skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the SV VC business model isn't to build a traditional profitable business that beats the competition by providing a superior product/service for a competitive price. It is to dominate the competition by subsidizing the real cost to consumers, until you have taken over the market and can raise the price and lower the quality of the product/service.

Edit: Or the business model is to be acquired by a FAANG who fears they need to get into your area and care more about optics to their bosses/shareholders than how financially sustainable your startup is.
> Botanicals were also used to help choose between a slew of suitors. One game involved girls naming chestnuts after men and then roasting them
on a fire: ‘If a nut cracked and jumped away from her then the suitor with that name would not be true; the one that stayed and was burnt alongside the chestnut with her name would remain true and they would consequently marry.’

My guess is that games of chance involving potential mates have always been a popular activity when a bunch of young single women got together. I doubt they took it any more seriously back then than they do now.
Context: https://xkcd.com/327/
But why would it be gpt-4.5-turbo, as opposed to just gpt-4.5? Are they just going to abandon past naming conventions?

If they already had 4.5 and then did something else to make it “turbo” why not release 4.5 on the coattails of Gemini?
> their relationship with pollution and their environment

turns out they had a pretty marginal role in it, compared to the grand total, except maybe the first generation of nuclear weapons USSR produced, that were sealed off and very hard, if not impossible, to defuse.

Anyway communism and socialism are not exactly the same thing, you can't put them together in the same basket and can't generalize. Communism in Italy was not the same as communism in Cuba which was not the same as communism in East Germany which was not the same as communism in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Congo etc

> In a capitalist systems at least there are incentives to get businesses to create better systems over time

I would gladly see some proof that one does produce the incentive (and the incentive produces a radical change for the better) while the other doesn't.

My opinion is that socialism does not scale too well when the community becomes too big, but capitalism produces inherently more distortions and inequalities that need to be addressed in a never ending vice cycle of crisis that hit hard the poor and virtually spares the wealthy.

Anyway my comment was more on the line of "socialism is not what people usually think it is or associate it with in the USA (or the west)"

America called it a socialist system because it wanted to defame and demonize socialism. The Soviet Union called their government socialist because that was a popular and celebrated term in Europe, despite totalitarian control having nothing to do with true, democratic socialism (where workers are also the owners and have democratic control over their workplace and government).

As Noam Chomsky pointed out, it was state capitalism run by a fascist regime, fascists that when they ruled non so-caledd socialist countries, the west, but I should more correctly say the USA and the UK, admired because in their view (and the propaganda) they defeated socialism and communism. In truth the people of the Soviet Union had no control over the means of production or control over their lives and were essentially slaves. It would be the same as if Stalin came to power in America, created a fascist police state, used coercive force to protect criminal banks, evicted people unjustly from their homes, suppressed protests and broke up unions, then lavished massive subsidies on big companies, gave tax breaks to the rich, allowed large corporations to pay nothing in taxes while cutting programs to help the poor, rigged all their elections with the aid of corporate media, and then proudly called this a "free-market capitalist and democratic system that represents the will of the people."

In other words, just because politicians often appropriate popular words for their own twisted means, that doesn't make what they say true.

To me, an Italian that looks at the American politics from afar, sounds not dissimilar to Trump's manifesto and some parts not too far from what we associate the USA with here, today.
It’s growth… until the “plateau” phase of the Schumpeter economic cycle (~60 years), where entrenched actors raise prices and customers lose choice.
What a malicious lie. Former colonies were still paying debts for 50 years plus, and many of them are still paying them. France has first rights to the natural resources of many of its former colonies. Colonialism never ended, it has simply changed hands. Now corrupt African politicians trade the futures of their countries and constituents as servants of empire instead of the colonial powers having direct rule. And even China is getting a piece of the pie now.
He very certainly meant this was economic greed as well.

Even the worst people in history somehow believed they were the good (or at least the needed) guys and they deserved their riches. Political power always was a vehicle to maintain, defend, multiply those riches. This is why in the best version of that spiel the royals would understand that their position/riches came with very real duties attached. Duties towards those who had it worse than them. But this was already a forgotten idea, even in Chaplins time.

As someone whow grew up around both poor and very rich (including very old-rich) people, I can assure you that the poor people would often share their last penny while the rich ones were mostly afraid that someone might be after their money. Greed is buying a Lamborghini when your neighbour/employee/sister/village starves. Even when you totally earned it using your superhuman work ethic.

Everybody wants to be the good guy in their own story, so everybody will come up with their own reasons why they deserve it (they worked harder than a single mom with three bone breaking jobs) and why doing a good thing is actually a bad thing ("they will waste it on drugs and alcohol"). If you care about your real true self lies like these are a danger to ever discovering it in your life. And you only get one of those.

