skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice doesn't have to be between raising and not raising. Seed rounds in particular are flexible, so you can optimize between raising at $Xm and Y% dilution. For example I raised seed money in early 2021 at $25m, but the highest valuation offered was around $32m. Why not just take the bigger number? Mainly because they wanted more of the company, but the higher valuation also comes with risk, and it wasn't worth a few extra bucks that I didn't need. I was happy with that decision a few months ago when the market was still at peak frothiness, and I'm doubly happy with it now.

> I'm not sure in what universe an unfavorable round is worse than insolvency.

An early-stage company already raising a down round and pressing on can very easily have a worse outcome than one that admits defeat and folds. You're just getting started, have years of hard work ahead, and things are already off the rails. The odds of success, low to begin with, have dropped precipitously. The business and the team are both on fire (existing equity grants blown up, employees ready to leave, lots of damage control needed). It's rough, and walking away is a legitimate alternative to buckling down for 5-10 years trying to save things.
Dating market needs arbitrage, news at 11.
Technical Writing is very different than other forms of writing.

Journalism is 'real world research' - the end result is some writing.

Technical Writing is usually mostly just the end result part.

Journalists 'research', technical writers 'form the right phrases'.

It definitely helps to have domain knowledge but you don't need a degree in anything.

Someone to write comprehensive docs - that's another story. You almost want an Engineer who is a 'good explainer', and then finished off by the technical writer who can clean it all up and help edit.
This was the core motivation behind why I started https://www.discoverdev.io/

Ran this for about 4 years before I called it a day earlier this year. Got busy with graduation and job searching! I do plan to start it again after I find a job and settle down :)
I don't have formal education in economics/finance; it took me a while to understand their language. Here's an attempt to explain it.

Assets in this context means loan contracts between Celsius and its borrowers.

When a finance company GLC (Great Lending Company) makes a loan of $100K to a borrower Joe it deposits $100K in Joe's account in exchange for Joe signing a contract (lets call it LC) that stipulates interest rate, repayment terms etc., On GLC's book the deposit of $100K becomes its liability and LC becomes asset.

Now, GLC could also offer deposit services with attractive interest rates. The deposits needn't (and often do not) equal loans made. If inflows into GLC's reserves match outflows it typically works OK. In an economic up-cycle (low interest rate, positive consumer sentiment etc.,) everyone is happy. But when those assumptions change (usually high interest rate) some of GLC's borrower's begin to default. And it take just a fraction of borrowers to default for GLC to become insolvent. At the first sign of trouble GLC's depositors take their money out, popularly called a bank run. It thus depletes GLC's reserves making them take measures such as pausing withdrawals.

At this point GLC has 3 options.

1. Borrow; they could use their assets (i.e., LCs) as collateral.
2. Sell their assets at a discount.
3. Go bust.

As you can guess #1 and #2 are short term measures to tide over short-term down-cycle. But the current macro situation is in no way short-term. High interest rates are going to be here for a long time. If anything fed is pondering to raise interest rates as high and 5%. So for GLC #3 is the only option.

This is where companies like Goldman come in. In a bankruptcy firesale they scoop up GLC's assets at steep discount. GLC could have assets worth $10B (i.e., it has made loan contracts worth $10B). A big chunk of those loans could be bad. But even if say 70% of them are bad Goldman could make a hefty profit of $1B by buying $3B of assets by paying $2B. The risk is at this point no one knows what those loan contracts are really worth. It takes quite a bit of time and effort to untangle these loan contracts that were made during boom time. GLC won't have neither of those resources in times of distress. So GLC and Goldman make rough calculations and agree on $2B price. It may turn out to be worth 0 (highly unlikely) or $5B or somewhere between. But either way it's highly likely that Goldman stands to make good profit out of this firesale. Because they have a robust balance sheet and resources they could wait out for years to recover from borrowers.
This is garbage appeal to ignorance designed to make people embarrassed to hold an opposite view. I learned nothing from your comment and was simply told to ignore expert opinion. It’s not fostering discussion and it’s strawmanning those you disagree with.
So, I should be forced to give blood if someone’s life is at risk and they need my blood (or, kidney)? There is a 3rd party to consider here and they are already living and breathing. So, blood or organ donations should be made mandatory.
And if the argument is that the woman is responsible for getting pregnant then apply the above logic to a person you accidentally injured in a car accident. Now, anyone who causes a car accident should be forced to give blood (or any other part of their body) to ensure the victim is saved.
I never said to wait and see about anything. I am saying to do something about this step that is actually happening. Not about some hypothetical step that may or may not happen in the future.

