skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who lost out big on a previous startup situation because I wouldn’t move to San Francisco, this stings a little. In retrospect, SF really would have been the best place at the time, but I don’t believe it was the only place to do a startup like it was portrayed.

COVID really forced a shakeup of the status quo with remote work. We all saw that coming.

What I didn’t see coming was the massive amount of capital floating around in this COVID economy. Investors previously had the upper hand because they controlled a scarce resource, but now they’re all fighting to get allocations in interesting startups. Investors have to branch out of the usual startup cities to find deals.

Should be interesting for the startup world. I don’t see SF declining as a startup hotspot, but at least it’s no longer the only acceptable option.
Does it make sense to compare single year of 2020 with 2005-2019 ?
Not sure if they still do it but Chrome absolutely used to fulfill the "trick user into installing it" criterion: It was frequently bundled with other software and auto-installed unless you unchecked a box deeply hidden in an "advanced settings" screen.
At least in the non-rails environment, Turbo and Stimulus are two separate libraries and have to be included individually.
Cashing out and actually getting $50B may be as much of a challenge as finding the private key
"No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own."

MS is actually one of the few companies that could try.

Most companies are unable to innovate even with a clean spec in front of them.

With the 'real time' aspect of Discord, which makes it much harder than MSTeams/Slack .... it's that much riskier.

Look at how s**t Skype is.

So the question then becomes one of risk on the product side.

But the brand and userbase is the valuable thing at the end, 'Mixer' was never able to catch up to Twitch despite having a decent product and XBox lockin.
Did you reply to the wrong person? The person you're replying to said nothing about buying expensive chairs.
Yeah, sorry, I do assume people have a base level of ethics and moral code :) If you're not part of the group, I understand my comment seems foreign.
Yes, I will add it!
+1 The Death Valley Germans case was how I found Tom's website. I still think about Bill Ewasko all the time. Hopefully he'll be found some day.
That's because WP arrived at a time when corporations weren't selling people pipe dreams about how to get famous and rich on the web through their platform. The motivation to wrote blogs on Xanga, Angelfire, Geocities etc was for recreation, not monetization.

Wordpress offered a self-hosted, open-source blogging platform from day 1, in addition to WYSIWIG Wordpress.org. The idea that WP would attempt to use its audience as some sort of competitive moat is something I could imagine had they arrived 10 years later. Which it did, in the form of Medium.com
No it can’t. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView: “GeckoView serves a similar purpose to Android's built-in WebView, but it has its own APIs and is not a drop in replacement.”

The purpose of WebView has certainly never been about using a different engine; rather, it’s to have only one copy of a browser for apps to use as a widget, rather than each app bundling its own browser which uses vast amounts of space and raises serious security concerns.
To be fair, they did try (to a certain extent). The reason that we have as many vaccines as we do is because the US, UK & EU poured money into all of the vaccine efforts.

I'm also super disappointed at the lack of ambition, to be honest (every human should be vaccinated by EOY if we actually want this to be done), but given my experience running much smaller scale logistics, I'm amazed we've done as well as we have.

As I note above, the US Feds could definitely have done better, as could the EU, but there's a sense of deference to private providers which I find unwarranted, and which could be the cause of the slowness.
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It is definitely fixing the problem. As is the entire phone is unusable because you cannot open many of the most important apps.
Great conversation Sanyal!
Isn't Vercel pretty much just for Jamstack? Not everyone wants or needs that so I'm not sure it's better.
Given the clear conflict of interest at play here (Reddit is a YC company and are seemingly preparing to IPO in the near future) this post would be a great candidate for additional transparency from dang
If you have a local library, often they either have or can borrow these kinds of films.
> then I would be surprised if there were zero parts of the product that were modular or interchangeable.

You'd be surprised. Game engines are extremely monolithic.

There are some modular components and techniques (eg pathfinding, rendering, physics engine), but most of the effort that goes into an engine like Godot is integrating these components to their specific architecture. While the component is transferable (eg you can always use the Bullet engine in your own project), the integration work isn't.
With respect. The small sat revolution is a load boll@cks.

Forgive me.
I find this write-up enlightening : https://blog.gruffdavies.com/2017/12/24/newtonian-physics-is...

It seems the equations given by Norton really are unphysical, so actually it's not a proof on indeterminism, but simply incompleteness - newtonian physics cannot model some really really fucky situations - its incomplete.
Basically everything btown said but just to add my own POV -- we do this whole PRD - eng spec - implementation dance, and then comes maintenance, oops we missed a few things, or didn't think about this. All those things end up in separate tools and very rarely make it easy to keep it all together, esp. without a great PM. Having a better way to link documents to actionable (tickets) and back, along with conversations that happen along the way, would be incredibly powerful.

