skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to talk about that because I think it'd be frowned upon on HN, but now that you mention it...

I own a .22 long rifle and have tons of ammo. I've been thinking of getting a glock but haven't gotten around to it. It's not the best for self defense, but it's a heck of a lot better than no gun at all. It's ridiculously easy to shoot accurately. The ammo is cheap and ubiquitous, which is another advantage.

There's other defense items that I would use first if possible. I own some cans of police grade pepper gel, tasers, a slingshot, and a combat knife, among other things.
> Time on MRI scanner .. is a limited resource.

It's a limited resource similar to houses and carpenters. If it is permitted and there is funding, more can be built/trained.
I think indifference is a perfectly good substitute here as well: "Sufficient levels of indifference are indistinguishable from malice".

Yep, that works too.
As someone that started "programming" very early on (when I was 9 years old) and noticed over the years the huge advantage I had over my peers in terms of "thinking as a computer" I can definitely say that experience matters. But it's most definitely not all that matters, not even the most important thing after a certain point:

* other people may be faster learner and may forget less

* other people's interest in the subject matter may decrease at a slower pace than mine's

* other people are simply younger and their body can be "fully awake" for more time, have more energy available to learn (instead of dealing with family issues), their brain is healthier/younger

There's also a unintuitive negative effect of having expertise: you easily miss out the simple explanations/solutions. This makes total sense, the more things you about a subject matter the more your brain will attempt to explain behavior through those means. As you become an expert in a subject matter you deal with more specialized/detailed aspects which results in your brain trying to think about those to explain situations or find solutions when a "newcomer" will very easily figure out that it's a simple problem/solution that can be done.

So don't feel disheartened, there are pros and cons to being at every level of expertise, it's a tradeoff.
> C++ is mostly an abstraction layer over C.

That depends on how you write it. It’s possible to write C++ that bears no semblance to C whatsoever. (I have done so for effect; I once assigned some students to write a C program but wanted to provide a reference implementation with source so I gave them one in C++ that wouldn’t translate directly at all.)
>Enter religious institutions: Ballpark estimates in my head indicate that, sure, some come & go quickly, but many have much more staying power than their pure corporate counterparts.

Sounds like survivor-ship bias. How many now-dead religions were contemporary with Christianity?
Probably worth reading this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/26/the-re...
To the contrary, modern C++ has solved very few, if any, of the problems described in the article.

Being generous:

* There's now `std::string_view` to address some of the problems with `std::string`, but the rest are still there. There are some attempts to specify the encoding now, at least.

* Lambdas and `std::function` pretty much solve the function pointer complaints, with some added complexity.

* Containers still do silly things when you use `c[..]` syntax with no element there. (Both when trying to insert and when trying to retrieve!)

* The general level of language size and complexity, especially around templates, has only gotten worse. Concepts will finally help in some ways here.
I imagine there's a few professionals on there (and other places) who will seed interest in / make a meme out of a stock in order to pump vega (or whatever you call "the predictability of the timescale on which volatility of the option becomes less predictable"—meta-vega? The thing in decision-theory that lets you capture utility when only you know that someone is pursuing a true-random mixed strategy, when they haven't actually done anything yet.)
That would likely be a non-starter. The Government wouldn't like it, because you can set your price point arbitrarily, thereby maintaining the possibility to refuse disclosure. Plus, nothing stops you from changing out your key.

Besides which, if you know it, and they need you to reveal it to them, they are screwed anyway by the Fifth. Although, makes a hell of a nice windfall for the falsely accused.

The fact is, there is no shortage of Amendments you'd have to throw out to make this kind of exceptional access regime the only legal option. 1st, 2nd, 5th...

We need to get over it. Encrypted data might as well be synonymous with your own thoughts in terms of how inaccessible they are to law enforcement, and that's just how it's got to be.

Land of the free, home of the brave; eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.

Safety is not guaranteed, and investigation is hard. This is simply how life has to be for a country that truly values Liberty for it's citizens.
However, the problem is if you don't try to get stuff before or during the panic you get screwed yourself. Its why its a dangerous feedback loop. If you don't join in you lose/ get negatively effected by it.

Its kinda of a prisoners dilemma but at a larger scale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/wage-growth-b...
Nicotine on its own is no more harmful than caffeine, it's other stuff in tobacco that gets you (and burning it doesn't help). So I'm still skeptical that "cold cured" snus would be safe.
This is a strange thread for me to suggest this, but check out the Zero Fasting app.
> Pretty sure Guo also got canned by Snap before Scale?

This is false.

She quit Snapchat to start AVA after getting into YC, and they pivoted from AVA to Scale during the YC batch.
The people's whose weddings got bombed by drones, or who get thrown in jail for having the same skin color and being in the same city block as an alleged perpetrator, may see it differently from you.
A trick to get the pushy salesman to give up is to tell him you're moving overseas.

