skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. It hasn't empirically. See founders taking money off the table in secondary in series A, Airbnb etc.

Plus, financially derisked founders are paid a premium (those with previous exits) by VC.

So we know that this is mostly an academic argument, but it is a resasanoble concern.

Moreover, if 90-95% of your holdings are your company, you are still motivated to make it a success, despite the 5-10% diversification. And most great founders are motivated by more than pure financial upside.
Wouldn't you want to pool with companies that AREN'T in the same market area? I would imagine you would want to try and diversify membership so that returns aren't correlated.

Also if people are in the same group are in the same vertical, isn't there a risk of competition?

Still think it's a good idea though.
Because TimescaleDB is a relational database for general-purpose time-series data, it can be used in a wide variety of settings.

That configuration you cite isn’t for the core TimescaleDB time-series database or internals, but to add a specific configuration and setup optimized for Prometheus data, so that users don’t need to think about it and TimescaleDB can work with the specific Prometheus data model right out of the box.

Those “scripts” automatically setup a deployment that is optimized specifically to have TimescaleDB serve as a remote backend for Prometheus without making users think about anything. Some databases would need to write a lot of specific internal code for this; TimescaleDB can enable this flexibility through configuring proper schemas, indexes, and views instead (in addition to some specific optimizations we've done to support PromQL pushdown optimizations in-database written in Rust).

This setup also isn't something that users think about. Users install our Prometheus stack with a simple helm command.

$ helm install timescale/timescale-observability

The Timescale-Prometheus connector (written in Go) sets this all up automatically and transparently to users. All you are seeing is the result of the system being open-source rather than having various close-source configuration details :)

- https://github.com/timescale/timescale-observability

- https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus
Explicit is better than implicit. I've had too many things break in the past because I trusted the parser to "do what I want". Now I trust explicit quotes to keep ambiguity away.

Oh. And: Stop Using Medium. TYVM
Nothing that I do requires a discrete GPU. I want an integrated GPU that can drive a 4k screen without input lag at 60fps.

It kills me that there are no good AMD offerings.
As someone who recently spent a few weeks to get acquainted with Reaper, what would be a reason to use Ardour instead?
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> With TimescaleDB you should be ready to know ins-and-outs of PG to secure and maintain correctly.

Gotcha, this makes sense. To this, I'd pose the question: is the same not true for Influx? (i.e. With IFDB, you should be ready to know its ins and outs to secure and maintain it correctly). I guess I think about choosing a database like buying a house. I want it to be as good in X years as it is today, maybe better.

From this perspective, PG has been around for a long time, and will continue to be around for a long time. When it comes time to make tweaks to your 5 year old database system, it will be easier to find engineers with PG experience than Influx experience. Not to mention all of the security flaws that have been uncovered and solved by the PG community, that will need to be retrodden by InfluxDB etc.

Anyways, it's just an opinion, and it's good to have a diversity of them. FWIW, I think your perspective is totally valid. It's always interesting to find points where reasonable people differ.
At a previous company, we had it as a requirement for the round. Didn't bother us because our book were clean and our growth wasn't fabricated. Company had a successful exit by an acquisition .

At the current startup i am at, we do yearly audits that we share with our investors. We have nothing to hide and our growth is real.

If company doesn't want to do an audit, they are hiding something. Founders forging stuff is more common than you think. I've personally seen shady accounting at two startups like fake contracts were nothing of value was exchanged but saw the revenue booked. One of the startups was a vendor to homestore.com were the CEO went to jail cooking the book but we were never investigated being a private vc backed company. Though investors did fire the founders and executive team after they forced an audit. SEC prosecuting these cases is quite rare with privately held companies. This is the second case that i know of.
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Thanks, I put a link in to help people on the first mention.

In my bubble DevRels are more of a thing than most people's.

I have never heard of 'Dev Reels' either!
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Eh being from Ireland if anyone puts up a border it be Irish farmers. Last thing they want is northern Ireland being used as a backdoor into Europe with UK dumping questionable gm or chlorinated food destroying their livelihoods.
> No one really knows just how often or widely the government has used the All Writs Act to force companies into surveillance

Seeing how they used Sabre to prosecute a measly $5000 damage, we can surmise that they'll use this and similar systems for just about anything they can possibly be used for.
> Consider the outrageous claim

Is it really outrageous when NYT has previously threatened to dox people?
Most recently the owner of Slate Star Codex, which recieved a lot of attention on HN.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
> that's less than 10% of profs at big name research-driven schools

From my experience that extends quite a bit further than that too even for a university that wasn't research heavy. I'd argue about half of my lecturers at university back in the day saw Level 1 classes not only as a hassle, but had active disdain for teaching them.
It is a change, because it's centralized and national in scope.

