skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I did YC in S16 I found it worth it, but IMO the biggest value of YC at the time was being able to work on building and selling product for 3 straight months without talking to investors, and knowing that funding was likely not going to be a problem at demo day week assuming you did exactly that. YC had already "vetted" your company for investors so that you didn't need to prove yourself in any other way than hard work/growth. After demo day, you could fundraise in a week or two and then get right back to work.

By not talking to investors, you could grow well more than 7%, so it was worth giving up 7%.

Of course, YC has a LOT of other value but that was quite possibly the biggest one.

Unfortunately with the number of companies in recent batches I feel like that value is no longer captured, not all companies are chased after by investors at Demo Day, and the other value YC used to provide, i.e. individual attention given to companies, is also much less than it used to be.

IMO it's still a great program but 7% is too much for what is offered today.
>Split keyboards are $$$.

Hell you can get a kit for a Let's Split for probably under $125 if you hit used markets for the switches and caps.
The kit for everything but switches and caps is $54.99 [1]

1. https://mehkee.com/collections/featured-home-page/products/l...
I've had a UHK for a couple of years now, and I'm really enjoying it. The things I enjoy the most are the mouse layer (controlling the cursor through the keyboard), and the fact that macros and other changes to the keyboard layout are saved directly to the keyboard, so that they go with me no matter the computer.

The only thing I don't like is the long wait for the modules. It's been about 3.5 years since I ordered and the ETA keep shifting. (They were supposed to ship in July, and then September. We haven't gotten the monthly update yet, but I'm doubtful they'll ship them all out this week.) With that said, they're doing something new, so I try to be mindful of the delay, and others won't have to wait for the keyboard, at least.
Yes, I agree that the lack of clarity leads to these ambiguities. I think it would be impossible to formulate really clear rules on what sort of politics is accepted. People definitely want to discuss "politics with a tech angle" stories, like ones concerning Uber. Many people also definitely want to discuss "very important pure politics" stories like this one, or RBG's death, or paternity leave. At the same time I think most people don't want HN to turn into a "general politics is just as accepted as tech stuff" kind of discussion forum. The line will always be very fuzzy. Maybe the difference between RBG's death and her possible replacement is that RBG has already had a huge, concrete impact on the (US-centric) world, whereas her replacement's impact is speculative at this point.
Optix doesn't do Vulkan and I doubt that NVidia will ever bother, and OTOY most likely will rather use they resources elsewhere like the new Metal render.
A Mac Store release would also be helpful when (re)installing a Mac or moving to a new mac.I had to go through the process recently and `brew` or App Store apps were a breeze to reinstall but manually installed ones have to be noted down somewhere then manually reinstalled.
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Yes.

You have to keep an open mind coming in though — they may challenge your very understanding of your company’s existence.

Focus, focus, focus on the right metric, and find PMF before you scale.

S20 participant here, so fresh from the program.
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So true! Arms can be neutral on my arm rests, trackpad in between the two halves.
Conditions included open-label drug use, without a placebo control or randomization. In lieu of a placebo control group, for comparison the control(s) consisted of published SOC patient results that were not administered the dual-histamine receptor blockade from the USA, United Kingdom, and China.

I think further placebo controlled double blind study is warranted before any conclusions can be drawn that this treatment is effective.
There should be an Internet Forum Law where any sufficiently large forum just becomes about current events and politics. There are already endless places on the internet to talk about those things, I'm glad I share this place with users trying to resist it.
Look, if you make it difficult for me then I’m either going to just not bother or I’m going to plug your article url into one of the many websites that will give me the content for free, and I won’t feel bad about doing it.

If you gave me an option to pay even say $20 for 10 articles, like a punchcard, then at least you’d be getting that money from me.
Yeah there, in my experience, keyboards can come with generally two different layouts for the bottom alpha row, it's a slight move, only about half a unit (where a unit is the width of one key), but it's significant.
Difference is in so-called "Nordic" skiing, only the front of the boot is attached to the ski and part of the technique is flexing the ankle and raising the heel during parts of the stroke.
These are interesting, any concern with eye damage? Is light on your face enough? What about arms, legs, etc? It's a pretty small surface area really.
why are you keeping your tv on for 6 weeks straight?
At this point I have doubts about who employs the Manchurian candidates in the first place, people behind the big companies or the three letter agencies. There are revolving doors between them.
> 1,369 microsieverts per day.

That would be equivalent to eating ~13,690 bananas. It is not an accumulative dose though, so you would have to stuff them a bit.

Radiation workers in the US are allowed to get 50,000µSv per year, so it certainly is a relevant exposure. But if they only stay two weeks, it would still be just about one chest X-ray.

