skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a VC went from owning 20% of a company to now own 10% - how is that good for the VC?

Because that's not all that happens. The company also has a bunch more cash which means it's worth more.

You own less of a bigger pie but the actual value of your slice shouldn't change.

If you have 10 out of 100 shares of a company and it has a $10m pre-money valuation, your share of the company is worth $1m.

Now the company raises $2m. The new investors get somewhere between 16 and 20 (newly issued, dilutive shares). Now you have 10 out of 116 - 120 shares. 8.3% - 8.5% of a company worth $12m ($10m + the $2m in cash). Which puts the value of your shares right around your original $1m.

Except now the company has all this cash as well, so you're probably better off.
Ish. I'm a weekend exerciser. But my strength is incomparable to someone who exercises every 3 days.

I can run a 7.5 minute mile for example. But the people around me who exercise more frequently can run 6.5 minute miles. I can lift maybe 100lbs, but they can lift their bodyweight. Etc. etc.

Its pretty obvious to me that weekend exercise has health benefits. But not so much strength / endurance benefits (which is and should be, your primary health goal).

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I think people need to calibrate their health expectations. Being stronger, feeling stronger, being faster, running longer... these are good attributes and clearly defined goals. They're easy and obvious to recognize as you exercise... more so than weight-loss or abstract goals like "better health".

At least, that kind of thinking works for me. Maybe not for everyone, but I recommend people give it a try. Still, weekend-warriors will only reach weekend-levels of strength and endurance. That's okay for me, but I'd never consider myself equal to those who are obviously stronger than me.

In either case, reaching 100lbs lift strength or 5 pullups or aiming for a sub-8 minute mile or whatever... while less good than a good and proper exerciser is still a great goal to work towards. Yes, feel good about your goals, even if you know stronger people than you. But also be humble and recognize where you stand in the world.

And who knows? Maybe you'll get hooked on self improvement. Once you lift 100lbs or run sub-8 minute mile, then maybe you will gain the inspiration to lift 120lbs or 140lbs (reaching closer and closer to bodyweight lifting)... or drop down to 7-minute mile or sub-6 minutes. I mean, I didn't, but some other people do like the feeling. It honestly is one of the better motivations, seeing your own progress.

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In any case, that extra +1 day (from 2-exercises per week to 3-exercises per week) adds a lot to your strength/endurance overall. Its really obvious and probably one of the easier ways to reach your fitness goal, whatever it is.

And there's nothing stopping you from being a "visitor" to a more frequent exercise routine if you want to "try it out" for a few months and see how it affects your body. Try 3 exercise sessions per week, or 4, and then drop back down to 2 or whatever works better long term. Consistency is really the key, but visiting higher-levels and seeing if its "worth it" to your brain / psyche is important.
>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. "

Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.

It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called "A.I. image artist " This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.
How did you get that I'm arguing nature over nurture here?

I'm literally saying the opposite. Rich people nurture and help their children with connections, etc.
Amazon/iRobot: panic over deal to buy Roomba creator makes little sense
The Go documentation is high quality.
Yep and unbridged the business presumably would have collapsed before the fire sale.

It doesn't sound like the fire sale was where it went wrong.
Criminals trained in 4chan will just hack other people's drones and use them instead of buying drones themselves.

But they don't need drones, actually, these criminals already have access to Microwave Weaponry and Electromagnetic Surveillance.
The next big thing that few people are talking about is that thing you get banned from social media for talking about and the consequences of that thing over the next few years.
The problem with this approach is that, when a panic actually happens at runtime, there is no way to tell whether it was caused by an isolated mistake like forgetting to check for zero, or by memory corruption writing garbage all over your data structures. If it's the first, recovering is fine; if it's the second, you risk exposing the user to data loss and security vulnerabilities. So the only safe thing to do is crash.

Now, it may be true that you get better reviews selling software that corrupts data or gets its users hacked than selling software that crashes. But unless you hate your users, those are probably things you want to avoid.
It produced some modest results which slightly advanced the field. Not groundbreaking. The applied work did demonstrate the viability of a few robotics applications and the infeasibility/insufficient ROI of a few others. I would say that was the most valuable output.

It did not begin to approach the goals in the project description, which I've since come to believe are detached from reality. A moonshot may have seemed collossally ambitious in 1961 but we already had most of the basic capabilities necessary to succeed. In this case, however, I don't think we're anywhere close, and even if we were, it would be a suboptimal solution to the problem it's meant to solve. (It would however be politically and economically convenient).
Private transactions are not illegal and neither is creating or cloning a tool which facilitates them.

