skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may just be the timing. We are in the midst of what may be a recession: tech stocks have taken a beating because of tightening monetary policy, and companies are loth to increase investments, including hiring employees. It may also be that you do not have experience that matches expectations closely. In my experience, people say they do not care about experience matching what they need but then go ahead and do design/architecture discussions during the interview that will go well only if you already have prior experience with what they want.

One way to eliminate the latter would be to interview with for jobs that require experience that substantially matches yours.
Regulation can help detect fraud, it might discourage fraud, but it can't prevent it. MF Global, Enron, Maddoff, etc. How long did Maddoff run his little scheme before being caught?
He was paid $250,000 for the rights to his story.
I dunno, the things you say about Plex I would also say about jellyfin: requires a bit of fiddling, works very well, not always perfect. Jellyfin has bugs, but it's free and works for my use cases, and improves quickly. I like that I can, and have, compiled jellyfin from source when there was a bugfix for one of the features I use that hadn't made it into a point release yet.

I think all software comes with trade-offs and frustrations. It sounds like, for my uses, Plex would trade in a different set of frustrations plus cost money and be closed source.

So I guess it depends what you mean by "compete with" Plex, because for me, it's more like I haven't found anything that competes with jellyfin.
There is so much bootlicking right now in the Valley / VC / Tech Twitter communities, but more folks need to call out Sequoia's poor judgement directly.

You don't get to hide behind the veil of "oh we're taking bets & huge risks all the time" and get a free pass at such catastrophically bad character analysis.

(Don't get me started on the shitty "oh i don't read books" story that was part of that puff piece...)
Also in the pockets of a few Sequoia partners?
Looking at the comment section it seems that people struggle to understand how it works and thinks it is literally copying parts of people's images.

Educating people about such a technical topic seems very difficult especially since people get emotional of their work being used.
> ..He then spent time living in a hostel using the money he had received for the film.. (When he died) he was found with several thousands euros in his possession

Maynot be rich but atleast he seemed to be in a reasonable state because of the movie.
Working class people paid thousands less despite doing same jobs
Does It Snow in Alabama?
It's hard to time the end of delusion and/or the speed of government bureaucracy
So what kind of backdoor is this? Is he claiming that his Quickbooks is mislabeled? Or is this blockchain analysis?
CO2 clouds the mind and impairs judgement. Dressing inappropriately for the season is probably a symptom of this. People would dress more appropriately for the weather if they got more fresh air in the winter.
I think that’s overstepping. Investigated for what? Investors are allowed to lose money.

If you mean that Sequoia was complicit in fraud, that’s a claim that would need reasonable suspicion before an investigation, not after. Right now it looks like they lost money along with all the other investors, and they were all investing in good faith.

If we punish investors, that would have a devastating effect on the startup ecosystem. And that ecosystem is one of the US’s main advantages.
Correct. Here I'm assuming USDC is "stable".

If USDC drops (or if USDT rises, for that matter), you might get liquidated.
What is SBF?
Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR niceties. While Plex would try its best to preserve the original stream and only transcode what the TV can’t support.

Also Plex’s clients are more polished, it actually feels like I’m browsing my own Netflix.

You can always turn off third party content in Plex (by unpinning them). I only use Plex locally so maybe that’s why I’ve been missing all the cloudy bloat lol.
Diagnostic systems aren’t used because they aren’t useful. Doctors observe-investigate-record; diagnosing a condition from the last step isn’t helpful because in order to get there, a doc has to have already acted on a hunch.
Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.
> They claim it produces 250 liters of hydrogen per day

"Mole of any gas under normal conditions - ~300K, 1 atm - occupies 22.4 liters of volume (Avogadro's law)". Mole of hydrogen (H2) has the mass 2 grams. 250 liters corresponds to 250 / 22.4 = 11.16... moles = 22.32... grams. So the unit above makes ~22 grams of hydrogen per day.

A better article with more data would certainly be welcome.
There's no pleasing you is there?
I don't think so unfortunately, he just posts the results, e.g. https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8/status/1590215438323322880
We (The Internet Archive) Have Added a Mastodon Server
What do you propose, concretely?

They have egg on their face, publicly. That’s about the worst we can do.

