skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s just the way VC works. HN posters who have never raised a round of financing in their lives love to pontificate about how cheap money is these days and how easy it is to get funded. It does look that way from the outside. However, this is actively harmful to the psychology of struggling founders, because raising money is objectively difficult. The people who don’t treat it as such are in for a world of hurt and / or disappointment in the future.

Get customers. But also, ask founders for advice and seek accelerator programs for mentorship if VC is something you want to pursue. Financing is much more nuanced than HN / movies make it seem. There’s tremendous selection bias around advice because a good proportion of founders who succeed at it are unreasonably lucky. A good chunk more, though, just grinded it the hell out — and those in this category will often just tell you they worked really hard and got lucky.

Be persistent. Build your company. Luck comes to those who position themselves to be lucky.
I wonder what the presidential campaign will do for the privacy narrative. I think people like mark warner and klobuchar will start to pit big tech as a beast only they can control and data will be at the center of it. Anyone else agree?
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Could have gone like:

"You're in violation of the ToS."

"Our legal team looked it over. We don't think we are."

"Well here's a more clear version of the ToS. You definitely are in violation."

Unity might think they only changed the wording, but they feel they kept the spirit of the original ToS.
Does knowledge of the STM32 family apply to other ARM chips?
PHP 7+ is a totally different world from 4. It’s actually a real programming language now. The massive API redundancy is still there, but you have classes, namespacing, etc.
If you're going to do that, why bother having the big company at all? You've just described a startup - why not just go start a startup where you get all those conditions yourself, and also cut through a lot of bureaucratic & legal red tape and get to enjoy the full fruits of your labor.

If you're worried about risk and spreading your bets, why not start a venture fund that invests small amounts in lots of little startups and takes a percentage of the success, the way YCombinator does it?
Sure- that’s true. But heirarchical organizations seek to expand even when the benefit to each existing member is zero- or indeed, negative.
From the investor point of view, there's a clear problem with the VC model as described.

How do you establish that a VC has any skill? If the game is to throw a load of money at different firms, in the hope of getting 99 losers and a massive winner, how do you tell the good ones from the bad ones? Keep in mind there's noise; a guy with alpha might have a bad day before going to meet Uber or Facebook. He then gets 100 losers instead of 99. Or vice versa.

This is called skewness in traditional markets. People can sell options and make money quite often, until they blow up, ie the reverse of what I described above.

There also seems to be opportunity in less-than-insane growth. I've invested in a couple of firms personally, via connections. Small businesses, with a few sticky customers, and decent scale potential (they both sell via the internet) that need a little bit of cash to grow. You can't throw a few million bucks at any one of them, but you can get a reasonable rate of return. I suspect there's opportunities like this everywhere, but the VC theme creates so much attention people forgot there was an investment world before VC was a thing.
> If you're making a play to win in an emerging market against seriously capitalized contenders, you might not fare so well.

Then it's a slightly more contrived case of race to the bottom, usually nobody wins. Except that in the case of race to overfunding, there is a parallel game of last-to-hold-the-bag going on, which some VC can win even on a failing company if they time their entry and exit right.

If "Incrementally building your recurring revenue" is a lifestyle business, then lifestyle business must be a good thing. Acting as the vehicle of valuation inflation games played by VC however, I'm not even sure if that should qualify as business at all (slightly exaggerating, but "theatre troupe" is borderline applicable if earning money, now or in the future, is secondary to presenting a convincing "story" to future investors for the benefit of, and as demanded by, current investors).
It's not the real time nature that makes LiveView a potential breakthrough, for me, but the additional category of interactivity it gives between "server side rendered" CRUD app and full SPA. Most apps in this zone are probably using jQuery or sprinkling in react, the former of which gets pretty messy and buggy in my experience, and the latter of which is overkill and leads to a much more complicated build system and developer environment.

It uses websockets, and I think websockets are probably necessary to implement the feature well, but that's not what I'm excited about here.
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OK, what does "more open engines" mean? UE4 is open source, with payments required if you have significant revenue. That's fine. Improbable is closed source running on Google servers with a big markup; you're just the client. Does this mean Improbable is opening up the back end? Or what?
Are there carriers that do _not_ sell your location data?
Port Costa, CA used to have a train ferry in the gold rush era. If you ever have a chance to visit it's a cool little town. Hidden just south of Martinez in the Bay Area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_(ferry)
I have been keto for a little over 2 years in case that is anecdata for length of sustainability.
They use displays designed to be readable in full, direct sunlight: https://www.l3aviationproducts.com/products/104-multi-functi...
Should we be viewing obesity as 2 distinct things?
Obesity as addiction, and obesity as poor diet/lack of exercise.

