skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the business and team were phenomenal, the attire wouldn’t have mattered.

However, dressing appropriately for a meeting is an easy way to demonstrate that the person is taking the situation seriously and being respectful of the other parties. If someone can’t make the effort to dress appropriately for pivotal VC meetings that decide the future of their company, it’s likely they won’t bother taking other meetings seriously either: Meetings with customers, partners, recruits, and so on.

As a VC, you don’t want to fund someone who will go around being disrespectful, intentionally or otherwise, thought your network. We like to glorify the exceptions like Steve Jobs, but the reality is that dressing appropriately to show respect for your business partners is a fact of life.

In 2021, it’s cheap to dress in a presentable manner. You don’t need a suit and tie (west coast, anyway) but you do need to make a basic effort.
The clincher for me was:

> Prevents Google from rewriting the search results (to include tracking elements)

How infuraiting. Now sites open without my having to pay google 1s-2s for them to log me.
I'm sure this article only tells 10% of the story from both sides, but the fact remains that some people entrusted him with his money and that his behavior made them uncomfortable, which ultimately made them remove him from the position. I find all of this unsurprising.
Most countries are pretty far away from the amount of renewables where you start requiring lots of storage. You can easily do 50% renewables for electricity with hardly any storage at all.
> I hope society figures out how to make startups in general less capital-dependent.

My 2¢: stop forcing companies to provide health insurance.
Honestly I've never seen a single person in real life use a skin tone, across imessage / slack / snapchat for years, despite my social group using emojis heavily and being fairly diverse. Everyone sticks to the yellow. The skin tones thing seems to be mostly for twitter-activists and the like, as far as I can tell.
Congrats!
I really love the approach they took to deliver value: An extension of an existing rock-solid platform (Postgres) instead of building a new server which would require a lot of time to learn and manage.

Is TimescaleDB suitable to store logs? If yes, how to architect the tables?
You’re right, WeWork is not a hoax. But it’s a coup!
That requires you to teach your users what SSO is. I don't think it's a great UX.
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In expectation the damage this will do is miniscule. Yes, China ought to compensate for damage/clean-up to whoever this falls on, but overall this is a non-issue. If they were able to reduce launch costs by 1% by not including the fuel/equipment to de-orbit in a controlled way, then it's a good trade off.

Every time you drive with your windows down you run the risk of something getting blown out of your window and causing a wreck behind you, but as long as you don't keep a bag of nails perched precariously on your window this is so rare it's not worth any hand-wringing.
I don't see a price or a buy now button. What's the business model on this? If it's gonna be ads, why not just use Facebook?
The "shouting fire in a crowded theater" case was mostly overturned 50 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

> Private companies are free to run their business any way they want.

On that aspect, is there a point where they're no longer acting as themselves but as an extension of the government?

- If the government has requested particular action?

- If they're under contract by the government?

- If they've been ordered by the government via a judicial preceding?

- If they've been ordered by the government via law or even just Executive action?

We're well into a time where governments are hiring corporations to do what they themselves are legally barred from doing.

If there are no boundaries, there are few (no?) rules.
Fascinating. Clearly a time traveler. :)
I’ve heard a theory that the causation is in the other direction, where those who are currently depressed spend more time consuming media including social media
VP is tasked to buy software.

VP selects company and spend $1M getting $100k kickback.

No different result than if VP has spent $900k and just stole $100k from his employer.
In my personal experience playing polyphonic music is extremely fast context switching.
That is, you can not sing two melodies at the same time, but you can switch very fast between them if you sing in your head mentally. That enables polyphonic piano playing / hearing.
It's not perceived, it's empirical. As you pointed out, the focus of low price and undercutting the competition at any cost are partially the reason.
Heh, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on ISDN lately, working on a user mode ISDN stack myself. Much more than I should tbh. I wonder if the ones pictured in the article use BRI or PRI interfaces, I’d have to guess PRI personally.

I actually have a phone like that on my eBay watchlist, except it’s a video phone (using H.320 I imagine) I’ve been meaning to pick it up, I’ve have a couple unexpected expenses recently.
Cool. I'm keen to try it. Wondering how well it works with multi-terabyte data sets.
You just need this:

https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-sync
Unicode is truly the herald of complexity hell.

How can you make the foundational stuff so complicated. It still needs to be build and implemented.

I just want ASCII even though it doesn't even support my native language well.

Computers could solve so many problems, but we waste them on emoji.
Cycling shoes run the gamut of price, features and preferences.

Top three brands off the top of my head:

1. Bontrager: Owned by Trek, and is the most common type of spin shoe used in studios. Will have something for all price ranges, and have been around for a while.

