skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! In the past months one of my companies needed to find seed investors and then I notice something weird: it's time consuming and the sources are not updated. The price was also a strange thing.

So instead of searching I decided to create a solution for this, that is: BuildGrowth.

From CrunchBase and LinkedIn I gather several investors public information (through WebScraping using Pupeteer) and released as a solution for everyone who's looking for funding.

Since the creation process was easy, I thought: maybe with journalists I can do it too. And boom! Through webscraping I also gather journalists information and are in the platform it self.

I hope this can help some of you to have a better use of your time.
Sounds great. But good luck implementing it within the legal framework that exists in most nations, for existing cities. Plus this analysis fails to account for the environmental cost of tearing down existing structures and constructing the new ones. It's really only applicable if you are planning a new city with strong central control and sparse existing structures.
I'm not finding this to be the case, on every computer I now uninstall snapd completely and use the firefox-esr PPA (mentioned elsewhere), and I am able to apt-get dist-upgrade regularly with no problems.
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How would such a misinterpretation be an actual problem? Less safe?
Starry Internet cuts 500 jobs and cancels big expansion
I fail to see how my comment proves your point and I fail to see how this comment improves your previous argument.
I play OpenRCT2 with my daughter quite often, it works great, I recommend the OpenGL render engine since it allows for additional zoom and the kids love to see the people walking around and puking all over the park.
>Citation needed.

I read (ok, skimmed) an academic study that attempted to compare post-war populations with different histories, and failed to find evidence of an effect; if anything the reverse.

I dislike your sophistry about 50% of the population being mentally ill, as if the victims were chosen from that portion at random. So, out of spite, I'm not going to search for the study and you are free to believe that it doesn't exist.
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I don't think you understand the concept of explanatory power. Because dark matter cannot be observed we must manually tune the dark matter distribution for each galaxy. This creates new parameters that don't exist in the theory that are necessary to properly explain phenomena. Whether or not they exist in the theory is irrelevant to the fact that they are necessary.
How the Context-Subject Framework Can Help You Organize Your Notes
> Well categorically yes because an alive program has every capability a dead one has, including the ability to mimic “dead” one.

No, they do not. What they are lacking isn't in what they can or cannot execute, it's what we can say about them. If your PL has eval, then you don't know if foo is ever called or not, for example.

I'm not interested in talking about the currently running instance of a program, but all possible running instances of it.
I've played a few video games with this model: the source being available is a help to modders and the like, while still maintaining the game's commercial status. The best example I can think of is Barotrauma, where just a couple months ago there was a release that subtly broke networking on Macs. Quick code change fixed it so that my Apple-locked friends could play until the company got around to fixing it. Minecraft falls into the sorta-defacto version of this, where they distribute the necessary mappings to decompile the game for modding purposes.

Personally I think it should be the default distribution model for software. If I'm relying on a piece of software, especially one I paid for, doubly-especially if it's running on my machine, I should have the right to modify it and probably to distribute my modifications.
A trick I learned a long time ago, that is very helpful in old structured code style (e.g. C, mostly-class-free Python, some subsets of C++ -- but rarely Java) is to estimate the number of non-comment lines for each task, rather than the time needed.

This turns out to be much easier to reason about, discuss with colleagues, calibrate one's intuition etc; If one person thinks it will take 100 lines at the end, and another thinks it will take 1200 lines at the end - it provides a more concrete discussion when trying to resolve the difference than "10 days vs. 3 months".

And the number of bug-free structured-programming-style lines a programmer produces per day is surprisingly low variance, when measured at the end of a project. (And ... the mean is often in the 1-10 range for good projects and good programmers for places that require high quality like medical devices or aviation). If that sounds too low to you - consider a project 6 years in the making (~2000 days) worked on by 50 programmers. That's 100,000 programmer days. If it has 1M non-comment lines, it's only 10 per days on average.

Somehow, I've never been able to apply this to Java code or classful Python code, and have never met anyone who was - I suspect it's because these projects are dominated by boilerplate and huge bureaucracies, which weren't prevalent in the old days when this trick was devised.

(Which is not to say that object oriented programming and classful Python and Java are bad; Just that they seem to be resistant to this form of estimation)
I'm really sick of city-dwellers telling the rest of us how to live.

Yes, many city-dwellers can live without a car. But not everyone lives in a city, or has any desire to live in a city (especially during a time of decline and perpetual crisis of one form or another)

Those who wage such vitriolic war on the car rarely consider small towns and rural areas, where public transport isn't efficient/practical, where no car often means no job.
Man, I wish we could convince people to just stop using these **** "platforms" and go back to cheap selfhosted forums/blogs

Of course a giant faceless low-margin corporation is going to do a bad job of moderation. I wish it weren't such a big deal when they fail at it
Its a good opportunity to switch out certbot for something else, there are some great alternative options on github
25% of twitter's current employee base is still ~1,900 people...

