skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have 31 positive payout guesses (1 $5, 2 $4, 4 $3, 8 $2 and 16 $1) leaving 69 other numbers with zero or negative payouts. You don't want to have gaps larger than three between your positive guesses, but there are 32 gaps for a total of 96 possibilities, or an excess of 27 over the numbers you need to cover.

It seems like a lot of possibilities and I think you can get away with a minimum gap size of one, but let's assume you do 5 3-gaps at 1, 25, 50, 75, and 100 and 2-gaps everywhere else. So start with 51, then 26 and 76. Then go up or down 12, then 6, then 3. If you have a gap of two you flip a coin, if a gap of three you pick the middle one.

Or if you have them write down the number and you think it has double-digits you could put your 4-gaps below 20. Start with 53 and go up or down 24, 12, 6, and 3 (unless it is below 20, then it is multiples of four.) 59 would pay you a dollar.

Your starting guess could be anywhere from 37 to 64 without paying out more than a dollar, but if you start with an extreme, then low odd numbers and high even numbers will have a negative payout. However, I think you can still randomize sufficiently starting with 38 and 63, e.g. 63-31-15-7-3-1.
When referring to people, female is an adjective, woman is a noun.

It only sounds like you're a ferengi when you use female as a noun.
The problem is it leaves the entire interpretation of what is or is not a distraction up to the mother. The founder obviously thought the baby was being distracting enough to (politely) ask her to step outside.

I've been at professional events with infants; as long as the infant was quiet there's no issue. But I think the it's also reasonable to defer to the attendees who also deserve a professional environment free of distractions. It's hard to know without all the details, but the author must have felt there was some distraction, or I doubt she would have moved to the back to begin with.
Compare iconic/visualized ability to echoic recall/synthesis. Audio for humans contains thought, in speech. So hearing an engine running in mind is similar to visualizing a bus. But hearing synthesized voices is another matter entirely. I suppose the combo of the two would indeed be challenging (a talking bus for example).
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I understand feeling this way, generically. Let's imagine a public speech. In a small room. Dead quiet except for speaker. There's a suddenly loud happy baby, competing with the adult speaker for volume. They take 2 minutes to wheel the baby to the back of the room, that's only 30 feet away, so nothing really changes in terms of noise elvel. And another woman politely approaches them with their line asking if they'd like to take it outside.

The thing is at that point, I have jumped to a # of conclusions: small room, disruptive over long period of time, dead quiet, and acceded to this odd cultural view I never saw anywhere other than moneyed SV and extreme money that talking obliquely means you're being polite.

The article doesn't give us enough data to help, but it does give us enough data to know this was a near-platonic caricature of a situation where the unprofessional bit isn't the baby making noise. It was during a talk about the practical challenges of being a founder with an infant, at an event targeted towards being more inclusive to female founders.
In some sense the article is an argument that "professional" can include "in the presence of babies".
According to [1] an electric garbage truck traveling 15,000 miles a year uses about 38,960 kWh. An 84 MW power plant produces 84,000 kWh every hour, or enough to power more than two trucks for an entire year. Even if we assume that the diesel equivalent uses a hundred times as much it's still a tiny fraction of what the plant in TFA produces.

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/deq/ghgp/Documents/ElectricGarbageTru...
I disagree with your reason, but agree with your conclusion. We've been pretty unforgiving and cruel to both mothers and children for a long, long time.
If it’s baked into the firmware of major cell phone manufacturers components how many people would it take?

A team of CS engineers at NSA.

1-2 people in privileged positions either at the point of assembly/programming deployment to ensure the code is delivered.
- for each company which is basically just alphabet, Samsung, and Apple or their chip providers which is about five companies.

This does not seem all that impractical - how many people are dumping firmware from in the wild consumer cellular devices and reverse engineering enough of the code to see if this functionality exists or not? Anyone with that skill is likely making a killing doing other work.
> they are harder than the problems lucumo is evidently accustomed to dealing with because they don't have correct, complete solutions, so we have to make do with heuristics

Funny.

But since you asked. The hardest problems I've solved haven't been technical problems for years. Not that I stopped solving technical problems, or that I started solving only the easier problems. I just learned to solve people problems more.

People problems are much harder than technical problems.

The author showed a simple people problem: someone who needs to know about better tooling. If we were working together, showing them some tricks wouldn't take much time and would improve their productivity.

