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Agree, YC is a company. Instead of owning 100% of IP and products being developed, it owns 7% of it. More thoughts here (from 2016): [0], also in comparison to Alphabet.

[0]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/y-combinator-and-alphabet...
Yes, Apple should let you cancel by mail. And the web.

You keep making these claims that I'm sure sound more outlandish to you, and I think all of them are quite reasonable.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Feature:

- Find Masjid near you
- Check Salaah time in any Masjid
- Find Masjid direction
- Search Masjid in specific area using "Search Masjid in this area" feature
- English, Arabic & Hindi languages are supported
Yes but $140k homes are not available where I want to live.
Re. "la hoja" - try auto spaced repetition. Embrace the fact that these are pretty mundane realizations! Something like jointoucan.com, which repeatedly generates these moments (no affiliation, just a happy user).
this website belongs to YC. its kind of faux pas to not know them
You're getting downvoted which is unfortunate. I participated in TechStars (Cloud 2013), and yes while it is similar there are a number of things about it that are not quite like YC (disclaimer: I've not participated in YC but have interviewed a few times many years ago):

1) There is no PG or Jessica of TechStars. No PG essays, HN, or other magnet for technical would-be founders. No clear pitch to these founders that they can actually do startups!

2) There is no cohesive TechStars community. I think that's due to the "franchise" approach. They do try to help here but at this point the network isn't really valuable.

3) Partly due to the franchise approach, there is no outsized fundraising benefit since fundraising is localized to programs.
Is putting a plague vector directly on your face with a virus that stays on surfaces for days common sense?

Is putting a device on your face that requires constantly interacting your hands near your respiratory tract common sense?

Everything that follows a cult's narrative is common sense, everything that disagrees with a cults narrative is immediately discarded.

Be aware of your biases.
I imagine that's the title because this is his main point:

> The entire secret to YC getting going was PG and Jessica—there was no other magic trick.
I don't see your point, it's obvious that among billions _some_ made better choices, but collectively it's still our choices that led to this.
And I think it's pointless to blame "titans of the industry" while almost literally everyone else too buy into the same pattern, or you mean to tell that there is a _signigicant_ sum of companies in the tech industry that ships with a "quality first" mindset? I do not mean to be sarcastic, if that's your point please make a list, I would really appreciate that.

And yes, I blame the victims for their/our short-sightedness, it's not like anyone forced people to buy and re-buy broken products for decades.
I was relieved when I caught it. At least I didn't have to worry about catching it anymore. The devil you know...
I love cold brew and pretty much only drink regular coffee when I don't have any. Coffee heads really seem to look down on it though - I suppose because less of the bean comes through in the flavor, but I'll take the lower acidity/bitterness and the higher caffeination, please.
Facebook acquisitions and mergers over 15 years
Massively arms length.

The head of the Radio division is literally an ex Labour minister, in Blair/Brown government.
Facebook events service gets temporary exemption from Apple App Store fees
Libya has an elected government that is recognized by UN. The coup attempt by Hafter is supported by France, Russia, UAE, and Egypt. Rule of (international) law is broken by these countries blatantly.
>Future Attractors in 2+1DimensionalΛGravity

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
Lots of these articles. Just search for "[newspaper name] covid long haulers".

June 11: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/11/coronavirus...

July 1: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/three-months-in-these-patie...

Sep 7: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/health/coronavirus-mental...
I've noticed a differing pattern in our app: usually the newer devices (11 Pro Max) have a smaller foot print than older devices (iPhone 7 Plus) [1]

Not sure what causes this.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/MfLxs0D
This is similar to how Webex room systems communicate using Proximity: ultrasounds emitted by a room device are picked up by the laptops / mobile devices of participants and exchange info on how to join. So as you walk into a room, the Telepresence unit recognizes you and allows you a set of actions, but someone in the room next door won't be able to access.

This project is cool in that it's exchanging an actual SDP, which could be used for any media negotiation.
Does an organization need consensus to get accredited to WIPO? I am unable to find that information on their website.
Hey Guys! I am the OP for this blog. Please direct your queries to me.
And the available libraries, and the tooling around it.
Results from the benchmarks game suggests the performance of the Regex crate and calling PCRE2 from Python are about indistinguishable. The results also suggest CloudFlare could have achieved a 35% improvement using boring technology like the crusty old GCC.

PL evangelism and marketing are fine, but these blogs about Rust that come out 2-3 times a week and always make it to the HN or Lobsters front page seem a bit contrived.
Internal combustion engines might not be the best example. They've seen REALLY impressive gains in the last couple of decades. =)

Today you can buy relatively affordable cars with 2.0 liter engines pushing 300 or more horsepower and doing so with greater fuel efficiency than cars with much more modest output from ten or twenty years ago.

