skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your phrasing is crude but there is truth in it. In theory, African-American communities could be much better off with some drastic changes in culture, and it would be far more feasible for the government to pick up the slack and level the playing field (affordable quality education, abolish legacy admissions, etc.). Any amount of public school infrastructure and funding doesn't inherently get people to learn; students play a part in their own success. Of course, changing culture is much easier said than done.
"There's no fog!"

Also, it's fog lamps. ;)
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My favorite model is “seed-strapped” (a play on bootstrapped).

1) Raise $1-2 million (ideally from multiple small investors rather than 1 big investor, many smaller investors increases your control since every investor alone is too small to make serious demands about how you should run your business)

2) use the $1-2 mill to find product market fit and (more importantly) achieve profitability (or be cash flow neutral) within 12-18 months. If you can’t reach profitability, close your doors and start another company with a new idea rather than raising a 2nd VC round (fail fast)

3) reinvest new sales into growth, and don’t raise another round of capital even if people are offering you lots of money

Some advantages:

- Fail fast. It’s better to be resource constrained in the early days so that you don’t spend many years chasing an idea “just because you can afford to” when it’s destined to fail

- It lowers the valuation where selling your company will be a profitable transaction for founders & employees. If you raise $2m you can sell for $8m and make a good return for founders/employees, whereas if you raise $20 million you’ll never be able to sell your company for less than $20m, and you now need to sell for $25m+ in order to see any meaningful as a founder

- Without huge investors, you have a lot of latitude to operate your business however you want. When you raise $20m+, you basically become an employee of your investors

- You typically retain full board control if only raising $1-2 million, this amount is low enough that the VCs probably won’t even need or want a board seat

Disadvantages:

- You’ll get less support from your investors because they invested less. The less money VCs invest, the less attention they give you. This can be a downside if you actively want VC help (which personally I find overrated, very few VCs actually add value beyond the money invested, most VCs have never actually run a company and have only watched from the sidelines)

—

TLDR: raising low single digit millions in seed money to get going in the beginning is rarely a bad idea. Raising too much money too soon (especially before reaching PMF/profitability) severely limits options for a future exit and potentially creates difficult dynamics with VCs to deal with, if you accept a lot of money from a VC most will want you to do whatever necessary for them to get their money back.

VC isn’t bad, there’s a time and place for VC. But it’s 100% a game.

You must know the rules of the game before playing.
Why do you like the term “whitelist”?
There's however not always going to be a way to convert users into enough money. During the dot-com boom, the VC's who invested in the company I co-founded around that time pushed us to switch from planning to charge for our service (vanity e-mail accounts) to offering them for free to attract users, driven by the greed of seeing pre-revenue companies in some instances acquired at a valuation of up to $4,000 per user before the bubble burst.

We stupidly agreed (everyone understood the $4k per user was a crazy aberration, but it triggered thoughts of "but even if we get to just $400 per user fast enough to get acquired...), and ended up selling off that service a year and and a half or so later for a pittance after pivoting (we did the ".name" top level domain, which was not a great money maker either - was eventually sold to Verisign and I got a little unexpected cheque years after I'd left, but nowhere close to f-you money), but the point being that there were a whole lot of companies spending far more on acquiring users at that point on the basis of crazy per-user valuations than there was any realistic way of earning back.

So, yeah, you can always convert users into money, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to convert them into profit.
Was hoping to one day own a fozzilized tourist that attempted to steal a fossil.
The biggest obstacle I see to using VC money is that it has a good opportunity to distort incentives.

If a company has a vision fulfilling every request outside of the vision could be considered a distraction. The VC has legitimate concerns outside of the scope of the company vision.

Apple is one of the few modern companies that I can think of where the VC money was useful.

If anyone can remember google before going public and after going public might mourn the old google.

Imagine if google wasn't romanced by Wall Street but followed their own path like craigslist.org. I believe that google would have been much more collaborative. I can't see where going public helped google be good at internet search.
Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors theory
Perhaps, but we study roman graffiti where people from antiquity did the same thing, like, I get that its bad and should not be condoned but tourists have been carving their name into this thing for thousands of years.
The part I didn't cover that probably loops your ideas and my ideas together are that no testing is fool proof, and the ultimate goal of testing in modern software is minimize the time you spend in an incident - not to absolve yourself of them entirely.

The downside of synthetic testing is that it's relatively expensive. Doing it in staging is one thing, and personally as a SRE this is where I'd put it. Putting it in production requires cordoning these requests (and data) in some way which is additional overhead in a set of testing which is already relatively expensive in terms of operational complexity and point at which errors are discovered (later in the SDLC).
That's certainly possible but lost on me since it was my introduction to Alan Partridge.
The key takeaway for me was to know what you're getting in to. You sound like you do. OP seems to be aiming at people who do not.
Seems like Debian is all one would ever need.
Interesting perspective.

