skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article misses the point, I think.

The reason why (most, not all!) VCs are successful is not because they have some secret visionary insights into the future of technology but rather because they have the means of diversifying their investments in things that are more or less guaranteed to happen. Will work be more decentralized in 10 years than it is today? Yes. Will financial institutions move away from the archaic infrastructure it's on today over the next decade or two? Yes. Will education move online and become more personalized in the next 10 years? Yes. So, just invest in 20 remote work SaaS companies, 20 fintech products, and 20 online education startups and you'll have a fair shot at making some money. In other words, most VCs are really just private equity versions of index funds.

Because of this, most VCs lack the experience, understanding, and interest in investing in highly experimental projects (there are exceptions of course!)

As an example, I would be very surprised if any of the major VCs today would have invested in a small set of people who wanted to work on what would eventually become the transistor or TCP/IP. There's a reason why these things tend to start in huge corporate research labs (bell labs) or universities: they're not obvious and they're not obviously profitable.

So, the real reason why these companies are not being built is not that the people aren't there willing to build them, it's because nobody's willing to listen. They're just a bunch of crackpots with crazy sounding ideas... until they're not.
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> No need for the “unsafe” keyword unless something is known to be less safe than normal C++.

> For a Rustacean, this is controversial - all C++ is unsafe!

Isn't this just a fundamental misunderstanding of what unsafe really means, and as such a nonsense goal that doesn't gain anything?

Unsafe is a Rust language definition, and defines whether the rust compiler can vouch for the safety of some code. As such, calling to a library in some other language will always be unsafe, by definition, because the Rust language cannot vouch for it.

If it makes you feel better, replace "unsafe" in your head (or with a macro) with "rustc_cannot_vouch_for" and carry on with your day. It means the same thing, and isn't really telling you that your C++ code sucks even if it looks like it at first glance, so who cares?

If you really want to reduce the unsafe keyword from being seen in most regular code, you create and interface that maps the C++ function and exposes it as a rust function, and you've hidden away your unsafe usage to one spot per function. If you have enough confidence in your C++ code, there's no downside to this (and if you don't, then maybe you shouldn't be complaining that unsafe is unneeded).
There are a lot of assumptions required to have that statement be sensical including a lack of transaction fees (including, just, effort - you're assuming the time it takes for you to arrange the purchase and resale is without value) and extreme price stability. 100$ worth of peanuts isn't worthless to someone with a peanut allergy but it is certainly worth less than it is to someone without since to the person with an allergy the only value of peanuts is as a bartering currency.
Are there any essays about this from PG?
> the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans.

Literally is the keyword here, because the translation "death to something" is just the literal mistranslation of the Iranian idiom meaning "down with something". As if someone believed that when you say "I'd die for a beer" you really meant it.
To play devils advocate, you don’t need insurance if you’re driving on private roads. If you’re driving a vehicle on public roads what is the expectation of privacy? Is a pilot’s privacy being encroached when they have to file a flight plan or use a transponder?
I think it's similar to coding in that the more you code the more you get used to the type of abstract thinking that coding involves and you can keep more complicated patterns and structures in your mind at once. Drawing is very similar in that people who just start out can just keep in their minds the symbolic representation of an eye or tree instead of the 3d forms + lights and shadows, texture, stylization, etc. Drawing has of course a muscle memory component but the process of learning both coding and drawing is very similar i think, even if the type of thinking required is not the same.
No, you're getting downvoted for ignoring the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, something akin to the holocaust that was inflicted on the Jews by the Nazis is being repeated now on the Palestinians, who are technically their distant cousins.

You are being downvoted because you ignore history conveniently to support an apartheid state like Israel.
Hi there! At a basic level yes you are absolutely right. The wood however has to be rough cut, assembled with the NFC tag, precision cut, routed multiple times, sanded, laser engraved, and then have multiple coats of acrylic sealant applied to it. Not bad for only $40?

We hope that others will find a custom designed Wifi Block sitting on their shelf a lot more appealing than a printed QR code with a sticker on it, but only time will tell!
I'm sure HFT hedge funds are interested.
That ignores productivity gains. When automation makes things cheaper, it lowers the living wage.
> Keep in mind that "free market" and "perfect competition", whilst commonly used interchangably, are in fact distinct terms.

But the author used a “textbook” result that is only true in case of perfect competition, so he must be talking about perfect competition right?
Perhaps I was thinking of verifying API tokens. But see, I made a mistake while reasoning about security code. Don't make me do that more often than necessary, one day it'll go wrong.
One caution about folks thinking about foot pedals: your operating system might get in the way.

OS X, for example, can't use the foot pedal for "Shift" and apply it to the "A" that you hit on the keyboard if they are two different USB devices.