It seems to me that the 'cure' for one isn't the cure for the other. And it doesn't help either to conflate the 2.
Hacker News Comment Section on Theranos (2013)
They look down at their notes at several time, so not just pure memory, but it's still impressive.

Also note that when you move the cursor in a direction that it can't move (e.g. off the top of the menu) the cursor freezes for an exact number of frames. So if you e.g. hit "up" then "right" the cursor will always move right after a specific frame delay. They use that in order to get frame exact timings that would otherwise be impossible (the "Command?" message also has a different delay, so they can combine the two to get to the frame they need).

The memory is impressive, but belies the massive amount of trial and error that was needed to find the correct combinations.
There’s a fine line between being clever and being a smartass.
>Unity's terms state that you need an additional license if you want to use some tools because that's how it's monetized

That's a bit dishonest, when they say "you need an additional license" for cloud platforms they mean a custom license that has to be directly negotiated with Unity, it not just something you can click and buy; meaning no transparency and pretty much a closed door.
Yeah it is incompetence not malice. Although it probably feels malicious to anybody working with it.
But yet somehow Europe is a wasteland by comparison to the States for startups. In many, particularly, Northern European countries health care and college is the norm, even if UBI is further off, there are many subsidies and benefits one can have.

It is the desire, hunger, and unmet needs that creates many startups.
Well, now you know what to do:

Find non-magic fountain next to a wall (manually)
90 wishes. Eyes to phase-jump through walls. 60 c!oGL. ~+100 MB
Genocide LcPUn (due to lazy bot code ;))
Tele Vlad, phase-jump tower, get candelabrum.
h-strats to provoke Rodney (who is not allowed to return by RNG)
Wait for quest
Level-tele to jumping distance from quest leader (save realtime over landing next to).
Go to end
Land jumping distance from square
Phase-jump to priest
c!oGL to top (Mysterious force not allowed. Lovely.)
Hallu for RNG manip without walls (just press space)
Force portals relatively close on Earth, Air, Fire.
Ascend.
This quote from the article seems to answer your question fairly well.

> No one has ever done anything great in EVE without someone else wanting to destroy it.
One of the things I hadn't thought of until now was that I heard of the program as an adult. So everything in it "made sense" to me, but I didn't have any stake in it and, well, I was an adult.

Children don't have the same "big picture" view. They're not going to perceive it the same way. And facilitators have to take that into consideration. All those benefits of exercising are correct. But if the facilitator emphasizes the weight part, then that's what the kids will hold onto as well. If the facilitator doesn't emphasize the diet part (or only emphasizes eating healthy with fruits, vegetables and things, but not portion control), then kids will get only part of the message.
What social stuff? I have vodka sodas if I need to drink. Almost every restaurant will give plain foods with butter on the side (usually for free).
Am I the only one out there NOT impressed by books that deep dive into basic stuff like sleep or human origins? You don't need a book to know 80% of everything there is to know on these subjects, just keep up with the news. I'm generally looking for the true outlier books now on topics I would least expect. Not the next "Guns Germs and Steel" rehash. Been there done that.
But why is it useful to turn the base of the number system into a variable? Why go through polynomials when you can factor integers directly?
Thanks for your excellent explanation.
You may be interested in https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
how long did it take you to go into ketosis - im on day 10 and still havnt not gone in (im not really overweight)
Precisely. A senior engineer can certainly hope to make $400k or more per year for good performance. Not just in FAANG either - plenty of other profitable businesses are competing for the same grade of talent and thus pay in the same range.

Only a handful of almost surefire unicorns can reasonably come anywhere near matching that, and that only in the eventuality that they don't pull a Zenefits and leave you hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars short and in need of a new job.

Anecdotally, last year I was contacted by such a surefire unicorn for a role that was actually very interesting. We crunched the numbers together, and the best case scenario was them effectively matching my current comp. Which was actually a great proposition for startup comp, the best I've seen. Still, nowhere near compelling enough to upend my life for a higher risk position without any financial upside.

I worked in startups for the early part of my career, including a fairly well known one that exited. Neither me, nor any of my colleagues in that startup, nor any of the many other startup employees in my network, ever made more than a few hundred thousands on our options. Many very talented engineers made nothing at all on large quantities of options granted by several promising startups.

It's no wonder that none of the recent graduates I interview nowadays is at all interested in startups. When I ask where else they are interviewing, it's always FAANG and other high-flying profitable businesses. Even more so for senior engineers, whose opportunity cost is even higher, typically in the hundreds of thousands per year.
Prediction markets for Science
Sorry, I thought by the 80% rule you were talking about minimum safe discharge levels.
If you look at the final battle report, goons outnumbered INIT dudes almost two to one.
Yeah, I did think that is what you were implying.
> apparently sex is down too.

