skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. It seems commonly misunderstood that the universe of investable startups represents a zero-sum game for investors. It isn't as simple as "invest in more companies"; one fund's investment represents another fund's forgone investment. (Not many good companies want a five-fund Series A where each fund buys 20%.)

Having the capital and desire to make an investment is the easy part of investing. Actually earning that allocation is difficult.

Yet, most conceptions of investing seem to be shaped by public markets and their ubiquity. That is to say, public market float is taken for granted - when in reality it is missing from every asset class (practically or literally) save for G7 (+China) secondary-market public equities (and now cryptocurrencies).
And then it's a lot faster to use switch:

https://jsben.ch/U6w7l
I'm a big fan of Lex, but we have to see that he basically kickstarted his podcasting career by using his MIT cred then made it into a personal thing. Basically it started as the accompanying podcast for the Artificial General Intelligence course at MIT, given by Lex. Given that it's a podcast for an MIT course, he managed to get a very highly esteemed AI guest list, because who would refuse to give an interview as part of MIT lecture materials? In the beginning it had less to do with Lex as a person I think.

With that ex-guest list, he managed to continue after the course as "AI podcast", now not connected to a specific course. But if you tell people this podcast had X and Y top expert in it, you can get many more top people.

Again after some time he rebranded it all under his name as Lex Podcast and is slowly entering culture war territory and is becoming a second Joe Rogan.

I guess he used good tactics, but I'm not sure the initial guests would all agree that their interviews are now part of the Lex-branded podcast.

He started tame and uncontroversial, gained "fuck you money" (his phrasing) and is now using it to spread his broader views.

Smart, but a little distasteful.
PPAs? You get the source and the build and it's all open...

I mean, Launchpad could be modernized and brought to the 21st century but all the functionality is there. I'd love to hear arguments against it though :)
It's possible this is for legislative reasons rather than anything else.
Accept that these are extraordinary times and pause. Don't just jump to skeuomorphs. There are surely other options, such as open-book exams, coursework, teacher assessment, predicted grades, deferred assessment?
But is that just a sign that nobody can compete with Google's marketing behemoth?

I'm not sure what people want Mozilla to do. They've built a technically outstanding browser, but they don't control the top two domains on the internet to push everyone to use it. And there's a vicious cycle where webdevs only test in Chrome, so sites only work properly in Chrome, so people only want to use Chrome. We've seen this before with Internet Explorer, and the only thing that killed IE was Microsoft getting bored with developing it.

The only thing I could imagine helping their usage stats would be entering some kind of partnership with Apple to replace the laggard Safari with Firefox on Apple devices.
No. I'd say there are a few things before.

- notion of time

- distance and space

- experience

- depth of social bonding and cultures

- even magic and mysticism.. (in the days of full and unalterable data with logic processing)
I'm sure you're not being disingenuous so I'll politely remind you of the part in each of those events where the deceased attempted to wrestle control of a firearm.
I disagree. We all have many opportunities to say no.
You know how much time I spent working on projects that didn't go anywhere and were a complete waste of time and money? (not mine, my employer's). I didn't say no. My manager didn't say no. Their manager didn't say no. You may say that's part of being successful, many things fail but a few stick and make it big. That's true but often the writing is on the wall but people ignore it.

One thing I do agree is that not everyone can say no. For example, if you're a software engineer in a big company, you might not have much say. That's why it's important to get yourself into a position where you have more control on the things you work on. Not easy but you don't need to be Buffet to achieve that.
I've been hearing that guns and ammo have become scarce(r) in some places (like California). Don't know if that's accurate, and I wouldn't know how to check, but that's what I've heard. Concerning.
I skimmed the article and I don't find the tone super disrespectful. No ad-hominem, no insults to the developers etc... The backlash against systemd was unacceptable because it ended up targeting people and not the technology. Writing an init system shouldn't net you death threats.

Beyond this, and not unlike systemd, flatpak has been pushed hard down people's throat by powerful entities within the ecosystem, so it's not surprising that in both cases there has been some intense backlash. I also personally think that in both cases it's warranted.
> Also, perhaps file type limits could be imposed that mean at that files are only accessible to apps that can open them. Of course, I'd want my text editor to be able to open files across root file system, if I open it as root - so I can see how quickly a person can want sandboxing, and then also want none - but the less apps with privileged access, the better.

That's SELinux, if configured well. Files are labeled according to their function and access to these files is whitelisted according to the security label of a process. For example, no security labelled process can access my private ssh keys, that's guaranteed.

It's just a shame that SELinux has such a documentation and UX issue, so almost no one uses it and almost no one uses it well - except for package maintainers and some application developers.
This guy is a genius. I spent a great chunk of my childhood playing this game. I have no hesitation to pick it up even today, given the time.
The author goes too far when they suggest there should be laws (and one imagines punishments for those who break them) that prevent something being shared in one space from being shared elsewhere. For example, if I share something with my family, there should be a law that prevents a family member from making what I said public.

