skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interview with Andy Rachleff (former VC at Benchmark and CEO of Wealthfront), where he notes that the problem with Kleiner is that the old partners never retired. They just stayed on and did very little actual work but since they owned huge stakes in the partnership they collected much of the carry. Over time new firms (like Benchmark) formed that basically pushed out partners who started coasting. If you are an ambitious young VC which kind of firm would you work for?
I was thinking something more like handcrafted artisanal compost, extra row spacing, daily weeding and hand watering? Kobe-beef of onions.

What could make an onion beautiful enough to buy for $100/ea? If you made these, I bet you'd find a market in Japan. Could make a good gift for people who like cooking.
Adblocking ad-supported websites is not a steady-state existence. Those websites will either shift to subscriptions, shutdown, or find the equilibrium of-difficult-but-not-impossible-to-avoid advertising

I think the internet has overshot our attention carrying capacity and we're in for a crash as the pendulum swings back.
The real role that media plays, for good or for ill, is to direct the masses attention.

Want to cast the goings on, all of them, of your local council meetings into darkness? Have them do exactly what you just described without any journalists around to catch it.
The Weather Channel?
The Hotshots of Helltown
> That's a strong opinion. I'm not going to argue for lack of time, but suffice to say that 99% of my interactions with my computer and sometimes with my phone is with a shell scripting language. Shell scripting is awesome.

It really isn't though. (It certainly can be fun however). Switching from shell scripts, and avoiding to do things manually (like ssh), likely increases your success rate at managing *nix by orders of magnitude. All these "configuration management" tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible etc. are pretty much just to avoid shell scripts and interactive ssh.
That doesn't follow.

If predatory pricing is effective, an algorithm can be taught, or learn to, exploit it if fed with the right data.

This, quite obviously, shouldn't change anything regarding the potential legality, as it's entirely self evident that a sufficiently powerful machine learning algorithm will exploit any patterns not expressly forbidden.

As always, the responsibility for following the laws, and making sure these extensions of our own agency we call machines also follow the same laws fall on whomever is making the machine act in their stead.

One can however be assured that several companies will argue otherwise, argue as if they were simply a victim of some sort. Which might be true in a sense. Victims of their own devices, both figuratively and almost literally at the same time.
this just went from cool toy to really useful
> nearly limitless capacity for activist judges to wield the justice system according to their whims.

It'd be a nice change from activist judges who take the side of the corporations.
Once you include "luxury" consumption countries with "low" COL stop being low COL. For example cars, iphones, laptops are way more expensive in Eastern Europe than US.
one of the easiest ways is to avoid using most adjectives. Not taking a point of view, not speculating, not predicting the future. Limit the use of verbs with strong negative or positive connotations.

Stick to what people did, what they said, and let people draw their own conclusions.

Story selection is also a form of bias.

<<The usual tensions between reporters and government representatives have escalated to extreme levels in the Trump age, due largely to the President's near-daily attacks against the media. His portrayal of the people who cover him as his "enemy" and the "enemy of the people" has been denounced by historians, press freedom advocates and politicians in both parties.>>
They're not exactly equivalent. Tire-chalking essentially proves that the vehicle didn't move (or that the driver was ridiculously unlucky in that the mark showed up at about the same location). The number/license plate merely shows that the same car is in the same parking spot, so the (legal, if arguably too "letter of the law") approach of vacating the space and parking there again is indistinguishable from overstaying the limit.
I think so, but it will be hard for us to prove.
When I was researching which FOSS video editors to try, I read a few reviews which talked about how Blender is less intuitive and more difficult to use than the other choices (OpenShot, Shotcut, KdenLive) so I did not try it. I did a quick search just now, and saw that Blender offers vectorscope and waveform functions, which when I started doing editing I did not know about, but now I find extremely helpful in getting white balance and color correction right. If I haven't already been spoiled by the speed and ease of use of Davinci Resolve, I think I would have tried Blender.
This is why I'm bullish on Nextdoor.com for making inroads into local news and local reporting. I think they're well positioned and best incentivized to pick up the hyperlocal online distribution.

Facebook, Twitter, Snap, etc are all too saturated with content that's scoped so globally that local content has a tough time penetrating through.
Nextdoor on the other hand is built for local and has the perfect geographic and privacy model to take things really really local in a way that others can't.

They'll be able to make money in a way that independent local newspapers can't, but they'll also hopefully be able to drive demand enough to incentivize local journalists, reporters and even super engaged citizens.

Nextdoor doesn't fill this use-case super well today, but I think they can pull it off if they choose to focus on it. They certainly have all the right ingredients.
ACA subsidizes coverage from the Medicaid line up to well above the median income. For example, for an individual making $23,000, premiums are capped at 4-6% of income. (Which is, incidentally, lower than the health insurance tax in Germany, which is 15.5%, with the employer covering half.)
why does it matter that the decision came out of an AI model?

