skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- No or very limited product validation. Company built a product before talking to customers

- No clear value proposition or business use case

- Underestimated the challenges of an R&D problem

- Founders that do not understand the difference between R&D and product development... which leads to R&D problems on a product schedule

- Lack of domain expertise - This applies across the entire organization. Founders come from an unrelated background. Engineers who've never built products in that particular domain. Marketing team not familiar with the product / have never marketed in that domain or unfamiliar with the customer base

- Lack of adequate funding

- "Bad" or "dumb" money, the wrong kind of investors. This could be a post in an of itself. Toxic jerks who make your life a nightmare. Strategic investors who want to drag you in a different direction

- Lack of support from manufacturers

- Being too early - Product (drone related) ready but regulatory environment years away from accepting

- Hiring engineers that are too junior. Startups are not a place for on the job training IMO

- Founders that literally bring nothing to the table

- Indecisive leadership - Constant flip flopping halts product development, burns out the engineers

- Opaque, non transparent leadership. Culture of secrecy, mis/distrust. Lies to investors

- Stubborn founders unwilling to believe what their tech people tell them

- Hiring sales people too soon / Sales led leadership. Product market fit still being discovered and a sales guy comes across an opportunity that is not product related and is a distraction to the product team. Your product "follows" what brings in the commission for the sales guy

- Externalities / bad luck. Hard to build global distribution channels when a pandemic hits.
Decentralized stablecoins are mathematically impossible
I'm reminded of this: https://xkcd.com/827/
Google gave up on search though right? Like, I assume they’ve just abandoned it, maybe as recently as 2 or 3 years ago. Can anyone prove that they haven’t?
Calm down. I’m talking about Google and Amazon in the hypervisor space (which is about the only interesting IP VMware has). Everything VMware makes can generally be done better in-house by tech companies. VMware’s business proposition is managing all of that cruft when it’s not an area of relevance to your business.

It’s like saying Taco Bell has incredible culinary secrets because it’s so widespread.
Even the HTAP cloud service is available to try: https://en.pingcap.com/tidb-cloud/
> If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense.

In some languages, rather than comments being a special syntactic thing, you just write a string-literal expression as its own statement.

Before dead code elimination was a thing, I imagine these string-literals would end up in the binary.
I guess they need to be an actual US based bank themselves to hold that much cash/bank deposits. And to also be trustworthy.
As someone who does understand the distinction, for most end-users, I think the distinction doesn’t matter. It’s like the culinary vs botanical categorization of a tomato.
> He also put his foot down and insisted that everything flow through him, to be integrated into schedules based on, well, balancing everything else with business priorities.

This is a mixed bag, it can be truly helpful or a political control structure. All the other personality traits are probably what makes it work.
Then you go after Google as a coactor on the crime. As the OP's next paragraph says.
Some people prefer being in control of their hosting.
By the creator of Mono, the first prominent multi platform .NET clone, Xamarin, a forms package (both acquired by Microsoft), and tons of work on GNOME.
I live in a pretty remote village in Thailand (actually very close to the border with Myanmar) and our village has an internet café. A lot of (mostly) boys spend time in the internet café after school playing video games.

When not in the internet café, many children and young adults play games on their mobile phones.

About 2 weeks ago I was in a coffee shop nearby and 3 adolescent boys were playing games there on their mobile phones. They bought a coffee to get access to free Wifi and then spend at least a couple of hours, perhaps all day, playing games.
Top mathematician's brains might be outliers.

However, I strongly doubt the various parts and cells erodes any differently. Brilliant minds, bog standard glial cells. Their parts come with the same warranty we receive.

My experience is that ageing is a very similar process.

Acuity and ability in old age follows a very similar trajectory. Use it or lose it.

Whether you're an outlier or the mean, use it or lose it applies just as much.

The difference is, with top minds I find they receive so much external attention that it keeps them focused on their work in their 50s/60s/70s.

All the external plaudits and celebration simply fuels use it or lose it. The brilliant thing is, we can all leverage use it or use it, we just need to maintain our abilities to leverage it.
So about quarter the size of a standard SFX PSU, which is pretty cool. But also about a quarter the power the 'biggest' ones can provide.

I can see this being really good for (for instance) boxes like my fileserver which has a 65W TDP i3 in it and a bunch of SSDs, or compact media boxes that just have a processor and iGPU.

Unfortunately the way things are going in the world of PCs, you aren't going to power much of a modern dGPU from that.
In legal cases, having contemporaneous supporting evidence can be important.
> There is no scenario where USDT goes to $10 and you lose your money.

It is possible (even if unlikely) because cryptocurrencies backed by absolutely nothing have value - and arbitrary value at that.

