skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also potentially interesting is how YC changed the VC market. [0] is an essay from PG that talks about how VC funding used to work. [1] is a short essay that starts to get at why YC is different. (These should be read with a grain of salt, since PG is the founder of YC)

TLDR is that YC was the first firm to fund a lot of small companies, as opposed to a medium amount of medium sized companies. Similar to what Square did for payments by offering credit card readers to individuals, YC offered funding to super small companies where previously it was not available.

The impact of this on the world is up for interpretation, but at least one positive result is a lower barrier of entry for entrepreneurship.

I am far from an expert so if this is inaccurate feel free to correct me.

[0]http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html
[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html
This is your wild conspiracy theory. You can't just tell everyone else they have to prove it's not true otherwise that's proof it is true! Typical conspiracy theorist tactic.

You said there is evidence. Where is it? The idea that Trump colluded with Putin to interfere with the election under Obama's nose somehow and then hid all the evidence from the Mueller investigation somehow is utterly ridiculous. Such an extraordinary claim without evidence is just worthless.
In what way? Because I have an differing world view.
Lambda has it's own set of complexities and concerns. It's also not a good fit for his use cases.

Now, a containerization service like Fargate would fit his use case better since he is using containers.

However, cloud services come with their own complexities and the principle problem they solve (horizontal scaling) doesn't apply to his sites.
My dad had a plaque made with this poem on it when I was a kid. It was eventually lost in moves and I didn't know about it until I was about a senior in high school. I move a lot at the moment, but once a settle down, it'll absolutely be on the wall.

I just think that concept wanting your son to embrace that poem is sweet, but I have a bias.
RSV (one of the main cold viruses) was suppressed in the US in 2020, yeah. It's back now.

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/rsv/natl-trend.html
Ask HN: How do you take care of yourself?
How do you take care of yourself mentally and physically? How do you avoid burnout and what do you do when you have burnt out? What are your top few points of advice for these aspects of self-care or anything else that may be relevant?

For context:

I am finishing my bachelors in CS this year, but I really enjoy my major and classes and I look forward to landing a job in industry. I find side projects to be fun, but motivation to continue working on them dies off within a week or two. As a result, I don't have as many things built and to a level that I would like because I feel like I should be putting my time on something else and then end up making no progress on anything (leetcode, projects, self-learning, hobbies). So I feel like I always need to be doing something and then when I do something I feel like I should be doing something else that is "better", which leads to constant (but sometimes low) feelings of burnout, laziness, or overwhelmingness (hope that's a word). I would also consider myself a perfectionist, so that makes me feel like everything I am doing has to be perfect (even when I don't know how to execute whatever I'm doing properly). I like to take well thought out steps in anything I do (picking next quarter's classes and professors, projects, programming, friendships, etc), but sometimes I feel like that holds me back from actually doing the thing I am thinking about and lead to no progress again.

I apologize for the rant, but I'd like some advice, thoughts, and reflections from the community.
You can be a good, or even great, person without being able to do all this. I say this for anyone who needs to hear it tonight. Happy new year.
My favorite Kipling, "Mother Lodge":

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_motherlodge.htm
Part of the profit part of the web does not include decentralizing tech... This is the one thing that makes everything a scam. If you mint a new coin or NFT, there is always a bunch of actions a seller or buyer can take to either bolster or undermine the price of the asset.

Web 3 is also based on an economy of popularity and/or financial backing to either increase value or disparage an asset, which makes manipulation rampant, and it also makes the "Web 3 economy" inherently corrupt. Frankly, it's not a movement, it's really to me just a mutation of MLM and pyramid-scheme marketing online.

Sorry to be so harsh, but the way it's being spammed at all of us every day, and infecting real online commerce is abhorrent, and growing to the point where not much can be trusted when Web 3 is mentioned for me.
The Kate Text Editor in 2021
Maximizing profit is literally the defining mission of almost all businesses, of which game studios are no special case.

I think it's also questionable whether a generic FPS losing players gradually over many years is really even preventable. People move on from even the best games eventually. I think the only FPS that's even close to durable is CS and it's still losing. In such an environment, you really want to capitalize on demand while you have it.
The modern day has the movie and memoire of a Frenchman with locked-in syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butter...
Even for his time he didn't an "excellent personal character". That being said I'm generally in favour of separating the author from the art and against putting people on a pedestal in general.
I’ve listened to Michael Caine reciting it on YouTube many times

here’s one version:

https://youtu.be/3WaksP__VT0
Yeah, I recognize that ownership helps with concurrency, and TBH most of the code I write isn't highly concurrent, especially at a fine-grained level. Nevertheless, I think all that ownership is going overboard to solve what is in effect a niche problem. (After all, 30 years ago, engineers at Sun architected the Solaris kernel with very carefully designed fine-grained locking with little more than C. "Solaris Internals" is still highly recommended.).