An example of a harder problem is when someone tries to play aggressive little word games with you. For example, trying to put you down by loudly making assumptions about your career and skills. One way to deal with that is to just laugh it off. Maybe even make a self-deprecating joke. And then continuing as if nothing happened.

But that assumes you want or have to continue working productively with them. If you don't, it can be quite enjoyable to just laugh in their face. After all, it's never the sharpest tool in the shed, or the brightest light that does that. In fact, it's usually the least useful person around, who is just trying to hide that fact. Of course, once you realize that, it becomes hard to laugh, because it's no longer funny. Just sad and pitiful.
I'm not suited for raising children as a primary parent, but I'm happy to be part of that village raising kids.
This is greyed out, but I tend to agree with the sentiment that there’s a right way and a wrong way to approach these “EV” questions. OP was a bit harsh with the stupid comment, and for SWEs EV understanding is not usually a critical thing, but ultimately you’re being asked about the probability and the ability to make good decisions. Trading firms make use of this when hiring traders (most famously Jane Street and also SIG); The thinking is that if someone makes bad decisions with toy games, and their thought process is not analytical, they’re going to make for a bad trader, not making good decisions with millions of dollars on the line. A good example of something that would rule out a trader is: You can flip a coin, if you win you get $1m, if you lose you lose $1m. Would you play? The EV is zero, but the question is about bankroll management and disaster avoidance. As an individual the downside risk of a $1m loss (usually) significantly outweighs the upside of a $1m gain.
I came from a religious upbringing where hearing positive voices would be somewhat of a welcome event (revelation/communicating with deceased loved ones). I hate to say it, but in my church while there were a few individuals that talked about these sorts hallucinations the vast majority did not. (I myself do not hear voices other than my own internal monolog).

I appreciate that not all that hear voices are in danger/a danger, but I don't think it's nearly as normal as you are suggesting.
> Darwin was in a stroller, and I was rocking him back and forth to sleep. When he started babbling and cooing, I moved to the back of the room. That's when someone approached me and said, "Would you like to stroll your baby outside? I want people to get the full experience out of this conference."

I am a dad who brings kids everywhere. This is an entirely polite and reasonable response. If my kids are being distracting, I appreciate being told and have zero problem taking a baby out to calm down. They never said she had to leave because she had a baby.

It's great when others are chill around your kids, but I would never just force random people to have to put up with children.
I like that idea, and I may need to steal it. I have this tendency of asking candidates questions, and if I feel like they’re demonstrating very strong knowledge then I may toss them a few extremely obscure questions for bonus points, but I never expect candidates to get them right.

But this up-front approach of setting expectations seems like a better way to go.
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> I'm a bit baffled that they're not offering a replacement programme.

That was under the previous leadership when Stina Ehrensvärd was CEO.

Now they've taken VC money[1], and more recently merged with a listed SPAC[2] I suspect replacement devices will never happen because, you know, shareholders come first.

I wish Yubico had some serious competition, but sadly they don't. NitroHSM is not the same thing (plus has flashable firmware, which leads to potential security risks). Tilitis looks interesting, but its far from maturity.

[1] https://www.yubico.com/blog/yubico-adds-new-round-of-investm...
[2] https://www.yubico.com/blog/yubico-is-merging-with-acq-bure/
I've always suspected this is simply power dynamic advice. If you look up stats majorityof businesses are started by already rich people or the relatives of rich people(ie a small $10m loan from dad). If you have that power dynamic to have people smarter that you can pay lots of money then it probably is a good strategy.

I'm guessing HN is more of the scrappy actual small business you start yourself that most people think about naturally as starting a business.. It is probably really hard to get someone smarter than you to work for when you cannot pay top rates. Why would that person work for you rather than become a better competitor themselves? I'm sure there are lazy smart people out there but I'm guessing its a thin pool and they are probably friends of the already rich entrepreneurs so they will stay in that circle. Again they are lazy so they are not going to want a company that has high risk of going out of business and needing to do the work of looking for a job.

You are probably better off as a real self started business finding diamonds in the rough, people that are not generally good but have one or two strong skills that you can offload you own mental/time burden to and get at budget rates.
A single truck requires more energy to operate in a year than 70k homes do!? I find this extremely difficult to believe.

As far as I can tell, the EIA [1] suggests the average home uses 10,791 kWh a year. A gallon of gasoline contains ~33.7 kWh of energy per the EPA/Wikipedia [2].