No single partisan local newspaper editor had the kind of reach that facebook has.
I agree with this definition.

So how is React a library? You can't just utilize part of React within an existing Angular app. I've built shims between the two frameworks and you can't just use React inside of Angular. When you utilize a React component inside of Angular, everything Angular about the application goes out the window and it becomes a mini React app starting from that component, just with the data originating from an Angular app.

The definition of a framework boils down to inversion of control, right? You define your application, and then it is run within the React "framework" context, which calls various predefined methods/functions.

All of the lifecycle methods in React are a good indicator, to me, that it is indeed a framework. You define these functions, and they are called by the framework. Inversion of control.
How is it that you figured out that you should read sites other than Facebook, and that the (presumably) mindless masses on Facebook have not?

What specifically makes them captive? Why do you believe that? Are the audiences of other extremely popular websites also captive? Why or why not?
"Medium."
This seems like a lot of work when you could use Zabbix.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It works both ways.

1. In a verticalized approach, your startup risk approaches your sector risk, if pool is large enough.

2. In a stage based pool approach (sector agnostic), risk is more diversified but rankings will be less meaningful. For ex, a rocket company founder may not be a good judge of CPG companies.
This assumes that you won't get another MagiCan at the next store. :)
At least with corporate TV news, we have to remember there is no "one side over the other". It's mostly one side if clustering them by their economic goals.

These are business entities that can quickly create short segments (based on the current events) designed to stir up emotion and interest among their targeted market segments to keep their eyeballs coming back and engaged while the TV ad is play.

FOX has their segment, MSNBC learn from them and has theirs, CNN a bit less defined and as a result they are suffering compared to FOX and MSNBC.

These entities are run by a group of executives that are focused on generating revenue. I don't believe MSNBC's executives are any more or less different ideologically than the FOX's executives.
Well, the current ruling party in america is followers of an ideology that historically have been centered around opposing democracy and secularism.

Reducing public education is arguably the most effective strategy for acheiving both those goals, so, is it really that surprising that they have a long history of opposing the scientific consensus?
I agree, but I was more talking about how those who would become self-styled enforcers of ideological purity tests often find themselves sufficiently impure and lose their heads the same way they took them.
My favorite ... when those "U" locks came out and the bike guy was trying to sell me on a lock that was 1/4 the price of the bike it was meant to protect, I jumped to "Freeze/Shatter" (details in another comment).

I felt bad after I pointed out this work-around ... I sort-of assume commission-based sales people are slimier than the average Joe; he admitted he hadn't thought of that but had heard of similar stories, just not "upside down can of air/sledge hammer" convenience. And steered me toward a good, less exotic (and ultimately ineffective) lock, instead.

And even the lock is a part of an overall security set-up that often has a weak-point right smack on "the thing you affixed the lock to" (if not "how you attached the lock in the first place"). And are there any unintended consequences here that are being missed?

And then the devil's always in the details of its execution. The story of "The Club" comes to mind ... big, bright, device you attached to your steering column that the theory of function was: (1) It adds a second factor (key) to unlock a device that has a hold on the steering column that is much stronger than what your car has built-in. (2) It's very noticeable, therefore, a thief will choose another car[0]. Except that the problem the thief has is walking around a parking garage carrying around a bunch of stuff that's frequently used to steal cars, much of which is difficult to conceal. With "The Club", one needed to carry a sharp hack saw and for your trouble you got a really strong lever to use to break the cars steering column lock. Two problems solved, making the product a vehicle thief attractant.

[0] If you and I are being chased by a bear, I don't have to outrun the bear, I have to outrun you.
In my opinion this has nothing to do with science and with experts being right or wrong.

It‘s people deciding stopping the spread of COVID-19 isn‘t as important as protesting for their civil rights.

You can‘t dismiss the science just because people have different priorities and decide to act against it because of that.

I also wouldn‘t say it‘s hypocrisy at least not by the protestors and scientist.

Maybe it’s hypocrisy by the media because they didn‘t state that they agree or disagree with protests because they think another issue is more or less important than the pandemic.
Well a matrix is a collection of vectors so... I guess I somewhat agree.. You can certainly apply projections to images, I mean this is what photoshop does.
I do think there are at least two material differences today.

One is that you no longer need "physical access" to someone to manipulate them. It is so much easier to get your message to someone today. You don't even need to buy a costly newspaper or TV network. You can be individually targeted from anywhere in the world relatively easily. The scale is completely different.

