skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might turn out that Airbnb has timed this incredibly poorly. That sucks for employees. But it's certainly enriched and empowered the executives and VCs. Why do employees continue to do this?

Uber, WeWork, Tesla, Domo, Blue Apron, Slack, Snap, Lyft; sentiment is shifting on these "tech companies" and their cash burning. And outside of Uber/Lyft, Airbnb might be facing the toughest legal headwinds.
> we discover a new, non-electromagnetic way to communicate reliably over vast distances

I was going to say that of the 4 currently known fundamental forces, only gravitational and electromagnetic interactions lend themselves to long range communication.

However, there seems to be ongoing research about an actual fifth force that might be related to dark matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_force
Early funds are easy here in Europe. But exit over 100M are scarce and often involve an American big corp.
On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
Burst traffic with high writes? --> Use a stream.
Burst traffic with high reads? --> Use a cache.

Large compute and memory intense stuff isn't suitable for serverless
The founders built it using state money as an investment. They definitely fucked up reading the fine print though, and these issues were raised at the time they got the funding:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/22/dailymotion-raises-another...
Well, the French and American approaches to customer service are different, to say the least.
So if you can't compete on customer service, you compete on no customer service :D Meaning costs and technical aspects.
Money in the form of coin, currency or emoney is a medium of exchange and store of value.

Debt, although denominated in amounts of currency units, is a contractual obligation to pay money at a future date. It's a legal contract enforceable at law using the machinery of the state.

For example, if a bitcoin holder lends you bitcoin to buy a house, the mortgage is still a contract between you and the bitcoin lender. The mortgage has nothing to do with the bitcoin system. It is still registered by the government, and the sheriff still comes to evict you if you don't pay up.
I dont even know where to start with this comment.
Well, Melanie Martinez has just released an entire concept album (and a movie based on this album) with no singles all at once. There will always be artists who care about their art and not streaming numbers.
100% this. The teams that I have been a part of that have had a lasting impact on me allow for authenticity. Sure, sometimes you get a disparaging remark that can escalate. But, in my limited experience, that downside is so minuscule to the upside of having authenticity creating happiness in the workplace.
Because some eager police detective or DA might read your article, raid you and find your personal instance/DB full of nasty stuff. Some of the nasty stuff will not only be illegal to distribute, but actually illegal to possess at all. Child abuse stuff for example.

I am guessing you have some personal instance you use at least for testing/"education", right?
Sure, but that does not change the facts: France blocked the previous deal just because it could and there is no way of knowing what kind of a lottery you play if you accept funds like this in the future.
There is an art to presenting vulnerability; to not diminish yourself whilst doing so. It not only improves your own outlook on yourself but helps prevent others using it against you, all whilst still being open and truthful.

Its hard.
In fact, init=/bin/bash is the traditional way to gain root into a system for which you have forgotten the password. Assuming the filesystem is not encrypted.
How is Open Source sitting there teaching people how to use large amounts of investor money to perform regulatory arbitrage at international scale, breaking laws in country after country and getting away with it because you move fast and break things (and are based in a country surrounded by nuclear aircraft carriers)?

Oh wait, you mean create an app for a taxi network?
I had a go at making a more performant desktop environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58UmxHryq8E

This used a collection of existing Linux programs and a few I made myself. I built the Desktop widget engine, The physics doodle program, and made a NPAPI browser plugin that ran sandboxed x86 code (since it was evident that the CPU wasn't up to flash, I explored other ways to get active things running in-browser).

Note at 2:17 I run free to show the resources used for the desktop with Firefox running.

I also made a graphics library to use a video overlay to display scaled graphics so that you could render lower resolutions and scale to fullscreen. The Geode could drive a rgb565 video overlay with free scaling which meant you didn't have to push around the super high resolution of the XO-1 display when you wanted things to move swiftly.
I think it's just dumbing down the options.

It's recognition over recollection.

It is well known that recognition is easier, and that's why consistency help so much.

But used everywhere, as if it was the only available tool, it makes discoverability less safe, hence it reduces it.

If street signs are well positioned I don't need to know the route, if there are no signs and I don't recognize the place, I'm doomed.

If an app does one thing, it's easy to remember how to do that one thing.

But if another app does the same thing in a different way, now I have to remember two things and recall from memory which one uses which way.
So buy an eye mask and now it is not a problem.
Well if we made a BLOCKCHAIN where you had to give a certain amount of bandwidth for torcoins then cash them in for bandwidth you could use...