In the end the question is very simple. Do you care primarily about yourself or do you more care about the people and nature around you? Everybody likes to say they do — and so they lie to themselves why buying that Lamborghini is actually a totally selfless act. But if you realize the world would be a worse place if everybody decided like you, you might be the baddy all along.

So if you want to stay rich you have to somehow get the fact that tou don't do what is needed into balance with your own image of a good person. Aa result you become that attavistic kind of rich person that believes being good is naive and a luxury (no pun intended) they cannot afford. People who want to make the world better are idiots, only you know the world as it truly functions (let's ignore the fact that you profit from that believe). This is a quite common stance among the rich and powerful. Everybody is out to get you. Your game is not doing meaningful things, it is doing things that look meaningful to other rich people. Things become very symbolic. Actually meaningful is naive and dangerous so it must be avoided. These people are rarely ever happy and in the short moments they are, it is because they fell for the lies of their own greatness. We grew up in a world that told us money buys us happiness. To a certain degree it can give us safety and freedom, but after that it comes at a mental price. Greedy people are people who are willing to pay that price, no questions asked. And there are many of them. Remember, you get only this life.
“Brisket on a table” yields brisket on a plate. I hope I never have to ask for “brisket on a table”
France is the number 1 reason for political instability in Africa. They have supported, armed and financed african dictators for generations.

France put itself in the 'opposition of african prosperity' position.
Random examples:
- Destroyed Lybia and refused to be held responsible. The US had the decency (?) to at least spend a 100 billions trying to repair Irak and Afghanistan. [1]

- Supporting Paul Biya [2], Ali Bongo and his father before him[3] , Idriss Deby [4] and his father before him, Faure Gnassingbe [5] and his father before him, Sassou Nguesso [6] is still terrorizing Congo... I can go on and on from 1949 to 2023.

- The currency of African countries is still printed and controlled by France [7]. France forces this countries to deposit half their money in French Treasurery. France industries hugely benefits from buying raw materials with a currency they control. African currencies are forced to be converted to Euro first, then to another one for exchanges.

- France routinely validates and congratulates Dictators after `winning` sham elections [8].

I fairly do not have a single good thing to say about the presence of France in Africa. France routinely lies about 'investing' in Africa. Where is the last power plant, hospital, or school built or invested in by France? In 10 years, we've seen roads, power plants, ports, airports, schools, universities from China, Turkey, Lebanon and even Russia (!) .

Now the french wants to whine about some russian 'fake news' being the reason why they are hated across a whole continent, which is not the case.

The french have been in Africa for the last 250 years. They have their neighbourhoods, their schools, their restaurants. They rarely mix with the local population for reasons other than sex.

Their priests and military personnel raped so many of our grand-mothers, and when caught were just sent to another african countries.

If somebody that has known you, learned your language and gastronomy, consumed your music and movies for 250 years does not want to be with you, it's not because of gossip.

France lost the plot, with the EU as with Africa, and they can only blame themselves for it.

[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/france...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/26/f...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/31/gabon-coup-military-afr...

[4] https://www.cadtm.org/Tchad-quand-la-France-avalise-le-coup-...

[5] https://www.france24.com/en/20200220-faure-gnassingbe-togo-l...

[6] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-france-idUSKCN0T02...

[7] https://hir.harvard.edu/true-sovereignty-the-cfa-franc-and-f...

[8] https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20210408-rfi-stands-behind-jour...
What a spectacular fumble by Qatar, taking a mediocre review and spending no doubt dozens (at least) of corporate hours: alienating a vocal flyer, crew, avid travellers and more.

'A short time later, Josh received an email from one of the flight attendants who was working his flight, acknowledging that “I know I gave you permission to film the interaction, but I must ask you to remove me from the video,” because “I was pressured to write a statement that I didn’t give you permission to be filmed,” and “if I don’t write it, I will most likely be dismissed”'

'Since Josh wasn’t willing to voluntarily take down the video, Qatar Airways took all of these statements from crew and sent them to YouTube, demanding that the video be removed for privacy reasons.'
>French colonialism ended a long time ago, like in the 60s. It’s been over 60 years.

On paper yes, unofficially it never stopped. It just went underground and got better PR, as now it's no longer enslavement under the barrel of a gun, but under the pressure of money.

Check out the CFA Franc[1] and Guinea, which was pressured by France to accept the CFA Franc currency, which brought financial instability and disadvantageous economic relationships between African countries and France.

Or how most of Africa's resources are exploited by French (and British) companies by bribing whatever corrupt despot rules each country with the blessing of French/UK leadership, to be allowed to extract valuable resources for pennies on the dollar way below market rate while the country and the people get nothing out of it. Sure, it's technically not colonialism, as the British/French flags are no longer planted there, but come one, it's basically outsourced colonialism with extra steps through middle men.

