skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen the "solo capitalist" term pop up a few times, and I'm not sure why it matters. Does it really change the game that much that there is one decision maker at a firm vs 3 or 5?

A16Z says that every partner is expected to make their own investment decisions, the board doesn't decide. However, they use the board (or a board) to challenge the assumptions and help the partner make a good decision.

I'm sure other VCs are copying A16Zs playbook.

Am I missing something? Why does it matter that there are "solo" VCs? And why are they called "Solo Capitalists" anyway? It's still Venture Capital.
The GoG and Steam sources I mentioned don't have any copyright circumvention prevention, at least as far as I could find, and so DMCA provisions against circumventing those digital locks shouldn't apply.
Thanks for the infos. Are Storage-Boxes fully enabled Nextcloud instances with the known web ui?
Yes, I think it's pretty racist to depict a random chinese athlete throwing a virus at the viewer.
> Really though I miss the old old days when you could get an ultrabay battery. What do I need in a laptop more than storage? Battery life. I had a Fujitsu Lifebook which had an "ultrabay" (their version of it, at least) and that was the feature I used most for it.

Well, nowadays you can get a power bank with Power Delivery and charge your laptop via USB-C port
> Bet that kinda sucks for people in Canada or australia on super limited data caps though, it's kind of a weird US- and euro-centric perspective.

What?!? I live in Canada and have not had a data cap in over 10 years. They might exist for some ISPs but they are generally high enough that I've never heard anyone complain or get charged.
So, who's the real artist here? The AI, or the guy who programmed the AI?
Sounds like it worked out pretty well if it ended your contact with that recruiter.
I was pretty puzzled by the method name "map" in the examples. Why would you call it "map" when there are no arrays or lists involved?
> the genocide being perpetrated on the Uyghur people

A "genocide" in which nobody is being killed.

The fact that anyone is even using the word "genocide" regarding Xinjiang with a straight face is a perfect example of how extreme the propaganda in the US has become in the last 5 years.

It's also a perfect example of US media not doing its job to hold the US government accountable when it makes absurd claims (à la WMD in Iraq).
He wanted to write a SPA. Instead he was writing Rails.

This is the quote that is especially telling:

> I asked myself the question, "Am I becoming a better frontend developer through this experience?" and the answer was of course no.

He didn't think he was getting better by learning different approaches to solving the same problem? He doesn't think that more server-side code would make him understand the context of frontend development better?

Funny enough, I'd buy "I don't enjoy the work" or "Rails is outdated" (this is debatable) over his complaints.
This is a stupid solution to a silly problem. What will they do next, restrict where your hands can go? Does no one see a problem with now people can block doors? We solved this problem in virtual worlds I controlled by adding an ignore flag to a user, if they have been ignored, you would not see them, hear from them, they did not exist in your world.
I certainly can empathize with people who have genuine WFH issues like having kids at home, no separate working areas available.

But seeing people complaining because they refuse to set their alarm clock or take any basic ownership of their own lives, c'mon!
Supposedly two billion users as of Feb 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200212142339/https://blog.what...
It's normally inclusive of stock comp, although some companies like Netflix let employees choose to get most or all of their total comp in cash if they want to.
> You can't "separate" these two.

What does that even mean? The Ohio State Penitentiary is made up of... normal American people. You can't "separate" these two. So I guess I shouldn't criticize murderers either, lest I criticize all US citizens!

(If you respond that murderers aren't normal citizens, then you're at least partway to understanding why it's possible to "separate" the Chinese government from its citizens.)
It really depends on what you're investing in, doesn't it? We let people spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in casinos over the course of their lives. When you go to a casino, you're paying for the thrill of gambling, and I think random business propositions offer the same thrill at worst.
> I might get downvoted for saying this, but rich people aren't necessarily smarter than anyone else. They're just richer.

... ish?

Generally speaking, rich people may not be smarter than anyone else but they probably aren't dumber. In other words, they are likely to be making fewer mistakes and taking more favourable risks, even if they aren't particularly any more likely to spot an extraordinary opportunity.
Honestly gonna try this out because I've been rewriting my personal website in plain HTML/CSS and I have a bit of trouble positioning things.

Thanks!
This is not the only alternative though.
> which Chinese student groups had said "incited racial hatred and ethnic tensions."

Really? Was it the "Chinese Race" that force sterilized young Uyghur women? Was it the "Chinese Ethnicity" which tried to cover up the Covid outbreak?

The irony of this line of propaganda is that they are weaponizing the empathy of the dwindling population of Americans who are most inclined to be allies of peace. That kind of clumsy manipulation is going to bite back hard.

