skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty great walk down memory lane, but it helps to keep in mind _why_ Yahoo failed so badly. After all, history does not repeat itself but it does rhyme.

Yahoo failed, because a new competitor popped up, Google. Yahoo at one point in time was the market leading search engine, which was a pretty big deal. But then when Google popped up, not only did it take users from Yahoo, it took its market cap as well. If you had invested in Yahoo, gotten out when its customers started moving to Google, and then invested in Google when it went IPO you'd be quite rich today. Value investing wins again.

What if we look at TSLA from a value investing lense as a way to compare and contrast: Tesla is currently leading the market when it comes to electric cars and self driving cars. However, Cruise (GM's baby) filed with the CA DMW two weeks ago to have commercial fully self driving cars on the road in the near future. It looks like in the coming years GM will take a large chunk out of Tesla's self driving technology. However, unlike Yahoo to Google, do you really want to buy a GM car? Will GM steal customers from Tesla? GM's rapport is ruined. Their cars go 80,000 to 120,000 thousand miles, fall apart, are a maintenance burden, are not amazing in any way, and let us not forget: They filed for bankruptcy only 10 years (or so) ago, and haven't exactly improved since then. So, yes they may be able to take some market share from Tesla, but until Toyota, BMW, or similar gets fully autonomous self driving tech, I imagine Tesla is still going to be the most desirable car on the road, which will keep its stock strong.
It's even more perplexing when you consider that some countries that today are strongly associated with certain ingredients (Germany and potatoes, Italy and tomatoes), didn't know them until a few centuries ago.
Champion! I am going to try this out this week, thank you very much!
Because it makes a difference if google can read the messages or not.

- if the messages are shared, google has access to private information they were never explicitly granted access to.

- if an encrypted tar ball is shared, google has access to nothing but a blob of unreadable data.

Isn’t this obvious?
> I’d propose, if you actually understand the program well enough to critique, to contribute something to convince the rest of us that it is a worthwhile intellectual endeavor.

What if the commenter doesn't have time or expertise to do that? Isn't it better to at least state that the OP wrote something very inaccurate? Or should we just give up and let the misconceptions propogate?
I mean, that was kind of the norm 10-15 years ago, during the interim between viruses becoming illegal and browser sandboxes being worth anything

Seems to me making it impossible rather than simply illegal was a much stronger driver of virus-free web browsing.
You should read some Nassim Taleb or something, because what you are saying is too nonsensical, like there is no awareness of chances in your arguments whatsoever, as if this dystopian concept of merit is somehow actually real.
Show HN: Rocketshipping – A Handbook for Starting a Startup
Greetings HN, over the last year+ of working on my own startup I spent a lot of time researching, reading, listening, and watching the success stories of startup entrepreneurs who had hit it big. While I would consider it all "time well spent," after a few months I found myself watching a 20-40 minute talk to jot down just one or two small thoughts or quotes that rang out. I not only researched a lot, but immediately applied what I was learning to our company and our situation, and have had strong results so far. I took some time away from coding, designing, and writing for the startup to write a short handbook (~40 pages) for aspiring entrepreneurs and people designing consumer software products. I believe that the insights, overall path, and advice in this book encapsulate well the general motion required in going from market-lack to product-market-fit. The paperback is $6.99 on Amazon and would be most useful to first time entrepreneurs and product creators, as well as seasoned individuals who want a more methodical approach about starting and succeeding with a product-oriented startup. Below are the first 5 sections of the book, there are 19 sections total. Such a resource would have saved me significant time in the beginning, so I'm happy it's done and alive in the world.

You can read the first 5 sections here for free: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excer...
> Are there more?

http://www.avidemux.org/
Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on Bitcoin's Lightning Network
I think the main selling point of Lambda (and most SaaS) is you don't have to worry about the machine running your code. Personally I haven't used it so correct me if I'm wrong but you don't have to worry about things like monitoring, network administration and security (beyond your code and general opsec).
More so tbh. There are surely a lot more Brits who thought they were cool in 1977 who couldn't name a Clash song than Brits who went to school in 1997 who haven't used an Archimedes
White collar crimes often include a special requirement that other crimes don’t have; a requirement that the accused were aware of the illegality of their actions. This is an extremely hard bar to clear for prosecutors, which is why they often don’t pursue criminal charges that seem obvious from the outside.
Hi, I have recently been through this myself as a newgrad and consider myself successful in my goal: get a job in a specific BigTech co.

Here are my two cents based on what I've learned and have been telling my peers (mostly successful also):

The most important thing in any interview is to treat it as a conversation between two colleagues. No one is there to fail you as a candidate (or most of them aren't). They are looking for people to hire as much as you are looking for a job.

