skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a database of 200+ web3 VCs that I have assembled over the months, hosted in Notion.
I've included direct contact info, which means you don't need a personal referral, as many are open to receiving your startup's pitch.
When I was raising for a previous startup, generating a database like this would have been game-changing, likely saving me months of networking.
Yes.

Physics concepts are notoriously hard to communicate in natural language. You need to see the math in order to go any deeper than "spacetime cracks."

I highly recommend Leonard Susskind's "Theoretical Minimum" course if you would like to go deeper, and see this fact for yourself: https://theoreticalminimum.com/
I didn’t notice mentioned in the article or comments here, but “Studio Ghibli Fest” has been running in Regal cinemas this year and there are still a few movies left (Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirted Away). We’ve pre-purchased tickets; it is a great opportunity for my kids to see some of these on the big screen.

https://www.regmovies.com/static/en/us/promotions/studio-ghi...
US is #2, only behind Luxembourg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
For those wondering: a 30 minute slotted network show in the US is 21-22 minutes long. A 60 minute is simply double - 42-44 minutes long.

How many breaks this works out to varies by show, since they try to cut it at strategic points. Usually 2-4 per 30 minutes.

If anyone has actual data on this I'd love to see it. Especially historical data.
Why would the US cut off things here. They have nothing to gain for suppressing this dissent.
I think you're mixing up a few things about the 'sentiment' here because of the timelines. If Wikipedia is correct enough Steam launched in autumn 2003 and as you say, for CS.

All of us who didn't play CS did not care at all about Steam. Then late in 2004 HL2 came, that was a bigger draw but still, for many of us who didn't buy it.. don't care.

My Steam account is from 2009, but I distinctly remember that I tried to sign up some years before for no good reason (maybe to grab a name) and couldn't get past the unreadable Captcha and because I STILL had no pressing reason (around 2006?) I let it go.

I'm not saying I'm a hardcore Steam user, maybe more like a casual user who buys some games from time to time and I didn't feel a pressing need to sign up for the first ~6 years of service and at some point they had enough benefits that people signed up and bought games.

TLDR: Steam was a niche product for many years so the current discourse about "the default game purchasing platform" is completely different than "publisher-owned distribution platform for 3 games"
> When setting the alarm, by default I want to have the option to set it in hours/minutes from now. So instead of setting the alarm for 04:30, I want to tell it to set it in 6h30m from now.

> I need it to allow me to set a time of X minutes during which it gets louder until it reaches the pre-set volume.

> pre-alarm: It’s an alarm that goes off X minutes before your main alarm, at a very low volume, with its own settings of volume, time to reach full volume, media to play, etc.

From my Reddit thread [0] back then. It was the upgrade to 10 that did it.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/jvbsuz/looking...
That was the style at the time. There were a handful of shows that came over to the US from the UK - The Office, Coupling, IT Crowd - but only The Office took off, and really only took off once it found it's own voice for American audiences. In many cases, they were shoot-for-shoot remakes with American actors and some modifications (Jim instead of Tim, Pam instead of Dawn), but this one is down to the credits identical, even bringing Moss over.

I think there is room for British comedies in the US, as long as they're open to adaptation. David Brent was a terrible boss and awful person, but Michael Scott had to at least be a good salesman to be believable as middle management. Little differences like that made the show work.
I'm pretty sure most physicists are aware of the cyclic universe theory, it's just that there's very little evidence to support it.
We need more tools like this. AI image generation is such a powerful technology but in order to utilise most image generators to their potential, you need to be fluent in 'AI prompts'.

I like this approach, it's far more intuitive.
The Nordics are very comparable to New Hampshire in terms of demographics, education, wealth and outcomes. Everyone likes to say “the US should be like the Nordics” but no one ever says “the US should be like New Hampshire”.
and... I've never yet been in a team/project where being able to track/view/find issue/code pairings from years ago was ever remotely useful or helpful. If it was something in the last few months, sometimes people could dig in and try to understand a bit more by asking relevant people.

Finding a 'bug' introduced by someone from 4 years ago who doesn't work there any more, then finding the particular ticket that spawned it... this has never been high on the priority list of anyone I've ever worked with.
> Which list

The one referred to in the article.

It also mentions "American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world". I'm beginning to get the idea.
For those coming into this discussion late with no personal exposure to American television, the OP's use of "often" is just them burning some steam off. This is not a serious thing that happens in any kind of high percentage of content. I can't think of any content where it does happen and would be surprised if any examples created in the last 20 years could be found.
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator[0] a while back in C using SDL2 for rendering everything. It still has a couple issues with the timers and taking input.
I was new to C back then so I did this project to become more familiar with it.

