skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear that they want to admit fewer Asians... That is unless those Asian families aren't massive donors to the University...
That’s incredibly frustrating. You shouldn’t need to worry about things like that from a high end manufacturer.
Genuine question because you state this as fact: why does it need to match the racial distribution of the entire population?

To me it’s a little presumptuous that there’s an equal demand across racial categories.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be but acting as if that’s the case won’t have achieve the results you want.
There's a lot of soda-lime glass too though. Maybe not that crucial, but they don't seem to indicate on the surface what it is made of like they do with plastics.
Java ecosystem is rich and much more developed than anything else. There are plenty of better solutions on the market, both open source and commercial. There exist alternatives to log4j for a while, e.g. logback, which is the default option for Spring Boot applications - there was absolutely no need to use log4j2. It was always a free choice.

It is worth mentioning, that any even very basic solution always has a possibility to shoot in the leg, and only professionalism of the developers of the client code can avoid it, so the real reason why this is happening now on a massive scale is that Java world is big and has probable hundreds of thousands, if not millions of developers, who do not have enough knowledge or experience to write better code, understanding all the possible side effects and other consequences of their decisions.

This was going to happen eventually. It will happen again, but maybe next time it will be a Python or TypeScript library. Would it be right to call their ecosystems toxic? I honestly do not know. But let's at least have some respect for people who have built it, almost for free.
I've always enjoyed seeing how it build its components faster and faster during the bootstrap. One of those simple joys of the make process.
Maybe all the CoC gladiators, trying to kill off FOSS are paid saboteurs?
> at least 80 kg

Are you sure? That's on the big side for a human.
julia can do things sort of like this because it has juxtaposition = 'implicit multiplication'

julia's parser (which is written in scheme!):
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par...
I'm baffled by these claims that we should compensate the authors and maintainers of what has been conclusively shown to be software too dangerous to exist. It has the same problem as calls to pay the maintainers of openssl. No amount of money is going to impart good taste and best practices onto these projects. The uncomfortable truth is these libraries need scratch rewrites with better authors.
Bypass Paywalls Clean. Best extension ever.
Am I falling in love with the code? I'd say we're on the 2nd date .... I may even get lucky.
But it's enough to make me hang up on recruiters (respectfully).

Good point though. Bootstrapping is a viable option too, but fundraising has certain no non-financial benefits that can be appealing.
> I have not talked to anyone about it

I would keep it that way until you get sorted, which I say based on my experience that people knowing you're wealthy introduces a whole new set of issues, such as your circle of friends and family treating you differently. In my case, I wasn't prepared for this at all for this and it damn near ruined me.
Particularly with the `${ctx:...}` vs `%X{...}` distinction. For a plain DoS, which only affects `${ctx:...}` usage? I wouldn't panic, fix it if someone manages to actually exploit it...

It's goods new so far that with more people/time and attention paid to the log4j exloits, the vulnerabilities are just getting narrower in scope and lesser in impact.
A lot of therapists have a two year degree.
Build a product or service that impacts the world, you have the most valuable resource at your disposal now - time.
What's user hostile about HBO Max? The app seems to work fine, it's untethered from a cable provider, and it's simple to stream it to an Apple TV (or an Apple TV app).
LOL,

Who "You", and your point?
> and this whole situation is already bureaucracy gone mad.

That sounds like you're referring to the CCPA itself as the bureaucracy gone mad, and probably have already made up your mind about what outcomes research like this will find. If so, that's not really a helpful attitude for this kind of discussion.
It's a nice sum of money. But it's certainly not enough to live doing nothing for the rest of your life. Again YMMV but if you want to have a family, kids, and I suspect you live in a Western country where the cost of living is not that low, you're going to run out unless you put your money to work for you.

So this either means investing in yourself ... Start a company or business. Or investing in others: making safe bets in the market (not crypto).
It'd help on your post, too, but ultimately we live in a world that contains vagueness. I feel more comfortable not marking a post about a giant washing machine being used to spin news with a blinking SATIRE sign than your post, though, because I can't take it seriously.

That said, they clearly label the site as satire on the 'about' page if there was somehow any doubt that articles about spinning news in a washing machine were not serious.
Scraping isn't the problem, it's getting access to the pages to scrape at high-enough volume, at low-enough cost.
Because the only unsolved problem in logging libraries is: "When do I stop adding features?"

Decent logging is surprisingly complicated, but it's not "We need an arrrchitecturreee! for infinitely configurable logging or we are utterly doomed" complicated.
Maybe we should tell them to engage with open source, not "support it". Companies should look for a way to spend work hours on open source, not finding someone to send money.
1. The Bhagavad Gita
2. The One Thing
3. Insanely Simple
The interface is awful. Just awful. And slow on any hardware I have available.

