skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed the founder says:

>We’ve only solved a small part of a bigger problem. The SaaS platforms we use for work don't work well together. It shouldn’t take cycling through ten different apps and Chrome tabs to stay on top of everything.

>We’re now looking to bring Slack and GitHub into a unified notification inbox in the menu bar. We want to better organize everything you use as we’ve done with Google Calendar.
YC and other seed investors are betting more on people than on the specific business plan. If a founding team seems really smart, skilled, and driven, but is working on an idea that doesn’t seem to make immediate business sense, then it can still be worth betting on that team, because one of two things is reasonably likely to happen:

1. The team realizes that the business plan isn’t viable, and they pivot to something else, which might be.

2. The team was actually perceiving an opportunity you didn’t understand, and the idea ends up being a big success.

This doesn’t have to work out all the time, or even most of the time - if you fund even one team that ends up pivoting into a runaway success, it pays for all the “bad” (in hindsight) bets that didn’t pay off.
Happy to've seen a picture of B.R. Ambedkar.

Not Indian but major respect for this man!
Two points here:

1/ You're right, UK is big an rich enough to make them cave a little, and is also speaking english and have a good diplomatic reputation, that will help.

2/ Australia is a weird country and have weird politicians, i don't think any western country could've done the same on their own.
Maybe there never was dark matter
The article itself makes the arguments for this. One, hate speech just rebrands. Two, the assumption that what you want censored is what will get censored is false, especially if you feel you are the marginalized group already. So what censorship is effective? Pushing existing already popular ideas that are widely held already. This makes censorship basically useless, and more so creates problems for anyone who doesn’t strictly believe I the most popular ideas. Flat earth is a perfect example of an idea that doesn’t get censored and doesn’t need to be because culture already accepts it is wrong. The truth is almost all ideas don’t need censorship for the same reason flat earth doesn’t. We already make violence and calls to violence illegal which is the generally accepted tipping point of interfering with someone’s life. Censoring views that some may lead to violence is starting to get into a gray area, and censoring views that are just “hate” goes well beyond gray to pure opinion of the person interpreting and we don’t want to give tech companies the ability to deem their interpretation of what we say as “hate” when it has no basis.
Jewels all the way down.
Yeah, they definitely just attached them to an email they sent to whoever they would have forwarded your email to if you had sent it that way.
ah the microsoft people, they are easy to spot :p
Doesn’t YC normally invest in the team rather than the idea? From their Launch HN post:

> We started YC as a video lecture platform for professors but realized it was a horrible idea. We needed a new problem.

Based on the how it started / how’s it going, it looks like they started in YC with one idea and realized they needed to pivot. The fact that this is what they came up with isn’t great, but at least it’s something. It wasn’t their first idea and it probably won’t stick, but that’s not terrible. I don’t think this one single company is a valid criticism of the entire system. Failure is the default end state for startups, so you take the not as good with the unicorns. And at least this one is still going!
Ember.js in 2021 – A Beacon of Productivity
"Ember allows teams to excel at executing their product vision and focus on shipping instead of getting lost in low-level rabbit holes where little business value can be found."

In this blog post, Marco Otte-Witte explains why he considers Ember.js a beacon of productivity in the middle of a roaring sea of complexity.
This is basically what all life does.

Thermodynamically, life can be described as an open system which makes use of gradients in its surroundings to create imperfect copies of itself.

Crypto currencies still have a problem with creating copies of itself, but humans are happy to oblige.
I'm more interested in their privacy policy:

"SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: We share your Personal Information with third parties (analytics tools) to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We use analytics tools to track our users to improve our product and provide a better experience."

Calendars, like contact lists, like emails, like all of the other personal content people produce everyday is sensitive. In lieu of saying how this is protected, apart from just saying it's simply used to make things better, I'm reluctant to link any accounts containing sensitive personal data to startups in search of a revenue-generating business model.
They shouldn't advertise as 'cloud' then. I know it's a marketing buzzword and no guarantee for redundancy or anything, but still.

a 'cloud' provider should have, at the very least, multiple redundant datacenters in one availability zone.
It's hardly the dumbest thing to come out of YCombinator.

I think the other thing to remember is that these guys started with a videocall platform for professors, which is what won the pitch with the partners. Then they got cold feet and pivoted to this.

