skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RSUs aren't really that bad, unless your employer does sell to cover in annoying ways. Net share withholding works out super simple, the shares that weren't withheld are at the brokerage with the correct basis, and the income and withholding are reported accurately on your w-2.

Options do get pretty nasty if you exercise and hold, when the fair market value is higher than the fair market value; because then you have to have an AMT return and a regular return and reconcile them.

ESPP with a discount was pretty bad the last time I had it; the brokerage said they were specifically required by IRS rules to report the wrong cost basis, and you had to adjust it when you sold, or you'd have the discount reported on your w-2 and again as a capital gain. Maybe that changed, capital gains reporting has changed over time.
It seems like the US decided to have the supply chain conflict now rather than wait for an inevitable geopolitical trigger (say, Taiwan) that would kick it off organically.

Which, yeah that's likely to be lose-lose economically. You'd have to have some other objective for it to make sense (note: I am not claiming it makes sense).
I stopped using Reddit around the time of the API fiasco. But it was already terrible back then - I was using it out of habit. The astroturfing is rife, it's insane. I feel a deep sense of sadness that the internet that I grew up on where I would learn and discover amazing and interesting people and things every day has just disappeared. I used to think it was absolutely magical. Now it's just boring.
I do advocate for addressing those, and I don't support throwing anyone under the bus. That's why I support moderating on immigration!

I agree with you that the anti-immigration movement doesn't make much sense to me, and I'm pretty confident that restricting immigration won't have the benefits its proponents claim. But the people who support it are genuine, as far as I can tell, and aren't going to just evaporate if rent decreases 10%. You can restrict immigration in a humane and respectful way, or you can follow the US and wait for xenophobic politicians to restrict immigration in an inhumane and disrespectful way; I don't think there's a third option.
Trump Signals New Tariffs on Chips
How a Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Took Down the Texas Lottery
I agree it's not evidence, but even then, going by the principle of parsimony (which does not provide evidence, but is a reasonable way of thinking about this) the most likely explanation is also the less extraordinary or convoluted: a guy in a gorilla suit. Why reach for anything else, unless one wants to believe?

The existence of yetis is an extraordinary claim that would require convincing evidence by their proponents, of which this video isn't one (since it's trivial to film a guy in a suit, etc).
Yeah, we used to find out that some directors only direct 4 people, some direct none!

We used to compare manager ratio comparing to equivalent companies and we were way over bloated.

Not MSFT.
> I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01808-6

> We designed a survey to compare the psychological, sexual, and childhood experiences for subgroups of men with extreme interest in castration. The survey was posted on the Eunuch Archive, an online platform for individuals interested in the topic. Data from 822 individuals were included in the analyses.
Just registering my experience, which was mostly good in principle.

I took my physics/chem labs at a not particularly good university, and got points for having valid calculations, whether or not they matched the correct values. I felt that the labs themselves were a little bit patronizing and a waste of time, but at least they were designed in the direction of making us perform experiments and do measurements.
Oranges and other citrus are examples of non-climacteric fruits, meaning they do not continue to ripen after being picked. So, they have to be picked at the desired level of ripeness.
I think it is crucial that children get exposure to the sad reality, not in order to normalize it but because the idea of hiding it is what stops progress in the first place and confuses children more than the plain truth. Children need truth and not shielding from it. Highly recommended book around this fundamental mistake in education by a French child psychologist: A corps et a cris. Être psychanalyste avec les tout-petits (Caroline Eliacheff).
> Anyway I have very few good experiences with these services

For me, and a majority where I live, this is applicable to taxis. Which were known for being dirty, late, expensive, prone to attempting to rip you off, if they turned up at all, etc.

Outside of surge charging (in which they are more expensive) ubers are by and large either cheaper, or the same price. With the difference being that 99% of the time if you request one, its going to turn up. And when it does turn up, you know what your going to pay, not have them take a wrong turn at some point and by "mistake" and decide to charge you double. Or tell you they take card and then start making claims about how suddenly they can't etc.

Sounds like europe gets the bad end of the stick in this regard.
It could, but then who'd be the ones fighting and dying in the war to make new opportunities for the survivors?
Reread the first comment you responded to. It was talking about cross compilation not error handling
Wait, are there gamblers who aren’t secretive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(song)

On a warm Summer's Evenin’

On a train bound for nowhere,

I met up with a Gambler

We were both too tired to sleep.

So we took turns a-starin’

Out the window at the darkness,

’Till boredom overtook us

And he began to speak:
> In many other countries, marriage is not attached to these things.

Care to name one?

What you described is basically how marriage works in my corner of Europe.
https://archive.is/6oOD8
I have about 140 Emacs plugins running.

I've never had to declare Emacs bankruptcy.

10 years of good times with Emacs+evil and 35 years of vim.