There's no shortcut for organization and I doubt a tool will ever solve it all, but I think the combination of wiki+task manager+interactive chat is utterly begging for a (good) unified tool that makes it easy to document, chat, and work tickets in the same place. I imagine the end result wouldn't be automatic quality documentation, but more like an automated blog of what stuff your company is shipping. People wanting to catch up (for context, new teamates, etc) can kind of peruse recently completed features and pick up a ton of context, or search specific ones and build a good understanding of how it was implemented (and why). It seems it would lend itself naturally to a culture of documented, intentional communication, rather than the splattering of slack messages and random tickets I see so commonly. If anyone has interest in working on this, happy to join up. Its high on my list of "want to" side projects.
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How will the prestige scale?
I'm glad you have a lifestyle and job that works for you.

I had the short commute, nice layout office for a while. Then the company up and moved us to an open office plan 40 minutes further away.

Anyways I'd have no hope owning anything close enough to walk a 15 minute commute to most jobs.
Interesting that ships turning off their AIS transponders can still be picked up from their radio or naval radar signals from orbit.

It seemed a bit extreme that the single satellite RF detection and localization technique referenced in the article would get classified by the U.S. government -- it's presumably a beamformed angle & doppler measurement going into a detection algorithm which is aware of the motion of the satellite platform, which is cute but not groundbreaking -- but at the same time it's probably a very inexpensive technology for space-based surveillance of RF emitters, which has obvious national security ramifications.

smallsat = cheap

cheap = affordable for smaller nation states

RF emitters = many military assets
> I logged into my trusty CentOS 7 box and installed golang with "yum install go"

Ah well there's your problem!

I'm always nervous about installing language toolchains from the standard repositories on CentOS, because they are often very out of date, or intertwined with the rest of the base system in awkward ways (this is more of a gcc concern perhaps). I have no idea what the state of Go on CentOS is, so this could be baseless nervousness in this case.

If there is a software collection for a toolchain, that may be a better bet than whatever is in the main repo. There is one for Go:

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/go-toolset...

I can't work out what's in it, so i have no idea if it would have made life any easier around your networking or Git issues. I can't even tell what version of Go is in it. The fact that there isn't a Go toolset for CentOS 8 hints that it might be quite out of date.
I can smell another fake DDOS.
Also, The Third Man is in the list...
I think the comments here taking the religious references at face value are missing the point.

> This document was [...] created for the purpose of filling in a box on "supplier registration" forms submitted to the SQLite developers by some clients.

> [The developers of SQLite] have pledged to govern their interactions [...] in accordance with the "instruments of good works" from chapter 4 of The Rule of St. Benedict [...] This code of ethics has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years, and has served as a baseline for many civil law codes since the time of Charlemagne.

Of course, there’s a link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict

> The Rule of Saint Benedict (Latin: Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written [...] for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.

The entirety of section 3 is literally a reproduction of chapter 4 of The Rule of Saint Benedict. Compare to https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.htm#ch...

The explicit purpose of the document is further clarified in the third paragraph.

> This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the "code of conduct" box on supplier registration forms.
It's nice and we've tried it, but you don't get any historic logging per sprint, reports per type of tasks etc, like Jira has.
Knitters often include political messages in their patterns. From rainbows to certain shades of purple to flags to actual text.

So if the site is to allow arbitrary patterns—and that is its whole genesis—it will have to deal with political messages.
That's fine as a Platonic ideal, but I don't understand how you get there in practice. In the context of the OP, is your stance that the pink hats should have been banned from the site because they have a political message?
I think also super interesting is how erlang gives you hooks in it's FFI to create and destroy C ABI entities that are refcounted and thus tied to the GC.
I don't know of it's okay to make this suggestion but many of these movies are available for download in common places. I personally have no qualms downloading movies from the 30s and 40s. It gets grayer for me in as the age gets younger.

To give a HN safe-ish link, here's entry #11, The Thin Man (1934) on the archive

https://archive.org/details/the-thin-man-william-powell-myrn...

If that's not a good encoding you can easily find other sources.

If that's against your policies, many of these are available on Amazon
"Aeschylus is the worst written bit of software I’ve put my name to since I was about 15 years old and it will probably never be usable for anyone other than me."

Hilarious and honest.
And btw I understand what manslaughter is but again I'm not a lawyer. Refer me to any case or cases where someone is guilty of spreading a virus without intent(Involuntary).
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Does Guilded allow self-hosted servers and E2EE like Mumble and Teamspeak?
That dress was definitely blue.