Predatory pricing is either legal or not (in the eyes of the court, or legislations).
Most women's pant front pockets stopped being able to hold a phone many phone generations ago, and I personally rarely feel comfortable leaving my phone in my back pocket where it will easily fall. Moreover, most skirts or dresses don't have pockets at all. Women seem to have adjusted just fine to phones that don't fit in their pockets, I doubt that the rest of the population will have trouble adjusting.

Additionally, I read a lot more when I have my tablet with me, as it's easy to pop it out and read an article or chapter when I'm waiting for the bus, etc, and it's not tedious to read on like it is on my phone, as the tablet has a larger screen. I also rarely carry my tablet around as it seems superfluous with my computer and phone.

That's why I, at least, am jumping at the chance to have a device that is both easier to read, and not as big as my tablet.
It should, but the "consumer welfare standard" explicitly repudiates such approach. In US, a company can be a complete monopoly, wiping out all competition, and still not cross the line for anti-trust purposes.

This is actually kinda ironic, given that US is generally considered to be more on the side of the spectrum that strongly believes in the "invisible hand of the market" - and so it would make more sense for anti-trust to be defined in terms that would protect that hand from being "broken". And indeed, it was so defined originally, until this new standard came to be. Since then, we've seen steadily increasing market concentration [1], and the corresponding decline in competition, all while being assured that it's not harmful to us as consumers, and with some people even openly extolling the virtues of monopolies for consumers (e.g. Thiel).

To me, these sound very similar to the arguments that are used to justify "benevolent dictatorships", except here we're talking about economic power rather than political (and, of course, the two are not independent).

[1] https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/
At that point Toronto makes no sense - it's pointlessly expensive for the salaries offered there.
CoL in London is comparable to or greater than that in NYC, and probably not quite at SV levels but close enough for comparisons to be meaningful.
Your post just caused me to make an impulse purchase of 10 pounds of onions.

This is the first time this has ever happened to me in my life.

Though I've only been 35 or older for a year. Should I expect more decisions like this?

:)
I work for a video streaming company (primarily sports). There is a huge problem with latency in sports.

We call it the "Twitter effect". Essentially people either see things on social media or app notifications before it happens. Kinda ruins it for some people.

We are working on sub-30 second latency in 4K w/ server side ad insertion, but it's hard work. Especially with encoding with DRM baked in.
Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries
The problem is that webrtc is a very intensive CPU ( each connection have its own encription ).
How many users can this solution handle per server?
> our success is tightly tied to the success of our open-source solutions

It is not obvious from your website, so if your success is tied to your open source solutions - as you say - how do you actually make money?
Practically speaking there is no power limit. The traction motors on Tesla's cars themselves will pull two orders of magnitude more power than these chips will. Thermals are nothing compared to the heat generated by the battery, especially when supercharging.
Huawei will help build Britain’s 5G network, despite security concerns
Scala has three styles, OO, FP, Python. When learning, people can find their comfortable style. But at work, any style of preference must endure the other two styles.
It's absurd and preposterous. I love it!

Late April: Season Begins.
As a novice Java developer I really enjoyed this write up. Context is set, Java mechanisms are explained, and the attack is demonstrated.
I am willing to bet not many Java developers have a good grasp of these language features, let alone how they can be abused.
Quick note that there's a typo in "gaurantee" that detracts slightly from the seriousness of the site, in my opinion.
A good read—not what I was expecting. I won't spoil it for you but I do have a comment about Android totally off he subject of the article but dear to me to tell this community so indulge me would you?

A couple of days ago, over the EOL of Android post, I can't recall it's actual title, I commented that Android was EOL with me after trying it for the third time. I got several downvotes. Maybe I wasn't clear so let me say this: I tried android when it was new and its UI was not clear and unpleasant. I went back to iPhone iOS of whatever it was back then. Time passed and I tried it again with similar results; back to iPhone/iOS. Then I wanted something new but tried Android again and it was, again, bad. But instead of going to iPhone, I went for Windows Phone and really enjoyed it. Time passed and I could see that it was failing and when my bank stopped their support I knew I had to leave it for... iPhone. This is present day. So now, my shared name for my phone is "I'm a sheep it's an iPhone". This should tell you my feelings.

End-the-end I do look forward to "what's next" but it can't come soon enough. I should add I did try webOS early on say 2012 I think and it was a gem. Golden. But when they did that splashy, live dev even in SD and they didn't give the attendees a free phone to develop on, I knew it too was over.

