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in 2021 Sequoia switched their strategy to hold on to stock of their portfolio companies for few more years after IPO.

"Sequoia is abandoning the 10-year venture fund, in which limited partners, the outside investors that contribute to the fund, expect to get paid back over a decade. The firm said it’s establishing a single fund, the Sequoia Fund, that will raise money from LPs and then funnel that capital down to a series of smaller funds that invest by stage.

Proceeds from those funds will feed back into the Sequoia Fund. With no time horizon, Sequoia can hold public stock for longer stretches, rather than distributing those shares to LPs. Investors who want liquidity can pull money out instead of waiting for distributions."

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/26/sequoia-changes-fund-structu...
motorized displays also sounds HEAVY which is a big issue for a device intended to be used for long periods of time
Adobe not continuing XD seems like them throwing their toys out of the pram.

They competed fairly with Canva and built their own, Express, which I think does a very admirable job.

No reason why they couldn't have competed fair and square with Figma, and competition is usually good for the end user.
I was told by the actual engineers at Boeing it was difficulty in verifying.
To be honest, use a library where someone else figured out the ambiguities and accounted for the edge cases. Good starting point: https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/math

Date-fns is fine for simpler use cases but Luxon is a lot more complete, especially where it comes to time zones.

This is not the kind of thing you just want to blindly hack your way through without a really thorough understanding of how different cultures/locales/governments handle dates and times.

If you have to do math across daylight savings time boundaries that change over time (because governments and regulations change), converted to two or more time zones (which again have their own separate DST rules), and possibly span some 30 or 45 minute time zones (they exist!) this will quickly get out of hand and unreadable. Not just unreadable, but incredibly difficult to reason about.

It gets even worse when the backend stores only the offset (as in the ISO time, like T23:00:00+08:00) because then you lose the original time zone and can't be sure whether it came from a DST zone or another country in the same zone (but only during part of the year).
You can actually set the chat settings to automatic recording and even decide after how many seconds of not saying anything, the message should be automatically sent. Just check out the chat settings on the top right ;)
"In the letter to investors, Raveendran also said the founders have infused around $1.1 billion over the past 18 months"

Sunk cost fallacy? Or delaying criminal charges? There is no way a valuation can drop this much without some serious scam involved.
Was working on the very same idea alongside a friend of mine, we happened to launch a few weeks ago. Quite a lot more fleshed out than Neal's version, if anyone wants to check it out!

https://allchemy.io/

Edit: sorry if anyone is bumping into errors! We're running into bottlenecks with our supposedly auto-scaling database - working on it
Even an unpaid report like this involves weeks of work: reading docs, designing tests, executing and refining them, filing issues, writing the report, and editing it. Each report costs thousands of dollars in hardware and and editing. I'd love to do an FDB test! It's just that between contracting, volunteer work, and research, I can only do so much.
Why not use two computers?
With proper welding masks, it isn't really an issue.

Backs, knees, lungs and hearing are though.
For sure. Virtually every Jepsen test has found bugs even with extremely mature products like Postgres. But fundamentally Cassandra (and Scylla) and most other databases tested have fixed those bugs and improved their documentation with many incorporating Jepsen tests into their ongoing process.

That's different from how Raven has just wildly mistated their capabilities.
Whenever there are multiple metrics, it is true that it is impossible to fully maximize all of them at once. But it is not true that it is not possible to value all of them. These are not "binaries" that either can/cannot coexist together. They are a suite of priorities that must, at some frontier, be traded-off. However, it is also possible to not be at the pareto fronteir, and if one is not, then it is possible to increase all at once.

I'm certainly of the opinion that we are not at the frontier for these and that all of them have room for improvement that does not necessarily sacrifice the others. But if we were, I (and almost certainly CATO) would be capable of making a decision as to which of the priorities was more important in a given situation and trading off against the others. You are arguing against a straw man.

Your claim that these priorities are all fully incompatible with each other, is, in my opinion, much hotter of a take and less well supported than the idea that anyone could have a reasonable preference for the combination.
There’s no agreed-upon definition of middle class. If there was going to be, it’s certainly not a mathematical definition like that though, it’s an emotional one.
Ask HN: Why doesn't a 4k rendered game look as real as a DVD resolution movie?
The real time rendered parts. Obviously movie CGI frequently looks real.

Are there any examples of lower resolution games that look real?
Based on the amount of chimps they killed, I'd be last in line to get chipped by them
> In a companywide note posted to Figma’s Slack work collaboration software channel, reviewed by Forbes, Field also announced a one-time ‘Detach’ program by which any employee could voluntarily depart the company in exchange for three months’ pay.

