skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, sometimes I wish that LinkedIn vs HiQ verdict went the other way and made scraping LinkedIn illegal
That is a ridiculous claim belied by the distribution of positive outcomes in VC. Any VC making this claim with any confidence is immediately dismissible IMO. I would literally never speak to that person again.

Like in all fields, true competence comes with a deep skepticism of one’s own capabilities. Especially in a field absolutely chock full of luck, uncontrollable variables, motivated reasoning, and outright deception.
> You can get more out of an office worker who lacks intrinsic motivation than a similar remote worker.

No, you will have them sitting at their desk.

That's not work.

That's the appearance of work.

Unfortunately, that's enough for bad managers.
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We're a fully remote company that offers a pretty good office in a fashionable part of town for those who want it.

It's almost always deserted. Some people go some days, mostly to socialize.

So I don't trust those who claim people prefer returning to the office.

I also see news of companies forcing employees to return and laying off those who won't. Doesn't seem to me people prefer the office...
I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".
Yotta customers have been without ACH and Debit card access since the 9th
The killer application of nested VM and/or container applications might lies in the realistic simulation and emulation of networked elements [1],[2],[3],[4].

[1] ViPMesh: A virtual prototyping framework for IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networks:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7763263

[2] Chapter 13 - ComNetsEmu: a lightweight emulator:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801...

[3] NestedNet: A Container-based Prototyping Tool for Hierarchical Software Defined Networks:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9244858

[4] Network Virtualization and Emulation using Docker, OpenvSwitch and Mininet-based Link Emulation:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/985/
Once you've worked with refcounting GC systems for a while avoiding leaks becomes pretty much second nature.

It is absolutely a pain when you first come to it from a mark and sweep GC'ed language but once figuring out the right spot to use a weak reference becomes automatic creating leaks largely ceases to feel 'too easy' though occasionally throwing a cycle checker at your code is recommended nonetheless.
The issue of Bayes rule (it’s not really theorem) is that you have to concretely define your set of possible hypotheses beforehand.

In the real world, there are unknown unknowns, and those can’t be put into the Bayes rule calculation.
You can thank early HFT and other early customers for those juicy cheap Mellanox cards. They used to be thousands when they first came out.
I have to ask: is there a Greek equivalent for "it's all Greek to me"?

Edit: I just did an internet search and found you use Chinese or Turkish instead. Never mind me.
Can this idea be adapted to vacuum cleaner? Would appreciate that since my head starts to spin when I hear one.
>Remote work is seen as a threat to many CEOs simply because of their fear of change and resistance to progress.

No. This just is false and extremely lazy thinking. CEOs do not "fear change" or "resist progress", these are absurd motivations to ascribe to thousands of people you have never met and it goes counter to what actually happens. CEOs change things, they like to change things a lot, they also love "progress" as progress is the only way to expand.

What CEOs fear isn't "change", they fear that if employees aren't physically tied to an office, they aren't mentally tied to it during work. They fear that employees will neglect their duties and communication will get harder. Whether they are wrong or right is irrelevant. But if you aren't even willing to ascribe to someone the ability to think deeper than "change bad", then all your arguments are irrelevant as you are arguing against a man made of pure straw.
I'm too far away to know: based in London, mostly working in the legaltech domain, we're far far away from the SV cultural nexus (other than occasional trips to Burning Man for a refresher!)

I think there's a pretty good chance that as their original team is further and further from the operation that they're "reverting to the mean" but I have no evidence.
> My teams were always remote but I found the social aspects to be beneficial.

Yeah, but did you use those "office days" for work, really? Or for socialising?

(Not saying socialising is unnecessary in a good team)
un-paywalled link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-asks-hundreds-of-china...
Whatever the reason. The VC objection is nonsense of the fortune cookie wisdom variety. We (venture backed founders) tolerate it because we need the inane spiritual blessings of these dubious kingmakers to make our world go around. So we smile, nod, grit our teeth, and move on to the next one. But none of them are secret geniuses with a unique skill to predict the future based on random made up nonsensical “signals”.

They’re herd animals where survivorship bias has a reinforcing function until a point where being luckiest longest makes it possible to put a finger on the scale of outcomes to make raising subsequent funds easier, makes it possible to set the trend the herd follows, and makes it possible to somewhat curate outcomes (“soft landings” instead of insolvency) for your portfolio.

Every single unicorn and/or significantly exited startup has a pile of VC rejections that’s miles high. The trick as the founder is to just figure out how to find better aligned investors. Typically ones who aren’t high on the ego trip of being an accidental kingmaker. Take the “feedback” like that of the VC in the post for what it is… complete nonsense from someone who’s accidentally successful enough to get away with such a silly criteria because nobody wants to insult the cult clergy to their face in case you might need their blessings at some point yourself… and move on.

Successfully raising money is first an exercise in qualifying who the right investors/funds are for what you’re doing as a venture and second it’s an exercise in number of shots on goal you can make in as short a period as possible until you find one, “Yes”. Full stop.
Considering the fact that obesity rates continue to climb despite approximately everyone knowing that eating too much sugar is bad for them at some point you need to acknowledge that a systemic problem requires a systemic solution. Education is great, but seems insufficient when pitted against companies actively trying to ensnare and addict the populace. We decided that the harms done by cigarettes and drug addiction were bad enough that an intervention was necessary to stop the pervasive abuse of the public by their purveyors. Companies do not have some sacred inalienable right to actively harm their customers so long as the invisible hand of the market allows it, the only question is whether the harms of sugar or social media addiction meet a threshold such that action is warranted.
this is quite a straightforward reality for many people and calling it a “fantasy escape world” and “uncharitable” is itself miserly and uncharitable, and classic HN rules-lawyering in a nutshell.

like yes people do like using loud power tools for the sake of using loud power tools, most people would consider them at least moderately fun.
I lived in downtown San Jose for ten years and someone was shot to death right behind my apartment. San Jose isn't all that unsafe either, relatively speaking.
I didn't say an iPhone was as good as a desktop with a dedicated graphics card. I said that an iPhone has a GPU and is capable of running a small but capable LLM.

Most people don't know that's possible yet.

Why do keep indicating that iPhones don't have a GPU?
Stop building with concrete. One foundation at UMass Amherst recently tested, exudes more CO2 than a diesel engine in a year
I think it is. What does Meta's annual revenue have to do with a parent's ability to say "no, you can't install Instagram"?

Because that's the crux of the issue; children should not have access to social media, and the solution is not to weave intricate legislation regulating the entire industry, or obliging me to hand over my ID, it is for parents to not give children access to social media.
Whether it's legal or not is really a moot point. They're using Stripe to take payments, which will close a merchant's account if they get too many chargebacks.

IMHO, it would be better to eat a few refunds than risk changing my payment provider.
Shooting guns here at 1am would get you a phone call to see if you're okay.
I have been in a similar situation. They are incredily picky, maybe because a few years ago, they were incredibly accepting. The minimum would be that they share their criterias, or at least enough details for us to infer what would be a deal breaker for them. As of now it's not sufficiently clear. Good luck.
From 2003.

And interestingly enough based on a study co-written by one Jordan Peterson, who I don't know much about except for his idiosyncratic diet, but others may have more substantial impressions of his work.

> “Getting swamped by new information that you have difficulty handling may predispose you to a mental disorder,” Carson says. “But if you have high intelligence and a good working memory, you are more likely to be able to combine bits of new information in creative ways.”

Interesting.

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.499
Pro-tip: when I was in M&A, I would always write the season rather than the month on the cover of materials sent to prospective buyers. "Spring 2024" sidesteps the issue entirely and the deck even survives being forwarded around for a few months.
I was just about to build out a new server with 10G ports and am excited to see this and try these scripts. I do not see any firewall/router scripts for OPNSense or PFSense, but maybe I will build one to add here. Otherwise I see a great inventory and a nicely designed layout of options.
Without being judgemental, OP in that thread has clearly some kind of mental disorder, or was/is under a severe stress condition.
Lex Friedman records a podcast from the Amazon rainforest
first time founders that have large followings in the community they are building for are the most fundable. Reason being, your first product or iteration will fail, but if you have a captive audience willing to try and give you feedback you're in the best position to achieve product market fit.
Explicit contracts [1] and implicit collusion [2] [3].

There aren't that many large ISPs in the US. They know that if they compete they have to lower prices and if they don't compete they don't; so rather than compete and all of them accept lower prices (and worse margins) they don't.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2014/08/14/parallel-conduct-how-isp...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/comca...

[3]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/chart...
Agreed on regulating the actual problem. But it seems the problem in practice is concentrated on a few big companies...
I think it varies and you probably shouldn't have that much confidence stating something you don't actually know as fact. In my personal experience I see more commercial operations using them to blow cut grass. Maybe a higher ratio are privately owned by individuals though. Who actually knows?
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Add the EtBr after you microwave the agarose
I'm a patent attorney. One fantasy that I have is that AI will be a forcing function that will drive all the needless verbosity out of patents.

For example, every patent is 50 or 100 pages of what amounts to bland, unreadable background. The stuff that is actually new in the world is usually a tiny fraction of all the words.

In a world where everyone's AI can generate all those extra words, their value goes down. (Yes, this is bad news for people in my line of work who get paid to write all those words.) So maybe the profession moves in a direction that values conciseness and brevity, to re-add value to what the lawyers and agents do, that the AI can't do.

It's a fantasy. But the same kind of thing applies to academic publishing. Maybe the future of publishing is very short, useful documents with rich, tiered, AI-generated hyperlinks on every word.
I would argue that apps resemble gambling more than they resemble sugar. And gambling is banned for children and heavily regulated for adults.

More to the point, I don't think it's fair to call parents stupid. Even if parenting weren't hard (which it is) it is not fair to expect everyone to get a Bachelor's in Software Engineering to use the one device that's almost indispensable for daily life. Nor is it fair to expect parents to monitor their children 24/7.

I'd argue this is one of those problems that are so ubiquitous and so difficult to solve that we appoint people to deal with them as a full-time job in order to keep them from spiraling out of control. They usually solve it with regulation, which is exactly what the EU is doing here.
Because this is always what happens when there are investors involved. They want to maximize the return of their investment over the short to midterm with a complete disregard for the long term brand damage.
The higher voltage lawn care product lines typically have much larger batteries that are not strained doing a modest urban yard.
HOAs that hire landscapers are a good market segment for this imo. Also, large commercial properties.
It is worth noting here that Datomic's intra-transaction semantics are not a decision made in isolation, they emerge naturally from the information model.

Everything in a Datomic transaction happens atomically at a single point in time. Datomic transactions are totally ordered, and this ordering is visible via the time t shared by every datom in the transaction. These properties vastly simplify reasoning about time.

With this information model intermediate database states are inexpressible. Intermediate states cannot all have the same t, because they did not happen at the same time. And they cannot have different ts, as they are part the same transaction.
The answer to this is going to be everyone losing more privacy through draconian age verification requirements for all major platforms, not positive news.
I use all these links to post my new product/startup to get listed and noticed by people.
You plucked that quote from the comment you replied to but carefully didn't include the critical lead in: "If maintainer was actively building community and advocating use of his project". All the replies are hung up nitpicking some later wording which wasn't the point.

Having the standard website/readme with a bunch of claims about how awesome your software is as a way to entice other developers to get excited by it, start using it, and even (gasp) depend on it absolutely implies something more than the mere terms of the license.

Put elsewise: if you don't want the expectation of feeding people, haven't put any thought into how you will actually make that happen, and are just going to get defensive when people are annoyed at how you don't own a grill, you have no business inviting everyone to a BBQ.

https://imgur.com/a/chris-pratt-barbecue-gDL2O

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3v8svx/barbecue_at_c...
How can a parent enforce that, though? Did you listen to your parents as a kid about what you installed on your computer or when you could use it? I know I snuck around their rules a lot.
This is a shitty take. Everyone I know who refuses to use battery powered landscaping equipment absolutely hates the noise and dealing with the gas engines.

The problem is that the battery stuff doesn’t compete on price/power if you’re doing basically anything more than a lawn measured in square feet.
There are better means to retrieve verifiable information.

Both the interrogator and the subject know which information is verifiable and which is not, torture doesn't create a reliable source of information.
I really should take EF Core apart and see how it all works before I next work on db layer code, I've stolen ideas from older versions before now but I suspect it deserves a deep dive on the current version.

(JS db layer code always makes me sad and I always end up missing https://p3rl.org/DBIx::Class)
> we collectively turned away and pretended "it went away".

The most vulnerable population succumbed to it and died. Everyone who could be infected was infected. This pandemic became endemic, like some but not all other pandemics. Once it's endemic, the policy interventions that were apparently controversial are less effective. Survivors become more immune than they were before.

"By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
It sure sounds interesting, but I'm only getting timeouts. A possible hug-of-death period should be over by now?
This seems like an incredibly retrospective view of romanicity tbh. That part of the empire had always spoken greek, and had never afaik been considered less roman for it.
The first thing to go is your social life closely followed by your health.

Bootstrapping is in my opinion much harder than VC backed.
It isn't so much the noise that bothers me, what I've never understood about leaf blowers is what are they meant to accomplish? When I watch people use them they either blow the leaves into the street or the neighbors yard. What do they think that does?

Now on the other hand, I do own a very noisy leaf vacuum. But when I've collected a bag full I can just deposit the leaves in my collection container. They are taken off to be composted
I don't much see the value of going to the office on a whim unless I know other people will be there, and that they'll be interested in collaborating on something in person. When I do go to the office, I'm largely working remotely with people not in the office. For me, it's been that way since I got my first dev job in 2014.
> the body doesn't really know what to do with the stuff

what does that mean? does it produce toxic chemicals? is it carcinogenic? or is this just fear mongering?

swishing a xylitol solution around your mouth is also different than pouring it in every drink you have.
Open access means "people should not have to pay to access science". It does not mean that a 10 years old should be able to understand it all. I think we agree on this, I am not sure what point you are trying to make.

> Remember that at the start, all the 'experts' were happy to say masks would have no effect!

You are oversimplifying. At the start, we did not know if it was propagating with droplets or through the air. Masks do stop big droplets and are effective in that case. It seems like it was not so much droplets in the end, so the efficiency of the masks was limited (but I don't think you can conclude it was zero). But also let's not forget how stupidly people were behaving during the pandemic. It went further than just knowing how the virus was propagating: there was a whole part about people's behavior.

> I read a lot of mask and epidemiology papers during COVID. They were all terrible. Standards in computer science are much higher

Let's be honest: most papers are terrible. Maybe you're biased because you know how to select good papers in computer science (or maybe you understand epidemiology better than computer science :-)), but most papers are terrible everywhere. That's why it takes expertise to make sense of them: if you just blindly trust whatever you read because it looks like a scientific paper, then you're in a bad position.

> so this belief that Lemire shouldn't be allowed to have opinions is kind of entertaining.

I don't have any idea of the quality of Lemire's work. This particular article doesn't show anything interesting IMO, though. Also I did not say Lemire was not allowed to have opinions. Just that when you are in a position of authority (a professor in a university), you should know better than to just throw a link to a paper together with a half-baked opinion.
Starting in the 1800's is pretty arbitrary. Try going back a couple thousand years.

I am not interested in debating Ethiopia, I know nothing about it, and wouldn't presume to take a strong position on a subject I know so little about.

"Usurpers" in that context was specifically about religious claim, where Islam has both a far weaker and far later claim than Judaism
Thank you. Maybe have a solution graphic that user can get by clicking on a solution button or that pops up after X failed swipes.
You had some pretty well-off rural neighbors if they shot guns daily. Ammunition isn't cheap. I've lived in a rural area for a long time, and, yes maybe once a week or month a neighbor will practice their marksmanship, but thankfully it isn't a daily occurrence.
Obesity in the US is epidemic because of food producers using your same antisocial logic. "But if we don't add sugar, people won't keep choosing our brand over the sweeter ones, this is our most important metric." Sugar should absolutely be more regulated, it's killing people.

It's a proven fact that the sugar producers have hidden the real dangers of overconsumption for decades to protect their precious money. Same thing with cigarettes, same with apps that use psychological and/or emotional manipulation to boost their "most important metric".

Here's a metric that might be more important than money to you: the teen suicide rate has increased by 62% since the advent of social media.

So, how much of the social media company's resources get spent increasing their most important metric vs educating parents and kids on the dangers of the technology they're trying to get them addicted to? If they do it responsibly, it's going to negatively impact their most important metric, and so they don't, and instead continue profiting from the negative externalities.

How many children ending their own lives is a 10% bump in your market cap worth? Perhaps that's a ratio that should be shown on an electronic display on the walls in these companies.