skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooo, that's a really interesting example of a Chesterson's Fence situation. I too would never have thought there might be an extremely intentional meaning behind that naming process and would quite possibly have changed it given the opportunity without further consideration.
These $10M-$1B revenue businesses are great buyout targets for corporate and private equity firms, and these companies are increasingly going public at the higher range. (About 1/3 of PE exits last year were via IPO).

I dig into the data here: https://neilthanedar.com/we-need-a-middle-class-for-startups...

Mittelstands are allowed to partially or fully exit.

PEs do invest in Mittelstands at $10M+ revenue. But there's not a great market yet for pre-Mittelstands, which is where I'm focusing here.
> The problem is that now people think the concept didn't exist before hearing the word "steelman"

I don't think most reasonable people will make that mistake.
The reference to the slot in a vector has to be a kind of object which tracks the vector itself, and an offset into the vector. It can't just be a wrapper for a naked address.
I remember a lively discussion last year (not sure which one) where several Indian developers living in the SF area said they experienced discrimination, but also many reporting they did not.

I have no idea who is "right" here; I'm neither Indian nor living in the US. But I will add a general comment: experiencing discrimination is not the same thing as being discriminated.

For example, let's say I – as a man – have a disagreement with a female coworker, and maybe I'm a bit of an asshole about it. She might genuinely feel discriminated, belittled, man-splained, or whatever you want to call it. It might be I'm doing this because she's a woman and that she's right, or I might just be having a bad day, or I might be an asshole to everyone I disagree with, or I might just have accidentally phrased things in a bad way.

This is a big problem; there have been a few cases where this actually happened and people accused me of being racist or sexist, usually online. Sometimes I could have phrased things a little bit better maybe, but I sure didn't do it because of someone's identity. People will say it's due to "subconscious bias", but I find that's what the kids nowadays call "gaslighting". Maybe subconscious bias exists and influences people's behaviour in significant ways (not so sure it does, but that's a different discussion), but all but one of the times it happened I wasn't even aware who I was talking to until they "outed" themselves when accusing me of discrimination.

To be clear: no doubt discrimination happens in various ways for various people, but in many instances it can be really hard to say if a specific incident is an instance of it, of if it's due to other reasons. This is problematic because 1) it makes it very hard to actually do something about (systemic) discrimination because you can't punish/fine people easily, but also 2) people will still genuinely feel discriminated against even if there is no actual (or very little) discrimination happening (or is no longer happening).

To be clear: I'm not "accusing" those people of "making things up" or anything like that, I really believe that almost all people report genuine feelings and experiences. As one of those white male types I have it easy: if someone is an asshole to me I can fairly safely assume that person is an asshole to me on account of just being an asshole, but for some other groups this can be a lot harder, either due to current or historical discrimination.

My point is that experiences aren't everything when it comes to these kind of topics, no matter how honest and genuine. They're also not worthless, and some experiences do describe clear-cut cases, but in general I'm careful.
Who even knows who a Dalit is?

So people from India come here and sniff out Dalits based on their last names and then discriminate against them?

What if the Brahmins are discriminating against White people? Would we even know?

All of this discrimination hunting by the Witchfinder Generals at all hours can't be good for Google's productivity. What a shit show.
It’s a different time. Relevant strategies now probably wouldn’t have worked at a different time in history.
When you realize pur financial markets are optimized not for solving problems per se, but extracting wealth and fueling fiscal growth, such behavior patterns start making sense.

The goal is trying something out, if it doesn't measure up, it's yeeted in the bin.

Besides which, you're expecting rationality and consistency out of people in positions of power. You already lost. People concerned with the issue of maximally optimizing for wealth accrual are seldom burdened with a burning need to be rational and consistent. At least I've seen precious few positive examples thereof.
I hear ya ... and I am not excusing it since im blinded and immune to it. I am saying tho, that it also isnt enforced here anymore than sharia law or the jewish or other hindu/religious law. It will never hold up in court. I feel strongly (im always open to being wrong) that part of coming here (USoA) is freeing yourself of those burdens (we got our own problems that you gotta deal with now).
I dont burden myself with that knowledge as I find it useless. If someone drags it here with them they need to understand its their baggage.
You get rid of the obnoxious 5%, but at what cost?

How much of your top 5% are you alienating and losing?

Is it worth it?

If so, I suspect all the companies would've already done it.
Yeah Ikea has cornered that low end market. There is a big market for that and lots that are happy to learn how to design. There is also a big market that is not willing. They want to tweak but need a lot of hand holding.

