skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disagreement there, just pointing that interbreeding is a natural default hypotheses given that we know that at some point their living areas began to overlap and the Neanderthals eventually disappeared as a distinct species by that taxonomy - the debates afaik are about the scale of the phenomena that is whether they were mostly absorbed by modern humans or mostly driven to extinction or even killed by them.
If they now would be able to invest in foreign companies like GmbHs or UK Limiteds it would be perfect. I understand why they don’t want to do that but I think for a lot of companies to which YC could be interesting (us included) it’s simply not possible or very difficult to do a flip to a US company.
> Also, no, being able to project a little cartoon monster on the surface of a table is not "useful" AR functionality...

I would think being able to do that means you've solved most the hard problems you mentioned, so if it can be done well it means we've achieved a certain level of usefulness.

Sort of like how bouncing a white square between two movable white rectangles was a "useful" bit of functionality for consumer AV electronics. Pong isn't exactly blowing anyone's mind now, but it did mean they had to solve a lot of problems to make a machine that could interface with current televisions, deal with user input, do it and update the display within an acceptable time period so it was responsive, and hit a cost and form factor so the general public could make use of it.
I did try on Amazon before making the comment and it showed me only plain shirts (at least for the first page of results).
Sadly, this sort of thing seems to be the majority of media reporting on technology. Gell-Mann amnesia and all that.
For interesting context, the man who said that was born in 1912, his eldest son was born in 1943, and his eldest grandchild that I can find in 30 seconds of research was born in 1976. That is were the Wikipedia articles stop but the child predicted to ride a camel is certainly alive today and they might even already know how to drive.
I'm not. Plenty of countries have shown that we can reopen without killing those at risk. The false choice of saving the economy vs saving the at-risk is an entirely political position and part of the propaganda machine you've fallen for.

Unfortunately, in the US, the federal government has presented the false choice of safety vs economy. Yes there are trade-offs in tactics, but it's not one or the other. Stop playing politics, unify messaging, and increase spending money on both. I'm helping organize projectdomino.org as part of staving off the currently-likely upcoming shitstorm of reopening without public health funding, coordination, infrastructure, and compliance. I encourage aiding local causes and telling your local Republican leaders that you're tired of their shit that has now stepped up to pathogens literally attacking us at home.
You still have to store the oil for a month. Which is expensive right now. Which is precisely why the May future is so cheap in the first place. I'm just rebutting that you will be stuck with the oil after June. Since they specifically said, they would sell a June contract immediately.
Try searching for a "shirt without zebras"
>>>Like democracy,

Well that is 100% not true. Democracy in no way gives the people a voice, many many studies have proven this.

>>unions give a bigger seat at the decision-making table to stakeholders outside of privileged leadership classes.

In theory that is true, but that largely depends on the size of the union, and the size of the company the union is negotiating with. I have seen more than a few companies put completely under by unions that believed the economic health of the company was better than it really was and those "privileged leadership classes. " that you clearly have a disdain for was just out to "get the workers". The conflict lead to an economically unsustainable business
Currently, speculators make up roughly 2/3rds of the outstanding WTI contracts [1].

In most commodities contracts taking/making physical delivery by physical players is rare. The physical delivery option is there to make sure that the underlying commodity market and the futures market converge; and you don't need someone to actually deliver to make that happen. The threat of delivery/taking delivery is usually enough.

[1]You can get that info from the CFTC here: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/inde..., namely in this report: https://www.cftc.gov/dea/options/deanymelof.htm . Look for "CRUDE OIL, LIGHT SWEET".
Note what I did and didn't say. I did NOT say: "People with psychiatric disorders will be cured by spiritual experiences."

Having a mental disorder is a pretty miserable existence, in several different ways. Anything that could reasonably be described as a spiritual experience will bring you a sense of wonder, fun, release, enlightenment, excitement, new perspective, added insight about your life, and a sense of connection to others or the Earth or the cosmos. I have difficulty believing that those things will not help people with psychiatric disorders. Everyone needs those things and I cannot take seriously any assertions to the contrary.

I also have difficulty accepting your statement that "not all people believe in spiritual journeys or are capable of it." Some people don't believe in fun? Some people don't believe in healing, in excitement? I have met some of those people but I do not think we should consider that level of disconnection with life as anything but a terrible tragedy. And that we should try to find ways to connect with those people, bring a little fun and joy into those people's lives if we feel able and willing to do so.

It's kind of like, not all people believe in eating food, and those people are in serious danger and need our help.
I'll move it. Edit: done.
Yes, I played that game thoroughly and I could not separate the project from the game.
CNN has switched to the BuzzFeed business model. They aren't a trustworthy news source any more.
Wow. Great response. These comments are why I come here. Thank you!
Someone outside of the startup world asked me "what is YC" and my reply was "the accelerator that rejects you."