There are lot of confounding variables, though. Sex could be down because both men and women have to join the workforce, people live with {their parents for longer, with roommates} because rent is expensive, technology lets parents keep tabs on kids better, etc.

EDIT (to reflect your edit, I believe):

> Also, as for media and marriage I feel like more media is about bad marriages than good ones.

I think that's exactly her point. We only ever talk about "falling in love" and "break up". How many songs can you think of that talk about a resilient relationship? Better yet, how many songs can you think of that talk about a relationship in the past tense and say it was great?

I was thinking about this yesterday. An interesting project would be to filter every top 100 song in the past century for love songs, then look at how many stories are predominantly in the past vs. future tense, and then how many of those say good vs. bad things about the other person in the relationship. My hypothesis is there's most forward-looking of those songs talk about the wonders of love, and the past-looking songs talk about how shitty the relationship was and how they're glad it's over.

Extra credits for whoever buckets the data by decade to see if the trend has shifted.
Yes I have the same thought with respect to "normal" people. I've had what feels like years worth of sadness around people not being able to understand what the feeling of insatiable hunger after eating a pizza is like. :)
I was thinking about Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. What if every child has a cloned AI in the form of a robot or a tablet etc. it mirrors the child’s knowledge base. And depending on the life circumstances of the child, every choice the child has to make, it offers a variety of subjects to learn and master. In the future, there are no ‘degrees’ ..only skills that are marketable. I find it difficult to believe that we will have a job market as we know it now for the future generations. What is education for then...if we do end up in a post scarcity world..education still has value, yes? OTOH, if we end up with a resource scarce world, survivability would be based on skill sets that are not salary based. Just wool gathering here. What kind of future do you think your kids will have and what kind of education do you think they’d need in their future?
Political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental? PESTLE?
What Will Be OKR for Data Scientist?
Are there any examples of OKR for data science team ?
I am trying to understand how other companies evaluate Data Scientist or Research Scientist?
Microsoft, Google and Amazon took vc. Seems Dell may not have, according to a brief glance at wikipedia
I've ridden the train ferry between Sicily and mainland Italy.
I'm not a VC, but your last point is worth emphasizing. It used to be that if you wanted money for your company your options were basically:

- go to your bank for a loan for a little money you have to pay back fairly soon

- go to Sand Hill Road and get investment with the condition that you have to shoot for a huge outcome or die trying

There's a _lot_ more in the middle now, and that's really cool.
Im an automotive mechanic by trade, so im a little surprised to hear theres any drinking at all in academics? universities and all being rather dry places.

Machinists, mechanics, heck any blue-collar tradesman...we invented miller time. when the last deadblow gets put away and the timecards punched for the day, its almost impossible to avoid hitting a local dive for a few brews.

And if you're in-like-sin with the bar owner its even worse. I remember fixing a few compressor motors for a brew-pub...just simple bearing replacement...and if i so much as look in the window the guy hauls me in off the street to tie one on.
That's exactly what this bot does once the gamestate is known; it starts by repeatedly walking the character into a wall to consume bad RNG values so the good ones can be used for fountain wishes. The additional wrinkles are that (i) there are 2^32 possible initial gamestates given their start-of-game choices, and the server is remote, so they needed to figure out a way to determine the initial gamestate to enable RNG exploitation, and (ii) they had to express the bot logic in a more generic way that could handle (almost?) any initial state, rather than hardcoding for a specific initial state.
Your links don't go anywhere.
To look at just this point:

> Why hasn't PUBG, despite its absolute success, attained the relative success of Fortnite, which is likely driving 100x or more revenue?

PUBG has had a following almost despite itself. The performance is terrible, the game assets are bland and most are store-bought, and the development behind it is incredibly slow. People played PUBG with conviction for, what, 6 months to a year?, before Fortnite showed up and started peeling players away. And when they launched on the Xbox, you couldn't use the same account that you had on the PC--which was a pretty big slap in the face for a game whose only rewards are collectable aesthetics.

While they're both technically the same genre, PUBG is slower and more methodical while Fortnite has quicker matches on the jump (if that's what you want), a more light hearted and original approach to style, and, of course, the building aspect.

On top of that, they were professional.

They released content on a regular schedule, with seasons and the season pass being something you could understand. They fix issues pretty quickly, and the game runs smooth. Plus the fact that it's not as intimidating as the gritty, slow pace of PUBG means there's likely a smaller barrier of entry.

