skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America, where childbirth can easily come with a five-figure price tag, and where half of the people don't have 500 dollars to their name?
USV invests in early stage companies. They don't really have incentive for those companies to need late stage capital, which will dilute USV and/or cost them money to maintain their position.

If this post said "Burn as much as you can, you can always raise more" you'd undoubtedly have had an even more negative take on it. So is your position just that VCs who have backed wildly successful businesses can't offer any useful advice on how to build a wildly successful business?
There are browser extensions that do this same thing. It's pretty trivial to do.
But this article is about sharing the URL. That’s preventable, which screenshotting is not.
Hanging out with permaculture people (going on 6 years now) gives me an idea of what it must be like to hang out with famous artists. How can someone be so right and so crazy at the same time?

"The inflammation in my body"? Sounds like a dopamine response in someone whose sympathetic nervous system is strung tighter than a kettle drum.
To preface here, what I'm to share goes beyond what's in the article. That said, I worked for years in a clinical "bone lab" (and at a notable university hospital with respect to this area of research) investigating bone wasting diseases; namely, idiopathic hypercalciuria, and osteopenia & osteoporosis.

Not say that lends me too much authority on the matter, but many of the biological effects of D3 are pretty poorly understood, still. Simplifying a bit, this can be chalked up to the fact that it's roles in molecular networks across the systems are myriad, and of these, many of its (downstream) effects seem -- and, if not, are -- contradictory. (To the initial point, in it's bioactive form, it's classified as a hormone.)

At high dosages, typically what's found it many OTC supplements (5-10K IUs vs 500 IU daily allowance), there is evidence that it facilitates significant bone resorption.

So not only does it not strengthen bones, D3 actively makes it more brittle. Typically, this is linked to inadequate calcium & phosphate minerals to match the excess D3 (and these minerals in excess introduce additional problems of their own).

I didn't cite literature here but it is readily available & abundant (But I can pull some if anyone would like). And, within it, there is a glaring lack of consensus. And hence, why my language is couched in so many conditionals.
I'd be interested in comparing the increase in US health expenditures compare to a couple countries in the EU.
Because nobody but you has any idea what you’re talking about. What constitutes a “moral question”? If it’s not attached to some policy, then what, exactly, are we voting on? Seems like a poorly developed half-thought.
Epstein was a horrific person.
Joi Ito and MIT accepted donations from a wealthy donor. So what? They logged them as anonymous. They had no part in advertising any good will gained by Epstein. Epstein also helped broker other donations. This is a good move for any institution. I've yet to see any evidence of Epstein exerting control over the curriculum or management of MIT.

If Epstein was able to drum up press from his donations, where was the due diligence of those that reported on him? Why not bring up the accusations then?

The idea that no one had any idea about this until the court records were unsealed is utter nonsense, as is this attack on Ito. Before being at MIT he was an angel investor known for finding unlikely funding sources. He continued that tradition at MIT.
I would like to see a list of per-company YC outcomes vs. outcomes with traditional VCs. Is it worth “getting in?”, or is it just a low paying job with long hours, with nobody winning, on average, except YC itself?
Those are the fun, hidden costs nobody thinks about upfront, most people usually only calculate compute and storage, but forget about ingress/egress costs. It isn't that much usually, but it all adds up.
It's very easy to criticize and very hard to do better within the same constraints. Vladimir Makarov from the GCC team built the prototype. This was not the result of inexperience but a pragmatic choice.

As a side note, JRuby has had a production ready JIT since 2015.
More than 12 people from your team in a scrum is also highly illegal under IRB rules - though this is allowed in a maul.
Yes. Every time you take the low road, that part of you wins and gets a little stronger (even neurologically speaking). The reverse is true as well.
I don't disagree with your overall point, but there is definitely a difference between being able to save an image from a webpage and being able to share the URL that image was loaded from and having it work for un-authenticated users.
It's remarkable to me that in the original article and in all these comments so far, there's no mention of energy use by AWS.

AWS is market leader in public cloud, which is probably the fastest growing class of energy consumer. Already overtaking traditional industrial energy consumers such as steel.

Assuming this market trend will continue, what can AWS realistically do to mitigate their impact?
Bitcoin doesn’t really work like that, a “coin” is just a value tied to an address, so individual coins are never transferred. What you can do is see all the incoming transactions to an address to identify which addresses received the earliest mined coins.
What do you call this then? Fraud?

> The $164,000 billed to Waldron for intestinal surgery was more than twice what a commercial insurer would have paid for her care [..]. Charges on her bill included $2,000 for a $20 feeding tube.
Hearing Through the Clatter
Nope! In recent decades the violent crime rate has dropped in the US faster than the population has increased so the total number of crimes is actually fewer today than it was in 1990, even as a raw non-population-adjusted number.

