skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that traveling is very challenging right now. It's a lousy situation. Paying for a year of school is a lousy option right now, a typical gap year with travel/activities is tough, and employment options are very limited. I guess if I were an incoming senior, I'd do my best to wrap things up and get a diploma this year--one school I know is basically letting only seniors among undergrads back on campus in the fall with the message to wrap up whatever they need to do in-person to graduate and plan to be online in the spring. For anyone else, if I were in a position to deal with it financially, I'd take a year off and spend it as usefully/enjoyably as I could.
Isn’t a random sample out of the set of rich people going to yield a lot of whiteness and dudeness though?
> Can you link me to some researcher where a stronger social net leads to better entrepreneur outcomes?

is Harvard good enough?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/public-progra...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18441.pdf

> looking at country level data, USA, with it's terribly scary and risky path of entrepreneurship completely outperforms welfare state countries like the Nordics.

False.

>> The U.S. likes to think of itself as the world capital of start-ups. But America doesn't lead the world in actually starting new businesses. By various measures, it's behind Canada, Denmark, and Norway.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-sa...
I understand what you're saying but you do realize that a huge number of software shops don't have massive teams or even dedicated OPs people right?

The number of heads on my project is ...4. We're it. There is no place or person to just push the work off to. There is no PR approval chain. We regularly meet to sync and discuss plans and thats it.

Until very recently all of our infrastructure was in house, right down the hall from me. I (or whoever was in that day) took care of making sure it was running smoothly.

Cloud is new to us, and there is no budget to hire a guy who manages AWS full time. That is the case at an insanely high percentage of software shops. Heck I would wager most people outside of 'new tech (sorry, I can't think of a better term)' shops are using point & click in the web UI to manage AWS. There is no code in source control that manages our infrastructure. I'm jealous of the people that get to do it all the 'right way' but for many there isn't enough manpower or time in the day to do it.

Now why we're in this position in the first place is another debate about why management thinks we need to go cloud at all. But its reality for many.
Sure, tons of black people are using pelotons...
Quantum Country is a nice resource. Also Aaronson.

But for me what really helped was Quantum Computing Without the Physics by Nannicini. Aaronson is not formal enough or really a textbook to teach and explain quantum algos like Simons (a good first algo) or Grover. It is an amazingly fun book though.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03684

Nielsen and Chuang is the standard textbook but was not useful to me sadly. I wouldn’t recommend it to a beginner outside the framework of a course.
That doesn't compute: if they see it as a violation, they remove it, if they don't they ship it anyway.

Sometimes things just slip through and mistakes are made - this is pretty normal and product recalls happen all the time. What makes a policy violation different from a defective product in this regard?
It's disputed, if the linear, no threshold model is adequate. The problem is, 1:5 people die of cancer anyway and the people getting fullbody CTs tend to be either old and die rather soon, or are people who had cancer at some point to begin with. Really hard to find a signal there. The best data is still from the nuclear accidents/bombings.

Cells can repair (maybe faulty) a certain amount of damage, but may suicide when too much is broken (double-strand breaks). The amount and type of ROS generated by ionizing radiation also depends on your antioxidant state and how well tissue is saturated with oxygen (more ROS if you exercised before exposure). Generated ROS are a significant factor in cell damage, it's not just direct DNA hits. Some ROS can last for weeks and travel across cells to fuck things up.

I think we can confidently say, lowish radiation exposure is: not great, not terrible ;)
It is indeed possible to be both at once - there's a SSC post for that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdi...
Would it be fair to say that the conclusions were that "large scale processing blocks have similar connection complexity across mammals, regardless of brain size?" -- obviously including that the complexity and/or function of the regions may be wildly different.
How are you sure? ASKET has a factory not that far from were I live. I can't find the factory anywhere on the map but looking at some of the provided photos, they don't have air-conditioners. This place becomes boiling hot in the summer. I can't affirm for 100% certainty that they are a shitty workplace but I'll bet $100 that they are as shitty as the rest of textile factories here.
We make compilers for embedded platforms
In a much more real sense, the code itself is the blueprint. The compilers/interpreters lay the bricks and mortar for us.
With that limitation, it would be impossible to replace the centralized services as the UX would be far worse. With modern web apps 100ms makes a difference in loading times.
Surely there's something to learn here though. I haven't read the original paper but a quantity that's preserved across brain scales is either an artifact or a neat insight.

Your criticism reads like someone accusing economists of being outrageously misleading when they don't sample individual households but measure macro indicators. It's like saying Ramon y cajal was ridiculous because he couldn't image the neuropil effectively. Or like saying early optogenetics experiments were ridiculous because who knows if you're stimulating a neuron in a realistic manner?

