skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To give one example, today's wealth distribution in UK still correlates quite strongly with Norman descent from the original participants of the Conquest. That's over 1,000 years of still-measurable generational wealth transfer.
But the second you want to make things for anyone else is when UI/UX matters.

Some people (and many people on HN) take graphic design for granted, but it's the first thing they seem about your product. It matters. Your app can work flawlessly but nobody will use it if the text has poor contrast or the buttons are comically small, for example.
I mostly blame people who take the angry Twittersphere to share it elsewhere, making it spread. Journalists of any niche are particularly good at it, and in this case the author.

I don't read Twitter, because I do not care of its drama, but the author did its best to spread it and stoke the fires thanks to their blog.
Also these accounts will probably be de-anonymized at some point, between leaks and style matching. We aren’t famous, so mostly it is the same as anonymously yelling on a crowded street corner, but then most of our IRL interactions are similarly anonymous-by-obscurity…
Small wheels suffer more from irregular ground than do large, and the foot placement in a Segway looks less accident prone (not seen stats).

I think the only thing "dorky" about Segways is the PPE, which should really also be worn by anyone on an e-scooter.
It's pretty simple. I don't agree with any tech company, but I would still like to make enough money to live. I hope that clears it up.
If you're in it for the mindless entrepreneur mindset and vc-backed openai-api wrapping bullshit, your pack definitely got attacked by MKBHD. Folks assumed that everything associated with AI will turn into gold.
Instagram likes and GitHub stars are exactly the same mechanism as far as someone who owns the content is concerned. Doing something 'to get famous', be it for your pouting selfies or your open source work, is basically the same, and anyone making a repo for the wrong reasons should heed the advice in this article. It is directly applicable to what they're doing.
It describes all the way the SQL could be executed, then choses the faster plan. For example: if you're looking for the user row with user_id xx, do you read the full table then filter it (you have to look at all the rows)? Or do you use the dedicated data structure to do so (an index will enable to do it in the logarithm of the number of rows)?

A lot more can be done: choosing the join order, choosing the join strategies, pushing the filter predicates at the source, etc. That's the vast topic of SQL optimization.
Laws against trespass to property exist in every nation that has private property rights. (They protect you, too.) There’s no “conjuring up” of trumped-up charges going on here.
You think every liquid brought into a country is tested in a lab?
My parents' home phone used to receive several scam calls a week from India. There was no way to stop them short of giving up the landline, which is what I did.

I can't believe phone companies (in the UK) don't provide better protection, even a registry of whitelisted numbers, that could be set for the old/vulnerable.
Your comment is too terse for me, I can't parse it. Both Cantwell and Rodgers are moderate politicians from opposing parties in the state of Washington. What certification are you referring to?
I'm bilingual and the importance of understanding a language though itself can not be understated. It's like bootstrapping the compiler for your language. If you don't, then you never really learn it, you just translate.
> It seems that the safer our society becomes, the more fearful we become.

Safer for who? As a German I can assure you, the Stasi did not make the life of common people safer. Surveillance is there to consolidate power, safety is a smokescreen. The NSA has yet to prevent any acts of terrorism thanks to mass surveillance. We have ample evidence that mass surveillance not only has massive issues but also that it doesn't deliver on the parroted benefits at all.

Want a grim reality check on "what they say vs reality", then go read this https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publ.... Particularity interesting is this section: "The Committee makes the following findings and conclusions:"
It’s like buying a whole smartphone and service, but only getting the voice assistant. Who wouldn’t think that’s a bad deal?
Nevertheless, spam ebooks do deserve a separate category. There is an actual industry around spam ebooks that offers aspiring fraudsters the tools to quickly cobble together junk with enough stolen content that readers are getting their $0.99 worth. (That latter part helps raise the bar against refund requests.) Moreover, this industry has developed tools and mechanisms to SEO and spam your fraudulent book. Why launch it as ine book, instead of 20 by 20 different authors, with slight variations on the title?

Some of these tricks may be used for physical products as well, but at least they need to deliver a physical product. In the case of spam ebooks, this pipeline takes care of everything. You click around for a few hours, launch the software: bam, 20 junk books with just enough content to not warrant refunds and SEO'd titles to get at least a few dozen sales.

I looked into this well over a decade ago; back then, you could buy a set of DVDs that would teach (and, perhaps, assist) you in perpetrating this. I get the appeal: back then a popular category was tax tip books. Scrape some tips from here and there, slap on a dozen titles and author names, and sell for low enough that people don't mind taking a chance on your crap. Pity Amazon still hasn't made any successful steps against this.
> Microsoft, the copyright holder

Nope. The entire point of this was testing third-party off-the-shelf software.
One thing I love is that Twitter has made logged out accounts so useless, when I clicked on his profile it was just random tweets and I saw nothing about his course.