Not only would this be a nightmare to police but it would give rise to some anti-social outcomes. If I was flat out telling my family I didn't like race X and wished that religion Y could be outlawed, and then shared in the public realm that racists are terrible and that freedom of religion for all is paramount...shouldn't someone be able to call me out on it? And if not me, imagine a person of some power or influence: don't we want to know when someone's public political stance is different to how they really feel?
Japanese has the most complicated writing system of any language. For a long time handwriting was the easiest means of written communication, and faxes can transmit handwriting. There are good Japanese IMEs now, but if faxes already work why change them?
Its without XLA and without cudnn and cuda 11.1 for ga102 lets wait for proper drivers to see full results :P
I think it depends on your social circles.

Recent Irish politicians my experience is that most people know:

Michael D, Leo Varadkar, Micheal Martin, Mary Lou, Simon Coveney, Phil Hogan, Paul Murphy, Ming

Recent UK politicians my experience is that most people know:

Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Bercow, Arlene Foster, Jeremy Corbyn

Recent US politicians that most people know:

Trump, Hilary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Joe Biden, Obama

People who follow politics more closely might also know Irish politications like Simon Harris or Stephen Donnelly, Eamon Ryan or their local TDs, UK politicians like Gove, Rees-Mogg and Nicola Sturgeon, and US politicians like AOC or Mitch McConnell. And of course you get people who look way more closely into politics with a much broader view of things or much deeper for a specific country.

But also in terms of potential impact on Ireland, the reality is that the order is:

1. COVID-19

2. Brexit

3. Anything else the coalition government is likely to get passed.

So it's not surprising that Brexit and consequently UK politics have had such an outsized influence these past few years.
Author: Hi Mr Buffett, I'd like to speak to you about what you think most successful people do.

Warren: No. <Hangs up>

Author: Oh, crap. I need to pay some rent. <Writes "Warren Buffett says the most successful people say no to almost everything">
> Not every package is available on every distribution. Snap/Flatpak were meant to solve that issue.

This "issue" was already solved by static executables. Snap and flatpack are the work of computer illiterates.
> It was not a time of freedom, but anarchy, where bands of barbarians could roam into your lands and pillage everything.

Please, do not use anarchy as a synonym of disorder, violence or war.

Pity a blog post about defining a word and an idea starts with a wrong definition of a word and an idea.

i.e: Anarchy is about self governance, which theoricaly leads to more freedom than whatever we have now in most country.
Performance of Elixir's System.get_env/0 Function
If this became a thing more tech companies offered, I could see it legitimately shifting political dynamics over like 10 years. The difference in some states switching colors is sometimes quite small, and California isn't itself at risk of switching colors anytime soon.
> Snap/Flatpak were meant to solve that issue

And they do? Just because they have some flaws doesn't mean that they're completely unusable. If you need an app that isn't on your distro but is on Flatpak, by all means use it.
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There's a long essay making the argument if you click the link at the top of the page.
It's hard to keep a civil tone if you feel like the world around you is descending into madness, and this is exactly what the authors of this posts feel.

Its hard to have a civil discussion if everyone pulls into a direction you deem wrong and your words are never convincing anyone.

I have similar resentments when people in my company push for docker on embedded systems, because they are used to docker on the server, and whenever I ask them which problem they are solving on the embedded system with docker, they describe things that are wrong.

I don't share the authors strength of opinion on flatpak, although I see the same issues, and I don't want to advertise or excuse strong "tone" - but I understand the frustration.
> Also, PPAs do absolutely nothing about sandboxing. It's a different kind of concern.

Therefor we use opensource. Anything you dont trust is even hard to run safely in a sandbox.

BTW +1 for PPA culture.
What sorts of dreams can you follow when you are broke? I mean, realistically? And creative endeavors - how are your affording these things? Are your hobbies cheap? Does the stress of non-work bother you? Were you lucky enough to have decent compensation when you were unemployed or have someone else to support you?

How in the world do you "go on benefits" if you are able-bodied? Are you in a country where benefits mean you get more than poverty money?
I see nothing on the App Store page that mentions Facebook.

Why the decision to launch for iOS only?
"Most successful people have one common behaviour: disseminate advice based on survivorship bias all the time."
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I agree with this, the best parts of the cloud is abstracting away a lot of the basic maintenance of these applications. There is lock in to some platform no matter what you do, but hopefully you can design your application so that if you do need to rearchitect you can do it in phases.
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>This works because the elements in the array are close to each other in the physical memory. But with a hash, my understanding is that they wouldn't be so close, and thus we wouldn't benefit from this spatial locality effect.

By the same logic, when n is small, they will be close and benefit from cache locality as well.
You're awfully pessimistic and ignoring human creativity. And also human capacity for accepting compromises.

When Malthus lived, there were about 1 billion people. It's hard to estimate, but I'd guess at most 10% of those were living non-miserable lives, so about 100 million people at most.

Now the world middle class is 4 billion (40x) and the world upper class is probably around half a billion people (5x). I'm willing to bet that each and every one of those middle class individuals live better lives than the upper class of his time. We've been able to scale that 40x in 200 years. Despite wars, natural disasters, social strife, etc.