It’s not merely to be nice that the veil you mention exists. VCs need to be able to take risk. If they can’t, then suddenly there won’t be future Ubers and Airbnbs. Some may be fine with that tradeoff, but the history of societies shows that wealthy societies tend to prosper. And startups are the engine that drive that wealth creation.
I posted about Foam, an open source alternative to Obsidian that run in VSCode, just yesterday [0]. It can work interoperable with Obsidian on the same files and folders, if that's your preference.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561876
I personally enjoy all kinds of ambitious / flawed arcade ports on consoles so to me Berzerk, Defender and Joust still are worth playing on the VCS at least from that perspective.
That definitely changed his life as you can see from the story

With 250k you can't even buy a decent apartment in a decent area in Paris
Brewster Kahle writes why archive.org decided to launch its own Mastodon server
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried

> Bankman-Fried's net worth peaked at $26 billion. In October 2022, he had an estimated net worth of $10.5 billion. However, on 8 November 2022 amid FTX's solvency crisis, his net worth was estimated to have dropped 94% in a day to $991.5 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the largest one-day drop in the index's history. By 11 November 2022, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index considered Bankman-Fried to have no material wealth.
> Here we have crypto golden child SBF worth billions of dollars. He literally never had to do anything for the rest of his life. Even if he lost billions on Alameda and/or fTX he'd still be completely fine. Instead, he seemingly stole FTX customer assets in a failed attempt to save Alameda, run by his girlfriend.

You can see that the same drivers and personality traits that allow a person to succeed at such an enterprise are the same ones which would lead a person to fail at such an enterprise.
Sam Bankman-Fried
Living in a hostel is a reasonable state?
“Buy an entirely new streaming device to use this service” is never ever a good answer. “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” also feels entirely antithetical to Jellyfin’s open source mission so there needs to be a better answer than that.
Emby has direct streaming but I've had problems with it. But it's free and the TV app is alright.
Despite what other people in this thread are saying, I believe the fact that this could occur is a much bigger problem than everyone seems to think. The fact that a company can lock you out of your life with little justification and no opportunity for redemption is astounding to me.

A lot of people are saying that GitHub is a company, and that it has absolutely no responsibility to do business with the OP; they had the terms and they didn't follow them, end of story. Now put yourself in their shoes. There is a service that you use for work, and that you are not paying for. You do something wrong with the service - or maybe you didn't, what does it matter? - and you're banned. You are unable to do your job and you might be fired due to this. You ask for an explanation, or at least for a second chance, and are given no response. Who's at fault? The crux of the problem is related to quite a few issues, things that shouldn't be happening.

- GitHub basically entirely controls the market for the space it's in, giving the OP little alternatives to get a different job.

- GitHub does not have the time to respond to OP's support ticket but they do have the resources to overzealously ban them

Why is it like this? Yes, GitHub has no legal obligation to respond to OP, and that's tough luck for them. This really lends itself to the issue of GitHub being essentially a monopoly. It's the same thing with Google, Facebook, etc.; they all offer essential services that nobody else offers, and if they shut you out, it's over for you. GitHub has no legal obligation to do anything for OP, but the real problem is that they do not have any financial obligation to do anything. There's no alternative, nobody's just going to shift to GitLab; no matter how much GitHub fucks up, they have nothing to lose.

Another problem is the absurdity of the rules (although I obviously do not have full knowledge of what OP did and they could be leaving out important elements of the story) on sites like this. GitHub is a site for programming; why is it their place to moderate things from a social perspective? But that's a whole different story.

What I'm trying to say here is, the real problem is that there exist single companies that are allowed to destroy your life for any reason they want, without any retaliation or retribution. Your life could depend on single companies, with no alternatives. To me, it seems almost like a dystopian scenario.
+1 for Infuse, well worth the price!
I'm not following what you mean by "answered"
If you haven't had real honey, I'd recommend you try and find some. I'm from the UK and thought the more 'luxury' honey you get in supermarkets was as good as it gets... nope that's basically just purified syrup.

Real honey has so many more flavours to it, and it varies depending on the type of flowers they feed on and the time of year. Find some local beekeepers and try their honey.
It does not prove their point.
>I miss the old days :(.

There were no "old days".

0.0000001 femtoseconds after the bitcoin white paper dropped describing it, in the first sentence, as a peer-to-peer digital cash replacement the cryptobros descended-- hyping up the "smash the banksters" and "reject the fed" narrative in order to bilk gullible people out of their actual cash.

While muttering "arrrrrbitraaaaaaaaaaaaaage" in their sleep, they dreamed of setting up exchanges hoping to out-bankster the banksters at their own game.

With a dictionary in their left hand and and a YouTube playlist of investing videos in their right they quickly learned to frame crypto not as a "digital cash" but as a security, an investment, a lifestyle, a social statement, a religion. A crusade.

But it has always been, and will always be, a tool for allowing first-movers to scam the information-poor.

And I'm saying this as someone who received actual, entire, bitcoins from faucets and mined actual, entire bitcoins on my Radeon HD 6970.
The brain is cognitively efficient for physical movements and situations you experience regularly. We experience this subjectively as opportunities to “zone out” or let our thoughts wander as we do the activity. If you run the same route regularly, after a few dozen times you’re probably not thinking much about the running itself anymore.

