skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're chunkier than the old ones.
My mom gave me a box with all of mine and my brothers' old Micro Machines in it. My son discovered them and quickly found his favorite ones. They now go with us as "car toys" and "restraint toys" because they're so small and portable.

But the new ones are slightly larger and chunkier than the original.
Optimally a lot of decks will have 4 fetches if they are dual colored, and 10+ if they are multicolored. You could have a single fetch and some shocks to save money but you'll lose some percentage of games from the damage.
I can only assume that the OP misspoke when they said 15,000 hours. In reality, when and what you output is dependent on your “input fluency”, as opposed to some arbitrary number of hours. In other words fluency is not an on/off switch. You will develop pockets of fluency as you acquire the language, and those pockets become suitable for output.
I was guessing about about 15,000 hours I just think it has to be a lot time.

I'm sure speaking helps most people who study languages simply by exposing them to more input more frequently then they would otherwise be exposed to. I just don't think it is as efficient as focusing on listening first. It will lead to having an accent, grammer issues and pauses to think about how to say things.

That being said good luck finding any program that doesn't focus on speaking early.
Ask HN: Founders who went through VC funding, what was the hardest thing?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to build a project that solves pain point of start-ups trying to raise capital through VCs.

I'm starting with understanding what it goes to create a pitch deck and what is the most common problem with it.

If you ever sent or presented a pitch deck, what did you find the most difficult thing to do?
Did you rely on an external consultant to craft and design the deck or did you create it yourself?

Thank you in advance.
You still interested in this? I'd be keen to chat to you, worked on a searchable transcript provider for educational youtube videos (likewise, unfortunately pre-whisper, so I did a lot of work with sentence completion perplexity and rpunct to try and improve transcript quality from youtube automatic transcriptions). Can be contacted at revision.ai and demo what we were able to do till now, would be great to hear your thoughts.
Tim Berners Lee is widely accredited as the inventor of the internet, but everyone ignores Robert Caillau, who arguably created the actual internet. Tim B Lee mainly created the hypertext paradigm of sending messages, and Robert worked out how to actually do it and created the concept of a browser.

Anyway they both agreed at the time they had an equal share in creating 'the internet', but the media seems to have long forgotten about the non-english guy.

so yeah, either TBL is too famous and in your list, or is R. Caillau not famous enough and belonging in the list from this post? Not upto me to decide, but anyway he should not be forgotten
Why not a bit of both. Feed dialogue options in and have the AI generate a response that matches their character.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
It would've been nice to mention it. My sense is that the quote in the abstract might have been a signal from one of the authors who felt the same way.
On related note we had this Sunday evening power outage in big part of Prague, lasting around half an hour (second one in less than 4 months, previous lasted around 40 minutes and was due to some power station equipment failure, some gas insulation or something).

Funniest thing is the cause for this Sunday outage - power company spokesman said it was caused by (NOT hot air) balloon crashing into powerlines!

So never underestimate coincidence (Bulgarian lottery) and/or incompetence, though it was most likely Americans, if we are serious.
Or you can shortcircuit it and just switch jobs if you're comfortable with risk.

Be careful you don't go into the same but worse situation. Have backup plans and do your research.
> “We tend to select managers either based on their tenure or because they were the best individual contributor on the team,” he says

I wish that were true. But in my experience, the people who seem to be promoted are the 'climbers' - the ones who are looking for opportunities to get ahead, and are less interested in actually performing well at their jobs.

Promoting the highest performers would be actually a great idea - imo, one of the key properties of a good hierarchy is buyin from subordinates - seeing someone get promoted who is more experienced or a better coder than me signals to me that I should give that person's opinion more consideration, and if I improve my craft, I'll be eligible for promotion as well.

Instead usually the people who get promoted are the ones who suck up to their (likewise incompetent) bosses, say yes to every harebrained scheme coming from up above, rather than pointing out the flaws, and demonstrate 'leadership skills' by posting '5 ways to supercharge your code'-style articles in the group chat.

Once these climbing yes men start getting promoted, they show a preferential treatment to their own kind, and the organization's days are numbered.

That's why 'non-technical manager' is a contradiction in my humble opinion.
>> getting the team the visibility it needs

Visibility to whom? It seems like an anti-pattern that a team should have to fight for visibility in an organization. I believe this must be related to overly centralized control structures.
He doesn’t do paid sponsorships. That would probably double the revenue when looking at other creators who published their numbers.

As per article it’s because of the day job who doesn’t leave too much time handling those and that the video making is a hobby to him - I read from it he doesn’t want to make it a job?
This is not correct. Nordstream II is fully functional and can carry far more gas.