There are a lot of other strategies for writing concurrent systems, like, for example, making most data immutable, coarse-grained sharing, shared-nothing multi-process architectures like actors, using race detectors and/or thread sanitizers, using good concurrent libraries (with lock-free hashtables and other datastructures).

The difference between the number of concurrency bugs causing catastrophic failure and all other kinds of bugs causing catastrophic failure has gotta be at least 100 or maybe 1000 to 1. So forcing everyone to think about ownership because maybe they are writing concurrent code (then again maybe they aren't) so that "congrats your memory management problems are solved" seems like a Pyrrhic victory--you've already blown their brain cells on the wrong problem. Worse, you've forced them to bake ownership into the seams in every part of the system, making it more difficult to refactor and evolve that system in the future. [1]

> Screw up how multiple Go threads access that nice GC managed memory and undefined and non-deterministic behaviour is inevitable result.

You get race conditions, you don't get undefined behavior (nasal daemons). Go and Java have memory models that at least your program doesn't violate the source type system and you don't get out-of-thin air results. You get tearing and deadlocks and race conditions, not undefined behavior. At Google we used TSAN extensively in Chrome and V8 and similar tools exist for Java, and I assume so as well for Go.

It's a broader conversation, but I don't think advocating that everyone write highly concurrent programs with shared mutable state, no matter what tools they have at their disposal, is pushing in the right direction. Erlang, Actors, sharing less, immutable data, and finding better higher level parallel programming constructs should be what we focus our and other's precious brain cycles on, not getting slapped around by a borrower checker or thread sanitizer. We gotta climb out of this muck one of these decades.

[1] If you are instead saying that people should think about the design of their system from the beginning so that they don't have to refactor as much, then I agree; but just don't waste time thinking about ownership, or worse, architecting ownership into the system; it will alter the design.
So why handshake vs. namecoin, ENS or others? Why would handshake win when many of it's predecessors failed?
It’s really sad to see smart people argue against their own interests.

This is not good.

Read the papers and fine print on everything. Science should be inherently skeptical. If you haven’t read the papers and understood them, you have no business claiming this person is spewing disinformation or not.

Your opinion is not yours otherwise.

Example, the CDC points to an Arizona study about mask efficacy in public schools. The study did not address the large range of total days in school for each district/school. Some unmasked schools were in session almost 3x longer than the masked ones, so of course there was more spread. Also there was no specification if the spread occurred at home or in school.

I understand this is a horrible disease and we need to do our best to get through this, but there is some seriously janky/inept science going on.
Something prepaid.
You say that; but after almost 20 years of attack at every one of those levels I can still connect to https://thepiratebay.org. And https://wikileaks.org. That wouldn't be possible if there was a true single entity in charge, both of those sites have enemies. In the case of wikileaks, enemies with literal firepower and secret agencies working to shut it down.
I don't see anyone crucifying anyone here, it's just you trying to stir shit where there's none tbh.
Sure, you can have multiple namespaces, and each would have to be censored, but that's about as difficult as playing whack-a-mole with multiple domains pointed at an IP address.
The systematic destruction of everything strong and good in the past is done on purpose to disorient and make people more open to dramatic, sudden change.
I'd call it "changed the world relevantly" and "changed the world irrelevantly"
Why not also, while at it, disallow spaces too? They can very easily cause problems too, if you split by spaces instead of newlines. Quotes and backslashes obviously are also bad. How about all of non-ASCII unicode? That'd break all code assuming character count equals byte count, and can probably cause buffer overflows when people count correctly.

Any characters you disallow still allows people to fail on some other character. Sure, it'd decrease the likelihood of messing things up by some amount, but that's a half-assed solution at best, and would make people check for mistakes less at worst. Imagine if intel fixed the pentium FDIV bug by only fixing 30% of the wrong results.
Doing scientific research confers some sort of control over the continent.
Powered torque wrenches like Milwaulkee's (designed for electricians) and assembly line fastener drivers absolutely stop at the proper torque.

If you think dealership/tire shop/corner shop garage techs touch a torque wrench for lug nuts, you're dreaming. They blast each nut on with the gun and walk away.

Techs never are incentivized to get everything done as fast as possible because they're paid by book rate, and there's zero disincentive for not doing it properly.

Torque sticks were an attempt to address the problem but most techs can't even be bothered with those.

Proper torque for lug nuts is multi-step anyway. Star pattern partial tightening, with the wheel placed correctly on the hub if it doesn't have a concentric ring - then full tightening, then re-checking after the vehicle has been driven for a few minutes, because of fretting between the wheel, rotor, and hub surfaces...even if you've carefully prepped the surfaces, which again, no automotive tech does.
This is one of those things I always look out for in submissions at work (as bad as that may sound)

It's one of the easy ways to guarantee a process will run into an edge case eventually...

