skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you’re a good company, you’re either going to raise your Series A - or Series B - in the next 12 months or have significant revenue such that you won’t need more capital. If you’re doing badly, why would you want to keep working on this for 24 or 36 months? That’s a waste of your time."

This black and white view of "good" and "bad" companies is so insulting. Same with "good" and "bad" founders as referenced in this article and even by PG elsewhere. How patronizing! I personally know "bad" founders who were running "bad" companies because they loved and believed in their business, and only 3, 5, or even 10 years into it found the right opportunity and had life-changing outcomes.
Lyft also left Austin, so unless Lyft follows Uber and shuts down temporarily, it's not comparable. And Uber Eats also has large competitors in CA.
Given the author is a long time contributor, this post is actually a bad indicator.
The entire public library network is closed out where I'm at (save for curbside pickups).

Another kneejerk thought also suggests that whatever few(?) that are open might take on increased traffic, at odds with distancing guidelines/mandates.
Meant to say 500AD, much darker time to live in the kinds of places the ancestors of most people here come from.
Are there any restrictions on what the multiplier can be? If not then they can effectively set the fare. The "standard" fare is $X per mile and I want $Y per mile. I just set the multiplier to Y/X
A response in two parts:

1) I spend more time with founders who have yet to succeed or who have failed than with founders who succeed. This is true of many early stage investors. The advice here is built off watching both groups.

2) I generally think it makes sense to model advice on what successful people have done while incorporating learnings from the mistakes that all types make.

Founders need to believe they're going to succeed, though of course they should mitigate risks where possible.
I've been a big fan of brain storming tools for a long time so appreciate new tools with different takes on the problem.

I do have one observation and it maybe just me. I have no way of clustering a group of connected thoughts, or a way to 'chunk' the concepts. I see some attempt by using coloured lines but there should be a way to make these ideas hierchical and from that be able to zoom up and down various levels of conceptualisation. It would make managing a large network of ideas a lot easier, possibly a bit more ergonomic. Similar to the way the brain works.

It may just be me but was wondering if there's a way to achieve that with the current tooling or if you think there are workarounds?
How is removing upfront pricing friendly to customers? It's horrible UX.
Why not also tropical rainforest? (I'm assuming you're saying we are meant to live how we did at our inception)

IMO using the word meant implies a purpose and I don't think there is one here.
AFAIK it should be difficult to do much to even a civilian helicopter with small arms unless its flying way too low anyway (below 500ft).

That's why I support citizen ownership of anti air weaponry. For sporting purposes. The anti-varmit capability of a 20mm cannon should not be denied to us avid shooters, etc. Shooing off pesky black helicopters recycled from the 90s is just a bonus.
Isn’t Europe making much greater use of their land than in most other continents? With larger populations in smaller countries geographically.

Wide swaths of the US (particularly in the west) and the vast majority of Canada are relatively untouched.
I read the parent's emphasis in "even if they wanted to follow the law in good faith" on even. It's quite possible they agree and meant:

I don't think they want to follow the law in good faith, but even if they did, they'd have to shut down while they restructure to accommodate the law, so this outcome doesn't tell us much about their thinking yet.
I'm not familiar with the phrase "half chicken statistics", and a basic google search was unhelpful. What does that generally refer to?
Most studies I read about the decline in insect population in Europe compared to a baseline from around 30 years ago. Here is one source (written in English) about areas in Germany: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
While the world wars certainly would have had some impact, most of the current studies are comparing current populations to what was around in the 80's/90's. This one for example covers 1989-2017: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Well that sample size would give an 95% confidence interval of ~ 2.8%. I don't think '68% of Americans' changes the story here.
The main methodological problem is that only sampled employed Americans (Labor Force participation is ~60%), so it should really read '70% of American Workers'.
Most of the people leaving CA were of the far-right political persuasion, so good riddance to them. And generally, CA is already overpopulated for the amount of housing currently available (or constructable within the near future), so having fewer people actually relieves a lot of the overusage issues currently plaguing many of the public services in CA.

With specific respect to the tax issue, the flipside of "one more tax" to pay for a single-payer system is that it would replace health insurance premiums. Because premiums are currently set for smaller risk sharing pools than a statewide pool of nearly 40 million, and those premiums must also include significant profit margins to pay for health executive's multimillion dollar annual bonuses, it would be very easy for a single-payer tax levy to undercut premiums by more than 50% (and for the single-payer proposals currently under consideration, the employee savings range from 50-90%).

