skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it would help if they weren't all trying to raise at a 10-30M valuation when they're barely getting started. There's a lot of YC businesses I'd love to fund but where the economics are totally out of whack.
How is cursive for lowercase and normal italic for uppercase random? That said it's a font thing, others may do it more consistently if you're into that.
Generally yes. But you would need to spend 3 years in court to get that to work.
Or you can take the bus or train?
> But overturning conservation of momentum is like saying that we're making up physical laws as we go along.

We ARE making up physical laws as we go along. We see something unexpected, we try to find why it could be, we invent new possible laws of nature and we check if those laws are sticking to wall with experiments. What sticks to wall, is then called "law of nature", but it might nit be exact or true. We only know it fits what we've seen up to now.
By 2012, scientists will have announced a cure for breast cancer (2006)
I don't think a decision like this is made by "most managers". This is probably a CEO decision.
"That technology, often called solar geoengineering, entails reflecting more of the sun’s energy back into space through techniques that include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere. "

What could go wrong !
Also it's true in Asian countries towards the Western.
Not only that, but it also materially improves your business for many B2B startups given the network of companies who will do you a favor and sign up for your service during the program. It helps kickstart early traction.
When I started down the Fortune 500 consultancy path, the quality (or lack thereof) used to bother me a lot, then I realised that most customers don't really care, what they want is something that makes their core business run, doesn't matter how.

As long as their core business and KPIs remain untouched, and no scalations take place, everything is fine.
I tried it out just as an terminal emulator and it looks quite nice. I noticed that the startup time is a bit high when using appImage - much snapper once you build it from source. Though will continue to use Tilix as it is as snappy (not a multiplexer) + has buttons for vertical/horizontal splitting/tabs.

[0]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/install/source.html

[1]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
It can be tricky to make it work in Vim + Tmux etc., but it can be done provided the font includes it as normal italic typefaces. I use Victor Mono and iirc it's available in two variants depending on whether you want normal italic font or cursive.

I've been using it for a while now, can't say it makes a big difference(both positive or negative), but it kind of looks nice which is the point in the end.
It is difficult to speak of “Africa”. It is not a country. That said there are a set of common historical experiences (colonisation, coupled with gaining independence during the Cold War being a big one) that have managed to line up a lot of common philosophies. One of them is a pervasive academic/intellectual mistrust of international funding.

I am a South African. I studied African political history, public policy, and political philosophy at a number of South African universities. At most institutions as an undergraduate I was taught about the peril of IMF and World Bank loans etc.

So I’m not surprised that this kind of thinking is being applied to private investment via bodies like YC.
There are so many cherry picked data points and unfounded assumptions in this article it's hard to even pick where to start rebutting it. I'll just pick the most obvious one: if you limit your data set of companies to tech, of course you'll find that engineering-oriented CEOs outperform. But tech companies make up only a fraction of the total population of businesses in America.

Also it annoys me when authors don't even try to state what it is CEOs actually do, and what skills are necessary to succeed at those things. If you've got more than few couple dozen employees, it's not engineering...
This sounds like a problem with the location of that particular office, not with the discussuion of in-place work/work from home. I live a nice bike trip from work and I cannot stand working at home anymore. And I'm an extreme introvert: I don't yearn for social contact, it's just that my office is very comfortable.
Commoditize your complements (2002)
There's no ActiveX on macOS or Linux either.
> When will introverts realise that their working conditions are being dictated to them by extroverts.

Majority rule :-)
Yet another article that defends this thesis with very little rigor, in my opinion.

Understated hypothesis #1: Software engineers make good tech CEOs because they know the core product/service they are delivering. This is not new to tech - many organizations, such as big traditional engineering (industrial, electrical, aerospace, etc.) or successful law firms are often led by former practitioners (ie, engineers and lawyers respectively). Leaders who know their domain and processes intimately are bound to get better better results on average than those who don't.

Understated hypothesis #2: Engineering likely selects for individuals that are highly intelligent.

All these other ideas of software engineers leading businesses more creatively or efficiently (through process automation, etc) may be hypotheses worth testing, but certainly not foregone conclusions as some of these articles seem to suggest.

I think I'd have much less of a problem if articles like these formulated questions ("could it be that...?") instead of assertions. Discussions would be equally interesting, the style of the text needn't suffer, and I would respect the authors more for their intellectual rigor.
Google has signed like 16 year leases in some offices and has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into them already. For the playa vista office alone at least.
This is quiet a false dichotomy you're running with here. You write as if the only choice is between funding global military efforts at their current levels or caving to the Nazis.

