skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wrong call. the admin should start detaining and prosecuting those who participates in such criminal activity. take them as isil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...) and act accordingly.
And is there any bias inherent in that data along economic or racial lines? Given that black people are poorer on average in the US, any collection of data that’s biased based on cell phone cost might incidentally pick up a racial bias too.
With the music playlists I just really really want a button that would mark certain songs as "I like them, but not so often". Disliking makes certain artists and styles fall totally out of my playlists, not disliking makes it repeat like a broken record.
Per the blog post, this is to enable funding more companies in the future. How is YC able to scale funding all these companies? Are the ratios of partners to companies consistent? Does it scale linearly? Or as YC grows do they leverage their outside network more?
People are getting into $100k+ debt, and loosing out $100ks+ on the opportunity cost of this employment.

We can take the "rational preference" of the postgrad student as perfectly well informed of this, or we can admit it's a scam.

It's a scam. There is no job for them. They'd be happier elsewhere, being independent.

They're being played around with for years of their life, being missold a future, and having their passion exploited.

The "rot" isnt in the marketization of the university where (heaven forfend) students demand things of their professors.

The rot is in their professors themselves (who know the game and lie about it), the government which supplies their marks (ie. satisifies their voters) and the aspirational middle class parents who demand their special little ones get $100k+ loans against their future for nonesense and bullshit.
Because if everyone thought that, then no one would do anything. Basically every single company Apple, Google, FB, Tesla could have thought that and just concluded that they should not even try. And that's far, far worse for society than some food business not working out.
How do you deal with police forces ignoring policy and performing as they deem fit all while protecting themselves?
SIRENs Apply Periodic Activation Functions to Implicit Neural Representations
I'm not saying it's the pattern, I'm saying it's a significant pattern. And I strongly oppose the idea that our law enforcement should be treating any individual based on "patterns" anyway.
All the groups and individual ultimately have to take orders from the top, so if we decide to trust some particual group full of wonderful people, that group will be powerless to stop management from later (when it becomes profitable) betraying that trust.
Polling has random sampling. We don’t know if Mobilewalla’s sampling is truly random or not.
https://sta.li
> The whole point of removing qualified immunity is they no longer need to take criminal actions to be sued

No, it is so accountability no longer, in practice, relies on public prosecutors choosing to file criminal charges. The acts of major concern are criminal acts, that are routinely unprosecuted (in some cases, this might be just because of the civil vs. criminal standard of proof differences, but it's very clear that there are a lot of cases of prosecutorial favoritism to law enforcement, whether because of the working relationship that the two institutions naturally have or for other reasons.)
> predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.

So... instead of using algorithms, how will the police decide where to patrol heaviest? Putting a human in charge of that seems like a great way to increase racial bias. Or am I misunderstanding what "predictive policing" is?
What is needed is a graph of global lightning strikes increasing inline with global temperature rise and that does not exist, afaik - globally lightning strikes have been consistent year on year. But nowt jumping out google wise and would of thought if lighting increased, we would know. Equally if the strength of lightning increased, that would also be measured and known.

However there is data of lightning in some area's increasing, others less so and does seem to balance out, but not clear cut data set to know for sure upon that one.
There was a scandal around here recently about some police officer billing the government for weeks where they worked for something like 27 hours a day. Which would be very unhealthy, I imagine, if there was a way to do that.
> A better way to do this analysis would be to build a Linux distribution with everything statically linked [..]

Here you go: Stali

https://dl.suckless.org/htmlout/sta.li/

"Stali distribution smashes assumptions about Linux"

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3048737/stali-distribution...
I don't think you can really pay much attention to potential competitors. It's common to have competitors but rare to have good ones. And so, yeah, a lot of companies have deep pockets, but also that works against them in a particular way. The line of business that's making most of the money is also getting most of the good talent and leadership.
Thank you for sharing! Your inside perspective of how the military's organizational structure was designed is very interesting.
> Before Microsoft assumed the role, the sysadmin-of-last-resort for most post-Eternal-September users was either "my nephew who knows computers"; or it was "nobody"—until things got really bad, at which point they'd bring the computer into a repair shop and a random repair-tech would be the sysadmin. (It's like having no family doctor, only a free clinic you visit in emergencies!)

