skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
errr... "modern day" :-p

btw first time I notice you cannot edit your posts past certain time, apparently?
Like all things we deal with in our profession, the choice to raise money is a tradeoff to be evaluated, not something inherently good or bad.

The cons of raising VC money? You are forced to answer to someone else to some extent. You become vulnerable to complacency and largesse for the reasons stated in the article. You put some distance between yourself and customers early, which can slow down your quest for product-market fit. You lose a piece of the equity pie.

The pros of raising VC money? A good investor can give you market knowledge you would have to learn the hard way otherwise. A war chest can give you a head start over other early-stage competitors (or establish you as legitimate among existing ones). You can take on problems that require large up-front investments. You can hire people to help you out without having to worry about your ability to pay them.

Personally? I found the tradeoff to be worth it and raised money for my current company. We worked for about 8 months without paying ourselves, and then started paying ourselves half our market rates once we had some supplementary cash in the bank. We hired a few stellar employees who knew how to do the things we needed to do but couldn’t, and now I think we’re in a much better spot than we would have been had we not raised.

But obviously it depends on the situation - just because it’s worked for us doesn’t mean it will for others. Happy to answer further questions about our founder rationale for anyone who’s interested.
And if they complain, you tell them "Don't worry, we'll use it just against the bad guys"

Hilarious, where can I invest?
I'm not sure what you intend by those test counts? Japan has 874 dead. Assuming IFR of 1%, that implies about 87k infected. But they report 17k confirmed cases, so they're missing ~80% of the cases. I mentioned this to head off any suggestion that Japan's trace and test operation was responsible for their success, since at best it's decreasing R by that ~20%. Perhaps Japan is failing to catch some deaths too; but they're an open society with freedom of speech, so I don't expect their numbers to be grossly wrong.

So what could South Dakota and Wyoming's public health system be doing that's worse than Japan? I don't know the answer, but it's not clear to me at all that the difference is in their government responses vs. some aspect of their initial situations.

I gave deaths per capita because that's the probability that someone in that state will have died of coronavirus, which is what most people care about directly. Your (deaths/people)/(people/area) has no corresponding direct significance. To then call that "the relevant number" overstates the importance of population density, and also models population density badly when it's non-uniform (as you note for NYC). I agree that population density is an important factor, just not as determinative as your post would seem to imply.

Oh, and looks like you quoted my post before I edited it, sorry. But I believe false confidence is polarizing and would like to see less of it, as uncomfortable as the true uncertainty may be.
Yes. In practice the cat, box, posion and Geiger counter system is not a fully closed system, and it gets entangled with the observer through unavoidable interactions.

When the observer's state gets entangled with the cat's state (whether gradually or suddenly) it's still perfectly valid to say that the cat is in a superposition of being dead and alive, and so is the observer in the superposition of observing the cat dead and observing the cat alive. That doesn't mean that the observer ever can nor should observe the cat being both dead and alive.
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Gravity is a strange thing, because as far as I can intuit, it is not constant (even though classical Newtonian Mechanics tells us it is, and even has a constant for it, G) -- but as far as I can intuit, Gravity is relative to both scale and wavelength...

That is, it will bend different electromagnetic wavelengths differently, like a Prism...

To understand this, consider smaller attractive phenomena, for example, magnetism, and electrostatic attraction (you rub a balloon, it "sticks" to surfaces). Those are both attractive phenomena similar to Gravity, just at much smaller scales.

If you have a water wave pool, there are ways to get objects in the water to be attracted or repulsed, via different wave forms.

In fact, maybe this is the problem. We're calling Gravity "Gravity", rather than "attractive/acceleration force at large scale (which again is a law of the squares phenomena, that is, it drops off as the square of the distance, but the distances involved in gravity are very large, planetary sized (or larger) in effect).

So you're right -- it wouldn't hold for light, but perhaps there are smaller analogous, attractive phenomena, that it would hold up for.

And perhaps there are smaller in scale, yet analogous phenomena to light -- like sound or vibration.

See this is the problem in physics... we're calling PRINCIPLES (in this case, the attractive principle) by different names... Gravity, Magnetism, Electrostatic, Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces, etc.).

