skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is highschool physics. And the experiment could be repeated on Earth with metal and wooden balls for example. Throwing them from the tower of Pisa will create the most historical accurate reenactment of how it was performed for the first time.
100%. I don't get all this negativity! I love animations and wasteful frivolous effects. They really jazz up my day. Huge typography, rounded buttons, and massive amounts of negative space reduces stress, and improves my mental health. Really does the job! I don't think I can ever go back to "good ol" days of "functional design". Pfff...it is all so boring. I like mindless consumption and basically buy anything I see in an ad.
Please don’t start comments in that patronizing way. This field is highly counterintuitive. It’s easy to feel smart by parroting the obvious-seeming positions whilst being utterly wrong.

To your point: when YC interviews companies, they are mostly very early stage and pre-revenue. What YC cares about is how much money they could make if everything goes right, and whether the team is capable of making everything go (close enough to) right over the long term. The current financial picture has minimal bearing on that. Obviously, to the extent that it does have a bearing, YC is smart/experienced enough to consider that. But again, you can glean this from a conversation better than an accounting document.
If you're treating dates as ranges, then even ignoring the timezones and daylight savings it still doesn't mean that a date implies a range from 00:00 to 24:00 - the mapping is inherently domain-specific and thus depends on the particular interpretation of that date field (thus it's nonsensical to expect a generic answer/comparison rule for "dates" i.e. all dates).

For example, in the domain of financial settlement, a future date of 2022-03-03 would imply that the event must happen by the end of business day of 2022-03-03 (and thus an event at 23:00 of 2022-03-03 would be too late and would map to 2022-03-04 instead); and in a similar manner, the appropriate date for any events happening in the middle of a sunday would be either monday or friday depending on what your rules are, as the effective date which you would be using to calculate the number of days between two events (for e.g. interest) in may jurisdictions has to be a business day; so two events timpestamped five minutes apart might need to be treated as if they are on the same day, different days, or in some cases many days apart (e.g. with a combination of Christmas + weekend).

Different domains will have different rules; the generic concept of "date" is too vague to define an universal comparison operator and you have to look at the meaning of each specific date field/variable and expect different date fields/variables to need different semantics.
I like how they didn't call it Meta Pay.
Shoplifting is surging across America with dangerous and costly consequences
This really does not mean that you do not need a buesniess plan. You definitely need it. But in case of startups that should be only for you: not for investors. For investors you make a different version called pitch deck.
US store owners are worried about shoplifting – what can be done?
GM declares chip crisis over–and says it’s time to let the cheap cars roll
Honestly the value of a business plan is just writing it, because it focuses your ideas and forces you to consider things you may not have considered before. Who cares if paulg reads it? It's a tool for founders, not investors (apparently).
Just remember that this is generated by an algorithm, not written, and that algorithm has no capability of understanding or even explaining why what they've generated is funny.
> And while it's not totally relevant, he was hardly just some kid

It's absolutely not relevant. Everyone has rights. This "people who seem guilty should have a harder time in the legal system" take your comment is leaning into is a self sabotaging approach to justice, I hope for obvious reasons.
I founded a company without a business plan. Raised money without a business plan. Ran the business profitably for a long time and then sold the majority of it without a business plan.

I don’t see the value in a formal business plan at all and so I would almost agree with your made up quote there.

I mean obviously you need to have a plan for your business. But writing it down in some formal way seems like a waste of time.

Perhaps there is value in writing one in order to coalesce your own thoughts if you are that way inclined, but it’s certainly not going to convince anybody of anything that wouldn’t be convinced by the conversation you would have instead.
Sikuli is quite nostalgic. I remember using it to automate multiple accounts to play those FB games
Doubling the standard tax deduction for families was good.

Abraham Accords were downright historic.

Changing the tone of Chinese trade was/is long term positive (IMO).

Getting NATO members to increase spending was good (remember the German military unit training with brooms because they didn’t have guns??[1]), though momentum of this pressure perhaps squandered as they are apparently letting US take lead on Ukraine.

There was some dumb stuff his admin did too, which could have been legitimately and helpfully criticized by the media if they hadn’t worked so hard to beclown themselves and their credibility.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/19...
Yeah that's what I default to. Or maybe even "Morning, how's it going? [question here]".

I like to be friendly but also to not to waste time by doing some kind of weird manual slack handshake protocol.
Oh sure, and the phrase "Why don't you get me a lawyer" is not a request, but a question, the answer to which the police isn't obligated to provide.

Sorry, I'm not buying it.

The only relevant part is that the words "get me a lawyer" were said, and these words mean - hear me for a second here - that the person in question requested a lawyer.
I agree.

The terrible thing is is that it's the easiest solution for me and my friend group to send money via Messenger.

