skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume they must have had a killer demo.

1. Put the goggles on some investor's head (in a normal looking room, but with known lighting and spatial properties...).

2. Show them some flashy demo that has some limitations, but promise that with their investment, they will be able to remove those limitations.

3. Investors, who probably lack the deep knowledge of optics to know that those limitations aren't so trivial, throw money at them. Because if those limitations (e.g. FOV, opacity) were removed, it would be world-changing tech.
One thing that may not be immediately obvious: Paketo is backed by release engineering code, infrastructure[0] and know-how accumulated over 6 or so years of sustained engineering. I was lucky to work on some of it in 2014 and 2016, a year or two before the technologies directly feeding into Paketo were first developed.

The engineering and infrastructure costs millions of dollars per year. And you can get the benefit for free.

[0] https://buildpacks.ci.cf-app.com/
I am not sure if financials really work out the way i assume, so i could totally be talking out of my ass here. But i have a feeling it could work as a really nice money laundering vehicle for investors (even though i dont think it was fully the case here), and the company doesn’t even need to be aware of it.

You make X in dirty money, then invest it into a cool sounding company promising groundbreaking stuff that has a bunch of big known investors on board already. If the company does well, you take the clean money out with a nice profit on top. If it doesn’t work out, hopefully you pulled out at a level where you lost some money but not much. And it still returns you clean money at the end, so the goal is accomplished.

Typically, this kind of money laundering is done through retail businesses like restaurants and such, but it is way easier to just drop those money as an investment into another company, rather than maintaining your own retail business. Plus, the amount of money you could launder by investing is way higher, since it isnt as suspicious to drop a few hundred millions on a startup investment, as opposed to claiming that your small restaurant that is almost always empty is bringing you tens of millions per year.
It's stated like that in OP's article.
I ask you about A.

You respond with B, a tiny subset of A.

I ask you for the rest of A.

Rather than saying something even as innocuous as "I don't know" you call me a racist.

In the most technical sense you might not be lying about B. But you're definitely being dishonest with the presumptive accusation of racism. And you're definitely using deceptive language to avoid answering the question. And you've definitely destroyed your credibility on a scale equal to "Masks don't work."
Why Do So Many VCs Say They’re Introverted? (2019)
I got my current job on the back of it!

I don't interview particularly well (interviews are a lot of about first impressions, and I make a [ranging from poor to] indifferent first impression), and especially used to struggle with interview exercises that require you to think on your feet. For e.g., read this case study, present your analysis of the client's requirements, and draw up a technical design, all within about an hour.

During my interview process for my current employer, I had come across one such exercise, and in the follow-up interview, was challenged on some of my poorly thought through responses. I was a bit too exhausted then to play games, and said outright that I struggle do that sort of thing well under time pressure, especially one that's not representative of a real-life work situation where we've usually got more time than an hour to analyse the situation, prototype various approaches, and eventually arrive at a refined solution after a few iterations of build-validate-redesign.

The interviewer then basically wanted to know how I could prove that I was capable of structured thought, careful analysis, and reasonably cogent writing. At this point I spoke about a few blog posts that I'd done, and he wanted me to email links to them after the interview was done.

A few days later I got a call saying that they were happy to extend me an offer.

I met the above chap who interviewed me some time later over a few drinks, and he told me that it was the blog posts that had changed people's minds about hiring me. I've been happily employed there for nearly 5 years since, so I'd say it all worked out really well! (Although I did stop writing blog posts for mostly laziness-related reasons...)
> Marseille and Nice (both Greek colonies)

No shit?! I had no idea the greek empire(s) stretched up this far. Was it a peaceful colonisation?
It varies by course and college. My college had a relatively small number of maths students and would give a prize to the top performers each year. We all knew who got the prize and what grade everyone got. Some of my friends were top athletes in niche sports, but none of us really cared about the boat race, varsity rugby, or anything like that. Social life was centred much more around drinking than sport. I don't think our dining hall arrangement had anything to do with sports teams, official or otherwise.
Jesus Christ. I personally know two people that started working there right around when the lockdowns were starting to get put in place. They've probably been there less than a month.
> They could not waste precious metal on soda cans

I have read somewhere that metal in Soviet Union was pretty cheap...
My electricity provider does the same. It's opt-in and you get a $200 credit at the end of the summer if you stay in the program. Pretty good deal, I think.
When I read Spanish (2nd language; not great at it) I sub-vocalize as I do in English. But if there is a long, complex word that I would have to laboriously "pronounce" (but I know exactly what it means ahead of time), I will treat it as a gestalt/symbol (so, it's like "cheating" on the vocalizing), so sub-vocalization isn't actually needed for comprehension, but I'm guessing is a parallel mental action/process (probably correlated with how we learn to read a language and personal characteristics). Maybe non-sub-vocalizing is really just suppressing this parallel processing workflow. (I'm wondering if people who "don't need to do this" could read backwords (accidental pun!) effectively.)
I guess it's like Marcel, but with a V.
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Like everything else, write it the simple/elegant way then profile it and tweak if you have to.

