skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has seen both sides of the world that you describe, I think I can verbalize a topic that was not explicitly discussed in the video: if you feel forced to raise capital for a company that you personally don't believe in, then perhaps you shouldn't do it assuming you're early enough that you're not putting the livelihood of many other people at risk. Raising that capital will tie up years of your professional career in an underpaid and overworked role that has very little chance of returning your and other people's investment.

I didn't use to think this way until a few years ago when I experienced true product market fit. Prior to that, I always found myself slugging it out and just accepting that paying with blood, sweat and tears for even the tiniest amounts of success is the only way there is. But there truly are opportunities out there to solve other people's problems that are so important to those people that your experience in building that startup will be vastly different. Suddenly the metrics look good without having to put a spin on them, investors are competing to get into your rounds, you start getting inbound resumes from highly qualified candidates, and you're able to pay generous salaries so that you surround yourself with amazing professionals who are better than you in their specific domains and can work autonomously with a minimal amount of interaction. Next thing you know - you're no longer working on weekends, you can take vacations, go on maternity/paternity leave like other normal people, etc. In other words, life starts feeling normal again.

I struggle with sharing this because I don't want to demotivate anyone. A part of me believes that the slugging out portion of my life was the necessary ingredient that taught me many important lessons and that prepared me for the the moment when the stars finally aligned (but it certainly came with a mental and physical cost that took years to iron out again). There's also this idea that a startup might struggle for many years and then suddenly take off like crazy (I believe life360 is one of the many well-known examples). All I would say is don't overdo it - do the grind for as many years as you think is acceptable, and then at some point start getting a bit more picky about the risks you take. If you've got 10 years of grind behind you and your current startup is unlikely to succeed, shut it down, take a job, and try again in two years (or if you're lucky enough that you can afford going straight into your next startup, then by all means do that as well). Whatever you do, make sure that your next startup benefits from the lessons learnt in the previous one, which almost always means make sure that you have the product market fit (PMF).

That's the hard part - how do you know if you have the PMF without quitting your job and raising capital? Product Hunt, Kickstarter, Shown HN and similar feedback mechanisms can be helpful here.
You do realize that using credit cards is completely irrelevant to trading in a regulated marketplace? The closest connection is that both are parts of the financial system, but that’s about it.
Out of curiosity, why would not executing JavaScript or not downloading images equal higher content quality?
just FYI, previously infected don't count as "unvaccinated" in this regulation.
Hope the NDA they referred to didn't have a clause about "not acknowledging the existence of the NDA" that many do. :D
Of course. And it's often the same people. Or at least the same kinds of people.

None of which tackles the real problem, which is that corporations, top-down oligarchies, monopolies, unregulated market economies, bureaucracies, and so on are all examples of the same problem - which is that hierarchies with wide power inequalities are mental illness factories. They enable and cultivate personality disorders.

As the power inequalities increase, everything turns to shit, because the people who have real power get more and more aggressively psychopathic, extractive, demanding, irrational, and dangerous.

If you add some negative feedback/oversight and apply some filtering to keep the crazies out - difficult, but possible - I strongly suspect you can eventually push any system back to stability and incline it towards producing whatever form of growth you're interested in.
Thank you!
Can you help me set the correct alias for each word in portuguese?
Shameless blog post, but I wrote about something similar here. [1]

The TL;DR of it is that I think the hardware industry is in the exact same spot as the software industry was 20 years ago; a wild west of security. And I think the only way out of this is with decades of good tools, infrastructure, and methodology development.

That's not to say software security isn't a mess right now-- it also is. But at least we *know* relatively how much it's a mess. With hardware, it's an unknown unknown, the worst kind of unknown.

[1]: https://ljhsiung.com/posts/the-state-of-cpu-fuzzing/
Yeah, it's hard to describe to people that haven't lived in them before. Couple that with the fact that everyone typically gets their own private entrance/exit to outddoors due to the exterior staircases, and it's a fantastic combination of privacy, density, convenience, and urbanization IMO.
> On an unrelated note: I dont know why so many movies are shot in the dark. It might make sense when viewed in a theater, but when viewing at home, I can't see anything. The last few scenes of Edge of Tomorrow were impossible to understand because of this.

Actually after re-watching BladeRunner 2049 on my q95t I came to conclusion that I like watching dark scenes on my TV as much or even more then in cinema.
Note that the popular press articles about “big tech” are often articles by people who feel threatened by it (traditional journalists) or articles about some politician complaining that some topic they care about is or is not being censored.

I’m not saying journalists are scum by any means, just saying it’s kind of a natural outcome.