Second is that attackers are able to target specific people in a specific way thanks to the data collected by us online (I mean, your clergy doesn't have access to your search history). Your local clergy has to put forth a message that both appeals to an entire congregation and also fits in roughly with what is expected to be heard from clergy. The congregation can then talk to each other and decide if the message makes sense. Attackers going after a specific person don't have to deal with either of these.
A lot of the death was due to the introduction of new diseases, so maybe AI is to blame for Covid-19?

Also, in the similie I think humanity is supposed to be the Old world, so I'm really wondering who we're supposed to find and enslave ...
`snap install telegraf` is pretty easy though
Perhaps I've been a bit loose in my language (and not everyone is consistent with branch vs jump). I really should have said something like "non-constant jump". That is, in my theorem (haha) above, I mean you cannot have non-constant work without at least one non-constant jump.

A non-constant jump is anything that can jump to at least 2 different locations in a data-dependent way. On x86, those would be something like [2]:

- conditional jumps (jcc) aka branches

- indirect calls

- indirect jumps

Basically anything that either goes one of 2 ways based on a condition, or an indirect jump/call that can go to any of N locations.

Without one of those, you will execute the same series of instructions every time, so you can't do variable work [1].

So when you say "unconditional branches" I'm not sure if you are talking about direct branches, which always go to the same place (these are usually called jumps), or indirect branches, which (on x86) don't have an associated condition but can go anywhere since their target is taken from a register or memory location.

If you are talking about the former, I don't think you can implement your proposed strategy: you can't jump to the correct switch case with a fixed, direct branch. If you are talking about the latter (which I had assumed), you can – but it is subject to prediction and mispredicts in basically the same way as a conditional branch.

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[1] Here, "work" has a very specific meaning: instructions executed. There are meaningful ways you can do less work while executing the same instructions: e.g., you might have many fewer cache misses for smaller inputs. However, at some point the instructions executed will dominate.

[2] There are more obscure ways to get non-constant work, such as self-modifying code, but these cover 99% of the practical cases.
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Code IS represented to both the programmer and to the file system as text files. I think your point is that this does not do justice to the complexity of most code bases, and with that I completely agree. There should be much better ways of presenting the actual complexity to programmers.
Loss of UK means 10 euro a year less per every person left in eu27. You wildly overstating UKs contribution. It's peanuts compared to what Covid has caused
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Considering a bunch of the farms cross the border, that would be hilarious.
I jus got a second hand 6 core (6T) HP elitedesk mini for cheaper than I'd like to admit. Something similar with these APUs is enough to make me drool!
It sounds like you home rolled a version of Grafana, CollectD et al. which probably took more time and effort than just installing Grafana CollectD et al.
This is great. Lovely little demo!
1. Single pool, based on rounds, but new companies can join a pool with consent from all aexisting companies

2. Support is entirely up to them, but the goal is to create an engaged community with strong incentive alignment to help with investor pipeline, customer intros, partnerships, hiring, strategic advice etc
This is just "BEST SELLER 3.5 INCH ULTRA SMALL CELL PHONE SLIM ANDROID OEM CHINA UNLOCKED 4G DUAL SIM" on Alibaba with a fingerprint reader and better camera.

The same as every single other Jelly product.

I'll never understand kickstarter.

edit: you're probably able to find the exact model of phone they're rebadging if you search for its oddball screen resolution, I just grabbed the name of the first miniphone that looked similar.
Seems like a lot of work when Zabbix is available. Read the latest version even supports TimescaleDB.
That's what I thought, it seems that the entire project is basically a fancy wrapper around the Exposure Notification apis provided by Apple and Google.

There's some kind of cognitive dissonance around your idea that these companies deserve so much compensation for designing a solution that relies so heavily (entirely) on these features, and yet be free from responsibility for serious bugs that arise from this decision.
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I've ended Harvard CS50 course and should say he's definitely one of the best, rockstar-like. Also seen tons of MIT, Berkeley and another courses from Coursera & Edx, so maybe can do the basic comparison.

Secret maybe in very good covering of complex stuff and teaching style: pressure, fast moving between topics, playing with auditory in tv-show format, and nearly screaming to get attention while needed.
> That is to say, the same logic applies to a family: If a family making $120k could survive adequately in a given location, then a family making $160k can pretend they make $120k and do the same thing.

Yes, I was trying to agree with you.

I'm married, have a family, and we do exactly what you describe. We live below our means and save as much as possible.

In our case, living below our means worked out as having a single income family, and having a full time care giver in the home. For others, that might mean maxing out two incomes and retiring earlier.

> Perhaps it has less to do with kids than it does coupling up: anecdotally, most of my male friends who are happy to be ascetic need to start flashing money when they start dating, and most of my female friends are far more interested in consumption/comfortable living spaces.

