skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, reality check: the most substantive part of this change is shifting 4-year vest to 1-year vest. This means 75% of the upside an employees stock compensation is taken away. That's the main effect here. The rest of the talk about percentile pay comp targets among peer companies is rounding error by comparison.

If FAANG had adopted this structure over the last 13 years, understand the number of rank and file engineers that became millionaires would have been reduced by an order of magnitude or more. This is just another way for VCs and finance in general to use their knowledge and positioning to skim all the upside on fast-growing companies.

It's one thing for a company to change their compensation policy and spin it in the best possible light—I don't like it, but it's just one company and I can at least hope the market teaches them a lesson. However for a VC like Fred Wilson to try to paint this as an unequivocal good is disgusting. Essentially this "golden handcuffs" argument is saying that rank and file employees who earn above market due to betting their labor long-term on a single company are a risk that should not be allowed.
It seems pretty logical to me.

Every decision is a risk/reward calculation.

The vaccine does carry the risk of side effects and adverse reactions. That risk, for most, is VERY small.

But if the person in question also has very low risk of contracting or spreading Covid (works from home, rarely goes out, young, healthy) and if being vaccinated doesn’t actually enable you to live any differently than you already are, then there’s no compelling reason to get vaccinated and assume the risk of side effects, no matter how small.
Not quite, that paper is pretty misleading if you're using it as a rock solid rejection of the $1000 genome.

First, context: These are small scale clinical/experimental settings which clearly do not take advantage of economies of scale. Labor costs are thus greatly magnified. This effect is also obscured by their costing breakdown, which often does not separate reagent cost from labor.

Unless I'm misreading this, the pricing that they define often includes 2 sets of sequencing runs, one for the baseline and one for the tumor samples. That puts the existing price at about 4000 USD for 2 samples or a 2000 USD/sample cost.

The expansive definition of "sequencing cost" to envelope downstream analysis and storage here is also a mistake IMO. I would rather narrow down on specifically the cost to get the raw sequence data out, excluding clinical and bioinformatics analysis. This would include (reasonable) sample extraction, library preparation, and the actual sequencing process itself.

There are definitely significant cost barriers to sequencing, but we shouldn't discount savings that come with scale.

Of course, all this math goes out the window if we were to look at exome sequencing instead which while less complete, still gives a large amount of information at a fraction of the cost.
It sounds like the data leaked was not PII, which is outside the scope of GDPR personal data breach guidelines.
Well, they can. Interesting thought.
It could be so many reasons. Perhaps to actually build a search engine. I doubt anyone is building Google Search from scratch anymore at Google.

And also it's not like you work for the French government, the French government is funding your company to support innovation. Most governments do that, by giving money or allowing tax optimization.
I found egpu.io to be a fairly reliable source. Check out their build section to see if anyone has successfully paired an eGPU with your Mac model.

I was able to get a ThunderBolt 2 Mac to work with a Razor Core + Vega 56 combo, but YMMV. Away from computer so don’t remember exact year for my MBP, circa 2015 maybe?
Antivaxxers are strong in Berkeley. This is pretty impressive honestly, I would have expected to hit 90%, tops.
This goes for the flu as well. We've never demanded that people wear masks to protect others from the flu. Are we going to start doing that?
Well, fines are a fixed cost, the risk can be calculated and offset against a bonus. A ransom has an unknown downside. I'd imagine most ransoms would be priced to likely get paid, but ransomers don't really know the biz inside and out, so they might guess a painful or fatal price. but that's a one time cost. the lost revenue is the killer.

I'd expect there will be some serious talks about how much to pay to prevent things like this. 5 million, once? Meh, why bother taking security seriously? I suspect the lost revenue is tougher to swallow.

I dunno. you gotta pay every month forever, for protection against maybe something bad happening someday? It's an insurance premium, but you don't get made whole.

I guess, I'd expect companies to start paying a little for infrastructure so they can buy good insurance policies. backups would get you a lot.

It'll be interesting.
The market is moving towards MILC, including Canon's and Nikon 's top sports bodies (R3, Z9). With fast sensor readout and improved processing power, they will focus better than 1DX3 and D6 in most circumstances. Both with grips and larger batteries. They won't match DSLR at idle battery life, but the differences in shots when taking many bursts will be much smaller than CIPA suggests.

Technological replacement happens when new tech has important advantages over the old, without needing to outperform it in every single way.
I think my only complaint about syncthing is really a nixos problem where the config keeps getting deleted and my devices disconnect.
Hah, my tired brain didn't even clock that consistently wasn't there for the actual results. Which I guess also says something about it being a clear distinction...