And in any case, it's true that synapses are comically small relative to voxel size, but we also have some reasonable information about projection patterns and synapse number from various tracer or rabies studies with which you are no doubt familiar.

I haven't read the nature paper the press release is about and I'm not a huge fan of many d/fMRI practices or derived claims. And I've worked with enough mammalian dwi data to be skeptical of specific connection claims. But this strikes me as a rather interesting result even if you can't measure all the synapses at the right resolution: either the tractography method has connectivity conservation artifacts baked in, or there's something interesting going on.
I kind of love that the first system photographed(?) is in a different orientation and that we have a “top” down view of it.
Yeah, detecting life could mean many things:

- The filter is ahead us

- There is no filter

- The filter is behind us, but ahead of the other planet

- Both planets have successfully got past the filter

We'll still be debating :). Then we'll go crazy trying find evidence of life in more planets.
That's a distortion of what I said. If you want to have a debate about it, at least be intellectually honest.
Yeah, it's commonly known as sweat equity. You do the work, and other people provide the money, then you split up the equity accordingly to the relative value of the two different types of contributions (I mean that's oversimplying but it's generally accurate).

If you're unsure where your next meal is coming from, you may still have a great idea and the ability to execute on it. If someone gives you enough money that you have the leeway to do those things, then everyone wins.

Obviously venture capital isn't welfare... no one has begun to suggest that it is. VC puts money into companies in exchange for equity because those companies need money. If the companies didn't ever need money, there would be no need for VC. The idea that VC should only fund people who already have plenty of capital available to them fundamentally misunderstands the entire model.
I don't get it, why isn't the "select" box opening, i.e. showing a dropdown?
Just cuz it is a submarine -- god knows like 30% of the internet these days is subtle marketing -- doesn't mean the stats are fake.

Costco is able to go toe-to-toe with Walmart and Amazon for a reason: they have the margins. And as another poster mentioned, they're a publicly traded company with SEC filings that discuss revenue, costs, and other details; we can check those numbers.
I love using joplinapp.org
The biggest pains with hasura are managing migrations across a large development team and adding business logic.
Facebook will study whether its algorithms are racially biased
No vaccine = No school
The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
Indeed, this is only natural. Mathematics may be unique in that a proof is often just as valuable an asset (and sometimes more so) than the "fact" that it proves. Another aspect of this is that in the best case an attempt to prove something or to find another proof could result in emergence of a new theory. (According to Grothendieck's viewpoint, this should be taken as a matter of principle - see http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf.)
"Mathematics is a part of physics."

It's kind of amazing how quickly that article got so wrong. Math isn't a subset of physics. Physics is the estranged brother of Math, always needing to borrow some money from him or else the power goes out or he can't afford food or some other sob story.
That seems pretty negative to me. Or nihilistic, anyway. What's the point? To end up with a blue ribbon on your headstone?
We can't detect life at our stage of development from afar, or from earlier stages, but things that extremely advanced civilizations build like dyson spheres can't be hidden really.

The issue is that the universe is extremely old compared to how long it took for earth to develop life. It's ample time for civilizations to develop technologies extremely far more advanced than ours. So why isn't there a single civilization that's so advanced that it builds these things?

So there must be some "filter" that prevents civilizations from doing that, whether they are alive or dead. Maybe they just don't want to, but then ALL of them have to not want to do it, which would be weird.

If we detect life close to us, it makes it more likely that there is tons of life around the galaxy, which makes it more likely that the filter is ahead of us. If we detect no life close to us, it makes it more likely that the filter is past us.

See this Kurzgesagt video about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM
That is inflation adjusted. Note "with all figures adjusted to reflect 2017 dollars"
What’s the pain? You literally don’t do anything to the bucket policy. It’s intentionally blank.

You already have a role in AWS that you use. Go into the console and say “this role can do S3 to this bucket” and you’re done.
> Don't ever think you have to pay a developer some market salary (or any salary) upfront

"A developer" should definitely be paid market rates, otherwise they are a founder and should be rewarded accordingly with equity. I think this mindset of "getting work for free" is very damaging to the person holding the short end of the stick.

Someone who already has a well paid job, is willing to do a startup on the side, and actually be effective at it is extremely rare. What you'll usually find is someone at the beginning of their career that doesn't really understand what they are getting into.
Much of this is captured extremely well in Fowler's The New Methodology.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html
I've heard mixed things about the GIAC certs. Some people have recommended them, while others have told me that they were useful skme years ago, but dont mean much today. Anyone in a field where these are common care to chime in on that?
I was curious about the URL that they indicated was non-malicious and so looked it up on google. I found this any.run report:

Report: https://any.run/report/e8c581d52ca3527b61c7ddd9aba5dfeaf9440...

