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> ...whenever a company has a signifier of quality - a YC demo day slot, a high quality angel, pedigreed founders, or, even better, strong growth. In these cases, there are investor feeding frenzies...

And therein lies the fundamental problem of Silicon Valley today. Most of what matters in early stage startups is not anything remotely objective about the startup's prospects. What matters most at this stage is connections and perceived pedigree.

All that should matter, in an efficient market, is the real potential of the startup itself.

"YC demo day slot" = someone spent 10 minutes interviewing some people and decided they were a good culture fit.

"High quality angel" = Someone's friend knows a well known rich person and hooked them up.

"Pedigreed founders" = Someone's rich parents bought them credentials by gaming the system.

It's not reasonable to expect every early stage startup to have "strong growth" because big successes most did not have this attribute.

But what could be improved is the process of finding startups with high potential. YC was, when it launched, an innovative attempt at solving this. But it hasn't evolved or scaled enough to address the market.

Some kind of early stage crowdfunding solution seems the most likely answer, but no one has managed to crack this nut yet. And so the Silicon Valley investors continue to feed in the same small pond.

The most likely outcome is that a new system will develop that totally bypasses traditional Silicon Valley investors. They may have an abundance of capital compared to the small number of startups they care to look at, but they have nowhere near the money (or intelligence) that the public at large has.
Each instance would be intimately familiar with one part of the project. To fix bugs or change the project, you or an instance of you would need to learn the project. And you wouldn't know about all the design variations that were tried and rejected. So it would be much more efficient to keep the instances around to help with ongoing maintenance.

People who can be ready to study a problem, build a project, and then maintain it for several weeks (actually several years of realtime) would become extremely valuable. One such brain scan could be worth billions.

The project length would be limited by how long each instance can work without contact with family/friends and other routine. To increase that time, the instances can socialize in VR. So the most effective engineering brain image would actually be a set of images that enjoy spending time together in VR, meet each others' social needs, and enjoy collaborating on projects.

The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor [0] deal with this topic in a fun way.

A more stark possibility is that we will learn to turn the knobs of mood and make any simulated mind eager to do any work we ask it to do. If that happens, then the most valuable brain images will be those that can be creative and careful while jacked up on virtual meth for months at a time.

Personally, I believe that each booted instance is a unique person. Turning them off would be murder. Duplicating a instance that desires to die is cruel. The Mr. Meeseeks character from the Rick and Morty animated show [1] is an example of this. I hope that human society will progress enough to prevent exploitation of people before the technology to exploit simulated people becomes feasible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_E._Taylor

[1] https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Meeseeks
Because I know python and if I needed to make a small adjustment to the script (which I usually do, usually minor tweaks), then it's within my capabilities to do so. Takes me thirty seconds to adjust a small thing in a language I know well.

Also the pool of python devs is so large that shrinking the pool in this way doesn't impact on my ability to find someone suitable quickly
Thank you!

Patients see improvement in symptoms after 6 months, with some patients reporting improvement as soon as 6 weeks. For most patients, this means they can stop taking their antihistamines.

You mentioned inhalers. While there has been connection between allergy immunotherapy and asthma, allergy immunotherapy is not a replacement for your asthma inhaler.

If a patient stays on drops for 5 years, they can expect decades of allergy relief after they stop the drops. If the patient stops taking their allergy drops earlier, they will still see a reduction of their allergy symptoms, but it won't last for decades -- it may only last a few months, depending on how long they took the drops.

I just saw the European poster. I don't have the details of his treatment, so I can't address why they had to repeat their treatment. For our patients, the goal is lifelong allergy relief as easily as possible. We don't want you to have to repeat your treatment. If you never talk to us after your treatment, that means we did something right.
You've gotten some downvotes, but you're right. Species are endangered because of habitat destruction. Without restoring habitat, there's no room for a viable population to thrive and grow.
Show HN: Frictionless Org Habits on iOS
This reminds me, when I had my 3rd class medical exam at age 16, the examiner didn't have equipment to test hearing. So, he went into the adjacent room and whispered, "Can you hear this?" Then loudly, "OK, cover your left ear." Whispering, "Can you hear this?".... I passed.
Have you tried enabling "Show one file at a time on merge request’s Changes tab"? That might help.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/revie...
Great work! I'm a person that thinks of every purchase in terms of amortization, or my periodic cost for lifetime, this suits me!
> If it's cheaper for Tesla to store unusable battery cell tech in your car than to throw it in a landfill, do we really want to make the landfill the cheaper option?

The end result is the same, isn't it? An unused battery cell that is driven around until the car is scrapped and goes to landfill. The case could even be made that carrying that extra weight for the lifetime of the car is more wasteful than throwing it away at the start.

