skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much different than previous big discoveries that make us as human less special than we once thought.
> it's very strange to force someone out right before their equity vests

If the business-minded folk don't fully value the tech solution I can easily see this happening. This "devil's advocate" hypothetical is not an unheard of occurrence.
That sounds like Mach’s principle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach's_principle
fair enough, but I guess we can agree then that "float" is a vague term. And when a term is vague, it's probably best to default to the least likely to do damage actual definition.
Is it worse or better than Surveillance Communism?
Obviously there's some balance in pricing stuff. Selling all your movies for $1 a pop may kill most piracy, but it will kill your movie studio too. Selling streams for $500 per person will price most people out, regardless of whether piracy exists or not. Piracy hurts profits regardless of pricing. iTunes did not make up for the death of CDs at all. Digital sales have never even made up a third of what physical sales used to be: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

Personally, I don't think consumers have a right to tell creators, "You have to sell that to me for $x or I will take it without paying." Companies certainly aren't good, but they're not typically stupid either. They're not going to price things to a point where people can't afford them. I think pirates just lie to themselves a lot to justify their actions.
I find pointfree programming (also called "tacit programming" really powerful, but most/all of the descriptions I've found are way more abstract than I'd prefer. This is my attempt to talk through the advantages in the context of a real-world example.
How come it stays in the vicinity of other matter? It needs to lose kinetic energy somehow.
I read some other articles and seems that safe-inet was one of three services taken down, all had been heavily promoting and advertising themselves on dark web sites, where they promised bullet proof service for above market prices. So instead of a vpn service that happened to be used by criminals, they were a vpn service that marketed themselves to criminals. (In a literal sense, not a US style “they made us get a supena so they must be allied with the criminals” sense).
Weird, I set my browser to block all third party cookies and upon inspection this page isn't using any cookies at all.
I like the clean UI. Are you planning to add more integrations in the future?
But we already do know how, through means of reproduction, and that on it's own already has millions of philosophical, ethical, and theological debates
The parent was speaking about conceptual frameworks, not legal ones.

I think we can agree that free speech laws from a couple centuries ago cover fewer and fewer relevant types of public discourse.

We disagree on whether that's a good, bad or neutral thing.
A geographic split of Google doesn't make sense. The right thing to do is to take each of the areas where Google is a monopoly and break them out, and prevent the broken up pieces from providing overlapping services (at least for 20/30/50 years).

I would break out at least:

Ad network
Web search
Operating systems

And put everything else in a separate company. That would contain their other consumer services (gmail, finance, docs), whatever g-suite is called now, cloud services (until they shut down), their internet balloons and what not and maybe Waymo.

You can allow the baby-Gs to contract with each other (web search needs an ad network), but require the terms to be public and frand; maybe with some sort of second source requirements.

This doesn't eliminate any of the monopolies, but it eliminates the use of one monopoly to entrench another.
To be fair, they're cancelling events because they're using emulation to play Melee. They've previously allowed it at events. Not saying that's necessarily the right choice, but it's important to get the facts straight.

Also, there's been lots of serious issues with the Melee community leaders recently with sexual misconduct, so it's also possible that Nintendo just wants to distance themselves from the whole scene.
If the co-founder doesn't think there will be a need for any new funding, then that would imply that he expects the company to be cash-flow positive in the near-term.

I'd sit down and work out what are the cash flow forecasts and milestones. Contextualize what's a reasonable rate of return for implicitly funding the company by foregoing an immediate cash buyout. If/when the company achieves certain profitability milestones, then the note will pay back in installments.

Each successful milestone draws down the principal, each missed milestone increases the principal. If profitability isn't sustainably achieved, the note converts back into common equity. If/when there's a major funding event, the note converts to common equity or cash equivalent of the common equity valuation.

Essentially you're planning for three scenarios. 1) The business becomes profitable without further funding. You're paid off over time from the profits. 2) The business goes the fundraising route. You're paid off at the liquidity event. 3) The business succeeds at neither route. Your share of the equity reverts back to you, so you receive your fair share of the scraps.
Looking good. Keep it up man.
Get a lawyer or at least someone who deals (talks) with them, asap, you are in a war.

Important question: If they gave notice today would the notice period "help" with staying longer than 1 year and hence, not falling into the 1 year cliff?

All further advice depends on above question, so once we know the answer we can give proper advice.
Honestly if I could play smash bros on my macbook with my friends and relatives I'd sell my switch today.

The switch screen is too small for local multiplayer and hooking it up to a TV w/ power is too bulky and annoying because they're picky about adapters unlike laptops. You also need a case to transport them because they turn on too easily when their buttons are exposed. A 13" laptop is way better.