Once you're at the point where you have to worry about these things, tuning the SQL is still probably much less complex than writing the query in your app language or figuring out how a NOSQL db can do these joins.
Regulations to work for free?
In addition to the other comments, this also means the small business which didn't get the loan will compete with the extra cash in the hands of the larger business, meaning the small business (probably already operating on thinner margins) is now even more likely to close in the future.
They're exploring a sale valued at $10B, but it's doubtful who would have the appetite to buy it at this valuation. Google declined a follow on round recently, Apple has been developing their own tech for years, and Facebook has quietly stepped away from AR/VR.

Magic Leap is reminiscent of another company with "Magic" in its name: General Magic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic). They both made a product that evangelize the form factor in the public's (or some subset of it) eye, but alas is way ahead of its time in terms of tech, and content.

It's easy to hate on Magic Leap and its self aggrandizing marketing. Although I personally never bought into the hype of Magic Leap in particular, they did inspire a whole generation of developers in a way that hasn't been done since the release of the original iPhone.
I feel like I have heard rumors about amazing closed door tech demos for Magic Leap for years now, so I always assumed that's how they got so much money. The question then is did they just have a really good pitch/canned demo, or do a good job of stirring up rumors and riding off that.
Frankly I find it difficult to figure out how the essay relates to the subject. Care to expand on it a bit?
The answer points to ingenuity due to a lack of resources which is susceptible to obsolescence.

School in the USA does a lot more than just educate, for instance child protection services and employment. The USA also takes everyone, specifically the violent and malicious, due to compassion.

The USA suffered:
- multiple World Wars
- a fifty year Cold War that was just as bad
- multiple nuclear standoffs
- horrific terrorism
- black market drug smuggling, probably the gravest problem today
- repeated invasions
- a Civil War which involved foreign intervention
- attempts at colonial occupation
- originally being made as a death camp and penal colony
Gumroad's open board meetings might give some insight into this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_DfN-mKCGNuswqERc6sI...
Cheaper and smaller, and still $8m dollars. My point is that $8m is a lot of money to be spending on a house for your president (why is the university even paying for this at all?) especially when you then turn around and take a bunch of taxpayer stimulus money.
To be fair that’s a risk created by the financial institutions in the way they chose to implement & process the loans, not a risk inherent in the structure of the Paycheck Protection Program. A bank that processed these loan applications fairly and in the order they were received doesn’t really need to worry. (Whether such a bank exists at all is a different story.)

But even the banks who blatantly processed the applications in an unfair or discriminatory manner probably aren’t losing much sleep. The clients with the resources & connections to make a stink are the clients who got approved. Funny how that works.
Are you more than 2,000 years old?
I'm actually using NeoVIM + fugitive and git-gutter.

GitGutter make working with hunks easy
ComEd in Chicago can do this with Nest thermostats as well. At the time I had a Nest thermostat, they actually paid people to enable this. And I basically made back most of the cost of my Nest that way. (Before selling it off for a less cloud-connected thermostat.)
Curious that the way we play these games is “race to the answer” in fewest tests, and as soon as someone else gets it, the game is over and spoiled for anyone who didn’t.

Is there a good way to play to train for “most confidence before answering” without making it a drudge of endless tests and humhawing?

Making each question a more powerful test would be good, but that’s not what racing to the answer encourages, that encourages guessing the teacher’s password.

What about tests are free, first to answer wins, but a wrong answer or two disqualifies you completely?
There's something about using the word 'Magic' in your company's name [1]; great concept, likely amazing people, but in the end either vaporware or something that's way too ahead of its time.

Maybe the 'Magic' is how they are able to get so much funding and attention for so little end result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
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>How are images built with Paketo Buildpacks different from Docker images?
Unlike Docker images, images built from Paketo Buildpacks are OCI compliant.

