skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sincere thanks for sharing your experience and insights. Curiosity and a flexible mindset with a fast learning rate and a willingness to challenge even closely held assumptions can result in innovative knowledge under any context, including a vc investment one.

But curiosity is not limitless. It is a function of time. And it would be disingenuous to completely refute the fact that a vc frame of reference will affect curiosity - perhaps even in an adverse manner that can reduce innovation.

Let's get practical and technical with a Cloudflare example. Arguably, there would be no Cloudflare without the ability to change nameservers from domain registrars. You spotted some network slack with the ability of people to easily move to Cloudflare with a relatively simple nameserver change.

That was innovative and surely a result of your curiosity. That allowed you to then build upon that traction and offer a wider range of cloud services.

However, Cloudflare itself eventually became a domain registrar. In the terms of service, Cloudflare blocks all nameserver changes for domains registered with Cloudflare - the very option that allowed Cloudflare to emerge in the first place.

There is no justifiable technical reason for this. It is essentially a political decision borne out of a vc frame of reference. Perhaps the political justification is : Let's lock in people that registered domains with us on Cloudflare. So, they will will be forced to use Cloudflare services.

Arguably, this is a violation of ICANN guidelines that allowed you to obtain your domain registrar license. The block is essentially pointless. Most people interested in nameserver changes for Cloudflare registered domains just want to coordinate across multiple Cloudflare accounts. Multiple questions have been posted in Cloudflare community forums for years. Yet, nothing gets done about it.[1]

The fundamental point is that curiosity led you to use nameserver changes to get some traction. As the vc frame of reference gained more importance over the years, it blocked your curiosity by nudging you to block nameserver changes.

You are undoubtedly still curious. But that curiosity time is spent on board meeting formats and and how to optimise slide presentations - instead of realizing that some curiosity doors that allowed the existence of Cloudflare in the first place are getting closed. Ramifications of that attitude and mindset going forward are overlooked.

So yes, curiosity is good. But, there is no inherent primacy of curiosity under vc versus outside vc. Highly curious people tend to be self directed in any context. If anything, the direction provided by vc can limit curiosity and be ultimately self defeating.

[1]
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/unable-to-change-cloudfla...
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/still-no-way-to-transfer-...
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-can-i-change-nameserv...
When Apple introduced the iPhone, they had lines of people waiting to buy one without ever trying it. The same was true with the iPad.

Apple sold 10 million iPhones in the first year. But 10 million was such a small number, that the chance of you seeing one in the wild wasn’t that common.

Apple is already seeding journalist with demos and it’s getting enough buzz from people in YouTube who were invited to use one and people like John Gruber and Marco Arment that if even a small percentage of their listeners/readers try it not to mention natural foot traffic in popular Apple Stores that demand will outpace supply.
False dichotomy and flatly wrong, on both counts. Further, my favorite line: "It is real alpha to ignore the allure of novelty."
I don't remember the one I got, but I looked it up in a list. Maybe this was the list?

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp4-list-of-usb-c-to-3-5-audio...

There's also an adapter on the official site that they say should work (but I haven't tried it): https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/usb-c-to-mini-audio-jack-ada...
> “Profitability” is a funny term on Hacker News. Think most people here aren’t accountants so they think of profitability as: do you have more cash in the bank at the end of the period than you did at the beginning. That’s “free cash flow profitable.”

no, I look at your financial statements and look for Net Income

(more or less the only number that can't be manipulated by clever tricks)

https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2023/Cloudflare-Ann...

> We’ve had non-GAAP operating profits even longer.

you may want to look up what the second A in GAAP stands for
The things that are the same regardless of the tools like the fundamentals of breaking down the right problem to solve in the right way before seeing what the technology footprint to solve it might Need to look like.
But they shouldn't assume that.

I just had this exact experience because my phone was irrevocably ruined, so I needed to pick a replacement up the same day.

The Apple Store was a very poor experience with a sales agent I knew more than trying, repeatedly, to explain to me things like backup, Apple Care, etc., etc. I also for some reason had to talk to four different people, and the only one that could actually help me was busy while everyone else in the store was standing around. It should have taken 10 minutes and it took the better part of an hour.
I should mention, archive search in Instapaper doesn’t work without a premium subscription, but works fine for the 500 articles you can keep offline on your device.
The cellphone companies have been selling the realtime location of all subscribers since at least 2018. It doesn't depend on whether you have location enabled either, since it figures out your location from the towers! On top of that, one of them had an unauthenticated API, meaning anyone in the world could track the realtime location of any US phone #[0].

If all of this bothers you, contact your state legislators. Most state privacy laws don't protect against ISPs selling your location & browsing info, even though that would be the common expectation. Maine's law is simple and does a good job[1][2].

