skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not affiliated with YC and they might still be interested in your startup but I'm curious why you are interested in YC at this stage. Is it for the cap table signaling?

Your description sounds like you are beyond the accelerator/seed stage so the standard deal valuation and funding amount are too low. You also mention being too busy to take advantage of the networking opportunities provided by the program.

Being profitable but capital constrained, have you looked at debt financing opportunities? Do you need investors and a network or do you just need cash to accelerate growth?
There are also several important features, like literally setting a default value for JSON fields or updating the String to be longer than VARCHAR(99) or using LONGTEXT in MySQL that are still open issues.

I think the VC announcement forced them to prematurely launch 2.0.0.
Research has a value-capture problem. Until it's solved, research funding isn't an investment, it's charity.
I think it's important to point out that unlike other forms of social privilege which are usually discussed -- white privilege, male privilege, cis privilege, ... -- childless privilege is not usually an element of one's facticity, i.e. one does not choose to be black, female, or trans, but for many people, having children is a choice.

Of course, not all people are able to conceive children, and not everyone who bears children does so consensually. And of course, just because someone's choice imposes a burden on their lives and relationships with other people, it doesn't mean that others should not be compassionate towards that person. I do not have children but one of my colleagues does, and I am very happy to make concessions for that as needed, I just consider that an issue of being flexible and treating other people decently, not an issue of privilege per se.

Side note: almost everyone I talk to who want kids defaults to wanting to conceive their own children, instead of adopting. I would argue that adoption is a greater net positive that conceiving new children because it does not increase the population count (which has net negative effects ecologically) and it is providing parents to a child which would otherwise have none. I think I would also find adopting more personally rewarding as well, for those reasons. I wonder why other people do not seem to consider the option as well: is it not heavily promoted enough, or is the appeal of propagating one's genes just so appealing?
Yeah, but that's the design goal for Tor. The designers don't need to cater to the needs of people buying drugs or scamming old people.
The easiest way to crack down on that ability is enforcing a separation between the basic social networking platform and the management and moderation of whatever content is flowing over it. This is the model of federated services like Mastodon. It's more like pursuing "free hearing" (of voices you may or may not be interested in, and can thus follow or filter the way you like) than "free speech". It privileges the receiver of information over those who are sending it.
Manitoba again. If you're paying attention to universal basic income, this is more like the experiment they keep reminding us about.
these benchmarks dont seem to take into account page cache
Often we use stories to draw parallels. If you watch a movie or read a book and think "that's not a precise depiction of the issue!" I don't think anyone is going to disagree with you. I think you are failing to see similarities and are focusing on the differences. The differences are there for entertainment. I mean... come on... we don't even believe that humans have psychic abilities/magic. But that doesn't mean that it can't be a compelling and worthwhile story. Even Gattaca, which is much more scientifically reasonable, has many shortfalls and exaggerates things to tell a better story.

There's numbers between 0% and 100%. I'm not claiming Minority Report is 100% reality (that's ludicrous!), but that doesn't mean it is 0%.

Take your trolling elsewhere.
> Did i say so?

I've isolated the statement I was responding to at least twice: "because this is what they think makes their voice 'valid'." You seem to think that trans people believe that, even if you yourself don't.

> Wow. You can't say that - that's really rude and a offense to transitioned people.

I don't see how differentiating between passing and non passing when we're talking about the impact of external perception is offensive, but please elaborate, I'm open to criticism.

> They only want to be accepted as Women.

And as I explained, this limits the definition of Trans to only a very specific type of trans person. It seems like you're saying that those are the right kinds of trans people. Perhaps that's why you're met with friction with those people: you're choosing to invalidate their self-perception because they don't conform to how you think a trans person should be.

In your mind, the trans "identity" is someone in one gender role who swaps to another gender role quietly.

After this point, the rest of your post was really just a rant about how you don't want to accept trans people who don't conform to your perception of them. That's you playing identity politics, it's forcing an identity on to them. And this is why I mentioned that I don't get identity politics: it's not a liberal or US-centric thing. It's a lens. It's a form of analysis of the world, a framework for looking at interpersonal interactions. Forcing someone to conform to an identity is identity politics just as much as identifying with an identity in a way you disagree is. They're two sides of the same coin.

The argument that identity politics forces you to be controlled is the exact same argument that the US religious right used for years to push back against all the "personal life choices" you mention, like marrying a same-gender person. It's the same argument that the US religious right pushes when they try to ban trans people from using the right bathrooms. The argument that respecting someone else's personal choice is an imposition on you. It's the same argument.
No, I meant the UML words instead of UML pictures.
I live in a rural area where the incumbent is building out FTTH as fast as they can. For all residences that have fiber, the price difference between 50M, 300M, and 1000M is significant.