I suppose if he tries to sell the international subscription you could say you're going to be wandering the earth with no permanent address for a while.
> The first is that because mainstream DNS providers are beginning to support DoH, there is no need for anyone to set up their own private DNS server.

That was already true though, because they could have used those mainstream providers' unencrypted DNS servers too.

> Sure it is. It effectively disables a layer of defenses from the spies.

But why would any spy rely on such a layer when you've left the front door (unencrypted DNS) wide open?
Yes, even their theme parks: Contrast to something like Great Adventure, and (one) major difference is that each of their "rides" isn't just, say, the application of inertia to the human body-- instead, each ride tells a story. To cliche, they are not rides, they are "experiences". Disney gets this.
I didn't say there wasn't pattern matching in video games, I said that pattern matching is only part of being an expert.

To use your FPS example, knowing all of those things still doesn't matter if you miss every shot.

Another example -- 99% of the best Olympic athletes at the 2012 Olympics were less than 40 years old.[1] I don't think that people over 40 are worse at pattern matching, I think being an expert at something requires more than just pattern matching. Depending on the activity, physical strength, eyesight, reaction time, and so many other things matter too.

[1]: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/61889/1/jhse_Vol_11...
Isn't this just survivorship bias? There are many churches, many splits and many died out along the way and your only looking at the few that survived and became dominant. There aren't a lot (if any) of roman, Greek, Norse institutions still around and even within Christianity I don't think there are any Lollard or Cathar ones.
While I recognize there might be a good number of people who experience FUD, I imagine there's another segment of people who couldn't be bothered. Procuring extra water and food for something that has a low likelihood of occurring (food and water insecurity stemming from COVID-19) sounds onerous.
Is it common for Series A term sheets to state valuation in post-money? I know the YC SAFE docs are [now] post-money. I wonder if that is driving the post-money valuation term in the Series A template, or is it just that this is typical? I've no idea what really happens but from the little I've picked up in casual browsing it seems that you typically raise on pre-money valuation
You're skipping over the previous sentence, which is that you convince people you're serious about it.
I was wondering about this too. Do you lock your wife in the guest room with a multi-stage plastic tarp to deliver food?
That came up recently in connection with a VR-related startup. They've been working for years, and they just canned the project and laid off about 60 people.

It's all in-house code. So now the people laid off have to find new jobs. They don't have any of the buzzwords resume scanners want. Heroku? No. React? No. Unreal Engine? No. Unity? No. SpatialOS? No. WebAsm? No. Kubernetes? No. Docker? No. AWS? No. Javascript? No. Go? No. Rust? No? Android? No. IOS? No. Mobile? No. Tensorflow? No? C++? Yes. Maybe they can get a job fixing legacy C++ applications. Going to a company that has its own in-house technology is a real career risk today.
AI Comes to the Tax Code
Eh... you're mixing apples and oranges. The baseline is that it is super unlikely to happen within a human lifetime. However up until now the recent dimming is exactly the sort of fast event which might precede a supernova. So as of a week or two ago, the Bayesian evidence was that a supernova was about to occur was much, much more likely than the baseline.

It is still more likely to occur in our lifetime than we would have guessed before--these sorts of dust-belching events are likely to happen right before the end. We just can't quantify that likelihood very well because this is the first time we've seen a (pre-)supernova in our stellar neighborhood in modern times.
The pay is actually pretty decent, and is cost-of-living adjusted. In Portland where I live, for example, it's $18/hour, which is way better than some temp jobs I've had.
I'm not in the mood to go around preaching about the scum that is zeroday factories. Or the questionable ethics of selling opaque phones. I'm just happy the conflict has reached the court system which may shine a light on these practices. What would victims of state persecution gain from me not being happy about this? Why bring them into the discussion?
Under the UK-US extradition treaty of 2003, no prima facie (at first appearance) evidence is required, only reasonable suspicion.

This means that the US is not required to provide any evidence to be examined by the court, merely assert reasonable suspicion based on specific facts. This is a lower legal standard of proof and so will theoretically be easier for the prosecution to meet.
Ones where government zoning and regulation prevent any change, sure. But you can't really blame the marketplace for that.
I believe kids are actually much more resistant to this virus.
Betelgeuse is not that close.
At what point does criticizing political correctness become as irritating and worthy of shunning as PC scolding itself? Because it's getting to a point where discussions are choked with anti-PC admonishments for every PC statement. It takes two to tangle, after all. Or two to go to culture war.
Few of those are in the Americas.
Im not sure you have thought through the consequences of citizens owning military grade arms.

It (arguably) removes the government as a threat, but replaces the threat with other citizens.

It seems to me that history teaches that in the absence of a strong government, people are taxed by whoever is capable of becoming a strong local warlord.