People learning new activities experience it as the activity “slowing down” subjectively as they learn, giving them more comfort and greater opportunity to think about further improvements. For example learning to ride a bike requires intense thought. But once you know how to ride a bike, it just happens and you can think about where you’re going, or whether you’re in the right aerobic zone, or how fast to take the next jump, etc.

So I would bet that to optimize the cognitive benefit of physical activity, it needs to be somewhat novel. Running on a treadmill or swimming in the same pool or lifting weights in the same gym over and over probably would not do it. You’d need some sort of sport (where other players are constantly creating novel situations) or an outdoor sport where natural conditions are always changing. Or frequently trying new sports or activities.
As did the latest version of Plex in its web player.
If the investors fund scams, then they are just as responsible for the consequences. They don’t live above the law. Startups that exist to launder money should not exist. That is not innovation.
Yes. Very well put.

As one raised in evangelical Christianity, I always see in The Velveteen Rabbit the theme of Love as a means of sanctification through devotion to the ideal, come hell or high water - becoming "Real".

It works particularly well through that lense, as the deus ex machina at the end is exactly right for a Christian worldview, not a cheap trick to escape the hard reality.
Is this to laugh at a16z?
Maybe he could have lived outside of Paris where the real estate is cheaper, or gone back to Iran. It sounds like he wasted 18 years of his life.
Companies rarely give honest feedback, if ever. This is partly out of risk aversion but mainly because they can't admit they are dysfunctional. As far as they are concerned, if you leave with a neutral or positive impression overall, it's a win for the recruiter. That rules out saying anything truthful about the team, hiring manager, or work culture. Recruiters can usually tell you a great deal but they are barred from doing so and they also have zero incentive: if you leave with a mildly positive impression there is a chance you will let the recruiter connect with you on linkedin and search your contacts for matching skills, but if you have a very negative impression then you will give an anti-recommendation to your friends and also decline the opportunity to add the recruiter to your network.
To put that into perspective the budget for the movie was 60 million and they earned 220 at the box office

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal

Was it to much to give, lets say, even 1 million to this guy? It would've been less unfair at the very least.
In Australia, based on current electricity demand it's 24 GW / 120 GWh.

Primary energy replacement obviously will require more than that, but it won't be so bad as people make out, since electrification can drive massive efficiency increases - electric cars are 3-4x as energy efficient as ICE cars, and there are very few places in the parts of Australia that get decently cold that are too cold for air source heat pumps, so that's a 3x efficiency increase over gas space and hot water heating (even as much as 5x for CO2 hot water heat pumps!).
I would characterize them more as "foundational" and "genre-creating" -- modern games build on top of their gameplay. Some classics (often played on cell phones today): space invaders, asteroids, pitfall (side-scroller), and numerous procedurally-generated games which form the basis of roguelikes!

I would keep in mind that much of the fun was the controllers, which are all essentially obsolete today (paddle controllers and stiff joysticks). Most atari games feature a "high score" goal due to the limitations of the architecture, which makes you replay the same level over and over -- modern games can have more variety. And, many atari games are _solely_ designed for multiplayer (aka someone sitting next to you!).
If it went to zero, it would only because a better crypto supplanted it. Crypto is here to stay. Hopefully not just as CBDCs.
Depends on what you're optimizing for in life.
The drug trade is definitely culpable for violence and human misery. Unless you're perhaps talking exclusively about psychedelics (and even that isn't squeaky clean, but production and distribution is less violent due to the origin and effort required in distribution), the users while not directly responsible, are absolutely funding some grotesque stuff behind the scenes that they usually brush under the rug.

None of this means that the war on drugs etc was justified or that its implementation did not have serious flaws, just that the drug trade isn't a manufacturer of purely victimless crimes.
a16z does not believe in crypto. If they do, they're misguided about its potential. It has a very limited usage. Even in crypto world, people are desperately drawn to centralized entities despite the risk because they're faster, more convenient, and has customer support. No body wants to put their house deed on the blockchain, gets hacked or phished, and then get evicted by the police the next day via the hackers. No body wants to be their own bank through self-custody. Banks were invented so you don't have to self-custody. No one wants to risk their funds on a decentralized protocol where it can be hacked without any way of recovering the funds.

Instead, what a16z believes in is using their reputation to pump the tokens of their crypto investments. Next, they dump most of the tokens onto retail. a16z is in on the scam.

I've been extremely disappointed in Y Combinator bringing on Garry Tan as the CEO. I like him personally. I respect him. But he's a crypto shill. He made a very profitble investment in Coinbase, rode it to prominence, and now he thinks crypto is the hill to die on.

The worst thing is the human talent and energy resources wasted on crypto. Imagine if the billions were invested in useful products and services instead of pumping scams, ponzis, and other money schemes.
I tried Kodi for the PC. I turned on UPNP broadcast. It locked up. I had to kill it with task manager. I turned UPNP on on the Xbox XBMC a few weeks later. I had to reboot the OG Xbox. Both of these were about three months ago, they still have the same bugs.
> Why would this make someone question crypto?