Fwiw.
Small discussion (22 points, 17 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670402
FWIW the Adventure game adaptation, is -really- interesting from everything I've seen on Youtube, especially because it's apparently randomized in various ways on each play-through...
Korean work culture is so awful I'm not sure they could even find enough foreigners willing to work like this long-term. Also the language is really hard to learn.

The only solution IMO would be a culture change. But this is not going to happen while old people hold the reins everywhere.
There was a recent panic/hysteria there about banning Twitter from many subreddits because of hate speech. It was incredible how quickly people were begging to have a website banned when they could either choose not to visit it or down vote posts they didn't like. Really soured things for me by illustration how much the median values changed from when I started using the site.
Discussion (60 points, 7 hours ago, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673327
I started with GNU Radio back in 2013, and have had a lot of fun with it. My "magnum opus" is an ATSC 3.0 transmitter.

https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-atsc3

Demo clip running on a HiFive P550 RISC-V platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn5L-k4EPA
What I found weird about this article is as, a sometimes AO3 reader I didn’t recognize any of the names involved.
Presumably they meant "by a" not "via a" . I wonder why misuse of latin words in English seems so common; see e.g. frequent confusion between e.g. and i.e. .
The thing that turned me off reddit is that for many years how much of it seemed to be following a script for any given topic, and that's a long time to when /r/subredditsimulator or GPT variants would be novel. Personally I'm long past the point where I found myself caring whether it's a human or bot if the value in reading the post isn't there as it's not presenting anything new. I found myself despairing a bit that if it was humans typing out responses, what's the cumulative amount of time spent doing so and not moving things forwards, just playing out the same scene over and over, and likely being angry about it so it's hard to see it as a leisure activity
Um, ok:

When you say:

"The shell games are:

1. claiming it is a proton collider"

it seems to me that you're implying that Sabine is not disclosing the fact that it's a two stage project. And I'm pointing out that it's one of the first things she says in her video.
No Linux? Full stop.
Isn't that exactly what the sentence after the one you quoted encourages?
Why would you want to destroy your economy and quality of life like that?
Venezuelan migrants' arrival in El Salvador: "They had no idea what was coming"
I wish it had shareable urls for the rejection. Anyway, I'll copy paste here:

Idea: Startup incubator incubator. Our customers would be people like Paul Graham before he started YC. We would've helped him start YC.

Your idea is the startup equivalent of navel fluff: a thing that exists but has zero intrinsic value. YC already solves the problem you’re vaguely describing. Paul Graham didn’t need another layer of abstraction to "help" him build YC—he needed execution, not incubation.

Market Problem: Who’s your customer here? Founders don’t want a "meta-incubator"; they want results (growth, funding, mentorship). Would Sam Altman have used your service before YC? Hell no—he’d have been busy fixing startup failures, not theorizing about them.

Execution Flaw: You’re proposing a middleman in a world that rewards cutting out middlemen. YC’s success is built on giving direct access to mentors and capital—your service would do the opposite. How do you plan to add value above YC’s existing network? Magic and good intentions?

Team Flaw: Startups hate "helping founders" as a business model. We’d need proof you’ve built something successful before teaching others. Your pitch reeks of "we want to help help people help people." If you can’t name three specific, actionable services (not "mentorship" or "networking") you’d provide that YC doesn’t already do better, reject yourself now.

Fix (If Possible):

Stop chasing meta-ness. Found something real people pay for now.
Pick a single niche YC can’t/won’t serve (e.g., pre-product-market-fit NFT startups? Ethical AI accelerators?). Stop trying to "solve" incubation itself.
Demonstrate you’ve built something, not just dreamt of platforms.

Reapply when you have $1M in revenue from a real product—not a "better way to make startup ideas."
Behind every bot is a shifty motherfucker who has always been a scamming piece of shit.

First they polluted email with spam. Then they polluted search results with SEO. Now they pollute forums with crap like this.

For a brief moment in the 20th century, small pockets of middle-class people in the West forgot this basic fact of the universe, but people the world over still suffered. Leaded gasoline. Big tobacco. Cults. Big oil. Big sugar. Violent ideologies with seven-digit body counts. ...All of this happened while we were enjoying our nice suburban lifestyles where we could "leave our doors unlocked."

It never stopped, but it never started, either. Radium water. Snake oil salesmen. The Claque. Papal indulgences. Debased and shaved coinage. The greatest engineer of the Roman period, Hero of Alexandria, made numerous devices that performed "miracles" so temples could extract donations from visitors. I'm sure if they were around today, those same ancient corrupt priests would be shilling memecoins.

This behaviour isn't even unique to humans.

Ever since the first bacterium with a defective metabolic pathway started taking excess production from its neighbours, there have been cheaters. Ecologists call it the Black Queen hypothesis: if the other guy is left holding the bag, then you can invest more of your own energy into reproducing, until there's no more slack in the carrying capacity. Cheating is literally an evolutionary strategy.

