skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that independent journalists are not journalists. Journalism requires being held to a body of professional standards upheld by a common organization of other trained journalists. A lot of the problem with our current media landscape is that someone's speculative opinion piece on JoeBlowKnows.com is held in the same esteem as a fact checked, multiple source article from the New York Times. Ethical independent 'journalists' can surely exist, but lets call them what they are: bloggers.
Software is made in the image of it's funders.

Separately, individuals in the United States prefer to consume the majority of their income rather than invest it.

We have restaurant delivery because the people with money like getting their food delivered.

Can anyone name a problem that VC money could solve, that would generate the required 100x return to cover the failures, that would satisfy the "common good" requirement?
> Put the cold hard numbers right in front of someone's face and still the cargo cult wins out.

Come on.

You did not actually measure the figure GP mentioned and which you are disputing. Your methodology and assumption — that 4% external symbol use translates into 4% size used — is a plausible guess, but you haven't supported it with data.

Even if you had measured the figure you're accusing GP of ignoring, the tone of your remark is just aggressively condescending and inappropriate. Tone it down.

To address your other claims:

> Shared memory is page-aligned entire libraries dropped into RAM.

There is a good reason to page- or superpage-align code generally; it burns some virtual memory but reduces TLB overhead and therefore misses / invalidations, which are very costly. You would want to do the same with executable code in a static-linked binary.

> the majority of [the small fraction of static linked library used] would not end up in RAM with your statically linked binary.

Huh? Why do you claim that?

> And if you used a more selective approach, dynamically linking to no more than perhaps a dozen high-impact libraries and statically linking the rest, you'd get a lot of the benefits and few of the drawbacks.

I think that claim is plausible! But it wasn't an option presented on your blog post, nor was it discussed by GP. Prior to that comment, discussion was only around 100% vs 0% dynamic linking.
If it's any consolation, that was hilarious.
A wireless mesh network is not an alternative to fiber based internet. It's a great idea and has many useful applications but it's slow. Loop Internet sells symmetrical gigabit for $65/month. The laser receiver on the top of your building (NYC Mesh has been known to use a Ubiquiti LiteBeam AC Gen2) typically has less than 350-450 Mbps of bandwidth total and that's for the entire building to share. I have 30~ units in my building. How well is that mesh networking going to scale? Is it better than say, dial-up? Sure. Is it better than basically any other type of broadband? No.
Exactly, if you're already doing routing/advertisements anycast just boils down to "advertise from multiple places at once" and it basically just works. If you're not doing your own routing this isn't a conversation for you.
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Clean-tech was a hot investment area for VCs, for a while.

Weathering the Storm: Kleiner Perkins and the Tragedy of Clean-Tech Venture Capital

https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/weathering...

The article above shows some of the numbers but it's not quite pointed enough.

The problem with investing in e.g. solar power isn't that it's a dead end technology. Just the opposite. It is a technology that is still rapidly improving on price:performance. But any technology rapidly improving on price:performance, without significant barriers to competition, demands ongoing investment and offers low returns on capital invested. VCs want significantly higher returns than they could get by investing in established manufacturing businesses.

There's too much competition in clean tech. Invent a better mouse trap for the energy sector and in 5 years you'll be competing with Panasonic, General Electric, Siemens, LG, and 4 Chinese companies you never even heard of before.

The same thing happened with the hydraulic fracturing revolution. Competition is too robust to deliver respectable returns, and the capital requirements are high.

Chesapeake Energy starts bankruptcy countdown

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chesapeake-energy-starts-b...

Former EQT CEO: Shale Gas Revolution an ‘Unmitigated Disaster’ for Investors

https://www.oilandgas360.com/former-eqt-ceo-shale-gas-revolu...

"The technological advancements developed by the industry have been the weapon of its own suicide."

There are some non-software businesses that have significant barriers to competition, like medical imaging. But those barriers also hinder capital-lean scrappy upstarts. Invent a better MRI machine, and again you're competing with General Electric, plus you need to go through a regulatory gauntlet before selling your first unit.

After rejecting sectors where competition is fierce, sectors with barriers to competition that also hinder startups, and sectors where people can't/won't pay much (e.g. anything based on serving unmet needs of low-income people), there's not a whole lot left but software businesses and software-mediated platform businesses.
Yea, but it’s Windows.
> I remember my brother and I fighting over the computer day in and day out to play games like Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, which was released in 2003. (I'm convinced that this will be the all-time best FPS game ever created.)

The author is correct.
This is the one sentence that is going to come back to haunt Mark: "To clarify one point: there is no newsworthiness exemption to content that incites violence or suppresses voting."