Well, until the next thing comes along I'll just be with the best there is to date and that's Apple's iPhone.
Google used to run “how to interview with Google” multiple day bootcamps where they’d train you to pass its interviews. I’ve gotten couple of those candidates and thought it was just ridiculous.
Could you explain that more? “a heavy cost : callbacks are based on std::function (will do a dynamic allocation, and create an indirection)” v.s. “Qt the cost of doing a `connect` is far smaller” ?? How Qt achieves that using string comparisons at run time? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots-syntaxes.html
Show HN: Brex.Result. A library to help handle common return values in Elixir
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt the Austrian School just an older variant on the Laissez-Faire failure?
If you're driving a Tesla for three hours, you have likely drained a huge chunk of the battery already, either via the traction motors alone, or in combination with climate control and waste from braking. Tesla air conditioning alone can draw 600-2000 watts. Inference power draw is really nothing.
How is encryption expense different from normal https streaming from a cdn?
FWIW msys2 (which i personally prefer to wsl or cygwin) uses pacman which works perfectly fine under Windows.
We are in agreement on that. The point that I was attempting to make was that an AI model will do exactly what it was trained to do. If a model is trained to maximize profit without consideration for the law, then it will find all the unethical and illegal ways to price goods.
It would be nice if an article on how to ace a coding interview did not have incorrect code in it. AFAICT the set-based algorithm for finding duplicates is wrong; the resulting set will contain items in the list that are not duplicated.
How the U.S. Can Prepare to Live in China’s 5G World
That didn’t make any sense to, and I work with matrices every day. Are you trying to describe a dot product?
It depends on how the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal goes.

Gawker closed up despite it's billion-dollar Unicorn status because of a $140M verdict. A multi-billion dollar suit like the Cambridge Analytica could be devastating.
Rarely does a good local reporter just sit in on the meetings generally they also get some background from parties presenting, and on the council. Often they even develop sources that provide a bit more insider information.

And most importantly they follow up. The meeting is the start. Ihe rest is follow through. If the council are approving a special zoning permit, they go out and talk to neighbors, or the contractors previous special work, etc.

To say that you can just get some text is a bit like suggesting that wget is a good replacement for a web browser. Sure it does some of the stuff, but it isn't the real deal.
As Simple as peeling an onion.
Explore the most recent STL 3D model files on GitHub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
It looks like they support RTMP and a few other streaming methods. Maybe it's just WebRTC for ingress and then it converts to other formats. Given the advertised 500ms of latency I imagine it's not WebRTC->WebRTC.
I do security for a living. Generally speaking, code that A) is obfuscated, B) is written in PHP, and C) I'm told won't have bugs... is exactly the code I'm probably going to need to file bugs against.
Tongue in cheek, but they have really mastered clickbait
Which elite schools? I went to MIT and didn’t have to do any of this.
Are you a woman who wears USA women's pants that are nearly always skin tight and have pockets 40% the size of men's pockets?
Okay since no one has asked this yet, I will...does this man have an onion site?

Because I'm a big fan of onions, but an even bigger fan of onion sites...
I discuss our local situation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19734501

I guess if Nextdoor wanted to get in on that, they could hire journalists, but it is a reasonable outlay of money if you want to scale it, and something they don't currently do. Journalists need editors, and people to manage them who know how to hire the good ones, and probably other stuff that someone like me unfamiliar with the industry isn't even thinking of.

This is not something that can be 'crowdsourced'. Any citizen that sits through some portion of a city council meeting is probably there because they're interested in - and opinionated about - some local issue. This makes them less than ideal 'reporters'.
There is zero reason to suppose that the reason people don't use linux is X11.
Thanks! Do you know what the equivalent latency number is for cable TV? The Twitter effect only applies for the difference between the two numbers.
Shadow mode would also transmit data no?
Yes and we all know that small cities that lost their only source of news finally got their social media activists to do that job.

Or that didn't happen and mismanagement goes unnoticed for much longer.
You could say the same thing about tax returns, credit reports, Facebook accounts, medical records, etc. For all these things an employer would benefit by coercing an employee to provide them to the employer. But the risk is worth the reward, so we still have these things. Why is a semi-anonymous voting database any different? I could think of some easy mitigations to your concerns with almost no thought. Make it so that only those who's vote hashes end in a certain number get their private key, so you have plausible deniability. Say 10%. A sample of that size should be enough to verify the vote.
Did you even read this or are you trolling?
I believe most jurisdictions require you to leave a space for some time before the parking "resets"
how does typeBarEnabled and tab completion work? I have yet to find a solution in any editor that can do type under cursor for a trivial codebase and this, for me at least, is the most necessary tool for writing Haskell because of how crappy docs are usually
One technique that's worked for me is drinking a good non-alcoholic drink. In my case Beck's non-alcoholic beer is the best I've found. It's not cheap and costs more than the the usual beer I drink.

