skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been at a series C+ company that ran out of money. There are a few things to keep in mind if you are working at a non-profitable startup.

1) Investors need to invest in something, not continuing operations. Companies who are about to run out of money will often claim to pivot in a different direction, launch new products, or go on hiring binges. A good sign that something is amiss is when all of this isn't backed by any customer interest, the internal story is meh, and leadership is steadfast that this is the direction.

2) At some point all of the senior leadership needs to focus on getting VC money, or selling the business. You may have high pressure dates one month, and then an erie calm where no one seems to care about anything. Because frankly, leadership has stopped caring about the business and it no longer matters to the company.

3) A debt round shows up, these are usually life support rounds for companies missing their metrics. The company doesn't want to lose valuation, but they don't have any deals lined up yet. The debt is to keep the show going while they figure things out. Caveat: Debt rounds because the company aims to be profitable, aren't that bad.

4) Implosion, if the company has a high burn and no offers - then something has to give. The thing to give is the $NewIdea, not the core product - however if the core product is shrinking/mature the core product team may see layoffs as well.

At this point, if I consider a startup - I look to join just after a funding round has closed. This means that the money to build your product is there, the work will be new, and the company doesn't have to go through hijinks. The worst time to join a company is when they say they are working on a funding round.
Looks like that today.com site has also been taken down.
Slot machines are a much worse example because they have programmed minimum prize percentages, so if one has gone without a win for a while then it's more likely to win than average. With the lottery ticket, there was really no reason to have made that decision.
meds now!
A reporter might want to hide images that could be considered regime critical if they might be searched. Lots of nice pictures of healthy patriotic people, no suffering and starving people, empty shelves or grass stealing beggars to see.

Or without leaving the country you might want to hide pictures of animal abuse if you took them without permission from the owner, in some places documenting animal abuse is even more illegal than committing it. Look at all those funny cat pictures, no cows rotting in their own shit to see officer.
IRC line limits are normally plenty for GitHub URLs—my vague memory (haven’t used IRC for quite some years) is that 512 was the proper wire format length limit, and I can’t remember what other guff there was in transmitting a message but less than 50 characters, so it should still be over 450 characters. Think I did encounter one server with a considerably lower limit once, maybe around 200 so it was probably 256, which is still oodles for all normal GitHub URLs. (Oh sure, you can exceed it easily enough if you want to, by defining ridiculously long ref names, or referring to a very long path.)

But really, opaque short URLs are significantly worse than the full URL: you have to go to extra effort to create them, and extra effort to retrieve from them, and you’re adding an additional point of failure, and you can no longer just read the URL.
> Perhaps the next external threat will be carbon climate cancer?

Americans rarely unite against something that's partially and/or possibly our fault.
I think your ventilation notion is wrong because intensive use of this infrastructure will mean many, many electric motors generating heat. There will also be refrigerated cars, furthering the problem. Having said that, I strongly suspect that they've incorporated the ventilation solution already.

>they're trying to build small-diameter tunnels like the Boring Company, but using the strengths of the format much more cleverly.

Agreed. It's scarcely possible to use tunnels less cleverly than by putting large, single-occupant vehicles through them.
Same - no need to start my own thread to respond.
> I think that we need to start accepting individual responsibility more.

Why? People always put this out there as a universal moral virtue but I just don't see it that way. The ideology of individual responsibility for all negative consequences has led us to horrific places. It's useful and necessary sometimes but not always, and I don't think here.

> Also, holding companies liable for illegal usage of their products is a constraint on growth.

Who fucking cares? Again, growth in itself is not a virtue we need to cultivate for its own sake. Growth of what, and for what ends? Growth is a tool we can use, so what are we using it for in this case. And do we even want to be?
This is adjusted for inflation
Legalize pot, cocaine, mushrooms, ketamine, and psychedelics.
Agreed. It's like they don't really know what they believe.
Neat.

The relative sizes are super inaccurate. I know you know this, and I know in many ways it helps to have them be inaccurate so you can find anything in space, but the Earth and Moon look to be almost touching. In actuality, you can nearly fit every single planet in the solar system in a line between the Earth and Moon.

It's slightly more accurate when you click on the Earth, but the solar system view they look like they're nearly touching.

Also, small nit-pick, but I wouldn't use the term "dark side of the moon," and you also deepen this misconception by having it be literally dark and need to be lit up using a light bulb. The "far side of the moon" (better terminology) gets just as much light as the near side.
The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy Creek
Jepsen: Redpanda 21.10.1
Does it matter? The discussion above is about people obsessing right now about a subset of characteristics, while ignoring others. What happened happened, we should worry about what we can do right now to improve fairness.
Man I'd love a return to cubicles at the least. With enough space open floor plans can feel less terrible but sound just carries across these big open rooms.
Trying to summarize: You hope that people would only use (and find) what is good for them? Instead of things that decrease their net wellbeing in life?