The actual bandwidth used by a 300M customer and a 1000M customer is usually the same. The provider's upstream contracts would not change much if they put every one of their customers on 1000M.

But their pricing is regulated. The arm and a leg they charge for 1000M service is largely a function of that regulation, even though it hardly affects their costs otherwise. You might think that if the infrastructure costs are the same for 1M or 1000M and that the infrastructure costs are 90% of all costs, 1M and 1000M could be priced within 25% of each other. It might seem that a price jump from $100/50M to $1000/1000M is unreasonable. But the U.S. government right now is handing out $billions to rural providers to build out fiber, then requiring them to charge ridiculously high prices.
What do people use?
See my reply to sibling comment for what we're looking for. Re: debt, we've considered it, but our goal is to expand knowing the economic environment might hit us harder than expected. So equity feels like a better fit.

In the end, we're looking for advice, support, and cash.
Can you give examples of some kinds of opinions you're in favor of protecting? If you're excluding speech that you find intentionally designed to manipulate and speech that contradicts science you believe is settled, I'm not sure what's left beyond favorite ice cream flavors.
I reported multiple FB users for denying the holocaust and general anti-semitic speech. FB's response was that I should educate them and they were not breaking any of FB's policies. Seems like FB still thinks that way at least around holocaust denial.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/26/auschwitz-...
People often forget that VC is a for-profit industry and that VCs invest money on behalf of investor who are looking for a return on their investment (Like pension funds) and where there are lots of places they can put their money to work. With that in mind, 2/3rd of VC backed companies will fail despite the best wishes of the founders and VCs, which means that to get a market rate return 1/3rd of your portfolio must generate a 10x return after multiple rounds of dilution. What this means is that most opportunities are not venture backable because 10x returns are hard. You can invest in a company at a $10m pre and you need a company to get to at least a $200m valuation (again multiple rounds of dilution). The kind of growth prospects you need to command that are extremely high. VC can address some problems, but not all problems because the risk eclipses the reward. That’s okay. At least it can do something which most industries can’t do.
You can also "ship to store" for Apple. Great if you are a working professional and don't want to leave that stuff on your porch at home.
I distinctly remember this one. Very good.
Hey charges $349/yr for three-letter user names; $999/yr for two letters. Four letters and up: $99yr.

I watched a video walkthrough. I noticed four things:

1. The cost for potential benefit seems disproportionately high.

2. I can duplicate most of Hey's features just configuring my own email.

3. The gimmicky UI seemed way too much for me.

4. Despite attempting to sign up 72 hours after the invites went out, every possible permutation of my first name, last name, and initials was already taken. I tried them all.

I've been using ProtonMail for a year or so now, and love it. I realize Hey is aiming at a 'premium' market of users who don't blink at prices, and I'm not in that market.

More simply, I haven't lived in email for years, and keep moving away from email, not towards it.
"These services are utilities, sometimes monopolies, and must be regulated as such."

Maybe we could just start with regulating The Internet as common carrier instead of an "information service".

Anyone who is disappointed with the content of the "speech" they see on a particular "network" (a website/endpoint), should study the case of Usenet. Disprove this hypothesis: Unmoderated "public discourse" on a computer network has a tendency to descend into a sewer.

The only difference today in terms of this phenomena is the number of users of the "network" (website/endpoint) or computer network (internet).

Maybe "networks" used for communication need to migrate to "mesh" instead of "hub and spoke". Perhaps websites were not meant to have billions of pages and be called "networks".
Yup. If your boat is powered by fossil fuels, airplane still beats it because you need to haul around a miniature apartment instead of just a lightweight seat for each person. Folks under-estimate how efficient airplanes are and how inefficient humans are when you need to keep them sane for several weeks at sea. (At efficient speed, around 45 mpg per passenger for an ocean liner and 100mpg for a modern airliner.)

Sailing ships may be another matter.
He's following along with the analogy from the parent, you turnip.
I don't think you need to ask around or play dumb. Just read what gets boosted in feeds.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/402495-twitter-ceo-jac...

@jack says one thing in interviews but does another.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter...

What types get a pass on speech and what types get deplatformed?

