skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture Capital doesn't work the way founders and startup employees think it does.

1. A VC's job isn't to "pick" startups like you might pick stocks on the public market. It's almost besides the point, which is why junior associates and analysts get the most face time and source a lot of deals.

2. Venture Capital isn't a meritocracy, it's not fair, and it sure as hell isn't a competition. Most founders realize this after their first go around, but it's worth repeating because too many first time founders get wrapped up in getting funding, as if it's like getting into college or doing well on a test.

3. While angel investors are well advised to try picking potential unicorns or decacorns, VC funds most often don't. The reason the internet thinks this is that the biggest funds spend the most money on PR, because they have the biggest budgets, because management fees scale with fund size. These big funds invest later and need the biggest valuations to make money. There are many models a fund can operate on, and in fact most institutional limited partners will allocate capital to a number of funds with different models and strategies. To be a successful VC, you don't need to pick the next Uber, you need to pick a model, strategy, market focus, or technological thesis that fits within the broader strategy of your LPs and isn't a duplicate of their existing LP allocations.

4. If you invest in a founder, the total percentage of your interactions with them that include startup pitching will trend towards zero. Most experienced VCs will give your formal pitch less weight than the sum of their other interactions with you. The reason formal pitches are so important is because the investment committee (which tends to vote on and discuss investments at length) is mostly made up of people who haven't had much interaction with you. The real goal of a pitch is to not be objectionable to anyone whose opinion matters.
Looks nice. I’m somewhat surprised we haven’t seen an obvious alternative to Google Analytics yet. It’s got a wide and deep surface area. But feels like for the majority of eg B2B SaaS apps there’s a much simpler solution to be built. Something that conves mainline scenarios like:

- what channels / sites / campaigns is my traffic coming from?

- what pages are people landing on?

- what pages are driving conversions?

- what do my conversion goals look like (percentage and total conversions)
From the article:

> HTTP/2, derived from the now deprecated SPDY protocol, introduced the concept of first-class streams embedded in the same connection.

Was this not done by SCTP?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

It's just that (a) network boxes often block 'unknown' protocols, and (b) web servers/browsers did not bother implementing the protocol.
I'm stunned that these types of rare items were (very likely) just being hand carried down the street.

The article understates how close the bookstore is to the library. My office is across the street from the bookstore (I'm looking at it right now out of my window). From the bookstore it is a two minute walk into the library.
I'm not talking about Google's apps, I'm talking about Google Services. This is the system library that sits just above Android itself and is used as a dependency by most third-party Android apps these days. An app asks for your location? They aren't asking Android for it, they're asking Google for it. See more details here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
Thanks for the clarification. Calling something "Docker for a Kubernetes World" when it is not meant to be used with Kubernetes is a bit confusing.
Sure, that's good feedback and makes a lot of sense. I can edit that blurb.
> I feel like the "cookie warnings" basically read as "this site doesn't actually need cookies to work, but we want to track you".

I typically read those warnings as reminders that I should open the site in a FF container.
>It isn't something you should do just to do it or because you feel like you have to. It's a path that people should choose carefully.

In many ways (mostly money), people don't have the luxury of choosing a career path that is aligned with the things they love to do.
A third party can blackmail a politician if they are hiding whatever they think is hurtful for their career. Not that I care about what they do on their personal time but transparency has its benefits.
Ask HN: What is the most valuable lesson you have learned in your journey?
> there are at least as many companies that won't even look at your resume without one

And it’s about to get worse. You could get a job without a degree or any relevant experience in the 90’s because there were so many to be had and so few degrees to be found. Once you were in, you could stay in by virtue of your experience. This isn’t the case any more; it’s about to be impossible to get an entry level development job without a relevant degree. I think sometimes HN commenters forget that there’s a whole generation of kids in high school today who didn’t work for .com startups throughout the 90’s…
You should! I think there's a lot of stigma around it. It's definitely not a step "down".
This one will probably take decades to get in a useful state.

For head (or other organ) artificial alive-keeping we still don't know enough about how they work - and in case of especially the head we don't have the adequate technology yet to properly reconnect the neurons.

It might be that we can do this sooner than keeping the full head alive though, given that there is way more investment in such research to help people with spinal injuries regain motor control.
Thanks! I'll take care of the back button. It must be my buggy router code!
Heh, that's a funny coincidence. I was just reading about panpsychism (and some variations of it) earlier today, specifically this article on forgotten philosopher James Ward:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james-ward/

It seems really alien to our current mental metaphysical model, but if you study the subject and analyze the arguments, it's not as absurd as it seems. It's important to realize that when philosophers use the word "conscious" they don't generally mean "awake" or "aware" in a human-sense; virtually no one is positing that a rock is conscious in the same way a human being is.

