skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VC model is all about making a lot of huge risky bets in the hopes that at least one of them will pay off. So you don't need an actual business that's making real money. That doesn't fit into the VC model. What you need is a story about how your business will be as big as Google or Facebook. That's what VCs are buying.

So if you come to them with a pitch for a business with solid fundamentals and a clear map to profit, they will not be interested. Why? Because even if you deliver 100% on your promise, it won't be enough for them to recoup the bets they made on a dozen other risky ventures. If you hit it out of the park, you better be on target to be a billion dollar unicorn. Otherwise, what's the point? They need to make up the millions upon millions of dollars they've been betting.

In that sense, it's much better to have a story about a juicer that will be sold to billions of people and replace the concept of juice as we know it. Or to have a story about how you will revolutionize the world of medical testing even though the technology is science fiction. VCs don't care, they just want a story. All this talk about due diligence is them trying to feel better about their bets. Really if your idea was sound it wouldn't be something VCs would find interesting in the first place (because then it would be obvious and therefore not valuable to the tune of billions).
Likely a16z exercised their pro-rata as a16z is also listed in their Series B on Crunchbase along with the seed.

There are any number of reasons a lead investor in your seed doesn't lead your Series B, and there is no way to know a16z did not want to lead in the first place. A different fund may give a larger check/different terms/ a partner you want on board and you may accept that instead etc.

There are many companies with outsized valuations that do not justify the revenue or any other metric, it is neither new to this wave (or even the dotcom wave) nor is it all that uncommon. On the surface it doesn't look like there is anything out of ordinary Kagan has done yet.

It is high risk industry after all, if investors put strong filtering criteria then they risk loosing on deals which were actually legitimate or became legit with funding, it is risk VCs are quite aware of and willing to take.

A Buyer should be beware of what he is getting into, accreditation is a thin shield,With Increasing SPAC listings and inflated markets even public listing won't protect them from early stage startup shenanigans these days companies like Nikola (anyone can invest ) do exist.
It was both factors. Both user-stuff and developer-stuff were far more pleasant on i-devices. And because of testing needs, I got to use a huge range of devices from both ecosystems.

I don't develop in my spare time on my i-devices, so gain none of the benefits of the nicer development experience directly. I use them for tons of stuff, but I don't write personal software for them (never had a need to).

[EDIT] To head off any "but I think Android development is nicer"—most of the bad things about it don't kick in until you're working at (even smallish) scale. Much of it's due to the huge range of versions, customizations (Samsung's alternative web view implementation, say), and device capabilities in the wild. It's probably somewhat easier to develop for than iOS if you're targeting just your own device or small set of devices, are free to make the UI whatever you like rather than having to style it to be "on brand", et c.
I'm meh on mushrooms, and most psychedelics. My relatively few experiences with them were neither enjoyable nor productive, in terms of personal insights. I contrast that with MDMA which I've used even less but found far more therapeutic and transformative. Mushrooms give me high anxiety, especially now in mid-life, perhaps because the people I've known who evangelized them most passionately (some quite brilliant) have for the most part not aged well in ways that I see as deeply linked with their drug use. It's just my personal experience, I don't think they're wrong for everyone and can see many comments on HN and elsewhere testifying to their efficacy but for me it's not a good option.

Thank you
Google won't charge for gmail because it's a treasure trove of our most intimate secrets that are used as grist for it's advertising mill.

Besides, the millisecond they do so I'm switching to someone like protonmail. The only reason I still use gmail today is that it's free and the inertia to move is huge. Google charging for gmail would be like meta charging for facebook. Our data is worth so much more to them than a few bucks a month in a service charge.
Might want to look into CUE and Dhall, strong preference for CUE
This is similar to the situation at Basecamp not long ago.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding...

If I recall correctly, something similar happened at Coinbase, too.

It does appear that the contingent of people with this attitude are a loud, sizable minority. Having them all leave in anger, however, isn't the death of a company despite the amount of noise. Perhaps, maybe even the opposite: without the agitation of an ideological few, the rest will be free to get back to work.
>> a star attached to a crystal sphere will have a separate motion

Two spheres. Proper motion can be explained completely if we allow each star to exist on its own crystal sphere. Layers of spheres could also extend great distances. Maybe the universe is vast, but it is all spheres. What does disprove spheres are collisions of objects having different proper motions.
I find these kind of art kinda annoying to look at, because it takes like 3 or 4 secs until you realize that you are watching nonsense. The initial feeling fools me.
JAQing off (Just Asking Questions) is a common concern troll tactic.

