skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few thoughts:

* If I were interviewing you, I'd be concerned about whether you could take orders from a supervisor, and, more generally, work well with people that you didn't hand select. (Side note: are you good at those things, OP? It's ok if you're not, but it should frame your search). Is there a way you can take on a project where you aren't the boss?

* Have you processed the grief and loss over your previous startup, and are you really ready to jump back in to another thing? I'd wonder this if I were interviewing you, thinking that maybe you were looking for a rebound job but didn't really have your heart in it. Not sure how you would assuage that, except for taking some time off and working on some personal projects, ML-related or not.

* How much work would it be to turn your IP into an arXiv paper and accompanying well-documented repo? My own bias: I would look very favorably on this kind of work, because it shows 'public-midnedness', if you will. Bonus points if you can co-author with someone and not be first author (to point #1 above).

Good luck!
Wow, why? That’s hard to fathom.
That is what I meant.

----- for posterity.
How much space could a plastic or rubber end piece plug take up though, really? That would probably provide enough moisture resistance, why would headphones need to be waterproof?? I think it's just planned obsolescence.
If gravity is not a force, how is spaghettification a thing? If you are stationary when you're weightless, how can different stationary parts of your stationary body move at the different speeds required for spaghettification to take place.
I have the opposite problem, strangely: Firefox always starts instantly, but at some point in the last two months the autoupdate feature stopped working. A minute or two after starting FF, I get an in-browser popup that the autoupdater couldn't download the latest version automatically (even if I am on the latest version as I now update it manually).
> But in fact that author is going about this all wrong. It doesn't really matter if VC outperforms. The point of VC or hedge funds or any other alternative investments isn't too outperform the market on a risk adjusted basis (though that would be nice), but to provide a uncorrelated return stream.

This is correct, but it's pretty clear the the author isn't viewing angle investment in mere economic terms (which is an extremely sensible thing to do).

From the post: "When you invest in a startup, the money directly goes to the economy to build up a business, to create jobs and to actually contribute to the trickle down economy."
Why this dichotomy between "non-physical cash" and "decentral currency"? These things are linked, but strictly speaking you don't have to choose between them.

Abolishing physical cash does not imply migrating to a decentralised currency. But migrating to a decentralised currency is probably only possible by abolishing physical cash; I don't see gold coins coming back.

So, how is it different to have your money controlled by a private key, and nobody having the power to seize those money? Ask every single person that has had their account frozen. Whether you think it happens for just reasons or not, surely you agree that it isn't the same as having an ecosystem of digital centrally issued money? Not just issued, but also seized, through courts and police.
A central bank digital currency is like the system China has in place now. International payments are a different and challenging issue for central banks because blackmailing, drug dealing, gun running, and hostage situations that occur between nations can not have their money cancelled by the opposing nation.
Example question from the article:

> “I’m seeing errors on the site, what’s happening?”

What was the error? What were you doing when the error occurred? How can I reproduce the error?

These sorts of one-sentence questions with no context are the worst, because when you come across them and decide to help out they force you to fully engage with someone who pretty much just wants to be given a fish rather than be taught how to catch them. I've even participated in communities where the expectation seems to be "give me the code I need to solve my problem. now.", and I'll be honest after awhile of experiencing this I got burnt out and now just reach for RTFM responses and get back to what I was doing when I encounter (what I perceive to be) low-effort questions.

I guess my point is that, if we want to tell people who give their time for free how to properly answer questions such that the feelings of the asker are respected, we need to have some discussion of what to do when that's evidently not the case. When I read this article, I find myself wondering why I should have these sorts of expectations unconditionally placed on me by someone who is asking me to make time for them. I feel like a discussion about respectful knowledge exchange aught to encompass both parts, lest either side come off as entitled to a free lunch.
_Now_ you tell me?
I would kill for property tax bill like that..
Thanks for the perspective. I appreciate it.

And I wish you well.
The best compromise approach I've seen is the one taken by instant.page: start loading the content during the touch down event instead of waiting for the actual link click event to happen. This buys you 50-100ms, which is often enough to feel "instant" on the 5G iPhones that most modern webapps are designed for, without wasting bandwidth.
I disagree.

> “One point would be to keep schools open to reach herd immunity faster,”

The most reasonable interpretation of "reach herd immunity faster" is that he saw that as a positive outcome.

He's tried to avoid the herd immunity label, but then, what is the policy goal? Because what's left is "letting people die unnecessarily is fine".
Concurrent independent editing is mostly useless.