I don't see why this would be infeasible.
I dunno, isn't this how you end up with Milton Keynes?
Regardless of all the (rightful?) hate towards Ubuntu recently, it’s worked great for me. Just last week I had a spare Microsoft surface laptop 1 and wanted to setup a headless server since Raspberry Pi’s are ridiculously priced. Ubuntu 20.04 worked flawlessly out of the box whereas the Debian installer couldn’t detect the laptop keyboard and I couldn’t complete installation (just one USB port).

Also it’s just so much easier to find howto’s for Ubuntu, especially if it’s some weird hardware.

Love Ubuntu for personal use!
True story, in early January of 2020, on an academic virology forum, which I wont link, it was known the virus was synthetic. Before the story hit the mainstream media, professors were sharing data about the virus fingerprint. There were concerns about the integrity of the data shared by the Chinese. One specific comment I will never forget by a Harvard professor when discussing the implications:

"Should we turn on the bat signal"

Which I always interpreted it to mean should we alert the authorities. A week later all posts were deleted and nothing could be found.
There are at least a couple of suspicious points in this study:

First and foremost the central claim is that 5 potential restriction binding sites versus 2 means that SARS-CoV2 is non natural. That does not necessarily follow. Just as SARS-CoV2 is unusually infectious and damaging to humans it could just happen to have an additional 3 restriction binding sites. So there is nothing inconsistent with natural selection of viral characteristics, only a comparison between wild and lab viruses.

Second, the evidence for the wet market origin is trivialized. That argument points out that genetic drift is well characterized and the presence of two closely related SARS-CoV2 variants cultured from the wet market is extremely strong evidence that is where the virus initially appeared. Both arguments make use of detailed genetic evidence, but the wet market argument based on genetic drift is quite robust while this alternative theory merely presents similarities while not ruling out natural selection.

Thirdly, this paper emphasizes the strong impact of the COVID pandemic and asserts that understanding the origins of the virus would necessarily aid in preventing future pandemics. This does not clearly follow. Especially if the virus had natural selection origins there is no clear and obvious way of systematically reducing risk. Simply living or traveling where host populations like bats live could be enough to generate exposures and it is not simple to clear people off of rural habitations.

These second and third criticisms are not direct against the evidence and logic presented, but show a dangerous level of sloppiness in the research that makes this paper appear more like slanted analysis from someone with an agenda than a critical thinking scientist genuinely interested in the truth and therefore needing to consider alternatives and potential falsification of the hypothesis.
Real estate value in cities rises because of scarcity and demand which then makes any sort of redesign prohibitively expensive. Instead we opt for half-assed approaches like ADUs to provide increased density with substandard units in areas that aren't capable of handling the increased density.

A better approach, if we could muster the political will, would be to raise the large amounts of capital needed to transform large swaths of low-density suburbia into a comprehensively planned neighborhood. Otherwise, short of bombing the US back to the stone age and starting again, we will be trapped by the layouts of the 20th century.
tl;dr the development of the original Stable Diffusion was assisted via a collaboration between Runway and StabilityAI.
1. Do you use TT? I find the content is very rarely rage-driven, whereas somehow that seems to be the primary flavor of twitter.

2+3. Why should I worry that a company is serving me stuff I actually like in hopes I'll interact with it? Isn't that the social contract of digital advertising, except TT is actually delivering value to the consumer?

4+5. That's just table stakes for the industry.
It is pixel exclusive.

> Recordings backed up from the Recorder app on your Google Pixel will appear here.

Visited on a non-pixel Android device.
If this is anything like the $20,000 trash cans[0], the price is inflated because there's only one and so all the one time costs around design and manufacturing are put on a single item. When you amortize the costs across the entire production run, it falls to a tenth the price, but "$2,000 trash can" doesn't generate headlines and outrage because that's how much a sturdy municipal trashcan costs.[1]

But to talk about the nationwide problem that building anything anywhere takes orders of magnitude too long and too much, there's no smoking gun. It seems to be a combination of factors from understaffed government agencies, to invested interests, to out of date regulations, to just bad engineering and planning.[2][3]

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-pricey-t...

[1] https://www.trashcanswarehouse.com/Municipal-Trash-Cans-and-...

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-o...

[3] https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs...
> Dear Google. We are one of the most privacy-conscious companies you can find.