I also don't think he's necessarily antivax, but he's not innocent on this point.
That sucks man :/ my anecdotal experience after having the original Covid strain and 3 full Moderna shots is that my heart is fine. BP is back to 105/60, resting heart rate is 50. I had long Covid for 8 months that fucked with my ability to workout and play tennis but now my stamina is fine.
This is a great question, and the full answer involves lots of mechanism design nuance. The short answer is that we have uniform clears per trading instrument, and bids are sealed, so there's no direct signaling game that would allow someone to try to pass off an alpha trade as a hedge. We plan to introduce a mechanism that will enable signaling through tokens (opaque identifiers). Bidders can attach whatever token they want, and other bidders can price discriminate against tokens (change their prices for, refuse to trade with, trade exclusively with) based on historical post-trade outcomes that we make known via an immutable audit trail. Participants can create and use tokens freely, so it's not segmentation. Instead, it's a means of inducing a repeated play game and a market for reputation.
He's not against vaccines. From the episodes I have listened to, he is hesitant to take this new one, and questions why young healthy people are being forced to take it, and states (which I somewhat disagree with) that they shouldn't take it.
With the current ACPI S0 implementation ("modern standby" in Microsoft parlance) there are a huge set of devices and events which can cause the system to wake. This is in theory a good thing, because it allows the system to perform a lot of background tasks while sleeping and allows "instant" resume in response to user input. It can cause a lot of frustration with "mystery wakes" though. I haven't found this to be especially common on my ThinkPads running Windows although it does happen from time to time, which I eventually tracked down to the Bluetooth controller causing a wake whenever my wireless earbuds connected. Under Linux it's been much more of a problem, presumably due to the Linux drivers having a poorer/less validated understanding of what various device events mean. A frustration is that Linux does not offer as good of tools to diagnose this as Windows does (powercfg). That said you can do a lot of tweaking of the Linux behavior using the acpi sysfs, and on my X1 running Fedora I ended up blacklisting just about every device from causing wake because the USB controller seemed to be generating almost constant mystery wake events.

The short story is this: many devices are now active in a low-power state during sleep and can generate a huge variety of events that the OS is expected to receive and make a decision on. Sometimes the OS doesn't understand the event or there's a requirements issue (implementers did not understand/foresee the use case) and these can both result in the system waking for seemingly no good reason. For example, my issue with Linux seems to be the USB controller generating an event the driver did not understand or handle correctly. My issue with Windows seems to be more that a well-intentioned decision (newly connecting Bluetooth devices should wake up the system, which tends to make sense in the case of a mouse/keyboard) had an irritating implication in real-world use (BT headset that connects to multiple devices simultaneously would connect to and wake up my laptop when I was using it with my phone). Unfortunately the way events are implemented on Linux and I assume on Windows as well, there isn't really any support for "if the lid is still closed the system should stay asleep" and so once the system wakes up for an event, and there's no handler that causes it to go back to suspend, it tends to just sit there awake even though the lid is closed. There's no "new event" for the OS to handle since the lid state remains the same. I'm not sure if it's practical for the system to check the lid state in real-time instead of waiting for ACPI events about it.

For what it's worth I'd say my touchbar MacBook Pro does this more often than my Windows ThinkPads do, to the extent that pulling it out of my bag and discovering that the battery has gone completely flat overnight is probably a weekly experience. I haven't put much effort into diagnosing this so I don't know if it's a result of some odd software I'm using or something.
The founders of that field got tens of millions of dollars for continuing that bunk research. You don't think that funding could have been used better?
I suspect that those people would argue with you that racial issues in this country are hardly a settled matter or history, that even unintentional acts can have consequences, and that a sort of willful blindness to both of those facts helps perpetuate, not solve, issues of racial disparity and injustice in this country.
Why would they be tightly related? Because they both have COVID in the name? What else makes them tightly related?
Meta establishes four-foot “personal boundary” to deter VR groping
Exactly. Why on earth is it so hard or difficult for Signal to do just that?

Regardless, I don't know why they are pushing in a somewhat unregulated, volatile cryptocurrency that will be used by extremists, terrorists and the like who in no doubt will not only use it to fund their activities and will be sitting in their group chats but now they can change their phone numbers to hide even further?

The road to hell is been paved with good intentions. Hasn't it? But at least Wire does not still require a phone number, nor does it have silly cryptocurrencies in their product for pump and dump purposes.
> I'm pretty sure that Brompton bikes are made in the UK, so no EU

The site states Europe, not the the EU.