Perhaps the main reason why panpsychism fell out of favor among philosophers and philosophers of science in the last century is due to the increased popularity of positivism and the linguistic turn. I'm not sure if panpsychism is necessarily a path forward in terms of describing the universe, but I think it seems promising in terms of a prescriptive use of creating, or attempting to create, new consciousness with machines.

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
>Private and Secure

It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private.

Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.
Please don't break the back button. I like my back button.
I love that you took the programmer equivalent of a writing cue and ran with it. And I think this is a really cool idea to explore.

I know it's largely a one person experiment and not a real business, but some feedback

> I won't sell your data and will be very personal with you.

This isn't good enough anymore. You need to promise that my data won't ever _ever_ be sold. Especially since you're asking me to share my diary with you. I'm not sure if this kind of promise can be made though. Maybe we need some legal apparatus you can declare that gives me peace of mind that no future owner of your company can change their mind.
> SameSite bugs that Safari had

Safari has SameSite bugs and it's infuriating that after years they don't even update the bug reports, let alone fix those.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200345
I didn't even know that was a thing. :-) Ace!
When I worked for a web host the drivers license/passport was normal. It sounds weird but stops some fraction of scammers.
How do you know it doesn't need a consent notice? Anything that tracks people uniquely, via a personal identifier, is in-scope and counts as personal data. Is the assumption here that it counts as 'legitimate interest'?
You could go further. There are a lot of bugs in provers like Coq themselves for which developers create their own proofs of correctness [1]. More precisely: the paper which is linked implements a type checker for the core language of Coq which is proven correct in Coq.

https://www.irif.fr/~sozeau/research/publications/drafts/Coq...
> I don't believe that purely functional cookies require GDPR permission - that's covered by "provide services to the user". It's the ones which are functionality to third parties not the user which are the problem.

Ah, I didn't realize that. Well, that does sound much more reasonable.
The "terminalish" part of this terminal doesn't need to actually be implemented. Instead, it can run another terminal as another X app, as the full backgroudnd.
> I hate to be a curmudgeon, but I can't help but think that designing a new service over UDP isn't the best idea.

They tried with SCTP and DCCP.
Honestly, I love it!

A very related project, that focuses on being a "social network" through email: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853667

Edit: I'm getting errors with the login functionality. Please check it out.
In 1999, I was fixing Y2K bugs at a company founded in 1997.

At least the programmers writing code in the 80s had an excuse. It was the Reagan years. Nobody thought civilization would make it until the year 2000.
There's an assumption that consciousness must be a result of emergent properties. I am not sure something like that has been definitively proven.

I think there will never be a proof of consciousness that will satisfy the standards set by scientific experimentation.
> Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe?

NO!

> Where does consciousness come from?

Emergent properties of a functional brain.
Discussing consciousness can be really difficult because the word is used in different ways in everyday language.

Consciousness defined as the intrinsically subjective quality of experience (Qualia [0]) is what is considered impossibly difficult to explain (maybe even necessarily outside of the scopy of natural science) by some. It's also what makes some people consider the crazy out-there ideas seriously...

Anyway, my point is, explaining self-symbols that an agent uses to model its own role in the world is a completely different problem. Some people use the term "hard problem of consciousness" [1] to distinguish the former from the latter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
You seem to point to hidden racism, but that doesn't answer the question. I see no discussion of profitability in your examples.
I disagree, in the anecdote, the bank knows that it's financials are fine and just needed to tick a box for a silly insurance paper.

There are definitely games that get played, but for the most part people are playing it to get around silliness from other parties.
"Music and dreams are similar, because they both involve, or can involve, the processing of feelings in response to situations that are not real."

"This similarity between music and dreaming suggests that music and dreaming may actually serve similar biological purposes."

This does not follow at all. We don't know why we dream, or why we evolved to make music. It's hasty to suggest the two are related based on the sole observation that both produce feelings.

What's more, there's a big difference between feelings in dreams (which are responses to imagined situations) and feelings in music (which may result from formal qualities of harmony and melody, independent of any imagined situation.) The author explains this away by 1. focusing on music with lyrical and theatrical aspects, and 2. pretending that all listeners are supplementing the music with their own memories and imagined situations. As if nobody ever just heard a pretty tune and thought it sounded nice.

Then the author proceeds to make tenuous connections and meaningless distinctions for the next several paragraphs, based on this flimsy assertion that music and dreaming are alike because they produce feelings. All the while, citing no research to make these connections.