As you are looking for a entry-level job, they look specially for people that fit within their culture. Of course, you must know the basics, but most importantly you must be someone ready to talk and listen. Be open to discuss your solutions and other aspects of the code, but managing your time.

From your own self-analysis, I imagine you know the drill of what they expect from code interviews, you know how to solve the questions, and you can see what you could have done better. With that in mind, I have one single piece of advice that I consider the most important one: train interviews.

Before my successful interviews, a friend and I were doing mock interviews basically every single day, for weeks. We really didn't care for the questions, they were mostly easy/medium. What we cared was that they were new and we would focus on how to answer them, how to properly communicate, etc.

I could recommend Pramp but I haven't had any luck there at the time. Find people in the same situation as you, such as friends, and train with them following the "recipe for interviews" to the letter.

That's all, you can contact me if you'd like to talk more about it, email is in bio
Tesla announced plans to eventually make tabless batteries, which theoretically could increase range by 16%. With everything Musk related, take the original deadline given and add 3 years. As no deadline for this was given, I assume this tech is not yet commercially viable.

Note that Panasonic, which will actually be making the batteries, has indicated in its own investor releases that it is working on developing the batteries but they aren't anywhere close to production-ready yet.

The other announcements relate to making the batteries cheaper, but would not otherwise extend performance (and in some cases would reduce performance, but due to the reduced costs would come out ahead on a $/kWh basis).
Stand-up also sells tickets to a live audience.
Comments from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476069
Do you have pictures of the offices at the time?
>"They’re first rate in the sense that they spend first rate money on it."

If this is your metric, they you are creating a world where the biggest players are guaranteed to succeed, and upstarts are guaranteed to fail. This is some serious perversion of both free market and of equality of opportunity, and creates massive potebtial for corruption
The main problem is not backpropagation though, but the fixation of resources on DL projects (that's what I call local minimum!). In my department, for example, they don't seem to care about the application, integration, deployment etc, as long as it's DL or DRL.
Apple Pays very competent people to keep everything online. My major issue is syncing across several devices. Also, backups on premise aren’t really backups, so you still have to trust somebody even if it’s just keeping the link up in a VM.
Wow... I don't know why people tolerated this for so long? I wonder if there isn't a better way to be organised and put back the pressure on these monopolies?

Or it could be true that many have tried and failed at it?

Back in India, we still have a 100 Mbps connection for ~$16/month (500 GB cap and thereafter 2 Mbps unlimited)... There are more cheaper options than this still available.
GoCenter: Central Go Module Repository for the Community
Are you speaking from experience? I felt like competing against poorer European countries and pay was just never worth it.
ffmpeg has become the de facto infrastructure for video processing.

It seems to have done a great job of keeping up to date, with things like GPUs and shader language and whatnot. I guess that's because he designed a good extension mechanism.

I'm grateful for it.
"Some people living under an oppressive regime starving and dying during the winter" is hardly outrageous. It's been true pretty much as long as human civilizations have been a thing. For some, even the winter part has been optional.

So I'm confused about the part you don't believe, is it that they went up to the mountains to do it?
And then to make sure nobody runs off with a free* router, they can add a $100 account early termination fee. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Ah, right. It's so rare that removal of functionality is seen as a positive that I wasn't thinking in that direction, but yeah, that would be a definite improvement.

I have seen ATMs here in the US that have quick withdrawal options directly on the main menu, but it's usually just one or two preset amounts, and usually from your checking account (since it's still relatively commonplace to have both a savings and a checking account).
Yes, with the compute module. https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/
Didn’t he recently publish an article about a drastically different way to approach machine learning called capsule networks?
Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World
Show HN: Tink-rust – A Rust port of Google's Tink cryptography library
At a high level, I think we should put fewer ppl in jail... not more...
Philip Young: Mainframe hacking in 2019 [video]
> We call function names a "name" but it can also be called a function "sentence" or "function phrase"

I mean...we can also say that pigs are birds if you wish, everything is possible XD

Who in English would ever name anything as "A function that finds the x y coordinates of dogs cats and baboons in a picture". Does that sound like a name to you?

Do you actually speak like this in your daily life? "Please can you turn on the device for remotely visualising entertainment shows, news and sport events?"

Ah I forgot names don't exist: a name is a phrase, a definition is a phrase, a question is a phrase, an assertion is a phrase...can all be used interchangeably, they all serve the same purpose...ssure.

I think at this point you're lost in your own sophism. Good luck getting out of it!
The issue that the article is explaining is the barrage of chinese bots that hit anyone when advocating any approach aside from lockdown.

