skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dated a woman that had this job, but using Facebook (this was some years ago too).

It was not just marketing, but PR too, for example she bragged about when Whirlpool had a serious problem with one of their washing machines in my country, and it was going viral, so Whirlpool paid the marketing agency to make all fake profiles (even ones not belonging to their campaigns) make other viral posts to drown out the washing machine one. She bragged about two things: 1. It worked, the "counter-viral" campaign successfully made people ignore the washing machine issue. 2. They got paid ludicrous amounts of money (she hinted that each account with 5000 followers, that was Facebook limit, was worth some thousands USD, and that they had many, many accounts, precisely to go around that 5000 follower limit, for example if a company ordered 50.000 followers from them, they would setup 10 fake accounts and try to attract 5000 real people in each, each account with different hobbies to try to attract different people).

EDIT: some other interesting info:

* They had a huge cache of personal photos, to make it look like the person was real, there are even stock photo agencies that create these photos, for example take a female and a male actor to tourist destinations and take pictures to make them look like a couple doing romantic things, then they would release the photos slowly, so people wouldn't notice it was fake, and to stretch their money for photo purchases.

* They would get sometimes employees with real hobbies, and have them take care of fake accounts with same hobbies, so a surfer for example would have some 8 accounts under her care, each for a different company, and write some surfing content that is real, but tweak and then repost on all 8, with differences, and adjusting to fit each profile.

* Another technique at the time was the sale of "instantaneous company profile", you made a fake profile, and made it get genuinely popular with a target demographic, then you sold it to someone, after the sale you could edit the account to turn it from a person to a fan-page, with the category correct for the company that bought it, so a company could buy a fan-page for them with 5000 real followers that actually are about the subject. I never asked how often people would realize what happened and unfollow... but I guessed most people wouldn't bother with unfollowing anyway.
Probably a separate license is given to the FSF as a condition for assigning the copyright back. Then having a lot of work built on top of the original contribution would actually help the FSF, because then they'd have standing to enforce copyright on the derived work.
Or if your goal is retiring early: https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeFIRE/

Seems like a more familiar community to me.
“ This was the very question that consumed Arnold, filled him with guilt, eventually drove him mad. The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do.”
- Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins)
Sadly Reddit is locking down the personal finance subreddit behind their app so they can monetize it better. I find this article to have interesting timing as the readership on that subreddit must be going way down nowadays.
This article does not mention the Internet once. The actual paper title is:

Memristive synapses connect brain and silicon spiking neurons
France and Germany have pretty healthy relationships with alcohol. America yes, because of the 21 year old thing and college campus environments. But I'm French and had the same experience as you: drinking red wine at the table once in a while, a sip of this and that, never felt the need to get drunk, alcohol was never a big deal as I grew up.
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Well, speaking as an atheist who would like to think that the brain is purely cause and effect, what this boils down to is whether or not you believe that, or if you believe that somehow there are souls, and "something" interacts with a brain and imbues it with something we can't simulate that causes consciousness.

It's tempting to call that bullshit, but we don't know what consciousness is, and it's proving very elusive to find a physical way to explain it. And, hey, maybe we're all in a simulation and our minds are simulated outside the main simulation and so the only "conscious" entities are those with an external simulation feeding data into our universe. I'd tend to to think that rather than "ancestor simulations" like in the simulation argument, it's more likely we're in some game in that case.

Even a purely physical explanation does not preclude some physical process we're unaware of that involves some interaction with something physical that is in effect a black box from our point of view, and something we may not be able to replicate from "inside" the observable universe. E.g. imagine we're constrained to however many dimensions, but consciousness involves a process partially outside "our" dimensions.

Ultimately I'd like to think we find a purely physical/mechanistic model of consciousness that allows us to replicate it in software; the slightly less optimistic view is that we'll need some specialized hardware. The pessimistic view is that there's something involved that means it takes something very similar to a squishy biological brain to tap into whatever gives rise to consciousness. But we could also hit a wall.
Holloway is working on a guide on this topic, you might want to read it when it's done. I find their quality of publications quite high so looking forward to this one.

https://www.holloway.com/g/remote-work/about
Tesla downgraded Model 3 chip in China thanks to coronavirus
Does PG earnestly believe that the critique of income inequality and capitalistic exploitation in general is really "everyone should get a fair piece of pie!"?

I have a hard time believing a Harvard PhD and rapid support of capitalism has never encountered a critique of the topic outside of a third grader's worldview.
I agree that this article is a fluff piece but, unless you worked with him at YC or seen how he worked there, the idea that he wasn’t doing a lot to make YC successful is wrong. It’s not an exaggeration to say that PG’s work and insights changed venture funding and startups significantly. For better or worse!

