skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re correct that it’s important for Americans not to project their sensibilities onto others. But it’s also important for cosmopolitan urban Americans not to project their sensibilities onto other Americans. A significant chunk of America is populated by the immigrant groups that developed the region in the first place.

For the record, I'm not a cosmopolitan urban American. I'm in a deep red state in flyover country. My ancestors (and my wife's) were the first settlers here. I'm proud of my ancestry, and I feel a deep connection with that past. I know exactly what it's like to be living in a place that your ancestors settled and to feel like it's changing.

However, I also take great issue with the Republican rhetoric surrounding immigration. I'm not talking about stereotyped rhetoric imagined in the left-wing media, I'm talking about conversations I regularly have over dinner or around the water cooler. I'm talking about growing up under the impression that Hispanic people were either lazy or drug dealers and that if we let too many of them in they'd ruin the country for "real" Americans.

I'm opposed to American nationalism because when I finally had the chance to interact with large numbers of immigrants, they not only didn't match the stereotypes, they were exactly the opposite in every way. I'm opposed to American nationalism because my ancestors left their homes and moved out West looking to get away from prejudice and hate—because they built a new world out here in collaboration with a lot of people who were very different than they were—and I owe it to their memories to be willing to do the same. They were no strangers to change, so I don't know why I should expect to be.
Quite a useful list of naughty websites in there too...
“I’m sorry I acted badly” is very different than “I’m sorry someone else misled me”

One doesn’t take on any blame himself and doesn’t acknowledge his bad behaviour.

So yes , this is not enough because it’s just him eating crow while trying to save face. He hasn’t actually apologized for the actual issue.
Based on internal data I have from similar companies my guess would be the first 50 employees average about $15-20m each and the next 100 average about $5-10m each just from their initial 4 year grants, with a lot of variation based on team and seniority. Stripe options have probably grown about 100x in value since the Series B so if you were an engineer who joined around that time, received $100k in RSUs, and left upon fully vesting then you'd be looking at around $10m in value today.
Hate to say it, but this isn't a social media thing or even new. How you look and sound greatly affects how people perceive your ideas. The parent comment had some good advice, making yourself look better does have an impact. Human psychology being what it is, it's futile to expect that people will just ignore the presentation and solely focus on the content. Plus, if everyone is stuck in a zoom call then they don't want to have to stare at the most unflattering angle possible.

I'm certainly not the best looking person, but adding an external webcam from a different angle definitely was noticed by coworkers in a positive way. I end up in a ton of marketing calls, and often I have to be the engineering voice that speaks up to say 'we can't do it that way, here is an alternative'. Since paying attention to my camera setup, my warnings get taken more seriously and have more attention paid to them.

Nobody is expecting you to look like a model or do a photo shoot, but spending a little bit of time improving camera angle, lighting, and mic really does pay off. No photographer takes low angle shots of close up faces since it's generally very unflattering, but that's the typical setup for a laptop on a desk. Just buying a cheap desk mic and a external webcam really will level up your presence in meetings. Don't think of it as Instagram bullshit, look at it as a way to use your tech skills to lifehack having a better interpersonal presence than you might have in person. Seriously, for ~$100 you can have a nicer camera and mic than 90% of everyone else, and having those things makes people treat you more seriously.
If you are investing via AngelList syndicate this guide might be useful to you.
Concrete, yes. On the other hand, a hot residential asphalt driveway can be boogered up pretty easily.
> It should be said XRender trapezoids have extra constraints: the top and bottom edges of the trapezoid must be completely straight (go exactly left to right). So it's basically a rectangle with sloped left/right sides.