It's good enough though that I hardly notice when I drink it rather than my usual, traditional 5pm beer.
Medieval Innovations
Between the choice of being crippled in my ability to edit video in OpenShot/ShotCut/KendLive, and being crippled in the choice of output formats in Davinci Resolve, I think the output format is the lesser issue. I have outputted FHD video with audio with no problem with just the basic free version of Resolve, and if I have to transcode it, the work there is minimal compared with the effort I saved and the result I was able to achieve from using Resolve.

I had started using FOSS video editors due to ideological reasons (I use GIMP/Inkscape/Audacity regularly) and loathed to have my video edits be locked in a proprietary format, but at some point I had to admit that the end result means much more than the intermediate process, and switched to a commercial product.
Companies achieving a kind of monopoly status should be subject to additional financial disclosures and reporting. The benefit here is (1) not all companies need to meet this compliance standard (2) we get a much better look into the books to determine if there is something illegal/nefarious going on (3) this additional reporting gives upstarts an insight to chip away at any monopoly by having access to data that sustains that monopoly in the first place. Let’s not use a heavy hand of busting up a company, just let capitalism do the work.
Honestly though, wouldn’t you just pass on any property tax increase to your tenants, thus driving rent prices higher? I can’t imagine you would just eat that cost and potentially turn your real estate investments into money losing properties based on principle.
Yes! And really, how many people are going to sit there through 4/5/6 hours of streaming at every meeting to get the interesting nuggets?
Google Zurich was handing out higher offers than head office until at least a few years ago and maybe still does.
I think even with turn there's lots of chatter back and forth. Connected clients can NACK for frames and ask for a bandwidth reduction. I think the expected optimal implementation is that the group of WebRTC participants normalize towards an optimal bitrate.

For 1->n streaming you just want very high quality broadcast->server and then presumably you want the downstream clients to not have the option to send packets back to the broadcaster. Transcoding is hard though, so consumers might be stuck with just the source video quality. I assume this lib just passes the frames on from the source (twitch did just that through almost all of its pre-acquisition growth).

Some of my details might be a little off, but I did spend a few months trying to build something very similar to this with gstreamer. WebRTC was hard to grok.
I'm still under the impression that if you gave the same set of companies to every VC in the world and had each of them bet on the winners, that you wouldn't see that much of a difference in portfolio performance from the very worst to the very best VCs. There's no magic formula for choosing companies that firms like KP have--a lot of it is based on their reputation. Plus, the next Facebook is not going to look like Facebook or whatever that maxim was. The better companies tend to go to the VCs with the better reputation and the cycle continues.
I certainly believe you that it is not possible to make a living in most sports. My point was that an amateur-only rule is a big advantage for athletes who don't need to work and excludes many who might be able to earn money in an Olympic sport.
Bodycams improperly used after woman shot near Yale
Thank you sincerely for this incredibly important information. I was about to sink all my time into developing a fleet of 'facTaco' mobile eateries, laser etching hot news onto bready taco based infomorsels, however I had completely neglected to consider the competing technology of morning ice cream data deposition that is clearly necessary to develop if this service can also aim to satisfy the needs of the discerning billionaire class.
Thanks a bunch, those were helpful. You're clearly pretty fluent with Blender, how long ago did you start learning? Were there any resources you found helpful, especially for scientific applications? Most tutorials I've found are aimed more at artists, video game/movie animators, etc.

I've been looking into the Python API and the animation nodes addon too, both seem pretty powerful.
How the warming Arctic is creating a worldwide transformation
Aside from that, I think that a lot of developers are in a terrible position to blame that lawyer.

How often have you added morally dubious scripts or features to your company products/websites?
Except the two chunks of the user base are not 50:50.

I'd say remote X use has dwindled to a trickle. It's more common to use VNC. Or even a browser (ever checked out novnc?)

I stopped using X completely when I discovered tramp for emacs.
If you use "The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow",it only need Unix-style pipes and functions. you won't have to use concepts or patterns of OO&FP, and the parentheses are less than any programming language ;)

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
They're probably being downvoted because no sane person would believe it. Sounds like SovCit tinfoil-battery.

Only trouble is, it is basically true. [1] While arbitrary warrantless search and seizure is in principle still forbidden except at the border crossings themselves, just about anything else the CBP does in its normal course of business is fair game elsewhere in the 100-mile zone. The courts have been reluctant to reign them in for whatever reason.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
> the result of our belief that our legislators are too incompetent or unwilling to act in the fact of clear moral hazards

Such a belief is justified because they have a strong history of being both.