skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was initially accepted and then not. I've started a couple of companies, exited 1 and my second is doing well (vc funded and growing) if there is one thing I know is that events "like" these happen all of the time to startups. 1 minute you're flying high and the next you're 6 feet under :) How you react to these moments define you and decrease or increase the chance of success for your startup. Go to work!
Here is a good talk on how to think about three deeply connected topics that are under attack today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXiC4wqn7EU

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Free Trade, Immigration and Robots, Oh My!

One of the biggest threats America faces—we are told—is the assault on our workforce: the loss of American jobs to immigrants, to foreign competition fueled by free trade, and even to technology that will make all kinds of jobs obsolete. In this talk the Ayn Rand Institute's executive chairman, Yaron Brook, argues that this fear is entirely misplaced—that a proper grasp of the virtue of productiveness shows that far from fearing and opposing free trade, immigration and robots, we should be eagerly embracing all three.

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This seems like just a rehash of Seth's own blog post: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
Apologies – Startup School Acceptance Error
You had one job! >>

"Hello,

We are deeply sorry to have to send this email, but unfortunately an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails. The acceptance email was sent to you even though we are unfortunately not able to include you in the Startup School Advisor Track.

Although you are not in the Advisor Track, you have, in fact, been accepted to audit Startup School and will have access to all of the content just as soon as it is made available.

Again, we regret having made this error and raised your expectations unnecessarily. We hope you continue working on your startup and that Startup School is a huge help.

You can sign into your profile at https://www.startupschool.org/go

Geoff and Adora / Y Combinator"
> I'm not sure what alternative you are considering to not have that problem, or what it would look like for something to not have that problem.

I gave two examples. One isn't in production yet so we'll see
About 4 years ago Nvidia also used to publish a "roadmap" that showed a somewhat fake performance versus architecture plot. They stopped doing that after Volta.
An attempt at explaining metric measures to Americans by referencing something readers of an online article should have ready access to.
It's both.

As for pay: an anecdote. I manage a team that includes some H1-B visa holders. The visa holders are paid quite well relative to most workers in America, like most tech workers are, but they are definitely paid less than their peers on my team (a situation I work hard to remedy at raise and bonus time), but not so much less as to necessarily draw focus from regulators. It's more like the pay discrepancy between men and women (except not quite to that degree).

As for mobility: ask any H1-B holder who has worked at a company with massive layoffs whether they felt more or less anxiety than people with less restrictive visas, greencards, or citizenship.
True but if the American company has market access to other countries, what's wrong with hiring people from such countries ?
Yes, that was precisely my point. But there is a limit to how much currency can be floated on the black market. I was replying to someone who thought floating all of it would be a good idea.
Except this is not a failure mode of the bureaucrats, but is deliberate policy handed down by “these xenophobic politicians” who headed up the home Office for the past eight years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environm...
You'd be pleased to use docker-registry, then! We use Artifactory that runs its a docker-registry compatible something (maybe it's running docker-registry itself?) for our artifacts.
I meant that there isn't a good reason to argue about them, not that there isn't a good reason to use them.

I'm arguing that if we deal with the true source of ambiguity when lists are used, the use of commas to offset appositive phrases, that eliminates that cases where including the Oxford comma introduces ambiguity, without removing the cases where omitting the Oxford comma causes ambiguity, and so there would then no longer be a good reason to argue against the Oxford comma.
IIRC all recent NVIDIA GPUs support fp16, it's just that the perf of fp16 is severely hampered on "consumer" grade hardware, so the memory/perf tradeoff is not viable. I mean, on the one hand I can see why that is: fp16 is not terribly useful in games. But on the other, it's probably nearly the exact same die with a few things disabled here and there to differentiate it from $7K Tesla GPUs, which as an engineer I find super tacky, much like MS deliberately disabling features in Windows Home that don't really need to be disabled.
YC companies like Gusto because it's awesome (and is a YC company). Unfortunately, Gusto was founded 2 years after Amicus I believe.

