skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> excludes multiple costs including interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation

That is exactly what "EBIDTA" means. And EBIDTA is pretty standard. The "IDTA" is not nearly as useful to gauge the health of a company as EBIDTA.

Eg. companies that don't run a profit don't pay taxes, so if you make $0 after taxes, you basically have your whole tax amount to spend next year and it makes no difference.

> [EBITDA] is derived by subtracting from revenues all costs of the operating business (e.g. wages, costs of raw materials, services ...) but not depreciation, amortisation, interest, lease expenses, and taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnings_before_interest,_taxe...
The price of coffee has been the cheapest I’ve ever seen at my store.
Do you also turn off your phone?
I believe that downvoting falls into this category of violence.
Inflation isn’t relative to any one commodity you need to look at everything from Big Mac’s and steel to street drugs.

Using the normal inflation measurements gives you a number around 5%. Which is all of 2% above the FED’s target. It’s a point of concern but no where near the double digit numbers people are talking about.

As to energy costs, those always fluctuate. Oil is at 81$ today and it dipped under 20$ in 2020, except in 2008 it hit 140$ even ignoring inflation.
Teacup Twists and impossible braids [pdf]
By that standard, we’re already living in a fantastical utopia by the way an ancient peasant would measure it, yet lots of folks in this thread are dissatisfied. Why do you think that is?
Awesome article, Ian, and thank you for the shout out to Epsilon3! We're honored and excited to be supporting all these amazing space companies in YC and beyond and helping to enable the future of exploration.
I agree that Transformers are here to stay. The basic building block (self-attention layers) seem to me like the "new fully-connected layer" - the natural way to connect layers and build a deep net. Except that with FC-layers the activations can only be fixed-sized vectors. But the self-attention, each layer can have a variable-sized bag of vectors, and you just need to encode their relationship to each other somehow. This is clearly successful for text using spectral positional encoding. It's starting to work for images, with 2D positional encoding. There's every reason to think it will work for many other data types.

It seems to me the key barrier is the high computational overhead for self-attention. But in highly-parallel vector-math world (GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, etc) Moore's law marches on, with little end in sight, because parallelism works great. That said, making them more efficient, like this paper, will certainly help their adoption.
Definitely agree about the enjoyable part. I don’t necessarily think vim has made me more efficient than normal keyboard+mouse, but I definitely find text editing a lot more enjoyable. It makes a really big difference in my state of mind during the day.
The line wasn't written in 2014, that's just the earliest that the history goes back. Presumably it's no newer than the early 2000s.
I'm seeing some unloaded font in the bullet points at the top of the page. So talking about web fonts not loading on 2G is particularly amusing.
There are people who actually like the suburbs? It's the worst of all worlds.
> And don't believe stuff just because FB and Twitter censored it. They're not trying to hide the Truth, they just hate anti-establishment opinions regardless of whether those opinions are true. And things are not true just because they're anti-establishment. That's just the opposite end of conformity.

There are two reasons people censor things.

One is that they're authoritarians who don't want something true to be disseminated. In these cases the thing being censored is true.

The other is that they're authoritarians too incompetent to convincingly demonstrate that something they believe to be false actually is false using evidence or reasoning, since otherwise they could do that in place of censorship. This level of incompetence is correlated with being factually incorrect, so the thing being censored in these cases is also true more often than not.

That isn't to say that 100% of things being censored are true, or even 99%, because that would be too easy. But it's not a bad heuristic to expect that it's decently in excess of 50%.
It's also easy to sync your vscode setup between machines, although not quite as easy as vim and emacs (imho).
This is neat. Dig the illustrations. Would love to see a kid’s version of this.
> Adjusted, meaning EBITDA,

No. Adjusted EBITDA. Meaning not EBITDA. EBITDA is not "bullshit earnings".
> create index recommendations with and without predicates

I messed around with Postgres hypothetical indexes[1], which was a cheap way to create a lot of them and see what happens.

[1] - https://hypopg.readthedocs.io/en/rel1_stable/
Thanks for linking that. Seems like the patches are 95% UI-related. There doesn’t seem to be any significant change related to improving privacy.

While I’m grateful to this project for calling attention to the privacy issues with Firefox, most of the effort spent on this seems like replacing the brand.

People could get nearly all of the benefit by copying the policy.json file.
Successful companies seem to be more likely to be started during lean times, and startups take 10+ years to mature. We were in the recession aftermath ten years ago.
That is the intent! For now is just a concept.
LA's got a few more well-hidden oil wells nearby. While Hope Tower's now gone, LA Magazine had a feature a few years ago that described a couple other oil wells hidden in plain sight. https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hidden-oil-wells/
That certainly doesn’t sound fun! Thanks, I obviously need to do more research.
The economy of scale - at FAANG(MAANG?) scale you can have extremely efficient money making features that only takes a few engineer to support thousands.

