skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what you mean, but there are ways to estimate the brand value. Eg: In 2020, Coca-Cola's brand was valued at 84 billion U.S. dollars. While I couldn't find any reliable values for Tesla, the same methodology should apply here as well. It just comes to show to what extent the market has a blind spot for what certainly is a huge asset.
Yes it does, it’s a crime, in this case a class of crime perpetrated, prosecuted, and prevented by experts. It falls under law enforcement
Society has been like this for a long time.

Automation and economies of scale has made it much more efficient to produce necessities. Yet society has failed to convert that into allowing the low classes to have more free time. Everyone needs to do some useless job to survive even if there is nothing that needs to be done.
Aggressive negotiating types will fight for position rather than salary at that point. I wonder how flat Coinbases structure is.

I feel like if you had a skill they REALLY wanted, they would create a new position for you to get around this rule.
Who might have a financial interest in $TSLA dropping. How? Through ownership of competing auto manufacturers or suppliers, or related energy companies in the oil and gas sector, etc.

There is little evidence either way as of yet, but I do think there's enough for the SEC to take a look.
Thanks! We wanted to make the it a really easy choice, and didn't want anyone to have to pay more for a longer-lasting product.
Iridium RockBlock. Bandwidth costs were insane (~$1/KB).
I'm already disagreeing with your main point 1)

My parents don't know how to do this and would call me and stop trying to 'solve it'

Chrome and Firefox are quite visual in this regard.
The companies that I've been a part of that employed this non-negotiation strategy ended up only shifting the negotiations from compensation to title. The same negotiators still come out on top, since they'll request higher titles in order to meet their comp expectations (since they can't negotiate for comp directly). As a result, the eng org can end up topheavy in leveling.

This is a tough problem, but these non-negotiation policies aren't the solution. They make the inequity even worse since it becomes harder to negotiate (for title) than for incremental comp increases.
Taxes are theft.
A greyhat should launch ransomware and then not decrypt when the ransom is paid. Make the ransomware industry unreliable.
If CxO and founder compensation is unreasonably too high, why not go become one of them (presumably founder is easier to self-select into)?
The score is probably my favorite part of that movie. Weird reverse notes during the temporal pincher scenes is a genius way to mix the theme and ideas in the movie with the score.
Lisp was the favored language for programming AI back in the day. Though the kind of AI problems focused on then was much more symbolic-themed than numerical themed as they are now. Lisp is highly regarded when solving complex problems, though would probably not get hailed as the fastest language.
That rule of thumb applies to the web too. Browsers keep getting faster, websites keep getting slower.
Time to integrate it with [Neo]Vim and Emacs!
> Everywhere I'm aware of in the world, COVID-19 vaccines are free, are you "the product" when immunised against a deadly disease? How so?

The people making the vaccines are getting paid, although the vaccine is the product. The people sticking the vaccine in my arm are getting paid, my arm is the product. (Sort of)

The US government is compelling insurance companies to pay for it, and paying for it in absence of insurance, because excess death is a drag on the economy.
If you're ambitious, this doesn't hurt your ability to join Coinbase and grow quickly, which is an important factor in the tech industry and its appeal of opportunity. A union would.

This offers a more level playing field for employees to begin their time at the company without stringent rules around who can get promoted and when and other red tape. Seems like a great decision.
Well, I guess you can consider a manufacturer to be either an actual manufacturing company that sells directly to wholesalers or retailers OR a company that owns a brand which purchases product in bulk to sell to wholesalers or retailers.

Either way, a lot of companies want their products to be seen in a certain "class" of products, and it's harder to maintain that brand image from a pricing standpoint if everyone can just sell it at whatever they want.

So, what happened at this large discount cigar place is that, like I said, they were doing something similar to Wal-Mart's strategy: sell a ton of product at a low profit margin and force manufacturers to come down in prices as a result. The manufacturers hated it because (a) their existence relied on the good will of this corporate behemoth, and (b) supplying so much product to the discounter meant less was available around the country for retail shops, which is essential to building brand loyalty. When Leegin happened, the discounter begrudgingly admitted that they would be forced to raise prices. But not before buying out a few accessory manufacturers.

While not as popular as simply discounting cigars, it sorta worked for them. They would sell a box of cigars at the lowest price that they could and then include a free humidor to store them in. And what collector of stuff doesn't want another container for their stuff?

