skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't waste time on things like assessing risk.

They assess risk differently. They do due diligence. The average VC assesses risk poorly, 50% of VCs lose money*, let alone return enough for value-at-risk. Doing a deal a day will give them enough data for them to measure actual risk/rewards over time. You don’t learn much if you only play a few times a year.

Edit: Also a traditional fund might invest in say ten companies and that LP funding round is betting one of those investments will return all the profit. This is a high variance investment strategy and the LPs returns are highly correlated with market conditions. With investments in a lot more companies as Tiger are doing, the variance is driven down, especially if the fund is spread across companies with varying ages. I suspect that there is more scope for LPs to cash out earlier, unlike a typical LP problem where money is locked up for a decade and is highly illiquid. I have read that a VC funds one company and says no to 99. There absolutely has to be A LOT of money left on the table in the other 99 - the signal to noise ratio of understanding new enterprises is so high that it is guaranteed.

> While in theory it's always possible to lose money investing in startups (gasp), there is NO mention of that possibility in this article.

I think that the risk of losses is implicit enough. The article definitely mentions your “boom-and-bust” cycles: “The most significant risk to Tiger is macroeconomic.” “Should the sector experience a sharp downturn”…

Also: “Tiger will need to make sure it does not become the poster-child for failures of [governance]”.

Edit: Interestingly enough, AVC who is usually insightful, recently wrote about how seed investment $1M for 1% is a poor investment strategy https://avc.com/2021/11/seed-rounds-at-100mm-post-money/ and the Tiger Global article mentions the critical part of Tiger Global’s involvement with seed funds that AVC missed: “To make sure it sees more deals, Tiger cozies up to seed funds. […] The source I spoke to noted that Tiger essentially asks these managers, ‘How do we become the only partner you bring Series As to?’.”

* https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
The 400k may be 2 different grant. One when they joined the company that is now fully vested, and a new one that just started for another 4year vesting.

At least I really hope that's the case, because an 8 year vesting schedule is idiotic.
These have been featured at least twice in the Abroad in Japan channel on YT. Chris Broad (the host) and his friends even spent the night in them. The atmosphere and scenery are quite something.

Here's one of the videos showcasing the Igloo house during one of his Journey Across Japan series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqX_2Wmj7xE
The New York Times recently published this which I feel explains why a lot of my peers don’t want to have children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/style/breed-children-clim...
It was a daily language in Ashkenazi Jewish centres in North America, esp Montreal and New York. Many newspapers, and communities of first language speakers even second, third generation speakers.

My impression from the outside (not Jewish, but interested in Yiddish) is that in the post-war period it was squeezed between three walls... assimilation into North American English speaking culture in North America, the revival of Hebrew in Israel, and the displacement/extermination of its source community in Europe. A tragedy.
The key is how good the abstraction is. This has technical and social aspects.

Technically, the issue is if you can think about the abstraction without worrying over its implementation i.e. can the hidden remain hidden? All abstraction leak; perfection is impossible here (consider computational arithmetic addition), but it can be pretty good for a specific task at hand.

Socially, abstractions need to be known, learnt, understood, so it's better to directly use concepts that are already known by users, present future and potential (here, users as developers).
Tell HN: Cookie-based security alerts are a dark pattern
In the wake of measures like the GDPR, it seems like websites are increasingly making it as arduous as possible not to let them keep long-term cookies on your computer. One particularly insidious dark pattern is to bombard people with notifications and e-mails on every sign-on unless they allow persistent cookies.

Twitter is a particularly egregious offender. Amazon slightly less so.

If you do this, stop it. It teaches people to ignore legitimate security alerts. A user clearing their cookies is not a security threat.
That’s my point actually. Court-ordered child support payment minimums are massively greater than actual costs.

Any by the way, even those USDA costs are ridiculously inflated. It’s based on survey data, not actual expenditures, and the people they ask have every reason to inflate the numbers (child support, welfare, tax credits, deductions, etc.). It’s mostly childcare and housing costs, but even the other categories are ridiculous, like hundreds a month per child on clothing and books. Come on. So far, I’ve gotten almost everything second-hand for almost nothing, and my son does just fine in a garage apartment with me.
Full time nomad since 2019.

Access to nature with affordable housing and fast, reliable Internet.

Park City, Utah; Burlington, Vermont; Miami, Florida; in the USA. If outside the US, Mexico City, Lisbon, Tel Aviv
>We save old cats at the shop...