Twitter doing a great job at promoting its paying users. Ridiculous.
It reminds me of Putin and his excuses for attacking Ukraine -- fighting fascists, of course. How can the Americans oppose that, he is doing exactly what they are doing. They are brothers in arms, really.
The whole point of nuclear weapons is that people don't attack you because you will use them.

So if they had them Russia would not have attacked.
Thanks for your work. I tried using it to use the official Gamecube Controller USB Adapter through Steam Link, but there was some spiking noise that killed playability. Nevertheless, I think it is amazing stuff.
I share the same vision. Your startup sounds good to me being fair and balanced and not picking sides. How can I contribute to it?
(Disclaimer: not tax advice. If you get one from randos on the internet, it’s your own fault).

In the US, gifts may be due taxes by the giver, not the recipient.

In the above case, the question was if it was a gift (and not needed to be paid taxes for by the recipients), or payment for work (which is taxed)
It it's not your employer, then for tax purposes it will be considered that you bought your pizzas at $12.5. You always get to pay sales taxes on the $25 amount.

If it is your employer giving you the pizza, there is a different story. I can't tell you how it would work in USA, but I'll tell you how it would work in Sweden. In a few cases, which include you being an employee of United Nations, you wouldn't pay taxes on the pizza (hurray!). But if you don't qualify for the exceptions, your employer would have to account for the $25 as if it were salary and tax it accordingly. Just for amusement purposes I've computed that for you: 33% in income tax, 31.4% in payroll tax, 20% in state tax if you earn over $4500/month, and 12% in VAT (but that one your employer gets to zero in this particular example). The 31.4% is not subtracted from your payout but just paid by your employer (or yourself, if you are self-employed). All in all, you eat your free pizza worth $25 and your employer deducts from your salary $13.3 to pay in taxes, and in addition to that pays $8 in payroll taxes. That gives the tax office a neat $21 for that $25 pizza you ate for "free". Your employer also has to pay for the pizza, of course, but they can deduce whatever VAT was in its price.
Agree with all that you said, except one thing: sports.

I follow one and the missus another, and inevitably both have their rights bought by different companies so (at least) two subscription services are required for following live events.
None of what you wrote says there was no long lasting trauma, I am pretty confident there is even if onlyin subtle ways.

Have you ever heard about sub-consiousness? People behaving erraticaly without really controlling this aspect.

Ever met a person who was definitely not balanced down deep and even he/she couldnt point out why? I've met unfortunately many of those without even trying, they are all around us if you know what to look for/ask right questions.

Good for OP for testing such an extreme stuff so rest of us dont have to mess up out kids. I would never do such tests on my small kids, even remote chances for something bad is just cruel. Also, he writes it takes even 3s to drown a child, while describing doing even more.
It costs a lot of money to participate, similar to Scientology. On the whole it seems more benign than the latter though, but I do think you can spend a lot of money on it.

Also, a cool documentary, not about TM but somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMxgevzd4c
Ukrainian engineers built the nukes. They wouldn't need to do that much reverse engineering.
Fanfiction sites filled with "garbage" are arguably worth more than Amazon's online free-for-all (now with AI!).

You know fanfiction sites are great when they train models on the millions of human-written, well-tagged fics
Huh. I had a 360 controller and a wireless adapter for my pc. It died a few years back though.
Oh sure, I agree. I am not saying those are not, just that it's so shocking to find it's Googlers.
I can’t help but think that this is all payback to the collective west for the Opium wars of the 19th century.

If so, China won’t stop, even if the US govt asks nicely.

The question is: what will the US do about it?
> MKBHD is not the market. He significantly influences the market. If a single person can affect the stock price of a company, we usually restrict what they can say or when.

I’d agree with that sentiment if mkbhd was spreading misinformation; to my knowledge, he isn’t, his influencing is based on good reporting. I see nothing wrong with that.
Very interesting stuff, if it works would be a huge help on solar panels.
That "classic unintended consequence" was specifically tested many times in UBI context, and study after study doesn't find it in any noticeable amount.

In any case, given how badly broken the current system is, surely it's at least worth a try?
AI generating realistic nude images from normal images will further these things. Because then there will be nudes for everyone, it will be impossible to prove what is real and what is fake, and therefore pointlessness of chasing of 'illegal" numbers will become obvious to more people.
Well at least the large truck producers in the US did adhere to emissions a andards for diesels..
Wow, these links are ridiculously wrong and fantastical. There is no fundamental protection of human rights in a democracy, unless the majority votes for it somehow.

Just look at the USA: it was a democracy since it started, and it had actual slavery for about 75 years until it fought a brutal civil war that ended it.