Generally agree that a lot of tech luminaries are overrated and often not qualified to speak on topics out of their field though.
Things like this really should make you realize how bad you don't have it.

This is what unions fought, not when the office mgr takes away the nespresso machine.
I just visited the Jacob Riis Museum in Ribe, Denmark this Monday.
http://www.jacobariismuseum.dk/

The museum did have pictures of water pollution.
Kind of, yep :)

But there is no graph/visualization support for now, and Monitoror is more for IT monitoring right now.

It will evolve to add more and more tile types.

Feel free to create issues if you need specific tile types :)
Your post contradicts itself. You either care about investor validation or not.

You just described your businesses by what investors value your companies, which means that you care about investors.

I think it's great though, both investor validation and user validation matter a lot in business (it doesn't matter if it's YC or VC).
Out of interest (its decades since I last used C++) - do C++ exceptions cause an overhead generally or only if they are thrown?
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Yes, I am also very impressed by Fork. I wondered how they could make such a polished client for free, doesn't seem very sustainable. I hope they switch to a plain and simple license model and make enough off of it to not have to resort dark patterns like advertising, data brokering and rental models. We'll see, they certainly deserve some reward for their effort!
Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone who believes a government can have a tool and limit itself from using it is naive beyond understanding. Paper documents, lawsuits, and international agreements are all incapable of restraining government. It is completely amoral, and its survival depends on power and control; the only thing that can restrain government from an action is the fear of a backlash that will cause it to lose more power than that action would provide. I don't know how it is in Canada, but in the USA, the people are not inclined to outrage, no matter what the government does.
I remember I was asked a bunch of times if I had my "free swimmer" (Freischwimmer, Bronze)[1] by lifeguards when I was pre-teen in Germany, indeed. Tho, that wasn't something they did every time, more like spot checks.

My parents were wise enough to enroll me in a course so I got my "early swimmer" (seahorse, Seepferdchen) training by age 6; that doesn't make you into a good swimmer yet, but at least you know the basics. Then elementary school took over and I got up to the gold diploma by age 10.

By age 8 or so I already was a far better swimmer than my parents, who never had any formal training.

I remember my mom once refusing to take one of my friends with us swimming when I was like 8 or 9 because he didn't have any swimming diplomas yet (he had only come to Germany from Tunisia like a year prior and was in the process of catching up with swimming ed). I remember I was mad at the time, but in hindsight it was absolutely the right decision.

Still, we all knew stories of kids relatively close to us drowning; for me it was the little brother of a friend of my sisters who drowned when he went to a water park as part of a kids birthday. The "usual" had happened: the two parents of the birthday kid being too overwhelmed by 10 or so loud kids amped up on candy and not trained lifeguards anyway, not enough lifeguards, wave pool... the adults didn't even notice they had lost track of this one kid until they saw the lifeguard pulling him out of the water, too late, or so the story went.

[1] https://www.dlrg.de/informieren/ausbildung/schwimmabzeichen [German]
Shame, that "Essential Gem" looked pretty promising...
Thanks for this. I hadn't read it before, and it's quite interesting. In particular:

> One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are.

When I was a kid, I spent a few summers learning to sail. Part of our training included responding to falling overboard or capsizing our small boats with crews of two. Our instructors insisted that whenever this happened we first call out to each other, "Are you okay?" and confirm it before attempting to right the boat. I never understood why, but now I do.
Just lost all my savings, thanks.
But who would you sue if the computer vision didn't spot your child drowning?
Ah! I didn't notice, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out.
SJLJ have overhead (but no one really uses that anymore).
The vast majority of modern envs (which boil down to DWARF and MSVC) only have overhead when thrown.
I had such stickers on my trunks into the mid 90s.
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> "Bucket-based pricing creates an adversarial relationship between you and the customer because the customer is always going to pay more for your service than they want to."

A great point, but there's also a significant group of people who prefer flat predictable rates, rather than fluctuating bills.

Examples of popular services with fixed rates; Digital Ocean, Spotify, Netflix...

Although these aren't API services, they could be using usage based business models.
Won't you have difficulties in general with all money-related things in Europe as an US American? I've heard stories of banks refusing to create an account for you because it's too much bureacracy... What solution did you eventually find?
If it is not people-to-people based, it’s not a social network. That’s what defines the category and makes it distinct from other forms of interaction.

