skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just saying "oh yeah factor that in" doesn't help anyone who may not even know there could be a whole different class of "shares", as well as other corporate liabilities.

By all means educate yourself, but this information has been out there for decades at this point.

I'm in no way advocating you saying "Oh, they gave me 1% on day 1, that means I'll get 5mm on a 500mm exit". You need to think about impacts of dilution and preference at minimum, but there's data on this.

And note I never claimed it would be accurate, the error bars are huge. But it's obviously more accurate than just setting it equal to zero. Which people really don't do, by observed preference.

Since we are in the weeds now, my actual advice on seed or earlier equity is mostly judge it as a measure of commitment and interest.
The thing governments try to intervene to stop is anticompetitive behavior. Monopolies easily lead to this, so we single those out and stop them early, but that's just one situation that leads to anticompetitive behavior. There are many aspects of megacorps that also can and do lead to anticompetitive behavior, all that remains is to determine if additional categories of behavior that are more common today also rise to the level that we want them specifically singles out and regulated as well.

Monopolies aren't inherently bad, they're regulated because they incentivize anticompetitive behavior that hurts consumers and the economy in the long run (you have to assume companies will act against their best interests for them to not cause problems). Megacorps aren't inherently bad, but we may want to regulate them because they may incentivize anticompetitive behavior that hurts consumers and the economy in the long run.
Yes, The US system at it's finest.
This is so exciting. I have to say, as soon as this pandemic is over, the first thing I'm going to do is attend a brand activation campaign or event and just... witness a brand generate awareness and build lasting connections with its target audience.
Actual PDF: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelima...
Someone did ML based up-res textures for FFIX on pc. They look really great IMO, and I think the updated character textures+models on old backgrounds as in these new switch ports look bad.

These FF remakes on switch were all 3D models moving on 2D backgrounds. I bought all of the switch remakes, and probably most interested to see the game play changes made to FFXII.

Warning for folks that would like their games to work without internet in 20 years: the US release of FFX/X2 on switch does NOT ship with X2 on cart, and the box is not labeled as such. Buy the region free multilang from playasia if you care.

Ah this article is talking about different remasters than I am...I guess no one can be happy with any such remaster. :P
And this is why I find the apple walled garden to be pro-consumer. I’m happy to pay the Apple tax in exchange for being able to cancel subscriptions easily.
"Top U.S. Officials Consulted with Pfizer Coronavirus spreads across US"

Clearly there must be something nefarious going on!
The thing is though, apps that look native often look like they were made by beginners. The native look on both iOS and Android is also starting to look dated in terms of graphic design.

Most popular apps don't use native design but rather artistically always a step ahead of native. Think of e.g. the Airbnb, Uber, Slack, Discord, Instagram apps.

If Instagram or Airbnb used native iOS/Android design they'd lose users pretty quickly IMO.
> People can have e.g. untreated ADHD all their lives, and they won't live less long or end up in the hospital more often than people without ADHD.

They will.[1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I rage-quit when I couldn't scroll the T&C fast enough. I guess my patience has gotten a lot worse as I have gotten older.
Unexplained Phenomenon – FBI Records: The Vault
People should look at other perverse incentives not mentioned here

My teams did many optimizations in mobile apps to keep file sizes small, only for more than one future employer (or relevant decision maker there) to question my experience because the executable sizes listed in the App Store are small

“But at scale can you…”

I’ll just put dummy files in thanks!
Where'd all the quantitative biologists migrate to?
I see a dearth of evidence for the authors actual hypothesis as stated.
Thanks. Yes, it is my forum.
If they cared about energy they could double glaze the glass
>What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse

To what end?
Reproducible Debian Live Images
For an app you haven't used in awhile, you'd probably uninstall it.

