skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m skeptical of this story as well, or at least skeptical of its applicability, but even if true, this feels like more of that “Steve Jobs did it, and he was successful, so you should do it if you want to be successful like him!” type pablum. Steve Jobs was successful because he had an aesthetic sense for technology that put his peers to shame and was enough of a monomaniacal asshole to be able to deliver the products he wanted. If you are reading this article, you are not Steve Jobs, and would be better served by learning people skills, because you probably don’t have the talent to compensate for being as much of an asshole as Jobs was.

As to the advice itself - “do I want to have a beer with this person” is why our industry looks like a dude rodeo and has led to some of the most incompetent, myopic, nepotistic teams I’ve ever had the misfortune of working with. “Does this person bring skills, talents, and perspectives we currently lack” is a better question. “Does this person look at things in a different way to the rest of the team, so as to help us spot things we otherwise wouldn’t” is a very good one as well. But “would I have a beer with this person” is going to give you people who don’t challenge you and is going to lead you to wonder why your org can’t seem to hire anyone except mid-20s white dudes.
That and wouldn’t the saved rent expenses offset those taxes anyway? Second companies would have the freedom to move the main location freely to cities/states with lower taxes.
Hmmm, I'm not sure where you're headed.

Perhaps an example might help?

Say someone requests (an inter-library loan for) Mein Kampf [1] or -say- Das Kapital [2]. Would you advocate a) defunding the library for lending them that book, we should not give them public funding if they loan out reprehensible books b) funding the library, we should give libraries public funding so that they can fulfill the function of letting anyone read any work for any reason. or c) should funding for libraries be divorced from whether or not they would loan a person that book? or d) other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
Interesting. I wonder what the battery life is though on that single CR2032.
I've always assumed that greed, particularly when it's egregious and endemic, would more rapidly unwind a start-up. My OC was more focusing on those mechanisms that tend to be at play at start-ups that cause them to gradually decline/implode.

However, I totally agree with your point. Also, sorry that happened to you!
Yeah, we'd need to borrow ferries from somewhere. But if it's the big one, Puget sound is also probably a mess so there goes the obvious option.
Author here if you have questions about the Datapoint 2200 :-)
TL;DR: Founder had healthy startup, accepts VC money, acts surprised when VC wants rapid growth and returns.

Who could have predicted this?
Yep. My faith in both specific institutes and "society" in general cratered, and it wasn't due to some Facebook meme telling me to arson a 5G tower. It was from watching the horse's mouth in full good faith and instead seeing brazen attempts to manufacture consent, "gaslight" last week's claims way, and spin the scientific method as "anti-science". And then the disappointment at seeing just how easily large amounts of society could be (gladfully) whipped into supporting almost any level of authoritarianism, up to and including literally celebrating the deaths of their "opponents", all while claiming to be the compassionate side concerned about public safety, and mostly from the political wing that claims to be our only line of defence against that sort of thing
> So why did SV companies fire a lot of employees recently, if the severance and WARN act outweigh the positive impact on the share prices?

I didn’t say they did.

I said that if you can get people to leave voluntarily, that’s better for the financials.

That doesn’t mean that there aren’t conditions where the best available option (from a serving the shareholders perspective) is layoffs. Just that, ceteris paribus, its better to shed the headcount without the added costs imposed by layoffs; the benefit (when there is a benefit) of layoffs is reducing the headcount, not bearing the severance, WARN Act compliance, and other costs particular to layoffs.
> That's funded by a loan from the Russian government, not from private financial markets, so we can assume the rate is below market. The actual cost when real risk penalties are included (as they must be for an accurate cost) would be higher.

Not much higher, though. Russia makes money on these contracts. South Korea has

> I also doubt anyone is going to be buying Russian nuclear power plants in Europe anytime soon. The strategic risk and associated cost (as seen with importing natural gas from Russia) would be far too high.

Of course. I'm not suggesting that Russia should be relied upon for ANYTHING at this point. It should be as isolated economically as possible.

I'm just using this as an example of what you can do with a streamlined construction pipeline for plain old PWRs. No fancy new technology, no breakthroughs, just regular old good project management.
If you only ever use Typescript and are sure you’ll never need to interact with the code in any other language or service in a different repo it’s fine. But as soon as you need to reuse that backend for anything else you’re stuck building something new.
I believe so, but I would stick to the M1 models currently as they have a larger set of supported features complete at this time: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
This article feels incredibly baited and regressive?

"not enough black people in AI" - can we get past this already? I'm a person of color and this is beyond pandering and borderline offensive to those of us who don't seek to publicly engage in this kind of "progress".
For me CAD is pretty much the opposite, I rely heavily on the apps, I spent about a week trying to learn to draw before deciding I didn't really want to spend months or years on it.