Isn't that just the definition of a trapezoid? Do you mean the top and bottom have to be parallel with the x axis or something?
Well, don’t fall for the hyperbole in these kinds of articles. Here is some factual data to ponder:

The U.S. is a big, diverse country. European countries are not. Here are some population figures:

2023 Population

Denmark 5,910,913
Finland 5,545,475
Greenland 56,643
Iceland 375,318
Norway 5,474,360
Sweden 10,612,086

Each of the following states has a population equal to or greater than any one of the countries listed above:

California 40,223,504
Texas 30,345,487
Florida 22,359,251
New York 20,448,194
Pennsylvania 13,092,796
Illinois 12,807,072
Ohio 11,878,330
Georgia 11,019,186
North Carolina 10,710,558
Michigan 10,135,438

Homelessness is a serious problem in the U.S., and it is visible on the streets of major U.S. inner cities. However, the percentage of homelessness is just 0.16% of the total population. There are roughly 530,000 homeless in the US. Of these, roughly 30% have mental health issues and roughly 30% have addiction issues. Many of these folks either refuse temporary housing/shelters or are in and out of shelters. It is a complex problem without a single solution.

For those that both need and want help, the U.S. culture does not prohibit pulling people up. In fact, we do just the opposite. There are many state and federal programs to provide help to those who want help (housing, food, infant care, etc.). Of total federal government expenditures, entitlement programs account for 49%-almost half of federal money goes to social programs.

Furthermore, for those things that aren’t covered by government programs, the U.S. population sends more of its personal discretionary income per capita for donations to good causes than any other country in the world (1.5% of GDP).

Our diversity is our strength, as we do not have a monoculture like most smaller European nations. We encourage individuals to be individuals.

It seems that socialism (as a political system) may work better in monocultures, but then again it is still early—Europe was at war twice in the past 100 years and before that was ruled by authoritarian monarchies that provided very little in the way of freedom to prosper for their citizens.

I hope that those countries with social democratic systems, such as the Nordics, will continue to work well as demographics change and monocultures deteriorate as a result of immigration and falling birth rates.
That's a nice anecdote, HNer. Why don't you back it up with a sauce?
I was looking for a way to transition gradients for one of my projects. I came across this and thought it was a really neat way to do it with pure css! It's also not too complicated to understand if you know a bit about css.
How long was your extension cord that you could use it in a car on a road trip?
Amcrest is pretty good as long as you get an ONVIF-compatible model. Their PoE cameras are better than their Wi-Fi models, but I found that their indoor Wi-Fi models are not bad. I haven't had any luck with their outdoor Wi-Fi models though.

For Wi-Fi outdoor, I've been trying Reolink. I actually have had one die and another one keeps resetting so I'm not sold.

I've heard Hikvision is good but they're more expensive and I haven't tried them yet. I also think they really care whether you buy it from an authorized retailer.
What's up with the black bars blocking texts? Is it a bug? I'm on mobile.
That is the definition of coasting
The museum is missing an import detail, the boxes.
you can borrow against this asset and get basically a tax-free loan
Useless in space? uOttawa helps elementary students make discovery about EpiPens
Can you siphon power from the sun so other people can't get its radiation, without you covering the entire surface with something like a Dyson sphere?
The name of birds, part 1
I used this constantly back in the day - it was the Gold Standard.

The real question is - whatever happened to Ralf Brown?
Huh. This was written by Adam Ragusea who now runs a successful cooking YouTube channel. I had to double check it was the same person… wonder how that career transition happened
I think I misread your comment, so I deleted my earlier one. Sorry.

You’re right: if you’re going to work hard, you may as well choose the path with the highest rewards. If Stripe can’t make it worthwhile, is there a good reason to trade away what you’d get at FAANG?

So the hard workers have a lucrative path (FAANG), and the ones who want to spend more time away from work have a more lucrative path (BigCo). That doesn’t leave a lot of reasons to choose to be an early startup employee.
I'm not trying to dig up details on mid-80s Japanese ICs, usually just technical documents related to vintage test and measurement equipment. However, I've found that when duckduckgo and google failed me, kagi almost always pulled through. N<10 though, so YMMV.
Counterpoint: a Raspberry Pi 4 is more open and infinitely better documented than the Apple IIe/II+ computers I learned BASIC on in the early 80’s. There was actually lots of great printed documentation for the Apple II, but you had to actually find it. And it was not easy to find it, and it was expensive to buy it, and you couldn’t buy much of it if you were of limited means.