Can someone explain why this is significant - I'm struggling to wrap my head around the why
Yeah in 1775 it happened during All Saints Day, and I think they still say "Todos os Santos não chegaram"which translates to something like "All saints were not even enough to save us"
The choice is often an illusion. You only get the control the version for code you write and only if you are programming it in isolation. As soon as you work on a larger team project that may also include third party code you no longer dictate what version of C is being used.
Is there some exception to money laundering rules I'm not aware of where the government doesn't investigate the source of cash if it is invested in a company from overseas?
> What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system?

Many economists and others have been calling for this [1], and seeing the replies it looks like many countries already implement this.

If this existed, then we wouldn't need to funnel 3% of these emergency loans into the private banking industry, a pretty outrageous loss of money for what amounts to some modest paperwork.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/11/628173553/fed-...
Six months ago any company making astronomical profits, charging for their services and marking up products was fine and everyone accepted it.

Now suddenly everyone is questioning if a bank should charge such huge fees, if I should be allowed to markup N-95 masks, etc.

When Nike make a pair of shoes for $4 and sell it for $400 nobody seems to care. By now it's illegal and banned in many places to mark up toilet paper and hand sanitizer.

Not only should we be asking if banks should be making $10B in fees during this time, we should be asking if every company should be doing what they were doing just a few months ago.
While I don't see any examples of on this list, except perhaps for Pula, emerging archaeological evidence indicates that in the Balkans region around 7000 years ago massive towns (cities?) began emerging with up to 40,000 people living in some settlements. The homes were arranged in tight lots next to one another, with evidence for some homes even being 2 story structures.

The inhabitants of these communities were the same Neolithic farmers who crossed from the Near East, over Anatolia into Greece and then up into the rest of Europe around 8000 years ago.

They not only introduced farming to Europe, but also herding and domesticated cows and sheep. There is some linguistic evidence that the word Taurus (representing the bull in the Zodiac) is a remnant of the language these people spoke, which would make sense as they were the ones to introduce the bull to the ancestors of the Proto-Indo-European speakers.
No no no...

Small Business Loans doesn't mean loans for small business.

It's small loans, for businesses. Large, as it happens.
Banks don't make money from "online banking". They make their money from issuing loans. A ton of those loans are going to go into default so banking is going to be hit just as hard as other businesses, it's just going to happen in 3 months instead of today.
> Buying a graveyard is essentially buying a piece of land (and maybe some very little amount of ongoing maintenance cost)

If one thinks further, they'll also want to plan for the possibility of state-enforced exhumation or eminent domain, among other things.
One of my friends is the VP of a community bank with probably somewhere around 60 locations locally. It's completely local; the businesses they work with are the barbershops, car washes, and bakeries we have in our communities. He said it's never been this crazy at the bank, working 18-hour days to make sure everything is processed timely. People automatically think of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Chase, but folks need to remember the amount of resources it takes to roll this program out, and that not every participating bank is a behemoth Wall Street too-big-to-fail bank.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2472.pdf: "_ExtInt types are bit-aligned to the next greatest power-of-2 up to 64 bits: the bit alignment A is min(64, next power-of-2(>=N)). The size of these types is the smallest multiple of the alignment greater than or equal to N. Formally, let M be the smallest integer such that A * M >= N. The size of these types for the purposes of layout and sizeof is the number of bits aligned to this calculated alignment, A * M. This permits the use of these types in allocated arrays using the common sizeof(Array)/sizeof(ElementType) pattern."
So they bolted it on eventually then. The relational databases went the other way and bolted-on schemaless data [0] [1]. We can still compare the schema-based and schemaless approaches.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/datatype-json.html

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/json-qu...
the debate over automation and ubi has been raging ever since 2009, when a lot of jobs were permanently loss due to the crisis. Not just low-skilled jobs being threatened by middle class jobs too Pre-2009 here seemed to be much less interest and concern in regard to UBI and automation.
Thank you for that information, I didn't know that.
An interesting view on how fintechs and insurtechs disrupt the market
If I were you I would rather deal with the anxiety. At the beginning of the year a comment on an HN thread [0] lead me to the book "Learned Optimism", which among other things, deal with anxiety.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093267
Hmm, this is an interesting point about the OS cleaning up resources. I'll see if it's feasible to switch from threads to processes. Thanks!
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> Luckily we've got the central limit theorem on our side

No, we don't. States are not IID samples.
Much of my time is spent writing Mentor Catapult HLS for ASIC designs these days.

Every HLS vendor or language has their own, incompatible arbitrary bitwidth integer type at present. SystemC sc_int is different from Xilinx Vivado ap_int is different from Mentor Catapult ac_int is different from whatever Intel had for their Altera FPGAs. It's a real mess.

