skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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no, you're not alone! we've actually had this conversation as a team and with yc batchmates as we've gone through yc w21.

to really simplify what we do, we're a reporting tool for companies that take out large loans from banks and need to send updates to their lender every month.

i think there are a few questions contained in your original question, though. among them: has the low-hanging fruit of tech/software been picked, such that only esoteric or niche ideas (there was a slightly heated conversation about a calendar app the other day) get funded? has abundant VC funding created a culture of solutions looking for problems? etc.

my hot takes, in order of conviction:

a) "[tech] can only be understood backwards; but it must be [created] forwards" (apologies for the misappropriation) -- another way of stating PG's point that tech startups look like niche/low-value toys at first before expanding into larger areas. this is a bit tired, but like all good heuristics, even if you know it you still fall into the mental trap. so when i look around and start to see other yc w21 companies as "toys" or inscrutable or bizarre, i try to interrogate that belief. easier said than done!

b) this could be a symptom of spiraling complexity in software (and the saas ecosystem). all the new yc startups are building on top of a few generations of other yc startups (e.g., now that everyone has a CRM + ERP, what could you build on top of that?). i was previously at a yc-backed enterprise saas company whose clients included many other yc-backed enterprise saas companies. my brother, a debt investor at a bank, is entering tech for the first time. i only bring that up because i have been shocked at how high the hurdle is for participating in saas conversations re early-stage startups. whether it's "figma for finance with a workflow element" or "carta for cap markets in the neobank space," the way silicon valley frames conversations around new software in terms of slightly less new offerings is astounding (it is both positive and negative. positive--faster to iterate on familiar concepts. negative--keeps other people out of the convo).

c) increasing distance between software greenfield and the average consumer. as i look at yc's large fintech companies, it seems like they've gone further up the value chain, or perhaps further way from the end-user. in fintech, you have stripe, which handles payments and which many companies might be familiar with (even though overall penetration has a lot of room for growth). but the "back-end" solutions like modern treasury or finch are not built for the average consumer, even if they can provide a ton of utility.

thanks for your comment!
>Imagine that your great-great grandparents were enslaved. Your grandparents weren't allowed to go to white schools. Your dad was harrassed by the cops as a young man in the deep south. You worry that your colleagues may think you wouldn't have been seriously considered for this job if you weren't an underrepresented minority.

My country was destroyed by Nazis, milions of my country citizens died cuz of it and it was less than century ago.

I'm working fine with german companies / people just fine as I'd work with other country based companies, no bias.

Time to move on.
Could this be used for bespoke cloud gaming? I was considering setting up a parsec host with paperspace GPU. I want more control over the game client than geforce now or stadia provides and a better GPU and availability than Shadow.tech currently offers.

*edit: I see that only Linux hosts are available at the moment so that kills my use case but I'll keep the question up for grins and giggles
If some founders are not adding sufficient value, the fair solution is buying them out at a fairly negotiated price.

The proposed scheme encourages little assholes to become bigger assholes and the slightly alienated to become totally alienated.

The biggest problem with the scheme is that it emphasizes "effort theater" over results.

In a healthy business relationship everyone's goal is to make everyone rich while becoming rich one's self.

An unhealthy business relationship is one in which people try to make themselves rich at the expense of the others.

Good luck.
Of course, depending on which direction you feel like drawing the arrows, probability and entropy (thermodynamic) are caused by entropy (information). God seems to care very much about preventing cheating in computation, for no particular reason at all.

Or, conversely, God cares very much about the universe having an arrow of time without any notable time-asymmetric properties, and had to make up all sorts of information patches to make that happen. In that case, probability flows downstream from thermodynamics.
Totally agree. Had they made a real change that actually mattered, all this time spent on discussing this rename, could have been put into better use. They created buzz, changed nothing.
Vimium for gui in two secs:
f - show keys to press to click something and open the link in the current window
F - same except opens in a new window
/<chars> <enter> - search, n for next and p for previous
V - visual cursor selection, y copies
esc - get out of anything

There's a lot more, but you can go a long way just with that.
I have a lot of Native American friends, they grouse about losing the Redskins team. I think the white SJWs don’t really understand the dynamic. Not claiming I do either but point being a lot of people took pride in that team for its name and representation, it wasn’t a joke. One of the side effects of this purge/righteous cleansing is that it’s also scrubbing out representation. Land-o-lakes being another example.
We are planning on having a path for pre-revenue by summer, so definitely get on the waitlist.
We process the waitlist on a first come, first serve basis.
If we think we can help you, we will make you an offer, and give you access to our data-driven next actions / OKRs.
I switched from Mac to Ubuntu 4 years ago and I'll happily say that I won't go back.