For things that are completely software, it does not surprise me that millions per employee in earnings is realized - that's just what happens when you operate at that scale. And that's accounting for all of the overhead in personnel that scale entails.
That's a joke, it's intentionally missing to make the point.
iPhone USB-C Mod
Welcome to your first day on Project Sexism.

Our PERT charts are really pert!

We burn story points not bras round here !

Agility is a core value ... nudge nudge ;-)

... oh well, The 1950s want their jokes back.
First the Framework Laptop and now this? Swappable modules seem to be in vogue (though they don't seem to be cross-compatible).
What was the rate in 2020 for very serious crimes like ransom and kidnapping in Sweden?
If it’s still low then I would say spending every extra resource available on rectifying that may prove more beneficial than resolving privacy concerns.
Since we’re not typists, of course the speed of text input is not the bottleneck, but thinking, getting motivated, etc.

But that’s not what Vim is (only) about. Editing text with Vim a pleasurable experience unlike any other. See the parent’s comment on that as well.

It is, however, the steepest wall I’ve had to climb usability wise. Probably akin to Blender, where everything is different from what you would expect at first, but, hopefully, for a good reason.
In plain english:

They bought some stake in company Didi.

In this past quarter, they acknowledged this stake was worth 3.2b less than it was recorded as in their books.

Therefore, their books now "lost" 3.2B in value.

But they did not "overspend" by 3.2B in the sense most people expect when hearing "they just lost 3.2B this quarter"
GitHub Copilot is super creepy
They should be using AMP
For decent tasting beans don’t soak them at all, clean and boil them normally with some salt or bullion. Never soak your beans if you want them to taste good.
> the elite

SPECTRE

> their agenda

Hypnotize girls at a ski retreat to love livestock. Infect them with livestock diseases and release them. Crash the world economy. Try not to get thwarted by 007.
China liberalises coal-fired power pricing to tackle energy crisis
First USB-C iPhone auctioned on eBay
People don’t seem to have any issues stealing 600lb motorcycles
Thank you Max, excited to see what you and the Epsilon3 team accomplish next!
All of this sucks, why does css feel like nothing but baggage.
Have you ever tried not soaking it? Tastes much better, I never soak anymore. Didn’t make them cook faster, made them taste worst.
wonder if it passes USB peripherals through that KVM module, although it's likely just wishful thinking.

One of the pain of having multiple computers, as owner of this device is likely, is to have to unplug and plug them everytime you switch
It's a bit like people who won't run JavaScript by choice but are to stupid to be able to browse the web without it.

If you want to cargo cult not reading Reddit or Twitter ok..... But you can't be stupid, they are designed to help stupid people, not using them doesn't make you smart.

The web is far more broad and amazing than ever. 100's of times more interesting than 10 years ago.

For instance 10 years go it was hard to read the web when it wasn't in your language. Now any dumb dumb reads articles and topics in other languages. Scientific Journal articles are all freely available like books and docos and media. Dark webs have matured.

If you want to 'browse the internet' without the drama, that's a different question. But don't pretend BoingBoing etc were not about the drama. Just the drama was new then, not the current repetitive find a mentally ill woman, call her a Karen and film her and add it to the 100's of other videos. BoingBoing was cruel the same, it was a lot less understood though, but it was still drama.
That was not a hard and fast “rule” in 1994 in that you could host multiple domains on a single IP for email purposes. You could also point an arbitrary number of domains/host records to an http server with a single IP, you just couldn’t serve differentiated content per domain/host record.
Guess the Python was useful? From an FT article:

>In 2011 Goldman Sachs put its top computer wizard, Armen Avanessians, in charge of the division. He has helped turn round its fortunes. The arm’s assets under management reached a nadir of $38bn in 2012, but it now manages $91.8bn...
Wow, that name is a throwback. I remember people sending you some URLs that when you clicked allowed for remote code executions to happen.
I am not sure why this has become a browser function: Your browser is perfectly capable of using fonts on your local system. The problem is websites are refusing to use them in favor of loading them from the cloud.

At least in the website I adjusted the fonts of, I set it to use the font locally if you had it, otherwise distributing it selfhosted style so not to send data to another service.
On most GNU/Linux systems, vi is usually Vim running in vi-compatible mode (it also has an Ex mode if you’d like even less bells and whistles).
Tried it for a week, didn't like it. Utility classes vs compile time css in js + styled components are better in every way when you actually know css.