If this is the case, there might be other solutions e.g. teaching all people to be careful what they consume and how they consume information.

Another option might of course be policy about regulating advertising e.g. forcing them to always hint the customer to a web page that compares multiple offers that achieve the same, advertised outcome but in a different way or from a different provider. At least reminding people with every ad that there are other options out there. And if, eventually, the provider of the ad has the best offering, the summary page will reinforce that. The challenge that I see is on how to create the page and who authorizes it - especially given the wild variance among preferences of individuals.
Just in case the genie doesn’t grant wishes to anyone who’s too greedy.

Realistically, I’d live the life I want with $5 million. I’m an asshole but I’m not the kind of asshole who wants to be a billionaire.
IFRS is used in over 100 countries. Parts of it's implementation are left to the individual countries, but the US is the only country to use GAAP. Every country has some room for individual regulstion of the financial standards of course, but that doesn't make, say, dutch securities less inherently trustworthy than US securities because they don't report on a GAAP basis.
> My point was more about what bitcoin isn't - specifically, it isn't a natural resource like gold is.

I can understand that point, btw my opinion is that Bitcoin is a natural resource of saving some bits of data forever. No any alternative with same props in no-Blockchain world.

> One useful distinguisher: when someone invents a new use for gold, the value of gold increases. When the field of cryptography progresses, bitcoin becomes more obsolete.

Not even close to truth. When someone invents a new metal alloy with some properties of gold, the value of gold may decrease. When the field of cryptography progresses, the value of some cryptocurrencies may increase, for example Litecoin skyrocketed from $4 to $400 in one day after Lightning network has appeared on Litecoin several years ago (there were more examples not only for LTC, I just took a peace of data which I am confident in).
I thnik he just wanted to throw "ancestros" somewhere in there without specifying what that former glory exectly is.
We could probably just charge tobacco companies...

Or do the same for all smokers. Back of the envelope, it looks like about $370B in medical expenses & lost economic output per year, with about 20B packs of cigarettes sold (US), so that's about $19/pack of cigarettes.

Then put that money into a trust to cover expenses for smokers so that they don't burden non-smokers in either tax dollars or increased insurance premiums. You'll need some money to administer the process too, so let's say another $2/pack for that. Call it the "True Cost Smoking Tax".
As someone who took driver's ed, it's odd how many people are using their brakes on the highway in good traffic just so they can stay in the danger zone where they have no time to react if the car ahead of them stops suddenly (even if they're in the right lane and not actually trying to go fast). Out of pure greed you'd think people would realize they're burning their gas and brakes for no reason.

I'll add that on the highway, you can scan way further ahead than you're used to. You should be able to maintain focus far ahead and use your peripheral vision to keep between the lines on turns. It's not the easiest thing to do, but it's very easy to practice.
Are you suggesting that instead of short.com/foo you register foo.mydomain.com and setup a reverse proxy to redirect? Isnt that just a url shortener with more steps? Why wouldn't I just setup my own shortener service instead and send a `POST` request when I want a new url?
They’re from wework’s own s1.
Quite amazing, works well on mobile with some distortion on the moon in one quick look around.
I actively rebelled against attempts to control my behavior. I think this is a good character trait to have: it made me a pain in the ass as a kid, but a populace with such a trait would not tolerate government overreach for a single instant. I'd rather get into a lot of trouble than let someone control my life.

Also, to expand on the cruel punishment thing (an extreme example but I believe it's just a more pathological manifestation of the same thing): my mother would sometimes break my things as punishment, for example toys or CDs that were gifts from friends. 15 years later, it still stings. All that taught me was that she was immoral (and possibly insane) which made me rather unreceptive to her future attempts to "educate" me.
using GPUs for CFD is pretty standard these days and has been for a few years. GPUs are fantastic for solving linear systems.

Nobody uses GPUs for "linear speedups by looking at GPU specs". That's not how accelerators are measured.
Refactoring Restaurants
There's a lot more political polarization, no doubt, but I'm actually not sure it's true that there's more social division. A few decades ago, basic questions like "is it OK for different races to get married" and "should women participate fully in society" remained unresolved, with a ton of people wielding substantial power sitting on the "no" side. (The Handmaid's Tale wasn't meant to be some crazy impossible premise; Margaret Atwood genuinely believed that she was describing a real trend that might happen if we're not careful.)
Heroku you say? Could it be related to this?

https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u...

