skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not saying venture capital is starting to do more harm, he's addressing where and how venture capital is being expended. He actually has a good point regarding funding of small to medium sized business with strong business models that emphasize being cash flow positive. Venture capital cannot do harm, most people don't know this but small businesses need the protection via social connections that a venture capital provides. If you don't believe that try running an independent small business and see how exhausting it is when you run into problems and don't have the backing of a VC. I grew up with people who did this and they get burned out when they don't have a larger investor who is connected enough to solve what seem like small problems. Everyone thinks they are better off being completely independent as a small business, that is always a bad idea.

There are certain types of businesses that are difficult to grow due to either legal hurdles or local protectionist tactics, I've seen this growing up in different states. If you start a business in the wrong place and don't have the right connections your business is never going to succeed, it doesn't matter what your business model is. In certain states they simply do not want large multi-national corporations, interstate corporations or franchises. If you succeed on a small scale and decide to expand you're going to run into all kinds of problems because people are going to come out of the woodwork trying to slow down your expansion (yes, this is a real thing it caught me off guard when I first found out there are people who do this).

There are also some types of businesses (particularly in the financial industry) that when implemented on a large scale are a nightmare to understand because there are so many rules and regulations. No one has a clue what is happening and it is easier to have hundreds of medium sized businesses with narrow focus that anyone can understand easily. Funding these types of businesses because everyone wants some sort of large IPO just makes the problem worse.
> producers who are doing a good job can then avoid scrutiny & regulation altogether

if they are not scrutinised how do we know they are doing a good job.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but wouldn't it suffice to just ban the subreddits by their URL?
Or a protocol downgrade attack. Many possible ways.
"Who's responsible for climate change? Who needs to fix it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipVxxxqwBQw
> I just don't see how anyone could realistically look at all the lines of code that any nontrivial JavaScript app relies on in any depth.

Right. And that's really bad.

> I'm sure most people don't review the code for their operating system, drivers, web server, compiler, browser etc.

Right, but some people do. Hire one of them. (And if your "props dept." can't keep up with the changes to all the things that's also really bad.)

> they do assess if the entities that write + support them are worth trusting.

No one is a magic code elf. (Some people come close. Fabrice Bellard might count. But even that worthy commits bugs.)

Like I said in a sib comment, yeah, some things get a pass. Bash shell for example. Then again, remember e.g. "heartbleed"?
Shouldn't they be able to discriminate the type of object (single star with orbiting planets that obstruct radio waves, or dual star plus planets where the emitter itself also moves around an orbit) by analyzing the received carrier frequency and see if it's also modulated by a much lower frequency (Doppler effect) compatible with orbital motion?
> I’m not blaming the phone manufacturers - I am blaming Google. Apple definitely didn’t go out of its way to make sure that my 2006 era Mac Mini worked with Windows. But since back then, Apple used mostly standard PC components, MS supported it.

But Google doesn't control the hardware in the same way that Apple does. It seems odd to blame Google for the lack of hardware support when the target platforms are not homogenous and have no single entity controlling the platform.
Why is black capitalized in this article but white is not?
My sense is that methane leaks can get away with way more because they don't have the same shocking imagery as oil leaks; am I wrong?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_dangerou...
...and it's pretty ironic that this comment is written in a social media website directly funded by a VC (Y Combinator)
Researchers believe combining samples could speed up coronavirus testing
It seems to me there’s no limit to what we can learn by observing outer space.
I think they make use of the fact that individual lines are updated on the camera by the light and can subsequently be read out. If it were a camera with global shutter, chances are it could not be configured to update lines as fast indivually. A global shutter design copies each pixelsite or line into an indiviual buffer when the "shutter" signal is triggered. This happens in parallell.

I'd say these high framerates on Raspi cameras definitely is an artefact of the rolling shutter design in these cameras.

Maybe one could get even higher framerates by hooking the analog part (or very close thereafter) of the rolling shutter camera up to something else, but I don't see how.
arxiv Jan 28 paper "Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source" [1] via Feb 7 Vice article [2] and Wikipedia "Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)" page [3].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10275

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Hydrogen_Intensity_Ma...
And that can be blamed back to users. Average Joe couldn't care less if his phone won't get updated so often or at all after some time.

They should, but they don't. Can be said about many aspects of our lives generally, humans are on average not that clever. Voting with wallet is something companies understand very well, I don't see any other fix (maybe EU could force them into something, till they find a way to skip it).
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We should broadcast the coordinates of a distant star to see what happens.
Docker is great. I wouldn’t say that I am a Docker expert, or a power user even, but being able to spin up a PostgreSQL, nginx, etc. nearly instantly and without lots of configuration is awesome. It keeps me focused on writing code, not configuring programs.
Yeah, and who would sign those 100k+ certificates? They are thousands of jurisdictions and hospitals in USA.

