skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the problem with startups is that they focus on corporate finance too much.

When in reality they should be acting like a small business e.g. florist.

Often these startups are failing because of basic cash-flow management.
"To date, we have seen Chinese companies and of course, in China, there's really no distinction between private companies and the state."

Of course, because in the United States there is.

“Not one major Wall Street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008 as a result of their greed, recklessness and illegal behavior. No. They didn’t go to jail. They got a trillion-dollar bailout.”

Can anyone remember who told us that?
how much would you pay?
I think pay-for-verification is going to be dominant on all real-identity social media.

Reason is simple: AI

1.You can now trivially create an avatar photo, of any level of attractiveness, of any race, of any age. You can even reproduce the same character reliably in different environments/costumes via stable diffusion + LORA.
2. You can now easily create a comment history on that account, thanks to ChatGPT.
3. You can even produce voices reliably with just a few samples.

There's no real defense against AI impersonation at scale, except for charging-for-verification. The money drastically increases the cost for impersonators and scammers/catfishers, and provides resources on the other end to moderate impersonation.
Raspberry Pi, despite not being fully FOSS, has a much better community supporting it. I’d bet it will last longer than the pine boards. Watched Jeff Geerling’s videos on it and he had trouble getting the pine board to work, whereas the Raspberry Pi worked first try. The only images for it were some images a guy made and put on the pine wiki.
Lol, that’s the same footgun I discovered myself when was checking open ports. Who that wise guy in Docket team who decided to pass default firewall rules and open containers ports to public?
Yeah, for the worse.

We will have a ton of bullshit at scale. And the web will be done for.
The original account under this URL https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever is still banned for me (in germany).

Also: How can you, as a tech journalist, write about a twitch account and not link to it?
In general ideas are not copyrightable. Expression of ideas are copyrightable.

Anyone can sue you for whatever reason. The court can throw the case out but it’s a nuisance to you.
are they scammers?
Those things aren't scarce it's a complete fabrication - like Diamonds. It's artificial scarcity

People desire non-mandatory goods (you don't need them to live in health until old age) that are artificially scarce (could be produced at a higher rate than they are but are not because producers require a capital return) because they have more resources than they need.

Stray Kids "Official lightsticks" are "scarce." [1] Nobody on the planet needs an official stray kids lightstick for health, safety, reproductive success etc... The creation of the lightstick by a marketing manager induces a fear of being left out (anxiety) of being part of the cool kids (read: rich kids) in order to make more money for the band and the supporting businesses of the band.

The creation, marketing, production and purchasing of the stray kids lightstick - which will eventually wind up in a landfill - is a net drain on the overall productive capacity of Humanity.

Labor and capital that is not being used to provide someone else in REAL deprivation actual necessity goods - because the imbalance is real

You seem to miss the key point: As a species, we have enough of everything we need to survive and thrive, but too many of the wrong people have too much of the resources.

I'm just here to tell you it's fucked, someone else can figure out how to distribute it all without violence.

Read the paper again

[1]https://www.subkshop.com/products/stray-kids-official-light-...
Land based will have an important role to play for a long time simply because we can easily service, upgrade and design new experiments for them which for a long time isn't going to be easy for space telescopes.
I agree, but there's a difference between a human and an AI making that joke. A human who makes clever jokes poking fun at bigoted expressions will probably continue to do so. A language model is liable to forget to be clever 30 minutes later and say something bigoted without a punchline. Obviously Twitch would like to prevent this.
Why is BREP so challenging? I hear these sort of statements a lot. But often they turn out complicated as much because it’s a crusty code base built on hacks of hacks. What am I missing?

SDF do seem like a cool option. They’re computationally expensive but I’d bet the ray tracing features coming out in GPUs would help with that.
> “I am not a bot/intelligence services construct/foreign troll masquerading as an citizen etc.”. Is a pretty valuable service for the network.

It is valuable to Facebook to maintain a healthy pltform. But is it really worth $15 a month to you to broadcast this to others?

Unless the culture of the platform shifts to a point where non-verified accounts are considered second-class, the only reason to pay this is basically as a status symbol. In which case, I think the tiered approach makes more sense. And maybe "Facebook Gold" for people who want to pay even more for a badge....

