skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of the story of the chicken and the pig. When making a breakfast comprised of bacon and eggs the pig is committed and whereas the chicken is merely involved. In this story the employee of the startup is the pig - if the startup were to go under the employees are the ones being harmed. The VCs are merely involved. The VCs are playing the odds - you put enough money behind the startups most likely to remain viable and one of them might be your unicorn. All you need is one in a thousand to be that unicorn for you to land your financial windfall.

That's why the OP is correct - the amount of VC investment tells you little to nothing about the startup. It doesn't even tell you anything about their runway as you believe, you have no idea how fast their burning through their cash. That runway might not be quite as long a you thought.
Very good article, and these types are essential to have in your Rust "vocabulary".

I've seen programmers fight the borrow checker a fight they can't win, because `Arc<Mutex<Object>>` has a non-zero overhead and looks uglier than a plain `Object` or `&Object`. However, if the program has object lifetimes that aren't statically known and/or shared mutable state, these are simply the correct types to use (e.g. event-based systems that can attach listeners have to use these). Rust is just being very explicit about ownership and putting all overheads in your face. In something like Python there's no extra syntax for this, because every object is automatically under a lock and has a refcount.
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Despite the headline, the article makes it clear that it was multiple questions, on multiple instances.

>Brazile, on two separate instances, tipped off the Clinton campaign ahead of time on questions that might come her way at CNN events

It's pretty wild that you don't consider this corruption.
I think that was one of the theories roughly suggested by NKS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science though the work seems to have fizzled out.
current iphones actually use the same exact chips as the macbook air series - the base-tier M1 (although some laptops have the more powerful pro/ultra).

the crossover between "high end phone" and "ultra-portable laptop" has been observed for a number of years now, that's really the space where chromebooks thrived even with inferior ARM reference cores, if you throw an actually-good M1 into it then you get an extremely solid ultra-portable. And the bigger laptops are just more of everything - more cores, bigger GPU, more memory.
> It's worth remembering that at the time of the switch, Apple downgraded from 64 bit Power PC chips to Intel's initial version of Core which was only 32 bit.

Oh my word! That's an excellent point which I did not notice even at the time.

Good catch, and a great video reference, too!
I would recommend tuning your language down from suggesting "holding companies accountable for ensuring their products follow the law" is "hideous and cruel". That seems really detached from the discussion. Similarly, insinuating that YouTube having to follow US or Australian law about published content is "Full Chinese Authoritarian" moderation is also unnecessarily ridiculous.

The cost of bits has nothing to do with it. It's about ensuring companies are not causing mass global harm through their actions. Right now, Section 230-powered social media companies have been responsible for genocides, and you suggest that holding them to any sort of accountability would be "hideous and cruel". I think "dude can't spout off whatever defamation he wants unchecked on YouTube, but less people are slaughtered" is a fairly good tradeoff.
>> In 2019, he and Carl Pomerance, his adviser at Dartmouth — who, according to Lola Thompson, a mathematician at Utrecht University and a former student of Pomerance, essentially “came out of retirement to work with him”

Somehow that made this whole story a lot more human to me. Pomerance is a big name in modern number theory (to me anyway) but apparently at the end of the day he's just another guy with a particular set of interests who will pop up again when the right thing comes his way.
"Elevated" does not use a SDF, it is based on a grid mesh displaced with a vertex shader.

Iq, the main author of "Elevated" is indeed best known for popularizing SDFs in the demoscene, but for that particular intro, the SDF raymarching trend had already started and he wanted to do something different.

https://iquilezles.org/articles/function2009/function2009.pd...
You're playing Humpty Dumpty here: A word — here, "corruption" — supposedly means what you say it means. This reminds me of a libertarian colleague who shouts "bigotry!" whenever someone disagrees with his views.
One, my URLs look like http://home.box:8442, so they aren’t easy to remember when you have a few devices. Two, I need to communicate the same to my wife and so, if the solution were bookmarking, we’d both have to do those.

Tools like Dashy or Flame (the one I use) are great for that.
Syria is at 40% opposition, 40% pro-government, and Assad has been hanging on during an active civil war for 11 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_opposition
Here's 1500x more radioactive, toxic waste from a single coal plant: https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/court-ruling-domini...

