skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s become less and less true as the capital required to start a business has diminished and virtual products allow for rapid and unprecedented scale.

For me and my brother we were immigrants, divorced household, single mom as some bread winner, didn’t attend Ivy League schools, paid for college through debt, and started a business with savings from working full time at system administration, which was self taught, while being in college.

Fast forward 20 years, DigitalOcean IPO’d.

Our mother did provide a roof over our heads but we had no inheritance, and no friends and family round.

We built a service oriented business doing web hosting first. Service businesses are traditionally much cheaper to start because there is no product development cost to front with zero revenue.

Then after a decade of that we built digitalocean as a product business which was financed from the cash flow of our original business.

By the time we closed our series Seed in Digitalocean we were already well past $1MM ARR and in one year went from $100k ARR to $18MM ARR.

Having less resources does force you to be more scrappy and figure things out that other people who have a safety net often give up on.

Point is it can be done either way.
What did he die of?
Heh. The author forgot the most important one:

Use micro-services! The more the better! And write each micro-service using a different programming language and build system. Make sure the protocols are not documented. And that the micro-services are called p376, f190 etc. Make sure that some micro-services need to access a specific server setup to build!
Government agencies laundered censorship through Twitter employees
Self checkout makes it very easy to buy sushi for the price of peanuts.
Gulp. I’ve left a comment like that or two. Probably isn’t helping the cause, but it’s waving a flag for the next person who’s got budget to clean it up.
How much land does a man need?
Chances are different than opportunities.
You don't know what you're talking about.

Once a story is reported about big tech, it won't be reported again if the only change would be a different CEO. I've never seen a story about something as large as Twitter where contacts haven't later confirmed the behavior wasn't replicated multiple places in the Valley.
The main problem with efficient market hypothesis is that it pretends that the only way to get money out of the economy is by providing economic value for others who also provide economic value.

It ignores the fact that participants within the system are only efficient with respect to the basic incentive structure created by the monetary system which itself is highly inefficient and wasteful.

The government could essentially just print money to incentivize people to push a boulder up and down a mountain for no reason... You can be sure that those who will get paid the most will the the fittest ones who can push the boulders up faster than anyone else; the most efficient boulder pushers if you like... But can it be said that these people are efficient at all in the grand scheme of things?

Is it an efficient market if the monetary environment within which those markets exists is itself artificial and inefficient?
A kind of "the innovator's dilemma" thing.
"First American-made tools"? Really?

The people who left footprints in that lake shore 23,000 years ago bought all their tools from Harbor Freight? Or got along with no tools at all?

The article is about something very different than the title suggests.
> In what I recall from my CFA studies, research shows that only genuine insider information can consistent outperform the assumption that all information is already priced in.

Even if you assume there are no information inequalities outside of inside information (there are), markets are myopic. Expectations focus around one scenario which is why you see slow adjustments to trends.

Btw, it is actually worse than people think: I have countless anecdotes from execs who run companies, who were "experts", who had substantial inside information and were still unable to predict industry trends better than me. There is a social, cultural, institutional context...you see vastly different investor behaviour even between countries that are very similar (i.e. US/UK). This focus on information above all is a conceit to assist the construction of economic theories, not a distinction that is useful in practice.

Also, you may or may not have worked for a very impressive hedge fund but win rate tells you nothing about profitability. I know a fund that made one decision in 1992, made poor decisions constantly after, almost everyone who works there is worth $100m+, and they manage $100bn. You can go 10 years with only one good idea and outperform everyone else. Win rate means nothing.
>Covert Sabotage Campaign in Russia Under CIA Direction

So what? Good. Shut up about it.
Yea it’s definitely a long way to go but I am hopeful with recent changes that they are trending in the right direction.

Appreciate it! I wish I could make more extensions but the API is locked down!
But Zcash is everything Monero was supposed to be. ;-)
They sure have, they keep 5 billion+ people alive.
To some people, having fun and spending money are far more orthogonal than to others.
$150/mo just to keep it ready to drive? That doesn’t sound right.
In the US it's 30A minimum for an average "220v" (it's actually 240 V) outlet such as a dryer or AC, that's more than double what 13A 220V gives in the UK.
I found that asking it to write a lipogrammatic text omitting the letter "E" was impossible. It gets very confused by which words contain the letter E, and when you ask it to omit it, it simply rewrites words like "forever" as "forvr", which is honestly hilarious.
I spent an afternoon trying to get OpenAI to explain how the CCP could get a poor African country into a debt trap, forcing a default, which requires them to repay in elephant tusks. OpenAI won’t criticize the CCP, and it’s incredibly protective of elephants, even in countries where elephant hunting isn’t illegal. OpenAI couldn’t comprehend that it was not illegal to hunt elephants in countries which haven’t ratified certain UN resolutions. (WTF Andorra?)

