the US.
The qualitative factor is obvious. But the quantitative may hit that sweet spot. Studying just how many fewer children they have and how that interplays with free time, work and wealth. Or how the decreased contact with the younger generation changes your worldview and psychology.
> maybe they should fucking train someone!

Training of a highly educated person takes at least 15 years starting with elementary school. Looks like the US school system is in bad shape, but it a bit strange to demand from Eric Schmidt to fix it. Immigration is a way to get skilled workers which doesn't require waiting many years for the results, but it doesn't preclude fixing education meanwhile.
Thank you, I took the same issue you did when reading this.

There are not "truths" in mathematics, it's literally a system of logic with definitions at the bottom (axioms) and then a following of the results based upon the agreed upon logic.
Maybe Google should stop buying and mothballing smaller companies.
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Sure, that would stretch the battery time to maybe 2 days. But I still would have to have both of those in my pocket. Now I get 4-5 days on my smaller pocket phone and the Android stays in the backpack.
The Little Model Shop That Played a Big Role in Killing Osama Bin Laden
They could completely discredit the Hindenberg report simply by release a video of the truck clearly driving under its own power. They haven't, and instead are just issuing these legal threats against shorters.

This hysteria against short sellers in some circles is great for hiding fraud. Wirecard also comes to mind.
The Multimillion-Dollar Hydration Hypefest Is Built on Bullshit
Doesn't work well for Canada in reality, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/immigrants-and-wages... https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/SSU/TC-SS...
When investors look to invest, they want a fast ROI. Engineering company likes this typically takes many years to fruition or maybe not. It's much easier to justify dumping money on these "tech" companies like WeWork, AirBnb hoping to get another facebook unicorn than putting money into real engineering company like Makani.
Why animal trials when we have a prison full of molesters?
“Most people” - pretty sure children of educated parents are focused heavily on education and being steered to jobs that require that education. That’s 40-60% of the US population.

They weren’t teaching coding to grade schoolers at scale 10 years ago.
Such an immensely articulate person... His "Computers for Cynics" series is also very recommendable, the blockchain/bitcoin one particularly so for outsiders that want to know or need to communicate on related matters (e.g. journalists). Happy to have been able to hear him in youtube, he feels so close one feels one knows him personally.
>A laws designed to affect everyone but instead has hundreds of exemptions carved out has no place existing.

Then let's get rid of the exemptions, not the law.
It's almost as if defining anything as a "mathematical truth" is definitionally wrong and anyone having done so should be called out as a liar.

Only the person who responded to the person who made such a statement were more polite about it, hence this "discussion".
Fair point about the no known attacks. There's stories about orcas killing humans in many cultures that historically interacted with killers whales.

> I believe you're over-estimating their intelligence.

One of my favourite orca stories is the killers of Eden[0]. The wiki page is short and worth a read, but to summarize: a pod of whales learns to herd whales into a bay and alert humans to them. Humans harpoon them and the pod helps drag them back by pulling on the ropes. The carcass is left overnight for the pod, that eats its lips and tongue. Afterwards, the humans haul it back.

Why would the orcas alert the humans unless they realized that the humans were responsible for the harpooning? Furthermore, just the act of slapping the river with water to attract attention is already quite advanced. And why did they only eat part of the whale (and always the same part)? Why did they never eat the humans?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_Sou...
I'll believe this study when it's replicated successfully.
It's funny how religious folks always go for the body horror. There's no existentialism here; no Kafka's "The Trial", Camus' "The Stranger", nor Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" to force us to contend with each other and our cold vast empty universe. (Indeed, reading each of these three authors today, we are forced to grapple with their sexism, racism, and theology, because like all humans they were deeply bigoted and hateful.)
You seem to be implying the bias is unreasonable, by claiming the conclusions it leads to are faulty. I think that framing is uncharitable at best. What you call bias, might be better described as contextual understanding, or awareness of other highly relevant information. Given the wealth of (prominent on HN) discourse around "ride-sharing companies acting in bad faith", there's little reason to immediately frame this argument in terms of "pre-existing bias" that must be exorcised before rational discourse can begin.

Of course, reasonable people can disagree with the accusations of bad faith, but for a knowledgeable person to claim it as "bias" instead of "reasoned opinion" is extremely uncharitable, verging on sophistry.
I'm still highly skeptical of Nikola, but it's not quite fair to characterize their response this way. The chairman here isn't complaining about the trading activity itself, just about the traders' report which he claims is full of lies.
Standind desks rock!! And you get the added bonus of wanted to minimize the (mostly unpaid) overtime!
Honestly not a bad approach. I wish more people just shared their ideas instead of trying to persuade and convert me to their position.
There is an argument for theism that I find very persuasive, which is that, faith is a ridiculous conclusion but a necessary axiom. The point being it's not something you arrive at through reason after ruling out the alternatives, it's just a point you start at, or not.

It's not an artifact of reason, but it's the other way around, where we can only reason about the things the theistic object of faith has caused. (or even just deistic).

Without too much woo, I'm less circumspect about these beliefs, and think we all believe what we respectively perceive we need to. However, something curious I think I may have discovered is that both faith and fear cannot be experienced simultaneously. If this were true, and fear was just an interpretation of an emergent chemical/biological artifact of life in the universe, it implies that something which necessarily extinguished it could also be just as real.

On the question of what is more absurd, belief in the existence of a superbeing we cannot conceive of yet whose will we can somehow divine, or that our reasoning is sufficient to rule out the existence of such a being, if you have ever tried to argue with a dog or a horse or even a baby, the limits of the latter case seem too stark to provide much confidence in their powers.