Does this detach program accelerate equity vesting?
AMD is doing fantastic and it’s CEO is great. It would be a big let down if they had bought nvidia as we’d have a single well run company instead of two
>What the data does show is a tendency for those with the capability to successfully complete college to have greater mobility

From the perspective of the company, if the only way to have a signal on this is via a degree, and you have two identical candidates otherwise, which one are you choosing?
This isn't the first time Adobe has taken a decent app w/ potential and run it into the ground:

Dreamweaver did many things, not all of them well, but it was never actively terrible. Over time, its functionality got split out into more apps that didn't actually require people to write web code - a disappointment that shouldn't surprise as Adobe's heart was still w/ print production and never really committed to the development side of things.

I would have expected that after Flash went EOL that more resources would go to the editor, but they just mined it out before going subscription, a dealbreaker that made me seek out Panic's Coda and (later) BBEdit.

I know it still exists in Creative Cloud, but unless you are deep in the Adobe ecosystem, there are better options available.
A week ago I just so happened to look up some of your older blog posts and Candy Japan articles that you had written, it was an enjoyable reread!

For anyone else, here are some links:

https://www.candyjapan.com/life-in-japan

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes
ImportC has a functioning module system! It's a consequence of it being built alongside a D compiler.
It’s disappointing to me that the technologist desire to experiment with new DBs continually puts naive customers at correctness and durability risk they don’t (won’t) understand.
BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics) would be the one for you. https://www.bgi.com/us/sequencing-services/dna-sequencing/wh...
Couple thoughts.

* With regards to the "core Macaroons" we implement with first-party caveats, we conceptually are centralized, in that there's a single source of truth about which apps belong to which orgs &c that caveats are evaluated against.

* The basic challenge we have is providing a comparable experience in every data center we're operating in around the world, so a "purely" centralized model would be problematic for us; people in Sydney would get a much worse experience than people in Ashburn. We get around this with LiteFS, to an extent. This post undersells how important LiteFS is to the deployment model here.

* With respect to having, like, a Zanzibar-like access matrix dealy: part of the thing here is not wanting to have to provide a single coherent permissions model to our users, because our problem domain is so broad and we will get it wrong. Providing orthogonal tools to let users express things seems like the better strategy to us? But there are upsides to both approaches.

* Of course, one of the big wins here, that we have a plugin interface for authorization, depends on some measure of decentralization.

I feel like this is kind of a scattershot response, but hopefully I hit some of what you were talking about, and you can let me know if I've missed the mark completely.
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> If the universe can be evaluated in a simulation, then the computer carrying out the simulation is not actually necessary. In fact, even defining the rules of the universe is not necessary, because the contents of the universe with any given set of rules are not changed by the act of writing the rules down. Mathematical truths are true, even if they're never discovered. If a universe can be simulated, then it has a mathematical description, which means all of its configurations, and all of the events within it, are determined from the mathematical description.

I don't think that's true. There is much more substance to the universe than just its mathematical description, and you need the computer to run the simulation to provide all the flesh and character the math does not.
Not sure if there are a lot of different producers in europe, but I know that it’s not much easier to use the boards in german gyms. Have seen a couple of them so far. The interesting thing happening here is that the boards stay in place but they get new interfaces to use them with smartphone apps.
Awesome, thanks for the information!

I'll certainly keep you in mind if I need/want some help in the future.
This is kind of like one of the key mistakes people make w/ remote work. You don't just do the same things you do in the office, you do them with the benefits (and drawbacks) of remote work in mind.

In an office it's easy for a new hire to ask a question or get someone's attention. When remote, how does the company communicate culturally? Is there an expectation for response times? If not, what internal tools and resources are there that allow a new hire to self-solve common issues?

Also, figure out parts of onboarding are best done synchronously vs. ascynchronously.
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I like your photos, but you should use small thumbnail images, instead of having the browser scale the full size images to thumbnail size.
It also should be obvious that only a small portion of all pages of the Internet are in InternetArchive.
Even if they were double the resolution per eye, you aren't going to have "native" 4k reproduction because you are looking at a projection of a screen rather than an actual screen. What is the value of achieving one "accurate" pixel if it is surrounded by eight bilinear-interpolated ones?

But then, you usually don't buy a 4k screen because you can perceive the individual pixels either, unless you are creating content that requires that.