Everything does "just work" and I have a development environment that mirrors my production environment because of it. All of the dev tools run smoothly with Linux. As a bonus, I can run it on any laptop I like regardless of whether Apple decides the configuration should exist (RIP 17" MBP).

Corporate environments or personal stuff, I haven't found anything that I personally need that I can't do.

Legitimately, the only tool that I miss from OSX is OmniGraffle for making diagrams. Draw.io is good, but Omni was a special kind of polished. If they ever decided to release a cross platform version I'd buy.

There was an initial learning curve the first month when I committed to it, but I don't spend time having to get into the weeds of the system unless I just want to do something complicated.

All that said, this is something that I'm personally happy with and love. I won't recommend it to family and friends.

I'll recommend Apple for them because I know I can count on Apple Care to handle all of their problems, which keeps me from getting those same tech support calls.

For me though? I'll never go back if I can avoid it.
I hovered over each item under the appropriate category, and I clicked the one that best described me. The description was 100% accurate, and outlined my flaws perfectly. Now I know what I need to do, thanks.
Collecting, writing and managing notes are each different steps, demanding different UI&features. But writing is the step taking most time. So naturally the focus is there.

And collecting is more a matter of your setup. It's unhealthy easy to collect stuff with any mature noteapp this days.
> My general presumption based upon years in the industry is that by far the majority of scheduled, large block meetings are not worth the opportunity cost of having them.

I entirely agree with you here - I disagree with the notion that "managers" (should) like those meetings any more than other folks. Most large block meetings are ineffective, the more effective ones have a strict agenda and someone moderating them with that agenda in mind. They can be useful for announcements or large-scale alignment, but most of them should be struck from the calendar with no replacement - and good managers recognize this and strive to do so.

> Effective meetings don't come from an individual transforming normally ineffective ones into effective ones by some form of wizardry over everyone else in the room, they come from a culture where everyone makes them effective together through shared values.

The person leading a meeting can make a substantial impact -
being prepared, making an agenda and a plan, setting a clear goal for the meeting, deliberately limiting the number of people attending, requiring others to come prepared and enforcing that (possible adjourning the meeting if it turns out to be ineffective), time boxing. There's no magic place where all meetings are effective or feel effective for everyone, but there are places that try to improve and there are techniques that make improvement possible.
We're still quite a ways for using this process for anything much bigger than a mouse - right now the nutrients are being supplied entirely via diffusion, without a working blood supply:

> At Day 11 of development — more than halfway through a mouse pregnancy — Dr. Hanna and his colleagues examined the embryos, only the size of apple seeds, and compared them to those developing in the uteruses of living mice. The lab embryos were identical, the scientists found.

> By that time, though, the lab-grown embryos had become too large to survive without a blood supply. They had a placenta and a yolk sack, but the nutrient solution that fed them through diffusion was no longer sufficient.

> Getting past that hurdle is the next goal, Dr. Hanna said in an interview. He is considering using an enriched nutrient solution or an artificial blood supply that connects to the embryos’ placentas.
It's out of print, but if you can get your hands on a used copy, Rob Trucks' Cup of Coffee might be right up your alley. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/476455.Cup_of_Coffee
> Like yesterday I had to upload a file and the interface only supported drag and drop, and I took it personally that I had to use a mouse.

keynav to the rescue! (As I’ve said before it’s no replacement for proper vi bindings like Vimium or better Pentadactyl, but it is useful as a second-to-last resort before a hardware pointing device.)

Dragging is not bound by default but it is easy to uncomment in the example config (cp /usr/share/doc/keynav/keynavrc ~/.keynavrc and gg72 in vi on Debian):

### Drag examples
# Start drag holding the left mouse button
#q drag 1
# Start drag holding middle mouse + control and shift
#w drag 2 ctrl+shift
Seems like another one of those games with a few colors and swappable palettes.

‘Down Ward’ does that too: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fisholith/down-ward-owl... (or would do if it was funded—not sure of its fate).
Changing sports team names does reduce the number of people prancing around in fake headdresses and doing the "Tomahawk chop"...

I would love to spend more time on economic and tax code reform so as to make the United States more equitable. Would you like to join me? There is not a lot of benefit in arguing, "This is not the thing I think is most important for you to do, so you shouldn't do it" -- let people work on what they want to work on, and put your energy into making substantive change that you believe in.
The problem with BSD on a laptop has always been wifi drivers. Is it anywhere near usable yet?
I started trying to explain water flow / pressure by doing dimensional analysis (comparing the units) and I just confused myself. Count me among those that don't understand.
None of that has a stock exchange listing.
Reminds me of https://purrli.com/
Thanks for answering - an XPS is actually what I was considering to install on
I aspire to get someday there
> SWE, BSCS, 4 YOE, $800K TC

What is this supposed to mean to mere mortals?
What about Fiat Money concerns to crime?
I used to love the credits at the end of old video games - they were half the motivation to get to the end of the game. Some of them had surprisingly good, almost cinematic music - I can still remember the credits music from the end of Sega Master System's "Ys The Vanished Omens" like it was yesterday.