This would mean that a single truck would be burning 70,000 * 10,791 / 33.7 = 22,414,540 gallons of gasoline a year or 61,409 gallons a day. Seems like wild bullshit to me.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent#:~:....
I'm not sure if frequency decomposition makes sense for anything that's not grid-structured, but there is certainly evidence that there is positive "transfer" between generative modelling tasks in vastly different domains, implying that there are some underlying universal statistics which occur in almost all data modalities that we care about.

That said, the gap between perceptual modalities (image, video, sound) and language is quite large in this regard, and probably also partially explains why we currently use different modelling paradigms for them.
>This is horrifyingly incorrect! Developed countries process only some of their trash themselves. The rest is shipped into poorer countries. It will end up in the natural environment.

No, you're incorrect.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade

>Many people think that rich countries ship most of their plastic waste overseas. But is this really true?

>The short answer is no: many countries export some of their waste, but they still handle most of it domestically.

>[...] When it comes to the fraction of plastic waste that is exported, the UK is one of the largest exporters. For context, the US exported about 5% of its plastic waste in 2010. France exported 11%, and the Netherlands exported 14%.[...]

>[...] I estimate that a few percent of ocean plastics could result from trade from rich countries. A figure as high as 5% would not be unreasonable.
I am wondering if we should be paid for consistent sleep time
A lot of that waste is organic and will degrade over time. And ultimately all that "garbage" was extracted from the earth in the first place. It's like that Monty Python quote "what did you start with? Nothing. What did you end with? Nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!"
That statement implies that your mother was a bad mother. I'm sorry. Being a mother is so much more than just creating another being. It also involves programming values and experiences into someone so that they can navigate the world. Raising my brother and I was by far the top achievement of my mother, and it was very fulfilling to her. Other mothers I know of are similar.
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I did that with Affinity software which was purchased by Canva. Currently they don't have a subscription but I give it a year or two and they'll either have subscriptions or it gets folded into the Canva subscription.
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Your framing leads to questions like: are infertile women inferior?

I think it's wonderful to find purpose in creating and nurturing a life, but framing it as the best makes people who cannot or choose not to do the thing seem inadequate.
> creating life is miraculous. beyond inventing some piece of tech or rocket or business. you are breathing new beings into our reality. what can be higher than that?

We can create life de novo in a laboratory [1]. We’re approaching the point where we can replicate a womb artificially, and do a better job at that than natural ones. (Interstitial attachment in humans is evolutionarily recent and inefficient [2]. The size of the human brain, too, is evolutionarily recent, which makes human childbirth evolutionarily recent and uniquely deadly among primates [3]. These aren’t difficult to improve on, which is why IVF, C sections, NICUs and lactation inducement are a thing.)

Parenting is rewarding, necessary and noteworthy. Calling it miraculous in literal (versus figurative) terms puts it on a glass pedestal. That’s dangerous if you believe parenting should be respected.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053685/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4305162/
It can be both miraculous and ordinary. Miraculous in that we have no idea (really) how life/consciousness comes into being and ordinary enough that billions of people do it.
Ideally, a Sweden would be taking the considerable parental leave policy - over one year distributed among both parents, and preschool starts at 1 year old, so working parents don't often need to have the kid present while working.

The recommendations are at https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/livsvillkor-levnadsvanor... .

It does say that video calls with relatives and looking at photos is okay, otherwise, avoid where possible.

When it isn't possible, like if an older child is using digital media, sit with them to discuss and explain what's going on, at a level they can understand.

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/livsvillkor-levnadsvanor... suggests that if you need to your your phone or other screens, for example, to check the bus schedule, buy tickets, or communicate with the school, then tell the kid what you are doing so they know it's for practical matters, not for entertainment or pastime.
Indeed, this concept has a concrete standard in progress (originating from Adobe, Microsoft, and the BBC) with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA):

https://c2pa.org/

C2PA as far as I remember doesn't require a transparency log, but as you mention it could be a good fit as well. Besides Solana, https://transparency.dev/ could be a good option (used as part of Certificate Transparency and Sigstore).
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Thats not always true. Just today my team was investigating why windows updates didnt install on server 2016 despite deadlines and specific updates GPO's set.