“The applications maintained by these integrators were used by GitHub users, including GitHub itself.”
I would wish to be granted the ability to have any number of wishes granted just by thinking about them, without the poor user experience of having to make genie appear first and to speak the wishes.

For instance, suppose I'm on a freeway and the car has lost control and crossed a divider into opposite traffic. I'd like to be able to have my life-saving wish executed in milliseconds (like please don't hit that obstruction/car), which is currently not possible with the high latency user interface of the genie.
Unfortunately said someone has been made redundant, and the parts wouldn’t be available anyway because all of the planets microchip factories are building bitcoin rigs
What do you think is scarce in your life? Time? What do you think about death?
> (gradle, I'm looking at you!)

gradle has pretty much the worst ergonomics of any developer tool I've ever used[1], so that's a pretty low bar.

[1] e.g. "Something went wrong. Re-run with -debug or -info. Now here's 5000 lines of useless stack traces that won't help at all." Nevermind an ecosystem of plugins where it's not clear where the DSL ends and API starts, and makes it virtually impossible to locate the actual source of an error message, if you get one at all.
Everything is falling apart but we are falling slowly upwards in terms of things getting better.

I recommend this book for data that supports this if folks haven't read it already:

https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/
https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey is very much trying to beat GnuPG for ease of use and performance in that setup :)

Currently it's only compatible with https://github.com/str4d/rage, because age only supports plugins in a branch, but I'm hoping to land support this week!
- World peace, us combatting climate change together, resolve global [social, economical] injustice

- Being able to do or work on what I want without it having to be about money and employment

- Being content, most of the time. Constant happiness is utopian, but if I can just be content with what I have, what I do and what I experience, that would be great

- Less mental fog and unfocusedness (not sure if that is an existing word)

Overall I just wish that every human on earth gets the chance to feel good about themselves and where they are in life.
The invention and implementation of a significantly more efficient and effective form of government that prioritizes the happiness of people.
Gangs are literally directed caused by poverty and otherism.

Neoliberal politics doesn't work with integration, but sure let's just use all the xenophobic and antisemitic dog whistles
I am an "anti-tailgater", and it pains me that I'm usually tailgated myself. It is more dangerous than people think, especially in bad weather.

I sometimes take breaks to let people pass, but some are following up so closely (even trucks) that I am worried about braking too quickly when entering a parking spot. Some don't even see my signal (or don't slow down even if they see it).

I live in Romania, and frequently cross mountains, and the parking spots are crappy and pothole-ridden at best.
Keep Right Except to Pass
> The F is the point of busting my ass to work some stupid office job and be financially stable if a minor transgressions is just as ruinous as when I was a janitor?

(1) Minor transgressions shouldn't be ruinous for anyone including the poor, that's part of the point of scaled penalties.

(2) Ideally, the point would be your quality of life when you are not being punished for crimes, not the ability to be effectively immune to meaningful punishment for crimes that would ruin others.
x86 is dead, long live ...
I think most people have given up on the concept of "more abstract"=better. However, there are other was to "advance" the state of programming. One is to find better metaphors to express the same concept. For example, C is a wonderful language. But if you spend much time at all in an advance C codebase, you will find lots of code that is attempting to do things that it's hard to tell it's attempting to do. Because C has this really half-baked type system and it's only generalization of data is the void pointer and so on.

There are two solutions to this. Take every feature of C and explode it to its logical conclusion and beyond. And there you get C++, which has it's uses but is really one of the few languages I would ever call straight up bad. (I know, it's beloved to many and I came up on it but it is bad, I'm sorry.) But if instead, you back up and look at what is good about C and start modernizg its metaphors and instead of leaving them incomplete like in C you fill them out, you get something like zig. Which really is a beautiful language. No more abstract than C but much easier to understand.
On the one hand, you seem to (understandably) take great pride in the legal ownership of your CDs, but on the other hand, you're almost certainly breaking the law by ripping them. How do you feel about that?

I have the same conflict with DVDs/BluRay. I want to play by the rules and pay for the media I enjoy, but it's absurd that it's illegal for me to rip the content that I've lawfully purchased for my own consumption.
> We know that airborne transmission has been a small piece of the puzzle.

Do you have a quote for this claim?

Everything I read is claiming the exact opposite, that authorities overstated the contact surface transmission and that the majority of SARS-COV2 infections occur through droplets or aerosol.
I think we need to be less concerned with individual responsibility because it isn't as effective at improving community outcomes and it encourages people to be callous and uncharitable.

Strict individual responsibility had been the rule for cigarette smoking before and it was not successful.