My impression from having applied, and from knowing founders at various stages (some of whom went through YC, others who were rejected at various stages, one rejected at interview 5+ times in a row!), is that there is such a high volume of applications now that the person you get matched with to review yours is a total shot in the dark. If it isn't someone who "gets" your industry, you'll kind of just be thrown to the back of their pile. There is a lot of serendipity to who advances. I have heard some insiders complain that their recommendations aren't really taken seriously.

YC was the only accelerator who rejected us. We did a different one (at a true "idea stage") and it went great. Make sure to apply to others like Techstars, Capital Factory, Masschallenge, Betaworks, Boost VC, the list goes on. If it's a numbers game now, then whether you get picked for any particular accelerator is probably more a function of the total number of applications to that accelerator than anything else.

If you're super early stage, I'd recommend trying to find out if there are any accelerators sponsored by your local government, they tend to have way less applications since they're only pulling from a local pool.

There is probably a value-add to YC besides just money, but there are literally hundreds of accelerators that have copied the model at this point. If you really have something, the venture community that YC taps will notice regardless. It's always better just to take the cash and build IMO.
well that's a start at least! thanks!
I think a per-site override switch should also belong to the browser.
> But capitalism is systemically committed to exploiting most of us, and to steadily increasing the amount of labor at the expense of our freedom.

It was under capitalism that we got a 40-hour week. In fact, the history of capitalism over the last 150 years shows a trend of decreasing time working. So I'm not buying this point in the argument.
I was a fan of the Warner Brothers too.

And Pink Panther! You know what I cannot stand? The new Pink Panther (I say new, but now it must be a thing of the 2000s? New to my old man brain, anyway). Not because it's flat or CalArts or whatever, but because it's uninspiring and... well, subjectively bad :P
I didn't say the US and UK viewed them in the same way - I said that both the US and the UK viewed them differently to continental Europe.
That sounds like a lot of repetitive searching. I wonder if we could get a computer to do that for us.
> what we get from caring for these loved little human beings... Is priceless!

And yet you can't express what it is that you get. All the arguments brought forth in the article are objectively true, and you counter by saying "Yeah, that's the price for... well... you know?" That's not much of an argument. Depending on what exactly it is you call priceless, others may well think it's worthless.

> Daily I realize how difficult it is for some people without children to understand my choice, and the sacrifices it requires.

Childfree people fully understand the sacrifices your choice requires. They just aren't obliged or inclined to subsidize it.
Maybe, but the APIs were very clean and consistent, if a bit verbose. When I moved on to Windows APIs I felt nauseous.
Lots of animals have gone extinct when our range overlapped with theirs :-)
$140 -> $2, insane profits
“But I would have taken 50% less to not have to live in the Bay Area”

The even crazier notion is this - you shouldn’t have to concede anything. If they landed a dev in SF, they’d be willing to pay them the appropriate SF comp.

It’s in their budget. Press harder. Money gives you options, even if you’re not a big spender, it’s security. Why not you?

Demand more.
The Zoom webapp is fine. My only issue with it is that it does not support the Brady bunch layout.
How to prepare:

Sell futures on Friday, buy today (to close out the position). Profit from the predictable price difference.
Interestingly, Google can handle these searches just fine...

"birds without flight"

"cars without wheels"

"cats without tails"

"dogs without hair"

"intersections without lights"

"poems without rhyme"

"shirts without collars" (also "sleeves", "shoulders", "buttons", "logos", "pockets", and more)
I never had any issues with my nvidia card when i was using it
>I doubt they are actually convening with the divine.

I appreciated your comment overall but this statement stood out to me. May I ask what guided this choice of words? Why would you have an opinion on it one way or the other?
$10k a second? Amazon’s results could be amazing
It literally isn't quality. It's a hate band wagoning post written by a thought influencer for the clout.
Shoutout to Jitsi, which allows you to add a YouTube video to a group video call which auto plays for everyone.
DAB+ uses HE-AAC which is more efficient encoding than AAC-LC. It compares well to Opus at the same bitrate.
> I've also read the "conspiracy theory" that racial division is pushed in an attempt to disrupt solidarity based on economic class.

Hardly a conspiracy theory when it is on record during the Civil War and the Southern Strategy.
Perhaps your comment was directed at a different post? This post is about a twitter hashtag.
I like the idea of requiring a response in order to downvote.
Lol. Thanks.
Does it involve spectacles and testicles?
Is it, though? Try "Docters with borders".
More broadly, there are finders, minders, and grinders. Different companies need different compositions of those characteristics, but startups tend to lean towards finders (people that can sell) and grinders (the aforementioned "doers").

