skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also constrained languages which gives many advantages. POSIX regex will always execute in O(n), Perl "regex" are potentially exponential and can be a security risk in certain situations.
The last time I wrote C was for my OS class
Just don't apply ML as a solution?

Even without the bias issues, if I were a hiring manager how do I verify that the weights "MagicHireAI SaaS Corp" are using aren't leaving swaths of talent on the table that I don't even know exist?
No. That's not true and the AP News seems to be having trouble interpreting the forecast. The 27 day forecast for activity just has to do with the rotation of the sun bringing back active regions to face earth every ~27 days. This allows you to make very general low accuracy predictions about the solar wind and coronal hole based co-rotating interaction region geomagnetic effects. But these effects are minimal and only really matter to people under the auroral oval (far north/south).

There is no way to predict actual solar storms that far ahead. Nor any way to predict geomagnetic effects at Earth 4 days ahead unless the sun put out a really slow, big CME (which it hasn't).

This is not news. This is a science understanding mistake made by AP News.
>We chose the immediate benefits for Perl 5.

Well, I thank you.

Is there a summary of what Tom Christensen did? I hold him up pretty high when it comes to Perl lore. I don't know from what you wrote if he's the hero or villain in this case (and if you don't remember that's fine: ancient history)
I think it falls into a few categories: and you can _feel_ the difference. There is type one: the company just going through the motions because they're just the NPC that feels "oh I now its time to 'do' VC because that's what everyone does"

Then another type: some of the deep tech startups full of super smart people, even publishing papers, and are usually backed by one or more major institutions (universities, companies, etc.) you can literally feel the passion pouring out of their employees

Then even still there is a third but very rare type: that startup that bootstrapped itself to profitability without any VC at all! (IMO most impressive and difficult)
What about all the VC-funded companies that were never able to find a way to convert users into money? “Always” is a very big stretch here.
Again, just look at the data!

Men's vs women's time trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_Road_World_Championships_%...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_Road_World_Championships_%...

In 2022 women allowed to race the same TT tracks as men for the world championship. Had the top woman (Ellen van Dijk) competed in the men's field, she would have ranked 31st. The 27th ranked man (Alexey Lutsenko) won a stage at the Tour de France and has ranked top 20 in the race.

Stop it with the sexism, please. Women can complete the men's races. Not just overall, not just keeping up and even beating men in the long term, but as you can see even stage by stage they can keep up. The evidence for that is overwhelming and clear.
Yahoo isn't a good example. They were able to routinely turn a profit after the dotcom bust. Their business was very similar to Twitter's profitable years in terms of margins (pre Elon; 10-20% operating income margins). Yahoo had a gigantic (at the time), successful ad business and a lot of properties to display the ads on.

As of right now, the single greatest example in modern business history is Uber. Although they continue to trim their operating losses and it appears they may reach sustainability ($14.1b revenue with $8.5b operating loss in 2019; trimmed to a $1.8b operating loss on $31b in revenue the past four quarters). Their history of loss generation is astounding. Upwards of $30 billion in operating losses since 2009. Even in an ideal scenario it'll probably take them 10+ years after they finally reach an operating profit to turn that net positive.
The person ultimately responsible for the success of your company is yourself and most likely you'll fail regardless of VCs.

I take issues with some of the second order effects:

1. "Because your goal is to sell the company later, it has to grow."

You don't have to hire just because you take VC money. You should hire at the right rate.

2. "You’ll be spending much of your time on finding the next investors".

If you manage your burn properly you wouldn't have to and you should aim to be default alive. http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html

3. "You have to focus on large markets with many (or large) customers"

Yes you shouldn't take VC money if you don't want to go big eventually.

4. "Making existing customers happy is less important than acquiring many more new customers"

You have to do both and the goal should be to make existing customers so happy that tell others which will drive growth. If you don't make a product people love you won't win in the long run anyways.

Finally I think a common mistakes for Founders is making their VC's their boss. Although I agree with some of the sentiment of there is some perverse incentives with VCs as a founder you should take ownership of the decisions that impact your company.
OR (as you say, but many miss) you do not care about being the market leader. I just want to have a nice company with nice people, no stress and making millions for all to live. I don’t need vc money, stress, be the market leader or ‘be faster than the competition’. A LOT of services or products you can make a long term (decades) money with like this. I don’t need more than 10m euros in my life, nor do my colleagues and our clients are happy. No idea why I want all this misery of competing, stress, exposure, running all the time etc etc.
>Rust is not "functional ways", though,

Rust carries a lot of design decisions heavily influenced from ML and OCaml. The type system and exception handling implements things that look a lot like Monads, but with a bunch of boilerplate code thrown in due to the imperative execution. That sort of syntax turned me away from the language, and probably would for a bunch of other people who don't care for that kind of language design.

