skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article pretty much explains why:

> “We switched from Carta to Diligent to try to reduce cost and it was a disaster. Switched back to Carta and will never leave again. It’s a 100x better product and keeps getting better,” posted Bill Smith, founder of Landing.

The 2 main issues that are discussed here actually don't seem like a big deal to me in the grand scheme of things:

1. While I think having to schedule a meeting to cancel is annoying, I think the issue in the article about not being able to have a meeting until after the renewal date seems like a pretty obvious bug to me in the sense that someone's calendar was hosed which is why cancellation meetings weren't available for so long. An f up to be sure, but this feels to me very like an unintended event that then gets amplified on Twitter/social media because the optics are so bad.

2. The cap data data issue was bad, but by all accounts Carta did an appropriate mea culpa, and in any case have gotten completely out of the "secondary market" market which was so problematic to begin with.

I don't mean to make this sound like I'm "letting them off the hook", but I'm just emphasizing that, in the business world, business leaders tend to look at things from much more of a direct cost/benefit analysis, and the pain points above just really aren't that big of a deal to most business leaders. Note that's considerably different compared to consumer products where people are much more likely to "rage quit".

And the fact is, everyone I know says Carta is excellent at their core functionality. As an employee with ISOs from multiple different companies that used Carta, I'd say that at least from the perspective of an employee equity holder that their product is very good.
It's not as hard as you think, he's an English speaker and French and English shares approximately 40% of the vocabulary. And once you have mastered French, you have the other 80% needed for Spanish as it's a Latin language like French.
I wonder why OP thinks doctors would have any incentive to do this. It doesn’t benefit them personally and there is just a vague benefit of lower medical care costs provincially.
> frustrating autocorrupt

Look — I don't know if it was on purpose, but I chuckled.
And end up like Syd Barrett or Pep Mangione? No thanks.
A simple classical example where this is true is a repetition code. If you represent 1 as 11...1 and 0 as 00...0, randomly flip some bits, and then recover the logical state with majority voting, the probability of a logical error occurring shrinks exponentially as you add more bits to it. This is because a logical error requires flipping at least half the bits, and the probability of that happening decreases exponentially.

The error correcting code used in this work also has a nice intuitive explanation. Imagine a 2D grid of bits, visualized as pixels that can be black or white. Now imagine drawing a bunch of lines of black pixels, and enforcing that lines can only end on the top or bottom boundary (loops are allowed). If there is an even number of lines connecting the top to the bottom, we call that logical 0, and if there is an odd number of lines, we call that logical 1. This again has the property that as you add more bits, the probability of changing between logical 1 and 0 gets exponentially smaller, because the lines connecting top to bottom get longer (just like in the repetiton code).

This code also has the nice property that if you measure the value of a small patch of (qu)bits, there's no way to tell what the logical state is. This is important for quantum error correction, because measurement destroys quantum information. So the fact that local measurements don't reveal the logical state means that the logical state is protected. This isn't true for the repetition code, where measuring a single bit tells you the logical state.
While I certainly appreciate the practicality of these technologies I do feel uneasy when thinking about a future where more or less everyone owns AR devices, as they denormalize interacting with others to do these activities. I was taught how to cook first from my mother and I later learned more with a flatmate. Similarly, when I had a flat tire my friends who were more into cars helped me out. Both have helped me develop and strengthen good personal relationships which I still have to this day.

I know smartphones are extremely valuable as I have learned a lot from the internet, and they are great tools when you have no other options, but they are already starting to become the default way of doing anything, and that way is solitary. AR devices would only exacerbate this trend by just being even more convenient to use. I love the technology but I wouldn’t want to live in a future where asking to your AR glasses before of your friends is the norm.

I’m not sure what is the best way to move forward without sounding like a luddite.
Most of the points are in bonuses and bongos, so you don't have to care much about the short words with common letters.
Found it.

https://mastodon.social/@mysk/113636630798700926
In my view, application architecture is a domain specific thing. Meaning, trading world application is entirely different than web app world. Game is different than OS. If you want to learn architecture, you need to focus on a specific domain.
She Has 155M TikTok Followers. Will They Pay to See Her on Broadway?
Downvotes but nobody can explain why we have cute palatable name for a government initiate related to killing people.

We don’t have one for execution. Wouldn’t it be absurd if somebody coined an acronym for it like WOAP?
Huh, interesting. Thanks for that! Today, I learned.
Does it? Or is this what anti-euthanasia advocates are spreading as misinformation around to acquire the support of progressives to their cause (which is driven not out of a care for homeless and disabled people, but out of religious/conservative mindsets)

Keep mind: I'm not asking "Do those cases ever happen"? Of course they do. There's already been stories. The question is what are the statistics. Every policy, every procedure, every decision can have mistakes and negative outcomes. Some homeless and disabled people have been offered euthanasia. Those cases should be investigated and the policies should be updated. But nothing will be perfect.