If anything, the problem with a tax for a single-payer health system is that people would be saving so much money compared to paying health insurance premiums that CA would have too many people moving into the state for the rest of our public services to handle.
Cause or effect, though? Were there less C-Sections because pregnant women had less stress?
Massive history nerd and I really enjoyed Greyhound because they didn't over dramatise it (much) and the attention to detail in the roles, speech etc was all very well done.
Everybody under 30 knows the meme "IE slow, Chrome fast"
I realise the HA solution included with Azure doesn't have replication, but it does provide a 99.99% SLA and suggests any downtime would be in the order of seconds. This is done, as you say, by recreating the database on a new node, but they have nodes standing by and ready. For a lot of use cases, that is good enough, with read-only replicas useful at an extra cost for scaling reads.

My point is that TimescaleDB's pricing is high enough that I'd expect replication to be provided, or at least some other kind of HA guarantee.
the principle mitigation is distancing. lockdowns are wholly unnecessary if distancing adequately, because they add no marginal benefit on top of distancing (ignoring the obvious political dimension of benefits).

also, use a mask when distancing (indoors with strangers) isn't possible, but understand that masks are inferior to distancing for a host of reasons, including the non-transivity of controlled tests to the wider world and its astonishing variety. masks also add little marginal benefit on top of distancing for most folks, particularly if not meticulously adhering to a long list of proper usage rules.

distance, it does a body good (in these covid times).
In what world is enabling drivers to see where a rider is going before accepting the trip, or removing requirements for Uber Pro, or removing features from the loyalty program, or removing upfront pricing, or removing the ability for customers to have favorite drivers "customer friendly"?
Me too. But the fact that our prison is shinier than the neighbors isn't enough to make me proud living in it.
>would never pickup in bad areas

They have more control so they are more likely to be considered actual contractors.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. At least Microsoft had better customer support than Google.
This is akin to saying the Fair Labor Standards Act was a "bad law" because it ended child labor, which I'm sure also caused a temporary "net loss of jobs, economic activity, and civic engagement"
Show HN: Open-source coding platform for developers to learn and practice coding
I'm in highschool right now and over the past few weeks ( 8 to be precise ) I made a platform that allows people to learn and practice coding, discuss stuff on the forum, meet other developers, list their own products and even listen to music without ever having the need to leave the platform to navigate to other paid platforms for every small thing. DomeCode brings the unified experience to you.
Well, today I made it open-source.
No offense, but rewriting httpd in rust won't make it any better. There's no excuse for thread-per-connection in 2020.
I've played with the emulator, it's pretty neat, but I didn't get the point.
I had a company, and I was not particularly successful at raising money. I'm quite confident the main reason for this is because I was brutally honest about what was and was not possible, as investors offered me millions if I would just try X or Y. I would analyze their proposals, and come back and say "this will never make money and I can show it with incredible certainty." They then gave that money to someone else who offered to do that, and they failed because it was a terrible idea.

If I had raised more money, I would have wasted even more years before coming to the very painful reckoning that my startup was just untenable. I realize my tangent is unlikely related to your point and is separate from the article, but for a first time founder I am very glad I stuck to my integrity and only lost a few years of my life learning a valuable lesson instead of a decade.

In fact, I recently had an epiphany - if my startup succeeded and I'd become rich, I'd be a much shittier person today because of it. That failure fucking wrecked me but I needed it.
Dude, I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and have dealt with AT&T and two different offices and my home. And I can tell you that AT&T are both utterly clueless and shameless liars when it comes to FTTH and FTTN installations. You can not imagine the depth of my anger with those clowns.

I have no idea who you work for. But my personal experience with trying to get fiber from AT&T in what is supposed to be one of the most tech-forward regions of the world is laughable. The government may not be better, but at least I know where to aim my pitchforks and torches.
> Even places that have taken this deadly seriously have seen reoccurent outbreaks including Hong Kong[^1] and Tokyo[^2]

Japan has had ~1,000 covid deaths. And Hong Kong has had something like 25 deaths. The US is about to hit 170,000.

> Part of freedom means the freedom to disagree. Sure, you can disagree with them as well and they may be entirely wrong - and that's still OK. That isn't a failure of freedom, it's a success story and I'd much rather have some idiots shouting loudly than black bag them by secret police or have "Winnie the Pooh" start getting censored in private messages.

There's a middle between these poles you've created. This is the ol' libertarian dilemma: when one person's freedom encroaches on another. People's "freedom" to not wear a mask encroaches on my freedom to not get sick. Freedom requires some modicum of social responsibility. Without it, freedom can't exist.
That’s a disingenuous take on it.

CA could fix it’s own health system to cover everyone. Yes, there are federal rules they’d need to work around, but they could do it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/economy/californ...

