skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture Capital started out as high-risk, high-reward high technology investments. Genentech, LSI, Teradyne, BTU International, and Apple. As Sam Altman, Thiel et al, and others have noted, VC lost its way since the late 80s and started focusing on widgets and "blitzkrieg" capital. The point of differentiation shifted from proprietary semiconductor or recombinant DNA technology to the ability to deploy large amounts of capital at scale, quickly.

What has mattered has also shifted. Uber's ride hailing solution was a revolution, of sorts, but it was an incrementalist one. The breakthrough that led to the production of synthetic insulin was a transformative one. Uber isn't a sustainable business. Genentech is still alive and kicking.

The personality types that are chosen for to create a business where the only metric of "innovation" is growth and genentech are different. In one, Steve Woz is a viable co-founder. In the other, he simply isn't, and is filtered out actively and implicitly.

There is discrimination in Venture Capital, that much is clear. But this issue makes it far worse. As it creates an ineffable bar that is vague and entirely defined in the VC's head. It is easier to answer the question if someone is a genius. Because genius is genius no matter the gender identity or race. A scientific or technological breakthrough is a breakthrough. No matter the origin. But the ability to "blitzkrieg" a business? Who knows.

When the only metric for success is rapid growth, and the only way for rapid growth to be predicted is for it to happen, it creates a murky set of rubrics and metrics where the number of bad companies by white/asian, cis-male founders who went to Stanford outnumber the number of great ones by people who don't qualify for those checkmarks.

The new system delivers sub-par returns and it is obvious that an alternative is needed. Despite great work being done by people like 1517 fund, Sam Altman's new firm, YC, Founder's Fund, Lux Capital etc, the industry isn't actively seeking out people with potential breakthroughs. It is creating artificial barriers to their success. Personally, the most significant sign that something is wrong with the ecosystem is that a potential breakthrough in phenotypic screening of pharmaceutical molecules wasn't sought out https://www.daphnia-labs.com , but the "Uber for X" by Template Stanford Founder Y will be.

It is also apparent that an alternate financing system is needed for companies that aren't technologically innovative, such as Nerissa's but aren't quite small businesses either. Companies that do fall under the "high-growth potential" label, while lacking the other qualities.

The blurring between VC, traditional PE, and small business banking have led to sub-par outcomes for all involved.
It's a webkit thing.

Try

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased

and you'll get the version with less weight, while 'subpixel-antialiased' is the heavier one. This weight difference is more noticeable in white text against dark backgrounds.

Photoshop offers several options on how to render text that show different "weight" in a similar way... they're called "Crisp", "Strong", "Smooth", etc. In particular there's a "Mac LCD" one which I think matches this "issue" seen in Safari.
> the decline search result quality in the last couple years

[citation needed]
It seems like the framing is entirely fair.

Any reasonable administrative body would look at the circumstances involved in this and do the thing that would disrupt lives the least for the benefit of everyone involved.

"So on the one hand it's actually an improvement."

This seems kind of silly.
This bothers me to no end too. But I’ve given up in every trying to fix it, it’s entered the public lexicon, if you want to talk about actual exponential growth you need to be more specific now.
> FFI is quite a PITA

This is what made me nope out of it last time I experimented with a Flutter module in my app. I'm still watching it closely though as it could be a great fit for other projects.
Angle I didn't see in your article: the price increases are a result of flipping finding true market value for an item. The ebay-et.al. effect.
Insane After Coronavirus?
> One factor that I didn't see addressed in the post which does make a significant impact is that men in general rate women more similarly than women rate men.

That is addressed halfway through the post. Methinks you didn't actually read the article.
Ancient Americans made epic Pacific voyages
Except that you don't need to create anything new to be there. Java is already there right now. It has literally everything you listed.
> Our position as beneficiaries of the open society requires us to serve as guardians of it.

The failure to live up to that ideal reminds me of this prescient Dune quote:

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
As far as why VCs wouldn't respond to emails, from my brief time working at a VC firm I think the logic was either 1) We don't want to start a conversation and give them false hope and 2) Not replying makes it seem like we're too busy and important to respond to everyone (and also there was some thought process of we don't owe anyone anything in the same way the average person doesn't feel obligated to respond to spam emails)
Mobile health services could be useful in parts of Ghana
Yeah, I'm willing to let this slide coming from regular folk in everyday conversations, but when you're writing a blog post about algorithms and you just said it was O(n^2)... this is a situation where I think it's reasonable to expect someone to hold to the technical meaning of a term.
There are also universities and other groups. Corporate money only accounts for less than 30% of research funding.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...
This definitely doesn’t make sense to me. Time zones are going to be a huge issue. If a coworker told me they were going to work from an asian/european timezone, we could try to make it work, but it’s definitely a hassle. The story is no different for universities and their courses.
Thanks for the insight, I never heard of this until today and this adds another dimension to explore.