Couldn’t get it to encourage elephant exploitation, even if the countries population was starving.

Hard line, don’t kill elephants.
Same here. He did not. This is probably meant for someone who know about their internal affairs.
My tip: don't start.

Random people coming up to me, usually stating something perfectly obvious that doesn't need stating ("Cool Hat!/Hey it's Hot Today/How about the footy eh?"), and then trying to converse on a variety of boring subjects (the weather/politics/footy/where I bought my hat/vaccines are evil/Jesus Christ is Our Savior) is a colossal waste of my CPU time.

Don't be that annoying person. Live and let live.
Do you mean today's release or the Twitter archive site?

If 8th release:

- showing for the 1st time it went beyond FBI/DOD/etc to include plenty of CIA. But the CIA involvement was always hidden by using an "OGA" label aka "Other Government Agency".

- a 90-person US task force ostensibly designed to combat "Foreign Influence" spent tons of time on domestic accounts.

- again shows Twitter under lots of pressure to find "foreign influence" but struggling to find any

- examples of them failing to find foreign influence for a particular account and deciding to brainstorm ways to ban it anyway

- Twitter was getting overwhelmed with requests, the FBI/others were sending lists of 100's, sometimes 1000's of accounts to be banned at a time, often with as little explanation as "Pro-Russian"

- explains how gov requests were carefully tailored by FBI to always be "Terms of Service violations", they'd come up with a reason to ban them that neatly tailored to fit the TOS... (which is kinda like parallel reconstruction if you think about it, just work backwards to find a reason)
> Voting on both automatically destroys their stake.

Genuine question: how does that work? How does ETH mainnet know that my validator is also voting on a different chain?
Why? http://principlesofchaos.org/ are real.
I see your point. Although I do call for some balance - don’t waste it all, but don’t be a packrat either.

> Like when you are in your 20s, living with roommates (even if you can afford not to) is fine and could be fun, and you can just enjoy friends coming over for beers vs more expensive outings etc.

Fair. I’ll just say we have different definitions of fun :) (nothing against what you said, people enjoy different things. I am actually jealous of people who find that stuff fun).
I would recommended searching for it on YouTube and watching some commentaries if you don’t have the energy to read them all.
I think for many there is an aspect in which, at some point during early childhood, they did experience good/joyous holidays with a loving family.

Unfortunately, for some, that does not continue into teenage years/young adulthood/the rest of life. For a variety of reasons.

Those memories & the potential yearning for them do not particularly go away for most, it seems to be part of the human condition. Methods of coping with the loss of meaningful holidays are vast, but substance abuse seems quite common.

While I do not know how universally true this is - I can only say I’ve heard many an anecdote being from a military family & I’m currently living on a marine base - it seems similar to soldiers fated to die gruesome deaths in foreign lands screaming for their mothers in their final moments. A somewhat universal experience. Maybe I’m thinking too deeply into it though.
Even when a rural ER receives a CTAS 1-2 patient, there is a chain of survival that’s followed to ensure continuity of care and transfer to an appropriate facility and accountability.

There is no safe failure mode in FSD that doesn’t rely on human intervention that’s intimated in the name.
Great website, Sir. I have a question, can't we create our own new category "Tech News" like "Crypto" and "Media"
We had this same thing before and Seattle residents used to call the people moving in from down south Californicators.
Bun v0.4.0
I think it's fascinating and unfortunate that the newsworthy and interesting material about US intelligence running sockpuppet influence accounts in part 8 followed on the heels of a bunch of weak axe-grinding about supposed moderation bias and Hunter Biden's laptop. If Musk had handed this stuff off to the Intercept rather than Taibbi and Weiss there might have actually been some useful impact.
Nope I couldn’t go more granular with the permissions!

I would have loved to. I would like the Web extension API to be less locked down with more fine grained permissions.

I can and will put more details into the privacy policy after the Christmas celebrations!
The world always need people like you. Thank you.
The spiritual heirs of the Clovis hang on, still. We know there were people in North America for many thousands of years beyond 16kya. Now they are imagined not to have made any tools?
If you failed on your startup i would recommend you to read "The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed" book by Alberto Savoia. This will give you basic tools to succeed and an explanation for why you failed before. Check it out and you will understand why you failed building your startup. Also don't get over your self, try to give some time for your self and take rest then after reading this book start building something new that you can test and validate the market. Good Luck.
Sure but that’s not it.
https://archive.vn/xieTE
I was about to say that a fool who believe in their own foolishness is more dangerous than a lying crook but then we have Alex Jones, a lying crook who’s at least as dangerous as that delusional and heartless psychic.

