skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard the story about gin carts and the analysis about how gin was used to quell social disquiet at the beginning of the industrial revolution and the urbanization of the English public. Even if that is historically accurate, it seems a long jump to move from there to the eventual institutions like public libraries.

Producing require motivation, while consumption is passive. It doesn't seem guaranteed to me that people will be motivated in their free time in the way that will result in Wikipedia. In fact, it seems that leveraging passivity is probably more valuable. For example, the way TikTok gets people to rate videos is a byproduct of passive consumption - it requires no motivation at all.

This article also flies in the face of the normal attribution of 90% lurkers, 9% up voters, 1% creators [1]. I don't see any trends moving those numbers in the short term. Even a "sharing" action is in the 9% bucket.

So I share the skepticism against this idea. I don't see free time shifting away from passive consumption to content production anytime soon.

1. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/
I feel like if you are claiming "beautiful" output then it's obligatory to have at the very least screenshots of said output PDFs (or better yet, a sample for the same link in the CLI screenshot, especially so people can see how the text flows, what quality images are captured at, how text can be selected, etc).
Lots of new cars have been damaged. It isn't every car, but enough that one should look. Sometimes it is little things like dents done during shipping and fixed by the local dealer. Then there are occasional major repairs done if something went wrong at the factory during assembly. And we cannot forget that Tesla that was delivered "new" but missing a brake pad.
A you're-holding-it-wrong that still got fixed in all the major C++ standard library implementations.
Well, any tea/infusion without caffeine is probably better, especially when consumed in high amounts. Without sweetening it, it's really close to just "water with taste".
I'm not super great at statistics, despite having taken several classes in college (which is now decades in the rear-view mirror). I am interested in your critique here but can't quite follow what you're suggesting. Can you make it in plainer terms?

I understand that HN has blindspots, but I'm a bit skeptical that HN has a blindspot and a gaggle of Dartmouth professors who were selected to do data analysis have the same one.
How to Add Live Reload to Your Rails Application
As of 2020, 21% of the DoD's budget went to Boeing, and was 31% of Boeing's revenue:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/01/02/ho...

It's unlikely either organization would exist as it currently does without the other.
Its a loophole. UHD4k is what tv advertiser used to dilute meaning and not get sued. I believe the definition has been diluted to the point 4k is expected to be UHD.
How do you like it? Do you use it day to day as your primary phone?
Will tea, Earl Grey, hot, send me spiraling into a profound, dreamlike state, where I live out an entire lifetime, learning the flute and undergoing life-changing experiences, all within the span of a few real-world minutes?
Despite my knee-jerk reaction to assume any policy changes coming out of Seattle are self-destructive; this seems very reasonable especially if there's precedent in other countries [1].

[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/84483/is-it-generall...
It's yellow and red for me... to make me hungry? https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-colors-make-you-hu...
After Seattle startup Convoy fails, drivers wait for pay and answers
https://archive.is/mH11r
>>Is this meant sarcastically?

No I don't mean it sarcastically, why do you ask? Do you not see Lady Ada as a shining light of the industry?

Lady Ada is one of the industry's greatest hardware designers and I would value her opinion on this.

If you don't know who she is, her name is Limor Fried and she founded AdaFruit.

I don't have current stats but from 2016: Revenue US$45 million (2016)[1]
Number of employees 105

Front page of Make Magazine:

https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/05/08/limor-ladyada-fried-on-...

Front page of Wired:

https://www.wired.com/2011/03/wired-magazines-cover-features...

Front page of Smore magazine:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3920

Front page of Hackspace:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adafruit/40061387915
Pouring one out tonight. Weaveworks did some amazing work. Grafanalib has saved me months of work in the past.
what part of this was fake? Gemini video was sped up and cut and added voice. This is just a recording of the headset with no editing?
100MB at 1Gbps is ~0.8s to load. This especially sucks for FaaS and CI/CDs. This makes it difficult to use for on-demand use cases that are latency sensitive.

That and that's likely 100MB that's going to be competing for memory now* , in FaaS environments especially that's a ton of resources and you increase latency to load that especially over network storage. This also inflates container sizes and just becomes a pain in general.

*Server environments you often don't want to be using swap, and the OS will likely consider it high priority anyway.

I could only agree with you if you have a single monolithic server, don't use containers, don't need to distribute it to others, and don't frequently need to run a CI/CD pipeline. Only then are there not a ton of downsides to a 10mb vs 100mb executable.

> When I download a modern game it's like 700GB so I donno why people complain about 100mb self contained deploys for javascript.