I mean, it's a dumb idea, but until you force people to contribute, most won't. I've looked at doing it, but didn't want to deal with legal headaches b/c creepy pedos use tor, too.
Yes, that's because those big American corporations have found it rather hard to roll out effectively in Europe due to multi-lingual, multi-currency and multi-cultural issues.
Newer versions of MS Office (with that ribbon) have the same problem. There is an About dialog, but getting to it is a process that I still can't remember after having to do it a few times. Yet Help->About is still in my mind after all these years, despite not using it all that much.

The idiotic full screen save menu that forces you to click a few more times to save on the computer instead of a cloud service (I'm sure that's some sort of dark pattern...) is even worse, however.

Edit: here's a good rant about that latter one: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/11058/save-me-from-shit-u...
That Reuters story is about exactly the same review the NYT article was about. But somehow one is "biased" and the other shows "how politicians will be held in black sites" even when the article doesn't actually say anything like that.

While you have yet to deliver a source actually supporting your original claim of "Trump closing down black sites in countries like Afghanistan".
Yes, exactly, just like database query processing in ORM systems and the like "buries" SQL injection countermeasures in a single place. It's a good thing.
Yes, that was precisely my point: a mix of EUV and DUV is used because the upper layers don't need EUV and DUV is cheaper and more mature.

Furthermore, it seems likely that the uppermost layers will never use EUV and that therefore a mix of EUV and DUV will always be used, indefinitely. This seems likely unless EUV surprisingly becomes much cheaper so that unifying on a single technology becomes worth it, or unless both EUV and DUV are replaced by something else entirely.
Data Science Is About Building Software
Personal training changed my life (and possibly saved it).

Also, AirPods made a big difference in dealing with my commute. The wires on my other headphones got in the way all the time and seemed to get tangled just by virtue of existing.
I have a colleague who regularly interrupts me to say the complete opposite of what I want to say. I'm, of course, in the church of strong civility, so I always continue after the rude interruption. You'll often hear something like:

"We're struggling to meet our deadlines so I think we should---"

"Rewrite the project."

"---Avoid rewrites and do small reactors."
I never said I wanted to manage people. I was merely making an observation. In the past, I have been a senior people manager, and hated it.

What I wanted was to progress my career based on my skillset. However, without 'people skills' it's impossible to progress in any large organisation.

These days, I stick to contracting. Zero people skills required, and I can avoid all the office bullsh*t without issue.
Thought about contracting/consulting?
Do we actually want people to "exit" in this way though? That seems to just make more millionaires, and further centralise control of good technologies / ideas.
> Was this possible with ALSA?

Sure, but truth be told ALSA required a bit of knowledge to set up properly. But instead of re-doing the whole audio system from the ground up and tossing away the good with the bad it could have been done just as well by making a proper ALSA auto-configurator. No need for all this re-invention in more buggy ways.

Besides that, when PA came out you couldn't do any of that either, it was barely usable and the most frequent PA related activity was 'uninstall'.
I think I get it now. This is for corporate desktop, not necessarily personal use.
There are many even-handed comments here. But I feel a few might be influenced by "relief bias".

As in:

> phew! that Serverless stuff turned out to be pure hype, lets dump on it and destroy the hubris of human-kind

But that is just not the case, serverless is a legitimate option. I've seen it work (increasingly well) at various companies.

I will also say, I'm loving the comments here that are trying to boil down the core-principles to follow to achieve serverless success. Great stuff.
I don't think giving kids iPads will make the mediocre education system any better or for that matter something like Khan Academy (more of a supplement).

But there are several companies in China and India doing e-learning but with actual teachers and online tutoring involved.
And jumping them out of a plane saves on landing and return flights, so in that sense, Normandy and Market Garden would be logistically simpler than Operation Matterhorn.

Although I hope that Matterhorn doesn't require any bridgeheads to be conquered.

It's also worth remembering that Market Garden failed in its final objective.
I worked in both French and US startups, and the french startup ecosystem felt like cargo cult.

Our business school culture is so prevalent, techies are always ignored. Engineers are poorly paid, if not at all. And the rare VCs have zero tech knowledge too, resulting in poor investment choices.

It's a cultural problem, and throwing money at it won't solve it.
It's a misnomer, but the underlying idea has lots of valid uses.
For your last question, here's something I wrote some time ago to do just that: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Run_software_on_tty1_console_...
It seems to me that you're undervaluing the value and importance of social and emotional connection with other people when it comes to getting work done effectively in an organization. Companies are like any other groups of people, and leaders -- i.e., people who "float to the top" -- need to be able to understand and motivate people, be widely liked and respected, command respect and authority from the company at large, as well as other managers and the higher ups.