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/24/carpe-donktum...
Oops, interesting. That's an interpretation I didn't anticipate or intend, but can now totally see. Thanks! Usually I mention "interwoven tapestry" and "storytelling" separately. I shouldn't have combined the two. Science and engineering and daily life as tightly interconnected. And separately, storytelling as an educational device that can help with teaching about them.

Which I guess still overlaps. Hmm. Maybe a key difference is in one, stories are authoritative, and in the other, the sciences are authoritative, and the stories are educational artifact and subordinate to them. One failure mode in current science education content, is content "stories" that have taken on a life of their own, decoupled from or even conflicting with, the actual science. Hmm. Tapestry of connections vs tapestry of stories?

I was thinking more of stories vaguely like "Sticky strings play a large role in cellular microbiology. They stick and unstick at energies barely above thermal noise. Lower energy, would have them shaking apart too easily. Higher, would make unsticking too expensive and slow. So we refrigerate our food, so the bacteria in it slow down. And we cook our food, so bacteria's sticky strings are shaken apart."

Determining that one can correctly (I think?) say "slow down", rather than reality and the story being something else, like the speed doesn't change, but below some temperature some activities are turned off, regrettably requires going to primary literature. Because the odds of finding that precise issue, clearly addressed, with any hope of correctness, is elsewhere low.
Still flat in Calif., same for months.
Anecdotally I'm in a similar place. I believe that Amazon's electronics "department" is little better than eBay these days and the amount of digging just keeps increasing that you need to do to figure out who is actually selling the device, what their business model is, and if you can trust their listing. (Are they a warehouse arbitrage just moving stuff from Wal-Mart/Target/Costco/etc around, based on who has the highest current price? Are they a nearly defunct old Mom & Pop shop whose only livelihood is now an Amazon and/or eBay shingle? Are they a refurbisher shop that has the gall to label "like new" items as "new" because Amazon's algorithms and mechanical turks haven't caught them yet? Etc.)

That said, I've been charged with being weirdly "old school" that I'd often rather pay extra at Best Buy than just order it for cheap on Amazon. (I've needed to replace a PC monitor since March, but keep procrastinating it because I don't want to buy it online.)
Unless you have special relevant information about the individual, the fraction of the group to which the individual belongs which will act in a certain way is the probability that the indivdual will act in that way.
> So you're saying that more police presence is harming people. How?

If the police were trained well, then I might agree with you. But they're not. They're trained to expect every encounter to result in an attempt on their lives. They're trained to escalate instead of de-escalate, meaning that a run-of-the-mill interaction is more likely to result in violence than it needs to be.

Labeling what's going on now as "the current hysteria" is painfully dismissive of the real harm that police are doing to people.
Mac is similar too. I get tired of having to upgrade my OS (losing features such as 32 bit support or having to upgrade to use new hardware) simply to stay secure.
Also, how many symbols it uses is relevant for the time linking takes, but not for memory usage.

Worse, I think it would have been easier to measure the size in bytes of binaries, or, with a bit more effort, resident memory size.
I don't mean to ask in bad faith - does Google Analytics collect information about my race/age/other personal information, or just data about my computer? I haven't personally used GA so I don't know.
There are a lot of comments on this thread which ignore one important point. Windows updates are totally centrally controllable to an enterprise user. They can be made silent, and force rebooting can be incredibly rare. On the other hand I get lots of calls about mac problems which are caused by not updating! That is not really the Unix stability that people argue for, is it? We answer Mac calls with a 'have you tried updating, then turn it off and on again'
It's funny, because I actually agree with you

> I've always felt that the attitude of "this is a lot of money, therefore we should cut it" to be a poor way of approaching things. We should allocate funds based on whether or not the return we get is worth it

The difference is I think: "When we're scrutinizing budgets we should look at the largest ones first." Which would be a pretty logical way to investigate.

So pretty much we're in agreement.
Women were given the right to vote in 1920, and they still make on average 20% less than men (and 40% less for Black women).
You moved from police presence to sending innocents to prison... That's quite a step.

Predictive policing is nothing more than police presence. If police arrests innocents and the justice system sends them to prison that's quite another issue. On the whole I suspect that the number of innocents sent to prison is rather low.

There's hysteria alright on 'racial issues' at the moment.
As far as I can see that site does not provide a free download.
Seems to work really well.

For those unaware, Firefox has a built-in way to do this which will work even on sites where you need to be logged in.

