skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really though? 2mb is practically nothing on modern machines. And full-fat debug should have as much info as it can, why optimize it unless you're spitting out 400+mb binaries or something crazy.

It's like, yes, if you turn off the A/C in your muscle car, you'll technically get a few extra horse power.

But past some philosophical ideal of squeezing out every bit of horse power you can, it has a negligible effect on the operation of the car.

Now if you're working on a weed wacker engine or something, yeah that would matter. But you wouldn't pick a giant beefy engine and expect it to work as well as a tiny lightweight one.
Yeah, people that have a problem with that make me more uncomfortable than a bed. I know RMS is a character, but if we have to exclude anyone, it has to be the person that made the complaint. I don't advocate for that, but it would be just as reasonable.

It astounds me that such arbitrary expectations are even considered. Should we invade Africa because some people don't cover up to our demands of decency?

I don't think doing something for others is a justification to behave badly, but this is out of line.
Yes, cofounder and first dev is a huge difference in equity. Strange that it works this way, but it does.

Like 40% down to 2%
I have tried to contribute to the Linux kernel development in the past, but I found it to be a strong inner circle of seasoned devs. The fact that they were still using mailing lists instead of github/gitlab/etc to keep track of development was painful enough, but they were also hostile to asking for documentation on inner modules. I'm not sure how it will progress when they retire or die off.
Then you solve the problem in the baltics, not use it as excuse to turn your cars into "iphones"
Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to get control of your money [a]:

Baby Step 1 - Save $1,000 for your starter emergency fund.

I listen to his podcast all the time and it's still surprising to me that the callers on the show talk about building their savings for the emergency fund. Based on the real-life stories on the show, the 39% statistic presented in this article seems realistic.

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This is almost always true. Even companies that think they are being fair seem to offer laughably lower amount of equity to technical co founders. Even more true if the technical co founder hasnt worked in a start up or been a co founder before.
They don't, though. Users don't reuse session cookies between sites, so another site compromised doesn't mean you have to worry about existing sessions being compromised on your site. Users also don't know their session cookies so are far less likely to go typing them in to a phishing site or hand them out over the phone. A password is vulnerable to all of these scenarios.
> Most of this applies outside of tech too.

Is this job in tech? This detail suggests not: "Put in 1pt font in his email signature "wear a red tie to the interview" then berated a candidate who showed up without a red tie for "lack of attention to detail"

I wouldn't wear any tie to an interview. Not least because it would be seriously out of place to be that formal nowadays.

However, if someone did this to me: "berated a candidate who showed up without a red tie"; and then I found out about the 1pt text in the email, I honestly think I might end the interview right there with a "sorry, I can see that this company won't be a good fit for me", which is polite-speak for "I am running away from this micromanaging weirdo and his pointless desire to police how a coder dresses themselves". Or laugh out loud at the absurdity.

The company is also being assessed by the candidate during an interview.

Is it possible that either

1) "run away" is the reaction that this boss desired or

2) this story is made up. I find it hard to take seriously. IDK, how would an interviewer react if you laughed in their face at the "red tie request" ? Would they make that request again?
What does it mean to ‘master’ a subject?
So why has PG allowed YC to become so VC focused and less about founders bootstrapping?
RPi Pico: 100BASE-T with cheap ethernet PHY module
Wheat doesn't care how big is the farm it's growing on. Same techniques can be used on any
farm. Look at official statistics for olive production of Spain, smaller farms have better results, but the difference is tiny, a few percent.

Also a 'large' farm for spain is 'medium' in UK and 'tiny' in US. Usually people who say small mean family owned, not corporate.

This is simply a matter of capital and land allocation/distribution/policy.
What’s the difference between COM and EXE extensions? (2008)
Thank you for the correction to Assumption 1, that's helpful!

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#cunninghams-law

If that is so, then is it possible to generate UV-C light with a wavelength of 100 nm?
> The electronics seemed to be fabricated using bare dies attached to some substrate, probably to lower cost and improve reliability at higher temperatures. The board is made up of two parts, a low-power part with the CPU and CAN transceivers, and some high-power part with 6 MOSFETs forming a three phase H-Bridge.