I've found the techniques and concepts most useful at work, where they've been amazingly helpful.
Look at Microsoft's Antares. They use a wierd combination of LoadLibrary and WSL to run ROCM workloads.

TL;DR not a good use of your time if AMD doesn't want to ship ROCM on Windows for all customers.

Read this if you want to do something like it: https://github.com/microsoft/antares/blob/v0.3.x/backends/c-...

Source: been on this path before and moved on.
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> The state of the labor market over the last 4-5 decades has favored the company. Perhaps it is time it favored labor.

Has it ever actually favored labor?

It seems to me that other than very brief blips, the economy has always made companies (and owners and executives) very wealthy by extracting as much labor as possible as cheaply as possible
There's a question of values here. VC may be the path for maximum monetary gain and maximum growth, but maybe it's not if you want to _make_ something that represents your values. Once your 50% slips to 49% and below, it's game over.
>You’re no longer building your company the way you like it. You’re building your and the VCs company so that they can sell it, for a price higher than the one they paid. There are no alternatives. The course is set. You’re building to sell.

What's wrong in building to sell?
And chances are(?) typescript code are to a larger degree monomorphic than javascript making the JIT more efficient(?).

At least typescript discourage writing functions where the parameters can have wildly different types since this is un-ergonomic and/or hard to type.
End-to-end encryption only prevents in-flight access of the data by your ISP. At either "end" that data can be trivially decrypted, and probably isn't even stored on an encrypted server to boot. It would require a lot more than E2EE to meaningfully resist government surveillance.
I think the biggest damage Brexit has done is that it revealed how unreliable UK is both on the world stage and from the perspective of the insividual. I certainly wouldn't trust them with the future of my life by moving there by this point.

I don't claim that particular flavour of simple-minded populism wouldn't fly elsewhere (sadly: it does), but the way in which the whole thing was carried out in the UK was... quite unique. I had the feeling that the majority of politicians who implemented it privately knew this was a stupid idea and pushed through ("deliverrred") anyways with a very british bone-headedness. As if they accidentally queued for a face-slapping, when in fact they intended to queue for a free hug: After realising their mistake they were more afraid of the looks they would receive if they stepped out of the queue than with the consequences of getting slapped. Only this made them look even more ridiculous.
> My attempt to police your speech wasn’t about policing speech. It was about about creating a dialogue, and making sure you know that you are racist if you don’t agree with me, not mandating that you agree with me.

Haha, ok buddy.

If you want to be more inclusive, perhaps you could go to the effort of understanding the vocabulary of my trade and the meaning of those words, rather than try to prevent me from using them. Because I’m feeling very excluded by you right now. Do you care about the lived experience I’m having right now? If not, why?
The internet's “town square” is dead
You're a few years behind: people actually went "haha, good joke... for real tho that's actually how we version, let's make it official" and then started using it in earnest.

There've been plenty of projects that officially use 0.x versioning for years now.
I have an information triage process that ends with DEVONThink. I save bookmarks to drafts app, go through them when I have time. And if they are worth it, I save then in DEVONThink where I go through and mark them up.
Jquery became popular because at the time there were all these browsers and none of them did things the same. They weren’t standards compliant like most browsers are today. So you ended up writing a ton of code and css that basically said, “if browser x - do this - else if browser y - do this”. Then jQuery came along and took care of all of that for you. They made it so you could just write for jquery and it would take care of translating it into what browser the person viewing the site was using. It made things so much easier. jQuery was basically write once, run everywhere, for the browsers of those days.
Probably 2-4MB in memory while running
How do you know if you have a Rocket? Many (most?) VC funded companies are just appearance, no substance and it’s all very apparent. All the new AI ‘products’ for instance. So those are clearly not rockets, just blah and hype. Maybe we had rockets before, but I don’t want to lie and cheat like some of our vc invested companies did (most are gone). Never were rockets, just hype, Twitter presence and faking all around.
The T480 and older have two batteries; one fixed internal and one removable external. It transparently switches between them, so you can hot-swap the external with out any interruption. Fantastic feature!
Ask HN: How to Deal with Jealousy – Specially If You're a Truth Teller
I suck at many things like soccer and spelling, am average at volleyball, and do pretty good in some very specific fields of science and the performing arts.

As health-striving individual, I have a hard time bending to the sick caprices of a narcissist leader, as is usual in high-profile projects.

On the other hand, I tend to roll humble and friendly. The kind of person that says good morning even to the janitor, and any other non-elite members.
(however, I do tell the truth if asked about some past high-profile stuff I was involved with).

