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I use big and well matured libraries for the critical parts of my code. These can be logging, option/file parsing, or linear algebra.

When I add these libraries, I use most parts of them at the end of the day.

However for other one-off things like internal state handling or stuff which I can prop up using the standard library, I refuse to use external libraries.

I kindly disagree on the part of they're not getting a better product. On the contrary. They require to manage less dependencies, most critical parts are well cooked/tested, and other parts are built using the standard library which is built to build these things.

When rolling things forward, I need to juggle less dependencies, too. So things can move forward easier.

It's not like I'm banging the keyboard and shouting done when it prints something meaningful to screen.
And I don't think younger statisticians, those that will have 30+ years in the career tank, are now favouring Python over R (a few, Julia perhaps). So I don't imagine new stats functionality dropping in R first is going to change any time even close to soon.
The discussion from the beginning was about the value of stocks. Traditionally it's a share of profits in the form of dividends and voting rights. If the stock doesn't pay dividends and the founder has 51%, then you get none of that, so why does the stock have any value. That's the discussion here. Try to read and understand the question before engaging next time.
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Hi All,

I am planning to build a LinkedIn scraper, which would scrape LinkedIn profiles, company pages, groups, searches (sales nav and normal searches), likes, comments, etc, for free. I already a set piece of codebase that I have built out. I wanted to know if anyone would be interested in using an open-source LinkedIn scraper? Will this be good option?
Prices of products in general are not based on costs, they are based on what share of the cake is available to take.
Yes - unconditional by default, to be clear. I think if you set storage to 'none' it will switch it off completely
Some people will give a shit, some won't. I've met VCs that would scoff at Jason for trivial stuff like that, while I've met others that would agree with him - and maybe be even rigid about "small stuff".

My experience is that if the VC is someone who has background from finance, consulting, or law, then they are more likely to lose their minds over superficial stuff like logo placement, font consistency, alignment of images / tables / etc., and of course consistency in dates etc. - probably because that's all they did during their formative years in their respective industries.

Second point: There's a bunch of VCs out there with the only qualification of

A) Having founded / led a successful startup

B) Having invested in startups during the ZIRP-era

So while you have some tremendously good VCs that have stood the test of time, and have "seen it all", there are also VCs that will be washed away the next few years. So don't take it personally if / when some VC will decline you and and be all preachy about it.

Last point: Some of these stories are just made-up BS to generate content and thoughts. Half of the stuff VCs write on LinkedIn or Twitter seems to be fiction, for the sake of getting a point through to their listeners. Also keep that in mind.
Thanks - can you share your usage patterns, what kind of usage, does it include heavy gaming and media?

Note, I'm less worried about percentage performance, as some things just not working well at all, because of assumptions of direct hardware access vs reality of running under hyper v. I.e. Are ALL hardware calls and capabilities 100% absolutely completely available once your main Windows install is running as a VM? Not most, majority, should be good; but actually, seamlessly all? My understanding was No, but things may have changed for the better.
> its about the users who accepted this change and the social capital of the organization that pushed it

In other words, fiat
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> A profitable business has either reached market potential, or isn't spending enough on growth.

Yes, but spending money on growth is probably the number one thing VCs like to invest in. If you happen to be profitable, but also can demonstrate a clear path to growth, then VCs will lean in.
Er, I'm sorry, do they not like the color of the bits of code? How do you tell provenance of code?
> Gee, You Sound Like an Asshole

If you feel the need to write an entry for this at the end, I recommend you go back and improve the rest of the document so this section isn’t necessary.

Even when someone has been actively rude to you (which isn’t the case here, as the document is unprompted), being rude back only makes it worse. But being kind sometimes makes the other person change their attitude, or at the very least doesn’t make future contributors think of you as an asshole too. And there’s the bonus that sometimes you misinterpret someone as rude when they were not, so being disrespectful makes you the sole offender in a public interaction. Remember you can always not reply to someone, or politely say you don’t accept abuse—especially not when providing something to others at the expense of your free time and at no cost for them—and lock the conversation and/or block the user.

You think when you’re rude back you’re shoving the other person away so they leave you alone. You’re not. You’re giving them ammunition to come back harder and for others to pile on. Be kind and deprive them of their weapons instead. Ask them to leave if they’re repeat offenders. Force them to leave if you have to, but don’t make a show of it.

Remember you’re the maintainer. It’s your house that you opened for others to visit. Don’t give them reason to trash it.
Some other Unix operating systems had the functions in a own socket library, e.g. SunOS: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19120-01/open.solaris/817-4415/s... .

I suppose though in the context of Linux it's a bit weird, but you did get the correct meaning :).
Factually, they appear to have found a software bug. The community at large expected some range of inputs to the software, but as part of a cheat these folks provided inputs outside the range accepted by the community, which federal prosecutors are using as a substitute for proving an actual false statement, which is the real element.[1] It's interesting because the inputs apparently weren't "false" and maybe they weren't the sort of thing capable of falsity. Instead, they violated a community expectation -- that maybe wasn't documented.

Putting consciousness of guilt and money laundering aside for a moment... the government just charged exploiting a software bug for profit as a wire fraud.

[1] https://www.burnhamgorokhov.com/criminal-defense-resources/f...
Maybe it's just me getting old but... as a scientist I love technical reviews however I care more and more about feeling that real world performance. If a tire feel fast, it's what I will go for. My favorite road bike is my 12yo CAAD10 because I just love how it feels and the geo is perfect for me. This kind of thinking has been mostly phased out of the reviews and the design lately while the engineering has been optimized to a point almost all new bikes (and also true with cars IMO) feels more or less the same. Nowadays, I value character over numbers.
That's like saying you should take VC money because you can end up being like Mark Zuckerberg. It's a 1/50'000'000 sort of case or perhaps even less likely.
I found the onboarding to be super rough… I think it’s the sort of thing where you really want to do a full day workshop on it to get started.

The interactive elements really can’t be done justice in looking at readme’s or textbooks alone IMO
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> How can you call the Nakba a myth?

Not exactly what I said. I said you should understand why pro-Israelis consider it to be a myth. You don't have to agree, but at least understand the arguments. You say you're not smart, but if you're smart enough to argue one side, then you're smart enough to understand the best arguments of the other.

Though "How can you call the Nakba a myth?" is in the form of a question, I have enough experience in "debates" of this sort to know it would be a mistake to treat it as a question. "How can you call the Nakba a myth?" is not actually your earnest request for an exchange of views, is it. It's more of a rhetorical device to demonstrate disagreement, even disapproval.

Given that it's not an invitation to exchange views, were I to make the mistake of interpreting it as an actual question, and were then to take the time to answer, explain, link to sources, ask questions in return, would you not scoff, dismiss, divert, and not seek to absorb the actual argument, but look immediately for ways to "debunk" it? Some, worried about ideological taint, might even run off to find approved anti-Israel sources to find out how they "debunk" the argument.

Invariably, the quality of the rebuttal is not as important as its existence. You (and your co-interlocutor @racional) disapprove, and you are on Team Palestine, therefore it doesn't really matter what the Nakba myth arguments actually are, nor their rebuttal, because they aren't gonna be seriously considered anyway.

Again, disappointing, but unsurprising. Not sure how barking talking points at each other is helping at this point.

Let us all cheerfully agree to disagree. You can continue to believe that Israel is committing genocide, and I can continue to believe that the accusation is murderously cynical, callous and morally bankrupt.
And if you live in a mountainous area, bike weight do make a big difference, up to a point. :)
Does that mean I could have rolled an OS for my n64 together with game? l
Yes, and that's healthy. Any ecosystem of companies, people, animals has failures. As far as I can see, it works fine. Just like tech companies, some VCs do amazingly, some fail. We get new VCs starting each year just like tech companies, some succeed, some fail, there's no issue here.
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I guess that’s what they meant by “tech is the new music”
Looking forward to being put on a list for purchasing a leaf blower silencer.
Thanks for the nice writeup! So how many hours does your laptop get after all this?

It would also be interesting to see an "all default" install (arch or manjaro) somewhere, is someone knows a link.
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free as in the name of the company :\
> Remember: if VCs believed in what they were doing they would not take a 2% annual management fee and 20% of the upside.

This makes no sense. Companies have fees, junior associates have student loans, buldings require rent to be paid.

This is a foolish sentiment, unless you would apply it to all employees everywhere. If startup employees truly believe in their company they would also take no salary at all and just live on ramen noodles.

But if you think this through you realize that employees also have costs in their lives that they need money for.

> Once you get this it’s all a lot easier: the job of a VC is not to invest in winners, that’s a bonus.

> The job of a VC is to look respectable while losing other people’s money at the roulette wheel, and taking a margin for doing so.

This really makes me question which VC firm you work at as you don't seem to understand how they work. If VC firms had no alpha then they wouldn't be able to raise a second fund at all. And you'd never see VC funds stick around.

They fact that Y combinator exists for all these years and A16Z, sequoia, etc are all around for so long indicates that they are good at their job and their job is to make returns for the LPs.

I work at a firm, i'd be happy to help you understand how these firms work as you seem to have a very outsiders view on it, i can help clear up alot of your blind spots if you want to talk!!
Sure, but the OP talked about being happy with a 10Mbps link.

I think a lot of modern households might find that constraining, even if a 10Gbps link was massive overkill.

There are two orders of magnitude in between of course :)

Personally I found that going back from a 1Gbps link to ~100Mbps has felt a little sluggish, particularly when downloading games. It's not a huge thing, but being able to get that new game pretty much now was great.
I have a friend in the UK (and this was a few years ago when it was still part of the EU) who worked for a company that had always-on screen monitoring installed on company computers and their boss would randomly remotely view people's screens to check on what they were doing throughout the day.

That may not have been legal, but it was certainly happening.
Every time you push for parking minimums you are making it de facto illegal to build new, dense, walkable cities, making it harder for people like me to live in one.
Lobbyism is legal corruption in my book. See what AIPAC has paid senators (over 10 million for Biden over his whole carreer), and that the US gives money to Israel (whom in turn pays AIPC for it's work). That means that, in a way, americans pay to corrupt their own politicians... legally!
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"incentivises the alpha"

If they knew where the alpha was, they would go get it.

If they could make alpha happen, they would do that.
> if VCs believed in what they were doing they would not take a 2% annual management fee and 20% of the upside.
They’d take 40% of the upside and live on ramen noodles

So if you believed in something, you need to get rid of the concept of hedging and financial responsibility?

This kind of "believing" is what a religious zealot does. No wonder people say SV is a cult.
Not counting their 2% annual maintenance fee, a VC makes money from buying shares low, selling them high, and keeping 20% of the high price minus the low price. So yes, they make money if the valuation is higher than the when they bought it.

Example:

- buy 1 million shares at $1.

- sell 1 million shares for $101.

- (101 - 1) * 1_000_000 = 100_000_000

- 100_000_000 * 0.2 = VC gain of 20_000_000
I’m understanding here that cannabis is linked to a higher RISK of crash fatalities not linked to crash fatalities themselves? That’s a very important distinction.
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We've been using a library called TNT for this job and are quite happy with the flow: https://github.com/pragmatrix/tnt

You basically annotate all your strings with a "my string".t() or t($"my interpolated string: {var}") and then use their CLI to extract the strings to be translated. It even includes google translation API support for you to kickstart the process.
What? That makes no sense.

VC is a job like any other, it takes time and work/effort etc to produce output, it's also a job where you can improve with skill and experience. Just like writing code takes effort and skill, why would you spend 10 years writing code full-time for "free"?

Just like no one would edit books full-time for free, or write code full-time for free, or teach kids full-time for free, VC's wouldn't screen companies, interview founders, carry out significant due diligence processes for free either. Because they need to eat, need health-care, need money for rent/mortgages etc, just like every other professional.

It's just another job, and most people in VC are not rich, they are just earning a salary and get no carry/% of profits of the fund.
I’m curious and new to R. What are those R libraries you’re referring to?
Minor nitpick about the reporting:

> The team reduced the overall leaf blower noise by about two decibels, making the machine sound 37% quieter.

While a 2 dB reduction in noise does represent a 37% reduction in acoustic power, our perception of sound is logarithmic so this is extremely unlikely to "sound 37% quieter"-- Assuming the reduction is from 50 dB to 48 dB, it will sound about 4% quieter.

Much more significant is the 12 dB reduction in the "shrill and annoying" frequency range. While the 94% reduction there is probably also overstated for the same reason, the initial power level in that range will be only a portion of the overall noise output-- I wouldn't be surprised if there's a 50-75% perceived reduction of noise in this range.
They would take equity in the fund, of course.
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> It baffles me that a person successful enough to get put in charge of an investment fund

Not necessarily ROI successful, though certainly successful in making connections to get the job. It seems, however, from their website that some of their capital made it into big companies. It's not clear whether they disclose the previous funds performances.
yes, what I see. R is so dominant in stats, and the momentum against it around me is more towards Julia not Python.
> the doomer scenarios have looked increasingly far-fetched as the public has grown more accustomed to the limits and frustrations of today's available AI tools.

Really? I'd have thought the opposite. The more accustomed the public grows to any aspect of today's "AI" tools, the more likely becomes the threat of tomorrow.
That's a very difficult question to answer without carrying out a proper study.

Languages, libraries and frameworks constantly evolving so it's a moving target too.

I think most people will just recommend the stack they know best unless you have more specific criteria.

