skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This calculation doesn’t take into account the dilution during future funding rounds.

It's fairly useless to have these scenario planning conversations with your staff without describing dilution events - they're fairly inevitable. If you've told all the staff that there are three general scenarios, you're going to lose a lot of trust & goodwill when you hold the all-hands meeting where you announce "oh yeah, there's mystery scenario four, where your returns decrease in value, and there's nothing you can do about it, and we might do it again".
I thought all the distros already did this with the /bin and /usr/bin merge; it's like that on at least Void and Arch Linux anyway.

The whole reinterpreting of "static bin" to "system bin" never made sense to me.
Yep, or just "scan this QR code on your phone" and auth becomes the same as anything else on your phone.
Alternative to fossil fuels are synthetic fuels, for example E85 (ethanol 85%). Government can subsidize a clean local production of ethanol from air, like it did for solar panels, to boot start it.
But the minnows are much more expensive to acquire per unit revenue so instead you focus on the whales and hope the minnows just follow the leader
In a Mazda with automatic highbeams on, it will look like you have your lights on full power, but you won't have any brake lights.

As you mentioned, this mode is incredibly difficult to figure out your in.
Well, as long as builders aren’t colluding to fix supply, it doesn’t matter.

Corporations can buy up all they want… but idle units are unprofitable. Between property taxes, borrowing costs and maintenance (which accrues whether units are empty or not), units need revenue or they are a drag on profits. Cartels fall apart very rapidly under these conditions.

Right now demand outstrips supply by a wide margin. This makes it profitable to buy and rent it out. Build enough housing to put some slack in the market and that equation will rapidly reverse.

TL;DR corporate ownership is a symptom, not a cause of housing supply issues.
This reminds me of a very interesting interview I've listened to a while ago (It was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924101): https://inpractise.com/articles/aldi-culture-and-operations-...

There they talk about the Aldi culture and how "walking into management" isn't possible there, as everyone goes through the ranks of a store. That means of course that hiring someone from outside is almost not possible, but people there usually stay a very long time or even retire at the company.
You mean CSS sprite sheets, or is there another technique that I somehow missed all these years?
> 18+ tag

> now has more to do with who lego thinks will enjoy a set

I suspect it has more to do with legal liability
Levels of Product Market Fit
> but it is far from universal

None of what you said contradicts that. Supply is always measured relative to demand.
> The declines so far in 2024, on top of last year’s drop, mirror the steep declines in homicides of the late 1990s.

These sorts of articles (there have been more than a few) usually say "wow, homicide rates are down last year", but don't always connect the dots by noting that homicide rates have been going down since 1991, and now they are returning to that trend after the aberration of the pandemic years. The interesting question—this articles touches on a theory about it—is why they went up for a few years, not why they're going back to doing what we expect them to be doing.
Racism won’t get you far. Nor will thinking your culture is superior.
3+ years including including obtaining the trademark itself

"Famous", eh? Must've been quite the ride over less than 4 years.

I have strong claims for Federal Trademark Dilution and a
federal lawsuit for the same would quickly get me in touch
with counsel and I know they would resolve it in my favor
they’d be incentivized to drag their feet for the billables
commensurate with a federal trademark case

I see, you have a strong federal case but it goes to another school and we wouldn't know them /s
It's only wording and I get the humor but it kinda hurts reading backdoor or spread when thinking about a good quality language, as if it's a disease having to sneak in.
Fair enough, I'll revise my statement: the side effect of a union is to put a fence around the employers and drive wages up.

While you've identified their stated purpose, I can assure you after having been in multiple unions that they serve themselves first, then their members.
I easily see it happening especially knowing the Ford was following another vehicle that could have easily completely occluded the stopped car until only a few of seconds before impact.
If that were true, then many units would be empty. In my city prices are high but vacancy is low. So, how are the prices too high? People are paying them. If there were more supply, prices would drop, but laws prevent increasing supply.
I wasn't saying that corporations are required to hire and then keep their hires on staff. I was talking about the societal impact of the possibility that corporations would lay off large chunks of their employees, during a climate where no work was to be had due to technology taking over most of those jobs.

Being fired and being unable to find employment elsewhere often has serious financial, physical and mental consequences for people. Often times it can completely ruin a persons life.

Not everyone has savings, or even the possibility to create savings, making the impact of being made redundant even that much more harder to handle.

Severe life changing situations can often lead to drug and substance abuse which carry with them higher chance of death. These situations can often directly lead to suicide.

Not every society around the world has systems in place to capture those that fall down, and even those that do are going to have a difficult time handling the large influx of people needing assistance if the techno dystopian future in the article comes to pass.

I would recommend checking out the excellent book "The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu" on the societal impact of austerity.
>In the wake of recent political events, our community’s energy and attention should be focused on more important things.