Q for players of modern video games: do they still have great ending credits scenes like that?
What would be the advantage of that? Unless you "own router" is basically VPNing everything past the ISP router? In which case it's not really clear why you need the "own router" part...
See? :)
How to create a child-friendly city
I actually prefer #5 because you are explicitly “exporting” the parts Django cares about and ensures you aren’t stomping on other models. The part that stinks is dealing with cyclical imports.

At the end of the day it comes down to discipline and leaning on the framework to help keep things clean is Not A Bad Thing(tm) IMO.

But I am not one that feels like it robs me of my expressiveness because I’d rather have something consistent to build on across multiple projects instead of trying different patterns within the web stack that flask / fastapi let you get away with.

That being said, fast api seems great especially if you don’t have to deal with the overhead of user management and such directly.
It's not like animals can feel suffering right.
Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring Growth Engineers in Montreal
Top Texas regulator ousted as recording emerges of pledge to protect Wall Street
And in the modern world, we are blind to it because of light pollution. It's sad. One of the most amazing experiences ever, a truly dark, clear sky at night, is only accessible if you travel off-continent.
Artificial wombs would be great if they work well, but what are the odds that the initial designs will work well when actually tested on humans?
That is a revisionist YA history and appropriated booklist with the goal of adding more legitimacy to the genres. YA emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, as summarized fairly well in that Wikipedia article.
Thanks for bringing this up! This is all definitely true for way too many companies :/ One of the questions I ask when I think about switching companies as an engineering manager is: "How will you know if I'm doing a sh*tty job?" - you'd be surprised how few companies can give a proper answer to this.
Ski carving. I tho I was doing it right for 10 years, I finally understand it this season.
I'd also suggest sufficient damage could be done before any reasonable corrections could be made, specifically if the faked individual "said" or "did" things that meet people's preconceptions about the individual.

I could imagine fake footage that would cause market impacts, riots, etc. before anyone could get in front of it, and even after official corrections come from Upon High many would believe the explanations themselves are the lies (not the faked footage). This would not be assisted by media organizations saying "allegedly", "can't confirm", and of course the words of anonymous sources that totally would never lie, right?
Here is a great read on infectious agents and the differences between infection and disease.

* Infection does not necessarily lead to disease. Infection occurs when viruses, bacteria, or other microbes enter your body and begin to multiply. Disease, which typically happens in a small proportion of infected people, occurs when the cells in your body are damaged as a result of infection, and signs and symptoms of an illness appear.*

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/
This really closely tracks my opinions/experience.

Manually adding a domain/service layer over the models and never exposing the models across domain services or up to the application layer seems really tedious when you're doing it, but pays dividends down the line. The object returned from the domain layer interface is an attrs, pydantic, or just a plain Python class with no connection to the database.

This encapsulates the saving-to-the-datastore logic behind the domain layer interface, so other parts of the app can't just do model.a = b; model.save() wherever and whenever they want. The domain interface decides what is allowed, and can handle & hide session logic, writing or updating related records, etc.

Further, you don't have to have a bunch of @property calculated fields that include lots of business logic on the model, causing the model to bloat to a 500 line file and conflating business logic with database implementation details. Business logic can all go in the domain layer.
Say you sample every 10ms. This frame, and every frame for the sake of example, looks like this:

* f1() - 1ms

* f2() - 8ms

* f3() - 4ms

* wait_for_next_frame() - 3ms

After 10ms, you'll sample and see f3() is running. Now you seem to think, oh, I should optimize f3(). But f2() is clearly the main cost of the frame. You can totally increase the frequency, so now you sample every 0.1ms or something, and that's probably fine. But you probably want to just instrument your code and get more accurate results at that point.

My main point is that out of the box typical sampling profilers

A: Don't sample fast enough
B: Don't display the data split up by frame.
Built to steal your info
That's the idea. We think that we can really tip the balance for early stage founders.
Everyone has a different mountain to climb, we have seen thousands of mountains, and tens of thousands of paths up the different 1000s mountains.
We give you a map, and a GPS.
Is there a default login I can use without providing an email?
I'm not sure it really plays out like that. At least the 'monkeys and typewriters' scale setup is not there, I think.

Maybe if you asked me five years ago, I'd have ventured that China will try some out-there genetic stuff with some successes, but we haven't really seen much. And (not to get into politics) but China is not too concerned about traditional Western ethical boundaries, it seems.
The Portable Speaker Giving a Second Life to England's E-Bike Batteries
Would be much better if the website stated it explicitly. The current description is rather unfortunate.
This is so trite. How do you feel about artificial legs? Hearts?

