skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who want to dig into Founders Fund's philosophy:

FF's Bold bet:
- Space X: Invest 10% of its fund in 2008. - Stemcentrx: Invest $300 million on Stemcentrx. AbbVie acquired Stemcentrx for up to $10.2 billion. Founders Fund owned about 16%.

> ...with much higher bar and conviction.

Agree. Here is a quote for it.

“The key to the strategy once we have conviction we are willing to invest a lot. So with Stemcentrx, over the multiple rounds of this company, we invested something like $300 million. It’s not enough to think something is going to be one of the most important companies on the planet you have to back it up. So, to me, venture capital is about having conviction and putting a lot of money behind it.”
- Brian Singerman(GP of FF)
When someone wins an olympic event or whatever biking competition with this, we'll know if it's the real deal or not.

For the normal consumer, probably more about price than anything else, unless it enables better electric/motors, etc.
Because the django was riding a rail on her skateboard and bumped into a spaceship?
Can the Left Meme?
Wow this really rings true for me. One of the most frustrating parts of chronic pain is the constant chorus of people explaining that yoga, or massage, or acupuncture, or crystals, or a no carbs diet will cure it.

Once in a while it would be great for someone to just respond "that sucks".
An HP 48 put me through engineering school. I now own an HP Prime. Sweet piece of hardware. Of course, I have no use for it anymore.
> Let me remind you of the CRU corruption and various other scandals that have taken place in the quest for Cap and Trade.

I'm not familiar with this particular "scandal" (whatever it may or may not be), but you are aware that fossil fuel corporations have been heavily funding climate denial for decades, no? Whether or not some people on one side or the other have engaged in dubious behavior is not the ultimate arbiter of truth.

It's clear from your other posts that you have a vested personal interest in believing that you are safe from hurricanes and global warming. That's fine. I don't expect you'll change your position, for better or for worse. But surely you can at least acknowledge that changing ocean temperature may have some effect on hurricanes? If you deny that, how do explain how hurricanes work? Are they not intrinsically dependent on temperature differentials between water and air?
Signal in LIGO/Virgo data, Gravitational-Wave Candidate
As someone who thinks Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is the absolute worst pile of garbage NPR has ever produced, what do people see in that show? Honest question.

Found this review [1] a few years ago and was glad to find I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand that apparently much beloved show.

[1] http://www.imnotlaughing.com/index.php/radio/46-wait-waitI
Perhaps more that the apparent “reality” of an online identity could be correlate-able with opinions expressed by the
identity. I would be more interested in posts by a verified
identity in a forum on political topics than in those from
an unverified identity. On the other hand, in a forum about
some fictional work, quality of content would be of more interest.

Problems arise when supposedly “real” identities
misrepresent their actual identity, location, allegiance, etc. in a context where those things are expected to be trusted, and then abuse that trust.
This problem is not exclusive to NPR.
It also depends on where you look for them. In Europe there is only one mushroom you can pick by mistake. The way to check if it is dangerous (and not really that much dangerous) is to lick it. If it has strong sour taste it is bad (licking it won't get you sick, you need to eat it whole). Most of the times people make mistakes when picking bladed mushrooms that are not even that closely looking as the eatable one.
This is like the person who buys expensive running shoes and is now suddenly going to run a marathon.

I was totally disappointed by the post, assumed it was a tale of this process not a hype piece before even beginning.
I use Conda for all environment management.

I recently had to reinstall a windows dev environment. I didn’t even install standalone python, just conda.

For each new project I create a new conda env, activate it and the. Install stuff with pip. I use pipreqs to create requirements files for the environment before checkin to git to help others who may want to checkout and install.

I just prefer the cli and syntax of conda over the other environment managers. I use pip to install packages over conda as it has more packages and I don’t want to remember the Chanel names that may have the package I want.
If UCI allows it on race bicycles and I if it can survive real roads everybody is going to use it in races no matter the noise. 2% is huge.

For amateurs doing races, it's the same. For the huge majority of amateurs it depends on cost, durability and ease of maintenance. For everybody else, it's only the cost.
> in general Australian driving is pretty good I've found

I think driving habits and behaviours are regional.

Comparing the drivers of Newcastle, NSW and Sydney, NSW - just 160KM apart and there's a lot of weird differences.

- When merging/changing lanes - Newcastle drivers tend to speed up/close any gap if you put your indicator on, to prevent you from merging ahead of them. Sydney tends to be more permissive.

- When passing a parked car on a suburban street (single lane each direction), drivers in Sydney will continue on without deviating speed or course significantly. Newcastle drivers will slow down and cross almost entirely into the opposing lane/side of the road. Even on hills and around corners where there's a huge amount of space in their lane.
Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic
> Also, if the idea is to protect under-18s from any minor adult banter, how come 6th grade has an LGBTQ club?

