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Ask HN: Startup School and Writing Workshops
So I was looking at the Y Combinator startup school and I wondered what the difference was between the group sessions and writing workshops.

In a writing workshop you bring your latest piece of writing to class and people comment on it.

Since most people in a writing workshop are terrible writers, their advice is usually terrible. So you wait until the teacher comments on your work -- which is actually sometimes useful. So you end up with 24 mostly useless comments, and one mostly useful one.

So with Y Combinator I think they made the same mistake with group sessions in that you maybe have a Y Combinator moderator who knows startups and knows what they are doing -- and you have a bunch of other clueless people who mostly know absolutely nothing about startups commenting on your startup. Which is like trying to get a bunch of people who don't know how to play basketball trying to figure out from scratch a) the rules of the game and b) how to get the ball through the hoop. Do we kick it? Throw it? Get a ladder? What?

You'd probably get a lot more mileage out of forcing people to write 100-200 word essays each week and then posting all of those. And have Y Combinator guys pulling out the best posts and commenting on why they are the best posts. Or distilling recurring problems down into solutions.

Because getting at solutions from people who don't know what they are doing is great for networking, but probably terrible for Getting the Job Done In the Least Amount of Time.

Just like in a writing workshop. Where ten minutes of the teacher's time is worth ten hours of time from your peers.

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What?

I get that iOS is closed down, but I'm a bit confused how being "open" would resolve the fact that a default search engine for Safari is set? You can still change your search engine on iOS (to one of few the browser ships with, Google, Yahoo, Bing and Duck Duck Go in UK)

Firefox is completely open/open source (isnt it?), yet Google pays Firefox for being the default search engine.

Open vs Closed has nothing to do with this. Google wants to be the default in browsers, and it choses to pay for the luxury.
Well since I am one of if not the best full-time options trader I already do that. I also buy calls for better returns and unlimited upside.

Play: When TSLA gets over $440, I'm grabbing weekly $450s and looking for $500 targets.
Countless shareholder lawsuits say otherwise though. So it may not be their fiduciary duty, but if there's a good chance they get sued if they don't maximize profits, they will anyway.
How does Apple being a closed platform prevent me from choosing my search engine on iOS?
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The lack of prosecution has more to do with priority than lack of bail.

Scams can be hard to prosecute, and the harm inflicted on victims is mostly financial. Personally, I would love to see more internet scammers (spammers in particular) prosecuted, but if I think hard about I can recognize that there might be crimes it more important to investigate.
The people who will skip trial and go underground are the reason this system exists. These aren’t professionals with mortgages.
It's not that we don't want to talk about race, it's that we don't want to talk with a racist.
I had the same thought. The only way to be sure is with cameras, which I very much doubt guests will find appealing.
Knowing who breaks the law and applies violence to civil protesters will allow to have a fair trial later.
Although power delivery does have complications, I think the real mess will be software.

Sort of like the cat and mouse of lighting cables.
> in pre-codvid times, not sure about today

Covid really ramped up prices. The "big" webcams we use in our conference rooms just got 30% more expensive since the start of the whole Covid situation. Prices also seem to stay up high. Also delivery takes 8 weeks or more now instead of one week.

Supply and demand I guess...
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If Free Willy is any indication they waited until an Orca jumped above them and quickly attached a camera to its belly.

To make my comment more productive, maybe they attach it to the fins using sticks and bait, like with sharks: https://phys.org/news/2016-06-camera-tag-white-sharks.html
The facts are correct, but your conclusion doesn’t follow.
Drag a window around on your monitor. Can you read its title when it's moving?

This is what it's about: clarity in motion. You assume that average modern monitors are in the 95 percentile and suffering from diminishing returns from better refreshing technology. I disagree with that. Moving things on a modern display is far from being smooth. Look at VR. This field is heavily impacted by this fact. Look at the tablets and phones migrating to >60hz in the past 2 years.

Resolution in motion is an issue.

In terms of analogy, it is not about scraping nanoseconds in high-frequence trading for example, but more like moving your pen on your iPad and have the line not lag behind in a disturbing way.
It's an election year, lots of hot air is being emitted.
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Let's just say Johah sort of fell into this line of research.
I've had this idea but with libraries instead. Neat to see some similar lines of thinking.

Some questions:

- Is the project open-source?

- Why no github signin?

- How do you search for X but only in Y language?

- How are you going to deal with duplication?

- Will you be doing a full 2D spread of combinations? E.g. writing to a file is pretty common - perhaps you can create a relationship between languages so that you can see how it's done in other languages from the same page.

- How will you handle cases where there are multiple ways of doing things?