People have been complaining about game sizes for years. "You complain about a 100GB game, I don't know why you also complain about a 100mb self-executable for a javascript runtime" doesn't really make sense.
Still showing 100% uptime! https://status.1password.com/uptime
It's 4 litres, and it was Earl Grey tea, not a sugary tea drink thing.
How does that actually happen, though? Have you signed into your work accounts on your personal machine? If so, why did that seem necessary?

It takes me no effort to ignore work Slack notifications, because I don't open my work laptop until it's time to work. This seems obvious to me, yet many people complain about being distracted by their notifications, so I wonder what they are doing differently, and why.
Also: Don't Worry Darling.
On an average day working my office desk job, my hydration goal is 2L and it's plenty. I often have to force myself over the finish line. (And I was a trained healthcare professional in a former life; I know how to judge hydration and I'm plenty well hydrated.) I cannot even remotely imagine drinking 4L of water in a day unless I was doing manual labor in warm weather for most of the day.
Graydon Hoare originally wanted integers to be promoted to bignums on overflow, but that didn't happen.

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
I've been watching the Post Office Horizon Inquiry sessions, and reading transcripts. From what I've seen, a completely new board would have no noticeable effect on the PO; they'd have to remove most of the management. It looks as if the company ethos is driven by line management.

Well, that really means tearing the company up completely. I can't see how a new board could effect reform. And replacing all the middle management would destroy the company.

And as you say, it takes time for a new culture to move through the layers; but the PO doesn't have time. Does Boeing? I realize the companies are very different, but both have marinated in an unhealthy culture for a long time.
I'd ultimately disagree with "there's nothing wrong" but I see their point. De jure, the relevant actual "rights" one has are to remain silent and to be represented. It's department policy that allows for a suspect to request a supervisor. It speaks to a corrupt department when they don't discipline the guy for violating said policy but that's not unlawful, just shitty. (Like, why have the policy?)
Atlassian’s market cap is $55 billion. GitLab’s market cap is $11 billion. GitHub sold for $7.5 billion in 2018. There’s money, you just have to be more than a point solution.
This.

We looked at weaveworks and its competitor both as a product and an investment (mid 6 figure usage). Our big issue was that we had a lot of smaller teams doing different things and not one or two featured items raking in the majority of our revenue.

These solutions work if you have a bunch of snowflake workloads by design (or bad design).
Huh, that's somewhat surprising given bergamot fruit is not all that expensive. We may be spoiled in the UK but you can buy Earl Grey with real bergamot oil for a reasonable price here https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/brew-tea-co-earl-grey...
Very cool, just signed up. What advantages does this have over the one built into the ChatGPT app? Also, it would be great if I could see the text output in addition to the voice.
Case study != epidemiological studies != RCTs, but they all have their place in the scientific process. Many interesting scientific discoveries started with an interesting case study.
Even GPT-4 often writes queries with redundant subqueries, excessive nesting or joins etc. I don't think that's particularly valuable.

On the other hand, telling GPT to generate SQL to query a data store as part of solving some task that requires inference from facts captured in that data store works surprisingly well - better than "function calls" with JSON, in my opinion. While such generated queries are also suboptimal, they still capture the intent correctly, and GPT is surprisingly adept at using nested subqueries to get the answer it needs in a single query. And when such generated SQL is wrong, it usually fails to parse (e.g. due to typos in field names), at which point you can just feed the error message back to the model and have it correct that.
Presumably in the case of George R. R. Martin and a Song of Ice and Fire, one of the reasons for slow progress on the next novel in the series is that a reasonable ending was always known, but each character's arc has changed so much from what was originally planned, that reconciling the two is very difficult.

For older authors like Charles Dickens, who wrote and published many of their novels chapter by chapter in magazines, plans would presumably change based on audience response.
Climate also plays into this. I live in the pacific northwest, and I need to drink VERY little liquid go stay hydrated - there are plenty of days where I drink less than 1L and feel fine. But when i go anywhere dryer - e.g. southern california - I’m constantly dehydrated. England is pretty humid most of the year, a lot like the PNW.
Perhaps I've missed the news story about Russian soldiers cutting out prisoners' hearts as blood sacrifices to the maize god…

Regardless, modern violence is also condemned when it happens. Unless done by the in-group, then apologists try to brush it away as necessary for some reason or another. If your point was meant to be about the latter, I'd agree, though it didn't come across like that on the first reading — those sacrifices (and indeed the in/out group difference) are the "why" in "Why would you think Mayans are any more violent than other contemporary or later civilizations?"
I've only worked with Akka Graph DSL to build some data pipelines or protocol stacks. And I've loved working with it!