But there were other options out there. At my first company i set up Paychex. And while terrible to maintain, did all the withholding/payroll for us.
I read this as if it's unlikely the customer is an advantage bettor, he would be (stereotypically) well off and easy with his money, rather than analytical.

Here Lord means someone in the House of Lords.
Why not hire the best no matter where they come from? I never understand why locals should get preferential treatment. Companies do business, not philanthropy.
Yes! I think that the amount of propaganda and cultural infusion of negativity against unions (often slurring unions with communism) is the real cause of the stagnation in worker rights and wages.
Heck yeah!"No's" only make us stronger!
Totally agree. The application for startup school was short and easy to fill out. Even with the normal YC application, it's basically getting you to write a business plan which is useful in of itself.

Not sure if it'll help anyone, but I feel better when I see the backgrounds of the people who got in:

https://theymadethat.com/organizations/d55c2ee1-c72e-568e-bb...
These are American companies, are they not?
Much of the silicon is now used by RT cores and tensor cores. These were not on the Titan xp, for better or for worse.
When you say "Arduino's got them for voltage sensing," are you talking about the ADC in the ATMega328 that powers most of the Arduino models from the last decade? Because that ADC isn't a ΔΣ, it's a 10-bit successive-approximation ADC.
That was definitely a very good resource. I've gone through that and tried to implement as many things as I could.
We got in, after first getting the standard rejection email.

Building Commerce.js - https://commercejs.com
Cheery-NOs. Breakfast of champions.
the aristocracy and their associate bum-scratchers do still hang around, and to them it may well be hilariously crass that a bookkeeper might ban a member of the elite. But I don't think it's much different now compared to other elite castes. I don't doubt there are people out there who would find it funny if a Saudi prince or a tech billionaire was banned from a casino.
I hope this doesn't sound antagonistic since you're already getting a lot of flak for what seems to be an honest mistake. (I was accept-rejected fwiw).

Could you shine some light on what your criteria were for acceptance? I have now seen a few projects that were actually accepted. They seemed pretty generic and not at all what I thought would have been accepted. As products, the only benefit they seemed to have were that they were in maybe the alpha or beta stage of development. For our future reference, could you please elaborate a bit on what you were looking for in these applications?

P.S. If you were accepted, congratulations! I am not saying your product is generic :)
Syncthing on FreeBSD
AMD doesn't distribute microcode updates for consumer processors, only Epyc, so it's kind of a mixed bag. They expect consumer processors to get microcode updates via BIOS vendors.
>It is clearly stated in GDPR that it should be as easy to opt-out as opt-in
The opt-out being leaving the site. Fines to companies outside the EU are probably going to be fruitless.
We are running a massive experiment on our own race in the search of never ending growth. Glass is fine. Reuse, recycle, cut down on waste.
That is still better for the workers than not having such opportunities and working in their home countries. Isnt that a Win-Win situation?
The GitHub issue was filed 2 months ago.
could have said 3/16" and it would have been close enough (but either way, it is pretty big)

edit: Most Americans know what 3/16" is, right?
How do you know that? Did you ask everyone their citizenship /immigration status during the interview?
The family 17h microcode blobs only apply to Epyc (server segment) models, not consumer Ryzen, which is a bit unfortunate.
Oh! Apologies. You are completely right. No idea how I missed that.

Pushed a fix. Thanks for reporting!
Companies follow the law of the land, written by government for the benefit of its citizens (and not everyone can be a citizen; resource limits, cultural integration, those such issues, see the EU for examples of those challenges and why they limit economic migrants).

Companies should obey the law, or leave and be prohibited from operating in the jurisdiction (China does this successfully).

Edit: My apologies for reiterating this here (I mention it in a child comment), I don’t want to be verbose but I also don’t want to comment all over the place and risk a throttling flag: If you are a company and relocate, a country has many tools at it’s disposal to retaliate, and they should be used when necessary (see how the US almost drove ZTE to insolvency).
Maze: Uber's funnel visualization platform
in NZ we have automatic rolling tax increase every year on tobacco, and we see the reduction and is well studied.

We don't need to know absolutely the exact causal link, we just need to know while in this configuration, this trend is happening. Maybe certain things aren't needed for that trend, but like you say, we don't have the capability of much experiementing, we can have a lot of robust debate and make our best educated guesses and try different things and see what happens.
The "Texas Central" will provide one leg of the Texas Triangle before long. We'll see how that works out. The later addition of a leg to Austin/San Antonio would make a lot of sense. But there's not good prospects for any broader regional connections, unless HSR proves to be very popular and profitable.
Iikewise... reading this thread is keeping my excitement at bay. Hopefully we get a more concrete confirmation.
Actually this may be enough for modern IoT sensors, adding capacitor and doing transmission less often helps. Even flashing the LED (5mA pulses for 1ms) is only 5uA on average (once a second, 0.1% duty cycle) or even 1uA (once a 5 second, 0.02% duty cycle).
doesn't help that many countries send their recyclables to China as well... If people could handle their own waste instead of shipping it off to another country, might make people more conscientious of their consumerism.
Dude, twm is all you need.
Not that it really invalidates the point behind your question, but FYI currently felony larceny has a of minimum of $500-2,500 depending on the state.

(Though until 2013, Indiana actually had a no minimum.)
That is irrelevant. They get paid more compared to what immigrants would get in their home countries. And if you had to pay them as much then they would lose the edge during hiring - it is part of why they are also chosen.
> Well, they can... Just look at France. Amazing healthcare, a lot of it private, relatively cheap

In a place with a different political system, population, demographics, culture, economy, etc... and France has a price transparency law.

> Nothing, they don't negotiate

They pass laws dictating how others can negotiate (or not).

> A performance bonus, a raise, a promotion? Just like any other organisation?

But not like any other organization, because if you gave a government employee a million dollar bonus for doing their job there would be a riot. Meanwhile they can get million dollar private sector employment for not doing their job.

> OK, go and buy a pound of ground meat. Or an LCD screen. Are you seriously telling me you can get a better deal than McDonalds or Apple?

I'm telling you I can get a better deal than the Department of Defense.
Ask HN: What Is the Difference Between Founder Track and Advisor Track??
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between the Advisor track and the Founder track ??
Which island?
I'm not sure if I'm missing it here, but what are the negative environmental effects in-game?
This is something I had a serious problem with. First times I got high I realized I would forget the beginning of sentences by the time I got to the end of them so I basically could not form a complex thought. And I found this a hugely negative aspect. The relaxation/easygoing/laugh-at-everything/everything-tastes-amazing factors were not good enough to justify basically being mentally-handicapped.

The other problem was the hunger. Oh my god, the hunger. Food was the best thing ever... which is bad for a guy battling weight gain ever since 18. I knew this wasn't my drug when I ate an entire pizza by myself after smoking up and my stomach absolutely hated me the entire next day. The pot-using crowd I was with another time was highly entertained when I demanded to see the chef to compliment him in person on his risotto, though. :)

So I went back to my favorite mind-altering substance- A good whiskey or a couple of dark beers. :)

But to each their own. I do think that pot users, like gamers (note: is a gamer), need to be careful that their utilization does not impede other important/impactful areas of their lives too much.
On the other hand, participating in online forums can have similar effects.
It seems like a good solution to H1B abuse is to get rid of the lottery and move towards a bid system, but the "bid" is the foreign worker's salary. This will solve the wage suppression issue, and will grant access to talent to companies that are willing and able to pay for it.
If you think H1B leads to that outcome, you are either unaware of the issues surrounding it or intentionally misframing the problem.

You have no idea what these people go through, my heart breaks every time I see one with a family and the thousand yard stare they have because they’re clearly being exploited.
Sure but then let's make that happen in every major economy. Doing this unilaterally is foolish and will be taken advantage of.
Confiks isn’t arguing it should be criminal, though. Just saying it should be “tolerated”, but not the same way a lot of other products are - they mention disallowing advertisements, and restricting who can sell it.

This is actually pretty similar to how cigarettes are treated in Canada (and many countries). Restricted sales, legal ages to purchase, product covered in discouraging warnings, lots of restrictions around advertisements, tonnes of places you aren’t allowed to smoke (not just inside, but anywhere remotely close to doorways), etc. Basically sends the message “we think smoking is negative, but it’s better to tolerate it in a highly regulated way than to make it illegal.”
Gell-Mann Amnesia in full force. [0] But, consider that there's an animation budget at work here.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
So are you fine if Cisco relocates most of their operations in India for example? Because companies can move, and have done so many times in the past 30 years. That is basically what such restrictions lead to.
As the other reply said, currently lighting and shadows in games is a huge mixed bag of tricks. Raycasting would make everything simpler and more robust... and slower.
That is a particularly naive view of the role that nuclear weapons have played over the past 75 years. It is also clear that many of the original designers thought very deeply, much more so than 99% of all the people who opine away from their armchairs today.

Nuclear weapons ethics are a very tricky subject to deal with in an informed, realistic, and even-handed way. Most people who give knee-jerk opinions haven't done a good job of dealing with them.
One thing to note is that the AI does not orchestrate all 5 players on the team at once like 1 superhuman player would. Instead it runs 5 instances of itself on each of the heroes and they play together based on how selfish they need to be in any given moment. This earlier blog post[1] has some additional information about how the bot works, including an interactive view into the bot's eyes.

>"OpenAI Five does not contain an explicit communication channel between the heroes’ neural networks. Teamwork is controlled by a hyperparameter we dubbed “team spirit”. Team spirit ranges from 0 to 1, putting a weight on how much each of OpenAI Five’s heroes should care about its individual reward function versus the average of the team’s reward functions. We anneal its value from 0 to 1 over training."

[1] https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/
But only 25 were accepted to the "Advisor" track, and there seems to be only one set of reject/accept emails being sent out. It seems to me there are only 25 accepted for advising, but maybe even auditing companies are eligible for the $10k?
For fp16, int8 and int4, the RTX blows the GTX out of the water. For fp32 it's a tiny increase. The memory bandwidth is about 40% higher as well. You'll always find people complaining about each release, but overall I think this is a solid card.
There ain't no do over with email :)

Ran a legit email service for over a decade and at one point we had list with 800k people it, I'd pucker up every time I had to hit "send".
@toomuchtodo: no, at scale, they don't. And in tech, a country has very little to offer unless it possesses something you can't get elsewhere, which the USA doesn't.

Why do you think there is so much 'business' going on between larger enterprises and government at many levels? It's all to keep them around, not because it's the best fit. Take Amazon, they want to build an office, so all states and counties and whatever else you have in local government bends over backwards to try and reel them in.
From way down at the bottom:

14.0 C - No effects [Baseline]

14.5 C - | Minor changes |

15.0 C - | Localized Acid Rain | Some mobs spawn less | Some mobs spawn more |

16.0 C - | +1 Sea Level Rise | Tropical fish die |

17.0 C - |Global Acid Rain | Some trees no longer grow | +1 Sea Level Rise | Coral Reefs die |

18.0 C - |Noxious Area Potion Effect Clouds | Farm yields decrease | +2 Sea Level Rise | All Snow/Ice melts |

19.0 C - | All fish die | Random Forest Fires | Slower Health Regen |

20.0 C - "Devastation".. Highly polluted chunks get permanent severe area potion effects, forest fires, etc
> What's the evidence for people putting in large amounts of money to influence betting on elections?

