skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually, in order for the private investors to make money, they either need to get profitable or go public.

Most (but not all, obviously) unicorns could easily be profitable if they chose to be. It would come at the expense of growth and R&D, but they would be profitable nonetheless. Growth is just valued much more heavily in the current market.

If you look at S-1s or even recent public unicorn earning statements, most of their losses stem from outsized increases in R&D/etc. expenditures despite healthily increasing revenues. The most recent example I can think of off the top of my head is Dropbox.
It's my favorite Stephenson novel, and he's written so many excellent books.
Extensive earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119647
Wow, positive rules in general sounds like a dangerous path to head down. Thanks for the background.
Pickled tomato syrup?
I believe Stripe and/or has the same issue. One of the roasters I like to buy from in Toronto has beans from Cuba, but can't sell them online.
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Deciding what needs to be popular stinks of authortarianism. Price in the external costs and let people decide for themselves.
Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer
> Either way, it's not a free lunch.

Yes there is no free lunch, in particular for any country that is in a completely different circumstance than the country we are discussing.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017448
I tend, as policy, not to answer these questions. The fora in which they're asked are often not conducive to actually, you know, thinking about them. Somewhere in this thread someone linked the Atlantic article, wherein you can see greater minds than I refusing to speak with the author.

The answer to your question: how did I get such beliefs---is pretty boring: I read, and I thought. Some things I read I agreed with, others I didn't.

The much more interesting question is: what are those beliefs?

You'll notice that many in this thread are eager to tell you, but the only person who's actually identified themselves as NRX is being cagey. This is not a coincidence.

Outside observers tend to see NRX through their own lens, while one of the chief goals of NRX is changing the lens in the first place.

So someone might ask: "NRX huh? What do you think about <political issue?>" A fully enlightened (tm) neoreactionary will answer, "Why, am I in charge of it?"

Neophyte neoreactionaries see this as a front to hide their plotting. Experienced ones see it as an eminently sensible answer to an insane (though common) question. Who cares what I think? Am I paid, expected, or empowered to run a society? Why do people keep asking me what I'd do if I did?

There's a whole life out there outside of politics.

https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon

If you still want to know, go read Moldbug.
> I've been doing this stuff a long time, there's usually a reason why I'm doing it the way I'm doing it.

People who've been doing it long enough probably also have the experience to know how to ask a good question that explains the why of the unusual request.

"I unfortunately stuck on an low-power embedded device that for some weird reason only supports MD5" is going to be treated differently on SO than "I'm new to PHP and I'm using MD5 for to encrypt passwords but I can't reverse the encryption to read the password!"
Unfortunately not the only game like this. Tons of 80s and 90s games' ownerships are tied up in a quagmire of acquisitions, bankruptcies, and closings. Some IP rights lie with companies not even involved in gaming, yet still protected even though they have no plans to reproduce or resell.
Its only the main source when available. Ketones work fine in its absence, and glucose is not required.
> Way of the future?

Why not? Everything old becomes new again at some point.
This is actually sort of a ripoff of one of Elon's ideas. One of the original concepts that eventually snowballed into Space X was very similar.

He wanted to grow plants on Mars, and use the images to try to stir up interest in space exploration.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5g8k/spacex-is-because-...

(VIDEO) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjGiY8Suk9o
Home Improvement is another good one where “STOP IMMEDIATELY” is a good answer:

https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/174646/35432
Zig, Crystal, Nim, Rust, Go. It seems like the industry is responding to the end of moores law and is refocusing on performance. Contrast this with 90's languages like python, ruby, java and c# where computers were expected to get exponentially faster and they focused on developer ergonomics instead.

Can anyone familiar with zig tell me how well it works with more macro heavy libraries? Something like GTK (https://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/stable/c450.html) or something with generics.
Glucose is not vital, you can run on ketones just fine. Quit with the dogma already.
Please don't post vilifications about vilifications. Even if you're right, it only makes this place strictly worse.

Also, please don't turn this into a regional flamewar. We don't need any of that here either.

Also, no partisan flamebait please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it would be more akin to tarring and feathering[1]; usually not intended to kill, but to be a very public and humiliating punishment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering
For what it's worth I used to use remote desktop from across the world on dialup, and it was certainly usable.
You know, I’d pay for that service. For example like $4.99/month if they give me say 200 hours per month. (I haven’t done the math or the research if that is economically sane).

Some idea.
Many mainstream languages don't actually have negative number literals. They lex `-42` as two tokens: the operator `-` and the integer literal `42`.
My company just straight up pays everyone $60 extra a month for cell phone use and lets us do what we want with that. Works out well imho.
Evidence does not appear to bear that out. "... a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure." [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
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What exactly isn't true about it? In all institutions that I know all, students are given MSc status as soon as they complete the requirements, not M Phil (never even heard of it).

