skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I don't know how likely it is that any team that applied would've been selected, anyway.

I think it was that first summer founders event, when a team of four of us Lisp-ish hackers in Cambridge/Boston applied. We were mostly young (mostly early-mid 20s, though I think one guy was 30+), but already had a little experience, and university affiliations like PG might value, had done some early Web stuff already, and PG had talked about Lisp and hackers and such, and at least I was ready to go all-in on a startup with subsistence funding... so I thought we had a good chance, but I don't recall we even heard back.

PG might've already been looking for only college kids. Although we were young, some of us started working/school unusually young, and might've looked older on paper than we were. Or maybe it looked like we already had career starts we might not want to risk. And/or probably our proposal sucked badly, because I don't remember a single thing about what it was, and there weren't so many VC courtship conventions to tell us what to do then.

(Incidentally, the young thing was something PG was pushing around that time (e.g., encouraging people to interrupt college to do a startup, when they supposedly have few obligations, and perhaps are very malleable). But I don't recall ever hearing of favoring hiring 20yos in software or Internet industry before. What I'd seen in industry was both skill and experience being valued, and a good amount of meritocracy that didn't care about things like university degrees if you could do good work. It was only later that I'd start to hear things like a certain dotcom CEO saying publicly that they only wanted 20yos, and the industry-wide institutionalization of hiring processes that appeared designed to select for currently or fresh out of undergrad, preferably from Stanford. PG seemed immensely influential on startups, perhaps even moreso then than in new ideas now, and I wonder how much the current recent-grad emphasis is because of ideas he first planted.)

I wish that early startup team had gotten funding. With that initial disappointment, we each ended up doing other things. I was totally ready to rapidly build out innovative and working dotcom tech, like not many startups then could; just didn't know how to get funding for living expenses and servers&pipes. Thankfully, many years later, I'm working in a fresh startup team, of very skilled and nice people, all working on something constructive.
How do you train this? By example? Would enjoy seeing an example of this :)
Aye, it sounds like the Borg assimilated the late Prof Hawking's speech synthesizser.
Are we the same person? I could have written the exact same post. And was going to. Agreed about battery life while running Chrome and Signal a few hours a day.
Even if the TLD is irrelevant for new domains, losing your existing domain (with all its back links, Google score, email reputation, etc) can be hard, so existing .org domain holders may be in for a nasty choice.
Too bad his credentials did not make his argument good. I bet if he actually had a good argument ... well then nobody would be complaining that his argument is bad.
A skeptical mind should immediately ask "wait, that sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory, am I to believe Jeff Bezos is acting as an editor for the newspaper he owns?" Which is a perfectly valid question.

Noam Chomsky explains to a BBC journalist how it can be accomplished much more cleverly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8

Reporter: How can you know that I'm self-censoring, how can you know that a journalist is self-censoring?

Chomsky: I'm not saying you're self-censoring, I'm sure you believe everything you say. But what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.
Or, survivor bias

(literally)
I’m not sure I understand what you’re talking about. All the ugly CPU vulnerabilities make context switching very, very slow. A microkernel needs to contest switch more than a monolithic kernel, and the overhead keeps increasing.
People on HN don't like anything.
The problem is that, in order to protect the ones you love, especially their future, you need to make some important decisions like voting, joining protests when you need to, and maybe even trying to convince other people to vote for the same candidate or to join you in protest; all of these activities require being informed of the true agenda and abilities of candidates, of important socio-political issues, etc.

You can't just say "I'll focus on the ones I love around me" and ignore the rest.
This looks like a beautiful book, a perfect Christmas gift, thanks! Just one question: it seems that there are two such books with almost identical titles, the one by Sister Miriam Joseph and one by John Michell, Rachel Holley and others. Do you have any advice on the differences? The latter one seems to have a nicer graphic design, and it appears that it’s part of a series of similar books on different disciplines.
The logic behind the GND is simple: if we don’t do something about this, we’re going to be screwed. People don’t want to do anything about it because they’re afraid it will cost jobs. So make a plan that guarantees them jobs if they do something about it.

It’s a political solution to a technical problem. You may not like the politics, but it’s pretty damn logical.
How do you save money as a teenager without a job?
Until you need to use an external device - camera, microphone, speakers, printer, scanner... most of the game mice keyboards...
On the other hand, you can think of dumb money like SoftBank as desparate money and the jobs it creates as workfare in everything but name. Lots of people who would otherwise not get the chance, are getting paid and stuffing their resumes working for these places. These doomed companies are essentially allowing investors to pay for the training of employees who will be adding value to the not-doomed companies that will come after.
Google is the company developing it with Chris Latner in charge
I wonder who Heliogen hired to do their PR. Must be a really good (or expensive) campaign. There is nothing new in high temperatures and the AI part is pure buzzwords.
Never gets old: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Yes.