(admittedly some of the gains in efficiency have been obscured by increases in vehicle weight)
In the UK we don't elect any members of our government, so that seems a redundant statement.
Mozilla (the Company) has always had problems. They want to be something they're not. But the people on the Mozilla engineering team are top-notch and rarely affected by company drama (and probably feel the same way as you do about it).

Mozilla is one of the few places you can do this specific type of really interesting engineering work, without having to be at Google/Apple/etc.

(ex-Mozillian here :) )
You do want to curate topics with interactive rebase, but you probably shouldn't want to destroy useful information by making everything linear. This is a common and I believe misguided thing people do when they don't know about e.g. gitk (which comes with Git, although your OS packager might split it out).

It certainly doesn't aid the bisect command at all. It might hinder it (e.g., a whole series becomes bad because you rebased it off a release tag onto some random point; bisect would pinpoint the merge if you had merged it, but you destroyed useful information so it can only pinpoint one of the diffs).

As you say, you definitely don't want to archive every weird developer fumble during development. That's useless noise that makes the history unreadable.
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I see no indication that the post presents Covid-19 as fixed. In fact, it focuses purely on the economic effects of Covid, not Covid itself.
Not quite. In the last 20 years, science work has been turned into scoreboarding: scientists accumulate points by publishing papers in scientific journals and getting cited, journals get points for being cited, institutions for keeping high-score scientists etc.

While the goal was clear (to establish a fairer promotion mechanism and remove personal bias), it has ultimately led to more people focusing on the score rather than the output. IOW, "gaming" the system. Even when it's done in good will, it might be optimising for the score instead of actual promotion of knowledge and science.
Layout is automated (and hopefully repeatable) typesetting.

The other thing Donald Knuth is famous for is getting so fed up with typesetting for his books, he created a document format to help him keep his sanity. And then went way way down that rabbit hole instead of finishing his book series. One might argue that's not sanity-preserving.
I really don't get it.

Personally, I hate ear buds and, as such, never bought ear buds. Rather, I spent ~$20 on SoundBot bluetooth headphones starting some five years ago (long before air pods, methinks) and haven't had problems with them at all.

I also have a seven year-old phone (HTC OneMax) running custom (unofficial/ported by a random hacker) Android[0], and it pretty much works.

Sure the battery life has degraded since 2014, but that's to be expected, no? I wish I could replace the battery (as I did with my 15+ year-old Panasonic cordless phones), but there really aren't too many mainstream mobile devices that allow that any more.

As for poor quality software/hardware, if you don't like it, vote with your feet and/or wallet.

If stuff doesn't work, why use it? Even more, if stuff doesn't work and you can't/won't fix it yourself, then don't use it.

Software devs and hardware manufacturers don't care about whiny blog posts or complaints on HN, they care about the bottom line. Impact the bottom line and you may have a chance at improvement.

Stuff that actually addresses the issue is useful. A great example is the lack of Android support after 4.4/KitKat on the HTC OneMax mentioned above and the abandonment of it on Cyanogenmod/LineageOS in 2017, where those (myself included although I'd never hacked on Android ever -- and failed miserably -- thankfully someone else did not) impacted by this took action to provide the latest Android on an old, unsupported, discontinued device.

If you're not taking positive action toward making things better (whether that's fixing the problems or voting with your feet/wallet), then you're not going to have any impact.

While whinging about it on your blog may be a way to relieve the stress you feel about whatever issue(s) you may have, it's not constructive or useful.

That is unless your goal is to get lots of comments on HN where the Apple Fanbois sagely agree, and lament there's nothing to be done about it because Apple is the pinnacle of tech and since no one could possibly do anything better than Apple (or the apps that run on their gear) therefore all technology sucks.

And that's objectively false. There's lots of tech out there that's quite good. I suggest using that and shunning rather than using, then whinging about the stuff that sucks.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-max/rom-lineageos-1...

Edit: Fixed typos/formatting issues.
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The author claimed to use a “cheap electric Arc Gas lighter”, which I had never heard of. I think they actually just mean an electric arc lighter because I wasn’t able to find such a thing (which would presumably mean a butane lighter with an electric arc igniter rather than piezo).
> A competing hypothesis is that YC's success is tied to a geographical location.

If this is true why haven't there been other comparably successful incubators/accelerators based in California?
I don’t see how it disproves anything: https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/WHR20.pdf. The United States is among the top 20 happiest countries in the world, happier than France, Spain, or Italy. Seeing as how the US is always portrayed as a dystopian hellhole with no income security, no healthcare, etc., and certainly France, Spain, and Italy fare better on those metrics, that would imply that something, perhaps our religiosity, is doing a lot of work boosting our happiness rankings.
I agree, many "educational" podcasts/videos could be turned into a text with pictures which could be read in less time.

