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Ask HN: Is there a $15k penalty for not accepting YC's offer to join?
I was looking at startup school's rules for being eligible for the $15k they will give out to some founders/companies who complete it.

The rules state: Additionally, to be eligible companies must apply to Y Combinator’s core program by completing the application on our website, located at ycombinator.com. Applicants who are accepted to the core program will not be eligible for the $15K grant.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u1PhQxw4zNY3Pu0ZViTW-7tdDUOsqQSRDO9pKH6Bq70/edit#bookmark=id.kxlsfxzbs19b

In a sense if you are deemed good enough for the grant and then accepted but then don't accept the YC offer to join, you also seem to lose the $15k?
You’re idea is to build that context layer? It seems the apps you’re talking about will become reality when we have useful AR glasses. But they will be manually built for each usecase.
I'm also a no case person. I don't remember ever dropping my iPhones. But it is not for everyone. Once a friend took my phone to look at something and he dropped it, shattering the glass. I was more amazed that in its entirety of 3+ years, I never dropped the phone once but it slipped my friend's hand in just that few minutes. :-)
Never forget PRISM.
What about Numbers given where talking MacOS and syncs across iOS and it’s basically free ? Seems like it would fit the bill for this kind of scenario.
Well, let's say that you have 2 physical locations, 10 racks each, and a cloud provider, the OS, the networking equipment, the smart PDUs, the iDRAC and firmware, kernel (reboot), containers, VMware hosts/vsphere, Openshift, a few windows boxes because why not, database, apache, and all the downstream. A "high" CVE has 3 weeks to be fixed.
A tangent, but there is an unspoken need for natural language processing/interpretation in EHR charting for nurses.

Very often, you enter values manually into a flow sheet around that status of a patient (ie vitals, PQRST for pain, assessments) but you may also enter a supporting note around the circumstances of your charting.

It would be beyond helpful to have an interpreter to pull in data within that note to place it within the appropriate data fields. It would eliminate a significant portion of duplicate charting.

I am putting it out there, because this is beyond me to solve this issue from a technical standpoint.

Soulver looks like a tiny step in that direction/way of thinking.
Have you considered putting art on your machine?
Scientists discover how to 'lock' heat in place using quantum mechanics
It's not spyware, this was not something that was intended to be abused, it's insecure software and its very common, you're running plenty of it right now.
"If" is the important word here.

If an asteroid hit we won't be just dealing with 10-12 feet.

Do you have any scientific proof that this will happen or that it's likely to happen?
Mac OS is a multi-user operating system. Most applications that are installed are global to the system although each user also has their own Applications folder. The Application Support folder resides in the user's Library folder and contains information that the app needs when running for that particular user. Storing information in the .app bundle would affect every user on that computer.
And correlated for inflation?
When I saw this I actually laughed. But then I thought about it more. I’m actually inclined to agree with you, for a native API it is quite extensive, well documented, and fairly easy to use. I prefer its verbosity to Unix-style 6-character-long syscalls, though I can see why it made sense at the time it was developed. But it could just Stockholm syndrome after 5 years of use.
Just like “Who is hiring” thread, a “Looking for co-founder” thread every quarter or 6 months might be helpful to the community? That can help start the conversation which is the first step towards finding the right co-founder. You can also get a good idea about a person by looking at their submission/comment history on HN.
Given that it exposed Apple's users to possible privacy violations and Apple's actions didn't remove any function from Zoom (it operated fine, if installed when this action took place), I'd say I'm happier as an Apple customer.
Yes, but there's still a difference from what we are worried might be doing with our smartphones, and what we KNOW they are doing with 'voice assistants'.

I turn off voice assistant on my smartphone and don't have any google home/alexa devices either. I have a TV with no voice activation. I won't use voice activation devices.

Is it possible my phone is listening to my anyway and sending recordings to someone? It's possible. If I were smart I would never say anything that would be 'dangerous' if someone heard it with my phone in the room, although Im sure I'm not that careful, it's probably not possible.

If I found out for sure my phone was listening to me surreptitiously, rather than just knowing that it's not impossible -- I'd do something about it.

One affect of arguing "it's all the same, your phone COULD be spying on your voice conversations anyway" is, perhaps ironically, to make people care LESS about it. If it's doing it anyway (or just if I can't prove it's not?), what do I care about Google Voice doing it too? But one disincentive for companies doing it is precisely that people will be upset if they find out. (And they're gonna find out eventually).