For an app you're actively using, you'd probably accept the update, but there would likely be pressure on the devs from the percent of people who would uninstall it instead. I think the hope is that this would cause them to think twice about bloating for no reason.
150 billion is the size of a pretty restricted subset. The estimate for general druglike compounds is 10^60
The RF emissions acknowledged here are something I'd never heard of before. Stating the obvious; even though this report is completely vague on that front (and all others), the fact that this was mentioned means that there was likely an RF abnormality in a few event reports. It's not really logical to assume they are talking about something trivial that a plastic bag would 'produce'. But yea - agreed, this is missing so much info.
A simple green and black lcd is fine for prices.
You can also see cameras and IR blasters on the top of each door for facial tracking.
That assumes it can be easily fixed, or is the same cause every time.
I doubt that. The interesting part is that there _is_ a goal even if we don't know what it is:

* US Government is telling the truth - goal may be to figure out what these are.

* US Government is lying - goal may be to mislead an adversary.

Those are just two examples. I find UFOs interesting because its hard to understand the government's intention here and fun to speculate.
As always, with your replies to me, your spirit/style is much appreciated.

> It overlooks the power and importance of individuals discussing and organizing together, which is often much more powerful than simply "voting with your feet".

I did indeed purposefully overlook that, but only out of a working assumption that the consent of the governed is there, overall.

If there truly is no consent of the governed for informed consent being a sufficient tool for empowerment in these cases, then there are deeper topics that need to be discussed. Some of those topics could lead to conclusions that may have catastrophic implications for modern society, if not discussed in a reasonable and considerate manner. Cancelling entire industries, in one fell swoop, are some of the conclusions being drawn in the current climate, for example.

If there is consent of the governed that opt-in is a sufficient tool for empowerment in these cases, then these cases may ultimately be logically reducible to failures to uphold the laws, as they currently exist.

To further expound on the latter line of reasoning, these cases seem to anecdotally belong to a few categories: 1) I don’t like advertising, 2) I didn’t know that they could do that, 3) I don’t want anyone watching what I do.

Category 1) is a completely understandable sentiment with implications that I currently lack the energy to comment upon.

Category 2) should be taken as that individual’s human rights having been violated. Specifically, that situation could arguably be pursued in the United States under the ADA. Enforced broadly, this could have catastrophic consequences to modern society. Enforced judiciously, this could provide much needed social progress.

Category 3) is a completely understandable sentiment with implications that I currently lack the energy to comment upon.

The category 2) implications do seem to be most relevant to society, at this juncture.

edit: I can imagine that a class-action ADA lawsuit against a carefully selected set of defendants (if legally possible) could lead to resolution of this matter in the courts, without calling on the legislature to comment on topics for which they are under-qualified to comment upon.
Relevant xkcd: "Video Content" https://xkcd.com/1804/

A/B and telemetry-worship reminds me of something I posted on Fedi earlier. Pasting it below:

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"Guys, I have an idea. Let's make a browser optimized for the kind of people who don't opt out of telemetry, and market it to privacy-conscious people." -- Top minds at Mozilla Corp

If you market to privacy-conscious people and you base all your decisions on data from telemetry, you're gonna get a very skewed perspective. You'll see disproportionate representation from fans (people who want to enable telemetry because they love Mozilla and want to help, and will rationalize any decision Mozilla makes) and very non-technical users who don't know what telemetry is and how opt-in/out works. Technical users who disable stuff like telemetry, analytics, etc. are going to look like a rounding error.

This explains a lot of Firefox's changes.
Of course it has. The capital markets have not changed much since the 1600s Amsterdam. And yet it's very easy to find older engineers on HN that have some horror option exercise tax stories from the dotcom era. Heck, the same happened with trading Bitcoin at the 2017 top to a lot of people. And I'm sure there's going to be a lot more.

And at the moment the very top comment in this thread is about someone who got $100k, same as everyone, except the founders who somehow got out with 8 figures.

