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(Context: Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, but advisor to several Middle Eastern startups, a couple of which have been through YC)

I have mixed feelings about this article. On one hand, yes, YC gives startups in these markets a stamp that creates a sort of cult. Most of the startups/founders they pick are awesome, but YC invests without a ton of local context or diligence and so they definitely can get it wrong. But, they also get it wrong here in the US, and that's the nature of early-stage startups, but because the volume in the US is so high, it's not that big a deal.

Anyway the most important benefit I see is that local startups get access to YC knowledge and network. That's way more important than any amount of credits. The YC-alumni email list (Bookface) is especially valuable. There's just so much tactical knowledge in there. What email provider to people use? What should you use for mobile ads attribution? If you're based in the US ecosystem, you just ask your entrepreneur friends or your investors. If you're abroad, there aren't people to ask. There just aren't a lot of startups around, and even fewer that are further along to learn from.

YC is facilitating a huge transfer of knowledge to new ecosystems.

EDIT: another massive facilitator is 500 StartUps
But thats how taxes work: i pay for schools, and i dont have kids, i dont get a rebate I were to homeschool kids or send them private.

I pay for roads and i dont have a car, i don't get a rebate if i walk. Etc.
Minimize sugar intake.

Over the previous months of September-December I binged-ate donuts multiple times a week, partly due to lockdown depression. I developed numbness and tingling in my arms & wrists. [I'm young in mid 20s].

Cut sugar since the new year and no more tingling/numbness.
great idea! how about the less polite f0-0c-90-09-1e-ad
I've been a long time lurker of the site and decided to start contributing to it with this submission today. I realize that the topic does have flamebait qualities but it was never my intention to showcase that.
I found this video to be more substantial than usual youtube algorithm hacking videos on the topic.
But that's always how petitions have worked. Whoever created the petition is only interested in collecting signatures of people who agree with their proposal, so that they can bring it to legislators, authorities, etc. and say that 'this many people also want this'. Collecting signatures of people who disagree is counter-productive.
I am very pro healthcare for all and single payer.

Watching California screw up vaccination in pretty much every way possible, and then on top of that prefer wasting doses by preferentially shipping vaccines to the central valley and other areas in order to satisfy non-health-related "vaccine equity" has really started to change my mind.
I've been looking at OSMAnd's nav settings while reading this thread, and they do indeed let you create a driving profile that includes vehicle dimensions and max speed!
Those are great. I played in a group with an organ player who had a B3 into a leslie. I could just sit there watch the speaker horns whir around. They made a pretty good breeze too.
It's just so incredibly bad. People stop believing the CDC. I have. Without solid evidence what the CDC say is not something to take account of. I can't really get too upset about anti-vaxxers believing what I consider to be dangerous (to all of us) nonsense.

At some point you can't understand all the evidence for some given proposition. That's a different point for each of us depending on what we've studied, the proposition etc. At some point we have to rely on some kind of authority in the belief that they won't tell lies because if they did there would be dire consequences for the people involved. Even when we check the evidence we don't personally check the lab to see if the evidence is faked.

Anti-vaxxers and their ilk look at current medical experts as the authority and call bullshit. If I can't make an argument from evidence to them because it won't be persuasive to that individual all I can do is say, well yes, but not /this/ time. They wouldn't lie again this time like they did before. But they would if it suited their purpose, they've shown that. So I don't think they have an ulterior purpose this time. Not super convincing is it? So we're left with attacking the anti-vaxxer "science" as BS. From evidence. Which can be difficult to make convincing to some people. Meh. Anti-vaxxers is just one example in one field that shows the effect. There are so many. "They'd even lie to us about how to be safe in a damn pandemic!" Yeah they would. They did.

I'll put an estimate on the marginal impact on loss of life from that masks don't work lie. More than one life lost that would not have been if the lie was not told. More than one is sufficient. Feel free to tighten the estimate to how much more than one.

Fauci, yep. I'd cross the road to avoid him which he wouldn't care about at all as he soaks up the adulation he so clearly craves. It's easy to criticize from the comfort of obscurity under zero pressure compared to what he must have faced but that doesn't mean we must keep silent. To hell with him. He has no business remaining in public life making and influencing decisions because he is a liar of the worst kind. Disagree with me by all means, but if /you/ see that as an attack on the Democrats in favor of Republicans (or Russia, or China) you're not much better yourself when it comes to undermining the credibility of genuine expertise.
Which vaccine would that be? The Pfizer one was developed by BioNTech in Germany (it's also produced by Fosun Pharma for China), the Johnson & Johnson one was developed by their Belgian subsidiary Janssen. I think only the Moderna (NIAID) and Novavax are truly "US-developed" vaccines. The AstraZeneca one was developed in the UK, Sputnik V by Russia, and CureVac is German.

Besides, I don't think patient-healthcare spending (where the US is spending an additional 5-8% of GDP) affects that or where they were developed.
It's still absolutely rampant for some types of search terms. For example, try searching for "electronic projects", "crafts", or "life hacks" in an incognito window. The vast majority of the results for all of those search terms have misleading thumbnails and/or descriptions.
My point was that it’s not the checkup that costs a lot, it’s the treatment of what’s discovered that keeps people from wanting to get diagnosed in the first place.
Very nice that this supports ligatures which is what I've been missing from alacritty.
What do you mean the ulnar "side"? The ulnar nerve controls several fingers on each hand. The middle and ring. iirc. I started getting that tingling and numbness in my fingers, and it kept getting worse and worse until one day on the train I was thinking "ok, something is REALLY wrong" and went to a specialist my general referred me to.

He agreed that it seemed my ulnar neve was getting pinched by my elbow, most likely (i had Google around, and while I don't think googling equals an experienced doctor, I told him my symptoms, what I read up on, and asked if he thought it was something like that. To my surprise he agreed after some tests and asking me questions).

He told me to start sleeping in a manner where I couldn't curl or fold my arms. He even advised taking a small pillow, wrapping it around my arm, and ducttapping it, so I couldn't bend my elbow at night even if I wanted to!

I didn't do that, but I did pay more attention to how I sleep, and kept my arms naturally straight (relaxed) when I slept. I did have an extra pillow, and I'd lay that across my arm, which was enough. Anytime I woke up and my arm was folded, I reextended it.

After a few weeks of that, and the pain and tingling not growing, it started greatly reducing and went away. I still try to sleep with my arms as straight as possible.
Young's voice suffers terribly from age, so I think both views are correct depending on which recording you're looking at. Pretty sure that live recording of Old Man is from his 1971 Live at Massey Hall recording, which is him near his peak.
There might be something to this. I quit lifting weights when I cancelled my gym membership right before the pandemic started. But I did notice a difference in how good my hands/wrists felt during the ~12 months I was lifting.

I’ve trained and raced bikes for years and I’m currently on a break from cycling and now I’m running 5-6 days a week instead.

I’m eventually going to build a gym in my garage because I felt so dang good overall during the period I was lifting that I’m now convinced it’s part of the key to keeping my body from falling apart as I age.
You've noticed Google Maps do this? I personally find Google will take the simpler routes even if sometimes a faster route comes up while driving. Sometimes on a longer drive I'll see it is showing a greyed out route I could take that is sometimes even 5-10 minutes faster but it won't suggest it to me.

No whereas with Waze it is a lot more aggressive and it will take faster routes and shortcuts even if it means taking a gravel road to save 30 seconds.
I’m not entirely sure this is the case. I suspect (but can’t prove) it’s mostly split among party lines, with an equal pool of wealth between them.

That is, there are plenty of rich Democrats that could bankroll this.
I have question.
Wouldn't everyone want to go to the best hospital in the city if they have something serious like cancer. For example, wouldn't everyone want to northwestern in chicago?

These top hospitals are always in well off areas of the the city. Wouldn't this be inequitable? Would govt interfere and make sure that these top hospitals are distributed equitably ?
They should make a video about it before removing the dislikes
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This is terrible and user hostile. How can I avoid bad content now? Why does YT care more about the feelings of a few super star creators than the user base?
LOL Microsoft has few forums to even voice your concern. You can't even share your salaries within Microsoft. It's such a joke to tout it as more employee friendly than Google. For starters it pays lesser across the board. Google has also backed out of many contracts when dissent was raised.

The voices aren't suppressed at Microsoft, because there're no avenues to raise them anyway.
Hacker News has always had a down-vote button, but there's a minimum karma count to be able to use it.
It depends how teachers run their course.

So many teachers transitioned to grading stuff strictly during class hours so they can dip faster than students could
What is 'the "Thinking, Fast and Slow" pre-mortem'?
I just want "route with the lowest chances of catching a bullet, stray or otherwise"
I wouldn't say dwarfed but the answer looks to be ... maybe?

5.8 million tons of junk mail each year in the US. Mass of CO2 to mass of paper looks to be 10.5x for new paper and 3x for recycled, so depending on whether junk mail is primarily recycled or new, that is somewhere between 17 and 60 megatons of CO2 / year.
Yes. The new X590 supports PCIe 4 when paired Rocket Lake and has TB4 support.
Define “close”. Is it a fixed threshold or a percentage of trip length?
This is the exact argument that was used in some states regarding mandatory motorcycle helmet laws. It’s also possible to hold both views at the same time (paternalistic laws should be avoided and also society would be better off if everyone did exactly what the law intends)
An argument that I find compelling is that the government is obviously corrupted by corporate influence. If you can find a talk on healthcare.gov by Mikey Dickerson, it's pretty alarming. Basically, the government attempted to run a website, they sent out to contractors for help, 100 contractors returned, and 100 contractors were glued together to create a non functioning website.