- Is search broken? "Write to a file" is the first entry there without searching, but searching for "write to a file" shows no entries.
- How will you handle cases where environment matters? E.g. writing a file in Javascript is going to be different between web browsers and Node.js, and force-inlining a function is going to be different between clang and msvc, etc.
That's a pretty website and an interesting approach. Some comments:

- Your "Which resume would you choose?" To be honest, I'd choose the one one the left, it's cleaner and gives just the information I want from a candidate.

- As a "stand out" resume, the one on the right has some rough edges, it has emojis, "cv's" would be better "CVs", resume and CV are synonyms, no need to list both, the non-English quotes, using a hyphen where you should use an en-dash "January 2020 – present", definitely needs polish.

- In lots of places your would never put a photo of yourself on a CV, there are quite a few locale-specific conventions like that, do you have the flexibility for that? Perhaps have locale-specific templates?

- If aiming for a US audience (and I guess you are, resume is the usual US name for what would be a CV in the UK), you'd be better posting this late afternoon in Europe :-)

Good luck!
While we’re on the subject of boring color trends, I’d be curious to see a similar graph for US house paint colors. It seems to have become dominated by variations of gray

Even McDonald’s, a once vibrantly colored place has turned gray.
Most electricity infrastructure can't move energy more than 1000 miles without substantial (ie. >20%) losses.

Countries with higher voltage distribution systems (there are a few 1 megavolt in China for example) have less losses, but you still don't want to be moving much power across entire continents.
It doesn't look like it (from what I gather about `use-immer`). What's being suggested is updating React state via a mutable API on the data value itself. `use-immer` wraps the useState/useReducer functional updaters with a call to immer, whereas `use-structure` suggests mutating the data, which is what every React-beginner instinctively tries to do when they first get started with React. Same idea of using Proxies as immer though.

This is really interesting! Great idea.
In Spain most restaurants now have replaced menus by a QR code on the table. It just takes you to a static page or pdf with the menu, usually on their own website. There's no issue.

But also there's no contact tracing done that way.
"It’s tricky work. Finding the orcas is the first problem. Getting a tag on a wild orca is the next one. It takes strength and dexterity to extend a 25-foot-long carbon-fiber pole from a bouncing skiff to tap the 2-pound tag onto a swimming killer whale, aiming for the area right below the dorsal fin. So far the team has been able to tag two southern residents, L87 and L88, and nine northern residents."
Whitey Ford pitched in the low 80s. Wow. That really puts things in perspective. I don't think you could make the major leagues pitching in the low 80s today. By comparison, the starting velocity for the Rays rotation is in 96 mph. Most bullpens now throw out pitcher after pitcher that can touch 95+. It really makes you wonder if most of the currently players would be considered all time greats if they played in the 50s.
Food, ironically unlike money, grows in trees. It cannot be magicked into existence and there is a very high risk that there aren't enough people with guns to stop starving mobs.

If things go wrong you'll need a better plan than "I have money". If food supplies literally run out, money will be worthless.
The view that the scientific process is “red tape”
Users might also be interested in a map of the actual power infrastructure e.g. https://openinframap.org/#10.72/51.42/0.6706/0.6706 all based from data from OpenStreetMap, where you see how and where the connections between countries are.
Orcas are terrifying to sea creatures, but oddly enough are not interested in humans.
This thing again? The colour is only based on source of energy, not actual quantity of CO2 and hence actual impact on the atmosphere. If I had one family on an island burning a coal stove it would be coloured black.

I know the live data is there but it doesn’t affect the colour assessment one little bit.

Also since when is black bad? Bit racist no?
Well, Unity has hundreds of full time engineers working on features and Godot has, what, five? (Plus non-full time contributors) So it’s no surprise that Unity is ahead of Godot in terms of functionality. Godot may suit your needs just fine, but Unity has a lot more work out into it.

When I played with Godot (two years ago, a lot has been improved since), it was definitely a bit raw. It worked, but I found it a bit of a struggle. I’ve been reading their release notes since and they’ve improved a lot, but I haven’t actually tried it out yet.

The one thing I personally don’t like about Unity is how much emphasis is put on C#, I just never got into the language and have no desire to use it. Godot is a bit nicer for me in that respect. I prefer Unity’s ECS and job system over Godot’s scene system though, but lots of people say the opposite.
Having more developers, commits and code doesn't mean better software!

In general CS course I took in Uni over 20 years ago, one learns about data structure and state of an application with multiple threads. It is something 'web developer' lacks as web was originally meant to be a document based.