Unless of course the whole point is to further divide, polarize, and destabilize. In which case - well done.
I was extremely confused when I was asked to create an ID.me account for IRS. I have implemented Login.gov for some projects and it's rather easy; I can't see why they'd choose something else.
> The most disturbing part is the 300+ citations, scientists who based their work off of an obviously garbage paper.

> It seems inescapable that the reason why must have been complete mathematical incompetency across the entire field.

I think you won't have to try very hard to find analogous failures to properly test the truth or falsehood of the literature's conventional wisdom in more "mathematically competent" fields.
These comments all present valid reasons why low-code is usually a nightmare. To me, the most egregious offender is vendor lock-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in.

It's all fine and dandy if you found a low-code solution that works for you, as long as you're comfortable paying a premium to pigeon hole yourself with that solution for the unforeseeable future, with no guarantees that you won't get royally screwed by some combination of planned obsolescence, feature deprecation, or the success of the company whose low-code product you are using.
Re: 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
If I'd be a spying agency I'd do just that - develop "secure" app that would collect unique identity of every user. Verified phone number is a perfect unique ID.

"Just give your phone number to us, and don't worry, we won't share it with anyone!".

That exactly what Signal does.

Until they allow user-created ID's with no link to any identity - the above concern stays.
Lungs are no joke.

I had a bad case of pneumonia that put me in the hospital for a couple days a few years back (early 30s at the time) - and it was year plus before my lungs were back to "normal"... I'm asthmatic so even my normal isn't that great. Was having to do nebulizer treatments basically every day for months.
That is a very Dutch point of view, and because of these values I’d guess the Netherlands will never host the Olympics.

On the parent’s point, it’s not about a nation showing off wealth, it’s about showing off might. Wealth is one form of might, but so is spreading your culture, showing your ability to build colossal stadiums and public works, and of course the superiority of your disciplined physiques (imagine our athletes as soldiers!). Nation states exist largely in interstate anarchy, and displaying a nation’s might through the Olympics can increase its power and prestige in other international disputes.
What lesson do you think organizations learned from that breach? (As it relates to this article.)

The pattern I see is:

1. Company collects and stores private consumer info.

2. Company gets hacked.

3. Company share price unaffected.

4. Company sued in class-action lawsuit.

5. Company settles by offering discounted/free products to victims of the hack. ("A $50 value!") Lawyers make a few million.

Result: company gets more users' info as they sign up to claim the discounted products.

Sounds like a good deal if the company is too big to fail.
What about during review season where someone on your team MUST get pipped?

I know that there are teams that are doing well. But if one person or more on your team gets pipped every year something is wrong...
This looks very compelling.

Have there been any updates from Cloudflare about when they expect R2 to reach GA?
thanks for linking to the paper, that contains considerably more information
The puke emoji was especially unwarranted. Templating engines are templating engines.
yeah - we definitely do not agree on this, and I have an important point that I think you miss entirely, and that is .. That the design of the USA is legally, exactly NOT a single entity, it is a collection of States, each of which have a set of laws to govern important parts of it.

To your idea about stolen land.. I do empathize with that, and in fact have gone to native American gatherings to be silent and support, so you know. BUT every land in the entire world, has been stolen. All of it, at one time or another, by violence or otherwise. So, not a happy idea, but I claim it is true.
In relation to that story is this
https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-turn-vol...
where the Su Lab enlisted crowd sourcing in an open source online platform to assist in reading large amounts of literature on NGLY1. Something similar might be possible here.
At the same time, there are emerging platforms in the social network space which focus on structured conversations, Quests; in that case game mechanics and the social dynamics of guilds in MMOs come into play; I cannot say whether that would necessarily be of immediate value, but there are arguments for exploring that space as well.
> in an environment full of scams, you get run out of business for being honest because you have a hard time competing with the scammers.

This effect was really well illustrated for me Golden Sun (Red Rising saga book #2) by Pierce Brown. The protagonist is telling an older general about how he isn't worried about a scheming snake oil politician type and is corrected about why they are dangerous. Because "Liars make the best promises."

> “Pliny is a leech,” I say. “A liar as much as you’re an honest man.” “And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises.”
Highly relevant demo for me. Nice job team.
Please don't resort to ad hominem attacks. HN is a much better place without.
thank goodness. I received an ambiguous letter from the IRS last week talking about how I may need to file something special this year related to the $1400 covid credit. I was going to login to the IRS site to get more details until I saw the facial ID requirement and quickly noped away from there.
Settlement: a place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community.

Yes. Nomads wouldn't count.

Tired of people trying to redefine words especially when there's the aire of racism attached to using the word in the correct way.

The entire intention of settlers is to put down roots in a given location.
Having to type the same fieldName umpteen times through the stack
The worst new trend I've seen is a "soft offer" prior to the final round interview. These are also usually way out of alignment with the role / other teams. Not willing to name and shame here - but it's annoying and a waste of time.
Uh, what?