0: https://www.wired.com/story/locationsmart-securus-location-d...

1: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/maine-s-new-internet-pr...

2: Maine's law survived a federal challenge, and ISPs have dropped their appeals: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/377285/broadb...
Anyone posting amateur vs pro is lost. Playing the same hype game.
Problem solving and approaches to it is pretty highly valued
Yes because Apple has always chased after market share….
That airplane is surely not going anywhere any time soon, but it seems we have far different ideas of “severely damaged.”
See comment below regarding dementors. When I read those passages it suddenly clicked for me what the whole thing was about. Easy to miss though, it's not as if they are advertising it.
I'm just trying to make some money so I can live in the city and eat food. Not really interested in earning people's respect.

Why the hell would anyone care if someone respects their profession or not anyways? Seems like a weird thing to get bent out of shape about.

Lighten up a little man, life is supposed to be about having fun and enjoying it.
BRICS Gold-Backed Common Currency to Be Introduced in August
This guy is clearly a pro. He quotes Seneca and Bruce Lee.
not sure, webkit does use harfbuzz though
You can frequently get same-day delivery for a nominal fee, even within a few hours! My partner’s phone broke after she dropped it one too many times at about 7:30am on a recent morning, and we had a new one in hand without leaving the house by 10:30am.
So true. Design of systems inherits and overrules in the long run, if there is a long run for a codebase.
Just order it then go and pick it up in store. High touch customer service is universally considered a good thing, but for someone like you, you can order it online or just pick it up in store.
Amateurs post sweeping generalizations about what's right, pros learn the nuances.
What do they mean by local time? Alaskan time or respective times?
Employment, housing, and healthcare should not be inexorably interlinked. Losing your job puts your housing and healthcare at immediate risk, and activism can look like unprofessional behavior or a brand risk. Chilling effect.
I thought this too, re: "worthy of reading" and, as I feel it, respect of my time (not to make an assumption about how you received the article).

I really appreciated the effort that was obviously put into choosing her words.
Patriotic people in government (they exist) who understand spying on innocent citizens can cause untold economic harm and damage America in the long run
Even worse than Facebook chats... the most popular period tracking apps can be mass surveilled, and at least one has been fined by the FTC for selling menstrual data.

My partner, a menstrual health advocate, decided to do something about it. She's launching a local-first, encrypted period tracking app later this summer [0].

We'd love feedback as the beta goes live!

[0] - https://embody.space
I was worried by your comment about the cropping, as I've often seen overzealous cropping on restorations and rereleases. I don't think there is cause to worry on this one, the print they restored from is Open Matte [0] and would not normally be projected like that, rather it would be projected in a widescreen crop like the crop shown. I suspect they did the restoration on the Open Matte version and stored that for future.

"Despite being merely 25 years old, the picture and sound negatives of Money No Enough could no longer be found, and the restoration had to be carried out using two 35 mm release prints from the AFA’s collection."

This is so saddening though that the negatives of a major movie are lost after such a short amount of time. Most movies are made by bringing together a lot of people for a very short amount of time and then everyone moves onto the next project. Everyone is usually ecstatic if something gets a cinema release in the first place. Nobody is looking at the long-term archival. The fact that so many negatives from movies have actually survived is often astounding to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte
Having a healthy mistrust of your work is good.

Thinking the next tool will make a difference when your customers don’t care what language renders the html and JavaScript can have it’s place.
No, again, it is inevitable that outcomes will not be equitable across race. That doesn’t mean all variables are unjustified to use.

Job applications are kind of dumb. The common use case is credit decisions. Surely, for example, you’re ok looking at credit history and income when deciding to make a loan, right? Even though it won’t be equitable outcomes across races, it is still “fair”
New York's "I'm bad at being an AI lawyer" law still needs some attention.
Chaos can certainly be destructive. But chaos can also be creative.
> The true magic lies not in the guitar itself, but in the virtuosity of the musician who brings it to life.

Arguments like these are often used to defend unpopular technology choices, like (insert disliked programming language here). "A true master can use any tool!" And yet, I've never seen a professional guitar player use a cheap shitty guitar.
i think this would be much better written if it compared and contrasted the pros and cons of building a fun and sustainable small business vs. taking investor funds with the hopes of doing something more ambitious.
It's a better iteration but doesn't solve the core problems of VR/AR.
“ I look for readable, maintainable code, and try to make sure the writer is doing appropriate testing. But whether or not it works and is correct, that's not my job, that's the developer's job.”

And I personally refuse to work with this style of workflow anymore

Does the code do what it needs? That’s objective and it either does or doesn’t. I can manage that kind of review.

