skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It follows, if nothing else, by selection bias. The organisations that did not take on investment and subsequently made bad decisions based on flawed assumptions don't stick around for as long to make further mistakes on the same assumptions.
Ask HN: Tools to search your HN favorites?
HN is one of the highest quality forums out there, and I regularly mark articles and posts as favorites, now I have thousands. I use raindrop for this and add tags and categories. I generally read HN on mobile using the Hack iOS app.

It would be incredibly useful to have a high quality search tool that (smartly) searches through my favorited HN articles. Looking for recommended tools.
Not sure, i got slightly over 100wpm
8 tips to help you get promoted as an engineer in a startup
I can't read that article, but it seems pretty clear to me that they're separate quotes; although I suppose it could seem like they're juxtaposed in a quick reading. I did actually put them in a search engine to see if they're out of context, but I couldn't really find anything to suggest they are.
This is a bunch of rhetoric dressed up as logic hidden by using long paragraphs. If you break it down and remove the repetition it is basically saying:

1. the other guy made some argument

2. but he was just too ignorant to understand why his argument was wrong

3. I am smart and I do SENSEMAKING

4. therefore other guy's argument is wrong

As far as I can tell, the actual first argument is something along the lines of

1. many founders raise capital and waste it because it's not "their money" so they part ways with it more easily

2. this leads to failed businesses

3. therefore founders should not raise money

and the counter argument is

1. some businesses need upfront capital and the returns only come later

2. some founders can raise capital and use it effectively, instead of wasting it, even though it isn't "their money"

3. therefore founders should raise money

which are both good arguments and in no way contradict each other. I have seen founders do both, and it's true that some money is raised when it was not needed, and some money is raised and then squandered, and some money is raised and used effectively to generate massive returns. That's why it's called "venture" capital.
Google didn't allow imperfect grades until after Marisa Mayer lost power.

She demanded perfect grades like she got.
Interesting, reminds me of Sorani (Kurdish), with a script similar to Perso-Arabic , where only some, short vowels are represented using markers. This means that you end up with less connected characters which makes it visually stand out compared to say, Persian, Arabic or Urdu.

examples:

- Sorani: سوور sûr for red, که ر kar for donkey (note the double و and ه in the middle of the word), and

- Persian: سور sur (an old word for red, currently unused besides some festival names IIRC), خر khar (donkey)

This makes Kurdish actually much easier to read (non need to memorise the typical vowel patterns as in Arabic or Persian) since the writing is mostly aligned with pronunciation.

Weirdly enough, if we discard the current cultural context (English as the lingua franca) for a new speaker of an Indo-European language, learning Sorani from writing might be easier than picking up English (Ghoti and chips anyone?).
As I am sure you are already aware in moments of clarity, your fear of being evaluated and rejected by others is so severe that you’ve made the choice to engage in behaviors that ensue it will happen, thus at least giving yourself a feeling of agency and control over that process.

Perhaps you will come to terms with this in time to live some portion of your life with a different approach.
It seems like you have no real knowledge about what you are talking. If the last years told us anything especially with the bad performance of GPT-J and BLOOM we will see these models ballooning for at least 2-3 more years on the hardware side there is also nothing that shows that the costs will go down.
While I generally don't like lists describing how people "should behave" to be more appropriate, because being social is such a nuanced thing and people are widely different, I disagree with you that this perpetuates any autistic association. No matter how skilled you are in soft skills, a new perspective can help you improve those skills. Most of the points on this list are common sense but most folks have probably never put these ideas into words, which is the value this blog post is bringing. A lot of non-autistic people lack social skills.
Except MS did confirm that statement separately when asked

> When I reached out to Microsoft about Nixon's comments, the company didn't dismiss them at all. "Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers," says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. "We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations."

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Luckily with macOS there is the way of expose (renamed) and hot corners that allows switching based on various logic by a swing of the mouse both lightning fast and visual (easy and quick to locate things and trace what is happening), very natural to me from the very first time I tried. (this allowed Mac + VM products like Parallels with coherence mode to work superior to any Windows practice in this reagard - better in handling multiple windows than Windows, hehe - having Win in a VM was my preferred way of working with Windows for a decade or so - only changed because of new job with different IT practices, and lately with the looong transition of Intel to ARM processors and the consequent difficulties with x64 Win systems and apps. All Windows window became a Mac window, switching between those very visually and quickly, superior to Windows way, even with the then working taskbar practices)

Unluckily in Windows the taskbar became more essential than the dock in macOS for switching windows - on Mac I use the dock to start new instances or quitting the app (differing philosophy of window and app lifetime between mac and win), not much of a switching - and then they ruined this essential taskbar thing without good alternative on Windows (Ctrl + Tab is more like a complementary thing than alternative).
A variant does not make that guarantee, it just segregates it.
It wasn't any enormous discovery. The particular academic in the article might have learned this thing existed from his father scribbles, but it has been a thing for centuries and has been studied in the past. They could have just learn about it by studing the literature.