Every single thing, and every single principle in the Universe -- has analogues of it at different SCALES.

The knowledge of these principles (which can be deduced by simple observation "what is the unifying principle behind these phenomena?") should come before math equations, especially those with constants, BEFORE we make a serious inquiry into physics.

We should ask HOW something would be possible -- rather than trying to figure out WHY (based on current knowledge) it is (or seems) impossible... then we'll start making great strides in physics...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
You've just read an article about bioterrorism and concluded that human engineering of ecology is not only safe but obligatory?

What if I told you that, if there were ever a working and effective gene drive -- instead of just people self-promoting on the basis of such things -- that it could be used as much for evil as it could be used for good?
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11 days ago, zero comments. HN missed that a top ranked web site cited by governments and obviously also sourced by the world famous John Hopkins Covid-19 statistics is hmm... not to be trusted to say it neutrally. (Search does not bring up any other articles with significantly better popularity either.)
Isn't this what abstraction is? A computer looks magical if you don't understand binary logic gates and transistors etc. Even though I understand it all, the things my computer can do seems magical. I think this is what people mean when they say "emergent" but for some reason don't use more widely understood terms like "high levels of abstraction".

Perhaps this hints at us not even understanding the lower levels of many areas well enough yet.
Or they could pay truck drivers a bonus to drive towards a disaster area with water rather than away from the disaster area.
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I should be more clear. I know how to add verbatim formatting.

I'd like to know if the OP manually aligned the columns in the table, if they used a program to do so, or something els.
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No. The adipocytes, aka the fat cells that can store energy, are in limited supply. Some people have a more flexible adipose tissue then others.

Some people can store very little or no subcutaneous fat at all, all of the accumulated fat is stored as visceral fat (around their organs), which is limited, so they look skinny on the outside, fit even, but suffer from T2D nonetheless.

Here are some references:

https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article/128/7/405/71158/No...

https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/63/12/4369

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774584/

Basically insulin resistance, high blood glucose and the ensuing loss of beta cell function in the pancreas happen as a result of adipocytes starting to reject excess energy, which then remains in the bloodstream and is being pissed away. Insulin resistance in many circles is understood as the cause of T2D, however insulin resistance is actually a defensive mechanism, in response to energy poisoning.

https://www.pnas.org/content/106/42/17787

And the source of that excess doesn't matter, all macro nutrients can cause insulin resistance, even if via different pathways:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3421919/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2362....

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11872656/
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Kids got it trough birth/breastfeeding.

Combine that with AK, 2002 - I would guess somewhere in the southern half of Africa.

I guess that it was combination of medicine not being cheap and IIRC some political leaders in the region were downplaying HIV by that time.
Which two package managers do you mean?

dpkg, rpm, nix, snap, dnf, and I'm sure someone is going to respond with package managers I forgot.
So to avoid "potentially disastrous consequences", we disallow the hole thing, losing the very palpable benefits as well.

Damn, next we should banish cars, planes, rockets and fire itself! The potential disastrous consequences are just too great...
Merkel rebuffs invitation to G-7 summit
What a disappointment that turned out to be. It was a nice pitch, though.
Now on twitter.com you can save or schedule drafts up to 18 months in advance
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Yes thanks, I've looked at all these from time to time, but the schrodinger's cat interpretation presented here (lets call it (1) and the many worlds interpretation (2) seems contradictory to me (or perhaps the same fallacy). So in (1) schrodinger's experiment says that you can't regard the observer as being some intelligent entity, the observer is just other particles - the wave form collapses in a small delta of time, and provides the continuity we see in the macroscopic world (a lot of my interpretation here I suppose). Now in (2) isn't this the same as the problem with (1)? the collapse happens near instantaneously and so these other worlds are fleeting possibilities that never really existed, its the same fallacy as the cat in the box never really being dead and alive.
> A defining feature of a black hole is that because of it's gravity nothing will escape it, not even light

One could say that not all events in space time are sufficiently curved to be that of a black hole; the curved space time representing a few atoms may not be as curved as the curved space time representing a black hole.
The government can likewise introduce legislation (or whatever) to allow for emergency blood donations with payment if it turned out to be the best solution to covid. But I was responding to the criticism that it should be allowed for recouping the costs linked to a lack of sick leave and precarious working conditions, where it seems exactly the wrong solution.
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I'm not saying I'm right... I'm just saying "it may be worth exploring..."