We did have some tweaks as an outcome. But overall these policies have been in place for years. And since 2012R2 and later there have been multiple instances where windows updates policies wont apply in lieu of say... "maintenance windows" features being added to windows, so it ignores policies centered around deadlines etc.
The thing you'll see if you read the oral history, was they could have made it bigger, but 5MB was so much storage then, they were unsure how to sell a bigger one.
Should have used the baby as a prop or call to action in a booth, or unveiled a way for VCs to monetize it, and I'm sure ears would have perked up then.
This is true: most family members were quite normal and my school/church environment was mostly devoid of psychopaths. But I'd say the vast majority of psychopaths have been encountered on the airwaves and the Internet.

I wasn't permitted to have a modem for awhile, because my parents didn't really want me to have two-way chats with strangers. Yet I was exposed to all kinds of harmful TV and radio. There is truly psychopathic behavior out there which we invite into our homes; we see it distantly, as through a mirror, but it feels innocuous because we can "control" it and switch the channel at will. Or can we?

By college I was surrounded by virtual psychopaths and mentally ill behavior. It was unavoidable. There was fantasy role-playing, AD&D, furries, sitcoms, crazy websites and forums, Slashdot, Usenet, just infested with psychopaths and bizarre malicious ideas.
When I did YC I often had office hours with PG and JL while their son crawled around on the floor. It was very family friendly. I loved that, and it taught me good lessons that have been helpful now that I have kids of my own.

I'm worried YC has "jumped the shark". The blocking of constructive criticism from people who have helped build this place is very sad.

Maybe they need Founder Mode again.
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Reminds me of this 2013 report on the earliest cat domestication (~3610 BCE):

> The felid bones were found in an ashy matrix in three refuse pits, H172, H35, and H130, with animal bones, pottery sherds, bone tools, and some stone tools...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1311439110
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

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> Really bad look for YC

Agreed

> being a mother is literally the highest calling a woman can have. A blessing and privilege only afforded to women, and they tossed this founder out for no reason.

oh god no. What? "Highest calling" is a personal and subjective thing. Is my highest calling donating sperm for said activity?

Having children is a choice. It's not right or wrong. Someone could even have children and still feel like something else is a greater purpose in their life, and that's fine too, as long as they provide love and care for their children.

Let's not ascribe a biological function as being the primary point of being anything or anyone.
> I'd be somewhat surprised if that's actually true

It 100% is.

I launched Calculator and according to the Processes tab in Task Manager, "Calculator" is using 31.2 MB of memory, and mIRC is taking 17.2 MB. That's with Calculator being freshly launched and no input given, compared to mIRC being connected to 1 server and in 8 channels.

If I go to the Details tab, then the story it tells is even worse. I include several metrics here:

Working Set:
- Calculator: 91 MB
- mIRC: 40 MB

Memory (private working set):
- Calculator: 30 MB
- mIRC: 18 MB

Memory (shared working set):
- Calculator: 61 MB
- mIRC: 23 MB

Commit size:
- Calculator: 67 MB
- mIRC: 49 MB

By basically every metric, mIRC uses less memory than Calculator.

> it's not a 'simple calculator app', it's a full featured graphing calculator even if most people don't use those features.

The only feature that should significantly impact the memory usage is the graphing. All its little measurement conversion options shouldn't take more than a few kilobytes. But even with the graphing, it's absurd that it takes more memory than the total memory I would have had in a 486 machine that could easily have run an app with the same features.

> but I think a lot of that is an inherent part of windows development now, basic c# projects with graphics end up being pretty big.

I suppose the price you pay for almost guaranteed memory safety and ease of development through abstractions means your base executable memory footprint includes an entire language runtime.
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That was my response too when reading that sentence.
well, that's like saying the compiler when it sees something like:

int x;
x = 1;

it has to keep track of "x". of course it does. what programming languages don't?
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Can you link to the orienteering project? I am having a hard time tracking it down.
I wasn't able to justify the potential cost of not having them.
> Well that would be inefficient. For each command you run the kernel has to read the file, detect that it has a shebang, parse the shebang line, and then finally load the actual executable in memory.

Those that exist today would, but no kernel would have to work like that.

Once you've agreed that monolithic kernels have merits, you've accepted that the kernel can do whatever it wants to make this efficient—including being complicit in this scheme and leapfrogging over most of what you just described.
> When he started babbling and cooing, I moved to the back of the room. That's when someone approached me and said, "Would you like to stroll your baby outside? I want people to get the full experience out of this conference."

It sounds like the child was indeed disturbing people. The author may have not be in alignment with the rest of the audience as far as what behavior is disturbing.