skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who makes money off of the Packers? Startups may not be willing to take this model on if its less profitable for founders
Going from living in VT to NH right now, for those very reasons. A huge number of VT tax refugees along the border of VT and NH.
True. Unfortunately, it tends to be pointed towards Evil much of the time.
Google employees risked their jobs to protest against Dragonfly.
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Have you raised VC money recently or in the past? Raising is far from easy - in fact the opposite in my experience.

It's a full-time job for 1 person for months, or even the better part of a year. That's one founder taken away from keeping customers happy and building on the product.

The cost off the term sheet is real.
> For developers, we can probably expect to get around ~10-15 days off, plus occasional holidays.

Those "occasional holidays" amount to nearly two weeks (10 business days) in the U.S. And the person you're responding to was saying that Swedes would have to get 30-something additional days off to make up for the earning discrepancy.
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Right! I did assume a continuous space because that's what it looked like to me. Hence my pedantic comment which was sort of comically at odds with the light-hearted spirit of your article :) Very nice work. Thanks for sharing, and for the clarifying remarks!
That will attract gamblers and repulse systematic workers who care more about craft itself and less about estimating, choosing and negotiating projects.
That would just distroy it but they are invisible to most people. Benthic ecosystems are fragile. They depend a lot on silt size and currents.
Yes, although the 90's also had other models of OOP, they just failed to gain mindshare.

The most mind blowing variant was BETA, but I guess pattern based OOP was probably a bit too much for the common dev.
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From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777662
This isn't an alcoholic's reality unfortunately. I imagine they even wish it was!
No reason to engage. I think "discussing" a topic with another "online persona" is almost always a waste of time. I also find most comments to be speculative, argumentative, uninformed opinions, trolling, jokes or trash. It is great finding a decent comment chain, but usually I'm late to the show(like now)!

When I was young I enjoyed commenting and voicing my opinion, after 25 years online, I no longer derive satisfaction from it.
I am not sure what diversity has to do with it? As said, I don't drink but does that mean no-one else should be allowed to drink? What is the idea behind that?

Just imo: if you don't drink but have a problem with others doing so then there is something wrong with you, not with the people who drink.

And speaking from experience, the people who do have a problem with others drinking tend to be motivated by religions that conflict with accepted ideals of liberal democracy (i.e. they look down on people who drink, believe they are unclean/mad/whatever).
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I find the reporting of this as a "data leak", as opposed to a more aggressive term, rather concerning.

"UpGuard in its data estimated that up to 14 million customer records were exposed, but Verizon stated that data on 6 million of its users was affected."

I don't see how this would be considered a "leak" rather than a "breach". Are we starting to become desensitized to these security issues, leading to the reporting on them similarly weakening? Is the downplay of language a form of shielding the companies responsible from backlash?
Why are you evaluating the effects of eating less by looking at people who aren't eating less?
The Packers model works because it's basically a scam, no one in Green Bay actually has any say over what the Packers do day to day but it feels good for Packer fans to say they own a part of the team. There's emotional buy in, it's not a rationale way to invest your money, and no one lends money with the idea that they're not going to see it again as a business.

Community support projects work for Kickstarter or Indiegogo marketing to the general public consumer, that's not the same thing as trying to build a B2B SaaS platform fixing a specific problem marketed at Fortune 500 companies.
So there is hope to overcome the "not as portable as C" showstopper.
But they do. They let them target ads based on your location. It's the same thing as selling personal data. If someone clicks a location targeted ad the advertiser know the persons location.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1722043?hl=en

"Google Ads location targeting allows your ads to appear in the geographic locations that you choose: countries, areas within a country, a radius around a location, or location groups, which can include places of interest, your business locations, or tiered demographics.

Location targeting helps you focus your advertising on the areas where you'll find the right customers, and restrict it in areas where you won't. This specific type of targeting could help increase your return on investment (ROI) as a result."

In a sense Google is spyware and adware at the same time. It shame these two terms are used less now then they used too, since they lost their meaning when so many apps and your Android phone itself is one.
at 35c3 another good talk Inside the Fake Science Factories https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9744-inside_the_fake_science_fac... English audio track available.
> Google makes it pretty clear that they do not sell any personal information to advertisers

Facebook’s used that like, too.
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Google uses that information to serve ads but they don't sell the location data to advertisers.
Yeah, when a good VC owns 30% of your company they are invested in seeing this grow and succeed. There are other VC which are handsoff and do a spray pray approach to investing.
Honestly, if you want to see what news editors see in the form of letters to the editor, go to your closest small(ish) (100k or less) town local newspaper or tv station's website and look through the comments on stories. They're frighteningly disjointed, insane, and disconnected from reality.