I am not saying developers can't pick that up during their development career, it is just that the bar for being a developer has being simnifically lowered in the last few years. It turned more into a buzz word now days.
I'd say the relationship between Wikipedia and Google is symbiotic, at least for now. They collaborated on merging the Wikidata dataset and Google's Knowledge Graph, so now the entities can be connected.

Google gets the benefit of their dataset for their knowledge boxes. You can see the difference in the source code of searches looking at the entity ids, /g/ is Google's own data and /w/ is wikidata sourced.

I see the relationship Google has with Wikipedia similar to the one it had with DMOZ. I imagine at some point in the future that Google will see them as surplus to requirements, though not quite sure how they replace 5 million volunteer editors economically.
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Cool! Yeah that's another good use case. With ecosystems like NPM (ie. ones that have so many packages) it can be really hard to know which library to use.

- Is the project open-source?
Not open source yet but no reason why it can't be.

- Why no github signin?
Good point. I recently mulled over which O Auth providers to support and for an MVP I decided Google was enough.

- How do you search for X but only in Y language?
- Will you be doing a full 2D spread of combinations?
The idea is the page "How to write to a file" has all the language examples

- How are you going to deal with duplication?
If it gets popular I will deal with that issue then.

- How will you handle cases where there are multiple ways of doing things?
- How will you handle cases where environment matters?
You can have multiple examples per language. The one with the most votes will be most prominently displayed.
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Encouraged? No, but data urls are heavily sandboxed, e.g. can't even access own cookies.
> Because "of interest to hackers" gets defended as "some hackers might like it,

Generally (not talking about this particular article) I'm fairly certain a similar interpretation was recently defended by dang.

And I'd add: I was happy to see dang chime in on that one. Too often have I seen extremely important and interesting topics flagged of the front page by what I imagine is users who hasn't read the guidelines carefully enough.
It's important to understand that not only the opinion changes, but the situation in itself.
Producing renewables is now much cheaper than a few years ago. Production processes are getting more efficient, thus less co2 intensive and energy conversion rates are getting better.

A few years ago it maybe was not clear that people had a legitimate interest in renewables. The producing companies probably do not care about the environment outside of laws, but if the request for renewables is high enough, a market can emerge and prosper.

This is very hard to predict even for smart economy people unlike me.
The unstated "pro side" is simply being mean to and destroying the lives of entire classes of people you hate.
No. It said we need to decommission our old reactors, which we do regardless. It’s linked in the first major thread in this discussion.
1. You don't pay, you just deposit money. If you show up to court, you get the money back. If you don't have that money on hand, its common to take out a loan.

2. Everyone has the right to a free public defender. I don't know if there's any study on how they compare to private lawyers.

3, 4, 5, and 7. Low income people are eligible for Medicaid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

6. I've never heard of location mattering

I wouldn't really base my worldview of something on what I see in fiction, since the purpose of these shows is to show drama, rather than to be informative. It wouldn't be as exciting to watch people solve their problems by applying for welfare.
A lot of people in the embedded world still use A,B,C,.. for versioning.

Add to it the dangers of names being taken directly from de clients, and enjoy the fun. Having clients name something “machine v2” was a nightmare.

On the plus side, it gave us a lot of jokes when a client named something “machine X” about how many iterations would it take to get it right.
That is sound advice. Also, when smartphones are gone, it's like magic and people pay attention to the speaker again :)

I would add one hint, which is to also NOT have internet-connected Smart TV's in your meeting rooms.

They might be streaming whatever you say for "diagnostics" or to "improve customer service" or just to shove more ads into your face the next time you turn it on.

"Samsung's small print says that its Smart TV's voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties."

https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-rec...
For another alternative (especially if you want to stay with C#) have a look at https://stride3d.net
> Source code is like this. The mere fact of its existence causes problems.

So you delete your source code after you ship an app? That doesn't make sense. The source code is one of every software company's greatest assets which is why we have created so many tools to keep track of it like version control, automated testing etc. Otherwise there would be no point in clean code, code documentation etc, just write something that solves the problem and done! No need to even check in the code, just build a binary locally and ship!

I understand the point, but saying that code is a liability and not an asset is false no matter how you look at it. Source code solves a lot of problems you can't solve with binaries, it lets you adapt to change much better. So instead of saying that code is a liability, use the business saying "Focus on your core business", meaning don't write code for things that isn't your core business.
Wait... How does it charge if it does not supply voltage?
Sorry, updated my post slower than you answered :D I had a few other questions
MATLAB, NumPy, and a lot of GPU programming (not to mention, Julia) relate to APL and J. You might be surprised by how important what you're learning is to express an efficient computation on a GPU in terms of array operations.
The problem is that Unity always has 2 or 3 ways of doing things for each feature, and the "proper" way that's actively maintained (and recommended by the community) is always the one that's still in Beta and missing features, so you're kinda cornered into updating.