Meanwhile most people are looking at dog photos and pictures of their friends’ kids and not worrying about these issues. Or saving money on Amazon even as their downtown hollows out.
Mine's at +3 and I just assumed my hearing was shit so stopped there. Glad to see it's not me it's streaming. I might actually consider going back to in mail Netflix blu-ray for better quality.
Huh, nice to see Los Angeles, a city of some 4 million people catching up with... uh, Bend, Oregon, which recently passed its city code changes to allow up to fourplexes thanks to HB2001. Bend recently hit 100,000 people!

And you wonder why California has a housing crisis.
"The vaccines (on the U.S. market, at least) were never promoted as providing complete protection from Covid."

Then do not call it a vaccine, because it is not.

I did not take my TBE vaccine, to be greeted a year later by TBE.
Anthony Burgess, who wrote English dialogue for Italian movies--whether for subtitles or dubbing I forget--said that Fellini had his cast say sequential numbers; that way, he could just order them to start again from 10. I do recall seeing someone credited with Michel Piccioli's lines on an Austrian film.
Everyone needs to agree that starting a nuclear war is bad. You would likely want to stop China from shooting nuclear missiles at San Francisco. Yet I doubt that when you insist on this narrative, you would think of yourself as being tyrannical.

I disagree with the premise here. China doesn't need to agree that shooting nukes at San Fran is bad, they just need to agree that shooting nukes at San Fran is going to cost them Shanghai. That's more like markets and prices than it is appealing to a centralized hierarchy.

One of the best observations about why people in urban areas are more liberal, and rural areas are more conservative, has to do with the idea that when you are around more people, you need more rules to guide how to interact with one another.

This might be true, but if you look at the state of LA, San Fran, Chicago's South Side, Detroit and Baltimore, it's tough to say all those extra rules have kept them stable and prosperous. I'm not saying the answer is necessarily "tear it all down and go DeFi", but it's pretty clear that on a long enough timeline, the regulation fails to punish the bad actors and actually restricts the good actors from fixing problems independently.
They've probably changed quite a lot since then.
>LA's problem is that the folks that have the power to fix housing have zero interest in doing because it would hurt their self interest. Housing is only a "problem" if you haven't bought a house yet, once you purchase a house, all the issues with housing there all of a sudden become benefits.

I have an expression for this. "Solving the problem is only half the problem." Everyone knows how to fix the housing problem (build some f'ing houses). But solving that problem is only half the problem.
Some speakers (Sonos comes to mind) have a "night mode" that basically does that, compressing the dynamic range. There is also a dialogue mode that emphasizes the human speech frequencies.
And so it begins. The degenerates already are using it to their advantage:

https://ibb.co/yX61n4T
Some interesting notes about GeoWorks' architecture in Steve Yegge's blog from 2008:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...

The whole thing was written in x86 assembly — 15 million lines! And that proved its eventual downfall.

Here's the quote from the post:

--

"OK: I went to the University of Washington and [then] I got hired by this company called Geoworks, doing assembly-language programming, and I did it for five years. To us, the Geoworkers, we wrote a whole operating system, the libraries, drivers, apps, you know: a desktop operating system in assembly. 8086 assembly! It wasn't even good assembly! We had four registers! [Plus the] si [register] if you counted, you know, if you counted 386, right? It was horrible.

"I mean, actually we kind of liked it. It was Object-Oriented Assembly. It's amazing what you can talk yourself into liking, which is the real irony of all this. And to us, C++ was the ultimate in Roman decadence. I mean, it was equivalent to going and vomiting so you could eat more. They had IF! We had jump CX zero! Right? They had "Objects". Well we did too, but I mean they had syntax for it, right? I mean it was all just such weeniness. And we knew that we could outperform any compiler out there because at the time, we could!

"So what happened? Well, they went bankrupt. Why? Now I'm probably disagreeing – I know for a fact that I'm disagreeing with every Geoworker out there. I'm the only one that holds this belief. But it's because we wrote fifteen million lines of 8086 assembly language. We had really good tools, world class tools: trust me, you need 'em. But at some point, man...

"The problem is, picture an ant walking across your garage floor, trying to make a straight line of it. It ain't gonna make a straight line. And you know this because you have perspective. You can see the ant walking around, going hee hee hee, look at him locally optimize for that rock, and now he's going off this way, right?

"This is what we were, when we were writing this giant assembly-language system. Because what happened was, Microsoft eventually released a platform for mobile devices that was much faster than ours. OK? And I started going in with my debugger, going, what? What is up with this? This rendering is just really slow, it's like sluggish, you know. And I went in and found out that some title bar was getting rendered 140 times every time you refreshed the screen. It wasn't just the title bar. Everything was getting called multiple times.

"Because we couldn't see how the system worked anymore!

"Small systems are not only easier to optimize, they're possible to optimize. And I mean globally optimize."

