skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> top-tier VC returns by building a portfolio of Mittelstand businesses

I’m not sure this is true. You could get good relative percentage returns, but in terms of absolute returns, I’m not sure the math is there. Meaning, if you invest $1M in a smaller company and get a 20X return, that’s pretty good. But smaller companies won’t have much more need for investment capital. So, your absolute return is limited to $20M.

Now, if you have a larger company that needs $100M in investments (over multiple rounds), but still gets a 20X return, that’s a $2B return.

You have the same relative rate, but a massive difference in absolute numbers. To get the same absolute return, you’d need 100X more companies in a portfolio, which is just not manageable. Even with a 2X return in a $100M investment, you’re still way ahead in absolute terms. ($100M >> $19M)

What I think you’re really trying to argue for is that there needs to be smaller VC portfolios with smaller expectations. I think this is possible, but it’s more difficult to hedge bets with smaller expected returns.
Sounds interesting, do you know of any good places to read about this?
Developer-first infrastructure: an opinionated take on infrastructure as code
Haha, I totally get where you're coming from. From my perspective, I will say that compared to other "investments", I really felt like I could understand the risks with UST. I had money invested, but because I understood the mechanisms I understood how it could fail, and had an idea of the probability.

I wish it was possible to replicate this visibility for other investments - the lengthy "disclosures" are no where near as useful as full visibilty into market mechanisms, and real time data on assets / liabilities.
It is a matrix specifically because many people answer no to #1 at conception but yes to #1 at a later date.

Many people also answer yes to #2 based on circumstances, even if this means that they are utilitarians or consequentialists.

Even the consideration of intent you mentioned adds at least one factor to the matrix.
You're welcome.

I have several tools that do this sort of thing, including a 'bot that can be invoked automatically on mastodon. I don't do that on Twitter because popular discussions get seriously out of hand ... there was one that I stopped tracing after if got to 3500 tweets. I have some heuristics in mind to help control that, but it's all still very experimental.

I also have a pig-ugly, pre-alpha, bug-ridden discussion system that works directly on a DiGraph, but when it was submitted to HN sometime ago reactions were ... (significant pause) ... mixed.
Compassion in Our Community
> If you've looked up any error message on YouTube recently

This tidbit is the biggest news on the page for me. I had no idea people used YouTube this way. It sounds excruciating, though don’t knock it till you’ve tried it I suppose.
What kind of business do you operate? Mobile apps or desktop software? Consumer or business SaaS? Developer tools? Something else entirely?
This is ironic since I’ve always heard eve online compared to playing/viewing a spreadsheet with graphics.
> but by limiting the size of the corporation

Or perhaps we just get concentrated capitalization in employee reduction? If machines don't some how count they'll just approach the limit of machination .

* 1 CEO who takes 98.8% of the value

* 149 robot maintenance staff who make just above median salary

* 1 Billion robots each making $1 of profit.
Having some experience with this -- poor communication comes time and time again as the number one problem both clients and outsourcing companies list as problems in their google slides during project retrospectives.
I don't think it should matter much, if there is solid data on omega-3 (DHA) blood levels being correlated with lowered all-cause mortality: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22370-2
That's true, but it might be worth a lot less than it is now.

I know that's every second day in crypto, but why expose the crypto boys to even more bad financial advice.
Casinos absolutely do. There's a litany of stories about casinos enabling gambling addicts by offering them free rooms, drinks, food, flights, whatever it takes, to keep them coming back because they know these people have a psychological condition which they can profit off of. It's exploitation.
Memory Performance of AMD EPYC Rome and Intel Cascade Lake SP Server Processors
If somebody has been massively successful from nothing multiple times, it means they probably know how to be successful. If somebody has been massively successful once, it means there is a definite possibility that they know how to be successful, and also a definite possibility that they had connections and/or luck.
Currently not, there are significant problems that I'm trying to solve before making it available. No, I'm not trying to make it perfect, but I'd like it to be actually usable before opening the code.
Do you exclude NAS functionality? Because multiple TB of cloud storage are definitely not affordable.

Similarly, yeah you could store movies in the cloud, but streaming those all the time is a huge waste of bandwidth and for many home internet connections quite high load.

Oh, and I also want my smart home to continue working when there is no internet connection.
As a tech person at a big tech company making 98k per year as a senior with a rent to pay.

Maybe reconsider what i said and why.

In particular consider that what you said highly limit who can do this and how that limit heavily the kind of company that could grow from this.
The trick here as an ambitious MBA is to carefully estimate whether you can coast long enough that you get rewarded for successfully cutting costs, but are also able to jump ship before shit hits the fan.