I don't think it's good for any individual to be an extreme with any trait. Thats how you end up with a sales team that sells the world with no regard for how it'll get done, or a developer who can crank out features with no ability to support those features, or product folk that spend hours every day with meetings full of people toiling over all the accessories that may one day need to fit inside your bike shed.
Well, it's rather a OS/2 look-alike, i.e. compatible OS, rather than a reverse engineered re-implementation.

Based on other free software packages, e.g. the interesting Fiasko (from the L4 family) micro kernel, one could rather see it as an example application of those.
Agreed. I love how I can go to Men's Wearhouse and tell the salesman:

"Shirts"

"Polka dot shirts"

"Floral shirts"

"Wikipedia list of clothing patterns"

"Houndstooth shirts"
Hum... Yes they do. And they choose to do it way more often when there is a car coming towards them.
Just a guess, but maybe the consensus is that June is going to be the same (or worse) as May and they are going to have trouble unloading those contracts?

It may come to the point that you're paying some to take the contract.
Because you can't just rent a U-Stor-it space, and dump a bunch of full oil barrels into it. You need a specialized facility.

And all of those facilities are full. The ones that aren't are charging an arm and a leg for storage services.
I understand the point, but there are plenty of bigger fish that I would want Amazon and Google to fry before spending their engineers' time on a triviality like this. I just don't think that having to make three queries instead of one in this occasional situation is such a big deal.
`shirt -stripes` gives the type of results one would expect. I guess we haven't reached that level of natural language processing yet.
An Unintended Consequence of Covid-19 Shutdowns? Blue Skies and Cleaner Air
New York Needed Ventilators. So They Developed One in a Month
The cases not being "perfectly spread" over the seven week days is observable also outside of the U.S. It's simply an artifact how most of the workers work.

So the would-be-modelers should really be able to handle at least that! Another very common pattern is that the cases / deaths / was test performed / whatever data which is to be reported gets "stuck" and then released in a bunch at some moment of time, sometimes only once in some week.

It's really surprising to me that such simple truths aren't recognized.
"there is no evidence of cancer" and "there is evidence of no cancer" are two different statements with different meaning, so it's more complex a task than just understanding the importance of "no" in a sentence. It's involves semantic analysis of the sentence. The paper I linked to below describes a technique they call "deep parsing." Check it out for more context.
Rumor has it that OS/2 or a compatible system is still needed to boot up some legacy IBM mainframes, the OS/2 box is used as a kind of system console.
By definition all open futures contracts have to either a) be Physically delivered Or b) be closed (remember that for futures contracts there is someone on each side (prepared to deliver 1,000 bbl and prepared to receive 1,000 bbl)

Now if you are a financial participant you need to close out your position as you are not in a position to either deliver/receive physical oil - so you need to essentially pay whatever it takes to close out the contract. In normal times there is plenty of storage and physical participants that are willing to provide liquidity as the contracts come to maturity. Now imagine you are a physical participant, and now space is limited/storage is expensive/ natural buyers aren’t buying (refiners) - you are not going to pay much to buy the oil of a financial participant who needs to sell the May contract to roll into June/July...
Totally agree. This is how news is able to completely color your perception of things even if they are reporting factually correct info. Compare

> Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them.

vs.

> Following technology due diligence best practices, Dropbox hired a "pen testing" company to search for security defects in the Zoom app and required fixing them as a condition of their contract.
Does your employer provide Deloitte tax consultation because otherwise your wage is insufficient to pay for basic food and housing?
Having tried to write interesting applications for linux, I should ask -- what does "native linux" mean?

This is a serious question, and I don't know if it has an answer.

For example, it was easier for me to use pygame, which is based on SDL (simple directmedia layer), which is based on porting windows code.
-$37 now
Pretty old. I want to say I built their website back in 2008 or so (they changed the logo and color scheme but it seems to still use dokuwiki and the base templates I built out), and it was definitely going on longer than that.
Searching in Russian on Yandex gives the same ridiculous results.
Devblog: Yet another static site generator, seriously
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925142.
Me too! It DID say it managed to do this, however it didn't work.
It collided with "If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault."

I'm happy to defend your right to say stupid things from the top of a soapbox in the public square. I'm not happy to stop business owners from ejecting assholes from their website.

The web lacks a public square. If you'd like to build one, go right ahead.
Google isn’t remote-only, although I bet plenty of people are angry that they do the same work as someone who lives near an ocean, but get paid less.