You don't need to go live in the woods to care about it. It's good to care about it. You don't need to either "draw the line" at living in the woods without electricity, or draw no lines. We can draw lines. They can move. If your argument is that since you can't be sure that nobody's spying on you, you shouldn't care about the people you DO know are spying on you and shouldn't get upset about it -- that's not how any of this works.

Insisting on all or nothing gets you nothing (cause it turns out 'all' isn't really an option), and who wants nothing?
Thanks for the follow-up!
Advancing Semi-Supervised Learning with Unsupervised Data Augmentation
> Technically speaking, Zoom could have abused dpkg post-install scripts, or pulled similar tricks, to install their malware server and leave it behind after the package was removed. Linux distributions aren't invincible to these shenanigans.

This is correct, but such a package should not make it into the distribution's package repositories.
I don't see where they accounted for those who incorrectly believe they understand the topic vs those who actually understand.

Unless they are claiming the process either:

1) detects how the brain correctly models Newtonian physics vs incorrectly.

or

2) detects accurate knowledge from incorrect. I can't imagine this lol rich assertion would be the actual claim. But the title does vaguely imply it.
The convenience fee is backdoor extra money for the event provider (eg band), they split the money with ticket master. Ticket master plays the bad guy (everyone can hate them since they are a monopoly) so the band doesn’t look evil themselves.

Convenience fees are basically dark business method patterns.
The Atlas of Moons
I'm not convinced that morality and self-interest are mutually exclusive. Very often the best decision for a given entity to make is a moral one.

We should still reward/praise companies who make decisions that are morally superior to their competitors, regardless of whether the morality itself was a primary motivation.
Ha, and now they need companies to invest in GCP.
Yup. And anyone who plays against it will have a replay they can share that will make it obvious and provable to anyone expert.
For iOS because they have no other choice. I’m talking about macOS and their crapware updater and licensing apps
Been a very long time since I heard anyone speak of Jeff Hammerbacher. His passion for data and engineering is amazing!
I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever heard of someone worrying about the resale value of their computer.
I get the impression that this article is mostly about dating bones.

When people talk about DNA-based-panspermia, I've always assumed that they meant either a living or dormant organism (with the potential for DNA replication/error-correction), rather than a completely inert blob of DNA.
> Or if we all agree this is not news but entertainment and should not be takrn seriously (or shared on hacker news)

I've hardly seen news in my life that wasnt actually just profit seeking entertainment.

I have never understood why society praises these huge corporations. They do not have your best interest at heart. They are not doing a public service. They are a private entity seeking money and power just like every other private company.
If you’re on Mac, Mailmate might be what you’re looking for.
Sounds like the AlphaStar team should add some randomized jitter lag between when Alphastar issues a command and it’s executed. Would make it learn more robust strategies that were less dependent on perfect timing, and might look more like a human player.
Have we sent any missions over the solar poles?
Rivers are of particular interest because they represent the primary mechanism by which inland plastic finds it's way into the ocean. Coastal releases of plastic only happen in coastal regions. Granted, most of the world's population lives reasonably close to a coast, but even in those regions the plastic waste is often carried to the ocean by water through smaller waterways, such as rain water carrying plastic litter down storm drains. (Or the waste is left directly on the beach and the next high tide picks it up.)

This article goes into the correlation between plastic waste in Asian rivers and Monsoon season: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611

That correlation suggests that a large portion of plastic in Asian rivers is being carried into those rivers by rain water, a similar mechanism to how plastic waste is emitted from coastal regions.

Of course there are other mechanisms in play too, such as municipalities deliberately, perhaps illegally, dumping their waste into rivers or off a coast. But a ton of it is coming from ground litter either left directly on the beach or carried to the ocean one way or another by water. Regions with the heaviest rain and the most ground liter are the biggest contributors, as you would logically expect.
It's the one next to my shoes and my wallet.
While I agree with you that I wouldn't want any such thing operating silently on my own machine, I increasingly wonder if it's not the sensible default for a lot of people.

For a bunch of my family members, even simple errors mean almost nothing to them. They'll stop what they're doing and wait for help even on an error that (it seems to me) they could have simply read and addressed themselves. They've never examined the system tray, and dismiss any popups that come from it. Making them aware of systems like this only serves to confuse, because they don't really understand the problem it's addressing in the first place.

Machines for power users aren't going away. There are more operating systems than you can shake a stick at, and the number keeps growing. But for a lot of users information can be paralysing, and I wonder if having a strongly managed and simplified system akin to a phone isn't a better idea.
The article notes: "Achieving this degree of control and information capture is very challenging."

This is an extreme understatement: for anything but the simplest quantum systems in the simplest, most tightly controlled configurations, it's practically impossible. That's not to say that the QTT experiments described aren't impressive achievements; they are. But they should not be oversold either.
If it's asking for root it must be for something else.