Seems that suing these people and hurting them financially is the only available tool to combat them.

While it’s not a popular view in some circles, I do believe that platforms should be held some responsibility for aiding in the promotion of these dangerous liars as they profit directly (ads) and indirectly (user engagement) from them.
I got an accurate answer when I asked the question "If there are objects on a plate, and I flip the plate upside down, what would happen to the objects?"

It correctly stated that objects will fall off the plate because of gravity.

Then I gave it the prompt " If I have 1 fork on a plate and I flip the plate upside-down, how many forks will be on the plate?"

It said:

>If you have 1 fork on a plate and you flip the plate upside-down, there will be 0 forks on the plate. When the plate is flipped upside-down, the force of gravity will cause the fork to fall off the plate unless it is secured to the plate in some way (e.g., with glue or tape).

It seems you have to give it a context to work in, then it will get the correct answer. By default it, humans always simulate gravity, but to a language model you have to give a hint that gravity is relevant to the question.
I had a similar experience with ChatGPT. I asked it to calculate the first 10 digits of pi in C, then the first 100 digits. Unfortunately, the only difference between the program was the printf() format: it went from %.10f to %.100f. So I prompted it with:

> Doubles do not have 100 digits of precision in C. Can you write a program to calculate the first 100 digits of Pi in C that takes the precision of data types into consideration?

I was surprised that it made sense of that request and returned another program using an arbitrary precision library. When it did not work, I told it where the error was and it gave a probable cause for the error. Again, rather impressive.
Reminds me of a surprisingly good article from gawker: https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capital...
> Bitcoin's emission is not that simple either with the reward halvings every 4 years. A fixed block subsidy (i.e. pure linear emission) is not only simpler, but arguably fairer too, avoiding a concentration of wealth on early miners/adopters, and leaving later generations more than mere crumbs.

The halving is probably the reason for the high tides of Bitcoin prices and the inflow of capital to all of cryptocurrency.
If someone proposed this moronic idea to me, I'd change my last name either to root or Administrator depending on my company.
Interesting that they mention that it looks like the artifacts may have an East-Asian (Siberian?) lineage presumably supporting the Bering crossing hypothesis.
Mass-produced consumer EVs are a relatively new tech and they will have problems for another few decades and get better because technology gets better over time (see: the past 1000 years). And I'm not a fanboy by ANY stretch of the imagination (I utterly loathe the CEO of Tesla.)

You can't judge today what an EV will be like in 50 years the same way you couldn't judge what would happen from the first Model T (1908) to the best selling car of 1958, the VW bug. I mean, safety and mileage weren't even primary concerns in `58. It was still novelty. You have to jump almost 100 years for mileage to finally get significantly better in automobiles! As well as airbags, antilock breaks, shatterproof glass, seatbelts, crumple zones, etc. EVs are nowhere near internalizing all of the issues, let alone solving them.

I think this is an opportunity to work on the problems, and not say EVs are dead because they aren't perfect. Maybe they only fill a niche in the future, and don't take over, but that's still a big deal for emissions. Hopefully the issues with lithium mining & recycling, and infrastructure, and chargers, and battery tech improves. It doesn't mean don't try to make it better. I'm glad more companies are exploring the tech.

The one area I would think is a justified complaint would be if companies were getting unfair tax-funded subsidies to produce inferior products to make their shareholders rich rather than improving their technology for society.
People have the right to be free, which slavery infringes upon. Land doesn't have any rights, so suburbs can't infringe upon them.

As for this:

> I don't see how suburbs are incompatible with GP's proposal

Look at the last line of that post:

> Death to the suburban experiment.
I think you’re also misunderstanding the point of the Chinese Room. The Chinese room purports to show that strong AI is not possible because all computer programs cannot “understand”. I think this argument falls apart unless you can explain why our brains are not computable.
A 10 person company is different from a 100 person company is different from a 10,000 person company.

Some patterns scale while others break down. Information and understanding and alignment takes longer to propagate the more people are in the org.
Want to see how quickly the petrol supply line breaks down in an emergency? We had severe shortages for a month after an earthquake. People hoarding fuel contributed significantly, at least you can't hoard electricity.