Concurrent commenting, discussing, suggesting and accepting suggestions / amendments is mightily useful.
Yes.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+unreasonab...
There are many ways to tumble Bitcoin (e.g. Joinmarket), it is not very hard to stay anonymous. As long as you don't need to cash out, that is ;)
Wouldn't a tarp get in the way of sunlight, stopping photosynthesis?
You all might want to read about long term irreversible health effects (read: hearing loss) of in-ear speakers (irrespective of which company makes/markets them).
Apparently Eta in lowercase is η, uppercase is Η.
You have to account for the fact that the car is dramatically more likely to be recycled.
ubuntu 18.04.
Mutable Instruments modules are some of my absolute favorite! All of her modules are fully open-source as well:
https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack
Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
What is the difference between a digital currency and the digital money I see in my bank account online? It feels to me like I already transfer money digitally when shopping with a credit card.

Later on that twitter thread he shares a poll by the IMF [0] where they ask you how will you be sending money to a family member in 5 years. The possible answers are cash in envelope, money transfer service, digital currency or other. Are venmo and similar services not already using a digital dollar?

[0]https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1317836130788757504/phot...
Know any effective and simple ad blocker for Safari? Mainly for Mac but wouldn't mind for iOS as well.
Wow. `zonedDateTimeISO` looks like exactly what I was hoping for. I'm kind of surprised that there isn't anything analogous to `strftime`, though.
Of course it is. PR from the selling agent for a major property sale. It's likely that the agent's side also provided all the details about property ownership details in France to pad it out and get prospects thinking.

Even if not directly pitched by the agent themselves, you often see these at the lower end where the property arm of a publication (lift-out or sub-site) features interesting/grand properties as a sweetener to whoever is advertising with them.
The Aztecs certainly did have writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_writing

It's far better than the primitive icon systems favored in modern user interfaces.
Property taxes are a huge burden where I live. Esp when you retire and have lower income you still have to pay $1-2k every month in taxes which is nearly as much as SS pays.

Marginal is well over 50% in NYC, CA. eg top bracket marginal is 37% federal + 12.3% CA state + 1.45% Medicare is over 50% before property taxes. 40% total tax is very easy to hit.

Like I said before if you're on Social Security or unemployed its really tough, I know someone who's out of work and paying $2.5K a month in property taxes, it eats up your savings super fast.
reminds of that old saw about the two happiest days in a boat owner's life: the day he buys the boat, and the day he sells it.
Housekeeping is a $74 billion industry.
Immunity absolutely decays in many cases unless refreshed. For example, many vaccines require later booster shots.

See also the strong evidence around a "boosting" effect from circulating chickenpox cases. Namely, that the availability of the chickenpox vaccine, by reducing the amount of environmentally-circulating chickenpox virus, is now preventing natural reinforcement of adults' immunity via asymptomatic encounters, and thus leading to more (painful, symptomatic) cases of shingles, especially among people in their 30s/40s:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150811103555.h...

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2020/adult-exposure-...

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/shingles/...
I don't think it misses the mark. It is focusing on the low hanging fruit which is a smart thing to do. Apple does pretty good: https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Pr...

Where is Samsung's or Google's? Or Microsoft, GE, Lenovo, Amazon, HP, Huawei, Xiaomi?
> do not have that these

I was referring to the transaction semantics
That Chromium bug has been fixed for monts. The Safari bugs in my article still haven't been fixed, causing users to leak more information in the default Safari setup than users who have disabled ITP and much more than users of other browsers, who have working tracking protection. As Justin Schuh pointed out, the changes that Apple made to Safari did nothing to address the issues discovered in the paper.
Then the people who decide what the politicians are allowed to say would themselves be politicians.
They’re a good place to work too. My MBA program was full of McMaster-Carr employees. They all loved working there, plus McMaster-Carr paid 100% of their program.
I'm left handed and I fly-fish, and work a rifle-bolt right-handed. I guess those aren't included in the 'laterality quotient.'

I had always assumed that novel skills could be learned however you were first instructed (left or right), but that writing had some intrinsic property that involves a preference from an early age, maybe because a young child is given crayons to play with before they formally learn to 'write', so they're not given instruction in that per-se and their natural preference dominates. That fetal orientation hypothesis seems like kind of the same deal.

I've cut myself from goofing around with knives plenty of times, but I can't for the life of me understand why you would attribute cutting yourself to 'handedness' instead of chalking it up to a simple lapse in attention. That anecdote seems strange. The author wasn't paying attention so they didn't notice they were holding a knife backwards. Maybe I'm missing some concept that someone else can explain?

For all those super-smart famous lefties, I'm one too, so it certainly isn't some marker for creative genius, that's for sure.
At least in the case of the Digital Euro, one of the explicitly documented goals for the scheme is to alleviate dependence on US payment processors within Europe

(that's buried somewhere in https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/Report_on_a_digital_... )
What data scientists need to know about DevOps
The Swedes are best compared to their neighbours Norway and Finland, who share contiguous borders, very similar climate, comparable cultures and similar economies.

As of today[0]:

Norway (pop 5.5Mn): 16,136 confirmed cases, 278 deaths in total, 915 new cases in the last 7 days.

