skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my part, I think the partners are much more important than the idea. Good companies can pivot to find a good market. Bad partners will sink you, or never get off the ground to begin with.

Select for team, not for idea. The best idea is the one that can attract and motivate a great team, or one put forward by people you want to work with.

FWIW, I recall Paul Graham writing something that explains how he screens YC applicants. The upshot is that he doesn't devote consideration the idea unless he's first intrigued by the team. Whether you're a spectacularly successful investor in many startups or the potential co-founder of just one, that's probably a good place to start.
A couple of weeks ago I went to see Max Tegmark (the author of this piece) speak about his new book "Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence" in San Francisco and saw the same speculative AI intelligence explosion crap we're seeing all over the place. I was disappointed because I'm a fan of Max's work as a scientist, his "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality" book was a great read and I enjoy watching his lectures about Physics, Math, and sometimes the nature of consciousness.

When he got involved in the AI Risk community I thought it might be good thing that an actual scientist is involved, maybe to ground the community's heavy speculation in scientific thinking. However, what happened was exactly the opposite -- Max turned into a fiction author! (ergo this piece). Now, of course there is a role for fiction in expanding our understanding of the future but the AI Risk community is already heavily fictionalized. The singularity, intelligence explosion, mind uploads, simulations, etc are nothing but idle prophecies.

Karl Popper, the famous philosopher of science, made a distinction between scientific predictions which usually takes the form "If X then Y will happen" and scientific prophecies which usually takes the form "Y will happen" which is exactly what Max and the rest of the AI Risk community is involved in.

Now back to Max's San Francisco talk, I actually asked him this question: "Who is doing the hard scientific work around AI Risk?" and after a long pause he said (abridged): "I don't think there is hard scientific work to be done but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't think about it. We're trying to predict the future and if you told me that my house will burn down then of course I'll go look into it".

This doesn't inspire much confidence in the AI Risk community, where scientists need to leave their tools at the door to enter The Fantastic World of AI Risk and where fact and fiction interweave liberally -- or as Douglas Hofstadter put it when describing the singularitarians: "a lot of very good food and some dog excrements".
I'd be really interested in the dynamics behind the rise and fall, the life-cycle, of various chat and communications systems and platforms.

What is it, specifically, that tends to precipitate the decline of a platform, or the rise of a new one?
You're right... for now. We're seeing incredible concentration of wealth. Eventually they will become lazy and overly bureaucratic. Google, Apple, and Facebook in particular made their mark by dismissing customer service and by not addressing customer complaints, creating a culture of the "one true way". That culture + monopoly status will create (and is creating) a toxic miasma.
As I understand it, the problem with drugs that aren't patentable is there is no way for those who pay for clinical testing to re-coup their investment. Phase I-IV clinical testing usually goes well over 100 million USD [1] so drug companies need to recoup that money, if the drug isn't protected under patent, once approved, any manufacturer can produce it. Sure they could patent GMO organism that produces it, but the process to produce it chemically is already well understood, Shulgin has published recipes to produce virtually every psychedelic chemically pure in Pikal and Tikal.

[1]https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/examination-clinical-trial-costs...
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Doesn't this create a two tier system where the directly elected representatives hold a proper mandate and those on the party list are relegated to the back seats of power?
Pulling numbers out of thin air:

Let's assume that Justin Bieber gets 100m streams this month, and that's 5% of all streams on Spotify. That means there are 2bn streams across all artists. If your 10 favourite bands between them get 2,000,000 streams, then they represent 0.1% of streaming activity. Out of your £10, spotify gets £8.33 (taking off the VAT). Spotify pays out 70% of revenues in royalties - so there's £5.83 going out the door. Bieber gets 5% of this - £0.29 - and your bands get £0.0058 - so about 0.6 pence. If there are ten bands, then they are each getting 0.06 pence of your £10. Assuming those bands are self releasing, and there are four people in a band, each band member is making 0.0015 pence out of your initial £10.

Whether that money actually goes to Bieber personally, and whether the 0.06p actually goes to the members of the band is another thing entirely, and is dictated the deal that they have (or don't have) with an intermediary such as a record label.
Everyone downvoting this doesn't understand comedy. So some comedians make (for example) Holocaust jokes. They are careful about doing it in a way that doesn't disparage Jews, even though it might be shocking, off-the-cuff sounding, &c. Professional comedians can do this because they're experts at telling carefully crafted and targeted jokes in a way that sounds natural. It might be very shocking, but not shocking in a way that fosters racist feelings in the audience.

If a comedian showed up to a mic and started making the sort of Holocaust joke that an insensitive person would make after a few beers, they might get some laughs, but laughs aren't the goal--the goal is to have a good set that people like and remember. Their set would likely flop and they would likely not invited back. I dabble a bit in comedy and, yes, I have seen this happen.

