skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different things.

- Hard to scale a celebrity fashion business in practice and as a story. A family friend started a successful jewelry company popular w/ Hollywood types and it's growing great, just nothing like Splunk, Notion, SpaceX, etc. There are outliers here - why everyone loved D2C co's like Dollar Shave Club - but gotta fit that growth model.

- Much of VC is largely story driven and, at least in b2b, rides a delegated sales/marketing motion (vs product/tech ROI motion). Once the first big money is in (pure pitch), there's a funny treadmill. Each round gets spent on artificially pumping numbers (big marketing, big sales, ...) enough to hit the next round before the money runs out. As long the #'s match what looks good in a deck, the co is largely good. However, most investors don't actually do truly deep diligence to identify whether the core is hollow, just that if there's enough that in 18mo + 36mo there's a good enough story on getting a bigger investor in. That can easily be something like "ignoring company quality, is there any sort of market demand here?" Each startup has issues and VCs often have surprisingly little time (ex: read up on Tiger), and you only hear about the Yes's and not the Passes (startups just need 1-2 Yes's), so not surprising to see some dumb/ok-money float in. So 7 years and $100M+ of funding later, sales/marketing-driven customers probably start churning out and the leads are burned, and oops... but maybe it's ok and they've exited. Bringing back to the founders, it's not that they're building a great company, but that they can sell that story and delegate operations to the 'adults' (sales/marketing/engineering) who keep the façade alive through the hollow growth of an otherwise busted product. There's probably a similarly unsatisfying set of common stories for consumer co's ;-)
As if screwing our buying power through inflation wasn't bad enough: now we get higher interests rates? Are they trying to crash things?
And that basic pattern is usually called Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and there are numerous implementations. Some respectable Open Source ones too.
What an elaborate essay, equating modern wage-earners with slaves and measuring them by utility. It seems to be recruiting the reader to the 'slave-master' mindset.
Vendor lock-in is not always a problem. Imagine that you have a situation where you can either throw one engineer at it to create a custom solution or buy an existing one that locks you into their service offering? What would you choose? It is not always clear-cut, but it is better to buy simply because employees are not permanent in most cases. After they leave, there will be zero support.
That's doublespeak. They want phone numbers on the merits of phone numbers being how people's private identities have been registered with their contacts. And no, that's not a great alternative, it's a huge negative.
Isn't all the math involved in the end based on the modulo operator and prime numbers?
This has more than a passing similarity to: Guangbio Chen[1]

[1] https://i.insider.com/52cd82656da811f463512e24?width=1300&fo...
You may be right... it may have been only 8. It was a while ago (obviously) and I was a kid who didn't really commit these things to memory very well. I do remember that we had to open up SYSTEM.INI in notepad and comment out some of the Windows internals and reboot the machine just to have enough ram to play Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.
> what's the privacy concern around using your phone number?

My phone number identifies my country, my address and my real name - even if I restrict the listing, it's tied to my credit card. It's tied to a sim card with separate geolocation data to the GPS tracking Google does; even if I active signal from eg a pine phone, the number is tied to a 4g base station.

Ed: and its tied to my current place of employment, too.

None of this is needed/wanted for my signal identity (for me or signal).

I could go out of my way to acquire a pseudonymous phone number, but I guess I'd have to be able to use it somehow - which seems pretty hard to keep anonymous. At the very least I'd probably have to pay for it.

Signal should be able to do better than PGP and five mix master hops of 90s-era anonymous email...

Or you get the old problem of those needing actual secure communication using terrorist@phreak.suspicious.net.ru and using signal just for "other" stuff..

Ed: note that this mostly about connecting with people on signal that otherwise might not have my number, than about (almost) random people that have my phone number discovering that I'm on signal.
Mask is needed for the smog, that is why I want to run indoors at gym on threadmill. It also shields me from aggressive drivers and traffic.

Masks do not restrict oxygen flow, there are several studies to prove it! It is perfectly safe to wear double mask for entire day at work or at school!

I also like to do tough workouts inside, at gym! I do not have gear or space at home.
On the third step(?) of the second step, it says "Copy 2nd chunk into 1st 16 words", but it's accompanied by a visualization of copying the 1st chunk into the 1st 16 words. Am I just totally misunderstanding something?
Am I the only one who thinks the 1994 one looks nicer?
Simple rules do not necessarily mean simple behavior.
Explore where observation leads in various different systems and rules.
All of the AI art I see has a sort of melted look.
If I put a smile on at least one person's face, I consider that a big win! :D
I would put On The Nature of Things on my list of life changing books as well. Its sublime
Red-teaming language models with language models
You can do it without blockchains. This is roughly what Certificate Transparency achieved. The only difference is that you cannot access a consistent state at any given moment.
Debatable - I think the Internet is straining mighty hard to do its thing.