(I'm not doing local multiplayer today because COVID, but I know I will in during future trips)
Everything is a negotiation. But you’ll probably need an employer to push for that. Firing you just before your cliff is obviously not a particularly defensible action.

More importantly, your last statement (“I don't really want any equity in the company at this point if I'm not involved.”) suggests you don’t want the most obvious settlement: you retain your equity plus some acceleration (since you aren’t leaving on your own terms, it’s standard to request more than your currently “vested” amount).

You can’t likely “force” them to pay you for those shares above the price you paid, unless you have another buyer willing to do so.

Like others here, I’d suggest you involve your investors and almost certainly a lawyer (assuming you think that would even be worth it).

I can’t tell if you want to take over the company (you buy them out), you want them to buy you out, or you want to walk away. Do you have a clear preference?
I can see it both ways.

Yes, they were always intended to be something different and were definitely the "new hotness" at one point.

But, although good work has certainly come out of the Media Lab, when was the last time you saw them in the news other than for, well, that? Certainly not intended to be a knock on everyone at the Media Lab. But there was certainly a point when it was viewed as one of the places that was "inventing the future" as it said in the title of Stewart Brand's book. How much real impact has it had lately?
The author of the article didn't seem to come from a privileged background, and yet they achieved alignment (defined by the author as "started their own startup"). The same is true for the vast majority of YC founders - all the ones I met come from less privileged background than the average Bay Area resident. This trend has accelerated recently with YC's increased effort to recruit from countries like India, Nigeria, etc (36% of the S20 companies were based outside the U.S.).

You would think that by now, YC knows where to look for good startup founders. So if they are increasingly going to Africa to recruit founders, it tells you that at least in their experience, privilege is not a good metric to optimize for.

Perhaps it's easier to succeed in finance or some other industry if you come from a privileged background, but in startups grit matters, and the privileged kids don't have it in the same amount as immigrants and anyone else who had to fight for survival.
Mysql also applies additional rounding to floats if you're not careful:

mysql> create table t(f float);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> insert into t(f) values (999999),(1000000),(1000001);
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> select distinct f from t;
+---------+
| f |
+---------+
| 999999 |
| 1000000 |
| 1000000 |
+---------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>
Some sharp corners with Docker buildx (especially with QEMU)
What do your corporate agreement and bylaws say? They may be in violation of your stated roles/responsibilities, or in breach of fiduciary duty.

Get a lawyer right away. Keep records of everything.
ANU penalises class of 300 students for plagiarism, unable to find perpetrators
A zero tolerance policy often has unwanted outcomes. Because the punishment is so extreme even for minor problems it isn't enforced that way in practice, unwritten policies are used. It means that problems cannot be corrected, you can't learn from mistakes
The helmet in the West Point emblem is the helmet of the Greek goddess Athena. I suspect any Spartan influence is incidental and superficial.

> The committee began with the creation of an emblem that consisted of a sword, a universal symbol of war, and the helmet of Pallas Athena. Athena, a fully armed mythological goddess, is associated with the arts of war, and her helmet signifies wisdom and learning.

http://usheraldicregistry.com/index.php?n=Registrations.2008...
The response to the fake Simpsons reference was funny.
> Why can't you buy a good webcam?

Why can't you buy a good frozen dinner? Because frozen dinners are designed to be simple and affordable meals, just like how webcams are designed to be simple and affordable image capture devices.

If you're willing to spend more for a good alternative to a webcam, buy a captured card and a camera with support for live video output. You could even use the primary camera on a smartphone.
This really bothered me too, so much so that I downloaded some unofficial LineageOS source code for the latest version, patched it for signature spoofing to be able to use microG and flashed it to my device.
That play protect popup was the last straw. It reminded me that google is indeed watching every step on my android phone.
> Your verification code is 120179. You can use it to verify your seed password in the future.

What does this mean? And how is it used to verify a password?
You are just claiming work relations are exploitative, without any care for how they fit in society or the complete lack of any better alternative. That's a bad, naive argument that doesn't help improving anything or calling people's attention to anything they could improve.

And you are doing that by comparing to equally naive analysis of other times.
Oh, I had no idea ".." was an operator. That's a pretty cool feature, combined with the "?" to match optional objects.

Thanks for explaining!
Have they told you that they feel insecure dating a man with a lower income or are you projecting that?
Do you mean Mass Surveillance like the US, UK, and China?

I haven't heard of "Surveillance Communism" as a developed distinct concept.
The build process needs to be run on more than one cpu in parallel...

On a 4 cpu system the build run through.
Baremetal RISC-V Renode – Part 1: Blinky
True, there is no objective manner to determine the "largest" or "most powerful" military. However, via this listing of militaries by different types of equipment[1], the US leads in 8 of 14 categories. I'll admit I thought the US would lead in more categories, but this is the majority of listed criteria. If one adds in military size, it would become 8/15 (still over half). The US also leads in various military strength indices.