I read some excerpts here https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A4158164 and it definitely adds context that only really improves my interpretation of the Douglas Adams series.

"Always carry a towel" is one such reference that I can now replay and re-imagine as a parody of the original guide. I'd assumed them to just be a random amalgamation that parodies the overall genre of various guides and travel literature, it's fun to know there's a solid reference point.

As for the relevance of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to <subject>" title format in light of this information, I agree with you that the original source is a better comparison point; while there will be a lot of fans of the Adams work who can relate on that level, there will be others who either owned or knew about the original source of the parody who will interpret the format more closely to its intention. And ultimately it's a format that's so frequently used that there will be a broader spectrum of people for whom "Hitchiker's Guide..." is just synonymous with "down and dirty advice to get you started quickly, without pretension."

This has turned out to be an interesting rabbit hole, personally at least.
+1 for the -m option and commit messages :P
The article links to another article [1] at the same site for a description of the stable marriage problem. I don't think the description is right.

Here is the description:

> Find a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements where each element has a preference ranking of all the elements in the opposite set.

> A matching is stable if there are no unstable pairings.

> An unstable pairing happens in the following example:

> A and B from one set gets paired with 1 and 2 respectively from the other set. However, B prefers 1 and A prefers 2.

Let's arbitrarily call the lettered set the males and the numbered set the females.

That definition of an unstable pairing cannot possibly be correct, because it is defined entirely in terms of male preferences.

For a pairing to be unstable you need a male who prefers a different female, and you need that female to prefer him over her current male. Only then are they both willing to ditch the current partner to form the new pair.

A correct definition of unstable pairing must involved conditions on both male preferences and female preferences.

It should be something like this:

> A and B from one set gets paired with 1 and 2 respectively from the other set. However, B prefers 1 over 2 and 1 prefers B over A.

[1] https://www.arvarik.com/visiting-the-stable-marriage-problem
Not exponentials
If more people were like you and stopped playing pretend immigration while coming in on very restricted temporary visas it would be much better for everyone, and themselves the most.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a very contested political statement to recognize the temporary and restrictive nature of their status to the point that I honestly believe that a significant number of them are unaware of the fact that their visas do not grant them a permanent status and there is no [legal] way to become an immigrant by staying in the country for a certain time in a non-immigrant status. Their only real hope to become actual immigrants is to find an employer who will sponsor an EB immigration or marry a citizen/permanent resident. Or wait for an amnesty, last of which happened in 1986.

One can, however, get the same EB immigrant visa abroad and come to the country as an immigrant (a lawful permanent resident) with very few restrictions compared to a citizen and with a clear path to citizenship.
Sharing Money Shouldn’t Be Hard. Introducing Braid
related: nrmp kidney match (al roth is kind of a guru on this subject)

i tried to apply the results and thinking about matching and stability to a many to many matching problem between students and courses offered. i basically just wrote a bunch of bullshit in latex but it was fun. i cant remember now but i think there is often a set of stable matches, although maybe it can be empty- and finding them requires pretty savage computation. i remember some of the newest papers were just big nasty algorithms for finding the set of stable matches.
I'd add Harlem Capital there https://harlem.capital/
Yes, but you won't train them by dating a lot of people. Dating a lot of people trains you that people leave, it will teach you that strong relationship hurts more when it breaks.

Also, if you dated a lot of people who were genuinly unsuitable for long term relationship, issue really is either your selection or what you signal to good prospective partners. Like, abusers pick up certain types and stable guys/gals avoid certain types.
Questions from a Disease Detective on the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Origins
I get the sentiment, but Ha was more helpful than she realized. I've been in this game from both sides the table. From this post, it's pretty clear she does lack basic knowledge.

She needs to understand how VCs are evaluating her business, what metrics and data she needs to show, and what types of businesses are even a match for the VC model.

Ha's post covers much of that. And having been in VC, the fact Ha even spent time giving advice is more than 90% of cold reachouts to VC can expect with a Google resume or not.

VCs write these 101 posts because they want founders to know when it's time to come to them and how to present the info. That's very much what she makes it seem she needed.
You are continuing to make a pedantic argument about semantics, rather than considering the spirit of the other poster's statement.

