skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deutsche Telekom has this "innovation arm" called T-Labs, where they spawn startups that could have the best of both worlds: they have someone from senior leadership on board mostly to help with the operational aspect, the executive side is free to do pretty much anything they need/want.

I joined one of their companies because I thought exactly like you, that without the chaos the startup could probably be more efficient.

After 3 years in 3 different projects there, I had changed my mind. Without embracing the chaotic nature of a startup, leadership gets too attached to their original plans and ends up taking longer to find product fit. Hiring was fast because they would bring consultants for anything at first, but because their pay was not tied to company growth, they only cared about milking DT cash as long as possible, and so on.

Some of the people that worked there went on to create their own startups, but I am yet to see any big breakout story from T-Labs.
Sat nav – without a satellite – in the 1970s? [video]
Without getting into the merits of his statement, he didn't say it was the exclusive provence of that group.

Most x do y

An x does y --> not surprising

A z does y --> doesn't mean the other two propositions are now wrong
For me, the single issue with IRC is that it doesn't fit well in a world where I communicate with multiple devices, each of which is only attached to the internet occasionally.

If there was (is there now?) a standard way of clients requesting all messages since they were last connected, that would solve my biggest problem.
New cocoa processing method produces fruitier, more ‘flowery’ dark chocolate
lets stop using refugee except where it counts, they are migrants.
Same thing goes for expats like myself, were migrants.
I remember having beers with a friend who now runs a capital management fund in early 2000. He was telling me how Warren Buffets ideas don't work anymore and how he missed out on dotcom. A couple years later, Warren was way ahead of the market, again.

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened again over the next year or so, although it is much harder for Buffet now at this scale.
Old white man can be right some time too.
Didn’t they see at that point they were already down 10k? That’s what I thought they meant, from reading it.
This all sounds pretty much consistent with my guesses about what was happening. In particular, I'm predisposed to agree with your idea that sleep is a bunch of different processes that are normally well-coordinated. I hypothesize that the combination of my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the doses of modafinil disrupted that coordination, resulting in my experience of being awake and asleep at the same time.

Of course, just because we both came up with similar hypotheses doesn't mean we're right, but I'll take it as a tentative working theory for now.
Are bonds issued by a dysfunctional government that is severely in debt in the middle of a couple of years of consistently tumultuous world events really “risk free” anymore though?

These bonds only match inflation as defined by the government via CPI. But there is a strong argument that real world inflation is significantly higher than CPI.
If Abraham Lincoln shoots someone in the head, and Pol Pot shoots someone in the head, in both cases someone's killed someone else.
Not good legal advice at all under the current state of the law, but very effective for shaping public opinion, which can then lead to shaping the future state of the law.
I'm sure this is less scummy than Intuit Mint but I did not like having to browse around for a good while to find a link to their pricing page - even though it is just at the standard url.tld/pricing[1]. Companies that push their 'free trial' without readily mentioning what their product will cost when the trial runs out annoy me.

$15/month is a lot amount of money in my country.

[1] https://www.youneedabudget.com/pricing/
> The reality is that only a tiny percentage of people move a field/humankind forward.

We just happen to remember the ones that got more press, or perhaps published first. As one example, multiple folks came up with calculus at just about the same time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries#1...

Everyone knows Newton, some folks know about Leibniz, but how many now about de Fermat, etc?

Bell is know for the telephone, but what about Elisha Gray?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell...

Also Edison and the light bulb versus Swan (and others):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb
This is great! I’ve been thinking a lot about the web PKI and I’m convinced that the future is a blockchain there. The current situation just doesn’t make sense, where too many CAs have powers to mess up and revocation barely work. And sometimes we can detect some of the attacks, instead of preventing them. In the future we’ll have a public registry implemented as a blockchain where browsers will receive light zero-knowledge proof of non-revoked certificate inclusion.
I would change one little bit in your comment: 'they also can be stressful' -> 'they also will be stressful'.

A start-up is pretty much guaranteed to be a constant source of major stress either because of the success or because of the lack of it. Success will bring its own kind of problems and those can be very stressful indeed. I know lots of founders but I don't know a single one that did not have to deal with stress on a daily basis. Perseverance is often listed as a key requirement for success, I think stress resistance really should be added to that list, it is something you will have to learn how to deal with or it will cause you major grief.
Building a company around a toy requires embracing the toyness
Gambling shows there has been interest in probability for millennia, but “
I prefer Pentel GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencils. They're metal, carry a bunch of refill leads, fine-grained tip length control (2 clicks is perfect), and even have erasers you can extend when they start to wear down.
Thank you and thank you very much for sharing. I personally find it invaluable to hear narratives- good, bad, indifferent- from women and wish more of the storytelling in tech land was in a woman's voice/from that perspective.