My own theory is that as bad events get rarer they cross some threshold that makes them become more newsworthy when they do happen, so that we hear about them more, and salience bias - the fact that examples quickly come to mind - make us think it's happening more. This applies as much to hurricanes and mass shootings and "hate crimes" and violent crime in general as it did to shark attacks in the mythic "summer of the shark". Once the media has an existing narrative they can hang a story on (eg "it's just like Columbine!") they find it easy to report more stories like that, until eventually we all get sick of that topic and move on to something else.
A website isn't a person and the law doesn't expect them to act as such. It's a tool. Making a 'request' to a web server is more like turning the knob on a door: maybe the owner installed a lock, or maybe it just opens without there being a lock. But even if there isn't a lock, the law doesn't absolve you of trespassing against the door's owner just because the door itself didn't have the sentience to refuse your request.
People get hit with unexpected tax bills all the time. Any scheme of property taxes will generate taxes on illiquid assets. So will municipal user fees (sewer, water). So will I come taxes for people likes tipped employees.
We knew this at the time, but no one in the media, or even the tech world called them on it.

It's great to have a blog with empirical info, but the damage has been done.

It was never better than a Markov chain.

Yes it was different to a Markov chain, but for any practical use like creating blog spam it improved nothing.

Given OpenAI never said how it was dangerous, I'm not sure why people couldn't see the lie a mile off.
The secret lives of Google raters (2017)
It's hard to envision any good outcome with the current system. But if we pass a universal healthcare like Medicare for all, and forgive student loans, and a number of other measures like girding against climate change, then for the first time in long time I could a positive trend for the majority US residents.
There is a reason you are lurking in HN instead of working in a hedge fund.

The theoretical maximum value one can gain from Bitcoin going to $0 is it's market cap ($184,000,000,000).

If you take out the liquidity and risk, I can spend upto $184B to make the Bitcoin go to 0.

If you are state actor, you can direct all the energy and all the computers to attack Bitcoin
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the comment you're responding to as an "attack" at all. They're pointing out that the OP is "civilly discussing something" that's irrelevant to the topic of the thread, and that this seems to happen in every thread about Rails (which I have also noticed).
Anyone here know of a timing- and cryptographically-secured laser tripwire? I've tried it before, but it seems like there's some work involved in tuning these things just right.
Built by a Parent for Parents: Cyberbullying Startup Bark Fights Back
... You are aware that at a point in time, Notepad++ was compromised, right?...

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.3.3-fix-cia-hac...

As both developer and a systems administrator, I am constantly on both sides of the fence. I have seen developers who cannot even maintain their machines and download any random thing to streamline their job to the detriment of security. Yet, I have seen other organizations where it takes months to get something like VSCode installed (try keeping that up-to-date on an air-gapped machine, that isn't connected to the internet... or ... Node.js or... full Visual Studio...)
Same on Linux using blueproximity, which has been around for over a decade. Any paired device works, including BT headphones and such.
Am I missing something here?

. Hospital system is a bastard to people who owe them $$$$.

. This is an argument for government-run healthcare.

. Hospital system is run by the government.

I'm certainly not against copying someone else's system (Switzerland? Singapore? it isn't like they're the same) but just assume nothing good will happen. There's too many iron rice bowls, including actual providers, plus you have to fix the plane while it's flying.

Best to deal with the world as it is and keep your head down. That memory care center in Thailand is starting to look pretty good.
> I'm confused by this article presenting populism as not democratic.

Don't worry, the article and/or the underlying scripture appear to be confused about that, too.
I see you're a fan of Jordan Peterson as well and the red pill philosophies. Do you listen to any content creators on Youtube? My top 3 are Ronin man, Sunrise Hoodie and Coach Red Pill. Many people just see the surface of the various forums and loudest idiots and write the whole thing off as dejected young men in the thralls of misogyny. In reality, they are modern day support groups for men who have have been raised or in relationships with boderline personality women and are going through abandonment trauma and or fucked by their friends and society; the lessons these men have to teach are invaluable and lifestyle it promotes is new age stoicism mixed with self survival and the ability to see through desires and wants for others and yourself.
This reminds me of https://netflixhangouts.com/
I feel that it's easier just to have clear tasks with deadlines, using decent project management software like say Asana, Monday, or whatever.

If they're meeting the deadlines and the work is good, why bother wasting time being big bro and treating them like a child? Why not just go by results? (you can check commits as well, and CI not going off will at least tell you nothing is broken)
That is a wide brush you are using. Once you start needing to prod the operating system internals or do any sort of devops work it is prudent to have root access.
Nice!

Much respect. That’s retro-cool.
The course is really short. Like 4 hours. You could spend an hour per week and be done with it. Or just consume it over the course of a few days.
You don't need AI to do that, NI does it well enough.
Client-Side encrypted chat, git, storage, 'team groups', wallet and identity.

