skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe by "no free documentation" they are referring to the 90s, where MSDN was a subscription service, hence the "long time coming" comment.
Two points, although not specific to female founders:

Elon Musk's advice: Solicit Negative (constructive) feedback.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/elon-musks-advice-to-ceos.ht...

Also, Eespecially for young founders and CEOs, they should study and obtain coaching on how to develop and improve their leadership skills.
GNU Guix: Liberating, dependable, and hackable
...then there was the stupid angry computer that thought 2 + 2 = 7... Lem predicted Facebook and Twitter and QAnon!

https://www2.nau.edu/~jgr6/cyberiad.html

>In the next fable Trurl builds the most stupid computer ever. Klapaucius tells him, "that isn't the machine you wished to make." Faustus and Frankenstein come to mind as other scientists whose intentions exceeded their engineering skills. The machine, which insists that 2 + 2 = 7, attempts to force this "truth" on the two humans, or destroy them. This is our new Inquisitor: a computer nexus which creates the categories of our experience. Consider that many more people now work in front of computer monitors than on farms. We have already begun to engineer a cybernetic society without much deep speculation on its nature or value. Speaking at Notre Dame's Centennial of Science conference, thirty years ago the physicist Philip Morrison said: "I claim now the machine, for better or for worse, has become the way of life. We will see our metaphors, our images, our concerns, our very beings changed in response to these new experiences" (221). The Cyberiad may very well be one of the seminal works creating new metaphors, identifying new concerns, and even suggesting a new genre to deal with unprecedented experiences.
Which is why I criticise his falsely blaming mainstream media for that outrage. But I'll still take my chances swimming in manufactured outrage over manufactured facts. It is going to take experts - serious journalists, not youtube pundits - to sort out the difference.
OK, fair enough. If Vietnam and China were in a hot war, and Vietnam sought and received American help, Vietnam would likely give more weight to America than to China. I don't think this is likely enough to bother considering, but it's technically possible.

Cessation of active hostilities would see attitudes swinging back the other way, even against a background of passive hostilities, as we see in Taiwan.
I 100% agree with you. I probably should have called out the "probably net benefit" is at most an extra 2-5% weight loss over an entire year with eating correctly and exercising making up 95%+ any potential weight loss.

When I lost a bunch of weight, I counted the calories of everything I ate for about a year (and still more or less do 15+ years later; calorie content of foods is generally the same). After a few weeks/months, you pretty much memorize the calories of what you're likely to eat regularly. It makes the cost benefit analysis a lot easier, "the next X I eat is 300 calories, is that 300 calories going to provide me the satisfaction the first did?" Personally, I found the answer is almost always no, and when it's not, you generally feel good about it.
Down votes because you made someone ideologically upset is badge of honor really.
Yep. I cannot calculate exact numbers, but a similar incident happened already in the past: a blast at the disinfection site created an aerosol with virus particles, which caused infection.

Distance doesn't matter so much in today's world, when cities are connected by planes.
In other words, people who wanted their bad faith arguments represented in a world of mostly good faith journalism got their way. "Mostly" because obviously there have always been journalists who were clearly disingenuous, but they took the hit to their reputation in kind. Reputation is barely a thing worth caring about anymore. Everyone takes a hit to their rep no matter what they say, so now they just focus on raking in advertising dollars.
The kinds of tools like those in the article suffer from being outside of the "main loop of coding".

What is the main loop? Well, as it's defined since the rise of interactive computing, it's typing in the editor, compiling, then testing and debugging.

Thus we optimize for:

1. Typing code fast(or typing less code)

2. Compiling code fast(by doing less compilation)

3. Minimizing testing and debugging time(by narrowing our definitions of testing to that which is easy to automate).

The main loop of coding is not software development. It does not study the domain problem, define new benchmarks for success, untangle communication issues, or refine principles of development. It is a path to coder flow state, feature factoryism and shipping the org chart. These things sort of resemble development - a happy coder delivering features within a definite architecture does serve someone at some point - but also manifest dysfunction. Development failing is just shrugged off as bad programming or bad management.

Tools like a Whyline or Reflexion models are not in the main loop. They are an invitation to look carefully at whatever horror has been wrought and address it at a deep level. But that really needs a researching mindset, not a shipping one.

In practice, the available tools very slowly move in the direction of the suggestions of research. There are improvements, but they need projects that put together the pieces and make it a goal from the language design(the main interface) upwards.
> This isn't even to take into account that we flub our speech (not to mention writing) all the time. It's easy to imagine someone saying "red... Metal... Big ball!" because that was the order that the features of the ball arrived in their mind.