Twitter had their checkmarks established as an artificially constrained status symbol you couldn't buy with money... and then, under Musk, they altered the terms of the deal by saying you have to pay, but you get tangible perks in terms of platform features, visibility of your content, etc. Unless Facebook wants to do that, I can't see people paying this much on their own...
Eventually, meaning decades, as long as a near equilibrium is eventually reached, wages will rise and wealth ceases to be self-reinforcing at a grand level (back to a few percent). There hasn't been equilibrium for at least a decade. The long tail (the vast majority of people) will continue to suffer for decades and wealth will continue to be disgustingly easy to grow (with a few hundred thousand) in relation to the price increases most people encounter day-to-day. Ofc, maybe I'm just biased.
We’ve always been distracted, or at least worried that we are
Will this actually solve this? Her account may be verified but that doesn't stop another unverified account from spoofing her.

The announcement mentions "impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you" but I'm skeptical how advanced that's going to be. It can't stop name reuse (because real people have the same name). And preventing someone creating a second account with the same image would be perfectly possible today, with no verification system, so I doubt that's it either.
Whose deadline is it? If you weren’t involved in the scope and scheduling discussions, then it’s not your deadline. No authority without responsibility and vice versa.

Early in my career, yeah I did a fair bit of unpaid overtime. With enough experience and clout, you learn 1) this is bullshit and I don’t actually have to take it and 2) now that I have clout, no one’s even going to dare whisper an expectation of such nonsense.

How do you earn that clout? By taking responsibility for when you were involved in setting the scope & schedule and it’s genuinely your fault and so you volunteer to do OT to fix it.
I've seen many people begin projects with VS code and end it with Intellij or another jetbrain product.

To be fair, I use VS Code as well. It works well as a text editor.
Was it a bad idea at twitter? Or was Musks handling of the whole situation just crap?

If Musk had made an impassioned case about why, and engaged peoples concerns in a grown-up way it might have gone better.
With waves of climate change disasters sweeping at an increasing rate across the world, and resulting wars being almost inevitable in the next few decades, you are unlikely to have always-on internet for the entirety of your life. My region (first world, in a wealthy nation) has had its infrastructure (roads and comms alike) largely destroyed twice in the last year or so. As we're rich, it gets built back, but that takes time. I've been stung enough from weeks'-long outages and periods of isolation to never again completely rely on an internet connection. I do use software that requires a connection, but not for anything critical.
> C has type system

TIL, apparently all that gobject code attempting to add something resembling a type system to C in glib is redundant...

Edit: After taking a quick glance at some random listings in goaccess, I don't have the impression this was written by particularly talented C developers.

Example: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/src/sort.c#...
there are many options if you do not care how conflicts are resolved and last win or some unknown but deterministic change wins is ok, but if you care to write bullet proof app specific conflict resolution without any data loss there is no real alternative to pouchdb + couchdb (except reimplementing something similar manually)

also worth noting is that offline first is about way more than just working offline, yes full offline scenarios are more and more rare, but offline first apps provide reliable and instant interactivity where any user action is has a latancy of 1 to 10 ms max and no data is lost. and works as well on crappy mobile as on a high speed landline.
No? Because if you need tons of capital to make a minuscule profit your company is worth nothing. (A company has to outperform at least the interest people can get on bonds plus some equity premium.)

Amazon could make a significant profit, if Bezos wanted. But that’s a different question.
I have this same board running freebsd as a NAS. It has been a pretty great experience overall. My main gripe has been that I would really like to be able to run an nvme drive for a cache at the same time as SATA ports, and I haven't found any cost effective PCIE2.0 x4 switches that I could use for that purpose. There is an x1 switch for use with RP4, but it is a shame to lose all the bandwidth.

I'm looking forward to someone making a NAS board on the new RK3588 since that has enough connectivity for everything I want.
Do you mean as awesome as the people who say jif? ;-)
This won't replace Ada (nothing will, because there's no code to replace...) until it has the same or similar type system.
ECIES is quite fine though for most asynchronous applications, where having a signing key also makes sense as you often want to publish long-lived, signed data and build a trust chain (e.g. generate and sign session keys from a master key). I built several real-world systems based on that (e.g. [1]) and they all made it through the audits fine. I was exploring Noise-based protocols but I find it's best to rely on primitives that are supported by the Web Crypto API.

1: https://github.com/kiebitz-oss/
I could generate huge revenues selling $100 gift cards for 80 bucks.

But I wouldn’t be generating much profit.
Can you share more about this 'drug shortage'? Is it like the empty shop shelves and empty fuel pumps that is claimed to still exist for years now despite being resolved within days/weeks at the time?
I used Astronvim with alacritty, I still found the setup incredibly convoluted, but you are right that wasn't what broke the camels back, that was the last straw.