You can check out my blog post[1] if you're interested how I went about it (there are a couple resources at the bottom I used to build it, including the one that HideousKojima recommended).

As for language, in hindsight, C was fine. CHIP-8 is so basic that you don't really need to worry about performance or to implement a JIT compiler unless you want to learn how to do those things specifically. Just pick any one out of the three (assembly is a bit of a weird choice though, why not write a CHIP-8 emulator and then a brand new program to run on that emulator in CHIP-8 assembly if you want to learn assembly?)

As for Gameboy, it would have more instructions, a different graphics system, sound etc. and overall be more complicated than CHIP-8. Try it out if you either feel a bit more adventurous or have implemented CHIP-8.

[0](https://sr.ht/~gotlou/chip8-emulator)
[1](https://gotlou.srht.site/chip8-emulator.html)
I don't think anyone at the JWST thinks so.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-science-den...
Ah ok, now the explicit vs other OSes "implicit" guarantees makes sense to me. I had no idea other OSes changed their system call numbers from time to time. Thanks for your detailed response!
I still believe that the main reason Python is slow is because people kept repeating that Python is slow and just accepted this as unavoidable. Combined with how nobody sponsored the main work on something like this, even though everyone would have benefited, and sparked all these independent projects.

Given what insane performance has been extracted from Javascript, I'd expect the limits for Python being within an order of magnitude from C++/Rust.
Yes.

Ukraine is in Europe. Nuking Ukraine means the wind will likely carry the fallout radiation into Russia, Belarus and Poland at the least.

I doesn't matter if its 1 nuke or a 100 nukes, irradiating NATO citizens is THE red line.

If Russia can nuke Europe without fear of reprisal, then NATO is defunct and a new nuclear arms race will probably start in Europe, with unforeseeable consequences.

So I would say yes, if Russia nukes a European capital with a multi-million pop, then nuclear war with Russia is the only course of action.
I'd rather wait for a RISC-V variant than waste any of my time with ARM.
Iran seems to think Whatsapp & Instagram are destabilizing such that turning them off can help quell domestic unrest.

A couple of takeaways. First, holy shit. Communications software is powerful enough to put fear in the hearts of political rulers! Second, insofar as sanctions are designed as punitive measures against a government who's actions our government doesn't support, it makes no sense to restrict their access to goods and services their government finds disruptive. In fact, we'd probably want to give them extra.
It's definitely a concern to rely on the ticket system, but the commit message and the comment can't (and shouldn't) contain every bit of info about a change.

Commit message: "Improved clarity and detail in error message"

Ok, that's obvious what's happening, and as a standalone change that's absolutely fine. But the question it doesn't answer is why did someone actually put that effort in?

If the commit message mentions a ticket, then you can go look that up, and now you can find out, for example: it was a ticket that was an unknown bug being experienced by one specific customer, and so the error message was being improved as part of tracking down the bug. You also see who the customer was, internally who reported/escalated it, how long this has been an issue for, and if the bug was found and eventually fixed or not.

I'd argue absolutely none of that belongs in comments in the code, and it's way too onerous for a dev to constantly put that level of detail into every commit message. It's a balance: it's only useful to lookup that info on a small fraction of commits; it takes a lot of time to figure it out when missing (especially if it was many months ago); and putting a ticket number in each commit message is very low effort.
> Because there was no big bang.

Bingo.
Whatever evidence is claimed to exist is only ever indirect.
We cannot recreate the big bang, claiming it happened is worse than claiming it didn't happen.

I don't think your black hole points are correct but it's fun to consider.
Well I'll go on record predicting the opposite. Meta is an advertising behemoth and has taken a very big bet on metaverse, they can ensure unlimited good press for their baby, especially if their real customers aren't buying as many ads as before.

I can see it now: "Life sucks because of the crash? Move to the Metaverse!"
I think all organizations drift toward dysfunction over time.

Those that have no competition inevitably end up there.
While this is true - you have to look at the competitive space also (not just Slack). My previous employer forced us on a hosted HipChat. Absolute garbage. laggy; crashed often (sometime taking down my host) and worst of all randomly deleted chat history - so if someone sent you something (important) you may or may not be able to reference it later. Absolute garbage.

Left that company (a fortune 50) ~roughly when Teams began rolling out, and my coworkers complained to no end (Slack -> Teams migration happened roughly when i joined). I still complain about Teams - but outside of raw IRC Teams is by far the best messaging App I've used at work. (I do also run slack/discord for personal groups/projects, though nothing at crazy scale).
Good for him. Mozilla has drastically changed from what it used to be a decade ago. And it's nice that people are forking their old products and actually getting work done with them, without the orgs toxic culture. Hopefully someone, or another org, can pickup Firefox and do the same.
First, psychiatric drugs don't have entirely predictable impact. Choosing them and choosing their dosage is matter of trial and error for many patients. They also often have very heavy damaging side effects.

