skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty meaningless index when American citizens are free to promote a separatist agenda and the higher ranked Spaniards can't.
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The small funds on that list are all tech funds. The larger funds are all biotech.

Biotech funds are "specialist" but they aren't really small. Biopharma is a top 5 subsector of VC (by some estimates it is the 2nd biggest sector after software) and the largest sector by far of healthcare VC, with $17B+ invested in 2018. Orbimed manages $10B+ (though some of that is public equity). Flagship manages many billions (latest fund was $800M+). Foresite manages over $2B, last fund was $668M. Many other examples

I mentioned i was writing a longer post on the topic, that chart is a snapshot. If you invested in biotech VC as a basket recently it would outperform tech [0]. There's more recent data as well but i dont have the link offhand

[0] https://lifescivc.com/2016/11/biotech-venture-capital-mythbu...
Hi Amos & Sam this looks like a really cool concept. If I'm not mistaken another challenge you guys may face is the fact that a lot of dealerships are already doing this across entire brands such as Hyundai, how do you plan to tackle that? Also are you guys using a vehicle API such as https://api.carsxe.com to vet cars and get detailed data analytics on the cars people are renting out?
> In Nim the compiler tells you that you are redefining the same variable in 3 different places and you can go and give them more meaningful names.

If this is the goal, there are many alternative ways to solve this problem, making the language case insensitive is a pretty big hammer.
If you haven’t seen it, give a quick skim to “The Mindbody Prescription” by Sarno.

Several years ago I had a very strong on-and-off hip joint pain for several months. This thing helped overnight, with permanent effect.
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This matches my experience. Open source usability is terrible, especially in the laptop space. Apple is leagues ahead still.
> I’ve been told over Skype that an applicant who lived in Downtown Vancouver couldn’t meet up for a coffee because they didn’t leave their house. They lived in Guangzhou.

No wonder when people get paid based on their location and not based on their output/value. This is what bothers me quite a lot about Gitlab as well.
My understanding is that these detection signals can cause fires themselves, as they need to be high enough voltage to traverse the entire length of the line—and as such can spark off said faults and cause fires...
Well .. yes?

Almost nobody gets into politics without a reason. Nobody is going to put effort into something without an objective to achieve. Nobody is unbiased. And trying to treat good and bad ideas the same way, or honest and dishonest people, is doomed to encourage the bad to drive out the good.
There are specific criteria that should be met for an internship to be offered without payment. Generally, an unpaid internship must be purely educational, not displace employees, employer does not derive profit from the intern, and there is no expectation of a job offer at the end.

At my employer, interns are effectively additional staff for the duration of their employment, so they are paid market wages. The main difference between their position and that of a junior employee is hourly wages vs salaried.
We're not the intended audience for the code. We're just the consumers.
You're too good to be true ;)
The sea level as it stands today is already effected by gravity. And this is in fact built into the wgs84 datum. So vertical elevation is measured relative to that assumed sea level after the effects of gravity. And a rise in sea level would presumably be measured relative to that existing datum.
Wondering if there’s a way to learn more about how they modeled the brittle crack growth
As far as I know liquid propellant rocket engines are notoriously complex, and operate under even more extreme conditions than modern airplane engines
> How many websites have...

Honestly I'd settle for buttons that are obviously buttons and menus that aren't hidden by default.

A lot of web design has gone backwards in usability, especially since Google popularized Material design.
Observing that vigilante justice exists is not the same thing as advocating for it.
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For those of you interested. Intensive Dietary Management of Type 2 Diabetes has been shown to be very effective at treating and often curing Type 2. Dr. Jason Fung runs the program up in Canada and has written a couple books about it.

My partner recently was declared cured of Type 2 by his very surprised endocrinologist after focusing on dietary management and fasting. His A1C is lower than mine now...

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It's like Avengers: Infinity War, which is like Star Trek episode 13: The Conscience of the King. In reality it is a less hokey of a problem. It wouldn't be the people deciding to not put up the sunshade that would be the mass murderers, it would be the system in place that made such a conventionally attractive option off the table since it would cost more lives than it saved.
Yeah, it's one of the reasons why reusability is so important. When you don't have to rebuild the rocket each time it gets a lot cheaper to use than current intuition would suggest.
> they just need the rest of the country to agree with them leaving

I wonder if the American colonies which seceded from Great Britain in 1776 received the agreement of King George or of the people of Great Britain in general. Secession without consent of the sovereign was not part of their law, so the action was clearly illegal and unethical and the colonists simply in the wrong, do you think? Also there is the matter of them using violence and acts of terrorism as part of their secession process. Clearly wrong, correct?
That's not controversial though, just what is seeing a lot of posts and voting. That could imply it's controversial or trollbait, but not per se.
Interesting. Without letting storage explode, I can't think of an easy way to do this since computation isn't really reversible.
The solution is that you can create a transparency website and file FIOAs to get all the FIOAs and you can post them.