In the end, I'm happy where I landed. I like the idea of vim, I don't think the editor is where I would like it to be. I think neovim will get there since it allows normal GUI editors to be built on top of it, which is amazing, but the documentation right now is a "disaster": you need to know VIMscript + LUA to be able to configure it, for someone coming straight to neovim, that was really annoying. But if you go to normal vim, then there is no language server, which is a problem on its own.

Either way, as I said, I'm happy where I landed. I'm not saying "no", I'm saying I'd rather use my time toward something else.
I even use VSCode in a weird way, like I don't use the integrated terminal at all and I like "full screen view" when I'm typing code.

My only gripe with vscode is the terrible fuzzy finder for files. I do miss FZF, but I can do `code CTRL+T` in my terminal for a similar result
NLP Cloud has a finetuned version of neoX which works incredibly well.
> So basically like building the pipe part anew.

No, the cost of the Northstream 2 alone was roughly $11 billion. Much of the pipeline could be used, the explosion was only in a small region.

> Technically there was. It was pressurized. Meaning it was full of gas delivered up to the tap on the German side.

It was filled, but nothing was delivered into Germany. There was also no permission given to do that.

> Dealing with Europe who acts like this is some kind of privilege is a waste, IMO.

Russia has all the responsibility. They attacked the Ukraine. It's their choice. It has nothing to do with a 'privilege'.

> You are being categorical at the expense of being realistic.

Realistically Russia has removed themselves from being someone who we want to trade with for at least a decade. They are not a partner and they are not reliable.

Russia started a war against not only the Ukraine, but also against the rest of Europe and they used the energy dependency as a weapon. Russia was preparing for the war for some time.
> I just hope that they don’t do so by resolving Fermi’s Paradox for us

Yes, that thought has occurred to me. I've also considered that the "Singularity" might be instead of the point AI gains sentience, it is more like the moment we lose ours :-) as we go forward on foolish endeavors we don't fully understand.
> I also didn't realize it installed things globally

It doesn't. It's a subtle distinction but the 'blame' doesn't lie with pip. When you do a pip install it does it in the context of the python interpreter you're using.

If you use your global python you get an installation in a global context from pip. If you use a non-global python you get a non-global installation from pip. And this is what venv etc give you; a local interpreter, which means the associated pip installs in a local context (a separate one for each venv).
“A court has issued strict limits on how police can pull innocent bystanders into big data investigations”
Violates least surprise.
The key feature seems to be access to customer support. If you have a large audience or following on Facebook and it's relevant to your business then I could probably see it being worthwhile. For regular users the value proposition seems questionable?

I'd probably be more fine with a one-time fixed-cost verification service, considering it probably requires a human to manually verify and approve each request. But a monthly subscription? That feels like a rent-seeking cash grab. Do you suddenly forget about someone's verification status as soon as they stop paying?

If anyone reading this comment is considering paying for this service I'd love to hear what makes this service worthwhile for you.
A lot goes into making a product that people love, if you can master the customer, market dynamics, pricing, pitch, product, service, etc to be growing really fast, you can probably learn basic corporate finance. That's what the VCs are betting on and they will even give you a board member and resources to help you out! if your product is only successful because your unit economics are upside down which is giving an unfair market advantage where you have none otherwise, well then that's reckless
Sure, you need revenue to generate a profit, otherwise you'd be generating profits from nothing. You can also have organisations who are specifically "Not for profit", they balance sheets will frequently end up with a 0 dollars in profits each year, and that's as expected, but they too need revenue to do anything.

For certain types of companies, revenue is easy. I worked to a company that did mostly consulting, but would also sell you hardware or software licenses, so customers only need to interact with us, and no one else. Technically we could just have given away hardware, and we frequently did sell servers at a lose. That shows up as revenue. As long as you have money or credit to sell expensive stuff at a lose, then revenue is easy.

That's not the main point though. The point is measuring companies on revenue is pretty stupid, without also looking that profitability.
sure. but you need 1 prompt engineer producing work equivalent to 100s of artists*artist_hours

not to mention, prompt engineering doesn't seem like a particularly technical job either
Yeah. I often nuke the node_modules directory and start again.
Certainly true for Sturmey-Archer. If you try to upshift under load, you'll feel the cable resisting. If you downshift under load, it'll wait to shift until you back off on the pedals just a bit.

Compensating for both things becomes a habit. Likewise, remembering not to shift at a stoplight becomes a habit with derailleurs. You reach a point where you begin to think like your bike.

