skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, you might remember me from earlier. I posted some feedback on your startup the last time I suppose and I found it as I was going though my old comments. I just wanted to check up on how the startup is coming along.

I'm still in the waitlist for now since I just signed up for the platform, is there any demo I could look at in regards to how this platform going to work?
Having used my PS4's remote play a handful of times to stream play games while I'm on the other side of town using my own unremarkable consumer grade networking on both ends, it can work surprisingly well for many types of games. How many people notice the difference in input lag between playing on a monitor vs TV's game mode vs TV's normal mode? Those tend to increase latency more than the latency of streaming from one side of the city to the other.

That being said, Google picked quite possibly the worst lineup of games for showcasing streaming play. They were mostly action/adventure and fighting games, which are extremely sensitive to input lag. They should've gone with RPGs, strategy, and sim games which really don't mind the latency. But I guess that's just classic Google not understanding the market they're trying to enter.
> Why not simply donate the money? How is this better than a Kickstarter?

Because if you're PG and you do it this way you can have the money be added to the topline revenue numbers for a company you have invested in:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opensea/company_fina...

This is marketing for a YC company.
If it is $25 a token with 100k of them, these are not exactly non-fungible, isn't it :)
awesome, this is great, a good way to show off NFT's
The amountyou pay in excess of the market value, is deductible as a donation. This is how charity auctions of commodities work.
What's the market value of the NFT? Who knows?
I think something like this is the last thing science needs. It further politicizes the nature of the nebulous "Science tm" and all on one person, perpetuating the idea that science is one monolithic block instead of a large number of fields, all getting slightly less wrong at their own pace. The president already has several advisors advising him on scientific matters, this just seems like a dumb optics move.
I was devout HP-48 fan back in the day, even did some custom programming for one for a client (got paid!), deployed about 20 of them in to the field. This thing was a real delight to write programs for. Just RPL, nothing fancy. For $99 at the time, they were a handheld powerhouse.

My singular complaint about them today is the lack of a backlight. It's just plain hard for me to read now.

I do have one on my iPhone which slots right in to the "good enough" category, even though the tactile feedback of the keyboard is lacking. What it lacks there is more than made up in handiness and readability. My go to application for it is equation solving.
On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
> systems aren't maintainable except by people that are very familiar with them.

I think that a consequence of "two sorts of knowledge: techne and metis" is that standardisation is good, but it only gets you so far. Past that point, you need to be familiar with the system.

This should not devalue our efforts to standardise, e.g. get systems to all log to the same aggregator, and emit the same basic stats, agree on naming and forwarding of correlation ids that will allow us to cross-reference related log entries.

But we should also recognise that those efforts will never cover everything.

e.g. If I changed over to working on an unfamiliar system in the same organisation, I would know where it should be logging to, what the field naming and general structure of those log entries should be, but I would not not know what healthy operation should look like in those logs.
> It's not a HN thing, it's everyone with a passion for technology, the same way how someone with a passion for cars will appreciate an old-timer rather than his Toyota Corolla.

From my experience at least 90% of people passionate about technology have never heard of LISP. If you restrict that set of people to just programmers then a lot more of them have heard of it, but there's still a surprising amount that haven't.
Just to give some perspective, JS applications I'm using on a daily basis on MNT Reform:

- GitLab

- Mattermost

- Telegram Web

- Glowing Bear

- CodiMD

- Discourse

- Mastodon

- (Discord, not daily)

- Youtube

- Youtube Music

I also use the KeepassCX and uBlock Origin extensions.

All of these work absolutely fine.
How do you display an NFT? Isn’t it literally just a hex code, with actual asset hosted somewhere else, which is publicly accessible by everyone? I’m serious. Isn’t that all it is? A pointer to some other resource, without access control at all?

At least when I bought a beanie baby, I got beanie baby. NFTs always felt like paying money, then printing up the first picture of a beanie baby from a Google image search, and then trying to convince yourself that had the only one.
HVAC systems are, I'm told, an NP complete problem. Every time you increase flow in one vent the flow in all the others has to be rebalanced.

Although with only 4 ducts you might expect that problem space to be solved.
I've read most of them. Some of the stuff is just gut bustingly funny. But it isn't grounded by anything, it comes close to just being a stream of nonsense. They basically come off as ideas for novels, or television shows, with no polish.
> Except this particular social signal was entirely made up by a corporation.

They didn't make it up, they just made a display of wealth (and therefore social status) associated with their product. Brands do that all the time but the signal has always existed.

The advertising serves to put the association between the product and wealth into the common knowledge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic). Or in other words, everybody knows that everybody knows that rings are expensive.

> Social signals that cost significant resources for something worthless are stupid.