And second, quite a lot of medical interventions or lifestyle recommendation don't actually have "years of trials and data proving their efficacy" - never did. The years of trials thing happen with drugs, because they are high risk. It does not happen with run of the mill "try to rest on bed", "take walks" kind of advice.
No. No, this is not true. I think Olive Garden’s food is about parity with Stouffer’s chicken parm.

Any bad Italian restaurant microwaving stuff is better than Olive Garden.

I like their breadsticks but everything else should not be eaten by humans.
I'm under the impression you know more about the subject than I do :)

I'm mostly replaying what I learned in Penrose's Road to Reality...it's possible that _all_ current cosmological theories predict "cracks," though given the sheer number of models out there, that would surprise me.
(Reply to first response)

But it takes philosophy to make the sorts of claims you make, making them self-refuting and incoherent. Perhaps the problem was not philosophy, but how you practiced it or how those you engaged with practiced it.

(Reply to second response)

W.r.t. the liberal arts, we must distinguish between genuine liberal arts and some decadent ersatz or blatantly ideological counterfeit. I don't wish to spend time making distinctions here and now, but it is worth keeping that in mind.

However, I should also note that what "the sciences"[0] give us is not a straightforward matter, either, and what they give us, the actual character of scientific aims, methods, research and results is precisely the domain of the philosophy of science. (My view is that a strong impetus in empirical science is mastery of nature and technological production, not necessarily the truth. The story is a bit more complicated than that, but I'll leave it here.) Empirical science is very much informed by background assumptions and can make metaphysical insinuations, assumptions and insinuations that are not the proper domain of the empirical sciences, but philosophy. The notion that science is magically free from the usual human foibles like unwarranted appeals to authority or bullying or ideological insinuation or whatever is, of course, false. Add to that the confusion that some scientists show when they fail to distinguish between science and scientism, for instance. Holding philosophical views or presuppositions, at least tacitly, can hardly be avoided.

W.r.t. scholasticism, I'm sorry if that was your experience, or your interpretation of your experience, but I would call that a thoroughly unjust characterization of scholasticism. Citations and giving credit is a normal part of any published work, but scholasticism is certainly not characterized by obsequious deference to prior authors (say, Aristotle; indeed, within the broad scope of what is traditionally called "scholasticism", you have varying views of, e.g., Aristotle). Scholasticism is famous for its rigorous disputations and appropriately draws from developments elsewhere.

[0] Even what the broad view of what "science" is will vary by language. The English/Anglophone meaning of "science" is generally the more restricted "empirical science", while, say, the German "Wissenschaft" is more inclusive and broad and it would seem closer to the classical or traditional view of a science as a body of systematized knowledge.
That's not a good reason to hate Rust, in my opinion. The community around it, maybe (although "hate" is a strong word), but not the language.
Try this with a desk fan: turn it on and stand a meter away on the outflow side - you will feel the flow. Stand a meter away on the inflow side, and the flow is much weaker and probably undetectable. That's because it is flowing in over a whole hemisphere upstream of the fan, but flowing out in essentially one direction.

Here, as with the anemometer, you are not measuring the total mass flow; what's being measured is the velocity of part of that flow, and you are intercepting more of that flow on the outflow side. If you were to measure and integrate the velocity over two hemispheres centered on the fan and divided by the plane of the blades, with a barrier in that plane to prevent recirculation, and calculate the mass flow from that (you can assume constant density as the pressure change is tiny), you will find that the total outflow downstream equals the total inflow upstream.†

† To actually do this experiment, you will need a sensitive anemometer which measures over a small area and does not unduly interfere with the flow, such as a hot-wire probe type. There may be additional difficulties in averaging turbulence.

https://electricalworkbook.com/hot-wire-anemometer/
I... obviously :) implied "keeping you accountable for", like when you compare yourself to someone doing better and think "I need to do the same as well!". At least in my case I would ever dare to think I want to try to achieve something like what reported in TFA.
>UAF attacks are going to be slightly harder to perform

SOME attacks are going to be harder, others are going to be easier(at least that's what a Project Zero researcher thinks)

https://twitter.com/ifsecure/status/1572902862128295937
> Starting with something that is less productive to avoid a problem you might have later if you are rich doesn't seem practical to me.

this is purely engineers' qualification issue, the fact that the hired engineers weren't productive in safer and more performant languages so they had to fallback to an inferior toolchain to seem like a productive team.
> I'm not sure what makes you think they are anti-capitalist.