I suspect it aligns easier with the quality concerns of reality and not with virtual components - if I can use a monitor through the screen with no noticeable loss of quality or additional eye strain, there's no reason to think a virtualized monitor won't be at least as good.
It simply always existed.
https://archive.ph/Y1yNX
At the time the idea of .name was that for example someone with a common family name shouldn't be able to get it only for them and deprive all the other people named like them from having their .name domain and email address. Of course it didn't work for people also having the same first name, and in that case it was still a first come first serve basis.

Anyhow, first level domain were to be "shared", non directly registrable, domains.

Since they decided to open it up for first level registration, there has been no way to get a once-shared first level domain, even when you're its only user.
Legislation like the Jones act also screws our territories. Guam pays higher prices for almost everything because of this, even though shipping from their Asian neighbors would be significantly cheaper.
Its fun, but annoying that you have to do a lot of mouse dragging. Some more click-based interface would be better.

Edit: some measure of progress would also be good. I cant know how much I missed

Edit2: Megalodon + Cemetery seems to break the system, spits back nothing.
As someone who paid for 23andme+, it was pretty much a scam anyway, I got maybe 4-5 more reports over the year, all of which were for random popular ailments like "Anxiety" where the link between your genes and the disease(?) are pretty dubious in the literature and the takeaway was "you are 5% more likely to experience anxiety".
So bad that you can't find a job for 12 months? At a certain point, you take any job you can get to sustain yourself while you look for a job in your field. You should be able to buy yourself plenty of time to focus full-time on searching for a new job and the chances you go 12 months is highly unlikely. Still, if that were to happen, take on another job you don't love while you continue your search.

That said, not finding a job in your field for 12 months is a situation we as people like to prepare for, but are likely to not happen.
Hey! It’s that old game Doodle God!
Out of curiosity, what database documentation was lacking?

IIRC they don’t provide a managed database, just like a template
I think it is easier to give everyone a door. I get that people treat offices as a special sign of prestige or something, it is dumb.

But really it does seem useful to have a door. Bad news might be rare, but unless you want to have the conference room imply bad news, you also have to schedule good news meeting in the conference room. Now all the meetings are in the conference room. Managers’ whole job is to go to meetings as far as I can tell, so we might as well give them the conference room I guess, haha.
We've done a Buddy System for the last 10 or so new hires we've onboarded.

I found a template from NYU that I just copied and edited a bit:

https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/hr/documents/managerguid...

It's been very effective and helped give a resource for cultural questions people might not want to ask to their boss.
> It would prevent me from losing my money! I filed a fraud claim form that also required an affidavit with notarized signature and Bank of America still won't return the stolen money. That money is gone.

As someone who was previously a customer of Bank of America and suffered my own form of theft and fraud (I was pickpocketed and someone used my debit card illicitly afterwards before I could cancel it). I can tell you with an absolute certainty that your experience is very specific to Bank of America or large national banks generally and not any sort of rule or law.

Do yourself a big favor and close your accounts with BoA and join a local/regional credit union. Nearly a decade after my first incident, I had another issue and the experience and how I was treated by my credit union vs how BoA treated me were worlds apart.

Either one will require an affidavit, the credit union offers members a free notary service at any branch so I simply filled it in person at a branch. The affidavit is to protect the bank by ensuring you are liable for false statements. The credit union also helped me pressure the police to actually do something, which resulted in three arrests of a group of teenagers that had more than 800 stolen cards in their possession when arrested. And I had the stolen funds returned to my account the same day at the branch, good as cash.

In that interim decade I stopped carrying a debit card and only used credit cards because of how badly my experience with BoA was. I now know that it’s not the card you use, it’s the /bank/ you use that makes the difference.
You just have to turn off the money printer and watch the tech money dry up

(What we’re seeing now)
They have two articles this month about how terrible offshore wind energy is, so it feels cheeky to also complain about the Jones act holding it back.
That hasn’t been true for over a year maybe two at this point.
Sure, if you don't consider worker productivity to be a ratio work per unit cost.

Reduced office costs are real. You would have to pay more per employee just for the office costs alone.

This then demands concrete proof that productivity is higher in office -- which has never been provided.
Its driven by a LLM. Apparently fire + whale = dragon according to multiple LLMs I was able to recreate the behavior with chatgpt https://chat.openai.com/share/a4b53cbf-904d-4f03-a8db-e7980d...
@dang: Why was the "The Best Headset Yet" removed from the title of the other review post, but this post still has the "Magic, until it's not" in the title?
Is Nike not a modern company in a modern industry? Did people stop wearing shoes?

What about tmeu? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65990529

Tech isn’t the only modern industry
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/84ebe33c1879f921685304...
Sorry for the inconvenient experience. We hope to get another chance and you'll have a much better experience in our app.
As an applied mathematician, I'd say this depends on the field. Pure maths more often than not comes with assumptions that make the theory more elegant, but by doing so they also drastically limit its application to real life scenarios.
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> It's not a binary choice.