My point is to realize you're actually significantly disadvantaged. But i guess the youth has to do all the same mistakes over and over again, that's how the system goes forward. I should be cheering from the sidelines like most people do, it seems more fun :)
There aren't any mature solutions yet, but you can find a list of GUI frameworks here:

http://www.areweguiyet.com/
If you are working a lot in Linux user space, The Linux Programming Interface is 10/10.
i understand that there are some known bad ways. but you are dangerously close to concluding that your way is the One True Way to learn here. neither of us has data so i'm gonna leave it there :)
Sorry if this makes everyone feel older... but the 2000s, 2010s, and now 2020s... makes three distinct decades.
I found BJJ to be an excellent ego crusher, which I sorely needed at the time. Highly recommended if your joints can handle it :-)
When I've looked into the research they tend to be mostly disgusted by homosexuality. Disgust sensitivity and Homophobia correlate whereas neuroticism and homophobia don't which you would predict if homophobes were literally afraid of gay people.

Homophobia is just a nice spin though. For the most part I couldn't care less about who people are dating or boning.
I do not blame cooler screen for selling this technology to anyone. But I want everyone to consider how much it takes to bring about a technology like this to a grocery store.

If this is any of the big chain groceries, the manager doesn't even have the authority to put a sticker on the glass door. This was vetted by hundreds of people and none of them thought... glass?

Business class tickets were purchased, hotels were booked, months of back and forth, daily meetings. Hundreds of thousands were spent on pilot programs like this one. Still no one thought... glass?

In my opinion, it's a silly idea. But I applaud the person who had this silly idea, built a company around it, got deals with screens, door, glass, and cameras manufacturing companies, and then convinced a grocery chain to buy this for their store.

I would really, really love to have been in that sales pitch meeting.

Edit: What bothers me the most about this, is that it will actually work. Any surface where eyes may fall on, will be replaced with an ad.
I would imagine this is the kind of thing you'd commission if your job title was, say, chief innovation officer at a soft drinks company.

What else would you do?
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Only in the same sense that if you dodge a bullet, you're responsible for whatever person got killed instead of you.
It's not that complicated. Replace disposable plastics with reusable materials.
LEDs?
If you feel a different form of analysis would change the outcome please feel free to provide us with the data and your conclusions.

I took it as far as I felt I needed to. When I saw that the risk due to COVID to even a young and generally more healthy demographic was still an order of magnitude bigger I didn't feel I needed to dig further. Car accidents are already a big enough source of risk that I personally take measures to reduce it and support societal interventions to reduce it further. COVID is much worse.
Zen Buddhism. I dabbled with the concepts and played with the idea of taking it seriously for about 15 years before I finally surrendered to the idea and it changed everything.
I just mark as spam, every time. Hopefully it tanks their deliverability a bit.
While you are not wrong about organizations trying to obtain a larger budget, but it it a fallacy to assume a priori this is the case. Regardless, the budget required to research UAPs would be a drop in the bucket for what is spent on defence. There are much more efficient ways to attract tax payer money.

Contrarily if they truly are observing things they cannot explain should there not be money allocated towards researching this? If not only for air safety of the pilots and crew.
Well that's certainly one take.

I strongly disagree with your notion that the book defines abuse so broadly that anybody could meet the criteria. As I read it, the book doesn't apply to most people; I'd say it only matches a handful of people I've met in my life.

I think the rest of your characterizations are also basically incorrect and unfair, and in ways that I don't see it as worth my time to dispute in detail. If others aren't sure, I'd encourage them to read the book to find out.
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My apps are all set up so that music, photos and videos all go to external storage. I have a 128Gb MicroSD card, and I'm using less than a quarter of the space.
> A startling percentage of their compound backbones consisted of three- and four-membered rings concatenated into structures that no one can be sure are even stable, and are certainly beyond the current powers of organic synthesis. Adding those in would make the compound set many orders of magnitude larger, since only 0.005% of the original compound graphs were even considered as starting points. ...