This "accident" allows Russia to turn up the pressure on Germany without formally exiting it's contract. It creates plausible deniability for when they pressure Germany to pressure Ukraine to accept a ceasefire.
I can’t let that pass without the necessary pedantry: the Internet long predated either contribution.
While McCrystal was in command, US caused Afghani civilian casualties went quickly down from what they were and stayed down while he was in command.

However the Taliban had been killing around 400% of the number of civilians that the ISAF was. Reduced ISAF force projection and increased Taliban activity resulted in the number of civilians killed by the Taliban going up. Thus the overall number of civilians killed during those 11 months went up. But it went up because the Taliban were killing more, not because the US was.

Another way of looking at it, if airstrikes and artillery fire were the primary drivers of US caused civilian deaths, then reducing the number of times those were used by 50% would obviously cause a noticeable reduction in US caused civilian deaths.

Anyway, it appears that we are at an impasse, and both believe that the other cannot see the obvious facts about McCrystal either doing nothing, or doing a lot to reduce civilian casualties.

Have a good day, and may there be joy in it.
I have to disagree. The only two benefits of making output early is 1) to have more comprehensible input from interculators, and 2) to have constructive feedback. If you have neither of these, benefit of producing output is questionable.
The Ringelmann effect was originally studied by having a team of people pull on a rope, measuring each individual's effort. Generally, people pulling the rope by themselves exerted more effort than when they were pulling with a team.

Later studies by Bibb Latane proved that the effect was not attributable to communication overhead: subjects blindfolded and fitted with sound-proof headsets were asked to shout and clap; people who believed they were performing in a group clapped softer than when they believed to be alone, even if there was no actual group in the room with them.

Generally, social loafing is attributed to the feeling that an individual's efforts make little difference to the end result, although I don't believe there are actual studies that could empirically back that up.
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
Leaders who set out to reshape their companies to compete in a fast-evolving digital world often come to a daunting realization: To transform their organizations, they must first transform themselves.
Ask HN: Security Lab / Playground in the Cloud – Options?
I work for a security team in a large multinational, and I'm looking for a completely off-net security lab service.

Our internal network has a lot of security protections like network proxies, internal PKI, etc. This means that if we want to do some pentesting exercises and trying out new security software we need to spend more time jumping through our own hoops than doing the actual exercise, even though we don't even need to be on the company network for it.

Just to connect to the internet from a docker container is a large amount of work which makes it very hard to quickly test out a new solution. Also, we often trigger our own internal security mechanisms leading to false positives.

I'm looking for companies offering a completely cloud-based "security lab as a service", where we can spin up a playground of possibly vulnerable machines, try out new security software and new vulnerabilities on a simulated 'company' etc.

I'm not considering AWS and Azure for this as those are already managed by other people in our company and subject to the same restrictions and approvals. Also, I wonder if we would trigger their own IDSes (Intrusion detection systems) if we start doing pentest exercises. It would be great if the provider was specialised in security labs so they are aware of these things happening.

I assume I'm not the only one dealing with this issue so I was hoping to hear something about what others are doing.
do these digital nomad visas have any language requirement?
Nordstream 2 is fully functional and can be turned on at any time. ...and it carries far more capacity.
Anybody could destroy this pipeline, me myself included. I watched the pipe-laying ship from Finnish "Suuri-Pisi" Island while kayaking. https://youtu.be/0P-wd3qzCBA?t=526

So I know exactly where the pipeline goes. Nothing prevents me from packing some dynamite and Arduino-based timer in water-proof box and do some more kayaking on some dark October night.
IMO subtitles are not that effective as you brain just stays in read-mode and you don't actually process any of the spoken language. When most languages grammar are not 1:1, so hearing "house red is mine" but reading "my house is red" isn't helpful - more true with real sentences that tend to have more than 4 words in them. Language listening skills require a fair amount of attention and focus.

Though I do think there is value in watching tv series or movies you've already seen in another language _without_ subs. You're able to focus more on the dialog and pair it against your knowledge of the story structure without getting distracted. You can't only do that however, which I don't think you're suggesting. You need to have studied the language to know what words you can pick out/know/dont know.
I played Tempest block, I remember!
But it's still good enough nowadays to see play in the Sligh deck of Premodern
Wouldn't be enough to have the "private" data encrypted on the hard disk? Unless you are sending your laptop to repair to the NSA, your data should be safe.
After transcribing the speech into text, it seems to first translate it into English before send it over the GPT-3 (davinci). I wonder if that will lead to a bunch of mistakes, can't GPT-3 handle Mandarin directly?