To make it happen Tether could announce they are unpegging and will spend 1Bn to buy back tether at any market price on exchanges. The gambling masses join in. Suddenly Tether is another mooncoin.
Is there enough supply of treasury bonds and other low risk debt to do this?
we need new leaders... across the board, Real talk tho
Here's the debunking: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
I’ve worked at 5 startups, 6 if you include late stage startups.
Of those 6, 3 are still operating (including the one I started 2 years ago and am still working on).
2/3 failures were a result of failure to achieve PMF, which ultimately caused the fundraising to run out. The other failure was due to a huge fish entering our space running us over (FB) and forcing a fire sale to a buyer.
Of the 3 still in existence, one has a strong PMF and is nearly or completely profitable. The other merged with a another company in a similar space and created a behemoth (a name brand company many would know), though they were never profitable they had huge PMF and a large chunk of the audience in a huge market. My current company is looking like it’s going to fall into the failed to find PMF category, but we’ll see what we can do.
The CEO of Amazon has a $212mm compensation package. That’s what I based my estimate off. And I’m sure we can all agree that $212mm is more than “hardly any salary.” I could retire on that amount, have my alma matter name a building after me and still have more money than I know what to do with.
Tell that to Vessel & Quibi!
If I remember correctly, IBM published the idea even before Vertica.
I had the same reaction. This...was a very weird oversight.
This is a misleading title; police were inside 16 minutes after the human crashed his car outside the school. They were fired on (and grazed) by the gunman, who had barricaded himself inside the classroom and outgunned them, so they focused on helping students escape while waiting for backup.

I’m not saying the police couldn’t have done a better job in this situation, just that they did a much better job than the title of this post implies.
Are there lawyers who want to do more instead of doing the same amount less efficiently?

Or are there other limiting factors of how much work they can take on like court schedules or such?
sure, the sun will rise, just nobody will see it.
The only way I think a stablecoin can work without trust is to be backed by another coin which is deflationary and always in demand. Such as a gas coin that has no block rewards but burns some percent of the mining fees on every transaction. As long as the network is used for transactions, people will voluntarily pay gas fees and deflate the coin (unlike Safemoon which burns it on transfer, paying to secure transactions is a service and the miners can just raise their fees if they want to make more).

Then theoretically as long as there is demand for this coin, it will go up in price and therefore can back any sidechain coin that will grow slower in price (or better yet, gradually drop in price relatively to it like the dollar).

That’s what we are planning to do with Intercoin: https://community.intercoin.org/t/intercoin-application-virt...
I don't see how this is stoppable; a hundred other companies and probably even open-source projects will be doing this soon, not to mention governments and law enforcement agencies and immigration authorities in every country.

I'm wondering about the end result when every person is identified in real time the moment they enter your office, store, event, or cross your path on the street, along with their photographic life history.
Having worked as a lawyer from 2007 to 2014, I watched the legal landscape change during the Great Recession. Clients realized that firms were having partner-track associates bill thousands of hours on document review, when it could be done more cheaply/efficiently by contract lawyers (who billed at a fraction of the cost, and could be hired on a project basis).

Clients pressed for fixed billing arrangements to save money, and law firms obliged because their books of business were shrinking. But then things came roaring back, and the purse strings loosened again. We may be in for another contraction, and if fixed-fee arrangements come back that would be a good thing for legal efficiency.
I'm talking future state. What you're calling out is great, but that's in current scenario. From my experience with lawyers (immigration) - absolute nightmare and again I totally understand why things are this way but just let me vent as a nerd who codes. Seriously, it drives me nuts that I have to put my trust into these guys that sometimes they completely get wrong. If a doctor messes up, I'm dead or close to it that it doesn't even matter anymore. If a lawyer fucks up or I have to proof read my accountant's work because he makes so many mistakes, its GG START OVER.
I'd also point to Google's Little Box Challenge[1] as an interesting data-point of yore.

Little Box Challenge went the other direction: instead of taking AC and producing DC power, it was an inverter that took DC power and produced AC output. It had to output 2kW and be smaller than 655 cubic centimeters (cc's). The winning Red Electrical Devil's team got 3x more dense than this[2]! 240 cc's! While inverting 2kW of juice. Second place was 340ccs.

I don't know whether we'd argue this DC->AC is harder/easier than an ATX supply (AC->DC) (probably not?) but this was quite an impressive competition, almost a decade ago, that resulted in probably some of the most power-dense, highest-efficiency power conversions that humanity has ever gotten up to. For compare, this 250W unit is 212cc's. 8x less power conversion, 88% the size.