When major cloud vendors and government can conspire to shut down an alternative platform (I've already forgotten the example - Parler) right before an election, it's not a good testament. Parler is online today, it seems, but that's small beer considering how it all went down.

We still have the government spox calling for censorship, collaborating with private companies to implement censorship, and corporations buckling under the strain of PR, employee, shareholder, prospective regulatory, and litigation pressures to comply.

The problematic element here is increasing centralization of the Internet and collaboration with government. Either of those by themselves would be normal, the two combined speaks badly for the health of the Internet.

It will be interesting to see how Rumble, HowTube, GETTR, and other alternatives to the majors fare if they can gain traction with general audiences rather than servicing the politically disenfranchised. One might argue that they only survive now based on their obscurity. Arguably there is pressure to keep them obscure by labeling anything aligned with the principles of free speech as racist, hateful, dangerous, etc. Until society gets calloused to those accusations and a climate of constant fear generally, alternative communication channels are held under an effective ceiling of success.
Thoughts, Designs, Projects, Proposals and Innovations by Frank Didik
Exactly, but America's probably not a great market to sell this sort of distinction.
The sub headline is a better summary of what is happening:

> Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates

He just wants to be free to involve himself in politics but not get Meta involved. Maybe he also has additional motivation for leaving, but that's speculation and this right here is a solid reason.

From the article:

> In October, the two Senate candidates argued in an opinion piece in The New York Post that Mr. Zuckerberg’s $400 million in donations to local election offices in 2020 amounted to “election meddling” that should be investigated.

To avoid any such issues for the company leaving the board looks like a logical precaution to me.
A Maybe is effectively isomorphic to an immutable list whose cardinality can only be zero or one.
There's as of yet no legal mandate against doing pushups in the comfort of your own home.
"and that's guaranteed by the client code"

This is not true. This is not guaranteed even by the "sealed sender" feature that signal has.
x.map(f) doesnt mean "apply function f to each element in this list that we called x"

x.map(f) means "apply the function f to the value within x, where x is a container of some sort"

[].map(f) would do nothing, because there is nothing to pull out.

['adam', 'bill'].map(f) takes 'adam' out of the array, applies f to it, and puts it back in the array, then does the same with 'bill'.

Just(5).map(f) takes 5 out of the Maybe, applies f to it, and puts it back in

nothing.map(f) returns nothing.

So we can map functions to values in Arrays, map functions to values in Maybes and even map functions to values in Eithers. Each time the function doesnt care that the value is in a Maybe or an Array or an Either.
Yes, it is repackaged Marxism, replacing class with race.

This article goes into the history of it: https://www.newsweek.com/critical-race-theory-repackaged-mar...
It could be E2E encrypted.
I agree, I want to watch the Olympics, and not Figure Skating. I know events are basically happening all the time, but for some reason I can only watch a couple events from 8pm - 11pm my time. Of that block, 50% is devoted to commercials or random "interest" stories where I learn about one of the athlete's sick horses. When I actually can see an event, I'm forced to endure the "insightful commentary".
Took me a little over 12 months to recover and feel back to normal. My heart still feels somewhat weird depending on the day, but my cardiologist told me that there's nothing to be concerned about and showed me proof that everything is working as expected.

Difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, dizziness, muscle twitches, and the brain fog throughout the last year has had its toll on my mental health.

Covid has brought upon one of the most depressive/anxious periods of my life. I don't know if it was because of Covid, the damage it caused along the way out, or if I had a huge panic/anxiety attack because of the symptoms.

Whatever it is, I have really been working on reducing stress, focusing on my mental health, and many of these symptoms have faded away and only return when I'm a bit on edge.

It has somewhat unlocked a superpower of knowing when to slow down at work, be in the present with my kids, and take a deep breath. I never had this ability before it.
Sounds like you and your colleagues could start your own company, there may be enough people. I wonder if a nonprofit pharma company is viable.
If you look at Fig1, describing the cohort selection, this study has two control groups. A historical as well as a contemporary control group. This gives an two different sample sources to reason about sampling bias. The data presented here are very likely not bias in the way your describing as it because of the contrast to both controls that would capture "it's always been that way" effect.
Absolutely not true, as much as you'd want it to be.
Here's the key passage (SPOILER ahead):

> Losada had simply lifted the numbers that Lorenz used in 1963 to explain his method in the abstract, numbers used merely for illustrative purposes. Losada’s results, along with the pretty butterfly graphs Brown had been shown in class, were essentially meaningless.
Amazon more than doubles salary caps to $350k for US white-collar employees
The Chinese Government is actively committing genocide against the Uyghur people. They literally have internment camps, multiple governments have denounced this, there are photos.
That, people with multiple laundry rooms (somewhat-large McMansions with two or more floors may have these) who buy one to see if they like it, then buy another (same or a different one), people with enough money to buy washing machines for someone else (or "this one's OK but I'm open to buying another if it looks better, and giving this nearly-new one to my kid/parent/friend" or whatever), et c. With those kinds of low-frequency purchases it doesn't take a lot to make one category of buyer twice as likely to buy a second time as the population at large is to buy one in the first place—even if the notion seems silly to most people seeing the ads.
And athletes are ordinary citizens and not representatives of the state.
Using the image of a person in a cartoon to represent a state actor (especially when adorned with symbols strongly associated with that state such as a Pickelhaube for Prussia, or in this case simply a national flag) is one of the oldest forms of political commentary. You can see it in the political cartoons of most major newspapers.
I agree with that too.