Their list contains these:

- Our current economic model emphasizes means (income, spending) over ends
(wellbeing)

- The free market may not be the best way of meeting basic human needs, such as water, food, and air quality (empirically false)

- Relentless focus on short-term performance and growth, together with a discount rate that devalues the future, blinds decision-makers to long-term challenges (content-free rambling)

- Humanity will need to reevaluate its place in the natural world, shifting from consumerism to conservation, and accepting planetary boundaries

- It is essential that humanity reframe its decisionmaking processes to value ecosystem health, resilience, sustainability, human rights, and true quality of life above traditional economic indicator

> envision a 'world without power'?

Not possible , but a world with less concentration of power is possible
Ask HN: User wants to disclose a vulnerability. What next?
"Hi team,
I found a vulnerability in your website and want to disclose it to you.
Let me know if you have any active bug bounty program or is there any compensation for reporting vulnerabilities?"

What's the correct course of action for a software team, or management, when a user asks to disclose a vulnerability they've found?
The SBCL Lisp compiler (incidentally, the compiler is also called "python", which predates the PSF trademark ...) achieves much better results without millions of corporate dollars sunk into it.

Speeding up Python has been a lucrative business for more than 10 years, with dozens of projects and very little results.

I'd just use another language if speed is the issue.
Building a platform or building an ecommerce business? For a platform I would say the number of variations and edge cases from one business to the next. eCommerce looks deceptively simple, some category pages, product pages, cart & checkout, but once you get into the weeds with multiple brands you realize how immense the requirement list is and how flexible the solution needs to be. So it ends up requiring a large team with extensive experience to build something worth purchasing, which means it's a massive expense before signing a first customer. Most run out of funding before becoming profitable.
those are canvas with 2d context, not webgl
The universe doesn't really play nicely with human metaphors. That's why physics spends so much time deep in mathematics, because it turns out our metaphors don't line up with reality very well at all.

Or, alternatively, mathematics provides a really, really intricate set of interlocking metaphors that you can train yourself to use, but most people haven't. So anyone without the right training is left with a relatively impoverished understanding (including me!)
Non-Ukrainian news article: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/09/22/istochnik-zasekr...
It is first and foremost a story by a man that wished he had died with his sister, instead of surviving similar events of the story. Because if he had died, he couldn't go on to regret not saving her and would know he tried his best. Dying is the courage.
For a while at least, it was probably the Casio AI-1000.
Tiny, homogeneous, monocultured, de facto ethnostates that make it very easy to do business and/or have robust fossil fuel reserves are not comparable to massive, diverse, multicultural states with wildly different ethics and values across any number of demographics.
Indeed, there was tonnes of n-tier architecture stuff in Java EE land in the 90s. SOAP - Service Orchestration and Automation was/is another concept from the 90s that is conceptually similar to GraphQL.

I don't like the terms front-end and back-end. In reality applications are using a variety of internal & external services these days, and not all of them are behind a backend necessarily. Your own micro-services are meant to be used in much the same way as any third party's endpoint.
From the ignorance, I don't think that the problem is why. The problem is how?

How we could find that the light that comes from star A is ... two minutes or one week or one decade delayed respect to the light received from star B? We automatically would convert any anomaly into more distance to earth. This distances could be just wrong and we would not know it.
Much safer would be to use directional speaker, which would "hit" mosquito with frequency that corresponds to wing length and damage it.
I'm not 100% sure, but take a look at the section on "Manipulating Other Tasks" https://rocketry.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cookbook/controlli... It seems like what you could do is have a task that runs at some regular interval which would compute the 30 minutes before dawn each day and then add the task with the correct start time directly on the rocketry.args.Session: session.create_task(func=before_dawn_task, start_cond=some_condition)
> I just winced in pain thinking of the ways that can bite you.

Something similar caused my favorite bug so far to track down.

We were seeing odd spikes in our video playback analytics of some devices watching multiple years worth of video in < 1 hour.

System.currenTimeMillis() in Java isn't monotonic either is my short answer for what was causing it. Tracking down _what_ was causing it was even more fun though. Devices (phones) were updating their system time from the network and jumping between timezones.
> The approach of using containers -- however flawed it is -- gets past the stalemate of independent actors in the software landscape being incompatible with each other

What does that is bundling your dependencies, not containers. You could always bundle everything an app needs into a single tarball or a package. Containers didn't make it possible, they made it easy and popular.
> I would assume Microsoft is using teams in house

I wouldn't. But surely there's someone here that actually knows? It does seem hard to believe their own engineers would put up with all the issues it has.

Edit: the only evidence I could find you're right was at https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/new-microsoft-tea.... But whether it's the primary tool their devs use for communication I don't know.
If you want to call Google's act "principled", you need to explain Project Dragonfly.

It is and always has been the intersection of realpolitik and greed.
Junk science and unavailable data at the European Heart Journal