skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m speaking specifically of early investment in debt, which does not have the impacts you describe and is typically intended to convert to equity. In my experience it is better for the founder than a priced round in basically every sense.

However it is easier to wash out and leaves no cap table trace, which is why some investors do not do it very much anymore.
The biggest problem I have with a typical use of "fail" today is when it's applied to some software or startup that A) effectively solved a problem and B) had many, many customers, but just didn't make enough money, or didn't become astoundingly popular.

Using "fail" in those cases totally discounts the engineering work which was definitely successful.

But more generally, it's just completely the wrong mindset. How far could you go with web development, for example, if you declared a failure any time your CSS made a really weird layout and you had to type some more into your editor?

Problem solvers like programmers are constantly running into things that don't work. You don't say "I failed, but that's okay, I will pick myself up tomorrow and fail forward. This will be a learning moment. Let me call my mom and tell her about it". Instead, you immediately start diagnosing the problem without a second thought.
>Your comments reek of pseudosciency pop evolutionary biology bullshit. Human behavior is way more complicated than you would hope.

It's not "pop" shit. It's from a field called evolutionary psychology. A very real field in academia.

By the nature of what's being studied evolutionary psychology is harder to statistically quantify things as they do in the hard science like physics and chemistry. What they do is they study commonalities between multiple cultures and come up with qualitative conclusions based off of the most likely inductive and logical explanation for those observed commonalities. This is quite common in the soft social sciences.

Tribute to women and other mating displays from males... aka "romance" is across the board found in many divergent cultures. It is even found in animals.

In animals generally the female species is the one being courted or romanced. This occurs because the female is the one that carries the child so she is the "gatekeeper".

It is real and there are authoritative sources that illustrate what I say. There are many sources where you can read about this stuff.

Here's one: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology https://a.co/d/01Caa1v

>Also diamonds are not rare.

Rare enough such that diamonds can fill the role of a tribute object. Yes advertising does play a part but if diamonds were so abundant that they're only 10 bucks a pop women wouldn't care for one at all. Of course with the advent of synthetic diamonds the market value of diamonds is now largely artificial.

All of this, however, does not detract from my point. If it's.not diamonds, it'd be something else.
I'm not saying there isn't such a country, but the countries with national health care that I know about don't or don't fully cover dental health (presumably because one can live in perfect health with a rotting mouth and not due to a strong dental healthcare lobby /s).
I don't agree that they are geniuses. I simply believe that they were able to afford the appropriate legal representation in order to get mergers that technically should have been stopped by the government rammed through the courts anyways.
I thought they would cut it years ago, but it’s sticking around.

It’s still a distant 3rd place, but it used to be fourth and seems to have doubled from 5-10% in the last 5 years. [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/even-as-cloud-infrastructu...
Surprisingly this seems to be a common feedback from all. We wanted to go with an aesthetic that would appeal universally, but I guess we went over-the-top with it.
If you’re growing a food garden, often you’ll get some competition from weeds and lower yields (given the same water, fertilizer) unless you pull the weeds up.

Of course many weeds are beneficial for a variety of reasons, but it is dependent on context.
It seems pretty certain to me it is an egg casing and the inhabitant already left through that ripped part.
I’m simply noting it is a different category than sequential memory and does not constitute a rebuttal of the conclusion of the linked paper.
When I "worked" at a public access TV channel, we used a big PowerPoint deck for most of the unprogrammed roll. It was pretty simple too. A G4 cube would just have a ppt on loop, and output it's video into the switcher. When you needed to update the roll, you just replaced the file over the network, and reloaded the application. You were supposed to do this when the switcher was showing some other program, but occasionally someone would forget, and a video of the OS X 10.1 desktop would go out on the air.

Apparently they used hypercard before PowerPoint, but when Apple pulled the plug, they had to move over
You can't take the number outside of its context. We know the earth is warming, that's not up for contention anymore. When you hit a 50 year record high temperature, the implication is that it's only going to get hotter.

It's not "doom and gloom because it hit 96F"

It's "doom and gloom because it hit 96F and it's only gonna get hotter"
Police are allowed to lie in pursuit of their work. Miranda compels them to tell the truth, if only once, when arresting a suspect. That Miranda is celebrated is an indication of the sorry state of policing... but don't shoot the messenger.

Also? Look at Canada. Here, cops are also allowed to lie, we don't have Miranda rights, we don't have the strength of the 5th amendment, and while you're allowed to ask for an attorney, the police are in no rush to get you one and they'll continue questioning you without an attorney present. They're not supposed to question you without that attorney, but who's going to stop them?
I don't think it's unreasonable that the government was "empty handed" after the retreat.