Even after that, for another 100 years, Black people didn't have any kind of civil rights and were routinely abused and murdered. They couldn't even vote in most cases. How exactly did democracy protect them?

Even today, there's enormous evidence of racist treatment of Black people (especially from the police). How many more years do they have to wait for this wonderful democratic system to protect them and treat them as equals?
Maybe Covid will be The End of the Whole Mess after all.
I’m not a teenage boy, but I got targeted by one these. While it was misdirected (they were trying to blackmail me with someone else’s photos), the whole thing was quite disturbing.

Also iMessage really does not seem to be well designed to handle abuse. Your only option is to block, which is a couple of taps away from a conversation. The block does not instantly take effect cross device, so you still get messages on your Apple Watch until you reboot it. Your only option for reporting anything is when deleting a conversation, and all you can do is say it’s spam.
so you're saying there will never be a breaking change when the or bugs when the software updates? ever? That seems unlikely. I've managed my own servers many times before and that's never been the case.
The key conclusion of this article lies in the last section, "AI and the Sovereign Individual," which argues that AI will significantly expand the power of certain individuals in many other industries, similarly to how the internet enabled figures like MKBHD to extend their reach and influence in the media.

Interestingly, none of the top 10 top-level comments in this thread discuss this point.
I know what you are trying to say, but please consider this:

Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people as well as a neighbouring country he was trying to invade.
that's the point of the article- that you shouldn't be worried about making things for something else if they're unlikely to care either way

with that said, I agree with your overall point, if you're determined to make something popular you shouldnt skimp on design
Edge has this implemented in a pretty decent way.
These are different channels you'll have to explore and experiment with. Extremely general comment for a general description.

Now, this is not an answer to your original question, more of questioning your premise. If it could prevent a fatal round, all the better... Beware, many assumptions and hypotheticals incoming...

You state that: >we have too many customers and we cannot fullfill the pipeline and we need to grow

Is that customers or leads? Anyway, many customers and you cannot fulfill the pipeline, therefore your solution is to grow, therefore you're looking for money, therefore looking for investors.

You also state that: >We are ~1M ARR and growing like hell.

You already are growing like hell, why do you need investors' money? Have you tried other things?

These lead to many questions that may be useful to others as well...

Have your founders been the only ones doing sales so far and you now want to hire sales people to speed things up and scale and you decided you need money to do this?

Have you tested that non-founders can sell the product before deciding to ramp up your sales force? i.e: Would adding more sales people actually result in more revenue (and profit) or would they just be frustrated because you haven't set the "sales motion", prepared "sales assets", and set them up for success? Have you tried to do that with one person or two other than founders. You can start small and see where your sales process breaks when someone else does it.

You can't fulfill your pipeline... Which part, exactly? Is it qualifying? closing? etc. Can you find the phase that's causing back-pressure and get someone else to help just on that one and see if you can scale yourself that way for a portion of the pipeline?

Are your unit economics ready for scaling or will you be losing money? Money amplifies what you add it to, including chaos.

Have you reduced your sales complexity? Figuring out your sales process, breaking it up into steps, refactoring it, etc...

Have you analyzed your cash flow and looked into ways to improve it? How are you getting paid? Yearly or multi-year contracts with payment up-front or at the end of the contract? It changes something if you're getting paid before.

Even if you do all that and actually need money, have you considered getting the money from your clients? For example, a multi-year contract with payment up front so you have capital right now to do what you need to do, especially if your asking ticket is within the same order of magnitude of your ARR. That won't be money for equity, it won't even be debt; it'll be a sale which, if you ever talk with investors, would be positive.
Something simple like a face match or even an email unlock if you connect to the account from an unusual location should work. A lot of websites do that already. So a volunteer doctor from the US opens their phone in Lagos, gets challenged, answers, Meta now knows that Nigerian IPs or whatever VPN they use are fine.
I personally have never once seen evidence that he "prefers" Android in any capacity. He has voiced opinions on things Android does well, and he has done the same for iOS. Anyone who thinks he has a personal preference one way or the other is very likely projecting.
> I have memories from when I was 2 that my parents also remember.

I doubt it.

How can you tell the difference between real memories and implanted memories[1]? Children as old as 11 have been successfully implanted with memories of things that never occurred by their parents, and who later testified that their parents told them nothing!

[1] Your parents told you at age 4 what you did at age 2, you remembered the act because it was told to you, you don't remember the act of them telling you.
This seems like such a contrived example.

By all accounts the Dr would probably be in better shape if the kidnappers weren’t able to contact their family.
Looking at this from outside the USA, the emphasis that you place on the USA's FDA in calling the shots seems parochial and misplaced. And a bit conspiratorial.

I do not take your claim of "zero bias" seriously while you make comments about "covid vaccine injured and damaged people" - sic.