Some rare videos definitely are worth the time, like those of 3Blue1Brown or the excellent Jamie Windsor (on photography).
Great read. If you are interested in seeing charcoal production in action (on a small scale), Primitive Technology [0] has a nice short video walking through it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLvqCTvOQY
You're only referring to rebase-used-to-replace-merge, which is definitely something of an antipattern.
A bird of the same volume or height would naturally be much lighter, being mostly feathers and having hollow bones. It does seem like a bit of hyperbole, though.
The money quote is that most of these long haulers are healthcare workers who were exposed to very high viral loads.
I had a friend who had Covid. He loss an enormous amount loss weight and nearly went to hospital. He suffered bad symptoms for two months. When you have Covid you know you have it.

I strongly discount comments on an internet forum.
The challenge with ascribing complaints of illness to underlying chronic health issues is accounting for change.

It's easy for almost any person to tell that they feel worse than they usually do; we all do it when we get sick. Think about how you know when you're sick: you feel worse than usual.

So when someone says "I feel worse after COVID than I did before" (not just "I feel bad in general"), doctors are going to reasonably start by treating that as a real report of a significant change in health.
> “They’re using this type of consumer data to create a database version of who you are, and then using it to sell you things. The data collected is increasingly invasive, as with the Ring drone capabilities, such as mapping your home and collecting audio and dynamic aerial video of you and your family in your bedrooms, bathrooms, everywhere you live.”

> As this July article from the EFF points out, “with a warrant, police could also circumvent the device’s owner and get footage straight from Amazon, even if the owner denied the police.” The EFF is talking about the Ring doorbell camera here, but it’s not clear to me that the Ring drone would be an exception.

Yes, creepy does not even begin to describe my feelings.
>But the thought of "What would I do if I didn't have this job? I've got rent and food and car payments and bills, I'd be homeless and never work again!" works against this advice and so people compromise their principles or their morals or their willingness to do harm to others, because they are just doing what the boss told them to do and they really need this job.

I have been really careful to save money for paying bills on bad days, largely with the intention of building a "wronged for doing right" fund. A responsible person has to proactively protect their soul just the same as they would anything else. :)
This is probably already well known, but if you're using Python and want to exploit SIMD instructions, one of the simpler ways is to reformulate stuff as matrix operations and let numpy handle them. The speed-up can be staggering.

TensorFlow also can use these SIMD instructions, just that the standard installation (the one you get with pip) does not [1]. This is why you might see this message when you run it on your machine "Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2".

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47068709/your-cpu-suppor...
I'm not sure I got the same impression. But I agree definitely we haven't even seen the worst of covid-19 yet. It's currently going up in almost every country and the EU is already higher than in the spring. Schools opening and outdoor dining and recreation pretty much done in a lot of the northern hemisphere for the year it'll be a bumpy ride.
Accomplishments.
The chances you will be away from home, a burglar is at your door, and you're actually notified quickly enough and you're available to fly your drone around the house and catch a glimpse of a bad guy ... are almost 0, and it may not make a difference anyhow.

This is a 'novel' toy, the kind of cool factor that transcends use case. 'Aspirational Utility' it's called. Dude's can spend $300 on it 'because it's useful' they will tell themselves.
You are speaking of many different JVM implementations which are all specialized for one purpose.

This is good and all, but splits finite resources even further without a shared benefit, and these variants have as much to do with each other as V8 has to do with Spidermonkey and JScript.
I disagree. This is actually kind of a sweet gesture and convention. Like recognizing a friend’s Unix login at 3am when you type “who” from the command prompt.

There are a few people who get known that way in some contexts: rms, jwz, esr. They’re controversial, but that has become their shorthand within some context.
“...wealthiest Americans were recovering quickly, while those without significant assets or income were continuing to struggle...”

That’s not a real revelation is it? Of course if you’re poor things hit you harder and if you’re rich you have cushion.

When I was poor losing $20 was a big deal. It was food for a week. If I lose it today it’s an annoyance.

This is not a US only thing either. It happens everywhere to differing degrees.
looking at filenames in top one there's a bunch of built dlls and exes there which looks like it is just installation of built code instead of source..
Who was not surprised by bus boycott happening? Because i read about that lately and Parks herself was long term frustrated by passivity of general public. Yes she was activist, but one of few and precisely her experience of activism make her not expect anything big happening.