In this particular case, the fact that the anosmia is non-obstructive strongly suggests that it is neurological. It is not conclusive proof, but, colloquially, in a discussion where it is not yet clear that the minutiae of that particular point will be nitpicked to death, it is perfectly reasonable to read carlmr's earlier statement as "non-obstructive, thus implying that it is most likely neurological".

What is not reasonable is to insist that carlmr not using the absolute most precise language possible is somehow proof of his bad faith in a little no-stakes argument on a tangent in the comments of a HackerNews article.

Seriously, mate, just chill. He wasn't trying to put one over on you, and the more you insist he was, the more you come off as someone looking to start trouble.
I just wanted to say that I was impressed by privacy statement being short and clear. I clicked on the privacy link expecting multiple pages of overly complicated writing.
How do you monitor data pipelines?
How are you monitoring your data pipelines? Setting up good, sustainable alerting to catch data problems is important and I’m curious what the current solutions teams are using today.

Things that would be important to catch:

* A table that should be getting new data everyday is no longer receiving data

* A table’s schema changes

* A column that should be unique is no longer unique

* A column that shouldn’t have nulls has nulls

* A numerical column has values that go beyond the expected range

* The distribution of categorical values is past some threshold (ie more than 80% “no” values in a column)

Also are there other obvious things that are important to catch?
Thanks, worked well for me and I found information I couldn’t find on ddg.
Simultaneously in a state of having-been vaporware and making real progress towards being merged to master:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047
I owe you an explanation. It was supposed to be a joke but looks like it wasn't good. I've removed it after reading your comments
When I try to implement an algorithm from a paper, I try to rename the variables from Greek letters in German fonts to have simple English names, but the scientist will say 'why are you making it more complicated!' I feel like we'll never understand each other!
Interestingly enough, wife and I met online, in 1994 (EFNET, IRC). I think people started to meet online before 2010.
It seems like the author could search and replace “racism” with “sexism” and put out an otherwise similar article based on her experience having to use her husband’s LinkedIn rolodex to reach these people.

I think it’s shameful that VCs make empty promises to support black founders - but it’s also not surprising. Most of the people paying lip service to racial equity now didn’t give a shit six weeks ago before it was fashionable to do so. But empty promises are par for the course as they’ve been for decades. My experience living in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered is that the same people suddenly promising to fix the problem are the ones who created it.

VCs only want to make money. The author raised insufficient evidence that she was a victim of racism. If any unfair discrimination occurred it’s more likely sexism. But the simplest explanation is also the most likely: the VCs just weren’t interested in her pitch.
Where is this published?

Is there any evidence that this reduce the transmission of Covid19 (or any coronavirus) in the people around you? (I think it's hard to believe, but there is a tiny chance.)

Is there any evidence that this reduce the transmission of Covid19 (or any coronavirus) if you use it? (Nah. Just nah. Unless you clean your nose immediately and other imposible to follow rules, and even with these rules it is very difficult to believe that this is useful.)

> * It’s a saline mixture (essentially a “salty mist”) that contains no drugs, and is instead directed from naturally occurring salts that are most often found in sea water.*

There are hundred of types of salts dissolved in the sea. Many (most?) of them are toxic but the concentration is low. Anyway, any that claims that something is good because it is natural is a red flag.
Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde, it was partly the world changing, but also budget overruns and the sonic booms. Also, part of “the world changing” was that the 747 appeared, a plane that Concorde couldn’t really compete with, economically.

Also, it seems the bill for development of the Concorde was paid for by the governments of Great Britain and France, and wasn’t fully accounted for in the unit price.

If so, that made it a much more attractive proposition. I also would think some airlines placed pre-orders in a defensive move (if it had become wildly successful, airlines flying slow planes could get in trouble)

I doubt any manufacturer would have dared to design and build a supersonic plane if they had to have to pay for all development (Boeing had a competing project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707), but that, too, seems to have been heavily government sponsored)
Youtube on my Apple TV is going bananas for ads. They're everywhere! I don't know how this feels for US users where you guys have a lot more ads in TV in general. But it's starting to feel pretty hostile with my UK sensibilities.
How to properly use Nuxt.js in a code pipeline
Are date filters planned?
Interesting that Fedora support seems to have been dropped. Anyone know why that might be?

Edit: oh wait I think I see. Latest supported gcc for CUDA 11 is gcc 9.x, but I think latest Fedora is on gcc 10.
Categorical Data: Data-related tasks using category theory
Dating more isn't the only way to gather information about what you don't (or do) want.