I don’t know, I am not into crypto. I assume you might have to ask one of the many thousands of people that have lost untold quantities of money to a nearly infinite number of scams why they might question the practical value of the crypto ecosystem.
List of letters her family and others have just submitted to plead leniency in sentencing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32...

I’ve read a few of these and they seem to be genuinely heartfelt, expressing that she is a good person, already suffered enough, etc. What’s not covered is the lie she perpetuated, was that all a misunderstanding? Just a case of overzealous hyping as opposed to conscious fraud? That’s very hard to believe.
I believe the original phrase was, “The customer is always right in matters of taste.” It’s a shame that party got dropped.
"if one’s goal is to optimize one’s life for doing good, often most good can be done by choosing to make the most money possible"

"I can help my brother better when I'm at the top" - Bunk from "Born to Die", Atlanta : ))) which just ended : (

That article is obscene in its idiocy. I don't spend too much time with VC's but really shit like this gives me a slight suspicion that some of these people's talent lies in landing in the right place at the right time once or twice.
> VCs need to be able to take risk.

Is fitting a profile taking risk?
I studied MS-DOS inside and out (quite literally).

One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file's entry point, called the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It is why you could simply execute a RET (return) and have it drop back to DOS again. The first bytes of the PSP are a literal INT 20h which is the Drop To DOS interrupt, and a RET with nothing left on the stack will return you to that zero offset, and then Drop to DOS.

Probably a bit hacky, but really clever.

I wrote my own DOS clone in Assembler, that I called PoverDOS because it was surely going to make me about that much money, and managed to make a boot sector that was far more functional than the one that comes standard with MS and PC DOS. The main thing it did was self-diagnostics to determine if the system had been infected by a boot sector virus. That was quite a feat, but became a moot point once 64 bit computing came about, because the boot sequence also gained a whole lot more space to work in.

Don't bring it up with me at a party, 'cos all those DOS intricacies are still among my favourite subjects, and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic. DOS is still the party killer it always was.
This seems like a possibility.

Train an AI to identify and measure features in satellite imagery (water bodies, trees, lawns, buildings, etc.)

Allow a user to search for areas of size x m^2, that have water bodies of at least y m^2, forested area of at least z m^2, etc.
While it's true that VCs are acting mostly based on FOMO and herd mentality, there's also another incentive at play here: Tokens. Crypto VCs get paid in tokens, and thus they have the additional incentive to create as much fluff PR and hype as they possible can to drive up the token price.

While this is true for traditional startups as well (good PR helps), the cause-effect relationship is much more obvious for tokens because you don't need to have product-market fit to drive up price. As a VC you just need to exit before the other gullible VCs, even if you know it'll end up as a scam. It's essentially a VC-level rug pull.
Even funnier is that Sam is Bronze 2 in LOL. (Very low for those that don't play LOL).
Fun fact: mass extinction events in earth's history coincide with worldwide coral bleaching events.
Any other exchange for "anything" would be under regulation. Crypto folks like to think they are not. That's the issue here.
It may be true today that calloc checks for multiplication overflow and doesn't zero memory if it doesn't need to, that's modern revisionism. Historically, calloc did not do either of those things.

eg, from the 4.4 BSD, circa 1993:

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.4BSD/usr/src...

void *
calloc(num, size)
size_t num;
register size_t size;
{
register void *p;

size *= num;
if (p = malloc(size))
bzero(p, size);
return(p);
}
Even funnier is the fact that people don't buy heroin using Bitcoin on the darknet anymore, bitcoin's transaction fees are now too high for the average drug user.
Trillion Dollar Man: Riches to Rags story.
A PLL is one of the worst for phase noise. It will have a divider chain which will produce jitter and harmonics of the ref osc, and must absolutely rely on careful tuning of the AFC loop to null out these spurs. And as the filter will be digital rather than analog, there is no chance of optimizing it.

But that is before we get to the modulation. That again will be digital (rather than analog) so by definition will be chock full of jitter, especially if the FM is generated by stepping the clock frequency in finite steps. Not only will this generate large amounts of jitter, but it will generate spurs of the PWM clock over a wide range of frequencies.
Sure, lets look at the finger when I'm pointing at the moon.

The movie has generated 220 million, they had a budget of 60 million dollars.

This guy has been paid 250k. If he wrote a book and sold it he would've made much more than that.

Then of course you may argue that he should've asked for more, or capitalize on his fame better but that's another story.

Yes what's a better life is subjective but this doesn't make the whole thing less unfair
Is it common to have the same number of employees as there are companies funded at a VC? Is each one assigned a company?