I'm not a mechanical engineer, I mostly only do incidental CAD and hobby level work, so it's not really essential to have the deep understanding of space that real MEs need.

I often don't know what sequence of operations I'll need until I actually open the app. Generally it's more of an "Oh I need a mounting hole, lets look around on the screen and see where one could go" thing, a lot of the thinking is in the app rather than in the mind.

Of course you can't make nicely parametric things without a lot more thought so I will often wind up having to redo things that aren't one offs...
I have another idea.

What if we could hold the board and the CEO personally liable with prison time for crimes by all the agents, contractors, employees, and so on of a company (with exception when they explicitly went against company policy to commit said crimes)? You'd think that was already the law but given that the Wells Fargo CEO avoided any prison time when management misused blacklist on employees who didn't meet their illegal quota, I am not holding my breath.
Any move towards the smaller island will most likely trigger an American buildup of forces on Taiwan itself.
what I'm curious about is the account who submitted this, a 3 month old account with no comments and only submissions from that particular website.

Are you affiliated with the website? Is the submitter affiliated with the website?
But the payoffs are very much asymmetric. Getting convicted of tampering adds a few extra years to his sentence which will probably be more than his life anyway. Successfully tampering with the witness may avoid the conviction in the first place.
But to what end? What more can you do with a printed envelop? ROT13 or Vignère that piece of text? Then write it with the Dancing Men alphabet?

The point is, you can only mitigate so much before it become an exercise in futility. The general counsel, if anybody, is the person that can actually bankrupt your company and get some nice money for himself using some legal tomfoolery. I doubt that if that was his intention, trying to decode a piece of base64 for a private key of the database would be the course of action that he would take.

The author was in a (then) startup. He had a sensitive document. He asked the Legal Counsel to keep hold of it and shred it after 1 days. And then forgot about it and went on and built more measure to defend against hacker, which is the more important threat actor here.

Know your threat model and expend your/your company limited resource on the things that matter.
The geekery that is HN.
TIL about scroll-to-text-fragment!

https://caniuse.com/url-scroll-to-text-fragment
I would argue "lifestyle startups" are largely a low-interest rate phenomenon.

However, I know the founders of Wander, the AirBnb for rich tech bros in high-end rural locations startup. They're making a killing but I'd imagine with much of the startup market / tech job market in the toilet revenue might be tightening.
Oh sweet. That approach makes a lot more sense. Access would be through a server-side ORM so users would not be able to run arbitrary SQL. Thanks!
>It used to be a place of wonder and mystery people wanted to go to and explore.

The orientalism is strong in this one.
I can understand why you would disagree, but curious why you think that comment needs to be deleted? Do you really think we not only need to criminalize digital paintings you don’t like, but even mentioning them?
I self-host both Mastodon and Wordpress. I don't recall one being much more effort than the other, though this is on a VPS that did not previously have PHP installed so that might skew things a little.

I did try setting up the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress and was not successful in getting other ActivityPub servers to talk to it. It's been a while and Automattic now contributes to the plugin so it might be worth a second try.

Edit: gave it a second try and it seems to work without any fuss.
Obree (2018) [video]
The thing is people elide the correct conclusion of that study to "masks don't work" which is not what the study says, and it is actually a hypothesis that has been roundly disproven... there are numerous studies showing the efficacy of mask wearing for preventing the spread of infectious diseases. They apologized for the wording for a good reason, which is that people took it out of context to suggest something that is not only not what the study said but contradicts a variety of other research.
Lockdown may have made sense as a strategy to vaccines and treatments in place. To abolish the virus? It could never have worked. I mean, tell me how likely do you think it would have been that every country could have done something like that, in synchrony?
the live feed is the first thing i saw; a ddg search indicates more people are aware of it

i'm starting to question if you are arguing in good faith
> magit is especially great as a much better `git add -p`.

In Git, except for when adding new files, I always use `git add -p` to stage changes. And it's definitely the number one thing I do with Magic in terms of frequency. I can confirm that if you're an `add -p` kinda person, you'll love Magit.
Where does the money in the funds originate from?
Who set the original goal of the fun and the research direction?
I think so, X13s can become extremely hot and are slower.

Only things still lacking for single machine use is speakers, microphone and webcam:
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
what controller did you use? my dualshock 2 with usb adapter is not being picked up surprisingly.
I agree, we're too far down a chain of hypotheticals motivated by "but ONNX must be bad compared to $MODELX.cpp?"

Wouldn't make sense to deploy 4-bit quantization as a product either.
Creating and following the data is science.

When we arrange the science to fit the narrative we deny science in whole and corrupt the scientific method. And unfortunately, when funding is tied to donors or programs this is exactly what we incentivize.

