skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> '1x participating' are the likely standard terms, meaning the investors should be getting their 1x out of this deal at least.

There's no 'straw man'.

>>> Asking for the 1x back on a sale is not 'squeezing' - it's literally in the contract, a normative part of these transactions. It happens all the time.

"Clearly both firms with extensive investment experience did not feel that way." - no, that they didn't 'go after the money' doesn't imply they would be 'squeezing' if they did. What it implies is that in all likelihood, it probably just wasn't worth the hassle.

The investors got robbed, but at least they can write it off. Asking for money from someone who is essentially refusing to give it back to you is not 'squeezing' by any definition.

>>> "Illegality" - in the article Josh mentioned that he had some kind of deal with the acquirer whereby 'not matter what, he would get his $3.7M'. If the acquirer is agreeing to terms with one 'insider shareholder' to the detriment of the others, that's fraud, and it's illegal.

Josh has a fiduciary responsibility to represent in good faith on behalf of all of the shareholders. Clearly in this situation, he came out with a nice exit, while his investors got $0. It also seems pretty clear that Josh and the acquirer were going to make sure that Josh was 'taken care of as part of the deal'.

Conrad Black went to jail because he was selling off assets of the company, but also getting a large 'consulting fee' from the acquiring entity to him personally. The shareholders felt that was defrauding them of what would otherwise be valuation/money they should receive.

In this companies transaction, it seems pretty clear that the investors were probably into it for $800K (participating) and then 15% or whatever they owned - but they got nothing.

He benefited while the other shareholders did not - this looks like it might illegal - but it probably would only be considered so if someone took them to court over it, which obviously they wont.

It's a fine line between 'negotiating hard' and simply saying 'I have your money, you're not going to get it, so that's that'.
so its the range 2-4?
Is it really?

I don't know, but I have the feeling that "lonely socially disabled men" are just very vocal about it.
An iPad and iPhone mostly display one thing. One app or maybe a second one in split screen.

A laptop can run many things simultaneously.
Web browser, Office suite, Musik, EMail client, Cloud sync...
Even my mother struggled with 8GB RAM on here work machine and she is by far no PC expert.
She writes emails and letters, opens spreadsheets and websites. Sometimes she gets a call and has to open another document or website.
End of RAM.

I would NOT recommend the 8GB Macbook Pro for professional work.
This wording is very hand-wavey. They can and should give a direct comparison; as consumers we don't know what the top 2% of sold laptops are, or which is the "best selling PC laptop in its class". Notice it's "best selling" and not most powerful.
Indeed. For all the AI hype, scientific computing has made huge strides forward. Improvements in graphics cards and parallel algorithms have made large simulations and models of all sorts, not just deep learning, much more computationally feasible. I'm very excited to see the applications of all this new scientific computing.
In America it is.

And yes exactly what you wrote in your second paragraph.

You can be pedantic all you want. But 90%+ of America’s won’t follow what you’re saying if you’re saying at best NYT is center right.

You also likely won’t be able to have the conversation without seeming smug (or insert other related adjectives) either. Likely hurting any discussion you have.

At which point, any pt of discussion is defeated.
To put some numbers to it here are results from a Morning Consult poll[1]:

>Republicans, in particular, have been drawn to QAnon, with 38 percent of GOP adults who had heard of QAnon saying they believed the claims were at least somewhat accurate, compared to 18 percent of Democrats and 16 percent of independents.

Strangely enough Democrats and Independents were more likely to have an opinion of QAnon than Republicans. However they were much less likely to believe any of it with 63% of Democrats labeled it somewhat or completely inaccurate while only 24% of Republicans did.

This also seems to be another strike against the idea of "shy Trump voters" because I think there is a bigger social stigma against QAnon than Trump. Although I guess maybe the Republicans who are saying they aren't aware of or have no opinion of QAnon could be "shy QAnon believers".

[1] - https://morningconsult.com/2020/10/14/social-media-qanon-pol...
'This "actual serious work" you mention is not what most people use Office for anyway.

Most people write simple letters, and do very basic spreadsheets.'

Most "actual serious work" involves receiving and modifying other peoples' drafts. As such, if anyone uses an advanced feature, everyone uses the advanced feature.
as for the above comment, surely this is a normal distribution problem and both sides of the tail have to be looked at? you need to look at 2 and 4, or the range 2-4, not 1-5
We had the lowest Covid-19 death rate (per capita) of any major city in the US so far. The next lowest was Seattle which was 3x higher due to some bad luck with early spread but still low compared to the national norm. Most cities have substantially higher Covid-19 death rates.
I'm not sure this is a great way to value a person
Typically the question is part of the voter registration form. But there's a "no affiliation" option.
The vast majority of my work has been on the JVM - and most of that in Java. I tried Go for a while, and came away pretty unhappy.

