skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a VC backed founder. The VCs will give you lots of advice, but generally are removed enough from the business that it’s obviously up to you to make final strategic decisions.

This story is remarkable in one sense: the founder removes all of his own agency from the story. The vast majority of initial financing rounds leave the founders in control of companies these days…

Finally, a VC backed company is always likely to die. If you want to run a nice, small SaaS, don’t take VC. Whether financing comes from a bank loan, an angel, private equity or VC, one job of entrepreneurs is to align incentives with capital sources.
Know anyone in a small news outlet? Now would be a great time to talk to them about the importance of secure, redundant, off-site backup and archiving. Obviously wouldn't have prevented this— for all I know these folks were doing all of that— but it would mean police in this situation couldn't stop you from accessing your data (and likely, leverage,) even if they controlled your equipment.
My contention is they won’t be able to sustain it, because either the wages will be uncompetitive or remote workers will pay off their houses and no longer need to work (as much).
Some VC firms are willing to work with less growth potential.

The problem is those VC firms are much harder to get started with.

After all the whole schtick of the VCs complained about in OP is to fund tons companies and make so much money off the unicorns that it doesn't matter how many fail.

Honestly though there is one upside to VC money: it also caps your losses. Most forms of debt for a small company rely on you being a creditor meaning you can be in the hole if your company fails.

Overall getting money is hard and nuanced which makes sense given there is nearly infinite demand for it.
I am open to recommendations of psychiatric hospitals that have effective sleep programs. Can you name any?
US takes $1.2B gamble on carbon-sucking vacuums
Many forms of hardware or low-level systems software development and integration. Work with regulatory or security type divides needing separate networks and computers. Sometimes where there can be major dedicated workstations and/or displays for single applications - CAD, Digital art/animation, industrial controls, etc.
> that anyone (Infisical or anyone else)

yes, and in case of Hashi, people agreed on CLA granted all rights exclusively to Hashi, not "anyone else"
Agreed. Last I checked, papers don't have a gender, therefore a gender specific pronoun is incorrect.

Regardless, the title has since been edited. Controversy resolved, maybe now we can discuss the topic x.x
There is a lot to recommend about regular acting as a life skill. It requires text analysis as well as understanding a wide array of people. It's deeply dependent on communicating abstract ideas.

Being able to come up with ideas quickly is great, but conventional acting is about considering deeply and exploring ideas together. The preparation for those "precanned" lines requires a ton of work, work that people don't understand or recognize, but they know when they connect with a performance, and it's all due to that preparation.

In short it's all those "soft skills" that techies both deride and bemoan the lack of.
Great advice!

My seven year old went from doing animations with Scratch to drawing flip books. Now when she consumes media m, it’s usually about getting better at animation.

Needless to say, everyone who knows me in person sees clips of all her animations. And for some reason, it seems like they avoid me…:)
That's how it works in a nutshell. Lots of talkers out there. The people I know who do the real work are the ones at the bottom, and you don't know them because they keep their heads down and focus on writing code. The people that self-promote the most are the ones least capable.
> Ultimately I ended up with a bunch of highly paid employees who don’t know how to do anything but to “build and lead amazing teams.”

I've worked at a lot of startups. The worst of them were led by people who list things like "organization design" and "build and lead amazing teams" on their LinkedIn.

At the most dysfunctional company, the ex-FAANG CTO would take key job descriptions and add the requirement that they must have FAANG experience. This created a glass ceiling where the early employees, non of whom had FAANG backgrounds, were unable to be promoted. Instead, we got a lot of ex-FAANG VPs and Directors who didn't know how to function at a startup. They were told to lead teams of people who knew the business inside and out (because they built it!) yet they could barely function outside of a big company themselves. Every meeting would be a competition of stories about "At Microsoft we did this..." or "At Facebook we did that..." because playing the FAANG card was the only thing the CTO liked to hear.

The only non-FAANG person who thrived at that company was the single worst leader I've ever reported to. He is a LinkedIn influencer with his own newsletter where he talks about, among other things, his expertise in "Organizational Design". Yet the organization he designed was completely dysfunctional because he ignored how the business worked and instead hired arbitrary numbers of people according to some book he read. Half of the people at that company were 90% idle, while the other half were working 80 hour weeks because the "organizational design" person had strictly assigned responsibilities to arbitrary teams in a way that didn't account for how the business actually worked.

The next line from this post is exactly how he responded to every problem:

> Imagine you hire someone to scale an area and their solution is to divide that area into 5 sub areas and hire someone for each of them to figure it out, etc. that’s their solution.

He was never accountable for anything because he always had someone under him to blame.
How to Find Your Voice
They were trying to save storage space and build times as the source grew in size.
It also doesn't make sense talking about the world's deadliest ideology without normalizing for population.

