skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC gives you a very modest amount of cash, thanks to the risks involved. It’s not really anything that should go to your head - if it does, that’s a red flag and something to be actively addressed because you’ll be dealing with larger amounts later on (if you’re lucky). This founder is from a LCOL country so the equation may be a bit different.

Furthermore, even if YC valuation were sky high (which it isn’t), it’s not synonymous with success in any way - it’s not even an indicator. You know what is an indicator, though? How well the cofounders get along.
I love that library, I use it for Python all the time.

In fact, it has a function to generate random hex colors too, and you can even filter it to only generate darker colors so you can create nice looking random avatar circles with a white text color to ensure you get good contrast ratios without having to worry about doing a YIQ based contrast calculation.
Author here. They are very different. Code (a fantastic book, by the way) is a technical book that provides an introduction to how computers work from first principles. The Switch is a historical book that describes how the switching components of the first computers evolved in a telecom context (starting from the birth of the telegraph), then were adapted for computing.

There's a bit of crossover insofar as Code uses relays to build an understanding of how digital logic works and has a few brief historical asides. Likewise The Switch provides a few brief technical explanations to help the non-expert reader along. But in general The Switch will not tell you much about how computers work and Code will not tell you much about where they came from.
Did you look at SNOBOL/REBOL/SPITBOL/RED?

https://www.red-lang.org/2013/11/041-introducing-parse.html
>Is there no consequence on twitter for this type of stuff?

Ideally there would be social consequences for stuff like this, but there's absolutely no risk in trying to drum up lynch mobs against people online, but there is potential career benefit to be gained.
Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables
> That is literally their job.

It is literally not their job. Their job is to interpret and enforce the laws passed by the body answerable to the people through elections. At least in the US, there is only a very limited federal common law, and there is no common law precedent for generically prohibiting intergenerational environmental impacts. There are those who argue the "public trust doctrine" should drive these outcomes, but again, no such doctrine has ever been applied to carbon emissions in the US (or even any other form of pollution). That would be judicial lawmaking. The idea that unelected black robes can fundamentally remake the US economy without legislative authorization is literally the antithesis of how it's supposed to work. That's not their job.
Negative. Mike Uniform Lima, please descend to flight level one zero, turn heading zero tree one abeam Sierra and request alternate approach.
I made the mistake of turning on automatic photo back up (I have no idea how to bulk copy photos off the iphone without a mac, I've given them up as lost honestly, most of them are random crap anyway) and now my icloud account is completely full and I keep getting told I need to send Apple money.

I definitely prefer my current phone that lets me just rsync ~/Pictures.
It seems like a lot of iCloud storage-using services are conveniently designed to just keep eating up more and more space. Take photos for example: most people only need to archive old photos and rarely access them, but such a use case isn't really supported by iCloud photos. You either keep your entire collection in the cloud and in a state of fast (expensive) retrieval, or not at all.

For iMessages every photo or video you sent seems to take up separate storage in the iMessage portion of iCloud, and it's difficult to delete because you have to scroll through and select them.
with 4 hours talking nonsense to our colleagues and another two hours in coordination meetings.

Lets do that two hours work a day and get out into the garden. Is that ok?
How to Set Up a Simple DIY NAS Build
There is merit to your thought process but it could just as easily be that life is the spark that sets off an explosion that irrevecobly changes the universe.

Think of a virus. A handful of specially shaped molecules has permanently changed human society.
Nah - it's already hard enough to manage email + Slack, and I don't want yet another workaround to manage / catalog / filter incoming messages to me.

No one asked for managing texts like we manage files.
> I don't think this can be solved, but it's real.

Of course it can be solved, just not on a public pseudonymous forum. As long as people exist that are entertained by trolling, derailing or just in general making the internet a little worse every day you cannot win. Filtering content or accounts is a fools errand, filtering people allowed to comment and post on the other hand would trivially solve this, especially when their real reputation is on the line with every comment but then you don´t get the network effects that low effort account creation and pseudonymity give you.
It's amazing when pair programming in-person with the same person for a couple weeks how easy it is to resume working state after an interuption or lunch break. Same goes for much less lull time being unproductive, even if not doing something else but unconsciously working quite slowly.
Should we try to understand, or mock it until it happens?
I've seen this topic a few times. As an American, the only time I've had a jarring experience with fake smiles is when I visited the Japan section of Disney's Epcot. It was a really bizarre experience watching the cashiers be overly cheerful. I've never been to Japan so I don't know if it's normal behavior or more of a performance for tourists.
Bought it at the right time from the right person :)
A judgeship is made up of one dipshit in robes