If you right click on the page and choose "Page Info", there's a Media tab. It can be sorted by the Size column. It includes video and audio files as well.
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How much bigger do UBI experiments need to be before we can be confident that these positive small-scale outcomes will also replicate on the scale of a USA-sized country?
>QM is essentially deterministic

No it isn't. Even with perfect information and unlimited compute resources you cannot determine the outcome of a simple Bell Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments

The same is not true for CM. QM absolutely allows for true randomness. This has been proven time and time again. I encourage you and the original author to read the above. Look at the Feynman lectures. There are no hidden local variables. This is true randomness.
Exactly. And VC is tiny relative to other asset classes. It's important to match the company's model & expectations with its financing. VC isn't the only game in town: Private Equity, Debt, Bootstrapping, etc. are all viable options too.

VCs are targeting hypergrowth companies with multi-billion dollar addressable markets that can plausibly see liquidity within the fund's structural 10-year lifetime. If this doesn't describe your company, then VC probably isn't a good structural fit.
I think the USA as a whole suffers from a general disinterest among the best and brightest to pursue important careers.

It's a topic that's on my mind a lot. On one hand, I'm disappointed to see important institutions constantly lowering their standards, but on the other, I don't want these important jobs either.
I don't but that's not really my point -- the poll itself isn't a problem, it's the lack of multiple polls that cautions me to draw concrete conclusions from it as rayiner did. 140 people out of 30 million is about 10% margin of error. Add sample bias to that and this poll alone is nowhere near conclusive, although as I indicated it's still useful to reflect on the issue.
ProtonMail does not allow new account creation over VPN or Tor without donation or SMS. I checked just now. The point of creating an account with Tor is that it's completely untraceable. Yandex does, however.
I pay $70 for 175/5, and I'm technically in the biggest city in my state.
25k doesn’t seem all that relevant. Yeah it’s slightly better to have another 25k in the bank, but it just seems like normal fluctuation with the economic times, to me.
HN is probably as good as it gets in terms of striking the balance between comteting interests. You may be right in the current environment, but were the 4chans of the world not constantly shooed away maybe there would be no need for heavy handed approach.

I didn't say it cannot. I said it should not. It should stay as neutral as it can possibly be.
Boost.vc does this.
Apple Music, tv and podcasts apps.
Yep. When there's a New York Times OpEd titled "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police"[1] it seems inaccurate to tell people that this is simply a poorly worded slogan that really just means "reallocate funding."

I get the impression that the minority of protesters who started using the slogan "Defund the Police" meant "Defund the police." But then there were a number of people who were sympathetic to these protesters but also realized that getting rid of the police is a very extreme position, and they started rationalizing things by saying that the protesters _really_ meant something else ("When people say "Defund the Police" what they actually man is..."). Even when the people themselves keep saying, "No, we really mean get rid of the police."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
> 20% of the country doesn’t have public water or sewer, including many fairly wealth areas

Almost entirely rural. These people aren't digging up roads, but it's purely a right of way issue on the poles (if they're getting real high speed internet either way).

> In vastly more of the country, existing water and sewer infrastructure is crumbling and needs replacement.

Yes, the united states is devolving into a third world country when it comes to infrastructure. My scheme is obviously predicated on not being in one of the municipalities that are actively trying to run the concept of government into the ground.

> Sure, you can pass bonds, but how do you get people to vote for those bonds when you also need to issue bonds for all this other higher priority infrastructure?

So you don't get to have works like this until you have the basics of potable water covered.

Like for real, 10 minutes outside of Annapolis should be able to have sewer covered.
What I am saying is that AMD and NVIDIA are based here and a lot of R&D is here, but they manufacture overseas. It’s not clear what more R&D dollars will accomplish.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. It's against the rules, it helps nothing, and it detracts from your point. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting. I never experienced something like this on my desktop. Actually I always wondered why people are bothered by windows 10 updates at all, because for me it was maximail a bit disturbing.

My xps notebook with windows 10 OTOH, well, it's actually close to a nightmare. I bought it late 2019 and had multiple on occasions the machine decided to WAKE UP from sleep a hour after midnight and running the update Procedere without shutting down. If it was in the sleeve I was greeted by a very very hot notebook at the morning with almost no battery left.

It took a while to turn this of.
Apple, Microsoft and Compatibility
Investigating, this is weird as the rate-limit should be per IP :/
yes, you've just done better investigative journalism than most major news reporters these days, who hew so closely to the party line regardless of merit. i can hardly read nytimes (or listen to npr) anymore because of it. alas, they've traded away their fragile reputations for soulless clicks and cash.
@ddevault: performance is only part of the story. The poverty of semantics of C static linking is atrocious -- it could be fixed, but until it is we should not statically link C programs.