I think more likely, if such wastage were a crime or at least financially discouraged, Tesla would do the obvious thing and just design a more modular battery with a way for them to either install or not install the extra battery cell, which is a much more desirable outcome than the current situation of wasting battery cells.

Wasting the planet's finite resources should be discouraged, either by law or financial disincentives.
This is what I see in Germany. A few people stuck with fountain pens thorough high school, but I think moist people switched to ballpoint or fineliners.
I don't have a particularly nice handwriting, and a fountain pen would not help with that. So it's not worth the fuss.
If it's so cheap and easy to enter and exit, why is Uber also in the (predatory) leasing game?
> Well, you're considerably more likely to run into a wild colony of "Africanized" hybrids than you are a great white shark

Are you? They attack rarely (although are thought to have done so fatally a few weeks ago here in NZ) and aren’t even seen usually, but they are close to popular beaches.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/123902863/four-reported-great...
any reason to not consider Aerospike for Cache?
I would love to. You may need to wait a bit, though. I am up to my ass in alligators, right now...

Here's a quick short list. These are mistakes I made only once, or eventually stopped making. Some are mistakes that came about as overcompensation for previous mistakes:

1) Believing HR's lies.

2) Transmitting HR's lies to my employees, unfiltered.

3) Getting HR involved in stuff that they only make worse (a function of #1).

4) Not believing anything HR says at all.

5) Not transmitting HR's policies and/or requests to my employees.

6) Not getting HR involved, when they should have been involved.

7) Making off-color jokes. OK when a grunt; NOT OK when a manager.

8) Getting too nosy about employees' personal lives.

9) Not getting nosy enough about employees personal lives.

10) Projecting my personal values and motivations onto employees.

11) Projecting my personal values and motivations onto other managers, or my managers.

12) Trusting too much.

13) Not trusting enough.

14) Refusing to delegate.

15) Overdelegating. Putting too much responsibility on the shoulders of people that shouldn't have to deal with it.

16) Putting the burden of progress reporting into basic team policy. It needed to be my job to know progress; not my team's to tell me. This is what scanning commit comments and build results is good for.

17) Not respecting different cultures within the team. I did fine with cultures outside the team, but each of my team members had their own personal culture, and I needed to get familiar with (and respectful of) each team members' personal culture.

18) Putting my team's needs before corporate needs. The #1 job of a manager is to make sure the corporation's needs are met; regardless of whatever else is going on.

19) Putting my needs ahead of my team's needs. I learned that I needed to make sure the team, and its costituents, were healthy, and had its needs met, BEFORE my own.

20) Being afraid to say no.

21) Being afraid to say yes.

22) Avoiding taking personal responsibility for the team's performance.

23) Throwing my employees under the bus, in order to save my own butt.

24) Letting employees get away with crap, until it became an emergency.

25) Thinking that my job was all technical. In reality, the tech was only a tiny part of it.

As you can see, "hard and fast rules" are not particularly helpful. It really is a human exercise.
It's interesting to see your take on how things work however from reading around it would appear that Wise is pretty trigger happy to terminate accounts and almost anti crypto.

It's interesting to see things like https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90... and https://pagofx.com/
Hah, totally agree. I assume the thinner atmosphere causes the dust to behave as if our view is much closer to the ground than it actually is.
> Nuclear fuel is several orders of magnitude more energy dense than solar or wind, so the amount of fuel required is shockingly low, especially compared to how many resources all those panels and windmills require to build and transport.

Uranium is rare and very unconcentrated so huge amounts of mining is required to get sufficient quantities. This is what a uranium mine looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#/media/File:Ara...
Is there an analog for regenerative braking in the flying EV world?
30 years ago

“ I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready”

I think it’s more than a hobby now...
Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds different from many of our patients' experience -- we don't want our patients to have to repeat treatment!

Our goal is to give our patients lifelong allergy relief with as little hassle as possible.
> That is, for any C++ program that could be re-written in Go, you could also re-write it in Java or C# or Haskell, bar a few problems around startup times and binary sizes.

Nearly any program can be written any language. I can write in functional programming using Ruby, but why on earth would I do that when Haskell is "out of the box" useful for an application where functional programming makes the most sense.

> Ruby and Python and (Java and C#) programmers are.

Dynamic, object orientated based programmers are switching to Go when the use case suits. My understanding is that the syntax and philosophies are much more aligned to people of those backgrounds (Erlang -> Elixir is a great example of this) and gives them access to a lower-level language without having to learn many of the common more "computer sciency" things that are involved with those languages (C++/C).
>I only included the pronunciation because you used a version of "graduate" in your original comment that has a different pronunciation and different meaning.