When the girls were little and I would get to spend time reading to them, when we were reading stories with a male protangonist I always changed the pronouns to female. It made it a different story (at least for me!).

We are all human, but we are all uniquely human, and more stories from different voices and perspectives will create more opportunities and resonance for all.

In terms of the specifics- agree completely that creating a psychic boogeyman serves no one's interest. My likely not-achieved goal was just to point the mom to areas where it seemed a mom's perspective could be usefully informed. Especially being able to coach with concrete examples around exactly the scenario you describe- interesting work but difficult/problematic culture. How to navigate?

In any event, cheers and thank you again.
> Basically this means that in modern dating, if you are short, you are very likely to die alone and this trend will only get worse in the future.

Why would it only get worse? How do you know this? I'm puzzled by the certainty.
So I have a habit of noting down HN links, in digital form of course, here are some you might find interesting

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395238 | My Notebook System (ratfactor.com)

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344237 | Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good (reproof.app)

- https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345959 | the process of physically writing the notes, internalizing the information, and building new connections in your head is quite important

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303211 | Analog: A simple productivity system (ugmonk.com)

- https://ugmonk.com/blogs/journal/analog-the-simplest-product...
Allocation cost in region is just pointer update, quite cheap. Deallocation is constant. You will get speedup if you can replace large number of allocations with arena. In gc languages you don't have luxury of specifying custom allocators for selected parts of the program. But the main argument was that tracing gc hides all of this from you and you can't profile your program explicitly see which callstacks contribute to large deallocations. Just because gc hides it, defers and spreads in time, doesn't mean it's zero cost – on contrary tracing will have more overhead. In vast majority of programs power consumption overhead is not relevant though, if it's traded for programming ergonomics, it's a win.
They said, perfectly clearly, that normal moderator or indeed any user action is not the only way for a person to cause this action to happen.

It's not the DaVinci code.
It’s more than that if you want to include consensusless algorithms (see Sui)
I just bought it because a friend hasn't experienced it yet. When you can't re-experience a blind playthrough of the game, the next best thing is to watch a friend play through it at your house.
Tech is rife with ageism, if at least 5% of the outrage reserved for gender issues were pushed to ageism it might progress beyond the dark ages.
10k of it is still in the bonds, which will be paid back with interest.
Wrong forum? We actually care about tech here
This is what I do on my website. External links change or break all the time. It's a lot easier to change where a URL points to than to update it on some 300 pages.

Since these are 302 redirects, Google somehow started listing some of them. Many of those are affiliate links, so I'm wondering if this could lead to additional revenue.
Thanks for taking the time to add some casual racism to the conversation.
Ghosting the Machine
They're simply not going hungry if it fails which probably correlates with the eventual failure. This is one reason why I believe that too much capital too soon is bad for start-up founders. They lose a part of their drive and on top of that they are now much more diluted than before. effectively the failure will be theirs and the success will be someone else's who didn't do much other than to write a check.
not weird, you're just a youngish american.
> I chuckle at any conservatives/libertarians who claim to actually oppose corporate campaign finance

Why?
Touchpad -> Scroll and zoom -> Scrolling direction.
> They're zero-risk bonds with an interest rate that always matches or exceeds inflation

The caveat is that you must agree with how your govt. calculates inflation. Also, your personal expenses might not be well represented by official inflation. Finally, like any bond, if you sell them before they mature you might get smaller (or higher) returns.

Not saying this is a bad investment though, I just rarely see those risks discussed!
OP should count themselves very lucky they're (eventually) getting an actual cash refund and not some sort of IOU only redeemable against future income tax due.

When you deal with an entity that has the monopoly on legitimate violence, your bargaining power is - unsurprisingly - borderline nonexistent.
That money must go somewhere in the meantime and is probably earning interest.
My experience with Elixir has largely been the same, to be honest. I’ve managed to speak with lots of well known library authors just by messaging them on the elixir slack. The creators of the language and the dominant web framework, Jose Valim and Chris McCord respectively, are well known for popping in on threads, conversations, and GitHub issues all over the place.

Elixir libraries are also pleasantly backwards compatible in my experience (with the occasional exception to be sure). At my company the effort required to maintain currency has been 1/10 that of Ruby in my experience.

I frequently hear that elixir lacks the 3rd party library support of Ruby. If you use sheer quantity as the criteria, then definitely, but in the 6 years I’ve been using Elixir, this has interestingly never gotten in my way. I’ve always either been able to find a library or the problem simply isn’t gnarly enough to deserve a library. Maybe I just haven’t picked the right problems with which to experience this lack though :).