There are a lot of women who would love to have children, but have PCOS, hysterectomies, or other problems becoming pregnant naturally. Why is it totally OK for me to wear glasses, half the country to have an artificial hip, but totally 100% unnatural and terrible for women to use an artificial womb?
However, bias can show up in what’s not reported just as easily and in that case their is nothing to detect.

You're right about not knowing what you don't know.

But that doesn't mean that you should blindly trust some discriminator system (which we know can't make any technical guarantees, and comes with additional risks) instead of learning to reason about these things.
My understanding is that reducing a single person's income from 12,000 to 10,800 is a big deal. And in any case, my original point was that this is barely "enough," and this is assuming a perfectly efficient and equitable distribution. It may actually, technically be enough, but it's poverty. It's only not poverty if you also receive the income for people you take care of who don't actually need all of the income (like kids). I don't think arguing over whether $11,000 is as good as $12,000 is particularly meaningful because I don't think $12,000 is enough either, and my main disagreement with the original poster was with the statement that there has been enough for a long time. That seems unequivocally untrue to me.
nft (pk), url, owner_id (fk)
The old zines, inspired me so much, I'm fortunate that I was able to get tons of blacklisted411, phrack and 2600 in my youth. :)
Most will disagree with me but: Those "waking fantasies" are the result of dilligent meditation. They occur because the brain activates some senses which aren't normally used. But as mainstream Science knows little about them, they're treated as "psychosis" and "fantasies". I can't say about her case specifically, but overall, I can assure you, they're not. But the thing is, the proof can't be shown. It must be experienced. I've been studying these things for years. I'm not a "blind believer". I've experienced them, as millions of others did. Dismissing these things as "fantasies" is naive at best.
We are currently finding Canada, US, UK, AU with more countries coming soon. Good call out, will add to the FAQ.
It is sorta surprising, because there isn't really anything intrinsic to that baseball. It was a witness to history, but in a very passive way. A few moments earlier it was identical to every other baseball. Without its certificate of authenticity, it's still just another baseball.

That doesn't really answer the question here, except to note that this is kind of a a self-bootstrapping thing. The crypto money itself is only worth $X because people say it is -- without even a government fiat behind it. And in so doing it makes itself famous, which is why we're talking about it.

Once money becomes that far divorced from the base of the Maslowe pyramid, it all becomes pretty wonky. It really is the same as paying money for a "famous" baseball that has no real claim to fame, either.
Got any links or sources to read up on this? Or any particular narratives you're referring? Asking out of curiosity
The ": ... ; " is a good start, but you can also put in the $ or # before the semicolon using bash's "\$". This makes it especially protective if you copy+paste+oops as root ;-)

You have to have a space after the ":", so ": ", but you can colorize that bit in modern shells so they have a use. I color them green or red depending on the exit status of the prior command (using the PROMPT_COMMAND bash var). I also leave out the space after ";" and just colorize it to be invisible, but that's a personal quirk.

More importantly, you can use the PROMPT_COMMAND to filter out braindamage as you build the prompt, and thus prevent filenames - which can contain ">" - or something from producing a redirect in your PS1.
Too Big To Fail is also quite good and the third leg of my personal "Great Recession Trifecta."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Big_to_Fail_(film)
Throwaway as I don’t want to admit I am one of these negative ones (soldier) with my main.

The negative reaction to this seems like ego. “I’m special, unique, and complex so you can’t profile me this way.”

The thing is, people aren’t. Social media companies have demonstrated that most people can be broken down into categories and targeted in very specific and effective ways.

And yes, as the article says, try as people might, if you work with me, you will never learn why I am that way.
Afghanistan's fearless Gen Z influencers
> For these reasons I believe a well-diversified portfolio of non-debt and non-dollar assets along with a short cash position is preferable to a traditional stock/bond mix that is heavily skewed to US dollars.

What exactly is he proposing? I think he is proposing to borrow cash, but can somebody ELI5 what is meant by non-debt, non-dollar assets?
The VGA versions of the games could be played on EGA hardware, the 320x200 x256colors graphics were displayed, dithered, in 640x200x16colors mode.

The EGA versions had distinct 16 colors graphics.

I guess you had the VGA versions
NPR looked into this 7 years ago.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/30/295931070...
It's the people who remain asymtomatic through their infections who barely infect others. For people who end up becoming symptomatic their viral load and infectiousness peaks somewhere in the day before symptoms first appear. That's the one thing we've found about this virus so far that's genuinely weird. It seems to be very good at evading the automatic immune system but once the Interferon starts flowing the viral population starts crashing immediately.