Of course you can not update, but then you might be relying on half-finished/half-broken features that could be fixed just by upgrading.

Also, the whole upgrade process itself could be improved if they put time on it. There's nothing inherent to game engines that forces Unity to have so many breaking changes all the time.
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Yea, goes without saying -- or if you have a waterproof case.

But if you don't have either of those, you shouldn't be using your phone in a non-sterile environment.
You can look up the words you don't understand. Would be cool if you could do an ultrasound using your mobile.
Exactly! I'd rather buy a handful of new tracks a year at $1.29 each than pay for a Spotify subscription.
I've looked deeper into this, and there's a handy graph for the regional Carbon Intensity for GB

https://carbonintensity.org.uk/#regional

It would be handy to see if there's similar for other countries
Here you are! I'd love to hear what you think.

https://i.imgur.com/IXg4nJY.jpg
Test automation can contain as much code as the product itself, and many times is as complicated or even more.

Think about distributed testing of multi user applications, ML analysis of test results, producing the big data for big data systems etc.

Test automation also interfaces with many related fields like DevOps and security.

The bonus in being a test automator is that usually you get complete freedom to implement things the way you want and usually your budget and resources are huge.
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I would say that, especially by C++ standards, this is surprisingly simple, easy to understand, and fully featured - even the extensible template-based version.

I don't think this is even significantly more code than a Haskell version would be, and the error messages and limitations are not significantly worse either.

Error messages for missing/ambigous overloads are necessarily nasty when there are many candidate overloads. And it is obvious that return-type overloading is not usable in situations where the desired return type is not known, as in the auto example.

As for the template error messages, since this is just one layer of templates, I suspect that they will be quite decent - especially considering that even one std::string-related error message is easily a few lines of almost completely irrelevant gibberish (does anyone actually use non-default char_traits???).
Interesting. Unclear if this is because of a known exploit, or because they know they lack sufficient relevant skills to estimate the likelihood of an exploit, or if they do have the skills to know an exploit is likely even if the specifics are not.
I use a regular spray disinfectant (not too much), think window cleaner or bathroom cleaner and a paper towel

But again, it's not too much, just to wet the surface and wipe well
Please please please stop repeating this. It’s an assumption about a solution to a problem that doesn’t even exist yet.

As we build more renewables, we’re also building better grid connections to serve demand response. You build until most places are overproducing.
Nobody dares to say it, because they would put a black mark on powerful people, but the truth is:

People who are in favour or draconian measures and lockdowns are mostly self-entitled, rather rich (on a world comparison) selfish human beings who have an irrational fear developed to a rather benign virus which makes them willingly want to destroy the livelihoods of others for their own benefit, because they are scared to face a week of simple flu symptoms (at most). It's disgusting and we all have known for months that we are killing more people with the measures than helping them.

I and two dozen other people around me including my wife had COVID and I can tell anyone that this virus is not worth a single sweat, let alone the mass killing of poor people that so many are advocating for.
I never understood this. This is an example of laws written for the rich.
What does the number of commits have to do with anything? That doesn’t imply any kind of quality, right?

Also, have you taken a look at the source code for Redux let’s say? It’s an extremely small library. Not exaggerating, it’s on the order of 1,000 LOC. You don’t think someone could produce that?

I would agree with what you’re saying if you were talking about something like Postgres, which is enormous and complex. These state management libraries are very very simple (I’ve implemented small versions of them many times), and really just encourage a pattern in the code. They’re not operating systems unto themselves.
Yeah, agreed, there's a time and a place for this stuff. The art of programming is knowing when to break the rules, similar to most artistic pursuits.
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And as the owner of a solar off grid home north of Seattle, I can tell you solar works fine there too. ;)
Beautiful thinking

it inspires!: a reflection of this for pico8-likes, how would it look? how would it be built?
No worries! I just updated too. Hope your questions have been answered
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How are smartphones and tablets different from laptops and regular phones in this regard? Shouldn't the advise be to meet without microphones of any kind, if you're really that paranoid? And of course, I would expect that online conferences are right out - especially useful advice in the times of Covid19.

Unless this is advice for state-level institutions discussing state secrets, this seems like completely useless advice, the kind that gives security people a bad name. It is both too paranoid for regular businesses, and provides too little protection if you truly are being targeted for espionage. Especially in a time where most meetings are happening online.
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