At least when I worked there in Seattle, I got 48 hours of personal time, a few days of sick time, and a month of PTO every year.

Granted, my managers never cared about what I used (personal==sick==pto, use whatever) and I rarely actually recorded vacation.
Great update. Patiently waiting until the day I can decouple my phone number from my Signal "account" though.
TextSecure, Signals name before re-branding started out doing only SMS encryption. Sending messages over data started earlier if I remember correctly. I think that must have been almost 10 years ago
nice, in VR you're allowed to be two feet closer to someone than in real life
ThinkPadding for 22 years. From the A21p or A31p (I think that was my first, but it has been a while) to the Nano now. Thinkpads are not the same any longer. My nano spontaneously overheats and shuts down out of nowhere when Windows runs the built in antivirus scan for too long. I got the motherboard replaced but it did not fix the issue. But what else is out there if you need a stable solid workhorse? My only requirements these days is 16GB, 1TB and a beautiful display (waiting for affordable OLEDs).
He did both, and the N-word thing was the most direct causal factor (because it had been pointed out in a viral video). The Planet of the Apes/Africa "joke" was something that Rogan chose to also talk about since it made sense to deal with both. (Similarly, he chose to remove a far greater amount of podcasts than those that had explicitly been mentioned as containing the problematic word, to deal with the issue as a whole. This is him taking sincere steps to rectify the offense he may have inadvertently caused. He clearly could have "gotten away" with far less, had he wanted to.)
Nope. If you want those, indeed, you'll need a different app.

PowerPoint-style animations are rarely helpful, in my experience. Either the animation is a pointless distraction, in which case you are better off without it; or the animation is necessary to convey the content, in which case no slide tool would suffice and you are better off with a video or a purpose-built vector animation (perhaps an interactive one).
Weird blog-rant. Had Spotify sided with Neil, the music hosted on their platform would still be "valueless". Neil was not pulling his music to protest for fair compensation for musicians. In fact Neil seems to care about that very little, as he has previously gone on record to say that performing artists should not even go on tour [1], the thing that in the before-times netted the vast majority of their income, so long as pandemic persists.

In fact it's kind of insulting to struggling musicians that this controversy has absolutely nothing to do with artist compensation, the lack of which being the primary controversy of the platform before this convenient dust-up.

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-con...
One can be called racist and still be right. I don't say we should stop calling out those things. But we maybe cannot demand that other people still call us racists over it. If criticism will have postive effects this way is a whole different story.
Wow looks super bad...except the fonts. It's just pixelvomit.
To fight Cannabis Hyperemesis hopefully you can take/get prescribed Zofran or some other anti-nausea meds.

If you simply find your appetite to be gone, maybe it will help to exercise? This will also help with falling asleep. Remember some exercise is better than no exercise, so don’t burn yourself out going hard on your first day by getting an injury or discouraged.

For sleep I don’t have a good way to fight the REM rebound or difficulty falling aslee. IMO you should embrace the REM rebound as long as you don’t get severe nightmares or anything. It’s your body recovering from chronically low amounts of that specific phase of sleep.

If you’ve become accustomed to taking large amounts of cannabis to get “in the zone” you might want to try taking a large dose of caffeine instead. What’s large for you may depend on your tolerance. My tolerance is decently high and I would consider 300mg enough for this.

I’ve gone through this a couple times and it’s not that bad. The worst is the difficulty falling asleep which only takes a few days to fix, and the CHS which only lasts a couple days. The brain fog takes a while to fix though
Just because "every platform and app is doing that" doesn't mean secure communication solution should.
How bidders communicate bids to the auctioneer (the bidding language) is a central concern for any auction. It's pretty straightforward for unit good auctions (I'll pay $5 for A or I'll sell B for $4), but combinatorial auctions involve arbitrary packages of goods; the set of all possible bids is the powerset of the goods being auctioned. Having bidders attach a value to each package is both a computational impossibility for anything more than a few goods and a "UX" nightmare. For example, a bidder that wants to buy A for at most $5 in a market for goods A and B with free disposal (meaning you'll take something extra if it's free) needs to enter the bid ({A, $5}, {AB, $5}).

Information theory tells us that no universal bidding language (there's a representation of any package of interest) is uniformly more compact than the power set representation. Nonetheless, a good bidding language makes "common" bids compact and easy to communicate. We thought about this problem deeply and realized that functionally pure computer programs mapping proposals (packages of goods) to valuations (how much the bidder will pay or would want to receive) are about as natural as it gets. There's a direct analog in asking a human or a pricing algo for a price in a bilateral trade setting. However, our optimizer doesn't know what to do with an arbitrary computer algorithm, and exhaustively querying one to get the power set of prices out is computationally infeasible. However, using formal methods, we can (in the right setting) convert a computer program into an equivalent representation in a logic fragment called mixed integer real arithmetic. And that (via SMT solving) is something that an optimizer can work with.

