skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with that as a possible source - I think a similar sort of justification of value is why extroverts tend to earn more overall and is also partially responsible for the gender pay gap (due to upbringing factors).

I just wonder if there is some way to counter that effectively and also probably couple that with taxation and service provision to make it so that someone working hard at a dying company has a chance at a decent life compared to someone doing nothing at a successful company that gets a wealthy life due to happenstance.

It's interesting to me that the income security of a non-commissioned job is sort of a trade off against profit sharing - where one extreme can leave a hard worker destitute and the other extreme can leave a lazy worker wealthy.
AirPlay doesn't have this design philosophy and wouldn't have given this user a problem. Unfortunately AirPlay itself is proprietary and only supported by Apple devices and some TVs.
Of course stress is a problem, but the thought that you have to drink to solve that problem is a terrible thought to me. It is unfortunate if this is what society thinks.
Does < 10 cigarettes a month count as smoking?
I wish that popular press accounts of science could be a bit more precise. What exactly does "rate of heating accelerates" mean. The graphs seem to indicate a relatively steady rate of temperature increase (not an accelerating rate) in the oceans over the last 40 years. This corresponds to the the relatively steady rate of increase in the global temperature over the same time period [1].

More precisely, it looks to me like the second derivative of the ocean temperature is approximately zero, whereas the headline suggests that the second derivative of temperature is much greater than zero.

Obviously, the reported heating is great a concern, but the original article, not surprisingly, [2] appears to be behind a paywall.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6423/128.full
Reminds me of the Hotline Miami dev who posted bug fixes for folks on Pirate Bay

https://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3577726/hotline-miami-dev...
On top of that: no (physical) keyboard, no GPS, no 3G support.

They were almost the textbook definition of a disruptive product (worse on traditional metrics by which products compete, but better on some key factors that have customer value)...
>I hate smart TVs with a burning passion.

Me too! When I bought a new Samsung 32" last year, I went very, very slowly as I set it up, so as not to inadvertently connect it to the internet. I succeeded in not connecting and life is good.
This is the sort of use-case that the DLNA specification was intended for. It's not quite as simple as the author might want, but it is well supported. The TV can act as a Renderer for content pushed to it, or as a Player for content pulled from a Server.

All the smart TVs I've used implement this functionality.
VLC and Kodi support this too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Allianc...
> You just need to be aware that in some cases the work is already done for you by the language, for example in python if you open a file (without "b" option, the python will do the translation on the fly and you don't need to worry about it)

Sadly they fucked up that part rather thoroughly, because the default encoding is `locale.getpreferredencoding()`, which ensures it's going to be wrong at the least possible convenient time and on the devices least accessible for debugging.

Do not ever use text-mode `open` without specifying an encoding.
First 90 Days as CTO or VP Engineering
I think it should be possible to do this with the browser and the Chromecast protocol, since my understanding is "play a video from this URL" is the core of the protocol. Someone could build a website following https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender/integr... where you paste the URL of a video and are given the option to "cast" it to the TV.

This would be some work, but only one person would need to do it and then anyone could "cast" a URL.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
Chromecast Link – paste a URL to play it on your Chromecast
I feel like Hacker News main purpose isn't a news aggregator anymore, it's turned in to a place to test the usability of your Web site with the kinds of people who run NoScript or browse with a terminal.
I don't see how what you wrote could possibly address concerns with adding parameters to the model until it explains current data so perfectly that it cannot generalize to future or other data.

This is not a "theory" problem, it has to do with matching the theory to observations.
> However, there doesn't seem to be any widely implemented standard for playing plain URLs, only walled gardens like the YouTube app.

Actually, I think the standard is UPnP / DLNA. After setting up a UPNP server I can "cast" most things from Android by using the share button, and then choosing a UPnP app, such as Bubble UPnP. I don't know if the author's tv supports this, but many do.
You're deliberately choosing to ignore what is "direct institutional support" and using your own belief as to what it is. Tuition waivers most certainly are a component of that, and very often, a very large component.
Using Huawei in UK 5G networks would be 'madness', US says
Some of the nuclear material may be valuable in the future, so it's probably better to set it in a stable orbit between Jupiter and Saturn.
One example of a type of company where decacorn-or-nothing investing doesn't work is biotech / pharma, which is the second biggest VC sector after pharma

Cash on cash returns from seed investing in the biggest biotech companies are an order of magnitude lower than tech. Series a investments in the biggest biotech startups are about half that of tech. This is despite the fact that the companies grow to comparable sizes on comparable amounts of capital [0]

Value inflection happens later in biotech than software. Software startups can get product market fit on seed capital, but the biggest value inflection in biotech is human proof of concept, which costs tens or hundreds of millions

If you invest in biopharma you should focus on lower loss rates (ie do good technical diligence) and concentrate bets in winning companies