For better or worse, the US is assumed to have the most powerful military in present day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_level_of_...
Very poor analysis. China already has a domestic spy, and secret police apparatus in every corner to keep just any, but highest seniority officials on the leash, not only ones making dissident faction, or not.

I cannot imagine that anybody seriously researching China never knew of that.

And I greatly doubt that just any benefit could've been extracted by US spies from getting hand on near 99% Chinese officials who don't know anything, and don't decide anything.

China's political elite is just few hundred people, and they were always surveilled by the state ceaselessly.
> one or two poorly-optimized sites

Try every old media site and most e-commerce.
The option to turn rate limiting off was added in Android 10.
> My view is that higher education comes with the flexibility to apply it towards your own use

The problem is that your grades (the signal) depend on your success at the stretch-goal courses, not the signaling courses, meaning that the best strategy is to not take anything hard. If only the base classes counted to your grades you'd be free to stretch your mind without risking your expensive credential.

> and in any event, employers know the difference between the bird courses and the ones with real meat on the bones.

Some interviewers do, but I feel companies hire more blindly based on your GPA than that HR people actually dive in and weight your courses against other candidates.

> being taught higher math and physics for the same price as what my friends were paying for sociology and religion courses seemed like the ultimate cheat

Good attitude.
I've seen a couple presentations by Chick-fil-a explaining things they've encountered doing this. You can find them on youtube, and here is an article: https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...
When I looked into it they’re mostly using mirrorless cameras like the Panasonic Lumix GH5 or the Sony a7siii with something like the elgato camlink 4k to get clean output.
21st Century Lisp in Academic Research and Pedagogy
Interestingly, waterproof fabric-based tape was originally called "duck tape" (for its waterproof quality). The same kind of tape was later also called duct tape, but it's actually pretty terrible for ducts. You want to use the all-aluminum tape for ducts. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52151/it-duck-tape-or-du...
2% back on all purchases made via contactless is pretty decent for someone who doesn't want to think about which card to use at the restaurant vs pharmacy vs grocery store.
Worse, I think.

Surveillance communism used analog phone wiretaps and human agents, thus limiting the damage.

NOTE: I meant a Soviet-style "communism", and not the current label that's widely applied to anything, and certainly not a Chinese-style regime. Think USSR and DDR.

However, I fell into a trap: every time someone uses the loaded words like "capitalism" and "communism", it's safe to assume you are being manipulated, since the phenomenon needs to be clarified: is it an economic model, a model of government, or anything else.
There are certainly parts that are unobtainium, that's why you need to have a good relationship with someone who has good relationships with parts distributors. A very important part of component selection is to make sure that you can obtain the parts in the quantity necessary. My general rule, is if I can't source it from digikey, I probably can't make the product, but I tend to design products that do runs in the hundreds, maybe thousands of units, so I don't have the same access to components as someone who's doing 10s of thousands of production runs. That said, you may be surprised what your factory can get it's hands on. And if you don't have a factory, then that might be an important step earlier than you might think. Sadly, I have no experience on how to build a factory relationship, and I'd imagine it's especially hard to find a factory with low expected volume. Yet another thing that makes hardware more expensive than you might think...
There would be no YouTube if this were on the books back in the day.
> Which makes me wonder, what cameras are Youtubers using?

iPads are taking over. You can get pretty amazing image quality with a new iPad Air or Pro. You can even get rigs with gimbals, lighting, and external mics for almost any budget.
One could say that there should be an ammendment guaranteeing that congress can no longer borrow from funds earmarked for specific programs, or at least citizen entitlement programs.
I suspect that building an underground roundabout isn't actually as tricky as most of us are assuming, and that building a shorter third leg off the longer tunnel is relatively cheap -- they already have all of the equipment and personnel on hand.
That may not matter here, depending on how the company is structured. If his partner has the right to sever him from the company, for ex. by dint of his share advantage, and he hasn't cliffed, he'll get 0.
I’m in the Rails system so this seems like blissful simplicity compared to the React/redux/typescript/whatever else is new this week world
no its slow, the results get cached but its slow by default sadly
if you were a corporation, that would be a tax write-off
Using Predictive Power Score to Pinpoint Non-Linear Correlations
The point is that the UK didn’t care about the rights of another nation’s to their borders. Not even so little that they were willing to sacrifice a little football for it. They also didn’t support Iceland’s rights to their own fisheries when a foreign nation tried to fish in their waters. Iceland was, and still is a NATO member.

My point is that the UK doesn’t care about other nations, and I can see numerous situations where they will fail to act if a fellow NATO member is attacked.
> That's irrelevant

Not to the upthread specific claim that the resolution was “not quite 4K”, which is what the comment you are responding to addressed.