Of course declaring war on Germany upon their invasion of Poland was the right thing to do. But it doesn't make declaring war before that the even righter thing to do. And it has little bearing on our choices today, that was another time. You can't use Hitler to justify WWI or the Crimean war or the Punic Wars. What makes him a better justification for building the war machines in Iraq or Aghanistan?

There are many choices. We could spend the same money we do now on the military but only focus on defensive weapons. We could educe our spending on military by half and still be funding our military far above the level of most other countries. We could significantly draw down our military as we did after nearly every war in our history. Those are all choices. But we choose to spend incredible sums on forces which can project power around the entire world. We do that for a reason. It isn't entirely sinister but it isn't entirely altruistic either. In the end, we do it because it gives us power. For the exact reason the Athenians grew their "alliance" sometimes at the point of a sword. It gave them power.

Putting that all aside, the best case you make for war is that it might reduce suffering and prevent tyranny. Well that is precisely the best case for publicly funded scientific, medical, safety and poverty efforts. Which is exactly the OP's point.
Isn't that the same as discord audio channels? I'm also confused about what clubhouse is or why it's popular.
Facebook, Instagram scrub Donald Trump’s interview with daughter-in-law Lara
What size and wattage load of devices?
While the content of the article is extremely shallow, I'll comment on why software engineers don't see CEO as a career choice.

Any time I've tried to dive into the world of business / finance I find that it is just a completely different culture in terms of knowledge sharing. The technology culture is one of sharing; knowledge is extremely accessible. If you look hard enough, you can find the contents of a complete CS curriculum on Google. You can then find poignant on-the-job lessons just as easily.

Any time I dive into finance I'm just stuck reading old books and having no seemingly active community to discuss what I've learned with.
yup, I was affected as I got this email yesterday:

> Good day!

> If you received this letter, you are a customer, student, partner or employee of University of California.
The company has been hacked, data has been stolen and will soon be released as the company refuses to protect its peoples' data.

> We inform you that information about you will be published on the darknet ( [link redacted] ) if the university does not contact us.

> Call or write to this store and ask to protect your privacy!!!!

I'm leafing through the linked site and I can see SSNs, tax forms, enrollment forms - yikes!
>I mean, it wasn't even a week ago where the media is running video with Biden's hand passing through reporter's microphones as he answered questions. Almost everything online and in the media is faked now.

It was a large and fuzzy microphone down and to his right.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2LH199

Alternate angle video (Note how low the two fuzzy mics are): https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/biden-unveiled...

And I'm not pointing this out in an "Ackshually..." way. You're right about manipulation of truth in media. The problem is, even the people who think they understand that and see through it are being manipulated.

I've found the best way to spot propaganda around an incident is by asking, "What's the most boring explanation?" That's usually the truth.
I primarily listen to albums and don't care about album artwork.
> but I think that the greater disappointment would come from learning that foundational principles in physics had been overturned, because what it would mean is that we've all done a really, unacceptably bad job of getting a true version of reality

Physicist here: that's not how physics works, at all. We don't even pretend to have a "true" (complete?) model of reality at all. There are many gaps in our knowledge. Unfortunately they are either so small, so large, or so high energy that we can't easily expand across those limits to our knowledge using data gathered from labs here on Earth. But every now and then you get a really simple test that demonstrates a gap in our knowledge that reveals new physics, and that's how we make advances.

If the Em drive were real, it would be just like the photoelectric effect or quantum-slit interference patterns: things which defy classical explanations but which are evidently quite real. And I assure you, those were NOT disappointments. Far from it--every physicist dreams of discovering such an experiment, and it would certainly win the Nobel prize.
Yoga (traditional Indian style, not western studio yoga) and specifically the Surya Namaskar / Surya Kriya routines. Took about 4-6 weeks before I felt normal and healthy.

I tried western studio yoga too, and while I enjoyed it, it did aggravate some of my pre-existing back injuries.
> That said, the hype around Clubhouse is allready in decline.

Agreed. With vaccinations and the winding down of covid I'm not so sure their popularity will last into the future.
I say what’s up to most of the team till about noon, and unless I have meetings I mostly nap a bit. I wake up early and do my work.

Before the pandemic I used to goto work and not do shit. Wake up early on one or two days and do my work.

It’s the same exact routine except now I have to pretend in the office when I could just be napping and doing better work later.

:shrugs:

I’ll find a way around whatever bullshit the suits come up with.
MSFT stock price graph killed it.
Bada doesn't have anything to do with Linux, at all. It was a OS using a stack similar to Symbian.

You mean Tizen.