Living like this sounds exhausting. The only thing worse I can imagine is having to listen to people who actually think like this.
> I've seen people buy oracle because all the big boys need Oracle

DevEx does matter. Just because your large doesn't mean you can rest on your laurels.

30 years ago IBM DB2 was the goto DBMS, before they got upstarted by Oracle DB2, and the Oracle DB2 customers began moving away to cloud hosted DBs such as AWS DynamoDB or Open Core offerings.
it's saying that anywhere that there was an sbin, it now is a symlink to it's sibling bin

it's also saying that because /bin and /sbin point to their /usr counterparts, /bin and /sbin will point to /usr/bin

So currently:
/bin -> /usr/bin

/sbin -> /usr/sbin

/usr/bin

/usr/sbin

/usr/local/bin

/usr/local/sbin

we'll have:
/bin -> /usr/bin

/sbin -> /usr/bin

/usr/bin

/usr/sbin -> /usr/bin

/usr/local/bin

/usr/local/sbin -> /usr/local/bin

(all assuming that I'm parsing the description correctly)

which all makes sense, we'll have /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, where the latter is for user-installed executables and the former for system installed executables.
$120k base and $120k bonus, but okay.

I don't like shopping at Wal-Mart but you have to respect a company that's operating a real business at massive scale and about a 2% -3% profit margin. And Nichole seems to be good at her job.

It's interesting how the bulk of the decisions about displays, ordering, stocking, are apparently made in each store and not centrally.
Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain
Nextdoor and Ring neighborhoods can be really awful. Surprisingly the best experiences for me have been in my neighborhood’s Facebook group.
Unpopular opinion, more people are capable of doing well at higher level jobs than they are at low level grunt working jobs.
But your ok with worm juice opening up ancestral memories?
> I hope it was a pleasant surprise

Of course, very pleasant!
Steam horrible bash (and not even sh) scripts have tons of things hardcoded to sbin... expect the worst (but the cherry on top is the usage of command gnu niche-options).

The guys who wrote those are.. "geniuses"...

I moved my stuff to /bin a long time ago, but I had to cherry pick stuff in /sbin to please steam stuff.

Like you better have nothing in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and everything available via a stable output of /sbin/ldconfig (an abomination). All that to work around the abuse of gnu version names by the glibc devs (and gcc) via a super expensive user/mount namespace kernel mechanism.

All that is msft grade, namely mostly bad.
But there is a difference between memoization and dynamic programming. Memoization or otherwise indiscriminately storing the results of computations will blow up your memory use on many problems, where a dynamic programming approach would not.

Dynamic programming does not mean saving the results of computations, it is about saving the _minimal_ number of results, without having to recompute already solved subproblems later on.

I agree that the name chosen is nonsensical, but the concept is very much a real thing. And a quite important one at that.
I didn't downvote any of this, but for what it's worth I do think it's pretty common to see downvotes for ideas that everyone has seen a million times before, for which the counterarguments are just as well known and only slightly less obvious.
Congrats on the launch! This looks like it could be very useful.

I'd suggest changing your post title, though. When I use something that has sensitive financial data and a payment feature, I want to feel very confident. The title makes it seem like the company (or product) has had lots of ups and downs, which makes me nervous to use it until I find out that it's actually a reference to personal issues.

Maybe something like this would be better? "Show HN: Spent a year building a better invoicing API"
Proxmox was the big winner here.

Small little guys managing their own little clouds in their home eventually become CTOs. Vmware is going to learn an important lesson here.

Oracle is generally and universally hated. Welcome to that club, Vmware.
It’s possible but there was no explicit mention of this other than one receiving treatment they couldn’t avoid.
Banning condoms/p-pills etc would be a good bad idea too with about the same effect on crime.

"Womens right" and "eco friendly" policies seems to have had the greatest effect to reduce crime, which I guess is purely incidental.

I wonder what could be done about the crime rate if you'd put the EPA in charge ... the people that self select for fighting crime at the political policy level seems bad at it. Maybe literal carrots in schools would help more then 1000 prisons. Who knows.
No it is not safer to drive too close. If someone cuts in front of you, you just slows down a bit to keep enough space and that's it.
It's becoming common enough, but I've set up enough smart TVs in the past 2 years to realize it's not universal.
> They exert enough influence over all fifty states and the various private institutions to systemically deny training to qualified candidates?

Yes. What’s difficult to believe about this? People respond to incentives. The incentive for every physician is to maintain a shortage of physicians, therefore improving the job security and earning potential of every physician. The only way this could be done is if the physicians formed some sort of cartel that could control how many people were allowed to become physicians. This is what the AMA is and what it verifiably does.
I've never been a fan plus good luck getting 800GB/s across.
Aside from the sbin/bin merger, Gone are the sane embedded world where we kept /bin in unchangeable EEPROM, /usr/bin in site-wide admin-controlled, and /usr/local where local admin roams and developers are left to their own device within the confine of $HOME/bin.