This isn't a "why didn't they" problem. It is a "how can I" problem.
Thanks, I wasn't sure the state of the buyout.
And ignores the fact that plenty of Lay activists volunteer time without problem.
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How about maybe stop trying to find the cheapest people you can?
Yes and no. I worked with several middleware systems, a few disparate systems, and a couple very old systems. Right now I’m working on a few web service integrations with SerivceNow for Microsoft Teams, ticketing, and CMDB stuff, it has decent tools.

When you are hacking systems together for large/old enterprises the water gets muddy fast.
As a mechanical engineer, I'm envious of polished open source tools that exist in other fields. For parametric modeling and engineering drawing of mechanical parts, the free software tools are not nearly as mature and user friendly as commercial equivalents. When creating engineering drawings and models for public use, I would much prefer to use free software such as FreeCAD, SolveSpace, and OpenSCAD, because I want designs to be modifiable by anyone.

Unfortunately, using these free tools feels like a throwback to a less developed era in desktop computer aided design. Commercial CAD software with no-cost hobbyist licenses are much more usable, but tie you into their licensing structure and cloud data system. There's no telling whether you'll be able to open your Fusion360 or Onshape projects 10 years from now.

I have a lot of hope that eventually free software will overtake commercial software in a lot of fields, and establish a regime where everyone has access to "professional grade" tools. Something like that exists in the information technology field, and it has unlocked a lot of human potential over the last few decades. Just imagine every school child having access to advanced, professional grade free software tools in every sort of field of human creativity.
He’s left Dropbox; he hasn’t died.
Depends on your definition of better or worse, it would be different that's for sure.
the shades aren't even visible from earth. they are like dust or fog that don't let 2-4% of sunlight through.
To have "sharp" shadow like you are proposing you need to have a lot more shades (say 10 times as many) in a completely different (lower) orbit. they would also need serious station-keeping and control since they need to stay between earth and the sun.
I think they would need at least hundreds of meters of delta-V a day
Ah, that reminds me of a super fun landing in Frankfurt 25 or so years ago.

It was gusty. Really gusty. Belting it down with rain, cross, tail, headwinds, you name it. I’m surprised to this day that they didn’t divert, but can only guess they were on bingo fuel, as we’d been battling a headwind from London.

I’m flying unaccompanied minor, so there’s an attendant in a jump seat sat directly across from me. I’ve flown a lot by this point, and this is by far the worst turbulence I’ve ever experienced, and even since - and we were on final approach.

I’m looking out of the window, keeping one eye on her, and I kid you not, she gets out her rosary beads and starts praying.

As it happened, her response was apt. As we flared, a cross-tailwind caught us hard and we slammed into the runway at an alarming angle - the wingtip grazes the turf, the plane starts to wheel, skids, they’re thrusting like crazy to get us out of a severe crab, the attendant has her eyes shut and her face locked in a mask of terror, passengers are screaming, and somehow, somehow, they get it under control, before getting onto a taxiway and calmly informing us that the flight will end here, because “that landing was a little difficult and the aircraft took some damage”.

As we deplaned, I look back - the starboard wingtip is crumpled metal, and the tires on the starboard aft gear are just gone.

Years later I trained as a pilot, and came to deeply respect the abilities of the Lufthansa flight crew to rescue that, as I later came to realise, near disaster.
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"A police officer's job is only easy in a police state"
For a beginner, compared to many languages out there, it is very intuitive. I taught many 1st/2nd year college students Python as their first foray into programming, and it's flexibility and readability was a great way to get people in the door.

I won't defend beauty, as that's extremely subjective. I happen to find the whitespace significantly more intelligible than nested braces and parens, but that's me. I know plenty of people who strongly prefer to have braces and parens, so no argument from me.

Everyone loves to bring up performance as a huge drawback to Python, but it never holds up as a fundamental problem. Yes, that means for specific problems, it's not suitable. But the same can be said about many languages. Fortran is a horrible language to try and build a web framework on top of. Lisp is a bad language to write an OS in. Programming languages are tools, choose the right one for the job.

If you need blazing fast processing of numerical data, choose the proper tool. If you want fast iterative development with a broad set of packages and an active community, Python is a suitable tool.

