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> Really glad we regulated earlier IPOs out of existence so mom and pop traders can only invest in "safe" companies after 99% of the upside is gone.
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Can you explain how we regulated IPO's out of existence?
It is never too late. Tomorrow could be the day you turn your life around. Small daily steps.

Good luck.
The idea that this is normalized as the way a bank behaves is profoundly scary.
I'm very excited about Shuttle, I've been watching it for a while and it looks fantastic. The only thing I'm looking for is support for GCP, but I don't see that happening until Google makes official Rust client packages.
There's a quite accessible IAS presentation[1] from another Google researcher on Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models which gives some likely related background on having language models solve this type of math problem, including the "chain of thought" technique mentioned here.

I found it pretty interesting and as something of an ML skeptic was a bit surprised at the degree of coherence shown in "reasoning" examples similar to the ones in the linked article.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4Ku5L4BuMt
IIRC (from somewhere/when I don't recall) Wesley was Gene's ideal of what the perfect Federation citizen would be - the template for how humanity had evolved beyond basically everything that made for good drama. The end result came off as an insufferable know-it-all.

It's unfortunate that so much of the hatred for Wesley transferred to Wil Wheaton for so long. He's come out from under it since, but a lot of trekkies hated Wil just because of the role he played.
Have you tried Quarto? It should tick everything in your box (except MathML, but hey that might work too since Quarto is built on pandoc)
Set goals. Start with small ones. "Turning your life around" is a bold statement but not necessarily very actionable. Figure out exactly what it is that you want, make a list. Rank them in order of priority.

Breaking things down into smaller pieces may help you get where you want to go. Good luck.
> Yeah, S3 compliant buckets work, but that's the simplest example possible.

Agree; you can’t just say “give me a queue”. You need to tune in-flight messages, processing times, FIFO or not, dead letters — the list goes on. These details are not 1:1 for different clouds, and they can’t be ignored for anything beyond a PoC. If I need to mess with all that in Wing…I could just use the AWS SDK. I can also trust that the SDK has the complete, latest feature set.
> All norms on finite-dimensional vector spaces are equivalent

How are you going to tell me that an L1 norm is equivalent to an L2 norm, for example?
It's not even close to net positive. It's more energy out than the lasers put in. But the lasers take in WAAAAY more than they put in.
It’s less that (IMO) - cottages and roads are usually not as dense on steep hillsides and the like, though of course they can’t be ignored entirely. The pipes involved are usually not the big issue, and the pumping ops are usually not the big issue either.

The business model for pumped hydro requires relatively low cost to be economic and if it requires building a giant concrete water retention systems on top of large flat topped hills/mesas, near large drops in elevation, with water retention at the bottom of the large drop that is also really really expensive to build and requires specific geology to be economic.

And if something gets messed up, it’s a huge liability [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Powe...], as it can cause very damaging flooding and be expensive to repair/replace.

Worth doing when there is cheap power that can be stored and sold at higher rates later, but construction costs are really a huge part of it.
Maybe his wife doesn't need Uber and it's not a big deal. I haven't used Uber since 2018
It also breaks on desktop (Firefox) when zooming into the website, despite the "dithered to perfection at all sizes" claim.
> but evolution often can't make such fine distinctions, so our body triggers inflammatory responses even when it's counterproductive

This is just not accurate, and I'd love to see your source on even the first clause here. because evolution does, in fact, make fine distinctions all over the tree of life.
Stay tuned, according to the Bouffalo Lab BL808 SoC datasheet (page 90) series numbering system that the board is based on, they will probably have more RAM and ROM capacity in the later versions of the SoC:

https://github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs/blob/main/BL808_DS/en...
But is there a j-like written in a lisp? I once made a mini-implementation that translated to numpy, but that's cheating.
If you are in/around Munich let’s have a beer/coffee. Xmas time was often very uncomfortable for me trying sort my life out. My email is in my profile.
Is there a way to see shadowbanned posts? I have "showdead" turned on, I see Evon Latrail's posts every day. Is "shadowban" something different than what happened to Evon?
You may not want their speech (HN management does not either) but that doesn't make shadowbans good for discourse. It's good to limit speech you do not want sure. But not good for getting alternative views on things.
I think it's a good place for AI battle
I assume this is partly why it used to be that new movies went to rental first for a couple months before public sale. Because they’d charge the rental places a much higher cost per unit and they couldn’t just get them from the store.
Little Screens and Productivity
It is very 2022 that they want to cover the outside of a rotating structure with PVs to capture energy instead of building a complex system of concentrators and mirrors like the old O'Neill colonies.

It is a currently a design requirement for deep space colonies that there is about six feet of rock worth of shielding. It's not such a happy story because there is a tradeoff between the shield stopping some radiation but also producing more radiation when very high energy particles make showers. You can't make a low radiation environment by having 20 feet of shielding, somewhere around 6 feet is optimal.