Somalia or South Sudan would be current examples.

Im not sure how that is better?
I've been going to the airport shaking hands with everyone arriving from China and Italy. That way I'll get infected before everyone else and get first pick on hospital beds.
Absolutely! A lot of is is psychological, too. I try not to bring up the topic of fasting too much around people, but when I do, people think it's nuts to even just eat one meal a day! Of course, I would have thought that's nuts years ago. But after trying it myself, even if I don't continue to fast regularly, I know that I could do it if I needed to and that it wouldn't be a big deal.
I know this sounds trivial, but there's data that suggests common immune-systems boosters such as zinc and vitamin C do help with covid-19.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
Compared to what? If you look at any agency license (use on as many sites as you want) for themeforest WordPress themes, they are about the same price, if not higher. I guarantee you, they‘ll make a million bucks on launch day!
Do it know. She may already be sick. Don't wait for the symptoms.
The problem with long term goals is that you've permanently screwed yourself if the goal is bad. With short term goals, you get unavoidable feedback quickly that keeps that from happening.
You can't tax yourself to prosperity.
Why stop at twitter? Lets just scan most websites for phrases that gives an indication that it is remote/contract work and just create an index on something like a github repository. Seems like it would be (almost) cheap to maintain.
Interestingly enough, it's an extremely flat organization.
These are beauties. Heck, I'd likely buy a nice jacket like that!
According to wikipedia, it was bought by Takamatsu and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary, though admittedly I don't think that counts anymore for this title: https://www.kongogumi.co.jp/.
I cannot pretend to have as much insight into this case as Nils Metzner. However, I can take issue with the spin presented on several things. I read this paragraph above, and kept reading:

> Assange repeatedly indicated through his lawyer that he wished to respond to the accusations. The public prosecutor responsible kept delaying. On one occasion, it didn’t fit with the public prosecutor’s schedule, on another, the police official responsible was sick.

Two schedule conflicts, one due to illness? This is the kind of thing that is being used to "show" that there was maliciousness afoot? I wonder how many times Assange rescheduled the same meeting (in between planning his trip to Berlin for a conference)?

There _are_ irregularities and holes in this whole thing (from the government(s)) side that have absolutely shown problems with the handling of the affair, and that have done a poor job of showing effective or efficient handling of things and allowed this whole situation to fester and worsen.

But things like that cause little more than an eye-roll. I'd wager that a vast majority of people reporting to police stations for voluntary interviews have at one time or another (or in this case, twice) run into a scheduling conflict:

"The public prosecutor repeatedly kept delaying proceedings"

is _not_ an unbiased perspective (or rather language) of an investigator.
The article's opening paragraph might have been a somewhat accurate depiction of reddit 12-13 years ago, but it's changed a lot since then. It's hard to take the author that seriously when the bias against reddit is that clear in the lede.
In this case it's in Ireland, but since it was under English control at the time, it would likely be the same.
The Entrepreneur's Mindset
It could present issues if you're speaking to a particularly disagreeable VC, but you're unlikely to convince that person anyway. They've decided they've got an axe to grind and they're going to use you as the grindstone.

If you're in a situation where you're having to overcome objections in your pitch, most of the time you've already lost, and you should just move on. The goal for your pitch is to figure out how to sidestep or head off at the pass any of the objections you've heard before.
Fair point.

Regardless, with other entries in the 1990s, that's amazingly recent.
LOL sure it will.
> providing incorrect information is a crime and not answering is a crime. So I did nothing.

The correct answer in this case is to say "I don't know". You can write in stuff on census forms and it's up to the local office to process those as special cases.
Your comment got me interested in where the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (alma mater to Copernicus) placed in these standings which led me to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...
I meant where the ground meets the sky. If there's a measurable distance landmark there, the math of "I'm on a sphere" is hard to argue with. Especially if you repeat the exercise in many far flung places.
>taxing the wealthiest to share with everyone results in the wealthiest having less than they would otherwise

No taxing the wealthiest results in the wealthiest moving their capital investments elsewhere.
> I just think it's not great advice to say "if you want to get good go after the meta".

Right, I totally agree here. If it wasn't clear, I think the vast majority of players should just ignore the meta and focus on fundamentals.

That being said, often specific meta strategies (say, the 2 base sentry/immortal all-in that was so ridiculously powerful back in the day) give players a really hard time, and so IMO the best way to do it is to use learning how to beat the strategy as an example of learning fundamentals. For example, beating that all-in required effective scouting, map control, micro, and stopping drone production at the perfect time.
the virus itself is not the biggest threat. It's the sideeffects of everyone's fear. Once fear starts to take hold, anything can happen.

Also, the steps that authorities might take in response to that fear...
> Also, he made himself available for questioning in a place where he would not be in danger of persecution by US and/or UK authorities - which is quite fair.