[1] https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/cfa-franc-the-colonial-curr...
[Commenting as an HN member born and raised in Côte d'Ivoire] Quite cool to see this topic trending! Some additional context:

Two popular music genres that popularized nouchi in Côte d'Ivoire and then France are "Zouglou" (1990s) and "Coupé-Décalé" (2000-2010s). Both are past their primes but it's interesting to watch now the diffusion process into the French culture. In 2019, a few nouchi words were added to the Larousse dictionary: https://www.france24.com/fr/20190601cote-ivoire-nouchi-argot...
NASA Voyager1 Is Glitching, Sending Nonsense Gibberish from Interstellar Space
I've been getting increasingly depressed about this over the last several years and it's worsened with the advent of LLMs.

What are we doing as an industry? It seems in the last 15 years the main focus has shifted heavily towards creating tools for the enabling, scaling and acceleration of enshittification.

LLMs are the latest distillation and phase transition of this trend in the industry. A tremendous achievement to be sure. Now, garbage content and work can be produced at a scale never before seen. Quantity over quality. Familiarity over originality.

I mean, are we really going to kid ourselves that this isn't where we're headed? Do we really believe all these deranged billionaires are all in on LLMs because they want to make the world a better place? Even OpenAI itself is founded by people who subscribe to bizarre, megalomaniacal ideologies and theories about AI itself, society as a whole, and even the very fabric of reality.
> Except for the people saying this who are among the most expert in the world on this topic

There were experts calling out safety concerns. But they largely weren’t the ones parading them. This was made obvious when those calling regulation started seeing draft regulation and then threw their toys out of their pram (Altman).
> “One person is dying at the hands of the pedestrian butcher Elon Musk every single day!”

You're absolutely right, but it won't make any difference if the laws are passed.
> several people died

Care to list which side the people were killed? And were they armed?
https://archive.ph/tbx1Z
-> went to stanford or harvard -> funded (no questions asked)

I'd edit this to

-> white male went to stanford or harvard -> funded (no questions asked)

Source: I know lots of female and non-white Harvard grads who didn't get funded. I'm a non-white MIT grad and also found funding very, very difficult even when we had a product. We almost continuously had to spend >1/2 of our working hours just trying to get funding. Hundreds and hundreds of coffee chats plus travel time. We were building hardware, so bootstrapping wasn't an option.

White male Harvard grads I know routinely got funded very quickly, though. They often had time to get actual work done. Even still, most of them didn't succeed in the end.
You can use #![deny(unsafe_code)] in your own code.

If you're hoping to enforce across all called functions, it's likely to be unworkable since a lot of stdlib ends up calling unsafe code.
For our two-sided marketplace startup, this meant Android and iOS apps for customers, and another pair of apps for mechanics. 6 months later, we released our fully-fledged MVP to a deafening silence from customers, mechanics, and investors.

It's probably really hard to get traction when it's not obvious who your customers are, and this description reveals that. Your customers are the entities that are paying you. Is this supposed to be an app for mechanics to find work? Is it supposed to be an app for people with car problems to find someone to fix it? Those looking to get their vehicle serviced aren't going to want to pay the finders feed on top of the cost charged by the mechanic, which means those people are not your customers. What are the cases where someone would pay for your app? Are mechanics having trouble finding work? Are the mechanics the customers of Fixr? Do people with car trouble have it often enough that they'd pay for such a service vs whatever else they'd do?

"Talk to us again when you have traction" indeed. Or "Talk to us again when you know how to recognize traction."
>..someone said that believing in democracy is like believing in the metric system..

I have no idea whatsoever the hidden meaning here.
That's an interesting use of the phrase "thought leader".
It was a thing in Deep Space Nine (1999) so either the lingo was really on point or it's just something that has fallen in and out of favor.
I'm not sure what 400 years of Norman political control really means. There was an invasion of England in 1066 by William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, which ended up with King William I of England. Subsequent monarchs of England/bits of France were no longer Normans per se. At least one variety of a French language at the time was introduced, wholesale, and became the court language of England. Latin of course remained the really "important" language of the Church and increasingly the law.

There are roughly three named "ages" of English (in England): old, middle and modern. I can just about understand written middle English and have severe problems with old English.

Modern English can be very flexible, which is probably why it has become popular as a lingua franca. There are no real noun genders. Word order can be fiddled with mercilessly too. Officially, English sentences are subject - verb - object (SVO) for example: "I sat on the bed". You can say "I the bed sat on" or "On the bed sat I" or "sat I on the bed" and it still works fine. Most of those variants are regionally correct, somewhere.