No, you just don't understand social signals, which was my point. The "costing significant resources" part is the whole idea. Wedding rings and fresh kicks aren't expensive because they're valuable, they're valuable because they're expensive. If you want to understand the idea, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory#Honest_signa.... It makes perfect sense (ie, it's rational).

It's equivalent to saying, "I am willing to burn all of this valuable money to prove that I value you".

If we only bought things that were of purely-material value, we'd stop at food, weather-protective but un-aesthetic clothing, and basic shelter. Everything beyond those is social (or hyperreal).
Ask HN: Does LinkedIn allow using bots (I got spammed by them)?
I changed my name on LinkedIn to some nonsense to spot and ban bots, and it turns out the majority of the requests I get are from bots. Is it not restricted on LinkedIn?
‘Facebook Jail’: The Secret Rules That Put Users in the Doghouse
This is no better than uploading a PDF report on the NGO's website. An NFT does not bring any additional guarantees, adds a ton of complexity and most definitely doesn't save lives.
>Excess compared to what?

I was reading this in the operations research sense of optimality. From this standpoint, they are excess in the current set of constraints but may be vital (an non-excessive) if those constraints change in the future.
Ha, my mom did the same thing. Luckily, my issues of The Transactor survived the purge.

Back issues of CC are archived here: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
Game Of Thrones has rape, child murder, and torture. I think it'd do fine in that respect.
Giant assumption that Silicon Valley VCs missed out on Bitcoin. YC invested in Coinbase in 2012. Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures invested in 2013. You don't think their partners bought at least a bit of Bitcoin then as well?
Seems like the original article/book and your comment tie back to Little's Law from queuing theory which is used as justification in Kanban for minimizing WIP.
The most usable templates for managers on Google
I read past the second page of Google and I found the best templates for managers regarding planning, goal setting, on-boarding, meetings, personal, and made a digestible list for you to save.
My uncle argued such a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: the Ohio River is gradually migrating south into Kentucky, so more of that state is now on the Indiana side of the river.
There is a 0% chance you had a business idea that none of the tens of thousands of engineers, product managers, marketers, scientists, and inventors at big tech companies have had.

The path you're describing (have an idea, get hired to build it) doesn't happen at big tech companies or any other companies that I've ever heard of. Having an idea says nothing about your ability to execute (or whether it's even a good idea).

If you want to get hired as a product manager, either build something yourself and get acquired or go the conventional route of working for someone else.
That beef number is going to vary widely. The low end might be grass-fed beef on rotational grazing regenerative grassland fed a methane suppressing supplement versus beef raised on factory farmed corn grown on land created by burning down the rain forest.
Yeah, I don't see how to contact the actual author.
Ask HN: What Is Privacy for You?
> It seems like you're firmly on the side of the one with kids

Not really. I think it's an interesting mental exercise and can see the pros and cons to all paths.

I think the optimal path is a mixture of all three. Work hard enough to afford the life you want to live (ideally at a job that is itself gratifying and meaningful) and then fill the rest of the time with experiences shared with friends and family.
There are NFTs on those, but they suffer the problem that the currencies of the blockchains in question aren't very convertible from actualmoney. ETH is relatively convertible and can run NFTs, so they tend to happen there.
I was able to guess that it was the Mario game (but I was unsure since this is HN not gamefaqs), but I'd think there are probably other acronyms that people here might jump to - I think the acronym should probably be expanded in the title.
Interesting...

This HN article was upvoted, yet, the above set of text, which is copied-and-pasted verbatim from the article, was downvoted...

Now, WHY could that be, I wonder?

?

A bit of a paradox; a bit of a contradiction there...

Are there two different sets of voters, one for the articles, and another for the comments?

?

Or is there maybe a (cough cough) machine-learning algorithm out there in cyberspace somewhere (not run by YCombinator or HN -- perhaps run by an adversarial foreign country or corporation) that auto-downvotes things it doesn't like (key words, key phrases, in this case negative comments about "systemd") -- summoning human aid when needed? ("Houston, we have a problem!" <g> Or the foreign equivalent of that! <g>)

?

As was the slogan for "The National Enquirer" (a supermarket tabloid) in the 1980's:

"Inquiring Minds Want To Know"...(!)

<g>

I know that such a thing could exist -- because I know that if I were so inclined to do so -- I could write one myself!

As could many other AI/Machine Learning Engineers -- in this day and age!

(Note To Future Self: Perhaps I should write an essay about this potential phenomenon...)
This article seems to be a rehash of the paper ‘Why AI is harder than we think’[1].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf

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Related discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964819
Some wise older friends of ours literally wear hose clamps as wedding rings. Adjustable over the course of their lives.
Tax difference is non-existent, and you can't block it from the public registry.
All the liquidity and capital is on Bitcoin and Ethereum (~$1.5T in capital). Ethereum is in the late stages of migrating to proof-of-stake. It will happen in the next 9 months.
Hey, just curious, what's the credibility of this post? When I tried to look for who wrote this, it just says, "Learn21". Is the author behind Learn21 someone with experience in startups?