Well, I meant to; this is what I had in mind when I said "native speakers will often violate the normal constraints if they have to string together several adjectives in a row".
"We design and develop a low-cost, end-to-end system to break hCaptcha service.
• We evaluate our system against 270 live hCaptcha challenges and achieve the success rate of attack over 95% with the system taking less than 19 seconds to crack a challenge on average.
• We provide a preliminary security analysis of the hCaptcha system. Our analysis shows that the hCaptcha service employs minimal to no mechanism to resist automated abuses other than asking users to solve a simple image recognition task."

The most amusing part, though, is the gaslighting by the hCAPTCHA team and the denial they live in lol

"We reported our attack and countermeasures to the hCaptcha security team to help them make the system more robust to automated attacks. They responded that their system would have been pretty conﬁdent that our trafﬁc was automated based on the techniques we used, and we would never have observed additional countermeasures. However, we did not notice any measures preventing our bot from passing the image CAPTCHA tests during our experiment.
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As someone who does not engage, that has not been my experience.
Yeah, I wasn't there and don't presume to know what actually happened. This will come off the wrong way, but I don't know another way to say it so... Feedback is a gift. Even if it's wrong, it is based on some kind of truth in someone's perception. Sometimes it's truly worthless, but I believe there's always something to learn from our fellow humans, even if they express their message in an utterly disgusting way.
I'll involve who I want the way I want even if it rustles a few "holier than thou" feathers. And MLK is cited as a model to follow, what are you talking about? Standing up to an angry mobs who wanted to kill him? Dude, we'd need some of that right now.

> He worked with many who were deemed troublemakers and are hero's today.

"Worked with", maybe (that's hardly arguable, and not because of their violence but despite of it), but he always stood for non-violence that's just a fact.

> So when people point at MLK and Gandhi as "peaceful models to follow", it's just a dog whistle to sit down and behave, and not step out of line. MLK didn't make the movement for civil liberties by being polite and taking everything in his stride. Neither did Gandhi. This is just plain white washing of history to appeal to "order" that befits people who don't need to care.

And no, they didn't just "sit down and behave", that's just not factually true if you read anything about the civil rights movement. You're simply conflating "peaceful" with "passive" which I never meant or said. And the idea of "dog whistles" is just BS. I mean, secret codes that people pass around as if they were part of a nation wide grand conspiracy is just frivolous. It's clear that it is used only because it's an accusation that's impossible to disprove, which easily shows how honest people using that term really are. And I'm not appealing nothing to befit nobody, that's just a trial of intentions at this point.

> And no, you can't simply just understand what other people are going through just by proxy. No, most people don't know what Injustice feels like until they experience it, many don't even know when they do. It's about a conscious shifting of minds, and understanding that other people go through life differently than you, so maybe instead of saying "I understand", it's okay to say you don't and that you're there for them. Because you cannot understand. You cannot understand unless you live it. You can only sympathize, but first you need to even acknowledge the depth of the problems.

Ooof, I wouldn't want you to be my dentist...

This is demonstrably not true. Empathy definitely exists in most of people, otherwise we would not be able to live in society and it would literally be the law of the jungle. The fact that most activist didn't even experience what they're fighting against just completely destroys that notion. I think this section of your post is more a reflection of your psyche than anything else but I digress.
Some varieties were, and are.
I saw some improvement in the Netflix movies getting less extreme over time. Emily in Paris was the first movie where the woke Netflix made fun of itself using French people / culture as props. Disney and Netflix had to lose billions of dollars to understand that the loudest voices may not represent the majority of the people.
I think they speak as they do for the same reasons of everyone else, i.e. because they believe it's right and relevant. If anything (my entirely intuitive, anecdotal take, for what it's worth) people with Asperger tend to be less conscious of social norms and therefore more capable of independent, original thought. Which would make their statements more valuable and less hypocritical.
“Whyline” debugger is useless if you are trying to understand why your LIVE code ended up in a certain state; unless you are ready to run your live code in a debugger.

Finding all places where the variable had changes is on the other hand easy without Whyline.
I think your points are complementary to the article. It does seem like if a tool reaches a certain popularity threshold, programmers start porting it to every language and environment under the sun. And that often takes the form of building things in to larger tools.

But the academic tools this post highlights are typically standalone and haven't reached that threshold. My suspicion is that the author's point applies most to academic tools that have trouble reaching a critical mass.
That works out to 35%. We seem to be in agreement?
I wasn't sure either and had to look it up. I believe it stands for “fuck outta here”.
The problem being highlighted here isn't bad communicators. The problem is good communicators being incentivized out of communicating.
It says something about you that you could not comprehend something that obvious.
In your post you mentioned 0.05, so that's not a factor of 3 off of 1.5, but instead a factor of 30...
This did happen after the revocation of the fairness doctrine, but another angle to consider is that the US nominally won the Cold War when the USSr disintegrated, and reactionaries like Limbaugh and Ailes then rose to popularity by identifying and villifying An Enemy Within.
Very good points, thank you.
Strange word to describe that, seems rather fair actually. Do you think UK, south African, brazilian variant are 'despicable' ?
When I visit Italy I’m often impressed by the physical lock & key systems in use even in pretty humble domiciles. Those keys look incredibly complex compared to anything I normally see in the US short of, say, a Mult-T-Lock.
Grass-Roots Richard Stallman Support-Letter Has Reached 3600 Signers
I agree.

