skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A16z also needs to compete with the increasing growth of in-house VC firms such as GE Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Microsoft M12, The Alexa Fund (Amazon) etc. that are trying to incubate startups these companies have already identified as adjacent to their business/needed. Apparently today 75 of the fortune 100 have a dedicated corporate VC team [1].

The Alexa Fund is a good example - Amazon wants to create an ecosystem of innovation and development around Alexa voice technology, perhaps one of the clearer examples of AI today, and is shoveling cash into the space.

Big enterprises have brought the VC model in-house, closer to R&D and the problems they need to solve because most of these companies are flush with cash and facing a declining number of good ROI bets coming out of their actual R&D departments.

To stay relevant A16z needs to pick the SMB fruit that doesn't have access to its own in-house VC biz.

Notice how the document is aimed at people who own their own biz - "What can you do with AI?" "Applying AI to your business" etc.

They're hoping to stumble on SMB teams/problems that can solve a SMB problem quicker than a solution a huge enterprise can incubate in-house, then either scale it up to a late-round/pre IPO private company or sell it off to a large enterprise for the exit.

Agreed that part of that is just asking the question - have you thought about what this new technology could do for your SMB? As well as being a thought-leader in the space and putting out some educational docs so that people know A16z has a good handle on the latest AI craze and a framework for monetizing it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/valleyvoices/2017/02/14/corpora...
> This guy ate at 330 different burger restaurants. He has a finely-tuned metric for what a good burger is (his #3 is also a neighborhood place he grew up with). He's set up to appreciate what Stanich is actually accomplishing with his burger. The average foodie tourist is unlikely to arrive armed with that context; they'll pay $30 for the burger, expect a revelation, and leave unhappy.

Rubbish. Here's 2006 list of burgers that you must have before you die from GQ:

https://www.gq.com/story/hamburger-death-eat

By Alan Richman who "traveled 23,750 miles and consumed more than 150,000 calories while taking the measure of 162 burgers across the country—with one goal: To find you the best damned assemblage of ground beef and buns this country serves up" -- the boss of a Thrillist writer probably did not even know about that infamous GQ list.

* Number 1 in NYC : Peter Luger. Still there. Accolades did not kill it.

* Number 1 in Philadelphia : Rouge. Rouge burger - still there. Restaurant is going downhill but it has changed owners multiple times -- Neil, who opened it, died a couple of weeks ago.

* Number 1 in Philadelphia (small sliders) : Barclay's Prime - of course it is also still there.

Oh, and yes Rouge raised its prices to handle the load that article generated - the place maybe sat 50, including the bar. And now since it is not as popular as it once was, the prices are lower.

> This guy ate at 330 different burger restaurants. He has a finely-tuned metric for what a good burger is (his #3 is also a neighborhood place he grew up with).

He was just not very good as the closure of his favorite burger places demonstrated.
> [O]nline political campaigns targeted on users’ gender, geographic location, and political ideology had a significant effect in persuading undecided voters to support Mr Trump, and in persuading Republican supporters to turn out on polling day.

No mention of any targeting beyond what has been on user’s profile for a decade, and it transparently used by most ads.

> [W]e use variations in advertising prices across political audiences as a measure of the intensity of Facebook political campaigning.

Political advertising represents less than 5% of ads on Facebook at the peak of a campaign, in swing states: I’m puzzled you can measure anything. Actually:

> As illustrated in Figure 4, average worldwide prices sharply rose during the last two months before the elections (an average increase of around 50 USD cents, which corresponds to about a 25 percent increase in prices), and steadily dropped over the three months after the election date.

That’s unlikely to be the election unless people spend money for three months after. That’s more likely to be US Holiday Season.
This is a fun question -- I think my zone outs work as memory processing time. I often find myself replaying certain memories, particularly recent interactions I've had with people, and just re-watching the events that transpired in my mind. I sometimes will smile or cringe as I recall these events but rarely do I think about them "critically" (oh, Bob probably asked me that question for such and such a reason!) or have any kind of internal monologue doing commentary over these memories -- I just sort of passively remember them.

It is interesting to think about how this kind of blank thinking time could be used better -- like a rehearsal, as you experience, or thinking in a more directed way. I wonder how automatic this process is -- in my case, will I always by default just re-remembering events? Anyway, thanks for a neat question!
Where did I say or imply it was?

It's very clear that his agenda is a destabilization of America rather than a unilateral revealing of the truth.

The former is not an agenda I align with, but the latter is (even if it causes the destabilization of America as a side-effect).

If you haven't seen how these leaks are very targeted in both timing and scope, you haven't been paying attention.
If we invent a system without timezones or daylight savings time I will adopt it in a heartbeat. I don't even care if it's not 10-based.
Hi, Pachyderm CEO here.
We have been discussing this comment internally for the last 15 minutes and still don't understand it. But we really enjoy it. Would you mind explaining a bit more what you are saying?
Does anyone else find it fascinating the Patrick Collison (the co-founder and current CEO of Stripe) co-wrote this article?