Failing to disclose the commercial effects of those transactions on your own tax liability to the IRS is illegal. But that's orthogonal to cloning or using a tool which facilitates transaction privacy.
Redneck engineered battery bank on the UPS with 288VDC bus bars exposed enough to fry a couple snakes per year. Full rack SPARCs running flat out in a mobile home in the TN woods, in the summer (all summer), without air conditioning. Climbing poles not meant to be climbed to service or replace wireless networking equipment. Stringing 1,000ft of coax cable between buildings at 3am because the previous run was vaporized by a lightning strike and Teh Uptime Demands It.

Wasn't this an invitation to brag?
Having the ability and not using it is a much more powerful signal than not having the ability.
it's way easier to understand the concept if you see it repeated many times in action though...
There's a weird tension between people who say saying "AI is overblown" and people who say "this is the most magical thing I've seen in my lifetime".

I lean towards the latter but with a healthy dose of "it's deeply weird and hard to get anything useful from". But that doesn't make it any less magical.

And no - it's not "intelligent" in any human sense.

But I can't relate to people who pooh-pooh it as if there's nothing exciting happening. Either they are deliberately cultivating a dismissive air, or they are deeply jaded and weary.

EDIT - There's a 3rd option. People are making a rhetorical point because they perceive a need to correct an imbalance in the general mood. This is actually the most likely explanation and is often under-appreciated as motivator in public statements. I've noticed it in myself frequently.
Pretty sad that you of all people are getting downvoted for telling the truth.
Having come from a community that is often cleanup duty for unfounded claims (PL) and having to spend ~decade+ $100M+ efforts to do so... I didn't realize that about wireguard. That's pretty strange to read in 2022.
"Avoiding credit" means no car loans either. Paying cash for such things. Arguably the only loan one should consider (imo) is a home loan. And while many banks are dumb, there are plenty of lenders which will underwrite a loan based on limited credit. Especially, when you can show income with 20% down, etc.

source: dave ramsey.
I agree with the claim that problem solving is essential to learning mathematics. And I have had the exact same experience where I did well on math exams by ignoring most of the theory and proofs of main results, and focusing solely on examples and problem solving.

However, I think straight-up memorizing definitions and theorem statements is really useful for problem-solving/exam prep, just so they're at your fingertips. There's no way you're passing a real analysis exam if you can't regurgitate the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in your sleep.

What seems to occur (at least for me) is that you naturally memorize all of these things in a somewhat inefficient fashion by doing problems. If the concept gets used in enough problems, it slowly burrows its way into your memory - and this is a very durable kind of memory, as you point out. But I do think for things like graduate school qualifying exams you can "juice" the process by explicitly memorizing core material.

Probably it's not as useful for doing research, though.
Looked at the website. Looks pretty cool. Will check it out!
My guess is that in the future, free versions of products will just be marketed as a separate product from the paid one. Then “free forever” will be changed to “free for the life of the product”. Then the company could probably just kill the free product while keeping the paid one around.

That’s probably what google will use as its defense anyway.
>other important pieces of the puzzle to need a lot of resources to the point where they become businesses and are on the governments radar (and by extension they would need to comply with regulations).

>But because everyone knows that is a natural consequence of POS, it is exactly why no reasonable person would be on board with a transition to it.

You described mining - public companies operating big industrial warehouses with miners. PoS is the opposite - it needs next to zero physical resources. No reasonable person can support PoW unless they support totalitarianism. There's no way to make PoW resistant to government interference.
Mortgage is credit, you are contradicting the scenario.
The Illinois GOP ran an ad campaign against him ("say no to the Nazi") and he lost the general election by a 50 point spread. He ran in GOP primary in the next cycle and came in 3rd with just 1500 votes or so, 10% of the Republican turnout.

His nomination in 2018 was a fluke: he ran unopposed (it was a Democratic wave year election --- the Trump midterms, where we flipped the House†, and no Republican wanted to stake any of their time or reputation on a suicide mission to try to flip a safe blue seat). The IL GOP is unlikely to make the same mistake again: if Jones (the Nazi) appears on the ballot again, he'll have opposition, and it will depants him.

† we flipped the House entirely with moderate Democrats, for what it's worth; the Bernie Sanders wing of the party didn't fare a whole lot better than Arthur Jones did in the IL-3
The three YIMBY bills: How Congress could mitigate housing underproduction
Dodgy stock brokers the world over make lots of money doing exactly this.
https://super-memo.com/ is the software that's being talked about.
These organizations follow the law and are therefore easily in our control. North Korea and large criminal organizations do not and are not. It makes no sense to say that some organizations are behaving badly, so we should give up trying to regulate all organizations.

If you're really trying to argue that, you should argue that tradfi banks should be unregulated. Then you can get your money-laundering done even more cheaply than inefficient decentralized protocols can manage.
As the sibling post said:

> I mean, if all bets are off, all bets are truly off.