As for being hysterical, it's never ok. It accomplishes nothing. Goalposts stable enough, for you?
It’s not impossible to happen that fast. A SAFE takes almost no lawyer time to prepare, and sometimes investors think there’s good reason to move that fast. But the fact that it does happen sometimes doesn’t mean that’s “normal” in any way. Even great people with really solid ideas usually take weeks to really put together and close a deal like that.
> People really overestimate the appeal of their countries as an immigrant destination. The luster is fading pretty quickly [...]

I dunno, some of the US immigration priority dates are still last century (F3 from Mexico, 15SEP97), so demand still seems pretty high. (I also think our system is pretty rediculous, making some people wait for 25 years)
Merriam-Webster agrees that these are the places to hyphenate the word typography:

ty· pog· ra· phy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typography
>Just make a log() function that takes a target (file, socket, etc

You'd need to find or store the socket everywhere where the function is used, which is cumbersome and leaks implementation detail in every client. A class allows to store this dependency (socket) internally. Another approach would be to create a lambda which stores the socket as a captured variable.
My bank repeats in every message that they will never send me a URL in an email. It's taken a bit but they have conditioned me to be suspicious.

Similarly, when I get a call I now ask them how I can call back. I don't think this is outlandish if companies are consistent with this.
3 phase gets you 108v on each hot leg. Many items will specify 110v/120v . 108v is close enough
Just so we're clear -- your evidence for lab leak is based on the way samples were handled after the last big zoonotic pandemic in China.
Where can you speculate on it?
There is also an english saying about rats on a sinking ship.
yayy..... i live in kashmir which is probably the second biggest saffron producer behind spain i think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6GWpRLJWo

this week/month is a real good time to visit our homeland....
With funds and labor you still cannot reasonably grow food in a desert. Fertile land and compatible climate are actually the limiting factors - I think.
"using a development environment based on Microsoft Windows 98."

The spacecraft never ran Windows 98 - NASA engineers are not stupid. Instead, it runs a RTOS on a rad-hardened version of the G3 (750) PowerPC that was used in the original iMac.

PPC support for Windows 98 never existed, though there were Windows NT versions, but Microsoft stopped supporting the PPC platform with the 604.
Factually wrong:

"Of the 22 states with abortion bans that will instantly take effect if the landmark Supreme Court ruling is overturned, 10 have passed laws that make no exceptions for rape or incest: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas."

https://news.yahoo.com/some-republican-states-set-to-ban-abo...

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Nazi is a loaded term for sure but I don't know what else to call it.

Not all Republicans have this behavior and or hold these policy aims. But a shocking amount of people do.

Many hold up the ideals of fascism.

And they use actual Nazi tactics.

banning books. passing laws that actively discriminate. using hate & violent propaganda/speech for political ends.

scariest: dehumanizing minority groups which enables their supporters to commit 'righteous violence.'

e.g. labeling queer people 'groomers' (or sadly ironically anyone who stands up against the state banning books).

using government law enforcement to the above ends. see recent police escorting proud boys into a library to yell at and intimidate a bunch of kids who were with their parents, only because a drag queen was reading to them. Talk about leaving parenting up to the parents.

Or filling up a van with a not so well organized militia to storm pride in tactical gear.