Again, I don't think you can go wrong with Rails for web apps as a solo dev.

You get a lot of utility out of the box with Rails and you can also easily remove things you know you won't need.

e.g. Little utilities like Array#to_sentence[1] might not seem important at first but they're real time savers when you're working on your own to get something out the door.

1. https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Array.html#method-i-to_s...
Gimp has got a lot better recently. The smart transform tool is excellent.

Still can't select more than one layer though.
So they take 40% of future portfolio returns, and then sell half of that up front in return for investment of 2% of total funds managed and end up exactly where we are now but with added complexity....
It's called Android Smart Lock and has been a thing since Android 5 (Lollipop). It also works (worked? Does it still exist) with 'trusted places' (GPS/WiFi), Voice/Face (before face id was a thing) and a mode were it kept the phone unlocked as long as you kept it on your body.

I remember that I used the last option many years ago, as that was really convenient and worked very well. Basically as long as the phone was in your hand or pocket it kept unlocked, but as soon as you laid it on a table it got locked.

But now that fingerprint unlock is a thing, I don't even mind unlocking my phone as it is one fluid motion and happens unconsciously.
As an aside, Western Europe had actual currency/coin shortages intermittently throughout the 14th and 15th centuries.
Want to test that? I will volunteer to be the recipient.
Well, I try to be optimistic and work with the models.

It's like when we first learned to code. Did syntax errors scare us, did nullpointer exceptions, runtime panics scare us? No, we learned to write code nevertheless.

I use LLMs daily to enhance my productivity, I try to understand them.

Providing context and assigning roles was a tactic I was taught in a prompt writing seminar. It may be a totally wrong view to approach it but it works for me.

With each iteration the LLMs get smarter.

Let me propose another example. Think of the early days of computing. If you were an old school engineer who only relied on calculations with your trusted slide rule, you would critise computers because they made errors, they crashed. Computing hardware was not stable back then and the UI were barely usable. Calculations had to be double checked.

Was investing in learning computing a bad investment then? Likewise investing in using LLMs is not a bad investment now.

They won't replace us, take our jobs. Let's embrace LLMs and try to be constructive. We are the technically inclined after all. Speaking of faults and doom is easy, let's be constructive.

I may be too dumb to use LLMs properly, but I advocate for AI because I believe it is the revolutionary next step in computing tools.
We use embedded R in production in a way some other companies would use Python and I can say having a better compiler would definitely help.

Even if most people use R interactively, having contributers working on compiler has many positive spillovers for the language.

Also note that the R code running behind the scenes of your scripts (powering the functions of your favourite packages) is quite a different language, using less dynamic features. This is where a better compiler would always be appreciated.
Yeah its used for greenwashing. But you wanted a 100% study and I provided one.

Our point is that nuclear is used exactly for the same purpose:
"We don't need to invest into renewables, because fusion and nuclear is gonna magically save us all in 10 years."

Again it's great that france has this much nuclear right now. But that's not a good path for the rest of europe catching up. Especially not with the current price trajectories. (Nuclear becoming more expensive, storage and renewables getting cheaper)
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can you show us the list? Truly interested, seems like the three letter guys are pretty good at what they do.
Strangely the 0.05% management fee I pay covers the fix costs of my mutual fund.
This is a big thing in journalism and fashion, too. Doing an unpaid internship in NYC isn’t exactly cheap
> There are Russian operatives committing sabotage on European industrial facilities

After the NorthStream was blown up by the US (they even announced it), which constitutes as the biggest act of industrial terrorism EVER, I do not know if I believe you that Russia is "more evil".

> it's silly to let that turn into a belief that it's uniquely terrible among the world's nations

Not saying that they are uniquely terrible, I'm saying that they constantly want to remind everone that "rules based order" is so important, but when it comes to MKUltra or Gitmo they have no rules for themselves at all. It about the standard they set themselves and then only apply it to other countries.
Did I say it's a "counter-example"? Both are operational dumpster fires. I obviously brought it up in a negative tone with the words "even" and "somehow". Utopia's a business, too. Why are you defending them? Do you even live here? They even did basically this same thing to their cities years back, which you'd know if you did.
Except in the case of Covid the host is contagious before symptoms develop, so there is no evolutionary pressure on it to be less deadly (i.e. give itself more time to spread by not killing the host).
Well, Go for example does syscalls directly.
VCs make steep graphs steeper. By the time you are in a position to raise money for acceleration, you don't really need it. All capital, no venture.
I like the analogy that a PR is like giving someone a puppy. Now they have to take care of it in perpetuity while you never have to handle it again.