I bet you're actually a smart person who is quite familiar with the appeals process, precedent, the distinction between common and statute law, and so forth. But for some reason you've chosen to field this sort of well-poisoning argument instead.
But weren't circles selected by the poster? In this case the "follower" want to filter
That is trivially not simpler.
I had done something too, but I also needed a Manifest.mbdb parser to reconstruct backup to disk, then process the messages and copy all the images around to make it work. I did it mostly to make a simple-to-read archive of chats before deleting them.
It especially helps that the game itself is written as a mod, so they need good documentation internally anyways.
Never attribute to malice…
What I’ll share (not a YCer): I’ve “lost” out twice in power deals at companies, and even if everyone supports you and says you’re in the right, it can be disconcerting when the staff simply align themselves with whoever won. If you’re in this position, you have my sympathies.
Ask HN: What's your “that's it, I'm leaving” story?
A client was looking to implement an ERP for his business. He wanted everything but he didn't want to pay much money, a classic. In the end we agreed on a budget that was comfortable for both.

At some point in the negotiation he blatantly mentioned "I don't trust you, I would like to split payment into monthly installments and be able to cancel anytime, no strings attached". Despite this massive red flag I decided to go through (won't do it again, ever) and we sign a contract with that clause, which turned out to be my lifesaver.

The guy was a complete [REDACTED], we were delivering progress way ahead of time and he was always complaining about one thing or another, and kept adding requirements that were not there, threatening us to dump the whole thing because of the clause.

Two months in we had enough, I called for a meeting with him and his team, then proceeded to invoke the clause on my favor, he was very pissed off to find out that it could actually be used against him, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. We parted ways that evening and haven't looked back ever since. So long man, let's never meet again.
Their paper "Concrete problems in AI safety"[1] is interesting. Could be more concrete.
They're run into the "common sense" problem, which I sometimes define, for robots, as "getting through the next 30 seconds without screwing up". They're trying to address it by playing with the weighting in goal functions for machine learning.

They write "Yet intuitively it seems like it should often be possible to predict which actions are dangerous and explore in a way that avoids them, even when we don’t have that much information about the environment." For humans, yes. None of the tweaks on machine learning they suggest do that, though. If your constraints are in the objective function, the objective function needs to contain the model of "don't do that". Which means you've just moved the common sense problem to the objective function.

Important problem to work on, even though nobody has made much progress on it in decades.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565.pdf
Nobody lives in the luxury houses, they’re just a convenient way to stash away money.
Who cares. I clear out my messages all the time
I don't agree with that. I definitely think the super rich should have a huge portion of their wealth redistributed, but giving it directly to people is a bad use.

I think it would be better to invest in solid infrastructure, education, healthcare, affordable housing, rehab, crime reduction, etc. so that everyone has a legit chance of improving their standard of living. There are some really hard, poverty skewed cultural problems that need to be solved and simply giving people money isn't going to do that.

The benefit of investing in all of those infrastructure related things is that it creates jobs for people that want them. Hopefully enough people fight their way out of poverty that the next generation will have people with the knowledge base and skillset to improve things even more. I honestly don't think we're going to get a solution to poverty, petty crime, etc. until we're able to engage a lot more people that have lived in that world. Our supposed "leaders" just don't understand it well enough to come up with viable solutions.

The biggest hurdle is filling the government with people that actually care and want to improve the world as a whole. I don't know if that'll every happen :-(
Gerrymandering doesn't play a real role in Federal elections.
I have some sympathy for the difficulty evaluating tech plays when "an RSS search engine" turns into twitter.

These ideas are the starting point, but it's difficult to tell what they might turn into. Quite possibly they evaluate the ability of the founders to shape the company into something interesting during the program.

But more than that, they're probability are trying to figure out how well the founders will perform at demo day, after they've helped them polish the play.
Thankfully, there's more things to do in life than wage labor, so people can continue to have a purpose after "retiring".
To give them credit, dream world has provided a lot of entertainment, unfortunately not the video game kind
Google Voice has the same problem. The search function is useless. It does not return results that should match, and it does return results that shouldn't. Scrolling back through just a few months worth of messages can take 10-20 minutes. I wish I knew why it was so awful.
Here you are, trying to say that Covid is less of a threat to yourself and others than the vaccine.

Very few reactions have occurred. If you're worried about it, also don't go outside, cross a street, or go swimming in any body of water.
If it's legitimate security it should've done via an explicit proxy not an attempt to break into every conversation and hope it works right 5 years from now.
I have the opposite experience. Ditched twitter and miss nothing, but ocassionally there is a sporting event that only streams on Facebook or there is a coffeeshop that requires a facebook login to work. Hence a fake facebook name. Facebook appears much more indispensible to me.
That's not what cognitive dissonance means.