Europe is larger than the EU, which is a subset of the nations. I'm British and also European, a geographical term which vastly predates the EU.
Checks in to see whether HN has gone full pro-censorship - not yet.
> Spotify knows enough people won't churn to make a huge difference

I'm not so sure about this. Other streaming platforms are all basically at least as good as Spotify now, and it isn't too hard to switch.
Aren't the olympics going to be in Paris in 2024? I agree in general that olympic events are often colossal boondoggles and pure vanity projects wasting money that could go to citizens but I'm not sure it's fair to characterize the olympics as having no cache anymore (that said, viewership seems like it's abysmal this year and in general in decline over years). Also, never heard the categorization of "polite countries" before... not really sure how to feel about that one; I haven't spent much times in the Stans but have spent a lot of time in former soviet bloc countries and many of the people there are much more "polite" than W. EU/US.
Just to clarify: He isn't one of the regular podcasters. He is Spotify's poster boy with a $100M exclusive deal. It's perfectly reasonable for people not to want to fund his stance. This isn't asking for censorship. The moment you start making exclusive deals with your content creators, you're not a platform anymore. You're media with explicit political stance now. You bear the consequences.
He also has an excellent newsletter! For example: https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/029-path-of-madness
You are one that has issues coping with a choice screen?

Pay with Apple or Pay with X, what should I do ??? "BrainException, more then one choice presented, plkease call Apple or GNOME you are using software wrong"
You'll find a lot of very insightful blog posts on HN written by talented engineers that work at FB or are ex FB..

It's quite common knowledge that a lot of brilliant engineers are hired by FB. I am by no means a fan of FB but it's a known fact that they hire many excellent engineers.
I don't know if that's true, attempts to censor information tends to lend credibility to those being censored.
For now.

Also, 'good' engineers won't keep you at the top. Once the best start to flee, they my accumulate at other companies. Birds of a feather and all that.
I don't care about any controversy what Rogan said.

What I care about is that, as a paying customer who has no interest in podcasts at all, I have a podcast section front and center at the top of my home page with no way of removing it. I'm annoyed that many of these podcasts have pictures that are not safe for work when I try to use Spotify to listen to music at work. I'm annoyed about being automatically opted into pop-up advertisement despite paying for an ad-free experience. I am annoyed about more and more music that is nothing like any of my listening habits being mixed into more and more of my mixes, and later finding out that artists have the option to pay to have their music treated preferentially and inserted into unrelated streams. I'm annoyed that I have music playing regularly that I don't like and I don't want to listen to, but I can't simply tell Spotify to not play it in the future (the official response being "Just listen to more music that you do like, and the AI will learn eventually!")

Spotify was a platform with an ad-supported model and a paid ad-free option, and now it's a platform with an ad-supported model and a slightly-more-subtle ad-supported paid option. Not worth it. A modern music platform having no ability to filter out music you don't want to listen to is unacceptable.

The controversy has a lot to do with what's wrong with Spotify right now (podcast-pushing and chasing more and more ad revenue, treating even their paying customers as nothing more than an advertisement base to leverage for more revenue), but it is a symptom of the ad-revenue chasing greed that's infecting everything right now.
While losing an additional 2.8bn.

That's what I mean, they have a net loss, which means that they need money from somewhere else to sustain themselves over time.
They don't need to hire Dennis Ritchies, they need to hire people who are good enough to achieve their business objectives. Facebook's apps work, their site is performant, they are not drowning in storage costs, etc... they have the engineers they need. Their business problems are not due to engineering.
I've had good record with KingSener on AliExpress.
If we're strictly comparing Linux and Windows, Linux would have issues with most software (where it only runs in Proton) and the developer of some of the biggest games in the industry (Warcraft, Overwatch, Age of Empires, Wolfenstein, Flight Simulator, Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Minecraft, Forza etc) is actively hostile or tying their games to Windows/Xbox platform specific features, I think it is a cause for concern.

The other players survive because Nintendo and Sony pour a lot of money into exclusives and have an extensive back catalog, but Valve isn't making exclusive games for Linux.
AWS AZs: Not all are Equal (2021)
Median household income in Santa Clara County is $140k.

How on earth can you say that $350k is "not that much"?
My rule of thumb is that if you hear more about "the controversy" rather than the actual details of said controversy, it's not as bad as you think. I suppose it's related to Betteridge's law of headlines, mainly because if you really wanted to get people riled up about what someone said or did, you'd simply show it. Granted, something really obscene can still be quoted by replacing offending words with ***?
They have done but public policy doesn't respond.

For example one of the "data thugs" (James Heathers) wrote a tool that could detect impossible numbers in psych papers, like means/std devs that couldn't possibly have been the result of any allowable combination of results. Some very high percentage of papers failed, I think it was 40%.

And of course psychology isn't the worst. Epidemiology is worse than psychology. The methodological problems there are terrifying. Good luck getting public policy to even accept that it's happened, let alone do anything about it.
Do you have any facts to discuss, or just your made up version of reality?
Huh, the Police in the US are allowed to strike?

Must admit, that makes me realise some of the stereotypes I hold about American attitudes to unionism are in need of revision.
It is very readable, and it utterly nihilates Losada's papers. It is hard to believe that anyone could have taken them seriously, let alone let them get published. Sigh. Nice touch that Sokal helped debunking it.

