skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which are awesome. I also carry the Tyvek maps. (And I suspect a number of "just use your phone" people haven't actually bought the OS maps for the location in question.)
Being a founder or ex-founder is an implementation detail, not a selling point of its own.

Test your assumption: change your resume to not imply that you were working for yourself, but for a company (which I assume is true -- you don't need to specify that you _owned_ the company). Change your title to VP, Engineering or something like that. If you get more bites that way, there might be some evidence to suggest that's the problem.

Otherwise, it's likely that your resume just needs work. There is lots of advice out there, but my $0.02: your resume is an ad and the CTA is scheduling an interview. You've got about 6 seconds to make a good enough impression to get them to actually schedule an interview, so don't fill an entire page with super dense text or things that would be better saved for an interview when you can discuss them at length.

Also: as someone who has frequently been on the other side of the table from ex-founders applying for a job, my view is that they're either really amazing hires or huge liabilities. Not a lot of in-between. Being a founder is neither inherently a virtue nor a vice -- it's what you make of that experience and bring to the table at a new company that's important.
You're so far away from the original point, that computation etc is available to any up and coming competitive country, and thus this computation is not the most the previous commenter was implying it was.
In Portland.

One side of the crowd holds signs like "Down with the Fash" and "Trans Rights are Human Rights."

The other side of the crowd literally wearing "RWDS" Patches (Right Wing Death Squad) and "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong" shirts.

Some of the people in this thread: "Huh! I don't see any difference between the two. Both sides! Hurr durr."
Unlocking the Secrets of the World's Oldest Computer
I've been there once. It's a super weird place. I stopped by Salton City on the west side of the lake (https://goo.gl/maps/ksWdbiRFfpnUBE6X8). The town has 50% nice-ish, occupied homes & 50% derelict buildings that looked like dilapidated crack houses. The shore was super stinky, covered with dead fish (tilapia I assume) & the smell you'd expect to go with it.
As climate change affects more and more of Africa and the Middle East, we're going to see the EU drift towards more of a cohesive nation state by necessity. Just a few million refugees from Syria sparked a tide of far-right movements across Europe. Just wait 'til tens or hundreds of millions stand at the gates, representing an existential threat. It's almost an inevitability.

I'm not talking about tomorrow or next year. More on a timeline of 20-40 years when we start seeing more profound global upheavals. The nature of the EU will change too.
Why Hasn’t the iPhone Moment Happened yet for Voice UIs
Can’t you block slack notifications and only check in on Slack when you are ready to communicate? Are you required to attend all zoom meetings? Can you setup filters to file/delete “pointless” emails?

I keep all the distracting notices pretty much turned off and only allow it for a select few situations. Then I plan regular “communication breaks” where I check for new email, check for slack messages, etc. It helps tame the noise.
The argument being made is not to do with maps. In blunt terms, it's that mapping apps have many possible failure points outside of your control, while traditional map reading and navigation skills only have one - you.
Various oligarchs sucking from the subvention teat are absolutely everyday occurrence east of the Elbe. It seems to be a feature of the system.

Some of them even start or own big political parties.
Is it relevant to the job you're hiring for? If not, then is it any of your business?
What paper maps are out there that are more precise than what you can find on gaiagps or openstreetmaps?
Let's nuke the moon, next!
These detectors might very well be a scam targeted at people who believe any kind of radiation is bad for them.
> The government doesn't have this control, nor do any of the FAANG companies.

That's correct, they don't have complete control yet, and I agree that right now liberal democracy is being attacked by illiberal authoritarian regimes, as it has been for a long time.

However, I think the point of this article is that we are also in the middle of a war for general-purpose computing, and that war might end with governments and/or corporations in a much stronger position than they are now in terms of censorship and surveillance.

Already we are seeing isolated incidents of people being rendered less free because of the control that modern platforms grant to authorities, and I don't think it is helpful to blame the victims for choosing to use mainstream operating systems or social media sites that end up destroying their livelihoods, for example.
How could psychiatric evaluations conclude that anyway? There is no test for somatic symptom disorder, the diagnostic criteria are just that the symptoms are not adequately explained by physical causes. It often happens in people who are completely healthy mentally.
To my shame, you are correct, the quote is nowhere to be found. It’s not either from Paul Graham. I thought it was a famous quote & concept among us entrepreneurs…

I vividly remember a blog from Joel saying things along Why are entrepreneurs passionate for things that seem very niche? / The truth is, once they succeed, they become passionate / So we have a bias of selection when assuming that all entrepreneurs are passionate about their product.

But this post is nowhere to be found. I thought the quote was the title of that blog post.