What do these have to do with each other? Nothing about an LGBTQ club has to be "adult".
The general point is that you have to robustly compromise and satisfice all the goals. People tend to be rather good at it when taken as a group. (Any particular person may be bad at a given subset of all problems.)

It is a kind of optimality condition on all three goals.

The robustness additionally means that should conditions change, the algorithm usually will become better not worse and should a degradation still happen, it will be graceful and not catastrophical.

It's a hard and open problem in ML and especially ANN, design of robust solutions in the space.
Most have really bad problems with it even when debiased.
> Our Trusted Client model that spots whether an HTTP User-Agent is what it says it is.
Well, instead of using curl scripts, crawlers will switch to Selenium and use a real scripted browser
Personally, I wouldn't identify an echo chamber as perfectly rational
This paper doesn't address the main road block to practical prime factorization, because it chooses computations which aren't fatally compromised by decoherence of the qubit representation. So we're about as far from useful quantum computation as ever, although the paper does speculate that maybe we can find an innovative quantum-computation algorithm which is robust to that decoherence, and yet is useful in some way.
They always say "We don't have ads, we have underwriters". I think the difference being the sponsor has copy that the announcer will read, but they can't do all the annoying audio effects that traditional advertisers use.

Personally, I don't much mind it. Gotta pay the bills somehow.

Maybe depends where you are, but NPR is big here in central Iowa (iowapublicradio.org). I think it's pretty big in Minnesota as well.
After using many different Python tools (Poetry, Pipenv, virtualenv, etc) I've found that the most reliable method is to just use the standard `venv` command to create virtual environments. I have the following `cvenv` ('create venv') alias set up in my .bashrc to create new virtual environments:

alias cvenv='python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools > /dev/null'

Also, as others have mentioned, if you're not in a virtual environment, only ever install pip packages to your user location, i.e. `pip install --user --upgrade package_name`

But the first thing to do before any of that is to make sure you know which python binaries you're running:

which python
which python3
which python3.7
etc...

You can use the following command to set your default Python:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.7 9

(that sets python3.7 as the default when you just type `python`)
Oh good, I can’t wait until a Ukrainian teenager decides to shift my bike down eight gears in traffic for the lulz
Maybe you should change lobbying regulation..

And join your local school board, at-least take an interest.

Throwing CEOs in prison won't deter the next guy.
Here are some stats on rates of crashes while driving with phones in the U.S. https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/cause-of-accident/c...

> The act of pulling is itself a complex maneuver that practically invites accidents

Well, 100% of car trips involve at least 1 pull-over. Of the major causes of crashes, injuries and fatalities, attempting to pull over safely isn’t even listed as a major cause of accidents in any stats I can find anywhere for any country. Can you demonstrate with numbers that pulling over is dangerous?

> Most accidents occur at low speed

Your link is talking mostly about commercial vehicles bumping into walls at 3mph. Most injuries and fatalities do not occur at low speed. The number one cause of vehicle fatalities in the US is speeding, second is alcohol. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...

Same is true in Australia https://www.qbe.com/au/news/the-most-common-causes-of-car-ac...

Same is true worldwide https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/189242/9789...
That was not the only outcome of prohibition...
Isn't that like saying that CBS is a content provider? Obviously the big parent company is the one providing content for the local stations.
The article on CT gets into much more detail about this system: https://cyclingtips.com/2019/09/ceramicspeed-driven-can-shif...

tl;dr: interesting and shows promise, still more work to do.

edit: don't be scared by the not-a-paywall greyed out text and box.
Make bots mine crypto with JS?
And also most people's bikes aren't perfectly maintained.
Since enormous is from Latin, stems tend to be Latin. `ness` generally only is morphologically productive with Germanic roots, kindness, happiness, etc.

When I visited Iceland, I remember a sign in English that said a cliff was insafe [sic]. `in` being a Latin morpheme, and safe being Germanic.
I agree that it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but it's arguably somewhat in A16z's favor. This is because the fund manager has the ability to defer capital calls as long as possible, because that starts the IRR clock ticking.

This is fairly little known, but large fund managers like A16z have access to "capital call lines of credit," provided by specialty lending arms of banks. These are loans secured by the commitments from highly-creditworthy institutional investors that allow the fund manager to fund expenses and investments by drawing down on the LOC instead of making a capital call. This allows the fund manager to push out the IRR clock even longer, and effectively levers their returns.

A more effective comparison might take into account both your comment regarding deployment period, and also the effect of investing on margin with the CCLOC.

Edit: an article on the phenomenon and how it is a bit tilted towards the fund manager: https://www.pionline.com/article/20180402/PRINT/180409992/ri...
Why do you not like so many parameters? They are optional so typically pandas only has one or two required parameters.
That's what I thought I was doing. Seriously. I talked to so many people that had the same problem. Over and over again, throughout the entire process. I've talked prices, solutions, everything with both people I know and people I don't from students to RA's to professors.