The dude makes me feel inadequate like no other.
It seems you and the author have something in common: refusing to believe the man at the center when he says that it wasn't the author's fault. Which he says repeatedly. And he hints at the actual reason, which you and the author just refuse to believe, I guess.

And then, in a quieter voice, he started to explain why it wasn’t just two weeks. He asked me not to reveal the details of that story, but I can say that there were personal problems, the type of serious things that can happen with any family, and would’ve happened regardless of how crowded Stanich’s was, and that real life is always more complicated and messier than we want it to be.
You're getting downvoted because you don't base your statement on anything. Google sometimes cancels Early Access or Alpha stage products. Beta products may change before they are made Generally Available (GA), but I cannot personally remember any beta product being significantly changed or cancelled before GA. Any GA product will be stable for quite some time, you will get at least a 1 year notice before they deprecate anything, as can be read from their terms: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ section 7.

But I understand hat some customers require enterprisey products that stay exactly the same for at least 10 years, and a 1 year notice might not be enough to make adjustments.
Is this only a US and European problem? when I was in college in the oughts their was a popular trend in Physics PhDs to move to china following there Grad program as China provided a block grant to them to start a new lab.

The pattern whereby professors have to apply for small grants continuously to keep a lab funded and operated is an inordinate waste of time vs. a block grant with periodic evaluation.
Link to GitHub repo:

https://github.com/razaaliraza/ukl

The article itself should have linked to it. It's a bad look to announce a project and only link to a bunch of other "competing" projects. Makes it looks like vaporware, but apparently there is code out there.
Then why the hell did we build the entire next generation around the F35? It's like we went all in on production to build carriers but our base is already full of zerglings.
How about experimental "customizeable keyboard shortcuts that don't require you to be on a loaded html page"? Or is that too "Firefox 2003"?
Kilogram redefined in terms of Planck constant
To be a macOS replacement, an OS needs to work well on Apple hardware. Does Elementary OS now work well on Apple hardware? The last time I tried it, it did not.
Jobless Somali father-of-nine keeps having kids in Sweden – wants a bigger house
elementary OS is Linux.
Can confirm. I have basic Mandarin and I would have definitely thought of you as the guy named "take a shower" if you never explained.
You have to acknowledge the point he is making, he said you don't have to get to $30 to find the right spot, moreover making it a franchise will definitely take away the lore of the place and quality control. Better to raise the price but have a reward system that keeps the price lower for those who have supported the restaurant for years.
Yeah... like the car dealers that just sold you a $50K car don't also try to get you to use them for your oil changes.
I find the ability to subscribe to (and aggregate) notifications on individual issues and projects incredibly helpful, professionally, because it lets me easily keep track of fixes and changes in upstream projects.
No, the article specifically states "Germany’s telecommunication agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, has banned smartwatches for kids, and is asking parents to destroy them." It used the fact that these are listening devices, yes, but the ban as stated sounds quite absolute.
Can't this be reported? This is unacceptable.
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I like to commend my American friends for their undying loyalty to the memory of the Empire. U.S. customary units are derived from units that helped the British conquer the world, but even the British themselves have shamelessly abandoned them for the units of a filthy, monarch-less republic. It's good to see that Americans still subconsciously yearn for the firm ruling hand of their rightful Queen.

Note: Americans hate it when I do this.
Yes, I'm a hypocrite for having worked for a company that failed to find product-market fit and having the nerve to give an opinion about why I believe a company like Google should be more consistent with their product offering and the long-term vision of their ventures.

Thanks for pointing out my hypocrisy and why I don't have the right to have an opinion about anything anymore.

I also checked your profile and you're pretty good at defending everything Google does, but I don't judge you for having those opinions, nor I think you're a hypocrite for thinking in a certain way.
> geography is complete non-issue

Newark is 0.5-1 hr away from Manhattan (both public transport and driving)

Given that NJ was apparently offering more tax breaks and that housing is generally cheaper. I can see why NJ would have been a good option.

Someone could easily stay in Jersey City/Hoboken, have a 30 minutes (in traffic) commute and get the NYC feel. Or, they could stay in Newark and rent a mansion at NYC rents.

Amazon would still have access to talent going to Columbia, Cornell-tech and get extra access to Rutgers as well.

IMO, best of both worlds.
There are a variety of potential mitigations. Legal requirements that satellites deorbit or park in a safe orbit before going dark, technology like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Deorbit to capture and deorbit large chunks, better tracking of orbital debris, etc.
What exactly is the narrative I wish existed?

The facts are that Assange does not release information as soon as it has been vetted, and he does not release everything that could be released. This is not a man who wants to reveal the truth at large, this is a man that wants to reveal certain truths and not others with a very specific political agenda.