Occam's Razor, asking for root was probably just the path of least resistance for the Zoom developers.
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> which are a huge can of worms not just in C/C++ but managed languages as well

Multithreading with mutable shared state is harder in general. That's language agnostic.

But it's easier to do correctly the way managed languages do. They don't usually create threads, they use thread pool and post messages to each other. This is language-agnostic too, I've tried doing same in C++ and it works, e.g. https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/avs_dx/Dx... but with a GC and async-await it's much easier.

> which makes for a real paradigm shift in the industry, at least potentially

I think for most people, getting stuff done is more important than shifting paradigms.

Rust is less productive than managed languages (GC helps, BC interferes), compiles slow, slightly less safe.

For network people, golang is quite popular already, .NET core wants there, too. Game developers use too much C++ libraries, don't need security (console games are sandboxed or run under HW hypervisor), their most painful C++ issue is build time, and Rust is even worse. Low-level embedded, driver, linux OS kernel developers need C, too much integration and too many weird target platforms. HPC and ML people need manual SIMD and corresponding libraries. CUDA people need nVidia support.

Open a job board, type C++ and press search. Do you see many positions except listed above, where people are still writing C++?
Don't you agree that what you describe is bad and should be pointed out and/or ridiculed?
I don't think these opinions are mutually exclusive. I have certainly observed both. Entitled cyclists are very common around the urban area I live, but when I ride to the outer suburbs there's more of a car culture where they people invest heavily into the self-image that their vehicle supports. Their need to rev engines as they pass suggests that the power play is important to them.
PG both highly recommends having a cofounder and also identifies cofounder conflict as a leading reason for company failure.

So what's the "right" thing to do?

Have a cofounder to greatly increase your chances or success, or endanger your company by getting a cofounder?
The Field I am currently working in is "medical devices", but I have a very wide range of interests from agricultural to grinding and cutting tools, Ceramics, etc. Obviously you really don't need a lawyer on full time, but someone with that bent could be taking care of all the paper stuff which I can comprehend, but all too often put off.
Yeah, the entire argument was "there might be some bias from the scientific approach so we should just avoid it entirely" which itself is a biased approach in the opposite direction.
Again, good reply thank you. Just to continue a little more...

> The bundle isn't normally writeable by the app itself. It's generally good security practice to not have your app capable of rewriting what itself can do, and iOS is the same way. You can't write into your app bundle, so anything at all that you want to persist needs to go somewhere else (typically in "Application Support").

I don't buy this. If you are writing "anything at all" into Application Support, this is no different than writing to the bundle. An executable binary written into Application Support is just as effectively the same thing as an executable binary written into the bundle itself. I don't see a difference between a program rewriting its own code vs. writing an executable into another location.

There's no added security and no added user value to writing into Application Support vs. the App Bundle itself.

Not arguing with you, I appreciate you explaining the current state and conventions. Thanks for the discussion.
Definitely. Not everything I’d like to do is possible at the moment but Machine Learning is getting better so fast that more and more will become feasible bit by bit.

I have a bunch of ideas that seem like low hanging fruit, a bunch that seem hard but possible, and a lot that will be possible someday. And hopefully I can help accelerate that timeline.
I just care about some visual distinctiveness - useful for both identification and aesthetics. Never put them on for a company I don't work for, though, just little bits of art from assorted Etsy shops.
Srsly? Cambridge and Somerville usually have a few deployed around. I have actually used them. Union sq usually has one or two, but maybe not right now with all the construction.
Essentially. I have a list of use cases I think are possible to tackle now so I’m going to work on building out more single-niche apps in the near term.

In doing so I’ll have to build out tools and common code which I hope to eventually release as a platform to help other devs expand the idea out into other verticals.
One way of advocating for more important values than profit is by putting a price on them. That's why it can be profitable to offset carbon emissions.
> A program that surreptitiously reinstalls software when you uninstall it is by definition malware.

Not quite. Malware is short for "malicious software" and malice has a specific legal definition: the intent to harm. By your standard, removing a Mac system daemon only to have it re-installed by a software update would classify the entire OS as "malware" - which is an unfair, emotionally-driven characterization.
From where did white women come into the picture?
Scrollable markdown terminal viewer in Rust
I had problems with a flaky scalp, canker sores and irritating bedsheets.

Long story short, I cut out SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate). I think it is just very efficient at removing protective oils from your skin, or possibly layers of "healing goo" when you have a cut or sore.

I removed it from my toothpaste, shampoo and laundry detergent.