Anyone complaining about nuclear waste is a troll or ignorant.
I think there's a significant amount of work that only needs to get done rather than needing deep focus, and this is especially true if you have tight deadlines. I know I could pretty easily fill up 10 hours of a working day on average. I just don't want to.
Sort of ignores that during this period they were fighting the US. federal government and their product development gotten taken over by lawyers
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For me I'd describe it as having transitioned from "fighting with the compiler" to "having a conversation with the compiler." If I'm doing anything at all non trivial there's a back and forth there still but I appreciate and understand the feedback more now.
I'm tired of Markdown hacks to try to justify not using Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Every kind of functionality you can imagine already exists in open formats with powerful programs designed to make it easy for you to compose rich documents. For the love of god, use them.

Yeah, those large documents don't work well with Git and other line-by-line diff systems. That doesn't mean line-by-line is better, it means we're too lazy to build a better version control system. Our tools should adapt to us, not the other way around!
Unfortunately, there are no signs that CPython is moving towards integrating a JIT after all these years and despite its massive popularity. There's therefore no clear path towards substantially improved CPython performance, and it remains among the slowest mainstream languages, really the slowest among its top group of 4-5 most popular languages.
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Thanks for contributing to my comment with further information. I find it odd (in an unconvincing sort of way) that Musk's only complaint has to do with a company-defined metric, as opposed to something like "revenue" or "cash flow" that is standardized. Twitter can define mdau's any way they choose such that, if they wanted, they could draw up the definition in order to end up with a 5% number.
What about those of us who have had extremely minimal dream recall since we can remember? Sleeping feels like a black hole to me after the fact. Rarely do I even wake up with the slightest hint of what I was dreaming, and even when I do it slips away as I’m actively thinking about it.
The closest pop culture reference I've seen was depicted in Avatar, where the planet wide root system could be used for consciousness transfer.

I'm describing that as there are various large networks on our planet already, whether fungi or plants, with some insect colonies acting similarly as a large single organism network.

The matrix didn't have communication between the organic nodes in the world they physically existed on, and is primarily focused on a simulated world. I'm not describing that at all, but I can see how its the nearest skeumorph barring any other examples.
It reminds me of a song I sang to myself to the tune of the Lego Movie theme, surveying the tech job market at the time:

Everything is adtech,
Everything is marketing, surveillance, and spam...
On your last bit, I don't see your point. It was obvious from the article that Josh didn't have a problem breaching personal privacy/security provided he was wielding/creating the tool that did it. It didn't track that he leaked data for any ideological reason other than he could, and felt the CIA deserved to get egg on their face for how they treated him. Also, beyond the idea that the CIA knew of vulnerabilities on public companies that exposed Americans and neglected to cooperate to patch them, the data, largely made up of exploits, that was leaked can't really be ideologically driven unless you're operating under the assumption that it isn't widely known that intelligence agencies hack their adversaries.
It's not an argument I'm making; it's an argument lawyers for the DNC have effectively made in a court of law defending DNC against a class-action lawsuit by voters. https://observer.com/2016/10/dnc-lawyers-argue-no-liability-...

"Courts have uniformly rejected attempts to litigate on the basis of purported political promises, including ‘statements of principle and intent in the political realm’..."

The DNC can say it's unbiased, but the rules-as-written allow broad, sweeping bias in how the Democratic party conducts its affairs. It's a party. They're biased by default. The whole point of parties is, basically, as you put it, "The peasants don't know what is good for them." There's a reason so many politicians throughout history have been anti-party. Unfortunately, they stick around and grow in power because they tend to work; focused political alignment beats unfocused noise consistently.

What happened with the Sanders campaign is a whole bunch of voters crashed headlong into a system that works other than the way they assume it does.
no code no data no demos
Seems to go the other way in the Ruby (or rather RSpec) world, what would have been

it 'should gribble a foo' do ...

some years ago is now more usually done in the active voice

it 'gribbles a foo' do ...
PyPA has basically done that with pyproject.toml/Pipfile and pyenv.
I don't think it really is. Their estimate of 5% of mDAU being bots came with a lot of caveats that should cover them unless there is evidence of them specifically setting out to come up with a fraudulent estimate.

It would have been reasonable to dig into during due diligence, but Musk waived due diligence.
Clearly not, if you believe that lithium-based batteries have anywhere near the energy capacity for large aircraft.
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"THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TERMINATED for terms infringement."
There is no $1B exit clause - there's just a $1B cap to damages twitter can sue for if the deal falls through. A court would have to decide to award $1B.

