skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
demand has changed quite a bit, lots of people are leaving cities, and fewer people, especially new grads from undergrad and profession school like business/med, are moving in.
I had a similar idea back in 2010. See here :https://web.archive.org/web/20101218084431/http://chestergra...

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October 12, 2010

Startup Insurance

This post is another theoretical post. Humans by nature are very risk averse. Start-up in itself is very risky with a high probability of failure. Failure in the start up world means lost time, lost opportunity, lost capital, lost confidence and so much more. For some of us we handle these risk pretty well and can perform excellent under these conditions, but for most of us, we would rather have these risk mitigated if we could .

One of the questions I have often pondered was how to succeed at this start up game in one go? How do I mitigate my risk to the point that failure is almost impossible?

Consider VC or even Y-combinator, the way they mitigate their risk is to acquire small equity in a lot of companies. The companies that make a killing pay for those that didn’t make one. Let suppose you had 10million to invest and you are investing 20k into each business for 10% equity and the probability of making 100million is 10%[These numbers were chosen for ease of calculation and only here to illustrate a point] . The probability that you don’t make back your 10million is 1 x 10^-23 reflecting a very minute risk.

In the case above, only the VCs are actually reducing their risk; the startup themselves are still faced with 90% chance of failure. I think startups should basically use the same strategies as VCs to mitigate their risk. Each startup donates 5% equity to what would be the equivalence of an insurance scheme, if somehow your start goes bust, no need to worry cause at the end of period you would be given profits from all the rest companies that participated which should be enough to get you back on your feet."
Precisely. We're in a vicious cycle where most people using Git don't use what ought to be Git best practices for most serious large scale projects (clean history with self-contained logical commits and good commit descriptions) because GitHub makes it so difficult to do this. And to be fair, GitLab really isn't much better in this department.

And there isn't enough pressure on GitHub or GitLab to clean up their act because most people don't even know what they're missing. And so the cycle continues.
Ultrawide beats 4k for me.
> When we stopped building (due to COVID), the prices began dropping.

Construction didn't stop due to the virus. What did happen was that all the employment gains of the last 12 years were lost. Fewer dollars chasing the same amount of real estate led to lower prices.
I really value unfiltered end user input. No third party customer contact is going to tell you that use looked for "Export" under the "File" menu instead of where you had it the very first time they used the product. You have to watch over the users shoulder of have video.

I reserve my mornings for "thinky" time. It's when I have the most energy. I answer emails in the afternoon.

This may be controversial, but I try not to respond to email immediately. I believe when you do that, the client/customer will coming to expect a quick response leading a "conversation" instead of an asynchronous email. With an email question that gets answered say, once a day, the user will endeavor to phrase his questions more thoughtfully.
For people who are making more than that in salary this is also not a good deal.
Another OW player in HN? :)
I feel the same about the 144hz monitor I have, only really worth it for playing OW, the rest of the time is nice but I feel like I'm not getting enough out of it.
Maybe next monitor I get will be 4k, but not sure for now.
If your work gets published in their journals, your scientific carreer gets a massive boost.
I have a feeling languages like this have their niche cases however I'm not getting a good reason for why this is need when compared to Python for data science. Maybe I'm missing something but this is essentially a wrapper for Golang code to make it feel more like Python.
Spreadsheet of 1,100 COVID Super-spreader events
What do you mean “caught”? Is there a stipulation on time zone or country? Truly don’t see the problem of bopping off to another country as long as you’re still doing your work and active in the team?
Yes, yes, yes and yes I suppose. Now lets look at Phil Collins https://www.prohibitionparty.org I'm buying a mug, looks like a great gift https://www.cafepress.com/prohibitionparty.513117792
anecdotally, in LA, house rents seem to be going up while apartment rents are fluttering down, depending on locality.

rather than moving out of the urban areas, folks seem to be looking for a little more separation from strangers, possibly also more WFH space.
USPS Size and Scope
I think the idea of the segment registers is to create isolated memory ranges for multi tasking. These segments are at the granularity of 16 bytes and have a starting offset and length within 1MB of RAM. There are multiple segments so the code segment can be shared between processes and have separate stack and data segments. When you imagine it as one big 1MB address space this memory model looks wierd.
> the only reasonable recourse

Good ideas don't start off fully formed. I'm talking about the desire to have a bottom up justice system. The fact that anger is the impetus means there is a lot of potential for a slippery slope, and I cede that.

But the point stands: there are many people who've reaped nothing but benefits from being horrible, and I would gladly pitch a couple bucks to make their life miserable for a while.
> At my last company we had a React interface (a specialized IDE, really) that needed to juggle (sort, filter, process) and work with sometimes hundreds of thousands of entities at once, all in-memory.

The author's example inserts 4M elements.

