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> I had taken on a cofounder who decided he would rather surf than work on the business development end of our product - without a founder agreement, he was dead weight that scared investors and potential team mates away

This is, unfortunately, very common in startup communities. There are a lot of people who attach themselves to startups, discover that they're not interested in putting in the work required, and then decide to coast as long as possible when they realize it's not so easy for their partners to cut them out.

These people are often very charismatic and are experts at inflating their previous credentials. Always do a deep dive on potential cofounders' backgrounds, including backchannel references. Always establish cofounder agreements and, most importantly, at least a 1-year vesting cliff on any equity, no matter how much you like the other person. If they aren't pulling their weight at the 9-12 month mark, do everything to remove them from the company before they have any vested equity.

> In desperation for help, I began working with a veteran who had recently separated from Army intelligence - he had undisclosed mental issues and when our business plan was made a finalist in a university bizplan competition, he accused me of being a spy sent to retrieve classified information from him and sabotaged our meetings with investors, potential hires, and the competition administrators. He withdrew us from the competition and sent out insane accusatory emails to our bankers and advisors.

Mental illness is also, sadly, disproportionately represented in startup communities. I think it's a combination of factors: People who suffer from certain untreated mental illnesses like you describe are more likely to be unable to maintain a normal career, so they seek out alternative career paths like startups where they don't technically have to report to a manager. Certain mental illnesses can also come with bouts of grandiose thoughts, delusions of grandeur, a penchant for risk-taking, and other traits that can easily be confused for confident, ambitious startup personalities.

This is a perfect example of the importance of operating agreements and vesting cliffs, as well as due diligence on anyone you might go into business with.
Because close to nobody is ever charged with voter fraud and multiple investigations after 2016 launched by folks at the federal level looking for it, failed to turn up cases. In the recent election, the Trump team has repeatedly alleged voter fraud but not presented any evidence of such in a courtroom.
The point is that flash was both the technology and the tools and that the tools for flash were refined and easy to use for a lot of people who were not necessarily deeply technical.
All of this was familiar to me except the sex effect. Why are males disproportionately impacted?
The closest thing I ever found to Flash was https://scratch.mit.edu. You can draw vector graphics and attach code onto the individual sprites. It has the concepts of scenes as well, but no where near the power of what Flash had to offer.
I'm sure they did all the math. It is just journalists do not report it, because it's too boring. And in this case this math would be meaningless if you didn't dig into methods, experimental plan, number of participants, how they where split into groups, and so on. With this numbers one would need to report all the science article. If you interested in such details, you should go to the original article.

Speaking of skepticism, I personally just believe, that article is good enough. Mostly they are. In this case I see no methodological troubles, the experiment seems straightforward, I would have no troubles designing it, based on this journalist's article and I'm not a professional scientist (though I have a psychology degree).

> If they claim e.g. 3 standard deviations of risk-taking increase on typical doses of paracetamol, then there's something wrong with the study, because we would have noticed that already.

If they claimed 3 std-devs of increase, it would be 3 std-devs of increase in a specific model situation of risk taking from the experiment. It would be great news, it would mean that researchers found a good model situation with high sensitivity to a paracetamol. Would be nice to see how some other factors influencing risk taking show themselves in this setup.
Thanks - sorry I'm struggling a bit - wouldn't they be vectorizable across the portfolio or across scenario for stochastic calculations. Maybe it's because of different backgrounds (mine in UK) but I'm can't recall seeing the deeply nested function calls that you're alluding to.
Almost(?) every country on Earth had a lockdown at some level. Australia is one of very few that got a good outcome.
I’m surprised there aren’t counterfeit AmazonBasics products by now. Or are those the only listings that disallow third-party / commingled-inventory sellers?
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Absolutely. I worked at Intel and our distributed computing pools went from a combination of SunOS and AIX machines to Linux in about 3 months, essentially overnight, (back in the 90's). It was an astonishingly fast deployment.

Linux dominates the server world AND the entertainment device world (hello busybox & gstreamer!)

[1] Regarding clunkiness of Python: mostly it is the packages, installation, and 2.x vs 3.x nightmare that persists. Everyone seems to forget the initial pain getting the Python env to work, esp. when it comes to cython native compilation issues / arch wheels, unsupported packages, etc. The only issue I have with python is it is extremely challenging to make cross-platform deployments for single-executables. I've tried three different approaches and they were all trainwrecks. Once that is ironed out, I'll be switching from Electron to whatever Python offers.
Hmm... a community of managers?
Reminds me of American Psycho :D
> The question is how can we change American culture to be more collectivist?