Given the amount of time and prep that is put into government communications and policy, if they actually had some concrete policy to announce after the retreat it would have meant that the whole retreat was actually a sham and they had something planned all along.

The government has switched out the housing minister from a dud to a rising star, and had a retreat where they listened to a bunch of experts. These are promising things to notice, but if they are only now changing tack on this issue, it will likely take months from now until we see a coherent policy response.
I mean, yes, I would love to see a gravely sick institution volunteer, "we are flawed, we are obliged to change, and here are some well-coiffed heads on spikes as a down payment". It's an extremely unlikely scenario in the current landscape, but I don't think it's absurd to think that would be a better society.
Ads keep things on the internet free to use and access. It also allows many sites to be viable to run in the first place. Removing ads from the web would destroy a large chunk of value and disincentivize the use of the web and push these sites to just build on top of a social media app which is able to be get ad funding via native apps instead of a website. This results in more centralization.
Yes, if you count the emissions for the stuff manufactured in China for (not only) european customers.

If you look at consumption-based emissions[0], China is at 7 t per capita, which is 8 t less than the US, 2 t less than Germany and about par with Denmark, Slovakia, and England.

0: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
I don’t disagree with you, but that’s not what the video showed.
You could start the message by explaining your situation. But yeah still lots of edge cases this doesn't catch.
Secession is when the smaller unit removes itself from the larger unit. Coup an illegitimate change in control of the unit.
Good luck figuring out which is which from the legislative armchair.

I recommend the book Seeing Like A State.
Disagree--bodycams will sometimes record things that legitimately shouldn't be released. (Extreme example--cop rolls up on a 10 year old being raped. You think that should be out there???) Thus police video needs to be reviewed before release. The defense should *always* have access to the whole thing, although sometimes with restricted access (like a lesser version of a SCIF--they can go to a secure location and examine it but not make copies.)

What we need is bodycams with secure digital signatures. The camera signs the video when it makes it, the key set during manufacture and not accessible by *any* means. The public key for the camera can be accessed from the camera as well as from the manufacturer--the defense can verify the image actually came from the camera. I'd actually like to see this for all cameras but it's less important for others. (Note that this would *not* indelibly fingerprint an image--it would be like the EXIF data, the user could remove it if desired. You can make an image anonymous, you can't pretend an image is from some other camera.)
> At the moment, the only supported platform is Linux.

Regardless of your feelings on the status quo, there is one thing you must do when building a game engine if you want it to succeed: support Windows.
That's just not true. They're not "reasoning" anything, they're assembling code that appears similar to something they were trained on, within whatever additional language training constraints they're given. I've never had an LLM spit out code that didn't need fixing, which defeats the purpose of preferring them over a re-compiler anyways.
According to this next page, in 2021 the "EU27" emitted 2774.93 megatons of co2 whereas China emitted 12466.32. Also, European emissions are falling whereas China's is rising.

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2022#emissions_table

Per capita, EU27 is at 6.25 whereas China is at 8.73 whereas the US is at 14.24:

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2022?vis=pop#emissions...
This is just a misleading thought framework of discounting any single item as a “decisive” silver bullet. Of course none of them are being talked about as being a silver bullet.

We need a 1000s of bullets fired at changes to avoid even higher costs of climate change on our current path.
> I don't know how much time I already wasted clicking away cookie banners. Maybe a minute a day? That's 6 hours a year.

Just install consent-omatic
And this has been going on for over a decade, but the EU hasn't decided to fix it.
Because they employ tens of thousands unelected bureaucrats at wildly inflated (six figure in EU) salaries? 20,000+ just in the EU Commision.

They have their own Cartier/LV/etc... in Brusels HQ?
> how much does the person really understand the behind the scenes "stuff".

With the way LLMs hallucinate, would you want a bot between you and a job?
Again, that is just using text only.

Imagine you have a lot more computing resources in a multimodal LLM. It sees your request of count the syllables and realizes it can't do them from text alone (hell I can't and have to vocalize it). It then sends your request to a audio module and 'says' the sentence, then another listening module that understand syllables 'hears' the sentence.

This is how it works in most humans, now if you do this every day you'll likely make some kind of mental shortcut to reduce the effort needed, but at the end of the day there is no unsolvable problem on the AI side.
Every 10th Bitcoin Lightning payment fails and every 5th is slow, still in 2023
> They want to kill people now

this is drastically wrong and dangerous rhetoric
The redesign of the plastic bottle cap was one of the weirdest recent directives in EU.

How did this micro optimization make sense? How can we take people that pushed for it seriously?

They made regulations on separating waste that did not put a requirement on recycling. Many cities, to avoid fines, provide separate containers, but in the end just throw everything on the same pile.

