skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a really good question because it highlights the differences between now and the ZIRP-era of startups.

Previously, you'd see a ton of companies able to raise massive amounts of capital and be left wondering how they could achieve the revenue to justify their valuation without VCs putting the squeeze on customers.

Excluding AI (which is quickly finding its own equilibrium), now the scenario described above is basically non-existent. IMO, Series A has returned to "normal"; it's the phase where companies with a proven business (product-market-fit) acquire funding so that they can build scale their business to more customers (go-to-market).

Because of this, your question about business model is now actually far more relevant to ask Seed-stage companies; they need a successful business model or else they won't be able to raise a Series A. Based on some of the deal-count data out of Carta, it's possible that Seeds are being over-funded now and that there could be a huge chasm obtaining additional funding[0].

As for authzed, I think the article does a great job at explaining our situation in the "Why Now" section:

>The reality is that as second-time founders, our approach to venture capital and company building is slightly different to most of the other companies out there. We want to make sure that we’re building a sustainable business, and that means that we’ve made two strategic decisions that have impacted the timeline and amount of our funding. First, we want to grow mostly out of our own revenue, only bringing in venture capital to accelerate something that’s already working, and make new big bets. Secondly, we’ve been very judicious with our hiring. The overwhelming pattern during the COVID ZIRP years was to over-hire, and then when the market forces shifted, to panic.

>

>Where most companies might try to raise money when things aren’t working, at AuthZed we’re raising money because things are clearly working.

Even when the market was overzealous, we've been very measured with how we raise and spend capital because that's how we believe in building businesses. When ZIRP-era ended, we'd been operating as if hadn't existed the entire time. This positions us well because we have a working business model, a healthy open source community, the capital to expand, and a growing enterprise market to sell to[1].

[0]: https://x.com/fendien/status/1797815515777229190

[1]: https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1802710677452107945
From my understanding of political science classes, this is how the founders wrote it to be.

Actually, it's supposed to be like this…

Congress writes laws. Executive interprets those laws and decides ambiguities on its own. Some of those ambiguities are contested so courts decide the outcome. If that court’s outcome is contested, then Congress makes a new ruling explicitly stating what they want. Then it repeats.

It’s a cycle of checks and balances that is supposed to loop back into itself.

Checks and balances is not a one time thing.
Weren't both of these problems addressed by congress, not the courts?
(IANAL, but here's my reading)

You can set them. The difference is, if the DOE is sued over that regulation, the court will make it's own judgement as to what the law intended. Should there be radiation exposure rules? If so, what should the levels be? How should they be measured? What is covered by those rules?

The DOE will get its say. But the court would be free to conduct its own research or give whatever weight it wants to the plaintiff's arguments for interpreting the law.
I am almost sure this is because the system would have to pass a certification procedure somewhere, and for that they would need this level of clarity. Am I right?
Trust me. It’s bad. Real bad. ‘Cause when it’s a startup, there are minimal restrictions. You can share what you want.
Google's monorepo, and it's not even close - primarily for the tooling:

* Creating a mutable snapshot of the entire codebase takes a second or two.

* Builds are perfectly reproducible, and happen on build clusters. Entire C++ servers with hundreds of thousands of lines of code can be built from scratch in a minute or two tops.

* The build config language is really simple and concise.

* Code search across the entire codebase is instant.

* File history loads in an instant.

* Line-by-line blame loads in a few seconds.

* Nearly all files in supported languages have instant symbol lookup.

* There's a consistent style enforced by a shared culture, auto-linters, and presubmits.

* Shortcuts for deep-linking to a file/version/line make sharing code easy-peasy.

* A ton of presubmit checks ensure uniform code/test quality.

* Code reviews are required, and so is pairing tests with code changes.
Wouldn't be a bad idea. E.g., here in SF, the fares bring in $200M/year, and Muni's budget is $1.2B/year (approx numbers), which means, for every $2 charged by fare, the City has to put in another $10. Making it free would just cost an extra $200M/year, which is within the realm of possibility for a City with a budget of $14B/year.
I feel like redux-saga [0] also belongs on that list of algebraic effects - at least as an honorable mention.

[0]: https://redux-saga.js.org/
"Perfectly complete" is a pretty high bar. For example, consider a law directing the EPA to fine violators who dump "fatal substances". How complete is complete enough?

That leaves us with some options, such as these ones which I'm ordering from "most reasonable" to "most insane":

(1) In lawsuits, courts should generally assume that the lawmakers have given the EPA permission to create a formal list and judgement criteria for what counts.

(2) In lawsuits, courts should assume the list is totally empty unless a federal lawsuit has happened where both sides have called in "chemical experts" to testify and then a federal judge decides which chemicals are deadly and which are not.