Which, just like Android, the only thing it shares with Linux, is the Linux kernel, now having its own C++ stack, .NET Core/Xamarin and there are still some Englightment leftovers.
Imagine giving half your building a migraine in 5.1 seconds because you didn't catch it in time and have now burnt the popcorn.
Are we talking about the same company? Nothing "sleazy" about SUSE at all.
> If you think what Canada has is great and I’m just a complainer it’s because you haven’t looked at how the rest of the world organizes care.

I think a system where everybody has access to healthcare is better than one where they don't, assuming the outcomes are comparable. For Canada vs. America, the data I've seen do not bear out a claim that Canada has worse outcomes in aggregate. Furthermore, from what I understand of it, Canada's system guarantees everybody healthcare. On that basis I'm claiming that it has a significant advantage over the American system. If you'd like to argue that it's not important that everybody has access to healthcare, do that. Otherwise, I'm glad you have the money to pay, and I'm certainly glad I have the money to pay (up to a point), but I don't see that as a good reason to ignore those who don't.

I'm not married to any particular way of setting it up. I just care about outcomes, and it's obvious to anybody who's paying attention that healthcare in America is fundamentally broken with respect to outcomes. Vague claims that the free market will fix everything if we just let it work its magic (as seen in other replies to my comment) are not convincing to me, because why should they be? Saying something doesn't make it true. People say a lot of crazy things, and a lot of it doesn't even pretend to try to make sense.
In this sense I'd imagine.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/GOOG#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWs...
what fixed it for me was Yoga. a complete cure. aged 28 I was terrified I was going to lose livelihood not to mention perhaps the use of my fingers. aged 50 now, no troubles at all.
As a person who has first-hand experience working with dedicated Google managers - this is great news. I used to be able to get answers very quickly, but even the simplest issues nowadays can take up to 3 weeks to get resolved. "Everyone is remote, you understand" - is the usual reply. I can any guess how terrible it's for regular businesses that don't have assigned dedicated account managers.
Yes, two non-introvert reasons for remote work: Commuting is hell and deep focus is near impossible in modern offices.

For the latter, there are times when you need to think about working, and when you're doing that, being in the office with a group of people and a whiteboard is invaluable. But at some point, you know what you need to do, you just need to get into a flow and do it. And that is near impossible in modern offices. That is especially important for engineers, but it also applies to accountants and designers and carpenters and any productive labor that isn't management.

Introvert/extrovert doesn't come into play, all productive labor needs to get into states of deep focus.

Maybe if engineers all had doors that closed, but for some damn reason we haven't had those since the 1960s.
One of my best investments is a company I turned down at demo day, but who pivoted a year later after running out of funds and finding a completely new product. I gave them their first post pivot angel check and they're well on their way to unicorn status now.

Big fan of looking at what YC founders do 1 year out of the program. YC backs companies in large part on founder quality even if the original idea isn't a winner, and I've made quite a few strong bets on YC founders when they needed a reset a bit later. (The good ones keep the original company cap table intact to take care of their pre-reset investors. That's a huge positive signal for me coming in as fresh blood.)
Dominique (a non-gendered name) goes to school everyday. They take the bus.

Is this a proper English sentence?

(question from a non native speaker)
Google has some of the best offices in the world. They’ve built up these offices as a clear differentiator from their talent competitors. It’s lead to many companies offering free lunch and other perks tied to their physical space.

Giving it up would mean changing the culture and the value prop of working there. I can’t say I’m surprised they don’t want to do that.
I suspect they wouldn't go to the effort in supporting animated cover art[0] if they didn't care.

[0] https://music.apple.com/us/album/gigaton/1495371272
The biggest problem is probably that if you had the patience to sit in a dark room and learn to code for hours on end, you are probably less social than necessary.
I don't think a 150 ml of lotion is going to do it for me. Are there plans for bigger bottles. I'm thinking litres, or gallons for you non-metrics.
The outcome was known for 4 years already, but then he needed 4 years to confirm the first results with fool proof measurements. Nobody else should need to wait years for test results, but the pressure and expected flashback was enourmous.
Without providing details of the cameras in the test laptops these numbers don't have a lot of meaning. The typical laptop has a potato quality webcam that strains to push 30fps at 720p, many can only manage 480p video even if they support higher resolution stills. There's a small number of laptops with higher quality cameras (Windows Hello if usually a checkbox feature of these) that will do 1080p video.

So saying a "mix of laptops" and "nothing special" isn't actually that helpful. Having ten laptops uploading their potato quality video over wired Ethernet without issues is a completely unsurprising result.

A 5mbps upstream connection is much less useful for those that have better quality cameras available. Most phones and tablets have much better front cameras than laptops and desktops. Even the iPad mini can do 1080p video on its front camera. A year into the pandemic and good webcams are still sold out so there's a non-zero population with 1080p webcams they're using for conferencing. A 5mbps upstream is a joke for people doing Twitch et al live streams.