I do not take your claims about "bias towards non-intervention" seriously when you cannot mention the far higher incidence of heart issues etc that results from deliberate withholding of vaccinations.

> ensure that there are always skeptics on approval boards.

I think that the issue is still that there is more than one definition of "skeptics" and as said above, the anti-vaxxer ideologues simply do not think things through well enough to be of any benefit. See your non-serious claims above.
People underestimate the financial gains involved (If $ is all one aspires for) in intentional bad takes like that one guy on social media.

Glad you pointed it out and his crappy course.
A reading of Oliver Sach's pop-sci books on encephalitis & PVS suggests we've actually been here before in the 19th and 20th century with cognitive and other effects down to post viral conditions. It's just another instance of something we probably know happens.
AliExpress has by far better customer support und money back solutions and even better shipping times in many cases if you don't live in a official Amazon country.

Even wish refunds faster and less complicated in case of no delivery.
The joys of living in central Europe - I have a nuclear bunker in my building.
For there to be famous people, there has to be non famous people. In the same way that up needs down, black needs white.

A figure I saw once was based on "do they have a Wikipedia page" as counting as famous. And the ratio was something like 50,000:1 relative to the population.

Would you bet your lives actions on a 50,000 to 1 chance? And even then do you think it would be possitive? Sometimes fame is the worst thing that can happen to someone. Being anonymous can be a blessing in disguise.
I'm genuinely curious about what mechanism would make this possible.
Yeah, they want to sidestep community who was less than happy e.g. with a FB's AI road import in Thailand (described elsewhere on HN).
I periodically take firefox's recovery.jsonlz4 and pipe it through a bunch of jq to export it as a datestamped bookmarks-$(date ...).org file. Right now I have 15 windows and 5351 tabs. Then I close all but the windows I have actually looked at in the last month.
You fail to make a point here but I assume you are implying this is bad.

The question would then be, why is it bad? Would you accept that it is permissable to film a public scene in general? If so, and this is not a rhetorical question, what is the difference?

That difference may cross a line of privacy when considering what a reasonably assumable degree of scrutiny is expected in public.

That is not a simple question and the law may have a different answer to public opinion which may be different again to what is best for society.
There's actually a new (experimental) standard to do this, called L4S. It mandates that the high priority lane apps use a more responsive congestion control algorithm so that they build a much smaller queue (not just on average, avoiding occasional spikes too)
They weren't arrested for protesting. They were arrested for trespassing.
Not everyone is part of the same herd. The author could have done a good job at spending two words expanding this acronym and who's behind it. It is referred prominently in the title, and then assumes you know who Brownlee is, as he is mentioned with his last name.

A person that never heard of him would not be able to equate MKBHD with the name Brownlee.

Not everyone lives on social media like you or I.
"A title written with the intent of getting people to click on it" describes every title ever. What professional whose livelihood is dependent on people interacting with their work would possibly ever title their work in a way that dissuades people from interacting with it? Clickbait needs to be something more than simply "an interesting title" for the term to have any meaning at all.
None. The studies show that COVID infections cause this in a significant fraction of those affected by them. Studies do not show the vaccine causes these symptoms.
If this is true, you should expect results to be the same across countries, and the measurable drops in IQ should correlate to infection rates.

Five bucks says you won't find that.
The mangled puzzle: replace identical pairs with single white balls. Replace non-identical pairs with black balls. Number of balls reduces by one after each action resulting in a single ball at the end.

I'm not certain of the analogy, but it appears to be something like the white balls are even and the black are odd. Both odd+odd and even+even equal an even (white) number. But odd + even equal an odd number. Since it starts with an odd number of odd numbers, the answer is black.
> he developers would rather fix bugs and add features

From my experience (as a user) these two contradict each other. (see Google and Microsoft products for examples).
> There are studies that have been done comparing people who had COVID-19, versus people who didn't, and then gave them cognitive testing to measure their ability to cognitively process information and test their IQ. And there's very clear differences in the IQ of people who had been infected with COVID-19 versus people who did not. Even mild COVID can give people about a three-point loss of IQ.

That sounds like an observational study. It's hard to get from that correlation to the causation in the headline. The article does not mention this problem at all as far as I can tell.
He is a thing because he is not afraid to say that a $700 pin that's less convenient and clunkier than the phone in your hand is a waste of your money, for example.

"Why is he a thing"... Does people have to justify their existence to operate?
This sounds surprisingly logical to me as a Swede. Here you can be taxed for income even if you didn’t receive anything at all. Take for instance a company office with a canteen exclusively for employees. Let’s say the canteen charges 20% under market price for a meal. In that case the employees can be taxed for having access to that canteen, even if they don’t eat there. This access is considered a taxable income.