(3) The law is totally meaningless until congress amends it with another bill that inserts a full list of every possible chemical composition and configuration required concentration-level, and anything not explicitly included on the list is exempt.
I assume you avoided identifying (or even hinting at) this "great technology" on purpose, but could you persuaded to divulge what it was?
I know those: Rewrites are bad, it's harder to read the code than write, a rewrite failing Netscape and many others, whatever. I aim to share a view I know is radical and controversial, that unequivocally all software needs a rewrite a decade, provided there is finances to do it.
What?? Slavery was ended (outsidr of prison system) by a law change.
And yet there are eight other Justices, and nothing he has to say matters unless he can get four others to agree with him.

If Thomas is known for anything on the Court, it's shouting into the void in concurrence or dissent.
In this case, I think the charge fits the crime. This is a pretty bog-standard MITM attack with a clear-cut motive and intent to cause harm. It wasn't simply that they were mirroring a connection to others, but that they had compromised it with the purpose of tricking the users.

None of this is to say that overkill doesn't exist in the intelligence/policing communities. But this guy was running a Kali Linux social engineering party trick from 2013; it's about as clear-cut of a computing crime as you can get.
If you have any suggestions for a better and accessible feed reader, I'd certainly appreciate them! I've been looking for exactly 11 years now!
Maybe eliminate secret ballots to do an "if you vote for it/him, you pay for its/his costs" sort of system?

Or keep ballots secret and apportion taxes to districts or counties which vote for increased costs, and have it be sticky on move for 5-10 years. Also prevent new-comers from voting in local elections for a period of up to 5-10 years (while retaining the vote in the previous jurisdiction). All these things add costs to locust electorate and will slow down the californication of the south and midwest as californians continue to flee in droves. It's already causing political havoc in various locales.

Do not vote for garbage politics thus destroying your home, then move to a nice place with opposite politics just to vote your garbage again. You act like chauvinist locust when you do that, moving into new political ecosystems to destroy them into your 'ideal' vision.

If you move from blue to red state because your blue state went to hell, wait 5 or more years to register to vote. I only wish this was law so places like AZ can stay nice with lower crime, castle doctrine, and presumptive consealed carry.

Now to batton down my hatches, I sense a downvote typhoon in the air...
I'm also part of multiple organizations (in different contexts, as a subcontractor at work I have two orgs to answer to, for instance). I use customized settings to distinguish Work A from Work B when accessing the same application but with different user accounts. Yeah, I prefer dark mode but I'll use light mode for my actual employer (used the least) if I don't have other customization options.
This reminds me of back when e-mail clients would store your outgoing e-mails in the "outbox" waiting for the next time you dialed in. Nowadays networked software (and much of society) can't handle days of latency, only milliseconds, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
> The Chocolate Factory filed a briefing [PDF] objecting to Epic's demands on Monday, arguing that its internal estimate of up to $137 million to implement catalog access, library porting and distribution of third-party app stores, plus ongoing charges to keep the whole thing running, was simply too much to bear.

They could staff a hefty-sized team, have that team ship their deliverables wrapped in SAP middleware deployed on Oracle with metal racked by NASA astronauts on the dark side of the *fucking moon* and I still don't understand how it costs 137 million to CRUD a few models and wrap a REST API around it.
I haven't used mosh. It looks like it replaces either SSH or Bash, unclear to me.

The only dependency in SSHFSUI is SSHFS and if that can be configured to use mosh instead of SSH under-the-hood, support would be possible.
I think his point is that the proof is expensive, not the act itself. Reminds me of rivets in composites joined by adhesives. The benefit is inspectability. The cost is diminished strength.
The federalist society is far right, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is laughable.
There’s tons of Biden voters in federalist society because it’s not like Trump is much of a rule follower. And Biden himself for most of his career was a conservative Democrat.

But I’m flummoxed by something. What does “democracy” mean to liberals? You’re the ones who want courts to decide issues that most other advanced democracies leave to voters, right? You believe in unelected bureaucrats and experts governing the country instead of elected officials. You seem to be using “democracy” in a very odd way to refer to rule by educated elites.
The default keybind is control-meta-j though. My comment was in reference to me not being able to get that to work.
$1000 could be less than the costs of just flights to one weekend tennis tournament which, because of seeding, you're highly likely to go out in the first round as a low ranked player.
Weird you are right

I just tried this:

https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust&type=repositories&s=...

Filter by language to rust and then select sort by most stars, and the top repository has 249 stars...

Though if I add a filter for stars greater than 1000 the results look way better:

https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Arust+stars%3A%3E1000&type...
> Now Congress is going to have to specify every possible consequence of laws in the statutes, otherwise a judge will decide.

> So agencies will not have any power to actually regulate.

This honestly sounds perfect.