> https://blog.willemmelching.nl/images/vw/IMG_3181.jpg

It doesn't really look cheap to me (large machined surfaces on the cast aluminium casing, two ceramic PCBs, everything connected with wire bonding, even the motor windings and the external connector, which means that at least those bonds are carried out on an almost completely assembled product; also look at the sheer size of the motor bonds) but it does look very reliable - everything is bonded or welded, zero connectors, no fasteners, all solid state.
I also share the sentiment that the path of the self-guided math student is a hard one, especially when there is an end goal desired, such as learning ML. The single most important lesson here (I learned) was identifying what textbooks were ideal. In general, I would say the unusual textbook preface that omits the usual prerequisites (that most others demand of a student) are safe bets. For example, I was surprised that Complex Analysis: A First Course with Applications, 3e (Zill Shanahan) actually delivered on its promises from its preface (I didn't even have to understand real analysis!).

The quagmire of breadth vs depth is an almost impossible one when it comes to mathematics. A long time ago I came across The Princeton Companion To Mathematics and bought it first when I began teaching myself mathematics. Easily the best decision I ever made in regard to shedding light on this mystery.

I should write an article about how to select textbooks since it's nepotism all the way down. In reality, there is almost always a "sweet spot" that applies to any student irregardless of prior experience or knowledge and of the given subject (not just mathematics). For example, C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2e (King) was by and far not the obvious canonical text on C (to this fact, the author concedes it's K&R) but having read K&R I found beauty, but its genius wasn't intended entirely (if at all) as a student textbook.

The fact that the textbook industry makes it near damn impossible to simply get a decent preview or general idea of a textbook before purchase, coupled with the fact that Amazon is complicit in that they profit each time you buy a unfit textbook, is truly a tragedy. This engenders the impression to a student (of any age) a certain learned helplessness they may carry for the remainder of their life. One must be prepared to toss their coin along with their book in the trash.

This problem can be solved, but for now all I can recommend as a heuristic is just write a script to crawl for PDFs that are at least 1mb in size (which I actually may do today, ha) along for other obvious meta data such as ISBN, Title, Author, etc. But this is simply to just decide on whether to buy the actual book (if possible); not many realize this, but the art of textbook publication is a parity to film production, it's expensive, exhausting, and time consuming. I personally can't tolerate a poorly digitized textbook anyways.

In my experience, one need not wander too far away from the major publishers for undergraduate textbooks and for upper division or graduate textbooks there simply is a canonical text or none at all (worthwhile). This is because, for example, almost all students are going to have to find a youtube video to demystify the Epsilon-Delta definition of a limit. Thankfully we now live in a day an age where this process only takes about five minutes. In regard to taking online courses (Udemy, Coursera, etc), all I've learned so far is that they are as hit and miss as textbooks are, if not more so.

Love and Respect,
These seem to all date from the '80s or later. Quite a few earlier systems are available to run under simulation -- including historically interesting ones for the PDP-10, PDP-8, and other DEC hardware. Here's a starter list, from the SIMH project: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/software.html
> Your candidates show that after learning how to solve a problem

The way I read it, they’ve shown they can learn the solution to a problem.

It’s like asking ”what’s 43 × 57?”, getting “2451” as a reply and, from there, assuming they’ll be able to calculate ”42 × 58” or “41 × 59”, too. If they memorized just “43 × 57 = 4251”, that conclusion may be (and likely is; most people who know how to multiply won’t memorize such products) incorrect.
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> If people are unhappy with existing books, they should simply create better books.

> If you dont like Google you should create your own Google.

> If you dont like Peppa the Pig, tough luck, create your own.
Since when is testing required for air travel?
> someone cheating

It's not "cheating".