And if so, please elucidate.
I'd pay for fast remote builds that integrate into my source control (GitHub and Azure DevOps) and creates production builds fast.
Its a no-brainer for most. Put in a couple years of work, cash out big, go live the dream. Every incentive aligns with this though process so why stop doing it now?
I guess you could say there's value in riding any flavor of the month. However, I think there are plenty of fads that responsible organisations should shy away from. The fact that something is gaining popularity is not an excuse, imo.
This is generally the problem with idolizing people. PG is a human. Humans do stupid stuff.
That's the problem with extreme leftist arguments in general. If you don't have the same opinion, or even hold an opinion that falls short of the furthest left possible on the spectrum, you are either bulldozed into submission or, if you refuse to submit, "canceled" as racist or xenophobe. It's incredibly toxic behavior.

Nothing is considered an acceptable response except full submission to one side of the argument. Any alternate response is racist, abandoning the argument is white fragility, and silence is complicity in genocide.
My new Startup Board Mantra: 1-1-1
I would just like to observe that the title at the source:

"Man shot by FBI agent outside CIA headquarters after allegedly pulling out a weapon"

and here on Hacker News:

"... after allegedly pulling out"

Have profoundly different colloquial meanings.
A CBP contract shows the risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone
Thanks for this succinct and useful list. :)
There is nothing closed or proprietary about Apple usb keyboards.

There are 3rd party options with a command key - you just don’t happen to own one.
The WP is one of the most highly respected newspapers in the world. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please provide your extraordinary evidence.
I tried it out when Stadia was launched but never got it to work reliably. Despide a wired 1gb fiber connection, I still got frame drops and lags quite frequently. While I wouldn't call it unplayable, it really doesn't compare well to dedicated consoles. Even for a very casual gamer myself, I feel an Xbox Series S is a better purchase.
Seems we're already working on fixing the problem, no? Hence why the IPBES report exists!

But if this modern narrative of "We've angered the gods!" makes you feel good, I'm not sure anything I can say will refute your certainty about our coming doom.
Speculating: Perhaps a feature for automated regression testing? Start the game with the "cursed" seed, run your script of inputs and compare the outputs against the results of your last production release.
Versus the normal RNG, where a game difference which touches the RNG would alter ALL following output, hiding later game differences.
It's weird seeing a website that so vehemently defends artificial speculation in housing markets get so worked up about digital raffle tickets
Yes, but supply and demand can be further broken down into these and other factors.
I don't think Mr. Graham is under any moral obligation to consider this issue unless it remotely plausible that NFTs issued for charitable purposes (or just NFTs, period) will "go mainstream" to the extent that they have any noticable environmental impact.
git doesn't make linus torvalds money though.

People used git because it was mandated for linux kernel work.
...talking about NFTs in general rather than the nonprofit[0] or how to donate to them.

[0] I already have forgotten their name.
Except in this specific example, OpenBSD doesn't have /proc
I don't think it's fair to say that 'massive environmental harm...killing even more people' is a likely outcome. The carbon offsetting will fix that up, but even so the environmental impact of proof-of-work has likely been overstated in online discourse.

Of course, it is indeed a somewhat ridiculous moral money laundering scheme. I guess the main argument for it would be that NFTs are hot right now, and thus might attract more donations? That seems less than likely.
Smaller chains have less economic security and less integrations, so it makes sense if they are expecting large donations to use something well established that is very unlikely to suffer a reorg attack and that is easily accepted worldwide.

And as others have said, 1 nft makes no difference to block production. and for the long term energy efficient solutions are in testing now (for likely deployment in Q4):
https://rayonism.io/
How the fuck do you have the energy to gatekeep DIY?
Well obviously for those who don't want children the question is not difficult to answer. I'd like to hear from those who have children or who want children whether they think it's fair that you can only extend your life by a couple of hundred years at the expense of passing on your genes or being a parent. I guess adoption could still be an option.

I just think that if one wants to continue using the worlds resources for a very extended period of time then one should not be allowed to produce children. I think there are many good reasons for this. One example: many youngsters today are already struggling to afford anywhere to live with wealthier grandparents and parents owning more and more property. They are often stuck living with their parents well into their 30's or older. Imagine being stuck living with your parents for 200 years lol.
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If they can't do it fairly, correctly, and quickly, they shouldn't be permitted to do it and profit from it at all.
I don’t know what there is to explain, but I’m always open to the possibility that I’ve missed something. Ethereum, in particular, is at least capable of interesting things.