How about running black teachers out of town because of nonexistent CRT nonsense. Then following her to her next job which had nothing to do with diversity & inclusion, which is how evil for some reason.

and the biggest of them all:

attacking Democracy and the foundations of this country. Attempting to overturn a free and fair election. Attacking the seat of power in an attempt to prevent the peaceful handover of Government.
ETIAS has been on the horizon for quite some time.

This is likely only for reciprocity with ESTA.
I mean, Apple is investing hundreds of billions in China where they literally have ethnic cleansing going on....

They can't exactly be one to take principled stances can they...
> Getting rid of roe v wade kicks the issues to legislatures.

The problem with this sentiment is that the issue was kicked to the legislatures decades ago. Congress has had decades to take care of this, and they haven't. So now all of the sudden it's a whole "but the Supreme Court overstepped". Well yea, because Congress refused and still refuses to do their damn job. It's easy: pass a law that gives people their appropriate rights and move on.
Ah yes, reviews written by the eminently qualified "Not my name" spelled backwards and a data analyst for a bank... I'll pass.
> quashing this virus for good.

This is impossible. You'd kill the host together with the virus.
I disagree with what you say. But am commenting on the 'economic ties' of diplomacy theory.

Seems pretty debunked given the last decade of geopolitical changes and current war.
It went from 4.65 to 9.04. Then later it jumped from 9.38 to 15.05.

Then 16.02,16.03,16.04 , 17.00, 17.01, 18.00

These jumps don't correlate with major changes and major versions
SMS verification services from first-world countries cost a couple dollars at most
You actually believe that the right lies, but the left generally acts in good faith? That's...cute. Your lifetime must not be very long. Both parties are full of dishonest slimeballs. If you only see one side of it, you are being tricked
I have an ET-3400 on the shelf behind me! I was just playing with it the other day.
After watching Jason Turner's CppCon talk on writing an i386 to 6502 assembly translator [1][2], I started working on a fork that would target the 6800. I only got about 3 instructions working, but that's really all you need for some really simple test code with optimization turned to the max. It also turns out that someone wrote a fantastic emulator specifically for the ET-3400 trainer [3], and I managed to get my application running on it!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
[2] https://github.com/lefticus/6502-cpp
[3] https://github.com/CalPlug/Heathkit_ET-3400

There is something special to me about the idea of writing modern C++, and compiling it for such early microprocessors. The 512 bytes of RAM is a pretty big limitation though. I wanted to try and emulate an EEPROM using an Arduino or FPGA, but got stalled out on the project. From time to time I like to browse through the LLVM backend documentation, but I can't seem to commit to trying to build a backend.
I agree with the (cynical) view of founders, VCs, and equity. Founders who sell their business to VCs get what they deserve (an education.)

Your digression into the link between stimulus cash, baby formula, and inflation seems somewhat less accurate.

Firstly, baby formula (and wheat) are not luxuries. The amount of formula you need is 100% based on your baby, which neither knows no cares how much cash you have. My guess is its the first thing a mother buys, not the last. So excess cash, or lack thereof, has no impact on demand.

If demand is stable, that means inflation is caused by constrained supply. Which is exactly what has happened year - close a factory producing significant % of supply, and supply drops.

The same with wheat. No one is buying extra bread with their extra bread. But global wheat supply has been affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yes, extra cash can contribute to inflation, and no doubt that has had some effect, but between the war, and the pandemic the primary inflation seems to be caused by supply issues. And oil. The war drives up the oil price, and that knocks on to everything.
Every single pandemic before SC2 was of natural origin. You have to make a much more persuasive case than "people could die from a lab leak" to ban research that could plausibly reduce the death toll from the next pandemic.
Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
I wonder, does it help if the user understands which relationships are 1-to-N and which are N-to-N. In order to state commands fairly clearly, and respond to requests from the system for clarification and disambiguation. I would think that this kind of info (1-to-N, N-to-N) could be grokked in a straightforward way by a user with domain knowledge.
Another reason rodents are used as models in medical testing is that their genetic, biological and behavior characteristics closely resemble those of humans, and many symptoms of human conditions can be replicated in mice and rats. "Rats and mice are mammals that share many processes with humans"

https://www.livescience.com/32860-why-do-medical-researchers...
Been laid off a few times. Many people will disagree with this, citing necessary privacy, but if your goal is to avoid being "cruel," my advice is to let people keep their work files. Obviously with some restrictions... one programmer can't clone your entire repo, people can't take customer lists, etc. But work product that people produced, you should allow them to take it with them. Costs you nothing to copy some files.