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/anatomy_of_a_decacorn.html
I also can't understand it, life is fun and video games get boring pretty quickly. But that's probably why I am not staying at home playing video games all day.
Right, someone already built it :)

https://chromecast.link/
> Investor, entrepreneur, contractor

Those would be all self employed wouldn't they? I am more interested to know how much engage in shadow economy to sustain themselves
I think he just showed us what is insecure direct object reference and not reverse engineered anything. Both op of your comment, and one from the post.
As long as I'm online, I'm sure any well-informed techie could, at any point, show me how my computer usage is insecure. At some point, I must stop securing stuff and start working. I'm just a regular user running Debian with firewall enabled on a desktop machine. That's enough for me. I won't use the internet via email like Richard Stallman.
There's an android/roku app that makes this fairly seamless in all the instances I've tried. It even does a good job of finding videos in a web page if you don't have a direct link.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instantbit...

http://www.webvideocaster.com/
> Python is doing exactly the same thing that Go does

It doesn't. Go's internal string encoding is UTF-8 and it can even be malformed. Go in fact does pretty much what Python 2's byte strings were just that string operations such as converting to uppercase or iteration over runes understands UTF-8 and Unicode.
I'm not certain how to parse your comment. If 25% of people drive in Tokyo to commute, that means 75% of them don't, which supports my point. Compare that to most cities in North America where more than 85% of commuters drive.
A bottle of beer (say 500ml) at 5% strength would be 2.5 units, so not as much as 4 bottles a day [1]. Also worth noting that alcohol you buy in shops in the UK has the number of units printed on the label, so it's fairly easy to keep track of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol
What you're saying doesn't make sense. We have right to work states that can hire you and fire you all in the same hour.

What is this 'constrained legal and regulatory calculus'?

I've worked as 1099 and my company literally just gave me a check. Zero overhead. And that's an option everywhere in America.

For W2 employees you can outsource your H.R. to ADP for 200 bucks a month for 10-15 employees.

This appears outright wrong and reeks of having an agenda especially because no sources were cited
Is event discovery lucrative? Yes or No? Give your opinion with an explanation
Anti-Surveillance Clothing
Still down for me :/

EDIT: My browser cached your redirect. Opened in private and I'm OK now.
i don't think you understood my point at all
Labor force participation rate. It says in the article.
They didn't list this, but most things I've heard (eg, "How Not to Die" by Dr. Michael Greger who reads a lot of studies) is to eat a whole food, plant based diet. Might not have to give up meat completely, but the less you eat, the healthier you will tend to be.
To take this further... is this belief incorrect? If you articulate it in a form that invokes literal theism, then I suppose that makes it a question of whether literal theism is correct, which obviously excludes atheists.

But you could articulate it as "children are almost always a blessing" vs "children are a burden, especially after a certain number." Either of these are debatable (and truth for most people is probably a balance of the two propositions), but in this formulation, theism could be orthogonal, or it could take on an auxiliary role in supporting one over the other. And most of all, the question of whether theism is literal or whether it's a symbolic distillation of human observations about values and meaning gets factored out of practical considerations.
Ah, you're right: https://github.com/anderspitman/anderspitman.net/blob/master...

Yes, if you're going to have a build process, converting Markdown to HTML server-side makes a lot more sense.
> in Mercurial's code base, most of our string types are binary by design: use of a Unicode based str for representing data is flat out wrong for our use case.

I feel like this is the essence of the article: specific constraints/choices of Mecurial made their port to Python 3 difficult. Working with early Python 3 certainly did not help. But there seems to have been some stubbornness here mixed with a lot of retroactive justification.

> One was that the added b characters would cause a lot of lines to grow beyond our length limits and we'd have to reformat code.

This is almost ridiculous. You are going to write a JIT partial 2to3 instead of just increasing your length limits and/or using an autoformatter? (Of course, it turns out they eventually did do that... after a bit more stubborness regarding the autoformatter.)

> So I'm not sure six would have saved enough effort to justify the baggage of integrating a 3rd party package into Mercurial.

Couldn't this have been a very occasional copy and paste, instead of a downstream dependency? [six](https://six.readthedocs.io/) "consists of only one Python file, so it is painless to copy into a project."

> Initially, Python 3 had a rather cavalier attitude towards backwards and forwards compatibility.

Yes, can't disagree. Early adopters who attempted to write 2- and 3- compatible code suffered the most.
Something that really helped me convert our helm charts to terraform was this little tool that convert yaml to terraform HCL. I would just render out the helm template and convert it.

Note: It uses the kubernetes terrform provider and only support those objects

https://github.com/sl1pm4t/k2tf/
We just migrated a big codebase to python 3 in about a year.
It was not easy, but also not super hard with tools like futurize, and mypy.