I do agree that the growth in new languages is amazing, and greatly welcome them to the the toolbox that is programing and software development.
We came out of a little ice age at around 1870. The causes are complex but include a huge amount of volcanic activity over 50 years potentially lower solar output during that time known as the Maunder Minimum. The effects of both on climate hung around but were effectively over by 1950 and we wouldn't expect any further warming since then.
I strongly disagree that it's obviously a button.

Lots of websites use that little pill shape for other things.

A button should announce that it is clickable, while the rest of the UI isn't. Just because something has a different background and shape doesn't tell me it's clickable.
"Lack of type system". That is an absurd claim. Python is dynamic but strongly typed.
> while it’s possible to live in a foreign country without speaking the language, it’s inconvenient to do basic daily activity

I think there are a few exceptions in Europe, e.g The Netherlands.
There are legitimate reasons for hiring someone who you can occasionally meet with. There are also legitimate reasons to hire someone in your own country. Or at least in a country with a reasonable facsimile of the rule of law and fair access to courts by foreigners.
I’m a big fan of Soundslice!

More specifically, the G-Plus lesson interface of Guitar Instructor used to be Tunessence. It was a labor of love that we definitely did not build with the intention of selling. We wanted to teach people music through their favorite songs. Ultimately the licensing required to do that proved to be a hurdle we couldn’t clear, so we’re very grateful the product is able to live on in a great home. As the largest publisher of music, Hal Leonard was an obvious and great fit.
>How about the unintended consequences of historical emissions

We already know about them, for the most part. They're known-knowns or known-unknowns.

A sunshade is a giant cloud of unknown-unknowns, plus whatever we think we might anticipate.
I like caps lock there - I don't use it much, but it stops people putting Ctrl there instead, leaving us with asymmetrical meta keys...
The good news is that cities are starting to finally do this. Slowly, but it is happening.
Massively Massively Abused by a lot of industries like Media (the trades especially) and Fashion.
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I'm building a home server in a week or two to replace all my single board computers. Instead of running one system I want to do it in VMs to help me keep them separates and easily backupable.

I have very little experience with that, and I just want to ask whether fedora silverblue would be the distro for me? Does anyone have any experience?
Definitely stood out for me. We haven't started that process either, but we're hoping to soon.
That plan involves putting sunshades in L1, where most shades are visible from every sunlit point on earth. So you don't get to be picky, every shade shades everyone evenly.

There are other suggestions for placing sunshades in MEO. Each shade there is ~60% less effective than it would be in L1 (because of the time it would spend not shadowing any part of earth), but it is much closer, so putting them up there would be easier and cheaper. Those could in theory be regional.

However, it's been pointed out that sunshades would also necessarily be pretty damned good solar sails, so they might well make their own way to L1.
I was fortunate enough to work with Guido, albeit briefly, during my time at Dropbox. He was always a great co-worker. But you definitely didn't have to work directly with him to get to know him, because of his commute choices he was always at work when breakfast was being served (food, the true high point of working at Dropbox) and the intersection of Dropbox culture and Guido's personality meant that it was easy just to go sit at the same table and have breakfast with him and get to know him.
Much easier in a world where consumers stop trying to find the cheapest product they can.
> For a long-time big tobacco saw vaping as a threat to their business, they worked and probably still work to have it banned.

When you vape you are using tobacco. Selling vape liquid is selling tobacco. It’s not competitive in any sense, it is a new brand for the same product. Why are the addicts so unwilling to recognize that?
Because linkers are too easy?

It really looks like some overly clever college student's weird trick that somehow managed to survive for decades in an established product.
The number of pedestrian and cyclists deaths by themselves cannot be used to signal worsening public policy. We have to know how the total number of cyclists and pedestrians has changed over time as well. I suspect that there are more people using bicycles and/or walking now than ever, with bike sharing, scooters, better public transportation, etc.
Is he retiring only from Dropbox or he is retiring also from the Python committee (or whatever it is call)?
US companies have no legal obligation to comply with a Spanish court order. A MLAT must be arranged and approved before US companies have a legal obligation.

GitHub's compliance with the court order was voluntarily and discretionary; just like how if the North Korea courts told me to shut down my site, you have every right to say no.
Yes we can. There are independentists in parliament. The president of Catalonia is an independentist. Pro-independence demonstrations happen and there are no arrests just by going there (except in riots, but that's because the police force is way too uncontrolled, not because of a general freedom of expression issue).

This takedown was to an app that was used to organize a blockage of a major airport. I do not agree with the takedown, but I do not think it's such a clear cut that it's 'freedom of expression'.
The Camp Fire, which killed 85 people, started due to neglected protective maintenance around their power poles which allowed uncut brush to burn at an extreme rate.
We need more and better financial incentives (rebates, taxes, etc.)
You should be a more defensive driver. This sort of attitude could lead to you seriously hurting someone.
Craigslist has slowly changed over the years with little tweaks here and there. It’s really fun to go through the Wayback Machine on it when people bring it up as an example of something that hasn’t changed.
It's a blog post about the creator of python leaving Dropbox a company who uses a TON of Python. Did you expect them to complain about Python?