You save what?
The population will reach 11b and level off in 2050.
My books often feature introverts.

bapublications.com

Also, Kafka’s protagonists could reasonably be be considered introverts. Their dialogue externalizes the feeling of being introverted, in that they acknowledge futility, and they produce intricately detailed considerations that others are unable to relate to entirely, but it is presented as though there is no reservation in stating their inner concerns outright. Kafka, in this way, presents an excellent study of introversion if introverts had few, if any, inhibitions. This often results in the grotesque.
An effect system is redundant to code and is not free (compilation time cost) and neither helps when you dont know your future program spec or behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_system

It only prevents some misuse classes of APIs.

I think what you want more dearly is to express atomiticity of functions and (automatic) rollback on error to a "known good state".
There are so many definitions of introvert that it’s mostly lost any meaning.
The Race to Make Better Qubits
Regarding your first rebuttal: you're agree with the person you're responding to that it costs far less than 33% of a middle- or upper-middle-class salary to raise a child. The argument is that the courts demand child support payments from non-custodial parents far in excess of the actual cost of raising the child.
It looks to me like the goals with typing.Protocol are for static type checking. Whereas this module is intended both for interfaces (much like ABCs) and implementation re-use (see Rust's "blanket implementations"). These Traits could definitely be used in type annotation, and maybe there's a way to use typing.Protocol with them to aid static type checking in Python. I haven't tried static type checking in Python yet, but it sounds promising!
I see writing slightly differently: it's a way to present your ideas without any performance-related anxiety getting in the way.

To prepare a good conference talk generally takes a long time, and an otherwise solid talk can be made less engaging by poor delivery.

Writing a comparable article can take the same amount of time, but it's much easier to get feedback on it, and it's far easier to track updates. There's no single moment where you can really screw it up.
I don't think this is particularly sustainable because the whole thing that makes them tail risks in their uncommonness.

I can think of enough unlikely ways to be tortured an incredible amount that it's computationally infeasible that I can figure out how to avoid 1/3 of them.
Sure, but do you find video games more interesting when thirsty? Does chocolate tastes better when eaten without good company?

The argument is that lumping everything together is unnecessary: you can disconnect from different things at different times. I’d say this is true for the biochemistry too: dopamine has myriad roles and avoiding flash photography to reduce retinal dopamine release seems…unlikely to relate to mood.

Heck, about half of dopamine isn’t even in the brain: it’s got a big role in the gut and pancreas too!
If we are doing our fair share by land mass it should be 500m by 2050.

I find it astonishing that people have an easier time believing we can colonise Mars than that we can colonise the centre of Australia.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/odds+are+stacked+agains...

The odds are stacked against them as in they are less likely to survive if they contract the virus without being vaccinated. Outward appearance of health are unrelated to cytokine storms because cytokine storms are a confluence of genetic factors and viral DNA and unrelated to any outward appearances of health. In any case, the links I've presented are evidence enough for me to be convinced that vaccination is the right answer and if you're not convinced then that's fine. We can agree to disagree about the risk factors.
That's a usefully expansive definition of ecology. Next time somebody in my household forgets to put the toilet seat down, I'm going to lodge an 'ecological' complaint with them. After all, I am an organism and bathrooms are an environment; it ticks all the boxes.

Less snark: I think definition (or more accurately, your expansive interpretation of it) misses the spirit of the way that word is generally used.
Californians Flee the Coast to Inland Cities in a Mass Pandemic-Era Exodus
https://archive.ph/IHtEC
Integromat is cheaper and better than Zapier, IMO.
It's also still expensive to do have kids in Europe anyway. Safety nets aside. They purchasing power per capita is lower than in America.
What’s so unfortunate? Why bother injecting Japanese into this article focused on Korean divers? You’re basically saying they didn’t mention Japanese in an article about Korean divers because…?
Not trying to discredit any particular hypothesis — if I were forced to bet I'd probably bet on something involving physical harm from adversaries — but the idea of using normal controls to investigate a psychosomatic hypothesis has always seemed a little off. Normal controls are reasonable, but wouldn't you want to compare individuals to a group with psychosomatic diagnoses as well? I would probably expect a group of individuals with psychosomatic problems to look different from normal controls also.
"'Electric SUVs as a vehicle category is the absolute bottom in terms of reliability," Consumer Reports director of vehicle testing Jake Fisher said Thursday during a presentation to the Detroit Automotive Press Association.

Among electric SUVs, Fisher said Ford Motor Co's Mustang Mach-E "is the only one with above-average reliability.'"

It's interesting to me that till recently, Fords stock price was $5/6 - last time I checked, Ford still produced the most popular trucks in the world by a long shot?
A common 4-inch brick has an R-value of about 0.8, which is just slightly more than 1/2 inch plywood sheeting by itself. Depending on insulation choice, a wall built with 2x4 studs will have an R-value from 13 to 25.