Tell that to all the companies that have to stop working when either of these sites go down because they've built their entire workflow on GitHub/lab being up.

Since zero downtime is so costly, maybe it's a better idea not to rely on the uptime of a third party?
Ask HN: Best language to use for a new static site generator?
Yes, there are a TON of existing static site generators out there, I know. I'd like to learn a new language/toolset and think a static site generator would be a fun project. Ideally the language would have good templating/macro/pre-processing support. It also can't be golang since that is my preferred language already.I'd also like to stay away from the more common languages like Python and JavaScript.

Initially I was thinking of just playing around with M4, but that is kind of boring haha. Maybe a lisp? C? Awk+sed haha.

Just looking for a fun holiday project

EDIT:
Here are a few I stumbled across the other day that I thought were pretty neat:

https://github.com/datagrok/makebakery
http://m4-bloggery.invergo.net/fossil/home
"Allowing large scale disinformation campaigns is a problem for democracies"

It does not have to be disinformation. Given how easily the majority is brainwashed by propaganda it is not that difficult to imagine mass postings that while being technically true are presented in a way that helps to form needed state of mind and just progress from there.

How do you fight that?
sand/dust blows around into dunes and its dense enough that "close enough" won't hack it. Figure as an engineering 1 sig fig estimate (dry) sand runs around a twentieth of a pound per cubic inch, so 14.7 PSI air would be in compression with around three hundred or so inches of sand evenly spread around the top.

Its a major labor sink to build and maintain and dunes could cause a catastrophic failure. Could make an interesting sci fi novel about "emergency EVA to run bulldozer drones to spread sand to prevent dome collapse".

In the end, rather than the nightmare of making a 3000 meter diameter dome deep enough under ground that dune forces will have no effect (using h-bombs to excavate?), just make thirty 10 meter diameter tunnel boring machines and run them 10 kilometers in different directions.

The linked article's tube tent is not a bad idea for surface greenhouses.
See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/bernieblindness/

I would say this is beyond biased and well into the "literally evil" category.
>This should seriously discourage Ethos from doing this, because it would take 10 years for the new high rate to even take effect for existing registrants, and new registrations would likely fall off right away.

It's the exact opposite of that. As soon as you announce a price hike, you don't get a giant loss of money, you get a giant flood of money as tons of people pre-pay for 10 years.
Huh, who could have seen this coming.
Any lawyer in the world would have said, "No, Dickie, we don't just take companies at their word once the money changes hands. That's what contracts are for." At best this guy is incompetent, assuming his technical skills magically transfer to being business skills. But like you, I have a hard time thinking he believes any of this.
Glad you like my blog!
His argument seems to be:

1: The Internet Society does great work protecting the Internet
2: Ethos is a worthy successor to the Internet Society as the steward of .org.

This is incoherent. THis blog post can be summed up in one sentence: "I reckon its fine."

Thanks for voting to sell .ORG Richard Barnes. I know he thinks its fine, I think jacking the prices up 10% year over year is nonsense. What do the financials look like and what's the internet getting out of this?

A money grab looks like a money grab.
Once source comes from the memory allocator, and the pointers it gives out.

If you have an ordered map of pointers (e.g. std::map<void*>), iterating over the map will not be deterministic because the pointers given by a (regular) allocator are not deterministic.
“Rich people” are quite rightly held to a higher standard in their actions because of their means. Vinod can go surf on any beach he wants, even if he can’t get wrongful exclusive access to this one, but his housekeeper who has equal right under the law is constrained by their means.
You seem to be under the impression that somebody would say "I'll follow the rules that make sense to me" when entering a new group and suffer no negative social concequences in other societies.

I really don't think picking and choosing which rules you follow would be appreciated anywhere.
MLB actually has two different APIs - their statcast API and their Gameday API.

Both are free for non-commercial uses, though there is no documentation available (any more), and any copies of the older documentation is riddled with incorrect details.
Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University already accomplished this and gave a great talk about the problems of creating a new course, when you can just shove it into the existing math classes without needing to hire thousands of specialist teachers or worry about yet another mandatory class where schools reduce the rigor, or worry about students not even being able to take the class because they are in remedial classes and never even make it to a computational elective https://youtu.be/5c0BvOlR5gs
Looks like this hasn't been updated in a while. It's not a popular subfield but there have been interesting things published since. I keep a list of Danbooru2018-related applications & papers in https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2018#applications , and there's a slightly active subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimeResearch/ for applications/papers in general.
I didn't say that at all. I never said it's ok to ban people who show a picture of Osama bin Laden, nor that evening news shows should be prevented from showing pictures of Osama bin Laden.
> considers anything that allows the use of open source code in closed source projects to be the spawn of the devil. He'll continue saying this until his dying breath.