You can see what Proxy Bidders (the pure functions that create expressive bids) look like here [1].

[1]: https://www.onechronos.com/docs/expressive/bidding-guide/#in...
here is a repeat of my comment a few weeks ago, which scored 134 on YNews. This was about using biometrics for getting social benefits.. later, someone said "hey! I object, taxes are not benefits" and I reply "the similarity is that biometric requirement to use (obviously efficient) online services. That includes both social benefits like unemployment, and also required interaction like taxes" .. hope that clears it up

the core of the thought is -- if the government interaction is flawed such that it is not actually doing only what it says it is doing, to the detriment of most ordinary people, and is subject to insider gaming with rewards to do so THEN additional and perhaps draconian requirements on the ordinary individual, do not solve the flaws, burden and antagonize an ordinary person, and the implementation becomes a new attention target WITH new penalties attached, for the ordinary person. hth

--

American here

"perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves"

In the great State of California, billions in unemployment benefits were sent to the wrong people.. because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say. Actual people with real jobs were repeatedly refused, while insiders who knew how to fill out paperwork, and apparently knew where the blind spots were, filed hundreds of claims in the early pandemic days. A newly appointed Director (young, tech savvy woman) soon stopped making public statements, and the situation nearly two years later, is not resolved. This is at a time when California has record income to the State.

Now, some people may jump on this and say "well, you see how photo ID would have helped that" and, with incomplete knowledge and personal opinion, I say no, it would not solve it. You see, people with real jobs, with every real paper filed, were denied benefits, while insiders were pulling checks with both hands, using certain kinds of identities that would slip through. How would ever more restriction, requirement and verification, have helped here?

I am deeply against the collective government making ever more demands on citizens for "papers, please" enrollment to massive money social services (edit e.g. govt unemployment benefits). It is not going to have the desired effect, despite superficial evidence otherwise. Additionally this represents a slippery slope where the ability to interact as an individual will be eroded, and opportunity for insider graft will increase
That would be a really nice option now that you mention it. Like a "fresh start" where you could pick who can actually see that you're on signal especially with a new number/phone. Lots of people are often a negative in your life.
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It is still tied to phone numbers; you can now just change which one.

It's hard to implement it in a privacy-preserving way. Many other messengers of similar scale implement it by storing your social graph unencrypted on their servers.
Because of the mathematical "map" [0] perhaps?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_(mathematics)
FYI they changed it to 50% max a few years ago, but otherwise yes.

I had a few friends who went 100% stock (which meant that they technically qualified for food stamps and medicare since it was pretax dollars) and some went 70%.
Their anti-union behavior [1], [2] is certainly conservative. :)

1 - https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-union...

2 - https://www.wired.com/story/document-reveals-more-google-ant...
All the sedentary screen time (I am a SWE, surprise) is an ongoing prompt to indulge in little side rewards, and it makes good sense to substitute relatively innocuous ones. I used soda and cigarettes heavily early in my career which would scale up along with whatever project I had going on, so when it was crunch time I would consume horrific levels of these. My main challenge now is that I've cut out so much, I don't even eat candy anymore, so my options are limited, but perhaps it's worth a temporary trade-off just to get away from the substance I find most irresistible.

Thank you
My salary is up to one million dollars.

Well, it's at the high end of the range, anyway.

By the way, I define high as being in the top 90%.
> I realize that what is easy for me may be hard for others, but this being hacker news and the fact that there is a substantial intersection with the maker scene here I don't think such a subject is out of place.

Absolutely, your answers are much appreciated! I usually stay clear of fiddling with Li-Ion cells, as I have quite some respect for them, but I agree with you that replacing them yourself is probably safer than buying dubious clones.
"Up to" is upper limit on what they claim you could potentially make - a meaningless term. You can make up to $500 million dollars selling water filters in an MLM marketing scheme if only you sell 6 billion of them.
Here’s a twitter thread from Xalavier Nelson Jr. about this in more detail: https://twitter.com/WritNelson/status/1470118973580664834?s=...
That's not what I'm saying. I'm making a relative comparison - tech and finance workers are to the average worker in the world what the intellectual or the higher household slaves in Rome were to the average. By the way, those slaves had freedom of movement and, especially later in Roman history, some legal protection, as well as in many cases the right to work for a wage outside of the purview of their masters.

I am trying to underlie the fact that we have many privileges and the ability to change social strata compared to the average working person, which is an interesting parallel. Of course even Roman slavery was horrible.