Twitter can further sue for "specific performance" and a court could, worst case for Musk, order that the deal go through as agreed.
Im on my fifth (?) pediatrician. This one's the first one I even like as a person.
If it leads to decades more time of fertile reproduction and productivity, it needn't do so. We'll still have some rapid diseases not related to age, and of course accidents. If some of our brightest minds have another 40 years at the peak of their scientific and engineering careers, maybe we'll have seasteading and urban hydronic/aquaponic/aeroponic food supplies figured out and affordable. Convincing people not to have another generation at 20 years of age would of course be the hard part.
Yes, the people weigh on elections and they make their choice. But if they make their choice according to a party that claims honesty yet betrays that honesty with lies, isn't that an issue with the party being corrupt and the people being lied to?
Thus corruption, which these leaks ultimately have shown us.
As you point out, the status quo is very much not ideal. Being dependent on oil/gas means being part of a global commodity market and refusing to buy Russian oil does nothing as some other country will still buy it. My point is national security is enough reason alone to move off from oil and thus it should a matter of security for a country to do so.
> At some point repeatedly "aiming big" becomes a caricature, and then eventually seen for the BS/hype it is.

I disagree. There are different incentives at play. I'll list the few I see.

When does FSD come? You can't say stuff like "10 years out". That'd be a hard sell in academia and an even harder sell in business. Moreover, Tesla is trying to move as fast as possible. The other issue is that they have to give a deadline estimate. As we all know, the business world cannot operate without any deadline estimates. So Elon gives them. If it sounds vaguely familiar to software engineering that's because it's the same misaligned incentive at play here, but then at a larger scale.

Also, he aimed big, and some of those big aims actually became reality. Isn't it the case with R&D and innovation that you have to fail a lot? It isn't easy.

So now we're in a situation where there are people that demand: whatever Tesla decides to innovate on must be a success and accurately estimated time-wise. No organization in the world has ever been able to do that, so to expect that is a fool's errand, IMO.
Not sure. I sometimes myself use 'containers' for them - as this is just what they are:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/12/15/secure-containeriz...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/rabbitmq-cluster-o...

When Jails were implemented this 'feature' was called OS Level Virtualization. When Docker was introduced in 2014 it renamed itself from that OS Level Virtualization to Containers and it got a lot of traction.

Linux had earlier attempts at OS Level Virtualization like OpenVZ for example (used that in the past too).

The World also had a lot of other 'container' technologies before Docker such as

- FreeBSD Jails

- Solaris Zones/Containers

- IBM WPAR

- HP Virtual Machines

- HP SRP Containers

... but for some reason Docker was 'the thing' instead of them - while doing generally the same or less better.

Regards.
Or you can draw a picture, and use libcaca to convert to text. copy/paste.
Heh, or get a Tesla. I drove from Sacramento to Reno (1100 miles or so), crossed the Sierras and the Rockies (two of the highest mountain ranges in the USA). Did no special prep related to an EV, just got in with family, pushed the listen button, and said "Navigate to Denver, Colorado".

Had a dog, kid, and partner with me. Car charged at 550 miles of range per hour, when empty. Generally after everyone got out of the car, got food/snacks, stretched the legs, walked the dog for a tiny walk, etc. Usually we'd wait an extra 10-15 minutes or so for charging. The car was fast, confident at highway speeds, and has a quite nice stereo. I've never nav'd to a supercharger and not been able to charge, which seems to be a quite common experience for others. I think nearly every other review (Ford Mach-E, HD Livewire, and Zero e-motorcycle spring to mind) have charging issues during the review test.

Sure it probably added an hour or so to a 17 hour trip, but that's not my normal use case. Waking up each morning with a full (actually I charge to 85% unless I'm planning a big trip) EV is nice. Not having oil changes 3-4 times a year is a bonus as well.

In my experience a Tesla is a fine road trip car.
* hoping

It's a different word (/ˈhoʊpɪŋ/) from "hopping" (/ˈhɒpɪŋ/) with a different meaning.