You don't have to spin the radiation shield, however. If you had a good enough bearing you could even have a non-rotating shell that holds the "weight" of a rotating structure. It is a bit fantastic, but if you could build a magnetic bearing that can handle an 8 km/sec velocity difference, you don't need ultra-strong materials to build a "small ringworld" which is about as large in radius as the Earth. Like the Ringworld you could build walls high enough to hold in air and you could land on it the same way you land on the Earth, but it's hard to believe you could have a lot of relief. Even hills a few hundred feet high look difficult, you are not going to have mountains a mile high.
Well, I say good for Google! I recently, after years of being a paid ProtonMail customer, cancelled, and settled for Apple Mail with a custom domain. Apple specifically does not encrypt email, but with their new Advanced Data Protection, which I use (I have also been using Lockdown Mode for a few months), I decided that while no large corporation is truly trustworthy, we all need to make a decision of what our personal requirements are, and Apple was “good enough.”

What I like about Google’s announcement is that even though this is only enabled now for Workspaces, if Google opens this to all GMail users then a large percentage of e-mail will be gmail to gmail encrypted.

This is what disappointed me about ProtonMail: they didn’t have a critical mass of users. I only had one other non-work friend who used ProtonMail.
This is an insult to Steve Jobs.
By taxis that got deprecated by Uber because taxi costs more, and you are not certain which price will it be in the end, and for convenience. Now if you want to get a car to get you somewhere you have to get an Uber; otherwise you will be waiting for quite a while. It is not a reality I like, but it is a reality in some countries.
It is a surveillance device so you are right to be "overprotective". People who own and use devices with cameras pointed at them all day seem to not realize.
First suggestion, get into therapy. If that does not work or cannot be afforded, or will take too long, go somewhere else for a while. Anywhere else. Doesn't have to be the US. Doesn't have to be your dream job. Every important breakthrough I made in my life was precipitated by changing my environment, at least temporarily.
> What proportion of shadow banned accounts continue to do this on any given day though?

There's an example linked in the post where someone continued posting on Reddit for years before they noticed. It's also quite common for subreddit shadowbans to go unnoticed. And most people never notice the shadow removal of individual comments.

> people go through shitty periods in life and there should be systems to account for that.

I completely agree. Undisclosed moderation short circuits any ability to forgive. The sanctioned user will never know to appeal. Hiding the punishment is like taking away the judiciary or removing habeas corpus. There is no trial, it's straight to jail and you aren't even told.
Brave browser on linux desktop - looks great. Three cheers for Atkinson Dithering :-)

edit oops, spoke too soon. Yes, zooming on that page breaks here, too.
> I know the evidence does not totally support epigenetic transmission, but it is pointing towards that conclusion.

The point of the article is the opposite: that the evidence is pointing away from epigenetic transmission. Acknowledging that we can’t yet rule out epigenetic transmission doesn’t undermine the point that the existing evidence is pointing away from it.
I suspect that when it becomes a business we might not know about it for a while. Why show your cards if you don’t have to? Their medical research alone seems very promising. Obviously OpenAI has been doing incredible things, but I suspect DeepMind is doing really cool stuff in the background too.
> I'm not sure at which point you earn a shadowban for self-promotion, but I have to wonder if it's worth the risk.

is simply submitting your own company blogposts a basis for shadowbanning?

i understand if the titles are overly promotional but i dont think submitting your own content is - if it is of interest to the community
I took it as a jab at modern Britain having a lot more people (% of population) who’s ancestors didn’t preserve much history, which implies a risk of the same pattern occurring.
You can meet someone in your 40s. You might meet someone who already has kids and honestly, if you want kids in your life then much past 40 that’s probably the best way!

I cannot advise you on getting to the US, but it’s never too late to restart things in general. 40s is mid career, and the best of your life can still be ahead of you. I’m the same age, I’m still making plans to build and grow.

I’d advise some sort of educational refresher, see if there’s a qualification you can do that builds on (or converts) what you already have. If you want to be in tech then various places used to offer one-year conversion masters in software for existing grads. Another option might be to do a teaching qualification if that appeals.

The important thing is to make a start!

(And also I would seek some counselling for that suicidal ideation, it’s important to talk through this stuff with someone)
I agree with what other posters say. The big thing is learning to forgive yourself and taking active steps every day in healthy habits.

That, and a session with MDMA will work wonders
This is above HN's paygrade.