The equivalent of atopile signal would be port with Akka I think. A combination of ports gives us a shape. A source shape is just one OUT port. A flow shape is one IN and one OUT port, etc.

I'm very new to electronics so I don't know if it makes sense, but connecting all these ports with directional arrows was really helpful to understand the data flow.
Kudos to Michael and Dalton for admitting a lot of truths that aren't VC / incubator friendly, like that most businesses should not be raising VC funding, or that lots of founders have amazing lives and get rich without VC funding.

However, they're still burying the lede and the key conclusion. From those admissions above, they go into sales mode and say that if you want to be a trillion dollar company, you generally need to raise VC funding. This part is also true in favor of VCs, but hides an important assumption.

All the above says is that VCs are good for certain company types, and not good for other company types. But people don't start companies to be a specific type, or to raise VC funding or not -- these are secondary characteristics.

The primary reason a founder starts a company should determine the company type and whether they take VC funding:

1) If you want to have a small (1%) chance of having a massive impact on the world (think billions of dollars of founder valuation), you should aim big and take VC funding.

2) If you want to have a larger minority (25%+) chance of being quite personally rich (think tens of millions), you should probably avoid moonshots and aim for base runs that don't accept VC money.

For 1), it is quite easy to see, only 1% of YC company founders, who are considered amongst the best in the valley, have a billion dollars of personal valuation at the end. If you want to be a Zuckerberg or a Gates, you have to aim for this, but know that it's very rare in the base population.

If you focus on the max valuation, then yes that clearly favors VCs. If you focus on expected utility for standard utility curves, that favors bootstrapping.

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Finally, as my personal opinion, it seems obvious a priori that VC startups would be a lot more over-promoted, after all, without VC-investable startups, VC funds would do poorly. Literally trillions of dollars depend on enough founders doing these startups -- and they have a massive marketing budget. [1]

On the other hand, bootstrapped companies have no clear "partners that require them" who would overpromote them.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Sundar is indistinguishable from an ML model trained to optimize growth and placate shareholders. Some days I wonder if he is actually a p-zombie
Your comment was downvoted, possibly because the URL submitted at that HN discussion is down.

Here's an archived copy of that PDF, which is the same case: https://web.archive.org/web/20140912083558/http://www.docent...
This article does a terrible job of representing the views of either side in the (Bristol university) conflict.
Dozens might be an exaggeration, but at least a dozen. I had a job that required me to drive a lot in urban environments, and I regularly pulled over for good Samaritan stops.

I also briefly worked at a motel in the middle of nowhere and you better believe that regular conversations with police officers is a critical aspect of the job.
Maybe you want to share examples of how to do things in TypeScript using a notebook? Although, Observable [1] is another way to do that, for JavaScript at least.

[1] https://observablehq.com/
Yeah, that would make this post a lot better.
I also mentioned it explicitly as a source of CVE's two years ago in a talk I gave on pdqsort: https://youtu.be/jz-PBiWwNjc?t=856
He did. If you click on the link and watch the twitter video there are several instances where he conflates Jews with zionists.
I think by now accusations of lock-in are a bit shaky. They're providing self-hosted alternatives for all the features of their ecosystem (and it's all open-source anyway).
Can I get an ELI5 on erased, specialized, and existential types?
Shame on Windows for just letting an application install a new root without express, and on-going user context.

This is something that the OS should be at some regularity reminding the user that has happened. It is not reasonable for a user to assume that installing an application is just going to let that application completely switch the trusts on the computer.
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Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast.

With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy.

VC funding can have a snowball effect where you need more and more. Then you're in the loop of needing funding rounds to survive. The hope is someday you're acquired or start turning a profit.

I would say both have their pros and cons. Not all ideas have the luxury of time.
Technofeudalism, Enshittification, and You
4-5 liters! Two liters of green tea typically contains over 400mg of caffeine which is the upper limit recommended for adults. This guy was consuming around 1g of caffeine a day.
>When we are partially blind to aspects of our way of life, we lose its meaning, and then the joy of life, and we unconsciously contribute to making our world the way it is.
it's just a very Reddit Atheist thing to post
Any large business in Russia cannot exist independently of the state - even if the relationship is informal. Particularly, if the company is related to mass media and surveillance. Yandex is a state-controlled company even if the legal structure doesn't indicate this.