My last firing was a blindside, got the cardboard box and security escort. What really bothered me, for a long time, was that all the programs, tools, reports, analytics, processes that I had built were all taken from me. Tons of complex SQL queries, all the code for all the programs and dashboards I created, many non-trivial Excel models, business simulations, all kinds of little experiments with different data tools, much more. The amount of time it would take to rebuild would have been enormous (years, easily), but of course I couldn't anyway without access to the data sources. Additionally, no examples to show or ability to build a portfolio for future interviews, etc. The company would have lost nothing by sending me a clone image of my PC's hard drive, which I requested multiple times.

Money is nice, sure, a little safety net, but the work itself is often irreplaceable.
"iTs nOt aT aLl oNeRoUs" said the DPO. lol, what a clown. So all these companies scrambling to hire lawyers to document every single aspect of the "legal basis" or whatever nonsense is in the language are just crazy in your books?

And that's just ONE sub clause of a hundred or so.

The overhead is both in the arbitrary nature of the requirements (Good Laws are objective, not subjective) and the sheer lack of consistency in the enforcement is ridiculous for any European business. Consider the adequacy clause that's taken decades to litigate and is still fucking criminal as of this writing.

Answer this simple question: "Can I, as a small business use AWS services that may or may not have a compute instance located in the EU?". You know pretty well what the answer is there, so, basically every small business in the EU is in violation right now. And it's bureaucratic assholery that keeps this deliberately inconsistent so they can choose to enforce it at any point of their choosing (read, a negative PR cycle) - Monarchy, inconsistency, arbitrary and ambiguous rulemaking that has tossed out the interests of businesses.

The vendetta against Google is well documented and it's insulting for you to even say otherwise. Look at the most recent example of the CNIL (Frances privacy enforcement body, a part of the executive) choosing arbitrary standards and refusing to even elaborate on concrete standards for recommended analytics solutions that businesses may use. They have gone full psycho with not even wanting to give Google the opportunity to come into compliance with standards that they choose not to reveal and instead openly ask industry to turn Google Analytics off. Its ridiculous and bad for their own economies.
> and turn it blue with all the love of diversity picked up in California.

No thanks. Stay in California, please.

I like Texas as it is. Texas will likely, eventually, end up passing some sort of abortion laws similar to what European nations have - no abortions after 12 weeks, abortions in case of incest / rape, etc.

Frankly, I'd prefer to see Congress get off their ass and do their job and work together on federal abortion laws, since that's... you know... their goddamn fucking job... to pass laws... but we all know it'll never happen because Nancy Pelosi can cry to her ultra-liberal base that, "We TRIED sooooo hard, but the mean ol' Republicans won't let us abort babies 7 seconds before they're born!" and Mitch McConnell can cry to his ultra-conservative base that, "We wanted to meet those baby killers halfway, but they want to abort babies when they're still 16-cell zygotes! Godless heathens!"

And then we end up right back to where we are now, with states deciding... all because we have Congressional leadership and members who are so cowardly they don't understand that their job isn't to get re-elected, it's to pass laws beneficial to the entire nation, with which, the entire nation can live.
So I guess it's true, the only real money is Murrcan money
Do you have a point, asshole? There's more in that comment above than the bait you took.
For 2.0 read 20
>deliberate and voluntary

You know people can be raped right?
Sure but I think the thrust of OP is correct.

single payer alone is close to 70% now.

medicare itself is very very popular in that age group.