You should really learn about linguistic morphology.
I think that's the case with StackExchange, but I don't know of other sites that allow that.
> The code is obviously much simpler than its syntax

What code? The parser? How can it be simpler than its syntax? It has syntax and semantics, which is strictly more than the syntax.

> The point I'm making here is that LR doesn't give a reason for what you're doing.

What do you mean 'what you're doing'?
> This is not hacky or has higher power draw - the display has a minimum refresh rate, and sudden large changes in refresh rate can lead to visible flickering.

I get that[1]. It's a shame we can't specify next frame latency as well, it should be fairly predictable for video (or enable triple-buffering on the monitor side).

> It is negligible. Your GPU will do nothing most frames, and the panel power consumption comes from backlight.

I was basing this on a recent patchset with the following quote[2]:

> Enabling this feature also have the potential side effect of causing higher power consumption due to running a mode with lower resolution and base clock frequency with the highest base clock supported on the monitor as per its advertised modes

[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/1406#issuecomment-4...
[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-F...
Deadmau5 himself has parodied it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tI1E6kp0o
True. The main way a cyclist becomes more efficient is holding a more aerodynamic position for longer. Which you can’t measure on an exercise bike indoors
> Under MMT, you can inflate away other debts (mortages, student debts, etc.) To do so, it separates taxes from spending.

Taxes are separated from spending, that's just an observable fact
MMT poses a (actually, quite conventional) explanation of the constraints that actually apply to that. It also tends to be adhered to by people with particular policy preferences, but that's not really all that tightly tied to the descriptive elements of the theory. (Though most argument against “MMT” is actually against the policy preferences, not the theory itself.)@

> It does away with borrowing to simply create money out of thin air, and return any money collected the same way.

Well, it doesn't do away with it so much as point out that it is an act of artifice. You can borrow or not, MMT doesn't care: government created money when it runs a deficit and destroys it when it runs a surplus, and reallocated it all the time. All borrowing does is preprogram in an allocation of certain spending in the future, it doesn't change the monetary effects of current “fiscal” balance. (“fiscal” in quotes because the central tenet of MMT is that the metaphor of the “fisc”, the finite government purse, is inapt for modern government finances denominated in fiat controlled by the government involved.)
Gee, [1] says they were invented by Wittgenstein! I never knew about that.
The way and the speed by which the sky crane moves away is just like any sci-fi movie, totally unreal [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg?t=188
This. Just because something contains numbers doesn't mean that it's numeric. Times aren't numbers because 6pm * 7am doesn't yield a meaningful result.

Same thing with serial numbers, VIN numbers, building floor numbers, phone numbers, etc. All of those should always be strings, because performing "math" on them wouldn't yield meaningful results.
Anyone have any insight into elapse time on the waiting list for GPT-3 access?
Its all basically this imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle
Any other explanation is a bit of a stretch.
I used to think this was easy until I had to implement even really simple versions for small populations. They devolve quickly and aren’t very valuable compared to other activities.

That and as much as people complain, there’s a magical thinking that technology can do anything they see in sci-fi or an AI consultant has told them is possible.

So I would like to hear back from people after they’ve tried for a while.
Participants were measured on a fixed bike in a lab wearing running shoes.

Sorry guys but this is junk science
Not sure where the original disagreement came from. I never said an aircraft should be able to take off at V1. Perhaps you took the "fly" literally which is fine but that was certainly not the intention.
Regardless of the type of graph, it's important to understand whether a difference of 5 units between one measure and the next is meaningful.

For example if you are measuring the length of optical fibre and the difference between the lengths of fibres is 5cm over 100km, is that important in the context? You'll already lose several metres of length in various loops and coils that are important for reliable function of that 100km length of fibre.

On the other hand when cutting frames for doors, the difference of a couple of millimetres over the two metre length of the side of the frame can make the difference between passing or failing the building envelope pressurisation test.

On the gripping hand when I'm shooting an arrow 50m to a target, what's of interest to me is not the distance from me to the arrow but the tiny variances in distance from the arrow to the bullseye. So measuring the vector from me to the arrow is pointless and the centimetre or two difference in length of those vectors is meaningless.
A simpler alternative could be to just have an electrified runway. The plane draws power from power rails embedded in a runway, or something like that. So, it doesn't switch to batteries until it's in the air.

You could even have a long cable that hangs behind the plane and keeps an electrical connection until you're a few hundred feet up. (I'm picturing it connected to something like a slot-car that travels in an electrified track that could extend a mile or so past the end of the runway.) When you get to the end of the track, the cable (which could probably belong to the airport rather than be part of the plane) releases from the plane.