The point clearly is that China isn't interested in pushing science.
So youtube used ffmpeg quite extensively.

https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

It wouldn't be too surprising if they still did.
I changed the title from "Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network" to "Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On Bitcoin's Lightning Network" to make it more broadly understandable.
These machines featured RiscOS as the operating system. It is the OS on which the Dock (as in macOS Dock, Taskbar) was invented.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486838.
Some people might find this video interesting. Family that fled into the siberian taiga for 70 years to avoid religious persecution. One thing that stands out in my memory is how they said their main form of entertainment was sharing and analyzing their dreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
For an in-depth story on the fall of Symbian, see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkab...
>One issue is that anti-trust has moved from being concerned about harm to consumers (great!) to being focused on harm to other businesses (not so great).

The first thing listed in the Federal Trade Commission Act from 1914 is empowering the FTC to "prevent unfair methods of competition". This is a business protection to ensure that businesses fairly compete with each other.
Thank You again for your time and input.
Gradient decent optimizes performance of a model on a given dataset. If you stop training on one dataset and start training on another one your model will become more optimized for the second dataset and less optimized for the first. This will usually result in degraded performance on classes of data found more commonly in the first dataset but not the second. This is what people mean by "forgetting". It doesn't matter how much of the model you fine-tune, the effect is still present though the effect size varies.
As a German I was shocked to find out that in the US Charter would not let me configure anything in “my” Charter modem. No dynDNS server, no ports forwarding, not inspecting what is wrong, not even blocking internet for certain MAC addresses. And when I asked if I can just buy my own modem, they said that whenever there is a problem and you have your own modem, they will charge you a fee PER DEVICE that is connected (how would they even now if I use my own modem?).
Quite overwhelming for me who just ALWAYS just buys and configures Fritz!Boxes anytime I need to setup a new internet connection somewhere.

Here we have the richest country in the world, inventor of the internet with the most innovative tech companies with the absolute worst internet experience among developed countries: Overpriced, bad quality of service and zero flexibility. Customers are treated like absolute dummies, it is a totally different world. And Germany is actually quite bad compared to asian countries.
Chomskybot
It's pretty straight forward for public companies. You can map the value directly to stock and when you vest it's treated exactly like standard income, and you can (and generally should) sell. If you choose not to sell, you have the same tax rules that apply if you had just bought shares the day you vested.
I grew up on Sierra's version of Lode Runner. As I read this series of game history, it's a reflective process of realizing that my own childhood experiences with computers were part of a cultural moment shaping several generations. As a CS education researcher, I sometimes have conversations trying to balance my sense that these simpler games offer rich learning opportunities to beginners with the recognition that my nostalgia for a time and place doesn't transfer to much value for the next generation. That said, has anyone seen modern re-implementations of Lode Runner or its kin, perhaps in Python, which would be suitable for analyzing program structure/hacking/teaching the basics of state-based AI?
That applies to all insiders, though. It's not specific to the employees.
add this to iceWM startup file and you get all the transparency back: "compton --config /dev/null --backend glx &"
Thanks for the feedback! You have an interesting use case - would it be helpful if we provided the ability to filter all companies under a particular SIC code?
There’s a difference between “control” and “ownership”. And attributing causation is not a political point, it’s a point of fact.
Ignoring debt and actual enterprise values, the more important point is that any business valuation produced by comparing to market prices of other businesses is flawed at best.

Unless you are one if the few and nearly extinct economists who believe the stock market is perfectly efficient, comparing by market price often leads to justifying one mis-pricing by another mis-pricing.

For example, Yahoos ridiculous pricing during the bubble could always be justified by even more ridiculous prices for companies with near zero revenues by pointing out Yahoo had revenues and was growing them incredibly fast.

The only question you need to ask about Tesla is how can a $30B revenue company be worth a $680B valuation? How long before Tesla’s earnings catch up to the risk free returns on $680B (roughly $32B/year)?

Assuming an optimistic 15% after tax profit margin for the rest of its life, Tesla would have to grow revenues seven times. At 15% a year, revenues double ever 5 years. So in roughly 14 years Tesla would be reach an annual after tax profit of $32B. And it would still be $200B behind in total net profits, it takes nearly 20 years for Tesla to generate more total net profit than the risk free investment.

Is that reasonable? It all depends on the risk Tesla falls short, and whatever assumptions are in your DCF analysis. That’s a long time to catch up, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say far from a slam dunk.
>> Hasn’t “harm to other businesses” been traditionally understood to be harm to consumers in that consumer choice is reduced?

Yes, unless the battle is just between businesses spending money on lobbying vs businesses not spending money on lobbying.