Finland (pop 5.2Mn): 13,133 confirmed cases, 351 deaths in total, 1,553 new cases in the past 7 days.

Sweden (pop 10.3Mn): 103,200 confirmed cases, 5,918 deaths in total, 3,280 confirmed new cases in the past 7 days.

On each of these measures Sweden fares far worse. They have 4x the cases of Finland and Norway combined, 9x the deaths of Finland and Norway combined, 1.5x the new cases of Finland and Norway combined.

In absolute and relative terms, Sweden are not worthy of emulation.

[0] https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se
There is a big difference between merely planting trees in the desert and having them survive years later . . . just ask the Chinese
Because it's nothing like that, and Putin is not 'a good guy' with noble intentions.
Time flies. I still remember starting with OpenBSD in early noughties, I think 3.5 and 3.6 in 2004, which seemed like a mature and exciting project at that time already; fast-forward 2020, and it's amazing how far we've come. Great to have been part of it, another 25 years now!
Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum
C++, Rust, .Net would qualify, Go (doesn’t have a “release mode as such, but achieved decent speed), Julia, etc

Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance.
Show HN: Discover games you can borrow at your local library in Montreal
I made simple website to discover games you can borrow at your local library in Montreal/Quebec/Canada.
Native apps deliver 80-100% of their application at most once, all things being equal. Web applications do not do this, even with aggressive caching and using service workers.

I’d also argue that the web is far more accessible than native apps, in that it’s cross platform and independent of any one vendor, currently. So there are valid reasons for considering the page load price of websites/web apps.

Also, know your target audience. I’m decidedly not okay with non application sites loading megabytes of JS just to function. However I’m okay with complex functionality provider by my very good and feature rich web based email client need a few MBs of JS to work on initial load, because the features justify the cost in that case

It’s not all or nothing
From my stint working in the bay area, it seems like tons of older low level executives at tech companies (probably bringing in comparable income to staff engineers at FAANG) treat angel investing like golf. Most of the wealthy folks will do it at least once as a social activity, but most of them don't really know what they're doing.
hey, I started blazor since Jan this year. Checkout my app on taskmagnet.com. It should redirect to azure... It behaves funny during login
I'm in the same boat.

This seems like a great issue/challenge to build a community around...if anyone would be interested in starting something like that, let me know!

I'm part of one (quickly growing) community that's doing something similar -- it's a private Slack-based writing group, with group feedback and accountability built in. I'm not financially involved with them, I just think it's an awesome community.

It's called Compound Writing: https://www.compoundwriting.com/
$3.3m in Seattle will buy you a dump :-)
Point taken, but it might be a bit better than literally being forced to use Facebook, if the Libra currency becomes ubiquitous. Governments controlling the economy doesn't sound too bad if the alternative is one or two huge companies controlling the economy.
Elderly homes, and high death rates in elderly homes, are not unique to Sweden.

Folks who don't like lockdowns keep looking for reasons why Sweden's original policy is great, but also excuses for why its substantial deaths can be hand-waved away.

It's just time to give up on the idea that Sweden's worse performance is a fluke rather than the direct consequence of a predictably dangerous policy setting.
When I was on a tour in the Soviet Union in 1990, Pepsi and the fruit soda brand Fanta were everywhere.

I hadn't seen Fanta soda since the 1970s in the United States, but then the hotels and the automobiles looked like the 70s to me, too.

There was television in the hotel rooms, and after figuring out how to flush the toilet, we'd get the TV on, and I would try to soak up as much Russian as I could manage before dinner. There was no advertising as such, not self-contained 30-second video. For there was as yet no widespread, rabid retail domestic market...

But there was product placement. The game show host would read the question, contestants would try to answer, then they would all toss back the refreshing, bubbly delight that was Pepsi Cola. The newscaster would present the lead story, a bottle of Pepsi ready at hand. The ecstatic race car driver and his crew would chug some Pepsi as they celebrated thier victory.

It was a different time. It really happened.
Speak to friends from latam. It never went out of style. Or, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and now, London.
Taking someone else's money is the solution?
This is my favorite description of curved space time: bugs realizing the geometry of their space is not Euclidean. They discover their triangles are wrong.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_42.html
I've found that monitors are a good item to buy used, because they're usually a lot cheaper and 100% as functional...and I like to get used electronics when I can, for environmental/climate reasons.

I bought a 27" LG 4k monitor for $200 on Craigslist, which would have been ~$500 new, and I love it.
Feels like there must be a catch. It's a no brainer to buy that as a wealthy person.
All the water saving mandates with appliances have made dishwashers nearly useless these days.

I run every wash with extra rinse, extra heat, pots and pans mode. Makes a big difference.