And to take the metaphor one step further, which may be to go too far, if someone does not want to have their ideas on the same shelves as some other ideas, the best is if the marketplace is big enough that there are other shelves to move to. For example, there are more record companies than there are streaming services. The consolidation that seems inevitable in the Internet era works against a truly diversive market. Traditional bookshops worked much better for this. The convenience that many values, to have everything in one place, has disadvantages too.
Sure, but those of us paranoid about ME can't help but wonder if that was savvy PR.
This seems extreme.

I think FAANG will get waived. This is probably RSUs for some SPAC company.
I wonder how practical it would be to have SFP+ slot in a laptop. I guess they are bulky comparatively, but you'd get great flexibility wrt. 10gbe. Power consumption might be bit of a problem though?
Will iPadOS 16 be enough to finally unleash iPad Pro’s full potential?
You can also nest `Maybe`s. Just(Just(nothing)) could convey that two levels of a computation "succeeded", but the third did not. This may not be something you see often, but it's a case that Optional can't convey.

There are also cases where None is a valid value, and then Optional doesn't make sense. Maybe[None] can be a valid, if rare, use case -- Just(None) is different from Nothing. But Optional[None] doesn't make sense -- since it's None | None.

You can also do other stuff with Maybe, like map, flat_map, apply. And there's more that can be added.
I don't know could also be this.. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/01/billi...
Interactive git rebase are a good way to casually flex with Vim to a point and clicker, even if you hardly know anything.

"cws" to change "pick" to "s" ("cwf" for fix up), then "j." to repeat for the next line.

Also one of my favourite aliases is "rn" for interactively rebase the last n commits. Something like "!git rebase -i HEAD~$1" (from memory).
I knew Lyman from USENET in the early 90s and then I worked with him at Williams. We started around the same time and got laid off together in '99 when WMS shut us down. Lyman was at my wedding.

It's extremely sad. It's a huge loss.
This. Most foreigners (of China) have a one-sided view of Chinese government, and they lack any imagination in empathizing with Chinese citizens. You can easily disenfranchise the voices of billions of actual Chinese constituents by saying everything is probably an astro turfing campaign. It’s not like American or foreign interests actually care about the well being of Chinese citizens. We (America and allies) didn’t take a vote of Iraqi citizens when deciding to liberate them, and not only that I can probably guarantee you 0 fucks were given for their livelihoods when making that decision. US politicians and policies are actually obligated to serve American constituents (as doing otherwise risks losing re-election), so whenever foreign policy claims to be anti—foreign-government for the benefit of foreign constituents—that is all political bullshit.

But look at the facts. The communist party has driven China to become a massive success economically and this is an objective fact no one is arguing against. Do you really think the Chinese people are aligned with Western first world concerns when their pockets are lined so thickly by the CCP over the last forty years? And if they are indeed aligned with their government, then being anti government is the same as being anti-Chinese constituency. Describing it in any other way is just manufactured-justification.

I’m not validating all the actions of the Chinese government. In fact they are actually severely bureaucratic, undeveloped, of course committing many moral sins. But if I take a stance against China I’m not deluding myself into believing I’m somehow the savior of Chinese people from their own government. They know which side they are on and what they are supporting.
Command and Conquer is ported to the Amiga
> Is criticism of the American government (which I do regularly) criticism of my own American people?

of course? how does this _not_ logically follow? if you're going to extol the virtues of being able to select your own leaders you damn well ought to feel responsible for inflicting bad leaders on the world. you literally mentioned this yourself. civilians of authoritarian countries have far more claim to a pass than Americans.
https://lasdgangs.knock-la.com/

This may be relevant if you haven't already seen it.
So much this! It was amazing. I remember just hooking up an antenna to get the broadcast and just keeping my TV tuned to the Olympics.

Unfortunately, the networks have gotten "smarter". I can watch things in 4k this year, but it's the traditional coverage, so it's crap content with 4k and HDR. :(
> Sounds like it axes Medicare, SS, and a large number of tax deductions…

… as well various special-purpose programs including housing benefits, SSI, SNAP, TANF, veteran's benefits, WIC, Medicaid, SS Disability, and disaster relief. I'm sure those currently receiving these benefits will be thrilled to find out that they're being replaced by a flat UBI payment of $15k/yr (minus taxes) with no allowance for special circumstances or hardship.

