skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You get less and less been benefit for each additional CPU you add to the problem, unless the CPU is the main bottleneck.

I disagree. Each CPU you add to a problem comes with 4x to 8x memory channels of DDR4 (2x on consumer systems, 4x on Threadripper, 6x on Skylake-X). So each CPU increases your memory bandwidth in a very predictable manner.

> Also if something requires 4000 CPUs, it is going to start getting expensive if you need to double the output. These types of problems don't scale well.

Finishing the problem in 1/4000th of the time is often good enough reason. That turns a problem that takes 10-years to finish into a problem that takes 1-day to finish.

You only get good scaling when all the data fits in memory and the problem scales well, but that happens often enough that its worth studying these cases.
If only there were some kind of oversight by a government agency made to protect consumers from these types of things when the market based approach fails. This type of agency or bureau would be there to protect people when there was no legal recourse otherwise and establish rules so that corporate entities and businesses were beholden to someone. Meh, I'm sure the market will sort it out since you can just take your credit to another provider right?
I'm curious why more bay area startups haven't come to Oakland. (maybe it's happening and it's just not obvious?)

Always felt like there was plenty of potential office space relatively close to BART but maybe that's wrong.
Huh, interesting... I always thought this kind of propulsion would be an almost instantaneous transmission of energy, thus enormous acceleration in a small timeframe. Thanks for the link...
And in many decades it has snowed only a literal handful of times. Lots of northerners prefer living in Texas simply because the number of days each year that we see freezing temperatures can usually be counted on one or two hands.
Let me propose another analysis which shows this is perfectly fair.

The founders created a company which delivers value by connecting over 1 million rides a day. Those riders benefit from Lyft. Additionally, riders on Uber benefit from lower prices due to competition. The IPO profits to the founders and investors are their reward for delivering this value.

If you assume each ride has $1 of consumer surplus, then they are delivering over $350M a year of consumer surplus a year.

As for the employees, first of all they all received base salary and benefits. They may not receive millions in the IPO, depending on when they joined, but that is the risk of working at a pre-IPO company. They all had the option to work at Google for a more predictable income.
From personal experience the head fogginess is a pretty strong indicator of vitamin D deficiency. I didn't even realize I was deficient until I took 5k IU one night and the next morning felt amazing. The Vitamin D deficiency brain fog is almost worse than a hangover or being high IMO.
Sam who?
I'm going to guess you are an outlier in the demographic of consumers getting 6+ year car loans.
Why use seq rather than Math.random()?
I've lived here for about 5 years. I live downtown and routinely walk (or Bird) to work (I started a startup here and the job market is great). I run on a 10-mile loop that's completely isolated from traffic around the (beautiful) lake that runs downtown between my apartment and my office. I watch the sun set from my balcony over hill country (Google "violet crown sunset") and I frequently hike the Greenbelt trails that are walking distance from my apartment. I can easily walk or bike to over 100 bars where I routinely see jazz, rock, and blues shows in this so-called "Music capital of the world." And the food scene here is incredible. Lots of young, fit people live here and downtown is always safe and abuzz with buskers, tourists, and locals alike all intermingling and having a great time. Yeah, it's pretty lame – don't move here.
One of my favorite meals is a plain hotdog bun with yellow mustard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
Please see my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19341434

How are you paying for giving out half a billion SecurID-like tokens?

I'm talking about a code that can be printed on your driver's license, you're talking about a piece of electronics that has to be shipped to every person in the US, the logical differences are stark.
From the author's second sentence:

> The organizers know how male and white the tech industry is, so they make a special effort to recruit a diverse speaker lineup.

Yes, the author was using social awareness to segue into ageism, but it is still factually incorrect (or at least highly misleading) to state that the industry is predominantly "white".
Houston. We already have a large international tech base, built-out infrastructure, and a (slowly) developing mass-transit plan. Added benefit is that we're just 163 miles away - short move for folks that burn out on the Austin eXperience.
Employers don't want to hire jr engineers because they're too inexperienced, and are too liable to make mistakes. And employers also don't want to hire older engineers who are too expensive, and are less willing to work nonstop. Those are strong signals about what employers in general think of employees.
I think its slowly happening.

Square just took the building Uber was building out, all 356,000 sqft. This is going to make them the largest tech company in Oakland.

And some company named Marqeta just put their name on a building...no idea how long they have been here but they now have enough money to have their name on both sides.

Its slow but its definitely changing.
Good to know. Next time I am in the deep waters and great white attacks me, I'll just flip him over.
Snow in Central Texas is rare and it's astounding when it sticks for a whole 24 hours. Compared to nearly everywhere else in the US, it's a warm climate. I can't even believe I'm debating whether or not Texas is "too cold"...
When I opened my mortgage they required us to share via email everything in plain text. We did not have a choice of lender. I told my wife that these people were going to be hacked. Within 3 months we got a letter saying all of our information had been exposed. Oh whale, nothing that wasn't already out there from the numerous other breaches that I had zero control over.
You're absolutely right that this is the way the article presents it, but I'm not so sure that it's a useful definition of luck. It really just seems to extend the definition of luck to include everything and makes the argument a tautology. Everything is luck-based because everything is luck. I don't think anyone who values people's aptitude diminishes their opinion of that aptitude because it requires a certain genetic profile. In things like athletics, it's even emphasized.

This argument seems to create a strawman version of merit which means some kind of inner quality gained through pure willpower with no external influences from the world whatsoever. This might have some meaning in a certain kind of religious thinking which interprets the world as a reflection of a higher spiritual reality, but if we're confining our definitions to tangible things, it's an incomprehensible idea.
I'd like to see a source on that.

With most electronics, CPUs and GPUs included, the killer is heat. As long as you have the heat under control you're fine. Some applications such as laptops can't keep the thermals undercontrol at sustained 100% CPU usage, so those are obviously at risk.

The only other form of "wear" is electron migration and I HIGHLY doubt you'll kill a modern processor "in a week", even if you left it running at 95C .
This is what Jared Fogle did at Subway to lose weight: 6-inch turkey sub and potato chips for lunch and a foot-long veggie sub for dinner.

Now he's eating prison food.
CircleCI to introduce usage-based pricing
the worst part of my experience in costa rica was eating the same meal of rice, beans, plantains, salad, and a mild and sometimes dry protein, none of which i dislike on occasion.

eating the same meal twice in a row makes me not want it again for weeks. there are also very few foods that i won't eat, so maybe that's correlated with the love of variety.

(variety in) food is such a simple pleasure for me that i guess i will never understand this behavior.
any and all stories are welcome. google for me was horrific in terms of the time (calendar and amount), and the constant bait and switch.

I just got contacted by an AWS hiring manager. I had to fight to get a face to face with my proposed hiring manager at Google, and he was frankly quite offended I thought it necessary. So I thought that was at least mildly positive, any other anecdotes for someone considering entering the pipeline would be really helpful.
Nevertheless, Ali Coded
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_music

But...it was popular in the late 90s, which corresponds to us mid-40 age people anyways.
> The Fermi Paradox requires you to assume a lot of things that we just don't know.

Dont agree on* There is an averge number of planets. The problem some people have is in regard to sample size.
Humans are big, bullets are small.
Suggest what Narendra Modi will say using Markov chains
Microsoft's behavior changed and they stopped trying to own every single niche market within the software field by any means necessary. I think that allowed for an opening by other players in addition to the tech trends you mentioned.
> Speaking of San Francisco, we are considering moving YC to the city and are currently looking for space.

I thought YC had an office in the city?
Really? It looks terrible to me: https://i.imgur.com/ibWjKG0.png
orcas definitely have culture, but these type d really look quite different from other orcas. in an article i read about these type d orcas, it mentioned that scientists have considered before whether the other types should be separate species or not. to my knowledge, they do not interbreed between types, and if they do or can, it is rare. there are other orca types that are still poorly understood, including the offshore orcas in the pacific northwest.
You're building a narrative that doesn't exist in the article - there was no mention of a previous violent incident leading to this.

This was just them pulling a stupid, and the hospital apologizing for it.

Not only is email not able to be kept private, you also can't guarantee the patient is going to get it in any sort of timely manner, or in fact, at all. It's also ensuring that no follow up questions can be asked in a timely manner.
How did the seasonal McRib fare?
Nature is frightening. There was once a creature swimming in the ocean that even Megalodon feared.
Altman (YC) leans into SF

Thiel leans away

Will be interesting to see the winning move
If you load a page with your SSN, the full page will probably be parsed by the extension in search of a "GoLink". Honestly, that's pretty unavoidable. The parser most likely needs to read every byte on the page to see if its part of a GoLink, and that includes the segment of bytes that includes your SSN.

Any ad-blocker or otherwise page-modifying Chrome Extension requires the same permissions and likely does the same thing.

Provided the GoLinks extension isn't phoning home with the full contents of the pages its parsing, and immediately discards non-GoLink related data, this shouldn't be a problem.

It would be nice if the GoLinks team could clarify exactly what data is sent back to their servers by the Chrome Extension.

Chrome Extensions can also be inspected and their network traffic can be sniffed quite easily, so independent auditing is possible as well.
I'm all kinds of mixed up.
FWIW humans need more than potato & soy sauce in their diet to be healthy long term, so at least for that part wanting more doesn't seem like snobbery.

(You can subsist on potatoes, and you can even do it for a while- but for example young children develop deformities if they lack certain vitamins, which potatoes do not have)
I wonder when YC is forking to other cities.

Staying in the Bay Area longer than other acceleration programs which decentralized (& often diluted their network and quality) earlier was wise. That said, from the outside it seems like sticking to the Bay Area is no longer optimal.

Startup School and YC China are mentioned but I think by now there must be enough YC alumni all over the world to facilitate local communities/office hours and investment activity (while keeping the quality).

For example I like how Lambda School is expanding globally much faster. I know the two are difficult to compare and it is not a straight forward decision to make.

Would love to learn if you have some thoughts on this.
There's no guarantee housing will appreciate, in fact it's a pretty good bet that it won't. Housing is already unaffordable in many places relative to local wages, so it looks like another bubble that may burst.

Also, Austin, while not as bad as other parts of Texas, is still in Texas.
Startups with office space have VC money, and can afford SF (in theory).

Tons of small shops, including consulting, freelancing, etc, in Oakland. Companies with people who need to go to SF on a semi-regular basis and who work best in person but don't need to be in SF.
"Why would they have "unambiguously" fallen into those categories? "

Pragmatically, because they often _wanted_ to and designed their personas intentionally.

You seem to be arguing that visible signifiers of subcultures don't provide meaningful signal. I would disagree broadly, and specifically in that the I don't even consider "hipster" the "generic white dude." Beanies? plaid? At least where I grew up those were _very conscious statements_ and not just the median type of dress.

As you say there are people who present as one thing who have tastes otherwise. I present nowadays as a metalhead but spend far more of my time listening to hip hop. But if someone called me a metalhead I'd probably go "there's some truth in that" and understand the connotations even if it's not 100%, and I see hipster similarly, whereas you seem to find it to have no signal whatsoever.

The core of our difference seems to be whether "generic white dude" falls into hipster. I simply can't find that to be true. The aspects the wikipedia article call out, I've only found to be "norm" in places that would, again without malice, probably self-identify as "hipster", although there's a definite "grunge" overlap. (Seattle, Portland, Vermont, in my personal experience) My main point being, that does not even come close to describing the vast bulk of jeans wearing boring-tshirt-or-button down blue/white-collar loafer/sneaker wearing white dude that I've met over the course of my life. (And sanity checking myself with a glance down my 55 person teamroom :P)

This may well end up being a "you live in a different bubble than I do" which I'm not about to argue or criticize. I just wanted to chime in from a music-nerd-often-accused-of-being-hipster's perspective; if only to speak for my friend group and myself, we find these terms to have inoffensive utility.
You seem to be describing the CFPB?
So every OpenID provider has issued millions of dollars in tokens? No, of course not. All the tokens allow is offline generation of secrets. But if you don't need offline generation, then you don't need expensive tokens. I specifically call this out in my linked response; I don't know why you're still stuck on it.

Also, soft tokens are a thing and are basically free to generate. I've got several loaded on my phone right now, and have the code backed up in my password vault.

Also also, printing secret codes on drivers licenses seems like an amazingly bad idea... Every bar bouncer I interact with sees that thing!
> At least Tesla has an actual product you can buy?

What self driving product do they have? Elon's "Oh yeah, we will have full self driving coast to coast in [8 months]" is horseshit to the point of "How is he allowed to say this on an earnings call?"

Other competitors, widely recognized to be ahead of Tesla estimate 5, more likely 10 YEARS. Coast to coast? Your Tesla will navigate a Pittsburgh winter storm on poor roads in Level 5 autonomy... this year? No.

So then we're with "sophisticated driver assist". Actual products you can buy with sophisticated driver assist are sold by: Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Chrysler...

My Jaguar has: adaptive cruise, four way sensors, lane assist, including ability to prevent you from changing lanes if a blind spot obstruction is noted, adaptive front lighting and high beam assist, driver condition monitoring (detects multiple 'drift', lane departure events or sub-optimal braking), traffic sign recognition and adaptive speed limiting, rear traffic monitoring including the ability to avoid, if possible, full auto parking, and so on.
Take this with a grain of salt, because I'm from Canada and have only been to SF once, but:

If I had to guess, I'd say race and class conflict. I wasn't used to how heavily divided a culture could geographically be, and it seemed to me that Oakland was far more heavily multi-ethnic and financially poorer than the rest of the area.

Before the hate poors in:

- Yes, Canada still has a racism problem. But I don't know of any areas around me that are strongly of one ethnicity versus another. The major exception being "Indian" reserves, which is a whole other topic.

- Yes, it's ridiculous for me to comment after only one visit. But that's how strong the difference seemed to be. Every cab and uber driver I had was from Oakland.

- SF was beautiful and I don't mean any disparagement. You're all wonderful people and I love you.
I guess I just don’t understand this kind of comment. Are you being serious? Can you cite any sort of scientifically verified evidence for these claims? It sounds nice and all, but if you’re legitimately being serious, how are we ever supposed to believe this without hard evidence?
AFAICT, Firefox almost exclusively has performance issues on Google's websites. Which is a reinforcing point to the threat of Google's monopoly.
yes, but last year wasn't a good example for the vaccine- it wasn't protective, which is why so many people died.
Not just peers, peers who didn't get out of jury duty.

Personally I think jury duty should just be mandatory (with the only exceptions being extreme circumstances) because it being so easy to get out of creates a major bias in the set of people actually doing jury duty.
Not really. They could sell their technology to a car company and all cars sold by that company could be self-driving enabled. Maybe we'll get true ride sharing then. I'm at home and not planning to use my car for the day. It could be used to give someone rides without me having to go drive. Waymo/Lyft could still own some cars but not all.
All tech comes in different grades and specs. The LIDAR used on a vacuum cleaner might use the same basic principle but doesn't come close to the requirements of the auto industry and self driving tech.
You make 2 or 3 passes with a supersonic aircraft to get the location, and then one more pass to drop a bomb.

In a more civilian context, you have a nice fireworks show and then send the SWAT team.
GKE
I'd like to say this is just politics but I'm not even sure it's good politics. How many people are really concerned about the size of Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. If people are that concerned, why do so many people I know have Prime?