Plus, who in their right mind would believe that in the middle of a global pandemic 1000 extra people a day are dying from...symptoms similar to Covid but not infected?
I think the problem starts long before the deadly force. It's not just the rate at which black people are killed, it's the rate at which they are harassed for minor offenses like jaywalking.
IMHO this article is nonsense. Even the Gallagher example contradicts the premise. The SEALs that reported him basically risked their careers in doing so.

The military may have laws/rules to report misconduct, but structurally, units are incentivized to hide misconduct (e.g. “handle internally”) because they don’t want the embarrassment. More importantly, failures by subordinates are often seen as leadership problems (you can make an argument that in many cases this is true) which mean officers and SNCOs are likely to sweep them under the rug if they can.

I saw many, many cases of this in the USMC. DUIs turned into “wet and reckless” because it involved a SNCO (an NCO or lower would have lost rank). NCOs (rightfully) pressing charges against subordinates for misconduct, only to be pressured by company/battalion leadership to accept “alternative punishment” (which often amounted to nothing). A let’s not even talk about all the case where there was sexual or physical abuse that went unreported despite everyone knowing it was happening.

The only time the military is motivated to act on misconduct is when it can’t hide it.
CIA recruitment has joined the social media age
The Samsung Galaxy S10e is almost exactly the same size and thickness as the iPhone 10 (5.6" x 2.75"). I always thought of the iPhone 10 as "huge", coming from the relatively tiny BlackBerries, but part of that was the bezel-less design that made it seem bigger than it is. Still too big for my preferences, but it's probably the best "small" Android phone out there. Samsung have also made some great design choices that make one-handed use much easier, and the screen doesn't curve around the sides like the regular S10.

It's a one year old phone, but at the moment it's on the latest version of Android. Plus it has a headphone jack.

But like the iPhone, it's a greased piece of glass, so it definitely needs some sort of case.
Maybe, but perhaps not in the way you think. A source that emits radiation only at certain angles (think a stellar disco ball) would only "flash" us infrequently as we moved relative to it.
Get Jodie Foster in here.
If the staff is at risk, the customers risk depends on how closely they interact with the staff. So while replacing the cook with a robot may not reduce the risk, replacing the server with one will.
Agreed - life needs a "go with the flow" element to it.
Australia’s Victoria struggles to contain coronavirus
Australia’s state of Victoria recorded 41 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, double the daily rate seen a week ago, struggling to gain control over the pandemic while the rest of the country continues easing social distancing restrictions.
The editor resigned after tweeting that the article was carefully vetted, then admitting that he hadn't actually read the piece himself.

That is basically dereliction of duty considering that the piece is from a sitting US senator advocating for military intervention against American citizens. Should he have stayed on in that job?

It shouldn't come as a surprise that that topic would cause more public consternation than doxxing the author of a semi-popular blog that the majority of Americans have no stake in.
I would recommend strongly to not buy Dell laptops. The quality of the laptops are very bad. I bought a XPS 15 two years ago for around €2000 and the screen isn’t working anymore. The laptop hasn’t moved from my desk. Look at the support pages, there’s so many issues with no resolutions.

Current issues:

Screen distorted - Have to use external monitor

Laptop randomly freezes for 30s - Great for meetings

Bluetooth randomly disconnects all devices

WiFi randomly disconnects
I'm having a hard time imagining what kind of geometry would cause an orbiting object to be occluded for more than 50% of its orbital period.
If I remember well we see this concept in undergraduate classes in statistics.
Very neat, the outcome probably isn't what you were hoping for, but it has a beautiful and ethereal quality to it. It's like an art piece.

From the photos and video, only a small section of the screen has colour. Does that change as you move around, or is the coloured section static?

Off topic, but the visual effect seen here is a lot like how my memories and dreams feel; only the thing I'm currently focussing on has any colour or detail, whilst everything else is muted and fuzzy.
That phone has a VGA camera and no gps.
I've got a 17" in process -- looks like a 5 week delay for it. Picked up a M2 drive that I'll be adding to turn it into my Linux laptop. Pretty excited to have a good 16:10 screen on something this size, will all sorts of expansion options when 32G won't cut it anymore.
It easy to run cables to those buildings because they are built according the same blueprint. You can run the cables the same way, no need to create separate plans which is an extra cost. In Budapest old soviet buildings have the best internet(fiber).