Basically, one someone tallied up the cost, it ran out of steam. Just like in VT.
Is this just a really obfuscated and cryptic alternatative Terraform?
Truck drivers 100% need home internet to get jobs, broker loads, fill out the required paperwork, etc.

Worked in the industry for a bit, while it used to be a dinosaur, it's actually super tech-focused now for many.
Okay, but how does that money get from MoFo to MoCo?

If MoFo made Firefox, this would make sense. But they don’t.
I don't agree that that's the prevailing wisdom at YC. As with any other broadly stated piece of advice, the specifics matter.

I think about this in this way: https://blog.ycombinator.com/shutting-down/.
How does a library help in 2020? Going anywhere but your home is unreliable during shelter in place orders.

So if you don't have an internet connection at home, you don't have an internet connection.

Also, resiliency is a good thing. It is not redundancy if the two services have different business continuity profiles.
A couple points here: Uber/Lyft are 100% better than taxi services in every way. You might get a bad driver, but I've never had a bottle of piss hit me in the feet in a ride share. Also, try not paying cash in a Philadelphia taxi. I've had a wheel fall off a cab while I was in it, zero recourse. Rear ended accident, same. Told to pound sand with the PPA. Anecdata, sure, but about ten years of it.

Taxis still exist, with no benefits, still pulling 60+ hours, as an entrenched monopoly via medallion systems. This is sort of a from of driver share cropping, and is equally if not more exploitative.

If CA wanted to regulate it, they could use the data from ride shares and create limits etc. Instead, they're going to put them to pasture.

As for them operating illegally, it is a better system and more efficient than cab services. Sharing rides alone is a multiplier for gas, and app routing is a better system that taxis refused to implement for the longest time, "getting lost" to pump up fares.

If taxis disappeared tomorrow, I would shed zero tears.

Is uber a good company? No, they are a giant capital fueled destroyer. They went toe to toe with entrenched cabs and made some changes. Maybe that's what it takes in a hypercapitalist society, I don't know.

I used cabs for a decade coming home from an interstate train commute and would never use one again. I'd rather take the bus, and in Philly that's saying something.

Hope we see more innovation in this space, if not Uber or Lyft, something.
Surface Uno?
I'm an adult, if I want the money isn't it strictly better than I have the freedom to cash in on my human resources?

Yes.
Thanks for all the great answers, they all helped me think about what I wanted to go for.

I'll be focusing on linux admin / devops / security and brush up on the parts I've missed (computer science basics / SQL / C...)

I welcome every course / book / resource advice !
I tried Fogg's Tiny Habits once. The basic idea is that the easiest way to begin building up a habit is to start with a behavior that you have no resistance to.

Its basically a sound idea, but its an oversimplification. I am not sure what his "behaviour model" is but I assume it evolved from his previous work.
Well they think that at least
There is a frenzy of people buying houses in Tahoe right now so they can work from there, but many will be disappointed to find that the internet service available will not allow them to work successfully. We have a cabin in a neighborhood that ostensibly has decent DSL, but AT&T will not allow new signups and the the bandwidth drops to 500 kbps between noon and 3PM on weekdays since the Pandemic started. Oddly it is fine in the evening (when my internet often stops working in the Bay Area). I'm wondering if internet quality should be part of the real estate disclosure process.
ahh, sorry, I forgot the whole world must have the exact same laws as the US, otherwise it's "unfair"
> Do you really think that what Rust provides will succeed in making people adopt it when other languages failed

Given the ever broadening adoption of Rust, I'd say it'll definitely have a large foothold. I don't know that anything, no matter how good it is, will every fully replace C or C++. But I think a lot of projects that don't need a specialty compiler (embedded or stuff like game consoles) will start picking up Rust instead of C or C++.
> wage slave job like everyone else.

Sort of like driving for Uber...?
In many cases "raise less money" is actually "hire less people".

When seeing it as a "we hired too quickly", I see the same problem in failed, pivoted, and successful startups. It is your basic mythical man month problem, and most if not all VCs encourage this management mistake.
What is the point of downvoting this sort of thing? Is there no openness to discussing it?
Ending child labour, having a minimum wage, and having the barest minimum of employment safety standards also has a negative impact on economic activity, and bankrupts some employers. [1]

Hell, If our goal was maximizing economic activity at all costs, we'd be rounding up idlers, and putting them to work, involuntarily.

[1] Ones whose business model relies on one of the following:

* Exploitation of children.

* Providing labour-intensive products for less then the cost of keeping a labourer alive, housed, and fed.

* Running machine shops where workers have to juggle chainsaws, while breathing in asbestos dust, and licking radium-coated postage stamps.
getting charged exactly for what you use is great
We have all women movies now so why not all women consumer electronics adverts?
SRSLY!? That's your argument?