Too many developers wanting to mess with things is getting expoundingly worse; even worse, non-privileged developers still pushing to centralized things to a single point of failure.

We gray-beards lament the future and it is us.
Good safety statistics is an outcome that is obtained because everyone is paranoid about safety. :)

What good statistics, by the way? I don't see that in the article, which clearly says that killings are plummeting, but from a spike that occurred during the pademic, and have not recovered to the pre-pandemic level.
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I don't think stock options should be seen as a retention incentive. Maybe they incentivize me to knock it out if the park but if I don't care about the company anymore at best they are "golden handcuffs" that prop up the illusion that the holders care about the company.
Yep. Gasoline is far too cheap. We've gotten used to it, taken it for granted, and that's a huge problem. We've degraded the land to the point where most of us can't find enough food locally and rely on food grown and shipped thanks to petroleum.

To wean ourselves off will be painful, but not impossible. Building strong local community is a good start; I've got to know a few neighbors now in this rural area and we're starting to offer to pick up groceries for each other, thus reducing the car trips to town. Building trust goes a long way to not needing to do everything yourself.
The majority of the roads that aren't highways do not have lanes. The road layout is largely from a hundred or two years before cars existed.
> we should only include interest rates in proportion to how many people are taking out major loans during the sampled period

The price of beef went up. A lot. As a result, quite a lot of people stopped eating beef. Should we remove the beef from the CPI basket?

Similarly, the mortgage rates skyrocketed, and the number of home purchases plummeted. But many more people would buy a home, if only they could afford it. Just like more people would start eating beef again, if they could afford it.
When I worked at best buy we called them “lifers.” Last time I was in there I noticed one of the managers was a guy I worked with when we were teenagers. I’m still kinda mad he got picked to be the idea box over me, but in retrospect it looks like they picked the team player.
That’s not what happened with Google office vs Microsoft office. Microsoft is able to work office into whatever large company they want for the most part.

With VMware all the sales team needs to do is point to all their largest customers and say “we support these guys, are you sure your tiny company will meet your needs now that you’re a whale? We even have this convenient migration tool”. And the CIO won’t say no.
You're correct, and I was overly vague. The key observation is "Kevin Beaumont speculates that knowing this was on the way may have accelerated the attacker’s schedule" Here's the exact wording, from Russ Cox:

2024-02-29: On GitHub, @teknoraver sends pull request to stop linking liblzma into libsystemd. It appears that this would have defeated the attack. Kevin Beaumont speculates that knowing this was on the way may have accelerated the attacker’s schedule. @teknoraver commented on HN that the liblzma PR was one in a series of dependency slimming changes for libsystemd; there were two mentions of it in late January. https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

See also previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916125
She runs a shop that employs 300 people; needs to worry about short-term and long-term logistics and planning; works cross-functionally with the trades; probably frequently needs to manage upwards; interacts directly with customers; etc etc...

Damn, she deserves that $240k more than a lot of us software developers. This is a hard job.
Not really, companies need support.

If you want to use Proxmox but also need support, you'll end up paying Veeam, which itself uses the same GTM model I mentioned.
Isn't autism much older than antibiotics? I mean it couldn't be - I haven't actually researched it but I'm pretty sure autism is older than antibiotics.
Options conversations are hard for a good reason. The underlying mechanics are actually complex. You can’t explain an employee what the outcome would be for them without telling them about preferential shares, double-dipping, etc. Good luck building a company on full transparency on all this. Most investors would think you’re crazy and finance the startup next door.
"Walking every aisle is a new practice for store bosses in her area, implemented by their regional manager. It helps managers “see what your customers see,” says Hart, and pay attention to details. It also keeps her employees on their toes."

I can't believe this wasn't policy already. Seems like good practice.
Previously, these folders existed:

- /usr/bin, aka /bin

- /usr/sbin, aka /sbin

- /usr/local/bin

- /usr/local/sbin

Now, these folders exist:

- /usr/bin, aka /usr/sbin, aka /bin, aka /sbin

- /usr/local/bin, aka /usr/local/sbin
Why does that help with IO bandwidth?
I agree that “/usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin” can be confusing for new users, but I don’t think it’s wrong: I interpret this statement as saying that /usr/sbin is going to be a relative symlink with target bin, which would indeed make it resolve to /usr/bin.
There are few things more American than the passage you just quoted. It is about a fan of an aging stoner/rapper talking to a Wal-Mart employee about the fact that he wants cereal.
SD variations to the rescue
Nonsense. Capital simply regulates labor competition to be low. Whether it's by increasing migration of cheap labor, policing worker organizing, company towns, regressive taxes, or many other strategies. There was one single period in history when this changed for a brief moment and capital learned its lesson to always use its power to keep the workers down. It has done so ever since.
Looks like the server is getting hugged to death. Not good either.
Above items seem to be neither, and it bothers me because it betrays the thesis by insinuating that a simple life can only be had after having a complicated one. True or not, one has to wonder if this too becomes another act of propaganda of erasure against the population among us who truly do live quietly-- in other words, loud people playing quiet people on tv.
NEM 3.0 isn't net metering. It's net billing, where exports get credited at wholesale rates.
There are a lot of interesting questions. Why did it go up in the first place during the pandemic. We didn’t see this trend in other developed countries. Also, why has crime gone down so much since the early nineties? More police? More incarceration? Abortion? Lead? There are so many theories.
your embedded system doesn't have to follow fedora, or any other major desktop distro.
I can't edit my original comment, so I added the following correction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031620

Apologies for any misunderstanding.
Listen to the call to do. Many great ideas and new business models came from those in their 40s. The other tack is to do some kind of giving back, not so much money but something for love not profit. You have perspective from arising from suboptimal conditions.
A 2010 type social network
Not true. Minnows don’t even have a sales cycle for most of them, they will download and then pay for support via credit card and then support over email. New enterprise clients take 18+ months to land and then an entire account management team.
I tell language learners that being brave is the most important way they'll learn. I have friends who have practiced English from a young age in cram schools until college, but they are still too timid to speak it.

Despite their excellent reading ability, I feel like what really separates them and someone with high fluency is simply being willing to practice their spoken. I'm sure alcohol could help someone overcome that.
It's always funny to me when I'm new to an area and they offer me 14 precise turns and landmarks to get to the park 2 miles away. I'm just going to plug "the park" into my maps and know precisely where it is.
That's besides the point. Their dialogue is about how for all our efforts, the rich have only gotten richer and future generations are left in the dirt.

If medical care and peacetime and technology has progressed so much, why hasn't general living circumstances and wealth equity?
> In some companies, the initial job contracts are misleading, and mention a nominal price of $0.01.

Is he suggesting that the initial job contract does _not_ state the exercise price, and relies on the employee mistakenly thinking that $0.01 is the exercise price?

This seems like it stems for a culture that we have of employees (or potential employees) just never asking questions about contracts that are presented to them. And I think there's a lot of employers that expect that to be the case too. I've once had a manager tell me with a straight face when I requested changes to a contract "I'm sorry, I can't get this changed. You'll just have to sign it." My reply of "I don't believe it's in my interests to sign that" was not something that was in his world-view.
tailgaters are relevant because … ?
Why can't you do that with /bin?
Since they will keep a symlink, there is no reason to expect any breakage.
Segal's Law
> Steam horrible bash scripts have tons of things hardcoded to sbin... expect the worst (but the cherry on top is the usage of command gnu niche-options).

sbin is still there, just symlinked to bin.

(But, yes, hardcoded paths are deeply irritating. Also install scripts that pass a path variable unescaped to another command, meaning that you can't have spaces in your paths.)
Captain: You expect me to believe that you are all the way out here just in case somebody happens by?
Grolan: I will admit our meeting was not a complete accident. Your worthy vehicle has been selected for several special offers.
Captain: What was that signal you were broadcasting.
Grolan: You mean our jingle? Advertising is a must in this competitive market.
Captain: It was completely incomprehensible to us.
Grolan: Hmmmm, obviously we need a little more A/B testing if we are to gain traction in this region.

great. like a spirit successor to starship titanic maybe. very great!
Why Veeam? Proxmox brings a good backup solution already.
And that there are so many people with older browsers. And there is no easy polyfill for :has.
Why expect the worst? Everything should remain backwards-compatible.
My intuition is that this trend will continue, there are likely many parameters, but one of largest is the proportion of young males with unfair prospects.

The unfairness is not changing much, but demography is, and we have threshold (cascading) effects.
> their competitors will do it first and take all the fame.

I don't think I'll be holding my breath waiting for ultra rich to be motivated by fame of this type. In fact, I think it's wishful thinking in its finest form.
The keyboard on phone is now on every smart TV platform, Roku included. There's no situation where I wouldn't want to go and fetch my phone instead of hunting down the on screen letters for my username and password.
So your answer is both. That's cool, thanks for clarifying that.
Look at a graph. Homicide rate in 2014 was lower.
Even after this "record" drop it's higher than a decade ago.
WeLM: A Well-Read Pre-Trained Language Model for Chinese
Time-management is probably the single most important skill in these higher-paying jobs and...well...given the amount of self-help books there are on this topic, I'm not so sure I'd agree.

People who do well in higher-level jobs know /exactly/ what they're best at or uniquely positioned to do, and do that. Meanwhile, you need to delegate the rest to whoever's in the best position to do so (growing people if there aren't enough) which is itself a tricky calculus.