> and the user experience (and the API design) really benefitted from not having a bunch of extra round-trips to the server.

Possibly, but unless you benchmarked both scenarios, this might not be the case.

Performance over networked devices often has trade offs, sometimes those trade offs are directly contradictory, eg sorting/filtering/mapping/etc data on client side versus server side via api call - sometimes one is better than the other but you wont wont know unless you benchmark.

I get the impression that your company did not go through that exercise, considering you guys are building an IDE with scripting language.[1]

[1] https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/switching-to-vscode-from-subl....
As someone not up-to-date with literature, are one-pixel/few-pixels/small-delta attack issues resolved yet?
Direct link to the bill:

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Li...
> You can ignore the error case on a result / the None case on an option as easily as you ignore the `err` today.

The point of a result type is that you _cannot_ ignore the None case. Any method that would provide you with the value will also check that the error is not present.

In comparison, you can happily ignore `err` in Golang and continue with an invalid `value`.
I think it’s more of creating a LLC is such a low threshold that it shows you haven’t seriously thought about your business and the liability that can occur if you release without a corporate entity for your own protection.
You can take this logic to its absurd extremity such as
"I have 3 children, a 4-bed house is a basic essential necessity for human life".
How to Use Generator and Yield in JavaScript
The difference is less clearcut than you're assuming. A PLA and a ROM are both types of lookup tables, after all, and in this application they're both being used to control the next state of a FSM.
Why wouldn't we socialize the losses here? It's not a handful of elites that just swooped in and took a bunch of money then stuck us with the bill for their garbage. We're all the consumers here. We create the problem with our demand for their product.
I think this is the monitor you're looking for: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/ultrasharp-25-usb-c-monitor-...
What do you qualify as "bad"?
Adopting a disparaging name for a group of people that you don't like is a means of dehumanizing them.
If this faux, urban dive, chic finally dies I think we're all better off. My corner bar used to be frequented by construction workers and longshoremen. Then the neighborhood by the port was gentrified. The bar with the $1 draft beers gave way to the $7 IPAs. Finger foods such as tacos and empanadas gave way to $3 tacos and $15 quesadillas! Now I drink and eat at home because all the bars went way upmarket and no way am i paying Disneyland prices in a fucking dive bar.
I think if I were in your shoes right now I might use a peer to peer video conferencing application that relies on tried and true p2p e2ee (or build one, it's not hard).

Insertable streams are new, and less proven.

An honest question, do you visit sites served by Cloudflare? Is point-to-point encryption okay for your use cases there, or do you have security concerns that require e2ee for your communications?
Thanks!

Language barrier is not a problem in my case, I am fluent in both English and Russian. I know one can get cheap engineering talent in Eastern Europe, was more curious about your startup idea.
Signing has nothing to do with eavesdropping.
I asked my landlord flat out and he offered a permanent reduction of 7.5% or 15% and we could renegotiate in 6 months. You should at least try asking, it’s not like they’re just going to give that out to everyone
Exactly - a change in the rules would cause investment managers to more appropriately risk oil assets.
I found it interesting and surprising and thought others might as well.

It appears my emotional response was not in line with everyone else's.
Isn't paper actually one of the more secure storage mediums? If you asked me the best way to store a secret I'd say put it on paper and lock it in a safe. I'd probably do something like print a QR code with an encrypted secret and store the key on a separate printed QR code.
A bit of everything of above.

1. As nodes were getting smaller, and metal layers thinner, the power had to migrate lower, and lower in the backend, where they compete for space with signal traces, and add to cross talk problem

2. Smaller, and smaller power rails had bigger, and bigger leakage.

3. As more, and more exotic device geometries were appearing, the more limitations on how power delivered to them were appearing.

4. Voltages were getting lower, and lower, and copper losses, and demands on DC-DC regulators higher.

Buried rails attack 1) by simplifying cell design, and taking cross-talk out of the picture as such. Signal simply doesn't compete with power at all now; 2) By allowing buried rails be made as big as needed, and on top of that, they can be buried in High-K; 3) By making just any geometry in Z axis possible without power influencing its design; 4) By increasing conductor sizes, as said above, and allowing for placing regulators on the other side of the wafer using TSVs.
Non ride-hailing ambitions from a ride-hailing company, Gojek.
> That's one of the reasons why so many websites like reddit push you to use the app on mobile.

The Yelp website is one of the biggest offenders in this regard. If you're not viewing it in desktop mode then be prepared to get redirected to the Play store any time you tap on any link.
Beneficial to founder, but this would be much more meaningful for employees who have much less control over the success or failure of their own company.
> e.g the triple line equals and need a higher res display to look good.