I did some experiments and using the same prompt but without translating it seem to lead to better results.
First of all, let me say it is a great bot and I adore it. Gratitude for creating this.
Which is fine - if there was any other place for iOS apps for those of us that did want niche/old/obscure/historical apps.

Also - there's a cultural preservation issue here as well. That bothers me.
Another “Let’s make Cloudflare the central server of the Internet” service, from what I can see.
The best is when they literally ban everything you've ever worked on. Love when 6 bans come in at 12:03 am like last week. I feel like pretty much anything I ever work on now is at risk of google randomly banning it. It sucks that it feels like you can't really escape it because a client always either wants an android app or google maps integration etc.

I can't imagine a youtube creator is at any less risk somehow. Over a lifetime google will certainly find some reason to ban the creator. I understand they want to protect their business but the way they operate is especially harsh and can literally ruin people's lives.
He was famous for ripping off other artists' work, yeah. I think thats why he's not considered in such flattering light. I know many well-trained artists who agree that he was a hack and plagiarist - but that was his thing, after all...
DPI/Scaling configuration?
I think about this sometimes. What about being a somewhat transparent shit umbrella? Like you don't let the team get hit by the shit, but they know that it's raining shit out there. I think it helps put some trade-offs in context.
They are adopting USB C.. and at least the 3rd party market for replacement chargers is affordable - cheaper than usb c in many cases.
The next big problem on the horizon for the piano is that piano technicians are also a dying breed. Sure, you can get someone to tune it, but that's fairly easy to do myself. The problem comes when a damper is stuck, some notes need voicing, etc. Even the old geezers that know how to do this stuff don't want to bother. They just want to come to your house, do an electronic tuning, and leave with $140.

Even if you're able to spend obscene amounts of money on a fantastic grand, who wants to do that if there's no way to maintain it?
You think the founders of the most valuable computer companies in the world are too famous?
Startup life, living the dream!

You've been bookmarked, I'll be back in a few days. This looks amazing.
> it cannot be completely outside the realm of the possible that Someone(tm) helped EU politicians do The Right Thing(tm) by ensuring they couldn't give in to Russian demands this winter even if they'd wanted to?

Could be. But doing it now and like this (three simultaneous incidents that are also highly repairable) would be stupid. If it’s American it’s because placed mines went off early.
Haskell in Production: NoRedInk
This sounds badass to be honest. Having written some WebRTC browser applications from scratch, that architecture turns into a complicated mess real fast, I can only imagine the nightmare that becomes at less than well equipped tech startups. This sounds like the right way to actually solve the problem.
The funnel for promotions has started to get thin at this level, and leadership positions select strongly for people who like being promoted.

Individuals might perceive the situation more collaboratively. As a body though this is a group where every individual is competing and unlikely to spend time educating others who are, effectively, rivals.
I have spent countless hours trying to get hardware to be silent.

The only way to do this reliably and without fire hazard is to passively cool the hardware completely by having HUGE heatsinks and THEN you can add a fan that you slow down with a resistor.

The fan is only there to prolong the life span, the hardware should be able to run passivley at 100% and you should be able to hold your finger on the heatsink forever. If not you have a problem.

All other solutions are just meaningless.

http://streacom.com
They can still supply gas through the Ukraine/POland pipeline (Yamal/Brotherhood).

And I don't think cutting these pipelines changes really anything, they were hardly delivering anything at all, so just destroying pipelines won't really help them plus even if EU caved they can't supply gas because the pipeline is damaged, if they were really relying on nord stream.
The whole idea is that it shouldn't be a responsibility of a single employee to try to find a less garbage employer with the limited resources and information they have.
Even if you are resourceful, hiring literally has it in their job to get you to sign on even for bad conditions - whether it is by shaky contract, things outside the contract, obtuse negotiation structure, hiring freezes with carious excuses, literal ghosting and so on.

It takes actual weeks of time to properly research one employer. Perhaps more. Do you feel like moonlighting as a personal investigator for yourself? Or, rich enough to hire a good one?
Nitpick: 1 billion, not 1 million ;)
Balaji’s Recommended Reading
Forget fame. Massive financial compensation is better.
I think he has Japanese
And my original "joke" is that the Schrodinger operator is unitary on L2 spaces (which is like a mathematical statement of conservation of "energy"), so if we're throwing out unitarity then I may as well throw out my phd.

I actually studied dispersive pdes (Schodinger, KdV, etc.), though not with a computer. In that study, the properties of the Fourier transform on L2-based spaces are very important.