2. Specialized: More ubiquitous in the cycling world, a slight amount of paying for the brand, but will also have everything you need. Most popular cycling brand, especially on the high end.

3. Fizik: Personal favorite because they are better for high arches out of the box. Unlike the other two, these guys don't make bikes, just shoes and seats. And they do both extremely well.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND going to a bike shop to buy the shoes and have the cleats fitted to your shoe in-person. This prevents injuries and improves results on the bike.

Pay for in-store once, take a silver sharpie, outline where the cleat is placed on the bottom of the shoe. Now you can replace the cleats for $20, and have a good idea of where to place them if/when you need a new pair of shoes.
I've never microdosed, but I imagine it's better to do when trying to solve problems in a creative way, not pitch to investors.
Fail-safe's, especially fail-safe hardware, should operate in a safe fashion whether the user does what you want to or not.

You shouldn't get to excuse safety incidents with "well we wrote it in the manual, it's not our fault, it's on the user". If your users are not actually following the safety precautions you expect, then you clearly did not engineer your product for the real world (which, frankly, is part of the definition of engineering).

With any mass-produced product, you have to assume that your users will not all follow the exact directions. This is the difference between your theoretical user, and your real-world usage.

As far as I know, it's not impossible to design a treadmill that would stop even if the "safety key" is still in. Maybe if it's facing significant resistance, but there is no downward weight on the device? Doesn't really seem like a valid situation for a treadmill, so it should stop. If you want to say "well it doesn't have sensors to detect that!", then maybe it should.

That is just the first thought off the top of my head; I am not a treadmill designer. I would expect people who are full-time treadmill designers to be able to come up with some better solutions.

> I also challenge you to find me a treadmill that wouldn't react in the exact same fashion

Your point may be valid here, but claiming "all treadmills are unsafe, so making unsafe treadmills is perfectly okay and we shouldn't expect any better from a $25B company" is a shitty attitude.
As many other commenters have pointed out, there are a ton of treadmill models that lack these features.
I tend to agree that "lab leak" hypotheses are worth exploring (without wading into "bioweapon conspiracy theory"). They're worth exploring on the grounds that it could help change policies and practices to reduces the odds of such leaks in the future.

It's important to note that we're not operating in a total vacuum of (circumstantial) evidence about the lab leak scenario, though. US diplomats back in 2017/18 noted their shock and concern that the Wuhan lab was operating unsafely, and was working on SARS-like bat coronavirus that could infect humans, and sent home warnings about it, but nobody listened back home:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...
This is a thought exercise I've done myself, and your questions will mostly be answered by looking at the features (https://docs.timescale.com/api/latest/) that TimescaleDB provides.

> However, this basically means a compressed column store, which again, doesn't really have much to do with time.

It does though: which data do you compress? The old data. Why not let the database figure that out for you, so you don't specifically have to tell it.

Other features include:

- Continuous Aggregates: a materialized view aggregating data over time is doable, but why not let the database materialize it for you, and automatically fall back to an un-materialized query for the newest data?

- Retention: deleting (or downsampling) old data is easy to do on your own, but why not let the database do it for you according to a policy?
IMO Cutting benefits is more unacceptable than cutting politics talk (which IDC about). Replacing it with an equal amount of money doesn't necessarily shore up because I'll need to pay income tax on any direct payments, and if they only give me the money that they would pay (companies get bulk discounts on gym memberships and the like) then I will be given less money than the service was actually worth.

eg. if Basecamp got bulk gym memberships at 20$/employee but each employee would have to sign up at 40$ per person, Basecamp paying each employee 20$ would not be the same as giving each employee a gym membership.
Because there are laws prohibiting exactly what he did. It's really that simple.

There are laws against doing a thing, he did the thing and got caught. Go to jail, do not cross Go, give back the $500,000.
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I also believe that those who claim they are working for charity should do it for free or at least not receive exorbitant amounts of money for doing so!
Charity calls for altruism, but if you are reviving the same, even more, amount of money as others in the corporate market, what is the difference then!
Are there many noteworthy modern science fiction authors that hold up to the Asimov / Clarke / Lem generation? I would think someone reasonably versed in science fiction would have at least heard of it -- I'm a "zoomer" and I have.
There are no other clean technologies that can deliver power at scale on their own.
Solar and wind and hydro takes up immense amounts of what should be undisturbed natural environment. Solar and wind needs storage, in the form of hydro or batteries.

Nuclear is a proven, safe tech that pumps out steady, squeaky-clean energy. People imagine that it’s dangerous because of high-profile accidents but don’t see the daily small catastrophes caused by every other tech.

Nuclear wins, hands down. It’s just such a no-brainer. It’s like we’re back in the days of Edison and Tesla and AC vs DC.
Then it is a good thing he is dead.