They are lowering the price when one channel leaves but you can’t pick which channels you want.

Lastly YouTubeTV doesn’t solve any problems. For instance local channel access is limited to one location.
Can anyone explain why C++ beats out C so clearly?
That's probably where they got these ideas from...
How can you possibly expect to regulate something like that? Every world power expects that the next major war will be fought with autonomous robots playing a big role. Whoever has the better technology will have a huge advantage. Consequently you can never trust that the other signatories will honor their promises, and so in turn you cannot risk signing it yourself.

Like the Geneva Convention, any robot agreement will be ignored by all combatants as soon as it serves their purposes. War cannot be regulated by gentlemen's agreement.
Yes, but scraping is a small part of the overall puzzle. As developers, we overestimate how valuable tools are (as opposed to solutions). I think the better opportunity is not to be another scraping-as-a-service provider, but to niche down to a solution that uses your scraping technology.
The official cheat sheet for Austin, the sampling Python profiler [pdf]
I agree with you. I don't like that being pro police became a cult of letting them do whatever they want.

I'm pro police and I believe they should be paid more, get more training, and be held to much higher standard which means relentlessly pursuing and strongly prosecuting corrupt police. It's a betrayal of an entire community in a profession where lives are often at stake.

Being pro police also doesn't mean making their job as easy as possible to the detriment of everybody else.
I am sure if someone contributed a million line project for every language they would be happy to benchmark it.
Not surprised that, when asked for specifics, there is no response. This is how every crypto thread goes.

"Crypto is going to revolutionize ____."

"OK, what is a use case where it provides some value that wasn't possible without it?"

...
I don’t mean to distract from the main thread, but could or anyone else elaborate on their experiences with roboinvestors?
> Your wife will know what to do with the money

This seems like a non sequitur. There's no reason the person you marry will magically have a good sense for money.

> Have kids. You won't need to worry about this sort of stuff again. I have 3. I get motivated at 7 AM, every morning.

It doesn't work like that for everyone.
Gerrymandering is an issue, but it's actually the solution to greater problems. Gerrymandering itself is performed by elected officials who, again, are responsible to their constituency. The practice can be seem undemocratic, but the two party system is an eventuality, if one party starts gaining too much power and popularity then people will just start joining that party which will create a schism which will in turn create another party. We cannot guard against a two party system.
I just glimpsed over it, but that sounds actually not good.

I would suppose the advantage of FF is the way smaller marketshare, along with technical competence of at least some of its user making it not such a attractive target, compared to chrome.
Yes. We finally have a la carte. At a grocery store we pick out exactly what we want. If you were given a take it or leave bundle of $85 you'd laugh and walk out.
UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back)
Environmentalist solutions that would lower carbon would have no negative impact on our standards of living, and would in fact raise it.

For example we know from studies that long car commutes are terrible for your health and even dramatically rise divorce rates. With that in mind, jurisdictions with good public rapid transportation networks have higher quality of life than SF, and at the same time have less CO2 emissions due to the more efficient transportation system.

The reason for friction against environmentalism is because the low carbon solutions have been politicized into being part of the left/right culture war.

The result is inexplicable push back against dull public works that benefit everyone on top of also lowering CO2.
OpenSSL at least has significant value, handling logs is usually an easy task.
What bothered me about working in corporate America wasn’t this stuff because it’s easy enough to ignore. Sure it’s lame to say “doubleclick” but when is an office job ever not lame?

Particularly in California-based tech companies, it’s imperative to communicate in a positive way regardless of the circumstances. Critique or dissent are really not welcomed. Any problem you present to your boss needs to be accompanied by a plan to fix it, otherwise zip your lip.

I dummied up about projects that were obviously going to fail (and then did fail) because there was no incentive to say anything. I’d be the party-pooper for saying something negative, the project would proceed as if I never said anything, and when it failed there would be no “wow, turns out you were right.”

Those are some of the things I resented most about the corporate environment. I don’t give a shit if someone says “in the loop”.
Ten times 200m would be 2bn. JPMs revenue is 36bn. So you have to make over 5% of the companies whole revenue just from your WhatsApp account.

And that's just revenue. If the profit margin on your deals was 20% (pretty whopping for banking services) you'd need to bring in 10bn in revenue. That would mean doing maybe $1tn worth of deals.
> 7. Security Analysis by Ben Graham

Just don't try to implement the things outlined there. Graham, in the last published interview he gave (Financial Analysts Journal, 1976), said:

>> In selecting the common stock portfolio, do you advise careful study of and selectivity among different issues?