Original URL:
h t t p s : / / gold.platinumus.top/track/awswrite?q=dmn
Appreciate the tip! We actually have a domain with reploy__.com, but aren't using it. We'll set that up!
Seems similar to Ireland's most prolific dangerous driver - Prawo Jazdy.

Prawo Jazdy of course being the Polish term for driving license that the Irish police were mistaking for a name.
First 50 cups on us, post your task and enjoy your coffee:)
Seems you're using Chrome, which autocomplete in the URL bar really sucks (probably on purpose)

Try Firefox and have fulltext search available for you, will make your life a lot easier. Firefox also don't have any incentives to send you to a search result page and much rather find you the correct website directly.
Quick shout out to GuardScript which exists to help catch malicious 3rd party (or 1st party) javascript changes: https://www.guardscript.com/

It's a really simple service that fetches a list of script URLs that you provide, and notifies you with the before/after diff whenever the file changes.

I found GuardScript through a Show HN a while ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20265141) and have been very pleased with it.
This is one I follow related to adding multi-window support to Flutter: https://flutter.dev/go/desktop-multi-window-support

I also found some of the chromium design docs quite interesting: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents
The select at the top isn't actually a select input, if you scroll down to examples it has an actual select box.
Conjecture Records Improve Data Science Teamwork
The problem with this analogy is that rock stars don't depend on the wannabes for their success.

In contrast, universities and their faculty absolutely need a large supply of low-wage teaching and research assistants to function today.
Run your containers as non-root
This might work today, but it won’t work tomorrow.

This is just one side of a GAN, on the next iteration, it will be defeated.

Bottom line is that if a human can recognize, then it is possible for a machine as well.

Also, given that the big networks can just keep throwing more resources at it (I.e. GPT-3), it’s just a matter of increasing the network size to improve feature redundancy.
> Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.

100% agree. I even went as far as to write my own static-site generator (not that impressive, everyone seems to have one these days), but even hosted blogs are better than using the Mediums of this world.

There are trade-offs though. There is a little bit of on-going effort (and maybe expense) in keeping even an inactive blog going. Medium does take care of that side of things for you.
> There are cases where you only have 1 instance of something, never 2 or more.

I've seen plenty of cases where this assumption stops being true and only through pain and sweat the design could be disentangled after the fact. On the other hand I've never been more than mildly inconvenienced by in practice global state that had an API that didn't assume it.

Writing the logic as if it could be more than one at a time also makes it much easier to write isolated tests and reduced integration tests.

I have always seen singleton designs in codebases where testing was wanting.
Leisure: The (Forgotten) Basis of American Progress
Thanks for pointing me to the right path. Do you know how to post in Show HN instead of Ask HN?
> Then don't start one if you can't consume the risk.

Corollary: startups can only be started by people in a position to consume [sic] the risk.

Do we, as a society, or even just an economy, really want that?

And the point was not a "special exemption for people with kids". It was that "consuming the risk" when you have no safety net (e.g. move back in with family etc.) is a much bigger issue than if you do.
OP mentioned that T is mutable
How about a 1px Gaussian blur? Haven't read the paper but I had the same thought. Seems way too tenuous.
Why a picture of this and not Alpha Centauri at ~4 ly?
I love AWS as any other developer, but this is their fault.

They've invested all their resources into building out the infrastructure, and have spent very little if any time on building the UX around it. You have to be fairly technical, never mind painstakingly detailed-oriented, in order to manage their services, a big chunk of which is hidden behind black screens and various control nobs.

Amazon's logic is probably to provide the piping, and leave the rest of the end user, but at this point it's not enough. In my opinion, they need to heavily invest into the customer-facing layer of their applications that shows all the status, gaps and holes, or these things keep happening.

Then again, they can continue as is, and the incidents will keep as is, and as long as nothing implodes and no big customer leaves, financially it makes sense to do nothing. Just thinking out loud.
This has been one of the critical differences between the startups I've worked at that have found successful exits and those that floundered.

A good PR firm can you get a national audience for pennies compared to paying for ads.
The way YC currently works is something like $125k for 7% equity. So founders can pay themselves enough to live on and still own 93% of their company. This wasn't a hypothetical that the parent comment you're replying to made up.