Some students leave the school after that point, but it doesn't invalidate their MSc, nor their MSc gets converted to M Phil or whatever. It's not a common thing, but I've seen students drop with MSc mostly because of issues with their supervisors (tenured faculty without much incentive to do research at a good pace).

Edit: I looked it up, and apparently, you're making a blanket statement based on a niche practice in a handful of US universities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Philosophy#United_St...

"Although most American universities do not award the MPhil, a few award it under certain circumstances."
That would be a bad sign that there’s something wrong with the culture. I would hope for a postmortem that identified flaws that genuinely needed to be fixed.
The right drugs can kill your appetite and they're very effective and ensuring weight loss. For me, just caffeine can ensure I don't eat for the whole day and then I can still go climbing.
The difference is that turtles are cuter than chickens, and despite what many people will argue, cuteness, physical beauty etc do have inherent moral worth.
Ah yes, hello modern misogyny, thanks for showing up!

No one said D1, and there are plenty of women who could make football teams in CFB. People like you are probably why they shouldn't bother.
>The two way pagers with the qwerty keyboard were pretty nice.

The modern equivalent of this is a Blackberry device. My employer provides work phones (a mix of iDevices, Samsung garbage, and blackberries) and even though I think the BB10 OS was a total failure as a consumer product, for a work device where I had no desire for Snapchat or whatever, my old BlackBerry was perfect.

All I need in a work phone is a solid email/SMS platform and my employer-provided iPhone X is way overpowered for that use case.
>modulating the current to follow the mains voltage and should generally have no problem with DC input

I'm particularily worried about confusing that following/regulating circuity. If the 50/60Hz it senses are caused by screen refresh feeding back somehow, it might end up behaving "weird".

But I guess I'll just try, and hope it won't break anything.
While fats satiate you faster, and people tend to lose weight, I have absolutely gained plenty of weight on a keto diet. Please dont spread BS. Keto is awesome but it isnt magic.
Vigilante/mob justice is more appropriate.

This type of Justice is always highly emotional, with little or zero due process, often as wrong as it gets it right, and doles out punishments well out of scope of the alleged crime.
How is this different than police planting evidence on a known bad guy and saying, well he was a criminal anyway so who cares, justice was done by putting him in jail with falsified evidence. As long as you get what your deserve, process is irrelevant.
Thanks! That's exactly it!

If we move into a future where everything is configured as code, I think that'll be of great benefit. Secondly, I think people will - by default - just become programmers. That can only be a good thing, I reckon.
> There’s an old joke that every Unix function became an internet company

Yes! I remember that. I worked at Sendmail at the time (a unix function that became an internet company) and we joked about starting a sister company called Syslog.

Given how many logging companies have sprung up since, maybe that wasn't such a bad idea!
We are current WeWork tenants. WeWork can’t even provide us an interface to manage and view who used WeWork credits in our org. We asked for a report and got a pdf after 2 days.

Tech my foot. The printer software is an abomination.
If you are driving a car you are destroying our planet.
The vendor claims to buy beans from a Canadian distributor. It's not immediately obvious how to get from "bought beans in Montreal, sold Coffee in Toronto" to "funds frozen for doing business with Cuba." The devil must be in the details of the embargo.
AMD is great when it comes to raw compute power for the money.

However, AMD has a history of shipping poor OpenCL drivers, so everyone just went with what actually worked - NVIDIA.
I know there are companies for which you BYOD your smartphone, but then they want to MDM that device of yours to protect company data. Ha!
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It's as reader hostile as mathematics symbol is reader hostile. It's not English, it's not meant to be read like a novel but to be read and understood like mathematics. One of the frustrating thing about programming in English like languages is that words might not mean what they claim to mean. Written language is very ambiguous. Nothing from stoping me from writing something as not_true = true; if (not_true) { ... }. or calling something manager or a process when it's neither. Easy to read and pronounce but harder to digest. The idea of APL is that once you understand the symbol like maths, it's unambiguous, if you can parse it, you can understand. There's no crazy naming to confuse you.
I think we are on to something here. I think it is a fundamental psychological reason why many car enthusiasts love older cars. The feedback and vibrations you get from revving the engine, a big stick shift, the pedals sometimes long range. It's why we have these anti-Tesla people occupying the super charge stations.
Actually need to go PA to right near OAK to SFO within just a few hours in the next few days. If they had a 9:30pm OAK->SFO I would have probably booked it at that price. $215 compared to $100 with Lyft...
One could argue that in the "court of public opinion" he very much was.
If the US government forcibly projects its demented foreign policy agenda onto transactions in entirely unrelated countries, it will be a free bonus to non-US companies competing with the US tech incumbents.
I don't need to know someone to be repulsed by what they've said, why the hell is that now the bar?
You just got lynched by the internet mob yourself.
Curious what the state of the market is...does your employer neither provide a device + service on their dime or a cash outlay that you could use for a device + service?
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Man, the references to AWS threw me off
> "One of our designs has a peak power density of around 15 kilowatts per kilogram. Compare that with today’s motors, such as the one in the all-electric BMW i3, which delivers a peak power density of 3 kW/kg—or just one-fifth as much. And the Magnax machine is also more efficient."