American exceptionalism is so ingrained in the culture that I feel it would take generations..

And, in my opinion, that won't start happening until America is no longer the "world leader" (for better or for worse) that it is today..

It would take humility, selflessness, self-awareness and self-reflection at a very large scale for this kind of transformation to happen.. and we (humans in general - not just Americans) aren't really good at that...
Okay, I'll bite. Let's say I'm loading a page over https, and you control the network but not the server (mitm). How exactly are you adding content to the page?
Because people want someone to blame, a villian to hold responsible, for whom they can call out for blood. Bats can't be morally culpable; other humans can be.

If it turns out the party to blame is a geopolitical frenemy, all the better for the people who thirst for vengence.
That's a fair shake and glad to read about this report's details. Reassuring knowing the thought that went into the decisions. That said, one scenario is a theoretical estimate (based on data from July) which we will never know for certain the outcome.
Bus vs. AV: AV rider dead, lots of injuries in the bus. That's conservation of energy and momentum.

Assuming some utilitaristic equation for minimizing total injury, an AV bus probably won't swerve, and probably won't brake significantly except if colliding with a heavy or fast vehicle.
I don't think a self driving car that has to make rapid decisions in quickly changing circumstances with tons of moving parts outside of its control is comparable to a specific use case with much fewer variables like an elevator.
You can use `Futures::StreamExt::buffer_unordered` for this. [1] is an example where I used it for benchmark which creates a certain amount of QUIC connections at a time.

But you can also spawn all tasks upfront via `tokio::spawn`, and let them wait on a `tokio::sync::Semaphore` before making the request. The drawback of this is that you might allocate more memory for tasks upfront - but if you don't have an extremely high number it might not matter.

[1] https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/blob/de627437bc7d836564c36...
Apple M1 chip adopts Warehouse/Workshop Model

- Warehouse: unified memory

- Workshop: CPU, GPU and other cores

- Product(or raw material): information, data

there’s also a new unified memory architecture that lets the CPU, GPU, and other cores exchange information between one another, and with unified memory, the CPU and GPU can access memory simultaneously rather than copying data between one area and another. Accessing the same pool of memory without the need for copying speeds up information exchange for faster overall performance.

reference:

1. Developer Delves Into Reasons Why Apple’s M1 Chip is So Fast, https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/30/m1-chip-speed-explanati...

2. The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Warehouse/Workshop Model, https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
That's not part of any standard or spec, though. It's just where one implementation of SSH stores the keys. gpg-agent (which handles ssh keys when behaving as an SSH agent) stores them elsewhere. I imagine Putty and Filezilla do, too.

It's possible that the storage format of the keys is not standard either, because I think I remember it being different between OpenSSH and Putty.
Eh, I'm not a big fan of the "provide paid support for open tech" model... it doesn't scale well, and it seems like it creates a perverse incentive to make the tech hard to use, to generate contracts.
If you add up all the years people get to keep living because they didn't die due to the lockdown, the answer to your question is a big negative number.
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Thank you! That fix will make my dotfiles repo look a lot nicer :)
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> Where is evidence of nationally stunted creativity except dogwhistle talking points?

You're asking for evidence, yet you're not providing any either. You're partially right though. With China's gradual opening, there have been more mainland Chinese entering higher tiers in various disciplines. Still, that's not to say that China's creativity isn't crippled by its government. Personally, I feel it's a drop compared to what could be with a more democratic government. Also everything that we've seen so far is due to China opening up and decentralizing. I predict the opposite will happen in the future as Xi reverses the trend. Yes, it's conjecture, and I hope I'm wrong.

> Chinese entertainment is great if you don't care about politics.

This is just personal taste but imo it's terrible. The only works that have freedom are nationalistic in nature like the Three Body Problem, where it's easy to see what it really is once you substitute the West for the "aliens". Everything else is mostly historical fiction set in ancient times, or maybe some time around WWII. My guess for this is because it's easier not to run the ire of the CCP if you're doing fictional work in a setting that happened hundreds of years ago.

> China innovates on rocket force to sink US carriers, hence ahead in hypersonics.

Are they really Chinese innovations or Chinese retrofitted Russian designs? I don't know enough about modern Chinese rockets, so I'm actually asking a question, because historically most Chinese military equipment are variants of Russian models.

> It matters because before nuclear war is conventional war. Conventional capability require to solve border disputes, become regional hegemon of a bunch of middle powers without nukes.