The team behind Fortnite churn out good work, and I think the community sees and appreciates that. The game feels healthy and growing, rather than stuck in a perpetual 'alpha' phase that PUBG is still in.
>I don't understand what the big deal is...we should ban alcohol at these events because some people don't like it?

Yeah. It’s honestly really annoying. This is a big problem in tech, too, and I’ve seen it lead to a lot of alienation between employees. I don’t think alcohol belongs in any kind of professional setting at all. Should I be able to spark up a joint, too? That’s just as legal as alcohol here.
Surely their offer to stop is strong evidence that an investigation is warranted..
> Are you saying that internet commenters have a monolith "worldview"

No. I'm saying that each person has a worldview, which is the aggregate of their life experience. If a small set of people drive most discussions, then the discussions are (mostly) a reflection of their perspective only. Maybe these perspectives are diverse enough, but it's hard to know.
>We need to teach school children to be better at interrogating evidence and deciding (for themselves) what to believe.

And...

>We need to teach our children to observe the world accurately and debunk pseudo-science.

These two ideas directly conflict with one another and create a dichotomy: If I have the freedom to beleive what I want, how does this translate into having the initiative to observe the world accurately and debunk pseudo-science?

The better approach would be to understand that a lot of the laws that govern our universe (or whichever other science) has been peer-reviewed. While this doesn't mean that they're infallible (see: ether), it does mean that we should still shouldn't question them, if there's something that doesn't align with our thought-processes on it.

The harder part, of course, is proving/disproving these ideas that they may have because of limitations - whether it be levels of education (such as in the states) or the time available to go through the scientific method until they have arrived at 'x' conclusion regarding it.

People working 40+ hour work-weeks, with their own families, etc. are - generally - less inclined to take-up the mantles of science because, at the end of the day, the cost versus rewards are too askewed for them.

Instead, what I think should happen is that the sciences should have bounty programs, much in the same way that technology does, to incentivise these ventures.

At the end of the day, people still need to put food on the table and deal with day-to-day life. While some are hobbyists (e.g.: hobbyist astronomers), I don't see such large communities around the heavy sciences (e.g.: hobbyist cosmologists, hobbyist theoretical physicists, etc.) and I think that would change if either people had more free time to donate to such ventures and/or it was incentivised.

Even the old precepts of the scientific minds gathering weekly for banterings about (might be stuff of media to blame for this, if untrue) to challenge and expand our understandings isn't something openly lauded - which, to me, should be. (I want to say this was something practiced by Einstein and friends/colleagues?)

Let's face it: Despite the advancements of the last 50 years, the word "nerd" is still a pejorative.
It's quite ironic that your citation for medical advice is just a mental meandering that you were so dismissive of... maybe don't be so arrogant if you're also unwilling to cite the literature.
Exactly. The idea that Founders take on so much more ”risk” than early employees, and so deserve multiple orders of magnitude more reward is laughable.

There’s no difference in the risk of a founder and employee 1. They’re both out of a job and perhaps underpaid at first.
> The whole game favors only VCs and founders who like big bets. But for the vast majority of people (which includes employees), the VC game is not a great game to play.

If you're not the capitalist then you're probably the capital.
Everyone who isn't independently wealthy has a boss.
Welcome President Pelosi
Yea hunger is completely more manageable, from what I understand it's related to not having severe insulin fluctuations. I'm only ~6 months in, so I can't speak from a point of authority here, but my partner has been doing keto with me which definitely helped get me over the initial hump. Now, I just look at how far I've come and know that if I revert to my old ways I'll thwart the progress I've worked so hard to achieve. Honestly, right now it isn't hard to stick with.

I purposefully broke keto once (for my birthday). I had Pho and some cake. It was deliberate and delicious, and the next day I felt like complete garbage. That also helps motivate me as I like feeling good :)
That patient did (of course) receive vitamins during the fast.

I read somewhere that people who go on hunger strike, consuming nothing but water, die without becoming completely emaciated: they don't look like chronically underfed people at the end. There are plenty of well-known examples of prisoners dying while on hunger strike: they seem to last about 60 days. If you lost weight for 60 days at a constant rate taken from the 1973 case then you would lose about (456-180)/382*60 =~ 43 pounds. I would guess that most people could survive losing that much weight. But unless your aim is to kill yourself then I would advise not doing it with a hunger strike.
Just for reflection, let's consider instead the case when conferences organize a nature hike or similar. Certainly the function of this is very similar to organizing a cocktail reception - give people a chance to network and have fun. But some people are not able to participate, e.g. due to a physical disability, or they just don't like it. Should the conference stop organizing nature hikes?
I found there to be a lot of drinking academics. Maybe in the US its different?