Also, electricity supply isn't prone to supply shocks when Russia invades Ukraine, or the Saudis want to flex their muscles.
I was wondering why there was a marked difference between the latter list which has 3 CA cities in the top five, and that of the parent post which excludes California from the top 50 taxed cities. And it seems that 0) the latter list only counts cities over 200K population, plus 1) the former list counts the Special Tax districts within Missouri cities as separate cities, so e.g. St. Louis city/county by itself counts as 13 entries in the Top 50 taxed "cities."
I'm probably gonna get downvoted for this, but a $5k vacation won't bring you lasting happiness. At best it's great in the moment, it'll bring you some fond memories, and perhaps it'll give you some bragging rights. And then that's it. It's nothing compared to achieving your dream. And you don't achieve your dream while on vacation.
very cool, but the music could do with a bit more.
I raise the asn of do a bit using the asn module for rspamd. Same goes for ips in rbls - score higher and take a complete picture score using multiple data points. There are legitimate systems on do and you never know the email you don’t get unless someone goes out of your way to send email another way. Personally I get more spam from gmail and outlook than digital ocean but obviously due to both of their sizes it probably is less than a provider like do overall.
Yea, but there is another difference besides them being smaller. Email is fastmail's primary business. A domain registrars primary business is selling domains. So it's more risky for them to provide sub-par support compared to google where gmail is just one of the many things they do.
Love you all. Merry Christmas!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-No-ADL-Webcam-Laptop
Beyond doing what I can at a personal level, I'm all spent on worrying about climate. Life goes on, or it won't, American politics has shown me that there is bugger-all I can do.
64 Network DO’s and DON’Ts for Game Engine Developers
It’s about -3% change in drag force per +10°C change in temp.
Extra points: leave old and outdated documentation and scripts in the repository. New documentation should go to a wiki that is not referenced in code and does not track versions. Different parts of the wiki should apply to different code versions.
I’m sorry if I came across as dismissing your situation. Covert discrimination exists as a real problem, but I have seen people go down a dark path when they try to look for it too much.
That's the basic premise made by StongTowns.org. It's hard to pick a single post to start but the one about Layfayette, Louisiana is a good case study and a good place to dive in, imo.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
A former sergeant is very unlikely to have any knowledge of what the CIA or any other secretive U.S. organization is doing in Russia.
>Spoken by someone who's never had their diesel fuel begin gelling in the fuel line at night on a frigid, remote highway and trying to figure out if you can make it to somewhere with heat before you stop completely.

I don't know where you live, but here in Germany my diesel car had no big problems with -19°C around 10 years ago. Biggest problem was heating the interior that the windows remain ice free during driving. I want to see your new electric car driving in this circumstances the 100km I had to drive.

And please note, 2035 means 13 years in the future. I don't doubt that the infrastructure for electric cars can work in 100 years...but what's with 13?
Tao Huabi's Lao GAN Ma chilli sauce is a beloved household staple
I always wonder if the perception of self checkout is slanted by people who don't realize they have to put the scanned items individually onto the scale before they can scan the next item. I still see frustrated shoppers doing it all the time at the store.
Similar story: a few years out of college I too inherited a codebase written in the 1990s by some genius phd, also in the finance field. Someone else clearly tried to clean it up before me. The word “WTF” was in comments throughout the codebase.
Is there a way to quickly delete or restart a level?
> Conversely if you love algorithms and are sufficiently good at them then you can spend your entire career with that and never ever talk to non-technical people.

I think there are two types of programmers. Ones that are like you that like algorithms for algorithms sake. And the other that like to solve real world problems. I got into software development because I want to solve problems for people. And not all of us likes algo. We prefer to learn stuff that we do use day to day because that has direct impact. For example, I just spent two months understanding functional programming. I use it in my code almost everyday, but it would be worthless in an interview where you are judge by your algo understanding. It’s frustrating when you realize how this standard is forced on every technical role, on companies that don’t even need algo experts because they are too small.
You really need to read the article. It's a quote. The blog piece is not a disquisition on irrelevancy, it's on academic theft and lack of recognition for "purloined writing"
Exactly!

I recently used an org chart for a 3 year horizon, not because it will be anything like that in reality, but it was a way to communicate:

- the required roles and teams to non-technical leadership that would be required to deliver on the vision

- a rough team size to help define cost bases for future planning, and to align expectations across different parts of the company
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
The costs? Basically it comes down to things like roads, water, sewer, etc. being amortized over fewer people:

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/2/5/suburban-infras...

Re: costs to cities, mostly focused on the extensive roadworks to serve solo car commuters - those are expensive and converted a lot of neighborhoods into something which consumes but does not generate tax income, and things like parking don’t generate much income, and all of that comes at a hefty cost to health & quality of life.