This reads like one of those post-structuralist nonsense papers that people on HN love to hate on. Why are we giving it the time of day?
NSA found a dangerous MS software flaw and alerted the firm
It's still a single point of failure.
There's a great book by Daniel Immerwahr on the subject: How to Hide an Empire (https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/03...).
Looks interesting but super expensive
Yeah, this thing feels right on so many levels. Use your email client which is optimized for writing. Sign up by sending an email.
SCADA software is crap to develop on and significantly more painful to build a GUI for and no one can actually find a solution to this. Even if you did, you would have a hell of a time selling that solution.
Cliff Stoll didn't murder anyone.
I think it heats up. Somehow the delay tends to make the problem grow
It would appear that that's how it avoids needing a consent notice. The page says it doesn't track users.
Honestly “consciousness” is not a good term for this phenomenon. It is much more “observeness”, and here is why. If we suppose that not all things have such a property, these things can still be complex enough to exhibit the behavior similar to those who have it. E.g. someone who is me could not have it, could simply exist and write this message, but “real me” would mot be a thing. I can imagine other people, but I’m not them. What happens when I die? There still are other people. Now switch me with any of them and you’ve got a world without “me”.

The phenomenon is real, as we can detect it with an intelligence and discuss (otherwise no one would understand me). But it is not necessary, nor provable that it drives our behavior or it feels and experiences events. It observes us, we observe it and this observer meta-identifies with a body that is aware of the idea, like a fixed point in calculus. So (imo) it is not a physical control, feedback or consciousness, but a symbiosis of physical and “observing“.

Anyway, I can’t see why we should dismiss it and move on, like some people suggest. It may be a key to something important about reality.
hi I'm a mere frontend developer who doesnt do much at the network layer - do you mind ELIFEDing to me what exactly Packet got right? What's the big deal about automated bare metal? is it somehow a lot faster? cheaper? than virtualization? Is Packet 100% for edge computing or is Equinix kinda repurposing it in this acquisition for its edge computing strategy?

I feel like something that is so obvious to you is not obvious to me and it'd probably help other readers here to follow along. Thanks in advance
I'm not sure that GoatCounter tracks people uniquely.
This reminds me of https://usefathom.com/!

Both solving an important problem in my eyes.
Honestly, that stuff is not very expensive, in the scheme of things. Granite counters might be $5000, for a big kitchen, and fancy fixtures don't cost that much.

Compared to a boat, or snowmobiles, it's downright cheap.
Why you should upgrade Windows 7 to Ubuntu
Right, I didn't think of users' email servers spying on people. But to be fair, there're privacy-focused services, so it's possible.
As a neuroscientist, I have the opposite intuition. If we swap out one Neuron with a digital version you’ll be the same person. Do that 84B times and at the end of the day I see absolutely no reason why you would lose consciousness or sense of self.
Even if two theories make the exact same predictions, believing or giving more attention to one or the other can change how the brain operates, making it more or less efficient at some tasks and eliciting different emotions.

For example, the interpretation of natural numbers as sets in set theory and as strings of decimal digits is equivalent and gives the same results, however for most people seeing numbers as naturally being strings of decimal digits is likely to make them faster at doing arithmetic and making decisions based on numbers.

Likewise, seeing other people as conscious or unconscious results in the same predictions about their behavior, but seeing them as conscious might make most people more efficient at cooperation with other people.

In this case, seeing all matter as conscious might make someone feel less special, and thus have less attachment to their identity and spend less effort acting in a way that preserves it.
I do not wish that upon any developer, especially small indie shops. So I'd probably do as you suggest.

However, I would also very much like Apple to lead by example and stop spamming its paying customers (anyone that bought an iOS or Mac product) with marketing notifications...
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Yeah, sorry, I mean VM as a bit of compute, regardless of its provisioning.
> I think the idea exists already to some extent.

It's almost as if we've always known the true nature of our consciousness, we just keep overlooking it :)
https://www.srpnet.com/prices/home/electricvehicle.aspx

Yes, Arizona has good rates.
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Congrats. This is cool. Quick question. Did you pull this off in one day (after PG's tweet)? If yes, that is mighty impressive.
And, at least anecdotally, I've found similar to be true for just people in general. Being from a family with means acts as a de facto dues card being invested in (education, upbringing, connections) and a college degree acts as a de facto dues card for general employment.

You can't tell me Sam being a student at Stanford, and the benefits of a middle class upbringing, weren't big pros when he was being chosen for that first batch of YC investment. Would a high school drop-out with a GED, with the exact same idea and a co-founder with a similar background to them have been given the same opportunity? Would they have had other investors even remotely interested? Would they have had their company purchased for 43 million dollars?