I'll say too, that some manufacturers simply refused to do business with the volume discounter until after Leegin. They had built up a market for themselves with independent shops without needing to go to the volume discounter... but after they could be ensured that their prices would be stable, they opened the floodgates.
Because none of the big tech companies are based in Europe, so there is limited political downside to going after them.
Any way to take advantage of this racist bullshit to get a low tax burden but a high sales value?
You could rotate it out of the way in port, assuming you can keep other ships from running into them (I've seen one fixed sale design that collapses like an antenna), but there are wear and tear problems with a mast that is not fixed, aren't there? Especially given the direction and magnitude of the forces we're talking about.
American bullet trains are hamstrung by America's world leadership in legalized institutional corruption. Any big-ticket, long-term US capital project will be first and foremost a multi-year conduit from the public purse to private pockets, and might only incidentally deliver what was supposedly paid for, at 4x-20x the originally quoted price. The 3x-19x is corruption money.

We see this, at various times, in transit tunnels (Big Dig, 2nd Ave Subway), nuke power plants, the embassy complex in Iraq, the Wall, F-35 and other military procurement, manned spaceflight, and California's bullet train fiasco (mercifully killed after shoveling out only the first few $billions of what promised to be a truly massive gravy train).

Solar and wind power projects seem momentarily immune to this process, for reasons not exactly clear. Their short terms, clear goals, and simple accounting may leave little scope for massive corruption. Corruption wants projects that deliver a steady flow of cash for at least four years, preferably 10 or 20.

There are rumblings about a new $trillion missile program, perhaps to take up the SLS contractors when SLS has to be cancelled in favor of SpaceX Starship at well below 1% of the price.

The difference between SLS and Starship illustrates the difference between a program intended mainly to fuel corruption, and one with goals that match the label.
How many people use 5+ or 7+ year old phones? I’m sure they exist somewhere but I don’t know any of them.

It isn’t hard to get a 2-3 year old phone for free. A lot of people buy a new phone every 2-3 years and many of those people will be happy to give away their old phone if someone they know needs one
>> No idea why.

Mainstream adoption, Visa & Goldman Sachs using it as a settlement layer, actual utility, defi, etc...
You have a point. They should do minimum due diligence to harden their networks.

However... how much do you want to bet that the CEO of a pipeline company has the knowledge to make this happen? One has to be an intelligent customer to make something like this happen.
Maybe you can find one here: https://parttime.careers
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It's also the most profitable trading category for old traders who know how to ride cycles safely. Not advocating, just adding another bit of info
>I don’t even know what the underlying problem is though...

Lack of accountability for either criminals or negligent operators?

Monsoons are not directly caused by individuals, and they cannot be prevented.
> Amtrak hasn't had the vision to stick with the plan.

I think this would be better stated as “funding” — it's not like nobody at Amtrak has failed to think about the hotspots for them, it's just that they are in the unfortunate position of being expected to service a lot of [now] marginal routes against both very well funded alternatives, but they have limited governmental support for the kind of major infrastructure changes they need to dramatically improve their offerings.

A completely private business could, for example, simply discontinue unprofitable lines or acquire long-term debt to fund a major capital investment but they were created specifically to avoid closing routes and debt is a political hot potato. A government service could point to greater societal benefits to justify funding out of general tax revenue but Amtrak is expected make enough in ticket revenue that they're perennially short of cash. A large part of the problem is simply that railroads have high base costs which can be made up in volume but their service costs more than alternatives because we don't subsidize rail anywhere near as much as highways (for example, DC to NY on train costs more than a bus, but I-95 isn't a toll road funded only by users).

Edit: just to be clear, I'm sure that they're just as flawed as any other group of humans — it's just that whenever you see some obvious problem holding an organization back, it's almost never the case that nobody there has thought about it.
I wonder how many mid air collisions we would expect to see if see-and-avoid where entirely ineffectual, or pilots would not look outside ever except to land. I have the impression the accident numbers would not be much worse than they are.

In other words, my hypothesis is that the fact that there are few mid-airs is owed to ATC, technology (TCAS, TAS) and “big sky”, rather than vigilant pilots.
Available since 2017 as per earlier comments

https://web.archive.org/web/20170606171244/https://developer...
I'm arguing that it hasn't prevented attacks to a degree that was worth the cost (completely forfeiting ownership of personal computers by anyone that wants to participate in group chats with iphone users.)

>Here you admit that significant classes of attack have been prevented.

I don't think people care whether they lost things on their phone because of malware or because of a fake CA cert, the attack works pretty much the same way and has the same result.

>False. Once a scam has been detected, the developer account can be disabled, which adds cost to new attempts, unlike windows defender.

You don't need a dev account to distribute malware in dylibs.

>> Nope, lots of people knew it was happening for years before Apple actually stopped it and it happens with other libraries still.

>That doesn’t change anything.