Of course there is issues, as there is with ANY language.

Stop these silly language wars...
Python is well-designed for what it is, and it certainly seems intuitive compared to bash or perl or whatever people were using before, but it is opinionated in a way that makes it hard to write anything but procedural-style code. That quality draws some people to it, but it's not a language that can be everything to everyone.
My problem with the nested XML org chart is that relationships are described in the documentation instead of the code. The JSON version has more text but encodes more information. That's one less thing I need to write code for.
...and scientists and environmentalists contradict themselves when they complain that we can't let dry foliage burn because it will lead to CO2 emissions.
Wait, don't turn tech debt into a climate change thing. That's our word!

I can just hear the Backlog Grooming conversations...

Devs: "When are we going to schedule time for tech debt? We haven't done any chores in 3 months."

Manager: "Oh, you didn't see the CEO's email? Instead of handling tech debt with engineer time, we're turning off the A/C every Thursday."
The app has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
It is used to coordinate a thousand or so semi drunk teens who clash with police, burn trash containers, block airport and highways for fun.
Those who wanted to express their dis-/agreement with gothernment position had several half a million people peaceful protests.
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IP cores are sometimes deployed on FPGAs though, so that can be a working chip (depending on definitions).
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This paper [1] estimated a mildly useful launcher could be delivered to the moon with no in-situ production for 9 falcon heavy launches, or half of a nominal starship payload.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276039810_Mass_Esti...
> Mr Hines has been burying the birds that die in the nearby garden, and has been taking the birds that survive to a local vet.

I thought Lorikeets were classified as pests in both Western Australia and Queensland. A few years ago my mother and I found an injured baby Rainbow Lorikeet in the middle of the road (some kind of wing injury). We put it in a box and went to the vet. Right before handing it over, I happened to ask the receptionist: "You guys aren't going to just kill him or anything, right?"

That is when the receptionist decided to tell me that because Rainbow Lorikeets are considered pests, that is exactly what they would do. They wouldn't even look at the bird's injury.

I took him home instead; he recovered and went on to live with me. I really hope that this person had some kind of agreement or assurance from the vet that they would actually help the birds. Of course not every bird that flies into a window can be saved, but if he was taking them there expecting them to get some kind of general diagnosis or treatment those birds may not have gotten the ending he was expecting.
It isn't about "caring". The US system is actually more caring because it guarantees access to social programs regardless of contributions. In the US, social programs are something you have a right to if you are a citizen. In Europe, they are something that is earned through contributions. In continental Europe, you pay high taxes but you receive a lot of those benefits back in the form of benefits. Unemployment insurance is literally insurance that is just provided by the state. That term makes no sense in a redistributive system like the US.

It is fine to suggest that this system is better but there is a reason it only exists in some countries and not others. If you have a high level of business creation/destruction, it is a huge risk (Denmark is an example of a country with this system but very low regulations on business/labour, 2008 nearly killed this system). If you have a very mobile population, it doesn't work either. If you have a heterogeneous population, it doesn't work.

The simpler solution is to take the parts that will work i.e. investment in retraining.
I think he means no historically justifiable reasons. Most countries demanding self determination due so in religious, political or historical basis.

Catalan identitarianism is very very recent. Culturally they are as Spanish as any other region (spain is relatively federal more so than a single monolithic culture like France). Some of the main reasons for claimed independence are "Spain steals from us". Now this is insulting to many Spaniards as the implication is that they pay taxes so everyone else can be lazy and fuck about. Essentially its based on them wanting a similar tax treaty to the basque country, another rich area who pays much less in tax than other areas with similar average salaries. In other words, rich not wanting to pay their fair share.

Slogans like that have alienated the discussion massively in Spain. Then they elected a local government that made their own campaign about leaving Spain. So kinda like the Brexit party in the UK they had to deliver, so they took crazy drastic measures, government escalated the problem massively and now we are here in no mans land.
Part of it's the result of extreme centralization and integration of industry, too. If no individual companies work across the entire scope of what a given agency or department regulates, and if there are many such companies rather than just a few, it's harder to draw a straight line between a given regulation and direct benefit to every single one of your potential employers when you rotate back out into the private sector. Would still happen, but it'd be harder to get a small group of industry insiders to agree on how regulation should look, easing regulatory capture at least a bit, and maybe a lot.