We usually only have one or two competing provider per building, but their prices are still low(same as yours).
“It’s like clockwork”. Probably a natural source then
Is this paid placement? How did this get on the front page?
Same thing happened to me. Hours and hours on the phone for battery swelling which was a known problem.

I was overseas at the time and they dragged the process out long enough that eventually warranty was up and they told me they wouldn't replace it.

I replaced it myself but I'll never buy a Dell again and recommend others go with Lenovo.
TCP over radio? Direct communication by is the simplest implementation. Encoding a signal further seems counter intuitive, as opposed to a short repeating beacon that serves initial groundwork for a handshake. If the signal is supposed to cross vast interruptible distance, the bodies interrupting a continuous straightforward signal would appear periodic to the receiver.
Ben Thompson has a good article about what is different now: https://stratechery.com/2020/never-ending-niches/
I don't think this is true, because if our civilization collapsed there would be an abundance of resources that we previously harvested at the surface
most of my knowledge about oauth is about using it at my dayjob for years, so don't take my answer with any authority. its more a users perspective of the technology then how it was actually meant to be used, which i do not know.

first off: the whole idea of using oauth in your systems is to externalize authentication.
its main usecase is if you have several services which share the same users... usually microservices, but everything else which supports oauth works as well, obviously

if you do not actually want to externalize your authentication, then oauth is likely not what you actually want. (keep in mind this only applies to the process of authentication. you will probably still create a `users` table to put a foreign key on your domain entities. said users table just won't have a `password` field or similar)

under this perspective it makes sense that you basically only find blog posts to integrate 3rd party tools, right? you're just setting out to implement a new oauth2 server otherwise after all, and... i'd strongly suggest you don't. there are so many pitfalls you can fall into. its not a trivial subject.

thankfully, there are readily available FOSS oauth2 servers like keycloak around if thats what you want to use...

but to come back to my initial point: if you do not want to externalize your authentication, then do not use oauth!
almost all frameworks already have tools available you can use to authenticate with api tokens. it keeps you within the bounds of your frameworks strength and you can automatically fetch a token on your frontend after the user authenticated with your usual flow.

but i'm already off topic considering your first question.
if you do use a solution like keycloak, there are `oauth clients`. these behave exactly as you want.
> now its really about how this is addressed

> at least now we have an ability to usher in a new value system

I am not sure I follow the point you are trying to make. What is this newly found ability you are talking about? What is so special about now and how we address it? What has changed in the last 15 years? I don't see any progress at all. Emissions just keep rising year after year.
I feel like I've read something recently about how there's evidence people don't actually read SEC filings.

It's kind of like the theory that open source doesn't have serious bugs because so many people read it.

You know the saying that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent? If some people don't care about doing simple analysis, and others assume that someone else is doing it, and still others accept that it's useless to do it if other people aren't, it seems like a none-too-efficient market can be a stable equilibrium.
I think there should be nationwide training standards and standards for tactics that then get enforced. What I get from a lot of videos is that cops often have to improvise because they aren’t trained to deal with a situation. Most of the time the improvisation goes well but sometimes it doesn’t. I think this uncertainty is causing a lot of stress to cops and the people they have to deal with and then leads to bad behavior. I used to know some cops personally and they all said there was almost no way to discuss a difficult situation and develop better approaches. The general attitude seems to be “suck it up” and be quiet. It seems the whole organization is rotten from the top and highly abusive to people working in it.
Agreed. The last thing people need is to apply corporate ideology to their real lives.

I do keep a list of books I’ve read because I like seeing it grow, but there’s not really a goal besides “read books” and I’m not giving myself an annual performance review.
Hardware changes the slowest so advances that affect how chips, processors and boards tend to be more predictable and long-winded. However, the application of these changes to different domains (e.g. IoT) changes rapidly so the underlying hardware platform may be "stable" but new requirements that need to be programmed (e.g. power efficiency, security, etc) will continue to evolve -- therefore requiring continuous learning.
In some sense this is good news, though. Obviously, if we know where the leaks are we can plug them. But going farther, knowing what is leaking makes it easier to put an accurate "cost" on technologies. Gas leaks make gas power more climate-expensive, and make it easier to argue for renewables at the policy level (one of the reasons LNG transport is getting easy permits and funding is that it's perceived as lower impact).
Here is a good short video about how JVC did this with color shutters in the front https://youtu.be/z-q8ehzHeQQ
Microsoft doesn't control hardware, neither does the Linux community, yet I can run Windows and Linux on all sorts of random PC configurations. You can absolutely give Google/Android shit for this.
Freely scalable and reconfigurable optical hardware for deep learning
Fair enough!