I struggle to understand a use case for Hare compared to the other C-sequel type languages.
Should have just embedded a shell with Unix inspired (perhaps even plan 9 - 1992) command suite, implicitly treating piped HTML as plaintext corresponding to the rendered page. So the user which is 99% of people is better served rather than some random developer who happens to know perl.
Giving the Colosseum tourist the benefit of the doubt, maybe they thought that was a relatively "modern day" section they were carving their name on?
This is one of the companies I would stay far away from already since the start when the treatment of employees by the CEO leaked. Any sociopath like that will eventually commit actual crimes as well.
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but that’s kind of the thing with threads. no matter how curated my follow list is, my feed is filled with the type of content the OP calls out. there’s no “following-only” feed.
Please edit your post to remove these words -
Granting - starts with Grant, same name as a slave-owning US president
Consider - starts with con, (con/ ex-con), used to shame and discriminate against people who have committed crimes but served their sentences
Vacuum - often used with sexist connotations suggesting women should be the primary user of this tool as a means of housekeeping
Pain - perceived differently by different populations, for instance redheads experience more pain than other hair colors
Promote - likely to remind people of unfair corporate ladder practices
Atmosphere - seen as a positive for earth dwellers, suggesting we are superior to planets which do not have atmospheres
I own an original KIM-1 (that shipped on July 27, 1976; revision A, ceramic 6502/6530). See https://imgur.com/a/iCClwCb It works flawlessly. I actually did some programming of the KIM-1 in the mid-1980s for industrial control: https://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/how-i-coded-in-1985.html
Between the bot farms, members of media in pockets, and inflation; the boat of traction does seem a bit rigged eh?

Probably someone asked long ago "What if traction itself could be a moat?" and the rest is history.
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He is for a long time. Everyone likes him; he's an extremely high achiever; he easily impresses a beautiful girl, and in the same episode outwits all of the Enterprise's security staff to save the Enterprise; he even has special powers that somehow make him a more advanced iteration of the human species.
> That is the etymology of whitelist and blacklist.

It's hard finding a definitive source for blacklist, though first time reading someone suggesting it's from that sense. Many centuries old examples I've seen when looking this up seem to have already had it as some in-use vocabulary.

Edit: huh, entire parent thread has been entirely hidden on HN. I suppose it was too much of a digression.
The rise of smartphone didn't help either.
Tangential: I'll never forget the story of Lee. One of the few times I've I've shed so many tears over someone I never met.

https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...
Talk to the Right Customers:
Defining the right customer segment is crucial to solving problems for the right set of people. To do this, consider the following questions:

Is the customer you're talking to representing your future user base?

Is this segment too broad?

Can you further segment the user?

Fuzzy customer definitions can lead to confusion, overwhelm, and mixed feedback. If you aren't finding consistent problems and goals, you don’t yet have a specific enough customer segment. This process of drilling down into ever more specific groups is called Customer Slicing.

Ask Good Questions and Avoid Bad Questions:
Asking good questions and drawing valuable insights will help you avoid bias or misleading information from the customers. Compare these examples:

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Do you think building a day planner app on Alexa is a good idea?

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Would you buy a product that would plan your day?

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How do you plan your regular day?

What apps do you use to plan your day?

Why are you planning your day that way?

What are you trying to achieve?

Are you actively looking for a replacement for the app you use?

If you're not looking for a replacement, why not?

How much time do you spend planning your day?

Good questions reveal how customers feel and what frustrates them, which provides valuable insight into their needs and potential interest in your product.
Yes, his death is so sad. I wanted to get one of his KIM-1 I/O boards. RIP.
If I had more upvotes to give you, I would.

I come here because quite often the links posted are useful and interesting.

While the comment section sometimes have meaningful on-topic insights, those are few and far between. Most often are just bad takes and/or things that are unrelated to the content at hand, interwoven with a unique brand of mutual fart sniffing.

Your description does it justice.
Yes. All these solutions are snake oil. Resumes are BS—it’s the very definition of garbage in garbage out. I don’t need an AI to sort candidates, I need really fast organizing tools.
You are a clown
Your attacks against me are misplaced.

If you care about privacy, then you should care about the specifics of how it is being abused so that you can defend against it. So you should care that the health data is not coming fro, your phone, it's coming from the massive databases of information that Facebook/Meta and toooooooons of other companies have on you and sell trade and swap.

