skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still eventually need to return money to your private market investors at some point. So that just pushes the outcomes out later. Or, again, in the super rare case that you’re generating so much case that you can pay investors back at a rate of return they’re happy with with dividended cash flows.
This model is interesting, and I've definitely been wondering about this a lot more in the new macroeconomy. Do tell more if you're up for it.

From my perspective, it's effectively the PE model except the funding source is the company's own revenue rather than investment capital.
This gives me javascript in PDF vibes, but its probably very useful for highly complex writing systems. Also goes to show what an incredibly complex subject this is, Harfbuzz is pretty much the only open source text shaping library that does it properly as far as i can tell. Behdad Esfahbod [1] is probably one of the most important developers on the planet considering how omnipresent his work has been to this day. Harfbuzz is used in Firefox, Chrome and Safari for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behdad_Esfahbod
The majority of public VC backed companies are not profitable and those are the best of the group. Must be 90+% of VC backed companies are unprofitable, and that’s ignoring all the ones that just shut cause they can’t make money
Wouldn't surprise me if the article itself was "AI" generated with minimal editing by a non-native English speaker, given the very awkward wording, inconsistent terminology, and repetition of key facts.
Deputy US Marshal pleads guilty to obtaining cell phone location unlawfully [pdf]
The parent was saying "Superrational" is a satire of HPMOR, not that HPMOR is a satire of Harry Potter.
> The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine and Maryland.
I initially saw Twitter as an inverted IRC, except you post a message to multiple hashtags (irc channels) instead of just one, or none at all, and you can view all messages in all hashtags/channels at once, plus everyone’s direct posts outside of any hashtag/channel… or just one hashtag/channel.

Maybe the next town square just uses irc as it’s backend.

Might be an unpopular opinion: Kind of how slack started using irc as it’s back end and ultimately to be a more modern incarnation of an irc client (and no longer using irc as it’s backend)
> a single overarching internet is impossible

I don't understand how the author concludes this from their analysis of social media sites.
Because as part of the VC investment, they are also taking positions on the board of your company. Maybe enough of a position that they can oust you if you don't do as they "suggest". Also, one round of funding is rarely the end of it, and if you are demonstrating that you are not playing their game and trying to become a Unicorn, then you will not get a second round of funding.

Why do you think VC control is bullshit?
If it works for you, great! However, I see people like Satayoshi Son using ChatGPT to help him refine his investment ideas, and I cannot help but be reminded of how every previous AI hype cycle has gone: https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-masayoshi-son-says-he...
> Q: Wasn't the point of Fairphone to have ONE phone and then buy "extensions" or/and replacements only, aka modular - for the sake of preserving the environment, etc etc?!

Sounds like they are confusing it with "Phoneblocks", which went viral around the time the FP1 launched. Logos look similar, too.
Threads hurting Bird, AI Alignment, US bans China, Google scrapes, Model compression, Android rebrand, AI summit, tiny vectors, DragGAN, AWS Doc Chat and more
Build your own projects and lead them. Be an owner, not just contributor.
The idea is that you keep your webcam on your face while you fill out the application for identity verification, to make sure it is actually the applicant. But if you think that's bad, the hot new thing in these hiring startups is that you have to record yourself answering interview questions with some chatbot interviewer, and then some black box model scores it to give you all kinds of psychometric astrology even worse than Myers Briggs. Except it's a bunch of AI snake oil, and as the article says, you get different personality scores if you put on a headscarf or glasses.

In the US, it is illegal per the EEOC, which has barely any resources to actually enforce the law: "Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted." [1]

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
> I wonder if this could be used to make C# webassembly more viable.

You might enjoy reading this GitHub thread [0] where the community contributed a WASM library wrapping the C# regex code so that regex101.com could have a "C# mode". Lots of nerd sniping about reducing the payload size.

(There's also another thread [1] discussing the minification of a rust version of that same regex101 wasm library to provide a "rust mode" using @burntsushi's regex crate.)

[0]: https://github.com/firasdib/Regex101/issues/156

[1]: https://github.com/firasdib/Regex101/issues/1208
I think induced demand exists, but also ignores areas of the country (the northeast) where the built infrastructure capacity predates the current inhabitants by generations.

For example, the major highways through SW CT were completed by 1940 & 1960 respectively. The population is about 2x what it was then, and most families now have 2 cars instead of 1, as both spouses work whereas that wasn't as much the norm 90 years ago. So you have 2-3x the demand on essentially the same lane capacity built when my grandmother was my age.