I wonder to which extent this taints the whole of "Positive Psychology", which I was moderately excited about.
Rogan didn't apologize for 'being offensive', he did so for unknowingly causing offense by mentioning the so-called 'N-word' in sensible contexts. It ought to go without saying that taking offense at such mentions, as if someone were somehow inherently complicit with slavery and/or racism for the mere neutral utterance of even the most hateful slur can only be described as irrational, even magical thinking.
Juicero

Theranos

ZERA food recycler

Nikola electric truck

What are your favourites?
How can I use this without a phone or phone number at all? If I am concerned about privacy, why would I give them that access and information when it's not necessary for the service? Surely they are only trying to gather information on their users. Whether it's being sold, breached, or used for ad targeting, I am not interested. It comes across as a scam.

I cannot take seriously any claims made by the company or its employees / owners. None of it can be used as evidence of their goodwill or what they do with my data. They have an interest in deceiving me.
People consider misinformation to be bad. The problem with censoring it is that I can think of many important instances in my lifetime where accepted narratives were later debunked and misinformation later became accepted fact. Since our understanding of COVID-19 has shifted quite a bit over the past two years, it seems to me the proper thing to do is to let people have freedom of speech.
> it makes sure that broadcasters have enough Canadian made content compared to non-canadian made content, and to also make sure it has content in both official languages, as well as to help support and promote content from minorities.

To me this is completely bizarre, not unlike old soviet censors looking at movies and deciding what was “soviet enough” to get the approval from the bureaucracy. Disney and Marvel made billions of dollars simply making content people want to watch and pay for, why not simply do the same and compete in the marketplace? Imagine how ridiculous it would be if there were quotas on iPhone sold so that BlackBerry still had a legally mandated market share.

So Drake would get subsidies for being a Canadian minority but the government would try to limit the air-time given to Lil Nas (one, if not the first openly gay mainstream black rapper)… Tax dollars are paying for this?
In that Spotify forcibly removed more than 100 of his episodes.
I haven't really followed Rogan's show since it became Spotify exclusive, but unless stuff has really went off the rails I don't recognize the qualities people are painting on him.

I don't know if this is some 4D chess move from Spotify, but I actually had to take a look at the two "antivax" episodes and neither had antivax message. So either this is all very clever marketing from Spotify or people try to make Rogan look bad for whatever reason and they don't realize that if you out right lie about things that are easy to verify it makes everything else you push less credible.
If you're referring to Rogan, he isn't doing any of that and neither is Spotify that I'm aware of in this universe.
So then what are people supposed to do? Not question things? Or are we questioning this too much now..? I'm not entirely sure what to take away from your "common concern troll tactic"...
Some do, some don't. Depends on the investor and the company.

I work for a startup that has raised a bit over $30M, with no board seats given up.
That’s why you’d only label the absolutely worse horseshit as “misinformation”. It’s not simply a name for the minority position whereever where there isn’t consensus.

More importantly it’s those areas where there is a time critical aspect to the misinformation or disinformation. Something that makes the idea of “hearing all opinions” not viable.

Things that come to mind include “polls won’t open until tomorrow” (on Election Day). Or, in this case, medical information.
How long until GPT-3 can do that?
i think the bigger issue here is the instance where he has a half white half black guest on saying he "has a black body and white brain, so best of both worlds!" It's really gross and appalling that someone would even jokingly say something about that.
I think it depends on so many things. In this particular case there are far worse problems in the world than Joe Rogan quoting someone and using the N word. I completely disagree with his stance on vaccinations but I also disagree that he's some sort of major source of disinformation.

In the general case, I think it's bad that the socially expected thing at the moment is to be angry at {something}. It is both bad for peoples mental health and in general and it detracts from more serious issues in the world.

Take for example the situation in Ukraine. Wouldn't it be more effective to be vocal to our politicians to say we don't want to start some catastrophic war there than to try and force a tech company to remove a podcast host? If Joe Rogan isn't removed, will people even remember this discussion in three months? Probably not, because by that time {someone} will have said {something} and everyone will be tweeting angry thoughts at them instead.
This is a somewhat common pattern in the world of game console homebrew where the hardware boot process requires a specific “produced by or under license” screen to be displayed, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/PN3QQE4.jpg
> why Religion is the center-stage for almost every event that happens to humanity.

If that's the question you're after, you'd probably enjoy The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, and some parts of Sapiens by Harari, both of which approach this question from outside of religion (while I'd argue that reading the books on your list approach it much differently).
I didn't realize you needed to know the exact whereabouts of the Canadian Prime Minister at all times.

Aren't you happy to not be seeing him anyways?