>But, preventing global CSS removes the expressive power of the “cascading” part of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

lol wat? variables exist and import exists if you wanted to stick with style.module.css. StyledComponents works very nicely for this as well.

<div class='text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-lg bg-gray-100 text-black py-3 text-center cursor-pointer'>Button</div>

The above line of markup looks like utter crap tbh, not to mention, the fact that it's a div vs the name of what you consider it to be in the context of the other objects on the page seems like you're obfuscating its role. I just don't think it's a good thing to use unless you're doing a bunch of one offs that you'll never have to support.

Maybe one week isn't long enough. I dunno.
> In aggregate, shareholders don't lose money.

Happily, the FASB isn't fooled by this particular sleight-of-hand. Not anymore, at any rate; they quit letting themselves get bamboozled by Silicon Valley flim-flam accounting for options more than 15 year ago.

If the shareholders have constant ongoing dilution due to continual share issuance, they have run just to stay in place. This is pretty straightforward, and what the GAAP are communicating to FS readers. You have a comp expense, of course (you gave something valuable to an employee instead of selling it for cash), and you also have the dilution, without even getting the cash in return. It's the only appropriate way to account for it.

It is a very expensive form of compensation.
And keep in mind that they got the lithium-7 calculation wrong (Castle Bravo). What if they had got nitrogen-14 wrong instead?
humility & openness to discussion is a minimum bar society can possibly accept. it just has to be there. you cant negotiate with the pre-polarized.
According to the article only about 7.5% of babies seem to have negative reactions (are agitated), and most mothers say that their children like the gahvora. Far from being neglected, they receive a lot of attention and care from the entire family.

Calling it torture is probably projecting our western values to a different culture. We encourage our kids to run and dance, and they do, and we are happy, and they are happy. Tajik mothers do things differently, so it is normal that babies react differently, they are staying still, their mother is happy, and the baby is happy. The article is short on details about long term effects but they don't look as bad as expected.
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Thank you for making this comment, it very much rings true as a parent whose child is far to young to ever be thinking about planning her own day.
> Justin, my friend - is this domain really necessary? or are you just pushing the envelope?

LOL, that's an interaction style you won't see today from the faceless domain registration dickheads.

(Not exactly, Sir; I'm more like fucking the envelope ...)
> Or fast enough internet (with enough mobile data) to support zoom meetings and such each day.

Even is wealthier neighborhoods, with what we thought as pretty decent cabled internet, having everyone log in full-time and YouTube/video conferencing like crazy killed the connection speeds to a rate we haven't seen since the 90s.
The verbosity was a turn off for me as well until I found eslint-plugin-tailwindcss which enforces predictable class ordering, making those long strings much easier to understand at a glimpse.
String-Eval in Perl
Thanks for the explanation but I believe there’s been a misunderstanding.

By pension off I meant is there a possibility for someone mediocre, or promoted beyond their level of competence, to be immediately dismissed with a generous pension. And to replace them with someone else selected for fixing the problem?
that would be a bit less clear I think .... perhaps it may make it more concrete to think about an example.

Say the education department has a requirement that where ever a student's grades are displayed, the legend to explain their meaning and a disclaimer about limitations is included. It could even be a hard requirement (like, they got sued once for not doing it so their lawyers have told them they must enforce this). So they are careful that in their app, that requirement is always satisfied, since failing to do that could lead to harmful confusion that could impact a student.

So in their view the "document" they made public is the fully rendered version of that. If you print it out you are effectively doing a transformation that preserves its form and essential characteristics. If you screen shot it, cut out the disclaimers and legend and then paste it on a public web site ... you could create the same problems that you are by taking raw data out of the API.
Momentus YC S18 as well.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/momentus

They went public via SPAC listed as MNTS

A classmate of mine was the founder, but he ran into issues being a Russian citizen dealing with restricted space tech.

So he left/divested and started a new space tech company in Switzerland.

Mikhael is a really sharp guy.
My suggestion: don’t soak your beans, cook them with saline, if you can use an instant pot or pressure cooker do it.

If you want there to be less calories leave it out abs let it cool then when you reheat it you’ll get less calories: some of the carbs are now resistant starches.
600 million years of archea bouncing around. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that time.
Fire the dev, or educate the dev. Sure, eval is just a sure sign of a lot of lack of understanding, but I'd hope for something less vile as eval would be a little more understanding that everyone learns something sometime
Why did Jesus put his typing speed in his resume? He is clearly going for a leadership position.