It's more about getting more publicity for it, and getting the library and digitization program mentioned in the article going. That should have been the angle in the article.

>Nor do I understand the numerous mentions of European colonialism in the article.

They're examples of an appeal to current forms of orientalism and colonialism: just spin the story in an angle Americans and Europeans will be sympathetic to, because of their own preoccupations, in order to keep the grants going.

Focused on how these scripts were used for close to a millenium, before European colonialism was established in those parts, and arising under practical needs (they had the language, arabs had the script), wouldn't make such an enticing story to modern audiences.

Now peoples there speaking French or varieties of Dutch/German, or having their upper classes follow European norms and fashions and shun their own legacy, that's cultural colonialism in Africa (aside the economic, political, and millitary one).
Killing the golden goose?
Yes, they try a lot of stuff. I worked in the library of what is now NTNU Ålesund when I studied, and I remember coming across books about some long abandoned experiments, such as "havbeite", sea grazing. The idea was that they would just release young farmed fish and catch them later. A lot of crazy ecological recklessness like that, but also a lot of creative attempts to do the right things (prevent escapes, minimize antibiotics use and minimize suffering and damage from salmon louse).
See other parts of the thread.
From an economic capacity and technological perspective, we absolutely could build a vessel that had enough radiation shielding and thrust to get some people there (and probably even back). No need for a 1,000 day time frame. That's not enough to ensure the health and safety of the crew of course, but "marginal" is different than "ensure".

Of course that isn't politically possible, but the other poster seemed to be talking about our capacity as a civilization in their comment, and really, the NASA outline presented in the article doesn't do much more to demonstrate it than my silly mission above. The "interesting" level for a civilization would be to build an actual self sustaining colony on Mars, and we probably don't currently have the capacity to do that (the challenges go from having the equipment needed to being able to manufacture it).
> I suppose that the undergrads knew what they were doing.

Based on what evidence?
I wonder how you can tell the underlying language when you have multiple languages sharing the same script?
Can you elaborate on what you are doing?
It was a German couple, but she is of Polish descent and has family in Poland still. And I’d bet money on the broom being the one requiring the Mettigel anyway ;)
Was trying to find some reading material on these that addressed the question: what happens when large debris makes contact with the control arms for this? I've seen large chunks of ice that are dense enough and heavy enough to cause undercarriage damage.
He has written a large number of things that demonstrate he is cognitively impaired.

It's weird watching folks either engaging in "blaming the victim" or "laughing at the disabled" around this guy.

He appears to be astoundingly, cripplingly stupid. Core dev, huh? Yeah. Cool.
Perhaps an introduction class during highschool (say 9th/10th grade) and a programming lab would work. But making it mandatory sounds regressive. I would make it completely optional like learning a second or third language.
FWIW, @vasqc clarified in a sibling comment that his use case is legal in his country.

I think his use of the term "pirate" was confusing.
"Lost"...sure, what a convenient tax writeoff
I have not read the technical details, apologies for ignorance, but is there an opportunity for caching?
Why did they lose those key employees?
Isn't too early to claim Twitter is a better product now?

BTW what exactly is better?

I hardly use Twitter but the few times I did, I didn't recognize any change.
Did you read the article? European colonialism is directly relevant to the subject of the article and the connection is explicitly explained.

"Ajami, from the Arabic word ʿAjamī, meaning “non-Arabic” or “foreign,” was created centuries ago by Islamic evangelists to spread the religion to African communities. Over generations, it was adopted by members of anticolonial nationalist resistance movements throughout the continent, as French and English colonists installed their own languages and customs."
You don't sound like "Big Tech", where HR prevents the interviewers from making hiring decisions.
> building a high trust society is more culture than demographics

This is the kind of question that benefits from a probabilistic analysis: does ethnic homogeneity, on average, help or hinder building and maintaining a high trust society?