This new bottle cap design requirement must have created a new economy for producing these bottle caps for all of the containers, someone profited. The need for it was created in EU institutions.

There are massive problems around waste that no one there dares to approach, so they make these weird directives that just smell of corruption and incompetence.
Indeed, we need real order of magnitude numbers here of deaths from energy scarcity vs deaths from future climate change. Otherwise we're just blowing hot air around.
There is much poverty in China outside of major cities and near nonexistent safety net in all regards. This is a country where a sizable chunk of population lives on less than 6 USD per day (not enough to bribe the doctor to get "universal" healthcare in case of something serious) and where the gov has recently made posting videos of poor people on social media punishable as "against national interest".

You also should be aware about the amount of coal power plants it runs and keeps building (https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-takes-the-brakes-off-coal...).

It is a good time to ask ourselves which country contributes the most to emissions and crucial to avoid any mental gymnastics while at that. But unfortunately yes if you dramatically reduce coal usage in China people will die.
Don't forget hypercard
for example, if they need to create a class or a function, how do they name it ? I live in the non English speaking world, I had to learn a minimum of English to be able understand, reason about and write code.
https://archive.ph/rin5B
He was also a Guile hacker back in the day. I will miss him.
Can you do us a favor and vote in someone to correct that particular one? It’s leaking into the rest of the world.
Big Tech seemed like a smart place to put money so that’s what the market did with ridiculous P/E ratios. Inevitably everyone realizes they’re not full of geniuses who do everything right - see the Metaverse and the slow demise of Googles Ad monopoly for examples.
Thanks!

So the scheduler serializes execution of critical sections?

> In this case, messages are passed between work that contains the data. No locks are required at the expense of memory footprint.

Are messages copied or moved? If moved is there compile time checking for ownership or runtime debugging tools?
I think Steve is approaching this from much more of a business angle. Looking at the Business Model Template slide in the article, programming language choice may not affect the business model much, except perhaps in rare cases where the language/tech achieves a business moat. Founders can definitely hold random theories about the business market/strategy, as long as they are willing to invalidate them (profound beliefs that are loosely held).
May be once or twice per month to full relax, but it depends a lot on your needs and family situation. For example, if you have kids, things change a lot.

But in general, dedicate 3 hours per day to anything except your work, it's more valuable than 21 hours during a weekend.
I think the bloggers are a classic vocal minority, nothing to feel weird about.
Here maybe? https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-unit/
Should have setup some cameras and mics and waited to see what would happen or interact with it
I'm gonna use bazel
in this theoretical world without commodity air travel, we'd have ocean liners fit for purpose. right now the only one i know of is effectively a cruise ship payload stuffed into an ocean liner hull. based on the numbers for cargo favoring sea over air, it seems reasonable that liners _could_ be more efficient than flight
The problem with this is that it would quickly become prohibitive with criminals going after the authorities who prosecuted them. I think immunity has to stand so long as they didn't break the rules but we need the system to do a better job of going after the bad apples.
hmmm ...

imho. on the one hand: tools are tools, and there is a good reason for why there are a plethora of tools available in this (it) world.

concentrating too much on one tool only reminds me of the "old saying": "if your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails".

so personally i like to be T-shaped in my knowledge and build up "deeper" tool-related knowledge on demand in case it matters.

on the other hand: software-development is a meta-understanding game, writing actual code is only a small part of it.

in a nutshell: understand the problem at hand, the additional value of the project for a customer, what are the use-cases for the customer, various patterns which are useful for solving a specific problem, academic approaches vs. real-world solution etc.etc.

getting to know different approaches to programming - languages and their surrounding tool-ecosystem - serves as a source for different viewpoints on problems -> and increases the level of insight of a software-developer.

idk ... just as a quick example "imperative" - procedural, oo - vs. "functional" etc.etc. comes to mind if we talk of language concepts.

cheers
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Thanks buddy, let me know if you face any issues.
The EU didn’t tell those sites to show cookie banners, they just told them to stop collecting people’s data without their consent. It’s the sites that interpreted that as “annoy people until they consent so we can keep collecting their data”. That’s not really the EU’s fault, although they should have seen it coming.
In some sense it is. Async is a glorified future, and future is a glorified thread management, and threads are a way to facilitate asynchronous execution. You can also create a threadless runtime, but then you are relying on OS threads (e.g. I/O or XHR), otherwise you are simply combining function calls (for which we already have language syntax).
Source for what? That emissions are declining in the US?

You can find some details here https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica... I am surprised you didn't know this already.

Here is China https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KT?location...