We have to expect that panic (e.g. from slice index operator) exercised an execution path that the library developer had never even considered, much less validated.

So then, post-panic, are we left with any guarantees about the validity of postconditions?
I wonder if the intentionally obtuse and custom cryptography is a form of DRM.

With DRM, since the data itself isn't secret (in fact you want to decode it at the end so you can play the media), the strength of the cryptography itself doesn't matter and the objective is to frustrate and slow down any reverse-engineering attempts, so homebrew cryptography may actually make sense here as to prevent usage of any common cryptographic libraries and force the reverse-engineers to implement it from scratch.
I'm a former Twilio employee, and even I've been getting slammed by these phishing attempts over the past couple months. Remember that this is a company of more than 8,000 people: it only takes one person to let down their guard. Maybe they're tired, maybe it's been a long day, maybe they're just the weakest link.
I am not a native English speaker. I could never understand the stress on active voice. "The vast majority of sentences in technical writing should be in active voice". https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one/active-voice
This is stated as an axiom without any explanation.
Also see https://github.com/badaix/snapcast which also supports AirPlay: https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/blob/master/doc/player_se...
Code is just documents or written speech, and should be regulated as such. So code vs written documents shouldn't be legally different.

So I guess a good question is: should it be illegal to tell people how to launder money? I would say no because I think laws should regulate behavior not speech.

I think for example that people should be able to make arguments why punching a Nazi should not be illegal, say, and maybe the best way to do it. But punching is clearly illegal, and threatening a Nazi directly should also be illegal.

However with abortion, some states that have made abortion illegal are trying to make it illegal to talk about where to get abortions, or how an abortion is performed. So if that is deemed legal by SCOTUS, then expect all kinds of laws to restrict speech in that manner.
I like seeing (through git-blame or similar) sections of code that were written after-the-fact by a new coder, but that still fit in seamlessly.

I don't mean just in terms of indentation, variable-naming, etc., but also in deeper ways, such as decisions about when to create new functions or extend object structures. Other clues relate to decisions about balancing code flexibility and execution speed, and also about what steps along the journey require road signs.

It's hard to define these things, but I find that the quality of code integration becomes evident when I'm sufficiently immersed in the code that takes the form of a communication between coders.
Thanks, I'm thinking more about malware reverse engineering, so I guess Windows is the primary playground, but I assume it's mostly running in a VM.
Indeed, I'd happily trade 1-2 gas trips a week and oil changes ever few months for waking up every morning with 265 mile range (I don't charge quite to 90%) that I only have to worry charging on long trips (over 250 miles). Doubly so when the car keeps track so often it's the most minor of adjustments to include charging on bigger trips.

My wife, kid, and dog and I drove from Sacramento area to Denver area to move. No big deal, it often offers a few choices for charging. Arrive at X with 30% battery, Y with 20% battery, or Z with 10% battery. Sure sometimes it would pop a notification and say "Keep it under 75 mph to get to charge with 15% left".

Cross country trips are easy, sure the stops are 10-15 minutes longer than I'd do personally. But often with 3 people + dog in the car that we wouldn't all be settled until after the car had plenty of range for a few options. Part of the dynamic is that low batteries recharge more quickly so we'd often go only 180 miles, but a stop ever 3 ish hours wasn't bad. Car often say charging at 550 miles/hour, so it's not particularly long to get most of a 300 mile range quickly.
> 'they had no copies of the IBM Bios in their clean room because otherwise it would have been illegal'
According to who?
Floating Armoury
I have the worst news for you about blockchains.
Boss in company had setup following chain: company bank account -> PayPal debit card -> Digi Key order.

Worked once, payment refused ever since. Randomly locked and needed to call support to unlock it, so it can be locked again after few days. Similar problem with all other eshops for ordering parts/material.

After an argument with the boss, I have forced using of virtual debit card directly from a bank account, never had any problem since.

From experience which I got, I don't even understand how anybody can take PayPal seriously.
I've been using FreeBSD as a desktop for almost 20 years. Currently running, uhm, CURRENT on an older Thinkpad.

Using FreeBSD as a desktop won't be fun unless one enjoys a raw and rather spartanic UNIX experience, I guess.
There's an irony that people don't even recognise that they are already relatively more wealthy than much of the world when talking about "rich people".

We do create our own luck to a certain degree and for anyone born in a first world country we have so many opportunities all around us - many simply choose poorly.
You asked a rhetorical question. I gave you a rhetorical answer -- in the form of a question.

The point is that you can't know. That's the purpose of a money laundering operation.