Many conflicts in world history have an ethnic dimension. Many substantial social cleavages, even if they are not ethnically based, over time may evolve an ethnic dimension. For example some religions have an ethnic dimension, most religions require members to marry only within the own religion etc. Moreover, people are more likely to procreate with people they spend a lot of time with. So even linguistic differences can lead to ethnicisation, since it's easier to socialise with people you can easily communicate with.
Ok, fair point. I do agree with the article that the challenges involved are probably greatly underestimated. Although we imagine that they are familiar, akin to known problems like deep-sea diving or mountain climbing or airplane travel or arctic exploration or even space station inhabitation, the challenges are actually wildly outside of current human knowledge. Worse, it's a boring problem. Not nearly as dramatic and exciting as making a rocket ship.
What skills need improvement? I am 100% aware of when it is safe to interrupt and when it is not. People have different thresholds for what they consider acceptable, and there's a whole bunch of social factors to it, like in every situation.

All I've come to realise is that I don't need to let anyone I'm not close to police me. It's nonsensical. If I am breaking no laws, and simply sating my desires, then what business is it of a stranger what I do? What do I care if it makes them feel bad? While I am a generous person, it's important to remember that offense is taken, not given.

The only people who actually feel bad about someone who's interesting enough to capture the spotlight keeping it on, are those who feel so insecure in themselves and their own accomplishments, they are unable to let others have theirs. I understand that, and I sympathise. That's why I used to go along with what I was told. I too thought that was the right thing to do.

In my experience, I have had more positive social interactions in the past ~3 months I've been speaking my mind than the past 8 years I've lived as a "proper person" in this city. My strategy is improving my social success, not decreasing it. I simply do not accept the assertion that it is better to be reticent than assertive. It does not fit with what I've observed about who seems happy with their lives, and who feels helpless, anxious, and weak.
We had 3 suicides in my high school class of 24, so certainly true in at least some places in the EU also.
It's phonetic, and these are all living languages. All you need to know is what characters correspond to which phonemes and you need someone who can speak enough words of the language.
One concept that took me a while to fully understand was the concept of decentralization in blockchain technology. When I first learned about blockchain, I understood the basic principles of how it worked, but it wasn't until I started working for a blockchain company that the concept of decentralization really clicked for me.

Decentralization is a key feature of blockchain technology, and it refers to the fact that the blockchain is not controlled by a single entity or organization. Instead, it is maintained by a network of computers working together, and every transaction is recorded on a distributed ledger that is available to everyone in the network.

Realizing the potential implications of this decentralization - such as greater transparency, security, and accessibility - was a big moment for me, and it solidified my belief in the power of blockchain to transform industries and the way we do business.

If you're interested in learning more about blockchain and decentralization, I highly recommend checking out Rather Labs (https://www.ratherlabs.com). We're always looking for passionate people to join our team and help drive the adoption of this exciting technology.
One question, so if I copy the old libraries from an old distro, will they fail because on my distro there is a new libc or libc++ ? Because I hit this issue too where from my googling you can only have one libc(or c++ I can't remember, but I was forced to upgrade because a software needed a newer library and it was no way to provide a non system wide one -or not an easy way that I could actually find).

In my case I run this python2.4 app, it complained about a missing library, I googled it, found what package had it, installed it, then repat and repeat.
Now I am stuck at "libpangox1.0" can't find it on the apt repos , so maybe I will waste more time on google or just give up.

Is a good lesson as a developer, either use some "modern" stuff or if you use c/c++ and care about the users try to build an AppImage or something similar.
It looks like he kept his keys on a server that he knew was compromised since November. Not great opsec, to put it lightly.

https://twitter.com/pic/orig/media%2FFlakyMWWAAIUDPl.png
'Potentially Hazardous' Near-Earth Objects to Have a Close Flyby in 2023
The media may not lie often, but they continuously deceive.
So you seem to be making an argument in favour of applying the phrase “supply chain” to OSS just as you would apply it to proprietary dependencies you build upon, because it’s a framing that helps your business (even if it harms the OSS ecosystem, which is a point of mine you didn’t argue against).

But I don’t think it would help the business either, since it’s a false abstraction.

A supplier is expected to be holding themselves to certain standards—including literally, by way of ISO 31000 and similar. Your suppliers’ compliance with, say, risk management practices is what your risk management practices build upon: this is why you have procedures for choosing your suppliers.

Furthermore, there’s an important reason for transaction relationship and contracts in some form or shape to exist—of course, ultimately you are responsible to your customers; but if something really bad happens, it is quite handy to be able to legally demonstrate that (1) you have done your work picking a reliable partner (if they actually comply with certain standards, they at least must have managed to convince relevant auditors—and are probably liable to them for lying) and (2) there is a paper trail that codifies your relationship with that partner, who may not have upheld their part of the deal.