:-)
To be honest most of them start out as features. Their hope is to quickly add enough adjacent features, to retain users by keeping them engaged, surrounding an anchor use case before a competition rolls out their anchor use-case as a feature.
I'm not a rust expert by any means, but redis and nginx are both written in C, which doesn't have async as a language feature. Is there a reason the techniques used there wouldn't translate to rust, regardless of the state of rusts native async support?
I think that makes sense only for smaller n. At some point your "sufficiently large constant" will need to essentially be computed from the "worse big-O" algorithm to slow the "better big-O" algorithm down enough. E.g. making an O(N) as slow as an O(N^2) algorithm would require a sufficiently large constant roughly equivalent to N^2, at which point you really just have turned the O(N) into O(N^2) in practice.
At least it’s less job competition for me.
Polonium could, if applied appropriately in Moscow.
maybe if it keeps getting upvoted despite being the 600,000th, there's something that continues to resonate with the audience?
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If you use a single namespace it becomes Monomial.
Indeed that would have been a good thing to look up in the due diligence related parts he omitted from wanting in the contract
This is interesting to me. I'm extremely frustrated by meal delivery apps, where I need the notifications on to know when my food is here, but hate getting promotional ads at random

We're working on tools to help developers send notifications more easily at https://www.courier.com/, and working on tools like automations to hopefully make notifications a bit smarter and less spammy.
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I'm an African American programmer who's been writing software since I was 7(born in the late 90s). I currently run a small company that does consulting for Machine Learning and Rust programming.

I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be many black programmers(I've only met one) where I am(U.S.), and certainly not many conservative ones.

Curious about the experience of others.

Also acknowledging ahead of time that HN isn't always the best place for certain social topics.
> Rust is hard is the same way that most programming languages that rely "non-standard" paradigms are hard

Agree.

And the problem is not (mainly) async, the borrow checker, etc.

Rust is truly different to other "imperative looking, functional looking" languages. I suspect the choice of make it look too close to C is part of the issue: You come to it and quickly start producing code as if it were another C/python/C# and that is a major mistake.

In specially, because Rust make SO MUCH SO EASIER... but not the things that other langs make easier (use of `String` anyone?), so is a major shock to see that supposedly "simple" things "not work".

Is only after getting that the core of Rust is `Struct Enum Pattern Matching Moves & Borrows`, and pls, stick all together with this `Traits` & composition, that are part of this important `Paradigms` is when Rust click.

This is the shock: Rust is not about the use of some `types` and then apply algorithms. Is the MODELING of behaviours (traits) and the INTERACTION of the types/traits.

That is the mind-bending. Is like see programming flipped!
“Basically” is doing a lot of work there. Those two things don’t have the same parts in them, just the same kinds of parts.

It’s not a categorical point but current iPhones don’t even have real external display support.
It's the politically-correct term for pyramid scheme these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing

> MLM salespeople are, therefore, expected to sell products directly to end-user retail consumers by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing, but more importantly they are incentivized to recruit others to join the company's distribution chain as fellow salespeople so that these can become downline distributors.[1][8] According to a report that studied the business models of 350 MLM companies in the United States, published on the Federal Trade Commission's website, at least 99% of people who join MLM companies lose money.[9][10] Nonetheless, MLM companies function because downline participants are encouraged to hold onto the belief that they can achieve large returns, while the statistical improbability of this is de-emphasized. MLM companies have been made illegal or otherwise strictly regulated in some jurisdictions as merely variations of the traditional pyramid scheme.[11][12]
If it's a wash economically, then self-service is still the better choice because it eliminates the other less-insurable risks that come with having employees.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to tell, because in the other 48 states, full service is considered a premium service and they charge extra for it because a certain segment of consumers will pay for it. That doesn't mean it's actually more expensive.
There's definitely a trend where large corporations/institutions push risk and liability down onto individuals, who have a hard time quantifying it properly. They make promises about "independence" and "entrepreneurship" and "building wealth", but they're really just taking advantage of an information asymmetry, tricking uninformed individuals into accepting a deal that is much worse than they think.

See: Uber, Subway franchises, academia, Amazon truck drivers, or any of your classic MLMs
Something I found interesting:

"I don’t think most people realize that these are suicides, in addition to homicides. Mass shooters design these to be their final acts. When you realize this, it completely flips the idea that someone with a gun on the scene is going to deter this. If anything, that’s an incentive for these individuals. They are going in to be killed.

It’s hard to focus on the suicide because these are horrific homicides. But it’s a critical piece because we know so much from the suicide prevention world that can translate here."
I didn't particularly like Surface Detail. But, anyway: I think the Culture is post-scarcity, computer-managed, not socialist. Socialist systems deal with scarcity. If people in the culture truly wanted to play with money, there would always have been some station or ship they could go to and play with money.
Coal ash is radioactive compared to rocks generally?
No. 10 is: A social and cultural backlash stops progress dead in its tracks.

Projecting this forward 25 years, and knowing that WIRED is a progressive publication itself, I was seeing this as a prediction that wokeism itself would be stopped in its tracks by cultural backlash. So far as I can tell, that has not yet happened.