Nothing more, nothing less! <g>
s/Ferrari/several years of retirement income/
"goh-doh" or "goh-doht"
The 'o's are pronounced the same.
Solving a botched government intervention with another botched government intervention, huh? That is how Venezuela got to be the amazing success story that it is.
or a Free Pascal server (powered by mORMot (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot))? Natively compiled, high performance, and supports almost all OS's and CPU's
Write a script which runs remotely over SSH and trigger on the appropriate event in your CI/CD host.
You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly by using HN for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop. It's off topic here.

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Suppose a small town in rural US decides to refuse carrying out whatever order or restriction coming down from the federal government. Population ~5,000, they have guns and ammo.

What exactly would you, special forces or the government be able to do, to force them to comply with whatever order it is you are trying to impose?
There is more outrage in this thread about some Twitter policy than the dead black man and the racist president inciting violence on Americans.
As an employer, broadly speaking, the languages you know doesn't matter. I'd rather hire a "good programmer" than a "knows X" programmer.

A good programmer will be able to "learn" a new language in a matter of days. [1]. Factor in a few more for new IDE etc. A bad programmer writes bad code in all languages.

All coding starts in the head, with ideas on how to go about solving a problem. Good knowledge of one language at least makes that easier. Being able to express the solution in elegant code is the key skill. Knowing the syntax for comparing strings is meaningless - anyone can figure that out in no time. Understanding what string comparison means is much more important [2]. And so on.

[1] within reason. Imperative languages are all the same. Functional are all the same, but I would not hire an imperative programmer for a functional language or vice versa.

[2] turns out comparing unicode strings for equality is a whole barrel of fun and starts with deciding what "equals" even means...
> If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.

It will be more appropriate for right now. Whether it's smaller, tighter, or faster (or any other qualifier) is dependent on the code quality.

As the manifesto says, using a framework involves tradeoffs. One of those is trading that direct current appropriateness for future expandability, reliability (bug repairs etc) and other advantages of using someone else's code that covers more use cases than your specific, current needs.
Absolutely agree.

A lot of people is just really interested in having something complex instead of understanding their actual needs.
I skimmed this post and I agree with it. But I wouldn't want to actually read it.
My definition of 'normal' includes men fucking each other in the butt. I hope yours does too.

Everyone who's at all serious about tackling AIDS in Africa (rather than making some kind of veiled political or moral point) is focused on reducing unprotected sex.
Frameworkless Movement == End Up With Your Own Framework Movement
What would you do with nukes and tanks, or even drones?

You defend your rights with guns, not aircraft carriers.
JWT Debugger App is a good alternative. It’s cross-platform so you can install on you local desktop or just use web version whatever works for you.

https://jwtdebugger.app/
>While not perfect free market/capitalism pulled up more people from poverty than any other system

Nope not true - that award goes to communist China

>China lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty since the start of its economic reform is a "great story in human history", World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said today, underlining that there is "lessons to be learned" from this Chinese experience.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chin...

>Over the past three decades, China has successfully led the greatest poverty alleviation program in the history of the world. During that time, an estimated 500 million Chinese were lifted out of extreme poverty.

https://news.trust.org/item/20140408110950-ndf6e/

I'm sure I'll be downvoted for this for some reason or another
Or they pursue similar coursework without all the dressing.
No. They're just suggesting that in 6 months the libraries they would create to support their frameworkless application would contain some non-trivial amount of bugs. That seems 100% reasonable to me.

Of course, they could plug existing libraries into their frameworkless application, which seems like a much more reliable approach.
> Your application doesn't need logging until you have a problem that is solved by logging. It's possible that you never have such a problem. If that's so, then building a logging subsystem is a waste of time.