The SV cliche of "get cash from them before building" wouldn't wash in this niche and I wouldn't have been comfortable taking money for such an extended period of time whilst creating the product.

Having said that, there are competitors (who I think I have a competitive advantage over) and many OS/free/self-hosted alternatives (still missing the competitive advantage).

I don't know if I just need to get well known (most people in the niche probably don't know we exist) before I can even make a sale or what. Perhaps I need my content to mature?

I just don't know any more.

Thanks for the advice!
Few comments:
* As rightly pointed out below, YC's investment used to be $20k for 7%, meaning they had a 10000x return on AirBnb and Stripe (so far)
* YC has funded increasing numbers of companies over time. Of the 2000+ companies that have been funded, the majority (75%) have not reached maturity.
* Yes there is dilution to the 7% stake, but it is not as significant as mentioned, especially for the most successful companies. I would estimate their stake at closer to ~3% after dilution, not 1%.

Take all these together and you are looking at a much higher fund multiple than 5x. My estimate would be at least an order of magnitude higher.
In bikes these days, they do indeed mean "using EM energy for communication," AND also "no shifter cable." There's a comm link similar to Bluetooth (or maybe straight-up consisting of Bluetooth, I don't actually know) between the shifter controls and an actuated derailleur (or whatever the shifting mechanism is called in this case).
No sites are loading for me, including the one in the Show HN URL, which ought to be cached. I think we broke the site.
This is a rather naive understanding. For example, there were nearly 3000 deaths in the 9/11 attacks, and about 4800 soldiers have died in the subsequent war with Iraq.

There are plenty of dead bodies with holes in their heads, but it's not clear how one accounts for crime among those 7800 dead.
It’s funny you mention Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese traffic seems lawless but I’ve come to the realization that people there follow different rules, that’s all.

Example: often you can cut the oncoming traffic off and turn left before them. This has the advantage of not having to wait 2 minutes in the middle of the road hoping that some poor soul will let you go. Instead, you just do it and people will slow down without honking at you (ironically, since they basically use the honk as a “I’m here too” signal)

Which one is better? Having left turns take forever or simply slowing down for 2 seconds when you cross an intersection?

Driving on motorbikes especially is infinitely smoother than in any other countries. I’ll take driving in Ho Chi Minh City over LA any day.

If you cut people off in the US people will honk, get unreasonably mad and chances are a police car will appear out of nowhere.
If any other person did this, especially someone from FAANG etc. you'll be out with your pitchforks. The double standard is so real.
I've been waiting for someone to try Montana in the winter. I'll believe the self driving thing when that works. Might be able to save some lives and keep the number of roadside crosses down.
I'm going to go on a soapbox here and authoritatively state by correlation that fatal accidents from narrow-body jets where pax have survived have only occurred with pilots with extra time. I don't have any raw data to share to back this up, but I have read enough NTSB reports to see this one nugget of information stand out. And if you want to determine a cause, an obvious and likely to be denounced as a red-herring, is the additional time spent learning the aircraft.

Pilots with additional time on the MAX were able to spend more time in the simulator. The previous pilot of LA610 recognized the malfunction and was able to correct. We can't ignore the evidence here. The outcome is very binary. Either we dumb down airplanes so your commander-in-chief can fly one ala an Icon A5 or we continue to keep a minimum of 5000 combined flight time on deck.
This is why we need initiatives like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
You might need to use different versions of python. That will require different versions of some packages. And you need to prevent conflicts.
As far as I can tell, IPR (Iowa Public Radio) is doing basically exactly what you are suggesting. Their big thing during pledge drives is that they are currently growing their team rather than cutting back like traditional news media.

I think IPR used to maybe be several different stations that conglomerated a decade or so ago. Not sure.
Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
Can you elaborate on why you dispute it is rational? I'm working with a definition of "rational" that is more or less "the optimal way to attain your goals", and assuming that the goals of Stallman's detractors imply that everyone agrees that Stallman/people like him should be cancelled.
My argument, then, is that (1) upvote/downvote patterns on a forum like HN are a useful tools to reduce the frequency of the case against Stallman's cancellation being made in other settings than HN, (2) in the long run, the case against the cancellation being made less frequently would result in more people assuming the belief that the cancellation was good. (Of course, if this were at all realistically attainable at this point, many in the pro-Stallman camp would also want "cancel Stallman" to be downvoted so hard that people would be afraid to argue for it in public.)

I don't really see how the rest of your post argues against that, or what your argument for "the rational thing to do would be to engage in polite and meaningful discussion(...)" is. Maybe we are using different definitions of "rational" and/or different assumptions about people's goals, in which case it would help if you could state yours.
From the article: “If it’s a single-lane residential street and the speed limit is 15 mph, but people are speeding through at 35, they will model the time off that data.”

