skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My perspective on angel and VC investors is shaped by my own experiences as an entrepreneur on the firing line trying to get revenue in the door at a startup called Tellme after the dot com bust.

> A particularly memorable moment was one night I was in the office at 11pm with our then director of finance, Alfred Lin (now COO of Zappos).

> We were at wit’s end because we had just lost our biggest customer opportunity which was with a large US telecom company. Normally “losing” didn’t phase us as we even developed a motto: “losing is just a step on the path toward winning.” But this time, we were really in trouble because the customer was signing a long-term contract with our competitor later that week. We had already appealed to the President of the division; the only further escalation points were to the CEO or Chairman. We had already tapped out our VC contacts. If we lost this customer, as Alfred dryly pointed out, it was unlikely we’d be able to get our revenue over our fixed costs in any reasonable timeframe. I asked Alfred what about any of our angel investors, so we went through them and none seemed likely to be able to pull this off.

> Alfred said, “Well there is this one other investor, Ron Conway.” I didn’t know Ron at the time, and his investment was quite small. But we had nothing to lose by reaching out. So sometime after 11pm, I wrote Ron and essentially said: “hello, you don’t know me, I’m an executive at a company you’re an investor in, and we need a meeting—in person—with the CEO himself of this Fortune 50 company—this week—and if you can’t make this happen, hey that’s ok, but we may be going down—sorry.” Ron wrote back in literally 2 minutes and said, in what I have learned is Ron’s distinctive email style (immediate, short, all caps), “AM ON IT.” The next morning, Ron had done it. Tellme went on to win an eight figure contract that led to a nine figure contract. That’s a lot o’ money from a desperate email from someone he’d never met at 11pm.

> Tellme was eventually acquired by Microsoft for about $800mm. My view of building startups is that it is somewhere between impossible and almost impossible, so you want all the help you can get. Tellme’s VCs (The Barksdale Group, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins) were also extremely helpful, and I don’t think Tellme could have succeeded without them, including help with customer connections. But my personal opinion is that I’m not sure we would have made it without Ron either.

From: https://a16z.com/2010/04/06/ron-conway-explained/
I read that last line in the theme of Super Mario Bros World 1-2 song. Data.data.data...
Data.data.data...
It is also my understanding that Apple refurbs are returned devices.
If classical communication is still needed to this degree, what value does this approach bring vs classical communication?

The dependency on classical communication would imply that it's not lower latency or higher throughput, and will remain subject to signal loss or degradation.
One of the best products from Russia these days, another one is Telegram.

I have an annual license for all its products, I actually use vim daily, but still keep Jetbrains, just in case.
Functional languages have combinators that allow for point-free style such as Haskell.

Writing programs completely without arguments is although not that popular even in the languages that support it because names are useful.

Would you rather have

\f g -> f f g

or

join id

Perhaps this example might show why there is a place to be point-free and there is a place to be pointful.

\x xs -> \f g -> f x xs f g

or

flip flip id . (ap .) . flip . flip id

These were converted with http://pointfree.io/
A few things about this. Looking at your second link, I like Joe Fitz as a person, and I know he means well. He is a bit of a "progressive" partisan in SF politics.

The "Progressive" camp (I use quotes because their policies are often about stopping progress, especially in growing business and housing) would often bring out Ron Conways name whenever they needed a boogyman for rich tech who is somehow pulling strings behind the scenes.

I've seen a little bit of behind the scenes where Ron would donate some money to a cause and then just be supportive. But I didn't get the sense that he was some political mastermind behind the scenes like the progressives often paint him as.

Another anecdote. I was at Square when Jack Dorsey announced that Square would no longer be allowed at gun shows or for any other kinds of gun sales. This was around the time of a mass shooting, I forget which one, there have sadly been so many.

Several years later, I was at an small event and panel about gun violence and what would be done about it. Ron Conway was there to introduce the panel and he talked about how, a few years prior, he had gotten very passionate about the issue after some mass shootings. He got a lot of Silicon Valley CEOs and leaders together to both raise money but also see how they could work to reduce gun violence.

At that moment I put it all together. Jack Dorsey had been at that Ron Conway event and that convinced him to shut down gun sales with Square.
Ah yes, he was pissed off at the guy that typed in "help" after telneting to a BitKeeper repository, then using the docs that put out to make a clone of the client. Since he had a connection to the Linux Foundation, that caused McVoy to revoke the license for BitKeeper to the Linux community.
it is interesting that is both cases (recent gmail and this one) it was a "migration":

"As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system"

"An ongoing migration was in effect to update this underlying
configuration system"

it was not a new feature, not a massive hardware failure, it was migrating part of the working product due to some unclear reason of "best practices".

both of those migrations failed with symptoms suggesting that whoever was performing them did not have deep understanding of systems architecture or safety practices and there was no one to stop them from failing. Signs of slow degradation of engineering culture at Google. There will be more to come. Sad.
Public has