First, similarities:
Go seems like a really good language for building software for teams. It's straightforward and simple, and generally what you see is what you get. That's great.

Where it wins:

- having a standard formatter is amazing

- having a compiler that is fast, and an executable that starts fast and runs quickly is great

- the built-in http stuff seems better than what was available in Java's stlib for years

- channels are nice

- lower resource usage, especially memory

- by breaking with the JVM, you get to abandon a lot of bad patterns because they simply aren't available

Where it loses:

- I simply don't need pointers for the places I want to use Go

- the GC, though different, still needs tuning/consideration for high-load, and if I have to mess with GCs I want the options available to me on the JVM

- the dependency management story was rough for a while, though that seems to have settled into something more mature

- the error handling is unacceptably anemic

- the type system is unacceptably anemic. I'm not even talking about generics (maybe I am) - it just seems moronic to have to subvert it with "interface{}" all the time, which also renders the documentation pretty opaque to me.

Overall Go is a solid tool, and I see why it's so successful, especially for network stuff and command-line tools. It's hard to overstate how great an experience it is to have a fast-compile loop and I really envy that (I feel this way any time I use most languages not on the JVM).

And for learning something new, there's nothing novel that I've seen in Go. If you want to use it because it is pragmatic and efficient, that's a great reason.
There are two models of 13" MBP - based on the other specs of this new machine, it occupies the lower tier - which in the Intel models also only has two ports.

Presumably, when they fill the higher tier with the new chip it will also have more RAM and more USB ports.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579905
> You think that when someone takes more than they need, they deserve to be shamed? How do you determine how much one can take?

Shame is a pretty good motivator for encouraging people to behave in a manner deemed appropriate by society. I don't think there's an easy or definite answer for how much is appropriate. I guess the question I'd ask in return is: in the case of the woman caught on security footage dumping a whole bucket of Halloween candy into her plastic bag. Why is it that we find it appropriate to shame her and not a founder/ceo who does effectively the same thing? Why can we not apply these same rules of decency to business?

> If the financial incentive to start a company is reduced, there will necessarily be a cost to innovation.

I don't think this is necessarily true. By spreading the fruits of successful innovation more broadly you put the people who enabled that innovation in a position to use that experience to innovate further.

I'd argue that model where innovation centers around founders aiming to hit unicorn status and then retire with 'fuck you' money limits it in the sense that those once you've earned your 'fuck you' money you aren't really incentivised to innovate any further.

> The rules and incentives for employment were very clearly outlined in the employment contract these people signed.

I'm questioning whether they were fair, not in this specific case, but I'm asking more generally is our approach to employment as a society reasonable and fair.
People will be back. SF has more than just offices for tech companies.

I've lived here since 1996. I've seen the ebbs and flows of traffic/vacancy rates. There was an exodus in 2001 and another one in 2008. But the people always come back.
I’m pretty sure the amount of cache on the chip was on one of the slides, according to Wikipedia it’s 192 kb for instructions and 128 kb for data.

To me it seems pretty unlikely to be that important because if you can have 16gb of memory in the chip, how hard can it be to increase the caches a fraction of that?
Fn+Backspace would work for you, though :P
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Nadia Eghbal on working (and writing) in public
I am confused about Parquet wrt to the rest of your stack. Is it just that Parquet happens to be the Redshift export format? Or are you actually using Arrow and Parquet at the same time in some manner?
AnandTech speculates on a 128-bit DRAM bus[1], but AFAIK Apple hasn't revealed rich details about the memory architecture. It'll be interesting to see what the overall memory bandwidth story looks like as hardware trickles out.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
I think the mathematical term "complement" might be more in line with the intended meaning.
Physical proximity is a little overrated. Nerds can just hangout with each other on their own niche corners of the Internet like HN, indiehackers forum, private servers, and so on to form their own little communities of hackers just working on stuff. The problem is investments and capital is limited to a few locations. Maybe VC money needs to become location independent?
> I've had quite a few problems with things like plugins for go deleting unused imports because I am in the habit of saving frequently.

This is not the language or tooling's fault, but likely your IDE's doing. You can set it up not to run gofmt/goimports on save.
Hi HN! We've been hacking away at lightweight internal tool builder and would love to share it with everyone.

Most people are using it to make simple FEs to call product APIs or SQL queries (change feature flag, get logs for a user, enrich a spreadsheet). However, we are still figuring out what Notebooks are best suited for and wanted to get it into the community earlier than later.
(Please note I am not the GP)

Historically, dating involved a man spending money on a woman, nominally for purposes of courtship to prove he was a good provider, but often simply in hopes of sex in the immediate future. As social norms have changed -- such that casual relationships and sex outside of marriage have become more acceptable while women are more able to establish an earned income -- we still tend to default to men paying for dates in hopes of getting laid.

