skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Jared,

Thank you for taking the time to write this. I appreciate the info, and while this is not meant as a criticism I am curious how you measure for success.

> 4) I think the ultimate measure founders should care about - and certainly the one we do - is the success rate of YC companies on average. If we grew the YC batch and the success rate went down, that would be bad. So this is something we track extremely carefully to make sure that does not happen. And so far, it hasn't. Based on the last 1-2 years of companies, the success rate of YC companies is the highest it's ever been.

If fundraising at a higher valuation is one of the components used to determine success, I wonder how much the frothier market could contribute to being misleading here? Obviously a smaller cohort wouldn't necessarily solve this and I realize we can't really control for macroeconomic factors, but I could see it skewing the data (depending on how you measure it). Of course, if success is measured simply by liquid ROI my point is moot.

You guys have all the data and know way more than I do, but it seems YC has moved away from funding scrappier startups that might survive an economic setback whereas the much more growth-at-any-cost companies may not survive a hiccup in funding quite so easily.

Again, this is just a thought and you have all the data, so I don't pretend to be as informed as you.
The Robots (2018)
> I've been typing dvorak primarily for about 20 years, also since I was in high school

Same. I type on my laptop pretty much all day, and am not even close to having an RSI. To me using QWERTY just seems irresponsible, like driving without a seatbelt or something. If you don't use a computer that much then I guess that's one thing, but if you actually use one on a daily basis for your job and are using QWERTY then that just seems like a huge and unnecessary risk for both yourself and your employer/startup.
You probably dont need a 40mb app either...
It depends on how formulaic the recruiter inquiry was. Like the article I have a few things indicated on my profile and writings of things that I do and do not want to do. If it's clear they've done little work I will in turn do very little work. If they seem like they've taken a bit of an interest in me and are seemingly pleasant I'll be a bit more personalized and maybe not break out the salary requirements until the second email.
I don't mean to insult you, so let me apologize if this sounds mean, but I can tell you're completely unfamiliar with basic human physiology. What you're saying makes no sense.

Ammonia is your body's way of getting rid of nitrogen, which comes from dietary protein. In general, an adult's body must dispose of as much nitrogen as they consume. This makes sense if you think about it, because humans don't grow forever. You may gain or lose lean mass for periods of time, but in general, nitrogen excretion equals nitrogen intake. The more protein you eat, the more ammonia your body makes, and your body is designed to efficiently process and eliminate large amounts of ammonia, mostly via conversion to urea and renal filtering.

So think about this logically for a moment. Think about how much protein you eat every day. In effect, all of the nitrogen in that protein (an equal amount of nitrogen, rather) is converted to ammonia inside your body. You'll see exactly how much whenever you have your blood tested, in your UUN (Urine Urea Nitrogen) number. My last UUN was about 20 g/day. Healthy athletes commonly excrete up to 40 or 50 grams of nitrogen per day, which means their bodies can safely produce upward of 50 grams of ammonia every day (molar mass ratio of nitrogen to ammonia is about 0.82).

This is perfectly normal and sustainable for your entire life. Renal efficiency declines slowly after middle age, but reasonably high-protein diets are harmless and in many ways beneficial even for elderly people.

Does this make sense? You're worried about eating, say, a hundred milligrams of extra ammonia in your food, while your body is naturally and safely producing hundreds of times more than that every day. Do you see how silly that sounds?

EDIT:

As I pointed out in another comment, I'm a vegetarian, and I reflexively consider LFTB to be approximately equivalent to roadkill. I think there are legitimate risks in mislabeling LFTB, but the trace ammonia content is not one of them.
My experience isn't much, but as a Dvorak user I can say that I haven't had any issues with Icelandic. I'm on linux which has great compose-key combinations. I haven't used anything but default Dvorak on an American layout or ortholinear keyboard. Hope that helps a bit.
Yeah, this does that last millimeter in Z. It can do pressure, at least by virtue of knowing the force needed to move the keycaps and how far they've been pressed.

An SDK has to be part of this. I agree that Linux support will be good to have, especially if there are people like you to play with it. We should talk.
10x the cost!? Well, I have a quote from your competitor that's a fraction of that amount. If you keep quoting unreasonable prices, perhaps I should rethink our business relationship and move elsewhere.
> If your life is crap, why would people be friends with you?

Are you saying you can only be friends with successful people (or at least people with non-crap life)? For me, I'm friends with people who are
inteligent, open-minded, funny and care about the friendship (so that they prioritize allocating time for it). I don't particularly care if their life is in order; in a way, if it's not and I can help them sort it out, it makes the friendship more meaningful.
Why? It is pretty much a well juxtaposed mix of random internet comments. And it's the best of 25, which means the other 24 is even more regular internet banter noisy.

(This of course doesn't make it an amazing feat of computer engineering.)

The overarching narrative is great, but that's probably driven by the great antithesis supplied by the experimenter.

It'd be interesting to know how this works, what happens if less or more is given as thesis/antithesis/assignment, and after how much output it turns into gibberish (or repeats).
Germany sees big rise in security problems affecting infrastructure
You're dramatically overexaggerating the complications of global state handling in Redux. For a simple app, you could just use the useState hook, and pass the state-setting callback down into children components:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

export const SetterButton = ({ children, ...rest }) => (
<button type="button" {...rest}>{children}</button>
)

export const BoxComponent = ({ label }) => {
const [value, setValue] = useState(0);

return (
<div style={border: '1px solid black'}>
{label}: {value}
<SetterButton onClick={() => setValue(value + 1)}>+1</SetterButton>
</div>
);
};

Or for a bigger app with many nested components, you can use context:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

export const ValueContext = React.createContext();

export const SubComponent = () => (
<div>
<p>
Here's a value:
<ValueContext.Consumer>
{({ value }) => value}
</ValueContext.Consumer>
</p>
<p>
Here's a button:
<ValueContext.Consumer>
{({ setValue, value }) => <button type="button" onClick={() => setValue(value + 1)}>+1</button>}
</ValueContext.Consumer>
</p>
</div>
)

export const App = () => {
const [value, setValue] = useState();

return (
<ValueContext.Provider value={{ value, setValue }}>
Some other stuff goes here.
<SubComponent></SubComponent>
</ValueContext.Provider>
);
}

None of this takes a ton of thought. Just make a file for contexts exports and a root level component with any Providers.
This isn't some trivial difficulty with choosing a narrative. It's the implied cultural supremacy in arrogantly believing that YOUR perception of what is moral is so correct that it should be taught in university.

The same reason that government shouldn't be legislating religion. I went to college to learn science, mathematics, liberal arts, so that I could learn to make decisions for myself-not to be indoctrinated with someone else's idea of what is right and wrong.

Edit: imagine a Saudi funded institution in the U.S. offering courses on ethics. Would you be ok with that? Why are you even sure that the particular ethics courses in Harvard agree with your own cultural norms? When you mix subjectivity with education, you get propaganda. Sure, some of it is unnavoiable because ultimately there are only so many topics one has time to learn and all educators/authors are biased humans, but the topic of ethics does not even allow for the possibility of objective treatment. It does not belong in school.
Adblockers have been around for a long time, and few websites use the workarounds you suggest.
Hey dwd, your link suggests that fertility rate is indeed on the decline to around 2 children per woman, whereas it's higher that currently, especially in less developed parts of the world. That doesn't contradict the video by Hans Roslin, does it? The video doesn't mention birth rate as such, but he does mention that the number of children is not expected to change. I know from his other presentations that he does (did) indeed expect the fertility rate to fall to a little more than 2, as it does in every developed country.
I was in the same situation and just made sure to always pay an amount in euro that would definitely be too much in Swedish Crowns once converted. Better to pay 1% extra than to lose much more paying ridiculous conversion costs to my bank.
On a sidenote: we worry about "singularity AI" and expect "SAE level 5 driving cars"...

How about we solve the much easier problem of "typing much fewer words"?

We don't even have a good auto-complete story yet in most IDEs, even less so a general purpose predictor that puts whole worlds at our disposal as we type.
From the other side of the fence, another thing to look at would be the decidability of presburger, and skolem arithmetic, the following paper then goes over the extensions of these, which render the result undecidable.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.2.21...
"I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources." - hmm... PR welcome :) Prove yourself man.
>You are fooling yourself if you think your stance makes a single mote of difference in this arms race...

In fairness, if that's true, then no one has any need of her model.

More seriously speaking, why does anyone need, say, "training set x", or "model y", to make their implementation work? You don't. So I don't really understand why everyone is so worked up about not releasing this stuff? If you want to do it, do it. If not, don't. But there's no need to say, "I demand everyone do it, and I'll have a meltdown if they don't."
I've not encountered any recruiters responding aggressively. My standard email does have a couple additional sentences in it explaining what I like about where I am and what I would stand to walk away from (RSU/equity wise), so perhaps that gives enough context about why I want what I want.

> I have never seen a recruiter add value for any party at any time

I don't agree with that at all. I've worked with a handful of really great recruiters over the years who have really treated me like a human being with a career path. One placed me at my last gig by asking the company to create a special role for me. I recognize that's a bit rare but I don't see recruiters as being a waste of time. It's fair to treat them the way they treat you but I don't put them all in the same bucket.
Keysnail did all of this, and the author has now been working on something called xKeysnail you should check it out!

- https://github.com/mooz/keysnail

- https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
Limiting in progress is similar to thread pooling, which gives u graceful degradation.
Warning: Debian stable kernel upgrade breaks most ARM SBC
It's actually isn't that bad. Tensorflow and pytorch has support for it, but the penalty will be quite large.
One thing is that companies don't help at all at this -- and they wont unless they are forced to (the same way companies were forced to add calorie and nutrition breakdowns).

I'd like to see a "CO2/water/etc cost" sticker
The situation is worse for non-latin-alphabet based languages, especially if the alphabet is not ~20-30 letters.

Some selected examples:

https://www.branah.com/korean
https://www.branah.com/japanese
https://www.branah.com/greek
https://www.branah.com/hindi
https://www.branah.com/tagalog
https://www.branah.com/tamazight
https://www.branah.com/sundanese
https://www.branah.com/tibetan

I am not a speaker of many of the languages above. Thus, I think it would be great if native speakers share their input on the issues and what the optimal keyboard would look like in their mind.

In general, we are trying to shoehorn a language to an existing keyboard design and layout, that was designed for a totally different purpose and times. Perhaps, it is time we redesign the whole concept.
I've not really got time for videos, does anyone have a summary of his conclusions?

Since I learned to ride I became skeptical of the importance of the stirrup for combat. It's a balance aid, but it doesn't actually stop you going backwards. It's even possible to jump without stirrups although it requires more training. Possibly the main benefit is in balancing sideways and standing upwards, for archery.
There's also https://opensky-network.org/

Their API is actually a bit more open than adsbexchange's
I don't know if you're looking for advice, but:

It seems like you aren't a manager, but rather a junior director who doesn't know it yet.

13 people across 4 initiatives is too much to directly manage effectively. Find someone to lead each one, and make them team leads.

Meet twice weekly with your leads, once to plan, once to problem-solve.

Move your HR/career-oriented 1:1s to every-other-week. If any of your team leads are good with people, delegate your 1:1s.

You only need a half hour for recurring meetings.

Delegate more.
Yep. Maybe I misunderstood the subtler points of OpenAI’s “democratize AI” strategy, and this has been the plan all along. But AFAIK they haven’t put an “among a few rational state actors” asterisk on anything up until now.

Regardless, I agree with TFA that this is a silly and arbitrary time to yell “fire.” It’s PR.
I'm in Canada and I've had to confirm details on my card. I guess outside US thing.
Would be interesting to see the results of that.
Here's someone spoofing a fake aircraft this way: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2012-0...
I don't doubt your experience, but when people say "toolchain" in the context of front end development, it's usually a reference to the dev environment and build toolchain, not the HTML/CSS/JS technologies themselves. I've been focusing primarily on front end development since 1999, and while I also hate the current complexity in setting up a complex JS client, it allows us to scale far beyond what was possible back in the jQuery days, and it has made my life much easier. It becomes a problem when people suggest that you set up babel, webpack and hot module reloading for a site with a couple of forms.
Recently, on the nature strip outside my place, someone dumped what was essentially a brand new brushed stainless fridge. Why I new it was almost new was that it was lying on its back and I could look into the compressor compartment at the bottom and it was clean—totally pristine! (Just about everyone knows that refrigerators get filthy down there real quick).

Seems people were moving out and it was too much trouble to take it with them. Nevertheless, it was there for some weeks before someone collected it (I don't have room or I would have taken it pronto).

Seems many have too much money these days.
Not sure if you mean easy to use interface for contributors or for users. I can only judge the second, and the website is "meh"... it's kind of slow and the UI and design is underwhelming.

In any case, being good at what they do definitely helps, but network effects is also a factor. They have the best data coverage, therefore new contributors will mainly chose them over a hypothetical competitor with a slightly better support and user interface.

This discourages new competitors to even try entering the market, which has the usual downsides of a monopoly market such as less innovation.
Wealthy is not how I'd describe my parents; a construction worker with a stay at home housewife and three kids.

There are often steaks for sale on the refrigerated shelves adjacent to the butcher counter/case. Maybe that's not so common in the UK? The supermarkets here regularly have meat wrapped in clear plastic and carrying bright orange stickers on clearance, it's what happens to the case-resident stuff when new stock arrives.

My mother would familiarize herself with the schedule of deliveries at the stores she frequented. She knew when and where she could get the freshest stuff for special occasions, as well as when things went on sale to make room for the new meat, keeping our freeezer full of staples.

I don't think it requires wealth so much as it requires some care and effort. These are the kinds of duties a traditional housewife would take on, but I don't personally find it particularly difficult to chat up the butcher and do more or less the same thing as a bachelor.
I can't see why the Show More content couldn't be rendered server-side, fetched with AJAX and plugged into the DOM with two lines of JS. SSR, no redirect nor refresh, progressive reveal af.
No. I called mine Goliath (because it uses features of the go runtime, and is written in go)
Pre-registration is great, and I think it even helps researchers/scientists/post-docs to submit something (it doesn't have to be perfect, after all, it's just an experiment design, and they don't have to worry about massaging the data to have promising results to report) and then stick to the topic, and then carry out the experiment as well as they can, and gather as much high quality & fidelity data as they can, and do the analysis according to the plan, and then report it. No extra pressure to think about how to frame what you "found".

Though this will inevitably lead to the problem that grant boards face, that it'll be a lot harder to differentiate between proposed experiments. And it'll be even harder to do boring stuff. (So if we assume all submitted plans are sound, they have to publish them all. Though then we'll have journals based on how strict they are with experiment design requirements, 1 sigma, 2 sigma, 5 sigma, etc.)
On a similar note, let me say something which is sure to be controversial/unpopular on HN. I type with 2-3 fingers, and I can tell you that the "peckers" like me aren't missing out on much either. I can consistently type at 60-70 wpm, and that's after adjusting for typos. A big part of that comes down to me having memorized the keyboard layout, and not having to look at the keyboard at all while typing. I've also never suffered from RSI, and that might be a positive side effect of my hands being more mobile.

And I'm not an exception either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing#Hybrid

"The number of fingers does not determine typing speed... People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists... instead of the number of fingers, there are other factors that predict typing speed... fast typists... keep their hands fixed on one position, instead of moving them over the keyboard, and more consistently use the same finger to type a certain letter."

Would it be great to be able to type 100+ wpm? Sure. But if I have to dedicate all that time and effort, I'd much rather spend it on something else. Like learning a new technology or taking time off to pursue other interests. Besides, the amount of time I spend typing is a fraction of the amount of time I spend thinking. I honestly doubt that my 60+ wpm has held me back in any significant way.
Exactly why I never connect real bank accounts to Venmo or even paypal. I only trust credit card companies lol. My Venmo is built up from friends sending me when I paid for them in cash.

Also if I were to connect bank accounts, I have several buffer accounts which are low on purpose
> Women used to know cook and mend clothes while men knew how to fix cars and furniture. It meant that households could do all that.

No, it didn't.

One, because while it may have been required for graduation from high school (most of the described material was not, in most places, anyway, though it was traditional and common, and, even where it was required at one point, it remained traditional and common decades beyond the 1960s), graduation rates have always been substantially below 100% (especially before the change in the 1960s), and second because not all households, even in and before the 1960s, consisted of at least one adult of each gender.

The only way to assure that households have a particular combination of skills is to assure that individuals, regardless of gender, have that combination of skills.

> Gender roles are officially a thing of the past now, but the way we did it is by reducing to the least common denominator.

No, we didn't; there is a lot more required in high school today than there was in the 1960s; shop and home ec became less common not because gender roles weakened (that just made both more gender mixed, especially the traditionally male classes), but because they were displaced as academic core requirements got more involved.

> Instead of removing these classes, why provide them to both boys and girls instead, maybe in a modernized form?

The reason is because they are capital intensive, liability intensive, there's less interest in them if offered as electives because the relative economic value of the skills and the relative social status of practitioners of them has declined, and there's no room without displacing something seen as more valuable to fit them in as universal requirements.
A Multi-Faceted Toolkit for Quantum Computing
You may want to look at Next.js, which is an SSR/SPA framework using React components that also has a "render entirely to static files" build mode option.
Great read. More people need to realize that moving into a people manager role is NOT a requirement for career advancement. If you feel that is the case at your company, and you are more passionate about coding or architecture, you should really consider switching jobs. There are a ton of companies out there that will value a great IC over an average manager.

If you are at a smaller company, push for them to formalize a career ladder which has parallel tracks for manager and IC roles going all the way up till C-level execs.
Yah I think it's a good thing. I have a password manager so it's only a few clicks to paste the card number in. I'm guessing the majority of consumers are annoyed by it.
Based on the number of Windows 10 users, that's a very small percentage of users indeed.
when processes and requirements change over time, sometimes these solutions are remembered again and can be a starting point for own ideas.

You have a good point, here. Thanks for the responses and helping me understand your work a bit better!