Rather not inadvertently cause the creation of the Chinese version of MacArthur with this view about the US due to short term thinking.
> Why create additional ways for state actors to kill people?

State actors can destroy buildings, so I guess we shouldn't make buildings /s.

Or less sarcastically, state actors can compromise laptops, so I guess we should stop allowing "over the air" security patches to laptops? Should we just stop using computers?

The reality is that state actors murdering people is an incredibly low risk threat. If state actor really want to kill someone, that is, assassinate someone, they can do it with a gun or a poison or whatever. If state actors casually want to kill one person, finding novel exploits is a pretty expensive way of doing it. If state actors want to kill a lot of people, you're basically at war, so we can use actual weapons.
This seems to be mostly about character animation.

I wish people would prefix "character" on the word animation when this is the case. I've noticed "procedural animation" almost entirely means "procedural character animation". As someone who's interested in animation but not particularly interested in character animation it makes searching and browsing for stuff slightly annoying.
> "To facilitate kickback payments, the evidence at trial showed that Kail created and controlled a limited liability corporation called Unix Mercenary, LLC," the DOJ said. "Established on February 7, 2012, Unix Mercenary had no employees and no business location. Kail was the sole signatory to its bank accounts."
I met the founder of Nuzzel Jonathan Abrams at an event in SF at their peak hype years ago and remember him being extremely arrogant and dismissive. Although I am not sure if that is at all correlated with this unfortunate outcome.
I don't understand why anyone would pay that kind of money to get stuck in a proprietary ecosystem with a monthly fee. I guess it's aimed at the gym going spinning crowd and not the cycling crowd, but there are plenty of options if you look at what cyclists, both pros and regular enthusiasts, use.

There are different hardware options like a regular bike on a trainer [0], or a smart bike like the Wattbike or Wahoo Kickr bike [1]. These use open standards and let you use different software, and if you use a regular bike on a trainer you can even use it outside when the weather permits.

The most popular cycling training software is Zwift, it's basically the de facto standard just like Strava by this point. But you don't have to use it.

[0] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/product-reviews/trainers

[1] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/smart-shootout-wahookick...
Yeah, just got down-voted for stating the exact thing in a different part of the thread.

It's amazing that this is being glossed over now when it was such a major part of public discussion at the time. Seems like someone pushing an agenda.
I checked documentation and I don't think I did. Looks like it has same compressing algorithms as Clickhouse, so it should be pretty close in space requirements for old chunks.
I recall my dad getting bonded ISDN at his shop years ago (1996/7?) the jump from 28.8kbit (x2 56 was just out but only supported on some ISPs iirc) to 128kbit seemed like another world. So much so I'd lug my own PC down and pretty much spend all my Saturdays there. Good times
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If you polled Germans in 1938 about whether it should be state policy to kill six million jews, you would have gotten a hard no. Yet it happened anyway, because (to borrow the upthread phrasing) while sure rounding them up might "suck", it was important to "compartmentalize" and not conflate the injustice suffered by the local jews being interned with the prosecution of the war. So the people prosecuting the war got cart blanche to engage in genocide, because the people who should have stopped it didn't, because of something very much like the "compartmentalization" in the upthread post.

The point being (which of course isn't that a modern holocaust is brewing) that if injustice sucks, it should suck for everyone everywhere and it should be allowed to discuss it in any forum. Arguing otherwise isn't arguing for "compartmentalization", it's just arguing for the perspective that the injustice doesn't suck.
No, it's not speculation. US Mil has had functional REW's for a while.
>Yes, that stance is awful.

And I suspect that's exactly why he said "Why bother?".
The Monuments Men Foundation[0] is a non-profit that, while they typically deal with artistic works, can absolutely assist with getting this to the right people to preserve it for historical value.

Very happy to make an introduction if needed

[0] https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/
> I have an iOS shortcut that expands the URL and chops off the gross tracking stuff

Ooo, that's pretty neat. I wonder if something similar can be achieved on Android. I usually manually paste it in chrome and copy the redirect, although I also enable desktop view to not get the mobile link.
So because we did some dumb things in the past we can never do new things in the future?

Great argument.
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I don’t think including a rear guard is a child safety specific issue. All in all you’d probably prefer not having your leg sucked under your treadmill, even if you don’t have kids.
Exactly. Put the costs where they really are.

I would make a bit of of a change, though--make the carbon tax refundable. Lets say you tax CO2 emissions at $100/ton. You then pay $100/ton to anybody who effectively sequesters CO2.