International Suicide Crisis Hotline directory:

https://findahelpline.com/i/iasp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

If you are posting this kind of message on HN then you're at a point that you can call for a 1-1 chat. There are people who can listen. Don't rely on social media to do this.
Those people are going to have to work a lot of overtime I guess? We'll see :)
Recommendation using embeddings and nearest neighbor search
Is there any mid-sized/popular open source apps written in Modula-2 (obviously, excluding the compiler itself)?
I was expecting someone to have mentioned Descript's Sound Studio audio enhancement filter.
What about the non-determinism, lack of sand-boxing and Turing-completeness of a real programming language?
I managed to get into professional software development in my early thirties. My college track was for that, but took a severe detour after graduation. For me, a programming bootcamp helped me turn things around and get me my first job as a professional developer, though the ecosystem is a lot different now and I'm not sure how good even the best is. Highly recommend doing a lot of research before plonking down a chunk of change.

I also had my first kid at 39. It's hard, but management. A kid in your forties isn't unheard of at all, and you can absolutely meet a wonderful woman at any point in your life.

Strong agree on seeking therapy. You have a lot of options, but getting your head and heart in a good place will make the path a whole lot more evident and smooth.
IIRC, part of the problem is X11 forwarding works best when the software is using raw X primitives (someone can correct my terminology if I'm wrong) because then X11 can just send draw commands. Both GTK and Qt don't use the X11 primitives so instead the server has to send entire pixel buffers, which is naturally a lot slower.
Rust does not have a formally verified compiler - while C does.
So if you want mathematically proven correct code, use C.
Running Linux on a hard disk drive (2013)
https://www.cracked.com/article_19655_5-famous-late-bloomers...
> #2 - I once spent 18 months convincing my teammates to move our hottest data set from DynamoDB to RAM. Next time, I won't bother.

Yeah, don't bother. People don't want simplicity. The majority of our tribe are masochists haha

> #3 - Heh. The "N+1" architecture. However many layers your architectural design methodology has, ours has one more. (h/t Spinal Tap).

Exactly

> Is that Twitter you? Good stuff. Like the unique URL for posting CSVs.

Oh no I'm not Gary, sorry =)
People use the same acronyms in different fields to mean different things, so it's definitely a good idea to double-check that is in the right domain.

"Impact" may have made it look like it's talking about an injury, but actually those acronyms you found are about prioritizing tasks in product development.
It's as if nobody's learned anything from the 'self-driving car' boondoggle of the last 20 years or so.

Any problem can seem easy when you don't know the things you don't know.
No, it's not. If you get to arbitrarily define at what point you count "energy in" (as the NIF people are), you could also define a clever spot for MCF to be net positive.
We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree
All it means is that people with unpopular views are punished without being told. That is neither good for them nor good for the community.
> So voice chat must now be turned off by default for all children across America? Should everyone playing a game be required to upload ID? And what is the gate between on and off by default? A single button press?

When you go to the shop to buy alcohol you need to show an id. So, adults are free to buy alcohol but not children. Why is this any different?

I understand that the problem comes from the amount of chat abuse in on-line communities. It not just swearing but the constant harrasement as soon as someone is losing a match, or even if they are winning.

I understand your concerns, but ignoring the chat problem paints a partial picture of the situation.
In a sense, I agree with you. But in another sense, I think it’s important to remember that copyright is a restriction on people’s behavior that does not naturally exist, but has been created by law.

It’s easier to see the moral case for this if we think about cases other than the simple “pirating” of a show. For example, preservation. Doctor Who is a popular show that predates the practice of saving the original tapes. There are several episodes that have been lost forever because the BBC did not routinely record (or did routinely record over) their own broadcasts. Many other episodes were thought to be lost, but thanks to enterprising individuals who made unauthorized copies, have since been preserved. Is the world worse off or better off with those people?

Or take Star Wars. George Lucas famously hated that anyone could prefer the pre‐Special Editions of the original trilogy, and only grudgingly allowed it to be released once afterward, in a highly compressed anamorphic format on one set of DVDs. No other version has been released since. People who like the original special effects, dialogue, and editing have since done 4k scans of original theater prints from the 70s and 80s. People don’t deserve to be able to watch copies of those—legally speaking, the copyright holder Lucas (and now Disney) is the arbiter of that. But would a world without the option be better than our world today?

And remember, laws are capricious. The movie industry was terrified of home video. They thought it would materially damage them by removing the desire to watch movies in theater, where they made their money. (Remember MPAA president Jack Valenti testifying before Congress? “I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”) The VCR came within one vote of being outlawed as a piracy tool by the Supreme Court. A 5–4 decision. Because it survived, though, the people received a huge benefit from the new capabilities (like time shifting and media shifting) provided by this technology. And the movie industry benefited too, earning billions of dollars by embracing this new market… after they had tried to murder it in its crib.