It doesn't take into account trends that already exist. In the next decade small reductions to emissions in US transportation per year will be meaningless. Also reducing agricultural emissions which are only 10% of CO2 emissions in the US will have little affect on total global emissions. I'm not sure why there is so much hand waving about the CO2 emissions of China alone.
I'm not ready to predict, but based on what I saw in Europe in 2015[0] and how things[1] are developing[2] lately[3], I see this as a very plausible outcome.

The US and EU countries get more migrants than they can handle; resentment grows; attempts to solve the problem with bureaucracy and policing fail spectacularly; calls for outright violence grow louder; and the well-meaning citizenry agrees that Something Must Be Done!

Geo-engineering is something, and it will be done.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/us/migrant-crisis-massach...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-us-mexico-border-cr...

[3]: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-migration-pol...
Some stuff the EU does is fantastic and benefits EU citizens as well as the rest of the world, like enforcing a standard charger on phones.

Some stuff is asinine in how ineffective and pointless it was, like enforcing Windows have a browser select screen, or these stupid cookie banners (which yes, are 100% the EUs fault). Or claiming the GDPR has extra-territorial jurisdiction.

Like most governments it's a mix, but they seem better than most.
There needs to be sme kind of permaculture type movement for the ocean. at least parts that we as humans actively rely on as a resource
I’m mostly arguing that this feels like an extremist view, and in the realm of “let’s look for real solutions to the problem”, this doesn’t feel like it should be the most upvoted one in this thread.
Appreciate this update, I've been wondering what's going on.

FWIW in 2020 Yandex image search had a "match photo by face" feature which would effectively let you find names for people easily. They've since changed image search to not do that anymore. I wrote about it at the time: https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recogniti...
Was gonna ask for your 3¢ ;)
Euclid’s two instruments have captured their first test images
Same here, what triggers me the most is also the « tech laws »: GDPR, cybersecurity resilience act threatening open source, The coming AI act possibly limiting innovation and concentrating them in the hands of existing giants instead of a decentralized ecosystem, as it begins to be the case in the rest of the world. I understand the thinking behind all those laws and they probably are born from good intentions. I feel like, in this case, Europe lacks some big tech lobbying pointing out the technical flaws (and yes I agree that with lobbying you do have to sort out the « pointing out the technical flaws » from the « pushing single interests forward »).
LANs are still a thing! Knew no one 10 years ago when we moved to the Netherlands. Pretty much all friends come from the local LAN group.

Now we still organize them but there's kids running around as well, and we sometimes also go to each other's weddings
I've never tried it but I see cause for skepticism: the claim is that these beneficial bacteria will out-compete the harmful ones. But if that's true, why would it take 30 days for them to get established? One shot of Listerine to kill what's there now, then one batch of the good critters to get them started, and, if the claims are true, you should be set for life, right? So something doesn't add up.
This is the right answer. He’s immediately closing the browser after clicking the button. He should wait for a success UI or at least that the resulting network call finishes with success or a failure to retry on. Not lambdas fault, it’s performing as coded.
Do you also remember that Netscape Navigator was hot garbage? It was so bad that people would brag about how stable their OS was by how well it handled Netscape crashes.

The first computer I felt was fast and responsive is my current MacBook Air M2.

But in all honesty, I haven’t worked with my own personal computer in years. I mostly worked on corporate Windows computers and my last Mac was a latest generation MacBook Pro 16 inch with corporate installed malware.
> Why was Currey so obsessed with sampling this particular tree and not any of the other, given the difficulties?
> More importantly, why was Currey so keen on cutting this tree down when it was so difficult?

From Wikipedia [7], above [1]:
"In 1964, Currey was zeroing in on trees that seemed to be nearly as old as their California relatives. One in particular, which he called WPN-114, seemed to be very old indeed."
"he asked...Forest Service ranger [for the park] from 1959-67, for permission to cut [it] down. Permission was granted..."this tree was like many others and was not the type that the public would visit," Cox wrote in his [1996] memo. "I felt that this tree's best purpose would be to serve scientific and educational programs."

Unclear to me what this has to do with doctors/scientists in general in your first contribution. Keeping it to the personal focus on Currey in the second, is personal animus deserved? IMHO no, given the sources you provided from the Wikipedia article: if I had read just the Wikipedia article, I'd agree with ya, the short version can be read as indicting Currey if so desired.
> It is - the food input & land requirements are less efficient

you are assuming that everything else will stay the same, which is a very common bias.

> say that eating pork or chicken instead is so miserable that people won’t abide it.

there are literally billions of people that do not eat various specific foods and beverages in conformity with various religious, cultural, legal or other societal prohibitions.

Try to convince your neighbor to eat dog instead of beef.
Ok, but you still have to try because we all agree the alternative is worse right?

I didn't mean to say that it's easy, just that it's simple. Simple things can still be hard to accomplish.