I fully supported Assange when he seemed an unbiased actor in pursuit of the truth and holding the US and others accountable for their actions. I was horrified at many of the early Wikileaks leaks, but glad that such things were being brought to light. But now it seems that Assange neither cares for the transgressions of any other country save the US, and neither does he seem to care for the truth for the sake of it.
With the T2 chip only macOS can run on Apple hardware now.
now that's a candidate for a Rust rewrite
How can something that "crashes 75% of the time on unlocking the lock screen" be "pleasant most of the time" to use??? If Windows, OSX or Linux did that, would we even use them? Look I like to support open source projects, but junk is junk and if this thing crashes like you say so... it's junk.
Well they changed stuff recently, new domain, new ISO. I hope that means they got their act together, it's a great project overall.
I've never been a fan of granting special treatment to specific businesses. It's completely unfair to local competitors who have been quietly paying their taxes; You can boast about the economic gains, but don't forget about the harm inflicted on the rest of the sector.
TK has a reputation for bad temper. I have heard senior execs at Oracle say that they take great care to ensure that star engineers don't come into contact with him directly, lest they lose those engineers. Would be interesting to see how this plays out at Google.
The industry is booming, it doesn't need your support besides what you actually contribute in your work.
Juul Exhales After Dodging Full Ban on Flavored E-Cigs
In my experience Google has awesome sales people, but the ones I've spoken to have an engineering background. Convincing other engineers that GCP is technically superior isn't that hard, but (unfortunately) engineers aren't usually the decision makers.
ROOT and yt have quite different domains (although it's probably possible for each to emulate the other...) so I'm not sure it makes sense to compare them.
That's unfair. If you're not bilingual yourself, wanting to switch keyboard layout per window is extremely non-obvious. It would never have occurred to me.
The kg is dead, long live the kg
> and cognitive overload with no time to recover.

I don't think the Lion Air Pilots would've been able to recover at all, even if they didn't experience a cognitive overload.

> These steps were not in the manual, and the pilots had not been trained in them.

Source: OP
Maybe it’s because I don’t live in NYC, but there’s to be very little difference geographical benefit of crossing the East River, compared to crossing the Hudson.

As far as conducting the search, I thought that was obvious. By holding a bogus competition, they managed to extract tax breaks from the places they were going to settle in anyway, through the bogus threat of settling someplace else. Come on, did anyone really think Columbus, Ohio[0] was in the running?

The reason why Amazon didn’t put HQ2 in Las Vegas, is because the access to talent is not there, and Las Vegas has no comparative advantage like NYC (finance) and DC metro (legal). It’s sinply not worth it to either entice people from places that are perceived to be better (for whatever definition they choose), or to invest in training up the local population to take the jobs that are needed today.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2018/01/19/amazon-hq2-sh...
Maybe this?

Pilots have long been taught that pulling back on a 737's control column can arrest that condition – a fix pilots call a "breakaway", says the APA.

Indeed, American's runaway stabiliser checklist, dated 10 July, says, "stabiliser trim commands are interrupted when the control column is displaced in the opposite direction".

But the APA has now learned that the 737 Max is apparently different.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airline-industry-...
Considering the speed at which metrologists create new standards, we'll be about three iterations into the infinite loop by the end of the century.
This is especially true when you have things like large earthquakes[0] changing the rotational speed of the earth slightly.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth2...
Dianne Greene was the best thing ever to happen to Google Cloud. She’s widely respected within Google and she interviewed her successor.

That’s not being fired.
No not at all. I do everything on this system -- except gaming, which is a waste of time mostly -- I already clocked in what 3 or 4 years of real time on WoW? The needle is out, and I am going to stay clean this time :p But DK solo tanking was amazing while it lasted. World PvP prot pally was also fun.

The S series starting in the T460 I think is crap. Having the big honking external battery is a must. The non S series are as big as the T450s were and you get all your ports too. My T450s gets over 20hours battery life with the extended battery.

That being said I wonder if you could get more life out of your T460s. Check with powertop how many watts you use in idle. You should be able to get it to 3w (I can get mine t450s to 2.5w) idle. Use the turntables in powertop -- set them to "GOOD", you can write a systems service to enable them on boot.

For me the key to saving battery life is to optimize how much you use when you are not using your laptop.
Facebook reportedly used protesters' art against them
Newspaper subscriptions mostly pay for the delivery costs... the printing costs are largely from the ad revenue.

Also, Cable is a bit of a mixed bag as the cable company you pay doesn't pay for ALL the content on 100+ channels. Even if you only want like 10 of them. That's where ads pick up the slack.

