skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 5.9 billion (19 was a typo) was investment capital. Per the source, investors were:

Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Scott Banister, DFJ Growth, Google, Rizvi Traverse Management, Fidelity Investments, Threshold, Rothenberg Ventures, Elon Musk, ACE & Company, Bill Lee, David Sacks, Valor Equity Partners, Sherpa Capital, Ecosystem Ventures, Baillie Gifford, Barney Pell, Vanedge Capital, Matthew Pritzker Company, Capricorn Venture Partners, Musket Research Associates, Tao Capital Partners, DBL Partners, Michael Cheung, Otter Rock Capital, NASA, Syren Capital Advisors, FoundersX Ventures, The K Fund, 7percent Ventures, Space Angels, Troy Capital Partners, M13, Seed-Resolute, Equidate, Microventures, Alphabet, G Squared, Peter Diamandis, Oakhouse Partners, Craft Ventures, Hemisphere Ventures, All Blue Capital, Bracket Capital, TH Capital, #adm VENTURES, ACE Capital, Threshold Ventures, Manhattan Venture Partners, Gigafund, Decacorn Capital, StraightPath Venture Partners, Zillow Group, Aeon Family of Funds, Team in Residence, ADIT Ventures, GC1 Ventures, Ernest H. Pomerantz, Lord Rothschild, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Most of these are non-taxpayer sources. NASA was small as far as I know, I don't recall seeing them listed in any of the recent (much larger) rounds. Unless you count the Ontario provincial government paying their teachers including their pensions, and the thus-funded pension fund investing in SpaceX.
Yeah of course I didn't read the article. It's literally was the same as an article saying "Cows are green! If you're smart enough it becomes math!" I can't feed the clickbait machine.
This isn't an article. This is a computer-generated roll-up of a series of tweets, hence the brevity.
I think older people want to work in tech even less. Of course there are exceptions but I think older people have a lot less bullshit tolerance.
Absolutely agree with this. Both from a consumer perspective and as a website owner I'd prefer to have ads that are simply intended to appeal to the expected audience for that site/content, as you would expect for offline ads. Unfortunately it doesn't tend to be a good use of time for small to medium operators to curate their own ads directly, so in order to get there we need major ad networks to support this, and, critically, advertisers on those platforms to see value in contextual ads vs precise targeting and tracking.

I do think that value is there though. Some of our best marketing for AutoTempest has been through youtube sponsorships where we find creators and videos relating to cars and car buying, and work with with the creator to include a pitch for our service in exchange for (usually) a flat fee. It's dead simple for both sides, and as long as what you're advertising is legitimately useful and you're transparent about the relationship, the response from viewers tends to be very positive. I suppose it could be trickier if your product had a very niche audience, but I would think these days there are corners of the web targeting every niche, so you just need to find where your potential customers hang out, and go there, rather than trying to target them wherever they might be.
Proton is absolutely incredible. It doesn't support all games, but what it does support work fantastically well. It's a great 80/20 solution for your games library.

You still need to have Windows for a couple bleeding edge must play AAA games and a few slackers that haven't been ported over, but there's a wealth of wonderful games that run great on Linux now. More than enough to last a lifetime.
Actually, no, that's incorrect.

You're thinking of wallhacks or wallhacks+aimbot

Aimbots only aim at things you can see, it's one of their main features. That way you won't snap into someone's head through a wall which would make everyone know you're hacking and get you banned.
The refusal to follow the CDC guidelines for vaccinated individuals and masks was simply a good example of a government that was/is not interested in following the science, and demonstrates that CA is not going to act rationally in a public health situation. That's not an environment I would want to risk starting a business or investing in.
That would run against law as it stands in most places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
I don't mind to pay for privacy and transparency.
FB and other platforms are hoarding and abusing highly personal information for profit, they're parasites.
In my experience, companies tend to refuse investing in doing open source work because they're usually scared that it will be extra work, a waste of time, or will cause legal issues/scare investors.

I'd hope that actual programmers in a team would be excited about doing open source work if given the chance though? It's just hard to convince a business that it's worth doing.
There are various game genres (flight sims, real-time strategy, simulation games like Factorio and Kerbal Space Program) that just don't fit the console + controller paradigm. Individually, the niches may be small but together they're not insignificant.
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They don’t know you purchased it because it’s not commonly shared to ad networks unless they are making cohorts but that is usually done at the product category level.

There are many success stories with ads. I’ve been involved with two exits that is all attributed to digital advertising. No where else do you get a ROAS in the double digits. Here is a good example of the difference. When I worked for a challenger bank. We paid under $75 per signup and $10 per app install. Chase and BOA pays $1200 per new customer in marketing expenses using traditional marketing channels.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If we lived in XHTML 2.0 universe instead of HTML5 universe, then that would be the way you do things. Not with SQL and JSON mind you, but with XML everywhere.