Sorry cable internet providers, your terrible service for obnoxious prices is not a good value. A 5mbps upstream connection is absurdly low in general, let alone in a world where people are spending hours a day video conferencing.
I was wondering if there was any equivalent library for Ruby. Turns out there is: https://github.com/AndyObtiva/puts_debuggerer. With that library,

pd bug_or_band

Prints this:

[PD] /Users/User/trivia_app.rb:4
> pd bug_or_band
=> "beattle"
As in the bank can only perform transactions by physically bringing some device to a location maybe authenticate with stars/GPS satellites, magnetosphere readings or whatever. That way you have a solid control over any transaction that is supposed to take place against your account since you would be in-charge of the location
Eccentric anomaly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentric_anomaly
I tried out the live view in Tokyo, but the constant warnings about "don't use it while walking" (which are often false positives anyway, and regardless of the concept that I'm pretty sure when it's safe to hold up a phone being a 28yo adult) make it basically unusable for me.
This is also prevalent on those very scripted SNL-type 'comedy' channels that always make it to the front page, or vaccine safety videos (YouTube keeps showing me these videos of black people taking/administering vaccines in a propagandized way because they think I'm an African-American antivaxxer?). What's strange is these channels will have millions of subs but very few views, always with about 6:1 downvote:upvote.
Is there a name for this style of animation? Where it’s essentially a static image but with one part animated?
Building and Training Deep Fake Autoencoders
It's not cursive for lowercase. Look at "which."

The glyphs are just randomly cursive or print. I wasn't complaining about serifs, I was complaining about randomly mixing cursive and print.
This is pretty notable isn't it? This is the first exact, non-series solution (?) of a very famous equation from orbital mechanics, that was first posed 400+ years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_equation

The work this builds on was discussed here (121 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375575
Creating MicroService with .NET 5
Gets you out of child jail.
Oh, bad timing. Tajmar worked 4 years to verify the results. But now quacks can blame April 1.

Look at the dates: the conference papers were published march 17-19. The interview was march 21.

Ion drives are the future, but hopefully gravitational drives. Otherwise we will not get far
I also feel that most science, math, and engineering is much more axiomatic than law and finance. It is easy to guarantee that things don't break when you have reasonable assumptions in an axiomatic system and can deduce the rest, but there are so many exceptions, technicalities, and gotchas in law and finance that I would be afraid of opening either myself or the company I work for up to lawsuits.
+1 Used it for 2 days. Haven’t returned. And honestly the several rooms I visited had talkers who I would rather not listen to.
Even if BTC hadn’t had it’s ridiculous boom since October, it’s still deflationary from the simple fact every day there are fewer bitcoins as people lose keys.
Stupid question from someone who has zero idea about this field :

What are the chances they unknowingly create a new virus/ bacteria for which no known defenses are present. How is this probability mitigated during design process and what protocols are followed for ensuring this doesn't happen. I did read about bio safety levels, but I feel they themselves could be bypassed.
Depends on the universitiy.

I was blessed that my own university during the early 90's, already teached C++ after Pascal to first year students, C was never taught explicily and naturally Java was like 6 years away to be a reality.

The same univerity does teach modern C++ nowadays.
This is an unfortunate stereotype, and something that honestly made me loathe other "nerds" in high school.

I often felt alone, as every other computer nerd felt like a caricature, rigid, deeply unfun and unnecessarily draconian in their lifestyle. It was a huge relief to go to university and see other smart people passionate in computers, who would still drink, smoke, be social and confident looking like fools.
Someone above referenced 14 days in a row, working from home. In other words, they don’t want you to rent an apartment in Bali for a month while not on vacation.
You don't get to see the hacks in the apps you're using, starting with comments like "On some Samsung phones X happens even though API documentation says Y. We work around it by Z" or don't directly pay for the work that went into discovering the workaround.
> [...] is like saying that we're making up physical laws as we go along.

Um .. what's your alternative description on how scientific knowledge comes about?
Nice to see reproducible research getting more and more common. The sources are at https://github.com/oliverphilcox/Keplers-Goat-Herd

The link is also on the arxiv page but a bit hidden.
In most places, buses are not substantially better emissions-wise than private cars. Typical deployments have them travelling empty or nearly empty most of the day which negates the savings of packed rush hour trips. Trains are much better of course but only exist for a few routes. Both are substantially worse than working from home.
For everyone that's disappointed, remember that thrust without reaction mass is still possible with enough electrical power and lasers, and doesn't appear to violate any known laws of physics.

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

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

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