From what I understand, a pound of muscle burns 6 Cals/day (that’s kCals, but in the US we just use Cals capitalized). A pound of fats burns 2-3 Cals/day. A 25 year old amateur non- drug- enhanced male can put on maybe 10 lbs of muscle in a year with a oot of hard work.

So the idea of putting on muscle to increase metabolism in order to get lean won’t pay off for most of us.
Why do you assume it's a lie? I'd say it's at worst uncorrelated to the truth. And, apart from whether you mean it or not, I believe there's value in learning how to tell people that you do. It's up to you then to decide whether you want to use that power to lie.
It's not just that, opinions are intertwined with (often) cherry picked facts in such a way that it blurs the line between them.

When writing in a style that I'd closely associate with how I'd like journalism written, I often find myself taking the beginning few sentences/paragraph to explain the facts of the situation as I understand it and the rest on what I think about it or why I think it occurred, etc.

I write this way because I am very open to corrections on the facts and my opinions may change wildly if those facts are corrected or updated so stated the basis for my thoughts up front helps provide context. My opinions and explanations are a lot less malleable if the facts don't change. I'm open to expanding and discussing my opinions but they usually evolve rather than fully change.

It's hard for me to really speculate on the driving force or the motive behind what we see in journalism today (or whether it's new) but it's very clear to me that the intent of the articles written don't seem to be clarity between fact and opinion.
From a European perspective there's one bonkers network that is nothing but a billionaire's propaganda outlet and many conservative to rightwing networks.

Actually, how crazy the situation is, is shown how "conservatives" abandoned Fox News because they did not reflect their reality distortion and moved to even more extreme outlets (I mean who can call newsmax or OAN even news). If someone moved from Fox News to OAN, they were never interested in news, they were after someone feeding their prejudice no matter how unreal they are.
> there's an infinite number of interesting stories you could tell about ordinary people living ordinary (to them) Culture lives doing all kinds of exciting things.

Ok, you've changed my mind (gp poster here). I should have been more imaginative - there are certainly countless unwritten novels about ordinary people living their lives in the Culture's core. They wouldn't necessarily look like traditional sci-fi, but they could certainly work as novels. I mean, people still read Jane Austen's six novels about the interpersonal relationships of characters from 200 years ago who didn't have to work for a living and had all their material needs met (though they were obsessed with wealth, so the parallel isn't exact). It's just that Banks wanted to write about the edges because the stakes there are more in line with traditional sci-fi (planetary or larger, rather than personal) and because like you say world-building exposition is easier if you move from the edge inwards.

> With respect to Banks, for example, I regularly come across people in discussions who have trouble dealing with the fact that Banks was a very outspoken socialist, at one point endorsing the Scottish Socialist Party, and who find it hard to come to terms with a socialist describing a society such as the Culture as an ideal to aspire to.

That's interesting! What on earth did they expect Banks's politics would be? To me the Culture novels always seemed precisely the projection of a certain kind of old 19th-century Socialist (or Anarchist) utopia into the far future: no capitalism, no corporations, no state, no money, no exploitation of labor, the utter elimination of poverty, people free to pursue their dreams amidst boundless abundance. But I suppose it might be a surprise to some folks whose only idea of socialism is an evil caricature of the big bad state taking their private wealth and telling them what to do.

> the Culture canon describes whole sub-civilizations of billions of people freely and peacefully not just dissenting but deciding to leave the Culture over political disagreements without any attempt to use force to hold them back.

I like this point a lot - I think the Culture's openness to departure is one of the most clever aspects of Banks's creation. You're free to leave and go off and do your own thing, and billions of people do, and yet somehow the Culture, with utter Olympian unconcern, holds together and remains the preeminent civilization in the galaxy. What an interesting paradox to play with!
Bitcoin was about greed from the beginning, the myth that it was somehow altruistic is just that. It was obvious from the start how bitcoin was setup, the design encodes the intentions of the designer. You can say it's supposed to be a payment system but it is mostly an experiment in game theory and behavioral finance.
I was hoping to see better solutions to this problem in the comments, but the paucity of a solid solution means the problem isn't solved yet. I agree with `qznc` below, in that once maturity is achieved, the monorepo should x-furcate and create packages, but up until that point there really is no clean solution for this relational concept.
> Especially since US and European labs

Hey, Russian Federation still exists on the map.
“but I think there was still much more interesting discussion going on publicly in years past.”