Leverage a series of short term wins/long term failures to rocket yourself up to the top.
Value is always, and in all cases, subjective. So what makes Bitcoin users subjectively value Bitcoin? Because it's truly decentralized. Its decentralization is what makes it scarce, neutral and uncensorable. There are no insiders, founders or companies to attack. It's also digital, so it can be transferred at the speed of light.

This decentralization made early users speculate that it could be worth something for its unique properties. That jumpstarts the network effect. More people using it means even more people will start to value it. This is a positive feedback loop.

The incentives are obvious. The feedback loop will continue toward global adoption. But you seem very skeptical, so tell me, what is going to break this feedback loop? What is going to kill Bitcoin?
A bit off topic, but has anyone noticed the “watch later” button design constantly changing? It flip flops between being a small circular button in the top right corner, to being a long rectangle button below the video that only shows up if you hover your mouse over the thumbnail. It seems to change randomly, somewhere between every day and both designs co-existing on the same page. It’s bizarre.
Protip: from.apple@corl.in
It's all dependent on interest rates, because that sets the discount rate that all investments are compared to.

A P/E of 30 is an earnings yield of about 3% (1/30). A steady cash-flowing stock will compare favorably to any bond with an interest rate of < 3%. When bonds are yielding < 3%, that's a good deal.

A P/E of 15 is an earnings yield of about 6% and change. When rates are in the 6% range, this is fairly valued.

A P/E of 6-10, like what was considered good in the late 70s, is an earnings yield of 10-18%. Sure enough, in the late 70s when you could actually get these P/Es, interest rates were around 18%.

There's math behind these rules of thumb. It all comes down to discounted cash flow analysis - if you understand the inputs that go into that formula, what the market does makes a lot more sense.
Yes, I agree on that, spack can lock everything except the kernel and libc.

I also don't think this is a failure of "python" as some others have raised that in the vincinity. Managing binaries is just out-of-scope and should be left to another tool - such as given with pyenv. It's solving this problem in a narrow way, which most commenters find confusing and I find a bit useless compared to alternatives!
As long as those three are devising standards, there will be no privacy, pure and simple.
There's been significant worries over insecure or inadequate voting machine systems for years, all the way back to the "hanging chad" of 2000. However those have not been proven to affect any outcome yet.
That echo command immediately made me wonder why the nflag wasnt initialized to 0, saving 2 lines of code.
Intel's Habana unit reveals new Nvidia A100 challengers
Both styles have their places. I've done migrations of monolith to microservices and I've done microservices to monolith. In the end is about what's best for the project/client, not the purism of "I only do xxx or only yyy". If you're one of those developers then don't call yourself "senior", you're still in the mindset of a junior.
Is part of your thesis that if the company didn't have slack, they'd use their other tools properly?
How would you feel if in week 16 a complication arose which meant that unless your child is aborted, your wife will die, along with your child? What choice would you make then? What if you couldn't make any choice at all, and you had to say goodbye to your wife knowing that if you lived under a different law, she'd be allowed to choose to live?
Which is, itself, down 50%. Only 50% left to go.
It is surprising how bad YouTube is at discovering new content. No advanced search, no categories, no labels, nothing. Title and a thumbnail are your only two guides.

Also, long series are hard to keep track of. Like if you want to watch WW2 week by week, you have to manually find and choose the next video in the series.
I avoid getting my omega from fish because it contains mercury and other "forever chemicals". There are suppliers of high-purity DHA omega 3 and that's good enough for me.
The helicopter is already outside its original mission parameters. It was only supposed to make 5 flights - probably the engineering team didn't want to invest money or weight or complexity in something they knew wouldn't be an issue during their originally scheduled timeframe.
People gunned down by the ATF for making machine guns seem to exist.
4 at home, 3 in a data center, 2 in a storage unit (old) and if we are counting tablets and phones, another 7-8 (depending on how you define “working”).
I dig into the economics in the post. The data shows the median VC would get better net IRR returns with a Mittelstand PE strategy.

It works because Mittelstand revenue and profitability is much more predictable.

If you're on the Midas List, VC is still a better business. But many investors, especially solo GPs, should consider building a portfolio of middle class startups.
Lol. I’ve used emacs for years, and still use it, and I’ve become stagnant due to how hard it is to introduce new plugins or features in your workflow. Have you actually used VSCode for more than a year?
Welcome to the wild world of medical billing in the United States.

They have a captive market that doesn't get to choose when or how much they're willing to pay for the critical service, thus when the service is rendered the customer has no recourse but to 'pay' whatever ridiculous number you come up with.

They will extract as much as possible from uninsured patients before having to send the bill to collections, at which point since selling a debt to collections gives a fraction of the whole... the bigger the whole the bigger the return.

Insured patients are a mixed bag of the former and the "discounted rate", "co-insurance" and "co-pay" scenarios where the costs land somewhere in the range of "reasonable" to "you better get a scholarship timmy"
This is exactly why I don’t take supplements. I just eat.