I hated to be the nephew too, but as an adult, I think repair shops are a good idea. They're local businesses - people you can enter a normal, human relationship with, who live next to you and pay taxes where you live. I'd prefer the money to go to them that to be endlessly siphoned away by global megacorps.
This is a really bad knee-jerk in the long term. These systems should be improved, and relied upon less, rather than banned. You want to identify the "at risk" individuals and focus on them not getting into trouble, preemptively? Predictive policing could help you with that. Arguably, this should be its main purpose in the first place.
i had a ~500 meter campus link in a rural area i maintained for 10 years, with fiber and coax when necessary. wire is right out, but fiber is such a bitch to work with. The tools are expensive and hard to use, to the point that we replaced our fiber lines with pre-made cables as the economical alternative to repairing breaks. This was a decade+ ago and I hope things are easier now.
It's not just Windows boxes. I recently upgraded someone's phone--running iOS 8. It had to be updated because an app that was important to her wouldn't run with it anymore.
Apple hasn't really released anything new in quite some time. Pretty much just iterative releases and upgrades. yet Apple stores are often so crowded you can't even walk in them. I think it's more than just new product launches.
Some of the things people complain about are genuinely silly and not important like the names of functions or the order of their parameters. Even complaints about == vs === are often a result of misunderstandings around object identity and equality.

But there are (many) other things that PHP does that are surprising and actually incorrect. The fact that it took until about last year for json_decode to do the correct thing around null is evidence of the kind of minefield that PHP is. It's actually wrong. Like, not subjectively, or "that's your opinion, man" wrong- actually logically incorrect behavior.

If you believe that it's okay for a real, professional, programming language to not have actual List, Stack, Dictionary, Set constructs; and to not have threads or async; and a broken foreach, then you're on your own.

EDIT: Also, it's the same arguments from 2007 because PHP hasn't actually improved that much since then. Furthermore, way strong languages have come on the scene since 2007, so some of those things are even less acceptable today than they were in 2007.
On free version, it also adds somewhat random "recommended songs" to an album playlist.
I was mostly picking on your example -- the Renaissance happened in Europe, and it was specifically a time when there was relatively little trade between Europe and the east -- a big part of the reason Columbus's journey was funded was to find a way to access eastern trade routes that they'd been cut off from by the Ottomans.

There were a whole bunch of interesting things happening around the world at this time, the peak of the Ming dynasty, ascendance of the Ottomans, the Malian Empire's displacement by Songhai.. they just aren't the Renaissance.

An actual "expansion of viewpoints" would be reading more world history. College-pamphletizing the renaissance is lazy and inaccurate.
Given that the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world, I'm going to go with the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
For non-games (which benefit from Vulcan and non-ancient OpenGL), is Wine substantially better on Linux than on macOS?

I haven't tried the Linux iteration in years, but on Mac it still fails 8 times out of 10. (Mind, it can still be tremendously useful when it does work.)
slightly off topic: what is the motivation to use twitter for writing very long posts? splitting your message up into so many tweets seems so distracting. what's the big idea of splitting it up?
This is a longer and more interesting article than I expected, but the title doesn't exactly reflect its contents. Is there a sentence in the article that could serve as a more representative title?

The primary profile subject is Ophelia, which is a YC-funded startup trying to address the opioid crisis. They did a Launch HN back in March: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570133. (I hope it helped!) The article tells how they successfully raised $2.7M at Demo Day. But the way the article is framed, titled, and mostly written, you actually expect a different outcome while reading it.

(Edit: I found one spot where the author describes the question she was interested in exploring. That seems more representative, so I've changed it to that for now. Better suggestions welcome.)

(Edit 2: since now people are reacting reflexively to the question "Is venture capital producing the kinds of inventions society needs?" in the title, I've reverted the edit. If someone can suggest an accurate and neutral title, we can change it again. The current title is both misleading and linkbait, which are both of the reasons why the HN guidelines ask for a title to be changed.)
I just cannot wrap my head around the co-founder reacting this way in a thread about his company.

I too don't understand what I would use this product for. That doesn't mean it's a bad product, I just don't have a personal need for it.

I don't really like eating grapefruit. If you're a grapefruit farmer, it doesn't mean you farm a bad fruit. Lots of people like grapefruit. I just don't like it personally.

Calling someone like me an "HN troll" because they're critical of your product is a pretty bad look.
But CRTs give a much richer, warmer picture!

Seriously, CRTs are the vinyl records of video games, with all the same confusion of aesthetics with fidelity due in part to nostalgia and in part to an entire industry calibrating itself to the flaws of the medium for decades.
Because of the ACA insurance providers cannot deny people based off of pre-existing conditions [0]. There have been several challenges to this point coming from the right centering around how the individual mandate may make the entire law unsonstitutional [1]. But as far as I know this hasn't been decided yet in the court system.

[0] - https://www.hhs.gov/answers/affordable-care-act/can-i-get-co...

[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/08/7940809...
Here in Iowa, I see these "Ditch Witch" things [1] everywhere they do utility work. Seems like they can do pretty quick work with them.