I appreciate wanting to save the environment, but some regulations have gotten so tough that machines barely do what they're designed for
> You must be pretty far to the right if you’re going to argue Miami is working well

That's a baseless and factually incorrect accusation.

> Have you spent much time in these places?

Yes, and I don't see it the same way you do.

> After decades you still can’t take a train from the airport to the main destination (Miami Beach).

That's a problem? There are other forms of public transit and low-cost transportation. The US has by and large opted not to invest in heavy rail - that's not a local issue, that's a federal one.

It's not like California is leading the way on trains anymore.

> Miami is a mess of planning and corruption with none of the modern industries like tech that create quality employment for the middle class with reasonable wages, quality healthcare, and partial ownership of their employers.

Sharing a flat with two roommates isn't quality middle class living, either.

> In fact the governor has banned the use of the term “climate change” to help avoid the issue.

Florida is a purple state. You can point fingers, but the state is at the precipice. The election was incredibly close. You shouldn't diss those living there - they have an outsized impact on the direction of this country. Their electorate matters more than California's, and we should hope more liberal voters move to Florida and similar states.
Large estates rented for extended family holidays or events are not uncommon in France and Spain. A few years ago, we had a family holiday/celebration in a four-storey French mansion in the middle of nowhere and it was fantastic. That slept 22, though looks like this castle is a couple of notches up from that!
Can you please elaborate a bit more on the fungible interactions part? I am not sure I understand that bit.

Suppose Tesla tomorrow becomes the sole manufacturer of battery powered cars. However, the good (dirty?) old petroleum based cars are still out there and on the road (not a lot but still). However, everyone wants an electric car in future - will that make Tesla a monopoly?

How will it be different or same in this case of Twitter or Facebook?
We have a small 15m by 15m garden here in Kuwait (we have a similar climate to Egypt if not a little more hot). To keep planting all year long, we run a “protect from insects” fine mesh over the entire garden and it feels significantly cooler while still allowing sunlight through. Not scientific enough, but we never thought to check the temperature drop or the sunlight reduction. I may do that this summer just to see how much light is blocked.
Is that what happened to Kodak? They were over reliant on developing film sales that they didn't want to invest in digital camera technology and then were left in the dust when it inevitably because mainstream.
What does a sophisticated civilisation look like?
A nice umbrella.

I have the gustbuster classic [1]. It's tested in a wind tunnel and can withstand winds up to 55 mph. It's got good coverage and won't turn inside out even when it's windy. It's got a curved handle which makes it easy to use it as a walking stick when it's not raining.

It's pricey but worth it to me. Now if I feel like going on a spontaneous walk, I'm not deterred by the weather forecast or the sky being a little cloudy. I can even do silly things like riding a bike while holding an umbrella.

I also have some waterproof doc martens on the way. The most annoying thing about being out in the rain is your feet getting soaked through canvas shoes. Hopefully this will solve that issue.

[1] https://gustbuster.com/products/gustbuster-classic-48-inch-a...
Ellipse, parabola, hyperbola and circles are all the same thing (called a comic). The only difference is if it includes or goes through the point at infinity. The relevant branch of mathematics is called projective geometry.
The author, Arthur Brooks, is the past president of a Republican thinktank, AEI.

Republicans have a strong incentive to encourage citizens to ignore the political news, because their policies are deeply unpopular. Republicans rely on a non-engaged citizenry for votes.

Brooks is one of the Republican elites who shapes Republican political strategy. He has a deep conflict of interest when he tells you to stop reading about politics.
I disagree on the choice of benchmarks as they're not really comparable. A more comparable benchmark for angel investments in Internet / SW startups would be a broad-based ETF that covers those. Picking a couple of the larger ones, I looked at the same periods (2012-2019 and 2016-2019) for each of them:

FDN: 4.31x / 1.86x
IGV: 4.41x / 2.27x
overall mean: 3.2x

Not much different than QQQ's 3.04x, but SPY is not a good benchmark due to big differences in underlying constituents.

I'd want to get a better handle on the timing of investments as well to make the benchmark more comparable - e.g., if 50% of the capital was deployed in 2012 (hypothetically) and 10% in each of the following 5 years then I'd weight my benchmark performance in the same fashion.

Finally, I would want to discount the angel investment portfolio for lack of control and liquidity. Much depends on the specifics of the recent fundraising - is the valuation using the pref figure or is it a reasonable approximation of the valuation of the seed paper (adjusting for structural differences)?

Personally, I'd rather have a well-diversified liquid ETF return of X than a portfolio of illiquid minority stakes that are marked to 1.2X. At 2X, I'd be happy with the restrictions.

Please don't misinterpret this as dumping on the result - IMO I believe this to be an above-average outcome and I congratulate the author on their success. Angel is harder than most if the top-few % of investments are not in a portfolio.
I don't think most people could even name a Google communication service other than GMail. Even if they could it might be one that no longer exists.