Randomly inflating certain micronutrients without actually monitoring their levels is probably way more dangerous than just eating “healthy”.
if you're on PC then this userscript is great to bring back the standard player for shorts

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redi...
I hear ya Frank, but I'm a hopeless optimist and an old dog. It's
probably too late for me. :)
Google cloud is part of a company called alphabet which also own a little tool called google search you should try it. it’s very handy. Also if you don’t know what a tpu is the product probably is targeted at you
Cannot answer your question but, since you mentioned it, there's a mathematical specification of deflate (see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01220).
Interesting. Sounds like a satellite with such a propulsion system could orbit with a perigee down where it had "infinite delta-v on tap", but an apogee up where space debris was a real problem. Given such a platform capability, all sorts of ways to intercept & de-orbit space junk start looking viable - because the "shift orbit to intercept the next one" moves are more-or-less free.
The problem with micro services is that your CEO drank the Kool-Aid. Now your CTO has to get it done and your VP of Engineering is stuck with a large bag of feces.
QR codes are by definition unreadable, so for those you can use example.com/s/<random> or such.
How Companies blame you for climate change
Isn't this what everyone calls a "scaleup"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleup_company
I use an old Wyse thin client that I picked up from ebay for ~£25. The built in hard drive was something silly like 32Gb so I just boot from an external SSD which gives me 1tb to play with.

Low power, fanless and reliable.

I have it running home assistant, nightly offsite backups from my co-located servers, some uptime monitoring and various other CRONy bits.
> Russia expected a quick victory because it did well the last few times it tried to run over a smaller country.

They should have watched more Russian dashcam videos.
Or those running PHP 8 are more likely not to expose that information through X-Powered-By or other means?
How toxic can this be, compared to the enormous dilution it would reach in the ocean?

If this is indeed a major cause of the coral reef issues, I would expect that there is some entity dumping large amounts of the stuff directly into the ocean. Intuitively it seems very unlikely that the amount that will wash off swimmer's skin would be a major contributor, at least for anything that is not living right next to the beach side.
Is there any place that I can PM you?
> Am I the only one not interested in taking advice from someone who has largely been massively successful?

I think of Kevin Systrom selling Instagram to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. Both success stories. Systrom went to high school at Middlesex, Zuckerberg to Phillips Exeter. I can think of many examples like this. Phillips Exeter high school starts at $47,000 a year, Middlesex high school starts at $54,000 a year.

So my best advice is have your parents give you $200,000 before you start high school so you can be off to a good start.
And you are fully productive all the time and maybe even producing more than what is expected of you at any given time .... yet for some there is something wrong with the picture. Not withstanding the fact that indeed a two hour commute does not help the planet and continuous gossip and the open office space does not help to focus , unfortunately even with clear logic like that the primal part of our brain makes it hard to accept change to something new. However the fact is that technology has evolved to the point that many of the white collar work is entirely possible to be done remotely and therefore companies that embrace and adapt to these changes will do better in the future.
As a former patent buster (ok, that's bit of hyperbole, but I did bust patents):

It's rare that I would know I want an entire article, until I skim it. I would skim literally 100s of articles just to find one that might be useful. Only then would I actually want to read it carefully. There's no amount of cost that's justified until then.

Fortunately, you can almost always the author's work for free somewhere else.
I think the biggest pain point for me is the almost constantly-changing definition of "microservices" - at work, whenever someone says "microservices" they really mean a services architecture. I can largely get behind that. Because when you say services architecture, to me anyway, that doesn't mean everything has to be a "service". Some stuff can be on the same machine if you do not have a firm point of separation between the services. Maybe they will share some code eventually... ok... put them together, who cares?

Last time I asked our ops guy to define microservices for me, he couldn't - instead he told me to read a 400 page book by some popular microservices preacher (who of course makes a lot of money by consulting for companies looking to use or currently using microservices ;))

If you cannot explain the general concepts to me, maybe you do not know what it is, and I think that is a big part of the problem.
I've thought for a long time that the so-called "Biefeld-Brown Effect" (aka corona wind, electrohydrodynamic propulsion, ion propulsion, plasma actuator etc.) could be used to keep satellites in orbit indefinitely and cheaply using the atmosphere as propellant. It also has the advantage that the lower you go, the denser the atmosphere and the better the thrust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_actuator
> Why was slowly putting the bottles down and then getting out your phone not an option?

It was not an option. I needed a counter to set them down, or drop the glass on the pavement.

The other factor was their verbal and physical impatience. They could have sent only two guards, that would have been fine, they sent four and there were two more a little farther away. That's excessive, that's coercive. They look pissed, so they practice their faces that's part of it, I've seen private security make faces before especially in "Fuck the Law" psych wards. It is tied to their expectation that their demands (not orders, that implies some real authority) be obeyed.