People are easily scared and those that already have good care are afraid of losing it. Look at death panels.

but the general idea of healthcare as a fundamental right and a national system of health are very popular.
Is Loving based on the privacy clause like Roe, Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell? I don't think it is.
Earth.fm lets you listen to nature sounds from all over the world
Can't wait to spend my ad dollars on Parler! /ffs
From the NYT 2021 article (referenced in the blog):

According to the lawsuit, Ms. Martinez gave the co-founders the idea of organizing images on “boards,” a core feature of the site; created its call-to-action phrase, “Pin it”; and established its main categories including home décor, fashion and D.I.Y.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/pinterest-laws...
Histrionic clickbait title or snarky superficial rejoinder?

Histrionic clickbait title. System preferences in terms of words ww understand not Apple insider icons is only a win as far as I'm concerned. No sorting order for icons that I ever learned.

Switched also used by other vendors? Oh the horror.

Now if all the secret handshakes and impossible actions in Finder could be replaced by obvious and discoverable actions like Windows Explorer...
The loans that Celsius gave out to random people were over-collateralized with cryptocurrencies. I don't understand how they could have become insolvent from that. I guess they made bad investments with customer deposits or made uncollateralized loans to other parties.
Yes, but what I'm saying is that most of the people who switched to vaping would have given up smoking altogether if they couldn't vape.
I always read that but have never found a service like that, do you have a link?

A lot of services that I don't want then to have my PII are starting to ask for phone verification.
The mnemonic major system is a more approachable technique for number memorization (in english), learnable in several hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system
Yes, mod facts down, Redditors.
For those wondering what kind of manufacturing, article specifically points to GlobalFoundries Fab 7, GE jet engine 3d printing, Siltronic and UMC semi manufacturing, and REC solar panels. BioNTech wants to produce "several hundred million" vaccines with a staff size of 80. Paper bag makers, HP print heads, Hyundai electric cars.

As a Singaporean I had no idea all this was going on. pretty cool. as a more cynical news reader this article is so glowy to the point of propaganda.

I imagine very few people have a problem with employment in manufacturing dropping as a side effect of this. Keep right on.
They'll make money screwing their customers. That's what their name means as much as turning winners into superwinners.
I think this is a great way of framing it because it kills the root of the arguments pro-vaping people make all the time as an excuse for this behavior: that it is better than combustable tobacco.

They are advertising to consumers who do not smoke.
Ah, Whataboutism - the most Japanese fallacy.
Ideally:
-Sketching/CAD tools for geographic features (I can imagine a 2D view for more cartographic top view, but being able to translate elevations to a simple 3d view to allow reference for myself and other concept artists in the group to build off of), could also imagine a way to buy prints of their maps and gain revenue from that.

-Ability to populate city level information (where the nearest inns are, closest blacksmith, etc ) from database

-Definitely a light paid tier, cause my ideal consumer profile is DMs like my friends and I who may pay for D&D Beyond, but aren’t trying to add another subscription to the roster. Everyone has access to the tooling, but maybe the paid tier is for storage and online sharing?

-Ability to print to PDF or take the files into other formats

All I could think of at the moment
Where You Get Your Sense of Self-Worth
GREENVisualizing the Impact of Rising Sea Levels, by Country
A Plane of Monkeys, a Pandemic, and a Botched Deal (2022)
The conclusion to be drawn here is that naive pure-tech people are not well rounded enough to extract the maximum value from their creations for themselves.

In other words sole-founders have missing skills which are likely to be exploited by those who have those skills.

Perhaps this implies that a founding team with a mixed skill set (creation, sales, business) will likely have long-term better outcomes. Perhaps it implies that sole-founders would be well advised to pay for competent advisors in the areas they are weak.
Read the settlement and sources cited if you think the NyTimes rigorous reporting standards aren't up to par as an anonymous hacker news er who may or may not be telling the truth.