Your application doesn’t need logging until _right before_ you have a problem that is solved by logging.

I don’t use frameworks these days. I’m glad I was exposed to their ideas in the past. I’m glad that exposure shaped my current approach. A framework is one of the ways that experienced developers can pass their knowledge on to less experienced ones.
If it actually were exceedingly rare for the price of toilet paper the make a significant difference in people’s financial situation, then I suspect toilet paper manufacturers/retailers would realize that this means they’re leaving profit in the table, and they would raise prices.
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I though LZ had died down a while ago, but the blog seems super active. Would like to know who or how many people/projects use this...
The other day (actually years) I did a gamejam in Go, I bound Cmd+R to essentially the following:

system("go build")
exec("./main")

Not a literal hot code reload that some advanced stuff get to enjoy, but nice enough to shorten the feedback loop.
I am building stepping stones for a future in which AI and small robots can help to heal our bodies and other useful tasks ...
There are so many other ways of organising a society, that avoid the problems you are mentioning altogether.

Instead of thinking its a problem that there are protections that limit what you can offer to be part of medical treatment or development of treatments for others... perhaps consider the issues of financial impact to begin with. They wouldn't need to recoup their costs.

I'll guess that you are from the US, where getting sick is tantamount to financial ruin for a significant part of the population.
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I really like this wiser version of Linus. Imagine that text five years ago)
https://osmd-audio-player-demo-vue.netlify.app/
I think that you have a general misunderstanding on what a "right" is in the eyes of the law[1]. Furthermore, you appear to also have a misunderstanding of the differences between natural rights and legal rights[2].

> The social media monopolies are infringing on our rights

The right to free speech is not a natural right; nor does it apply to anything but freedom from government persecution on the basis of speech. Freedom of speech is a right that is granted by the constitution and has been further defined by case law over the past 250 years. The Supreme Court has pointed out that private companies are not subject to protections enumerated in the constitution, which, again, only apply to the government[3].

[1]: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Right

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_right...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Community_Access_Cor...
Interesting you mention this, in the WP series Operation Infektion, one of the disinformation campaigns by the Soviet Union is placing an article in a small newspaper in India, wherein the claim is made HIV was made in a lab in the US.
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So now it's kubernetes + kludgy shell/Python scripts.
(from below) Yah, think I misremembered that - I think it was because they were worried people wouldn't maintain the masks well and bacteria would grow.
Skinny people getting T2D have a less flexible adipocytes tissue (aka fat tissue). They cannot store excess energy as subcutaneous fat, because they don't have a subcutaneous fat layer that can store that energy. But once you look at their organs, they are covered in visceral fat.

Adipocytes, the fat cells, have a limited capacity and new adipocytes can be created, but only in certain conditions and slowly. This isn't an infinite supply and genetics play a role. In other words people have a "personal fat threshold":

https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/article/128/7/405/71158/No...

https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/63/12/4369

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774584/

Once the adipocytes start rejecting the energy excess, with that energy excess building up in the bloodstream as glucose and triglycerides, being then pissed away, this is effectively insulin resistance, which is actually a defensive reaction to "energy poisoning":

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11872656/

However it's important to understand that this energy poisoning can happen as a result of overeating fat or protein as well, even if the pathways are different from that of glucose:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2362....

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11872656/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3421919/

More importantly is that "weight loss" is the only measure shown in tests on humans to revert insulin resistance significantly. Another factor would be exercise, which was shown to work independently of weight loss, but the effect wasn't significant AFAIK.

Everything else is confounded by weight loss. And this goes in the other direction — most (not all) risk factors for the diseases associated with the metabolic syndrome, including high blood pressure and heart disease, are confounded by weight gain. There are independent risk factors of course, like smoking or a high LDL, which most often has genetic causes, but most negative effects of foods you've heard about are in the context of a caloric surplus.

This includes fat driving cholesterol and triglycerides up. Including sugar causing fatty liver. Sugar (fructose) was never shown to cause fatty liver unless it's in the context of a caloric surplus, sugar was never shown to cause T2D unless it's in the context of a caloric surplus, but that didn't stop some people writing books claiming otherwise.