That doesn’t mean it will change the world. But I’m always interested in hearing from intelligent people who differ on why they think it will.
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Definitely what the kids mean when they say "scientist" for career day.
To me the unstructured area is the future of applications development and the structured area is barren and overhyped.

(e.g. 'eventually consistent' analytics is so 2021, because it looks like you are doing something quantitative,except it doesn't matter if you get the right answer. It will get you claps from a certain audience but most people lose patience pretty quick when the 'numbers don't add up'.)
It would help to consider if free will is a coherent notion in the first place.
It's great that PG is donating to a good cause, and anyone who donates that much money is welcome to brag about it, but that doesn't make the explanation any less baffling. Imagine a very slight modification of this scenario:

> I'm going to donate millions of dollars to a life-saving charity, and in return they're going to manufacture and ship me a barrel of low-grade hazardous waste. Anyone who likes is welcome to try and outbid me for the barrel in order to raise even more money. Of course, I'll pay a bit extra to build a vault to safely store the barrel and minimize the risk of leakage into the environment. Afterward, we can calculate how many ounces of toxic chemicals it took to save each human life.

> Isn't it great how technology can help make a difference in people's lives? I'm looking forward to seeing what barrels of toxic waste can help us accomplish in the future.

EDIT:

> Oh, by the way, this has nothing to do with the fact that I have a lot of money invested in a company that makes and transports barrels.
Windows is much harder to support. That’s the problem.

A modular system could be better, but Microsoft’s is not it.
You may not agree with OP, but I don't think this view is delusional. Starting a company is a lot of day to day work in terms of hours, but it's more rewarding than doing interview prep. If you spend weeks or months studying for interviews and don't land a job, you get nothing. If you start a business you generally get paid or make profit the whole time, you build relationships and end up with something tangible to show for the experience.

Personally, I would much rather be running a moderately successful business than studying esoteric programming questions full time. At the least, the relative "easiness" of starting a business vs the normal FAANG interview process is personally subjective.
I really hope that there will be a court case that tells the game companies to stuff their objections where they belong and makes it clear that every game I've bought on Steam can be played on Geforce Now. I bought the game. I play it on a computer. The game companies should have zero rights to decide whether that computer sits under my desk or in a data center.
You can also do that with Deno:
- Built in testing library
- Lint with `deno lint`
- Bundle with `deno bundle`
- Format with `deno fmt`
In that case even the mere presence of a field called 'race' is the ridiculous thing.
Earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast
ArxivDiff: view diffs of paper revisions from ArXiv
I think differential dataflow might have some application to the less structured domain and that makes it interesting.
I initially started writing half an encyclopedia here, but I scrapped that. Some random bits:

- There's rather limited contact between the linguistic communities of Belgium.

- Knowledge of nl is generally extremely limited in Wallonia. I have a feeling it's improving a bit, even if nl is not obligatory in education there.

- Knowledge of fr is clearly worsening with the youngest generation in Flanders, even if fr is obligatory in education there.

- Mixed nl/fr work environments used to be fr.

- Friends from outside Belgium often tell me they notice absurd humor as a common trait.

- Lots of interesting things to say about language community history too. Long story short, the language border hardly moved the last few hundred years, except for Brussels turning majority nl-> fr in the last ~100 years [0].

- Did you know Belgium has large ar, ber, de (official language!), it, ku, ln and tr communities too?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francization_of_Brussels

P.S. If you like Poelvoorde, watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brand_New_Testament .
Yes I(the author) have been associated with startups since 2012. I have started 3 startups and have worked in 3 over the past years. I was head of technology in my last role at a VC funded startup.
Yes, but he doesn’t just like, he _would_ like. The word would is a past-tense form of the verb to will. Checkmate.
When I go for a walk outside I wear a mask, because I have seasonal allergies and tree pollen is high here in Massachusetts.

I've been vaccinated, (just got my second shot, so two weeks to go...), but I'll be wearing a mask indoors for probably the next year or so. Unless we start doing things like verifying vaccination or tests for entry to indoor public venues, it's the only thing that makes sense to keep my family safe.

I hate that wearing a mask became politicized. My own opinion is that the reason it did was that the government knowingly decided to lie about the efficacy of wearing a mask in the early days of the pandemic in the U.S. The reason for the lie was because there was insufficient supply of masks, and they didn't trust the public not to buy them off the shelves (which happened anyway), or panic (people got angry and polarized instead).

The CDC and the government agencies communicating policy were not in the business of getting the truth out so people could take sensible precautions. They focused on control and tactical preservation of opinion and the election couldn't have come at a worse time. That focus on control became obvious and they lost the public trust. Everything else spun out on social media with people taking sides instead of talking evidence.

It was truly depressing to watch.
Are you using discord in the browser? Does the desktop app work on the reform?