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Blame scam artists. Before these rules were in place, scammers were taking people's life savings through shoddy investments. This happened often enough that people asked the government to step in to protect these people. And the "Accredited Investor" was born.

Maybe things would be better today if they revoked the rules. Or maybe they would be worse. But either way it exists for a reason.

And to be honest, $1MM is not a huge hurdle to overcome. Anyone looking to invest in risky ventures would be wise to accumulate a meaningful amount of wealth in order to shield them from the loss of capital they will very likely incur. Plus, there are ways around this in certain situations.

A better approach would be to address the reporting requirements that are preventing startups from going public earlier. Startups used to IPO a few years after founding, but now they are going for 10+years.
> It would take a mobilization similar to the WW2 effort on a global scale and I don't see anything like that happening.

Since last year we can observe a global mobilization and radical behavior changes. So I hate to say it but it seems that in case of climate we also need a fear inducing media coverage followed by fearless, bold changes in legislation.
> The template screams NeurIPS though. Page limit for that would be 9 pages, this is 9.5,

That's a fair point and I'm not sure why I didn't consider that they would release a pre-print after they had submitted it. (This is a total fumble on my part)

> there is an issue here about big teams breaking the blind review process by putting themselves on the front

I don't see that as actually breaking the blind review part. There are many more abuses that de-anonymize themselves. Most transformer research is done by big labs because they need the processing power and are the only ones who can afford such equipment (though there was a paper that did transformers on CPUs). Just training ImageNet is out of bounds for a lot of people (I have a few A6000s and it still takes me days). A trivial example is that Google will use JFT and will include it everywhere. If you're qualified to review you're probably going to be able to de-anonymize the lab. I do think we need to do more to make a more level playing field but that's an extremely difficult thing to do. More resources just enables you do do more. But maybe we shouldn't metric hack as much, which would slow things down a little.
Oh yeah.. I fucking hate Windows 10, a few weeks ago I had to check these settings and I got lost every time.. I think they've completed the web-pagization of the control panel nowadays.
This is the equivalent of mandating that every freight company, shipping agent or port inspect every box for fakes or infringing materials.
> decades

I'd like to think that, but I am not sure if that's actually true.
"senior" is such a loose category now in tech I find it almost useless, ranging from "no longer needs constant handholding" to "can run this show".

Assuming you are talking more to the latter part of that spectrum, this is what I would expect to see:

1) A rough timeline (say down to month or quarter resolution) of roles within that company (and others if you have them), with a concise role description focused on what you were responsible for; give me an idea of your day-to-day in that role.

2) Projects and achievements. "Shipped X" "Added Y capability" "Improved Q performance by U %" is much stronger than "Worked on Z subsystem". Be prepared to describe anything in here in great detail if asked. Group achievements are fine but call out what you did (e.g. "Part of X team, delivering 9mm in new revenue by adding [system]. My contribution was [describe]).

3) Strengths and skills. Be honest but blow your own horn a bit. Anything you claim here a good hiring manager will consider testing.

4) Maybe education & certs etc., depends on relevance and position

Hiring managers want to understand the impact you've had before, and what you may bring to their team. If you write yourself up as a fungible IC, that's how you'll be pigeonholed.

Formatting. No more than 2 pages for an engineering position. Making it stand out a bit isn't bad, but much more important to make it clear and easy to read.Personally I don't care too much about format unless it is hard to follow.

Two classic ways to do this are time-based (so all above is interleaved) or functionally (e.g. a short role timeline, but also a project area, etc.). They are both fine if written well, but concentrate on the story it tells.

Honestly people are more used to the first format (timeline) but be careful not to bury your strengths if you do. If you chose the second approach to more easily emphasize them, make it clear by formatting.

Finally - remember a resume should not be a mere logbook of your work, more of a highlight reel.
UMAP is sort of along those lines: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_umap_works.h...
it would also kick poor people off the internet
Some examples: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window...

How to disable a lot of them: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-remove-advertising-window...
You just need access to your web server configuration, which usually means root access to the hosting machine.
The Tabloid Programming Language
Sorry, you do have a current record of how many children died at that school? or no?
The secret is you have to install Windows 10 with the network disconnected. If it doesn't detect a network connection, it lets you create a local account
Everyone jokes about it finally being "the year of the linux desktop", but a few years ago that actually did happen to my circle. Between a mac for work and linux at home, I actually haven't touched windows in a number of years at this point, and interestingly, neither have a reasonable number of the technical people I interact with.

Of the nontechnical people around me, many of them have transitioned to primarily use their phone or sometimes a tablet. The only people I know who still use windows adamantly are PC gamers, and they're all still on windows 7.