So if an interrogator has tortured a hundred people he will be at some point a coercion magician, need only make a gesture or hint to get people to see in him that in his mind he intends to torture the sufferer, because that was true for a hundred people before. People can see it easily. So these guys expected, because they had in fact ganged up four-on-one when feeling brave, in this case six-on-one because they were feeling cowardly, talking to a lawyer about it they definitely YES kick people on the floor, maleteo as it's called, suit-casing. That's a real thing they definitely do all the time when nobody's looking. So that experience is imprinted in their face, movements and attitude when they order me, impolitely, and refuse to look at a receipt, to come back into the supermarket. So by reflecting in their attitude the experience of coercion and beatings, they communicated to me, unarguably, but in a way they think leaves no proof, that I either did exactly what they said right away or they would attack me.

Maybe that explains the lack of choice...but really I think it was the food was meant to be eaten with special thanks given to GOD for it. Small feast. That was the real reason I couldn't drop it, so I couldn't duke it out either, hence screaming. Those guards can suck it, obviously if they need to gang up six-on-one they're worthless fighters. It would have been my first sevensome.
Expanding the IBM Quantum Roadmap
The popular trend lately is to point out flaws in our regulated institutions in a feeble attempt to suggest that the solution is to abandon regulated institutions altogether in favor of some techno-libertarian hellscape. Because why fix a broken thing when you can throw it away and replace it with something even more broken.
To be fair, most micro service setups and tutorials have been overly complicated; however, let’s agree that distributed workloads and architecture are superior in a number of ways.

Generally, when people discuss going back to the “monolith” they just haven’t found the right distributed architecture.
Could the rover pick up Ingenuity and invert the lad to clear some accumulation?
The situation is more like someone who has donated their organ demanding it back. The donation has already occurred. The recipient is already dependent on the donation. The donor is demanding a reversal. Do you think a donor has the right to their organ back after it has been donated?
It is part of the reason why I use fish whenever possible.
10 internet points if you can point me to a sunscreen that’s sweat resistant, non greasy, and non toxic (physical)

I’ve been trying to find one for months.
So wait -- 50% make more than 100k. Thats pretty good! Montreal isn't that expensive -- yet.
Sure. But it is a phone number that I do not use much less answer.
I get the _strong_ impression that Slack considers information that leaves Slack as a threat to the business. Thus, I don't think it's a lack of smarts, it's a lack of will

Contrast that to https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option which is one of the major "what the hell" for me when any big open source community picks Slack for their "chat" solution: unless the community has deep pockets, messages both age out and are not indexed by search engines
Sure NYC has certain desirable aspects. Seattle has a different set (e.g. way better nature). The point isn’t to compare the cities to find the absolute best. Rather, the question is whether or not the benefits of certain cities or worth the cost. For high earners, the cost of living in NYC is hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per year. For some percentage of people that cost is simply not worth it and they move. To claim people don’t move because of taxes is to deny basic economics.
Common Lisp has had this for decades: DEFINE-COMPIILER-MACRO.
Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey
Curious. My understanding is that, when connected to power, most modern devices bypass the battery entirely when it's above some threshold of charge state.
The comments here seems to be missing the point, yes the article is not technically clickbait, but it also explicitly mentions that while oxybenzone causes bleaching, it is not responsible for THE coral bleaching that we are seeing in most reefs around the world.

> The study lacks “ecological realism”, agrees Terry Hughes, a marine biologist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Coral-bleaching events on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, for example, have been linked more closely to trends in water temperature than to shifts in tourist activity. “Mass bleaching happens regardless of where the tourists are,” Hughes says. “Even the most remote, most pristine reefs are bleaching because water temperatures are killing them.”

And this gem as a final note:

> Hughes emphasizes that the greatest threats to reefs remain rising temperatures, coastal pollution and overfishing. Changing sunscreens might not do much to protect coral reefs, Hughes says. “It’s ironic that people will change their sunscreens and fly from New York to Miami to go to the beach,” he says. “Most tourists are happy to use a different brand of sunscreen, but not to fly less and reduce carbon emissions.”
Any games that have competitive, collaborative multiplayer aspect I think!

Especially Google Spreadsheets; perhaps not math/computation-heavy like EVE, but it's one of the best tools to organize data in a collaborative manner online.

An example: Inventory management/dashboard of a clan of 30 members: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tpbLmB4Fha_0TpMd4h3d...

I also see it (ab)used frequently as a mediawiki/online text-editor alternative, barely using any spreadsheet mathematical formulas, using it simply as a place to write text for others to read, e.g.: this gigantic reference spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JjK7Ws4gfzKChRs5ueox...