Thanks to Ikea there is not much point trying to compete in that space.

Mid range cabinetry still needs more customer support in the design time.

Also Ikea cabinet construction is not great. I'd recommend not using them in your house. Maybe in a cheap rental.
Sounds like they have used a normal (resistive) electric cooktop, not an induction cooktop, and are confounding the two.
Sounds nice, I'm all for more search engine competition even regardless of the revenue share model. I'm curious how exactly they pay creators though? If I had a super-popular blog that got millions of hits a month through search, does that mean they'll send me a check or something? Also, what about sites like YouTube that mainly host content created freely by others?
If you understand how technology and software companies work then you should realize that one engineer supports thousands if not tens of thousands of customers. They could easily trim their R&D and software team if needed while still keeping their services running. It doesn't require significant engineering effort to support the operation of the Uber app in serving rides.
Last year they went from a normal 4 year grant to an yearly grant of a fix dollar value in order to protect employees from a down turn. Now they ended up doing layoffs, tells you how big a BS this grant structure is.

Stripe, lyft and uber do the same. At Stripe( at least) VPs and up get the standard 4 year fixed number of stock grants which basically creates a class system.
Would you also be willing to get rid of the Memegen Police... err, Community Moderation Team?
> Thunderbird's privacy statement literally talks about collecting data on its users through telemetry.

According to the data privacy statement (DPS) it does more than that, refer to chapter "Set-Up and Configure Your Email": Thunderbird collects your email domain and other technical data to set-up and configure your email account. Other information, like your name, your email messages, and your account’s address book are stored locally on your computer and never sent to us.

"Thunderbird" means the email client, not the web service ("us"). The DPS cleanly separates between data stored locally on the client and data shared with the servers - the DPS addresses both scenarios and it explains which data is stored locally, so their interpretation is that GDPR covers data processed by the application which does not leave the client, too.

> If this application doesn't collect any such data for its author, then this point goes away

The Thunderbird DPS seems to think otherwise, as it describes the locally stored data even if it isn't submitted to the web service. Maybe the DPS doesn't intend to apply a legal interpretation to local data and mentions local data only for contrast to shared data, which the DPS definitely cares about? Hence my in-earlier-comment comment that this might be just ass-covering without legal weight.
When I grew up McDonald's was something for birthday parties or special occasions not really drive through, you went there with the goal to eat :)
Banks are a great option $1-10M+ revenue. PE works $10M+ revenue.

I'd target this Y Combinator for Mittelstands accelerator at the $0 to $1M stage for pre-Mittelstands.
By making every single brifter they release have a different hood. Look it up, there are like dozens they've made, the part numbers are dizzying. Compare this to older style road bikes before the brifter era, where the rubber hood was pretty much standardized across most bikes, and because of that to this day you can still buy new hoods for that older style of bike. But not mine made just a decade after that era, because mine is from the "new hood design every few years" era of forced obsolescence. It's a hood. How different does it even need to be year to year?
I don't care about HSTS for localhost
> ATGMs are single-shot and 50lbs. They're hard to carry around the battlefield, and the people carrying them aren't carrying much else.

This seems to ignore the infantry shield required for armour. Not to mention the logistical chain.

> Furthermore: Tanks provide 40+ shots upon their call, and tanks easily maneuver around the battlefield at 30mph or faster.

This seems to ignore the infantry shield required for armour. Not to mention the logistical chain.

> To carry similar firepower to a tank, you'll need 40 troops, each carrying a 50lb Javelin into the battlefield.

This seems to ignore the infantry shield required for armour. Not to mention the logistical chain.

> and troops don't have the luxury of sitting in a vehicle (troops carrying 50lb weapons move slower than the armored cars we call "tanks").

This seems to ignore the infantry shield required for armour.

> No one can deny the shear offensive prowess of the tank on the modern battlefield.

This seems to ignore all those denying the sheer offensive prowess of the tank in the modern world.

> The 120mm tank gun is the only weapon that can repeatedly blow up squads who are hiding inside of a house for example. (It'd be too expensive to use ATGMs vs a house, but its not that expensive to use tank HE-frag or APFSDS rounds).

This seems to ignore the existence of the recoilless rifle (and an uncountable number of mounted weapons).