Does the code look pretty enough? This is subjective and guarantees i’ll waste hours of my life every month bc someone else felt anxious/neurotic/masochistic and wanted to dump a chore on me.

No thanks, if you have style guidelines i’ll follow them. I’m not your whipping boy that will ask how high when you say jump.
The Modernization Imperative: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead
An amateur obsesses over using the best web framework, a master can write a great website n any framework.

Of course whether this is an actionable insight is an entirely different question. The master at least partially has this ability because he has tried lots of different tools. But if you ever phase analysis paralysis over tool choice it's worth remembering that in the end the choice might not matter nearly as much as you think.
Tell that to JPL.
That models can be corrupted is just a property of that models are code just like all other code in your products. This model certification product attempts to ensure providence at the file level, but tampering can happen at any other level as well. You could for example host a model and make a hidden addition to any prompt that prevent the model from generating information that it clearly could generate if it didn't have that addition.

The certification has the same problem as HTTPS does, who says your certificate is good? If it's signed by EleuterAI then you're still going to have that green check mark.
Cheap knockoff of the TED talk.
Having started in functional programming before ending up in OO, I always noticed the web was more functional than object oriented and a great deal of work was expended extrapolating languages to the web though frameworks to often achieve such an effect.
Cool. Yes, his style is good in his other books too, like K&R (C), K&P (Unix), and GOPL (Go), and The Practice of Programming.
And Apple has single digit market share in computer sells and barely double digit in phone sales.

Are those two categories also failures for Apple?

And saying that Meta can sell more worse devices than Apple that are cheaper and losing Meta money is like saying that Android manufactures can sell more $50 unsubsidized phones than Apple.
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i’m not sure if you’ve use crypto before, but people buy things in USDC all the time.
There is no need to do iterative deepening as you suggest.

The move set L, or more precisely

L := C^5 U C^4 U C^3 U C^2 U C^1 U C^0,

contains all non-redundant moves sequences of length between 0 and 5. L has 621,649 elements. See e.g. the function that produces this [1].

Solutions thus are found between 0 moves and 20 moves inclusive.

If you ask the algorithm to solve a cube with the front face turned, it will immediately output the four words:

"", "", "", "F".

It will also return every other quadruplet of non-redundant moves that achieve the same state if you keep the solver running, for example:

"", "F'", "F", "F"

(Here, "non-redundant" means there are no obvious simplifications within each word.)

The algorithm is guaranteed to enumerate all non-redundant solutions of bounded length, which includes all optimal solutions, in the same worst-case running time of O(N^0.5) and memory complexity of O(N^0.25). The Common Lisp implementation does return on the first match, but that's an implementation detail, not a limitation of the algorithm.

Lastly, solutions whose length is short typically show up first, since the words "" * "" correspond to the identity permutation, the lexicographically least permutation, and hence the first permutation found in the search.

[1] https://github.com/stylewarning/cl-permutation/blob/master/s...
Sudden Tesla acceleration attributed to voltage spikes
VC funding is so you can accelerate your test for the thesis you started the company with. The ideal state is you rapidly discover fit. The second most ideal state is you rapidly fail. The worst state is you spend years on a thesis that doesn't have legs. VC funding moves the decision point earlier in either direction because you won't be capital constrained.

That's it. You can never make more time for yourself. That's the lesson.
It’s like getting a pair of glasses. They’re customized to your eyes and fit to your face.
Yes, think about this when you hear the next discussion about vim vs emacs
It's not whether it's "wrong" or not, it's just a question of whether it aligns with your goals.

If your goal is to maximize the amount of money you make from a venture, there's nothing wrong with it. There's everything right with it, that's why it's done that way.

If your goal is to produce value in the world over a long term, then there's a lot wrong with it. Optimizing for actual value delivered is disincentivized.
Dimensions 162 x 75.5 x 10.5 mm are huge. Not for my pocket and hands. And I'm a tall person.
It's a bit of a platitude, IMO.

You can find plenty pros that obsess over tools. Like look at Adam Savage's Tested youtube channel, in which he makes videos surrounded by a vast mountain of tools, many of which he made or customized himself. Recently he geeked all over the fractal vise.

The difference I'd say is that pros have a better understanding of what they need, don't expect tools to magically solve problems, and often customize or even make something from scratch.
I expected 10-15 minutes for mediums. I was at that point a year ago when I was prepping for AWS and I am not some genius or anything special.

It’s probably even easier to just write anki cards with the solutions and memoize them (pun intended).
For what it’s worth - I bought one of the “controversial” Alienware laptops in 2015. It won’t play the latest games but it still runs beautifully to everything I need including coding and Excel work.