All that to say I think Elixir and Clojure are very similar in these regards!
Awesome reminder that if you steal a soda from Disney World the police will enforce the law (with extreme violence if they want) but if Disney steals from you no one will enforce the law.
Help her to be a master of technology with her own vision, not a "tech
worker" who pushes buttons for another's ideals. Steer her toward
humanistic and ethical technology, not the industrial domestication of
humankind for the enrichment of the few. To that end, help her find a
healthy education in tech critique but tempered by counter-critique
best expressed in Sara M. Watson's "Tech Criticism and Its
Discontents".
Minimum recommended SendGrid subscription type
If you are planning to use SendGrid for sending newsletters or mass emails, go with "Pro" (starting at $90./month). The Pro level provides you with a dedicated IP address ascribed to your traffic.

Don't bother with "Essentials", you will be assigned a shared pool of IP addresses, and will be blocked because of questionable activity by previous users of same IPs.

BTW SendGrid Tech. Support are excellent.

(I am a customer, I'm not profiting from this).
Depends.

If you know it has been generated by a valid random number generator, then no.

But if you know there is a chance it came from something other than a valid random number generator, then you would have to classify sequences like 11111111 in a "highly suspicious" category.
Or, the community knows that models will always have biases, and so the community makes its software work around that limitation by other means than modifying the model, because that might not be possible at all.
Simple FIR filter won't do the job, noise from the rotors and moving air is wideband and overlaps with signal.

But adaptive filters used in noise-cancelling headphones with separate mics may work. One directional microphone records sound from the scene, the other undirected one records sound of the drone, then filter tries to minimize drone sound component in the signal from the mic by adjusting coefficients of the filter.
> Yes it does. Throughout the entire history of C++ has been touted as as a "better C", where "better" includes "safer". This was not just empty marketing; the claims were justified.

You're arguing that C++ makes safety improvements over C. I broadly agree, but that's not the topic at hand. C++ is still quite plainly not a safe language.

Whether it's safer than C isn't the point, but this causes undefined behaviour in both C and C++:

int i;
int j = i;

as does this statement:

int i = 1 / 0;

as does:

int i = INT_MIN * -1;

as does:

int i = INT_MAX + 1;

> There are ways of using C++ that are entirely safe, along those lines. [...] No C arrays, no C pointers.

Practically speaking, no, there are not. As I showed above, it's not just arrays and pointers that have safety issues in C and C++. I've rambled before about how there's no practical way to entirely avoid the unsafety pitfalls of C and C++ (short of formal verification). [0][1]

Compare this against the Safe Rust subset of Rust. Safe Rust really is a safe language, at least by their (very strong) definition of the term as guaranteed to be free of undefined behaviour. [2] It's not possible to define a practical subset of C or C++ with this property.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307709

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30597750

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/meet-safe-and-unsafe.html
Empathy is its own little rabbit hole.

Suggest reading a negotiation book like Never Split the Difference or 3D Negotiation.

These books spend hundreds of pages describing techniques to jog your ability to put yourself in the other person's shoes.

Endlessly bring up the major point, talking about how human beings see the world through rose tinted spectacles. Negotiation is about gathering information to make an offer the other person will accept.

Thinking about the point of view of the other person is difficult, mentally intensive work.

Most folk I need can do it. Many have just... fallen out of the habit.
No, but I'm sure you can think of any number of situations in which it's of material benefit to have the best memory in the conversation. Taking good notes means not having to rely for specifics on the squishy stuff between your ears.
Same here. Firefox 99.0.1 on Windows 10.
String theory is widely respected by people who actually understand it. Believed in? Not sure, but a lot of experimental physicists who mock it clearly are just following memes in their departments - which does not necessarily make them wrong.

Almost by definition people who are mildly interested in string theory don't talk about it unless asked.

String theory has the potential to work, and doesn't involve as much parameter-hacking as other models, whereas its main competitors don't even work "in theory".

It's also worth saying that a lot of "string theorists" are actually working on consequences of things like holography rather than banging their head against a book trying to work on the very essence of the theory.
He really discredits himself by saying he wouldn't take a liquid asset at less than its mark to market value. I've got a bridge to sell you if you believe Buffett wouldn't take Billions in guaranteed gains.
Hardware key loggers, which are impossible to find by antivirus, can't take screenshots. Software keyloggers and other such malware are defended against with antivirus, but hardware keyloggers must be defended against with design.

Your browser will probably remember your password afterwards, so the usability decrease isn't even that bad. And that's not a security flaw either, because hardware keyloggers don't see the autofill values.
Of course! The technology which is not exclusive to bitcoin is what makes bitcoin so valuable. The ability to have a decentralized store of information that requires a hash of the previous information to verify because we may live in a world where no central authority with proper financial incentives to keep track of information doesn't exist, that makes a coin you get and can't spend without converting into cash/using a centralized system valuable!