Would be more concerned about these "large solar particle events".

source:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Exposure...
There is literally no publisher that would be able or trying to prevent you from reading other publishers. What they want is for you to come back to them, but you can read others too.
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Cost, size, and learning curve.
I had the same thought. Why would anyone be surprised? Quite honestly (because the UK way of life aligns with mine) I'm glad that they do.
What is blue ammonia? Paywall on the article.
all of the functionality happens at compile time
Lovely done! I wonder what their software stack is. My bets go to Grasshopper.

Too bad the blog has no RSS btw.
A friend of mine is one of the nerdiest guys I know but has suffered from RSI most of his life. He exclusively uses DataHand keyboards (which he buys used and refurbishes or parts out). I notice you don't have a picture of those in your gallery. It's an interesting idea (having 5 switches per finger without moving your hand) but I'm more hopeful that chording will become the default.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
It'll probably take a couple of weeks for your fingers to callus, after that it's fine. Just keep it up! The trick to improving is just consistent deliberate practice. Practice every day, even if it's just 15 minutes. Take note of what you need to improve on, and practice those things. And don't be afraid to play things at very slow tempos at first, you want your muscle memory to remember how to play things properly. Start slow and build speed over time. A metronome can help a lot with this, and helps train your internal metronome at the same time, so I recommend that too.

My #1 piece of advice though would be to not give up. I find the most frustrating and unrewarding part of learning an instrument is at the very start. You have to build your foundations from essentially nothing, you have 0 muscle memory built up, and progress can seem non-existent sometimes. But once you get through that initial phase, the sky's the limit! In my experience, it only takes a year or two to get good enough that people will enjoy your playing (provided you practice at a relatively consistent rate over that time).

Have fun!
‘There is a fear that this will eradicate dwarfism’: controversy over a new drug
True. Foone's stuff is great if you happen to stumble upon it at the second they start the discovery. But because of the earth being round and us being on different sides of it, this never happens to me =)

Afterwards it's just tedious to wrestle with Twitter's shitty UX to get the whole thing.

Threadreader and its ilk are a good midway point, I'd still prefer for Twitter to have a native "make this tweetstorm a blogpost" button for those authors who don't do blogs for some reason.
I got the Freestyle Pro from them with Silent Red keys and have been happy with it. I was worried about the key noise since my office mate (who is also my wife) has complained that my chair is too loud. No complaints at all about the keyboard.
>dark when you go to the office and it's dark when you leave for the day

You guys are still going into the office?! We're 100% remote "for the foreseeable future" here.
Out of order until you said you have no cash, then it magically started working again.
You are assuming that most adults have an inherent understanding of political issues, too. Most don't.
I am not talking about dangers of US government banning some app or service. I am talking about about dangers of the very existence of that service ruled by what I consider quite unfriendly people. Unfriendly not to me personally, but to the way US operates.

As usual, official justification and real reasons may be very different. The "security threat" may be direct and indirect. I tried to present a picture of indirect threat to the security of US.
> 24 drivers shared their accounts with 20 others which led to 14,788 rides.

It's very interesting to me how aggressive and clever some people are in breaking the law, all in order to... work a sub-minimum-wage job.

Obviously shouldn't be allowed, but seeing as the scammers happened to be otherwise honest and hard working (from what I can tell, at least), I can't help but think this is all the result of a fairly wholesome scam.
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Eastern europe is indeed pretty good for tech jobs.
Newer TVs don't truly turn off by default, they just go into standby.
Still, I'd take that over some shitty "slap a $50 android tablet on a wall and point it at our weird http site" -solution.
It it’s so bad, why would you go to all that effort toward its performance? Just for the sake of completeness?
Disagree whole heartedly. The benefits of ortho is minor compared to the split, but it’s still there. And if you’re already willing to buy an expensive split mechanical keyboard, what’s the drawback?
This looks like it will fuck up your floors very quickly. The feet are basically daggers and they slide around while the chair is transforming.
Google has been reducing the average spend per engineer (in terms of benefits and workplace conditions) for quite some time. That is indeed where they have decided to pinch pennies. Real estate costs are non-significant.
Isn't that true for pretty much everything in life?
Do you have any recommendations on how to find these deals other than monitoring craigslist and local second-hand stores?
> Few people want to subscribe to ... whoever to get all the content they're interested in.

I don't need to watch anything right away, so I keep track of what I want to watch, and rotate my subscriptions monthly to binge it. Not ideal, but I'm kind of only paying for what I want to watch, instead of a running fee for multiple services.
They're explicitly talking about not logging into machines for log access. One of the ways to make it seem a reasonable suggestion is the broader topic of not logging into machines at all, ever, and why that may be a good thing.
It’s hard to find articles about it right now, but a lot of adults did not feel shame playing the GBA SP in public. The design impacted a lot. I encourage anyone to look up the original Gameboy Advance model and compare it to the GBA SP model to convince yourself how obvious that design change was.