This example holds for most sensitive subjects. So no, it is not acceptable in comedy to say anything for the sake of getting a laugh.
No one at Los Alamos ever thought that would happen. Someone did wonder if it could happen, suggested it should be checked and that is what they did. It turned out to be as impossible as creating a black hole at CERN. They didn't just go ahead without checking.
This is the same guy who said the sun revolves around the earth and that 300KB blocks already push the limits of the bitcoin even though there have been full 1MB blocks for well over a year and bitcoin cash has already demonstrated mining 8MB with no problem (of course).

Read through his reddit history and see if you still think he is something worth treating as an authority. It's full of extremist religious ramblings and nonsense about bitcoin with no technical backing.
> The party in power (Democrats) agreed to this several years ago

No, they were both adopted by citizen initiative, and the California Democratic Party opposed both (the Republican Party supported the redistricting one, all six of California’s ballot-qualified parties opposed the jungle primary, which got put on the ballot as part of a deal to pass a budget back when the supermajority budget requirement made holding the budget hostage a regular occurrence.)
Interesting. Deserves far more upvotes.
At those doses, the first few hours would be fairly mild with just a feeling of closeness, openness and comfort. The second dose would push you closer to the ‘oh my god love is everywhere why didn’t I see this before’ feeling.
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Very minor correction - 70% goes to rights holders, 30% goes to Spotify.

A rights holder may or may not be an artist - quite often, the rights holder for the recording royalty is a record label, and the artist is getting a percentage of what the label takes. There is also the publishing (songwriter) royalty - and the songwriter may or may not be the recording artist.
My first program was a visual basic registry editor that allowed me to add more than 200 buddies. Thanks AIM!
Every time I read, chew, and fully digest a Carlyle sentence, I feel full.

Most contemporary writing feels like cotton candy that dissolves easily in the mind, when compared to the rack of lamb you take in from Carlyle.
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As with any article about music finances, it misses one crucial detail: elaborating how the money is split between every single entity in the value chain. There's plenty of YouTubers who make orders of magnitude more money on the same amount of views. I feel it's probably largely due to the fact that youtubers usually only split the cash two ways between the star and the editor
https://github.com/Unidata/xsede-jetstream/tree/master/.org/...
We have been using Hazelcast for a while now. Currently evaluating K tables if we could get the same performance. Any learnings or advices would be welcome if anyone has done the switch.
> electricity costs a lot

well it's not just electricity. to run your server you probably at least need a network, ups and probably other things. this stuff especially gets ugly when you want to have a network with many servers. at least most dedicated server providers charge a ton of money for interconnection of servers. well at least ova actually provides a vRack for dedicated servers but its not always free.
Here you go: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doct...

Switzerland rocks in many ways.
So you just submit your resume to places you'd like to work, even if they're not hiring? Do you even look at job postings? That's interesting...
https://www.google.com/humans.txt
Watch and listen.

When you find common/repeated gaps, problems, and frustrations, stop and look at them. If you care about the problem, find out who else has it, what alternatives there are, what it takes to get a MVP to solve the first 80% of the problem.
Just anecdotally, I worked out a lot of deep seated personal issues with people at rave after parties. Really you just need anyone you trust to listen to you.
Wow, new comic?

Previously it was a different one.
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Feel free to not talk, i don't mind.

> there is no "network".

Yes there is, Bitcoin is a p2p network that maintains the blockchain. without the network you don't have bitcoin.

The only difference is you think the blockchain is separate from the network, whereas my point was there are people who also see them as inseparable. my point was there are two different ways of seeing things, including your view. I didn't even say you were wrong, and i didn't even say the other pov was wright. i was just providing another perspective.

Suit yourself, but it's impossible to have civil conversation when all you get in response is condescension.
Squirrels Sort Their Nuts Like You Sort Your Fridge
That sounds a lot like McLuhan's ideas.
Yeah... unless you're protesting. Or in a group deemed "radical". Or, or, or...
(1) WTF AMERICAN TROOPS IN NIGERIA?
Both of these ligatures (fi and ->) in standard computer fonts like TTF or OTF use exactly the same technology.

The only difference is that one ligature applies to alphabetic characters and the other to non-alphabetic characters.

Ligatures can be used to make some font aesthetically pleasing like this: http://www.impallari.com/lobster/

Or they can be abused like this: https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

It is perfectly possible for a font to have alphabetic and non-alphabetic ligatures.
It's the powers that be (money; pharmaceutical industry) who want these substances to remain criminalized, because these substances can be way more powerful and much cheaper than anti-depressants & Co. - and without destructive side-effects. So what MDMA, LSD, psilocybin and others can do is make people much healthier and the industry a tiny bit less rich, which is only in "the people's" interest.
Strong anti-monopoly laws which break up Google and Facebook would solve the problem, yes?