All of it kind of slow and something you can't pay for to expand limits, so you can't rely on it as a company or for your own personal use.

Currently I use it to store my personal dot files and share it with my work laptop.
You commented about collections being one step removed in a universal healthcare system, but you can't spot the corruption one step removed in our current system?
Not necessarily "AI" but if Pearson and SVMs make the list, these two seem to fit as well:

Rob Tibshirani - Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso

Leo Breiman - Random Forests
Ask HN: Do you get annoyed with GSearch Results ads disguised as organic result?
They played in a rigged market their entire life. Of course, when they have to play in fairgrounds it going hard for them to compete. They aren't good at investing in innovation because they haven't had to be.
Making a three cent microcontroller useful
You should have let other people highlight this bit.
AWS, like google and like Azure and every other cloud provider already does everything they can to minimize energy consumption because it is in their economic interest to do so.

In fact I would think the best thing industry can do to reduce energy consumption is to move their data to a cloud provider. It takes far less energy to cool one large room with servers from a dozen companies than it does to cool a dozen server rooms with private on-prem servers.
That sounds very interesting, I will definitely check it out!
I distinctly remember early Google executives swearing that they would never do this.
If you exceed calcium and phosphates intake by an amount sufficient to compensate for the excess D3, does that "do the trick" or is that a bad hack? I've seen certain 9 pills a day multivitamin formulations who deliver much much higher than the daily dose of everything, I think Life Extension sells them, and I'm wondering if they are hip to these facts.... I used to buy their vitamins. Now I just take the ones that are one a day pill instead of 9, and those never exceed the daily IUs.

Another question for you, does supplementation work as intended when our diet is insufficient, or is it just a gimmick? I've always wondered about this. By work, I mean, if you were to have a blood test in two parallel trials, one where you supplemented but had a crappy diet and another where you ate the "perfect" diet that supplied the daily IU needs, would the blood work show equal amount of each mineral/vitamin/etc in both cases?
I was saying a eBPF vm running inside the kernel.

A userspace VM that do not have the same capability as the kernel one is not useful when tracing kernel internals.
Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol [pdf]
No one ever went bankrupt from income tax. Property taxes don't suddenly jump an order of magnitude. An unexpected user fee is almost always a rare event like a broken water pipe or a bad meter and can often be negotiated with the utility.
It’s a pretty poor implementation that is basically matching on the lowest common denominator, by platform rather than by library or framework. An ASP.NET website is fully independent of a WCF vulnerability. They can coexist but definitely don’t have to.

Additional suggestion: many times the home page is a link to many different technologies. Crawl all first-level directory indices to see different techs. E.g. we have a xenforo-powered forum at /forums, a WordPress blog at /blog, a custom ASP.NET CMS at /store, a .NET Core web app at /foo, etc.

The domain index for most companies past a certain age/size not dedicated solely to a single app effectively turns into a static html page.
And yet they have historically not been used in such a way. The railroads that were targeted during the height of US antitrust legislation were some of the smaller groups.
No Sir, some of the protestors by virtue of their socio-economic stature have carbon footprints that are comparable to african villages. All I am asking is, if you are vilifying an entity in order to save the world, where is your personal sacrifice.. how many of them are willing to forgo climate control for themselves and their family to "save the world".

I will take the bet that 10% of them would not put themselves through a week of North Western winter making their sacrifices.
Interesting thread raised by Jason Fried last week: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016
Philosophy is the arbitrary categorization.

Usefulness has nothing to do logic or mathematics. Math and logic is statements, axioms and theorems. Usefulness is an arbitrary judgement that depends on context. It's "fuzzy" like you say.

Math and logic aren't fuzzy, ever. Categorizing things that are fuzzy and aren't makes sense.
VW claims it’s buying $100 kWh battery, moves to build new battery gigafactory
> Windows is a great operating system. What IT departments do to Windows turns it into a nightmare.

That's a great bumper sticker.

There are so many cases you find of people's Windows complaints where the questions are "Why does Windows even allow GPO to hurt users that badly?" and "Why does your IT staff hate you so much personally that they configured Windows into that particular contortion?"

The Unix world has decades of tales of the "sysadmin from hell" / BOFH, of course, but something about Windows administration just seems to elevate to almost universal "art form" across every company, but at the same time has managed to make it "business as usual" rule rather than the to-be-irked-by exception. On no other operating system would that level of IT micromanagement and terrible "security products" be accepted, and on just about no other platform would people just as easily assume it to be OS "bugs" or "inabilities" rather than the forced masochism of some local BOFH.
The final transaction is a total of 13611 bytes in size while the test one is 1220 bytes. There is a fee per byte in the Bitcoin UTXO model. An unspent transaction output (UTXO) contains information about who can spend the bitcoin so there is a fee attached to every byte of information in a UTXO because miners spend computing power processing every byte. The final transaction contained 15 UXTOs which made it a lot larger in size than the test one which only contained 4 UTXOs. The final transaction had a fee of 480 satoshis per byte and the test one had a fee of 435 satoshis per byte.