(DDG seems to do it the other way around: results have favicons, ads have nothing in that spot. anyways, adblocker back on)
I sometimes wonder about interesting fossils and lifeforms we'll never know of, because they were subducted away before we ever had a chance to discover them.
Underground doesn't help you. Western property rights operate under the ad coeleum doctrine, or "whoever's is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell". The upper limit has been established by the US Supreme Court but there hasn't been a solid case about the lower limit, and testing this through litigation is a fairly difficult way to make money.

A Hyperloop doesn't offer much advantage over conventional technology given the short distance (50 mi); even at normal high-speed-rail speeds you spend a good chunk of the time accelerating and decelerating. Speeding up and slowing down faster is not tenable, as no one wants to be on a roller coaster as a commute.

The other thing is that the commuting range of New York is pretty far. The metro area is considered to stretch as far as Pike County PA (82 miles), Trenton NJ (70 miles), the entirety of Long Island, and New Haven (80 miles). Anything that is feasible to develop already has been; anything that hasn't been is either some land use that can't be developed (a park), has unfavorable geography (the Meadowlands is a marsh that gets flooded often and is vital to local flooding protection), or other mitigating factors.

Then there's the issue of the land assembling. No one could afford to assemble such a parcel. NYC's metro area was estimated to have 10% of the entire country's real estate value [1]. And even if one had the land you can't just do whatever you like because you're the owner; you're still subject to local zoning rules.

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[1] https://www.6sqft.com/study-shows-huge-disparity-in-u-s-urba...
>which is ironic because it was designed at Google, and Google are known for their monorepo.

Google is huge. I'm fairly sure they use different approaches to code organisation in different teams\departments.

Anyhow - I'd rather thank them for that. Now chances I'll have to deal with monorepo are lower. I'm going to think of this as a feature, not a bug, lol.
I think most probably have a more nuanced position than that.

My personal hesitation is that people are just going to ignore the explicit condition of full vaccination. Worst case outcome could result in dragging the pandemic out and providing opportunity for new variants to develop.

A concern closer to home is that this will increase risk for my parents, who have been hesitant about the mRNA vaccines and refuse J&J because is produced using a fetal cell line.
If you're interested in a wiki which works in a similar way then take a lot at https://youneedawiki.com/
You gave me a headache
That's a common trick in large generators. The field winding rotates, and the armature winding produces the output. So the heavy power doesn't flow through brushes.

So how is the field winding energized? There's a second smaller generator on the same shaft, with the armature winding rotating and the field winding stationary. This generates AC for the field. You want DC for the main field winding, so there are also diodes in the rotating system to convert the AC to DC.

The shaft floats on a self-pumping oil film. So there's no moving metal to metal contact in the machine. That's a good thing in something that's expected to run 24/7 for decades.

So now this power-station sized technology has been downsized to car size. Unclear if it's worth it, since the lifespan of cars is only a few thousand operating hours, not the hundreds of thousands of hours of a power station generator.
That was what I was talking about, yes.
[OC]: http://sanmateogov.org/
> trying to make everyone else continue wearing masks is harmful.

Who's doing that?
Data Story: Did the Farmers' Protest Cause the Second Wave of Covid-19 in India?
Supply shocks definitely have to do with the month-over-month phenomenon. But I don't see how you can look at that graph and not see the obvious correction for a massive downtrend in inflation pretty much exactly a year ago.

Whatever, the more people who have a bad mental model of what's going on, the more I make on the stock market, so it's NBD. I would actually encourage you to bet lots of money on your beliefs, it's just another opportunity for arbitrage for me and the institutional investors who know how markets work.
Supposedly, pregnant women can get the vaccine. In fact, it’s recommended due to risk of certain complications with getting covid-19 while pregnant.
Thanks for taking a glance. There's a groundswell of people commenting "get marcan to take a look". And I would ask, but you're already doing some really awesome work over on the M1 side and I've learned enough to fill up two of my brains already from that.

At this point I kinda have to wave the white flag on the driver issues because I'm not deep enough on the kernel / PCI spec side to be productive figuring out the holes on the Pi's 'messy' bus :)
Another possibility is improving pressure suits so it's no big deal to walk around the surface in one. It could be like the fire suit Formula One drivers wear.
They sold ~270MM in Q1: https://www.coindesk.com/tesla-sold-bitcoin-in-q1-for-procee...
Reason #11520 for why ad blocking on the internet is an absolute necessity.
> My understanding is that Zulip was called Chime internally.

I don't think this is accurate. At least, I'm aware of a chat project called Chime at Dropbox circa 2015 that was not based on Zulip and at least at the time did not materially involve anyone from the original Zulip team.

(I suppose some of those things could have changed since I last heard anything on the topic).
And thus… the system isn’t flawed? We can criticize the system and the rich without needing to apologize for it.
I read something about this in The Atlantic titled "The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown." Some people's identities have become tied up in this, so giving up their mask could feel like supporting Trump, sending the message that they don't care, or give up part of who they are.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberal...
Nobody, directly.