Do you mean '≡' (U+2261 identical to)? Because no, it very much doesn't; in fact I'm not sure I've ever seen a font where it looked bad short of vertical misalignment with surrounding text.
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This might not sound like much but have them take good doses of vitamin D, vitamin B, and magnesium. There has been quite a bit written in recent weeks about those deficiencies leading to much more severe illness.
Non ride-hailing ambitions from a ride-hailing company, Gojek
One of the out-of-the-box robots have pen plotting capabilities already, so it would be easy to modify and extend the code.
I wonder if at least they will add this as an additional way to define them and deprecate the old ones without disabling them.
I don't see how alt-tabbing through maximized windows on macOS is different from Windows and Linux like the OP is suggesting. Though I do keep my browser at half-width on my ultrawide monitor because it's somewhat of an exotic/untested aspect ratio for websites.

Also any power user that cares will use a tool like Divvy on macOS for arranging windows with hotkeys.
Maybe I missed it, but the article you link doesn't support your comment. The article details an experiment that found that there actually wasn't a hiring bias between white, black, and Hispanic last names, with the caveat that the most common black last names according to the US census aren't names that society stereotypically associates with black people.

However, I am Chinese-American, and the study doesn't involve Chinese last names at all. I am worried about growing suspicion towards Chinese-Americans due to relations between the US and China (with the current Covid-related xenophobia being a manifestation of this deeper tension).
While I'm sure there are exceptions, I imagine a lot of the people who talk about gentrification or who toss out off-hand comments about the Disney-fication of Times Square never actually saw 42nd Street late at night in the 80s or have conveniently blocked it from their memories.
Have you heard of the Journal "Nature"?
I always find it interesting how the people who are so strongly against the gentrification caused by the apparently bland and one dimensional tech workers are reluctant to move themselves to cheaper mid-sized cities that ostensibly have more “soul” if that’s what they’re looking for.
Politics in general is less of a thing in smaller towns. My voting precinct (not even a small town, the suburbs of Annapolis) is roughly 2/3 Trump, 1/3 Clinton. I have no idea who is who, and it’s never come up.
That's why I'm doing www.kdalive.com
Vast swaths of modern day living humans would probably disagree with you
Because with presumably feasible level of efforts and resources, you can make a claim that's not yet true, but has a reasonable probability of becoming true by the time you need to deliver your product/service. So you can make that claim in good faith, even if you're not 100% certain it will hold true.

That's very different than making a specific claim that you already have a feature right now, that you in fact don't. That claim cannot possibly be made in good faith, as it's currently outright false, and you can never retroactively apply end to end encryption on conversations that have already happened.
This is covered in the whitepaper: https://github.com/zoom/zoom-e2e-whitepaper
Maybe just don't lead with "I'm from the big city, hate guns, and love abortion" when introducing yourself to your new neighbors.
If you use an OS that handles high DPI very well, and where 98% of all apps handle it just as well (including resolution scaling), it is an absolute joy to my eyes to be able to use 4K at the same effective resolution (so basically 1080p, but double the resolution, double the sharpness).

Every time I use a 'non-retina' type of display (like an old laptop I use for testing or my 19" 1080p monitor), it feels like I'm looking through some dirty glass because of the blotchy effect.

I tried 4K on one linux environment (and documented the experience[1]), and according to numerous responses, my situation was not unique: if you try 4K on any Linux environment, and don't enjoy everything being tiny, then it's not a fun time trying to get everything to behave like you can with Apple's built in resolution scaling options.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook...
And perhaps instead of being lenient with Zoom because "well everyone else lies about features", we should instead be consistent about holding companies accountable for dishonest business practices.

(I think I'm preaching to the choir here; just clarifying for anyone else reading your comment)
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I'm okay with imperfect moderation. What I'm not okay with is backdoor untracked political contributions under the guise of imperfect moderation. It feels, to me, that Twitter and Google have given Billions of dollars worth of political censorship/promotion/search bias. Let's get the FEC involved so we can measure and track this political spending.
It's a fair question. But it's because the news reporting about it has been incorrect and has often suggested that it only applies to campaigns. That's why. I'm using reporters as a proxy for the public. And also, much of the public will learn about the feature from these reports.

As a political advertiser who jumps through huge hoops about what is and isn't allowed, what the definitions of different terms are, and how it's constantly changing and hard to keep up with even as a professional -- yeah, I can't expect others to have the time to keep up with it.

And even if they DO keep up with it, the standards are at times vague and enforced in weird, unexpected ways. What's a "sensitive" topic? Is talking about COVID masks a sensitive topic? I mean, it's recommended (now) by the CDC. But also, some people are anti-mask. There's a clear partisan divide on the mask issue. Is selling masks political? If a person wants to avoid Biden/Trump ads, should they now no longer see ads about a good deal on masks to stop spread of the coronavirus? (Companies that sell political t-shirts, even though they're not a political organization, have to be marked as politics. The content of the ad is important, not just the type of organization.)