And I’m seeing the whole article.
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Something is wrong in your end. It's a full article.
The quality has gone downhill the last few years with the new "remastered" Aeron chairs, IMO. Lots more plastic and thinner/lighter metal components. Anyone looking to get one you're better off with a 5+ year old refurbished classic. Half the price and honestly better.
Water, electricity and sewage are all part of building codes for safety. Internet is not a safety device.

Of course, there is nothing stopping local governments from forcing broadband into new construction... It just isn't on the same level as water / sewer / electricity.
Google is an enterprise. Go is an enterprise language. For the usual enterprise reasons: bean counting, internal politics, and cubicles.

It is a great language because it solves Google's problems. That's true of all Google tools and services. To the degree a person has the same problems as Google, their tools are great. Most people and organizations don't have Google's problems to a significant degree.
You know you can buy office chairs basically unused for 20% of retail price from an office outlet store right
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> Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens".

I think it's possible the government practically can't reveal information about extraterrestrials, supernatural phenomenon, or really anything that's within the realm of incredible.

The reason being - there will be a potentially large amount of people that will not believe what the government reveals or that they're being honest about their revelations.

You only have to see something like QAnon or the Russiagate stuff to see that a large segment of people across the political spectrum creates vast narratives founded in distrust of whatever is relatively credible and apparent.

So if the government were to say "we're aware of phenomenon that we cannot explain and it seems to be characteristic of some form of intelligence," you'd have many who would start arguing that the government is colluding with aliens or something. It could be destabilizing to society.
Some ideas are like viruses, they will spread until the population is inoculated against them. Politics everywhere is one of those current pandemics.
As far as we know, leptons are not composite. They might be able to decay, but a muon or electron is fundamental. It's not made up from something else. Quarks seem to be fundamental too. Same for photons.

We are pretty confident of this, because the theory describing them is so precise -- QED is the best tested theory of all, to about 14 digits IIRC. In fact, a big factor in the discovery that a proton is a composite system was that it could not be described by QED, it has a anomalous magnetic moment.
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Thanks for the explanation.

Glad my Spotify+Sonos is not constant voltage with long cables from Sweden but works with fiber/Wifi.
100% effective against hospitalization is 100% obvious BS. I don't need to be a statistician to make this conclusion.
Julia can also generate fast code for arrays of small unions
That’s just so not true.

Few people are capable of *real* exploring anyway. Going where no human has been before. Shackleton, Amundsen, Mallory, Harrer, Bonatti, to name a few Euro-centric ones, did so. To do what they did at that time was extraordinary and way beyond any if our capabilities.

And what Insta calls an “Adventure” is merely a tightly controlled and carefully crafted theme park visit. It’s a joke.

That said, any place is there for you to discover. Nobody fucking cares if you visited the Grand Canyon or some fiery hole in Iceland. And even less so if it has been trodden on by humans yet.

All that matters is having a jolly time in an alien place, detached from anybody’s expectations. Don’t chase the next Insta spot.

Go early in the morning. Go in bad weather. Go off-season. Take your time and the rest will reveal itself.

It’s not that hard.
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I think that P==NP, just not on Turing machines. A prism calculates Fourier in “O(1)” which can be used to factorize in “O(1)” and thereby solve NP in P.
The whole idea of Hotwire is to prevent `Rails.ajax` calls. You can easily accomplish this with less code:

1. Replace the `output` target with a Turbo frame.
2. Add a value to the `data-controller` div with a `preview-url`: https://stimulus.hotwire.dev/reference/values
3. Change the `Rails.ajax` call with `let url = URL.new(this.previewUrlValue); url.searchParams.append('body', this.tweetTarget.value; this.outputTarget.src = url.toString();`
4. Change the `preview` action to render HTML with the same frame.

Now you have an automatic refreshing frame with less code.
> I think your approach is too coloured by emotion, and is therefore unconstructive.

Your little “I'm a rational agent, you are too emotional” is pretty cute. But it would work better if your whole attitude in this thread didn't contradicted it, don't you think? “Rust is among the five most complex language” is not a rational argument, it's a personal feeling. Why you feel the need to spread your feelings over the internet while pretending you're not an “emotional” person is quite intriguing. If you want to look more like a rational person (no human really is), try to keep as much personal and unsubstantiated judgement out of your writings.

“Rust marketing makes safety claims that we should not take at face values” is alright, “Rust is one of the five most complex language ever” doesn't pass this test.

> is the computational complexity of deciding whether a string is in the language (so, including type-checking)

But for both Rust, C, Zig, and many others, it's undecidable, so by this definition of complexity, these language are definitely too complex (and equally so).[1]
In fact, your desperate attempt to save your initial argument about complexity, by narrowing it to a tiny technical corner makes me cringe a bit.