Really? Prior to anonymous Internet comments there were even fewer discussions. I think recent years is when we’ve finally began to understand how people really feel.
I disagree. You are referring to part (5).

Part (6) in the cable specifically warns with regard to WIV scientists studying SARS viruses that interact with human ACE2 receptors.

The cable is here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-state-depart...
I just wish it would set a different wallpaper per monitor
Ironically Rush Limbaugh did very well out of disputing any link between smoking and lung cancer. I was mightily amused that it was the latter which carries him off.
You've never met a female VC? We just raised our second round and we have 4 women VC's or angels on the captable now. Maybe it's just based on industry. I'm in sports/media tech.
> what would the passport serve

To store the results of your PCR and other tests in a uniform way.
This is what we are trying to do on https://upvising.net we organize the "pitch academy" and every second week we invite three startups to pitch in front of investors, experts and other startups who asked to be invited.

It is amazing the value that comes out from these meetings.
> waste power

> not a battery

What's a better way to losslessly and securely store human labor/time for future use? Almost everything else (fiat, gold, silver, real estate, etc...) that exists is debased/debasable, deteriorates, or loses value.

The above arguments completely hinge on energy being "wasted". Lossless labor/time storage isn't "waste" to market participants seeing a need for it and putting their hard earned money behind it.

Bitcoin basically turns one of the hardest to counterfeit things in the universe, energy, into money.

How else can you achieve lossless storage without a trustless secured environment (the bitcoin network)? Any multi-decade/multi-century solution that market participants should focus on instead?
No, especially since the news has been blasted all over the internet in the last 10 minutes.

Will happily support underground businesses run by real humans instead.
> This is not surprising to anyone who has ever walked into a GNC, or other health food store... is it even news?

I mean, these places sell a lot of "supplements" that may or may not actually do what is claimed on the label. A triple-blinded trial showing that caffeine does actually increase fat oxidation is absolutely newsworthy, IMO.
Puzzles and problems are indeed endless in tech and thats amazing.

The thing that bores me most is how software teams are organised. Lame management treating programmers like bricklayers is simply gross. I am in a fortunate position where I can choose my clients, but i run as fast as i can the moment i see product managers, or non tech managers, trying to “debug” things together with “their” devs, or giving architectural guidance when they clearly have no clue what they are doing.
Interesting idea, but with some drawbacks.
1) No JTAG interface.
2) No SEU mitigations.
3) Power consumption likely at least two orders of magnitude higher.
4) Higher cost.

Some potential benefits:
1) Runs faster.
2) Reduced part count.
3) Easy integration with other FPGA elements.

I will add that the GNU tool chain for the MSP-430 is horrible. TI has a much better C compiler which they previously charged $100 for, but it's been free for the last four years.
> But if it makes you >1% more productive, it's worth it.

For an individual, it depends on whether your compensation is tied closely to productivity or multiplication.Being 1% more productive is not going to get your average person anything in a corporate environment.
Perhaps some details will clarify things. ZeroHedge published and publicized an article "Is This Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?" with the face, address, and phone number of an individual -- along with an invitition for readers to pay him a "visit".
That would be discrimination based on sex, but no it would not be sexist in this case. Now if, for example, he treated people based on gender because he felt women belong in the kitchen, then that would be both sexist and discriminatory.

The words sexism/racism often get confused with discrimination.
I’ve paid for various tools over the years: ultimately, I’ve never really found that the commercial tools are significantly better for the problems I have. I’ve generally found that Emacs and/or Unix shell utilities make it really easy to make a tool that solves exactly the problem you have while commercial tools end up having frustrating limitations or are really hard to learn because they solve the general case instead of the 70% case that you actually have.
Indeed. When I see "paw-paw," the first thing I think of is papaya which is indeed a tropical fruit.
Isn't there some sort of vetting and accreditation system that would prevent that type of 'creative' stuff from getting in to an educational system?
It should be noted that past the early stages virtually none of that investment and valuation came from institutional VCs and people who had a clue. The valuation was driven by rich people who didn’t know any better and they sadly got defrauded.
I would say this letter is completely ineffective at its goals.

The letter calling for RMS and the FSF board to resign has prominent members of open source projects supporting it. Discussion with regards to this (and removing RMS from GCC steering committee) also popped up on the GCC mailing list and many GCC developers seem to support this.

All this letter seems to have resulted in is people commenting on twitter that whoever signed this letter should be barred from being hired at their workplace since they are horrible people and comments that most people signing it are Russian or from non Anglo nations.
> he says some weird stuff and defended Eppstein in a tone-deaf manner

He was defending Marvin Minsky, not Jeffrey Epstein. The former was twisted into the later.