While a few of these brands are a bit pricey, I’ve bought family members other brands like Dell and Acer laptops, and they’ve got a few good years out at most before they become clunky and close, even with a fresh operating system reinstall.
> The VR headset is a case in point - if I want to be guided through the process, then I will ask for that.

The reason this is done is to:

a) limit bad online reviews due to ill fitting headsets or unfamiliarity with the controls

b) to ensure that people looking to buy it have their expectations managed

c) to give it the upscale, prestige feeling of going to a tailor for a fitted suit. Useless theater for a tech product, but Apple loves pageantry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat
I’m not sure what this would offer anyone that can’t already be achieved by trading gold backed financial instruments, or why a country like China would offer a competitor to the Yuan.

If they want to trade without using USD they don’t need this to do that. They just have to start trading in their own currencies with each other.
There used to be a Microsoft store in the big mall near me. It turned into a babysitting service for parents who dropped their kids off to play with the Xbox.
They had many WWDC sessions covering 3D objects especially with the Unity integration [1] and their Reality Composer Pro [2] tool. Both were covered during the keynote. And if you look on Youtube there are countless videos of third party developers developing 3D apps.

It's just that they are positioning the device as a spatial computer i.e. something you use to get real work done. And right now for 99% of people that involves 2D windows.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10088/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10083/
I bet they need time to ramp up their manufacturing. In the meantime - they can either artificially restrict the purchase of these things (what they are doing now), or have scalpers camp outside the stores and resell for 2-3x what apple are selling them for.

If they can actually deliver on their promises - they will fucking sweep the VR market. Current VR headsets blow chunks. If the meta quest cost 10$ - people would still not use it for normal things, because it unpleasant to interact with.
Cool, but as has been already mentioned in this thread someone is footing the bill. Even if the developers are fine with donating their time to develop and maintain it for free it still costs very real money to run servers.
"Does it take more energy to cool a house in which the AC has been off all day, than to keep the AC running at, say, 85 degrees during the day?

No. Cooling a hot house down at the end of the day always takes less energy than leaving the AC running all day, even if it's running on a high setting."
FWIW, I've done it both ways. The ad-hoc trick is cromulent.
> And it was seen as a toy for geeks and software developers who think t-shirts are an acceptable office attire despite being the most watch-like of the smartwatches.

Source please! That's not how I remember the release, I recall it was very well recieved and sold out everywhere with the battery life being the biggest complaint.

> I would never have gone to the office wearing a moto360. People would have given me funny looks all day. Meanwhile you can wear an Apple Watch with your suit and everyone finds that acceptable.

I doubt you'll find a source, this entire paragraph is you projecting your own insecurities onto everyone else. Your opinion is not the general consensus or a source for anything so find a reliable 3rd party to back you up that isn't a random blogpost by Joe nobody.
Mostly agree, but:

> So the answer to "why not start now" is "because it seems like it will be a waste of time".

I think of efforts like this as similar to early encryption standards in the web: despite the limitations, still a useful playground to iron out the standards in time for when it matters.

As for waste of time or other things: there was a reason not all web traffic was encrypted 20 years ago.
It also matters what kind of shoelace you're using. With a boot lace a reef knot will struggle to stay tied simply because the lace can slip through the knot. And easy fix for this is to tie what I've heard called a superknot. The way that works is when you wrap the loose end around the loop wrap it twice around the loop before you pass it through and pull tight. This extra wrapping provides a grip that is better than a single wrap.

In my experience the typical flat cotton sneaker laces work fine with a regular reef knot. I also tie my shoes using the Ian way of creating the knot, if I'm wearing standard sneaker laces. It is much faster.
It took me a while to realize that most people with "doctoral degrees in education" have EdDs, not PhDs. The people I know with the latter are quite bright; the people with the former are not necessarily.

One of the reasons for this is that schools typically pay teachers more if they have a masters or doctoral degree in education (but it doesn't matter what type of doctoral degree...so people flock to the less rigorous one).
Speaking as a pro, or so I like to think, I'm not sure what you mean by data model. Are you simply talking about data structures?
But who focuses on the adage?
"Developer of the Laser Calls It 'A Solution Seeking A Problem'" (New York Times, May 1964) https://web.archive.org/web/20221212154109/https://www.nytim...
> But I'm not using one because I usually don't mind seeing ads

The ads aren't the problem.

The problem is the spy industry behind.

Surfing without content blocker is like selling your soul and your first born to the devil, to get nothing in return.
yeah it does, you can double/triple your currently salary just grinding leetcode for a few months

this thread got a lot of traction how to properly leetcode grind: https://twitter.com/pwang_szn/status/1674719490993688577
Safari (and macOS) doesn't use Harfbuzz.
What if some corners don't have internet?