In the next 6 months, there will surely be a post or series of posts from one or many politicians where their choice of what is deemed "inciting violence or suppressing voting" will be, mildly put, controversial. These situations are not clear cut, and Facebook will be in the unenviable position of having to decide what is a political "truth" in a fraught political environment.
You could have a sign that said “fix the police”, “reform the police”, etc and it would more accurately describe your views than “abolish the police” (assuming you are indeed not a person who wants to abolish the police). And I’m sure you could come up with a lot of creative and compelling ways to say it. It’s not possible to fully describe the subtlety of your views in a protest sign, but at least you can make a sign that‘a compatible with your views.
>The most simple minded can be critics, but what is the alternative?

- Teaching police how to identify bias and showing them the alternative way to do things. This is basic statistics, but it can be boiled down. Actually, teach it in classrooms. Everyone should know it. A lot of "racism" in the US isn't intentionally harmful, it's bias.

- Police handle outliers. We have specialists for different kinds of situations. If we created more kinds of specialists to handle more kinds of situations, we wouldn't need to rely on the police who are not trained as specialists but as generalists who don't understand how to best help the situation.
> $60 for 250MB/s dow

I’m going to guess that 80% of the US can’t get that.
I'm taking a refresher course on linear algebra from UT Austin and love their approach - good mix of algorithms, proofs, exercises, and coding assignments.

http://ulaff.net/
This is horrific. When did this happen? Was this in Harlem?
It does, and MacOS, and I found that once I changed to bash-style tab-completion and used PSReadLine to get the keybindings I was familiar with, it becomes a pretty comfortable shell. I remove some default shell aliases because PowerShell's notion of file modes and permissions ends up not mapping well, but you have all your normal Unix commands available so it's not really a big deal. Quoting is weird but it's not worse than bash, where quoting is also weird. It's surprising how well objects-as-arguments and objects-as-pipelines work, even when mixing with standard Unix commands. I appreciate standard parameter handling, command naming and I think it pays off on the "Unix philosophy" (small program units doing one thing well) better than bash and shell tools. Those standard approaches produce an aesthetic I didn't like for a long time (Invoke-RestMethod -Url ...) but aliases cut down on your typing (irm instead of Invoke-RestMethod) and I now appreciate the discoverability of standard commands. I keep discovering little gems like default parameter values and the various ConvertFrom-* commands, some from modules.
In theory yes. However, in practice static linking with glibc pulls in a lot of dead weight, musl comes to the rescue though:

test.c:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}

Dynamic linking (glibc):

$ gcc -O2 -Wl,--strip-all test.c
$ ls -sh a.out
8.0K a.out

Static linking (glibc):

$ gcc -O2 --static -Wl,--strip-all test.c
$ ls -l a.out
760K a.out

Static linking (musl):

$ musl-gcc --static -O2 -Wl,--strip-all test.c
$ ls -sh a.out
8.0K a.out
> then the regions with lots of observed "victimless crimes" would be uncorrelated with the regions with lots of serious crimes

That doesn't seem like a strong hypothesis I would've made from the given scenario.

For example, one area that's consistent with the theory is that areas with lots of "serious crime" generate a lot of police activity, which turns up a significant amount of "observed victimless crime". That creates an expectation of a positive correlation between "serious crime" and "observed victimless crime".

Then, sure, according to that theory there might also be some areas where policing starts in an area on suspicion rather than serious crime and then we get a lot of "observed victimless crime" without as much "serious crime". That would be a negative correlation that you mentioned.

I just don't think the falsifiable hypothesis you've drawn up is one that the theory actually strongly predicts, and I don't think refuting that hypothesis necessarily refutes the theory.
Probably the most ill informed article I’ve seen on HN in a long while.

The author is putting 2 and 2 together and getting 50.
>The lightning hit the top of his head, set his hair on fire, traveled down, and burnt his chest and stomach. Sullivan turned to his car when something unexpected occurred — a bear approached the pond and tried to steal trout from his fishing line. Sullivan had the strength and courage to strike the bear with a tree branch. He claimed that this was the twenty-second time he hit a bear with a stick in his lifetime.
> You're trying to say that there are no legitimate sources, the legitimate sources like the New York times or major medical journals are not trustworthy.

Newspapers are at best a secondary source, not primary.

Academic journals are intended to disseminate articles to be subjected to peer review, which means they are intended to spark discussions over observations among researchers in the field. This means that, with the exception of academic fraud, it's expected that their content doesn't reflect solid understanding of the issues involved. Otherwise they would be pointless as scientific papers.
not only nationally, but worldwide!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop

In Germany we have no "predictive policing" to my knowledge, and even cameras and so on are used conservatively given how privacy sensitive we ware. Yet we've seen the exact same development over recent decades.
Whatever you do, avoid Ziply. It sounds like a great deal but when they bought out Frontier in our area they cancelled our auto-pay and then wouldn't refund the late fee. I think we spent more than 16 hours total on the phone with them. They still haven't mailed out the return label for their MoCa bridge. The first time we tried calling them the CSR would "put us on hold to be transferred" and then hang up on us. This happened about 3 times over the course of 2 hours. Nothing any of their CSRs say can be trusted.