Along with this there's also been practically zero expansion of mass transit in the area.

So damned if you do, damned if you don't in a way. We all just put up with it taking longer to get to/from work, visiting family out of state, etc. One area where our lives truly have gotten worse, and I'm not nostalgia pilled generally speaking.
If a charity stops receiving donations, it also stops.

The project can stop regardless of your donation, in turn, there is no return consideration. Which is what makes it a donation.
They have been rolling out E2E chats in messenger for a while now. So yes, they will and are doing it.
complete with vestigial head rest
https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/sections/how-vcs-...
Yea... "Well the script works fine in MY SYSTEM" was the most common issue with said scripts. Running across different versions of Linux was fraught with issues, much less any other operating system that could execute a shell script.

Of course this can happen with any language, especially as it ages and adds complexity.
Yes a "look" is basically determining what algorithm to apply to the cube based on the current state.

1 look last layer means that after the first two layers are solved, you would know an algorithm to apply to solve the cube based on the state of the last layer.

With the typical speed solving method (CFOP), the last layer requires 2 "looks" (one for orientation of the last layer, one for the permutation)
This article is absolutely pointless. It could be summed up in one sentence: "write stuff and post it online."
Aren't VCs less likely to want to invest if they get wind that you're going to go this path?
Maps is offline at least finally
The bottom of the average of SAT scores of college attendees is the top 30%+ of students; Master's and PhD's are even more elite. This is like saying "the defensive line in the Cleveland Browns are the worst NFL players in the country": they're still NFL players.
Oh yeah, the old and tired argument that we haven't seen "true communism". I'm still waiting for it but till then, the ideology can be deemed invalid. I wonder if people that give this argument realize that they sound like religious cultists saying we haven't reached the true promise land...let's push harder! (despite all evidence being against them).
Red Hat sends its regards, yes.
One assumes they would have taken care of it during the legal timeframe. Not relevant if they didn’t in this case.

There’s also other options still by going to other states, but the point is that by making it illegal you’re increasing the chances of it being unsafe.

But anyway, that’s as far as I’m wading into that subject here. Don’t feel like getting into politics so much as practicalities.
This doesn’t make sense - cheating on what?
I'd rather be a worker than a "resource" any day of the week.
this also implies that you can train for more sustained intensity, which I think is absolutely true. You can become a brilliant engineer by finding the right balance of intensity and R&R, assuming this is what you want
1. The article briefly discusses the impact of COVID, highlighting China's implementation of supplementary measures and limitations during this period. It is evident that having knowledge of individuals' travel destinations would undoubtedly assist in contact tracing efforts. However, as the article states it can also be used for malicious exploitation.

2. If your question is about why they go to Thailand instead of stopping in Laos: Thailand is reluctant to repatriate individuals back to North Korea, while Laos does not share the same reluctance.

For the more general question: It is understandable that South Korea would scrutinize refugees to some extent to prevent the infiltration of espionage agents and similar threats.
I meant the ‘super rare’ case.

It’s not so rare in some industries like oil and gas, etc where cashflow is the purpose of the work.

Add software that does what nothing has before.. and the table turns.
Rubick's cube's are "solved". Traditional computer programs can determine the most efficient solves already.
I worked for a US startup that received VC founding, and I left after a year that happened. 6 months after I left the company almost disolved.

Just think it twice before you accept this kind of responsibility.
Agreed, and we're actually trying to bridge this gap at our company Kurtosis! Docker is great for doing dev - fine-grained control over the container, strong predictability guarantees, fast, and relatively lightweight (in comparison with Kubernetes), but you can't run Prod on it unless you start rebuilding Kubernetes primitives like Services from scratch.

Our approach has been "build an abstraction over Docker and Kubernetes that can provide the predictability of Docker when you need it (Dev & Test), and the scalability and resilience of k8s when you need it (Prod)", and then handle compiling down to actual Docker & Kubernetes commands. The goal is for the user to have a single environment definition all the way from Dev to Prod, so you don't have to do the dance of "Docker Compose for Dev, Bash on top of Compose for test, and Helm for Prod"

(basically this: https://docs.kurtosis.com/assets/images/kurtosis-utility-665... )
Hey! Would you consider a hybrid design/developer role? I noticed you were looking for both designers and developers.

I'm a hybrid UI/UX Developer that enjoys working with designers, developers and product teams to deliver performant user experiences with modular, scalable code. CSS nerd, design system enthusiast. Very fine eye for design, but prefer to work on UI, not illustrations/mascots/graphics.

https://nicoledominguez.com/
> My bet is longer and healthier lives.