> In general, no. I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities. This was a rewarding activity, say, 40 years ago, when our textbook "Graham and Dodd" was first published; but the situation has changed a great deal since then. In the old days any well-trained security analyst could do a good professional job of selecting undervalued issues through detailed studies; but in the light of the enormous amount of research now being carried on, I doubt whether in most cases such extensive efforts will generate sufficiently superior selections to justify their cost. To that very limited extent I'm on the side of the "efficient market" school of thought now generally accepted by the professors.

* http://www.grahamanddoddsville.net/wordpress/Files/Gurus/Ben...
As always in unstable equilibria all is fine and well as long as everyone complies, but anyone may gain a unilateral advantage misbehaving.

Pragmatically it's a lack of higher (multilateral) enforcement why these power plays persist.
Hey! Hopefully this comment comes across as helpful rather than hurtful. I'm also the founder of a developer tool, and it's hard to raise money for! (I know you said yours isn't strictly a developer tool, but you mentioned open source so I think it's fair to assume it falls in this category.)

I think you're missing a step, which is where _you_ answer if web scraping can be a viable business model. You're attempting to convince VCs with logic (and a few assumptions), but there's an easier (or harder) way to do it... convince them by making money.

Most VCs aren't ideologues, and don't have an opinion about business models. They will be convinced if you simply show them you're making money. It's not their job to decide if an idea can make money or not; that's your job as a founder.

I applied to YC twice. The first time we spent the 10 minutes talking about if it could make money or not, and never got anywhere good. We got rejected. The second time we were making money, the conversation was smoother, and we got in. It's so much easier to be able to replace "I believe" with "our customers believe". It changes the conversation completely. You don't need to be making billions of dollars; just enough to show that people want what you're making!

tl;dr You're trying to convince VCs when you need to be convincing customers!

(For the record, a lot of what I said here is very money-driven and that's not how I build my company. However, in the context of VCs, which are purely financially driven, it's how you should be thinking about it.)

Good luck, and let me know if I can help! My email is in my profile if you want to talk!
If we are within the event horizon, then the direction towards the center of the black hole is not a spatial direction, but a temporal one. The cental singularity is in the future.
As it turns out, the temporal direction is the only direction of spacetime which is not symetric. Objects in the future are accelerating faster, which is presisly the prediction you made.
Interesting as I thought that the theory was quite old. Certainly sure I believed that well before the mid 2000s. And a quick search on DDG says that theory was first proposed in 1941 referring to plant formation?
Your luck is an unexpected gift.

Put the money away, living off a small percentage to maintain a comfortable but average standard of living for someone with your abilities.

Consider finding enlightenment (seriously).

If/when enlightened, help others find enlightenment.
https://www.loopinsight.com/2021/12/13/drive-around-san-jose...
Ask HN: Is long range 'wireless power' feasible?
I've just recently become aware of a few companies pursuing long range 'wireless power'. I only have a very basic physics understanding of it -- IIRC magnetic field strength, which I assume is what's being used (like wireless iPhone, toothbrush chargers), is inversely proportional to distance (1/r). Does anyone have any numbers on how this actually makes sense as a long range power source? If multiple sources were using long range 'wireless power', wouldn't the magnetic fields become non-uniform (non circular) and therefore mess it all up. How is this a feasible infrastructure solution? I have only a basic understanding of this concept from classical physics, so this question might be naive.
Titanium has a strong argument. It's less thermally conductive than steel or aluminium (so Ti is not great for pots, despite being occasionally advertised as such, but this is an advantage for plates), famously biocompatible, and highly corrosion resistant. It won't break into sharp pieces. Your standard Ti-6Al-4V alloy has a problem but there are other chemistries.
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Probably no one cares as it's only £4, but posting on HN has a therapeutic effect.
I believe GUI is a huge part of it. My rationale is that sweating the details of the GUI actually requires a profound amount of work, that is not at the top of the list of things that programmers enjoy working on. The the only way to get it done is to hire an army of well paid programmers to do it. And things like office and graphics software are nothing without GUI.

Second, some software builds on a body of proprietary domain knowledge that someone happens to own. I'd put mechanical CAD in that category. Probably the symbolic computing technology of Mathematica as well. In some cases, users of specialized engineering software actually put up with horrifying user interfaces because the software vendor has a lock on the domain knowledge.

The successes of open source include anything without a user interface, such as the infrastructure of the universe, and non domain specific programming tools.
If this email had actually been sent down by a shakedown attorney, there would be absolutely no recourse. But the sender is part of an institution that admits outside criticism, and so there is an angle to strike back. Regardless of the research ethics here, it seems most of the outrage is precisely because this perp has a chance to be held accountable.