English spelling is an absolute nightmare! Linking pronunciation to spelling is absolutely awful. I can completely understand English as a second language speakers throwing their hands up in the air and declaring the whole thing as complete bollocks! However, that means that we are extraordinarily tolerent of speling mistaks. field or feild? sealed or ceiled? Who nose!
Or introduced. I would think that trusting the (possibly compromised) caller to pass the correct size of a to be freed or resized object opens up new possibilities for security vulnerabilities.
>I've seen people say that it would be nice to regulate loot boxes in video games, but they can't figure out how to do it without banning Magic's business model. I never understood why that would be a problem.

The genius thing about Magic is that it doesn't place individual value on a card. Even if there is indeed a "drop rate". But that drop rate doesn't always evaluate to higher value. It correlates and they try to make if so, but that's ultimately a different marketplace who externally decides what has value.

Video games don't have such safeguards. It's all on the studios servers and they can adjust value on the fly. Unless lootboxes are all cosmetics there's a more direct hand in the market that can influence value and worth. And it all comes crashing down the moment the studios decides to shut down the servers. I feel that's an intrinsic difference that places a video game closer to a casino ("the house always wins") than a TCG (throw out what you think is worth and let the community sort it out).
Sex chromosomes responsible for much more than determining sex, study shows
Try typing a "?" in the address bar before the search terms :)
Why didn't this catch on?
I had to look up "superlinear growth" because I've never seen that term used under posts with VC related topics. If you're as confused as me, Paul Graham wrote a blog post about this last October (figures):

http://www.paulgraham.com/superlinear.html

tl:dr: Just make a product that's so cool it'll go viral in it's respective market.
The Evergiven was Taiwanese, not Chinese. Evergrande is a Chinese real estate company with financial troubles, which is unrelated to the Evergiven, unlike Evergreen, the Taiwanese company that owned and operated the Evergiven.
I am getting the impression their (AMD) understanding of software/Devx is not as good as nvidia. There seems to be some sort of inertia in getting the software side moving - as if, now that they are behind, they are not willing to make any mistakes, so they hold off on doing anything decisive - instead opting for continuing the status quo mode but perhaps adding a few more resources.
You are making a prediction: there will be an outcome that is not worth acting now to prevent.
That would be a wild conclusion. I'm glad it's something you made up instead of something I said or believe.

It's clear they want to make boatloads of money. It's also clear they operated as a research lab for 7 years before they made a single product and have talking about AI dangers since 2015.
I am an American and I don’t think it was particularly violet. There were 4 deaths. Not 400 or 40 (not like I wanted there to be more). But pearl clutching over some people protesting where they shouldn’t have when Congress wasn’t in session is just silly.
And

"The transformative OpenStreetMap project turned cartography into a community-driven exploration."

--> https://www.openstreetmap.org
How many people were killed or injured?
The YouTuber in question is this: https://www.youtube.com/@JoshCahill

Seems like the concept of the channel is built on negativity and drama, I knew who they banned the moment I read the title. Qatar Airways must have given huge boost and fuel for more videos and they might regret that decision.

Previously Qatar Airways was having a publicity stunts against Airbus and their a350 plane which has some paint issues that look horrible but apparently safe to fly. IIRC they lost in court in London and it seems like the airline was looking for ways to offload the losses during the pandemic by claiming that the planes weren't flying because they were not safe. Airbus fired Qatar Airways as a customer over this, which is quite shocking considering that they were the lunch customer of the said plane(they later settled).

Maybe Qatar Airways should re-think their PR.
Sure, I wouldn't contest the claim that there are some people dishonestly seeking regulatory capture.
rg isn't really a file finder, it's a grepper.
Anodized aluminum doesn’t work on induction. Steel or iron.
During my first trip to Paris, I was at a patisserie in an admittedly tourist-y part of town and the gentleman behind the counter yelled at me and insist I speak English when ordering. So in Paris stopped attempting to speak to them in French. However, people in Beaune and Chamonix humored me.
> Then we have at least half a century of Russia being abused that way...

Ah yup... Because Stalin who wanted to execute 30 000 Nazis officer to "give an example" was a saint? (for the record it's Churchill who opposed to that)

And the attitude of the USSR during the cold war was a respectable one?

As in: people in eastern germany were happy to live on that side of the Berlin wall and not in western germany instead?

Seriously: russians weren't villain-worthy enough to you during the cold war?

Ask ukrainians what they think about your point of view...
Yes, it is, but I don't think there's a productive world in which new engineers don't onboard by running commands blindly based on a doc somewhere. I just want a world where those commands reliably work with very few host dependencies. With devpod, I think we're close (only 1 dep that's statically built and docker engine)
Hardware is a different category and doesnt really fit the traditional VC model. Also, indians/east asians are the majority in tech, not the minority. Plenty of examples of open discrimination in big tech from those groups