I think maybe a better analogy would have been to use VPN rather than SSL. Because SSL doesn't obscure the source and destination, just the contents of the message.
Ah OK, though I'm still curious how there can also be an apparently unrelated online offering at supermemo.com. FWIW, from the very brief experience I've had so far I'm not super impressed, but I'll try sticking with it for at least the month of the free trial.
>- The LDS church is above the law, because they control it. Can't say they hijacked the state, because they founded it. There is no other place in the United States controlled by a single faction like Utah, which should terrify you.

Um? What?

There's like a dozen states that are just as bad if not worse. The only difference is that the "faction" just happens to be the state branch of one of the two big national political parties instead of a religion.

Heck, other than the whole anti-gay thing your description of Utah sounds just like my tiny northeast state. Actually now that I think about it our liquor laws are worse and I can't even buy fireworks despite the fact that this place is anything but arid...
I mean, that happens but I exert myself to make myself more money. So far that has worked well.
Shameless plug for a little tool I wrote to learn by repetition on the command line: https://github.com/krychu/lrn

I use it whenever I have a few minutes of downtime, no fancy state persistence between sessions.
We might be saying the same thing.

My point is basically that if Ukraine tried to take full control of the Nukes in their country, they would have been picking a fight with Russia, and possibly the US as well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/03/14/u...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep10926.13?seq=2#metadata_i...
> I'm not sure how it's unsafe

The front trunnion is a block of metal into which the barrel is pressed.

Cast front trunnions (as opposed to forged), a common cost saving measure, fail more quickly. When they fail, those failures can be spectacular, and extremely dangerous to the operator.
I would love a link dump if you have that handy and don't mind. I'm working on something with a spaced repetition component.
Yep. My analogy for this kind of effect is McDonald’s (and other fast or prepackaged food). Fast food never eclipsed good food because, well, it’s not that good. But it spreads. It’s just the result of unfettered capitalism (tech is no different in this regard to any other industry).

But it’s also a culture thing…like people trying to convince us that mediocre stuff is good or cool. I mean in this case it’s new because a machine is doing it, but what are OpenAI’s real economic motivations behind all their press releases I wonder…?
This is so frustrating to argue. I genuinely don't understand how you think circles like this will ever lead back to "huge private transactions are totally valid".

Where exactly do you expect to get that "large sum of cash" except from a bank? (Or conversely, what is the recipient expected to do with it except deposit it?) You're right that the enforcement of the law focuses on the entities (banks and other financial actors) who manage large transactions. If you had an "individual" doing that sort of thing regularly[1], you should absolutely expect to seem them regulated under AML statues.

What you want you can't have. You don't have it now. You won't have it in the crypto future. We've decided to make what you want illegal, and no amount of arguing on HN is going to change that.

[1] Like, for example, an operator of a money laundering tool on the ethereum network.
I wasn't familiar with this area, and it's so cool to hear about Moore's law progress on solving SAT, and how SAT is like the drosophila model. To me "automated reasoning" brings to mind reasoning with large language models.
> So there was no point in trying to be virtuous, because the outcome was set before you were born.

Yeah, but just because Omega already either put the money in the box or didn't doesn't mean you should act like it doesn't matter. God is omnicient, and sees whether you'll get into heaven, but curiously enough at the end of the line we see it's the people who did virtuous deeds which wound up there. As you can't see the stamp on your soul, you might as well act like your actions will decide it, since the outcome of your choices is what God looked at when He stamped you in the first place.

It's a fairly pointless objection seeing as I doubt either of us are Calvinists, but their take on Predestination annoyed me when I learned about it, especially since they acted virtuously anyway (or pretend virtuously, whatever)!
15 min/session, even on highest payed tier?

I smell AWS Lambda :D
paying for abortions
This isn't the case. I'm a former employee, and received these phishing emails after I left the company (I just got two on Sunday, and I've been gone over 5 months). I used Twilio's number lookup API[0], and they're not Twilio numbers. They were both T-Mobile numbers, and one of them even had a caller name that looked like the number was associated with a retail consumer SIM card. Possibly a cloned or stolen SIM?

Twilio has really stepped up KYC efforts over the past couple years. I don't think an anonymous attacker could send this volume of messages through the platform without getting noticed. And if they were using Twilio to send these messages, it would have been trivial to block them.

[0] https://www.twilio.com/docs/lookup/api
>I can run a 7.5 minute mile for example. But the people around me who exercise more frequently can run 6.5 minute miles. I can lift maybe 100lbs, but they can lift their bodyweight. Etc. etc.

If that extra strength/endurance doesn't translate to much better health outcomes, but only marginally better, then it's kind of moot. And we do know that there are diminishing returns after some point (and even inverse returns: pro athletes and people training too hard often have health issues because of their extreme training).

>Its pretty obvious to me that weekend exercise has health benefits. But not so much strength / endurance benefits (which is and should be, your primary health goal).

Sorry, but health should be the primary exercize goal, not stength/endurance.