- Fewer people that can reach a given point at low cost to themselves

- No sockpuppets (i.e. is relatively immune to Sybil attacks)

- If you piss someone off enough, you are putting yourself in a position where immediate bodily harm could come to yourself

And yet, walking about in public is still moderated by police.
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration
License someone else's game engine and spend the next 8 years refining AI/UI/basic gameplay.
Existing dashboards showed the services as being up, since the frontends worked fine - as long as you did not try to authenticate.
Clara.io Data Breach
Email sent to all Clara.io users:
"""
On November 23rd, Threekit was made aware of a data breach regarding Clara.io users. This access provided visibility into usernames, emails, and salted and hashed passwords for logging into Clara.io, as well as names of any user that chose to store them. We have since shut this access down, and are reviewing our systems to ensure we are not vulnerable to similar attacks.

While we’re investigating the extent of the breach, we strongly recommend you change your passwords on Clara.io and on any other sites where they may be reused. As we continue to look into this incident, we will provide updates if any other data may have been accessed and recommendations on any additional steps you may need to take.

If you have concerns regarding the breach, you can reply here or send us an email at privacy@threekit.com.
"""
They no longer support Bitcoin. See: https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
It's the only way to reliably communicate a quantum state. Want to network quantum computers? This is how you do it.
Except when one is developing, GHCi is the way to go.
Most of the 8GB users aren't likely to fully use all of the SSD.

So with wear levelling you should see the SSD last well beyond the usable lifespan of the device.
For anyone looking to host their own instance, this is not open source.

lemmy is an option with similar functionality that is, IIRC.
The parent is referring to the recent DeepFold success in predicting protein shapes from DNA/RNA, which means it appears to have solved the inverse folding problem for many proteins (modulo more exotic protein “features”). I haven’t read the article (yet), but presumably being able to go from desired protein shape to plausible nucleotide sequences to mRNA to produce them would enable a lot of drugs to be developed that were cost/resource prohibitive previously. Presuming you can get access to DeepFold and the compute time to run it on semi-random sequences until you get matching shapes.
That Google is choosing to use a PDF (!) as the official incident-reporting media is as confidence-destroying as was the outage.
Indeed, it seems to be a completely unrelated issue. Two major Google outages on the same day for different reasons.
They really haven't–Apple has slowly gained on, then outpaced them over the last several years. Apple's chips these days "lap" others, where the best that competitors have to offer perform poorer than last year's design.
I am curious about the backend server of Matrix. Can it be scaled beyond 1 server? For example, by using Kafka or Nats?
Is there any easy tutorial for Geometric Algebra? Is it possible to learn it in like an afternoon? How can I learn it?
There is an automatic response system ARS in place. On both sides. Tit for tat was still a thing decades ago, until it was mathematically proven to be not a good strategy.

Movie recommendation: https://letterboxd.com/film/virus/
The better japanese version is also on youtube.
Anyone know if there's a similar public outage report for that late November AWS us-east-1 outage?
>conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification

>The meetings were conducted using a videoconferencing program provided by Company-1, and were organized and hosted by U.S-based individuals, including individuals residing in the Eastern District of New York.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-executive-us-tele...
Air Force uses artificial intelligence on U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane
What would your replacement language of choice be? Personally I'd balk at forcing all my developers to learn the new, untested language. The grass always seems greener before jumping over the fence.
> Nobody writes slow programs on purpose, but people are very willing to trade it off for things that are more important in the grand scheme of things

Wait, of course they write slow programs on purpose, because "premature optimization is the root of all evil," right? A developer might use Electron because it's "fast enough" and halves your development time, and "fast enough" is always a perceptual metric, and not a technical one.

Faster hardware means even less optimization is needed before something is shippable -- great for developers! -- and a recipe for software continuing to feel just as slow as before, because we only optimize until it's "fast enough".

And despite the M1, or any of the advances of the last decade, the perceptual line that is "fast enough" hasn't changed.

EDIT: Yes of course Knuth was talking about optimizing noncritical paths, but the sprit he’s espousing lives on in system design: use electron, or something else that makes your product more maintainable and easier to understand (because you didn’t build your own bespoke cross-platform app scaffold, and electron is well-documented, etc.), until you’re sure you can’t anymore. Well, the bar for “can’t” is raised every time there’s more cpu to support rapid, maintainable, “nonoptimal” development, and here we are.
> You should always ask, and they should always tell you.

I'm currently on the job search. One of my offers was quite forthright and included the total number of outstanding shares and the fraction I would receive. But this seems very unusual.

The others all treated this information as proprietary/confidential. They either provide an opaque "valuation" of the equity, or give the current strike price ("fair market value" according to 409a) and preferred price (implied valuation after most recent funding round), and strongly imply that the spread here implies that the options are already significantly in-the-money.