It will be interesting to see how Moore's law will materialize in EVs. Understanding that the majority of time and effort spent in the automobile industry has been aimed towards combustion engine design as opposed to electric motors, it will be equally interesting to follow the efficiencies to be discovered in the imminent future, taking into consideration how blazing quick they already are today.
Disclaimer: Startup in this space, highly biased, shameless pluggery.

I think about this subject a lot. Three key innovations we'll see in the "next wave" of search engines that flood in to replace stinky incumbents (won't name any names here)

1. New user interfaces. My effort, Glorp, attempts to transition from the "link dump" style of results page to something akin to Instagram. Faster to scan, fewer surprises, more friendly for kids and old folks. AR/VR will have some unusual needs. Audio - Alexa and Siri. We need search (in different forms) everywhere. [1]

2. New business models. Privacy is in, advertising is out. That changes everything about the model. We'll see engines with tons of niche features, like link collections, recorded search journeys, curated subject matter experts, family accounts with parental controls, and, most importantly, monthly fees.

3. New search mechanisms: ML embeddings. Search by image similarity, video similarity, subject matter similarity. Machine learning models transform different types of content into convenient embedding vectors. BERT gives you a few hundred floats to represent the meaning of a sentence. ImageNet, the same, for images. Once you begin to build search tooling around the notion of document embeddings, rather than just "input text," we'll be able to help users discover things in a much broader set of scenarios. [2]

Hit me up, email in profile

[1] https://glorp.co/Search/search%20engine%20user%20interfaces

[2] https://glorp.co/Search/search%20engine%20vector%20embedding...
Man as someone trying to learn something new
I avoid posting to that site like the plague. Oh yeah I'll search but you couldn't pay me to make a post because I've seen what happens to the people that post the question I was searching for.
On top of that, if you want to drive companies to offer broadband everywhere -- having services people want to use everywhere that require broadband is pretty damn important.
One is a criminal investigation where evidence is planted. The other is not.
If you're flying airport to airport, I'd expect an airplane (King Air for 6 pax, Cirrus SR22 for 2 pax) would be cheaper, quieter, and safer. Although maybe it's easier to get into SFO using a helicopter instead of a General Aviation airplane?
And there's a big difference too! We know nitrites aren't good for us, and can make meat red. But not all meat contains nitrites.
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A late reply, to be sure, but I was reminded to check back by the new article about RMS on the front page now.

The point (in this discussion about talking about feelings with friends and supportive others) is not to discuss sex with underage people. The point is that you can hash things out with your friends and get some perspective on how widely you feel you need to share. Somehow I have friends with whom I can discuss my thoughts on who should have sex with whom, and thus I do not need to bring it to a public stage or a professional stage. This saves me a lot of trouble.
Was something planted in Stallman's case? Blowing his quotes out of proportion isn't the same thing as planting evidence. I suppose a better analogy is being on your second strike and doing some minor crime to get your third. Some would argue people on two strikes should keep their head down.

Furthermore his quotes are pretty fucking creepy.
One piece of advice that won't change: maintaining a calorie deficit causes weight loss. It's a basic property of physics that the extra energy used has to come from somewhere if don't eat enough to cover it.

Tracking your calorie deficit/surplus isn't the easiest method, but unlike fad diets, it's guaranteed to work (provided, of course, that you stick with it and count accurately).
All freemium business models have a large free usage tier. This is completely unsurprising.

But yes, many people also pay Gitlab for enterprise features (which are not open-source), hosting, support, and more. If they would pay anyone else then why aren't they using Github? If they just wanted git itself then why aren't they using the numerous lightweight alternatives?

Business isn't as simple as replicating a product, it's about selling value, and Gitlab has a unique solution that covers the entire software lifecycle. I'm sure you know all this but yet you've made numerous posts disparaging this company. Why, exactly?
Ask HN: Big-ticket domain valuation/brokerage? urgent
I have a friend who has been the legitimate owner and user since 1994 of a single-word domain name that collides with that of a giant household-name international media company. That media company is expanding and has finally come calling to buy the name, and my friend needs to know how to value the domain and negotiate the sale.