India also has ballistic nuclear weapons, and so does Japan... It's good to know that China's leaders have the same logic as US leadership. For the US, imo our defense budget is a mainly a cover for massive corruption.

> CCDI investigated/punished over 1M+ party officials, even Xi doesn't have that many enemies. But of course there was element of power consolidation, and completely justified in retrospect now that CIA confirmed (just this month) how far they've infiltrated CCP under Hu.

Chinese politics have varying factions which are made up of many members. It's not like anti-corruption drives are a new tactic to remove your rivals in China. I mean you even admit it.

This is not an emotional discussion for me, but I feel that it is for you. If I'm right on this, I'm not looking to insult you, and if continuing this discussion is going to make you angry; I'd rather end it now because it's not going to change anyone's views.
They knew and they chose not to prepare, so while I regret that normal people are being punished here, I certainly have no sympathy whatsoever for the companies that chose not to act.
They could know because of a difference in symptomatic presentation combined with exclusionary testing.

There's very few diseases with a similar presentation to COVID-19 that we don't already have tests for.

This is how new illnesses are almost _always_ detected: patient has illness with specific symptoms, test for illnesses correlated to those symptoms, if those tests (and follow ups) come back negative then you might have something.

When your patients start dying faster than you'd normal expect that's a great indicator too, which happened(s)
> And what is 5k years supposed to be? The age of the earth or something?

I believe it's the claim that China has 5,000 years of written history. I'm not knowledgeable on this however, so this is a vague memory semi-confirmed by a cursory internet search.
> Some of those flags are undocumented, and several of the opcodes actually have hardware level bugs that make them act differently than the CPU document describes.

They don't, whatever documentation you used was either wrong or based on the Intel 8080 or Z80 instead of the Sharp SM83 core that's actually used in the original Gaemboy.
We're going to end up at the trolley problem again. "Should I do action X and kill 3 or do action Y and maybe kill 2?"
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Isn't this actually a fairly routine calculation?
Perhaps the "single file" feature is no longer very high on the wish-list of the average user, especially since people now tend to share stuff online rather than via physical media like in the old days; this could explain why there is no widely used library to support this use-case.
The underlying assumption here, that there are some areas that decided to lockdown and others that didn't, and each had different pros and cons, seems wildly inaccurate.

The reality is that almost everywhere in the world did a lockdown of some kind, but in some areas it was effective and in other areas it was not; and, while everyone has suffered consequences of some kind, the consequences suffered by the latter group exceed those of the former by a wide and obvious margin.
They describe it here: https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_challenge

>Since there is no lab test or clear-cut way to determine whether a Rootclaim analysis is correct, we have to rely on outside expert judges.

I haven't been able to find any place where it says who the judges are for this challenge.
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I'm way more proficient as a programmer, than an Excel user, so it was my assumption that all these marketing guys that constantly work with Excel can do wonders with it. I mean, they probably can, but recently I tried to use it (actually, it was LibreOffice Calc, so there might be my problem, but I don't know if the difference really is this big) instead of writing a python or bash script (as I would usually do) and was unpleasantly surprised by how complicated the stuff that I would consider standard is, like concatenating columns, grouping/counting unique values, dirty data semi-automated cleanup and such. Everything would require either multiple clicks in multiple menus to perform something that appears to be very ill-composable actions in Calc, or would require writing 50-line Basic script (on kinda ugly APIs) for something that I can do by simply converting all of that to csv and writing 5 lines of Python (or sometimes even shell text-utils, literally). My general impression was that it is not really a tool made with power-user efficiency in mind, ending up being not very efficient for anyone, since it isn't very intuitive software to use for an excel-noob anyway.

So my question is, is this really the state of art for visual working with data-sheets, semi-manual data editing and such?

I was assuming that running a Jupyter/Pluto/RStudio and doing stuff in Python/Julia/R when you don't indent to do actual data-analysis/learning, but only something that seems like basic stuff/preprocessing is more of a bad habit, because Excel was actually made to work with tabular (DataFrame-like) structures, but I ended up feeling like there's no way I would actually prefer Excel for that.
Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance researching the origins of pandemics, pointed out in April that nearly 3% of the population in China's rural farming regions near wild animals already had antibodies to coronaviruses similar to SARS. "We're finding 1 to 7 million people exposed to these viruses every year in Southeast Asia; that's the pathway. It's just so obvious to all of us working in the field..."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/8417296...
Do you have any QC experience? Because I strongly disagree with your statement, depending on the level of abstraction that you mean.