As for the subjectiveness of the GBA and GameCube designs, it feels obvious to me. Like, the GameCube had a fucking handle on it lol. No dear sir, “purple” was the least of it.

To hammer the point home, Nintendo specifically mentioned that the modern redesigns of the Wii or GBA were Apple inspired, and were deliberate. They consistently made those types of modern design changes since the success of SP’s redesign (DS Lite). All the design changes looked less childish, a simple before and after google image search should confirm this for anyone.
I've had Ergodox EZ for 5+ months, and not loving it at all! It's unnatural and uncomfortable. Tried changing switches a few times, armrest changed, angels and keyboard layout adjusted many times and it's not any better.

I feel I have to force myself to keep trying to use it because of the cost! I'm not sure if it's worth it at all, none of the parts are that expensive but I guess novelty cost money.

I bought it because of the reviews, I now realize no reviewer is ever 100% honest because candid honesty doesn't get you free samples from manufacturers to review! I will be getting rid of it soon. I definitely DO NOT recommend!

I played around with Keyboardio 001 and it's better, but my play time was too short to judge more accurately, didn't like the switches at all. I want to consider Kinesis Freestyle Edge but again the key switches are not my favorite, I like heavier tactile switches, Cherry MX Clear or similar.

My full CODE keyboard with Clear switches from 6-7 years ago is still the KING!

EDIT: LOL, people are down voting because this comment "hurt" their feelings. There's a small niche group that love ergodox, but it's not for general population. I code a lot and absolutely HATE it when missed key hits, looking for keys and typos distract my train of thought. I'm still in the hunt for a proper split keyboard but ergodox and family are not it!
I've seen this a lot in the US, and at least in the North East, it seems like a lot of companies are moving away from this model. It's a really difficult policy to even enforce without being discriminatory against men.

At this point in my career I take it as a red flag against the company. Women obviously still face many more hurdles than men when it comes to workplaces and an expanding family, and both genders deserve more paid time off in the US when the family grows, but policies like this end up specifically targeting men more often than not.

By default it defines men to be a less important care-giver than women.
Generally space in under the right thumb, backspace the left. I've seen some people swap this around, but for my brain there is no way to reckon with that.

I primarily use a dactyl day to day, but that's just a split version (with pretty much the exact same layout) as my kinesis advantage.

That said, I like to play the occasional videogame and the advantage and dactyl just don't work well for that. So I keep a 65% board around on my desk to swap out. It has a split spacebar, left bs, right space... which means in every game ever I just rebind 'jump' to backspace :)
You mean, they released the tax information that Obama already publicly released?
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Housebrand OTC drugs in particular are the same as the name brand equivalent. There was a Freakonomics episode where they said pharmacists overwhelmingly choose house brand OTC products.

House brands of any product have to pass the same relevant regulations.
https://www.ycdb.co/
Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
Isnt it clear that it s politically libertarian, or anarcho-capitalist? Still, why does work have to mix with political campaigning?
> Using pi rounded to the 15th decimal

So, a 64-bit double, in other words.
Are we trying to protect consumers?
The computed size (40 decimal digits) is .. less than the 128 bits of the IPv6 address. So, we can encode the radial accuracy of the universe, to the size of a hydrogen molecule in IPv6 packets
What did you try on Bloomberg? Opening bloomberg.com and clicking at the biggest, most central story shows me the whole story in full, both in Firefox and in Chrome in private mode. But clicking a random story in the sidebar (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-27/saudi-ara...) only gets me an abbreviated version in both browsers. Interestingly, it even customizes the message: "You're in private mode." in Firefox, "You're browsing incognito." in Chromium.
It is well known that these amoebas can live in disinfected drinking water.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/public-water-systems...
I normally give notice as early as possible, but take note I'm in Asia (Malaysia). If they want to negotiate it, this gives them room to. I've had a 25% salary increase and substantial increase to benefits, but it was done in a dodgy/deceptive manner, so I quit anyway.

People are reciprocative. If you treat your bosses as just another thing, they'll do the same with you. I'd rather be the better person and not live with the guilt, and have to justify that they would do the same to me.

Normally, even with 3 months notice, they treat me with respect and as a full employee, and there's usually a little farewell party on the last day (which often is a Saturday). I'd offer to fully train a replacement (but they never find one) and a lot of the remaining time is spent documenting everything to make the transition easier. But again this is for smaller companies, and not in the US.
Well we would have money for proper healthcare but due to corruption we don't have money as a lot of it goes into the pockets of politically influencial despots.