Which I acknowledged by describing it as a slippery slope.

> What's the HR method that can parse untalented and hardworking vs untalented and putting in normal hours?

One does not exist AFAICT and, with any luck, one will never exist.

> What's the cost of untalented? It's probably not just their salary.

By untalented I did not necessarily mean stupid. I meant non-"rockstar" or whatever the mythical 10X programmer is called nowadays.
No read the wikipedia on it. They use probability to prove it's basically true. That is the argument that is hard to argue against and the one Elon goes on about. It sounds wrong but it's logically hard to show why.
If you have two identical candidates except one took the bus to the interview and the other showed up in a Ferrari, which one are you choosing?

That's right, the one with the Ferrari. But that is a game you, the worker, don't want to start playing. You will lose in the end.
well, except one of the most famous vaxen of all time, kremvax
That's how you learn!
I think the article glosses over the fraud aspect a lot. I would expect these places to be prime targets for all kinds of fraud. I'm surprised personal checks are accepted at all and (if the example in the article is realistic) so cheaply.

They have to manage that somehow beyond a reputation system. Part of it might be the legal system - I believe check fraud is seen as more serious, with much higher penalties, in many countries, specifically because the system of checks wouldn't work without it.
Can someone Steelman the Jones Act for me? I think it was a poor choice historically, but I truly don't understand it's need now.
Games like this already exist and have comparable complexity, so calling it infinite and using an LLM backend feels overhyped.

For example, Castle + Fortress = Castle?

City + Town = Castle. Castle + Wall = City?

Metropolis + City = Megalopolis. Ok we're getting somewhere cool here, let's see how big it gets: Megalopolis + City = Metropolis?!

Finally, it just failed to combine War + Tunnel. It blinks for a minute and then gives up. I would have said "Sappers"? Edit: There are actually many such failures for higher-order combinations which is strictly not infinite. Other combinations described above might technically fit the bill but ceasing functionality does not : /
Just because it’s relatively common doesn’t mean it’s good..
> You paint this like it's a bad thing, that's why many acquisitions occur.

You paint that like it's a good thing.
It's a bad thing if their intention is to buy out the competition, learn nothing from them, shut it down, and continue being something people use for lack of options, not because it's good.
That sounds (as I said before) quite specific to the field you found yourself in. That isn't how things work everywhere.

For a relatively recent example - in my field of quantum information someone found in the course of reviewing some newer work that there was a mistake in one of the big foundational papers that this newer work was based on. They shared it with some of their colleagues and together they did some work finding out exactly where the error was and what the impact is on work that is based on it.

The response from the community was they got a talk slot at a pretty prestigious conference (QIP 2023, you can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xyodvh6DSY) and the work they did has been published here https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2023-09-07-1103/ and in a followup paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02289-9.

My point is essentially that it isn't a big shock that this error wasn't found by peer review when the foundational paper was published in 2008. Even when it is working as well as possible peer review can only detect most errors, not all errors. However when your field is functioning "normally" and everyone does their jobs properly this doesn't matter because the errors that get past peer review get detected by other people building on the work later. On the other hand if your field is not functioning properly and people are knowingly doing stuff that is wrong then peer review can't help you. If the status of the field is so broken that people who know stuff is wrong are still pushing for it to be published then you aren't in a place where peer review can save you.

My opinion is you are incorrectly putting the blame on the (highly imperfect) process of peer review here where it doesn't really belong. Peer review as we perform it today sucks for many reasons, but it isn't to blame for the problems you saw.
Setup a new AppleID. No need for that stress. If you have everything stored in iCloud, that's a problem though. I don't store anything in iCloud, because, like you, I could get locked out. I have other places to store things that I trust more.
the animations are tedious
I always feel like there is some trick to these I am missing out of, are there any good guides? Any time I look for some its just typical low effort blog/youtube spam trying to get in on the AI/GPT key words.

I have tried to work on one where I uploaded various documentation and spec sheets, wrote detailed instructions on how to search through it. Then described how it should handle different prompt situations (errors, types of questions, quotes from the documentation). It is able to search through the provided knowledge and provide quotes and responses with it, but it at no point gives a coherent response, so it basically always functions like a more intelligent search feature. Putting that it should re-prompt itself with the knowledge extracted and rationalize/elaborated on it doesn't seem to do much either, though it did provide some improvement.
Do you have a write-up of your SmartOS and/or OpenBSD set up(s)?