The US has _really_ dropped the ball on any sort of easy-to-use, standardized money transfer. Zelle is the closest thing and it is a joke for every day usability.
> Howw long do they do the torture to get that info? 1 minute? 23 hours and 59 minutes? Is that really enough time to dispatch the team?

You won't know until you try.

> If they fail to disarm it, did you send a team of people off to die with the other 1 million?

This sounds like you're suggesting that nobody should ever try to disarm a bomb. I think it's safe to assume that the people who disarm bombs have chosen to do so and weren't forced into it.
They want to monetize the Facebook mommy groups and similar that basically destroyed Craigslist.

I’m surprised it took this long.
I have built a couple very successful SaaS businesses from scratch. 8 figure businesses. I have never in my life written a unit test or any kind of testing code in 20 years of professional software development.
I would love to hear how the developer came to implement this.

Knowing this type of work, I can entertain that many layers of tech illiteracy, approvals, and "this is a bad idea" type emails preceded this implementation in the face of some immovable, beaucractically mandated backend.
The Reason America Doesn't Have Enough Truck Drivers
> Sorry, I forgot you did not specify. [...] I'm sorry for assuming.

No it is not sorry, and no it did not forget.

Why should I believe the computer forgot that I did (or didn't) tell it how to refer to me? It's a machine--why should it ever forget anything? What good to me is a machine I have to remind what I told it? And if I did not ever specify how to refer to me, yet it's claiming it forgot, then it's lying. What good to me is a machine that lies to me?

It doesn't understand what being "sorry" even means--it just said that because the model/context indicated it should say that. It cannot be sorry in any useful sense of the word because it cannot feel remorse or regret or guilt or shame or anything. The machine telling me it is "sorry" means nothing and doesn't indicate it has any great insight (indeed, it has no insight at all) into human feelings.

When adult humans do that, we call them assholes, or sociopaths.
This is probably meant to be, partially, in comparison to Warren Buffet, who famously claims to invest based on reading of financial statements (and other documents) in search of “good businesses.” https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Interpretation-Financi...

Suspect that both Buffet and Paul’s real methods rely heavily on instinct, context, relationship networks, combination potentials, personality and pattern matching which can’t be fully documented or quantified or imparted.

I remember having a conversation with my brother once about a protein powder being recommended by some bodybuilder or another. His response: “Yes, he says that he looks that way because of this powder, but what does he actually do?” Answer: Steroids.

Suspect the same is true of many great success stories in business.
My brother certainly played these grognard games and made up his own too. It’s hard for people today to grasp how far people in the pre-screen days went to find entertainment.
You keep pushing the same false narrative pretending that this is the argument people make.

Stop.
This (pre-pandemic!) blog post highlights exactly what you describe--that active moderation is needed to make remote meetings successful, and that there are lessons for in-person meetings also:

https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su...
I’ve just started going back to the office and for 1:1s especially, being in person is wayyyyy better. Most are usually taken as a walk around the block and you come back energized and connected to the person. The random run-ins and lunches and coffee chats make work fun and not just feel like a job. It’s hard to say that about a Zoom call.
and all of your investments did worse than Amazon or Tesla, that haven't been particularly profitable.

Amazon hasn't been profitable on paper for decades. Tesla took until 2021 to make a profit.

You'd underperform terribly if you were to wait until they make a profit, as markets are forward looking and you are paying attention to trailing indicators.

Profits today for an organization size of Amazon is execution of a plan put in place 5 years ago.

If you are about to dive into value investing: Berkshire made most of their money from Apple, which was a side bet made by a hired portfolio manager, not Buffett himself.
Why define an operator? That is just asking for trouble. If you absolutely must compare two such values, insist that the person do the conversion manually at the comparison site, so that the intent and local use case is made explicit. Because you may wind up in a situation where someone else in the same codebase needs a different "method of coercion", and operator creation is fairly global-ish in most PLs.
Do you mind giving more details?
CMake isn’t that bad. The language gets a bad reputation, but there’s honestly not that much to hate about it. Maybe if you’re maintaining thousands of CMake files, then yeah it can probably become a pain. But for most cases it just does what you need it to, and reliably. The “killer” feature is that it can generate Visual Studio solutions, which is a big deal for some projects, and a great asset for cross platform development.

Now what I don’t get is why Meson is so popular. I haven’t dived into it, but from the outside it doesn’t look like all that different from CMake. Seems to me like the vast majority of Meson projects would be better off with CMake just because it’s more mature and well known, but otherwise does the exact same thing.
>Founders and general market size

And both of them can be as ambiguous as anything. If anything, its impossible to predict who or what can become successful. Look at the historic interview of zuckerberg and his competitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNX3azkZyk
Competitor seems more outspoken, got more airtime, had already monetized yada yada but here we are.
> Yes, I spend an excessive amount of time looking at myself. It’s ridiculous.