At some point in the future certain quantum algorithms will become 'callable' from traditional programming languages, and will be usable by any competent programmer without much hassle. But making the quantum algorithms themselves is quite a different ballgame altogether, very much unlike traditional programming.
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Yes, I did the same thing about a year ago. I enjoyed his insight as a mechanic, but could not stay for the unsavory click bait. Unfortunately the technique seem to be effective and might be the only method for some of these channels to grow after a certain threshold.
There's nothing stopping someone from making a self driving car with two compute systems and multiple types of sensors with overlapping FoVs. In fact, you can usually see on most self driving cars - a minimum of two roof mounted LIDAR (which share FoV in front and back) and various cameras.
Toy drones have paint, batteries, and a USB port.

Toy drones are literally painted plastic, some spinning painted plastic, a battery, a USB port, a micro-controller, and some motors.
> apps weren’t a thing

Yes and no. iPhone apps weren't a thing until they were, but there were Brew apps[1], Symbian apps[2], Blackberry apps[3], Palm apps[4], etc.

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for...

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[3]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_World

[4]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS
German organic labels can get pretty weird, though. Your regular EU label still allows castrating piglets without anaesthetization. And if I remember correctly, the minimum requirements about how many you can keep per square meter aren't that much better than the lowest rung of the new "Tierwohl" scale (1-4 on packaged meats).

On the other hand, with the "Demeter" label (the third-largest organic association in Germany) you get some better statistics, but not by much, and you're also paying for the farmers to bury cow skulls filled with magic herbs.

I'd really appreciate a EU-wide label with some graduations that actually mean something.
Haven't you seen the window into the future known as "Idiocracy"?

They cover this pretty well.
There's also https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/.
One reason why Python is so successful is that it places very nicely with C code. Many of Python's libraries are thin wrappers around native DLLs.

For example, numpy is a wrapper around a BLAS DLL (e.g. Intel MKL). Pipenv manages the python side of things, but don't exert control over the system DLLs (like Docker does). Anaconda gets very close to what Docker does (by managing DLLs). Have not used poetry, so can't comment.

Ultimately, like most dependency management issues, lacking a stable DLL environment won't be a problem until it is :)
It sounds like you're saying people who cannot follow lockdown are on par with "sinners" and/or "lazy gluttons", or maybe you're saying some people failing to do something is a good excuse for no one to do it?
> Witness the two year lull when Kenton went sandstorming

There wasn't really a lull; development on Cap'n Proto continued that whole time by the Sandstorm team in service of Sandstorm. There was an absence of official releases since Sandstorm always used the latest Cap'n Proto code from git. The same story continues today with Sandstorm replaced by Cloudflare Workers. TBH I should probably give up on "official releases" and just advise everyone to use git...
And I wish that Linux fans would stop saying use Linux as if that is an answer for the vast majority of PC users in the world. It stinks of elitism on so many levels. And yes, I use Linux, but I would never consider putting it on a machine for my mom, or my sister, and nearly anyone else. Linux simply is not a viable solution for so many people.
I informally interviewed some children about these recommendations.

Jackson Frack, age 2, replied, “No, no, no no no. No.”

Sophia Breen, age 2, added, “No, no, nooooooo. No. NO.”

Olivia Vanter, age 2, stated, quite bluntly, “NO. NO. NO.”

Liam Stafford, aged 6 months, released a statement through his lawyer

“This is another reason why our proposal to reduce the voting age to birth must be taken more seriously. There seem to be no shortage of ‘do-gooders’ who purport to speak for the aspirations of infants everywhere to live in peace and pursue our happiness in this great land of ours. And if that means a spoonful of sponge cake or a lick of a lollipop, well so be it. Another case of the ‘nanny state’ interfering in the lives of the very youngest and most vulnerable. We will remember this ‘day of infamy’ and wake you at 3 in the morning, very morning, to remind you that you...let...this...happen.”
Maybe there’s a distinction to be had between patient zero and the first link in the chain we can reliably pinpoint.
Good thing there was no Twitter when MLK Jr shared his opinion, could have turned out badly for him.
Fair point - I just grepped for optimization. However, it's a bit like a single iteration of any such algorithm, if applied to the domain. Distilled, it means "no single approach works for all environments" which is essentially the feedback people writing this sort of article need to hear (because apparently they missed it). There could be great reasons to use protobuf for telemetry: like, it's good enough for your application, the team is familiar with it and the code is already written, tested and documented.