> If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

Haha good one.
I smash nails through the hds and give away whats usable to friends and family. I upgrade my main hardware at least every three years.
For the high end, give the book Seven Days in the Art World, by Sarah Thornton a read. It covers the contemporary art world from the viewpoints of art critics, students, artists, auction houses, etc. An easy read that gives you the overview of that world.

For more ground level practicality, try What They Didn't Teach You In Art School, by Rosalind Davis or I'd Rather Be In The Studio by Alyson Stanfield.
Is it misinformation, though? I think most of the things he complains about actually exist?

It would be nice to hear about some other things, but there does not seem to be much available.

Edit: since I am not allowed to reply to further comments by HN, I paste my reply to the most recent comment below:

"Really? Yes all those things exist, also on other continents, but we are talking about how representative they are of Africa in general."

That seems rather simplistic. There are things that are specific to Africa. Female mutilation only exist in my country because it was imported from places like Africa, for example. And we also don't have free roaming Elephants anywhere on my continent. Also no hunger epidemics.

"Much of what exactly?"

Stories describing a version of Africa that the author of the article would approve of.
You can also disable Windows Defender for the build process, for example disabling it for devenv.exe makes Visual Studio builds waaaaaay faster!
Interested in learning more! Particular autonomous drones and robotics on this side.
There's a "References" section where the authors list numerous things having nothing to do with radical Marxism and tweets.

You're crusading real hard in this thread, maybe take it down a notch.
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Gender

89% Male (Clearly a problem!)

As a guess, women are uncomfortable with cofounder dating because too many of them have been burned by men trying to turn it into actual dating.

I don't know how to solve such problems but I feel like that is a big hitch for women in business: How to keep it all business and not have it turn into some issue because some guy thinks you are hot.
This is not true, employers cannot fire employees without cause. The US has somewhat strong labor laws, but people are not educated about them and employers often ignore them. You'd be surprised how fast most HR departments will settle if you get a lawyer. GET A LAWYER.
Ask HN: How would invest 10k$ in your 30s?
No, assuming [-6,13] is a 95% confidence interval on a normal distribution with mean of 3.5 (substitute your own reasonable assumptions about distribution and sample size), it's plausibly something like 3x more likely that the effect is positive.
Your argument sounds like "if the men harass women why can not the women harass the men."

To be fair women do harass men, only because the law is written in favour of women.

We are talking about power assymetry and continuing hold on institutions like universities, media and bureaucracy.

I am not finger pointing but people should be aware that these are just a continuing colonial mindset.

Unlike the Nazi party which was disbanded at the end of ww2, a lot of colonialists and colonial institutions like the church got rewarded with vast deposits and land holdings.
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Samsung TV remote that recharges by capturing radio frequency energy from Wi-Fi
Yes, actually when I came to C and asked on stackexchange/unix&linux how I could search which libc header I had to include in order to use a defined macro or find type declaration,without a web search, my question was shot down in the hour and I was recommended to either make a web search or grep and good luck.
This how desperate we are : We can't handle newbies putting that truth in front of us.
The driver is always responsible for what their vehicle does. As long as the driver can override the steering (which they can), then there is really nothing to be concerned about. This is the same for cars using openpilot, or Tesla's self driving systems or any other steering assistance features.
It's not that a small number of large node providers is a /good/ thing. But it's also incorrect to say that the result is the same as AWS or GCP, and it frustrates me to no end that the debate around this is so imprecise.

First, your apps API to one of those node providers is standardized and stateless. Switching to a different one could not be more simple: changing a url in your config file; there is basically no lock-in.

Second, running your own is by no means impossible. If you don't need an archive node, it is almost straightforward. It's certainly much easier than replacing all of your AWS dependencies.

Third, for simple apps, the interaction with the node can be entirely browser-side, so it can be users choice which provider is used. For complex stuff you need to write an indexer to create the state you need, which is actually a more interesting problem because it does often mean that the smart contracts themselves cannot be served by a static HTML page, ergo making your product a centralizing factor. This is essentially what the The Graph is trying to solve.