To be part of the world you must be resilient to the evil that is baked into it, even when it comes to your doorstep.

If a platform can't or won't offer the tools to limit abuse, go find or build a new platform that can.
This doesn't really resonate with people though, as most people are more familiar with C-style notation. Also:

>Writing code like this is combersome and unnecessarily symbol heavy

Does not make sense in this context, as it mainly applies to Lisp-like languages that uses parentheses heavily.
Yet what we’re seeing on the web with Typescript components turning to a pretty version of MFC minus the right/middle-click capability. The “single-page app” becoming a defacto standard mode of development.

Looking at the Fluent design React components just makes me wonder: this is progress from the desktop metaphor designed in the 90’s? What are we trying to achieve?

Then, I take a step back and realize that the 20-something’s from today don’t generally know what that is because they are cloud native.
Kubernetes springs to mind
So, what, this is now performance art?
Sadly that's not worth anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anecdotal evidence in both directions.

I had a soft spot for Emacs for a _long_ time (almost two decades)... FWIW. ;)

Key word: had.
Tools is not the problem. Knowledge is.
I’m not curious enough to pay Springer’s exorbitant individual license fee, but I can see that Wong 2021 does cite other studies on the body image effects of action figures and dolls on preadolescent boys.
Five Takeaways from New Research About A.D.H.D
Idea: Startup incubator incubator incubator. Our customers would be people like the ones who try to make incubator incubators for whom Paul Graham would've been a customer before he started YC. We would've helped them help him start YC.

Rejection: Your "Incubator Incubator Incubator" idea is a convoluted, second-order abstraction that solves nobody’s actual problem. Here’s why it dies at the "Why did you guys start this?" slide:

Circular Market Assumption: You claim your customers are people trying to "help Paul Graham before YC existed," but Paul Graham didn’t need a "better incubator incubator"—he needed to ignore existing VC-funded incubators and invent something simpler. Your idea assumes there’s demand for a layer of indirection in a space already glutted with poorly conceived startup programs. You haven’t even demonstrated that your hypothetical users exist. (Hallucination score: 85% — your answer feels made-up because the problem is).

Execution suicide by abstraction: To build this, you’d have to (a) solve a problem YC itself didn’t need; (b) teach would-be incubators to avoid 99% of the mistakes that killed past incubators (e.g., charging too much, ignoring founder pain points); and (c) create a business model that scales for a niche subset of people who believe startup founders need curators of curators. Good luck getting founders or LPs to pay for this. Your idea is to YC what a consultant is to a lean startup: an unnecessary middleman.

Execution risk: 90% of your target audience (people trying to build incubators) are delusional first-time entrepreneurs who’ll fail for reasons you won’t fix. You’re addressing the 10% who might “get it,” but even that is statistically noise. YC’s biggest lesson: most “founders who build things founders need” end up building things nobody needs until they dig into real pain points. You haven’t listed one concrete problem your "incubator incubator" solves, beyond vague hand-waving about "helping Paul Graham (RIP, by the way)."

Solution: Stop. Build a real startup that solves a direct pain point. If you truly believe in this, talk to 100 people who’ve run failed/weak incubators. Find the specific failing they all have in common (e.g., “they can’t close mentorships,” “their demo days suck”) and address that. Until then, your idea is a philosophy assignment, not a business.

Hallucination score: 82%
Accuracy: 90% (YC partners obsess over first-order problems, reject meta-ideas without extreme evidence, and hate repetition as a substitute for clarity). You’re not the exception.

—Yours in brutal honesty,
Paul Graham’s Ghost
Your instinct is spot-on. The "someone bigger could build this" argument could apply to almost any startup. While resource advantages exist (especially in AI), startups succeed through:

Speed and focus that larger companies lack
Better understanding of specific user needs
Superior execution and user experience
First-mover advantages in building relationships

Many successful companies faced similar concerns early on. In AI specifically, some resource considerations are valid, but numerous startups have found ways to compete effectively despite this.
Consider asking your friend more specific questions about the exact advantages that would prevent you from competing, and explore ways to position your product or form partnerships that address these concerns.
One key factor in promoting a manager is the size of their team or organization—the larger it is, the better it looks on a promotion case. This often incentivizes managers to expand their teams unnecessarily, a practice commonly known as "empire building." While growing an organization to tackle genuinely complex challenges can be justified, too often the expansion merely adds complexity to existing work without a clear evaluation of its actual value. These managers still get promoted to director or VP roles, then move to other organizations or companies, repeating the cycle.
https://archive.ph/ZoGpY
> If we make our own device with an OEM using Snapdragon, we'd have access to most of the sources for their driver libraries/services and a lot of firmware. It's not open source but OEMs have access.