One of his skills is resurrection, which is a plus for hazardous occupations.
I can't wait till 'heavy industry' is included in that list. :)
that dev is now your manager? /s
love that west wing reference but man, this is 2016 old and well, anything new since then maybe?

Here's the discussion from then:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12865998
It’s made by the same guy who bought the rights to vantablack. Never call it cloud gate: call it the bean.
British English "revise" = American English "study".
The context of this article is about managing CSS in a JavaScript application, so…
This game has one major selling point that I haven't seen anyone mention yet: It is full of attractive girls in revealing outfits. In addition to making the game more enjoyable, this pours rocket fuel onto distribution since it leads people to make fanart.

This is not a quirk of Genshin in particular, but a core feature of the genre, as evidenced by the huge number of gacha games on the app store that also have this feature. They may differ from Genshin in setting or core gameplay mechanics, but beautiful girls are a constant. People who play these games often say that it doesn't factor into their enjoyment ("I thought the story was unique, the endgame was engaging, etc"), but the download numbers say otherwise. Since my HN account is a pseudonym, I will readily admit that I considered getting into this genre, and my primary reason was the appearance of the girls in the promotional materials.

Unironically, I would consider this something of an innovation in game design. Western games never used this technique as openly as the gacha genre, and lately they have become even more conservative. As an example, compare League of Legends in its early days to the game today.

I think there is a huge opportunity in this space for any Western game company who borrows the wisdom of our Eastern counterparts.
There was a modern greenfield Russian CPU that was in the news a while back. Did it get abandoned or eaten by a GRU?
This analysis misses that most of what people spread is bullshit: things they intuitively feel or want to be true, but which are difficult or impossible to prove or disprove.
When bullshit spreads that authorities don't want spread, they censor.

Neither party to the dynamic knows or cares if the bullshit is actually true or if there are compelling arguments either way. That would be too much work.

Some day FB is going to censor some urban legend about zombies because it motivated some kid to kill another kid. Will you believe in zombies then?
I was 5 when Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon in 1969. I remember watching it on a 12 in. black and white TV. Encyclopedias amazed me. I would thumb through them and look up each mention of something I didn't understand - the modern equivalent of link hopping, except I kept my thumb on the main article.
Just odd. Why would you change a definition in the middle of an existing chart... Just call it M1a or M11 and add a new chart.

Curious what is really going on that I'm not supposed to understand.
The business model of companies like Uber and AirBnb is based on becoming so big and popular they can’t regulate you out of existence so crypto is far from the first to try this.
They work for everything.
The argument is that cryptocurrency is useless under the assumption that the traditional financial market is functioning perfectly, i.e. that there is no regulatory inefficiency at all. There currently exist countries where this is not the case, so that assumption is incorrect and cryptocurrency is useful until such time as that is no longer the case.
It is not flim-flam. The shareholders elect a board, and the board has to approve stock based compensation. The shareholders price shares based on this expected dilution so no one is being fooled and there is no sleight of hand. All of this is very public.
I’m not anti privacy, it just means something different to everyone. If you don’t control the metadata for servers you use, does that mean you cannot ever expect privacy?

I argued with someone about how we shouldn’t expect privacy with a cell phone, I don’t see how a 24/7 location tracking device that reads data telemetry (even if you use a custom privacy rom you connect to the towers and send telemetry) can ever be seen as private. PCs are usually compromised with Intel ME or AMD ST (unless you have a specially modded one or use old government contracted ones with them disabled).
EBITDA is bullshit if depreciation is an expected, significant part of your business. For many vc-backed companies, it isn't, but for any company with major physical capex, it very much is a real expense.

There's also the whole inconsistency with capitalizing software expenses... if you want to be aggressive about accounting, you certainly can.

But of course the biggest part of this story is stock-based comp, which is very much a real expense.
Hearing they're profitable is a great sign.

Its great both because

(1) i've recently heard a lot of people complain about price increases, so it's worrying to think a service many people using would need to be a lot more expensive

(2) it validates a lot of the business models for start ups to get big to find profits, and validates that losing money - even lots - can lead to profits and hopefully sustainability.
For me it was a combination of:

- Reading through vimtutor

- Disabling my arrow key bindings and unplugging my mouse for a week (as part of a combined vim/i3/vimiuim learning experience/experiment)

- Playing Vim Adventures, a puzzle game based on Vim's controls

The three days of godawful productivity has paid off a thousandfold- especially when I later became temporarily disabled (broken bones in both arms) and couldn't use a mouse for a while.