It is absolutely the worst company I have ever had the displeasure of doing business with, and I'm so happy I had the option of switching to Comcast.
Is the title editorialized or has the publication changed it? As of now, the publication's title is "Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need", but the submission's is "Is venture capital producing the kinds of inventions society needs?".
User here. Just want to say:

1) Thanks for your hard work advocating for us and for that interesting writeup, and

2) This was never a problem I needed solved until Dropbox killed the Public folder four years ago. It took exactly two clicks to create a direct link I could send to anyone, and it just worked.
You may want to look a little bit more in the dictionary or wikipedia for the definition of racism :-)
That could be advertisers doing schizophrenic A/B testing rather than Spotify.
Ironically, the underlying issue addressed seems to be, "why are VCs the only people investing in research?"

Software investors are going to invest in software.

What's Wall Street investing in?

What are the Fortune 500 investing in?

This article was almost so good. I wish they would have kept asking questions and looking at research spending in general.
Even Apple doesn’t have unlimited resources. They may still offer patches for outdated WiFi cards in a future update but it’s silly to commit to doing so in your initial OS release.
They're not really independent as long as they're stuck on Substack's domain. You can export your list and maybe get some % to move to another newsletter host, but any links to past newsletters will forever be on their domain.

Substack keeps saying "eventually" on using your own, but with no clear timeline or real justification for not launching with it. Same reason I won't touch Hey.
Trump threatens to use law enforcement to restore law and order in areas devastated by rioting, where there's literally political insurrection establishing an autonomous zone - Sites classify this as racist hate speech, it's censored, memory holed, and removed from the internet.

Trump asks the same sites to stop promoting violence, rioting, and the destruction of the country - Classified as hate speech and censorship, and must be memory holed and removed.

Quite the double standards. I can go on facebook, say all white people should die, all cops are evil, shoot the police, etc., and that's perfectly fine and removing it amounts to censorship. But heavens forbid Trump threatens to restore law and order, now THAT's crossing the line.
No, by definition it's producing the kinds of inventions society will pay for. That's not the same thing.
No, we should not trust Facebook to draw the line.
Input fields is a different thing than the location field. Please file that one too, if you have a reproducible case of autocorrect/autocapitalize that you don't expect.
Most large PDs are in urban areas that are either in blue states, or that are blue islands in red states. They also tend to be the most problematic. So this problem can largely be solved at municipal level - if there's political will for it.
Thanks for the specific example!
There are more then million dishes available in my Fridge market, and I can safely buy/eat any of them without a practical fear of viruses and I don't care if the dish is prepared in India or Indiana. Food is always fresh.

In olden days I could have bought food from anywhere but that came with a burden of choice, I had to look for credibility of the vendor, confusing packaging, allergy info. was missing/wrong and there was always a risk of virus. Once a virus caused global outages and pandemic.
Thank you!

Nice catch. I just removed the url validation, so using urls without the http:// part will work now.
If you haven't read this yet, you'll enjoy it. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-ma...
The people of San Francisco are not "left" on local matters like planning and permitting. In fact they are absurdly conservative or reactionary. And they have plenty of reason to be: the people who own San Francisco property are riding a dynastic money machine. A surprising number of them can trace their family wealth back to literally Mexican land grants, or similar historical accidents. All of them enjoy a state tax system that disallows increasing their property tax rates and allows them to pass real estate to their heirs, tax-free, without ever marking them to market. So of course the people who have a vested stake in this fucked-up system will fight to freeze it in amber.
> The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead

All Linux/BSD systems I've used can update in minutes at the most (excluding the download time); I've long since wondered why Windows update is so much slower? Even binary diffs generally don't take that long to apply in my experience. So where is all the time spent?

Also why does it need to reboot? It is the "hard" file locking that's on Windows?
It's just crock duckery as usual, trucking mr facebook and his just-for-appearanxe-since-im-hard-gay semi transvestite 'wife'. I don't know why they even show up on camera since it's so apparent, sucker-jew is a gay pos and his 'wife' is fucking transvestite
What happened on this day? Take me back
People talk a lot about it in the abstract, and there is a lot of armchair quarterbacking. I suppose all of that has a smidgen of value, if nothing else to set expectations of people starting out.

On the other hand, very few people with truly detailed internal knowledge talk about the why's and how's, especially avoiding 20-20 hindsight. It's a difficult enough thing to do objectively for yourself, and sharing it takes that up a notch. Especially when you're all but guaranteed to have a bunch of people tell you how you were obviously idiots; many of them having never so much as tried to build something new.
Che Guevara's birthplace put up for sale
For Chinese and Indians, it takes decades to get green card in EB-3, EB-2 categories. They can just do Ph.D, and get green card in O-1 and EB-1 categories. If one is 21, they can just come here for Ph.D in biology somewhere by the age of 25. Spend another three years PostDoc, while getting green card.