Reddit is a web forum, a form of interaction that predates social networks; they never went away. Reddit is just the best platform yet for creating and hosting them.

This form of interaction—short conversations organized by topic—predates even the Web, via newsgroups. It is one of the oldest patterns of interaction on the Internet. For a few people it arguably even predates the Internet, via direct-dial BBS.
> If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all.

may I introduce you to our local nihilist club
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Fantastic to see this, and great timing as I just finished reading "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt".

Roosevelt befriended Riis and the journalist had a large influence on him and his policies. As Riis confidence in Roosevelt's political perspectives grew, he also helped promote TR through his journalistic work.

I would recommend the book greatly for anyone interested in the politics of this era, or just Roosevelt himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Theodore_Roosevelt
FWIW I think the reason we're unaffected (as far as we can tell so far) is because we're not re-issuing certs within a short time period. The bug their end was to do with checking CAA records, if you re-issued the cert for a multi-domain cert within a short period of time after the initial provision then it wouldn't re-check the CAA records. This meant that subsequent CAA changes wouldn't be checked and theoretically a cert could be re-issued despite a CAA record being added to prevent this. As i'm reading it, if you didn't re-issue within this timeframe then your cert can be assumed to be correct as the original CAA check wasn't a problem.
Still think it is opinion, why not see it as 2 extra flaps of display at the top? Why not cover those areas with display if you can? I certainly agree on the removable battery though.

I also hated that they removed the head phone jack. But I recently bought 16$ qcy bt headphones, never looked back. Personally I don't care much about notches and headphone jacks at all. The camera would now be my nr. 1 buying argument.
>It might be the case and even likely that Hohn does not achieve the first step, but if he can convince a few large investors the effect will be much bigger than 5.01%.

No, not a few. Most.

>If "just", say, 10% jump on board, what then?

Then it'll make little or no difference.
Most depictions of things in movies are like that.

Films must show you something interesting, and watching somebody do trial and error painfully on a bash script for 6 hours is not as fun as a fast pace keyboard murder while screaming "i just passed 3 firewalls" with beautiful animations rendering on the screen.

If there is a camera, what you see is a lie. The difference between a national geographic documentary and cinema is just how big the lie is.

It's a bit insiduous actually, because some parts of the lie are subtil: rythm, speed, dialogs, personalities, agenda, resources... But they look real enough to make our natural social mechanisms trigger, and the lie then creeps into real life.

Like people now expect the police, the justice system, school or the hospital to behave in a certain way, and the reality is way less glamourous.

The chances we actually find, or even search for somebody that killed you (if it's not very obvious) are very low, not to mention a simple theft or ass kicking.

Most things are mondain and boring looking. That's why we are so fond of art.

And drowning is like most things.
Plants reject a lot of the visible spectrum. The question is, can you make up for the losses in solar panels by giving plants light that they can use more efficiently?
I have found a very enjoyable way to browse reddit: through RSS. I make RSS feeds of the top weekly posts in the three subreddits that I follow and subscribe to those. I use hnrss for reading HN, of course.
The pivotal work (with rtm and trevorj!) was Viaweb. Without that he would not have been able to start YC.

Also I presume he had substantial help in starting YC.

Many successful people like Bechtolsheim and Khosla go into the VC business. Still these two would probably list Sun as their major work.

The OSS contributor comment still applies: In the technology business one would need to go into the league of companies like Intel to even start comparing the wealth generated by companies vs. the wealth generated by OSS.
> 1. There are few indicators of effective software engineering so strong as deployment frequency and lead time for changes. Being able to go from issue to fix in production in minutes rather than days opens up completely new paths for feedback and allows you to operate your service much more efficiently

This is only true under certain assumptions. E.g. if your business is not a public facing website, you often don't have the immediate feedback in case of errors, to make the above observation applicable. I have a customer with an application that gather date for a whole year, and then does alot of stuff with it. Then, there are no short feedback cycles in production, no matter how often a day you deploy. Then, it is important to assure quality before a change reaches production. Otherwise it might replace your data with background noise and you only discover it at the end of the next year.