Who gets hurt if social structure is affected by the apparent identity of masking? There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical differences.

I think your choice should be your own, and based on health and other reasons. But it's pretty myopic to ignore the history of superficial social striations.
Equating basic precautionary measures with fear culture doesn't sound right. There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with an individual deciding to wear a mask. I do agree that the tribalism that surrounds masks is ugly and harmful to society as a whole, but I'm fundamentally opposed to throwing away smart, simple solutions just because they're stained by politics.
I too lament HN's complete loss of even the pretense of objectivity when it comes to anything Facebook or Google, but in this case, as long as the accusations are factual, I think there's value in the competition attempting to keep them honest.
I think the CDC's original statements on masks (they aren't necessary, they're only effective at preventing the spread of COVID if the wearer has a medical degree, don't wear masks on planes, etc) contributed a lot to the distrust and politicization of mask wearing.

When you expect an institution to always be impartial and tell the truth, those sorts of white lies can quickly erode trust.
You don't even really need to know the terminology to detect the fakes.
I thought the surface Venus was incredibly hot and uninhabitable mainly to the thick greenhouse gases in it's atmosphere. Why does the sun need to expand for that to happen on Earth?
Eh... the problem is even with Proton it's extra work and sometimes not pleasant try to keep games running natively in Linux. I had a nice Kubuntu Focus 2 laptop with a fast Nvidia RTX mobile chip, and all the bells and whistles, and I could only get 2 of my 5 favorite Steam games to run through Proton, and one of those required some janky tweaks to make it run correctly.

When they did run they ran great (testament to the hardware and the decent driver support), but that's what I mean when it's 'tough'. Not impossible but it's not like Windows, where you just click buy, wait for the game to download, and start playing.
The risk of Covid has never been the individualized risk. It's the collective risk of what happens when hospitals and ICUs reach capacity when too many people catch Covid at once. For example, what is happening in India.

This was widely known in the US on the first week of March in 2020.

When hospitals reach capacity, people in their 40s and 50s become much more likely to die from Covid. Lots of preventable loss of life is going to occur, from Covid and from everything else that can't be attended to because the hospitals are full.

The point of lockdowns is not to reduce the individual risk. It's to reduce the collective risk of getting hit by a runaway train that completely overwhelms our health systems.
I m in Hong Kong and I must be living in the definition of a conspiracy against me, but I still dont think most of the COVID measures here have been to shut me up or to prevent me to exercise political freedom. There simply is no choice, we must vaccinate, we must help each other, we must abstain from yelling loudly for a while.

Possibly the aftermath will be the crime, to continue the measure when there is no need, but we reached 200 death in a megalopolis of 8M people only because we shut the fuck up a bit and synchronized our behaviour.

In a word, I dont think the american CDC main goal is to profit or enjoy a sadist power bath... at worst, they re honestly misguided, I think.
Agreed. Though from experience and what I've read, they do have certain questionable commercial motives. Should call this out everytime.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus-contracts/contra...
DoH over Tor (DoHoT)
What I am wondering is if anyone (besides Cloudflare) has set up DoH servers on .onion addresses.
I think people are purposely under-emphasizing the amount of facial communication still possible with a mask on. Never mind that all these dehumanization scenarios conveniently assume people have somehow lost all ability to utter any sort of noise.

If someone wants to continue wearing a mask for a reason with no harmful externalities (e.g. allergies, privacy), respect their personal freedoms and let them.
It can definitely be very dangerous. A CRJ (50 seat, common commuter plane) can easily be rolled sideways from a 737-900 or larger. Imagine a biz jet or single-engine piston aircraft being caught in something like that.
Hold on, when did anyone introduce the idea that a company won't make a right decision ever? That's a pretty dramatic mischaracterization of my comment.

It's so easy to find something 'patently absurd' in a comment if you aren't bound by the actual content of the comment.

Maybe there was something confusing in my choice of words, given the downvotes.

I don't think HN is naive enough to think that large publicly traded companies genuinely make decisions based on moral concepts like right and wrong. If they do the right thing, they do it because they see an advantage in it. That's how they're designed to function.
I hope it's not. There's a lot of non-verbal communication we miss when wearing masks. It's not as bad as how tone can be hard to communicate on the internet, but it's still not as good as being able to read someone's facial expressions.
I’m on the fence. I definitely see your point, it’s solid. But I also think this (even only 5 million) incentivizes more of the same. It’s no stretch to see we’re in for an increasing amount of this.
We have been in a less than ideal evolutionary equilibrium with respect to security: in the short term, companies that don't fund security can outcompete the prices of companies that do fund security, but they leave themselves vulnerable long-term to attackers.

This is analogous to overspecialization in an ecological niche where there was no predation.