The other joke is a that I do software now, so of course the phd was useless, haha!
> This feels like a great use case for Briar, which is very hard to block since the network is decentralized

Corrected for you
That’s a shame; I hope they’re allowed to come back in a revised article.

…or perhaps Nature felt it was too early for a discovery of this magnitude to be published ;-)
How to Prove Product-Market Fit
The article lists communication costs, the bystander effect, slack aping, and the perception that the employee's efforts doesn't count. But there is one additional crucial piece of the puzzle: the sense of being a stakeholder as opposed to a resource.

In fact the second part is somewhat ironic: the author switches to talking about employees as cattle that has to be monitored closely and culled if needed. This is of course logical in a structure whose goal is to make money, but also directly ties into the problem that author is trying to highlight, namely the lack of motivation or dedication. Even if the employee has 'knowledge about their importance to the company', that knowledge is that they are a well or not-so-well performing resource.

Why would an employee care (other than receiving their salary) about a structure that keeps an up to date document about the feasibility of laying off 10% of the workforce? And which furthermore couches that process in condescending language about roles, ideal engineers, and knowing your value?
Drone Swarms That Can 3D Print While Flying
And as a child of abuse myself, I hate these attitudes.

The deed is done. You can't un-pregnant that woman, nor can you un-abuse that child.

Declaring that the abuse shouldn't have happened in the first place does fuck-all for the child who has been abused.
Absolutely outstanding.

Small request: for japaneese, it would be great to include a japaneese phonetic transcription of the text in western alphabet. It would help distinguish words and make it easier to learn new vocabulary..
for what its worth what you just typed is completely indistinguishable from a native speaker, well done
risky when Wasteland is a thing, and decks run way to make it come back and loop.
Dammit. We should have made the internal code name for this BADA55.
Only companies large enough to afford that can... so what do all the smaller companies do? The rest of the world is so much much different than the West Coastal Cities, EVs are a pipe dream.
I just look at the world. Objects along the subway.
It slides in my mind to "why did they choose to build this object this way". Then I kind of guess the why.
Than it shifts to "Why don't we build an automat/or/ device that takes the imput and product the object automatically.

So, This is ho I get ideas for projects.just observe the world of man-made-built
I suppose this would be mostly a direct competitor to Twilio's solution that's a few years old now:
https://www.twilio.com/webrtc
I think when a project heavily depends on dependencies it is easy for security issues to make it too risky. Lately, I've been seeing more and more npm packages that keep "extending" a dependency to add more features, which eventually gets abandoned.

I'll use this package, multer-s3-transform, as an example. Its been abandoned. It depends on multer-s3, which depends on AWS-SDK and multer, which then depends on busboy.

Now, AWS-SDK, Multer, and Busboy have organizations maintaining them. However, the random projects overlayed on top of those are by single individuals.

The answer is to two-fold. Avoid overlayed projects and avoid big projects managed by a single individual.
NASA’s Moon Rocket and Spacecraft Arrive at Vehicle Assembly Building
The game is called 0AD specifically because there's no such thing.
While this is definitely a valid option I'm not sure that introducing Nix/Guix simplifies the stack compared to using Docker. Depends on the setup and experience, I guess.
good thing it doesnt require login at all?
They really do want to be the center of everything it seems. I wish they would stop trying to be the Cisco of Networking in the sense of trying to convince a lot of people to let them handle critical network functions for a ton of networks.

All it will take is one major outage for everyone to see this is a bad idea.

Why trust a cloud provider who could go down and take half the Internet with it? Why centralize it that much where that is even possible?
System design problems are much better and more realistic than leetcode style IMO. Let's be real, most developers don't need to have leetcode T9 solutions memorized because it with either never come up, or they can do some research when it does.

Knowing more about an entire system and architecting it requires a lot of variety of experience and it's just a more fun interview for everyone involved.

When I interview people, I also hope I'm assigned to conduct our architecture one because it really makes you learn a lot about an engineer.
I think a mix of your suggestion + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32994453 might be good, no?
I have the same suspicion as you. I just think it's unfortunate that people know mostly about the billionaires and their tweets.
I remember a doctor describing this effect in his field in the last century. He said many conditions, particularly mental health related where all written down by French and German doctors at the turn of the century, so this friend Doctor of mine learned the original names.

But as American and British publishers started growing, they started doing a very sly thing which was, when an anglo researcher made a contribution to the understanding of that condition they would double barrel it at first. So it might have started as the Friedman psychosis, then it became the Friedman-Johns psychosis, and slowly the newer editions just had the Johns psychosis.

I wonder if Caillau is but a newer victim of this seemingly very anglophilic tradition.