I have to make amend and recognize that I might be senile and spreading a false quote. Thank you for waking me up.
What the Linux Mint developers have pulled off is nothing short of astounding
A current documentary says Epstein posed (for years) as an expert financial advisor for billionaires, and Wexler hired him to legitimately sort out complicated tax etc situations.

All normal. He did that. Wexler screwed up majorly by letting Epstein have "power of attorney" rights on Wexler's accounts.

It seems Epstein was stealing money from Wexler, who was just not interested enough to notice....if the current round of documentaries are a fixed point of the story, of course.
"In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land & not blocked by borders, eg you're in LA and the car is in NY" - Elon Musk 1/6/2016 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
Very true. I find their coverage excellent.
From “5G” to “Zaddy”: Dictionary.com Adds over 300 New Words and Definitions
From your BMJ reference:

The term long covid embraces a wide spectrum of organ involvement, with no clear evidence yet to help inform efficient diagnostic pathways or specific treatments or to indicate probable prognosis.
For the same reasons people may enjoy playing Fallout 4.
The odds that a country (with the right tech) gets pissed off at SpaceX is approximately zero because Elon seems to be fine playing along with the Russian/Chinese governments to prevent it. The odds that Starlink and other satellite constellations are destroyed in the beginning of a global war seems to be about 100%, even if there are no nukes used terrestrially.
You also neglected to mention Abu Ghraib. Which, realistically, the Iraqis knew the details about long before the photos appeared.
How on earth would you know if a whiff was accurate, when we're talking about something which has never before been created?

I think even if you have intuitions about an approach, and have promising results, if you're trying to arrive at something new, it's really hard to know how far away you are.
It’s slower for an operation like that because of the scheduler ensuring a single process isn’t hogging all of the CPU.

When was the last time you needed to write a Fibonacci for anything you’ve built in your career?

It’s a benchmark that doesn’t show anything useful for real world applicability.
In what sense was Greece kicked around? They could do whatever they wanted. But when they asked other countries for huge loans, naturally the lenders imposed some conditions to ensure repayment.
Why just 11? Why not the first 10?
One of the important things I've learned from working in technology, is that technology sometimes doesn't work. I've seen people unable to charge their cars on ChargePlace Scotland because they didn't have phone signal and hadn't thought to get the NFC card, for example. When it comes to something as important as protecting your life, you really should have a low tech backup. The top of Ben Nevis is in cloud most of the year, and sometimes visibility can get very poor very quickly, but if you walk the wrong direction from the summit you could easily fall off a cliff, so you really do need a map and compass to increase your chance of getting down safely. It's just common sense. I don't think it is necessarily a generational thing though - there have always been people from all generations who lack common sense.
The comment I was replying to and point I was making wasnt about the implementation of individual maps. It was a general point about using a device to navigate vs paper maps.

(Ordnance survey maps are available for your phone)
Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds
I can see it now, all US diplomats will have helmets on with antennae for detecting various wavelengths.
He sounds like a angry 16 yo....let alone the madness to use JFS as a filesystem MAAD!!
I am an employer with 180 employees and we absolutely should ban non competes. Doing so would increase competition throughout the market and the to better products for consumers and much better work lives for workers.
While you and I and many a HN reader will understand this, there is something to be said that people will, at some point, mistake this for an actual route and try to follow it.
Another logical conclusion could be that we only hear of abnormal medical issues if they happen to diplomats. I mean, if this happened to a random Joe, would we hear about it?
So was the US once. All it takes is a big external or internal threat to get power centralized....
> The first country/company to replace human labour with general bipedal robots, will reap wealth beyond imagination.

Humans ARE genral bipedal robots. The price of these robots is determined by the minimum wage.
Hey, it seems there is no way one gets notifications on their hacker news comments. So I couldn't reply to this earlier. May be I should use a better word - but I have none right now. When I said monopoly - I intended to say the dominance and control it has over widespread news, opinions etc. Your twitter feed can decide what you know today, and what you don't know today. That's so much damn power. Now ofcourse there are other sources of news as well - but it is becoming more and more centralised towards twitter. People are getting to know about what is happening in the world from twitter and I don't know what algorithm they use - but it's their algorithm. They can make the left look stupid, the right look stupid, the government look stupid, the citizens look stupid.. they can practically do anything by just tweaking a little of our feeds.
I agree with most of this.

> I see no reason anyone should have to disprove the existence of consciousness anywhere outside of a fairly advanced brain.

There's a fairly big moral reason. Unless we can know what is concious and what is not, it's only right to be on the safe side and treat all organisms as if they are concious. How advanced should the CNS be before there's an obligation to not cause pain for an organism? (should we care about chickens in cages?)
The article doesnt say anything about it being unpaid. The "suicide" is a forced double shift, not a forced unpaid shift.
If you prefer, the film is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
Doesn't work very well if at all. I tried two times a very simple Chinese character (木) and it was never in the result list. Edit: didn't work with a very simple cuneiform character either.
How have you found your initial few thousand users?