You can say "if you can't have a perfect system then you shouldn't have it at all." and while that may be philosophically justifiable in the same way that "I'd rather let 10,000 guilty people go free than convict 1 innocent person" is, but it's important to remember that despite that we still convict innocent people.

Some trans people regret their transition. They're a tiny minority. Some people abuse welfare. They're a tiny minority. Some people are pushed towards euthanasia when they shouldn't be. They're a tiny minority.
Has one ever had too much information?
One area I recently learned about is the Kentucky Bend, which is encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri, so not connected to the rest of Kentucky. Before 1848, Tennessee tried to claim it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend
That jibes with my understanding, based purely on anecdotes from users. It seemed like there was an entire, thriving community south of me who Microsoft completely abandoned.
It leaked to other people in the company, who were looking to use that information for a secondary market product that Carta had. Since they know everyone who owns stock in company X, they know exactly who to approach about selling stock in company X on their brand-new privately held company marketplace (without the companies permission). https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/07/carta-the-cap-table-manage... for more. After this was discovered and widely reported they sold their private secondary market to another company, because it was impossible to regain trust.

They are also involved in trading lawsuits with former exec turned whistleblower for two different people. https://medium.com/@jerrytalton/when-your-company-tries-to-c... is the former CTO's take on the situation. https://levyvinick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/COMP-for-D... is the former VP of marketing's filed lawsuit, I can't find a blog post from her.
Even a 30th percentile US household would be above average globally…?
She=Charli D’Amelio https://archive.is/jiZ9I
In fact, maybe it's better not to think of them!
I've sometimes thought it might be reasonable to think of a single cell in the system as an 'automaton' which might make it somewhat ok to call the whole collection of cells 'automata'.

I accept that there's two levels here though and sometimes people refer to the system as a whole as being a single automaton even if there's loads of cells.
My first instinct on seeing that number was "wow that's too high".
My more thought-through reaction became "Actually, that number is still way too low".

It's not necessarily true that 19 in 20 people didn't get to choose how they die, but there's something to the converse.

It's always surprising to me the... Quesiness people have in discussing this. In the land of the free, what possible freedom is more fundamental to life than when to be done with it? I wonder if the higher uptake in Quebec is because it's a more secular society than some of our other provinces.

From personal perspective, I very much hundred percent totally want the freedom to have the option to decide how I go. From there, I don't want to stand in anybody way who also desires same freedom. A lot of counter-arguments seem thinly veiled religious origins -- Some are legitimate concerns about potential for abuse, but still a lot reek of disingenuity in core motivations.
Tommy by The Who has related themes and is better IMHO.
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of red team, under new CTO
> Like I might want to see foo's stdout on the terminal, but pipe stderr (and only stderr) to grep, perhaps so I only see some specific error messages that I care about

You mean this:

`foo 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3`

The above swaps stdout and stderr, saving + restoring the original stdout through descriptor 3. Shell redirection expressions map directly to dup2 syscalls, except the operands are reversed: 3>&1 is dup2(1, 3). Pipes map fairly simply to fork + exec. At its core the shell is a rather thin wrapper around the core Unix syscalls fork, exec, dup2, open, and close. If you look at the original shell implementation, the command parser more-or-less executes these syscalls as it goes along, left to right.
I have a hard time caring. People's lives and freedoms are at stake. If they can't take the time to do their jobs, perhaps they should find another career.
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2025
Meta's Llama Models Are Not Open Source but Open Weight According to Meta
We’re finally starting to see some precision in language from the company, in that they consider that the Meta LLaMA AI models themselves are NOT in fact Open Source, rather Ope nWeight. Thank you for admitting on the public record what the Open Source community has been saying all along! The data is the source for AI and it’s not provided, though Harvard’s move is a step towards rectifying that.
The strings are neither random nor independent. There are many English cognates, groups of related words, patterns of word formation, etc.