I hope so for your sake, but I highly doubt it for all the medications being touted for mental health and obesity.

> I lost about 40lb 10 years ago through diet and exercise. I did intense exercises at least 3x a week, and watched what I ate strictly.

How long did you do this for? Did you keep doing this along with the Ozempic or similar, or did you cut it down and only take the meds?

For what it's worth, it's better to do moderate exercise everyday (walking a mile or two daily) then to overdo it 2 or 3x per week with regards to regulating your metabolism and making it favorable for fighting off your hunger and maintaining a healthy body weight.

I have found the number one thing in my diet throughout my whole life has been sugar. It is the worst for your health and weight. I never bought into the sugar substitutes; I just cut back drastically on sugar. That and walking everyday would have a big impact on people's lives and the obesity epidemic. The discipline I speak of is just getting out everyday, not necessarily the gym or high-intensity exercise. Most obese people I know personally think they eat less than they do, and do not see how inactive they truly are.

I hear your struggle, and I am not commenting on your discipline. Only that discipline is needed and many people need an objective bar on what level that is outside of their own echo chamber. I am not saying this is you, but in my opinion this is most of the battle for the suffering.
This is several layers deep of "who in their right mind would do this?"...

Layer 1: Who in their right mind would use Threads, I thought that was an obvious really stupid choice?

Layer 2: Who in their right mind sits around wondering which accounts to follow? I guess I'm spoiled from good social media that doesn't revolve around specific people/accounts.

Layer 3: Who in their right mind takes advice from social media posts that are written like a TV commercial script? OP's comment screams "I'm a faceless megacorp trying to brainwash people".
I occasionally question the value of the pre-commit code review. In general, there are two options - a quick spot check or a “deep review”.

A “deep review” involves completely understanding the code, verifying that it works, refactoring sections or even completely rewriting the original. This type of review can easily take 30 - 70% of the original effort.

A quick spot check type review involves rapidly scanning the code for code standards or anything egregiously incorrect.

There doesn’t seem to be much of a sweet spot as either the cost is too high or the value is low.

I think most reviews are closer to “spot check” type territory. Maybe this can just be done by AI and deep reviews can be done on an as needed basis.

Perhaps we can eschew the code review and simply expect that developers do high quality work. When this doesn’t happen, processes could be in place for needed fixes post commit - obviously needed anyway since most reviews just scratch the surface.

This is a bit of a strawman, but I expect most have felt that in-depth reviews require too much time while quick spot check type reviews add little value and interrupt everyone’s flow considerably.
I disagree, as someone who has been both an engineer and manager, if you want feedback one on one from someone who you know would be valuable, always go for it, but official design reviews end up including many people who don’t matter once it becomes a required process. The people who most love taking your time for design reviews tend to be architecture astronauts, not fully grokking the real nutty gritty or caring about things that don’t matter.
Not necessarily - the actual output exe doesn't actually use the .NET framework for anything at all, besides invoking the main. The actual logic of outputting the bytes to the console is done via a pinvoke (c# ffi) call to the underlying unmanaged (non-.net) code exposed by ucrt.dll

But anyway, this other article [0] (shared in another comment here) about creating the smallest version of Snake (the game) was done on top of .NET Core (the new version of .NET that isn't bundled with Windows) and effectively does the same thing, but actually produces a non-.NET binary, if that's more to your taste.

[0]: https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-ga...
Income tax rate is far from 70% (not sure if this was second degree or not).

Up to €10,777 = 0%
From €10,778 to €27,478 = 11%
From €27,479 to €78,570 = 30%
From €78,571 to €168,994 = 41%
More than €168,994 = 45%

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1419?l...
Beans have been used for thousands of years without fertilizer. They restore the nutrients in the ground by exactly the same process as this maize, because it is the exact same nitrogen-fixing bacteria at work.

I'm pooh-pooh'ing the idea because this isn't any more practical than rotating beans to restore a field was. These microbes don't fix nitrogen anywhere fast enough to supply acceptable yields. You end up with fields giving out 3-4x less end product with this strategy vs. using artificial fertilizer. You're not going to feed the worlds population with replenishing crops.
This! A thousand times this! Even if every single social network vanished tomorrow, we would still have a space where anyone can say whatever they want and instantly distribute it to every corner of the Earth.
Go back far enough and you'll discover that, at some point in the past, all land was one taken through force without compensation by one conqueror or another.
90% of all startups fail so the expectation of an IPO when you join a startup is insane.
Apple notes does exactly the same and free.
> Version numbers give me a good idea about what level of changes to expect

Google Chrome went from version 1.0 to 114.0 in less than half the time in which FreeCAD went from 0.0 to 0.20. Blender once had a huge update that only changed the minor version number...and the entire user interface, among other things. The Linux kernel had major version bumps simply because Linus Torvalds felt like it. No, version numbers give absolutely no indication about what actually happened.