We are in a golden age for accessible electronics, programming, and computing in general. As a bonus, filesystem are generally reliable; you no longer have to deal with fiddly and unreliable magnetic storage (tapes and floppies). It’s harder to lose work than ever before.
> Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait?

Define unsubstantive comments and flamebait. Is this not unsubstantive flamebait?

"What propaganda? That it would be nice if Britain wasn't being beaten in the supercomputing industry by a totalitarian dictatorship and warmongering dictatorship? As a Brit, I think it's just common sense rather than propaganda."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35067967

That's the definition of flamebait and propaganda. But it wasn't flagged. Why do you allow unsubstantive comments and flamebait while flagging every substantive comment that responds to and opposes flamebait?

This comment I replied to dehumanized arabs by calling them extremists and barbarians.

"I don't know much about Israel or the politics, but just want to say I deeply admire the country. A shining light of democracy, technological progress, innovation, and prosperity in the midst of many countries ruled by dictators and extremist barbarians more concerned with infighting and grandstanding than the progress of their people."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34997427

Who did you flag? You flagged me and let this bigot alone. It was only after days of complaints that you finally flagged him. Did you give him a warning? Of course not. You wrote "As for anti-Semitic comments, I've personally banned plenty of accounts for posting like that." You do realize that arabs are semites. How come you haven't banned boeingUH60 for his antisemitism? Or is antisemitism directed against arabs okay?

> We don't really care about your views on the underlying topics

No you do. Anyone who reads my flagged comments and the comments I replied to can see it.

You can say all kinds of nasty shit about russians, chinese, arabs, indians, etc but that's not flamebait. It's only flamebait when you defend them. So I'll keep fighting flamebait til you learn to do your job better. In the meantime I share your concern about unsubstantive comments and flamebait and will do my best to deal with them accordingly.

Edit:

You forgot to flag another of boeingUH60's flamebait in the same thread. You couldn't be bothered to read the thread to flag his responses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003295
That's really great but not even close to enough.

GS-15 for tech jobs tops out at $145k all-in, and you need to have a PhD in some levels to get there. This is analogous to a principal engineer in scope. Meanwhile, they can turn around at clear $500k if they know their stuff at a place that doesn't require clearances and has good free food and stuff.
Yes, I am talking about stock, in response to:

>> If you hold actual stocks, there is no tax bill until you sell these to realize the gains

There are taxes to be paid as soon as you get the stock. If you are at google - have you noticed the number of RSUs which hit your schwab account are less than those which vested according to that chart in your schedule? That's taxes being withheld. The stock vesting is considered income at that moment and taxed as such.
I have to wonder just how much power they get out of those button presses. It seems like it must be such a tiny amount that it's hardly worth the effort.
It would be fascinating to take a sample of people, compare their avatars to their real life appearance, and then have them spend an hour talking to a shrink about why they are so similar/different.

Anecdotally, I know many people in both the very similar and very different camps, and a few who are very similar except for some small thing.
Thanks for the honesty. While I can also agree with you I'm also still look for something that is fulfilling. I made a bad example of that to be disrespectful of the current state I'm in. that not really fair of me. But its also fair to say its not been healthy either. I'm sure again I'm not saying anything exclusive to tech per say.
If you actually don’t care you wouldn’t post because it wouldn’t occur to you to.

Edit: I find that most people who scream “I don’t care what you think” generally mean “I’m not influenced by what you think”. Which is an important difference, and helps explain getting red in the face about someone else’s opinion about which one don’t care.
Thank god it's not just me. Once you focus on Mary Louise Kelly's saliva smacking you can't ignore it. Then I have to tune to something else.
I think there are fundamental differences between landlords and ticket scalpers that must be taken into account despite the similarities in other ways.

In addition to the obvious duties of maintenance, landlords Supply the capital for the house a tenant occupies. In this way they are more similar a company providing a car lease, fixed duration business loan, or home mortgage. They generally do so with fewer financial protections in my opinion.