She experienced failure after failure, hoping merely for next generation to achieve something.
"tools\razzle offline" sets up the environment

"buildx /z"

"postbuild" should make an iso
There was a turning point recently but r/conspiracy has had quite a few QAnon believers within the last year or two
This is actually a very fair point. Not sure why we don't have news outlets pointing this very critical point.
I note you've assumed the poster is male.

The "generic sense" of "men" to mean humans is sexist - blatantly so. It's also quickly becoming archaic, for this reason. Going out of your way to use it, instead of "people" or "humans" or "humanity", is now a statement.
> Goyal makes a lot of people uncomfortable because he is obviously on the spectrum.

Never mind the first question that popped up in my head (Why would you care?), but _Why would that even occur to you?_ Why would you even look at people that way to begin with?
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My problem with this kind of calendar reminder is, if I don't act on it immediately, it's gone forever and I notice it, at best, next time it's "time" to change the furnace filter.

It would be super helpful to me to have a calendar reminder that succinctly said "you said you wanted to do this every 6 months, and now it's 23 days overdue" (and then when I finally do the thing, schedule the next one for 6 months after that day, not 6 months after I was supposed to do it in the first place).

Various "habit tracker" apps do this pretty well, but they don't fit in with my calendar.
> but we also know HCQ is prescribed or was to people going to the tropics and in some of those countries it’s OTC, so then labeling it as dangerous as heroin is kind of disingenuous

HCQ may be prescribed by a doctor if you are traveling to an area where it is effective, and where the alternatives either are not effective or there's a counterindication (or where they're too expensive if you're in a health system where that's relevant). You will be warned of the risks by the doctor. It wouldn't generally be available over the counter in developed countries.

Heroin would be somewhat rarely prescribed today (though in some developed countries it is used sparingly as a powerful narcotic pain reliever), but even more dangerous opiates are routinely. You will be warned of the risks by the doctor. Heroin, too, was once available over the counter ('Heroin' was originally a trade name; Bayer promoted it as a non-addictive alternative to morphine).
Yep. Completely agree.
There's very little middle ground anymore.
It's just pure righteous indignation from all sides.

Trump bad, guns good, abortion good, q anon good...and on and on.

I personally blame the media, where most people get their information, for presenting things in an extremely one sided non-nuanced manner, no matter, what party or group you hail from.

It makes it impossible to empathize with the other side or see other ideas if it's presented already by the media as unquestionable ideas.

However, it's also on the population for being intellectually lazy and not validating or verifying what they see on the news media.
I do understand that, my point was precisely that this is always a tradeoff between multiple things. If maintaining the old version is easier than migrating to the new one, you don't do it.

This balance — however — can change with time. E.g. if one of your major dependency moves to Python 3? Or gets abandoned.

I didn't say it was easy, my point was that over time more and more dependencies make a shift to Python 3 as well, which means at some point Python 2 stuff becomes harder to maintain. Whether that point happens early or late depends entirely on the project.

Additionally I nowhere said that this must be done by anyone — you are projecting here.
Or maybe Microsoft just uses consumers, who pay less per license, as field testers for new features before those get rolled out to enterprise customers later?
We get stuck on arguments of 'yes/no' a lot and the healthier discussion is usually about degrees.

One developer per team getting pre-empted every day, a little sketch but probably okay (as long as it's not the same couple of people).

Most developers getting pre-empted every day?

Management theory suggests that the managers are supposed to worry about strategy and the developers about tactics. I can't say I agree (because blocking senior devs out of strategy conversations is suicide), but I've watched and heard of many managers who either do neither, or can't take of the developer hat and spend a lot of time talking about tactics (which is a particularly upsetting form of micro-managing).

The 'deal' with Agile was to put a lower bound on the project shifting priorities measured in days, not hours, or failing that, to paint a giant target on the organization's complete lack of strategic thinking.

If you can't strategize a couple of days out, that's not the developers' fault. That's you not being able to do your most important job.
What can be done about this?

For future founders: if you file a domain dispute, put all your arguments up front. Don't expect a chance to reply. Make sure you satisfy all 3 points: your rights, their lack of rights, and their bad faith registration. I hope you don't have to go through what Spase did.
also ddk (driver development kit) which is publicly available sdk (now part of platform sdk instead of separate)
If you enjoy this at all, I recommend checking out the rest of this site or at least the submissions of it here on HN. There is a ton of super interesting content.
I was going to write a similar comment, but yours is much better. I would add one thing though, just luck and some random accidents.

In general in life humans like to go back and understand why some things were successful, and do that to replicate them. Very often that one thing was luck and being at the right place at the right time.

This is in no way trying to take anything away from Paul and Jessica. They are probably super amazing people, and I could certainly never replicate what they have done or even try. I don't think they could replicate it if they tried either, even being the awesome people they are.