As ransomware becomes more widespread, it becomes more and more detrimental to companies to pursue short-term security savings. That's good for everyone.
When they made those statements, it was nothing changes for now. We were always going to get to this point where enough people became vaccinated and others had enough of a natural immunity that we would start to open up, take off the masks, and get to normal. You couldn't do that when 10% of people had the vaccine dose. Did people really think that the government was going to forever make people where masks and to social distance and all the other measures?
I think this is a bit misleading. It's true that the average density of oceanic crust is greater than that of continental crust, making it less buoyant, but also continental crust is way thicker and overall more massive, which is a huge factor in causing oceanic crust to subduct in addition to the buoyancy factor.
I don't think they would have used brushes in this application. I'm quite certain that the most popular choice in this space is a squirrel cage induction motor [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel-cage_rotor
Yeah, it's crucial to stop or limit that. Dr. Jim Green and colleagues from NASA have proposed placing a strong magnetic field at Sun-Mars L1, which in theory works. This recent The Planetary Society article on Mars terraforming covers that and comprehensive than the OP submission: https://www.planetary.org/articles/can-we-make-mars-earth-li...
I think everything you said is true at face value, but do you have a viable alternative proposal? Do you prefer to believe that financial investment is riskier than time investment, and do you want to preserve the status quo where there’s a power imbalance in favor of money investors? I’m suggesting a way to value an employee’s time investment in a startup that doesn’t depend on speculation or subjective discussion of who’s taking more intangible “risk”. Employees and investors are both sacrificing the same thing to participate: money.

> the view you have is biased to the rare success scenario [...] the employee comes out ahead since they at least got some amount of their investment back.

Maybe you didn’t understand my suggestion, because the cash compensation is not a return on investment. If you forego $100k/yr for stock options, and the company goes belly up, you lose that amount. The cash compensation is keeping you from making a larger investment, it’s a hedge against risk. Cash paid counts against the time investment. Your suggestion is the same as saying the investors come out ahead because they had money in the bank that they didn’t invest.

FWIW, what I’m suggesting comes from experience both as a founder and as a dev participating in a startup. As a founder, realizing that I don’t need to have debates about what skills or status someone is bringing to the table was helpful in negotiations. As a founder and dev, using time as the metric gives me a framework for thinking about stock compensation that can be applied to everyone in the company equally, and gives both parties room to negotiate. As a dev, valuing my time this way allows me to choose my level of risk, as long as the company is open to paying more or less cash, which several in my life have been. And best of all, as a dev, valuing my time this way typically ends up with a higher number than a random offer of some amount of stock where it’s hard to decide whether to accept it because it’s not linked to my effort.

> it’s hard to estimate the value of investors ahead of time just as it is to correctly evaluate an employees contribution.

This is spot-on, and really goes to my point. It’s better to take that idea off the table completely, because there is no valuing contributions beforehand, and no fair way to measure it after the fact - if there’s a way to even measure it at all. Everyone in the company is investing something than can be measured and weighed fairly between people. The people who end up contributing more will enjoy faster promotions, longer tenures, greater chance of success, so they do end up compensated. But it’s a bad idea to try to let people argue about their contribution or value in non-measurable terms, and a bad idea to commit to paying for that before the contribution is made. I know this from experience, letting someone talk me into believing their contribution would be huge, and granting a large stock package, only to find out later when it couldn’t be changed that they were not the heavy hitter they made themselves out to be.
I sincerely hope the trend of tying very personal, individual healthcare decisions with what is essentially gambling, NEVER spreads beyond the COVID vaccine.

I don’t know of many other ways to cheapen the significance of one’s own healthcare or the science that drives it than something like this.
I think what confuses me most is that one side of the political isle says their major concern is big government and them taking away rights. Yet these people are the hardest to convince to use services like Signal, VPNs, or even basic privacy things like ad blockers (or pick your poison of basic privacy tools). Like if you don't want them to take your guns you should also be concerned about them spying on you. It has utterly surprised me how little they are. If we're going with the super inaccurate political compass I'd say it tends to be lower center and lower left that tend to care more about surveillance. I'm not sure why it isn't everyone that is afraid of the government. I just don't get it. Maybe someone can actually explain it to me, because my friends and family just say "what can I do" and "well I have nothing to hide."
A Message from a Soldier in the IDF
Looks good and if it had support for linux this would be an instant buy for me. Unfortunately "We're working with some of the most popular Linux distributions on testing and support, and we'll publish step by step guides on setup for those." is not quite it.
> AFAICT, there is a need for 2000' (650m) of altitude above the ground for the system to deploy in time to be useful

Official Cirrus guidelines include verbalizing "CAPS is available" when crossing 600ft AGL during climb-out.

Source: I fly an SR22.
The rhetoric around “health” seems a lot broader than that.