Given that I'm a casual cyclist on a non-sporty bike, I just live with the slight awkwardness when I'm halfway up a hill and realize that I chose the wrong gear.
My guess is they were going to attempt point in time recovery by replaying transaction or relocation log after the snapshot and stop it before the drop. Unless they made a mistake.
That’s fair. Where I grew up no one uses that, I just pulled it from some suggestions on Reddit. I’m not actually familiar with how it’s used.
I see Sweden the "utopia" that some claim has even higher inflation than UK, I guess that must be because of Brexit too right? And Italy, the land of the great food?
Same here. I'm turning 32 on upcoming May and I've put my career in the back burner in favor of finding a partner. I think places like in SF or NY make it super easy for young/mid 20's folks to focus only on their career and very little else.

>But I am left with a feeling of "what else?"

I feel like this is a perpetual state that we human beings will find ourselves in. I feel like once you have something, there's that itch that wants you to get something more/else.
I know of three open-source projects in recent times that have made it to the frontpage of HN for reasons concerning funding (Babel, Faker, and now Core-JS). Coincidentally, they are all JS/Node projects.

I wonder if many maintainers who end up feeling this way about open-source were ever good fits for open-source to begin with. At the same time, it's hard to say I wouldn't feel the same way as Denis if I maintained a project as popular as core-js thanklessly. I would like to think I'd have the power to just walk away once I realized it was unhealthy for me.
In some cases, your goal as an investor is not to hold on to the investment until it becomes a viable company and IPOs. Instead, you just try to sell your shares to the next person as quick as possible.

If you're in the latter situation, then hype is way more important than actual fundamentals.
"It's free and it always will be" disappeared back in 2019.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/08/27/facebook-no-l...
Calling it "facts are facts" without any source does not make it true.
This is like a reboot of "Mazes and Monsters" [0] forty years later.

0. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084314/

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084314/mediaviewer/rm188310835...
I include my LOL video when I comment LOL:
https://bit.ly/sunnyLOL

This ensures my LOL is authentic.
Exactly. After SV it should be Seattle with all the cash to keep ot going.
Precisely. It depends on how you define "success".
What you're describing (empty queue = unprepared for load) is a code smell, but the solution doesn't have to be "fill the queue sometimes". It could also be:

* (Mandatory) Have a back-pressure system.

* (Optional, depends on system requirements) have auto-scaling of queue readers.

* (Mandatory) Make sure the system is regularly load tested.
I don't have an Instagram account, so please excuse my ignorance, but I was under the assumption that a lot of content on Instagram is "sponsored content" anyway? So you're looking at ads anyway?
It’s a chicken and egg problem. You want people to start ignoring unverified accounts and make the social expectation that only verified accounts are good. But people. won’t do so until it’s common.

Once established it’s a great network effect. But networks with effects are hard to start.
Queue isn’t full. It isn’t empty and things are being processed not in “real” time. I’ve always run my queues where they are never empty. If queue depth hits certain levels, workers are scaled up. When it drops, they are scaled down. Last thing I want is under utilized instances.
Whereas brilliant witty ones make jokes about how dumb conservatives are? No wonder most of the audience didn't get the joke.
You can tell a joke where you say something "outrageous" and everyone is laughing, half the audience is laughing because the joke is "there are actually people that believe that" and the other half is laughing because "it's true but you're not allowed to say it". Or you can do it backwards, and half the audience is thinking "that's not funny, it's just mean", and the other half is thinking "I don't even see anything tat's trying to be a joke".
They becomes a highly effective denial of service vector if you’re not careful.
I once gave a talk about Erlang starting with the core idea that = is an assertion of truth and building (most of) the rest of the language from that. Found it a very rewarding approach.
This is a helpful reply. Any further literature (blogs or books) that you'd recommend to learn about these concepts?
Rust will also get true linear types most likely, since they're required for future improvements in async support, especially async-drop.
Again, this is totally subjective. It can be out of "beta" but still have bugs.

But also, in many cases people are happy to have the opportunity to support a product before it is completed. Steam Early Access, etc.
Pressure cooking (including the time to bring up to pressure, pressure cooking, and pressure release) can save you about 2-6 of those hours. Depending on who you talk to, it's either almost as good or perhaps better than simmering for several hours.
Does it claim to be compliant anywhere? I would assume it isn’t.
To file a DMCA complaint you must be the copyright holder, or authorized to act on their behalf.
This is something Apple has put a lot of work into and iOS handles photography UX very well. Wake the screen and swipe left (no need to authenticate). Camera loads in about 1s on my 4 year old XS. No shutter lag so you get the picture you see in the viewfinder. Also, “Live Photo” is enabled by default which takes multiple photos before and after you press the shutter and combines it into a single entry in the UI. You can then go back at a later date and pick the best version, but your library isn’t cluttered. I hate this feature so I keep it turned off, but I can see how it would be useful to many people.