The real overarching problem is that anyone can be subject to life-altering lawsuits through the legal system, which will cost unreasonable amounts of time, money, and personal sanity. There's no hope for justice for small time actors, since the damage has been dealt out before ever seeing an informed decision by a judge. And even if you can invest enough to pay for a real judgement, the chance of getting awarded legal fees is slim, never mind rewards for lost time and emotional distress!

I don't think the problem is specifically the CCPA, since it does except small time actors. Rather the setup for the problem is a heavyweight legal system, draconian laws that do apply to individual actors, and the massive fan out caused by being globally connected. Anybody is basically one doxxing away from a barrage of legal demands, and our poor technical architectures basically guarantee anybody who puts themselves out there even slightly can be doxxed.

I don't know that there is a straightforward fix. The dynamics have been explored to death, and we seem to be trapped in this state because the real beneficiaries of the legal system (well-funded corporations and other professional actors) are happy to keep it this way. But this situation is a lightning rod that illustrates how outrage over it is growing. If it continues to not be reformed, eventually something is going to break catastrophically.
That’s not less discussed. That concept is pervasive in media, literature, and philosophy. Nihilism 101.
The first two books are extremely useful for preventing people from taking advantage of you, if you are naive as to how manipulative people can be: that's what I got out of them when I read them early in life.
Do not inflate your lifestyle.

As someone who won IPO lottery twice netting 8 figures after tax, that would be the advice.

Learn investment basics, invest your lump sum into VOO, VTI, and the likes, and enjoy luxury of knowing you don't have to work when you retire.

You might also want to watch videos of Graham Stephan on youtube - all things considered, he's very clear about how frugal lifestyle benefits you long-term.
I did consider making a reference to Java but I decided against it as I thought it would be received in the spirit it was intended.
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Invest the money in relatively stable/safe investments. Some real estate, index funds, etc.

Leave yourself enough for a year or so, and take that time to figure out what you’d really like to do without putting too much pressure on yourself on a daily basis. Spend that time focusing on doing healthy activities, socializing, reading in areas that you aren’t that familiar, etc. I don’t know if it’s an option, but if you could withdraw from school with the option to return at a later date that might be a good idea if you’re not finding the motivation at the moment.
Jonathan Blow's new language compiler does not do incremental builds yet builds large projects extremely quickly (a few seconds).
Congrats and greetings to Munich. I know and helped a few people in similar situations. Here your rough priorities:

1. Invest most of the cash in a conservative way, so it lasts. That means stocks and some bonds to ride out downturns. You will want to work with a fee-only adviser for this to consider everything from taxes to future spouses to inheritance.

2. Consider your interests and learn about the psychological implications of your situation. Specifically about the (fat) FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement. They deal with the same problem. Relevant HN discussion here[1] and first hand experience here[2,3]. There is research that early retirees have shorter live expectancy[4] and having >5h of free time a day is detrimental to happiness[5]. People need purpose.

3. With 1) out of the way and the lessons from 2) you can explore what makes you happy. Generally it's a mix[6] of control (your life, your time), competence (mastering a skill, like CS), connection (friends, family, peers) and purpose/mission. Since you already did a few startups, maybe that's something to explore further.

Hope this gives you a roadmap and best of luck.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543527

2: https://livingafi.com/2015/03/09/building-a-vision-of-life-w...

3: https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u...

4: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16243848/

5: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspp0000391.p...

6: https://www.alexjhughes.com/books/2018/7/4/the-geometry-of-w...
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Did they test how much of it actually ends up in cooked food? Also, those numbers don't tell me much, I want to know how this compares to lethal/toxic dose etc.
> We are bred to believe if we just solve the money issue, everything else will fall in line. And becoming rich is a great way to realize how much of a myth that is.

Exactly. Not to mention the additional rich people's problems that poor or even merely well-off people don't have and could hardly imagine.
Yes, though my calculations are simpler, 100 K Euro (essentially net from taxes, I believe) for 75 years (hoping one would manage to become centenary).

Without any gain through investment, only maintaining the money on par with inflation (the real life one not the projected one that this or that EU government publishes) you can imagine it as constant draw or stipend.

That is roughly double what (I would call) a more than average pay in EU (50,000 Euro year net of taxes).
LMU alumn here

Working on software that improves democracy is somting that is urgently needed and that you can only really do with that kind of financial independence.

hence, nobody is working on it.
Just for context this is what they are "debating" saying yes or no to https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM