skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old man here (30's), co-founder was 29 at application time. Age didn't seem to come into it in our case! We got an interview with only an idea, and we received positive feedback from the partners. We weren't accepted at the time, though. YC (and other incubators) said they wanted a working prototype before investing.

That's tricky, since we're in biotech; we've had to do a lot of front-loaded grinding in order to bootstrap a molecular biology lab, but now we're getting close to presentable results. I suppose if it were easy, everyone would do it!

If we had been accepted, it would have been a rush, since co-founder was pregnant (baby is 2 yo old now!), but since we're married, it makes it easier to find synergy between work and family, heh. We have little man's grand parents right next door, and they've been a big help as we got rolling early on.

Could any YC alumni speak to the family issue? The program is pretty short, but there is space for YC teams and alumni to set up a babysitting ring/play group for people in this situation. How did you guys handle pulling up stakes with your kids for a season? There are some googlable good outcomes, but I'd also be interested in hearing about the challenges as well.
Depends if the self-modifying code in question is stuff like kernel drivers for popular hardware on widely used operating systems. The x86 manufacturers do bend over backwards for compatibility. You can run 16 bit code on the latest i9 processor if you like, including MSDOS if your motherboard still supports legacy boot modes. That is a remarkable level of backwards compatibility.
Maybe more of us should apply the following before speaking up:

* is it true?

* is it necessary?

* is it kind?
> I grew up in Transnistria

Can I ask, what's the main language? Russian right, not a dialect? Not Ukranian? If I spoke Moscow Russian there would I be understood?

Also is it fairly socialist or...? Just wondering from all the СССР insignia.
Revenue as true north?
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Real option analysis is also useful for these kinds of situations. In short, there's value in having the option to invest additional resources into a strategy after the passage of time and getting additional information about the value of the strategy.

Like, even if a cheap prototype is expensive to run at scale, it doesn't mean that you have to run that prototype in the same way if it happens to be important and successful. You can decide to pay the extra cost to use a cheaper infrastructure choice if and when it becomes necessary. Until then, you're getting a lot of value by throwing out more prototypes and figuring out what does and doesn't work in your business domain.
Google, data point for data point, is one of the best stewards of data potentially in history.

They have more information about you that they choose not to sell than you can even imagine. They literally set the high-bar for PII and other types of tracking data.

The only ones who know nearly as much are Telcos and they have been openly selling and sharing all of your info to governments and shady shell corporations since day 1.

Edit - Forgot that Facebook is catching up to Google on data and they have been a leaky cup since day one as well.
That's a good point. It could be that since we don't know how to scale curation (and use upvotes as a proxy), we exacerbate the problem of lurkers not having their (few) comments discovered.

As a counter-example, I find the "editor's picks" comments on some New York Times articles to be high quality and quite diverse. But that model, of course, doesn't scale.
It might be discipline, but it can't come from a feeling of depriving yourself. It has to be associated with positive feelings, or most people can't stick with it.
My first company went through a similarly deep "trough of sorrow." We launched riiiight before the first dotcom crash, limped along for a year or two (product doing well, revenue not so much) then us founders went out and got Real Jobs. But the product kept chugging along and a few years later we came back with some monetization ideas and things took off for real, leading to an acquisition almost 10 years after starting it.

I think the moral is that if you have a working product with no revenue, it may find a way if you can give it enough space and time. Some products need a lot effort/money to keep going, but if your company is built like a cockroach and you have a product that people use, don't shut it down or throw it to the wolves unless you absolutely have to. You don't hear a lot about these phoenix-like companies, but it's good to know that the end isn't always necessarily the end.
Put a CDN in front of S3 to keep your bill low (you’ll only get dinged for the first origin to edge transfer out), or store in Backblaze B2 instead and use Cloudflare (they have a storage/CDN partnership making the overall cost much lower than S3).
I don't have to I live it except I gotta help a 66 year old, retired early via disability, parent on top of it in Indy at 33k a year.
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "the only thing that's different", because there are lots of other things that make wormhole space interesting. :) I just meant it with regards to the scanning mechanics.
There is something very whimsical about a pocket-sized lisp machine.

I wonder what the experience of (junior?) high school would have been like if students were given something like this instead of a TI-84. Math and science classes could focus on constructing playable models that answered the questions posed by the instructors a la "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" [0]. Obviously there are some ergonomics issues but I'm still going to daydream about the concept.

If people are interested in these kinds of ideas I highly recommend "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert [1].

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book)
My biggest failure in life is not knowing what people really want out of the internet/web/apps. I'm constantly surprised at how things became such big successes.

Instagram? eh, that'll get used by 100 people. Snapchat? That'll be forgotten about in 2 months. Facebook, meh, seems boring. And so on...

I'm wrong so damn often because I just can't imagine wanting to do what other people get super excited about. I don't think there's anything wrong with all that they do, my brain doesn't work like that though, I really wish it did! All these successes are obvious in hindsight.
> The "median American" makes over $50,000 at age 35+

TIL I should start magically making an extra 17k a year in 14 months, yay! I guess the 100ish people in my office (and the fact that no one at my level, anywhere in the country, for my employer makes anywhere near 50k) over that age, not making that much, are anomalies.

The 'median American' doesn't make over 50k$, the median household income in my state is only 54k.
Technology and the Never-Ending Drive to “Progress”
Totally agree on Jira's speed. Watching it creep toward a fully rendered page is what got me thinking about this.

I also find customization to be way more trouble than it should be. You basically have to hack it to add a template to the description field.
Manager Mind vs. Maker Mind.  They Are Different
> So hacker news needs a filter lest you quote a sentence from some movie.

"Yipee-yi-yea...mother-fucker." !
-- Die Hard

Done :-)
A tool that all teams involved can effectively work in, or at least every stakeholder from each team can work in. Communication is incredibly vital, and if a tool gets in the way of that, or creates friction in clearly documenting what the next step is, it’s not worth the money or time.
About the time of this book I transitioned from computer engineering and assembler programming into software engineering. I was lucky to stumble upon Thinking Forth. Swallowed it. Gave me invaluable insight.
(Another important transition stepping stone was Programming Languages - Design and Implementation by Terence Pratt.)
Pure API with a trello like level of attention to the API (there API is fabulous).

Give devs the primitives to build their own without starting from scratch, my problem (me as sole programmer supporting software that 70 people use) is not the same as yours.
I did use the mobile app to watch lecture videos on the go. Would it be possible to put the videos in a course-wise playlist on Youtube for easy viewing?
Addition of offline/sync support would be great.
This is uninformed. The problem is plain binary search over ordered array.

Binary search with heap order is cache friendly and much faster. And can speed up with SIMD. Like Intel’s FAST algorithm.
They found a reproductive strategy that works for them so good for them, but yeah sounds pretty damn depressing to me.
some hacks I think could increase quality:

- mandatory 60 second re-click to submit a comment, without edits
- mandatory 60 second re-click on votes after a rate threshold is exceeded
- multiple choice votes to express motivation, intention, feedback
- do not publish karma numbers
- publish "example threads" that show values being practiced, including dead links/comments examples
- randomly assign usernames every 12 months
- tags and tag feeds
Suggested reading? I'm not planning to switch careers but am intrigued.
I'd like to have cli be a first class experience.
Work offline.
GUI for the pointy hairs.
> We need to teach our children to observe the world accurately and debunk pseudo-science.

I'm not a scientist and don't have the depth of insight in many fields that I feel I could always accurately debunk pseudo-science. Most people aren't experts, and most kids certainly aren't. I've spent my career getting the measly amount of domain expertise I do have, and that's only in a very narrow IT field.

Rather, we need to focus on learning to better evaluate authorities. Who's the most qualified source of information? Which of several competing theories have the most qualified proponents? What incentives might they have to color what they believe?

On the web its really hard to know who's who. Mostly we have nothing better than the tone and look of the site and domain name. That's really pretty weak if you think about it! I'd definitely be interested in a system of some kind (browser extension?) that added a little more information.
That makes a lot of sense. I've noticed that as somebody who comes from more of a technical support / operations background professionally (but from a standard dev-oriented CS education educationally), that many of my favorite work peers are folks with a military background - and they have that attitude you described. For whatever reason, I've found far more of those people among the support and operations crowd than the dev crowd, and it's really made me frustrated with developers who have that fragile ego you described.
Can we get sources on that figure of 20-30k killed please?
"This case looks like it involves master-slave/sub-dom sexual deviancy, which seems aesthetically opposed to prevailing social mores at Google, which place a high moral value on consensuality."

Nominally, there is not necessarily a contradiction. One can consent to being a "sub", hence "safe words" and such.

One is free to believe that there are still potentially issues involved, or that it may still be a dangerous relationship, or whathaveyou. But I do think that it would be something that puts the question beyond the modern spin on consensuality; that set of ethics stops making sense if you start letting people mutilate the definition of "consent" any which way they please.

(Note I am speaking independent of the question of whether there was consent; as I say in another post, I don't think that question is answerable in this forum by any information we can get, other than an investigative report.)
There's very good reason for that : this law is yet another example of the EU's new favorite tactic: laws without the justice system.

The ONLY person that can use this law is the EU executive (commission). They get to sue, essentially any site they want on the internet. You, EU citizen or not, do not get to sue anyone else, no matter how much copyright infringement, how much damage. You can politely ask the (no doubt up to 10 person) EU agency that the commission puts in charge of this law, but that's it.

The EU commission is not just the only party that can use the law, they are also arbiter of this law. They never have to build a case before court, and of course in practice this means you're declared guilty and punished before your first chance to see a court.

In other words: they can prevent any site they like from getting sued at all and they can sue any site and convict. Then you can fight that decision in court (after, of course, penalties are extracted). In court, you start from an extremely disadvantaged position: you have been tried and found guilty. Effectively, in court you only get an appeal option.

I mean I know the EU is a dictatorship (because the both the positive and negative legislative power is in exclusive hands of the executive alone, the EU commission and council: they can enact any law they like with or without parliament approval and they can prevent any law from becoming law, no matter how much parliament wants it. Or they can change it at will, or ...

But this is even worse than that. This law does not just give them dictatorial power, but essentially makes them an international public prosecutor for internet sites, who does NOT report to any elected government (only reports to the commission which is not elected).
Do what USA says :). They can't change geography.
I think it's Trello with an automation and management layer on top. Templates for preconfigured boards, workflows to add custom actions to a list or card, such as 'archive list to xyz board and rename to foo'.

Then combine that with some kind of inception where a card itself can be a board that you can "enter". This way when a single card gets too heavy, it becomes a board without all of the ceremony around that.
As someone who helped design than a 100 startups in various capacities and has been heavily involved with the whole VC scene one of the things that I kept seeing was the misalignment between the founders and the VC's type of skin in the game.

A founder for most startups is either trying to find product/market fit or raising money. Many VC/Angels are great for the operational/financial side of the advice but at least in my experience when it came to finding a proper market for your company their advice often sounded right but wasn't possible to implement for various reasons as it was very generalized.

One of the primary and perfectly reasonable reasons is that VC's are thinking about an entire portfolio of companies and doesn't have the same kind of skin in the game as the founder which mean they will think differently and less contextual about the companies.

There is definitely an argument to be made for the fact that it's not the VC's job to care about the specific company more than they need to and there are plenty of VC's out there who are perfectly able to care properly but it's also a very exaggerated market and let's be frank not everyone who has money to invest have a lot of experience in "the work".

After I left Square in 2017, I wanted to find a way to help both with getting much faster to product market fit but at the same time also having the opportunity to provide capital alongside which I believe will align my interest with the founders much more.

So I ended up deciding to set up a creative venture studio which so far has been a great decision as it allows me both do my own and invest either capital or sweat equity in other companies AND I get to meet some really amazing people from around the world.
Just a few days ago I was searching on how to implement a software renderer.
I remember enjoying the software rendered of quake much more than the opengl version.

Great project!
Our team has been pondering a move from Github’s issue tracking and projects to JIRA, and taking a peak at it has given me similar impressions; incredibly powerful but ultimately too large of an app for its own good. The paid integrations are also a frustrating reality to live with.
It definitely did not worked for me that way. I was never obese, but exercise like lifting weight made me more hungry and that was pretty much impact of it on food. The diet did not became healthier at all - just bigger.
I tried reading Pearl once. I couldn't get over his tone.

Andrew Gelman summarize it pretty nicely his take on it.

Coming from a statistic background, casual inference is a growing thing now and several government sponsor research have been pushing for it.

Casual inference from statistic point of view is base on missing data, basically Rudin stuff. It's pretty dang interesting to me. I'm sure there are many ways of looking at the same thing. Linear regression you can look at it in more of a optimal math problem with cost function or you can look at it in statitic using maximum likelihood estimation. Both have it's pro and con, with MLE you get a confidence interval. In my bias opinion I feel that statistic is only about data and it's a great domain for casual inference.

There's no need to put a field down to make yours better. But if it's constructive criticism (pro/con, contrast) I think it make both fields better. Pearl attitude is off putting when you try to read his stuff. We're all human and have vary degree of ego, if you're going to try to convince us that do calculus and your ways is better be objective about it or word things better. If you don't want to convince people then just be blunt as hell.
Shouldn't we thank these people for creating the content for in most cases is free? It makes the interest way more interesting. Like the OP is saying it is something we should keep in mind. However, the word insane has a negative connotation even though its usage in the OP's title might intend it.

We should also note that the 1% rule also applies to traditional media be it news programs, tv shows, documentaries, or movies. They are many barriers entry and gate keepers to filter out content that may not have mass appeal.

Mainstream media's filtering enables them to be profitable and compensate the content creators unlike most of the people on the internet. People are spending their time creating stuff so the someone else can make money? Maybe that's the insane apart?
I thought about your comment some more.

Expectations: I agree with you here. I'm stubborn and want to surround myself with people who do meet these expectations. I'm ok with interacting with people who don't meet these expectations but I want limited interaction as it will inevitably lead a disconnect in the relationship. Previous experiences where I surrounded myself with people who didn't care proved stressful and impacted my health (this was prior to treatment which has helped substantially with patience).

Disability: From what I've researched, It's a long process. I keep hoping I'll figure out a solution before then as I rather earn my living through my work.

Workplace toxicity: 100% agree. I use to go along with BS in the hiring process but have learned to trust my gut during the first few conversations. I feel intense anxiety at the thought of entering into another toxic workplace.

"Remember this always: this world isn't meant for us." - My favorite line of your comment. I've experienced BP since early teenage years (didn't know it at the time). I isolated myself for a long time only venturing out when things were manageable to keep a perceived peace in social relationships.
I like the idea of letting people roll their own with a set of primitives, but I'm not convinced that people really want that when it gets down to it. Devs like the freedom to change their tools, but wouldn't most rather be getting real work done than iterating on their issue tracker?
Zenefits was a highly touted workplace benefits startup that got into huge trouble when a Buzzfeed investigation (of all things), found that one of its execs had gamed a state insurance agent exam (I think that's what it was), so their staff could essentially cheat and obtain certifications faster.

The exec in charge was fired, and a lot of their key staff had already jumped ship by then.
Yeah the customization options on JIRA kill me. I have an old joke I always reference when I join a new team

> When your team grows to 25 devs, its an almost certainty that at any point of the day, one of them is adjusting a JIRA workflow

- https://twitter.com/deedubs/status/880819973488340992
I'm not a proponent of earth based nuclear because of the storage issue, however if we're going to force the issue we at least need something better than LWR which was effectively chosen because it was the right choice for submarines. Sodium reactors at least avoid the Chernobyl meltdown situation. I'd never heard of the making new fuel with nitric acid, that's at least an interesting, if probably not commercially viable solution.
Thanks for sharing this. It's an interesting trend that I was not aware of (but maybe intuited?). It does seem that, while on the one hand, upvotes are necessary for ranking crowdsourced content on HN and reddit, on the other hand, the voting on comments is responsible for the groupthink/hivemind/echo chamber that develops.

In terms of fostering discussion, the comment voting is a silent killer.
> I think there is such a misalignment with how human civilizations in general produce culture.

Perhaps this is why poets are to be banished in The Republic.
Yes. In the UK the prime minister lives at #10 downing street. The same is true for many other countries.
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I felt like this for a long time, until the financial crisis in 2008.

My sister and her family were struggling so badly. Underwater mortgage, lost the house to foreclosure, could barely afford to rent a place. They were discussing having to leave the area (Southern California) moving hours away from grandparents, uncles, aunts and friends, and of course me and my family.

In the end, I bought a house in 2010 specifically for her and her family. I continue to rent it to them at below market rate (They don't cover the morgage payment, but come close), and although we've had a few close calls, they have yet to miss a rent check, and have recovered significantly on their own without further help from me or other family.

There has been zero co-dependence.

Since they pay rent, and take good care of the house, it really has helped them maintain a sense of dignity. I let them treat the house as if it was their own, and they take excellent care of it.

I think this was a better option than just bailing the out. All parties really get something out of it, not to mention the emotional aspect of having close family continue to live close by.
If you find these critiques of VC are resonating but also feel like a bit of capital, a mentorship group, and shared resources would help you build a sustainable profitable business, then I'd love any questions or comments on our Shared Earnings Agreement structure: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement/
Actually, I don't have a large problem with them showing ads and trying to know enough about me to do so properly. I'd appreciate it if you didn't attack me over your mistaken ideas regarding my thoughts.

- They release good versions of existing products, let people use it for free or cheap, and then (when all the other companies making said product type give up because they can't compete), they discard the product and leave people without any version of it.

- They forced a horrible social platform on everyone. I don't have a problem with them creating the platform; experimentation and variety are good. I do, however, have a problem with them forcing people to use it in order to use other products they own.

- There's other items in my list of reasons to think Google is out for it's own benefit, and the rest of us can slowly die as long as they make money.