Sometimes they just give the number of of options and their strike price.
> A configuration change during this migration shifted the formatting behavior of a service option so that it incorrectly provided an invalid domain name, instead of the intended "gmail.com" domain name, to the Google SMTP inbound service.

Wow... how was this even possible? Did they do any testing whatsoever before migrating the live production system? They misformatting the domain name should have broken even basic functionality tests.

I wonder if they didn't actually test the literal "gmail.com" configuration, due to dev/testing environments using a different domain name? I had that problem when on my first Ruby on Rails project due to subtle differences between the development/test/production settings in config/environments/. Running "rake test" is not a substitute for an actual test of the real production system.
What is the difference between the two? I tried searching for 'post mortem vs incident analysis' but couldn't find anything.
No one else has access to TSMC 5nm so you won't find one. Not to even get to who would have Apple-caliber chip designers.
The pro should be out shortly.
Bacterial pneumonia has a 30% death rate these days.
Type Ia supernovae deflagration-to-detonation transition explosions
The forensic and rescue applications of this are encouraging; Finding a body or lost person in a forest currently takes an insane amount of humans and effort. If a drone-swarm could produce video or imagery that can be reviewed by a crowd of desk-jockeys, it seems our chances of success just went up a good bit.
"Jobs and Wozniak's lives were worthless when they were making no money developing Apple" Is essentially the argument you're making.
For music scores, an alternative to buying a wide-format laser printer (which would print 11x17) is to instead print to Legal size (8.5 x 14) and then go to Kinko's and blow it up to 11x17. It sounds a little funny because the dimensions aren't quite right, but we did this in a film scoring class when preparing conductor scores for a full orchestra, and it worked out well.
so ... Guardians of the Galaxy?
In this domain, the two terms are synonyms. And neither "post-mortem" nor "incident report" appear on the log page, making either an equally fair synthesized title.
The first three plays you mention are rarely performed, and for good reason: they're kind of a mess. Not everything fits neatly into Comedy/Tragedy/History, but his most widely regarded plays were all tragedies where everybody ends up dead. It's a trope he wrote well.

So I concur with you. I haven't read the original King Leir, but I have read Nahum Tate's happy-ending rewrite of Shakespeare, and the ending just reads false.
Mental wellness platform Lyra Health is raising up to $175M at $2.25B valuation
> I'd like to say that what makes reddit and twitter big and important is not technical sophistication. It is the fact that a lot of interesting people are there — so another person would join to read and interact with them.

Adopting Twitter's user acquisition strategies does not, in hindsight, seem all that smart considering Twitter's growth relative to its peers? I believe this led to their current predicament where all but the early/'power' users enjoy the vast majority of attention on the platform whilst new users scream into the ether and finally give up on the platform.

Yes, one can gain a huge following with the time investment involved but for the average user, even hitting a 1K following is a pipe dream. Contrast that with TikTok.
As this is Hackernews, I'm obliged to point out that if they'd just written it in Clojure/Rust/Elixir/Rocket they would have experienced zero issues
> its not that hard to imagine why 48TBs of RAM beats out any other architecture (including Optane or Flash).

Agree to disagree.

In-memory databases are common yes, but it is pretty hard to imagine practical situations where an in-memory database can't handle a few nanoseconds of additional latency.

All else being equal, of course more RAM is nice to have. All else is not equal, though, so this is all highly theoretical.

But it is fun to think about!
Minimal doesn't automatically equal functional or appealing. Designing a good UX is very hard work, and "simple" is always harder.
No. AMD are outcompeting them on x86 on desktop, server and laptop. Cloud vendors making and pushing their own Arm CPUs, Apple and MS with their own laptop / desktop CPUs.

If Intel can avoid a collapse in market share over a five year horizon they will have done very well.

What might save them is a major issue with TSMC (possibly a political one).
Watch Dogs Legion couldn't get past the intro mission without crashing on PS5 unless you kept display settings at default. Part of the initialization process for the game tells you to modify these settings for brightness.

I got annoyed enough that I barely played it after dealing with that bug when I got my PS5, so not sure if they've actually fixed it or not.
Concentration? I exclusively play bullet and blitz. No increment.

You need to concentrate for rapid and classical, but rapid and classical is boring.
What is unflattering about making donations to local political campaigns?
> No... dozens of terabytes of Optane would be just as good and much much cheaper.

PCIe Optane is orders of magnitudes slower than DDR4. In both bandwidth and latency.

The only Optane that keeps up to DDR4 (kinda-sorta) is the Optane DIMMs which are exclusive to Xeon Golds / Platinum systems.
The Most American Religion
Can you send a link to the study? Sounds interesting!
This problem is only a problem if you assume you exist in some persistent sense, rather than being a continuously-arising emergent phenomenon of your physiology.