Gladly we already had mypy hints, this helped us find a lot of mistakes when (not) using bytes.

Now we're on python 3 we're auto-migrate the type hints to be inlined with tools, like com2ann https://github.com/ilevkivskyi/com2ann
And we're auto rewriting code to be more python 3 like with libcst and custom codemods...
Which means it's been true (and broken) for many many years until maintainers finally succumbed to external pressure and unbroke the API.
I think part of what kept the iPhone going forward was the inevitability of the many minor flaws and missing features (Copy+Paste!) being added in the near future.
> and it works because the library maintainer (Microsoft) is diligent about maintaining backwards compatibility between versions.

yet people have to ship microsoft DLLs left and right since behaviour sometimes still break. One breakage is enough to convince stakeholders to do that.

> When there is a vulnerability discovered in OpenSSL, every developer using it has to update their application instead of a library package maintainer doing it once, and if any application is no longer maintained (or just never updated to the latest version) it's now insecure indefinitely.

On the other hand, I had software who broke, as in, core features became unoperational due to openssl distro updates and changes of default policies. My users much prefer having working potentially unsafe software in the exceptional case where the software would connect to the network (eg reading a youtube stream in VLC or something like that) that non-working software.

> You don't have to ensure it works with every version ever made, only the one the distribution ships.

Which is "every version ever made" because people are still rocking Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.04 and want to use my software
ORMs Are Awesome
I only saw the Chrome permissions because Edge shares the same permission model (even pre-Edgmium Edge / "Edge Classic"). I also may have seen it early in its history as well, as I recall looking at it on a "Is this spyware?" ask from a presumably very early adopter.

That said, even if it is the example use case for that lone Firefox permission, that's a hugely broad permission and I'd be hesitant with any extension that asked for it.

As for security audits and privacy policies, I'd be concerned if they didn't do their diligence on that front. It doesn't impact my paranoid skepticism of a startup one bad/dumb pivot away from changing their minds and injecting ads or selling personal data because their business model wasn't working. At least on that side of the equation, PayPal buying them does possibly increase some trust measures with the company as it should be less likely that PayPal would allow such a pivot. (Though PayPal themselves don't have a history of being the best stewards of their ancillary products, and healthy skepticism there abounds as well.)
This issue should be talked about more, because I believe it lies at the foundation of so many issues; not only do we face this daily in tech, but daily in politics with respect to 'progress'.

Though 'tradition' can often be wrong, we definitely do not consider the value of 'what is' because often there are no advocates for it.

Change has tons of creative, intellectual advocation. We all want to think, create, adapt, and it's always this are that is the most creatively dynamic.

Advocates for consistency often don't have the same degree of dynamism, rather, the arguments are often indirect i.e. 'the rules are there for a reason' instead of advocating the reasoning rules themselves.
The things you mention may be useful to science and even help in evolving foundations of physics, but that hasn't happened yet. Ms. Hossenfelder talks about things such as internal consistency of quantum methodologies, consistency of QT and GRT and particle physics. There is no breakthrough in these questions for decades.
From my experience SSIS suffers mightily from the Write-Once Read Only problem as well as huge manual click-fests when package metadata changes. That and a lack of development from MSFT with obvious direction towards ADF means SSIS is not really great for modern data architecture.

If you're a MSFT shop then sure and if you're willing to drop the box-line GUI and move to .NET assembly-based packages even more so, but I've spent enough of my life keeping SSIS running and not going back.
I have a love / hate relationship with Chromecast.

When it works, it works well, and it is nice to just press a button and whatever I'd like to use is up on my TV. It does feel a little magic.

But even when you're using compatible tools / devices that should work together, sometimes they mysteriously don't, and there's absolutely no way to know what's going wrong. Approximately 25% of the time, my Chromecast device just doesn't seem to exist according to my computer. Both my computer and the device have network connectivity, but there's just no ability to cast. I'm reduced to randomly restarting things in a vain hope that things will work.
I hate them too. So I just have a large monitor.

> You can’t really run many 10 ft versions of things ...

Huh?

My media server is in a ventilated closet, so I'm using ~15 meter HDMI, USB and audio cables. It was admittedly an expensive HDMI cable, but it seems to work well enough.
I thought the serious concerns were in reference to how they handled the warrants to wiretap Carter Page, which the NYT article you linked to in your previous comment mentions: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/fbi-ig-report...
TV makers should stop embedding the Smart TV features, and focus on either bundling an external box on dongle, or establish a standard for smartTV circuit board that you can replace by a third-party or pull out completely when the inevitable happens (system is unsupported/EOL, has some security flaws the manufacturer doesn't take seriously, etc. And more importantly, make the display works without such card.
In a business regard, people are usually perfectly understanding of a cost/benefit analysis—but when it comes to something like alcohol you hear a lot more absolutism. It surprises me a little bit.
I recommend you reread the post you replied to as it seems you agree without being aware of it.
> new AWS SDK

Could you share some details on that? A quick Google search didn't reveal anything about major changes to the SDK.
Check out the tutorial here - https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/wiki/Inferenc...
Helter Skelter (Scenario)
> I hate smart TVs with a burning passion.