Overall, I don't believe you have any first-hand insight or understanding of armour or combined arms operations.
I have been a part of something like 150 interview loops. In that time I think I've interviewed exactly 1 white woman. In her case, everyone but a single person was in favor of hiring, and that one holdout was adamantly opposed (and eventually won). The person against hiring never said "I hate her because she's a white woman" but instead had reasonable sounding issues.

Given that "white woman" is such a rare category to interview, and, I assume, Dalit is pretty rare as well, AND I don't even regularly interview with the same set of people - how could I possibly tell when another interviewer is motivated by prejudice? Unless the interviewer says they are motivated by prejudice I'm either going to have to give them the benefit of the doubt or make a heckuva leap to accuse them of something.
I’ve read many of these and generally agree with their sorting. However, this list feels too “modern” and applied pop-sci. I would recommend balancing it with way more older and not-immediately applicable books: Unamuno, Eco, Borges, Montaigne, Sartre, Nietzsche, Maimonides, Proust, … … If it’s been in print for more than 100 years at least see what it is about.
The police union in the USA is arguably a big part of the problem though.
One word: outrageous!
So you'd turn it into IBM?
As an anecdote, we introduced a policy in the office that political and religious discussions should not take place in the office.

Three people out of 50 quit. They were absolutely the most toxic and unproductive people in the office and nearly everyone was happy to see them leave.

There is a high correlation between unproductive employees and activist employees.

A company is like a sports team that is working together towards a singular goal. It is not a family. It is not a microcosm of the world nor the community.
They might be 80% efficient, but I think around 40% of California electricity comes from natural gas. It’s kind of silly to convert from gas to electricity to heat in terms of efficiency.
Ask HN: Great examples of site/app engagement for better discussion?
Ask HN: what are great examples of engagement metrics / fitness functions on a site/app which encourage a better quality community/content?

The common narrative is that sites like Facebook and Twitter aim for engagement metrics which generate outrage. Instagram seems to generate overly cosmetic / vapid content. Stack Overflow and Quora encourage rule following and voluntary knowledge exchange.

Reddit/Imgur generally encourage karma farming, but have lots of diverse incentives within communities.

I’m experimenting with a set of incentives for a site which can pay (in either points or perhaps crypto tokens) for quality questions and answers, but punish for low effort, low quality, spammy content. I’m also considering invite-based reputation sharing (like Russian hacking/malware/carder forums which require a vouch by a reputable member before a new member can join, thus tying the reputation of the voucher to the vouched).

I’m also considering being able to revoke or suspend reputation / payouts and making it contagious to the user’s closest members.

Are there any examples of community incentives which have encouraged an abnormally strong community that didn’t pre-exist?
What you're saying we've 'solved' safety? What does this even mean? Scale changes things. What works for 10 people doesn't work for 1000, 10,000, 100,000. Also - You're saying there's nothing new to learn? Also, how to achieve safe and peaceful communities seems like a huge mystery. I'm bewildered by your comment but look forward to being educated.
yep, that’s why we should ban political agenda at work

why talk shit about politics when we can spend time together making money!

we already contribute a significant portion of our income to taxes

maybe we should have political debates with the very people we sponsor and not our coworkers?
> Whereas with gas, you can just eye the flames and know what you're dealing with without resorting to the knob settings, regardless of which stove you're using.

Not the case. Our son cooks on some cheap-ass gas stove with burners about 2-3" in diameter. I cook on a Viking. There's nothing about the flames on either stove that will give you any idea how many BTU's are reaching the food. You have to learn to correlate the flame appearance with cooking results. First efforts will likely burn on the Viking and slow-cook on the el cheapo.

As noted by another comment, it really does sound as if you have not used an induction stove. And in particular, that you have not seen the latest "innovation" of surrounding the heating elements with variable brightness/size blue LEDs to simulate the flame effect.
whats TFA? edit --> ... thank you all for the info ... i guess i learned today?
I understand people here debating veggies and fruits or meat. But Christmas trees? How often does one buy one? Once a year? Might have been a fluke? Or do you have a compelling reason to relate this to Brexit?
You've captured all the economic incentive of the portfolio companies, but what of the investor?

The presence of "underutilized potential" doesn't mean that there's a triage opportunity. Free cash flow (and liquidity thereof) still needs to pencil out.
If exits are mostly a no-go into perpetuity, then the only way to realize actual cash-on-cash returns (e.g. for a net present value calculation) is ultimately dividends -- that, or creating a marketplace for private stock transactions in such companies.
Working in the industry I can assure you it's not. There is a huge market segment that will not use the existing tools and solutions as the learning curve is more than they want to put in.