It's still an insane feat, since it typically takes actual language learners years to get anywhere close to a native speaker's inventory of 10,000+ words.
They should have simply migrated, at their own great expense, to Microsoft SQL Server. /s

Anyway, this should be a good lesson for anyone thinking about using Microsoft technologies.
The interaction of EM waves and their behavior is a long and complex topic to address here, however, keep in mind that the signal is sent out into void - what happens after emitting does not concern the emitter. Think of it as rain falling down, or water from the sprinkler. If you catch the droplets you ll cast a "shadow". Completely surrounding the emitter might create "Faraday" cage of sorts. However in reality in the droplet analogy, the EM waves curve around the buckets and leave the shadow. The reception of EM waves is a wave-cancellation process, but thats a deep rabbit hole..
The "sorcery" you're looking for is the correct genetic sequences that leads to an eidetic memory. No amount of compensation using mnemonic devices and memory palaces will get you even close to what Nigel Richards is capable of.
A naive question: why does k8s require more documentation and understanding than using EC2 + EBS, if I don't have to consider cost. To set up my infrastructure, I launch clusters for my services, I map EBS or use ephemeral storage for stateful services. I use EC2's APIs to operate my clusters, such as autoscaling and auto healing. I don't have to worry about networking except probably private IP vs public IP. I barely need to spend time learning about EC2/EBS and simply use my intuitive to look up documentation when needed. Most of the EC2/EBS concepts are just intuitive. So, why do so many people say that k8s is complex and hard to get right? Shouldn't the default setup as easy as EC2+EBS, and leave the doors to more advanced stuff?
Apparently his mother said, about teaching him Scrabble:

"When he learnt to talk he wasn't interested in words, just numbers. I said: I know a game you're not going to be very good at because you can't spell very well and you weren't good at English at school."

I guess the sorcery you are looking for is spite.
Magnus Carlsen is the highest rated classical player, and has been since 2011.

It's also worth noting that is he is the reigning Rapid World Champion, the reigning Blitz World Champion, and the reigning Chess World Cup Champion.

He chose not to defend his Classical world title, and has been quite clear about the reasons.
we had this wonderful thing in PHP where you would just save a .php file and bada bing it was LIVE.

what happened? :D
You feel now that you don't want it live like that, but how can you know what you would want, then?
Great summary. Tysm.
Looks cool! Have any SEO / dev freelancers with extra capacity you've liked working with that you can recommend?
I'd love to see an update of this for how things look in 2024.
These deaths all replace other deaths that now won’t happen or contribute to the statistics.

Assuming a hypothetical case where the system operates without error, reaching a 100% rate is the ideal outcome. No accidental deaths and everyone leaving on their terms.
I'm a distributed setup I imagine there could be cases where you want to atomically hot upgrade multiple VMs at the same time. Is this common in practice and if so are there recommended patterns/techniques for doing it?
On the flip side, you're only a capitalist state away from propping up a tortured husk and milking all its family assets before tossing it to rot.
Ah, E115 aka Moscovium. Highly radioactive, with a half-life of under a second, claimed to be a stable building material. Straight to Bob Lazar levels of kookiness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science_in_science_f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar
Cap table data is one of those things that turns grown men into a bunch of high school gossipers. It is even more juicy information than salary data because most people know around how much money each position is paid in terms of salary. Stock ownership is a completely different story. Stock can be given to different employees at orders of magnitude differences depending on the position or stage that the employee joined at. I knew an employee who found out about another employee's stock grant amount. Once he found out, he refused to work hard at all because the other employee was "not as intelligent" or as senior as he was, yet he was granted 5x the stock because he joined earlier. It is no surprise that even outsiders of the company illegally share the data like high school gossipers.
Season one, episode eight of Magnum, P.I. was entitled, “The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii.”

There are, of course, episodes of both Knight Rider and The A Team that share that tile, though.

While I am appreciative that you want to demonstrate precisely how useless LLMs are, I wonder if perhaps you could do something more productive than make work for me.
Unemployment rate goes all time high.
Are you saying Stadia can allow the largest theoretical online game world ever (largest mmo)?
Real Ipsum
What Are AI Agents, and Why Are They About to Be Everywhere?
Functions Tutorial: Arguments, Multiple Values, funcall and apply, closures
It's a job that pays money.

And people can become zealots for what they believe is best for others
Bad leadership and rudderless product. I’d avoid like the plague if I were SWE/potential client.
I'm curious, we use many PDF parsing and formatting tools as part of an ML ingest pipeline. Our goal is to keep the document as close as possible to the original in meaning, but remove unwanted junk and simplify the document by removing everything non-content related or converting it to text the ML can work with.

Surely you can do that instead? Parse the PDFs and format them in basic ways without support for "extensions" or anything. Let the user read that before using the "real" document with extensions potentially enabled.
Yeah it's a desire to do so in a really short amount of time because there's other things I prioritize.
On Unix programs get arguments as array of strings. On Windows programs get command line as single string.