Everything being bought with public funds ends up being bought through middle men at 10x the price.
Step 1: Stop consuming the news and other ad-based media triggering your anxiety.
You’re losing out on the ability to move to a much cheaper area. If you’re going to suffer the costs of remote work, you might as well also get the more of the benefits.
Really interesting, seems like it has some unique abilities.

Signed up for beta invite -- does anyone happen to know whether all interested parties are admitted?
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I’m not citing anyone, that comment was clearly an expression of opinion. Feel free to disagree.
Yeah, funny how you are the only one to mention this. People talk about legalities. Trump doesn't care about legalities.

He was pranked and wants to retaliate.
I'll preface this by saying that I'm not even remotely a medical researcher, or a statistician. I would also love for someone to correct me if I get something wrong here...

When I read this, I think the sample size (n=110) is too small for all the various claims they're correlating out of it. Yes, It's a large enough sample size for statistical significance, but I think there are too many variations involved to make any definitive conclusions. Specifically with the concomitant treatments.

They also did not collect their own control data, but pulled SOC data from elsewhere. I don't think that's bad, but their control group was only 12 patients, and they even state in the paper that it's not large enough for sufficient results.

I do think the results are encouraging from my armchair analysis, and I think it would be good to see the data from a larger study (and a far larger control group), but I think it's far too early to make any real conclusions from this.
In TS 4.1+ there _is_ an option for strict array access called `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` [1]

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
Same. Though I now feel like when I code on a normal keyboard it feels .. un-natural. I'm still approx as fast, it just doesn't feel right?
> The most ergonomic mice are usually from one of these gaming companies

No they're not, just do your research [0] and don't buy flashy gear aimed for 13 year-olds. My general rule of thumb is if it looks like an LED alien, it's almost always a bad product. The company spent more money on marketing/looks than on engineering. This is very evident with current WiFi routers and motherboards.

[0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-master-3.910...
> It's literally unusable

It's not "literally unusable." Even for language pairs with poor translation, it considerably saves on manual translation time if you can have a translator look over sets of already translated (but lower-quality) sentences and correct those with errors.

Plus, there are actual studies out there comparing human translations to machine translations in a double-blinded evaluation by translators and the gap is not as high as your comment suggests.

For chinese-english (the other direction), bilingual evaluators have had difficulty differentiating between the machine translation and the human translation.
I purchased one two years ago and I still love it and use it nearly every day.

It took about a month to get used to the linear (non-staggered) layout, but since I did it's been great.

I attribute the major improvement in RSI mostly to the split-ness, which keeps my shoulders properly spaced.
If you're into this kind of design check out https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

They have some really cool (and very complicated) jigsaw puzzles [1] that I bought as gifts for my family. The Inifinity Puzzle is topologically a torus so you can infinitely tile it by taking a piece of off the left and placing it onto the right side.

I have a set of their coral coffee mugs [2] which I absolutely love, especially after toying around with my own reaction-diffusion based designs/art.

[1] - https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=7821
[2] - https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=8222
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This article’s quoted experts think a return to normal could take as long as November 2021 or even a couple years:

> Experts’ estimates of the timeline vary, but there seems to be some agreement that the virus could be in decline and under control by the second half of 2021, and that society could see pre-Covid “normal” within two years.

> “I’ve said November 2021,” predicts Zeke Emanuel, former Obama adviser and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think you’ll have enough herd immunity [in the U.S.] that we’ll have an unremitting decline.” Herd immunity is the point at which so many people are immune that the virus can no longer spread widely.

Personally, given the IFR for those under 50 is incredibly low (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...), and IFR under 70 is roughly the same as the typical seasonal flu, I don’t think it makes sense to drag out a return to normal that long. Losing another year of our lives - a summer with family, a normal education for kids, necessary social interactions, is not something I can accept.

Life involves risks all the time, even in simple acts like stepping outside our homes. And as a society we already accept that lives have a finite value, so this is a question of which tradeoffs we are OK with. Right now it seems like we are willing to sacrifice the lives of the young to protect the lives of the elderly.

How do others feel about timelines for a return to normal that extend 1-2 years out?
No it's not, get your facts checked. React.js for instance is 7 years old and here to stay. Angular 2+ and Vuejs are both younger but here to stay too.

Frontend dev has largely matured and stabilized, it's not the shit show it used to be anymore.
One that’ll actually last? No. Even the Sculpt, which doesn’t have nice switches, is over $50.

These things are made in such small numbers that they’ll never get economies of scale. They’re typically 2x the cost of even the already high price of regular mechanical keyboards.
No... but I assume even in the pre-digital days most people only ever had one, at most two, newspaper subscriptions. And the newspaper (er, news website) publishers are still living in that world.