Is windows still considered the default home computing environment? Since they're totally out of mobile at this point, I wonder by what margin, and how long that will actually last. I suppose there is still the corporate world that isn't all in on on apple, that may not change for some time.
I've seen ads on the lockscreen and on the start menu.

Also I've seen Windows updates install games without my permission. (for example once it installed Candy Crush).

The live tiles can display whatever MS wants, and sometimes what MS wanted there was ads for random applications and games.
They do have to pay taxes. Maybe Congress should not pass laws that exempt them from paying taxes, or require them to pay more taxes.
Simply put: When you are trying to decide whether you should use your last hundred dollars towards food or rent, moving isn't really a choice. You might as well ask why poor people don't just decide to become rich if they don't want to be poor
That being the case, it seems like Facebook in it's current form shouldn't exist then. It has no natural right to exist, and the harms clearly outweigh any benefits that could be argued.
> Fidelity lets me, so I do

This is inadvisable. There is a legal way to do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_IRA#Traditional_IRA_conve...

If you're making direct Roth contributions over the limit, those are disallowed and may come back to bite you. It may be possible to recharacterize your already-done disallowed contributions as Traditional IRA conversions; I would talk with Fidelity or a tax advisor.
They're used for fraud prevention. How you're tracked is similar to ads, but the end goal isn't targeting ads better, it's preventing chargebacks.
Disappointed that it is not going to look exactly like the renderings in the video, with the physically rendered glass panes and slight perspective. I think the processing power required would be negligible compared to any modern game. Instead, it is going to be flat design with some blur and more gradients.

Remember when people were excited about a new OS version, with a new cool design? Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows XP?
I think university degree is sort of "Does nothing unless it's a really good school but you lose a LOT by not having one" thing. Similar things include your outlook, you inheritance, etc.
Which makes you an armchair analyst.
There isn't a tech labor salary on the planet that would make me suddenly be comfortable with at-will labor -- no matter how much they're paying me, when they can pull the plug at any time and I have no process to seek recourse, that's not right.

If I'm giving up my one non-fungible resource, my time, it had better come with protections beyond the smile of the manager who insists they've got my back when they're really looking for the right place to stick the knife; if you haven't been burned by that one, that too is a kind of, as you put it, extreme privilege.
The irony is, I’ve never experienced DNS problems with invite only piracy sites with quality and quantity 100x the public ones. And doubly so, because I’m sure a lot of Sony employees use them.
Probably. There have been a ton of attacks like these on ot systems recently it's no surprise that cisa is releasing a statement on it finally
The CCP isn't a big monolith. It's thousands of people with different levels of callousness. Even if some people are willing to damn the torpedoes and flat out execute potential political rivals, there are still people who care about appearances.
About 9 years ago I attended a college Q&A session, and I was the only one in the group who was currently at a community college (the rest were HS juniors and seniors).

The community college route was brought up (with my name specifically), and although the presenter brought up the benefits of a 2-year school none of the other students and parents were having it. They were certain that "the college experience" was the only way forward.

I was able to graduate from the CC and transfer to a public 4-year school as a junior. The tuition was minimal (compared to a private university) and paid off without hassle, and if I'd gone the "traditional" college route I don't think I would've been as lucky.
This will be a good feature for windows tablets like the Surface, which lack a decent amount of touch friendly apps.
Most of those are actually features.

1. Old control panels: Drivers may overlay or modify the window, so you can't really change them (don't forget: Windows supports many obscure devices like DAWs and heavy machinery, many things Linux users have never even considered connecting to a PC, and all of those have custom drivers from the device manufacturer that Microsoft doesn't control)

2. Telemetry, ads: Yes, this is a serious "bug" that Microsoft needs to fix, how do they keep accidentally adding fully-featured invasive telemetry and ad platforms into their OS? I guess that's what copying code from StackOverflow gets you!

3. Package management: NuGet?

4. Sandboxing: All modern OSs support lots of sandboxing options, not sure what you mean by this
So we should just kick poor people off the internet?
YouTube will make Unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 private next month
well said. It’s like the table of money people look at a great finished product and then decide how they can maximize profit by injecting crapware, breaking it apart into multiple versions with varying price points (LTSB, Education, Pro, Home, Ultimate.. on and on)
And they still insist that touchscreens on computers are a practical thing and thus make everything huge.
Yeah, then what? Either more censorship or less, neither will be the discernment you want.

This issue has no practical solution.
See I feel that it robs my of all my energy that I get for ideas from working with people. Not just that, but after grad school I actually have anxiety writing.