I would interpret this divestment as Russian intention to use Yandex as a tool for doing foreign influence, similar to RT or their social networks manipulation. It should be sanctioned.
According to LinkedIn they were 50-200 employees which after excluding all the other costs for running a company, is definitely not enough to cover the fully-burdened payroll of even a 50 person organization that’s probably predominantly Engineering types, that assumption being if most people are US-based (or if they don’t do “location based” pay, and indexed off a more expensive location).
This type of "buyer beware" position describes the exact problem US auto dealerships already take advantage of, and advocating for more uses of this methodology doesn't address any of the actual problems, and makes the problems the industry are currently facing actively worse.
Go live in a place with a lot of sunshine, and you'll get it. E-ink is absolutely the future for a huge part of the world.
The senior leadership does not lack the self awareness, they know exactly that they are bad and they act to cover it as best as possible. I saw this up close in other similar companies (manufacturing moved to all non-technical leadership).
Tea will discolor teeth even without sugar.
What is the meaning of 'SO'? I don't get it.
I agree. Being good at running a consulting company does not translate to being good at running a product/SaaS/devtools company.
The vocabulary that defines geographical terms was always politically loaded and never meant to be interpreted in a scientific, rational manner.

South east asia doesn't literally mean "everything that is south and east in Asia". Just like how Europe isn't an actual continent but an arbitrary border that defines itself, in reality, by "the place where white people live in the West of the continent and who aren't Russians". Because the actual contiguous landmass, is, well, Eurasia, and Europe is an arbitrary human color that paints something that doesn't exist over the world.

https://dppa.un.org/en/northeast-asia

The United Nations define Northeast Asia as being: Japan, China, Mongolia, South and North Korea.

From wikipedia :

> The term Northeast Asia was popularized during the 1930s by American historian and political scientist Robert Kerner. Under Kerner's definition, "Northeast Asia" includes the Japanese Archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, the Mongolian Plateau, the Northeast China Plain, and the mountainous regions of the Russian Far East, stretching from the Lena River in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east

>The definition of Northeast Asia is not static but often changes according to the context in which it is discussed.

If you think really hard about what those countries have in common, something that isn't related to a rational view of geography, it's that they're asians who don't look too brown. Yes, the origins of the definitions of SEA vs NEA are racially motivated and they're terms we're stuck with because most of the world knows what you mean when you talk about SEA vs NEA.

https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/acta/15/kotokin/ko...

> "On the intimate frontiers between the Russian and the Chinese empires," Kerner wrote in the 1920s, "are face to face the world's largest, fastest-growing white population and the world's largest, ablest and perhaps fastest-growing yellow population." Much the same could be said seventy years later, even if we would disavow the racial categories that provided much of the attraction for Kerner

Those definitions were written by people who didn't shy away from calling others "Yellow population". But they also became part of the language enough that even entities like the United Nations won't bother trying to change them.
Yeah - my mother has this (symptoms similar to the article) - annoyingly more teas seem to be including small amounts of bergamot in - currently Twinings English Breakfast in the uk is fine though - so we stock up when on special offer.
This is possibly the best advice.

Also: Think longer term now.
My unit of time, as I got older, went from hours to days to weeks. Now, I say things like "I'll finish that next month." It's not necessarily that I do less, it's just that I cannot afford to fragment my days as much as I used to so I'm stricter with my schedule.

In this respect, it makes perfect sense to allow yourself to think only about your job for, say, 6 months. When your mind wanders, right down the idea as something to come back to. Schedule, ahead of time, a day to just exist with your idea list and tinker a bit, every now and then.

But don't expect to be able to follow your interests every minute. Self-regulating in this way is a super power that takes time to build up, but it's immensely rewarding when you can close something, turn to a new thing, and know you have the capacity to finish it.
Being a sci-fi fan (and a trekkie), I've thought of all the exotic power sources we could have, but unfortunately in our universe we have strict physical laws.

SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) on the other hand are very much real and I hope in a few decades will be more practical for all sorts of things, including my laser-paver :-)
NAT isn't a nice feature, it's a necessary evil to deal with address exhaustion in v4 and causes many problems of its own. Using it in v6 makes no sense.

It doesn't have a "default deny" behavior -- NAT doesn't block connections at all. It doesn't separate your LAN either, that's done by having a router. If you want those things then NAT isn't the thing you want.
Normally I wouldn't correct "b line" but it's actually a cool word "beeline", from the beekeeping practice of beelining to find hives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeline_(beekeeping)
Caffeine is one of the most studied substances that we consume and every time a new study happens they always find some new way that it is good for you.

Obviously huge quantities of anything are bad, but caffeine has virtually no downsides.
I agreed with most of the rest.