Here’s a question I had on GitLab’s policy:

Let’s say I move to SF for a few months starting out at GitLab. I then move back to a lower cost of living area, for family reasons. Is the paycut immediate, or is there some room for negotiation? Surely very few people are going to be happy have a loss of pay.
One-person startups are leaning on their strengths in the recession
This is what Amazon does with Integrity Staffing.
The Art of Gathering Online
Most domains are just made up words, so...
On My Own COVID Parody: An Introverts Anthem
The problem is that while you can make the argument that they are doing their employees a 'service'; anyone who has paid attention to how businesses run understands they wouldn't have even bothered doing this if it weren't being used as a means to get a leg up on the competition. I.e, they are relying on government benefits intended to be a safety net to pay their employees for them instead of actually paying competitively in wages and benefits.

It's scummy, but makes the balance sheets look great.
Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)
I was slightly disappointed when I discovered this wasn't a presidential campaign to bring back "Freedom Fries." Only as disappointed as one gets when they order In-N-Out and forget to order the fries extra crispy.
Didn't Reddit have some sort of a "red herring" that was raised if they had to comply with some FISA request?
You comment makes it clear WholeFoods is looking after their shareholders very well. Excellent.

Are they looking after their employees as well?

Do you want to live in a world where shareholders are the priority, or employees?

Keep in mind, you and everyone you love are employees. So are the people down the street struggling to pay rent, and the guys across town with little food and nothing to lose.
Yes, it uses ThinkPad laptops to coordinate the bootup of the machine, in the past these ran OS/2. Beautiful.
Reopen safely. If you can't figure that out, put someone else in charge. We've done harder things.
I think the skewing of results lessening your impressed-ness is the wrong takeaway. If anything, the AI is a more perfect mirror of the society it learned from than you expected. Perhaps the right way to look at it is that we are capable of producing things that we don't understand, that are more sophisticated than we realize.
I think it briefly went negative!

Let's add that to the list "Things I never thought I'd see but 2020 happened"
Are there market makers for those contracts? (So can they sell them at all?)
https://outline.com/meyY6X
For (2), it looks cool but there’s no way to order it and the website doesn’t look updated since it won that award at CES 2017. I’ve seen so many of these headsets over the years that exhibit at CES and then are never heard from again. I’ll believe it when I see it in real life.
Perspectives on the Pandemic – Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20
A former coworker had the last name "Person". They once received a letter (snail mail) addressed to "TheirFirstName Human".

I never figured out what kind of mistake could have led to that.
Hehe, perhaps no and this is the moment when you figure out that you have mild aphantasia. When people say they "count sheep jumping over a fence" it's not a metaphor.
That is not an impartial source: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/re...

Also the claims of "Rif A. Saurous" are dubious, the first of many:

"… it’s deeply implausible on its face that WA had R=.24 on 10 April and R=1.4 on 17 April."

That's the week Easter happened and the mobility data from Apple in fact does show people in Seattle traveling more that week:

https://imgur.com/a/bCK7O86

Another recent gem:

When Will The Riots Begin? - Marginal REVOLUTIONmarginalrevolution.com › marginalrevolution › 2020/04 › when-will-th...
4 days ago - The economy was doing well, Trump had charisma but was erratic and ... Meanwhile the elites are laughing about binging Tiger King on Netflix.
In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the worrisome effects of the lockdown; the Swedish approach; the Italian data; the ups and downs of testing; the feasibility of "contact tracing", and much more.
“ Google Does this now. Are you angry that Google isn't paying employees the same in SF and India?”

Yes, yes I am. If Jeff Dean moves to India are his commits suddenly worth 10% of what they were when in the Bay Area?

There are high performing employees - regardless of where they contribute from that bring a ton of value.
This was a really fascinating read, but subs/maritime topics fascinate me in general.

The sub in question is 200ft long. Has only been seen by accident due to TopGear Moscow photoshoot that happened to capture it surfaced off the coast in the background.

The sub docks underneath a mother ship sub which allows it to be transported.

The sub can go deeper than any US sub due to a weird construction style of titanium vessels inside the hull.

All of this happened in relatively shallow waters while being docked to the parent sub (something that wasn't revealed until later in the story)
One big limitation right now is that we're basing estimates on confirmed test positive date as opposed to first onset of symptoms which is a much cleaner signal. Unfortunately, first onset of symptom data doesn't appear to be collected anywhere in a systematic fashion.

See this study from China where the use of onset of symptom data allowed them to estimate R much more accurately: https://twitter.com/XihongLin/status/1236075174069440512

From the official WHO Report, page 7, you can see how recording onset date effectively allows you to "see" a week into the future: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...
That is the western way to think about kids I've noticed. In many asian cultures, it's inverted. You owe your parents an infinite debt for bringing you into existence and supporting you.

Either way, I think the entire debt concept is toxic, creating guilt on either side. You're family and you help each other in many ways and nobody really has a debt to another.
And it's a popular idea in places like HN, too. If you are radical and not in a way that is sanctioned by the MSM, you're guilty of associating with Nazis and "conspiracy theorists" by mere virtue of being deplatformed like they have been.