So, you may need a keyboard that the foot pedal plugs into in order to avoid this.
Not sure if this relates but I was wondering if you heard of ASCI ActiveBatch? If so what are your thoughts on it?

I'd like to have some easy to set up orchestration/job scheduling engine in my team so we can help clean up the tangled mess that we are in but something like Ansible seems like too much work to setup and add more jobs over time. I tried Activebatch and I wish there was some free or cheap alternative of it.
I challenge you to poke your finger through the massive hole in your argument. I'll give you a hint, it has to do with the resource utilization that you can never buy more of.
Insurance trackers can also increase your premiums. If you drive like an asshole, the agreement states they will raise your rates.
I guess they aren’t alone in their opinions then.

Reasonable rules like “be here by 9am” are not emotionally abusive to enforce. Perhaps you feel that way, but I think that’s unreasonable and will result in tons of emotional abuse as you go through the world.

Is a stop light emotionally abusive? Is not paying me $100k emotionally abusive?

I’m glad that we’re not actually under feudalism, but I think employment is not feudalism.
This might be the rare circumstance where this is helpful to mention. Costco has a very affordable (relatively) offering of Manuka honey right now. This is the strain that in several studies has shown powerful antibiotic properties to combat MRSA.
No, I think you are vastly underplaying the extent to which Germany was America’s enemy. Don’t forget that Jews had escaped Germany to the US, especially prominent scientists like Einstein. The US didn’t ‘hold a grudge’ because the Cold War power struggles didn’t allow for it. West Germany needed to be an ally.
Smartphones might know your driving habits, but is big tech selling your information to insurance companies? That would be a huge breach of privacy and most definitely would result in massive class action litigation against the tech companies.

Your driving information is one of the most private things you can protect. Did you just make a stop by the dispensary? Or park at the cancer oncologist? Or drive into a protest area in your downtown city?

I agree that regulation is needed quickly in this area, but at least in the United States, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. We need to at least be aware and not so complacent to the changes that big business are trying to do to make additional money from your private life.
Considering that only a small number of VCs make any money at all (power law strikes again), it doesn't surprise me that the rest of them are some combination of reluctant and inept when it comes to investing and seeing the long term game of some of these prospective hard science initiatives.

The ones that do succeed end up spending what money they made to keep the deck stacked their way and crush opposition. It's not so much that there's no barriers to entry. They exist, it's all the competitors that have VC money ready to burn to keep you out of the game.

Example: EV wouldn't have really taken off without Tesla battering the living shit out of it. Now the other manufacturers are starting to play catch up after suppressing it for decades. It's not like we miraculously discovered the technology for EV drivetrains a decade ago. It's been there all along, and every single one of those fuckers has been stomping on any and every initiative with a warchest of money to make sure it doesn't happen.

Looking back after all these years, "invest in people not in products" seems like nothing more than glorified lip service.

I want to agree with the article but I have no skin in the game. The only VC tier stuff I was involved it was F&F angel investing and it has worked out quite well, but the scale of money and time needed for "hard sciences" is beyond my level of expertise, and, I imagine, beyond the expertise of most VCs out there.

In short, I suspect most VCs do not know what they are doing when it comes to investing, given the paltry ROIs for most of them. So the article is really restating that in a different sort of way.
"Companies are just collections of people."

False. Corporations are golems, not people at all.
I thought the consensus was that it was floor mats getting stuck?
Question about the organizational context here. My understanding is that Chromium is an open source project. In practice though, when the document says "we" is it talking about mostly Google engineers? I read the document as indicating that there's a serious possibility of more widespread Rust usage, especially that last sentence

If we become convinced this sort of interoperability is possible, we’ll revisit widespread use of Rust in Chrome, and at that point we plan to work hard to achieve this with robust production-quality solutions.