> I would never, say, make a definitive claim like, "Zig yields more correct programs than Rust", or "Rust yields more correct programs than Zig," without clear empirical support (and my guess based on prior results would be that they're about the same).

The technicality of what constitute a “definitive claim” in a human to human conversation is an interesting question, but in practice truisms like “we can't conclude whether Rust is safer than C” or “we can't conclude that Rust doesn't bring more bugs than Zig does” aren't neutral: what such claim attempts to do is insinuate the opposite. And when combined with gratuitous judgements like “Rust is one of the 5 most complex language ever”, it looks a lot like an attempt to deter people from using this language you don't like. (And now I have a clue on what the root cause of your bad feelings can be).

[1] And as I said earlier, in the case of Zig and unsafe Rust and it's not just about type-checking: because of UB, even after compilation whether the compiled binary is the binary of a valid program or not is also undecidable.
> Furthermore, who banked the cost (and risk) of the Fundamental Research that led to viable vaccines in record time - months, instead of years? (free hint: it was mostly European taxpayers money)
> By lifting the patents, the EU would only be helping pharma fulfill their own contractual obligations and restore legality

If EU members provided taxpayer money to private pharma, that's a tangential issue with EU govts. The contract most likely stipulates a certain # of doses delivered by a certain date. If that is broken they can be sued by the EU (or individual govt) for damages. But nationalizing their production is surely beyond what was stipulated in the contract if delivery dates aren't met.

> Or are you suggesting that, sometimes, the Law is not supposed to be followed?

No. That is not what I am advocating. If the company breaks the contract, just like _any_ other contract, there are procedures in place to pay for damages. Nationalizing the company or specific patents is not (and should not) be one of those damages.
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Wollo-Ri (https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1209730/the-wollo-ri...) is one episode, but their descriptions are helpful for finding others.
For practically all computationally secure crypto we use "secure" for "no known attacks faster than we'd like". QCs just extend the set of efficient algorithms.
Use of nuclear weapons already guarantees mutual annihilation. I'm pretty sure the US government isn't trying to scare dictators with alien activity - I doubt anyone would change policy without a real alien coming and talking to us.
Strongly agree here. Letterboxd is the best thing that has happened to me in recent past. It introduced me to almost endless list of absolutely fantastic movies I didn't knew existed especially non-english movies no one talks about. And I just logged my 700th movie yesterday.
How do you know we're not already at that tipping point, if not there than in other forms of influencer 'culture'?

Of course you're right, but I'll tell you what next.

Redefine 'dominate'. All that has happened is we've shown mass media, mass popularity, is better suited to the unreal. Humans need not apply here.

'Mass' anything, then gets less interesting as it is self-evidently a dead-end. And not 'everybody', but significant numbers of people, pursue something else, perhaps things that are unlikeable in an interesting way. The differences will always be less 'addictive' than the 'mass' stuff, but will overperform in other, definable ways.

As someone who has deleted Twitter and Facebook I think I'm correct in this notion that the most addictive, most 'mass' media sources are not 'good' in any normal human sense other than manipulation of that very instinct in all its forms…
Yes but admitting this would sacrifice their article and ability to look cool and progressive for supporting remote work only after being forced to.
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Why is quickly hitting Esc working? It's perfectly working and that is strange.
Teams also has an SLA and built in policies for retention, search, and auditing, which Discord does not have because it's a free, consumer service. Which is why I desperately want them to make a enterprise version.
There's a reason you don't talk about politics and religion in polite company. You should not be judged for your worldview if it differs from somebody else. The personal should not be political.
New Zealand and Hawaii are the most recent human settlements, and those were more than 500 years ago. Anywhere else has been home for somebody for millennia. You can't "discover" somebody's home, but you can discover the creek around the corner.
Discord is pretty powerful. It needs a security layer and it can be deployed on a corporate network. It’s much better than Cisco teams or Mattermost. Lots of discord groups that are as organized as company serving 1-2k members
Water is a poor medium for photons, but a great one for sound. That's why the US and other countries surveil the seas with linked arrays of underwater microphones, i.e. the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS).

https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/iuss.htm
It would also seem to be one of those situations where a bunch of very active social media folks are used to define a community.

Even in technology focused circles I think you'd get the wrong impression about an entire industry if you just read social media.

I don't know how people get a good litmus test for what a community is up to but conflict breeds lots of activity, you're bound to see a lot of it if enough people participate... but it's hard to really understand what a 'community' is up to beyond that.
Pretty obvious here people. Supply and demand. There's more poor people looking for affordable housing than there is rich paying for extravagant rentals.
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