I think I found the reason Google is rejecting your app.
Why our Smart Video Doorbell will not be able to support HomeKit Secure Video
I don't think it's all about blame, knowing it came from a lab would also pull into question the practice of engineering viruses and the safety and security standards required.
Only if you know which insiders to watch. It's just as likely to set off irrational panics. I think the efficiency argument involves a lot of hindsight bias even though it may be made in good faith.
> it'll take time for the dust to settle. Just like Unity / Wayland

There's a particular irony to this statement. Before adopting Wayland, Canonical tried to do their own thing with Mir[1]. Years later they gave up and reluctantly adopted Wayland. Their investment in Snap rhymes with this. Snap is an inferior competitor to Flatpak, and in the end it's likely the dust will settle for Snap the same way it did for Mir—in the dirt.

Canoncial as an organization has some serious NIH syndrome and they are putting "Linux on the Desktop" through a lot of unnecessary pain.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)
You should take a look at SAP's source code
A big reason he says so many stupid things is he loves the attention.
I would, if I used desktop Linux. I sort of do on my homelab sort of setup, but I'm specifically using Raspberry Pi OS because, well, my homelab is something like 30 raspberry pi's doing various things (yes, I know this isn't a good idea, but that doesn't mean I want to stop doing it).

I only have one laptop, and it's running something a bit more Redmond oriented.
I assume dropping someone off or picking someone up to go to/from somewhere outside wouldn't count as parking.
> Do emergency services count as cars?

No
You can absolutely use GitLab to the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness without paying a cent. It just tends to require more input and effort and results in tool sprawl if you want to recreate the GitLab EE experience for free. It's possible for many of the important features, and where it's not possible, it's usually not critical.

GitLab is, imo, one of the best examples of how to do paid open source. Especially because they've gone about it without the relicensing switch that many companies have attempted in order to "protect their business/product."
Figma CEO on Why He Sold to Adobe
US is world's biggest terrorist[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U
> That's not true. Razors are the canonical example of a product sold below cost, there are many others.

Trivially wrong. Heated seats are not required for a vehicle to function.
All of those are dynamic properties of one running system, what if I pass in a different set of starting state to it? Will it allocate more objects then? Are any of the methods unused? Well, maybe it is now, but maybe we'll redefine a method at runtime to call the previously unused method.

> As a sibling comment points out, by definition a live system can do everything a dead system can and more.

"Can do" is not the same as "we can say about", see my response to sibling.
Lived in MD. They did away with the spent shell casing law. Turns out they were literally throwing them unorganized into barrels. No way to organize or search through them if there was a need. Just a massive waste of taxpayer money.
While you’re at it, lobbying should be completely and utterly outlawed, anyone found taking money for political influence should be handed a hefty jail term or worse.

It’s absolute filth.
Most German cities make public transit a lot easier than driving cars and figuring out parking. Their stations are serious, and their alignment with other transportation systems (bus and ice) are very serious.

If you're going to compare random mostly unused point to point, that's not what public transit is for.(That is something a car or taxi is needed for)
A number that can't be calculated
I have a small service for an nfp on the $20 plan and I remember working out cloudfront+aws was would have set them back roughly 1500 per month, and that's without looking into occasional viral traffic spikes. The price disparity is baffling.
It would take the company extra legal work to figure out if they can offer a driver assistance subscription in New Jersey or not.

Perhaps New Jersey customers would have to wait longer than others for the whole product (because there is too much complexity in having a NJ-specific SKU)..
It's not whataboutism when the entire thread started with a comparison. To discuss it further is just... normal. What the hell.
That's plainly not true. Sure, there weren't "millions of apps" in the store, but like I mentioned above, there was actual boxed software sold for those platforms.
Out of curiosity, what makes Clousflare's WAF so much better?
SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
if they have any sense they'd prefer the US.

Not that they should have to accept the atrocities under US expansion, but the fact is it's a conversation, public knowledge, and something they can vote on whereas the CCP represses information, votes, and resorts to rapes and organ[2] harvesting of ethnic groups it doesn't care for.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/02/03/behind-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Persecution
I get the impression we're about to see an ocean of litigation around AI and IP. If you're not a participant it will probably make good popcorn fodder. Though I don't doubt that there is a threat to graphics design and other creative jobs, may not be time to switch careers quite yet.
He already did so, in the match that he won against Carlsen. The measures in all those tournaments are extremely stringent.
Pretty sure it's not based on the Silmarillion because they don't have the rights.
Sorry you lost me there. Can you point that out in the numbers?
Also I realised that I don't understand what you mean by PPP adjusted. I thought we were talking about adjusting GDP per capita vs per hours.

Oh, Purchasing Power Parity. I see.

Well, I disagree here but that out of my depth. I think without adjustment those metrics would measure how your currency is faring on the currency market. Not the house you can buy, the food you can put on the table and so on.

But I see your point, if we talk about productivity, we should compare Apple to Apple and not "Adjusted Apple" to "Apple".