The article also appears to state that it doesn't model the load dependent throughput-- 'The instant the time penalties work out,” DwarfLord claims, “Waze will just as happily send a thousand Wazers down'. Which isn't surprising, since routing a lot of cars independently is computationally tractable but adding capacities to the problem makes it NP-complete in theory and much harder in practice.
Also notice how it is almost always okay for "women" to be discouraged and counted as collateral damage. The fact that you do that tells me a lot.
In particular https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1176355623857991681
Free Event (London): Scale Up Your Business into Netherlands
I was an early user at the Center for Investigative Reporting. First learned about it at a NICAR conference in Arizona. Still use it to organize and showcase documents and records.
What would be the point?

It won't teach the perpetrator not to commit the same crime again. Malice only breeds malice.

If it is deterrence, you're too late as the act has already been done; you may argue that it might stop others from committing it, but since this was a deeply irrational crime reasonable consequences didn't factor into it.

Making the victim feel better? Seeing their attacker hurt may seem cathartic on a visceral level but it won't undo the damage.

Making you feel better? That wouldn't be justice, that'd be sadism.

Torturing criminals to "make them feel the same pain" is a visceral response that brings brief gratification, but it's not a solution to anything.
Annotations don't work for local variables, though. So you only get nullability checking around calling methods and accessing fields, right?
Różne sposoby oszczędzania pieniędzy – plusy I minusy
I find the silent drive to be soooo painful. It's the most passive aggressive form of fundraising. I think they've gotten better at it the last couple times around, but the first one was rough.

"We're just going to keep this silent drive going until we get the money!" ... A month later "Come on people, going to have to do a real pledge drive since no one is paying up..."
Curious: Did you Google that just now, in order to comment here?
Yes. Pages with ads are unreadable. I'm horrified every time I see friends navigate with no adblockers. I always recommend one. I'm going to start recommending Firefox again, as I did at the times of IE6.
Don't have a doctor. What kind of things were they able to suggest which was helpful?
I think the moves should be near-instant, here you can see the pieces moving and dodge them. That's probably the less "chess-like" feature of the game.
There is one: (1) let Stallman keep his position and inspire/encourage one set of people, while discouraging/putting off another; (2) remove Stallman from his position, foregoing both the inspiration/encouragement and the discouragement/putting off.
There is a similar word-embedding test that definitely rustles people's jimmies:

Doctor - Man + Woman = ?

What normally comes out is Nurse.
What "they" think should come out is Doctor!

By "they" I mean people that get upset by this.
Russian Man Pleads Guilty in ‘Massive’ Hacking Scheme
You can now use it as a chat room! https://sdnotes.com/chat
Scientists create first billion-atom biomolecular simulation
Is there anything similar or comparable available on Windows?
> Look at how enormous its portfolio page is...
> It tends to invest in fewer companies -- with much higher bar and conviction

I created two theories[1] to explain the difference in investing perspectives between Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel:

(a16z ≠ Andreessen, Founders Fund ≠ Thiel)

Run Faster vs. Jump Higher

Higher: Investing for Control

You can term Peter’s approach to entrepreneurial strategy: investing for control.

You achieve it by patiently building your business at the same time as ensuring that you will be insulated from future competition. It takes time and it takes investment dollars as resources. Put out some crappy minimum viable product and you lose some options to control because you have shown your hand to others. Instead, what you want to do is put out a complete product with a strategy to acquire the complementary resources to insulate it from future competition.

There is, however, another sort of monopoly — a path that gets you 100 percent of a real market. This is done by having the capabilities to beat all rivals on either quality or cost. To see how this arises consider a very structurally price-competitive market (in economics, Bertrand competition). Now suppose that you develop an innovation that allows having lower marginal costs than everyone else. In this situation, you will be able to capture 100 percent of the market and so you will be a technical monopoly.

Faster: Focusing on finding the timing

You can term Marc’s approach to entrepreneurial strategy: focusing on execution(finding the timing).

It is not so obvious that one path to monopoly is more profitable than the other. If you focus on execution you can get to market quicker and with fewer resources. You can learn as you go and actually invest for the capabilities that will give you a competitive advantage in the future. In other words, while it takes on-going work — no resting on your monopoly laurels here — you can still ‘own’ a market. The difference is that your pricing is constrained by potential competition from other firms.

Finding the timing is the most important part of the execution. You need to execute your idea fast and good enough within the critical window to succeed. Most importantly, you may need to survive long enough to find the right window.

[1] Marc Andreessen vs. Peter Thiel
https://allenleein.github.io/games/1930/01/02/narratives.htm...
What it's like being a hacker millionaire under the age of 25
tmux -CC really is great on mac, but if it worked with mosh it would be incredible.
> Throwing CEOs in prison won't deter the next guy.

We can at least try it a few times and see if it does.