Would it be wrong to take away from this that in some teams within Google, using Rust in places where C++ would have been used, is something that is being considered seriously?
JFK also planned to help topple democratic government in Brazil and install the dictatorship. "Operation Brother Sam" was actually executed by LBJ, post-cancellation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...
It's too bad that didn't get released, but I'm just not sure what would have been in the RNC's emails which would have damaged Trump. Have to imagine it was mostly old hands panicking over how well he was doing in the primaries and trying to find ways to sabotage him.
Surely the Persian civilization was glorious and it could still shine. The problem was you mentioning Israel and denigrating the Palestinians. I urge you to take a second look at this issue, Israel is a terrible oppressor of these people.
capital is like water, it floods the low ground first
Algerian here. While there are certainly Arabs in the Maghreb, we’re not all Arabs and don’t generally identify as Arab. My family identifies as Amazigh. Most Algerians will tell you they’re Algerian, not Arab. Many friends from other parts of the Maghreb identify similarly.
Awesome demo video, really excited to see where this goes! Are there any use cases that people complain zoom is insufficient for?
Children or other dependents will add more deductions, though, and likely qualify you for the earned income tax credit.
No, not really. "We" (as in normal people, not e.g. automakers) don't "try to avoid getting in car crashes" to nearly such a degree as with COVID. We live our everyday lives and drive anyway, and doing pretty much whatever we want, except maybe a little slower (due to speed limits), staying within lanes, and while avoiding imminent dangers that pop up on the road. With COVID we're told to stay home and just scrap everything altogether. The response is entirely different, and is not warranted by just comparing those statistics. You need to include the other pieces as well.
It’s similar to the anonymity offered online. People’s worst characteristics come out when their faces are hidden.
Well, that's what research is about: to solve the said problems more reliably, faster and in the end at lower cost.
No state in the USA is or has ever been "in full on shelter in place lock down mode" during the pandemic. Many states issued half-assed stay at home orders, which in practice ended up being voluntary and unenforced. Throughout it all, there were people who were out horsing around, doing whatever they wanted, and not facing legal consequences. Vanishingly few people were arrested for violating stay-at-home, despite it being legally enforceable as a misdemeanor. Thankfully most people did their part, but to call it "lock down" is a bit of an exaggeration.
>Regardless, one has a right to their body. It is their property.

To what extent? Does this principle apply to indentured servitude? How about work related accidents, should a company be legally required to prevent them? Should a mining company pay compensation for the lung damage sustained by their miners, even though that was not in their contract? How about the environment, does this principle imply I have a right to breathe fresh air? How about drinking water?

>Whether laws exist regarding private property (or the lack thereof), we can define a set of natural rights that any person has regardless of any local, regional, or global laws, constructs, or ideologies.

You can, but it doesn't mean I or anyone else will agree to them.

>We can all agree murder is wrong, rape is wrong, stealing is wrong, slavery is wrong

No, we can't. People used to think slavery was ethical. What changed? Raping and plundering used to be ethical for a victorious army. What changed? Today the majority of the world eats meat, and it is very possible that in a century we will be seen as primitive carnivores.

You are also not defining what constitutes these crimes. Is capital punishment murder? Is it murder to kill an enemy soldier? How about an enemy civilian? How about collateral damage? Is it slavery if a company destroys all your other options, forcing you to work for them on their terms?

Is it unethical for companies to collude and fix prices or wages? Is it unethical when workers do the same? Is it unethical when a company pays the local police to break a strike?

The thought that "you only own your body, and you have to earn everything else" falls down pretty quickly once you look outside that idealistic bubble and see historical or ongoing issues.
Toyota has a history of getting things right. They may well respond to feedback here. In the meantime, their cars last forever so we can probably keep driving Toyota for another 20 years.
I have two kids doing remote learning (one in kinder, one in 3rd grade). Since the 5yo is only on her 3rd day of remote learning ever, I'm spending more time "babysitting" her session. The class does involve some amount of physical movement (e.g "now go bring something square") and leaving the zoom meeting for 30 min periods to focus on drawing activities, but then I need to be on top of whether the kid is still engaged (or whether she wandered off to play with legos) and of what times the zoom class resumes. When you're dealing w/ a class of 20-30 small kids, there's a also good chunk of time wasted on logistics (fumbling w/ zoom password, waiting for kids to rejoin the meeting, "jimmy, you need to mute/unmute yourself", "please raise your hand if you want to talk" reminders, etc).

I feel that the class content seems sufficiently engaging (compared to my own kinder experience of strict butts-in-chair, all forward facing desks and a blackboard in a physical class), but even then, it requires dividing my attention between work and making sure the kid is on task.

The third grader has some experience with remote learning from before summer vacations, so things are relatively more smooth when the class is on, but we still need to keep tabs on when recess breaks are supposed to end. His teacher apparently has quite a bit more experience w/ remote learning from teaching classes during summer, and the class appears fairly engaging, with good usage of share screen and multimedia. But I do feel like the quality of learning seems low. Not sure if it's because of US standards. My son's curriculum hasn't really touched multiplication yet, but I distinctively remember having that mastered in 3rd grade, and also singapore math booklets that my wife bought to complement studies also apply both multiplication and division extensively at 3rd grade level)

It can also be challenging to juggle both parents AND both kids having zoom meetings simultaneously, since meetings are mutually disruptive, especially with loud multimedia activities. I feel like the parts that work the best are the ones similar to my old-school education: giving instructions on a task, then letting kids do them, recess, rinse and repeat. I'm not really sold on the high tech gimmicks (videos w/ songs etc).
I don’t think bosses should be followed blindly. But showing up and doing the job as required isn’t blindly following, it’s obeying.