(Naturally, your compliance with risk management standards, having relevant contracts signed with your suppliers, etc. plays an important role in downstream partners’ willingness to work with you as a supplier: it’s turtles all the way down.)

With OSS, no one owes you anything and your business is the final supplier in the chain; and if there’s no chain in any meaningful sense, the phrase is actively misleading to business decision makers.
I do not see the point. Your way made me miserable. My way makes me happy. That's all the proof I need to support myself.
There are hardly mentions of colonialism, only where it fits. And that's the point, it seems: nobody bothered to look, apparently convinced in one way or another that the people were illiterate. So, it's an interesting and large set of documents.

The remark I found most interesting was that it wasn't taught at school, but that people seem to have taught it among themselves. The article doesn't mention any other form of teaching, but it might have something to do with the earlier Muslim colonization/proselytizing and the subsequent spread of the Quran.
Yes, but most electricity in the US is produced using natural gas. Natural gas produces much less CO2 emissions than all other fossil fuels. Plus, the efficiency of power plants is double the efficiency of an ICE engine in a car. Switching to an EV easily cuts the emissions by a factor of 2, even when the electricity is produced with fossil fuels.
Relating to cash flow and payment terms, my company (outside of tech) has a particularly large client (rev >$2B AUD, 10k employees worldwide) that has us on 45 days EOM, but accounts team won't accept an invoice without a ref#, which are given by the "receipting team" after site confirms work is completed

The mysterious "receipting team" is not in the main office, and has no phone number or even names listed, emails are never directly replied to, instead site contacts will call to relay questions/answers from them, ref# come from an automated do-not-reply email. They will quite often be "backlogged" and fail to send a ref# before the the end of the month, and suddenly will be cleared up on the 1st of the month.

We've had jobs that finished in the first week of a month, been ignored for 25 days, received a ref# with an apology for the delay on the 1st of the following month, get paid 45 days end of that month. So up to 100 days from completing work to getting paid. All our accounts are POS, 7 days EOM, or 30 days EOM, and must be paid on time or we lose supply. So to do a job with $100k of materials and wages for them, we have to have $100k spare cash for up to 60-100 days

It's not a cashflow problem, they're sitting on reserves and we're a blip on their radar, less than 1/10th of a percent of their outgoings

So we quote them outrageously high, and they never blink. I've told them some jobs would be up to 50% less if they paid quicker, and they've outright said they'd rather hold the cash and pay more. For a sense of scale we've invoiced them about $500k a year for the last few years, they've told me to clear out a couple weeks for two jobs that are nearly that much each, in February and April this year. I can't figure out who's getting the bad deal, them or me, I keep assuming they must have some massive upside I'm not seeing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think he is numbering his bullet points from zero.
Yeah 4xAWD (let’s piss everyone off) helps maintain action when you’re driving IN the snow (you have a slightly better chance of not getting stuck if you can power all your wheels and have appropriately calibrated antislip).

But losing control because of ice can happen no matter how many driven or traction control wheels you have. And all wheels are basically skis when you’re skidding at 90° to the direction of travel. In fact, in some skids front wheel drive will be the best as at least you have a chance of powersteering out.

The real trick is to not start the skid at all. Sloooooooow down before you’re driving sideways.
Opening (and mobilising) a car is a vastly different scenario from opening an SSH session and your typical Mercedes or BMW driver is not your average SSH user. Customers want their cars to unlock on approach and they've become used to it. They expect the trunk to open when they swipe their foot under the tail bumper while they are holding their groceries in both hands. Keyless entry systems are useful and the most important target group of buyers of cars that are worth stealing is accustomed to them.

Keyless is not going anywhere and you need more than an SSH-like protocol to protect it.
If you read the original article, the author says right at the beginning that of course some startups should raise money.

The original argument was just that it shouldn’t be the default position.
Linux distros are a mix of mostly independent projects, there is no central authority telling them how it should be done and therefore inconsistency is inevitable. It applies to the command line too (looking at you "ps"). And yet, the parts that the distro vendor controls, usually the default desktop environment and settings screens are usually rather consistent.

For Windows, I don't think anyone complains about the fact that if you run an ancient Windows app, it looks like an ancient Windows app. In fact, backward compatibility has always been one of Microsoft strongest selling points. What people complain about is that Windows itself is inconsistent. Windows branded components, made and owned by Microsoft, included in the main OS with no alternative offered are inconsistent. The worst part is the control panel, it is a mess and they have no excuse, it is an unfinished job that shouldn't have been out of beta.
Is a mobile device / edge device a possible participant / source of resources?