On the bigger issue, I don't really see the complaint. I have pretty good vision (corrected—to 20/15 or so—uncorrected is crap but I'm not coding without glasses/contacts) and honestly my 34” ultrawide at 3440x1440 is excellent for coding, and pretty much any other use. Now, would I prefer whatever resolution a 5K 16:9 would be when extended to 21:9? Or better a 4320p at the same aspect ratio? Sure, more pixels are always better. But does the sub-4K display look like crap or force bad sizes for controls? No.
I still use my Amex most of the time, but Apple's app for paying your card has amazing UX. The bill is presented clearly, the amount of interest you may pay is clear, due dates are always consistent, etc. It's a bunch of small things that add up to a great experience. And there is absolutely no moat, any other bank could copy it, but they haven't yet.
Sounds interesting, but can’t read it because I’ve apparently exhausted the number of free medium articles can read.

Do the authors at least get some sort of micropayments from medium?
What you call 'backscratching' is backroom negotiation, necessary in order to pass laws under the current system. It's undemocratic and has bad results, but being locked is worse.
sorry, its a problem when a backend guy makes UI, its not a breadcrumb, its plain links to "pages" (virtual pages as its SPA)
They canceled the stream for a Splatoon 2 tournament because the players had names supportive of Melee.

And the sexual misconduct was mainly in the Ultimate scene. Very few prominent Melee players were involved.
I genuinely don’t understand why they stopped doing that...
You fix things as they are discovered, continue adding more static analysis to catch new classes of issue, and continue on. You don't rewrite - certainly not in a new language with all new problems.

This isn't a startup with 10 developers - there are literally thousands of developers working on Office and all sorts of internal tooling built around the codebase.
No, the top comment is totally unsunbstantiated. It starts by fighting a strawman: "I get the impression that you pressume fusion will help tackle climate change." Even if there was perhaps some such notion, it is not the thesis of the video.

Then another strawman "don't be absurd, plasma is so rarefied so that poking a hole in the reactor wouldn't do anything", while video is talking about something else: immense energy stored in magnetic field of the superconductive magnets.

So I wonder, why are you so quick in "smear campaign" allegations?
yeah, those professions probably have a negative impact on relationships, too.
As an honor code, it's implied that you not commit a willful infraction with the second chance in mind.

Intent to follow the spirit of an honor code is as important as following it. Abusing the system because you know you get one free pass is an invitation to cheat until caught, which is unfair to everyone else.

In reality, needing to use your second chance is already failure. If you can't internalize that, admit to it, and volunteer to step down, then you aren't the type of person who deserved a second chance.
The case for moving to a red state
The retirement account managers make the decisions on the investments, not me.

> When you invest, you put the value of your previous work at stake.

What was the "previous work" I did when I inherited my father's Walmart stock?
Lot to unpack in your comment.
1). This group of modders was planning on profiting from their hack.
2). Copyright exists and generally must be enforced lest the holder wishes to lose their rights.
3). "worse than disney" -> that's subjective.
4). Emulator writers don't get sued, providing the required binary file is the illegal part.

Most of your comments are opinion and borderline bad faith representations of their situation.
This is so exciting to see, especially for older folk like me.

Almost 20 years ago, one of my professors told us before graduation that hot tech is mostly about the idea pendulum swinging back and forth. I immediately chalked it up to 65+ above white wise men snobbery.

However, this is exactly that. We started with static pages, then came Ajax and Asp.net and the open source variants, then we went full SPA, now we are moving back to server side because things are too complicated.

Obviously tech is different, better, more efficient but the overall idea seems to be the same.
Have you considered cultivating intrinsic motivation?
also, main and report have inputs so that you need to write some keywords in it.
Silicon Valley Wins as SEC Allows Direct Listings to Raise Cash
OP is referring to Nintendo cancelling a Splatoon tournament because competitors were using the #FreeMelee hashtag

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/12/nintendo_cancels_s...
This is where Uffizzi is going. Phase 1 they started with their own custom controller and they are managing clusters for customers who pay for a portion of that cluster. In Phase 2 they are opening up their control plane to enterprise customers to solve the “times 100” management issue listed above.
I used to write and sell cheat software for PC games (I work in anti-cheat now). I’ve never experienced this soft of behavior, nor have any of the many contacts I have in the space. I suspect this only occurs in litigious companies (Blizzard and Nintendo both immediately pop in my mind). Typically, hackers get scooped up by games companies and switch to anti-cheat, at least in my observations.

Edit: I do know it’s fairly common for companies to have “dox” on hackers. Actually making use of that information, like hiring a PI, is quite an escalation.
LG 27UK850-W: An Acceptable 27-inch Display for the Mac