One of the best things I've started doing in Zoom calls is hiding my "self-view" when I have my camera on. It feels so much more natural to converse with others without seeing and monitoring my own face--I find it helps reduce Zoom fatigue.
No charges for reporter who found Missouri data flaw, called hacker by Governor
This is certainly odd, but I feel like the article expects that you will get some sort of warm fuzzies from this? This usable energy was turned into heat by a crate of asics rather than just being combusted.
it worth to update to 2.5g hardware even if your infra is 1g.

The designs are just a generation ahead in everything, and they are really pulling close to 1g theoretical maximum.
Traditionally Apple has supported it when it shipped hardware: Apple ][ to 68K (1991), 68k to PPC (1994), PPC to Intel(2006), and Now Intel to Mx(2020), but a few years after, its not a feature. 6 years, is 4 generations, like 100 human years. Why are the Classic and PowerPC emulators so popular? People want them.

I had someone bring in a Franklin Ace Apple II clone. There are Apple ][ emulators too. Not just for nostalgia, but for applications that are no longer supported or being developed.

I can run DOS on a Core II duo after 40 years.

My point is Apple emulation is only profitable when selling hardware, don't even think its nifty, when its dumped like old fish.
Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a long time but all I could find was proprietary stuff or not-that-good free alternatives. I'm not being dramatic when I say I feel this is going to change my life, so thank you!
Thank you for saying that, I checked my stats and you are correct.

Unfortunately setting my device date back to redo the missing games, does not work.
Indeed, I just made a POC with compiler sections: https://github.com/cozzyd/examc

This implementation only works with gcc though probably (it uses the automatic __start_SECTION and __stop_SECTION that gcc generates but clang doesn't seem to... there are likely hacks to make this work anyway though).

In principle, this approach allows interspersing your tests throughout a shared library instead of all in one file (though in that case you wouldn't want the testing function to be called main and you would need a separate driver program for test).
I'm not sure most young kids understand either.

My daughter was 3 or 4 when I told her a knock-knock joke.

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Banana split!

She then tried to make up new knock-knock jokes and assumed they would be funny if she added "split" for EVERY punchline.

Knock knock
Who's there?
Cow.
Cow who?
Cow SPLIT!!! hahahaha

This lasted for days.

After having kids, I definitely think copying and random tweaking comes before understanding.
Warren Buffet is not investing in startups. There is a big difference between an established business and a startup, insofar that established business has already demonstrated its potential. In startup potential is unknown, yet it's all that it has to offer
Only because you said something. It wasn’t a mistake, it just some ambiguity implied source, enough for you to comment. I dunno man, I don’t know what to say. I will own up to a mistake but that I do not believe is qualified as such.
Over the last 15 years, I built a unicorn and sold it for more than a billion and half. We wrote unit tests extensively.
why do you think its bullshit? for startup companies that are looking for seed investments who writes business plans?
With significant notes in 2008 and 2014 :)
Whenever they achieve a decent UI, they change it six months later.
>no new connection is needed, no costly handshakes.

No new connection and no low-level connection (TCP, TLS) handshakes, but the server still has to parse and validate the http headers, route the request, and you'd probably still have to authenticate each request somehow (some auth cookie probably), which actually may start using a non-trivial amount of compute when you have tons of client->server messages per client and tons of clients.
I suppose different people have different definitions of "ultralightweight" --- because this is actually quite a bit more complexity than I expected. I thought it would be closer to a SAX-style streamer or a thin layer on top of strstr(). This has its own object model etc.
Several countries in the EU have, just not the entire EU or Schengen region.

ustax.bz is good.
The same "scroll-to-load" thing is on Apple News' article images as well and it drives me up the wall. It's nothing but bad UX.
false in what sense?

People make the argument "it will boil the ocean". Is this not the claim, roughly speaking?

..but why is it renewables cannot service reliably and inexpensively just 1% of demand?

I have no problems with renewables, but interplanetary civilizations subsisting on windmills is just fantasy.
It’s the verbal equivalent of drawing on a hurricane map with a sharpie.
PG is a very, very bright guy and has left an outsized mark on the first two decades of 21st century consumer tech: his legacy is secure. I'll even grant that pre-A business plan decks are relatively low signal based on what I've seen.

But to just toss out the idea that balance sheets and discounted cash flows should have any bearing whatsoever on the value of an equity is so friggin Bitcoin.
I suspect a lot of the alternatives are pretty regional, for example tori.fi in Finland.
US instant payments drop in 2023. Definitely sucks it took this long, but it’ll be ubiquitous and replaces ACH.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
We already have voting with one's feet and yet here we are. Workers should be able to collectively bargain on whatever they want including input on the ethics of what they are asked to produce.
If you’re primarily writing internal tooling then http2 is unlikely to be particularly relevant or beneficial to you (unless using gRPC or similar).