[1] https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills
Author of the post here. We compared each platform across ~25 factors, looking specifically at their utility for communities of different shapes and sizes.
Well, I specifically need a computer that is easy to yank away from my desk and take home, and vice versa.
Thanks for introducing me to this. Personally I think instead Schrodinger's Cat is more appropriate to legal policy. Measurement effects the result. In that excessive policing, where a people are treated with extreme prejudice as likely offenders, creates more offenders. Because the incentive to be a good citizen is eroded by your social guardians.
> It would be totally illegal and you'd probably go to prison forever if you started a company to do it.
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> And annoying people with scissors would be cutting them every day

That is probably why the wireless packet mesh networks are more popular since there's no physical infra in other people's property (spectrum as "property" sounds odd, but even that is a commons for some fraction of it).

It only exists when it is used and just disappears when it isn't & is easily moved around.

I assume the illegality would be its own reward sometimes. Didn't El Chapo run his own cellphone network?

There's a whole plot line in "Person of Interest" about this happening in NYC, hiding in plain sight as regular TV antennas (the Panopticon episode).
Except when you can't, because Windows will conveniently forget about your setting (or, some random OEM garbage for "maintaining" your computer will pop up a "rebooting in 5... 4..." message in the middle of the night.)
That's not the case in JP Morgan. Development is very centralized.

There are like 3 to 6 major platforms used inside of JP Morgan, depending how you count (the oldest one is deprecated and being migrated away which will never complete, while the newest one is nowhere near working and will not have anything running for a long time).

The largest one regroups maybe 30% of all the developers and developments in the firm.

The Perl system was underlying on of these platforms, and has clients for use in all other platforms, so it was quite ingrained across the entire company really.
That's a fair retort.

This is just one instance among many, though. I'm aware of others both firsthand (e.g. my iPad Mini that can't be upgraded past iOS 9) and second (e.g. "slowing down" of old iPhones that resulted in a class action lawsuit).
3 years of constantly losing money.

Failed because of Uber which has significantly larger pockets and is constantly losing money.

Why are all these called "a business"? These are all price dumping ventures relying on external coffers.
I would never stay in an Airbnb for fear of hidden cameras. Comments here from HN members about cameras being found above beds is just way too scary.
That's right. You can also use `<link rel=preconnect ...>` to start a TCP handshake, which will also cause the browser to resolve the domain. But by doing these, you're making more noise on the network. The CORS request will show up in dev tools, and it is also unclear how it will behave under a strict CSP (it's worth experimenting with though).

Nevertheless, the server portion of this project doesn't care how you make your DNS queries as long as they are happening.
> 2) Gross Margins (GM). As we grew, our burn rate grew too. We were losing money on every meal. If only we could get to critical mass.

> We had epic revenue growth w/ burn rate growth. Soon we were burning $1.5-2M/mo!

> We were always “1-2 months away” from managing the burn.

I dont understand, how in good faith, he can bring up SF-regulations as issue #1. When issue #2 is the crux of all their issues. They lost money on every sale! Food industry is notorious for thin margins, and then had negative margins and growth. SF regulations dont matter compared to that.
Generally lossy compression methods have a 'knee' below which the percieved quality rapidly drops off. The default jpeg examples here are well below that knee.

Usually comparing below the knee isn't very useful except to better help understand the sort of artefacts that one might want to also look for in higher rate images.

It would be interesting to see some examples from a lower rate HiFiC specifically for the purpose of bringing out some artefacts to help inform comparisons at higher rates.
The question you are asking is not meaningful because it is possible for a childless person to know a lot about child behavior, and likewise a parent to know absolutely nothing about child behavior if they basically are letting someone else raise their kids while they go to work.
While I really appreciate the democratic aspect of showing up at meetings, I would much prefer proper representation.

Representation such that someone says: "Hey what about people who are too busy to show up to these meetings? How do we get their input?"

At this point, the lobbyists have very, very, very obviously gotten root. The steps involved with reversing this (without beheadings) are unprecedented afaik.
It's funny that you claim I come from a social environment where people are 'more fragile' when I consider it simply basic respect to call people what they want. It seems like you managed to completely ignore my John / Johnny example as well, so I think it's becoming clearer that you're not really here to debate in good faith.

Also personally, one of the red flags I find in difficult people is those that choose to stereotype an entire group. Usually they'll end up causing further problems down the line by not wanting to work as a team or ostracizing said members they stereotype.
Huh, Wikipedia is already free and useful?

Anyway, Wikipedia raises TONS of money but it goes to staff of dubious purpose with regards to its goals.
For myriad of reasons, we know clearly that controlling for no other factors, crime is higher among black populations. So to extrapolate that any one person is more likely to commit a crime because they are black is the definition of racism.