--
> "effective vaccines actually suppress variant formation" is going to get him yelled at for supporting antivaxer arguments, I bet.

And yet you call this simple, scientific fact that wouldn't have been remotely controversial two years ago an "antivaxer argument"
Offensive or defensive? For offensive (at least in the non-classified space), major players include e.g. Riscure.

A fun historical quirk about chip-level security is that most of the experienced people and firms have at least some ties to cable/satellite TV piracy (on either side of that).
AWS SDK for Rust enters developer preview
I've never understood the reason we even have marriage defined in government at all, and thusly would include "gay" marriage (all marriage is marriage if it's undefined)...

We don't have a government definition of prayer or baptism, but for some reason we have have codified that one religious practice into our government? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Also why do they get varyingly get tax incentives or disincentives?

Maybe its the armchair libertarian in me, but it seems like we should just remove any formal definition of marriage from the government and instead normalize more power of attorney style actions.
I think your point is stronger than you worded it, by saying junior developers, as the observation holds for developers period, when faced with a mess.
It is odd. Also harder to trust a small org.

Maybe an angle to getting a size-able slice of the browser market for a start up at this point would be just being super simple, very private-first, and than have a better development experience + inspector than Chrome's. Then let all the "tech" people push it out. No easy task.
Working in finance myself, I totally agree with you on the regulators lint. Everyone arguing regulators are evil is genuinely tech and finance savvy. The regulator is not there to protect them. They are there to protect the vast majority - not only from the outright criminals but also the slightly evil financial services companies (see the Wonga and payday loans debacle in the UK).

Say what you like about regulators - and they regularly mess up big - but they ensure that 99% of consumer finance companies have the cash to back up deposits because they are forced to!

We don't necessarily need more regulation, but more of the right regulation would be good.
Of course not, you're not arguing in good faith and immediately resort to logical fallacies to make your statements. How could we possibly?
> It will not encourage contractor relationships anymore than now,

Doubtful

> it will simply require businesses to pay the hourly workers more

Why? It seems like this is a lever you're hoping to use to get the exempt workers paid more and/or a slightly greater allocation of work away from what had formerly been exempt workers.

> benefits

Why?
This is something genuinely interesting from riscv crowd for the first time
One of the most interesting technical details is buried in a giant quote.

> All it took was a little bit of collaboration and communication, and all of a sudden, grip and electric are moving generators a hundred yards away instead of having them right around the corner from the set.
Ah ok that makes more sense. And while I'm here, if you ever want to charge for paid features check out my project https://extensionpay.com
I think there’s a nuance here in the sense that progress happens both inside the established system and outside it - grassroots campaigns, protests, local initiatives, etc. I think the key issue is that it seems like so many smart people are looking to solve things from the outside rather than involve themselves with the current system, and we need to move that pendulum back quite a bit.
Reminds me of this: "If you use this, you must donate $1 to someone more intelligent than you."
There's been a few talks on the topic. They're archived in e.g. youtube.

I like it. It's fairly simple and clean, yet powerful.

There was also some discussion here in HN months ago, about an article comparing RISC-V V extension and ARM SVE.

The article itself got several things wrong about V, but the discussion[0] was interesting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27063748
Vaxxers/maskers are the enemy.

You all will face serious retribution for your war crimes.
Very few people use this feature. Seems understandable it is low priority. Firefox is open source, which is great because you can work on a fix since you seem to care more than anyone else.
> Un-democratic in the sense that it casts out folks that don't live there, but democratic in the sense that the voices of those who own homes are clearly heard.

The debate around legal immigration is very much the same. The people that want to immigrate have no voice.
Unfortunately very few people live in a democratic country with the rule of law like Sweden. For the rest, crypto can be a good place to keep their funds without the fear of losing.
The Placebo Effect and God May Live in the Same Brain Region
I don't keep up with antivaxer arguments, and maybe I'm daft, but doesn't that mean if everybody were vaccinated then fewer variants would show up?
Easy: Because I don't want a pay cut.

I'd do four 10-hour days. if that's what it takes.

But it's not worth the effort and time to research dozens of companies if they're all going to tell me that I'd need to take a significant pay cut. And if a listing on that site doesn't have the salary range, that's what I'm going to assume is going to happen.
Teleological thinking has many uses.
Long-range and hierarchical language predictions in brains and algorithms
When a store charged me twice for the same item last month I was very happy to be able to reverse the transaction.
Apple hates it's users. Why should devs be any different?
The solution, of course, is that houses shouldn’t be investments. They should be things that you pay to live in. But that’s exactly what the parent commenter is saying that the current homeowners will never allow.
> working in VR will be ideal and an improvement over any sort of monitor

For me, that's definitely not true. I have no interest in wearing a headset for more than a few minutes at a time. I also like that I can turn my head and look out the window at trees, clouds or birds or rain. It's how I think.