It means the App Store doesn't stop malware before it's able to exfiltrate data from large numbers of users for long periods of time. That's the justification for it.
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Is this substantially better than Pyjs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyjs
It’s reasonable to ask “what percentage does this represent on a fully-diluted basis?”

It is entirely unreasonable to ask for a percentage of the company which can never be diluted by a future fund-raising round. Doing so just telegraphs that you don’t know how venture funding/corporate finance works.
You made a sexist comment with no evidence. Reap what you sow.
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Fresno (1700/sq. km) also has less than half the population density of Nantes or Nice (4200-4800/sq. km). It's not exactly a fair comparison if the area of the city is far larger unless the last-kilometer transit seamlessly scales to last-2km transit. You can actually walk to a reasonable number of places, or take a bus 1-2 km to many more, from a main station in Nantes, Nice, or any number of similarly-sized cities in many countries.
I think clickbait titles are and indication of how trustworthy the source is.

If that isn’t true about Indie Hackers, they should correct it.
Why go with an intel plastform right now when AMD laptops CPU are lapping intel ones for heavily multithreaded work like compiling? I suspect for developers which probably represent a larger than normal segment of your potential customers, that AMD cpus would have been the better choice for battery life and multithread?
What it seems to me this is saying is the following:
- before we'd give you X options (say, 40,000) vesting over 4 years
- now you get 1/4 of that, 10,000 vesting annually

The strike price of both grants is the same (say, $1/option)

Now the question is, what happens year 2?

If the company is a lot more valuable, two things will change:
- strike price will be higher (say, $3/option) which makes the options slightly less attractive. But that's not the big deal
- # of options will go down, because the more companies grow the more options are valuable and the less they give out to employees. So year 2 options will be 5K.

If this continues, over 4 years the end the employee will have something like
10K + 5K + 3K + 2K = 20K options vs 40K. Not only that, but the 20K options will have a much higher blended rate.

On the positive side, there will be no reason for the employee to stay if they don't want the new grant. But the reason they don't have to stay is that they were not comp'ed as much in the beginning.

So me reading between the lines, this will mean a lot less compensation for early employees of successful startups vs the traditional model.

There is a reason why the handcuffs are called golden. At the end of the day employees decide to stay because it's worth it for them.
Given pas doubts about tether management, the more important number is what % of the tether issued is backed at all, now how it is backed. The transparency report [1] shows that they have 0.2% more assets that liabilities (in USD) which gives me more confidence than anything else.

[1] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
preinstalled linux is a hard requirement for many users, even if they want to reinstall it themselves. It gives an assurance that CPU throttling, suspension, hibernation, will work correctly. Otherwise it feels like a lottery. Of course a linux install is easy and will always work; but will it work correctly? If you offer preinstalled linuxes we can be sure it does.
For speakers without the merger, marry:merry:Mary as mat:met:mate.

If you didn't grow up with the distinction (as I didn't), you may find it easy to enough to notice the difference—particularly between marry (~mat) and the other two—when listening to someone without the merger say each word one immediately after the other. "Implementing" this knowledge when listening to the same person speak naturally is another thing altogether.

It's very hard to acquire new phonological rules as an adult, no less in your first language than a second one.

An audio example: https://forvo.com/word/merry_mary%2C_marry_me/#en
Making an electric or gas company a government entity would at least provide a chance to prosecute its corrupt operators for official misconduct and criminal fraud (see the slow moving train wreck called CalPERS, some executive frog-marching would fix that quickly).
That's a fair argument. That said, I think it's still worth acknowledging that there are other macro forces out there, and the push for renewable energy is one of the stronger ones. Tesla managed to find itself at the intersection of at least those two strong tailwinds, and even if the zero interest tailwind goes away, the renewable energy one is only going to continue to gain momentum.
Only to a certain extent. If they got an extra 50 people into a store on a drop day, is that really going to help much when weighed against the downsides?

My target has 50 people walk in and out several times an hour, so unless these campers are buying a bunch of other stuff while there, there's not a lot of value in it.
The US Constitution contains no explicit right to self defense. There are a variety of state and federal laws covering justifiable use of force but none of them are even remotely applicable to paying ransoms. If you disagree then please cite a specific legal case.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-government-warns-com...
Making fun of you?
> I've said this since the beginning. Instead of focusing on miracle drugs, vaccines, social distancing, governments should have just given everyone a Peloton or similar exercise bike. There would probably be zero deaths.

I mean, that's literally what they said.
If you didn't trust the teacher. The distributed ledger would prevent them from editing the database of timestamps. But then the question is, if you don't trust the teacher why are you in their class?
> If a hiring manager really wants someone and they can't pay them more, they can hire them at a higher level.