Consider telco and how they are upset with Facebook/etc.

Traditional telco is being harmed because their raw deal to customers {sign up for 2yr contract where you dont even get the full monthly price upfront and then pay a boatload per SMS etc; oh and they also sell out your privacy} has been replaced with more competitive offerrings {exchange your privacy for free unlimited communication including free international communications, no contract, no 2yr agreements, no mysterious regulatory recovery fee}.

As a consumer, I honestly dont care about the traditional telco deal. It was a completely raw deal. The addition of WhatsApp/Messenger/Jitsi/FaceTime/Duo/Allo/etc has not reduced options. In fact, I'd give up anything not to go back to $0.20/sms.

I think much of the "harm" narrative is driven by lobbying, not actual harm. They both have harm, different types, some more than others. One has better lobbyists.
Unlike an actual lottery ticket, the theory was that there was incentive to help the company succeed in the stock options:

From Steve Blank's article:

> Startup employees calculated that a) their hard work could change the odds [of their options being valuable] and b) someday the stock options they were vesting might make them into millionaires.

So while from an odds perspective, today's ISOs are still (perhaps) better investments than state-run lottery tickets, from an employer/employee perspective the alignment of interests is no longer there. And (as you've noted down-thread) this is resulting in employees asking for much higher salaries that essentially match what they're being offered by already public companies. In addition, employees may be more focused on the success of their careers and less on the success of their employer.
Yes, and people do win the lottery. The question is what is the real value of the options, reward and risk.
Arimaa is a game that was designed to be hard for AI to master. Its rules are quite different from chess, but it has a lot of chess in its DNA. It has since been solved, but it survived 11 years with a $10,000+ prize for the first computer to beat a human champion.

Now that we are in the age of AlphaZero, I think we are close to the bottom of the barrel of ways to design games to hinder AI. I would be surprised if I saw another pure abstract strategy game that favored humans over AI these days, the way Go and Arimaa used to.
I’m thinking of all of the small utilities and small command line programs that make up a stock Linux distro. Those don’t have many resources other than the binaries. Sure, the size of each is not much in absolute scale, but combined, you have a pretty significant increase if they were all fat binaries.

That said, I don’t know what Apple does. For example, in the main download for Big Sur, is (for example) zsh a universal binary, or are there a specific x86/M1 downloads. I haven’t looked.
Nah.

I mean, part of it is that I don't work at a big company that requires I transpile 100k LOC every time I want to see my work on screen any more while attending to 100 slack channels at the same time, but I'm typically running Goland, VSCode, Safari (what I use personally), and Firefox (better for testing my web code) at the same time and it's snappy. Maybe 2-second compile typescript or go compile times, no noticeable slowdowns switching apps etc.

My laptop:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

From what I understand, USB-C Macbooks that came after this magsafe generation had to CPU throttle earlier to deal with thermal issues, so despite better specs they couldn't get pushed without overheating. As well as heat/throttle issues if you try to charge it from the wrong USB-C port.
I find most jobs to be just as degrading and humiliating as being a cam performer, while stealing more time for less money.
Venues like OnlyFans also allow people to cut out pimps and other predatory manager types.
Truly, puritanism is not dead.
> over 200 smart sensors and devices around my house

I need to know!
Somewhat, mostly crosswords and then vocal frustration when the travel mag crossword was already filled out.

I can think of half a dozen very personal conversations with random seatmates about their lives and problems. Something about opening up to strangers, and am pretty sure it wasn’t my personality or looks. Now that doesn’t happen anymore because you’re never trapped together with no outlets for hours on end.

One of my writing ideas (probably not original) was a retired psychologist who just flew on random flights and talked to whomever they sat next to. Now that plot would make no sense.
K Translation of Ideas of Aaron Hsu's “The Key to a Data Parallel Compiler”
So true...

"2) Perceptual Value (that is not intrinsic)" i.e. extrinsic value. This is the part that most stock investors don't factor into their equations but is something that has a huge impact on how the stock is valued and priced.

In general accepted accounting practices there is something called "good will" that is similar. And it's how companies account for the value that is in addition to the economic value of an acquired company. It's completely legal and correct accounting. I think financial analysts need to have something similar so they can at least try to price a stock correctly.

Eventually all stocks find their true value. Right now people are thinking of a future where Tesla will dominate the car industry plus a few other industries. True or not that's where we are.

In reality Tesla is no different than many growth stocks of the past. The difference is that it has a CEO that can promote his dreams to a very large audience on a very short time. People are then compelled to buy the stock and drive it up.

I'm sure we'll see similar rising stocks like Tesla in the future.

All this to say that this article is not taking all variables into account when pricing the stock.