Fourth, there is another layer below all of this product-node interaction, that is more important - the nodes running the consensus. The nodes we are talking about here are just to access a copy of the state. There is value in consensus being spread over 20k nodes, even if all the web apps use Alchemy.

Fifth, "trust" is nuanced. You have to ask yourself what failure cases you want to address. What power does Alchemy have over the network or the ecosystem? The answer is not much.
Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)
Oh yeah ok, but that post didn't have anything to do with art, and the critics weren't about how the shed looked but how it's built dangerously, ignoring many basic security features.
Thank you for your interest, I've now stayed up until 5:20 am making more detailed logs in a spreadsheet.

Heading rows:

Mask count, Centre GPS coordinates, Radius (km), Start date and time, End date and time, Comments

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ap2lpLXWzK1WcdsasP8c...

Apologies if there's less data tomorrow, I'm not sure what time I'll wake up. But I really wish I could get to Sylvia Park and some other malls and gather some more data points.

Please can an expert in data visualisation draw a heatmap?
I wouldn't be surprised if annoyed candidates report this issue for the OP. If one candidate complains about shitty interviews to the company, then it can be hand-waved away as them being sour grapes. But once nine or ten say the same thing, someone is going to realize that the problem is internal.
Are there any good books on this topic? Plenty has been written about "The West" in general, but specifically the agricultural history of America seems like it'd be both interesting and enlightening.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/22/132497/sorryorga...

Also source: me. Been in agriculture for a long time. Have good friends that _run large organic farms_ (1,000-4,000 acres).
I have taken old phones, towers and laptops to the local thrift store. They might be good for a child to use/play on?
> It's clear these practices don't scale.

Citation needed.

Agriculture is one of humanity's largest-scale activities.[1] The vast majority of the world's farmland is smallhold. [2] The practices in Fukuoka's books are fundamentally smallhold practices. My friend's farm is a wee 10 acre plot.

> Also you make no mention of profitability, most farms are for profit and need to generate positive cash flow, regardless of practices.

Depends on how you look at it. If you see the state of agriculture worldwide, the evidence points to the contrary. Farming is unsustainable sans debt. As a system, farmland does not obey economic laws. In my opinion, the state of US agriculture is telling. 1% of the country's population operating giant farmlands needing super-high direct input costs, benefiting from just the massive available landmass not yet homesteaded, and indirectly beholden to subsidy that goes to Oil & Natural gas. The sector flounders under crippling debt. [3]

Perhaps the purely profit-oriented standpoint is worth questioning. What would the world look like if agriculture, like education, healthcare, air, and water be thought of as a public benefit enterprise rather than a private profit-driven enterprise?

And might this public-benefit attitude also change labour dynamics? It is hard work, but plenty of people are happy working with their hands. Many would live peacefully, if the economic and social environment weren't so hostile to human labour.

The contrarian viewpoint is this: The reason why agriculture is hard is because it is capital intensive and wide open to tail risks. The antidote would be to minimize capital investment, and diversify the "portfolio" in holding size, crops, trees, communities and so forth.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallholding
[3] https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-...
It's amazing how many people think like this. I bet the job isnt even that bad. I've had managers who were so terrible at interviewing but actually good managers. I realized a few years into my time with them that they would never actually be able to grow a team because their interview funnel is a trickle. No amount of feedback seemed to do anything about it either.

I had one boss, again a good boss, who used to not call candidates he was interested in and move them to next stages because if they were really interested they would call him. It was... odd.
US: "140 US legislators, part of elite, far-white, presidential Republican Guard, reportedly plotting to reject tribal elders' choice of opposition leader, Joe Biden, as country's next ruler, which may lead to further ethnic bloodletting in the unstable covid-ravaged nation."

Europe: "Firms across sub-Scandinavian Europe are refusing to deliver to addresses in reclusive island kingdom of Britain citing concerns over possible tribal violence as ongoing implementation of AU-brokered Brexit peace agreement raises ethnic tensions in the oil-rich nation."

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