Capitalism, communism, Christianity, and Islam have killed the most people because the most people have lived under them.
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This is one reason the field of behavioral economics is important to society: there are things that an individual or company would never publicly admit to doing — but which they're fine to admitting under NDA, to be used as a datapoint in an anonymized dataset used in academic research.

So, while no individual company will tell you that everyone's using dark patterns or hiring their friends, behavioral economists can put forth evidence-backed arguments that this is the case — and so save you the trouble of bothering to chase the Carrot.
Because not only do we have something close to functioning representative government here, even in places they don’t?

The United States military is the most terrifying embodiment of force in human history. It could dismantle any regime on earth in a day. And they got their asses kicked by a bunch of semiliterate extremists with a bunch of surplus Soviet small arms and RPGs hidden in basements.

The point of the digression is we make the rules, and no plausible oppression can stop that short of our consent, and for big parts of our history we made a lot of rules in the general public interest, and enforced them as we saw fit.

I abhor violence and a big reason why I post on the Internet is that I want to see people stop parroting arch-Randian narratives that don’t serve them before one of these tent camps drags Altman out of his Tesla and beats him to death with his own iPhone.
I’m waiting a year. There is some new tech that sound come on the market Q4 this year. Can’t recall the exact name of it but the efficiency they are touting in real applications is worth the wait to me. I feel like buying panels now is like buying the latest iPhone on September 1.
> if the UK can extradite him to the USA directly without any sort of fake criminal charges?

My understanding is that Assange:

1) Isn't a US citizen

2) Had never set foot within the United States

3) Committed no acts that could be construed (even to idiots) as violating US law

It makes it a little difficult to genuinely extradite. More than likely there was a plan to use extraordinary rendition once he was off UK soil, but before he had arrived in Sweden.
I hope you find this thought comforting: those books were merely holographic projections of the master copies which are safe. Copies are still being made. New editions are still being printed. In a sense, those books sent to recycling are overflowing the cup of knowledge. They're evidence not that the bottle has run low, but that the cup is too shallow--or else it's missing the rest of the champagne fountain[0]. I will admit it feels like a loss that these texts aren't run absolutely ragged--especially when one looks at the sorry state of home libraries across the world[1]. This is inspiration for me to re-read some of the quality tomes I've collected and not yet exhausted.

0. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7013/6678160845_0a3d9e7fb3_b.j...

1. https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street?topic=books&media=al...
If you care to look, they're a.) simple google search away (1), or b.) a step away outside your front door - just approach a cop on the beat and get their opinion.

There a MANY non-criminal police officers who care and strive, in an extremely hostile/volatile environment, to do the right thing.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/29/george...
For me it's more that it decouples the upgrade cycle a ton and lets me amoritize keeping my PC up to date over the years. My current PC setup is worth like $8-11k depending on how you price it. But there are some parts in there still (Drives) from 2008. I'd probbably still have monitors from 2012 but there was a hella sale in 2019 which let me upgrade them. My 2nd gpu to drive 4 of my 5 monitors is still a 2080ti from 2017/2018ish.
I remember running a server on an old tablet several years ago, it was awful. You would have to deal with the server not automatically starting up, not to mention the battery eventually failing and expanding.
The Trouble with Trigonometry
I was thinking the same. Luck also plays a huge part in this area, but will the highly paid managers admit this or even know about it

no - they'll say it's down to <insert absolutlty anything they can make up>
> I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.

gvim (for GTK/Gnome) is an official part of vim!
and i just canceled bc the output isn't good, think you might be using gpt3.5 or something, give us a way to sample/tweak
Japanese universities losing battle with foreign rivals
> For instance, the 7B model requires approximately 10 seconds for inference on 300 Chinese characters on an Nvidia A100 (40GB).

Is that right? That sounds like, 2 OOMs higher than I would've expected. Is he doing something wrong like loading the model from a cold start?
If you assume you can outsmart a VC who has worked with hundreds of startups with an idea you just had you are exactly the schmuck they want to work with.

The actual deals are very complex and the details are hard to understand but it isn't as simple as "here is $10m go make me rich".
macOS Sonoma Sandbox Security
> I don't give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I'm going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I'm going to stop rewarding them.

It wasn’t until a couple of years ago, near the end of a long life, that I realized it’s much more humane to reward good behavior than to keep crapping on those who change their ways “too late”.
This post looks like a LARPer.
This is not responsive to my comments.
I had to do a day in office for the first time in over a year.

The only positive was a feeling of engagement, which would quickly go away because my commute was turned into an hour ordeal each way.

Seems the city made a lot of changes to encourage bicycling, which is great for residents but it really f’ed up traffic.

So while the day in the office did recharge a bit of team enthusiasm, doing that daily with the new traffic patterns on my own time and dime, would wear thin quickly. I would find a different job if forced.

If I can be paged and forced to crack open the laptop and work whenever needed, (and I am), it really does not matter where I do my work, engagement be damned.
> I think that the system works.

How is the system working when clearly the newspaper is in a desperate search now for equipment to be able to stay in business after theirs got taken by the police? Don’t you think that is somewhat chilling of free speech?

What would be evidence of the system not working in your opinion? The editor washing up with a bullet in their head? All the journalist sentenced to 20 years of hard labour on the private farm of the police chief?

The system is clearly not working.
Thanks. How does Apple bootstrap the system in the first place when inserting a blank SSD? Or perhaps you bought a replacement part?

I don't see how that could be done if it is true—that the system is bricked/unrecoverable if the macos partition is lost. Surely it can boot from USB or something?

Perhaps not, this wiki page linked above implies the iboot can't handle usb or external storage:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot
That's because you're using Microsoft's infrastructure for your site.
What do you mean by "fear of reprisal"? It seemed pretty clear to me that they didn't want to head in for fear of confronting someone who can shoot back for a change.
Well good.

If there was a statistically relevant problem, we wouldn’t hear about this sort of malfeasance in the news.

The fact that there is almost always one or another incident making the news only indicates that rare events occur frequently at sufficiently large scale.

The overwhelming majority of search and arrest warrants are authorised because they should be, and, well, like any job role, mistakes shouldn’t be dealt with by disciplinary action that results in the work being ground to a halt.

Where serious wrong doing occurs we should expect disciplinary action, and we do see that occasionally as it makes the news.

There’s definitely an argument to be made that maybe some police are too prone to abuse their powers, but the answer isn’t perfect law enforcement, the answer is how much malfeasance and corruption is tolerable, because we’ll never have none, and the only thing worse than corruption is perfect law enforcement.
My AMD 386DX/40 didn’t even have a fan or a heatsink.
science is not just the analysis. it is also about carrying out experimentation, designing and a. plethora of other thing.

i dont entirely know where the garbage in, garbage out comes from? it sounds like a data scientist who thinks there is no more to science than analysing the data they are provided.

if garbage goes in, then you designed your experiment poorly. which is not good science.

convincing is not science, but politics.
I have two computers on my desk, a mac for admin, meetings, MS office, and a linux laptop for development work.
It was making 7 figures and now it's worth $0? If the investments from VC didn't lead to anything, wouldn't the company still make 7 figures anyway and shouldn't it be possible to continue as it is?
Are all VCs like this or did OP strike out with some bad apples?
It’s possible you don’t have experience working in a large company? It’s a bit of a miracle that any hardware project gets done in my opinion. Delivering on time is enormously difficult. Adding “would be good“ features like maintainability means cutting something else, likely more cost, and a schedule hit. That costs the whole team at review time.

Even the most devoted person can have trouble moving the needle without exquisite political sensibilities. There are plenty of people working in toward the goals you describe inside Microsoft already, but it’s insanely hard to get things like this to critical mass.

Very often in real life we have only bad choices.
I have been playing with Asahi since the day it became available but it does take much away from the hardware purchase not having internal audio support. Work in progress as expected and perhaps one day I can daily drive it.
Is Induction More Efficient Than Electric Coil or Gas?
The fallacy of the undistributed middle is particularly prevalent. However, in practice it is usually hidden in implications rather than explicitly stated. For example:

1. Murder is a crime.
2. We should be tough on murder.
3. Therefore, we should be tough on crime.
(Deliberately) Omitted: Jaywalking is a crime. Should we be tough on jaywalking?
What does "container" mean in this context? It is used often and it seems to mean partition, but perhaps not exactly. Is this new overloaded APFS terminology?
My understanding is that a _lot_ of the AWS provider was written by AWS developers on the clock. I think that pattern holds true for a lot of "official" providers. For that reason I don't expect to see BSL for providers.
I think the major difference is that I believe that allowing a branch of government to break laws and lie to our democratically elected leaders is anti-democratic and totalitarian, thus anti-American.
I'm assuming the best intentions from you but I'd like to point out two things:

1. When discussing human rights (which apply to technological freedoms) reducing a need to "an edge case" is the basis of marginalization, defined as "treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral". Therefore, it is never appropriate to rely on such language to prove a point, especially when we are discussing software which had to go out of its way to restrict freedoms.