These are real, actual people who submit comments. And those people are anonymous and free to post whatever lies they care to come up with on forums such as this one.
The point is that for most people "exercise and eat less" doesn't happen. Most people are undisciplined and unable to achieve it.
A hypothetical that might more accurately reflect the situation at conferences would be if the social events consisted of nothing but nature hikes.

I'm still not sure that's an ideal analogy, though, because it still misses an analogue to a key angle that the article brings up: nature hikes don't engender things like sexual harassment in quite the same way.
Bars almost always have alternative options or food, unlike physical activities
The men who stay awake so India's rich can sleep
>isn't it still a good thing to reduce the number of companies with this data?

Maybe you want multiple companies competing in the same realm rather than Google handling most of the private data and becoming incredibly powerful. Maybe you want to unmask Google's motives so as to not play into their PR strategy.
That’s a very all or nothing scenario. No one is saying no alcohol and no one is saying no nature hikes. The big ask here seems to be that people be understanding that recovering alcoholics can’t always be in the room with alcohol, just like we’d be understanding that someone in a wheelchair couldn’t necessarily go hiking. Similarly, the article says that people would like sober events to be made available in addition to events with alcohol.
The link is talking about damaging coral. Coral requires sunlight. I'm not sure what they mean by "deep sea", but if it's got sunlight it's not what's under discussion here. They're not pulling valuable fish species like tuna out of the hadal zone. It's confusing, to countenance the current abuses like those described in that link but use them to criticize a completely unrelated activity.
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However you've already lost almost all revenue for a video with no compensation from YT or the false claimant. It's specifically against content creators and does nothing to prevent copyright infringement. It does nothing but prove copyright infringement isn't a problem that can be solved in the courts or through the legal system. Most people do not believe the courts are fair, the law is fair, or that compensation is equitable for the product. Companies that solve that problem don't tend to have that problem. Don't believe me? Try looking up how easy it is to get Netflix content. It's not nearly as widely available on illicit sources as content that's more heavily locked down.
This reminds me of when I attempt to send a Snopes link to someone who just forwarded me a chain email. They don't thank you, you get silence or worse.
As the article states, but is a confusing in the title, this isn't a problem with all Zero Knowledge Protocols (ZKP) but is a problem with a specific ZKP, namely zk-Snarks.

You can do ZKPs without a trusted setup, they are less performant than zk-Snarks. It seems likely that in the next few years these performance problems will be overcome. Most people I've talked to in the field are very confident that protocols like zk-snarks can be done without trusted setup.
That's possible, depending on how much fuel will the operation consume when in space - and where it will come from. At the moment, I think we would need to send the fuel to move all cargo from Earth. Being able to create it directly in space would change everything, of course.
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The breath analyzer that is being hyped right now is called Keyto. You can also get blood testers and prick your finger.

I don't track myself being in ketosis on a daily basis, but I can definitely tell if I go over based on how I feel.
Why was diversity here the reason for banning this stuff? I would expect the opposite: diverse as in many options, differences and preferences, not in restricting and banning. Was this in US by chance?
Do you consider the value add of a founder and 1st employee the same?
I go on nature hikes during work less often than I drink during work.

The only 'hike' I've ever seen in a professional office setting was when the department rented out a movie theater and my boss decided that we'd walk a mile together to get to the theater. Of course that was more of an urban stroll than a nature hike. Is watching Tron Legacy a legitimate part of a professional environment? It was that day.
Taxing wealth will only increase the mobility of the wealthy.
Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
One thing I don't understand about VC money, and i'm not even sure how to phrase this, are the founders of startups able to pay themselves enough that they're set even if the business fails? What's to stop intelligent people from getting funded, paying themselves large salaries, and then not really caring if it fails or not because you're a couple hundred thousand dollars richer?
As someone that spends most of my work time on .NET, it would be nice if the .NET team would take F# into consideration in some of their design and tooling decisions, instead of looking just into VB.NET and C#.

As it is, F# is like the cousin that doesn't always get the party invitations, while JavaScript, Python and C++ get the them, even if they don't belong to the club originally.
Me neither, maybe it is a cultural US thing?
The article isn’t calling for a ban on alcohol. It’s explaining the problems that recovering alcoholics have at academic conferences but it doesn’t suggest a specific solution.
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But no mention of how 'Astounding Science Fiction' transitioned to 'Analog Science Fact/Fiction'? Same magazine, same content, same impact... Meh!

It was a gradual morphing of the titles, spread over several issues. Campbell preserved the 'symbols', which appeared on the top corner; these were intended to symbolize some abstract concept, such as 'analogy'. (Such a symbol is visible in the final picture: the radiating pattern on the top left. Nope, I don't know what it means, and I don't have that issue to hand. But it's not part of Freas' painting.)