> [SS and Medicare removal] would be a massive windfall for most if the money paid-in was returned.

Undoubtedly, but what are the odds of that happening?
I hope one-day things would turn around. If the regulators asked pharmaceutical companies to study for these drugs on the side so much could change. Probably less than 1% of their R&D budget would be enough to move things.
I'm not aware of any Muslim student groups in the US that were using the language of social justice to silence criticism of the Taliban or Al-Qaida.
It seems that the original artists who created the source works feeding the model did not even enter your consideration. :(

Looking at these images I am all but certain that there are going to be identifiable portions of the originals in the AI-generated images. They are derivative works. Erasing the original artist's role in creating these images is immoral.
> Fraud should be prosecuted. Isn’t that the protection?

While throwing a (likely bankrupt) fraudster in jail might be emotionally satisfying, it doesn't get your money back.

These laws are aimed at protecting 87-year-old Aunt Minnie, who has some money in the bank that her late husband left her.
I used to consult in the document capture space (OCR, classification, data extraction) and one company I worked for wanted to sell UiPath. I showed them how I could do all of that in code (even built a wrapper around AutoHotkey for Windows UI interaction) with way less time, effort, and hair pulling. They said it wouldn't sell because businesses think they can have someone implement a low code solution and they'll take it over eventually, and a significant portion of their revenue is from licenses.

I luckily no longer consult and now am an automation engineer for a company and I get to build things the way I want. So far a lot of Go and a little bit of Node and things are great. I'll take that any day over "We sell X, so you use X for everything."

That said, for home automation I do use Node Red and absolutely love it. The integration with Home Assistant is top notch and prototypes and tweaks take no time at all. It's much more like functional programming than a lot of low code tools and the function node allows for whatever JS you want. So if I need to do something complicated that would take a ton of individual nodes and spaghetti to work natively, I can just drop in some code and move on.
Full spectrum CBD distillate can help. Switch out for CBD and cut back slowly on that.
> Jeebus man. What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?

I worked at the N in FAANG for four years. It's not that we did anything so much differently, it's the people we did it with. When I worked for non-FAANG, there were some people who I'd have to work with and think, "boy, how does this person get/keep their job?". They just were not great to work with, had a hard time understanding hard concepts, and didn't produce great work.

I never had that at Netflix. Every person I worked with was someone I'd want to work with again and could trust and depend on. When a hard problem presented itself, everyone had a great solution, and we'd discuss the pros and cons, and then someone would implement that solution.

Also, many of our internal tools were best in class. Sure they had their warts, but not like the ones other companies had. Even our corporate directory had cool features and was actively developed.

So that's really the difference. It's the people you get to work with and the tools you get to use.

> Is there like some open source project or code samples that give an idea of the complexity of code that 510k developers are writing?

https://github.com/Netflix is a good place to look. Again, it's not that it's more complex, it's just the way it came about.
I wasn’t paying proper attention on first click and thought I was on [ny]times.com

The sales push felt very odd from that perspective, and the free tier of 3(!) is my non-starter.
All things being equal, the US government is simultaneously (1) the single most legitimate non-medical third party that needs to access my personal data, and (2) the single best entity to hold my data in terms of personal recourse. That's not saying much, but it is better than the open scorn and disrespect for my privacy that corporations offer.

The solution to government breaches is what it's always been: to make the breached data less valuable. Hacking the IRS would be significantly less appealing if we criminalized corporate use of SSNs as credentials.
There are subcultures that are not widely accepted where this is an issue. Take the furry subculture as an example. You might not want your family or college pals to see your furry profile picture and pseudonym, but you also might not be aware of the implications of using a messaging service where the primary ID is your phone number. Many people hand out their phone numbers permissively, as historically, they weren't very "personal" on their own - save for identifying your real name. For many people, having/juggling multiple phone numbers to maintain distinct identities is beyond their technical expertise and simply won't happen in most cases (especially on Telegram, where VOIP numbers are prohibited).

I don't know precisely how Signal does things, but I know this can be an issue on Telegram - and I assume they work similarly. I can see a lot of reasons folks might not be fans of phone-number-as-ID, especially when it alerts folks that you've joined, or gives folks who merely possess your phone number an easy way of viewing your profile details.

I think the first quality E2EE messaging service that provides users an alternative to phone-as-ID could give Telegram/Signal (not that the former is necessarily E2EE) a serious run for their money among privacy-conscious users and members of fringe communities.
I use the watch to track sleep as well as daily workouts - popping it on the charger while showering in the morning & for a few minutes at night while I get ready for bed seems to do the trick.