Just think of all the times where we have to use transactions that are immutable (so they can't be reversed), trustless (so there's nobody to blame), and decentralized (meaning you need economic incentives to do expensive work to reach a consensus that's correct). I'm sure there are tons, the decade old technology is brand new, it's gonna find use eventually I swear, by the way do you want to buy my bitcoin for dollars I can actually pay my taxes with?
Still leaves them with $200, waiting for the erroneous $10k to be returned.

The author's reading comprehension may leave something to be desired, but so does the interface they were using.
In general as a percentage of the last year's income. "In 2002, a Nokia executive was fined the equivalent of $103,000 for going 45 in a 30 zone on his motorcycle."

Elon's fine could easily be 10x that but maybe not 100x. I don't know his finances and I'm not sure how capital gains are included.
That’s why you buy through a bank.

Edit: I am wrong. You can only buy it two ways which is ridiculous in my view.

More to the point of the website that belongs in a museum, why can’t they update this consumer facing portal? What happened to all the people from “digitization” govt organizations? Such as 18F and usds. Oh. You mean all they do is replace the front end? Got it.
>who has already decided they don't care

Hm, I think it's not because people don't care, but rather because "blockchain" is (for many people) inextricably linked to shady fintech assholes that actually don't care about interesting technical concepts and intricacies behind DLT.
That's all super interesting; thanks for the description!

It's probably totally unrelated to any of this, but I also think primarily (though not entirely) nonverbally, and expressing myself always involves translating nonverbal thoughts into words.

And, for what it's worth, I'm a native English speaker trained (but horribly out of practice) in German (and Latin and Mandarin and Tibetan and Hungarian and Greek and Esperanto and Lojban --don't ask me to communicate in any of them without several weeks of remedial practice!).
AFAIK many people use a bouncer (e.g. ZNC) for connecting to IRC. ZNC at least supports individual backlog for multiple devices. So I think that is a fairly standard solution.
DeepMind Flamingo Visual Language Model is scary good [pdf]
I am really freaked out by the conversational performance displayed by the Flamingo Visual Language model recently described by Google DeepMind. It feels like there is a major shift in what ML models can do underway. Am I exaggerating the significance of this model or not? I want to discard it as another ML toy, but it feels much more significant this time...
Also May Queen [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Queen
Screenshots wouldn't be of much help. The frequency would need to be almost like a low-fps video recording in order to capture the buttons' pressed state. At that is assuming the state is visually distinct in the first place.
It’s not beating the odds though. There’s countless millions of women around the world who would be thrilled to be dating a 5’6” American/imperial unit user. The problem only exists if you limit yourself arbitrarily to a very small pool of women having a particular nationality and skin color.

95% of women are not American. And only a very small percentage of those are gold diggers or mail order brides. The vast majority are just normal people with normal dreams of having a modest family.

If someone is 5’6 and having trouble meeting someone, they should consider if their own criteria are irrational.
I have personally been using Banktivity for some years. It’s a great app with decent feature velocity (not too slow, but not too fast either), has decent support for EU banks now, and syncs really well. You do have to be in the Apple ecosystem to enjoy its benefits though.
>It's always impossible to tell, for any given sequence, whether it was produced by a fair die.

If the sequence is long enough you can model how likely it is to have been produced by a fair die. Are all numbers equally distributed? Are some numbers more likely to follow or not follow other numbers? Are some patterns repeating?

Of course any sequence can be produced by a fair die, but you can still create some objective metric that will tell you how truly random a sequence is, and the longer it is the more accurate it will be. It's what tests like Diehard are about after all.

Can you roll a fair die a thousand times and only get 6s? Well yes of course. It'll never happen though.
It’s not capitalism; it’s excessive government regulation preventing new housing from being built. (Also the ocean too)
I can't facepalm enough on the subject. At high risk of getting palm blisters.
That is the pessimistic way of looking at things..

The US isn’t quite yet there where they won’t let you go to court, so you could still try that
In a capitalist economy, if there's a group with less money the system is explicitly designed to discriminate against them.

Why would you optimise your product for people who can't afford it?

> The typical black family had almost no wealth in 1968 ($2,467; data refer to 1963). Today, that figure is about six times larger ($17,409), but it is still not that far from zero when you consider that families typically draw on their wealth for larger expenses, such as meeting basic needs over the course of retirement, paying for their children’s college education, putting a down payment on a house, or coping with a job loss or medical crisis.

> Over the same period, the wealth of the typical white family almost tripled, from a much higher initial level. In 2016, the median African American family had only 10.2 percent of the wealth of the median white family ($17,409 versus $171,000).8