It was all part of Campbell's mission to get readers to think, and speculate.

Last point, not mentioned anywhere in the article: Campbell's ASF dispensed with the old sexist covers of damsels in distress, and instead focused on science, engineering, and symbolism. He insisted that covers be as accurate as current scientific knowledge allowed.
Even if someone were to shame you, what's to stop you from ignoring them? So what if other people have opinions about your behavior; just acknowledge them and move on.
UBI needs to be furloughed. UBI aka just a scheme to keep the money flowing from the prole’s wallet into altman’s pocket. Universal basic EQUITY is a different thing. But he’s not offering that.
If you attack a very strong defensive structure in very defensible terrain it shouldn't be unexpected that it would take an overwhelmingly superior force to achieve it.

The number of bodies was a very small part of the story. Like real wars this was won almost entirely by logistics.
The title and the article are severely misleading. One can easily try the method described in the article and find that empirically, it doesn't work for large numbers. That implies that no one is seriously taking such a naive approach. You don't need a mathematical proof either way to know this.

But even so, the paper doesn't show that all polynomials are irreducible. It doesn't even show most are, just ones of a very special form (with 0 and 1 coefficients, randomly chosen in a certain way). Therefore, the paper doesn't rule out other kinds of polynomials, even if this were a serious approach.

Furthermore, even if the paper showed that all kinds of polynomials were almost always irreducible, that wouldn't rule out the existence of a very clever algorithm for writing the integers as values of polynomials that aren't irreducible.

Consider the following analogy: there are exceedingly many possible prime factors of 6000 digit numbers; far too many to practically test them all one after the other. I can produce a mathematical proof that shows that I'll never test primality of a 6000 digit number by trying all possible prime factors in order. But that doesn't prevent the existence of algorithms that can quite quickly tell you whether the number is prime or composite (such algorithms actually exist). Just because something looks hard or it can be proven that some naive approach is computationally infeasible, doesn't mean there isn't a very clever algorithm that makes it easy.

The authors of the actual math paper really asked for any unwanted attention they get from this news article, though. They actually give the integer factorisation problem as a motivation in their paper!
ZK-Starks already do this.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/zk-starks-create-verifiable-tru...
I noticed that this proof technically doesn't assume RH, but rather that the Dedikind zeta functions over K (where K is an algebraic extension of a root of a polynomial with binary coefficients) satisfy the riemann hypothesis. From my minimal understanding of number theory, this seems to be a stronger statement than the regular Riemann Hypothesis, but weaker than the Extended Riemann Hypothesis. I'm curious where this assumption falls on the hierarchy of different variations on the Riemann Hypothesis.
Letting someone target you with their ad based on your location is not the same thing as from telling them where you are
Small pox came from nature too. But it's effectively gone. So is the Dodo bird, etc..
>I don't understand what the big deal is...we should ban alcohol at these events because some people don't like it? I don't drink, I haven't done so since my first year of uni...it has never been an issue.

My experience not drinking in University was different. Occasionally people would get argumentative and angry at me when I said I wasn't having anything to drink that night. Definitely just some bad eggs but it sure didn't make me feel welcome.
When I moved to Seattle, I was amazed at how many social functions revolve around beer. Work functions, meetups of all varieties... Heck, my last two offices have in-office kegs.

I technically drink, I just don't particularly like most alcohol and definitely don't like beer. I don't begrudge anyone their pleasures, and I don't have a particular change I'd suggest - if I'm the outlier, it only makes sense for them to target the common case.

But I was definitely surprised at the ubiquity.
You're clearly not an alcoholic, therefore I'm sure it is easy.

For some, alcoholism is considered to be a chronic brain disease where just ordering something else isn't as easy as it sounds.
Thats only a small part of what makes wormhole space truly different.

The entire topology of wormhole space is constantly shifting with wormholes appearing and disappearing. Hole control is paramount to fighting on jspace.
The VC model is surely older than 'relatively new' and older than industrial companies of the 1900s.

One example of the VC model has been around as late as the early/mid 1800s (or perhaps as early as 1600-1700s) in a different industry.

Look up whaling ventures.

Probably multiple other, older examples as well.
> Should I be able to spark up a joint, too?

Yes
People have problems that inhibit them from engaging fully in tons of domains. Some people have binge eating disorders that are literally taking years off of their lives; should food not be a conference staple either?