> I think it'll introduce an order of magnitude increase in productivity once it begins to mature.

I guess that's a good thing, but it's not terribly high on my list of things I want to work on to improve my life.
Supposed you have 300 people living in a square kilometer on a single floor. If you double the number of floors by 5, you get 1500 people per square kilometer.
Vivaldi is not just another repackaged Chromium, it has it's own completely custom UI and special features. For example, it has built-in mail, rss, calendar, and contacts "apps", and a built in screenshot tool that lets you capture an entire page or a single element.

Features like that are why you would want to use Vivaldi over another Chromium-based browser. I don't even know if they actually went through the effort of a thorough de-Googling. Also, their custom UI is not open source, so the browser is partially proprietary.
How much is your AWS bill for a B2B SaaS company at about $12m/yr in revenue?
I'd love to hear what B2B SaaS companies often find their AWS costs are to run their entire company.

Of course it varies by business model.
It would be a huge help to hear from different people.
The post I was replying to used the word "apartment". I wanted to be specific in case there's anyone out there that thinks that more rental properties will fix the issue.
OpenNebula CE Patch Release 6.0.0.3 is available
Fauci funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab.

NIH admits to this:

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1450947395508858880/p...

Fauci needs to be arrested immediately and executed.
Google and Amazon definitely have dedicated IC security staff.
Spending the Winter in Yukon and Battling Tomtenissar (Nordic Folklore)
>I dont know why so many movies are shot in the dark.
Your TV is not doing HDR properly, cannot get bright enough, or is not calibrated correctly. If it's 4k, it's done in HDR which requires a TV to get bright enough, otherwise you will have to do tone mapping and turn up the gamma which can't be done in many setups.

>For me-- I rarely watch movies without subtitles nowadays; can't understand half the dialog.
try enabling dynamic range compression on your TV/Sound Receiver. Many movies are mastered for Cinema, which means voices are whsiper quiet and other sounds are loud af, this compresses it down to a more reasonable range for a home setup.
Personally, and I totally recognize that I'm likely arguing a moot point, I don't conflate static-site generation and server-side rendering and I don't think they can or should be used interchangeably as the author indicates. If my site can be hosted by Nginx alone, it's not server-side rendering to me.

On the other hand, if I am paying for the overhead of running a node server to host my site, but it doesn't support this, why not? I'm very suspicious of the argument that it's to save time due to on-the-fly render costs.

It seems that Remix and perhaps React's new server-side components will be solving this problem in a much more coherent way without requiring weird hacks like this.
Nope. Overall, the ecosystem collapsing. So human non existence more beneficial. Lot of people that I met also disagree unless they are high on copium and doesn't think honestly.
Man, I wish I could say the same about Palo Alto.

We used to go out of our way to support the homeless and families (and had a lower median income than most surrounding cities) but since the selfish jerk proportion went up (IMHO in the dot com boom) the city has turned into “I’ve got mine, jack, so fuck off”
When you are more experienced you most likely have seen a lot of things throughout your career. Some of the things you saw may apply to this position but not to that one.

When you are interviewing, as a candidate, it is very hard to know what’s relevant and what’s not. Especially when the position is not strictly technical.

I love interviewing processes that nudge the candidate in the right direction so both sides can focus solely on talking about what matters.

I dislike interviewing processes where it takes half or more of the conversation just for both parties to figure out what they have in common so they can see if they are a match.
Nah they are on Western social media too, according to Snowden and a bunch of other evidence.
"someone who requires everyone to agree about what's done with trees on your own property could well be considered tyrranical."

100% agree with the example of someone's tree on their 200 acre farm. However, if I have a dying tree that's a risk to falling on my neighbor's house, it would far less tyrannical for the neighbor to force me to remove the tree through the government. Proximity to others plays a big role.
Britain's move to representative democracy from a monarchy is somewhat of an example, although one could argue that power is still concentrated.
I've had a great experience with Lutris for Linux.

https://lutris.net/
But... I'm not sure why tik tok can't do the same things? It is almost certainly being used by the same organizations for recruitment and general reach.

If not, why not?

I get a general fear of social media. And I am not trying to give anyone a pass. I don't see a distinction, though.
I think that the elites of the various countries have too much in common at this point to allow a war to happen. They would sooner team up and move to Elysium and abandon all the rest of us on earth than allow for global destruction. I think this is the future TBH, the wealthy will more and more take things into their own hands a la superyachts, NZ properties, fortified compounds, etc. The middle classes and below will face the unwelcome prospect of gradually decaying social institutions and economies until society eventually just breaks, and the wealthy wait it out then come in to sweep up the ashes, ushering in a new, far less populated golden age of humanity.