But also, even if you're fully informed, there's little flexibility. You can't make an exception for an organization that you're a dues-paying member of so you can stay updated about how your money is being spent, for example.

Finally, that definition of social issues isn't the ONLY one (which, by the way, Facebook won't even describe to users who don't seek it out). Each individual issue area has its own definition. There are definitions about what is a "gun issue." On civil rights. On the environment. (Click "United States" at this link: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/313752069181919?id=28... ) This is super complicated and requires a large investment in time to fully understand.

I admittedly might be hyper-aware of these complications as somebody who has had to go through all this documentation to know what does and does not have to be marked as "politics" before I submit the ad for approval. (If you don't mark it properly, your ad can be delayed for days -- and politics is fast-moving.) Maybe Facebook users don't care. But there's no sense that I have from the way it was released that they sought user feedback, either from political orgs or even from the daily users of their website. What types of settings do they want? What kind of flexibility is needed? I don't see any evidence these issues were even grappled with. That's frustrating as an advertiser, that it seems like they just started with "how do we have fewer headaches?"
Maybe this sounds strange, but I think there is also a category of people who prefer suburbs or exurbs and are really bitter that the pendulum has swung back to cities in the last ~20 years.

They are really eager to see a trend out of small amounts of data. Or proclaim urban life dead, now and forever.

I personally feel strongly in the other direction. We had the infamous "white flight" and car-centric communities and life. We had the peak of urban crime in the 80s and 90s. Then we had a reversal of those trends. Yes gentrification is tough on many, yes the costs are out of control for many, but on the balance I think denser living is the right call.
My instant pot isn't consistent in temperature for saute or high heat. I heat up the milk in a separate pot and use an instant read thermometer to ensure it hits the correct temperature.

When you mix the culture into a small part of the milk, make sure to get that to a fairly smooth consistency before adding it to the rest. That also seems to help achieve a smoother result.
That's just two monitors in one that you cannot rotate into a two-pane, effectively 2880x2570 configuration. Nice that there no division, of course.
I'm not so sure about the historical accuracy of the claim that representation theory was initially dismissed. They quote Burnside being skeptical of representation theory in 1897 in the introduction of his book Theory of Groups of Finite Order, but soon after he this he reformulated Frobenius' work on characters in a group/representation-theoretic framework. Burnside used representation-theoretic methods to prove his eponymous theorem in 1904, and representation theory appears in the second 1911 edition of this book.

A lot of people don't realize that the concepts of abstract groups, vector spaces, linear transformations, etc. were not particularly obvious to people, and a lot of results were developed in specific contexts that were later realized to be more general. After the development of abstract algebra, these subjects morphed into something much closer to the standard algebra curriculum we see today.
> His problem with Facebook/Tiwtter is perceived liberal bias

This seems to be because they live in a bubble where everyone agrees with them. But when they look at the real world they do not see the same. giving them the perception of bias, but there is none. They simply have an unpopular opinion.
I see you chose to attack the person, not the proposal.

You are wrong. The bill does not designate a political board, it requires tech companies that have over $30 million U.S. users per month and an annual income of over $1.5 billion, to publish all of their content moderation policies. Users who charge that the companies are not implementing content moderation policies fairly would be able to sue for $5,000 plus attorney fees.

I think it's reasonable for these social media behemoths to post their mod logs.

I'd even like to see sites like HNs do it. Lobsters does: https://lobste.rs/moderations

If you have a specific gripe with this, let's discuss the legal.

I really don't see how GP is currently top comment.

Forcing giant social media companies to publish their content moderation is transferring power from the tech ELITE to the public. No political committee is in charge, the company will be forced to be published their logs, the courts can be used when users think companies are still acting in bad faith and not properly publishing their moderation logs.

PSA: READ THE BILL, IT'S SIX PAGES!!!

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Li...
As the other person said, living spaces generally tend to be larger and less efficient per capita for heating, power, water, etc. Those McMansions with the atriums are an ecological nightmare.
I'm referring to the cases where you get attacked and Cloudflare proxying was disabled on purpose by Cloudflare.

So your account is all active, but you don't have the proxy-through-CF part.

As a result all the traffic goes directly to the origin (as a side-effect, your origin IP address is revealed to the attacker).

You receive the email "Sorry, CF offers limited DDoS Protection, call our Enterprise team for help".

From your blog post I understand you don't do it anymore, which is good.
Really, it was quite bad to see the DDoS protection failing you when you need it the most :|
That's unreasonable. Without moderation you'd have a 100 to 1 ratio of spam to good content. Platforms should be able to control content in the way they see fit for their platform.