2. It's an incredibly slippery slope to use "crapware" as a justification for reducing the freedoms of the individual. Criminals will find a way, do not create a hostile user experience.
I looked at the golang code, and it's only needed for caching? You should make it clearer that the code integration is optional.
.input(z.object({ name: z.string() }))

What the heck is "z"?
However, if you manage to convince the people (or at least a significant percentage of the people) that the journalists you are going up against are just peddlers of "fake news", you might get away with it...
>I’m sure we’ll see it rise, especially in the age of generated textures and materials.

if generative AIs get good enough then I suppose at some point the data transmitted for games and media could be significantly less than now -- you'd 'just' need to transmit the data required for the prompt to generate something within some bounded tolerance.

Imagine a game shipping no textures, generating what was needed on the fly and in real time to fulfill some shipped set of priorities/prompts/flavors.

we're not there yet but it seems like on-the-fly squashing of concepts into 'AI language' is going to be a trend in lossy compression at some point.
It's really a local profession and their ideas about data views will be personalized for their specific clients, regions, or niches.

If you're actually physically going around to each building and collecting data not available online, someone nearby will be interested in having that data and will have suggestions on what else you can collect while you're there. Driving around and eyeballing properties is a large part of some CRE agent's jobs, and they would pay you to avoid it if they could.

From my perspective your best bet would be walking in to local CRE offices and seeing if anyone's available to talk about new data sources. It's a personality-driven field and they value face-to-face interactions quite a bit. Maybe throw out a few lines in your local facebook area or subreddit?
Indeed, I've worked at 3 (large) hedge funds, and only 1 of the 3 is now over $50B. It wasn't even that big when I was there..
Gosper–Niqui Calculator
+ - * ÷ two numbers in
3.14 decimal notation,
1RLLRRLLRRLLRR stern–brocot notation, or
[1;1,2,1] something close to continued fraction notation

Milad Niqui: Exact arithmetic on the Stern-Brocot tree.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82481132.pdf

HAKMEM p. 40 - ITEM 101B (Gosper): Continued Fraction Arithmetics
https://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/work/2009/AIM-239-ocr.pdf
If Sentry used BSL from the beginning, and refrains from calling itself an "open source company", that's just another company doing its thing.

It's the bait and switch and bullshit language ("evolving open source") that gets people riled up.
i mean, it exists in europe and asia too (i'm not familiar with latam/africa so less willing to make this kind of statement there). and if you pass some kind of socioeconomic bar you can be based anywhere but "effectively part of the US startup scene" if you hustle into the right circles. step 1 is incorporate thru stripe atlas imo.
> My experience has been that 9 out of 10 resumes that cross my desk have almost no relevant job experience at all.

We're all out here shedding a tear for you. Not too sure what you expect, as they say, the real talent doesn't need to apply to job postings and submit resumes blindly. With that said, is there anything in your .NET desktop job posting that would encourage a Java web service developer to apply? The first day of every month a bunch of people with widely varying backgrounds and experience post on this very site that they are seeking work... ever reach out to any of them?
And the rest are just crazy.

point being not to minimize mental health, but we're all crazy to some degree. the level at which it becomes a diagnosable illness is what has changed.
> Imagine you hire someone to scale an area and their solution is to divide that area into 5 sub areas and hire someone for each of them to figure it out, etc. that’s their solution.

FANNG hires?
> Just like a normal function arguments are passed using registers and the stack, coroutines are using the same ABI as previously specified, however the code different is vastly different.

> Finally at the end of the function the stack space initially reserved get’s reset to where it was initially when the function first call happens then returns to the caller.

This post could use some editing. I'm having to reread each paragraph several times to figure out its intended meaning. Most sentences are separate paragraphs with careless mistakes that make me feel the author was being chased by someone when writing them and couldn't take a breath.
(Translated by ChatGPT)

If we want to predict what the camera attached to a rocket moving along a complex trajectory at a speed close to the speed of light will see, we need a powerful theory that can predict the image and characteristics of other physical processes that this camera will observe. The Theory of Relativity and the Special Theory of Relativity can predict these characteristics. However, the Theory of Relativity doesn't explain the «why» behind this happening.

If we consider the theory of the ether, the speed of light is the speed of wave propagation in the medium, which is itself determined by the speed of an interaction between particles in this medium (which is usually higher than the speed of wave itself).

In the case of experiments like LIGO/Virgo or NANOgrav, the speed of light changes because gravitational waves affect the medium.

If we take General Relativity (GR), the speed of light is the ultimate speed because Einstein stated so.

In the case of LIGO/Virgo experiments, the speed of light remains constant because the speed of light is the constant, as stated by Einstein, and space and time stretch in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th dimensions, which leads to light moving slower, although the speed of light itself doesn't change. :-/
Iran forces women defying hijab laws into psychiatric treatment
I was never just comparing language to language. My original comment was this: "9 years later, the Swift tooling is still atrocious. Compile times are much longer, the compiler still crashes, the debugger still doesn't work reliably. It's a major step down from the mature Objective-C tooling."