So whatever bizarre first-principles argument you're trying to make, which I am not really following, already doesn't match the current reality.
Courage Is the First Virtue
If you're deploying office anyway you simply remove teams from the config XML for the installer. Pretty simple really.
(throwaway as YC founder for obvious reasons)

I've spoken to a half dozen YC founders this morning -- no one disagrees except the check size debt thing. Mostly "that is dumb" for that one.

For those who worked at startups when they were small (5–20 people), the difference between then and when they grew to be 100 or 200 people is night and day. Very real difference.

For those who haven't, think of class sizes. Do you think a uni class with 18 people in it will be the same as a survey with 200? Course not.

Three founders in my batch (early 2010s) have started companies in the past year and opted out of YC b/c of 1. batch size 2. YC doesn't mean to investors what it once did. The brand is heavily diluted.

YC is a broad based investment fund. The partners cannot handle the size of the batches or give the attention they once could. The partnership simply hasn't scaled.

Somewhat informed guess: partners don't want to give up their own returns by splitting it with more partners. Understandable -- human nature. But not good for YC as a whole.
Does your calculus include the VAT, which is both a higher rate and a broader base (includes services)?
I think the idea is to not be an "attractive nuisance" to get strung along by ideas which look good but don't work out. There is some theoretical strategic merit but it doesn't seem to synergize. It seems at odds with the Venture Capital model in the first place of rushing growth over profits and letting the wins make up for losses.

Especially if he has a larger pool of capital than when he started (which he should unless he is doing it wrong), smaller checks /and/ wanting more personal attention and less canidates. That just cannot scale up to larger ammounts of money by definition, even if it would yield a better rate of return on investment in dollars. Diversification is another option for fund self-perpetuation but it will likely not have the same yields and cause total portfolio growth to decline with size.

As for motivations I guess either trying to eat his cake and have it too.
We do offer an on-prem solution if you're interested. You could simply spin up a kubernetes cluster on your infra and "helm apply". Feel free to reach out at my email above if you want more specifics.
The Survival Mandate
>The problem with gap years is you loose an additional year of income at the college graduate level on the backend, that's a pretty big missed financial opportunity.

I don't really disagree with your other points (though I might make a different decision). But I'm not sure I buy the argument that you should enter the workforce as young as you can profitably do so (considering net present value relative to educational level) and should never take extended time off between jobs.
I don't want to be the preacher yelling that nothing is new under the sun, but I feel like I'm reading an article written by somebody who doesn't know what a boycott is. I feel like the only major difference is that boycotts were traditionally supported by voting blocs, but these "cancellations" seem to cross party lines. Otherwise, though, isn't this the same sort of outrage that folks had had last century when African-Americans chose en masse to not spend money at establishments whose management they found to be acting offensively?
just learned about the "great filter", very interesting. I think it does mean that our observation tech is not good previously - it also sounds like if we did start observing life, the fact that we have yet to be visited / colonized by that life form means only re-affirms the unlikelihood of interplanetary travel..

according to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter):

> So by this argument, finding multicellular life on Mars (provided it evolved independently) would be bad news, since it would imply steps 2–6 are easy, and hence only 1, 7, 8 or 9 (or some unknown step) could be the big problem.[4]
It was merely a suggestion, I never said it was necessary. However, in my experience, having knowledge in quantum physics has made it easier for me to read literature related to quantum computing, hence why I suggested it.
Here comes the elephant in the room. Please take it kindly since I'm trying to make constructive feedback.

In my company we have been using:
- Heroku Review Apps for the back-end - built with Rails, each branch/app has a separated (tiny) database
- Vercel (formerly Zeit) for the front-end, which is very fast and each commit generates a separated app - which is great for comparing changes.

Important: both of these platforms allow you to run review apps for free (as in free beer) for a small team.

With that context, what advantage is there on using Deploy instead of any of these platforms?
We have something like this internally. It is useful in general, but not cheap for large systems - even large k8s clusters can get full if you have dozens of PRs open.

Useful feature suggestions for the future that already work at us:
- remote debugging
- database snapshots
- environment cloning
- actual full k8s support: larger stacks are already deployed on k8s, writing a compose file for them is a pain.
Exactly this. And people doubting there could be a second wave are completely ignoring what happened with the Spanish Flu. Given how people are treating the current pandemic, I fully expect a repeat show of that historical period. So I'm preparing for that. And if it doesn't happen, ah well, at least the money I didn't sink into the market yet isn't lost - it's just stagnant for a few months.
That assumes Medium survives your demise, which strikes me as a somewhat bold assumption to make.
Show HN: Open-Source Privacy Engineering Toolkit
To me this is like buying a high end sports car, and neglecting the maintenance because you never factored in the expensive maintenance, and therefore the true cost of what you're buying.