Without touching the freedom of assembly or speech.

I'm not saying it's the best solution, but bring it up to point out that it's important to also consider the economics which caused the problem to arise in the first place.

Remember, unrestrained capitalism doesn't incorporate human rights - as the slave trade shows.
Most of articles like this one, in the the spirit of Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, seem to border on actual futurism and philosophy/idealism.

The common theme is the self-improving AI in the context of some reward-function, but they lack the details about how it can be achieved based on our current knowledge, even if we extrapolate the computing power.

Before that time comes, our economy will be already hugely changed thanks to the narrow super-AIs. I think it's much more interesting (and alarming to the general public) to try to imagine different ways this could play out in the next 20 years.
I went to Ole Miss so it's definitely possible someone looked at that and said "well, we're definitely not taking a 3.0 from there" and wanted transcripts.

It's also possible that they asked for transcripts and you politely declined while I felt it was a non-negotiable request.
...as Roko's basilisk.

(Apologies if you hadn't heard of it before now)
Yes, but YouTube is itself a middleman at this point. Possibly a generous one or not but still a middleman who can vary the size of their cut.

Only competion can alter that very much.
Huh, apparently GitHub redirects theirs to their (HTML) about page.
Full verification is extremely expensive, not just to create the proofs, but also to maintain them as the software evolves. Telling C programmers to go directly to full verification is, indeed, making the perfect the enemy of the good.

And you are missing an important point here. Once you have a reasonably sound and rich type system, you can leverage the type system in library API design to eliminate classes of higher-level bugs. For example, Rust crypto libraries can leverage Rust's affine type system to ensure you don't use a nonce more than once. The Apache Struts vulnerability was about failing to distinguish trusted vs untrusted input; that distinction can be expressed and checked in type systems.
I have known people in more social countries that were able to regain a life because they had access to medical care, housing and reschooling. It takes years but it's possible IF you have that help. Those people are now contributing again and have independence even with their limits. If I had that available, if I had been born in such a place, I would have had a life back over a decade ago. But here I simply cannot manage everything. I have tried to immigrate but it takes 5-8 years of legal stability in most places just to become a permanent resident or citizen and have access to the benefits of such a system. I think I am just screwed. I will move and at best get some small under the table cash and at least accessing affordable healthcare in the private syste while hoping I don't get deported since I probably won't be able to formally legalize. It's not ideal at all but I simply cannot make it here anymore.
There's nothing wrong with tools. I like tools. I use them all the time. I want better ones.

I also want programmers to be able to use those tools well.

Finally, I look at a lot of crap code written by programmers who throw all their disciplines away because of schedule pressure or other factors. For the sake of going fast they throw away everything that might allow them go actually go fast.
And yet the "leftist mobs" are capable of understanding that a person is to be judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin, the religion of their mother, or the gender of their partner. Why are you insisting on identity politics?
That was cool!
>Well I can do runtime checks just as easily in Clojure, but I'm really talking about compile time checks.

Take a look at this:
http://ahungry.com/blog/2015-07-10-Type-Safety-and-Lack-Ther...

It shows you a 9-lines macro for CL, that allows you to declare types in a way resembling Haskell, and having the compiler do the static checks.

Very nice.

Another example is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8598149
> [...] then immediately gave up due to lack of documentation.

What? I paid special attention to the quality of EDoc documentation, and
now you say I didn't provide any? Not to mention that the application you
gave as a role model is documented in a sloopy way, with many functions not
described at all, missing argument names left and right, all private exports
and modules included in published docs, and lack of formatting on top of that.
Yes to Merino wool! I don't own a t-shirt or socks made out of cotton anymore.
Actually kind of amazed they didn’t try simply moving the unaltered square layout into a lower corner for easier access.

I am used to the placement of the buttons too so having them in a square pattern is important. Moving them around in any way without moving the entire square cluster is going to feel awkward.
> The point I'm making is that "progressive philosophy" dictates that an argument is won almost entirely based on "victim" points.

Aren't you making the exact opposite argument? Both Shapiro and Yiannopoulos have plenty of "victim points", which you have kindly enumerated, and are yet not winning any arguments in the eyes of "progressive philosophy," as you have stated.
Probably most of it ended up in the hands of the record label that owns the YouTube account, and by the time they finished taking their cut the final $200 made it back to the song writer.