I feel all these "solutions" just tell the other type of 'verts' to suck it up and adapt to the other style.
Not yet, but when Chia pools become available the mining will take off and hdd prices will most likely rice
There’s a setting to open teams in the background/minimized. I’ve never seen that not work. If you want the window to open at startup as a window… then it’s working as expected, it’s not stealing focus, you told it to open at startup and above everything, zoom, steam, origin, VPN, did the same thing when I allowed them to open at startup maximized.

Not sure why you’re using the Xbox app, but I believe it also has the option to open in background.
Imagine being this dumb
A bunch of Google Drive links are about to be broken
Headline could be "Person uses retirement account to save money for retirement."
This sounds fascinating. Can you share articles to know more?
Well, right now it's: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center -> Change adapter settings. I'm sure they will add " -> Ad for Steve Ballmer's Basketball Team -> ".
I really, really don't like DNS censorship. I think that if a site is bad enough to warrant being taken down, it should be taken down by the authorities that host it.

OR, these governments should have a formal enforcement regime that monitors and sends takedown requests to DNS resolvers.

Then, high-tech people will either use .onion, or we will see again the popularity of alt-root DNS services.

So will the alt-root DNS website (whose domain is on the "official" root) be taken down, because it is a pointer to a pointer to potentially illegal stuff?

Where does it end? Or will the goal be simply to make it hard enough that only 1% of people know how to access it, vs. 20%?
This could be good for competition, but it's hard to see it as being about innovation.

Same as Microsoft copying Chrome and calling it Edge, users have another browser, now with MS telemetry etc. instead of Google. Good for user choice but hardly innovation.
I think OP’s right, everyone “knew” how to operate an iPod through advertisement and probably few had to figure it out on their own. It was simple and consistent enough that they looked intuitive but maybe it wasn’t.
> Academia should be a place for science and those interested in advancing it

Any place in it for the Arts?
This is based on stolen personal data.
This is simply not true.

You and me would be smart enough to hire lawyers that can file a proper „Selbstanzeige“ according to §371 Abgabenordnung, which would prevent us from going to jail altogether ;-)
They have really obsure stuff going on but I don't actually think they'll deny it even if you're not connected, that'll raise a LOT of legal actions against them.
Yes. Perhaps that's a clue?

FB's groups are terribly designed if you want to have a conversation and keep a collection of useful information.

They're cleverly designed to keep people scrolling forever on a content treadmill - in no way the same as optimising them for usefulness.
It doesn't matter what size the screen is when I want to reach the corners. I just slam my mouse to the lower left and I know exactly where it will be.
You’re making the appeal again that people actually respond to new information and change their opinions based on evidence. This isn’t true so the argument that driving something underground is bad because there’s no one to argue against it is a moot argument- people wouldn’t respond to rational evidence-based reasoning anyways.
It would make more sense to get rid of all deductions/credits/exemptions, so that there would be no unintended consequences.
I would also be surprised if there are significant changes. Windows is a marvel at being backwards compatible, which I doubt they will be able to get away from. Here's to hoping. Do you know when that dev conference is?

Edit: Saw your edit answered my question. Thanks :)
The probably 5 people in the world who are domain experts in the Hubble's control system don't really need a hundred backseat drivers, that won't help any.

And as someone who has been invited into "war rooms" by managers who do the "you're smart so of course you can help these other smart people stuck on a hard problem" there's a real skill to being able to read the room and know when to back the fuck out of it or just shut the fuck up -- which most intellectuals don't have. Sit and listen for awhile and take it in. Then maybe take your best idea and ask a very toned down question. If the person who seems to be leading the troubleshooting instructs you on why that's wrong, throws in 3 neighboring ideas that also don't work, with 5 reasons you haven't considered for why that's the entirely wrong path, then just nod in agreement and be quiet and see what you can learn from the domain experts.

Peppering that team with a dozen outside "experts" is going to be useless because they'll just start getting really defensive after awhile, and even if someone winds up throwing out the right solution they'll probably reflexively reject it.

OTOH if that team ASKS for someone who has expertise the team lacks and needs, then go assemble a team skilled at the use of cellphones and the internet to hunt that person down and drag them into the conversation.
It's annoying that these "hallway conversations" became the thing to highlight as the main advantage of in-office work. It's not my experience that the random encounters next to the watercooler or the bathroom are often that useful.

But, say you have some half-baked idea and want to talk it out with a coworker next to you. You both roll over to the whiteboard in your pod and start scribbling, both of you exchanging high-bandwidth information via utterances, gestures, and facial expressions with millisecond roundtrips. Third teammate overhears and rolls over, contributing further. This scenario IME used to happen a lot, created a lot of value, and is hard to replicate with a scheduled meeting or documents because the communication roundtrips and bandwidths are atrocious.
If you’re a consultant, you can state to the client that your calendar has room for taking on a 15 hr / week engagement. What you do the rest of the time is none of the client’s business.
I wasn't joking: https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for-building-...
you just killed any future dramatic space troubleshooting film scenes for me
> presidential?