If you care only should maligning Threads, then continue to obscure the threat to privacy and how the massive network of advertisers is monetizing your health data against your will. Because bringing up laws about banning apps from taking your health data from your mobile phone, which is what spawned this thread, will only detract from efforts to improve privacy, because it would do nothing to 8pm rove privacy here.

So instead of insulting me and throwing around fake "white knight" allegations, at least try to keep up with the conversation.
You missed a step, it goes from the central banks to the LPs to the VCs. The big hedge funds that get all of that low/zero interest money are certainly active in private equity AND forcing their behaviors/policies on companies far and wide.
One of the major security issues with running terraform in your CI/CD pipeline is that it usually needs admin permissions to your entire cloud environment. To avoid this you need the pipeline to pass parameters to an internal process that actually applies the changes.

Digger makes it sound like it might address this:

> Digger runs terraform natively in your CI. This is:
Secure, because cloud access secrets aren't shared with a third-party

From the Github+AWS demo:

> 4. Add environment variables into your Github Action Secrets (cloud keys are a requirement since digger needs to connect to your account for coordinating locks)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

It sure looks like AWS admin credentials are shared with Github, and also available to anything else in the diggerhq/digger action.
I’ve taken a class on new venture funding and what this article misses out on is a discussion of the term sheet.

VC can be a great deal for the company and the founder, or it can be a really bad one. That often depends on what ends up being negotiated into the term sheet that is signed by the VC and founders: what’s the pre-money valuation, what’s the liquidation preference, etc etc.

Basically, this article says “don’t buy a cheeseburger, it’s a bad deal” without having a discussion about how much the cheeseburger cost.
Android 13:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

archive.ph uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Visual Novels are effectively this and seem to be fairly mainstream.
The topic of not taking VC is routinely discussed on HN. It's a very popular subject. I've been coming here for ~11-12 years and there has always been a vibrant back and forth, pro / con, discussion on the subject of why or when VC makes sense (or not).
Not just a binary because a common use is to fine tune from them to create derivative works. Look at all the models based on LLaMA.
I wonder if there's any evidence to support that.

It's equally easy to imagine that a private organization is statistically much more likely to go into debt due to well-intentioned bad management decisions, go bankrupt, and have its land sold to the highest bidder.

In the end, it might depend a lot on which government and which type of private org we're talking about.
The move to more neutral language isn't about policing speech. It's about being aware of potential unintentional biases our words may carry and promoting a comfortable, inclusive environment. It's a dialogue, not a mandate
If someone wants to release weights but attach a no commercial license to it I'm somewhat fine with that. I won't be able to sell it behind a shallow API but I'll be able to use the output of the model (that can't be prohibited) and sell that or do whatever I like with it. It's not as ideal as CC0 but I'm ok with the compromise.
Not the case for me. I schedule my appointments not from the last time I went, but when I start seeing crappy.
No, the purpose of semvar is to be able to distinguish compatible updates from incompatible updates.

As a concept it's relevant any time you have a protocol or a communications channel between agents that aren't rigidly kept in sync. Think network protocols, on disk formats...

The alternative to semvar in the filesystem world has historically been feature bits, but feature bits suck because there was an order in which you rolled out features and feature bits do not preserve that ordering.

Meaning users can (and will, because users do crazy things) end up in a state where they have all the modern feature bits enabled but not the one from 5 years ago and you never tested that configuration.

Learn semvar. Use semvar. Semvar good.
> There’s no such thing as a free beer.

Except there is. Many linux distros are exactly free as in beer besides being free as in speech.
I’ve been in the beta for a while and so far I don’t find it useful or entertaining. It’s also really quiet, with only one account I follow consistently updating. This week I started considering deleting my account…
This Ted talk (includes a lot of data) shows that motivation via money hurts creative problem solving.

https://youtu.be/rrkrvAUbU9Y
> You’re so right! It was an absolute disaster for us. Never do it!!!!!

has cloudflare ever had a profitable quarter?

I could give away my investor's $10 bills all day too
I disagree. Carving your name into something is disgusting.
VCs want to feel good about investing in innovative and exciting startups that will give them massive returns, and the free market responds with founders who meet their emotional needs by selling personalities that are quirked up and coked out with just a hint of sociopathy. Truly a virtuous cycle.
For the market to be free the legal system has to exert a lot of pressure. The natural state of markets is not free.
What the actual fuck is a "post delivery abortion"?
Looking at the outcomes and validating whether or not they make sense
Thank you for your elucidation brother beau
Did you mean "authoritarian" regimes? Communism doesn't imply the same things.
There's nothing new about a Mixture of Experts architecture( and it's still essentially a giant matrix of weights). They just consistently well underperformed their dense counterparts so people were surprised.