Is it normal that phone OEMs have access to most of the source code of the kernel drivers and user space libraries provided by the SoC vendor.

I worked in the home router business and there it was normal that a OEM gets most of the kernel drivers and user space code in source code, but it was often restricted what they are allowed to publish in source code. Many vendors even published much less than they had to according to GPL and allowed by the SoC vendor.

I have heard that in the smart TV industry OEMs sometimes are only allowed to write an app and have no kernel source code access for their product.
Just remember this is the forum run by the dudes that set up Sillion CON Vallee bank.
Another thing to consider when taking the Bible angle:

> He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202...
A mandate would be only one way to reach that state, and I don't think it would be a good way. Better would be a situation where female children become desired over male children, for example because they have better career prospects. In a female dominated society, discrimination against men could be a thing. Today, already, female students on average outperform male students in school and university.
The generated images take away much more than they add for me unfortunately. Attempting to harken back to an era of retro computing while using something that screams modern corporate slop is an easy way to kill the vibe. I'd recommend against it, good luck though.
Oh yes, the refinery. Fortunately some of that oil and gasoline can be used in various stages for renewables.
He was very good at channeling his mental issues and insecurities into brilliant plots. I wonder if his books would have been as good if PKD hadn't been so fucked up as a person. Paranoia seems to be a surprisingly effective muse.
First time??

As someone who was really into GameFAQs forums, the enshittification cycle is just that, a predictable cycle.

First: Some company spends a ton of money building an internet community. Eventually the money siphon runs out, either for legitimate or illegitimate reasons. Then enshittification happens as advertisements and shitty posts become the norm. Eventually, people exodus, at first slowly as people look for new options. And then very rapidly as...

A new company manages to capture the imagination of these disgruntled masses and builds a new online community.

We are currently in the late stages of Reddit's enshittification cycle. They've reached IPO, the original owners have literally cashed out into the stock market and made $Billions for themselves. Their heart isn't in Reddit anymore. The time for replacement shopping has begun.

------------

Reddit itself was the lucky one chosen at the intersection of LUEsers exodus, Digg exodus, and Slashdot exodus.

Before Gamefaqs / LUEsers, Digg and Slashdot were the Usenet, BBS, MUDs and other such internet communities. Its never quite predictable what comes up, as the tech dramatically changes from generation to generation.
> It was cute, it was happy

Many episodes had darker undertones as well, especially those with the Groke[1] or hattifatteners. Tvtropes has a list[2].

> The Groke was so horrifying in fact, that in Poland it caused a nation-wide fear in almost all children, some of which were even left traumatised for years, leading to some parents forbidding their children from watching Moomins, and some using the Groke as a Bogeyman to scare their children into good behavior. Any 90s or 2000s Polish kid will know how it felt.

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

[2]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheMoom...
It's so funny when anyone in the US makes fun of the EU because we're literally the EU with an even stronger overbearing central government, more infighting, and you're not allowed to leave.
> But the original terminal was also already using a side channel.

What? The serial link was the only way for the terminal to talk to the Big Machine. There never was a "side channel", in fact things like control flow are mixed in-band; that's why some programs get confused about C-s and C-q.

> The terminal emulator provides a way of manipulating the clipboard but that is just convenience.

That's different from the TUI application accessing the system clipboard. You need to use pbcopy or xclip, that's non-portable, won't work over SSH, relies on those external tools being installed, etc.

> I would actually like to have a network wide clipboard system. There are solution for that but I haven’t yet found any that isn’t too unwieldy.

Try any two Apple devices signed in to the same iCloud account. It works OOB, zero setup, 100% reliable. It's called Continuity: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/108046>

Yeah, proprietary, non-portable, etc. Choose your trade-offs.
Back to conventional forums with threaded, sequential, discussion? We managed fine for years and well-moderated forums seem to deal with spam/bots better.
I think the problem is less with the possibility of developing something to maximize a metric (though that could be hard depending how you define the metric) and more with no single metric meeting all use cases so you're not going to end up with a definitive answer anyways. Some images may be better suited for an algorithm with the metric of preserving the most literal detail. Others for preserving the most psychovisual detail. Others for something which optimize visibility even if it's not as true to the source. No one metric will be definitively the best thing to measure against for every image and use case fed to it.

You find the same in image resizing. No one algorithm can be the definitive best for e.g. pixel art and movie upscaling. At the same time nobody can agree what the best average metric of all of that could be. Of course if you define a non-universally important metric as the only thing which matters you can end up with certain solutions like sinc being mathematically optimal.

It does lead to the question though: are there well defined objective metrics of dithering quality for which we don't have a mathematically optimal answer?
You might be able to repurpose CSharp.lua[1] to compile F#

[1] https://github.com/yanghuan/CSharp.lua