I also don't think a single bad investment ruins the YC brand.
It needs to be really cold. Like -15°C and some go as low as -40°C. They degrade in efficiency but are still better than a space heater. In the worst case they are exactly as efficient as a space heater.
Related video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQnE0BLEi8k
That sounds suspiciously like the behavior you see out of white supremacists from poor households: the mere "name of the caste" is sufficient to impart a sense of superiority.
This article is as bullshit at it can get with no proof and random catch phrases on the lines of "ohh blacks are hated in America". Truth is, there is absolutely no place for cast in any top Indian engineering colleges. Millennials and GenZ does not give a single fuck to what the cast of a person is. That too in IITs were 90% students come from middle or poor class of society and have similar lifestyle. There can always be one random incident but that does not mean that the entire community can be painted in same color.

Truth is some sections of American society do not want immigrants to work there and these articles are born from the same mindset. India is losing its caste based social norms as the years pass by much faster than America is losing Black are inferior mindset. Even political changes have come in India which has narrowed the caste lines to almost extinction.
"many people not able to spare $1000 who are not in a position to change that, for reasons outside their control"

What would be reasons they couldn't change that? I am genuinely curious? Not counting being too sick to work (of course such cases exists, but it would be silly to cite them).

Frankly you getting angry makes me suspect you want such people to exist, to fuel your feeling of virtue and social justice superiority.
Personally I love seeing a funded company that's focused on client-side software to improve the productivity of general knowledge workers. It's a nice counterpoint to SaaS everything. Yes, there's a subscription fee. But that ensures ongoing development.

Looking at this product, I'd expect it to grow into a powerful, personal RPA product. They could build a high quality, MacOS-native view into all the APIs in your life, with automation tooling and a great mobile story.

But it has to start somewhere. :)
Indeed.

Don't invest in ideas invest in people.
2 observations:

- I happily paid for a very similar product about 10 years ago (it was full screen width and had a brilliant timeline feature but otherwise very similar. It was broken when Snow Lion or something was released. I still look for an equivalent.)

- Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it. Monthly payments for feature upgrades, perpetual license for last pud release (and some discount to encourage people to not jump on and off) is however totally OK with me. In this case however I think the price is generally too high anyway - for now.
Nice. I did something similar a couple of months ago that posts to Twitter:
https://predictionelect.com
> but I wouldn't advocate completely doing away with them.

didn't say this

> Carefully written tests allow you to confidently edit the code without worrying that you might have broken something in the process.

yes true but again you get this with typed code without any tests for 80% of the code as well, look, it's about the quantity and what you are going to test. with types you need way less unit tests (some like ben awad say none!) but still integration tests. still doing tests like crazy and like it's 2010 defocusses your devs and makes refactoring much more tedious, change a small thing and rewrite twenty unnecessary tests from a too ambitious test warrior who didn't understand types. this creates a notion where codebases get stale and untouched for years. nobody likes to refactor test code bc it's an unattached piece of code which complicates things more than it helps, it rarely feels like a true spec but rather like some random code and the next one wonders why his predecessor wrote this test at all. this is so the past idk why people are worshipping this.

Write tests where types don't help anymore (integration tests!) and things are crucial, otherwise focus on the core logic. I have rather devs who write excellent typed code with just very few integration tests than somebody who drives nuts and goes down the full rabbit hole writing 10x more test code nobody asked for than actual code paired with such blog posts like from OP on top, they've missed the boat.
> Also, 0-0 ties and 1-0 wins don't really provide much information.

This doesn't seem to have caused any problems for soccer.
Apache Strike
Maybe they are investing more in the founders than the product?
Sure, that's great for self-preservation. Can be done similarly with "what the boss [or uber-boss] wants".

It leads to so much crap, but it's great for self-preservation.
So did Firefox, in my recollection. That’s one thing I liked about it. But it changed at some point.
Yes, this has been done a few times. CDR-coding was a hardware-assisted method of unrolling a Lisp list (complicated somewhat by the need to support mutation of car and cdr) that appeared on Lisp machines, and there's a Appel/Reppy/Shao paper on unrolling linked lists in the context of Standard ML.

There's also some interesting work on flattened versions of arbitrary tree structures: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~milind/docs/ecoop17.pdf
Or CTRL/CMD + T and type cal...autocomplete will do the rest
The product itself might not be a huge thing, right.

However, it might be just a little tiny thing that they want to do. They launched ASAP. They've got some feedback. Etc.

Next thing might be that they will reinvent the way we use calendars. Who knows? Not YC. But they will give it a shot.

You start small (even if you have a trillion dollar ambitions), you grow.
Sort of but not quite.

Sending CC info through email violates the PCI DSS. The PCI is a private organization so noncompliance is not a violation of the law.

There is no unified law across the US that deals with data privacy. Several states are starting to address this problem but there's nothing like what the EU offers.
To be fair, that's Playa Del Carmen's schtick. The entire town was built in the last 20 years. It's like complaining about the culture at Disneyland.