I'm hoping this is another small step to slowly move the industry into a more unified representation, or at least if LLVM support for this at the type level could enable faster simulation of designs on CPU by improving the CPU code that is emitted. What probably matters most for HLS though are the operations which are performed on the types (static or dynamic bit slicing, etc).
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One of the early seed investors is close friends with the founders of Google. Needless to say it wasn't surprising when Google funneled a bunch of cash into it. After that, I'm sure it made it easier to get others to follow suit.
Reminds me of Silicon Valley's fictional Keenan Feldspar and his VR demo (likely based on Magic Leap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MAV9jhf04
I'm somewhat confused. Constant w.r.t to what exactly? You can't have constant time operations on arbitrary bit length integers and once you fix the one parameter you have I fail to see what 'constant' means.
This is unfortunately not a surprise. Magic Leap is now an example of why companies should ‘under promise and over deliver’.

I don’t think the product could’ve ever lived up to the hype train.
All I know is self-driving cars are going to be killing a lot of passengers and pedestrians when corporations and programmers now get government liability waivers, rush out the project and just say "oops" when the spot the bug in the code.

I mean who goes to prison when a car runs someone over and no-one is driving? What is a developer's motivation to be careful and defer to safety? We've already proven a good chunk of the population are sociopaths, they don't care who dies as long as they get their paycheck.
Hey, I'd like to understand your request a bit better. Would the focus mode block all distracting sites for that period or simply activate Intention during a period that's normally disabled via the schedule?
I do feel that America makes a much bigger thing about recent history than the rest of the world - there feels far more history in Boston and New York than in Chester (my nearest historical towns), despite the latter being founded in AD79.

The local cafe I (used to) go to for lunch at weekends was built in 1583 (the building on that site had burnt down in a fire). There's some history at the start of the menu, and sure it's older than most of the houses in town, but it's no means unique and there are older buildings in town (not many as most burnt down in the 1583 fire)
Is This the End of Airbnb?
There is a different view of the nature of final judgement. I explained somewhat, in the thread parts following this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22857328

Also, because that judgement involves our choices, thoughts, words, & actions; I personally think that forced kindness is inadequate in many ways including effectiveness in helping others and for the effects it has on the heart of the giver. More on that (if one cares to read & drill in a bit) at maybe here

http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581821.html

...and http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581757.html .
Manpower costs money too.
It's easy to say in hindsight, but investors were taking a bet based on the little bits of promising information they had a decade ago. Both sides knew the risks, and that's the whole point – VCs and the company both believed they could make something happen, and it seems they weren't able to, and that's just how this works.
There are plenty of comments in this very thread that give examples of many other countries already doing it, including countries that have way lower GDP/Person than the US.

Are you saying the US is incapable of doing what is already being done in many other countries?
Interestingly, London wasn't continuously inhabited since the founding by the Romans, so it wouldn't make this particular list. I was quite surprised when I learned this fact recently, visiting the Museum of London.

"By the 5th century, the Roman Empire was in rapid decline and in AD 410, the Roman occupation of Britannia came to an end. Following this, the Roman city also went into rapid decline and by the end of the 5th century was practically abandoned."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_London
Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (2018)
The problem is they did a terrible job at it AND took a huge profit for themselves. From what I’ve heard many large banks started denying applicants very shortly after accepting applications - this after forcing many companies to submit paperwork multiple times over errors the bank made itself.
SQL definitely solves a lot of performance issues for typical users who think they can do better

but throwing strings over the wire, trying to get as much as possible without crossing cardinalities and ignoring the n query problem makes SQL at scale disastrous

Devs always get one of these things wrong and not being able to use my programming language in the query makes some things hard to express

Datalog and Datomic are definitely worth learning https://youtu.be/Pz_NvY1kw6I
CTEs are great. It's such a nicer syntax than subqueries.
There is growing political demand to move away from China entirely though. I doubt its particularly popular with most people with influence, but if we've learned anything from 2016 it's that populism can be an unexpectedly potent force. If someone were to force the issue, the new GOP party line could very well end up being policy to move manufacturing away from China.
Yeah that conversation was pretty silly and more HN echo chamber because folks are mad that Google Reader was shutdown. Below is what I commented a few months ago re: this topic.

> Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.

> https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/

> https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i....
> The basic concepts are simple, but the implementation details quickly become very complex

True, but those kinds of questions come up in every language: Should I use an array or a dictionary? Should people have references to projects or should projects have references to people or both? Is money a float, an int, a decimal or should I write my own money class? Should I memoize the results? Is it thread-safe?

As you can see, this could go on forever, pretty much for any language.
Yeah, that's a bummer, but thanks for trying!