Market growth is not so important.
In Chicago, Wealthy Neighborhoods Hire Their Own Private Police as Crime Rises
>Censorship is a crucial foundation of capitalism

No, nothing to do with capitalism, but elitism, that happens in capitalism communism and even tribalism.

>fedz for liberating science

Again no, liberating the free (as in free beer) access to papers. If you want to liberate science you need to pay the scientist for what they want to study (and not you)
Right but is their name or physical appearance really that important in working together?

I've worked with people I never met, never saw their photo or real name or heard their voice. As long as they communicate somehow and produce work needed, isn't that enough?
This is pretty awesome (in addition to this whole thread).
I checked the location of ISS (against https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/ ), sadly it's not accurate.
I spent more than a decade in the tech industry and I know a lot of people.

Silicon Valley is a disgusting place. The less you know, the better for your soul. What-the-fuck is a reasonable reaction.

As for physical consequences of bad references, there's obviously going to be a spectrum. It's very unlikely that someone would get hit for saying something like "I don't like him" at a bar and accidentally costing someone a job. Those things happen, and very few people are irrational or paranoid enough to call in a hit man over something small that isn't going to happen again.

If someone is deliberately running around saying, "You shouldn't hire him" or "He was fired for cause", though, it's inevitable that he's going to get what's coming to him.

Rationally speaking, people usually make this calculation based on what they think the person is going to do in the future. Sometimes the motive is revenge, but usually it's just intimidation. If it's truly a one-off, people usually let it go. If someone is making it impossible to find work, though, then people get desperate.
Do you think there can't be any civilizations in the universe which exist indefinitely? For the past millions or even billions of years? If humans get past the next couple of centuries and start spreading out into the solar system and possibly beyond, what would cause us to have a last generation?
Self administered euthanasia
and of course microsoft haven't built the foundation to encourage an ecosystem that supports both x86/arm (universal binaries)

that's in part what makes this plan plan completely useless, and Apple got it right from the beginning back from when they announced Mac Catalyst + their decade old Rosetta tech

microsoft is such a joke, glad i am no longer dependent on windows
> The US has a lot of random facilities in Europe (many colocated with current or former military bases of the host nation) as a result of all the post-ww2 nation building and cold war geopolitics.

That's also super clear in the map the sibling comment posted: most of the European bases are in an arc that follows the Iron Curtain. This particular base is close to Slovenia, which used to be in the Soviet sphere.
I'm not proposing diverting money from renewable build-out. But surely we can also build a few conventional plants for nuclear base load for all the additional heating, industrial, etc, demand we'll have as things electrify... and try a prototype design or two to gain information.

It's not like there's one purely fungible pool of resources to build all things and solve all human problems.

Diversity in approaches is way better than your all-eggs-in-one-basket strategy.
Yes, but it’s presumably why Github doesn’t want to maintain their own.
Could you tell me, what gender a person with male physique and female brain structure has?

What actually happend is the break up of over archaic role models and scientific progress.

Some people today, have a decent answer to that question.
Hm, I think I'll still wait for the Alder Lake update, but it really does sound like a good setup. If I didn't disagree with the direction GNOME was going in this choice would be a lot easier...
Capitalism somehow existed well before the modern IP rights system.

The US patent office was created in 1832, the UK's, in 1850s, and the modern form of patent laws appeared in 1880s.

Copyright goes all the way to 1660s, but until relatively recently, the terms of copyright were much shorter, and extent, narrower.
Do you have a citation for this? Very interesting and would like to look into this more.
There should be an inflection in the exponent of the rate (eg changing only the magnitude of the peak), not necessarily in the direction of the graph, and not necessarily even changing the timing (aka flatten the curve). The difficulty of analyzing the data is what makes studies and articles like this still interesting and relevant to consider.
What's up with the anti-Golang shitposts lately? I liked fasterthanlime better when he didn't just sound like a card-carrying Rust zealot. This isn't even about the practicalities of his argument really; optics matter, and it's especially bad since the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities.
Do you speak from running references at all in the past, or mostly from the viewpoint of a job applicant that is upset at the lack of fairness?

From overseeing multiple hires before, I have to say the technique works. Does it follow due process? No. But does it empirically have high correlation? Definitely yes.

Good applicants correlate highly with have a number of qualified referees (direct managers are best) that will give raving reviews, and so they can pick the ones best at answering. Giving flakey referees is itself a signal.

Should a hiring manager reach out to you -- sure they should. Is the damage already done if they do? Informationally, unfortunately yes.
Even the Perl man pages are one of the best programming language introductions and documentations, or at least were at the time.