I think the difference in what is reasonable and what is reasonable. If I question a reasonable start time “9am” that makes me someone that few want to work with. Whereas questioning forced, unpaid overtime is an entirely different, and I think reasonable question.
Two points.

Everybody is a liar.

You don't have to take Fauci's word for it so whether he is or isn't lying, you do or don't trust him, is not a good argument for or against masks.
I don't know but perhaps recent social unrest could have something to do with that?

Europe is getting tired right now, and I'm not talking about economies but about people. You can't lock people for months and expect them to to obey indefinitely. It's unsustainable. It's more reasonable to apply some proportional restrictions than to lock everything down. Eg. limit users of a gym and require disinfection. That's how a legal state should work: effective and proportional restrictions, rest is a human right.
Money gives you freedom from many things that can make you (very) unhappy. This isn't sufficient for happyness but its a good start.
Ok. Almost 6 million US car accidents a year, just over 5 million US COVID cases, so car accidents are about 1/5 as lethal as COVID on a per capita basis. Currently the US yearly car crash chance is about the same as a COVID infection. Car crashes are fairly constant, COVID cases are still increasing this year.

I do wonder how the critical injury vs. lasting COVID complications will workout.
Fair enough, and thanks for the clarification. I empathize with your frustration about bad arguments. :)
Side note: SF doesn't have school districts based on where you live. Students are assigned a random school somewhere in the city.
I wish insurers weren't so heavy handed with this technology. If it's possible to tell if someone is a "good" or "bad" driver via this technology, why not at least just tell the driver without the big brother BS? Many drivers might change their habits based on this information.

I know insurers have apps that you can install on your phone or ODBC modules you can install. Does anyone know of any way to collect this data privately without reporting it to an insurer?
Are Yemen and Somalia part of the congressionally authorized war in Iraq?

It's not Trump's endless war, it's America's.
> No but Dr. Fauci, along with other scientists working on the vaccine, have repeatedly said we will likely get a vaccine by 2021.

No, Dr. Fauci has said that if the vaccines currently in testing, which are being rushed to production before trials are complete, pass trials, then it is likely that there will be tens of millions of doses available in Spring 2021 and enough for everyone who wants them by the end of 2021.

But he's also acknowledged, at the same time, that that's an “if” and instead all of that vaccine could end up getting dumped if the trials fail.
I don't see how Section II (D) could be any clearer. The agreement stipulates a reduction of foreign staff in Article 16 (III), and the document shows a substantial increase. The agreement stipulates the development of sanitation, health services, and housing meeting the most modern standards found throughout Iran in Article 17, and the document shows that workers live in unsanitary tent cities.
Scoble: Facebook identities on VR are the biggest strategy tax of all time
I don't think I did that?
CLI app to access current Product Hunt trends
Publishing my side project to get the daily trending products on Product Hunt on your CLI. With the option to select the current trending products to read the full details about the product along with maker(s) information.

Available for macOS & Ubuntu/Debian Linux machines.

To install on macOS - brew install sibis/ph/ph

Published it on the product hunt here,
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/product-hunt-cli-2

Consider upvoting if you like it :)
Anonymity is also sometimes a critical part of letting people be their best selves.

Anonymity lets people express their extremes, for both good and bad.
>You could start with a trial of these 120 persons (select from all classes of society), give them UBI and double their taxes to make it realistic, because the UBI has to be paid somehow.

1. I'd image the poster would have the same objections. It's not large enough, etc.

2. Why double their taxes at all? You could just give them less UBI. I don't see how this makes any sense. What's point of having UBI if you have less money than you started out with. You've just invented a useless tax, which we already have in spades.
Prodigy is one of them. My 9 year old loves it because she gets to use her homework answers to get her flair for her character in the game.
Just to clarify, a "toddler" is 1-3 years old. So a 5 year old is not at all "almost a toddler".

"A 5 year old does not have these skills"

They should have learned that by age 4, which is why kids start pre-k/k at the 4/5 age range.

https://mom.com/kids/5106-what-age-do-kids-have-impulse-cont...

"Who said this article has to have a point?"

Probably because we expect more from the source - The Atlantic. If this was the author's personal blog I would not be saying anything. But this article sits next to subjects like:

- Can a Protest Movement Topple Netanyahu?
- Russiagate Was Not a Hoax
- Our Students Are Depending on Us, teaching through Covid-19
> if you don't have kids- don't weigh in on these issues

I agree, but would also add that even if you do have kids, they probably have personalities and circumstances unlike everyone else's kids. And that in all likelihood your sample size is too hilariously small to be able to produce useful broad generalizations from your experience.
"the rules have to be the same for everyone"

"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." --Anatole France (I always meant to get a more precise source for this quote.)
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/244/
Recent global warming trends are inconsistent with high climate sensitivity