13611 * 480 = 6533280 sats which is 0.06533280 BTC which is ~$675 USD

1220 * 435 = 530700 sats which is 0.00530700 BTC which is ~$55 USD

if you're wondering why the fee per byte is not the same for both transactions, it's probably because the recommended fee fluctuates depending on network congestion throughout the day. If you're wondering why the transaction fee per byte is higher than average, well it's probably because the sender is a billionaire who doesn't really care and just wants their transaction processed quickly.
To quote: “...because we’ve got the bomb. Two words. Nuclear fucking weapons....”
In some ways they've solved a lot of the problems we have, but europeans still don't have access to a lot of very powerfull drugs and proceedures that we do.

I feel like there's no way to have both things.
POW schemes make sense as an anti-abuse mechanism, triggered on rate limits. They don't make much sense as captcha replacements.
Inria research scientist H Halpin – the web and why we failed to decentralize it
If you’ve ever paid rent, you’ve implicitly paid property taxes. The sustainable, market rate for rent factors in all costs of the owner.
I can definitely understand that perspective.

Perhaps my earlier comments were too harsh, given I definitely feel defeated with regards to climate change. My current approach is to simply not care, as the added stress of caring didn't help and didn't do any favours to my general well being.

It's all looking like a lot of too little too late. But, fortunately, at my age, I'll probably miss the worse of it.

We probably need to simultaneously drastically limit carbon emissions and draw down atmospheric carbon / remove CO2 from the oceans. And I can't see how that's going to happen prior to things getting a lot worse.

Having said that, we did act collectively to implement the Montreal Protocol[1], so there's a bit of a precedent for acting at this scale... but there were fairly straightforward alternatives to ozone depleting gas.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
I've handled being Slashdotted back when being Slashdotted was still a thing.

Yeah, thanks, I'm ancient. Before I fart myself to sleep reminiscing the good old days, we got ~10k visits in a hour, on a ASP.NET website (admittedly with good caching) but on the absolute dirt-cheapest of shared hosting. It didn't skip a beat. I've done similar with PHP and Django. As long as you can avoid hitting the database every request, you can scale to the moon with very little work.

Hugo is static. Your toaster should be able to support 5k users.
Thanks for sharing, you are truly following your childhood dreams! :)
> Selling an idea, even one we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt is always going to be a political issue.

So is allowing corporations in the first place, that is also not a result of some innate sense of perfect knowledge of everything surrounding the issue.

Too many companies, too many people in them want the cake and eat it, they want societies to uphold their responsibilities towards them, but not the other way around.
I have JS disabled and I see the article just fine.

FUD? Even vanilla Chrome only shows a small nag box.

TLDR: electronic voting machines are corrupt and US democracy has been subverted multiple times.
good luck to them taking on the major competitors
Can we have a blanket ban on BuzzFeed on HN? I don't see articles from Fox News or The Onion on the front page often and they are arguably higher quality than BuzzFeed.
XMPP is a bad example. Google Talk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk) supported XMPP from 2005-2014, but by the time they dropped federation, it had already massively declined. You can argue over the reasons for that, I personally blame a combination of smartphones (iphone launch in 2007), which drove phone number based messaging apps/iMessage/WhatsApp/etc and the rise of path-dependent social networks like Facebook (FB messenger)

However, even if you look at the pre-2007 pre-FB era, instant messaging was dominated by Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc. None of them supported federation, there were several attempts at interop, but none of them wanted it. Moreover, IIRC, Google's stated reason in 2014 for dropping federation was a non-reciprocal leaching that some of these platforms were using to exploit XMPP federation to ingest users into their walled gardens.

In messaging, every single product Google has offered has failed to gain market, and it's really Facebook and Apple which collectively have a oligarchal stranglehold on the market (or WeChat in China)

Google's latest attempt is a restoration of federation on mobile through RCS, but what's the likelihood that the dominance of iMessage and FB Messenger/WhatsApp are going to be weakened by this?
I am sorry that you see statements of fact and acceptance of reality as an adversarial debate.
Seattle area meetup alternative app
Use Pivotal Container Service to create, manage, update and scale your k8s clusters, in any cloud ;-)
False. VCs really want to build a fast growth enduring company. That’s very hard to achieve, but it is what they want.

> The whole VC model is burn baby burn until you can get big a flip of the asset.
Hey HackerNews - We're Feather, and we just launched this morning.

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Just curious, have you looked into Redis streams?