(This would help marginally with range, but doesn't really help with power density, unless you're limited by the voltage and current available from the batteries rather than the power of the motor.)

I keep wondering if there could be a way to re-charge in flight so that battery range/weight wasn't such an issue, but that's a hard problem.
We're pretty happy here in Australia with how few of our friends and family have been affected by COVID. Life is practically back to normal and has been this way in Sydney for a while. Vaccination roll-out started this week.

You'd be hard pushed to find a single person who would trade our state's response with pretty much any other countries response.
Nobody cares if payroll came out of dumb money or smart money. Same for AWS bills, office rent, etc. Having started a few companies, I'd much rather take a long runway than more coaches.
"There is no place to form ideas in the public meeting. Members are expected to bring ideas, pre-fabricated, and see how they hold up to a vote."

That is the intended outcome. Robert's Rules are intended to facilitate decision making. Robert's Rules are not intended to facilitate ideation.

The misapplication of public records laws -- being instructed to not communicate with other members of the committee seems to be the core issue.
UnrealEd was originally written with Visual Basic with a rendering core with C/C++. I was astonished to find out about the Visual Basic part.
Maximizing profit is not always the best way to go. Especially in the realm of luxury items. Their elasticity is counter-intuitive with regards to the general idea of supply and demand.

That's why you have waiting lists in many luxury industries (think about Tesla too). It's part of the trade.
Yes. Mounting WebDAV and creating a directory in it causes immediate kernel panic on M1 Macs. Fun.
I downloaded ZZT off a BBS when it came out, and to begin with it wasn't particularly impressive.

I remember switching into edit mode on the 'Town of ZZT', and tweaking the responses of the characters.

I was learning to program with Turbo C++ at the time, and actually it was ZZT's 'OOP' that really helped connect some of the concepts in my brain to what Objects were (although ZZT's objects were really sort of Actors that responded to, and could send messages).

I would come back over the years, and I remember on IRC in 94' there was a pretty vibrant community writing games.

What I loved doing was exploiting various ZZT bugs. You could for instance place the player object next to another object, and the next time the player moved they would warp to the object. You could then 'zap' the player object to release them.

One thing you could do is place a stairway to another level, and place the player object on the stairway, and the player would remain on the original level, but the graphics for the other level would be overlaid on it.

I used this to make an RPG engine, where the ASCII art for different encounters were on these other levels, and there was a special level that would basically clear portions of the ascii art to reveal the selected enemy.

There were all sorts of clever hacks developers came up for checking health by converting it to torches, and back, and all sorts of other crazy things.
Lost me at this point: Robert’s Rules of Order and the general meeting protocols really do fall right in line with what we know about white supremacist culture.

I'm so tired of hearing everything being about white supremacy. The latest was the attack on an elderly Chinese man by a young black man...all because, yep white supremacy.

Robert's Rules of Order may not be the best format, but neither is everyone shouting and whoever gets the loudest wins. It maintains the American culture that has been built for the last 250 years and while it's not perfect, it is far from being a place where only whites thrive.
Don't let the people in charge skip out on accountability. If their excuse is "the computer", well, they are after all the ones that put the computer system in place and hold responsibility for its outcomes. Take action against them personally (pay cuts, firings) and they or their successors will for sure be motivated to ensure the computer works properly going forward.
Where I work everything internal is a 503. Put a parameter out of range, or supply an ID not in the database? That's a server side exception. It's very frustrating even with a stack trace because I don't work on that code.
SpaceX broadcasts really raised the bar on what the public expect from space, and with it brought a lot of excitement. Great that scientific program is following in those footsteps.
I'm aware of the distinction between ISO 8601's time zone designators (which are simply UTC offsets) and other much more complex notions of time zones such as the IANA tz database (which identifies time zones with an "Area/Location" string and contains information about each zone such as daylight saving time rules and even the historical changes in such rules).

That said, "time zone designator" is the formal name of the UTC offset in ISO 8601, and it's reasonable to refer to it as such whenever the distinction is clear.
gsub/smartphone/car and you can see where society is headed. A lot of the world is going to just assume smartphones are mandatory and not give a bleep if you don't have one.

Try walking around 90% of the US.

I agree with you, by the way, that neither the status quo of car-dependency nor the inevitable smartphone dependency should be allowed... but here we are.
Yes, something about not having the right perspective from the camera makes it very hard to judge how close it is to the surface. I guess sometimes I get the same feeling when in an airplane landing and going over water, SFO is a good example.