Some may question what's so hard about a few billion entries.

The thing to keep in mind is that enumeration like GDB necessarily yields a combinatorial explosion of molecules. Every molecule that gets passed to the next step can generate many millions or more children. Isomeric forms make the problem even more challenging. It's worth noting the very limited repertoire of elements: "C, N, O, S, and halogens." This excludes, for example, phosphates, which are part of the DNA and RNA backbone, and phospholipids, although even oligonucleotides and many medium-sized lipids are too large to be part of GDB-17. Each atom added pushes the enumeration further away from feasibility.

Then there's the problem of figuring out if you've already enumerated a molecule. That problem has no known polynomial-time solution (graph isomorphism), although GDB's low node count mitigates the problem.

There are ways to deal with the combinatorial explosion so that you can search a vast molecular space without actually enumerating all of the molecule products. But to compile statistics like those in the paper that Lowe was writing about, you need to enumerate to some degree.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ci300415d
Code Complete (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete).

I hear that it's probably not as relevant these days, since it's been nearly 20 years since the 2nd edition was released, but the attitude towards professionalism it instilled in me was invaluable, and the fact that all the recommendations were backed up by studies made it so that I could back up my decisions with facts.
Why are people not allowed a complete change of mind? If I have an opinion, but then find evidence that totally contradicts my prior opinion, surely I should be allowed a 'complete' change of mind?

If we're only ever allowed to change our minds by a little bit we'd all be struck in the neighbourhood of whatever (silly) opinions we had as five year olds.

Also, who's in charge of deciding what constitutes a 'complete' mind change vs the apparently-ok minor mind change?
I'm not sure but the main side effect of clearing the cache and the data was to throw up a contract with a big i agree button.

not clicking that.
Great to see validation from someone who's used Django for a decade!

Curious about how you transitioned from the fat model architecture to services based in the same codebase? Did you use some sort of versioning?
> or me trying to be mean

If you have to say "I'm not trying to be mean" before anyone accuses you of it, then you're clearly aware that what you're saying sounds mean, but you don't care to try and avoid it, but you want to pretend you are still nice. Which, ironically, is something that would cause some intensive pencil scritching during a psych eval.
I think I would go to another store due to this. I think that non-HN type people like my dad or my mom would probably go to another store due to this.

Not being able to see what's behind the glass makes it take longer to shop. People abandon webpages that don't load quickly enough - why wouldn't they abandon stores where you have to open each door on an aisle of refrigerators just to see what's available?
Even mild Covid in young people often leads to long-term symptoms
I'm sort of trying to propose a situation where 1) the price doesn't get inflated and 2) I get to go to the event.

Obviously, yes, if I am mad about scalpers' prices, I have the option to not pay them. I would like to go the event, though.
> Mozilla is unlikely to want to modify its general privacy policy based on particular discussions with each organization involved in a study

They may ultimately have a legal responsibility to do so, depending on the nature of their contracts with their research partners. I’m not a lawyer, but if I were, I’d be digging into the case law to see if Mozilla + (”public university” or “federal funds”) = “a combination that must meet all severally applicable laws”.
Exactly.

The troll is someone who notices someone who is vulnerable and triggers them.

I do wonder though if there isn't more than a little reinforcement between the groups. Someone with BPD leaning behavior doesn't need someone giving a push to keep their emotional roller coaster going but someone provoking them can't help.

And, of course, trolls are in it for the reaction and the least well adjusted people give a rather strong reaction.
Also, watch episode 1 of 100 Humans. The experiment gives the same crime to a sampleset of non-attractive and attractive humans and has the 100 humans give them jail sentences. The non-attractive criminals (actors) get nearly twice as much jail time in this experiment.
Depending on your definition of "no use in keeping it around." Apparently it's fairly useful as a moisturizer and as a skin protectant. You're still correct, of course, in the sense that it's not metabolically useful, but it's kind of amusing to me that it's got these other cosmetic effects that are in some sense useful.
I actually dug into it, & it's not clear. Rust & many C libraries do outperform Perl if you can stick to an NFA regex. If you like backtracking & lookaround, then it's not clear that Perl loses that much in performance.