That's called being a two faced lier.

Cognitive dissonance requires psychological stress as a driver of change in attitude.

Politicians seem incapable of changing their beliefs, typically because most of them are narcissistic.

Narcissism, self absorption general, and a lack of empathy, better explains why ploticians espouse differing beliefs depending on who and when the audience is.

Edit: fixed a word
A state’s dysfunction is not diminished by the relative largesse and power of its government.
The idea has been floating in the air for quite a while and I agree that something like this is really needed. What I'd personally want to see is a network of anon users hand picking interesting pages with a search and a news feed on top of that. I'd hand pick all these users and kick out anyone who clutters my feed with junk pages. Vouching for pages should be as easy as clicking the FB like button (which is blocked by my uBO), ideally without JS. Later, when this thing earns some trust, I'd install a browser extension. It should be easy to change the anon userids while optionally retaining the network I've been subscribed too. Saving the network can be as simple as copying userids in my list, maybe with some annotations. It should be easy to share my id and discover others, e.g. I came across an interesting page on Wikipedia, saw that mr4123 liked it and added that id to my list. I may want to have multiple userids with different type of pages that I wouldn't want to mix together. I'd pay $5/mo for that, maybe more if I notice the network brings interesting stuff I wouldn't find myself. From a higher level, such service has sound economic value: instead of hundred people spending an hour to find something, the service lets everyone except one to save that one hour. That's why people come to HN, after all.
I presume the right time was 20-30 years ago?
>Netflix, in my opinion, is not a technology company. It is a media company that uses a digital content platform to deliver their product. Uber is also not a technology company, it is a transportation company that uses an online platform to connect users with their drivers. Both of these companies could use other means to deliver their products/services, but they've chosen to use a digital platform.

>That said, I'll admit that it is very hard to clearly define the line nowadays. Almost every major company has a sizable IT department, an internet footprint, and/or a data center. So if those were the bar to entry, then nearly every company would be a tech company.

I totally agree with you here
Haven't heard of this project till seeing this post.

Checked out his youtube channel and the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch if you've ever wondered what its like to port software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzZ8R4gphE
Is there a measure of affluence that captures lifestyle, income, and assets? Something like:

Change in overall net worth - consumption

It seems there are so many ways to capture what "wealthy" really means. Some edge cases that challenge my understanding of wealthy:

1. I could make and spend $1m/year and have a net worth of $0.

2. I could earn $1m/year and consume $20k

2.1 I could donate the difference and have a net worth change of $0

2.2 I could save/invest the difference and grow my wealth

3. I could make $1m and have my $1m investments go to $0, leaving no change in my net worth (aside from that year's consumption)

4. I could make $0 and have my investments grow by $1m

5. I could have a net worth of $0 but earn $1m/year

6. I could make $10m/year but have my $100m investments go down to $50m, leaving me $40m poorer, but still be both a high earner and high net worth individual.

Also, debt factors in to these.

All of these variables move, and the definition of "rich" seems to be an ill-defined function of:
- Income (from all sources)
- Net worth
- net worth change
- Consumption/lifestyle
- Debt
- Other (connections, access to capital, creditworthiness)
iMsgs, esp vids --> GB --> new phone + icloud $$

But, I'll be honest; if you start to see all of Apple's decisions through the lens of "business decisions", you'll tend to get pretty disenchanted and crestfallen (perhaps even resentful)
This is the biggest pain I have in Twitter. I use Twitter mostly for Statistics/Bayesian methods (in English) and Chilean politics (in Spanish). I wished people could chose which topic to follow — I don't want to SPAM people with irrelevant content.
Never mind what the software does from a user perspective, what definition does this project use for 'pantry'? Wikipedia agrees with my understanding of the term and tells me it's a room for storing food etc. And this definition is used in the United States too, so it appears not to be some Americanism. But LibreFood pantries have guests?
I thought it was going to be about something specific and pretty, it was actually more general about the amount of control social media has over what people see. That's all, I don't think it was very deep or contained evidence to support it, just an opinion that was different from what I thought the headline said. Probably wasn't worth me posting about.
Delete all of your social media accounts full stop
This is also why phones have absurdly high resolution poorly compressedt camera picture/video despite the optics not makit use of all the detail.
>I'd imagine it's more of a defense in depth approach.