General rule of thumb: when possible, lean on shell features. Globbing, expansion, redirection. That replaces dozens of tools (eg: `seq`, `ls`, `cat`, and so on)

Another example (though less severe) that comes to mind: subshells to simply read (cat) a file.

Unless you're doing things at a ridiculous scale/pace, it doesn't usually matter - but redirection is 'cheaper'.

(Talking about cases where you care about nproc/nofile ulimits)

I wish I could contrive better examples. I feel like my ability to 'sniff' this kind of stuff out is usually what makes my best contributions at work, but without being in the moment... it's difficult.

xargs is a good one. That's usually an indication you need an array, even though I think they're 'fake' in BASH
Russia bans Memorial, a seminal human-rights group
use transient gene therapy to mutate a light sensitive channel into the relevant neurons, guide an optical fiber to the area and trigger via light coupled into the fiber.That is as precise as we can make the targeting of the mutation, and does not cause scaring. Even if some of the vector goes where it is not supppsed to there is litte light inside a skull...

The biggest problem is neural rewiring as response to the unnatural stimulus and ethics comitees.
Show HN: Lightweight broken link checker application for a web page
I think the first world war also changed him in this regard, but I may be wrong.

See the poem, (and play, and film adaptation - which is a moving depiction of his experience of his son being killed) my boy jack.

Although as for "product of his time" and WW1 poetry in general, remember that Wilfred Owen was writing around the same time and is very much ahead of many warmongers to this day. People are products of their circumstances, cultural and temporal.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decoru...

A friend of mine's great-whatever apparently confessed on his deathbed to having shot his commanding officer who had begun summarily executing retreating soldiers for deserting (i.e. not walking directly into a wall of machine gun fire)
> Would a person have difficulty being hired without a genealogical backstory? How?

They don't need a genealogical backstory because you need to understand that the population of Upper Castes in India is actually in the minority (approximately 28%). You can say that the Degree of Separation between you and someone else is probably at best 2 or 3. You can easily find out if the person is who he claims he is by just checking social media and seeing his relations etc. If you want to fake your caste, you will have to get your entire relations to change their caste names. It is not realistically feasible.

Like I said, the only solution to this is abolishing Caste System and bringing back the Varna System. Varnas were what it was originally. It was based on Vedic Scriptures. Caste System is a corruption of it and should be discarded. The sad part is that more than Upper Castes, the Caste system is highly prevalent in Lower Castes. We also have a Reservation System that guarantees a "Quota" for Lower Castes. So instead of abolishing we have ended up cementing the Caste System further. Please keep in mind that Reservation System is not the same as Affirmative Action in USA. It is completely different.

However, if a Company is hiring based on your surname, then you really need to question if the Company is the right fit for you. Forget whether it is moral or not. Such Companies won't sustain for very long.

If I am looking to hire, I want the best talent. I don't give two hoots to who you are, which Religion you profess, which Creed you belong to, which Caste you were born into or if you think i'll go to Hell. I care about bottom line. So I can go home richer than I was yesterday. Why would I want to deliberately sabotage it by focusing on surnames instead of talent? The Companies that do this won't survive for long.

But to answer your question directly: I know Companies that have this culture. They are wrong and will pay for it sooner than later.
Centurylink has pretty marginal 6rd (also pretty slow). Maybe they will go dual stack someday.
Heat death is one theory. I ascribe to the theory that, the fact that cosmic inflation has separated some galaxies by far more than 13.7 billion light years.. then that degree of ‘causal separation’ is proof that structure, complexity, and richness is our future, rather than fatal cosmic homogeneity.

Cosmic inflation and gravitation have worked together to produce incredible amounts of ever-increasing structure and complexity in the universe.

The universe may be quite unlike a closed system like a box full of idealized gas particles - where the traditional analysis of entropy has its roots.

I get a bit dismayed whenever I see folks say that the prophecy of heat death is a lesson they use to influence the resigned destiny of their lives.
Good luck. I've managed $x,xxx,xxx/yr spend accounts and while you have account reps, they're normally just as in the dark as the customers. It is even worse for any SEO issues, there isn't even an "official" avenue besides asking for help from unpaid strangers in Google's forums or maybe you can get Gary Illyes or John Mueller to give a non-answer answer.
> I hope he is proven wrong.