It also depends who is seen as the repository for this productivity. The worker? Or the economy.

If it's the later we should talk in USD with a date on it. I agree.

If it's the worker, well, I care about what I can buy with the money deposited in my bank account, not what I could buy if I was living in Hungary or Japan. Then PPP make sense. It's also common practice in statistic to harmonize your data in order to make meaningful comparison.

Last thing on your last comment, I really think the GDP per capita make little sense here. Labour input is defined as total hours worked of all persons engaged in production. A GDP per capita is not measuring that.

> the GDP output per capita is about 50% greater

Let find the same thing per hours worked, without PPP adjustment.

Well, PPP is apply to every data I found. But this more recent trend might make you feel better. On 2010-USD + PPP, france went to 102 while the US is at 107. ( On the 2017-2021 period )

https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm

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Here is my anecdotal and personal experience. I spend half of my life in France, and the other in the US. Quality of life is comparable. French works less. Their country is not crumbling. Heck, it's in pretty good shape infra-wise.
They have billionaire and large mega corporations as well if that's a metrics. I pay similar taxes here and there.

Maybe french are annoying enough to get away with it? Maybe they are living on credit. Idk.
But also maybe the US worker are being abused and stretch tin for diminishing returns. Is that worth it for such a slim difference?
You're saying people who are pooping on public sidewalks will willingly choose to poop into plastic bags on public sidewalks, if only they had them available?
This is a cool project - looking forward to following it.

I've noticed a lot of pushback against ideas like this because they're seen as infeasible, but I have to assume that there was a lot of pushback when someone first proposed razing a neighbourhood to make way for a highway. The first step is deciding we want to change, so I'm excited by anything that lets people express that.
Is there a wayback machine archive of that conversation?
If you go to an Arch community and you say you haven’t updated your system in a month, they will be mad.
Ok.. And?

Facebook does this.

Google does this.

Apple sells hardware to do this to whoever you want.

Amazon is building an Alexa Spy Dystopia.

Uber had/has multiple campaigns to individually track and divert regulator types.

Equifax, even after hacks that resulted in nearly every citizen exposed, still exists and brags about selling wage data to companies.

Our data security, data privacy, and anonymity potential is farcical here in the USA. Someone please explain why yet this tracking should matter to me... past the "iTs a ChiNesE ComPAnY" excuse. Most of my data's out of the wet paper bag.
The guy is literally asking for doggie bags to be available so he can crap in a bag when toilets aren’t available/closed.

We need to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or the whole city turns into a toilet.
> but Carlsen had every reason to believe the man would and did.

Carlsen also had the perfect excuse for his bad performance by suggesting the other player cheated.
isn't it about "cities" and "urban design" though? so does not apply elsewhere. Not sure why you are feeling this way in this thread.
I am not sure about this.

If the thought of stalking my social graph, whereabouts and interests didn't outright creep me out (regardless of who is stalking), I would be more comfortable with something Chinese than American.

I am not a person of interest to China - even if I do have anti-CCP sentiments, I have zero influence on them so it's not worth their time nor resources to enact extrajudicial punishment on me. Xi doesn't give a shit what some random schmuck in a Western country thinks about him. I'd have to be very influential for them to give a shit about me, at which point I'd have many reasons not to use social media (whether American or Chinese) anyway.

I would be more of a person of interest to my local government (which - as most Western governments - are a puppet to America) because if anything, I have at least some influence/leverage on them in the form of voting and generally being involved in the local community/industry, and they would need much less resources to punish/intimidate me if they so desire.
Don't watch movies on tiktok then, lol
There are all kinds of existent laws and regulations on former elected officeholders allowed lobbying activities, many of the toothier ones at the state level but there’s still a 2 year cool off at the federal level for congress. They’d run afoul of 1A protections if there was indeed an unfettered right to be paid to lobby on the behalf of others.
I guess none of you live in Barcelona. This crap is sickening to most residents who have to deal with the chaos this city has become. I left after a decade living there, so I don't have to worry about it anymore.
That is the repo/release this takedown request was about.

Note that it is not the stabilityai repo.
> It's trivial to file an appeal, so (because the attackers are by no means disincentivized from appealing)

Well yeah, it's trivial to file an appeal if you just have to click a button, but obviously that's not what I was talking about. Have they tried literally anything else?

Solve difficult CAPTCHAs, send a scan of your passport, pay a small amount of money (e.g. $1), put a large amount of money in escrow like someone else suggested, allow other well-known accounts to vouch for you, etc. etc. etc.

There's a ton of things you could do. It seems like they've given up without trying any of them.
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An attack claiming collusion to exclude a cheater...

Like playing White but only with pawns.