That said, the ever shrinking runtime is really annoying... late 70's hour long programs had around 48-50 minutes of content... today, it's inching under 42 minutes of content (and overlays on credits most of the time).
> when you're a top tier 10x developer you get to either destroy the social fabric of the world

Wait are you saying that game developers are destroying the social fabric of the world?
I too love solus, but I'm a bit concerned with the ongoing project stability with it's creator and technical leader(ikey) leaving the project. It's been such an amazing project.

What do other think, can it continue to be relatively stable and not break things too much going forward?
That's analogous to switching from being a data-base administrator to a systems ops engineer. Sure, fundamental knowledge of logic is transferable (compare: knowledge of human anatomy on a general scale, courtesy of medical school), but the intricacies and applications of that knowledge are different. Some re-schooling from one extremely specialized medical post to another makes sense.

I'm talking about, for instance: being an orthopedic surgeon in England (or even France, or Russia). I operate on human bodies. Those human bodies work the same way in the United States, do they not?

Maybe there are some discrepancies in established best practices, country to country. But there is no necessity to go through the entirety of relearning fundamental medical knowledge just to demonstrate you didn't go to a "worse" medical school. Even if you did - what should be looked at is your medical practice, not school, and your patient track record.
Are you an nyc local?

There absolutely is a premium placed for companies based in nyc. Companies in Newark, Hoboken, etc all start at a major disadvantage competing for talent.
Definitely. They were the first to do that, so it wasn't easy.
Wasnt there a shipping logistics company whose network got hit by ransomware that shut down like 40% of shipping ports worldwide for like 72 hours? that’s serious economic damage, even if they eventually got backups etc running
Google acquired her company without any real product for $380MM. She cashed out, now she is gone. Simple as that. It's going to be harsh ride from here with no upside.
I wonder if anyone sells an actual (Conjectured) Optimal Sofa.
Maybe. It didn't scare off me, though. It piqued my interest!
I have no problem with an operating system that is trying to get adoption attempting to monetize. I say go for it. We’ve seen the adoption rates in the public for operating systems that take the completely free route.. near zero.
When is someone ready to manage managers?
Avogadro's constant is not itself a heavily-used value in chemistry. Its derivation is obvious if you think in a different way:

You need to convert from mass to numbers of molecules, which means you need to divide it by the mass of a molecule. The mass of a molecule is determined by the sum of the weights of each of the atoms, themselves the weights of their constituent nucleons [1]. If you fix the weight of a nucleon to be 1 (that is, we measure in daltons), then computing the weight of a molecule such as glucose (aka C₆H₁₂O₆) in daltons is a trivial formula. All you need is a periodic table that lists atomic weights, which is every copy you find a chemist using. It's worth noting that the resulting molecular weights are going to be independent of whatever measuring system you want to use [2], whether it be grams, ounces, alien flits, what have you.

Now you need to convert the mass of your substance into a count of "stuff-loads" of molecules. The simplest and most idiotic thing to do is to define a "stuff-load" to be the amount of molecules in a unit mass if it weighs 1 dalton--in other words, you make this formula be exactly one. In SI, the unit mass for this equation is grams and the "stuff-load" is the mole. If we were using US ounces as the unit mass, we'd define an ounce-mole and use that instead of SI moles.

Put another way: we define a mole such that the constant in the computation of moles from molecular weight and mass is exactly 1. Avogrado's constant itself is merely the inverse of the mass of a nucleon when expressed in grams.

[1] Okay, there's a lot more that goes on into the computation of mass. In terms of the mathematical error, though, other sources of error (e.g., wrong isotopic ratio) are going to matter before these come up.

[2] Up to the slight adjustment (about ±1%) of what you consider the weight of a nucleon to actually be.
I know. I've been sounding the alarm on this for years, to no avail. People do not understand what is happening amongst teenagers with vaping.

There are millions more people addicted to nicotine that never would have been absent vaping. We were winning the war, thanks to sound policy moves. E-cigarettes might be an okay solution for helping smokers to quit smoking. But the easy availability and marketing has led to an absolute and total epidemic, and no one seems to care.

People get incredibly defensive about this. I've been met with outright denial that it was even a possibility. Go back through my commenting history even on HN, and you'll see people telling me kids will never start vaping because "well, it's not cool." You get told well, look at all these people that quit smoking. That's great! But I don't see why it was necessary to trade smoking cessation among older cohorts for vaping addiction in teenagers. We have a massive public policy failure on our hands, and it's not getting better.

The only thing we can say is well, at least the public health crisis won't be as bad as what we had with cigarettes. Okay. But we didn't have to have one at all. E-cig companies (many of which are actually owned by the old tobacco giants) have successfully ensnared a whole new generation of addicts.
Depends on the program source... some have an ad in front of the episode even for the ad-free tier. The "live tv" option sometimes keeps you from skipping some ads as well. Most frustrating to me is they have an updated app on the fire tv devices, but won't update the android tv app (NVidia Shield TV).
Should have visualized the different libraries situation, using the different libraries. :)