I can understand the reasoning if you need to code a client in a different language, then you would effectively need to code the whole game once again. I feel like it would quickly bore me to code the rendering of each set of moves for each possible action. I feel like it's easier to have access to the complete state of the game client-side when you need to code a UI. There might be a solution if the server broadcasts the diff of the game state to the clients after each action has been performed (instead of letting the clients re-apply the action on their game state), but I'm not sure it would be nough.

How do you handle state synchronization, though? When a player makes an action, how do you propagate the changes to the game state?
Non-paywalled version: https://apkmetro.com/im-leaving-seattle-for-texas-so-my-empl...

For anyone interested, I've been using Runnaroo [0][1] recently to quickly find non-paywalled versions of links submitted on HN by searching the title. Sites that commonly use paywalls are tagged so that they are easier to spot. I'm the creator of Runnaroo.

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Agreed. Do not buy Dell. You'll find hundreds of people with the same problem on support boards, but if you call support they will act like you're the first one ever to have a problem.

Happened to me with the battery swelling issue on the 2016 model. I would never buy another Dell after that experience.
> cheaper cloud bills

That remains to be seen.
I’ve done a lot of interviews and I want to add a few points about nervousness (As discussed in the beginning of the post):

1. 99.99% of candidates sound extremely nervous for the first few minutes. That’s fine. I think most interviewers expect it. Both the interviewer and the interviewee want to calm down, and a few min of introductory chat seems to help most people.

2. If I notice a candidate is nervous in the middle of a technical question, I try to say something to calm them down. Often people seem super nervous while doing well/sometimes people confidently do badly — Point is that nerves are not a sign that the candidate is bad, but rather a sign the candidate might be able to do better/be happier if they were calmer.

3. At least if you were interviewing with me, I’d hope candidates who feel too nervous tell me they are nervous. Maybe other interviewers wouldn’t take kindly to this, but if it leads to better/happier hiring then I’m all for it. FWIW this has only happened a handful of times in my career.
I remember JWT coming on my radar around 10 years ago during the height of RESTful bikeshedding. It was a "must have" because sessions, being stateful, are not pure REST. Now that we've come off the height of the pure REST fanaticism and have learned about a bunch of issues that JWT causes, is it really better than just having a session id and a session stored on the server? Does it actually provide any technical benefit? Honest question.
I have a Surface Laptop 3 with a 3:2 display. It's excellent.
Yeah, sure, we could build Stonehenge today, but Stonehenge is not really representative of the monolithic cultural artefacts we couldn't easily build today, and Stonehenge, while popular in the Anglosphere, is not nearly as fascinating from the monolithic perspective as Baalbek and Sacsayhuamán and Gobekli Tepe ..

These all have things we need to look into, before we make big leaping conclusions about how primitive other cultures were and how things proceeded to the superlatives of modernity.

I'm prepared to learn that the rock cultures used hand tools and it was all just a lot of back breaking labor, but I also would not be surprised to learn that a laser-cutting device was discovered in a temple somewhere, and which 'explains everything' without any hand waving alien haircuts - albeit opening too many doors.
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What a great blog. Ended up on the SGI Indy page, and omg — that startup chime. Never knew.
"Earth Peoples, we come for the secret of the ShamWow"
I would recommend strongly to buy Dell laptops. The quality of the laptops is very good. I bought a XPS 13 four years ago for around $1000 and everything still works great. The laptop has come along during international travel.
It's not a dumb question, since it's a natural assumption. But HTTPS - specifically HTTP over TLS - establishes the secure tunnel to the particular domain (reddit.com) first, and only then transmits elements of the HTTP protocol, such as the path, any query parameters, and so on.

I believe that TLS could be used (and is used) in combination with other protocols, which only require the domain to use for DNS. Everything after that in the URL bar is HTTP-only.
It might be a generational thing but I couldn't care less about third party apps.

All I use: email, browser, maps, phone, txt, calendar, camera (non essential for me).
It does as long as the programmer uses it properly (i.e. you don't use atomics weaker than SeqCst or unsafe code with shared + mutable accesses unless you have proven that it's correct).
From a practical perspective, if you have multiple devices with a cellular data plan you could do this with third party voip services. But you are paying for multiple data plans.

Of course on iOS devices, you have to have at least one phone as the central device with a voice plan but then someone calls your phone, your iPad and your watch will ring. But you still have to have multiple data plans.

Ignoring the cost, my watch ($10/month), phone ($35/month), and iPad ($20/month) all unlimited plans serve the purpose.

My watch when I don’t want to carry my phone or take it out of my pocket, my phone for the normal use case, and the iPad when I want a larger screen or do lighter productivity by just pairing my BT keyboard and mouse.