These people will always use a kitchen designer and often get bespoke cabinets. The cost of doing business that way is orders of magnitude higher than IKEA or Home Depot. Those offerings also suffer from very low product quality.
Yeah, it seemed to glitch out temporarily... maybe too much traffic already?
My Alma Mater is "kind of a big deal" in the Mining, Petroleum and Geophysics professions - The Colorado School of Mines.

They have a whole program that'd been ongoing for decades now dedicated to the exploration and Mining of space for minerals, etc.

https://space.mines.edu/
If that is what the subject of the talk was then I completely agree it would have been appropriate and rescind whatever negative thought I expressed in the parent. (And by "that" I mean "A practical guide to detecting caste-based prejudice and what to do about it.")
Seeing this I initially let out a laugh until I scrolled down and saw that they trained this using /pol/. Even as cynical as I am I don't think the world deserves a infinite racism machine.

Why not train it using a more whimsical (although still offensive) board? You could probably automate all videogame discussion forevermore using /v/.
It’s not exactly their fault for noticing a valuable problem and solving it though. Google is the reason the incentive exists in the first place, no?
The only way I can openly talk about a service's performance is by doing it illegally and you don't find that weird?
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The profit share section (https://yep.com/profit-share) doesn't have any details as to how it works, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Ah, I missed the "read full article" button and thought the first couple paragraphs was the entire thing. (It seems like they could have included that detail in the intro.)
Non-induction electric has the huge huge advantage of being user serviceable but is absolutely garbage to cook with. The coils heat non-uniformly and pans aren’t perfectly flat and so make uneven contact with them.

Now there are “radiant” cooktops but for some dumb reason they encase them in glass which I’m sure is for safety or efficiency but also makes them annoying because, again, pan aren’t flat. We are perfectly capable of making literally a gas stove but with electric coils just like ovens but we don’t. It would solve basically every issue with them except the speed to adjust temperature but I could live with that.
I believe you and everyone else here saying that they don't/can't discriminate based on caste, but the fact is that due to how social structures are set up it is very likely that close to 100% of Indians you have ever interacted with at your work are, in fact, from a higher caste. There is still a lot of bias especially concerning upward mobility, and so these are still pressing issues to address.
The question is what are the merit only tests, and how do you have a transparent and merit based promotion path? Honestly if you have the solution for that you don't need to be CEO for a day, start a consultant shop teaching your methods and I'm sure plenty of places will bite.
I didn't mean to say that this was Basecamp's intent, merely that it is the inevitable result.

The luxury of ignoring politics is usually reserved for those who are not threatened by the dominant politics. And that luxury is one that most people in tech management have, so it can produce unintentional harm.
My idea here is to get more founders from zero to Mittelstand faster.

From there, they will have many exit options, including corporates, PE, and even IPO.

I don't believe there's anything in the Mittelstand definition that prohibits exits.
Not when the UI includes (or does not include) a view of the heat source.
so let's ban porn, violent video games and heavy metal while we're at it. think of the children all the way
But it doesn't link to the HN discussion, which is what dang, HN's moderator, is helpfully doing.
Brahmins will tell you a talk about caste discrimination is anti-hindu.
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I think you are doing some important work. I'm pretty sure that there's a need for your services. It's just hard to keep it going with all the economic turbulence we've had these past years.

I would hope that at the very least the job board continues. It would be a big loss to have it all disappear. I wish you all the best!
Hey Denny! Thanks, I'll check them out!
I’d go a step further and fire anyone that was closely associated with the slack channels, e-mail groups, etc. Give them very generous severance and be kind, but simply recognize they aren’t compatible with the majority of employees and need to be isolated before they can do more damage.
To me, the purpose of employment is to earn money. It's not to promote my political agenda or make the world a better place. I can do that on my own time. I support DEI efforts to the extent that they will increase my company's stock price and therefore my compensation.
This is an interesting point. Perhaps chains give a sense of cultural cohesion across the many states, in a geography that encourages a vision of a culture that spans the states.

In Europe, are there chains that project a sense of cultural cohesion across the nations?
If you don’t know what caste is you are under no obligation to take part in a discussion about it. You can just sit it out.
Both were over 300 people.

Perhaps an alternative idea can be considered: this ontology people have latched onto isn’t accurate and there can be people who don’t know the above answer because indeed they aren’t exposed to a whole lot of social issue talks at work.