Covid provided a massive boost for all of these kinds of systems. I say the cat is out of the bag. Just like when passports came to being “a thing” back in WW1. Before WW1 the British Empire convinced Belgium to drop the idea of passports. During WW1 governments across the world realised that using passports to control who can come to their country was easily sold to their citizens. 100 years later they are standardised across the planet. I can see the current trend of vaccine passports and the tracking in the same vein.
I had always assumed Apple was waiting for LE Audio and its LC3 codec.
I have many systems that have been running for 10 years with few or indeed no changes, the same deb applies now on Ubuntu 2004 as it did on 804

I don’t use the latest fancy technology and frameworks that work today but have breaking changes every few minutes. I care about the output of the code, not the feelings of the person writing it. LAMP worked 20 years ago, and there’s been little update. Use Perl instead and there’s been even less. I’d be surprised if rhey didn’t work in 10 years. Meanwhile I accidentally upgraded some version of nodejs and it broke some “fancy” code that somebody had written. We ended up rewriting the entire code in php rather than try to unpick the mess that had been left.
The governor of Missouri is right, legally. Just look at the weev case.

You think the law is a out determining what's legal or not--in theory that is true, but it's a farce.

In reality what happens is we decide who needs to be charged, then pull out the dusty tome of laws and figure out what crime to charge them with.

(In this case the journalist will be fine, because there ist actually energy to get pursue it, but next time that might not be true).
Why should tech companies be trusted to do this? If the software developer community is representative of tech companies' intellect, they are a group of pretentious people who think because they can copy paste some stuff from SO and parroting software "engineering" best practices, they now have the intellectual capability to project their opinions on every problem facing humanity onto everyone else.
What do they mean by latency -10ms?
That's complete nonsense. If covid wasn't as deadly as we have been reliably informed, then they would not be forcing us to go through these otherwise-draconian and insane mandates or lockdowns.
Yes: the financial aspect definitely seems to have changed this — I share Simon's impression, and what this reminds me most of wasn't tech but the adjacent stock market circa late 1999/2000. If you knew a day trader at the time, they would be hyping up random stocks talking about how it was a sure thing to be the next Pets.com but if you asked them any questions at all it immediately became apparent that they had no idea about how that company worked, what the competitive environment was like, or how they could possibly become profitable. Some of them made fairly large amounts of money talking things up and selling before the inevitable drop but quite a few others were left holding the bag.

That level of confident ignorance is the prevailing tone of the cryptocurrency world: everyone talks about changing the world but it's extremely hard to find someone who actually understands the details of the business they're trying to get into or why it works the way it currently does, but they don't let that stop them because they've already bought in they stand to lose potentially quite large sums of money if they can't find buyers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-electron-mobility_trans...
This is amazing. I would have loved to get a religious exception for PE due to the "ball games" thing!
I've been dreaming about that to kill mosquitoes since I was a teenager. Then I wondered: "how to prevent firing the laser into someone's eye?" and my idea was to only shoot laser from 2 meters high and to only ever shoot towards the ceiling, never downwards, while having the ceiling having some kind of paint/material that wouldn't be reflecting the laser too much. Make the paint/material all white to makes mosquito detection easier.

And it'd be probabilistic: considering that, at some point, the mosquito is bound to fly at a height higher than 2 meters in your room. And then boom, the laser.

A pipe dream but I hate these little fuckers.
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron causes attenuated infection and disease in mice and hamsters
> There never was a varna system

I do not say anything without scriptural backing.

> You are just repeating Arya Samajist fantasies

Are you an expert in this? I think not. Let me give you two videos of Padma Shri Bannanje Govindacharya who quotes directly from Vedic scriptures and Puranas to show that Varna System existed in the Vedic times (the videos have English Subtitles):

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrLtG-iM_e0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3v7_y97x0

To give some background on Bannanje Govindacharya: He was an Indian philosopher and Sanskrit scholar versed in Veda Bhashya, Upanishad Bhashya, Mahabharata, Puranas and Ramayana. He wrote Bhashyas or commentaries on Veda Suktas, Upanishads, ShataRudriya, BrahmaSutra Bhashya, Gita Bhashya and was an orator. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannanje_Govindacharya

> rathakara as an example of a jati that does not belong to a varna

This was based on incorrect translations provided by Western Indologists like Albrecht Weber. It is time we stop using Western Indologists to interpret and translate our own scriptures. We have enough experts in India who know how to translate correctly.
When Unicode adopted normalization it went off the rails into mudville. Then, determined to make a mockery of its purpose, it adopted semantic meanings, fonts, and then started inventing all sorts of new characters.

"If you vote for my nutburger glyph my kid drew for a kindergarten assignment, I'll vote for the chicken scratching you noticed in the barnyard dust."
Sincere question: what would one use to measure success in such a world?
Century old understandings in science have been repeatedly upended, so I could see it happening in virology too. I have my own theories based on my reading. And I've seen your comments frequently and find your perspective refreshing, could I contact in some way? You can reach me at the email in my profile.
Will Digital Technologies Kill the Nation State?
That's kind of like saying that people don't interact with domain names, but with IP addresses.

The point of having the mapping of a name to a key is for users to use it in place of the underlying key in their interactions with the system.