The language itself is definitely better suited to writing those regexes all over the place, so if you have two axes of performance & regex usability, I wouldn't discount Perl for those use-cases. I do suspect though that the bioinformatics field overindexes its use of Perl because that's what they know even though it's less well-suited for other things. That being said, that's usually why programmers might choose Python. Something to be said for familiarity & access to a thriving software ecosystem you're familiar with.
Quite a bit I'd imagine. Many have been talking about this for months
So, throw away literally billions of users worldwide? Outside of USA, apple has a very, very small market share, and cheap (weak) android phones are the norm.

For example, Facebook ("lite") and google ("go") already optimize their apps to those markets. Why not eg McDonalds?
Just fork C, name it B#, and you're done.
Two tabs, one with the unread filter selected?

Not exactly the same, but close enough for my use. I usually run 2-3 tabs 1.inbox, 2.lists, 3.someothercriteria
The people are driven. Absurdly driven.
Nice touch pre-scrolling the terms, and making it scroll up quickly but down slowly
> Psychology is a science. People may argue whether it is a hard science, but it’s doing all the science things.

True, when I say 'science' I mean 'hard science'. Every theory is basically an arbitrary statistical model trained on extremely noisy signals. Generally, it can't carry out controlled experiments or predict new phenomena.

> What is the difference between an RCT on how a drug affects cancer (given some formal rating scale for cancer), vs. an RCT on how a drug affects ability to concentrate (given some formal rating scale for ability-to-concentrate)? The former is considered medical research. The latter is considered psychological research.

You can measure the size of the cancer in a fairly direct and objective way. To measure ability to concentrate you need to have a statistical model that interprets a very noisy signal.

> Also, I don’t want people to drill holes in my skull. Most people don’t. It is, in fact, considered unethical by most medical boards to drill holes in a patient’s skull, if what you’re treating for would not be worse than a hole in the skull.

It was a joke about lobotomies...

> “Psychology” is to “neuroscience” as “ML” is to “Computer Science”

It's more like what 'astrology' is to 'astronomy'.
Ha ha you’re stupid!
This makes life seem more like a video game.
As a rough estimate, what percent of US economic activity is large piles of money being tossed into a flaming dumpster for the sake of someone's ego? Because every year it seems higher.
Took a 50% salary cut for 2% of PagerDuty as the 7th hite. I was devops but spent almost all of my time on marketing, taking us yo conferences and easily closed enough big deals to cover my pathetically low salary.

My father died a couple weeks before re:invent. In my grieving I took us there and hooked us up with netflix and yahoo, probably worth more than the funding we had at that time.

During the conference a creep was hitting on our married office admin and basically stalked her. Our cto and ceo were cowards and did nothing so I protected her.

Ashamed of their cowardice they fired me. A month later we hung out and they offered to bring me on as a marketing consultant. We got drunk and they admitted a higher up at YC told them to fire me because I had too much stock.

I would never, ever do businesd with a YC company again.

I will get shadowbanned for this post.
How did you learn it? Which books/teachers?
EV is a good first step because it’s way easier to calculate than EU. Look at similar companies, do the math, compare to corporate EV and boom - 95% of startup offers are really uncompetitive. Reliable EU calculations are mostly possible for pre-IPO companies, and even then…
Same - Fastmail's web UI is my primary MUA, with my phone being the secondary.
Doesn't every new innovation (produced by a corporation), good or bad, generally come from the experimental arm of said corporation (e.g, R&D division)? You have teams dedicating to maintaining the core business, and you have teams exploring areas along the fringe of your TAM.

HN's comments following Bitcoin's launch have made me acutely aware of how hostile we can be towards new ideas.