Is there some inherent human right against persecution? Which to be clear in this situation means "being accused of and investigated for additional crimes".

Is it "fair" for me to avoid questioning (or consequences of questioning) about crimes of which I'm accused, too?
It can make a big visible bump in a volatility surface, but experienced option traders are trained not to react like robots, but think instead of following blindly (otherwise it would be very easy to fool them, since it's a relatively illiquid market in which anyone can have a lot of leverage).

In that sense it's similar to poker; you don't have all the information to analyze what other players do. In this particular case, is it an informed trader or a noise trader?
VC investors look aim for 12% return, approx 3x over 10 years. But returns are hugely variable (power law?), so returns heavily dependent on one winner e.g. one success at 30x out of 10 investments gives 3x.

Your numbers don't work unless you can get 10x returns on 3 out of 10 investments (which seems unlikely).

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...

Edit: And how far is that $250k going to stretch on salaries, especially over a few years!
Just 10 years ago the dominant message was, startups today are lucky that they are easy and cheap to spin up. It makes testing hypothesis easy. That brought in a flood of small angel and seed investors with thousands of bonkers ideas.

When I think of hard startups, I think of FitBit, GoPro, or even Oculus. Yet, all those companies did was prove that people want fitness trackers or smart cameras, or screens wrapped around eyes.

Those companies early employees were all specialized PhD employees with very specific skill-sets. You aren't going to go to an 8 week bootcamp and come out able to contribute meaningful to the research needed to pull off those products. Sam is right, yes, you will have an enthusiastic group of people knocking on the door to work there, but the bar is exceptionally high to hire the people you need to be successful.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc, they are all paying top salaries with great perks to work on hard problems with the resources to be successful. Want to build custom servers, Amazon has a dedicated Gravitron engineering team and internal customers salivating at deploying them. Microsoft is currently already shipping AR glasses with a cohort of trained developers already able to write software for them. Apple, well, there's a rumor they are building an ARM laptop, and we know only Apple will be able to shift the industry in that direction. No hard startup could do that. On and on...

Anyway, not trying to be cynical, but I do think the problem is deeper and VCs will need to give huge initial rounds, with really long several years runways, just to bring in the talent needed to compete against the established players. Then, these hard startups need to be prepared for the sea of copycats who will swoop in for free after all the hard research was done.

Another example of what I mean by huge rounds:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/23/rivian-adds-1-3-billion-in...
> In fact, Adam Smith himself advocated a similar tax. So did Keynes, Friedman...

OK.

> ... nearly every economist.

Hogwash. Far from "nearly every" economist. Reciting 3 names doesn't get you anywhere close.

Before I believed "nearly every", I'd want to see a poll of a wide sample of professional and/or academic economists, showing 60+ percent support. I'm pretty sure you can't produce any such data...
People should not just focus on the mortality rate of the virus itself, as people can also die:

- if the health care system is overwhelmed and they can't get treatment for other life-threatening illnesses

- if there are medicine shortages (because a lot of medicines are made in China, and it has shut down a lot of its manufacturing)

- if people lack necessities like food as panic sets in people start hoarding

- if people start refusing to help each other out of fear they'll get infected

In addition, something like 20% of the people who do survive can suffer lung damage that can seriously impact their life.

This is not something to be complacent about. Prepare and take care.
Interesting (and also another thing to know).

Is there a list somewhere of features that have actually been removed from C++? (i.e., that would cause old code to break)
That's average, not median.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/opinions/colleen-kraft-corona...

If you enjoy posting crap on the internet to make other people freak out, by all means go ahead, if you want to read a professional opinion, check the link.

A very, very low effort troll this guy.
San Diego is one of the best places to live in the US. Cost of living, homelessness, and failed neighborhoods are no worse in San Diego than in Seattle or Austin. Benefits are perfect weather, proximity to Silicon Valley VCs, recruiting from the University of California system, and a willingness from talent to relocate to join your startup.

Everywhere has challenges. Attracting real talent in the midwest is challenging. Cost of living in industry hubs is also challenging. There's no perfect location to start a startup.

Source: 7 years at startups in the midwest, the south, Seattle, and now San Diego.
What if you microwaved it? To be clear, I don't have any idea if this works or not, I'm just asking. And of course it couldn't have any metal parts.
Without looking, I often see negative findings about vaping. In the past few weeks alone we have:

"Vaping changes oral microbiome, increasing risk for infection" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-vaping-oral-microbiom...

"Vapers show chemical changes in their genome linked to cancer" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-vapers-chemical-genom...
https://github.com/bazelbuild/codelabs
I'm not a lawyer either but slander and libel involve false statements. Using an iPhone isn't a false statement.
I'm not sure how you misuse a copyright. But there is no copyright involved here. Trademarks maybe, but you aren't selling it.