The Little Box Challenge designs were published, so there's a ton of great reading. Alas, Google frakking let the damned site bitrot off the net?! Sooo, head to archive.org[3] to read the team's writeups. From the winning CET Red Electric Devils writeup:

> GaN transistors have many very interesting electrical characteristics (low Rds_on, low Qgate and Cds, ultra low Qrr); these create technological advantages over current MOSFET and IGBT devices (small size and low production costs). Unfortunately, they also have serious drawbacks due to their very fast switching characteristics: they are challenging to drive and require sensitive electromagnetic noise management. Another pitfall is the high voltage drop due to the reverse current when the GaN is turned off. The solution selected to overcome these difficulties is to control all the GaN transistors using soft switching for the entire operation range.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070215 (271 points, 8 years ago, 138 comments)

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/02/and-winner-of-1-million-li...

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20171006105655/https://littleboxc...
The cables are bigger than the PSU. Has anyone ever experimented with putting edge connectors on a motherboard PCB for power? And edge connector for PCI and memory and m.2? In this way you could build out a very flat PC with commodity parts, since all the components would be parallel to each other and the motherboard.
Alan mentions all the books in the talks and shows the front page.
Sorry, it takes to much time right now to order, edit and prioritise the list of books for you. I'll try to append that to this thread later this week. You can contact me on morphle at ziggo dot nl and we can have an interactive session where I can shower you with critical thinking resources from Alan Kay, Marvin Minksy and a few others.

Book references:

Human Blindspots and “Bad Brains”:

Francis Bacon, “Novum Organum Scientia”

Daniel Kanneman, “Thinking: Fast and Slow”

Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuthner, “The Ostrich Paradox”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Alfred Korzybski, “Science and Sanity”

YouTube: “How To Catch A Baboon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctol7JwpcuQ

Exemplary Practices and Perspectives:

Amory Lovins, “Reinventing Fire”

E.F. Schumaker, “Small Is Beautiful”

Christopher Alexander, “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”

from: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/Kay_How.pdf

http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books

https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysReadingList

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books

I know there must be lots more if you search online, there is even a HN post with a book list written by Alan himself.

I have gathered the books on these lists and all the video's of the talks in a 500 GB torrent. Maybe you can help organise it so we can publish it here?

Talks:

https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay

https://www.mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
To be honest, I’d buy the Ford over the Tesla in a heartbeat if I was in the market (and had the budget) for an electric truck.
You are correct, but also all enforcement everywhere is selective. Even mindless speed / red light cameras (they are selected to be at certain corners and not others).
I just have my dotfiles in git, along with a script that clones the repo, moves the files into position, installs packages and does a few other little things. I had thought about just making my whole ~/ a git repo but I feel like that would inevitably lead to me putting something into git that I didn't want to be in there like a private key or something (I'm not that bright, it's bound to happen).

Another option I considered was Ansible or similar, but my script was very simple to write and has no dependencies other than bash and git which I do kind of like from a simplicity perspective.
HTAP?
Empire Earth 4 would be nice. I always enjoyed empire earth 1 and 2 more than Age of Empires - not sure why exactly.. maybe the speed was a little slower, maybe AoE did not have religious takeovers and empire earth did?

Maybe it was getting super effecient with just a few keyboard shortcuts to select all X on the screen and things like that.

Maybe it's because I enjoyed populus on the Amiga..

but any way - it was fun to play single player vs computer and fun to play against other humans. Can't recall if we ever did LAN playing or not, but should.

I would buy copies if it was out today and try to get others to play it as well.
That's true. I guess when I think of Microsoft prioritizing Azure over Visual Studio (which I understand) I'm thinking of VS code on the Azure side even though it is a tool.
They helped their own children escape, while physically preventing other parents from doing the same. All while waiting for the shooter to massacre a classroom of kids to avoid putting themselves in harm’s way.

Then, when they finally decided to move in, they encouraged students to draw attention to themselves. Another child died because of this.

And finally, they lied to the public about all of it. Repeatedly.

Hard to imagine a more despicable show of incompetence, cowardice, selfishness and malice. I couldn’t make a better argument for abolition if I tried.
Amazon.com is failing to resolve for me using pihole/unbound. Verizon cellular resolves it successfully
Use the current job as a safety net and look for a better.. net. I'm probably repeating but if you are anything like me, you need this repeated a lot. Good luck.
BEVFusion: Multi-Task Multi-Sensor Fusion with Bird's-Eye View Representation
Evaluating Multimodal Interactive Agents
Well, take a look at the blog's URL...
From the parent poster

> I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing - it seemed that revolutionary, running an OS inside an OS on a desktop

SoftPC was in fact “running an OS inside an OS on the desktop “
This just points to a different way of defining the reward function, no? You would weigh suffering with a high negative weight.
That becomes their problem when the headline reads “Bolt Burns Down Home and Dog”
I agree that denial is not helping anyone nor will it make you feel any better.
This is IMO, SOLID advice and very actionable.
The SGI O2 was built like this (power & all bus connections were off an edge connector), some good pics of the mobo at: https://bukosek.si/hardware/collection/sgi-o2.html#pics
>Recently, at Google I/O, we announced AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding, enterprise-grade transactional and analytical workloads.