The fossil fuel industry continues to run rampant. As does the Military Industrial Complex. The former is a key player in the degradation of the planet; the latter is a money sucking Hover that is sucking the life out of infrastructure, education, etc.

The environment and peace are much bigger issues than taking down and busting up the tech giants.

Editorial: I want to like Liz Warren. I can related to some of her ideals. Unfortunately, as a politician she too often comes off as inexperienced, out of touch and/or naive. This is another one of those times.
This is probably the way the business found to ask the same question as a date of birth while requiring an extra step from the user, which then:

* Decreases the number of bots able to get into your account

* Make it harder for a foreign agent with limited knowledge of English to do the same.

No, I did not write that question for you to answer.
It's possible but has it's own challenges. If the benefit of moving to Oakland is lower costs, than that has to be made up for partially by lower salaries (most of a startup's costs are in people.)

Being near BART is fine, but not if your employees are coming from SF. Then they still need to pay SF salaries to make up for cost of living.

Living in Oakland can be less compelling due to the housing stock. Oakland has many single family homes, which I personally feel is a good thing, but less compelling for many workers.

(We can, of course, debate whether the kinds of workers who aren't in the life-stage to want/need a single family home are the right kinds of workers to go after, but that's a separate conversation.)
It seems like you're arguing...

My argument was in my last sentence, in response to the defense of pithy comments that millions already beat to death six months ago. I'm arguing neither for nor against the shutdown of Equifax.
I’d love it if you could unpack some of this. You gloss over some pretty big statements here.
> Self driving tech doesn't exist today. It simply does not.

Except according to Elon Musk (whom I don't believe) - it had better, since he's promising that it will be available this year.
Iris Automation (YC S16) Is Hiring a Computer Vision Expert – AI for Drones
Hot tip for startups: A lot of ppl who work for the big co.s (me included) live or have migrated to the east bay for housing over the years but hate the commute.
I don't think this is correct. The extension identifies GoLinks embedded in other websites (like internal knowledge bases or emails, I presume) and converts them to a link to the destination.
The quote about reorgs practically gives me PTSD. Certainly irrational anger:

> The rest of the company was as confused as its leadership. Somehow, early on, reorganizations - "reorgs" - became part of the Apple culture. they happen every three to six months and come from Apple's basic lack of understanding that people need stability in order to be able to work together. [...] Make a bad decision? Who cares! By the time the bad news arrives, you'll be gone and someone else will have to handle the problems.

I worked for 6 years at STMicro, and the group I was in (Nomadik SoC) did reorgs every 18 months, practically like clockwork. This was a huge multinational company, and it was my first job so I didn't have any context to weigh it against, but in hindsight it was a huge sign of disfunction and leadership that didn't know WTF it was doing. As expected, the group shut down a few years down the line.

The place I currently work hasn't had a reorg since I joined, almost 4 years ago. But I'm sure that's largely attributable to a steady and successful product line.

It can be either a vicious or a virtuous cycle...
Anecdotes are one thing, but I think the data are important. The article brought forth some interesting stats about the median age in the industry. Does anyone know where that data comes from, and if it's tracked longitudinally? What I'm curious about is if older programmers statistically are pushed out of the field, or if it's just the case that the field is growing like crazy and newer college grads are flooding into it.
Purposefully priced?

Gilead did pay $11 billion to acquire Pharmasset and at one point was facing a $2.5 billion patent infringement ruling (later overturned) for that same drug.

AbbVie’s a new entrant which can treat certain strains at at about a third the cost.

Damn that Late Stage Capitalism developing a miracle cure for Hep C which is painless and effective.
I'm in my late 40s, and I was shocked to find out several years ago that I'm the happiest when I just eat meats/proteins and veggies. While I like fruit, it generally makes me feel crappy, almost as bad as with processed carbs. It helped that I also "discovered" sauteed greens, which really helps boost many of my meals now.