> Upgrading from 1.4.656 to 1.4.657 and I don't expect to have to check the docs for major changes to how things work

I had node project setups crash and burn because a library had the version X.0.7 instead of X.0.3 and some other library couldn't handle this supposed non-breaking change. Similarly last time I tried ML stuff with python I had to downgrade from version 3.11 to 3.10 to make it work. I can't remember any case of breakage where the difference was actually visible in the major version number.

> Not being perfect doesn't make it useless.

The only two aspects that prevent it from being useless is that version numbers make it easier to google specific issues and to figure out if the version you have installed is the newest one. But communicating what extent of changes to expect is completely unreliable.
Same here, VC was horrible
A better analogy might be there's no such thing as a free lunch.

All those distros you mention either have commercial support (eg: Red Hat, Ubuntu) or substantial recurring donations. Someone somewhere is paying even if you specifically aren't.
> It just means you are more easily replaceable without any benefit for you

What does this even mean?

Companies don’t (well, shouldn’t) hire developers to just write code. They hire them to solve problems. I’m not going to more easily replaced because my code follows the same styles as others, if I am the one solving the problems they have.
I know nothing on this topic so perhaps a naive question but: what about the employees? I imagine part of their TC was in stock, so if I was a CEO I'd feel pretty motivated to reward my employees, who quite literally bet their family's income on me (and indirectly, their retirement and kids' college funds and inheritance etc.)
The resulting exe doesn't really "use" the framework in any way, other than relying on an implementation detail of the backing ucrt.dll library exposed as an unmanaged pinvoke (c# ffi) call.
Using this as the basis for a SASS offering for the e-commerce industry might be interesting… how to pack a box most efficiently in order to save on materials and shipping costs
Have you ever considered that people don't like being told how to behave by unlikable people? And that language policing by definition makes you unlikable? When was the last time you told someone not to use a word and they said "you know what, I like being told how not to speak." ? It's maybe the quickest way to tell everyone that you're insufferable.

So basically you're "proving" to yourself that everyone is either racist or an asshole, by creating a situation where people don't want to listen to you because you're insufferable. But you can pretend to be virtuous because you're doing it for some make believe greater good about the word "whitelist."

BTW I'm actually trying to help you see the reason there's resistance. I use "allowlist" and "denylist" voluntarily in my OSS repos, because it doesn't really matter to me. But I still find people who make it their moral imperative to police these words insufferable. From my perspective, you either don't know that, which shows you have no tact, or you don't care, which shows that you're doing this in bad faith.
I don't know about conciseness. Ruby excels here. As for speed it's useful to distinguish between startup and runtime.
Are you telling the author of the tool that he didn't even read his own README?
Zero in Russia (2007)
Very good points. Letting the coders talk to the users is unfortunately rare and probably undesirable for a lot of larger organizations.
Tom Engle's Cash Management Strategy Visualized
Loved this breakdown. Curious what other people think though - seems kind of like "timing the market," but Engle's track record also speaks for itself.
You know you have a rocket if you're leaving money/customers on the table because your cashflow doesn't support rate of fulfillment of potential growth.
So your stance is feel free to keep doing things you know is overall bad for society until we bother passing a law and pushing enforcement to eliminate the activity?

I don't know about you, but if pumps had leaded gas and unleaded gas, I'd still be going for the unleaded every time along with trying to lobby for change. I'd absolutely be telling everyone I know not to use the leaded gas and try and change everyone around me to get rid of it. I would not just shrug and say "lots of other people are using leaded gas, I might as well as well, my use doesn't matter!" Meanwhile I guess your stance is to just use the leaded gas despite knowing how bad it is and telling everyone else to keep using it anyways until they finally tear the pumps out of the ground.

It's people thinking "my use doesn't really matter!" that is massive problem. Imagine how much easier things would be if people just did the right thing instead of assuming their actions don't matter.

Each rain drop isn't much water, they don't really matter. Yet floods destroy cities. Where does the flood come from?
Here's a story about producing the smallest possible with .NET Core [0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-ga...