Edit: I see someone else beat me to it. I'm a slow typer today...
Or.... just leave the USA.
My take was humorous but it didn’t hide anything. Kafka was built so that LinkedIn could shove all its real-time click data through a single funnel—terabytes upon terabytes. It has since been evangelized and created a cottage industry of Confluent salespeople who will give your manager a course in how to lobby their engineers into using Kafka. Have scaling problems? Kafka. Have business events that need to be ordered? Kafka! Have “changing schemas”? KAFKA!! I’m always suspicious when a company gives a product away for free tbut then charges $$$ for “support”.

I worked for a high profile recently-failed project from a company that rhymes with Brillo, and our data was just beginning to be too big for google sheets (!). However, we were also having organizational problems because the higher ups were seeing the failing project losing money so they of course decided to hire 100 extra engineers. Our communications (both human and programmatic) were failing and the confluent salespeople began circling like buzzards. Of course by the time it was suggested we we use it the project was already 6 months past the point of no return.

My advice is that if your data fits in a database, use a database. Anyone who says that isn’t scalable should have to tell you the actual reason it doesn’t scale and the number of requests/users/GBs/uptime/ etc that is the bottleneck.
I love the idea.

Small thing that irks me. The app icon looks too much like a unicorn. A stocky little Pony would be so much nicer and true to the name.
Nobody owns domain names derived from registries, they are merely leased and subject to recapture from either the registry at will, or the registrar with cause.

Trademarking the domain name gives you vastly better protection, since even if the registrar/registry takes it back, nobody else can use it, so the incentive for those entities to change their mind on leasing it to you is reduced.
> 4” of brick

Nobody builds a house with 4 inches of brick though.

Have you ever been to a very hot country and wondered why they build with stone? Because it insulates.

Also half the comments in this thread are talking about how environmentally friendly wood houses are... and the other half are pointing out that a 'wood' house in the US is really vinyl.
Care to elaborate? I’m not old enough to remember much before the mid-to-late 80s, but I remember my local NZ Dick Smith Electronics being a pretty cool and wondrous place back then.
Virtual Surround Sound Headphone Setup on Linux with Pipewire
Maybe the poor kid didn't know the car's owner is a sick psycho.
I search "apple music player" and I get 1 out of 20 apps that is actually appropriate. Notably, I get Amazon and Spotify players prominently placed. Reviews on app stores are dubious at best. Then you have the "in-app" purchases garbage.
Web Browsers of Tomorrow (2007)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the wonderful “planning” quote is actually from Dwight Eisenhower (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#From_the_...).
Who's building houses with walls 4 inches thick? You have at least two layers of that, with a cavity in between.
I thought CR gave the Tesla Model S the magazine’s first perfect score for a vehicle?
And who is it that gets to draw the boundary around "natural rights"?

The point being that humans defining natural rights goes against the concept of "natural". The entire exercise is a catch-22.

Funny how in each case where this comes up, natural rights always means something different. Almost as if the term is consistently used retroactively to justify extreme measures rather than to inform people of their rights per se.
Remote-first work is taking over the rich world
"c programming language" works fine.
modeless answered one of your questions well, the other has a good deep dive here: lhttps://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/

A rocket launch powered by fossil fuels is comparable to an oceanic jet trip, surprisingly. So quantities aren't a big deal, yet. Elon Musk has promised to switch to carbon neutral fuel for his next generation of rockets, synthetic methane for Starship.
> It seems likely to me that courts in many jurisdictions would decide that an open source bait and switch was not what their corresponding legislatures had in mind when drafting license reversion rules

Whether or not this works is dependent per-country; many countries have judicial systems which do honor the intent of a law, while others (most common law incl. USA) read strictly by the letter of the law, which is why legal loopholes exist.
I've never liked the small slice approach. It's always the first thing to be scope cut whent time is running out.

I prefer to just do refactors before work starts, or during the work itself.

I have run into managers that read how to work with legacy code and think everything we do should be one line changes and major refactors mean we're basically doing rewrites.

I still work there. Sometimes.
Yeah, I became a fan of that too.

In a lot of cases Try* is the outright right approach, too. Like `IDictionary.TryGetValue(key, out var value)` is better than try { var value = IDictionary.GetValue(key); } catch (KeyNotFoundException) {}` and has no race like `if (IDictionary.ContainsKey(key)) IDictionary.GetValue(key);`.

Try* functions are still free to throw in actually exceptional cases, just not on generic not-so-exceptional errors.

If you really need context, there is nothing from stopping you from implementing Try* functions in your own APIs that either have another out param for the error information, return the error information instead of a bool or use a Result<T, Err> kind of type (or a tuple), either.
What's weird is that I was working on prototype handsets for Nokia in 2004 and I have never seen that handset until today. WTF. (Note: the prototypes I was working on were all designed around stealing Apple's iPod mojo and baking it into their phones)
We know we could colonise the center of Australia (or the center of Antarctica for that matter), if we really wanted to.