I do not have a degree, I did not want to take tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt on. I am 34, companies want a 4-year degree for most entry-level stuff now (and I'm not even CS). I still do not want to take on tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.

So change wealthy to "formally educated".

- Step 1: be born into a wealthy middle class family and/or qualify for lots of scholarships and/or qualify for lots of grands and/or be willing to take debt that might take you a decade or more to pay off for the hope of higher earnings

- Step 2: graduate and get a starter job that allows you to minimally service your student loan debt, obtain graduate degree while working

- Step 3: work those connections made with graduate degree, become boss of someone with 10x as much experience on the job with minimal real-world experience yourself.

Those that don't follow the above mold... go ahead... apply for promotions/better positions based on experience alone... oops 4-year degree required to get past pre-application screening, rejection "we're looking for someone with experience AND a 4-year degree", unfortunately the promotion is only open to employees with a 4-year degree so consider getting one... damn now I've been doing the job for the employer for 13 years and my boss has been in the industry for 5, and my boss also qualifies for the extra training the company provides as a manager and manager-level only awards making their CV even more impressive both internally and in the industry... damn, I'm taking home less this year because of the insurance increases... if I go get a degree, in 4-6 years I'll have 40-60k$ of student loan debt at 4.53% interest while only making 34k annually but I'd be eligible to apply for a position making 7% more!
That still seems like a lot to me. I've always heard that 2 "drinks" is the limit for being able to drive, and it seems that drinking "during the day" (before dinner) is culturally frowned upon, so taking the advice of 2-3 "drinks"/day would mean you're at the limit every evening. If you have one or more sober days, you'd be over the limit every non-sober day if you do it in one sitting.

That being said, I don't drink, so I don't know for certainly what is culturally acceptable, I'm just going based on observations (lunches and dinners with coworkers and whatnot). However, this seems like it could be used to justify poor behavior, especially for health conscious individuals who like to check off boxes.
Of course, you’re obviously right. But you’re also not paying anything up front. I took loans for my schooling, and I paid $0 out of pocket.

You get to defer your payment until later when you aren’t in school and do have an income, presumably. Getting a loan and paying $2400 a year is not at all the same thing as having a part time job and paying $2400 a year.
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I'd recommend setting up a mailing list and promoting it on your site. See the "stay in touch" section at https://dataintensive.net/ or the "sign up for newsletter" section on https://the-cloud-book.com/ for examples.
very interesting. I want to note that for models and simulations "unpredictable" = random. There are many different ways to model random variables so as to get that kind of stability you are referencing (or other kinds of stability) to show in the model. I agree it isnt a perfect match for reality (no model is) but a production stream with variance is a common model
MSP payments is eliminated. Fairy tales come true. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-drug-covera...
Three things that I personally feel have a big impact:

1.- housing - We are outbiding each other for the same houses.

2.- health - The health systems is plain disfunctional. Quality is great but paying for it is a big problem.

3.- College cost inflation.
Runway 27 just means a runway that runs east-west and you're approaching from the west. Landing the other way it would be Runway 9, it's a neat little system that gives pilots everywhere a surprising amount of information in a single name.
People pre Einstein's time probably said that about the Newtons.

Has there ever been any lower hanging fruit than the fact 95% of our universe is unexplained, and the tiny bit that is is described by two mutually incompatible theories?
I haven't been able to open this site for days (Timeout error, thought it was down), until today that I decided to use tor
Sharing all your learnings and not being afraid to not not something or be wrong. I think that plus ability to focus on creating over consuming have been the most beneficial lessons I learned.

I try to systemize my learnings in form of rules that I iterate on as I progress in life. Helps me be more clear. Plus I like building systems.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules
Just set this up on my little side-project site, as I was curious if anyone was actually finding / using it. Wish I found this a month ago when I launched it!

For anyone interested, the site is https://www.videogamesbyyear.com, and if you want to see the statistics screen, I made them public here: https://videogamesbyyear.goatcounter.com/
We already know atoms in aggregate experience something. That's settled. If you want to argue that individual atoms are incapable of feeling, then you need to explain how the interaction of atoms brings something distinctly non-physical into being. The ironic thing is your position is actually the one that requires additional evidence, while the position you're arguing against is well supported.
Here's the video from my talk on Bash-my-AWS at LinuxConf 2020 in the Gold Coast Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbH_cg7Ev1Q
In the answer-space

-of things you could say or do,

there are many right things,

many wrong ones too.

Only some are true.
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