How would today’s world look if one justice had voted the other way?
For about the last 7 years, I have felt like having a single word - "lie" - cover such a wide range of deceptions has been weaponized to push back on peoples' innate (and accurate) sense that some lies are much worse than others.

The "politicians lie" truism is meant to apply to campaign promises that candidates make knowing that they can't or won't even try to accomplish them. This manufacture of wholesale fictions by con artists and wanna be dictators is not the same thing, and is not actually at all common among politicians in the US historically or currently.

Claims that these people are not so bad because they are just like any other politician are inaccurate and toxic. They are critical to the con succeeding.
You ask the users for their date of birth on signup, don't tell them that it will be used for age-gating features (to avoid incentivizing lying), and don't allow the date to be changed without some kind of age verification.

Or you use the social graph to infer age: somebody who mainly plays with 10 year olds is probably also about 10. If they claim to be 20, require an id anyway.

Non-gaming companies deal with this all the time. It's annoying, but shouldn't require blazing any new trails.
Unfortunately, my dopamine seeking monkey brain would just open another browser and successfully procrastinate if the only thing stopping me were a chrome extension. That's why I use selfcontrol: https://selfcontrolapp.com/
Note than having a wife brings a different set of pros and cons, the same thing for kids. Despite we think this is the next natural step, the evidence/failure-rate show this in not for everybody.
I'd rather go to 5 web sites and download PDFs than open 5 envelopes, throw them away, and sort out different paper documents into different binders or folders: nobody is paying me for the wasted time of my life to do that either :)

How do you organise your paper documents?
Saliva has some antisceptic properties and promotes clotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_licking
The actual paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136970212...
With all those rules around regulation and GDPR that hardly anyone actually benefits, why aren't there rules that prevent banning users from platforms without a good excuse?
As I understand, this is the promise of Oxide Computer company. While they're not making their own SoCs, they are attempting to design the hardware and software together. Co-founder Bryan Cantrill has gone on rants about the number of extra layers of computers in your servers.
Addendum: write a useful exception message for future travelers that might need to review that stack.

What was null? Why might it be null? Mis-configuration? Missing configuration? Can't load some data or connect to some system? Which setting should be verified? Give simple hints on what might have gone wrong to help future you.
Give skydiving a try.

Move somewhere sunny for an AFF course, get your A license and start jumping with other people.

From your post you don't seem to have any physical disability that would prevent practicing the sport, and 43yo is by no means too old. I've met USPA instructor examiners (ie very experienced folks) that started their skydiving careers around that age.

From there you will figure out what to do next with an entirely different mindset.
Firefox: breaks on zooming to certain levels (stabilises at certain thresholds).

Chrome: zooming in/out even a little bit breaks every image.

Good concept, but unusable for web dev.
Fix your mindset first. "I know the best of my life is behind me." If you think like this then certainly it will become true.
I forgot I posted this comment so just seeing this but as an upper middle class lefty tech worker I'll offer an answer.

I think your question is a bit too focused on the individual and not the system. I think it's actually difficult for founders to share the upside "equitably", whatever that means. Like, are there any examples of it actually happening? I suspect that the acquiring company frequently dictates terms that won't allow you to make every employee a millionaire because then what incentive do they have to work anymore. I think once you get to the multi billion dollar level of wealth it's difficult to get objective advice - many of the people surrounding you are just trying to please you to continue getting their slice of the vast wealth that you control. So just as a human it's hard to navigate that I think (this is me being sympathetic to billionaires, which I'm generally not).

The much easier answer to me is just much higher taxes on wealth. Capitalism is not a system built to share resources equitably, but inequality can be tamed through taxes. If you as a founder see most of the upside, fine, but a lot of it will get redistributed to society through taxes, and theoretically your workers benefit from that. It also means it's not up to the whims of the individual people or companies involved in something like an acquisition to try to make it equitable.

(another way inequality in capitalism can be tamed is through unions, but I don't know if there are any examples of unions being involved in something like an acquisition or IPO in tech)
You say you have no current skills related to your education or previous employment, but in today's world updating your skills isn't all that hard if you want to - there are so many resources online. Wife, kids, house and meaningful work all are things you can still achieve in your forties and even beyond. It's not too late! You seem to be suffering from what the Germans call Torschlusspanik and maybe more. Get your mental health in order and the rest will follow I would think.
It's the "not a tech company that markets itself as a tech company". Think WeWork, half of your direct to consumer companies, Uber (though that is debatable) and apparently whatever this company is.

I honestly can't decide if this is savvy or stupid. Basically the CEO's know that tech companies get outrageous valuations so even if they are say a commercial landlord (WeWork) or a oat milk manufacturer, they will bring in a tech department, build an app and a shiny website, start an engineering blog, and then probably work on some pointless but tangentially related project which most likely uses AI, Blockchain or some other hype tech.