In fact, I would pretty much scrap the emissions rules and replace them with taxes of this sort. There should be no acceptable level followed by fines, there should be a cost from the first gram.
The cumbersome style seems to have become a strong part of the culture, almost a masochism about the limited features of the language. I find this ironic because I believe Go was intended to be highly pragmatic originally but it seems to have evolved an almost Scheme-like dogmatism about language complexity.
Cars are sometimes easier to get data out of though, and if the person has linked their phone to their car then it can contain much of the same information. https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/car-surveillance-berla-m...
Unlike the general public. Politicians have mastered the "legal acrobatics" ... so have a few unknown intelligent criminal's
I once worked in a building and got to be friends with the CEO of a medical tech start up. He dressed like shit everyday, literally had his toe poking out a hole in his shoe. One day he’s dressed impeccably, not just a suit - but a well tailored, very sharp one. I asked what the occasion was and he gave me some of the best advice ever: “I’m going to ask investors for money today and if you want people to hand you money you need to look like a guy people hand money to.”
Yellow is ugly.
He founded a company worth billions - if he was constantly showing up high, sure. Getting dosing wrong, once? As long as he learned from the experience, who cares?

This is the kind of incident that plays well in the press, because it generates headlines - like becoming the first word of a headline.

Do we really think that the board was so gosh-darn offended that their founder did the wrong LSD dose, once? Or, that there were long-standing disagreements over strategy, direction, and tone?

The latter is harder to justify in the normie press, so they're trying to crucify him over some minor incident.
IIRC at the time the BSE outbreak in the UK[1] was referred to as "foot and mouth disease" and I've heard people refer to it as that since then. I wasn't even aware they were separate things.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak
“I was fired because I’m Asian”

“But your replacement is Asian..”

“Oh he’s temporary, they’ll fire him too”
Because VHS was better in multiple regards.
Increasingly, nations are analyzing their grid requirements and concluding that 100% renewables is feasible, the baseload concept ends up being a constraining requirement that nuclear plants levy upon the rest of a future grid design.
Completely unsurprising.

I prefer to smoke weed and hang at the beach, so I don't chase investor money, or make myself responsible for the wellbeing of full-time employees.

Is it limiting, absolutely.

Would I rather work myself to death now so I can... one day (maybe, dad died at 50 so...) one day maybe do the same thing... Lol
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Plenty of capitalists have been guilty of playing fast and loose with safety and quality in order to increase profits... as long as revenue (and the share price) is heading upwards, who cares? shrug
My situation is my own, and this is a really broad question.

Generally, how I look at it is:

My mother is my past and present.

My wife is my present and future.

I let those two ideas inform my investment of time and energy. I have not had any conflict where I had to choose one over the other, though. The first one to demand priority from me would likely lose it, because that's how I'm wired.

Good luck working this out for your situation.
I find it odd that people compare React and web-components a lot. Sure, superficially both have custom components. But why does that matter even?

To me React's value is JSX and ReactDOM. I actually use JSX+ReactDOM without the rest of React, using basic classes. Works great.
Not sure if a price that "starts small" is enough at this point. It may have been 15 years ago, but it seems like now it won't be enough to stave off a massive disaster. If there's only political will to start small, then obviously we should do that. It seems like the can kicking of the past has come to bite us in the ass, though, and these sorts of actions will not do it.
Vacation to city with decent public transit also an option.
I'm not sure you understand how irresponsible that is.
This is very much my experience. I went through a couple of very lengthy and detailed RFI processes to select the best vendors, just for the procurement to fail at the final step for some arbitrary reasons with the VP's prefered solution being the only valid alternative.
The board does not remove a CEO it is happy with for something this trivial, because it is too disruptive to the company. This was probably used as a pretext in a power struggle.
Yes. I believe the way Excel hosting other languages inside it as scripting addon is via the COM Automation Server interface again. The other language needs to implement as a COM Automaton Server. Excel then instantiates the other language's Automation Server as an embedded COM object and calls its interface, which can call the functions implemented with the language.
If something were to go wrong on the retreat would you think there would be a risk of the relationship being of legal consequence?

Don't mean to sound like a clown but You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying!
So what's your fix? All razorblades are unsafe, we still make razorblades. $25B companies haven't figured out a way to make a razorblade safe for a child to use.

So instead, we just don't let small children handle them, because that would be dangerous. Just like we make safety mechanisms for treadmills so children can't hurt themselves, but when adults refuse to use those safety mechanisms children can get hurt. And the list goes on:

Bathtubs. Wall outlets. Plastic bags. Guns. Large animals. Small magnets. Cleaning chemicals.

I assume you've got a fix for making all of those safe for children in a way that doesn't require an adult?
I believe that white collar crime deserves the harshest punishment of all. It’s committed by intelligent people, premeditated and generally abuses a position of trust.
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Is this different from the "trade" of cap and trade?