If this is the actual end result of this ruling, we’ll all be in a much much better place.
> The detectors have different sensitivity depending on the direction of the waves, so if a wave comes from a "bad" direction (perpendicular to both arms, e.g. directly from above), a particular detector might not detect anything, even if the wave is strong.

Unless there's such a thing as polarized gravitational waves, https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-O1StochNonGR/ which might exist but are hard to discern with current detectors from what I understand. It'd be really cool to learn that there's such a thing as vector and scalar polarized gravitional waves.
> "Google has a history of malicious compliance and has attempted to circumvent legislation and regulation meant to reign in their anti-competitive control over Android devices," Epic said of its demands of the search behemoth. "Our proposed injunction seeks to block Google from repeating past bad-faith tactics and open up Android devices to competition and choice for all developers and consumers."

Sorry forgot to quote what I'm talking about.

I agree Google tightly controls the Play Store specifically with regard to popular apps such as games. They do not have "anti-competitive control over Android devices" though. Epic's quoted claim is categorically false.

If they want to compete they need to release their own phone with their own store to sell games for it. This was in fact common practice on a lot of early Android devices.

Play Store might as well be a games console and if Epic wins then they probably would want to go after Nintendo and other licensed platforms next. That's ridiculous.
Are there provisions in the Constitution for one Branch to delegate its powers to another?
Some would also argue that the judiciary is not particularly well-functioning, so why are we acting like that's the best option in the absence of alternatives?
You're right; there is a lot of noise in the git-sumi changelog. As it matures (and I tinker less with it), it should get better.

Here's a better example on a more mature project: https://github.com/welpo/tabi/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
*edit neverming below this is a character level model that probably has a small vocab so it wouldn’t make a massive difference

Is this taking into account the parameters in the embedding and the output ffn? Because normally when models are really small and the vocab is large they can account for an extremely large number of parameters and would explain why the optimal number of layers here is unusually small.

I suspect it isn’t being taken into account because doubling the embedding and cutting the number of layers in half only holds the parameters constant if you forget the embedding and output, but id need to see more details on the config (mainly the vocab size he used) to confirm.
You’re looking at it. One of the main goals of this push is utterly defanging agencies like the EPA
You could also put it in the "diseases-we-dont-need-interventions-for-in-most-cases-list". The vaccines aren't really effective for younger people. I still remember how it was pushed as 95% effective against *transmission* in the beginning.

We don't see this panic regarding the flu and they have similar mortality in the same demographics. Give it to the elderly and the sensitive and ignore it for the rest like we've always done.

There's really no need to exaggerate the risks, I only caught covid twice (first and delta variants) 2 years apart while many of my vaccinated friends seem to catch every single one only months apart. Why is that? Interestingly I've never been this healthy in my life, anecdata and probably more related to social distancing than being unvaccinated but interesting nonetheless.

I don't care if people choose to get vaccinated but it's seriously time to move on.
An immutable rootfs distro should be a bit more resilient than the average Linux install. Not having to add any random repos to your base system is a great feature. When I run random build scripts I mostly use containers or VMs, that also works for the odd unmaintained but useful software that requires vintage Ubuntu LTS libraries.
Did you observe that in ALL your examples you have given only 2 colors at a time ? This is because it is extremely difficult to visualize 3 colors additively together. Doing it with trial and error and "try it and see" is painful. Too much wasted time. (Well..there ARE some people who are expert at mixing 3 colors - they visualize the full RGB cube and magically output 3-color permutations off the bat after looking into space...)

Whereas, Hue in a 360° axis gives you a braindead-simple, direct color access - cycling across the color wheel with well-defined, named and representative colors at regular degree intervals. The 2D visualization of a circle is far easier.

You grab your primary color - hue and then you adjust your saturation and lightness (which is across a simple, linear semantic axis) to get tones and shades. FAR more simpler than RGB to get an elegant color palette going. You can knock out a distinct color palette for a site using HSL in ~5-10mins. Use a color-contrast tool against text to check accessibility and then you never pay attention to color again.
So we froth at the mouth every two years instead? I get the argument but I'm not really sure this is going to help in the way you want it.
"Flow my Tears!" the policeman said...
I thought it was due to +10 points to my computing skill, and possibly to others in close proximity.
One trouble I see with React is that it doesn't have a complete answer to state management. I was building very complex AJAX apps around 2006 or so such as knowledge graph editors and decision support software using tools like GWT and Silverlight that had the same async comm as Javascript and was developing state management systems that were so far ahead of React, Vue and that sort of thing that when I came across those frameworks I was seriously disappointed.