Yes exactly. One necessary, but not sufficient, layer of a multi-layer defense-in-depth security strategy.
stackoverflow is where you go for indepth discussions. Math and physics stackoverflow are excellent, as well as cryptography, security, ancient languages. The mechanism of twitter doesn't really allow for going in depth and it promotes snarky one liners, which even with snark removed, remain one liners. It's a much more noisy medium, IMO, for intellectual exchange.
Yes, it is, because you constantly hear about dollars, and rarely hear about euros, in the bubbles that hacker news readers live in.
The page has been changed since my post. It originally called them “replacements”, which paints a totally different picture. From reading the GitHub Issue thread regarding the name change, it sounds like various people on Reddit were making similar concerns about the original choice of wording too.
Has it been tried without means testing in a capitalist system though? Where only the most basic necessities are provided to anykne who wants them, and you can buy whatever else you want beyond that?
https://www.superyachtfan.com/lists/biggest-yachts https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/largest-yachts-2837827/
The AI has trouble knowing what is important in the conversation. It seems like such difficulty creates an incentive for a user to ask someone something again instead of looking it up in history (although this also may be a signal for AI that something in the history is important).

Other reason may be that it is used by services - they want as long history as possible to find out what kind of person you are in case you are being investigated.

Anyway these artificial obstacles most often have sinister motives.
No, it forces people who can’t afford to compartmentalize themselves with dedicated offices and child care to admit their humanity. Those who do have dedicated office spaces, nice equipment and childcare/no children are able to create their persona as readily as ever.
I was under the impression that Steve Jobs’ was sjobs@apple.com
There was a Han Dynasty (200 BC - 200 AD) ritual involving feeding mush to 70-year-olds. (Why mush? Because at that age you've probably lost your teeth.)

However, I have the impression that this is basically as true today as it was then.
+100

Discoverability is very underrated
Is the compiling part "a bit painful" as @tobiasu comments above? Because that is what I am trying to avoid.
Giving cash directly does work, but it is a part of a solution in resolving a larger problem, like getting out of the car dependent suburbia schema that is considered unsustainable.
Seems relevant news for hackers.
I didn't understand this comment in the article.

Demo day comes after being accepted to YC... Do YC ban companies from demo day? I thought everybody presented. I can't see any reference to them having raised any money at demo day either.
The US money only went to households making below a certain threshold. Most other countries dumped heavily into their unemployment programs, sometimes funding full salaries for up to a fourth of the country over what is now looking like a 24 month period of time (see France).
Conceptually clearer HTTP methods is another valid direction to consider. Of course, the farther we wander from hypermedia, the farther we wander from the HT part of HTTP. At some point we recognize that HTTP became popular because firewalls let port 80 and port 443 traffic in and we have code-level APIs to do work, we just try to make our work look like it’s hypertext.
Wages tend to keep up with inflation. Idle assets on the other hand don’t.
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My gut feeling is 'wrong'. Justice is concerned with concepts of right and wrong. Politics is concerned with concepts of power and, possibly, public opinion. Lawmaking is concerned with whoever can pay off the politicians most effectively :D

If judges are not at least equally capable of throwing their weight around as politicians and kings and the like, why even have them? They are meant to not ANSWER to kings, Presidents, and legislative authorization. Are they supposed to rule, instead? No, which is why legislation is sometimes a countervailing force. But they sure are not there to act as puppets to the powerful and the politicians.
Plenty of reasons to actually criticize the company, without the intellectually lazy act of crying racial and sexual preference with no basis.
Never underestimate magicians.

I think that if I wanted to solve this at all costs, one of tve things I'd do (in addition to working with radar engineers and scientists of course) is to hire a number of magicians to get them to try to recreate the experience of the pilots.

Because those pilots are good and highly skilled, but so are Penn and Teller and they still get fooled from time to time so it is not impossible.

I.e. I disagree with everyone: those that underestimate pilots and say we don't have good photos and also those who think pilots are infallible.
Ask HN: Best NLP for Emotion Analysis
Want to build something cool as a side project. What is the best NLP for analysis of emotions in text these days?
Curious, what's your client? I'm interested in that.
It is definitely not just your fault
This is superb, addicting as hell, and now I have to force myself to stop because I have real work to do.

The game gets increasingly jittery as it gets busier. It might be worth writing some tests to simulate lots of players moving around so it's easier to tune the performance.
Sure it is. People pay other people for goods and services all the time; it happens naturally and is simple. Forcibly taking money away from some people and giving it to others is not natural or simple: it takes a huge, bloated government bureaucracy, which does a terrible job at it anyway.
HD ~= 1080p ~= 1K. 4 x 1080p ~= 4K.
It works just fine in Firefox for Android for me after enabling desktop mode.