A tennant pays a monthly fee instead of a large Capital investment and debt obligation. The landlord takes on substantial costs ( opportunity and real) as well as substantial risks when renting, which warrant some profit margin at a debatable rate.
To bootstrap, yes. But once you’ve built the machine, the people aren’t necessary.
Stripe employee #130 made $5m (after taxes) from 4 years of options? Is there any data to support that?

It sounds mistaken, but exponential curves are hard to reason about.

50 x $15m + 100 x $5m = 1.25B post-tax, so probably north of $1.7B pre tax. Stripe had a post-money valuation of $10B+ in March 2021, so that’s around 15% of the company. I guess that’s in the right ballpark.

Hmm. Thank you for the concrete numbers. That’s a nice payoff for four years of work, even if you do have to wait ten years for it.

Happy to hear the startup reward structure still makes sense in 2023. In that case, it might be a good idea to join one that seems promising. The payoff is rare, but it’s a lot less rare than the lottery: there have been n YC startups, so the odds are around 10 in n. And I think n is something like 2k to 5k. (Edit: yeah, 4k according to Wikipedia.)

1 in 400 chance of $5m is still pretty low odds, though. But you do learn a lot, and you meet a lot of people that have a higher than average chance of being a future founder, so the benefits still seem to make sense. Interesting.
> ...or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

So, not allowed to use Ctrl+C on their website?
Perhaps Teachers and other public servants should be offered a mortgage benefit similar to veterans
Helmholtz Resonance
Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke but I just see a blank page.
Will somebody please think of the poor workers with 500k salaries?
I came here to drop the same comment.
> RU, going through an active war is actually/literally has relevant industrial base to rearm

Russia doesn't have any money to rearm. Their economy is smaller than Canada, is about the same size as Italy, and ~9X smaller than the EU+UK. Russia will not be able to help China in any significant way. China is on its own if it attacks Taiwan, without a large power to support it.

> but also relatively weaker bloc against PRC relative to pre UKR war EU conditions. Reality at this time is both RU/EU are reduced powers, likely for decades and that works in PRC favour

The Europeans need to scale up their existing industrial base, not completely reimagine their forces from the ground up. That will take years, not decades. They can rearm rather quickly, considering the EU+UK's economy is larger than China's. Also, you misunderstand part of the real value of a more muscular EU; it frees up even more US resources in the Pacific.
It's okay here, Brave on Android.
The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data
Also check out the most recent episode of the Capitalisnt podcast. As per usual, Luigi Zingales is a little hard to take and a little too interested in his own first thought on the topic. But Walt Bogdanish does a decent job pushing back and it makes you want to read his articles and book about McKinsey.
Dark reader?
First of all, the issue here is with options, not RSUs.

The reason employees of early stage companies don’t take 83b elections for RSUs or exercise their options early is because that dramatically ups the risk: they have to front the money for exercise (strike price * number of options) or pay the tax bill on the RSUs as income.

If the company then goes belly up, the IRS doesn’t give the money back, so the employee is out of a job and also that money.

It makes sense to buy in like that if and only if the person is otherwise rich and diversified enough that choosing to make the equivalent of a speculative seed investment (and usually dead lost in terms of liquidation preference) would be reasonable for their overall portfolio. That financial situation is not a common one among early startup employees.
Then you have to deal with MacOS. Your boot times are the sum of MacOS then Linux, you have to update 2 OSs, you pay the RAM+CPU cost of running 2 whole systems at all times, you get security patches until Apple stops rather than when Linux stops (yes, Apple supports things for a long time, but I have thinkpads from 2008 still running current versions of Linux).
Doesn't the option have to match the FMV at the time of issuance? E.g. Option 3 would be Option Grant at FMV of $1 with that constraint
The “migration of new cells”? I thought new cells would grow in place; do they really migrate from elsewhere?
NPR out here spending 4k per microphone
Drunk = fun