I've got the feeling that I can render anything I want the way I want with React (even 3-d worlds!) but the only framework that comes close to what my old systems could do is

https://mobx.js.org/README.html

and I cannot understand why MobX isn't more popular than it is. (Worked fine for a websocket-based app to control my smart speakers, it was trivial to make it so adjusting the speaker volume through the mobile app or buttons was reflected on my web app. Never tried a bigger app)
And they wouldn't, because the only person who suggests that Knaanic was ancestral to Yiddish, rather than having been displaced by it, is Wexler. Who is an unpleasant and academically dishonest crank, who, in addition to his discredited linguistic views, makes claims about the ethnic origins of the Ashkenazim which were always on shaky ground, and which have been conclusively disproven by modern genetic analysis. Not that this fact has motivated Wexler to retract his bullshit arguments.
Regulations that automatically expire after some time period but require Congress to given an up/down vote would give the regulations greater legitimacy in a democratic system.

Congress doesn't need the expertise to write the regulations. The elected Congress could just vote to pass the regulations as laws. Congress just doesn't want to be on the hook for the regulations, which is part of the reason why they hand off law-making to the agencies in the first place.

Theoretically, this approach would give people a greater voice in the rules that govern them. Sadly, in practice, we can't seen to rollback the proliferation of criminal laws that embolden prosecutors and lead to an unfathomable number of people in jail that have not been convicted by juries.
Data is at run time, but types (which lifetimes are) are at compile time.

You may remove an abstraction, but you'd also lose efficiency.
Part of this story is a self fulfilling prophecy. If devs like you avoid using Elixir because you’re afraid it isn’t popular enough, then it isn’t going to become more popular!
superficially this argument seems reasonable.. but my limited understanding of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States says that there have been substantially different eras, and substantially different rules in those eras, for this same Federal body. Needless to say, in a "two party" political system, the details of what each of those two parties represents has also changed dramatically.. i.e. what is called conservative has changed quite a lot, many times.. same with "liberal"
Seems fine. Not everything in life is convenient. In fact, many of the most important things are hard.
Yeah, right. All the new conservative justices rammed through recently are cut from
Thr exact same cloth.
WiFi's signal strength can be used as a proximity sensor for the source. It doesn't give you a direct location of your signal source, but the less amplitude your client radio reports needing is the closer you're likely getting to the emitter.
You missed the point of the paragraph. Congress routinely writes laws directing, for example, the EPA to determine if and when an emissions-reducing technology is economically feasible. The majority opinion is saying that courts need not defer to such findings and they will decide for themselves.
No it's not. For one thing, i'm not saying Google should forsake all other exploration of translation options until it perfects translating well between major languages. I'm just pointing out that this is a big gap in quality that they shouldn't forget in their drive towards something more flashy like over 100 new languages (otherwise a good thing, having those as options).

Secondly, i'm comparing a persistent deficiency inside one specific area of one company to another new project inside that same area of that same company. That's a lot more reasonable to do than whining about any random global disaster because some company X or government agency gets extra money for some project completely unrelated to said global disaster. It's much more absurd to compare those latter two as a point against one of them.
Ask HN: Where to Ask for Public Codereview?
I have code which does git blame counting, but I need code review from Python experts. Where I can find such place?
Scale Gov Summit 2024: Alexandr Wang Keynote [video]
our "regulatory bodies" (everyone's fav new word) allowed US companies to poison the blood of every child in the world and those companies and people responsible faced little consequence.
I'm not sure how the article's authors didn't make the connection of the rule of thirds to the rule of threes. The rule of threes is an ancient idea (at least as old as the Romans, "omne trium perfectum", likely older) and is very clearly connected to the rule of thirds. This article is generally wrong about a lot of things which stems from this fundamental misunderstanding that the rule of thirds is somehow new.
“… the agency sees privately built space stations as a way to replace the ISS at a fraction of the cost.”

Of the upfront cost maybe, but it’s like moving from being the landlord to being the renter where there’s only a couple bungalows on the island.

Costs be going way up year on year. Short sighted reasoning.
> By the time he had cracked the top 20, he was ignoring me completely.

Many years ago, I was the global "head of support" for the main trading application at a large bank.

I sat on the trading floor (b/c most of my users were there) and one of my jobs involved training the newly hired junior traders how to use the software.

The training was usually on their first or second day on the floor. At this point in the story, they were INCREDIBLY polite to me. "Thank you so much for showing us this", "Wow! This training is so great! We really appreciate it!"

Within two or three days, they stopped saying hello or even talking to me unless they were having an issue or there was an outage.

Reading about how ranking determines social interactions in the tennis world resonated rather strongly with me given my experiences working in technology at a bank.
the memory-in-pixel lcd is better than that approach in every way except that it's more expensive, there's no grayscale, and the display panels don't come in large sizes
CYBS Engineer here.

We're already working on it. Keep an eye for merchant notifications if you use certificate pinning.

Now, back to rotating certificates....