Obama, embarrassed by this, came to silicon valley to ask top engineers at Facebook and Google to come fix the site. These engineers heeded the country's call for help, came in, and unfucked the website, largely by telling 90% of the contractors to fuck off.

Now do you really want a government that can't run a basic website because they can't hire industry professionals at competitive pay to build it, but instead contracts out to businesses in a corrupt an ineffective way, to be running this?

Corporate influence is so strong in America, and institutions have gotten so weak, it's hard to argue that OUR government can run this type of program. Especially considering half the country doesn't want it and won't hold the government accountable for it.

Our situation is vastly more complex because of the American attitude on tax. "Taxes is theft" is a pretty common sentiment. The instant tax is involved 90% of Americans will hate the administration in power.

So if you laid out a road map:

1. Convince the public you can do it
2. Convince the public they should pay for it
3. Actually implement it
4. Keep doctors and patients both happy

How confident do you feel about any one of those points? I honestly don't feel confident about any of them. The only compelling argument against this line of thought is that most of the western world has done it successfully.

What I am confident about is that we have to solve the American corruption problem before we can solve the healthcare problem.
Sounds like a good idea in theory but in many places in the US when you get off the highway you get a major drop off in the quality of roads and availability of food/gas. If you really care about reducing your CO2 the best option is significantly reducing your travel not slightly optimizing you routes.
If it's optimizing for combustion cars it won't be a perfect match for electric. The ICE route will penalize intersections and hills due to engine idling and lack of regenerative braking.
Oh, neat! I had no idea it was WebKit on there. Still, what I had wasn't exactly what you'd be comfortable using for more than a few moments. I bought one of the original Nokia Internet Tablets and put together a full wearable system back then to make things a bit better for myself, but I never used the browser in S60 for anything serious because it was so cut down.
Not what I see, including in a Chrome incognito window (which shows me the whole article). Could you have an ad blocker or other extension that is going wrong? Do you use an unusual browser?
What happens if these “lowest carbon footprint” routes overlaps with high crime “waze avoid areas” ? Which takes precedence, Virtue signaling or driver safety?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10117-y
This change was done at the behest of the White House. If you look at the White House official YouTube channel, you will see that every video during the Biden presidency thus far has a 90%+ dislike ratio.

It is obvious that a large number of people contest the legitimacy of the current regime and are using the dislike as a form of protest, so the regime is doing what all such illegitimate regimes do and censoring acts of protest.
One reason I love jumbo shrimp, prawn fraud is probably harder than regular fish fraud, and especially harder than crab fraud and "prawn ball" fraud.
Well, they weren't really "ads" - just prepopulated links in the Active Channels list to major media websites. it wasn't just the US with links to Disney, other localized versions of Windows 98 had prepopulated Active Channels to local media companies (e.g. if you set Windows 98 to the UK then you'd get links to Sky and the BBC). I don't think Microsoft was paid to include those links, part of me really thinks the PMs behind the feature just really wanted to show it off and get buy-in from those media companies.
> I’m curious why the downvotes

'cause you came across as an asshole. It doesn't bother me that much. Nuclear safety relies on ~~assholes~~ attention to detail to work, to be honest.

> but no comments

Its not exactly a jumping off point for discussion, is it? I've been out for 15 years and still regularly fail to recognize when I'm being a dick. Look back at what you wrote and think about for a minute.
> It is clearly more economically efficient to treat malignant cancers earlier. We (Americans) all end up paying more with the perverse system we have.

Maybe it turns out that we're all actually saving money by having undiagnosed people die off early instead of paying for preventative care for everyone.
"they basically take 12.92% of your pretax earnings"

Could you clarify this? Is the 12.92% your entire tax burden or the extra amount for medical? If the former, I currently pay $92 a month for health and dental insurance. I made nearly 250K last year. 12.92% of 250K is $2,691 per month. That's .. quite the difference.
> I would like to think that, even if someone doesn't agree with the action, they can at least agree with the intention.

right, and I find that unrelated to being obligated to pay it.

its more like

"way to go, guys!" buys gas across the county line

"that's a great cause!" buys property in another state

"yes, build that park Leslie Knope!" moves

if I didn't do any of those things then I would pay it. if I wanted 1% - 50% more money to do a different thing and there was a legally compliant way to do so (enabled by the same authorities, mind you), I would consider it
To pseudo-quote quote Clay Shirky: nothing will work, everything might.
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I got a route from them recently that wanted me to turn left on a six lane road, no traffic light, to make a quick right turn from the farthest lane, during rush hour.
These two questions (Arecibo and SpaceX) are orthogonal. Arecibo is ground-based science. SpaceX is access to Earth orbit, not really anything to do with science or research.