As for whether the no-cloning theorem informs this, there isn't any reason to believe consciousness is related to quantum mechanics.
> RSUs are taxed like income though, so from a tax perspective it’s pretty awful.

One approach is to accomplish the tax withholding by withholding some of the RSU grant at each vesting. This seems pretty reasonable, since you aren't out any cash to pay the taxes on an illiquid asset.
I would honestly rather Microsoft work directly with Intel/AMD/Nvidia to make a chip. I don't generally like Apple's direction to make the chips in house, and not sure I want Microsoft going the same path.
The title is somewhat misleading. A better title would be " It took two days to design Moderna’s vaccine with available technologies and data."

Another analogy would be something like "It took X days to design Blue Origin's New Glenn".
IKR, like "solarwinds123"!
It doesn’t have to be this way, but that’s partly a matter of culture. By aspiring to present/think/act as a monoplatform, Google risks substantially increasing the blast radius of individual component failure. A global quota system mediating every other service sounds both totally on brand, and also the antithesis of everything I learned about public cloud scaling at AWS. There we made jokes, that weren’t jokes, about service teams essentially DoS’ing each other, and this being the natural order of things that every service must simply be resilient to and scale for.

Having been impressed upon by that mindset, my design reflex is instead to aim for elimination of global dependencies entirely, rather than globally rate-limiting the impact of a global rate-limiter.

I’m not saying either is a right answer, but that there are consequences to being true to your philosophy. There are upsides, too, with Google’s integrated approach, notable particularly when you build end-to-end systems from public cloud service portfolios and benefit from consistency in product design, something AWS eschews in favour of sometimes radical diversity. I see these emergent properties of each as an inevitability, a kind of generalised Conway’s Law.
That's sometimes called language idiosyncrasies.
>both of those migrations failed with symptoms suggesting that whoever was performing them did not have deep understanding of systems architecture or safety practices and there was no one to stop them from failing.

Can any single person at Google have a full understanding of all the dependencies for even a single system? I have no idea, as I've never worked there, but I would imagine that there is a lot of complexity.
China-based exec charged with sabotaging Zoom conferences
VALIDATION! https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Some org might have decreed internal fine distinctions, but in common parlance, both terms are used for the same kind of after-event writeups.
Given the rate at which software is being ported, I think 3-6 months is very pessimistic for most applications.
huh, strange. I would have thought it runs alright on PC especially since I had no trouble whatsoever with my Radeon RX470 (2016), running on the preferences that the game gave me (more or less middle of the road with a solution of 2560*1440).
> At the time <center> was introduced...

... CSS didn't even exist yet.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that vcenter or something like it should have existed at that time. The point is that it could have certainly been introduced by the time css came around and started handling more than basic text styling. It's been over two decades since that condition held.

The "more complex layout model" has been here a long time.
Well, post mortem means "after death" in Latin. So it would seem the difference is, one can recover from an incident...
i guess it depends on what you call slow and what you get used to it. I have an iMac 27" 2012 and i barely can do anything with it.
"Oh, it's just a singleton" - me after half an hour of reading yet another implementation calling it something else.
Reddit and Twitter are toxic in large part due to the drive to accumulate fake internet points. Sqwok doesn't seem to have a voting system, so maybe it won't attract the type of person who likes to provoke others just for the endorphin rush that comes with upvotes.
> Microsoft’s efforts are more likely to result in a server chip than one for its Surface devices

In my opinion, the majority of people have too much faith in their ability to predict the future.

I was terrible at predicting the real world performance of the Apple Silicon M1. It is, in fact, much better than I expected. On the other hand, Microsoft has thus far only had slightly modified AMD chips in their Surface Laptop, and poor performing ARM-designed Qualcomm chips in their Surface Pro X. Maybe I'll be bad at predicting the future, but I do not expect excellent performance out of Microsoft's Surface chips in the next 365 days. Probably longer.

In the meantime, more Windows computers will be sold than MacOS, and they will have mostly Intel chips, but an increasingly large number of AMD chips.

AMD has survived with less diverse revenue streams and much worse product portfolios. I'm optimistic for how they'll do over the next several years.
They aren't going to have their lunch eaten. Apple doesn't have nearly the volume to make a meaningful impact, neither does Microsoft. Neither of them make up a substantial segment of cpu sales.

It does put healthy pressure on them, but I think AMD is fine for the near future, they're also working on ARM chips as well.
As mentioned in another comment, water is a radiation shield, but ionizing radiation in space will attenuate 50% after 7cm of water (I could be wrong), and if you want a lot of attenuation, you need a lot of water (which is extremely heavy).

A small amount of water for shielding is undoubtedly much more massive than simply using bigger, rad-hard processors.
Launching attacks isn't deterrence. Even if your general philosophy were correct, which I disagree with, it is not one of peacefully promoting democracy and liberty.