I've built my own sort of Anki/SRS app but specifically for language learning. Extra features like dictionary lookups and generated audio for each card. Not as super customizable as Anki, but many language learners arrive at similar configurations (e.g., Refold). I've seen more and more language learning apps are starting to have SRS as a foundation
> And of course, why on earth would people want to help you if your goal is purely selfish and likely extractive?

Why wouldn’t they help me if we make money together working on profitable SaaS as a team?

> How do I get rich and famous and take all the acclaim with no talent?

Why did you assume i have no talent. Let’s assume i have - how would your answer change?
People got lost using maps all the time because they were and are difficult to read.
The problem is not trusting a mobile phone. There is no reason why a mobile phone with the right would be less trustworthy than a paper map.

The problem is that they are using an app that is designed preliminarily for driving and walking cities, not for mountaineering. Just as a road map is not the best choice for hiking.

Also, I keep saying "they" but who is "they"? The article mentions a dangerous route and potentially misleading directions but no account of people getting into trouble because of it. Maybe "they" are not so stupid after all. Maybe "they" can read the warning signs, realize that Google Maps is not perfect, that the path looks dangerous. Or maybe "they" are experienced, well prepared hikers who know what they are doing.
You must not read the news much, stories don't stick around long. Something that happened last week might as well not exist.
Giving 'free rein' comes from the pragmatic practice of allowing a horse to chose the best path over difficult terrain on the grounds that the animal would know better than the rider.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, it's exactly right. Poland agreed to adopt the Euro as one of the conditions of being accepted, and then the global financial crash happened and basically said you know what guys, we won't be doing that after all. If a country wants to stop using Euro they absolutely can - it was proposed as one of the solutions to the issue of Greek national debt, them going back to the lira, it didn't go through for many reasons but it definitely wasn't because "there's no legal way". There absolutely is.
What a myopic view. Everyone knows to just be rich, whats stopping them from being so? /s
"Peace and prosperity from the Atlantic to the Urals, from the Sahara to the Arctic Circle. A new Rome for a new age."
A challenge with naive recommender systems in an ecommerce setting is that they tend to recommend the most popular items on your site rather than surfacing the long tail of SKUs, which doesn't generally add much value (you could achieve a similar effect by showing users recommendations from a hardcoded list of top items rather than leaning on a model). If Gorse is generic and unaware of the domain, how does it avoid falling into this trap?
If you know an area and don't even really need a map, it's not really a big deal. I usually carry one by habit when I hike trails I know well but I often don't bother with a compass.

But unfamiliar areas where getting lost is a real possibility? No I don't want to abdicate full responsibility for my safety to a phone.
Do you have a source you can share for that? I’d love to read up on it. A cursory google search didn’t reveal much.
Your arguments are plain stupid i stop here.
Its a very good question. I think in general it is important to realize that a significant amount of "design" work goes in to creating economies. Local, state, and national decisions will lead to certain conditions. How were those decisions made, and under what conditions? For any given place the answer will be different. How does one place compare to another?

It is my view that it is perfectly feasible to design economies (in a voluntary way) where people can work 20 hours a week and have two months off a year every year. Or closer to our current world, there is no question in my mind that we could keep things as good or better they are now materially, while making sure no person has to work more than 40 hours a week to survive.

I do love to talk about specific strategies [1] but that quickly activates our tribal instincts and can cause violent arguments even when our underlying goals are in near complete agreement. So it can be useful to just ponder on the above. How did things get the way they became? Is it due to iron wrought natural laws, or historical decisions we could freely agree to change?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27860696
Yes! I see this all the time when setting directions for provincial parks and other "remote" destinations. It never occurred to me that someone would blindly follow them.
If you had Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (one of the launch games), it was an incredibly common complaint. When the GBA SP came out some years later and I went back to "test" what CotM looked like with a backlight, it almost looked like a different game.
One of the reasons I voted to leave it as a Brit.
Were you forced to do that, or was that a sovereign choice? The answer lies there.
This was one of my big impressions of Elixir. It forces you into so many things that improve long term maintainability.
Not just terrorism - if it's by a state actor, it's an act of war, a casus belli.
The article does not claim that it is unpaid. If they were working unpaid hours that would be a serious legal issue and state and federal regulators would be getting involved.
It's a very common practice for economies to peg their sovereign currency to a trading partner; there are on the order of 66 countries pegged to the US Dollar, and 20-odd pegged to the euro.