I had a glimpse into that world and it looked pretty good at the time. XML databases + XQuery can produce whatever you want as long as it's XML. And XML could be many things. Many horrible things too, made by people with arms growing out of places they shouldn't.
Arch Linux is amazing. The biggest surprise for me was that it's more stable than so-called stable distros, probably because the various packages don't end up drifting several months from each other when keeping up to date.

Hopefully this eventually results in more user friendly Arch Linux installers. The learning curve is an absolute wall when installing, even after several years on Linux, but after that it's pretty standard.

Based on this trajectory I expect they'll be migrating to NixOS (or maybe Nix on Arch) in about 5-10 years.
We all realise this at some point. Some at 30, some at 35, some at 40....
It's funny because the article starts with a series of factors that the author claims to reduce code quality, and then goes to conclude that the project suffers from excess of quality.

And then ends it claiming that quality is something that slows down development...
The idea of teamwork and clearing all planned tickets aren't reasons to work overtime. Teamwork in isolation, $0. Tickets on the tracker, $0 in and of themselves. There must be some other reason behind suddenly caring more about the tickets than the manager did when making staffing decisions in the months leading up to the crisis, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue.
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Then they have early equity, get rich after you fix it, and everyone thinks they're smart.
The answer to your question can be found by researching the Cambridge Analytica MyPersonality tool scandals.

It is a tool that I personally used and tested. I wouldn’t call it a scandal but I’d describe it as being open to researchers and the general public, enormously powerful, and accurate. It only became a scandal after Steve Bannon’s team of smart political researchers used it with a high degree of effectiveness to get Trump into the White House —- and the Democrats who were still using weak user-data like race & ethnicity said hey that’s not fair! Essentially some researchers at Cambridge had a large number of participants take a personality test and click a button to share their FB account data. The personality test measured 5 traits:

1) Openness

2) Conscientiousness

3) Extroversion

4) Agreeableness

5) Neuroticism

Now based on our large sample size of personality test takers, we can correlate that you or this Facebook user you’re studying has the following 5 personality traits and they probably have the following oddly-specific likes: ex: Anime, Lil Wayne, popping bubble wrap, Frosted Mini Wheats, AK47s, anal sex, cheap beer, and the sweet smell of air right before it rains.
Isn't a women's shampoo TV commercial filled to the brim with beautiful women? I don't care what they are saying.
Kiva has been around for many years. I am curious if they inspired your service, and if so, how?

https://www.kiva.org/
Overworking people dont get you faster releases. It is magical thinking. This just feel good like doing something, but that is is.

Also, if you are really in this situation, you already lost, because mo way this late night code wont be complete crap. So you might just start prioritizing and negotiating now rather then later.
Which scalar is "mostly" just a config tool for git sparse checkout of git partial clones with git commit-graph support turned on. All of that is stuff contributed directly into the git client.

Beyond that "mostly", it also configures git lfs, which likely will always be a git plugin and not directly in the client and the rest of it seems like stuff Microsoft is testing before upstreaming it directly into the git client.
As with everything, it depends.

I've implemented a large system managing billions of records using exactly this approach of cutting out a lot of boilerplate in the application layer.

The most important thing is to be pragmatic. This approach works great for CRUD as well as many types of complex analytical queries. However, for cases where the the complexity or performance of the SQL was unacceptable, we also decoded data into application data structures for further processing.

When done well, you can get the best of both worlds as needed.
If its an important service it could be subsidized. You can get past newspaper paywalls with a library card in most cases, people are just lazy and prefer to spend the 20 seconds it takes writing a comment complaining about a paywall rather than the two minutes it takes to find out your library covers these newspapers.
I feel this may be an issue of semantics. To my understanding, in the NVC literature, once you start being aggressive, you are no longer being assertive - you are being aggressive. IE, they are not overlapping subsets.

This is conceptually similar to the idea of addiction. Physical dependency is one component, but the definition I'm most familiar with is that it becomes an addition (instead of use/misuse) once it has a significant negative impact on your life.

YMMV, but wanted to see if I could jump in to help clear up. It's not a comment on your definition, btw - just the context of the discussion.
I am one of them. I have three in the house, mostly for future parts.

I have been gaming for 35 years, and in the 15 of those where I have played first person shooters, no controller compares. Even when I'm playing other kinds of games, the ability to do everything without having to remove your finger from the pads to hit buttons, the size is perfect, everything is so responsive.