There's always going to be another group of people who think that the setup is unfair. If the only group of people who feels left out is the set of academic alcoholics so early in recovery that being in a setting with alcohol is unbearable then honestly it seems fine to me.
The question remains: how is this a big deal? So what if she thinks people are judging her. Acknowledge it, ignore it, and move on with your time. We cannot seek to universally police the behavior of others, but we can control our own reactions to it. If she is uncomfortable with answering questions about why she doesn't wish to drink, she can just respond that she doesn't want to. It really does seem that simple to me.
people with perhaps the highest demand for their labor than any other professionals risked their cushy jobs to influence their company to not be complicit in the censorship of over a billion people with a regime that has committed genocide? that's superhuman dedication right there, good job Google superheroes
No one should make money selling software. Beg for donations or sell ads if you need to pay your bills. Or get a cushy university appointment like me, and spend your days polemicizing about freedom.
Even assuming just a-z, that array will be mostly empty at lower levels, and most nodes are at lower levels. That’s not good for avoiding cache misses.

There are tricks to counteract that (you don’t store pointers to lower levels, for example, but offsets, because at typical sizes of a trie you can store them in way fewer bits), and I haven’t timed any implementation for decades, but it would surprise me if such an approach would improve performance on lower levels.

You could use it at top level (basically replacing the trie with separate tries for each starting letter)

Also, the ‘search for a character in an array’ code can be sped up by using vector instructions nowadays (can’t find a link for the exact code, but http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-strfind.html may give ideas). Whether want to do that because of power usage concerns is a completely different can of worms.
Here's how I describe it:

It's like dark souls if there were way more monsters and items with interactions that can one shot you if you aren't knowledgeable and careful, but you don't know what they do right away, and when you die you have to start from the beginning with a totally different level layout, starting loadout and pickup RNG, AND you forget what all the items do.
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If as an academic you can't handle joking criticism, you've chosen the wrong field.
> "No one is saying no alcohol"

That's definitely not true. There are a lot of people who believe alcohol has absolutely no place in any professional setting.
You're being downvoted, but if you look at a ranking of household income by ethnicity in the U.S., it's pretty clear that you're right. The highest earning ethnic group is Indian Americans. You can make the (terribly convoluted) argument that East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) are somehow white, but there's no getting around the fact that Indians are brown. At least as brown as Mexicans and probably browner (Mexicans tend to be about 40% European ancestry on average).

Here's that list for anybody who wants to take a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
It's just as bad in tech. I've been trying to limit my alcohol intake because I just don't care for spending money on it anymore and I overall just don't care for it anymore. The blowback has been surprising. Sly comments and side glances galore.
I see two kinds of programming languages in the world. There are a couple which were designed with a great concurrency model from the start, and there are all the rest which weren’t. In these, concurrency remains awkward at best, and seriously problematic at worst.

I have never seen any programming language retcon a good concurrency model onto version 6. The actor proposal I’ve seen looks horrendously complex.

I try to be open minded about something I haven’t used yet but I really don’t think this is something you can just bolt on.
I infiltrated a large bloc, worked my way to a position of trust, eventually CEO, stole everything I could and then quit playing. I considered that winning the game.
Or telling them who you are. Google knows, but AFAIK they don't pass that along to the advertiser.
That could be done, if it was agreed that this is a mis-feature. I don't think there's agreement on that, though.
Did you read the article? The person discussed is a recovering alcoholic. She complains that the only way she can get a water is to go to the bar. (I got the impression she was afraid of relapsing.)

It's much easier to walk up to the bar and ask for a water if you're someone who's avoided alcohol throughout your life, instead of someone who's a recovering addict, who actively fears a relapse.

(And, I'll be honest, when I'm driving, or my stomach is upset, I have no problem ordering a soda water. I don't even try to hide that I'm not drinking. I dealt with enough pressure in my college fraternity that I realized that the only people who care how much I drink are alcoholics.)
The competition is stiff today:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketpl...
I'm not sure the shaming or even the people is the biggest issue with alcoholism and the issues raised in the article.

It's more the almost overwhelming temptation - the need, even - to consume alcohol.

It's not an issue I face, as I'm not an alcoholic, but I'm sympathetic to those who do suffer from this disease and face a less than equal footing in their professional lives as a result. I don't have a solution for the problem.
Well, kinda but there's some definite shades of gray here.

EDIT - for example I'm not sure the original "Bounty hunters" use case would be facilitated by Google's targeted ads. There's a big gap between "I might be able to target ads at people in a narrow geographical area" and "I can find our where someone lives"
The drinking happens outside conference typically. It's part of the socializing.
These are important networking events, as the article mentions. Making a bad impression could potentially impact your career.

(Aside from the fact that humans are social animals wired to experience discomfort when snubbed. "Grow a thicker skin" is sometimes necessary, but it shouldn't have to be the default.)