If a country wanted to move off of the euro, it would be pretty easy to create a sovereign currency pegged to the euro 1:1 by the countries central bank. Then in the future they could simply unpeg (or change the rate) if that became advantageous.
That answers the question of many about historical examples: "how they couldn't see they are being manipulated by totalitarians? why didn't they do something?" The same reason our current society thinks it's ok for the government to ban people for "misinformation" (the latest directive from White House demands internet-wide bans of whoever was accused of "misinformation" - without any due process of course, just on the word of White House, confirmed and implemented by the faceless army of Facebook underpaid overworked "moderators" team). Yes, there are people who are shocked and appalled by it - and they are speaking up. But the society largely either ignores them, or dismisses them as paranoid naysayers or partisan operators. That is going to cost us. And our descendants would wonder "how couldn't they see they are being obviously manipulated to cede control over their speech to the government-big tech oligarchy?!" How indeed.
Why does everything need commercial success?

It's survived for 20 years despite having none. It will continue as long as there are interested developers.
> which would cause the system to approach a strange equilibrium with that flips between two states.

The post explicitly mentions this kind of ‘blinking’ artifact and how it’s problematic…
This is not unpaid. That's extremely illegal.
I don't think that German Greens and Orbán/Vox/Fratelli d'Italia are going to agree on the same approach to migration ever, even if millions stood at the gates. They are literally on the opposing sides of the spectrum.

German NGO ships explicitly supported by German churches and German politicians move people from the shores of Africa, while half of Italian political scene wants to lock them up.

It is now 6 years since the great migration crisis of 2015. There is no EU-wide consensus on anything substantial in the asylum and migration policy. All the proposals have proven themselves unworkable.
Yes, it feels like we have squeezed most of the performance out of current algorithms and architectures. OpenAI and deepmind have thrown tremendous compute against the problem with little overall progress (overall, alpha go is special). There was a big improvement in performance by bringing in function approximators in the form of deep networks. Which as you said can scale upwards nicely with more data and compute. In my opinion as an academic in the deep RL, it feels like we are missing some fundamental pieces to get another leap forward. I am uncertain what exactly the solution is but any improvement in areas like sample efficiency, stability, or task transfer could be quite significant. Personally I’m quite excited about the vein of learning to learn.
The GBA is more capable graphically, true, but has a poor screen with a lower resolution (240×160 vs 256×224 for the super nes). Because of that, a few ports had to rework the sprites to fit the gba screen better. also had to modify the color palette. Animations may also have less frames.

For example, Donkey Kong Country, top is from Super Nes, bottom is from GBA. Both enlarged x4.

https://abload.de/img/dkcsnesgba4xcdjn2.png
someone do the world a favor...
> deadlocked between Meg Whitman and Jeff Immelt (Uber board’s choices for new CEO)

Wow. I don’t get the whole celebrity CEO movement. The job implies a set of tasks and a strong understanding of the business. What exactly do these people bring to the table?
Like others all of my Clojure code was in namespaces so I see it as a wash between the two. In practice I cannot imagine any real app not making use of such modularity.

I too found the "." syntax for anonymous functions a bit jarring at first. Why treat them differently? In practice I don't even notice it now. It's never been confusing, it's just a wart.

Also, I found the one-struct-per-module thing a bit odd to begin with but in practice it makes a lot of sense. Also since you can put modules inside modules it's no encumberance if you want to declare a number of related structs. Again, once I was used to it I apprecitated the simplicity.

I disagree with your characterisation: I perceive no "class-based"'ness about Elixir. Do you have some examples? Perhaps there is somethign I have missed. So far, given that it's not exposing a class based system underneath, Elixir has seemed even further from this than Clojure.

And I have, in general, found the tooling support friendlier for Elixir. The only thing that I really gripe about is the inability to communicate between editor and REPL.
I think you're missing the main reason, competing empires on Britain's doorstep. The British Empire didn't exist in a vacuum. Much like American Imperialism vs. Soviet Russia.
I always find it surprising when people call Czech Republic or Poland "eastern block". Those two couldn't be possibly more central European if they tried. Czech Republic especially reaches only marginally more east than Germany, and I doubt you'd call Germans "eastern Europeans".
Ok, so you were "shredding resumes" of students of all but 20 schools in US, IITs and Tsinghua. That's an extremely high hiring bar.

I don't think this experience can be used to draw general conclusions on the quality of education across Masters programs in US.
I feel this about anything I read about empire in the last few years.

I enjoyed Paxman's book Empire for the very reason that he mocks the self-righteousness of the "heroes of Empire", their "divine mission", the way the country at home responded (or didn't care at all anymore) but doesn't shy away from giving the same critical eye to the colonised people.
Are we saying a country with 1.4bn people, 22 official languages, 5 major religions, over 100 ethnic groups isn’t an empire? Before the Raj, most of it was the Mughal Empire (1500-1800). Before that, the Delhi Sultanate, pretty definitely an empire (1200-1500). The only thing missing is the nomenclature.