We're pretty resilient.
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Recently I have began to wish we still used them, and I say that as a consumer and a UI designer, as I think about all the designs I have made and discarded that could have easily been solved with pen and paper. It may not scale for an Amazon-sized business, but it totally works for small restaurant.
Why are Microsoft websites so slow?
Those strings also support things like \0 to get a null byte, and \uxxxx to get a Unicode character. This is useful for working with filenames and other things with spaces, quotes, and so on using find, xargs, etc. E.g.

find ... -print0 | while read -d $'\0' f; do ...; done
You just found out why only 1% can be 10-20X anything.
To the author's opening sentence - I also feel the definition of privacy can be difficult to pin down. I tend to think about privacy as a necessary prerequisite in most contexts to being authentic and truthful - consider what you would say about your employer in a public form versus what you would say to your partner or friend. It gets more complicated in online spaces, particularly when encryption enters. As social creatures, we have been evolving the nature of our non-digital interactions for a much longer time and we shouldn't expect that we can simply design ways of interacting that preserve the complicated nuances of real-life social interaction. However, as more of our activities move online, we can and must do better.
>These pithy rules and sayings make for clickbait

Internet comment sections hate nuance and critical thinking (yes, even HN, we just put lipstick on that pig by being polite and kicking out snarky comments) so it's not surprising they love rules of thumb (which are nearly the polar opposite of applying critical thinking and considering nuances).

"say no to X"

"say yes to X"

"always do X"

"never do X"

Etc. etc. etc.
You didn't read the article clearly and you're ranting about unrelated things
I've done the opposite with an equally rewarding outcome. I used to say yes to so much just because of FOMO and social pressure. I then realized I actually didn't want to do any of that stuff and didn't have to. I'm finally happy and content with life.
99% of software is available in rpm or deb. So copy/paste/edit - profit.
USA police shoot more white people than black people. I'm not sure about the innocent numbers, but most people shot by the police of either color are not innocent.

You're argument doesn't show that police violence in the US is racist, just that it's violent.
You still need to distribute the static executables and there's no way to update them besides downloading them again unless the software has some auto-updater built-in. That definitely doesn't solve the issue.
You can get proper code formatting on HN by indenting two characters [1]:

echo "'"'"'"'"
'"'

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
At best, that can get you fired. Easily. And that makes it even more difficult to find another job in the future.
Really, what's makes Kanji so complex compared to Mandarin that it originated from?
This seems unpersuasive to me. I mean, privacy is good, sure, I agree with that much. But it's trying to pin too much on one concept. For example, this is a big part of the thesis:

> A clear example of the loss of privacy is the rise of violent rethoric.

And I think that's pretty clearly disproved by the fact that violent rhetoric is almost always deployed in closed, "private" communities. The more closed, the more violent (c.f. stormfront, 8chan, the occasional private facebook group) and the more public, the more moderated and reasonable[1] (c.f. here, or reddit, or twitter).

I can see an argument that the lack of privacy exacerbates differences. But it also cloisters extremism. And the essay needs to at least acknowledge that.

[1] Or at least "nonviolently unreasonable".
Same, I remember I compiled a program like that 3 weeks ago, and it takes me half an hour to figure out how to do so. But I think expecting all the casual Linux to be able to do that is unrealistic. So I think it is necessary to have things like Flatpak, Snap, AppImages to exist.

BTW, I used to think that we can just provide a prebuilt binary to let user download from a website, but finding that isn't easy to achieve unless you use a language like Go, Rust... because I found that many C program are hard to compile with full static linking.
At least Qt cares more about compatibility: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-Version-Compatibility - Qt 5.x.y releases are supposed to be binary compatible with each other.
It saddens me to see this in Portugal too.

Last week some celebrities and online publications decided to highlight how proud we should be of having a black man with dreadlocks as a TV anchor. No reference or acknowledgement of anything else about him, just "congratulations for being black". At least for a decade race had been as noteworthy as eye color, until now.

Fortunately, a good chunk of the population can still see how backwards it is to reduce an individual to the color of their skin. But I must admit I'm not very hopeful for future generations when I see schools incorporating intersectional activism in their curriculum and people gathering to protest police brutality in what must be one of the most peaceful countries in the world.

It's a sad reality that so many people exist in this Goldilocks zone of damage, where they are in positions of power and influence while being ignorant and lazy enough to parrot American media without context or critical thought.
The sad part is it will be used for more focused targeting, rather than for benefit, we have people abusing Canvas and audio context.
I dont want companies to timestamp me by my face, to prove I like their content, or a dumb captcha API that decided im not a human because I'm darker. No please.
If we're poking fun at political leaders, maybe the antithesis to this OS - one that pretends everything is going wrong all the time - should be Brussels OS
That is what stuff like SYSCL, CUDA and Halide allow for, but I guess the Web can have only one and WebAssembly won't be exposing what they need to work with anyway.