Upsy-daisy. It sounds cooler, thou.
I wonder what Sir Tim Berners-Lee would have to say about the Web being born on Windows. Both WorldWideWeb (the first Web browser) and CERN httpd (the first Web server) were developed on NeXTSTEP.
Wikipedia can also be “moderated” by anyone. If I see spam or incorrect info on Wikipedia, I can edit it myself. Maybe reword things, add references, etc. On social media (FB/IG/etc), I don’t have that choice. My only option is to report it and hope the moderators don’t say “this [x] doesn’t violate our community standards” on a clearly spam/scam account/comment/post.

I’ve reported so much garbage on social media only to be told it’s not a scam or whatever, I’ve practically given up trying.
That's a genius move, we should all learn from this and take advantage. Nice job Peter!
The sales seem to be increasing, I wouldn't say it's a gimmick. Also touch support is not just for touchscreens, most laptops now have multi-touch touchpads where you can do gestures. Making a program support those already puts it significantly closer to having real touchscreen support, so it's not as hard or difficult as you'd imagine for older Windows programs to gain good tablet support.
This is fine? It means more people are on the platform and using Windows. Remember, Microsoft still makes money from every Windows computer sold.
Priced way to high for what it is. Also hard for regular hobbyist and enthusiast to purchase. (IMO)
I am reading this and it is only HN rules that make me give it a benefit of doubt. Windows simply cannot be carefully crafted at this stage for one simple reason. It is built on a foundation of compatibility ( which also happens to be its selling point ). The UX I can't really comment on. I don't like it, but I accept regular users may disagree.
Thank you! And sure, there is a builder tool coming along that will provide something in that direction.
i would mind if ads are accurate.

I prefer them to not have ANY information about me - because the holy grail of such system is to dynamically adjust prices, upwards, depending on your preferences. To extract as much money as you are willing to pay for a product.

An automated bazaar system, where prices can only rise for you.
When Windows 10 was first released I figured they would finish up the new control panel and deprecate the old one

Some of them go back to Win2k/NT and if you start looking through them carefully, you'll probably notice the sediment layers of just about every major Windows release. I doubt that's going to change in Win 11. That said 'no progress whatsoever' is not quite accurate, most of the significant Win 10 updates have expanded what the new control panels can do.
You just don't understand, those touchscreens no one uses with any kind of seriousness are very very very important.
All I'm asking you is to back up your claim that a majority of sex work in these regions is coercive.that's a huge claim to make that strongly undermines the typical counterargument that legalisation enables their protection.

It is also a claim that needs to be supported.
So, Windows 10 is my daily-driver (Enterprise eds), and I love it. I'm a big fan of Windows in general.

But Microsoft did say that Windows 10 was going to be theast version of Windows, with incremental updates thereafter; I don't see why they need to change that to accommodate what appears to be little more than an unwanted UI refresh with more crappy AI-driven news feeds that nobody wants. From everything I've seen, Windows 11 looks like it's very much an incremental update over the Windows 10 of today.

So why not have a Windows 10 feature update? What is the point of this?
> How in the fk do you invest into startups with something that is not publicly traded anyway? Was PayPal over the counter? Why was it so cheap?*

He was one of the founders of Paypal. At that stage, the strike price of the shares would have been fractions of a cent. More importantly, the "fair market value" of the shares of a non-public company is what the board says it to be which pre-funding is whatever they choose. Post-funding, there's usually a floor set because outsiders (aka investors) have done some analysis.

Normal people pay X% tax on the difference between strike and FMV. (X varies based on a bunch of things.)

That's all Stock Options 101.

Normal people can take advantage of the situation by executing as soon as they have the strike price. That makes the difference $0 so any % of that is still zero. The risk is that the actual value of the shares could go to zero too.

The "loophole" with Thiel is doing it all with an IRA.. which legally anyone can do BUT it's complicated and requires a specific process.

I've followed RocketDollar the past few years because they help with that and document all of it properly.
I wish they hadn't complied. It wouldn't be the first time a tech company stood up to this kind of thing. (Github and youtube-dl, Digg and HDDVD key, etc).

Not familiar with German law. What would happen if they simply ignored the injunction?
lol, 22 years late with a knee jerk reaction of trying to change that specific law

I love how this approach will just leave you surprised in the 2040s about what anybody with reading comprehension skills is doing in 2021
NeXTSTEP specifically, for the browser and the server.
Even if the students don't pay for it, the government (or whoever else pays) can still consider it from their perspective and value system.