So dating has something of a tendency to be a polite form of prostitution where men spend money in a gamble in hopes it leads to sex. If men can legally spend money and state up front they are expecting X, Y or Z and get it, why "date"?

Though when the OP says they are dating an online sex worker, I assume they mean they are in a relationship to this person. The word "dating" gets used rather sloppily to mean a variety of things -- which isn't all bad, mind you, but sometimes interferes with clear communication.
Do you have a TL;DW? I would watch it all if it was a bit shorter or there were timestamps, but 1hr10min is a lot.
This is misinformation. Most of TimescaleDB is open source under Apache 2. The difference is that the advanced features of TimescaleDB - Eg clustering - are under a source available license and are free, while advanced InfluxDB features like clustering are under a paid enterprise license. In fact TimescaleDB recently made all of our enterprise features available for free. So one could argue that TimescaleDB is more open than Influx.

For more information on TimescaleDB licensing, check out this blog post:
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...

(Disclaimer/ fyi: I work at Timescale)
> don't care where they live and care about crap like family values and property, to leave so this place so it can become liveable again.

GP very clearly does care about where they live; it's just that that location, the result of 'crap like family values and property', is different to where you want to live.

That's OK!
Media learns what musicians already know: Spotify only works for the stars
Inspired by one of the projects I worked on where I had to create something similar. There was a library already out there (mentioned in the readme) but it was restrictive and didn't do all that I needed it to do. Opened this up to the world now so feel free to give any advice or contribute!
Well, when I got my first meaningful job as a software engineer I made sure to come here and thank the awesome people of HN - I usually talk to Dang, but I'm sure everyone is nice.

I have vanished from several places like twitter, reddit, linkedin... HN is the place I come daily to read the news and often share my personal projects.

Thanks Dang - and everyone else - I sure appreciate you.
Without actual real world performance tests from neutral 3rd parties all that really really need to be taken with a grain of salt. Never trust the maker of a product, test for yourself or watch for neutral reviewing parties who don't have a financial incentive.
Try editing 4K videos over 1GbE Internet from your NAS, because the mini doesn’t support more people 10gbe.
Fascinating. This exploit doesn't feel like something someone would just stumble upon. Is the main value of this work to reduce the price of an exploit on the black market? Of interest to me is that this exploit, although patched, is probably still valuable since not everyone patches their system.

EDIT: Oops, I didn't read the deep dive section, and I guess he says how he stumbled upon it. My bad!
> In America it is.

Neoliberalism isn't a left view in America, either. While it's true that only since Trump it's been somewhat displaced by vague mix of kleptocracy and protectionism as the economic policy of the dominant faction of the Republican Party, it remains widely shared between both parties, there's nothing left, even in American terms, about neoliberalism.

> But 90% of people in America will have no clue what you mean when you say things like that.

If I rephrased neoliberalism as “corporate capitalism”, they'd understand it perfectly.
The Rise of Nonstandard Open Source Licenses Sparks Debate
Apparently confusing for me as well, because I'd never known of that device and I'm reasonably familiar with Apple's lineup.

Sure enough, it does exist: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP799
The parent post wasn't trying to insult people without four year degrees. It's just saying that most major news companies will be led and staffed by people with college degrees (business, journalism, whatever). And, because those with four year degrees tend to lean left in the US, it makes sense the companies they lead and staff will do the same. Venn diagrams, and all that.

Personally, I don't believe this. In fact, I don't believe "the media" is a useful phrase at all. It's like pigeonholing Trump supporters. It can make you feel superior or smart, but it's not actually informative. I think the Republican Party has chosen the tactic of discrediting media sources after Fox News showed it could work. No news organization is perfect, and it's best to consume a balanced diet, but avoiding all "mainstream media" just leaves us with dregs.
And ironically, same its happening with sex and intimacy. Let's listen to Houellebecq one moment:

“It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society.”
At some point I had to read through some issues on the Firefox and Chrome issue trackers in relation to rendering on macOS. I kid you not more than once I read someone saying something along the lines of "No idea how this works, lets ask some Apple people at the next conference".
The key in the video was flexing from being pressed for the fingerprint. Hopefully that does not cause longevity issues.

My USB-A yubikey has proven durable so far, but it only requires a very light touch to activate.
Well, I get where you're coming from, but would compare it maybe to electric or hydrogen vs gas cars. If I was in the market for a new car and drove certain distances regularly, I probably wouldn't be the first to buy something that could only go half the distance less conveniently, but does it faster.
I was intrigued by this statement, and, while it is true for San Francisco in particular, it is (despite rapid increases in recent years) unlikely to be even true for the US as a whole, let alone for other developed country. In fact, in the US alone, more people died of COVID-19 this year than died in the entire world of overdoses in 2017: https://ourworldindata.org/drug-use#deaths-from-substance-us...