Yes, this is how it should work! Their role will then involve a higher level of responsibility and expected output that they better be prepared for, and they'll be compensated more for that.

It makes much more sense than people getting higher/lower compensation for the same level of responsibility and expected output based on their competing offers at the time of signing, doesn't it?
One of the appraisers responded to the journalist and defended his methods in the article.

Without accusing the appraisers of racism, I doubt that the majority of petty racists are aware of their racism. If you take exception with a specific behavior (again without accusing or condemning) it isn't uncommon for someone to reflexively reply, "I'm not a racist!". Very few people are consciously racist, yet discrimination happens.

If race did play a role in the appraisal value, it could have been subconscious.
Did you read the links you provided?

The last article explicitly mentions that most of the malware needs iPhone to be jailbroken or the app to be installed outside of the App Store, which kind of proves my point.

The research by Panda Security also showed that the ratio of malware on Android compared to iPhone is 50 to 1.

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
A good friend of mine works for a large construction firm that has bid on some of the California high speed rail jobs. He said that for much of the work (particularly moving existing utility infrastructure) there are no firms bidding, or at most one firm. They therefore know they can jack up the price to 2-3X normal costs. The work needs to happen in places where there are literally no construction workers, and crews don't want to go to where the work needs to be done since there is other work close to their house.
I don’t think these make it worse overall. It definitely makes it works for some but better for many.

I suspect this policy and the 1-year grants makes it quite a bit harder for Coinbase to poach employees from FAANGs.
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and $0.972 in other assets, for a total of 100.2% USD assets for their USD liabilities. (see https://wallet.tether.to/transparency)
Thanks - that’s what I was looking for! Looks like a potential improvement on s-expressions to me in terms of a readable syntactic kernel.

For what it’s worth, I have been interested in the concept of 2d languages for quite some time, and I’m not sure what your definition is.

To me this seems to have a 1d topology - I.e. it’s still left to right top to bottom, and there are no loops or semantics that require reading in other directions.

I contrast this with something like a circuit diagram or labview program.

I may be missing something though.
There are still two problems here:

1. People with the talent to make high-value/low-scale products (e.g. medical imaging) are working on low-value/high-scale products (silly apps). This is similar to how our brightest minds are making people click ads.

2. Apple and the HN reality distortion field make everybody (even those without the skills) believe they can become rich by creating low-value/high-scale apps.
>Reassembled fragments still need to yield a checksum-valid frame.

For a 32bit checksum changing data will give you a 1 in 4,294,967,296 chance of being correct. So just keep bit twiddling some unimportant portion of the frame until you obtain a valid checksum. 4,294,967,296 is not a large number for a modern computer.

These frame checksums are only intended for accidental bit flips. They aren't protection against someone creating fake frames with valid checksums.
IDK if this is everyone, but I, as a native English speaker raised in Canada, use it because English doesn't have a better 2nd person plural pronoun (think German "ihr").
> That's not the same as being uninformed.

That's not why I claimed you're misinformed.

> This is not the only route we have available. That in itself is a fact.

Who said this?

> You seem to believe that without nuclear power we'll have no chance of avoiding climate emergency.

Ditto, because I sure didn't say that. I said something very different.

> 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

Who's salary? Not mine. I've reiterated this 3 times now.

Get off your conspiracy theory.
This reminds me of restaurants adopting (and then mostly abandoning) no tipping policies. You're trying to change an entire culture, good luck!

"Letting that market operate efficiently and not trying to game it makes a lot of sense to me."

This is not obvious to me. In many ways, the job market is not like other markets. Onboarding employees is a money-losing proposition. Turnover is disruptive. Recruiters cost money. Benefits operate on a calendar-year basis or have waiting periods.... I could go on, but there are all sorts of reasons for companies to pursue retention over an "efficient market."
To me this all depends on how it's implemented but you're right to be suspicious.

If all they do is give you 1/4 of the equity they were going to give you previously, then yes it drastically reduces employee upside to the benefit of others (execs, investors).

But they probably can't do that because it would be harder for them to attract talent against a 4 year vest company. Instead they'll probably have to bump up that initial grant so that when employees do the math there is still the big upside if the company improves.
Given that many countries are willing to give these same companies huge tax breaks I don’t think the power balance is biased too much towards countries.
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Why should this be a problem that the federal government is required to solve? Or in other words: why should my tax dollars go to help an organization that couldn't manage their security properly?
That's what I thought, but I'd like to see a proponent of private blockchains explain it with out resorting to answering a different and more general question about "the purpose of blockchain is..."
I don't think it's the FPS I think the animations are just kind of rough.
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