It is not ok to assume that someone might be more likely guilty or more likely to commit a crime based on the color of their skin. Even if you had perfect historical data. It's just not acceptable ethically, morally, whatsoever. And the very idea by some that it is ok, as long as your stereotypes are backed by accurate data, perpetuates racial oppression and creates a self fulfilling prophecy.
On-premises support is in progress. No release date yet. That said, would you need it to be fully self-hosted or would it be viable to have an on-premises agent?

Relay uses Tekton under the hood to run workflows and Knative to process triggers. What kinds of workflows are you thinking about running?
I agree, although I found another good option is to buy it from Costco and use it for a couple months and really get a feel for it and then return it. I’ve done that with several Surface Pro devices, which has allowed me to appreciate how they’ve improved over the years, but also made it clear that they are not yet ready to replace a real laptop for me. Little things like the annoying lack of a “monitor off but computer still active” state that I might not have realized by just playing around with it in a store. Of course Costco doesn’t have a great selection of all the different models, so it’s not necessarily a great alternative depending on your interest. But you can usually find some store with a good return policy of at least 14 days.

A potential area where the Microsoft stores could’ve been great as if the employees were actually knowledgeable and could have answered questions. But I found them to be completely ignorant of anything other than very high-level basics. Several times they told me things that were flat out wrong. It was always more effective to just Google a question than to ask a store employee.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Microsoft stores in malls, killing time, since there’s nothing much else for me to do when I’m dragged to a mall. Frankly that is the saddest aspect about this announcement. With Radio Shack gone and most GameStops gone, the Apple store will now be the only non-clothing store in malls.
The wireless mesh projects was the first thing that came to mind as well.
If you mean by disabling the scheduled task, this doesn't stick. Even if you delete all the scheduled tasks, or otherwise mess with them, they always come back
Comments like these are why many founders prefer not to share their failure stories so candidly.

It's a well written, extremely well summarized postmortem. Of course it's obvious after the fact what they did wrong. You're shooting at an empty goal and, frankly, it's not very interesting.
Yes, I believe it was. That's all well and good, but until the screen stopped working (may have been related, it's been a while) it was a perfectly good machine.
What Payoneer is saying is BS. It is not just card that's not working anymore. My funds were frozen, so I could not withdraw it to my bank account either. They always looked to me like a shady business, but I kept using since I had no alternative. I've put up with it somehow. Now they proved my gut feeling was right. I would not be surprised they were deeply involved somehow in grand scheme of this.
I pay for my email services and receive a VPN service for doing so as well being able to create up to 5 email accounts.
Paid email has its benefits for example, the actual email I use is not at all similar to the login email therefore there’s improved security in some paid emails.
Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23651672
> People are getting into $100k+ debt

PhDs come with a living wage stipend and 100% tuition.
I've never heard of anyone going in to debt to get a phd. If you're paying for your phd with borrowed money, you made a really huge wrong turn.

As for the rest... sorry you had a bad experience. To all future readers: don't do a phd for the money, and during your phd, make sure you develop marketable skills. By your mid 20s, you should have realized that you are responsible for your own career.

> The rot is in their professors themselves

yeah, those evil professors, working 2x the hours I work for 1/5th of the money /s

No one owes you anything. University -- especially phd school -- is a place where you can draw on experts and resources to develop marketable skills. Or you can not. You're paying for access, not for guaranteed outcomes.
And of course it's still possible to opt-out with some "pro" version?

I mean, there are always situations where you want to avoid to be interrupted by updates by all mean...

Oh wait, I get it... pro versions are called Arch, Gentoo, etc... ;)
https://archive.vn/YIqby
For me making a habit of thinking about problems, writing my ideas and organizing them has been extremely valuable in all fields where I applied it (I am a PhD student in computeur science and act as a consultant for some magicians).

I do not think that you can make a habit of producing good ideas but if you produce enough ideas you will end up producing at least a few good ones, it is only a matter of time.

Also having a good storage system let me revisit ideas that were imperfect at a later point in time when I might have the correct frame of mind or knowledge to improve on them.
This mean that I end up producing more good ideas on the long run.

Finally, I try to accumulate knowledge. I found the ideas of other people to be a great source of inspiration (either because I misunderstand them at a cursory glance, leading to creation, or by building on their concepts). Furthermore, keeping files on ideas I find interesting appears to be a force multiplier to improve the quality of my output: the more tools I have and the more problems I can solve.
Those will go through much tougher ground than a vibrating plough, but they're also much slower and you can see the trench when it's done. With the plough, we'd typically go through the gravel berm along the road and you'd have a hard time telling that it had just buried the cable even if you were looking for it!