Mexico has no shortage of local culture, thankfully.
I think its only for millennials who work white collar jobs, and specifically engineering.
My purpose here is not to promote the book but to learn from FP experts what they think about the relevance of DOP approach to FP languages.
If a player was on a breakaway, I’d also try to do stuff like this (as the goalie), which of course makes opponents stay far away from you.

https://youtu.be/W5u0khFnHUg

Yeah, nothing like trying to end a players career. Should have been suspended for the season and fined.
>Should we stop hate speech? What makes you think we can?

Can we even define hate speech?

If you think that you're going to eliminate discrimination or racism through banning speech by calling it 'hate speech' you're wrong.

When you ban 'hate speech' what gets banned is speech that the people in power hate.

In other words you're not stopping Nazis and people calling for genocide. That basically never happens. Instead those in political power use the hate speech laws to crush political activists and journalists.

Here is Canada for example, hate speech laws have been used against many comedians. Journalists quite often. Book authors even, there are examples where RCMP arrest and jail book authors because their book was critical of the government. No racism or threats of violence. No charges are ever filed and the book stays in publication.
Just ask AstroPad and f.lux who both have been targets of being 'sherlocked'.

I can only see that these guys are at risk of being sherlocked by Calendar.app, Google Calendar and Calendar.exe.

Wonder what their answer to YC was when they were asked about that risk.
Ant Group CEO to Resign for Personal Reasons
https://archive.is/dOaAM
I think the point was that Dropbox was not at the time viewed as "seamlessly moving data around". We see it in retrospect as revolutionary, but that was certainly not the view at the time since many of us had already seen online storage platforms come and go (xdrive, anyone?).

I will not comment on whether this calendar app is revolutionary, it might not be, but it's also possible it is something that will make an impact. There's lots of untapped potential in the calendar and event space, in my opinion.
Ctrl+F "Popper" - zero results found.

If you don't provide a cogent counterargument to Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance, I can't take an essay like this seriously. Simply throwing up your hands and saying, "hate exists, let it rain free on the marketplace of ideas" is ... well, not worth a lot.

Also, I love the absence of evidence = evidence of absence argument:

* Germans have stringent anti-hate speech laws
* ... yet there are still German extremists!

... and what if the laws were not so stringent?
The more you watch (and probably play) hockey, the less you follow the puck and the more you can infer where it is from body positioning. That's why long time fans like your father can enjoy televised hockey more, while everyone can enjoy live games.
It is not a description of the computer hardware architecture, the content is very messy, and there is no correct, simple, and effective solution. Can you explain how this article corresponds to the computer architecture or the M1 architecture.
ConsoleMe evokes the word “consolation” first thing i thought when I read the title. Interestingly the article mentions the naming is purposeful and the CLI tool is called “weep”. Hahah clever :)
No, this is not true. Mining costs (in energy) are independent of: tx vol, tx complexity, ether cost and client versions. They depend only on global hashrate setting difficulty, to ensure block times.
As one of the 10 people who watched Indycar, simliar things still happen. Teams are limited in the number of wind tunnel trials they can do each year, so one team bought a mountain with a road that tunnels the wind in order to skirt regulations. Its called the Laurel Hill Tunnel if you want to read more
I put out two records last year for my experiments in looping and minimalism:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dronalarium/dronalarium
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dronalarium/sunna

and a single that's singer/songwriter:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dogandtonyshow/stories

I'm planning on an EP for Dog and Tony Show this spring and another Dronalarium release this year as well.
I think we're agreeing past each other.

In this sort of sample scenario, it's not the platform, but the person who did crazy weird things -- things that they can do with any platform.
Totally agree those actions would be an abuse of power, but Google is not the internet. Google is among the most powerful entities on the internet. I worry that it wields the power of a nation state without the checks and obligations that constrain actual nations. But I can imagine a post-Google world where the internet persists. I think the internet is neutral. We users are not.
Exactly.

Also, if you want to make money selling software to consumers, Apple's platform is the one to target. Mac and iOS users are the most likely by far to actually pay for software. It's far more difficult to sell an app for actual money to Android or Windows users.

Again talking specifically about the consumer market here, not enterprise.
I started producing chill lo-fi some time ago just for fun. And since the people around me liked it, I drew cover art for them, created videos out of it and published on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-o9B7uoKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B01AwrdBPU
Yes, and is played on a frozen soccer field, 11 on 11. No boards, the ball can go out of bounds. Scoring is much higher.