And, surely and steadily, I develop and strengthen my contribution to the point that, typically, some other project participants get jealous and even sabotaging. This, even if only in isolated cases, and mixed with the narcissistic leader’s perception of being challenged by me, for, for example, not accepting to come to work sick, results in my ostracism in the group in question.

Having a "truth teller" profile, this further compounds the problem, even if I carefully choose my words - which I do. I feel that my non-verbal language nevertheless expresses what I really think.

- Then, how to at least, stay in good terms with my peer participants?

Happy to hear your views and experiences!

PS: The projects are too high-profile and ad hoc to have anything like a 3rd party that can be appealed to.
There are around 30 casinos (most with hotels) on the strip. If three are connected by tunnels, that’s pretty well short of the original claim: “staying at pretty much any other strip hotel, you can walk to your conference in 10 minutes or less, and you can complete the entire walk underground.”
But how were the stories dated? 70k is so long before the invention of writing systems.
On a skim, they seem to be losing money the same way Amazon did. It's marginal, with a purpose, and could be turned around by trying to.
Any post or article where the author is like "Let's build a React" may emphasize vanilla JS. For example,

HEX: a No-Framework Approach to Building Modern Web Apps (2017)

https://medium.com/@metapgmr/hex-a-no-framework-approach-to-...

Manning has Build a Web Framework (From Scratch) in its Manning Early Access Program (MEAP):

https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-frontend-web-framework...

Web Components are a neat way to have <custom-tag /> stuff controlled by CSS. But you can forego that and use (BEM-named) values in class attributes.

Even just `document.querySelector` and `.querySelectorAll` gives some idea of vanilla JS. There's also (tongue-in-cheek)

http://vanilla-js.com/

This book for writing Javascript may still be relevant:

Reliable Javascript: How to Code Safely in the World's Most Dangerous Language (2015)

Hmm, code samples are no longer easily available. I would love to share it if Wrox Press (formerly) were cool with it.

And then there's places like Mozilla Developer Network (MDN):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

You mentioned backend. With just Node.js, you're technically running vanilla JS there too.
I don't know the entire history, but for a very long time the Perl 5 source was in Perforce. It was migrated to git in 2008.
Something like this? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/55422/hello-wor...
Yeah, really not though: you clearly haven't seen projects that actually use that as their official versioning policy ever since semver.org got published. So no, the joke didn't go over my head, because zerover stopped being a joke years ago. Unfortunately for everyone, the world took it seriously.

Do try to catch up.
Probably 4-5MB in memory while running . CLR is heavy.
If using F# the easiest way is usually to make an interface for the impure stuff and write a mock implementation of that. Pass the interface in as a parameter to your functions. Keep that interface as small as possible.
I’m not sure how that came across as criticism but I apologize if it did
It was in Perforce before git. Not sure if there was something before Perforce.
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Probably closer to 100/1, or worse - that's the gamble you (should) know you're taking if you accept venture capital.

It's not for everyone, but eastdakota is right that it's not for nobody.
There are lifestyle businesses, and there are scale businesses. The author is conflating the two.

The fact is, getting customers is the hardest part of any business. Unless you're capital-intensive, that VC money is going into customer acquisition.
Sorry, I was more aggressive than I should have been.

I misunderstood your comment, I thought you were suggesting the home team build the guard rails in response to another team's request. I don't disagree that the pattern you're describing can be effective if the home team was always expecting other teams to work in their codebase.

But that's not what the away team model is, the away team model is for unexpected cross team work. E.g. if the guard rails are too restrictive and the home team doesn't have time to expose the new functionality to "userland" code so the other team needs to work with "kernel" code to do so.
This is one of the few places I would actually prefer the GPL. If someone contributes to this repository with it's current license a company can simply get the weights for free and sell them. You've just made it easier to create another OpenAI, not keep the weights open and auditable.

To me, the openness and auditability of weights is the most important. Right now we're heading quickly towards a world where CyberDyne dominates the AI landscape and you're either going to be with them or not involved. In that case, forcing a potential user to contribute weights back will create a more robust ecosystem for so-called personal AI. There is no better license for that then some version of GPL.
True, but I think slightly pedantic for this context. I think there have been proposed relational operators which produce the result you describe - a join, then remove the join key fields from the result.