However, turning on http2 for an org might mean nothing more than toggling some settings on a reverse proxy, no code changes required and little to no visibility or fuss for developers.
It's able to supply power over the same two wires (in the point to point case and the multidrop case), IEEE calls it PoDL (power over data line) and I think it supports about 100W in total for one pair. Even in the point to point case, this could offset the demerit of losing multidrop. Multidrop with 100Mbps and 100W of power would be a gamechanger.

About 2 years ago I tried to make a prototype using 100baseT1 with PoDL but most of the components weren't on the market yet. I did manage to get samples of some but not all parts, and gave up and kept using this[1] tiny switch. There's also a 1000base-T version.

One thing to note about using ethernet in embedded applications, and also the reason why you can't find many small microcontrollers that support it, is ethernet uses a lot of power. About 0.5W per port (meaning 1.0W per line) for 100Mbps, 0.7W per port for 1Gbps, and 4W per port for 10Gbps. There are low-power standards that work by idling when not in use, but I've yet to see any devices that support it. The 2 wire standards are designed for much, much lower power consumption.

[1]https://gadgetsmyth.com/product/ethos-lite/
> Start incentivizing treating housing as, you know, a place to live rather than a financial instrument and you'll see plenty more condos.

This happens in Japan, but happens mainly as a result of:

a. No one sees real estate as a sure shot after the excess of the 80s.

b. Declining population means even Tokyo has a lot of extra housing.

c. It is easy to rebuild housing, so people rarely buy "used" homes, leaving on the land as a real estate vehicle for appreciation (the structure is overhead). Condos are almost worthless speculative assets in that sense.
I've done some playing with GPT-3 as well and found it extremely good at weeding out misleading item descriptions on Amazon (given the description, ask some questions about it, it gets them right), and pretty good at fan fiction (with a little bit of setup, it writes stories with a beginning, middle, and end).
> State intertwines "value" and "time"

Reminds me of deterministic finite automaton. Is that what you mean?
I've been reading a few Lean Startup books recently, and this morning I went to the local government's website to see what advice they could give to register and start a business...

From all the Victoria Government's main business website and to all of their small business grant websites, all I could find was advice on how to write a business plan. This was in complete contrast to all the Lean books that not once talked about business plans but instead focused on customer development.

... maybe it's no wonder 9/10 of new businesses fail if they start with planning documents that take weeks vs "getting out of the building".
I'm not sure what stage of company we're talking about here.

I'd argue that for ALL companies, in any industry, working capital--measured on the balance sheet--is a critical data point. That is, you may be booking revenue but not collecting cash from your customers (in an extreme case, the "revenue" may be fictitious, if the software doesn't work and the customer refuses to pay). And while you might have $x of cash on the balance sheet, you could also have a huge and looming payables balance because you're waiting to pay your bills until you're N days past due.

Also, revenue is just what you can actually book per the accounting standards, which has lots of specific tests for software companies. For most SaaS companies, a key number is also deferred revenue, a balance sheet item that records the difference between the cash you've collected (say, up-front for 12 months) and the remaining performance obligation to deliver software over the period. Or, if you have a big service component as part of your offering, a number to watch is the amount of revenue you've booked but not yet billed.

As an investor, I'd also be curious about the future obligations of the company that will consume cash, such as big leases, debt, and other liabilities (eg, legal judgements against the company).

Investors are free to ignore whatever information they'd like, I suppose. And a tiny two-person company probably has a very simple set of financial statements, if any. But those two founders have the ambition to build a big and successful company, I'd argue that understanding how to read financial statements with some mild degree of fluency just isn't that hard and is a very useful skill.
I don't think raverbashing was talking about the state turning it off, but rather individual people turning their own AC/heating off.

Nest Thermostat offers many features to automatically do this if users want it, both to save money, as well as to help the planet. Full disclosure, I work at Google, but not Nest.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9244031

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/10975756

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9242289
Why would the length of the campaign deter you from playing it? Isn't it great if you know you have enough content to play the game for the next 20 years?

I play Gloomhaven with friends. Since we live in different parts of the country, we only meet up to play twice a year to play. It will take us years to complete Gloomhaven. It's awesome. It means we can just keep playing long into our retirements (at which point we might meet and play more often!)
Clearly one of you must be wrong or lying
Thanks for the link to r/ExperiencedDevs. I’d never seen that before in my 13 years on Reddit, and that sub is a gold mine.
Maybe if I had written unit tests my companies would also sell for over a billion
Ivermectin papers slapped with expressions of concern
Why does Naval strike me as someone who has a combination of arrogance and judgment in his every interaction? He sounds like a weird mashup of Alan Watts meets Osho meets Vinod Khosla character...