NSF is an agency promoting research. It is continually handing old telescopes over to university consortia, and building the next generation of hardware. In this case, the handoff was bungled. A lot of technical debt had piled up. But it turns out to be really hard to get people to pay for upgrades and maintenance.

For more on the technical story of this collapse, see: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-famed-arecibo-te...
Of course they do? Not sure why this is surprising.
> Because the unfortunate experience I have had is that some of these national-level projects do work passably-well for micro-countries like Canada, but don't seem like they would scale at all for the 3rd largest (by population) country in the world.

Hogwash, most European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Japan are not micro-countries and deliver healthcare that is head and shoulders above US.

I have personally experienced healthcare in US, Japan and Canada. I will accept Japan's healthcare over US's anyday (excluding Canada as you consider it micro country). US healthcare is a clusterfuck between insurance, hospital system, drugs, and patient care.
You say totally false, but your own favored hand-on-the-scale (which could be reasonable) adjustment leaves it at NOT in any way totally false
Hypothetically, given the choice between a 10 minute, higher-environmental-impact route and an 11-minute, lower-impact one: Are you really going to take the literally selfish, worse-for-the-planet route to save one minute? Wouldn't you like to make a small "sacrifice" (the choice is only given when the ETAs are similar) that might help slow the destruction of the only environment we have?
There is absolutely nothing I can do individually that will have any impact whatsoever on CO2 levels or the climate. Nothing. One person's activity is simply too small a contributor. By the same token, whether I vote or not, or who I vote for, is also irrelevant in the outcome of elections.
Is anyone else feeling like it is getting weird? I cannot conceive how anyone thinks anything positive to google.
> esoteric compiler optimizations

The D programming language design is based in part on my experience with designing and building compiler optimizers, including the first data flow analysis C compiler for DOS.

It's why D has, for example, immutable types rather than just const types. (You can't optimize C const pointers because another mutable reference to the same value can change it.) D's contracts are also designed with an eye towards enabling optimizations.
We have an old big solar bowl facility that has not been used for years (read abandoned) that we want to repurpose into a radio telescope. Anyone can recommend a potential grant or fund that is available to fund the effort?

Flash news, China is opening observations applications for the world's largest radio telescope (FAST) for scientists outside China starting this March 31 [1].

[1]https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-30/China-s-FAST-telescope...
Caulk the wagon and float it across.
now innovation in the web is about removing so called innovations, let's iterate quickly and remove the rest..
Hi, author here! The dots themselves aren't printed with UV ink it's just that the UV light makes it easier to see them due to the yellow ink used.

There were images I sent the magazine of the dots from some magazines I scanned, but they didn't run them. If you scan a page and invert it, the patterns are more legible https://i.imgur.com/x1TXa30.png
For-profit healthcare ought to be a crime against humanity. It certainly feels like it is.
Yeah, a big new tax of (for example) $1500/month, but now you don't have to pay $2400/month.
It’s likely less costly to the decision maker than admitting a mistake and changing course would be.
Interesting. Was this ever used anywhere or was it a dead end? The ideas today have more focused on "colorizing" old Photos or movies.

Demo website [no affiliation]:
https://hotpot.ai/colorize-picture
As long as it's still 2006.
I took a course in compilers from Hennessy and Ullman at Stanford in the 80's. The course material was a series of papers written by them on various techniques, including a lot of data flow stuff.
But did they die?
I disagree. Downvote just lets the mob bury shit they disagree with.
I had forgotten about those Intel Overdrive chips. I had updated a PC with the 486DX4/100.
> No. No it doesn’t. It has at-least-once delivery with client-side deduplication. That’s not new, it’s what TCP does FFS.

It's not just deduplication, you can atomically commit a consumer from one topic + produce of records resulting from that. Which is exactly the same exactly-once guarantee that you get from e.g. an SQL database in linearizable mode (a lot of SQL databases will do the same thing internally - optimistically execute transactions and then re-run them in the case of a conflict).
Upvoted because this is important news.
There is value to having all your data in one place and managing data connectors is generally not very fun. They also tend to be annoyingly brittle and it's very visible when they go down. That all makes for a perfect recipe to cause burnout in a small data team. Competent data engineers are also fairly difficult to hire right now.
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> ...fallacy of the slippery slope.

Haha, I hear this phrasing more and more, almost always coming from the left, as we continue to slide faster and faster down the slopes you pretend don't exist.

I think the top trending Twitter threads this week are about how the government will soon be rolling out vaccine passports. Six months ago, anyone claiming these were coming would have been chastised for their fallacious slippery slope arguments.
I wonder if those vaccines were primarily going to be distributed locally. I live nearby, and my county's weekly covid update said they expect to have most people 16+ vaccinated by the end of April because we're supposed start getting an increased number of vaccine doses every week.
Brainfunk: A brainfuck program set to music