Tired = not fun
That's like Windows subsystem for Linux. At least in that case it was related to trademarks (you can't say it's a Linux subsystem but you can say it's for Linux)
I don't think so. Considering thinkers like Jung and biochemist-cum-philosophers like Hofmann came along before much of that nonsense, and whose work was pushed aside with the good old American south paw for several decades. Thankfully with some more recent movement on the pharmacological front (re: resuming research into psychedelic molecules), as well as some doors opening on old estates (re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)) that there are new advances all of the time. Even Jung claimed he was just giving new language to ancient wisdom, even ideas he thought were at one point all his own.

"What's old is new again." Your chosen examples were a brief spout of practice brought about by the brutality of a now waning but once unbridled materialistic industrial power—not the end of psychology (or the humanities at large) as a meaningful study.
Mr. Burns managed to do it.
Sumplete game was invented and coded by AI (ChatGPT)
Mastering Product-Led Growth (PLG) for SaaS Startups
I think there is a simpler solution.

1. Land ownership should be an exclusively human right. Any ‘vampire’ entity (such as a corporation) that doesn’t naturally die shouldn’t be able to endlessly accumulate land.

2. The property tax rate should double for each additional property you own.
Depends where you are on the Ballmer curve [1], obviously.

[1] https://xkcd.com/323/
OSS maintainers are losing GitHub sponsors due to loss of PayPal support
You can power florescent light bulbs underneath high voltage power lines IIRC.
TT-RSS (Tiny Tiny RSS). Best thing I've find for my needs. I'm not excited about how they started doing updates a few years ago, but it just keeps on working.
Actually, it's likely that most conference softwares done it by default if you have 'noise removing' on. If you record your sound without any processing using a condenser microphone next to a computer/fan in a office room. You usually get a lot of low frequency noise.(Way more than you expect, because your ears are already adapted to it but the microphone won't) Even cutting them alone can improve sound quality by a lot.
Is there any moderate to large scale passenger rail system in the world that is economically viable? It always seems to be brought into existence by force of massive subsidies. The mode of transport seems to be fundamentally broken.
It looks like you’re writing a complaint. Would you like help?
a Raspberry Pi 4 is more open and infinitely better documented

Are you serious?! This is what they call schematics:

https://wiki.geekworm.com/File:Raspberry_Pi_4_Model_B_schema...

And what passes for a datasheet is, because Broadcom, horribly incomplete (I'm still surprised no one has leaked the full datasheet yet; but thanks to the latter, even MTK-based Android smartphones are more "open and infinitely better documented"...)

There was actually lots of great printed documentation for the Apple II, but you had to actually find it. And it was not easy to find it, and it was expensive to buy it, and you couldn’t buy much of it if you were of limited means.

But you didn't have to sign an NDA for it, nor be big and important enough to even get a chance of being offered an NDA.

For a "more open and infinitely better documented" general-purpose computer, IMHO nothing beats the IBM PC up to the AT, and even after that, PC-compatibles up to perhaps the mid 2000s. Full schematics --- even for the floppy drive, PSU, and monitor(!), CPU datasheets, BIOS source code, etc. Then came RBIL, and the rest is history.
The question I have is, why do people behave like Narcissus, then?

Why do they need so much external affirmation?

Why have some people become so extremely insecure?

Question from a blind man. I know we are supposed to be so stupid that an elephant confuses us... So I have to ask simple questions, because otherwise I will likely not understand the answer, given how stupid we are.
I'm not sure that's true. I'm a big proponent of co-ops, for housing and other endeavors, but co-ops can seek to make a profit. Not in the sense of a return to investors or owners, but they may have other objectives in mind. The co-op owned apartment building May seek to purchase an additional building for example, and charge tenants more than the cost of maintenance.
I ask because I got 4K video of a burglar's face and showed it to the cops, and they were like "what do you want us to do with this," and it made me question the entire value of security footage.
When Debug Symbols Get Large
Wonder if there are any IDE's for book reading...