Yes, me too. I have an old dumb TV, and will use that until it breaks. When that happens, I won't be buying another TV at all, since as near as I can tell, the "smart" kind will be the only kind on the market.
"A glass of wine with food" is fairly rare culturally outside of Europe I believe; and even in Europe, it's uncommon in beer countries (UK, Belgium, …).

"Drinking every night" = "[at least] 1 beer / night" in the minds of people who associate drinking with beer. There's no such thing as consuming a small glass of beer as it's not really a beverage you savour.
Startups subletting space to other startups
any startups in sf willing to sublet part of their office to smaller startups?
10x that number and you're on the right track (still hoping for a Dropbox).

Angels should be trying to do about 100 deals to break even.
Seeds roughly 50-60 deals
VC's 30
PEG 5-10

Angels who write 10k checks @ 100 deals JUST to break even extremely tough. Deal sourcing is so hard.

Anyone who thinks they can get by w/ < 100 as an Angel is largely fooling themselves. New VC's fall into this trap regularly. The pro's know the numbers and the pattern matching.

Fool's money is fool's money if you jumped too far w/o knowing what the pool is made of, so at least learn what the primary patterns are before you jump too deep.
In the "Supply-Side Solutions" section, the author recommends improving k-12 education, more vocational training opportunities, and better counseling. I'm not sure if any of those recommendations entail "returning to the 1950s".

The author also notes that this trend is unique to the US, as this trend doesn't exist in other never-communist democracies. These other countries have increased female workplace participation, but don't have the mass male drop-out of the workforce.

Overall, I think it was a good, balanced analysis of the issue and I did not pick up on desire to return to the "good ole days".
As a workaround, can't you load the URL in Chrome and then cast the tab or load the URL in VLC and cast from that?
This is a terrible approach for the fact that instead of addressing the problem of people not listening because of stuff not relevant to them said from others, it ensures you must listen to that irrelevant stuff.

So instead of wasting some people time, you are now wasting 2x that time.

Make the meeting relevant to everyone, make it tight (time-wise). Hiding the problem under a tarp ensures it doesn't get any improvements.
People want to relax and go fishing when they're working, not when they've got nothing to do all day. Retirement only looks good while you're working unless you have enough self drive to actively pursue your hobbies when retired, which hardly anyone does. Retirement also shortens your life, at least for men.
All of our services are containerized and running in kubernetes.
Steam is very corrosive in general.
The data is also an unbelievable mess.

We can work towards drinking from two directions: self report consumption and alcohol sales ought to lead to the same number. Not perfectly of course - drinks get thrown away, saved as gifts, used to cook, and so on. But last I looked, the ratio of drinks sold to drinking reported in the US was two to one. (I'd love to see the same data for other countries.)

So either people understating their drinking by a huge amount, or the studies are undersampling groups that do a lot of drinking. Probably both. We can make some good guesses: minors probably don't admit to their drinking, teetotalers probably self-report more accurately than occasional drinkers, and so on. But it's a gap so big that it's hard to talk confidently about what people here are doing.
You can be able to use Kubernetes very quickly. If you have a manged k8s cluster available to you, that somebody manages for you, then sure it is all upside. All the stuff you describe is great!

The thing is, if you have to manage the complexity and lifecycle of the cluster yourself, the balance tips dramatically. How do you provision it? How do you maintain it? How do you secure it? How do you upgrade it?

So I agree, k8s is great for running all manner of project, big and small. If you already have a k8s you will find yourself wanting to use it for everything! However if you don't have one, and you aren't interested in paying somebody to run one for you, then you should think long and hard about whether you're better off just launching a docker-compose from systemd or something.
printf "%x" 1195725856 will save you one bc process.
> There are set top boxes

But can any of them be trusted? Serious question...
When I was younger, everybody just wished for independence. What changed?

I'm betting on housing cost and low quality of life for youngs, but well, I do have very little evidence to substantiate it.
I see them as an acqui-hire target. Especially form Facebook since they are so geographically close to FAIR labs in NY or Google and get integrated into Google AI like Deep Mind did. (esp. since google uses a ton of Transformers any ways)

I can't think of many small teams that can be acquired and can build a company's ML infrastructure as fast as this team.

If they have the money for it, OCI and Azure may also be keeping a look out for them.
Can the monitor be removed from the stand, and hung on a wall?