Strictly speaking that does not explain where globbing happens, but it does help understanding where they come from.
> Stockfish is a level above even Magnus if given enough depth.

"a level" and "if given enough depth" are both underselling it. Stockfish running on a cheap phone with equal time for each side will beat Magnus 100 games in a row.
Thank you for a great comment! I just wanted to highlight the notion of meaning, as you touch upon, that all challenges and sufferings make opportunities to choose God. At least in the Catholic Church, unity with Christ (including, metaphysically, taking part in his suffering on the cross), and letting one's ego go, is the point
We have euthanasia in the Netherlands for decades now and there haven't been any controversies as far as I know. It's a solved problem and the discussion here is over. I do agree that the laws and procedures have to be carefully constructed to prevent abuse, but it is possible.
The Netizen's Way: A Manifesto for Open-Source
The EXP port doesn't get any of the useful signals from the PPU that would make that task any easier. It does get the video out signal, but it's the same one that goes to the RCA port, so it's just a different way to access the same pin really.
This is the sort of thing that a decent corporate lawyer ought to be able to handle. Obviously not giving legal advice to anyone's specific situation here (and I don't have a current bar card, though I am a law professor), but generally there's an implied contract law duty of good faith.[1]

Dirty tricks like writing a contract that says something like "you can cancel at the end of a term, but you have to have a meeting with us," and the contract doesn't say anything about availability of meetings... then the company only offers meeting times after an automatic renewal in order to cheat people into giving them more money... well, that smells like a really good excuse for a lawyer to argue that the duty of good faith has been breached. And even if the company is honest that they were just unable to schedule a meeting beforehand, a decent lawyer might be able to come up with enough of a theory for recovery to negotiate something fair.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/bu...
It's that "free will" isn't as free as people think".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...
> Personally, I'm on the side which thinks that this format is a total stagnation.

I was with you until this WCC.

In almost every game, Gukesh took Ding out of prep extremely early. It wasn't always a success for him either! Leaving the opening book typically means you accept an objectively-worse position, but one that your opponent has to spend a significant amount of time finding the right ideas in. Even in the cases where Ding found the right idea, Gukesh put him in serous time-trouble as a result.

Yes, many of the games resulted in draws. But they were extremely sharp and imbalanced, and in virtually every game one side of the board (typically Gukesh) had a serious advantage and very strong attacking opportunities. The resulting draws were due to not finding the right ideas in time (and very likely both players psyching themselves out of the "obvious" correct move) rather than inherently boring and drawn positions.

Overall it seemed to be an extremely effective strategy for Gukesh. But it was also actually exciting to watch unlike some previous WCCs where almost every game was likely in prep through the first 20+ moves and where the resulting positions had ample drawing chances for both sides.
Adobe announces development of SLM that can run on a phone without the cloud
> now personalized with GenAI

Has Philip K Dick called the 21st century better than Asimov or Clarke? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...
How hard do you think I think it is? Are you implying that it's easy for an English speaker to master the English scrabble word list?
How would an aluminum-ion battery work out as for as theoretical charge per weight or volume?

I know that is decades out, of course.
> please provide an easy preference setting for people to opt out of that.

There is some effort to standardize this: <https://bixense.com/clicolors/>
A large part of this I think is that other than MacOS, GUI conventions aren’t heavily implemented by the OS and easy to opt into. And because no other OS landed on “meta key for GUI shortcuts” so there are a lot more conflicts (e.g. ctrl-c).

The Application Framework defaults which underly most native macOS application build a lot of common keyboard controls in. Use the default menu bar classes with the default basic commands, and Command O, N, Q, X, C,V and probably others come for free, you just implement the code that you need to for those functions. Use a standard text field and you automatically get Command/Option/Fn Left, Right, Up, Down for navigation. It’s more notabke when a macOS application doesn’t follow convention (e.g. InteliJ uses Shift-Opt up/down to move lines rather than expand the selection by paragraph) than when one does.

Windows does decently well on this front, but ctrl as a default modifier can hurt terminal based app usage and there are a number of UI frameworks even within the OS that appear to get different defaults.

And in the Linux world, I think the only way you could do this would be for someone to design (and a distro to standardize on and port apps to) a full on application framework. The window managers don’t want to be in the business of dictating the behavior of stuff in windows. The GUI toolkits don’t want to be in the business of defining os wide defaults and the DEs and distros don’t want to be in the business of if porting or dictating UI frameworks. And realistically there’s no one “on high” that could make the sort of dictation that for example “hence forth copy and paste will be Meta-C and Meta-V”
Add 'UK' to the search and you get a result pretty easily: https://themultibank.co.uk/