This is a symptom of the general tendency in developer circles to assume that personal findings apply to everyone at every time in every situation. Which is obviously ridicoulous. But somehow completely acceptable if you generalize from something one Google employer has posted about.
Don’t know who downvoted you, but as someone who joined WSB two months ago, it is mind blowing. Yes, these are bets. You are likely to blow it all. But imho it gives perspective to the topic of personal finance. Even if it’s just to understand one’s own limits. Valuable sub.
I've had severe cramps in my legs/feet many times in deep ocean water with no-one around. If you drown from a foot cramp you are not a strong swimmer.
... what? I can get to it from the website and Apollo perfectly well.
Perhaps, in the era of cloudcomputing, "crowdsourcing" computing power is no longer needed?
I had a BP6 and remember 450 too (I may still have it tucked away somewhere). I think there was a 333 that could be pushed to 550 or something but not in SMP and I think it was slot 1 and not socket 370.
Sub-reddit quality on Reddit has a high correlation with how actively the sub-reddit is moderated.
All of those could just as easily be that people who have that condition are more likely to start a startup.
I meant "hours" cumulatively, so their brain is ignoring all the background stuff that is competing for our attention in these short clips because it's all novel stimulation to us.

Drownings in progress are often quiet, but that doesn't mean there aren't useful audio cues (splashing that stops, a kid who is no longer laughing or shouting, etc)
>If everyone moved to UTC you wouldn't solve any real problems.

At least people will be less inclined to use local time for non-local schedule, and will be able to tell time unambiguously.
A platform independent computer virus (1994)
Line of Sight (LoS / LOS) is indeed an aspect in some video games [1], including World of Warcraft.

I'm going to swim with my 2 year old daughter for the first time this Saturday, so this being linked on HN was a chilling reminder. What I'm mostly scared about is that she gets some kind of temper tantrum whilst being in the water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_sight_(video_games)
> a slight push in the direction of the sun

That's not how orbital dynamics work; a slight push in any direction won't change the orbit enough for that thing to not be a problem anymore.

To make something fall into the sun, one needs quite a bit of delta-vee, which means energy. However, if the thing isn't in any hurry (and I imagine waste isn't), one can simply attach a solar sail with a tiny computer for steering it, and let it brake for the next few thousand years.

(Kerbal Space Program should be part of school curricula)
> through an Atlassian-owned server.

So completely under Five-Eyes mass surveillance (and questionable Australian jurisdiction regarding that) :(
The one poit I dont quite get is the connection between economic inequality and "noone should support founders". The one has nothing to do with the other, you can support founders and support initiatives to decrease economic inequality at the same time.

Generally, i don't like the view that there is nothing between radical capitalism on the one side and stalinist communism on the other. And that everything that is not 100% "true capitalism" is automatically socialism hich is, by the above logic, stalinism style communism. Every European country prooves otherwise.
Two very fair points :)
Why urban warfare is the hardest type of combat
Where you get into trouble with the guitar example is going under $300 (used). A lot of the beginner instruments (think: First Act) are so poorly made they’re hard to play without having work done on them by someone who really knows what they’re doing, and sound terrible regardless. Going from $150 (new) to $550 (new) is a huge difference in quality, and even a beginner will notice.

That seems to hold for a lot of instruments—there’s a price under which the quality’s so bad it could turn off someone who might have kept playing.
Mumble is open source and Teamspeak is not, which immediately eliminates Teamspeak from the candidates.
Microservices: Architectural Building Blocks and Trends
That line stuck out to me too. As someone on here said recently "revenue is easy if you're selling dollars for quarters".
Writing can be difficult: My plans to make it easier
Why is there no progress bar? Do you really expect me to sit through several minutes of video of nothing happening just to prove a point?

Finally I saw the child go down, so I wanted to rewind a few seconds to see what happened there. Nope, not allowed!
Why? Typically you age an article to contextualize it (sometimes REALLY important). In this case it is an interactive educational tool, the age hasn't changed its purpose, value, or usage.
Impulse responses (or an equivalent like transfer functions) are the ultimate output of such a model. Here, they're measuring them directly.
or the past ;-)
I don’t assume that. If however your goal is a digital existence then you still have energy as the limiting factor and the best way to maximize this is likely a Matrioshka Brain, which from far away is largely indistinguishable from a Dyson Swarm.
Not much, just your freedom, happiness, dignity and money.
But apparently only on the pool bottom.
Lifting hard for females is often frowned upon.
French Court of Cassation reclassify Uber drivers as employees [pdf]
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Theoretically true, but colleagues of mine have done benchmarks showing MSVC has a slight overhead with exceptions enabled, even if none are thrown. Worth benchmarking yourself if you need to be sure.
I don't know a tool for it, but I often find from experience that dynamic API's are usually not the right tool for the job. However if it is required and you have a declarative API, it will make the process much easier I would imagine.

EDIT: `declarative API` as in some kind of proxy layer which you can better isolate.
Are you seriously arguing that negative incentive structures are invalid?

You also didn't address my point about the missing tax revenue on use of capital.