Science is only as good as the freedom of the scientists to ask unencumbered questions.
I really liked the style of the instructor (Kolter), and the reason I like this course very much is because each lecture is followed by an implementation video along with the notebook file.

In most Deep Learning courses, the implementation is left to TAs and neither recorded nor made available. This course is an exception. Another bright exception is NYU Deep Learning course [0] by Yann LeCun and Alfredo Canziani. In that course, too, all recitations ("Practica") are recorded and made available. And Canziani is a great teacher.

[0]: https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning
Why do that when you can go on food stamps and have the tax-paying public subsidize labor for one of the wealthiest institutions in world history?
> They're not as robust as full boat CLOS classes

Structures support single inheritance, CLOS classes support multiple inheritance. The main reason for structures is that they are faster to use by default - but they are less flexible. For example: CLOS classes support updates of existing objects when the class definition changes, structures don't support updates.
I use a Lenovo TrackPoint II Bluetooth keyboard and Logitech MX Master 3 Bluetooth mouse, as well as a massive Bose sound system.
Yeah... It might be a scam. I haven't tried to buy one.
>evidence includes the fact that the earliest confirmed cases clustered around the seafood market

That's a debatable point. Michael Worobey produced a paper appearing to show that but that was based on case data effectively supplied by the Chinese government who seem to have gone to some lengths to avoid implicating their labs.

There is another dataset of people who called a helpline early on with covid symptoms and that shows them clustered on the other side of the river away from the market and towards the WIV lab.

So if you are going with trust the government stuff then the cases are clustered around the market. If you don't trust said government then they are clustered towards the lab.

It's an interesting question if the government data is genuine why they show different epicenters.
The answer you seek is in the output of neofetch in the screenshot ;-)
Your latest hn podcast post has a low level noise that makes it unlistenable to me. You should be able to use non ai tools to remove the background hiss/hum
I think there's a lot of truth to the quote "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard".

For top .0001% success in some fields (most sports, for example), you need genetic qualities AND hard work.
I’m willing to admit that poor usage can make any tool a problem. But, tRPC is set up to make it easy to directly expose your backend for use in a component. For new projects that’s fantastic, for larger projects and teams having the ‘friction’ of defining a gRPC, GraphQL or REST endpoint is leading to more thoughtful API design and ability to keep isolation between layers.
That kind of this only matters if you have shame. And in this age people really don’t care as long as they wield power.
I see no reason why the laws around IP need to be the same as the laws for real estate.
Thatcher on the one hand Nazis and centuries of colonization on the other. I’ll take it
It is not possible to have true lockdowns within the US as a Constitutional matter. Any restrictions on free travel within the US is a fundamental right subject to the "strict scrutiny" standard, which could never be met by broad lockdowns.
I have never used Fedora, I use Arch on my desktop and really enjoyed it on my macbook. It's kind of sad the Arch developers didn't want to put more effort into supporting alarm.

If Arch is totally dropped by Asahi team it's unlikely I'll continue using linux on my macbook at all. I just have better things to do than manage multiple distros.
No matter what happens with riscV having any amount of control or a board seat or large amounts of votes on what ARM does is just smart given that there is a big risk that ARM when public decides “ya know, going forward we want to change terms for our license to start making some real money..”.. basically that one choice could dramatically impact any ARM licensee company with big exposure to license fees. So it’s a smart idea to have involvement in ARM. My hope is enough companies do this that they decide to keep it private and make this an open consortium that benefits all licensees.
> Pretty much widely known to be correct now.

What? I thought it was widely acknowledged to not be ruled out. But how could it be shown to be correct?
I use a B tree strategy on wikis:

As time progresses, the most relevant topic areas for the project consume the main page, and over time specifics get pushed down to subtopics and sub-subtopics. Anything that hasn't been touched in a long time is prioritized for moving down. If something has been sitting at the bottom of the tree for a long time and looks wrong, it might be time to delete it. But in the meantime you've made it harder to find. Once a page sprouts too many links it's time to halve it and push some of them down one level. Good activity for a Thursday or Friday afternoon when you've fixed a major bug and don't want to start anything new.

The guys who need to toot their own horn want to put four links onto the main page. For some reason those scenarios live rent-free in my thoughts on Wikis. Probably because I was formulating this theory while working with one of them.
> But it was the newspaper owner, not the police chief, who was raided.

That's what the title means.
I won't say "small town anywhere", that's probably not true. But also true of small town Tennessee.

"Everybody knew" the sheriff took kickbacks from the bootleggers (it was, and still is, a dry county), and probably quite a bit more. I mean, I knew, and I was a high school kid. He did eventually get busted roughly a decade after I left.