When we started dating, my wife joked she liked me for my crappy old beater of a car. What she meant by that, is she knew a lot of the guys with fancy cars were actually broke because all their money went into their car, and she could tell early on I was more responsible and frugal.

So be careful of over generalizations based on anecdotes. And, frankly, be careful about getting in a serious relationship with someone who doesn't seem capable of living within their means.
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I've been doing monitoring of our ~120ish machines for 3-4 years now using Influx+Telegraf+Grafana, and have been really happy with it. Prior to that we were using collectd+graphite and with 1 minute stats it was adding some double-digits %age utilization on our infrastructure (I don't remember exactly how much, but I want to say 30% CPU+disk).

Influxdb has been a real workhorse. We suffered through some of their early issues, but since then it's been extremely solid. It just runs, is space efficient, and very robust.

We almost went with Prometheus instead of Influx (as I said, early growing pains), but I had just struggled through managing a central inventory and hated it, so I really wanted a push rather than pull architecture. But from my limited playing with it, Prometheus seemed solid.
I'll remember this whenever someone waxes lyrical about the subversive 'genius' of their New Coke campaign.
I wish I had known this when I was getting started in my career. Most advice out there says you can't get wealthy with "salary," but clearly there is a way to earn 7 figures even as an employee.
Just to throw my hat in the ring here:

My co-founder and I have been building a hosted version of this[1] for the last two years, because we recognized that while self-hosted wikis work great for techie people, there are a lot of other people who that label doesn't fit.

So we've been working to create a collaborative knowledge-base platform built around some key concepts:

1. Built around cards rather than documents, which allows for a lot of interesting and flexible features. Such as...

2. Granular sharing – on Supernotes, you can share an entire collection of cards, or you can share one card at a time. We also have recently introduced[2] a "friends" features that allows you to quickly drag-and-drop cards onto your friends to share with them.

3. Multi-parent nesting – there is no folder-style filesystem on Supernotes, we allow you to nest cards inside of each other. On top of this, we allow for this nesting to be multi-parent, so different users can fit the same cards into their own unique structure (effectively a collaborative / personalized version of symbolic links).

4. Public vs. private tags – cards can be tagged with public tags that everyone sees, but can also be tagged privately with only tags that you can see. This same idea is reflected across the platform, where we want the underlying content to be the same for everyone but want to allow users to personalize the metadata/structure to suit their own workflow.

5. Focus on speed – we have spent a lot of time making Supernotes speedy quick, and try to make it faster every time we release a new feature.

Anyway that is the rough idea. The goal of Supernotes is to be a sort of data-layer where you can keep all these compartmentalized pieces of content (as cards) and then mix-and-match at will to create very simple or very complex stores of knowledge. We also want you to be able to embed these pieces of content elsewhere (say in a Notion document or on your blog) with as little effort as possible (not quite there yet, but will be soon).

[1] https://supernotes.app/

[2] https://supernotes.app/changelog
I don't plan on buying them :)
Author, here. The n ≈ 163 pages figure I give for R6RS includes the standard library and description of formal semantics.

I'd like to clarify that I didn't mean to imply that larger standards are worse. Quite the opposite, actually. That's why I enjoy R6RS. As shakow pointed out, it's a means of giving a rough estimate of size. Common Lisp has much more than Scheme in terms of what's included.
They used to call it Technical Sales in the circles I travel.
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Is this just another incorrect causation? Eg fewer surgeries == fewer deaths?
This is only one of the principles featured in TRIZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
Nachos are also named after a person - a maitre d' named Ignacio, who needed to come up with something to serve one night after his chef had already left). The word "Nazi" comes from the same root, a nickname for Ignatz used to make fun of Bavarian peasants.
Not everything uses or even can run ubuntu. I have a similar setup and have a number of openwrt devices that also feed things into grafana via collectd - so I already have that up and running.
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Any editor made in the last 20 years has syntax highlighting around strings, to not quote-delim hurts readability in this case.
I'm also not a fan of any aesthetic style where changing something small means you have to change something else.

In this case, any time you have more than one word or have an html character like "<" in your text, you need to go back and add quotes, or remove them when you delete that "<".

Also, all of this is stringly-typed anyways, I kinda like how it's uniformly inside quotes, not only sometimes in quotes when the conditions are just right (notice how his html sample only has his case in mind).

I would also wonder if this messes with any tooling that parses html whether it's linters or various editors.

Finally, I think people should stop using "stop using X" as blog posts. It immediately strikes me as condescending and I think it puts people instantly on the defense. Why not just "You don't need to quote your html attributes" or something? -- Frankly, that was news to me, and I like learning new things, yet here I am in the comments sharing how I disagree with them.