What makes Mars interesting is that it’s hard. Nobody is arguing that we should go to Mars because it is easy!
I like the man generally but disagree with his views on hard immigration caps for Australia. I agree population is a major sustainability issue but find these caps far too elitist and authoritarian - while it just pushes the same issues elsewhere globally.

Though nobody should be judged on one view alone. Everyone has their failures and blindspots
OMG! Me
"1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements."
Are there a lot of religions with bans on flash photography?

This, to my mind, is a perfect example of people getting carried away. It is definitely the case that dopamine signalling occurs in the retina, but the connection between that and any sort of higher-level “affective” phenomenon seems pretty tenuous.
Ford is a manufacturing company, and its stock is valued as such.

Telsa is valued as a 'tech company', and so has magic unlimited upside unicorns attached to its stock. Rivian too.
I'm not having kids because kids suck and I'm doing my part to prevent climate change. I can look beyond the preprogrammed brain chemistry that tells you having kids was "the best thing that has happened to you in your life" as you lose 10 years off of your life in stress and all of your friends.
Does anyone remember what the name of that guy was who made fonts, in particular a really nice pixel font, who had a pretty funny site including the adventures of Boxlor? I remember loving his site and can't remember his name for the life of me.

Also, I certainly always had a spacer.gif and ya, my only style was indeed to remove underlining links and my only JS was often only for image rollovers.
Model S is a sedan, not an SUV.
> a complex compromise that is suboptimal for almost everything

Whenever you have a programming language with multiple goals (or, let's say, more than two distinct goals) - it's almost certainly going to be suboptimal for any individual one of them.

The questions are:

* Whether choice of goals is worthy/reasonable; and

* Whether a good balance and compromise has been struck by that language's specifiers and implementers.

Also remember that languages evolve; and if one of the language goals is backwards compatibility (which is the case for C++, less so for Rust) - then part of the compromise is that they have to support multiple older and less-recommended idioms and facilities while offering newer, hopefully better ones.
I don't think it's weird to point out with first-hand experience that the institutions which the regulations are being proposed for currently carry operational inertia that the regulations will need to work around. Can you explain why that is weird? It was quite a good contribution from my perspective
Not flippantly, but I expect a lot more use of helmets -- This is why the snatchers in Brazil etc all do their robberies with motorcycle helmets (aside from safety on the bike) because even in Flavelas there are a ton of cameras.
and that's relevant to the reliablity ratings of Teslas today how?
anyone know if this, or something similar could take a list of urls - like an exported bookmarks or other table - and do something similar to what:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloa...

does.. and do it automatically?

I've been trying to find a way to hand over a list of urls and set to download only 2 videos at a time per domain.. then after one is finishes wait a random X seconds and then get the next in the list.

Sounds like it should be easy to put something like this together, just not sure what tools would be most suited for such a thing in this day and age.
What do you mean? You just install it `]add Symbolics` and then use the library. (https://symbolics.juliasymbolics.org/dev/ has the docs).
That's the source of many questions on Stack Overflow: "I want to implement a [insert ML task here] but I don't understand [insert Python syntax here]".

Sometimes it is inevitable though, as in the example above. If you want to start with ML it makes more sense to start by learning Python.
Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle. I use it every morning to figure out the right things to work on.

- Everyday, I work on the things with clear deadlines and consequences for not taking immediate action.

- Plan and schedule those things that are not urgent but important according to priority and criticality.

- Delegate the things that are urgent not not important.

- Remove the things that are not urgent nor important. It's distraction.
It is—in its current form as a print quarterly. If you have any feedback on what we should do next, let us know here: https://forms.gle/PbzM7Ndmb9iLN8Tq5.
Right, but this article is discussing reliability. It seems like CR provide the closest thing to a scientific approach to comparing vehicle reliability via the diligence of their subscribers to participate in reliability surveys.

The article goes on to say that:

>Consumer Reports recommends the Tesla Model 3 sedan and rates its reliability as "average." But Fisher said the rest of Tesla's vehicles are below average.

The popular Model Y SUV, Tesla's best-selling vehicle, has problems with poorly fitting body panels, leaks and issues with its climate control, Fisher said.

The larger Model X SUV "still has problems with the falcon wing doors," Fisher said.
> - Use LINQ cautiously as its variants are mostly slower than explicit coding. E.g. .Any() vs .Count == 0

Is this really true for the example? To me it seems that the implementation for .Any actually uses .Count when available, see https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...
The environmental benefits could be negated by the very low urban density achieved. People use cars like crazy when living in a sprawl.