They "feel" cheap, but I don't care. They are gaming nirvana for me.
Why does valve need to use a "distro" at all? LFS exists and is trivial to throw together a custom install. You can grab whatever glibc or mesa you want. Also building a kernel with improvements for a certain CPU is dead simple out of the box with Linux. Distros make it hard, and Arch makes it "easier".

As for packages, why does SteamOS need packages? They can just make one large update package that includes all library updates for the latest SteamOS version. Or are they expecting users to say "Oh I want to update just this one library"? Seems like a huge missed opportunity to make SteamOS a "stable target" that Linux devs can make games for. But if everyone is like "I want this weird glibc!" then that's impossible.
You can map all the real numbers to the interval 0 <= x < 1. To map one of those reals to an integer, simply write it's trailing digits in reverse order on the left side of the decimal point. You may then drop any leading zeros.

0.0 => 0

0.1 => 1

0.2 => 2

...

0.14159 => 95141

The argument against this is that there are real numbers with an infinite number of digits, which will not have a specific integer associated with them. Or do they? Can there be an "infinitely large integer?" or are there just infinitely many of them? I think this question gets to the core of the problem.
Consider the mass of 36mm integrated over the area of our oceans. That mass has been converted from solid to liquid. What was once rigid is now a veritable loose canon. The effect of tidal forces is to concentrate that mass towards the moon -- so the amplitude of flooding caused by a lunar wobble should be expected to be greater with more liquid water available to participate. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the impact of that rise.
I agree with that but there's a big problem here which is that you can get scammed big time by your employer.

If any of your side projects get big, depending on the contract your employer might be able to claim ownership of it.

If you're doing side projects despite those kind of contracts, you're effectively trusting your employer to be nice when they have legal right to not be. This isn't a great position to be in.
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For some people, causing frustration and annoyance in others is all the incentive they need. But in this case also, possibly hats.
He has said as much in many of his videos. Basically 'they all do it'.
> But think for a minute that I can just email you a wallet and the coins just changed hands without putting anything on the ledger.

I won't trust that you destroyed your own copies of the keys, so I'll want to transfer the coins to another wallet first thing with a real transaction recorded on the ledger. Otherwise I'm risking that at any time you could take the coins back from me.
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> By designing an RFC which allows for omitting headers we actually resolve the ambiguity between "false" and "none": the data is either explicitly there, or it's not.

The point is that a server may care about the difference between "I am explicitly opting out of giving you this information" and "What are you talking about".

Also keep in mind that Chrome, when communicating with Amazon, Google, or Netflix probably uses HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, which would compress the headers, making much of your complaint moot. I'd expect `Sec-CH-UA-{foo}: ""` to compress very well.
you got scammed, VDO 11519455978 is $330
Haha, agree but most places do it anyways, steam screws content creators about equally.
Humans similarly can be reduced down to relationships of nearby photo receptors. That’s exactly how V1-V4 works in our human brain… building detectors that go higher and higher level from nearby bits of information from two 2D sensors. In the same way, most neural networks CNNs do exactly this as well. CV models similarly get trained to produce their own higher level abstractions of the world that they, like us, fit data too. As much like computers, we too can be subject to all kinds of gross stupid errors, like optical illusions, mistaken identities, etc.

The best CV models are often fine tuned from more generalized models that can recognize thousands and thousands of different kinds of objects, even if in the end they only need to find 1 kind. This is because they build generalized representations of the world.

None of this is to suggest there any bias that fundamental to them. We’re starting to see fruits of multi-task learning where models are integrating across domains, which ends up improving accuracy even for just one modality by incorporating more world knowledge. So it’s not like we’ve reached some kind of theoretical limit as to what they can do, and it turns out that theoretical limit is sexist and racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If you read any of the fokelore stuff, there seems to be some disagreement there. He wanted stuff to look a certain way, but he didn't really understand the engineering trade off. Like asking for a computer with no holes in the case for cooling.
but if they've made you sign it, what's stopping them from changing their mind if any of your projects becomes worth something or makes noise in some way?
And minor addition as to why contractors are valuable -- you only pay them when they're there, and can terminate them when they're not needed.

Granted, this can be mismanaged (omnipresent contractors on infinitely extended contracts), but the general principle is that it's sometimes cheaper to pay $600/hr and $60/part, than have to pay for (1) recruiting, (2) training, (3) sustainment, (4) pension, & (5) inventory warehousing and management.
This seems like an extreme way of thinking about it. Maybe they like taking/looking at/sending the pictures, but between work, summer camp, soccer lessons, making sure everyone's fed, etc, they just forgot to book a session, and seeing the ad reminds them to do it. In this light, it seems like a great thing for both sides of the transaction.
In the beginning we were making 8-12% a month, just arbitraging derivatives so very low risk (except platform risk etc). But after a few months it started shrinking, and shrank down to 2-3%. Still very good for a traditional fund when annualised, but we only managed a few million from friends and family so it didn't really make sense for us financially any more.
> You see it today with newspaper paywalls and the like.