Switzerland, for instance, is on track for 3000+ COVID-19 deaths and is unlikely to exceed 150 overdose deaths.
Depending on your need for KDB, old school InfluxDB, OpenTSBD, SciDB and Promethius are open source alternatives.
> Curious if there would be a concrete suggestion to replace the $5/month on vitamins.

Maybe fish oil and/or another Omega-3 source like flax seed.
You skip those meetings that fail to prove a relevant agenda upfront. Ofc this filter away everything, so you go where you'll be useful and explain to your direct manager your prioritizations.
I recall receiving a nudge from dang to be more charitable years ago. I'd like to think it set me in a better direction since. A small change in slope leads to a big change in y-intercept down the line, to use a math analogy.

I've grown to really appreciate his style of active moderation.
I'm saying it can and should work. And that it's possible for you to discover a configuration on your machine that would make it work.

And if it's still a no go, you can file a bug report (which you wouldn't be able to do, as such, if there were no such feature at all).
It is kind of a product of a society when jobs no longer involve skill. I can say the same thing (12 years with similar hours. I imagine I am younger than you) but I don't have anything monetary gain and absolutely no work experience to show for it. No family and spent most of those years working out of a car. I am currently about to be evicted and have made most of my money flipping things and working service jobs and I will never pay off my student loans (which was promised to paid by backstabbing parents) because I spent 15 years as a professional application applier only to never get a job. I will most likely never have a family because of this. I am 35 and haven't really started any life that is worth calling a life. I am just a slave to the system and shitty people in my life.

But please do tell me rich person that I should smile and be happy.
Oh snap, that would've been way funnier if the OP didn't show signs of genuine mental issues.
The scale is incredible. That's just the receiver platform suspended in the air that weighs 900 tons, not a tower. It's 100 meters "long", longer than a 747 and 3 times as heavy. It's like a steel road or rail bridge hanging in the air.
is the PHP standard library still an inconsistent mess?
How about we leave this argument to REAL SCIENCE, how about to the most quoted and cited biochemist on planet Earth ?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30322941/

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/10/412016/adequate-consumptio...
Wow interesting. I didn’t know that happens. Who contacts you and how?
Please exploit me buying from me a $20.00/month subscriptions of my semi-naked pics.
I've still got my 2013 MacBook Pro. Still chugging along.

I'm hoping it can wait for v2 of the MacBook Pro 16"

Apple's second version of everything is always worth the wait.
Yes, they did set up a Paypal donation link: https://www.naic.edu/ao/donations
the bigger the cache the slower it gets

so ram is your 1gb cache
Wow, I did not know youtube-dl had existed for so long.

I remember coding my own YouTube downloader because of similar reasons. My internet connection was way too slow to stream videos, even at the lowest quality, so I'd make a list of videos, download them in the background the entire day and then watch it offline at the end of the day. When I finally discovered youtube-dl, I was relieved that I no longer had to keep maintaining my script... and it supported almost every other video website.

Also, I just realized that it can still be downloaded from the official website and updated using --update argument.
You're a better person than I am. Thank you for setting a good example.
Suicide is one of the top causes of death for people under 55. Suicides are overwhelmingly male (4:1). I think exploitation of lonely men absolutely has consequences. None of this downplays the consequences for women in online sex work however
How can you tell if an Ubuntu 20.04 server has this fix?
You still have local storage...

This is the same concept as L1 -> L2 -> L3 Cache -> RAM -> Disk.

When you need something, bump it up, when you don't, move it away.
It's okay for the person who has the money and privilege to do so. Not for those who can't. So your response just makes seem even more apparent that it is digital and physical imperialism
I find it interesting, but I'm not really interested in that market segment. Atom competes with the A53 on most things. I want a little more power.

I'd like to see 2 zen cores paired with 4 updated jaguar cores.
but any given core only has access to 16 soon to be 32mb
You can buy their ideas without buying their books. Ocasionally I read their blog posts and I get the gist of their ideas. Most are not new but they are well packed and ready to consume. There is a lot of value on that also.
For perhaps the most comprehensive comparison between InfluxDB and TimescaleDB see this blog post [1] which compares the two DBs on data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/community support.

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...
Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer
oh yeah? do you mean the 16"? Oh yeah looks like it. That's too big for me. Odd, 13" with two ports or 16" with 4.
See now this is a rich person insult. But Dang probably won't do anything about this. What a passive aggressive coward