I claim that RMS has never said anything like that, and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.

He’s consistently said that it’s better if software was copylefted (like GPL) than if it was simply free software (like BSD), but he has consistently reserved the, like you say, “spawn of the devil”-type categorization for proprietary software and worse, like malware, etc.
I recognize that, which is why I asked the parent commenter to fill in details on their thought. Hopefully they recognize that it isn't a treatable mental disease driving gun violence, and rather reducing access to guns will reduce violent gun death. Arguably anitsocialites could use other means, but only at much higher costs.
>Humans can cope

Not if other humans deny the process of "coping".
Very cool, but I'd much prefer they spend their time bringing Firefox's dev tools up to par with Chrome's first. I've tried several times to switch to FF completely, but every time I end up switching back on my work computer because of the dev tools.
Because it costs so much to add a new gTLD /sarcasm
What card/brand are you using?
TypeScript spoiled me. I want PHP to have generics and all the type-system goodness that TS brings.
Winter is coming even more quickly
I go to a VA medical center and every word they have written about me, all my labs and scans are available online.
This is pretty nice, I'll without a doubt be using it. With the way gmail threads the mails it works great too.
It won't prevent an attacker from getting IP packets to your machine. How could it do that, when it only acts on outbound connections and its only act is to change the apparent source address of those connections?
AMD is playing catch up, being far away from NVidia; the strategy is to open its stack so that people like you jump on the bandwagon and do exactly what you are doing, i.e. complaining about closed nature of the GPGPU computing NVidia created and cultivated. The same complaints as with Intel on MKL, i.e. AMD ignoring that market completely and then fans suddenly waking up and complaining everywhere. As we see with new Threadripper, once they are dominant they change their attitudes quickly. The only thing we as customers can do is to vote with our wallets and strategically support whoever does more sensible stuff, playing companies against each other.
I recently switched back to FF after many years on chrome and find the dev tools to be as good of not better this time around. Curious which tools in particular you find worse? When was the last time you tried?
Curious to hear what's missing. I do some light front-end work (css/react) and have been fully on Firefox for about a year. Haven't looked back.
...you seem to have just copied and pasted the post I replied to.
Thank you. The difficulty in purchasing glasses is so obvious to anyone who has traveled extensively.

What wasn't addressed in the article is the accuracy of the typical eye exam. A 19th century idea: a single specified distance, no movement, perfect black vs white contrast, well-lit room, etc. Does it really measure "real-world" scenarios like driving at night, playing sports, or staring at a computer for 10 hours? I've received (mandatory, due to the U. S. laws described) prescriptions that were way off, that missed my astigmatism, or which switched the eye with the stronger correction. This is why being able to diagnose one's self, to an extent (buying glasses which vary 0.25 or 0.5 from the exact prescription) should be allowed, at the very least.
Europe has among the lowest food prices in the developed world. If you spend 3-5 EUR on ingredients you get a really healthy meal... Agricultural products are usually taxed below 10% and the agricultural sector is heavily subsidized; I would suspect that farmers in India live closer to the poverty line than in Europe - maybe that explains part of the differences for prices of raw materials; supply chain certainly is another: it’s true if everything is bought as locally produced the costs might be lower because no transportation, cooling etc. is needed... But kindly also do not forget food safety: I never had food poisoning in Europe - India is a whole different story... In Europe, drinking water comes out of the tap for free, electricity is super reliable and veeery cheap... Farmers in Europe do not have a history of committing suicide at scale...

Dumpster diving is not a big thing and it is simply incorrect that half the products are thrown away... People in Europe are generally very sensitive to food waste and the infrastructure we put in place to keep it fresh is pretty decent.

Democracy in Europe (and other places) decided that it is justified to “take money disproportionally from society” because “majority vote justifies that 20% of population need to pay for 80% of costs”. I may not like this aspect of democracy (e.g., majority gives always a justification over whatever you want to do) but well...

Indians might want to understand that Europe see taxes as a way to create a liveable and fair society. That the need and desire of the individual sometimes is not as important as “the greater good”.

In India, the rich are certainly not subsidizing the poor. If I am not mistaken, your “elite” keeps 2x India’s GDP hidden away in Switzerland still? The Swiss offered help - but your government refused and felt the money better stays where it is.