Cities have corruption too, of course. But the hypocritical gaslighting nonsense about how pure and clean small town life is horse shit.
i want to be very clear that what i clicked on was not a painting/cartoon/manga-drawing

when i wrote child sexual abuse media, i was not referring to a depiction of but rather a picture of an actual child being abused

this is not up for debate

edit: that you need to get a throwaway to argue you point tells me you know this shit is indefensible
I have a niece and nephew ~10yo that whenever I see them are just staring at their devices. I don't want that happening to my 1yo son, I don't want him to miss out on normal life stuff either. When do and how do people normally introduce devices to their kids? So far we haven't shown him any technology, other than seeing himself on the screen when we take a selfie.
I like to believe consisently making good decisions is also part of success, but I'm not that successful yet.

Also, if "luck" is factors outside of your control, having rich parents would count as luck. :)
This story omits the most crucial information: why was the warrant issued?

Judges issuing warrants is one of the least accountable aspects of our legal system. Warrants can cause major damage, disruption, or even death. There are never consequences for a mistake (cf. Breonna Taylor incident).

They can also cause political interference and there's little mechanism to prevent abuses. The FISA warrants against Carter Page were later declared invalid[1]. Document mishandling sometimes resulted in essentially nothing (Clinton, Biden) and sometimes warrants and raids (Trump). There could be good reasons for all of this but there's not really any mechanism to sort it out. Next time there might not be good reasons, and the target might be a politician we desperately need (rather than Trump).
It is harrowing. And I'd like to hope that folks that live in Oregon are familiar with it.

Living in California, we get public service announcements and outreach about preparedness. The FEMA guidelines of 3 days supplies are a fine rule of thumb for a lot of disruptive scenarios. I personally feel a 2 week ability to "shelter in place" is about the best one can hope for. But all of those rely on the underlying detail that should some great disaster hit an area like Southern California, that there is a large amount of infrastructure and support outside of the area that can be marshaled and rallied to support those impacted by the event.

Simply put, within 2 weeks, not only has the cavalry arrived, you're likely already on your way out to a safe area.

Mind, I live in a earthquake zone. My singular true risk is uncontrolled fire. Modern, wood stick frame housing is very resilient and resistant in collapse in case of a large quake. It can condemn the house, but the house will not likely crush the occupants.

But fire, well fire is fire. We, unfortunately, know far too much about the disaster potential for fire. So, my hope is that at worse the house gets broken, doesn't catch on fire, and someone will show up within 2 weeks helping me get to someplace else. Other than that, just gotta wing it.

2 weeks of random soup and beans from a can is not a hard thing to stock up. Water is a trick if you're not doing it consciously, but it's not up to the rafters with supplies if you do.

Oregon, however, is just not so lucky. If they get their planned for monster earthquake, it's very likely help will not be able to arrive within 2 weeks. You're likely looking at a much more apocalyptic scenario rated at several months. If anything, you should prepare to start hiking out.

The infrastructure impact seems to be very high in Oregon. Even nearby help may not be able to get to you, with the roads being in utter ruin.

So all I can hope is that there is effective outreach to the folks in Oregon and some solid advice shared on how to potentially cope with these events should they happen. Because Oregon has different issues and the generic guidelines likely will not be successful in this case.
When you hire a consultant as a public university for a contract over a certain amount of money, you need to put out a request for proposals and evaluate consultant proposals.

As part of that, they can put in requirements for consultant staff, require proposals show time allotment for staff and tie billing to hours actually put in.

So if you hired a consultant and got nothing but fresh out of university know nothings its because you did it on purpose, or you are inept both at writing RFPs and also evaluating proposals, and maybe at managing consultants as well.

That being said, most of the time, outside of a few cases where the expertise is hard to find anywhere and you literally cannot find it outside of consultants, I'm of the opinion that the money spent on consultants would be better spent building that specialty knowledge in house.
A little frustrated by the ambiguity of the $100M in the post. Is that capital raised, ARR, GMV? Makes a big difference in terms of understanding what kind of business they built.
It seems quite obvious that this novelty maximizing can be strongly curtailed by political and profit-seeking power, through various incentives and punishments that are then deeply internalized by scientists. Look at how fossil fuel industry scientists long knew about climate change and lead poisoning, or pick a range of examples from pharmaceutical or nutrition sciences. This is by no means unique to science (the influence is arguably much stronger in other domains like journalism) but there is no sense in arguing science operates on an orthogonal plane to power.

My critique of the piece is that half its length is devoted to dissent that turned out to be significantly incorrect or explicitly political or of very weak rigor, that seemingly had no censorship. The other half details some meaningful and concerning censorship and conspiracy to preemptively absolve players like Daszak, etc., and I think that's where the focus should lie, as we have not learned the appropriate lessons.
What's the status of sleep mode/battery life/trackpad feel on Asahi at this point? Last time I tried it those were the biggest blockers.
Brazil's Congress moves to levy higher taxes on cryptocurrencies