Dismissing this critical skill as "slapping each other on the back" and contrasting it to "work performance" shows that you may be dismissing a key skillset that is necessary to move up, if that is something you want to do.
He basically argues that there are no forces to be discovered which could have a measurable effect on our day-to-day functioning. For example, so far, we have not discovered any dark matter particles. This does not rule out that we will discover them, but for us humans (consisting of protons, neutrons and electrons) it will not have any effect. Because if it would, we already would have discovered them. The existence of other particles, like neutrino's, which zip through our bodies by the billions every day, also have no effect. We are of course effected by photons in some energy spectrums. In view of this, I think it is very unlickly that we discover any new physics which would allow us to communicate with aliens.
Because that was the purpose of that machine. Doing the same on netbook is just painful. Which really just shows how awful these devices were
Show HN: I made a social news aggregator
Those millionaires then tend to go on to fund the next wave.

If you're thinking of SV as a source of tech then you are missing the point: SV is a source of capital.
Been working on this project for the past month, it's still a work in progress but take a look if you're interested.

Would love to hear your thoughts on how to make it better,

-Markus
My rule here is that the middle seat always gets the arm rests because they don’t have the window to lean on or the outside isle for space.
Gender bias in AI: building fairer algorithms
...or that they really really love to eat.
A lot of fishermen are in despair about the situation, but how many of them acknowledge that they themselves collectively put themselves in this situation?

In the UK there had been massive pushback against fishing quotas, but it seems like none of them realised that without quotas the north sea would be quickly depleted.
I think this type of approach doesn't really help anyone, it's just condescending. As a user I don't want to learn, I actively refuse to. I want to do what ever I need to do and move on. Unless I use your application professionally, I don't want to learn it.

I think the crux of the problem is secretly hidden here, though. Many creators overestimate how interested other people are in what they made. The complexity of using your solution is always at odds with how painful the problem I have is. If your solution isn't easy to figure out, it can be easier to just solve the problem in an other way.
Ask HN: Is there a version of HTML that bans JavaScript?
Javascript is a privacy nightmare, and a CPU hog. We need a way to technically ban it.
It's great to see that factual evidence is answered with ad-hominem by the Lambda hype crowd.

In any case, if you have a Node.js module or code with a native C/C++ build, that runs shell commands, that writes to disk (not allowed besides /tmp in Lambda) or makes assumptions about the OS, your "simple" function will absolutely return different results.

e.g: My lambda is called when somebody uploads an image and returns a resized and compressed version of it.
This is done using Node.js and the mozjpeg module which is dependent on cjpeg which is built natively on install.

If I test my function on my machine and in Lambda it's very possible that I get different results.

Also, certain OSs like Alpine which are heavily used for Docker don't event use glibc as compiler, so again, another difference.
Domestic vs. Abroad Surrogacy
And despite that we've seen multiple levels of deflection and outright lies even with the level of details provided.

Norwegian newspapers backtracked and apologised for writing articles exposing Norwegian participation in illegal metadata monitoring, arguing that the monitoring that for all of the other parties involved was about domestic monitoring in Norway's case for some reason was about Afghanistan.

Had it not been for the amount of surrounding context, the lies would have been believable. Even then it took the then head of military security to step up and make claims about operational issues in military security that they never talk about, to draw attention away from the vague denials of the police security service.

But the sheer amount of data, coupled with the revelation that the US itself captured full recordings of the same conversations that Norwegian surveillance supposedly captured valuable metadata about made it stand out as a ludicrous cover-up.

And still the newspapers did not dare challenge it even with all the extra details.

As it stands, Snowden released too little - even with all the material he did provide, it was still something that proved possible to sufficiently deflect from that it had shockingly little impact.
Would you warn against any state-owned fund, or the French ones in particular?

For example, in the Netherlands, there's many "provincial development funds" (eg BOM, OostNL, InnovationQuarter), who generally have a pretty good, though somewhat slowish/bureaucreatic, reputation. But in the end they're all government owned one way or another.
Probably okay to have the source code to the engine.

However, if you have used the the system which creates a database of questionable dark web links on your machine, that could be tricky to explain... and easy to implicate
Very few people use the term 'capitalism' correctly, both on the left and the right. Very few. For instance, many people think it's simply the act of making a profit. Self employed people and people who run small businesses will often proudly (and stupidly) claim to be capitalists when in reality they are likely not at all. There are many organizational structures that are for-profit that are in no way 'capitalism'.