Ask me how I know you haven't used dialup recently. First, you can't even get dialup in many places because the pots system has been ripped out and replaced by partial fiber.
Second of all, Once you add a phone line and pay for dialup you're looking at a cheap broadband cost.
Not speaking for NeuralCam, but for big tech the business model for this kind of software would be surveillance capitalism, which is why they will offer it "free".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

For that reason, I'd expect NeuralCam to end up as an acquisition, depending on their motivation, resources, and all the rest.
> Put up or shut up fool.

Please don't use personal attacks.

> by the people who actually matter to these projects.

According to the author's "About me" section, they are one of the people that matters to the project:

> I am an open source developer and contribute to QEMU and KVM. I work at Red Hat. The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Red Hat’s positions, strategies or opinions.
Luckily for Uber, if they don't want their new employees working for Lyft while they're on the clock, they can make it a condition of employment. Bingo bongo, problem solved.
driver and customer friendly, all are not necessarily both
Seems like your test of this theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899565 failed, since you've been downvoted to the nether yourself.
The easiest to find is here:
https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou

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This is one of the better versions of it since it claims it will notify you and that there is a 14 day window. Most do not include this clause, including for a lot of the software I work with professionally
If you live near others, good luck. Too many people leave buckets other containers out.
The answer is "Maybe" but this developer won't do it. Someone else has to make it a reality.

Once again and eventually the response is still PoC||GTFO.
Former Uber employee here...unfortunately many of those changes either made rider experience worse or made the marketplace less efficient. Lyft gained share as a result of these changes.

At the current rate, the gig industry will be regulated out of california and other regions that follow suit (this surely sets regulatory precedence for others). The product won't be at a mass market compelling price point without a better legal framework for gig workers until self driving technology catches up. Its best hope to make it work (and what Uber is lobbying for) is a third 'worker' classification between contractor and employee like what the UK has.
The people who are against this are also against universal healthcare and generally against things like social security.

They just want to take, and take, and take, and take. They never want to give.
> Sometimes it was "dangerous and derogatory content." Sometimes it was "shocking content."

So Google turned the filter sensitivity up to 11 just now huh? I don't get why techdirt insists that that is not about ideology.
> (C++) programming is hard, let's go (language) shopping!

There isn't really a trend, those who can are doing it in C++, those who can't are teaching us about the wonders of rewriting in a more fashionable language.
It's sad to see the once great community taken over by an intolerant subgroups.
> not sure it's safe to asume that Rust would fix all the security issues with all the unsafe code that would be?

Hi,
Article author here. I am not assuming Rust will fix all security issues. Bugs are still possible even in safe code, plus there will be unsafe code as you mentioned.

Unsafe code also worried me when evaluating Rust. Given the nature of Virtual Machine Monitors and emulators, isn't a lot of the program going to be unsafe? After studying existing Rust codebases and writing programs myself I found that it's still a significant improvement over C.

Whether Rust is safe enough depends on your requirements. For the QEMU, I think the answer is yes. For writing the firmware for a pacemaker implant or control software for a nuclear powerplant, I don't know :).
> in every country uber operated/operates in they are against the law.

Wrong

> Uber specifically displays the current problem with new startups, they don't make things more effective, or cheaper.

Wrong (https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-vs-taxi-pricing-by-city... and even more since then with Uber X expansion)
Regardless on where one stands in regards to the issue of whether or not gig workers should be employees, I don’t see how anyone could see Uber’s choice of action here as anything other than malicious obedience.

The court proceedings have been going on for a very long time, and now, only on practically the eve of the ruling becoming effective, do they start making plans for it?
Most of the people leaving CA were of the far-right political persuasion, so good riddance to them.

Ha! Yeah, CA is known for it’s multitude of far-right groups.

And if they are so far right, why are they leaving and voting for left wing policies in other states?

Suffice to say CA has some of the highest taxes of any state, yet it also has some of the worst social problems - poverty, homelessness, etc.

I’d say it CA inability to run a tight ship despite all the taxes that is causing people to leave.
UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Graduate Students After Months-Long Strike
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
It's refreshing to see an assumption of incompetence rather than malice, since I seem to have come across the idea that Google is questionably motivated by ideology rather a lot recently.

One thing I don't understand is why Google continues to try to use algorithmic solutions for content moderation. Surely the frequent false positives ends up hurting potential revenue? And would it not be able to hire people to at least oversee the algorithms and respond to erratic behaviour as described in this article?

It seems one could even argue that Google's focus on algorithmic rather than human solutions is a kind of harmful ideology, albeit not the kind that probably hasn't hurt Techdirt in this case.