I think this domain should probably sell for seven figures.

Who handles these kinds of valuations and transactions? Anyone have experience with this?

Comments welcome, and email in my profile as well.

Thanks!
Last night I was testing DO managed Kubernetes cluster with persistent volume claim and the volume took 15 minutes to reattach after the pod is rescheduled to another host. I thought it was just some weird hiccup and went to bed.

The incident report indicated the problem started 4 hours ago (around 9pm GMT) but I was having problem around 4pm. It's definitely not a 2-hour incident.
It seems better to just say it isn't worth the effort because you're a small indy dev who doesnt have time to handle a bunch of heterogenous platforms. None of those things seem that bad if you had > 1 people contributing
How do you beat the speed of light? That's ultimately what we're up against here. High-frequency traders lay down special fiber lines between the exchanges to get the absolute fastest possible ping times, at enormous expense[1]. That gets a 13 ms ping time from NYC to Chicago.

My experience with a Steam Link, hardwired on a local ethernet makes me skeptical that any of these cloud gaming platforms will really be practical.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfin...
It might help if you explain what is meant by F2.

As far as I can tell you're referring to the integer finite field containing the values {0, 1}.

2 % 2 = 0
3 % 2 = 1
x^n % 2 = x
2x % 2 = 0
(2n + 1)x % 2 = x

So there are no (distinct) constants other than 0 or 1 and no multiples or exponents of x other than 1.

These facts might be obvious to someone who understands the jargon and theory of the mathematics in question, but probably need a bit more clarity when the target is the general populace.
The most I understand about motors is how they typically work and that innovations are possibly more lucrative than battery innovations; this seems like a major innovation. I must be missing something? What's the healthy skepticism here?
I hope so! I would pay for that no question. And I have a feeling many other people would as well.
It’s awful to see people come out of the woodwork to try and defend him. Who is Sylvia Paull?

I wonder if her major clients would like to know that she is a supporter of someone who condones rape? In one breath she says she disagrees with it and the next she’s defending him. Crazy!
What pumped up their stock so much in 2015?
Yeah fair enough. I disagree with myself in retrospect. I only meant medium sized as opposed to the absolute top tier.
That and Snow Crash are my go-tos of his.

Diamond Age is slower and for me a lot of the plot and characters are less memorable, but the world, tech and ideas are amazing.

Snow Crash is a force of nature. That manic, brilliant opening set up of the world, style and characters using the Deliverator blows my mind every time.

Hard to believe it's even the same author.
Making a profit is not capitalism.
I don't know how I can more simply state it. Capitalism=private ownership of a company/economy (that's te literal one liner google definition even more condensed). Think of it like democracy vs dictatorship. Democracy->workers control surplus (investors still get their investment back+interest--there are different models), dictatorship->an investor or a proxy investor controls the company, or an upper class within the company control the surplus and workers get a set wage and have no power.

Ultimately it's the relationship the workers have with what they produce.

In the google definition it gives state ownership as a 'rather than capitalism' example, but that assumes a non dictatorship where the workers collectives are actually autonomous and self governed. In the case of Soviets and China, however, the system of collectives was always centralized state-capitalism (and later full blown state sanctioned hyper-capitalism). But there are commie examples like in Spain, where are a huge system of worker run co-ops that have existed since the late 50s with roots going further back to anarchist run co-ops of the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_Laboral
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A lot of anger in the comments. Who knew Kik had users?
There’s no correlation. Particularly in the software world, “interestingness” of work is dominated primarily by what you can do, and what you deliver, not by credentials.
It is funny to see these technologies being shut down right when they are useful for IoT.

I was building LED displays for bus stops to show information about the next bus. I found pagers to be a great match: cheap chips with integrated support for communications and displays, low costs for small text messages, great network coverage. But then the telecoms started shutting down the networks.

Now we are seeing the same thing with the push to 5G. I don't want 5G, I want 2G. Before there was TCP/IP over cellular networks, we had cellular packet data. Very power and network efficient, it was the basis for things like BlackBerry's push email. Now the 2G patents are expiring, so it could be cheap and ubiquitous, built into everything. But instead the 2G networks are getting shut down...
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I really bought into the hype and gave her a try - she adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.

The a16z podcasts are way better - I can't recall the name of the ladies who generally host that but they are much more effective interviewers and analysts.
Wow one more weird reason to fear ticks. I wonder why ticks are such effective disease vectors.
Why do we get titles like this? It's so weird.

If this were a NASA thing I promise you the title wouldn't be "USA Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon".

Everything Chinese is reduced to "China".