People that have dated few people might be more likely to share a similar approach to relationships.
Anchor project bridging the gap between Crimeware and Nation State
Behind the dead-water phenomenon
> This is a serious problem in all big search engines

I have never really understood why search engines do not let customers create blacklists of domains they do not want to see in the results. Are they really so cynical bastards that they understand that the crappy SEO results they cram down our throats are so good money to them that they can't afford us to hide them?
Humans frequently get this wrong. Most low level players don't scout because it doesn't have a direct and gratifying impact on the game development plus it has a cost.

In most competitive games with scouting you have to move up the ladder quite a bit to find solid scouting.
yup, the difference AFAIK is that it only supports USB mice with PS/2 support which becomes rare nowadays
I dislike how snap clutters up my df listings. I have to pipe them through grep to get rid of the noise:

df -h | grep -v /snap

An option to ls to suppress all loopback mounts might be a nice option.
Sign a huge sports contract that will payout a small portion ($3M+) even if I get cut or hurt. Probably get hurt or cut by the first season and just retire.
Looks good and I'm going to try it as my default search engine for a bit. There are a handful of small UI issues that make me wish it were open source so I could fix them.
They are also help making the case for other Universities that don't have the name reputation that MIT and Harvard do. It is a responsibility that comes with their place in society.
One connector is THT and the other is soldered to the PCB via its pins
Been using debian for a few years and loved it. Ubuntu calling their own website on every shell login is a serious problem
I think they're referring to the "stable marriage problem" where every person is gonna get married come hell or high water, no takebacks. That problem cannot be solved in general if individuals can give a hard no.
I agree with this generally. For most people I know in happy marriages it's not because they figured out exactly what they wanted and found "the one" -- as much as they love their partners there are probably a lot of people they would have been happy with.
Depending on your programming language, you can definitely use those greek symbols as variables.
The universities knew this was a possibility. They want to charge full tuition (particularly to their international students who account for a disproportionate share of revenue) and go online-only with no consequences. I'm not sure that's entirely reasonable either.

From my experience, distance learning isn't really worth very much. This applies to K-12 as well as university. I think it's entirely reasonable to expect in-person classes in the Fall if you're paying full tuition. We expect our grocery store workers to show up and do their jobs during COVID, I think it's reasonable to expect the same of university faculty.
> I can trust my distro provider with this, but it should be strongly discouraged for third-parties.

Again, it all depends on how much you trust the third party compared to how much you trust your distro provider. I don't have many third party PPAs installed on my computer because there aren't many third parties I trust that much. But there aren't zero either.

Also, a big part of my trust of my distro provider is based on having source code forced to be open, and another big part is based on them not doing things behind my back. Snaps significantly erode both of these aspects of trust.
Yes, to run tests that root your whole cluster, the test running for conformance grants “root your cluster” permissions.

I occasionally regret the defaults we picked because people get frustrated that random software off the internet doesn’t run.

That said, every severe (or almost every) container runtime vulnerability in the last five years has not applied to a default pod running on OpenShift, so there’s at least some comfort there.

To grant “run as uid 0” is a one line RBAC as assignment. To grant “run as uid 0 and access host” is a similar statement.

https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/test/extende...
Also in the late 90s (maybe super early 2000s?) I used "LRP" for my router, booting from only one floppy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project
That’s definitely not true in my circle of friends. Of my 6 closest high school friends (all female), the ones who didn’t date in high school all married first, to either their first or second partners. The ones who dated a ton are still dating in their early 30s. None of us are very religious, and we all live in traditional (American) families with commensurate amounts of support.
I am on the west coast and my parents are in south.

When the pandemic hit, braid made it really seamless to ensure she had last minute spending money for the expensive and unexpected trips to the doctor, groceries, and gas station.

Momma dukes loves the in app chat too.
Thanks for sharing. 2.10 MB update for my Pixel 3 brought it to QQ3A.200705.002.

Still no updates for my Nexus 5.
Capsized Cargo Ship with 4,200 Cars Will Be Cut into Pieces with a Giant Chain
I started by reaching out by reaching out to everyone I knew who does freelance. I managed to get my first client that way because I was at the top of mind of one my friends when their friend needed a dev very quickly.

The first way to get clients is to call up friends. Also, $1000 for a website is very low depending on what it is you're doing.
> I don't know, but everybody panicked about the same time and came to the conclusion it was a crisis right about on Friday the 13th.

The sudden switch was fascinating to me. One theory is Tom Hanks getting it coupled with the NBA shutting down on the 11th turned it from abstract to very concrete for a lot of folks:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/tom-hanks...
Will July 23rd mark the success or failure of Microsoft's Xbox Series X?