If we are in a pedantic mood, also, a relational-tuple is not exactly the same as a mathematical tuple, relational tuples take different forms depending on who's system you are following (e.g. whether the fields are ordered or not).
According to Statista there were 16,464 VC deals signed in 2022. There were 181 IPOs in that year. The most IPOs in a year ever is 1,035. Obviously the two aren't directly comparable, but the point I'm getting at is that an IPO exit for any company is really unusual. If you found a company and take on VC funding your exit event is much more likely to be getting acquired if you don't fail. It does happen, and deservedly so, but if you're at a point prior to raising 'what if we IPO?' probably isn't a very useful question.
>If you had any romanticized notion of building the company of your dreams with your employees becoming your best friends or family, well, now’s the time to let go of those ideas

I think most people start a business to make money, not to gain friends or enlarge their families. If your objective is to gaing friends or enlarge your family, there might be better means to accomplish that than starting a business.
Fortunately, from my experience, most "visitors" to National Parks, simply drive around and take photos from scenic views. I suspect if trail and off-trail traffic increased, we'd hear alot more stories like this.
No, the thing it was most supposed to be an advert for is AI alignment (at the time, particularly MIRI).
Price delta -> orbital speed delta.
Because they are more visible due to their flamboyant personalities. I think this was always the case historically.
They showed in the demo the switching lenses was easy as they are magnetic.

Likely the upfront issues would be getting everyone their personalized lenses, but actually using seems like it would be easy.
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I think a lot of these organizations have set themselves up in a way that if they cease to exist, the land isn’t available as an asset for private sale.
Except you absolutely don't need any connection to the central bank to benefit from their monetary policy.
My wife recently went through multiple applications after a stint of no work permit.

The amount of stuff they make you fill out that is then parsed with AI is insane.

Indeed ruined a lot. Before if you had an ok resume but we're able to talk to them in person you might be able to convince them.

Now with all those aptitude training you have to do well there.

Not to mention the applications that require you to turn on your webcam (!) while you do them. Disgusting.

That last one by the way was the same company where my wife had an in person interview. She drove there. The interview was on Zoom with somebody in another office.

She declined the offer. Wastefulness and already showing that they're not against monitoring by AI means 0 humanity.
The body of the op.crypt test is pretty neat. He is clearly excited about the perf optimization:

# this evaluates entirely at compile time!
if (crypt('uh','oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 1\n";} else {print "not ok 1\n";}

# this doesn't.
$uh = 'uh';
if (crypt($uh,'oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 2\n";} else {print "not ok 2\n";}
I tend to agree and I think public schools, at least in the US, have the same basic challenge as most government services. The consumer/parent/voter has direct control over the inputs to the system (funding, policy, etc) as well as expectations on the output (the goals you mentioned), but doesn't actually behave as if they're at least partially responsible for those outputs. I actually think taxpayers are generally supportive of education as a goal, but they think that's achieved by shouting at the school district instead of voting as if education was their priority.

Government bureaucracy absolutely produces less than optimal incentives and priorities, but the responsibility voters have in creating those incentives seems underappreciated, especially when it comes to public schools.
My favorite use of The Blue Danube is actually at the end of The Wages of Fear (1953). I've read the Dirk Gently books but it's been a long time and I don't remember that passage. I wonder if that's where the movie Yesterday got its idea from?

BTW, you've seen Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, yes? I know it's not classical obviously but as far as films set to music, it's hard to top.
I mean. They gave example of where it might be commonplace, which is at API boundaries.

Especially at DB boundaries, there’s decisions to make. If you put yourself in a position of your db having entirely non-nullable fields, you end up in one of two situations:

1) your whole db is key/value

2) you have magic values

Making all key/value doesn’t solve the nullability issue at the code boundary if you’re representing as an object, so you’re left with magic values. I think we all know how nice magic values are.

Ideology is the enemy of practicality.
> Giving the Colosseum tourist the benefit of the doubt

Why? Carving your name into stuff that you don't own is dumb regardless of how old it is.
I'm interested, can you share?
Curiously it's working fine on iPhone Safari.
There’s many reasons to start a company, ranging from “money money money!” to “this is my passion and it brings me joy.”

Figure out what matters to you and act accordingly. And you can’t decide “money and passion” because, in my opinion, they’re at odds with each other and is usually just a self-lie.

Like always, no post has a one-size-fits all answer. Well, except for this comment. ;)
This article has a point, warning of some dangers of taking risk capital, but
it is too biased against it: better, more balanced advice would be to say: there
are use cases for risk capital, but there are also many use cases where bootstrapping or debt capital (taking a loan, borrowing money) is the right financing approach instead.

It all depends on how capital intensive your business is, and how fast you want or must grow to become how large.
use https://archive.is/UXyGN as an alternative, idk why people drop "phake" links ;)
Not helpful for you, but works fine for me on my PC, if that helps anyone else.
Of course it is unusual. But no less unusual than building a successful company to begin with. What's normal is failure.