This is exactly what a HTAP(Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing) system does.
You sue google?

This plan actually works?
The economy was doing fine 6% growth of GDP. He was a bit of an outsider so he was not acceptable to the power corridors be it the military, courts or politicians in Pakistan so they just needed little nudge from outside to topple his government. The previous election in 2018 was engineered as well once they realised that his party will get absolute majority so suddenly the election reporting system went down and his party seats stop increasing and he was hobbled with a simple majority government.
The US keeps harping about democracy but if a democratic elected party wins that does not have US world view they try to do all they can to topple it.
> and the top of those big corporations (the charity status is just a tax dodge) reap wealth like in any other corporation.

No it’s not, the charity status is a massive burden and it’s about the stupidest thing you can do if you’re forming a corporation with the intent to make money.

> the most work is done by volunteers

No, that’s not true. Much of the work is done by the suppliers charities buy supplies from and employees of the charity. Doctors get paid in Doctors Without Borders.

> Let the CEO do it out of charity and take a 1$ salary and see if it all goes to hell. I very much doubt it.

This is just the standard ignorant “I don’t think CEOs do anything” view dressed up in a comment about charities.
You got it right. But I want to add that civilizations began when man moved to farming and didn't have to hunt for food.
I am a high school student and I haven't used social media (insta/fb/tiktok/snapchat). I keep in touch with my friends on whatsapp, voice calling(yes that exists) and offline.

When we were online we used to talk on zoom/Google Meet whatever. I didn't feel any loss not being with my friends on social media.
Being a CEO of a large charity is about connections and logistics. Not passion.
I’m wondering the same.

Is this just a legal hypothetical that is nice to believe it would work?

Has anyone actually done this/ been successful? How much did it cost?
Maybe it could be used to make VR and AR headsets that have no lenses.
This is the c-store paper, which was evolved into Vertica: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/vldb.pdf . It's very readable, worth a look.

edit: column stores existed before c-store, but c-store did some very nifty stuff around integrating compression awareness into the query executor
> practice cloud native like using macOS!

This is by far the weirdest pitch I have ever seen.

(My own bias is that MacOS is pretty finnicky & weird. This is the first $JOB I've had where I didn't immediately format my macbook & install Linux (because I wanted to improve everyone else's developer experience!) & wow, hacking on plists and being one of the seemingly couple hundred of fools who've had to suffer through learning a hugely undocumented mess of dscl & other internals disasters... my honest view is: pray you can remain a superficial MacOS end-user. You really won't like having to actually learn it, & there's so so little informed community & support.)

I'm pro kubernetes, but if this is your mindset, I feel like you probably should not try to use kubernetes:

> For general users, the most important thing is what's running on Kubernetes, rather than Kubernetes itself. With sealos, users do not need to care about Kubernetes.

That said, I very very much hope some day we have wonderful, self-managing, blissful Kubernetes distros. I very much want to see self-hosted, sovereign computing emerge. I think we're really close to being able to get off big platforms, because for the first time we might have sensible, common, well known ways to host & run software, thanks to Kubernetes. Right now I can't recommend ignorance, but I guess I also not-so-secretly hope projects like this wildly succeed beyond imagining.
That appears to be ramping up again. One of the people on a project I'm working with them on just had theirs stolen.

And it could total their car!

People driving used Hondas may find out insurance won't cover, or will want to just total used cars due to the converter being worth more than the paper value of the car, despite a used market valuing the car much higher!

Cost $1,200 to $2,400 to replace and due to the last round of this theft happening, the legal requirements are now stiff. One can't just go get one of these and install anymore. Has to be done in a shop, and there is traceability on everything. Expensive.

Yet the thieves can still somehow trade the metals.
We have drugs that remove amyloid-B, they didn't have any effect in clinical trials. (Despite one passing FDA approval)

The problem is it was given to people who already had Alzheimer's. And I doubt they'll ever get permission from an IRB to run the study on a patient who are just expected to maybe develop Alzheimer's.
Google is killing SMTP. Try sending a large file these days.
The AM29000 is probably what you're thinking of. AMD turned it into the more well known x86 processor the K5 among other things.
> Because a few discrete OOK lasers in a single frequency aiming at another moving target

Two sats in the same shell are not moving relative to each other.
> The only way I think a stablecoin can work without trust is to be backed by another coin which is deflationary and always in demand.

OMG. I feel like a fucking alien. People are looking at me like have 2 heads.

There is no such thing as a "stablecoin" ... It doesn't exist! It can't possibly mathematically exist.

Because it's the USA Dollar itself.