You may ask, isn't it a waste of time going through this rigamole? Of course, it is a waste of time for the super brilliant people; however, majority of them are like average you and me.
Other than producing as much as possible - what exercises can one deliberately do to become more creative?
Because in the military, the "enemy" are the terrorists/belligerent nation etc. Complaints from terrorists/enemy nations etc as they are in a battle situation are obviously disregarded. The army serve the public, and fight the enemy.

For the police, the "enemy" is the public who are complaining about what the police are doing. It is them Vs us.

To quote George W Bush, you are either with us or against us.
Of course this doesn't solve other problems for email vs Twitter but you can turn on notifications for tweets from a particular user.
Wow, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-semitic all in one useless comment. Please never come back here.
good money for a hobby tho if you can luck into a playlist
Fwiw Instacart had the same problem, and it succeeded, even after Amazon acquired Whole Foods. It's really case-by-case, and depends on so many factors.
Code signing may make this difficult.
Ask HN: Does blockchain still show promise, or is it all but dead?
He never says how the business responded to this. I.e. why didn't it shift to Oakland, San Jose, or even another metro area. Unless the business model only worked in San Francisco.
'Violent' isn't in quotes in the article.

Have seen many calls for criminality on social media, up to and including assassination and mass murder.

One would think if Twitter et al were comfortable censoring people for spreading so-called 'misinformation', they'd have no problem also censoring posts which are clearly intended to invite violence and even civil war.
Tidal goes into a mix based off of the album, which is nice.
One of the first things YC partners say to you when you the program starts is: "We are not your employers, we will let you fail." I think that's a core part of how YC works and things like sharing office space or having dorms would degrade that by helping founders to escape some of the responsibilities of their company.

For people in YC who are looking for places to work though and want to get out of their apartments I highly recommend the public libraries in Mountain View and the surrounding towns. They're quiet, well lit, have fast wifi, comfortable chairs and desks, and lots of nooks and crannies without much distracting foot traffic.
What "social norms change" require groups wishing to be apolitical to not be, except the most extreme?

The you'd describe being apolitical as not being "legitimate" is chilling.
The lot next to where I live has a cell tower which gets hit now and then. It is ... way beyond.. loud. The last time it happened all my pets were in front of me within 10 seconds after, as if saying "Pardon sir, we are not programmed for this event! Please advise!".

The induced EMF in my long cables like cat-5 throughout the house and my outdoor observatory also takes out motherboards, DSL interfaces and ethernet adapters each time. These days when I hear thunder I start unplugging devices.
Reboot is definitely the file locking. One of the worst architectural choices that they made.

As for the time, I have no idea. A lot of it’s sitting there doing SFA looking at task manager.
Okay but who is going to do that? My county is still working on bringing water and sewer to most places, and I’m less than 10 minutes outside Annapolis. Especially places that already have cable or fiber that was privately installed?
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This is greatly appreciated!
There's a thing I constantly tell people. Communication often has three components: 1) What you mean to say, 2) What you say, 3) What was heard. As a communicator you should try to ensure that what you say and what you mean are the same. All the while you have to keep in mind your audience to ensure what was heard was what was intended. At the same time, as a listener your job is to try to understand the meaning and not what was said. Getting the intent is much harder and requires one to be aware of the limitations of language and communication as well as your own internal biases and often the biases of the one communicating (what assumptions are they operating under).

Additionally, analogies, slogans, sayings, and such are all simplified and reduced methods intended to prime a person to remember or think of a more complicated topic. Here "defund/abolish the police" is an easy to remember/say slogan (and can be easily written down and read from afar). It is much harder to communicate "we need to rethink policing in general, their funding, and what they should be doing. Currently we do not know the answer but are trying to drive a national discussion so that we can come to an agreement and fix what a large portion of us believe is a problem." The latter is much more vague and is trying to bring together people with wildly different opinions but do agree with that main point.

Reading __ANY__ slogan as an absolute and/or literal meaning is simply naive. It's hard enough to communicate accurately with the roughly 300 words in this comment, let alone slogans, which need to be smaller than a tweet.
Redux is half of a pattern (2/2)
Do you static-link Linux? :-)
> ... or have the budget from which his salary is paid reduced to zero.

That doesn't sound legal -- at the least, he could sue the city/state for those wages
Everything you need to know about the EU's General Data Protection Regulation
“Send with Transfer...” pollutes the context menu of every folder on my Mac, not just in the Dropbox folder. Is there a way to remove that menu item?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/389415/remove-drop...
Why ever would I believe a word an ad man says?