The society you see in India is the society Indians created. I would not trade it for Europe ever.
No witnesses to confirm this theory. As far as I know, Ukrainians and some other minorities were targeted with Holodomor.

Number of Russians jumped from 77 millions to 99 millions between 1926 and 1939. It doesn't looks like genocide.

Russians were supported by government. Villages of dead Ukrainians were granted to Russians, including free transfer by rail road from central Russia to Ukraine, free seeds, free equipment, and free cattle, confiscated by government prior to that.
Do you use developer edition? The only thing that was missing from regular Firefox for me was web socket connections messages, and those are in the developer edition (and apparently coming soon to regular Firefox).
> "I like how it is now that I can be logged into my personal email account on my work computer and know that I am the only one able to access it."

That's a poor assumption even with no monitoring software installed on you computer. If the company asked to access your computer immediately (e.g. if they think it's infected or if you're laid off unexpectedly), you would not have a leg to stand on to refuse no matter what personal data or log-ins you might have on it. I had this happen once when a tool I was developing for load testing was generating enough traffic to attract the attention of IT; fortunately all I had on it were a few music files.

It's the company's computer, not yours. End of story.
I'm not sure what the point of suicide is when the worst that can happen as a result of climate change is death.
Ask HN: Should we merge all SaaS?
I am currently working in a startup.

It is very difficult to navigate between the tools, which often have features in common. With 5, 10 and up to 20 different tools, how are we supposed to organize ourselves, train ourselves in use, manage our accounts, etc.?

And how is a company supposed to be able to manage all these subscriptions financially?

How do I know what tools to keep? Which ones to give up? How to find out about the new tools?

It's a little messy. Don't you think?

PS: I am talking about tools like Github, Asana, Slack, Docker, Monday, Slite, Trello, Intercom, Airtable, Google Calendar, Google Office....

Tandem, Taskade....
We’ve toured the world for years. To help save the planet we’ll have to change
Sorry out of town. Do you have any empirical evidence that will work?
2/3 suggestions can be implemented in a few days. The devs can probably make a great looking website with ease, so why not pick the low hanging fruit? The age of the website might be the #1 thing that struck people when they clicked on that link. Consumers of interior design software are especially sensitive to good design. Maybe the devs like to maintain the retro look, but all I was saying was: hey, from the perspective of a consumer, people would be more likely to download with better UI/UX. Judging by the website, potential customers might incorrectly think that the software isn’t updated at all. Customers are brutally efficient with product selection. As for the app, I want their software on my iPad. So what?

I thought that a “low effort” comment would have zero feedback or attempt at insight of any kind. I also thought that bringing up ML might generate discussion about the future of design software so that’s why I threw it out there. That’s a big market opportunity that most people reading this on HN can take advantage of.
I'm not sure that I agree, given that those 3,000 years encompass the beginnings of (amongst other things) Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, as well as the development of printing, explosives, and algebra.
> CPU-level vulnerabilities and the performance-concerns are in-directly solved by hardware advancements/implementations given for free or optimising the OS to run on multi-core systems.

I don't get it. If these vulnerabilities involved leaking data across process boundaries, and the fixes make processes slow, how do more processes help?
Well there are no solid designs on the table for doing it. Mostly because it's a chicken and egg problem of making plans to send people somewhere they can't come back from right now. But it's far from just an engineering problem; there is a huge human element to it:

For instance, we don't have a lot of experience with large groups of people in space for that long. We're talking at least 7 months each direction if they're coming back, plus waiting for the return window and executing it. That's an insane experiment in low gravity isolation that by itself hasn't been tackled-- most astronauts are only in space for 7 months at a time on average for a trip, and they need varying amounts of recovery afterward. We're talking about twice that, for an entire crew, plus time spent on the ground on mars in a lower gravity field than here on earth.

Then there's the fact that the crew will need to be large to be sufficiently redundant... and that runs into the problem of having many people in a small isolated space for such a long period of time. I think the largest crews we've had up there were around 10 people. A mars mission would need enough people to prevent everyone from dying if something went wrong on the way there, the wait for the window, and the launch for the return trip, and the return trip itself. I don't think we know how many people that would take currently.

I don't think we can confidently say that it's even possible until we have more experiments studying those things alone.

I'm not at all an expert these are just layman opinions and observations, so if I'm off base I'd like to know. But that's how I understand just the problem of going there.
GP's point is that they aren't. We are looking down the barrel of a total ecological collapse, and the trigger has likely already been pulled.
> I wonder why they added the "fn()" thing on the left of the array functions.

There would be ambiguity without it: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2#syntax