Going back and reviewing things it seems my memory was wrong: the risk of coordinated efforts of this type if the prediction markets became seen as strong bellwethers of electoral success was discussed in the wake of some isolated, apparently single-trader incidents that momentarily moved the prediction markets in 2004 and again in 2008, but there doesn't appear to have been any detected widespread manipulation.

> Isn't it making a bit assumption that people vote in a certain way because they see things in prediction markets?

No, there's a pretty strong well-known effect that media coverage of electoral momentum reinforces that momentum; it's not doing much changing cited as impacting enthusiasm and turnout.

> Regular people are surely not checking odds on who is likely to win an election.

People—especially the people who are reasonably likely to vote—to consume political news, including news relating to whatever the media sees as strong horserace indicators. For a few cycles startibg around 2000 that had started including prediction markets, though it seems to have faded the last couple cycles.
The "0 lawsuits filed" stat on his website now seems a bit foreshadowing

150 Investments Made
175 Limited Partners
5 Years of Experience
0 Lawsuits Filed

http://mikerothenberg.com/

Maybe he can post a "Days since last SEC action" sign in the office.
This is my exact argument against h1b, but something tells me you didn't mean it that way.

The fact is if we want to truly attract the best and brightest we need to give them citizenship and pay them for their superior skills.

As it is now we aren't attracting the best and brightest but the slightly skilled and willing to take a gamble and endure the cruelty of our immigration system. These are typically young people which exacerbates the agism problem in tech.
I wonder how much of this is due to the post apocalyptic nature of our first direct interactions with natives. Something like 90% of the population had been wiped out, so it's little wonder that there were roaving bands of nomads where there were once cities. Society had broken down in a way that arguably hadn't been seen since the bronze age collapse.
Rollercoaster of emotions. First email came in while I was at dinner with my super nosy girlfriend and I was dejected. Didn't even take my meal well.

Then acceptance email. Good thing I had a long list of things to achieve before I went public with rwjwction/acceptance. I am happy to be accepted.
For all those rejected, I have applied to YC 6 times since 2012 or 2013 I think. All rejects. One business was adapted by government (it wasn't going to be super profitable, but was really key to my government ops plus led to a scholarship at MIT). Two startups floundered but led me to my current startup(pivot after pivot supported by a somewhat sufficient consultancy).

All in all continue executing. That's what important.
You are right. I jumped to conclusions. I just assumed they were h1b's because of their thick/strong accents and unamericanized names.
I hope someone informed her on recommended backup practices. Imagine going through all that trouble and then losing the data again because of hardware failure.
Will amazon be lowering their price for prime because they are offering less for the membership?
The companies will be happy to relocate, there is nothing keeping them in a specific spot (unless it's a mining company or a company serving a very local market -- both are not the type of tech we are talking about)
Please check the Open Containers Initiative [0]. That lists a number of runtimes. There are now entire tool chains developed independent of anything from Docker Inc.

[0] https://www.opencontainers.org
Actually US citizens can legally perform arrests, we just don't have the same legal presumptions that peace officers do.

Also it's obviously implied that the right to bear arms includes the right to use them under at least some circumstances. It would just be as ludicrous as saying freedom of the press only covers your right to own a press in your house or business and not your right to print things with it.
that's called futarchy
I am, and I am fine with tariffing their products if they do so, or going so far as to invalidate their patents or IP (as India does with some pharmaceuticals). China just plain ol shuts you out of their market entirely!

A company only exists because a nation state allows it. That formation can be revoked at any time.
I have never heard either term used in the US.

Language as actually practiced is messy, and has large regional variation. It’s generally the right marketing move to name something the way your customers will understand it, not the way a taxonomist would prefer.

But I agree Lime/Bird should do a good job localizing, and not be lazy about naming in other markets!
i don't mean to condescend (i smoke weed often myself), but please be careful when you compare your habit to others'. if you know a lot of unhealthy people, it can be hard to recognize your own issues.
You can also just tax the difference from prevailing wages; take those taxes and earmark them for training of laid off workers of same industry.