Curious example, since this was the case for most of the history of journalism.
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No, I’m sure the historical-theoretical view is good enough. Unfortunately it will always suffer from that lack of context wherever it’s implemented, and so I’m not sure you can do anything besides point out to people what the conditions were at that time.

That would be my recommendation. Too much financial software out there doesn’t provide historical context and simply parrots useless quips like “Past performance is no guarantee of future results” (which in finance, it actually is a decent indicator!).

Because whole periods of financial history occurred in blocks of time, I’d like to see some financial software that actually acknowledges that.

I’m less interested in novice implementations which simply provide a graph over time of the Dow/S&P 500 performance benchmark, when realistically people didn’t use the S&P until recent history, and VTSAX’s first generation, precursor to the Vanguard 500 Fund, the First Index Investment Trust wasn’t available to the public until after ‘75.

Today, it’s the largest mutual fund in the world, according to Investopedia.
> 2,000 MW of energy storage capacity

I think this is where the confusion starts: if someone talks about "energy storage capacity", my first association is the amount of energy that can be stored, not the rate at which that energy can be discharged from the storage (i.e. power).
Sounds like it's just a custom linux install, so if you can get it working on another distro you can probably get it working here.
I would love to actually implement something like this that gives a very clear picture of when the weather is best (using last 5/10/15 years) for travel. Things like humidity and UV index matter but I have yet to find a historical source for that data.

Anyone have a source that they like?
If this doesn't let you skip the whiteboard interview, it sounds like just one more step in the terrible process of interviewing for engineering jobs.
The US military is far better at logistics than any other military. If nothing else, they have had more recent practice at larger scale and longer term deployments than any other military.
PS5 and Xbox are using PC hardware too. The only difference is that they might have secured some supply for those customized parts in advance.
Sorry, let me rephrase that- I’m describing reward distributions in different industries - for example holly wood actors or major league athletes. For each successful actor/athlete there are millions who never even saw the light of day.

I am not talking about the larger business ecosystems, as those would exist for any industry.
I pay $60 for gigabit in Denver -- but my ISP is owned by Big G.
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I don't think either of those points are correct.

1. Fedora is not a rolling release, so you don't get every single kernel point release like you do in Arch.

2. Steam does not want to do a full Fedora 30 to 31 upgrade every six months. They want to roll. It's a better model, especially when kernel/drivers are improving gaming quickly.

3. Arch has a stable base and gets small updates every day. Regular software services tell us this is a better model than infrequent large updates. Things like RHEL are the exception, but take years of QA, and leave you with old drivers in between releases.
Saying X is Y without any evidence to support it is neither helpful nor convincing, unless it is self evident. Suggesting science is equivalent to religion is most certainly not evident. In fact, I’d argue the only evident thing about that statement is that it is incorrect.

There may be some people that misunderstand science, or who try to apply it outside of the regime where it is appropriate, and that is an issue (science can never answer the question: is an action moral, for instance).

But the institution of science is as far from religion as it can get. Religion asks you to believe things because an individual or a book tells you that it is so, and rewards those who take those statements on faith. Science, on the other hand, asks you to test a statement, to use the scientific method to attempt to falsify hypotheses, and through an interactive and iterative process improve your understanding of the phenomena in question.

That difference is why science has taught us more about the world in the last 400 years than religion has in 4000. Hell, science taught us more about the world in the last year than religion has since cavemen were drawing the sun on cave walls.

That’s not to say religion is useless or necessarily negative. It can be, just like any other institution. And frankly, there is just not that much overlap between the realms of religion and science. Science does not attempt to answer questions about the existence of god, or the morality of actions.

The issue is when religious people or organizations attempt to use their religion to answer questions about the physical world. That’s when science is needed.
I am excited about this because it finally seems like there will be one more worthy competitor in the portable gaming arena. I was getting really tired of Nintendo's majority market share, with no one to compete against them they have been reigning free with their ridiculous "no sale on 4 year old games" policy.
SF is actually getting really fast internet now. All the new developments we looked at had gigabit internet at ~$80/month with multiple competing providers. It's getting to older apartments now as well.

At these speeds, the WiFi adapters are more of a bottleneck than the ISP. I can only get close to full speed on ethernet.
I wouldn't expect the pilots to spend an hour debating before every takeoff, but rather to have had that debate ahead of time and have a solid set of patterns that they follow so they don't have to reinvent the wheel each time.

The fact that attention to code doesn't prevent all problems doesn't mean that it doesn't prevent some problems.