(Others may correct me, I’ve been to one bandy game my whole
Life)
This is a good summary of the lack of conclusion and actual risks:

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...
SoV first and only then medium of exchange. Not the other way around.
"Absolute belief" is something you inferred that wasn't there.

Human nature is what it is. Bring enough of any group of people to another place, there will be cultural replacement.

What about the self reflection of those who let themselves be underpaid and displace the local culture for a quick buck? It seems like you're being sanctimonious.

The Bay Area can keep Man Jose, Sunnyvale, and the East bay. I avoid American yuppies without life experience and the precariat too, so don't feel too special.
I clicked on the first study:

"Small 116 patient RCT with low-risk patients comparing Ivermectin-Doxycycline and HCQ+AZ, showing lower hospitalization, higher viral clearance, and faster symptom resolution and viral clearance with ivermectin+doxycycline."

So they compared Ivermecitin + another drug to Hydroxycloroquine and Azithromycin. Hydroxycloroquine was, for those who remember, the hype drug early in the covid pandemic, based on flimsy studies (just like... Ivermecitin now). Later evidence indicated that hydroxycloroquine may actually be harmful.

So if anything, this study shows that Ivermectin-Doxycycline is less harmful than HCQ+AZ.

This was just the first study in that list, but if the first study is already bogus call me skeptical about the rest.

Update: I clicked on another study. It compares "ivermectin and ivermectin + doxycycline". It does not have a control group...
I think the two of us are essentially in agreement, then. I’ll just add a few thoughts.

> I have not seen any such responses in this particular train of discussion, however.

Thankfully, neither have I, but it’s a particularly sensitive issue for me as just today I found out that one of these “hate speech” laws was passed in the country I currently reside in, Scotland. I find this, and other recent attempts at authoritarianism, deeply troubling.

> formal proofs

In a way I agree, but in another, even mathematics isn’t on as sound footing as one might first imagine. For instance, we know of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem (which says that NO system of mathematics can be both consistent and complete), and then there is the fact that none of us can agree on what mathematics even is, from a philosophical point of view.

Truly, I’m often astonished at both how much, and how little, we actually truly know as a species.
They bought the wrong ticket, it can happen, I get it.

But they are going to literally the other side of the planet and never had a look to their tickets?

Never wondered why Canada is suddenly between Europe and Australia?

Not the smallest hint from the fact that they were not going to fly for longer than 10 hours?

Edit: even better: from Argentina to Australia... via Canada???
Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Inspired by a thread with the same title from October 2018 [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164189
It looks like hiring IIT dropouts over graduates would be an epic talent arbitrage opportunity. I didn't know about vegetarianism as a proxy for class purity, and I can see why high-caste Indians get so offended when I joke that growing up in my meat and potatoes family vegetarianism was treated with a kind of sympathy because they considered it an eating disorder, why some Indians found that so funny, and why I get along better with the people whose English isn't as refined.

This extremely vulgar expression of privilege on my part mainly offends what we would call the petit bourgeois here, where working people tend to find the lack of pretense a relief. This is the horror of being middle class anywhere, because it's living with the fear of exposure that we aren't really all that different from the people we were raised to hate.

Welcome, my Indian sisters and brothers! We are more alike than we ever knew. :)
Researchers find superb algorithm for finding the shortest route
> airbnb is the only one i can think of that is something im actually glad exists

If you leave aside the fact that it destroyed housing in many cities, like the one I live in. A handful of landlords got richer, turists could travel cheaper (not necessarily a good thing overall), but an entire class of citizens got kicked out of the city as now no landlord wants to regularly rent their flat.

If you ask for disruption, that's what you get. When you disrupt a market, you also disrupt many lives, even indirectly.
I have many customers who are stuck with CC for Acrobat. It seems to be the only full featured PDF editing program.
Tesla Confirms That the Full Self-Driving Beta Will Never Be Full Self-Driving
With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their job to support the OS's that their users use. And their users are about 99% Windows/Mac it seems.

When you cover about 98-99% of your users platforms, I think you're cross platform.

Otherwise, we could define a cross-platform slippery slope such that no software has ever achieved it. There's always another platform you didn't support.
Letters to the Editor: Daylight saving time needs to be stopped
There are differences between indoor box hockey up in Canada and the open field variety more common in the US (both countries play both of course)
What makes you say that Telegram doesn't?
Fair enough. I agree, that last part wasn't really necessary. You don't need to be productive and it's okay to passively consume content. If you can control that balance, that's great. I would guess though many of us can get caught in consuming a little too much, which is nice to avoid, but that's outside the point.
If they build a unified notification inbox, I will pay for that. I had one of those when I used a Blackberry and I miss it as I now have to check 10 sites periodically to stay on top of things.