But this recent paper shows MoE seem to benefit a lot better with Instruct training than their dense counterparts. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14705
I'd add a caveat here: you guys were a Harvard founding team w prior experience and connections though...

Just like everything else, the real approach to this is nuanced. It's important to highlight that as many fundraisers are operating under misguided thinking on this topic.
these are such weird philosophical stances. just do the thing that makes sense to you or makes sense for your use and move on. there is not a strictly correct choice.
According to a talk I heard from a VC, the bulk of investments return very little, several may 2x to 5x, a few may 5x, and one will 15-20x or greater.

They’re looking for a 10+% return on the entire portfolio.
> I've experienced many times how highly skilled software engineers groan and sweat when they encounter shell scripts. I don't understand why, but it seems like people with a CS background are never really taught shell scripts and have come to irrationally fear them. It's sort of taboo.

It's not a lack of being "taught" shell scripts. It's the fact that shell programming constructs aren't well documented, your "standard library" is basically dependent on whatever binaries happen to be available on the filesystem, error handling is almost non-existent, etc.

It's very easy to write a bad shell script that "solves" a problem as long as a bunch of assumptions aren't violated. In my experience, senior software engineers are extremely averse to hidden assumptions and very concerned with reliability of the systems they build.
Valuable feedback here; I appreciate the link. This is a strong case for adding buybacks. I'll look into how I might go about this.
I am working on a translation of a game engine from Go to C with another coder. One of our end goals is to make it easily available via WASM in a web browser.

As to why work in C - it’s incredibly fast, it feels very powerful as long as we manage memory correctly. We use fsanitize, which is an amazing library that can find memory leaks, buffer overruns, etc etc and run it on all unit tests. I think fsanitize is essential to have in your tool belt if you’re doing any C programming at all.

A pretty direct translation from Go to C resulted in about a 125% speed up (ie the C code was 25% faster) and this was already very optimized Go code with no allocations. From Go to WASM the results were disappointing to say the least - WASM was about 32% the speed of Go and not at all easy to multithread (and a gigantic file). From C to WASM I got a much better 79% of native speed - would have wanted a little bit more, but this is much more doable, and we haven’t begun to optimize some parts of this engine yet. And Emscripten seems to have very good pthread support, which I will try soon.
Yep, I was thinking about a lenslet array system with NxN subpixel under each lenslet. The subpixels are view dependent by emitting light directionally using fish eye magnification of the lenslet. For 64x64 subpixel resolution (giving you around 256 view angles), you need a total of 512 megapixels for a 1080p lenslet array.
I guess Switzerland is not in Europe either then?
The SoC in the fairphone has an ISP, they can just use that.
In my experience, around 5% of VCs I've met in real life are truly decent human beings, even in cases where they don't have to be. The rest have been pure capitalistic sharks (which is understandable, given the entire sector filters for this).
The only thing of value business owners produce is tax revenue?
>They did not add support for encoding/decoding html entities or URLs were added.

It's certainly not in core, but look how PHP flubbed that up (html_entity_decode, htmlspecialchars_decode, htmlentities).

>No standard modules for this.

Obviously there are,

https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Entities

The changelog goes back only to 1998, where it states,

2.14 1998-04-01
HTML:: modules unbundled from libwww-perl-5.22

That wasn't a hurtle to developers, but certainly to end users who did want to just throw a php script up and have it work.
The default should be a 404. The overwhelming majority of such pageviews are mistakes.
A useful rule that I came across a while ago is "ask yourself before doing something (such as picking a flower in the wild), what would happen if a 100 other people did the same thing?". The answer should usually be "don't do that thing"
about:unloads
> You’re hard pressed to find anyone complaining about Luke Skywalker, but Rey? OMG

That's because Luke took a long time to get good, including impulsively running off to fight and losing his arm, and was a whiny so and so, and was only good at certain things.

Rey is a classic MS because she's good at everything from the start; she wins every fight, including against the scariest Sith baddie around; flies spaceships perfectly despite having not done it before; fixes the Millennium Falcon in a way that Han Solo, its owner, didn't understand; was an expert boat navigator across a stormy sea that the locals wouldn't sail across, despite having grown up on a desert planet; everyone likes her (e.g. after Han dies Leia, who's met Rey once before, emotionally hugs Rey and not Chewie); she has random helpful encounters out of nowhere; etc etc.

I get some characters are unfairly characterised as [MG]ary S(ue|tu), or unfairly not as, but this doesn't seem one of those cases. You might say it's because Disney exec leadership and directing of episodes 7-9 were terrible and fragmented, and you'd be right, but the above still stands.