I use verve toothpaste (@amazon), shea moisture shampoo and all fresh clean essentials sulfate free laundry detergent.

ymmv, but it has helped me quite a bit.

also, companies are tricky and rename it to various aliases on their labels to keep sales going.
Netflix is in fact getting quite granular with production pipelines, as evidenced by this blog post - https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/studio-production-data-s...
Hee, that might be even better. Although that raised the question of why they are still hungry. Perhaps I stated the original question incorrectly. Hmmm.
Except Zoom isn’t available via the Mac App Store, so there’s no ToS for them to have broken.
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Single founder success stories are the minority. Despite the leading cause of startups failing being founder breakup, the greater chance of winning still lies with having one (or two) cofounders.
> Taking it apart would have voided the warranty

Rrr... We must extinguish this lie! It is illegal in the US for companies to do this.
You're saying that an application can't write user specific information into the bundle and sort that out? There's no difference between these two (hypothetical) file paths:

/Applications/SomeApp.app/users/taftster/user.specific.data
/Users/taftster/Library/Application Support/SomeApp/user.specific.data

These two file paths are effectively the same. And when the "global" application gets deleted, I most definitely want all the user data deleted with it as well.

And no, I'm not talking about saved output (documents, etc.) that are generated by the application. I'm saying there is just no need for Application Support at all; it adds no value and is just used by convention.
I would personally be open to all of those, but I feel like it's something that would be good 10% of the time, and pretty problematic 90% of the time.

I can see an argument made for licensing cyclist who want to ride on non-residential roads. These sort of cyclists though are unlikely to injure anyone but themselves, so there's not a lot to be ganied from it.

The idea of requiring a 5-year-old to get licensed so they can ride around in front of their appartment building/house seems a little bizzare.

Vehicle licensing depends on the kind of vehicle and how easy it is to accidentally kill or maim people with it in it's normal operation. This is very easy with the DMV registered vehicles, it's not that easy with a bike.
have your script test for your own network possibly being down, then if it gets a bad response, put the transaction in a queue to be retried later
Thanks for responding to my criticism and taking it seriously! The energy costs for this are indeed a lot less than I had imagined. I've seen plenty of appealing sequestration concepts where the numbers definitely don't work out, so I appreciate you doing the math on this!

I would push back, however, on the land impacts of mining. Open-pit mining is exactly what I was referring to, and it doesn't have a good reputation with me. I have encountered many open-pit mining projects which were extremely destructive with regards to habitat, watersheds, groundwater, etc. (Arguably much moreso than things like fracking, TBH.) A massive increase in open-pit mining therefore sets off significant alarm bells for me.

Now, it's possible that I'm suffering from selection bias here: I only hear about open-pit mines when they're bad, and when they're benign they sail right under my radar. Maybe, on average, they're fine.

But that's not the kind of thing I'd take on faith. What would convince me is a site-specific Environmental Impact Report which illustrates how a 100MT/year olivine mine could operate without causing severe regional damage.
> Drive next to a police car.

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but here the police regularly drive 20 kph above the speed limit.
You're right, I was somewhat incorrect. Japan temporarily shutdown its reactors after fukushima, with plans to reactivate. However, according to wikipedia only 5 out of ~50 are reactivated now.

This may be outdated. The article also mentioned some 80% of the japanese population is opposed to nuclear.

There are obviously valid concerns, but....my point is the public fears one and takes little heed of CO2.
Wow, neat stuff. Several machines ago, I used to run Little Snitch, but never got past the trial. At some point I searched for free alternatives but didn't find anything. LuLu seems to be very similar, so I'm giving it a try!

Funny how both companies have "objective" in their names.
Well, this sort of meta-decentralization applies to all currencies including Libra.

I think you can either say that no currencies are decentralized or that all currencies are. In practice any currency gives up some axes of decentralization.
They're not just less useful. You're creating new superbugs in the process. Meanwhile, rainforests are disappearing, which likely have plants that offer sustainable solutions.

You're heading down an unwinnable path with antibiotics, and creating new superbugs. You're running out of time to discover a real fix, because rainforests are rapidly disappearing. So yeah, the analogy is apt.
Neuralink is having an event next week to share some results
But amp sites support analytics and ads. Literally every complaint you're making isn't based in reality.
Is this really a good solution? My biggest concern is more psychological than technical. If the error rate of interpretation is too high, then it obviously won't reduce the effort. However, if the error rate is low, then the errors are much more likely to be overlooked.

The enemy of good may be perfect, but it seems that the closer to (without being) perfect the interpreter, the worse the outcome for the patient.