But the video will have more 'creators' than a song. I.e. song writer should not be getting 20% royalties of the video spin.
We do: https://esharesinc.com/humans.txt

It's part of every new engineer's first day or two. It's their first shipped PR to add themselves as a human.
Proton-size puzzle deepens
As has been answered before, we know for a fact that gene transfer exists between species, we just do not know for sure how it happens (as it is certainly a very rare event). Potential candidates are extracellular RNAs, intracellular bacteria as vehicle and last but not least transfer via virusses.

On the other hand, our features are not particular similar to pigs, its just that pigs are similar sized mamalian omnivors (ergo similar inner organs) and can be bred well.
Enables automated vulnerability disclosure.
This is one reason why employment/population ratio is probably a better measure of economic health than the unemployment rate.
The problem is that electrolysis alone already kept breaking hundreds of addons, so that wouldn't have worked. The only way to prevent breakage, from what I've gathered, would have been to just keep Firefox like it is and not go on with Quantum, which really wouldn't have been great either. And of course, with more users testing WebExtension addons, those new addons hsould mature a lot faster than before.
I too found this dialog to have bizarre choices for function and iconography. My main gripe with it is that there are now two "Save" actions in Firefox that have completely different functionality (Save a page vs Save a screenshot). I found this to be a very odd choice.
I have never told people that they must have 100% test coverage. Indeed, I tell them that 100% test coverage is impossible.

What you are referring to is a statement I frequently make -- 100% coverage is the goal. It's an asymptotic goal, but it's still the goal. No lesser goal makes any sense.
NIST guidelines are for a minimum length of 8 characters and a maximum length of no fewer than 64 characters.

What is your basis for suggesting anything less than those guidelines is sufficient?

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/

https://qz.com/981941/the-us-standards-office-wants-to-do-aw...
This site is horribly complex for creating a plain-text file with four fields.
Perhaps, the complexity comes from having 10 contributors.

_Not everything needs to be a large project._ A template right on the webpage would have the same value. That raises the point that a blog post about the RFC would have greater utility.
The more you use a Google feature as a crutch, the less the web is semantic.

Also, Google has increasingly made it difficult to automate searches, so the effort required to notify multiple websites increases quickly.
The article had a quote that some starting coal mining salaries were up to $150k, but after a 2.5 year apprenticeship for solar install, workers can make $25/hr.

Better than minimum wage, but isn't it hard for somebody with a family to train for two years without a salary?
That safety-critical C/C++ code tends to be brutally constrained. Typically dynamic memory allocation is not allowed. It's also very expensive to write and verify. If that was the only way people were allowed to use C/C++, most programmers would migrate to Rust or whatever en-masse. I'm for it!
In Firefox Developer edition on macOS there's no obvious way to add new blocklist sources in the UI. You can switch between two provided by Disconnect.me, and that's it.
Ask HN: What is a good example of Superadmin panel for B2B SaaS app?
There are many examples of user’s admin dashboards but I didn’t find any for B2B company dashboard managing its customers. For example, support needs an access to customer’s data to troubleshoot issues, restore lost access, issue a refund, change permissions, etc. Any public examples?
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Type systems do not force programmers to be disciplined. Type systems tempt programmers to cheat.
>The joke isn’t the joke itself, the joke is that this joke was told in this context.

Unrelated, but I think this is where a lot of The Onion's appeal comes from.
Googled it and the only publications who discussed this were right wing publications. I think "repeal of the first ammendment" is hyperbole used mostly by those sets of authors.

Politifact seems to say it was about campaign finance[0]

[0] http://www.politifact.com/iowa/statements/2015/dec/22/ted-cr...
The per-stream rates between radio & interactive has narrowed significantly in the last 10 years so it's only a 10-15% difference.
Nice idea, but a little inconsistent. Even their own site doesn't comply with their own RFC.
one of the key advantages of FOSS licenses is that we immediately know long term what the trade-offs are (except maybe the AGPL). and this means we can invest in learning to use, improve and integrate the software without a lot of negotiating with the author. without the risk of the rug being pulled out from under us

in spite of the misleading name and the allusions to open source, this license scheme fails to capture that predictability

i've written a license that attempts to capture more of a balance:
https://github.com/db4j/pupl
It's the CEO's job to demand the impossible. It's the engineer's job to deal with reality. When the engineer tells the CEO that the impossible is possible, the engineer has forsaken his/her responsibilities.
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Concurrent servers
Just reading your comment made LSL6 hotel theme play in my head.

I should add, LSL7 was a great game. On top of that, the recent remake of LSL1 (Kickstarter-funded, with tracks by Austin Wintory) is a good addition if you're a fan of the series.

Still, the graphics, feel, music, story and feel of LSL6 make it my favorite game in the series.
Installing Erlang+Elixir with asdf
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