And on the other side of the coin there are endless historical and current examples of self-proclaimed communist states that are just the worst kind of capitalist monopolies, which is the concept you seem to have stuck in your craw. This is not historical revisionism. This was being pointed out from the beginning of Bolshevism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wac%C5%82aw_Machajski)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Many French startups, probably most of those you know, take State money in their early rounds. The State has a fund (BPI) whose policy it is to co-invest with the major French VCs. They have favorable terms for startups.

That being said, in general, the state is a passive investor. What happened with Dailymotion is way different.

First, the issue came from Arnaud Montebourg, a powerful Minister of the Economy with statist views in the former Socialist government. The current government is very different. (By the way, Montebourg was replaced by Emmanuel Macron, the current President of France, as Minister of the Economy under Hollande.)

Second and most important, by the time this happened Dailymotion had already been sold. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of France Télécom, the largest telecommunications operator in France (commercially known as Orange). That operator was state-owned until 2004, and even today the State is its largest shareholder.

In other words, the State prevented a former public company it basically still controlled from selling a wholly-owned subsidiary which happened to be a startup it bought before. I disagreed with the decision then, and I still disagree today, but it didn't prevent an exit. Rather, the actual exit of Dailymotion was to a company owned in part by the State...

EDITS:

- Looks like I was too slow to post and senko beat me to it.

- The "FSI" articles linked by others talk about, which invested in Dailymotion, is now part of the "BPI" I mentioned (it was merged with other vehicles that invested at different stages).

- Some French people regret Montebourg style, for instance a journalist recently tweeted his disagreement about the governmental OK to the sale of Photonis, a night vision company, to a foreign group (https://twitter.com/VincentLamigeon/status/11742379454543708...).
I don’t see it being a large barrier. Some men like the image of self sufficiency and don’t seek new friends. But plenty don’t. So if you’re a man desiring to make new friends I find it hard to believe that you are unable to find the opportunities.
I’m sympathetic to the claim that it’s complicated, most things are, but the Igbo are clearly a merchant minority, and they’ve clearly been subjects of mob mass killings, aka pogroms as well as government sponsored mass killings based on their ethnic identity. Like every other merchant minority they also emigrate disproportionately looking for economic opportunities. If you guessed the ethnic makeup of Nigerians based on US or British populations you’d think Igbo were at least half of the population, not a minority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_anti-Igbo_pogrom

The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966.[1] These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war . The 1966 massacres of southern Nigerians have been described as a holocaust by "Greene -1975 . The Struggle for Secession 1966–70: A Personal Account of the Nigerian Civil War by N. U. Akpan. The Nigerian Civil War 1967–70. The Royal African society in January 1975 and others have variously been described as genocide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

Persecution of Igbo Edit
From June through October 1966, pogroms in the North killed an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Igbo, half of them children, and caused more than a million to two million to flee to the Eastern Region.[77] 29 September 1966, was considered the worst day; because of massacres, it was called 'Black Thursday'.[78][79]

Ethnomusicologist Charles Keil, who was visiting Nigeria in 1966, recounted:

> The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria (late Sept. 1966) were foreshadowed by months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti-Eastern conversations among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa and other Northerners resident in Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in city after city, the massacres were led by the Nigerian army. Before, during and after the slaughter, Col. Gowon could be heard over the radio issuing 'guarantees of safety' to all Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the intent of the soldiers, the only power that counts in Nigeria now or then, was painfully clear. After counting the disemboweled bodies along the Makurdi road I was escorted back to the city by soldiers who apologised for the stench and explained politely that they were doing me and the world a great favor by eliminating Igbos.
From the Article:

Mr. Hyman thinks the power breakdown for airplane seating goes like this:

- The window seat passenger gets to control the window shade.

- The middle-seat passenger gets the armrests.

- The aisle-seat flier gets the most freedom of movement.

Basically it's this: If you want to control the shade, book the Window seat. Simple.
Company being old certainly does not mean it needs to be full of legacy systems and business processes. It only means that the company's management is not competent at evolving the company's processes and systems, which means it will eventually fail regardless of being a fresh startup or centuries old going concern.

Bosch, Siemens, Bayer, BASF and Carl-Zeiss are all examples of over hundred year-old German companies that continue to innovate at the cutting edge of their industries and are massively profitable.