skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, I think, is the wrong take-away. You're forcing elements into even more strictly defined buckets that can't scale responsively to different devices.

I, personally, prescribe to the 1px grid system - where I write all my widths, heights and offsets in multiples of 1px. It helps keep things consistent.
If you are a gatekeeper for an industry where protected classes are inversely correlated with success, then you should strongly consider the negative effect your gatekeeping has on the world.
Having your team be cross-generational absolutely works. An age gap between co-founders is much more challenging, as it can create a whole host of expectation and alignment issues.
"The physics of a push-me pull-you boat"

http://202.38.64.11/~cxyu/AJP_pushmepullyouboat.pdf
It's the infrastructure bill itself that contains the poorly considered provisions which (arguably) require miners and unhosted wallet developers to collect and report transaction information to the IRS. The competing proposed amendments to mitigate this have yet to be subjected to a vote.
I have OmniGroup's port of Doom on my SAIC Galaxy 1100, which is a 712/80. id even had a Gecko for awhile. The fat binary is at http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/App...
All companies can start off taking your security seriously, I think it is a “when” not an “if” for relaxing that security. Apple’s here to make money, nothing more nothing less.

What do you make of the following thesis? Apple need only be “a little more” secure than Android. “We only share your info with the government, not the government and a thousand shadowy data brokers”. Better than the competition is all they need.

The question of why this change is being made will be interesting if it is ever made public.
It seems to me that the the QC issues are largely cosmetic, but are mostly with the Prospex models (some of their priciest models!) and seem to have intensified in the last few years.

I've heard from watch geeks with friends in "the business" that Seiko is aware of the issue thanks to the negative online word-of-mouth these issues have generated, but I don't know how reliable that hearsay is. (Really, though, Seiko would have to be blind not to be aware of the issues...)

We'll see if Seiko is actually aware and if that actually results in an improvement. If so I suspect that it will take some time for results to be seen given the lag time between manufacture date and watches winding up in consumers' hands.
One of my brothers sublets a condo, and the place is very well maintained. It turns out that even if people grumble about condo fees, they're quite willing to pay them because they can see where those fees are going to.

Every year the condo board approves and funds at least one round of improvements at my brother's condo, keeping everything looking and feeling fresh. This year it's a refresh of condo front doors, for example.
A few things.

- it's misleading to cherry-pick a single post. The analysis for all 400+ Launch HNs would look entirely different (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches).

- the type of startups you mention (extending an existing business to a large market) are more likely to be in an aggregate thread than a standalone Launch HN [1], so you've effectively assumed your conclusion.

- you presumably know nothing about the ages of those founders, so bringing them up in a post alleging age discrimination (or more precisely, not alleging age discrimination) and misleadingly adding the word "young" is... dubious.

- you list the founders' names but nothing about their startups. Why? Obviously because they have international origins. Following that with "do you fit in here" strikes me as a veiled slur.

- it's also pretty silly. Why shouldn't YC fund great startups regardless of where they come from? You'll find YC doing exactly that in every category: national background as well as all the others (race, gender, class, and yes, age).

[1] That's because, for this batch, we've been trying to give every YC startup who wants to launch on HN a chance to do so. That requires a huge number of editorial decisions because there are so many more startups than front page slots. I make the editorial decisions based not on the quality of the startup or their market (let alone irrelevant attributes of founders), but on how interesting the HN thread is likely to be to the community here. Mostly that has to do with avoiding repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). In other words, the considerations are completely unrelated to everything you're implying. I explained all this when announcing the aggregate launch threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280.
Clearly, they must pass it before they can learn what is in it. As is tradition.
Carriers, at least in the Czech Republic, are very restricted in what they can do. Regular phone calls and SMS messages are much more private than anything else out there.
I disagree. You can separate the author's observations (namely, the identified pattern of revealing standing reserve) from the author's intentions (standing reserve = bad).

However, one can easily conceive of an AI that "obsoletes" humanity from the supply chain, so-to-speak, which would theoretically allow humans unbridled opportunity to "be", as Heidegger envisions it. Once human labor is obsolete, what will become of humanity?
You can do that in C# : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.v...

(Strictly it's an attribute rather than a type, but it's enforced by the compiler given a target runtime)
In this case, the links are one-use, so if it's in your history it's already gone (and therefore secure).
Carson Block Sees Fraud 'Top to Bottom' in China Stocks
2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece
What you could try doing is use a notebook that lets you start with an initial image [1], chunk that image, and generate a an image for each chunk. It wouldn't be unified, but it could come out interesting.

To make bigger images, I'm currently making composites out of multiple smaller prompts, like gradients or chessboards.
I don't know about dropping frameworks so much - they allow companies with very little incentive to invest in mobile (nearly all our users are desktop based) to get half-decent mobile layouts with a minimum amount of investment.
How does a professor have $10,000 sitting around for a bet like this?? I am a nicely-paid tech worker, and $10,000 wouldn't ruin me, but it would be a major setback for that year.
Fundamental Flaw in RNGs Affects Many IoT Devices
Using No-Code Appgyver to Build a Social Media Posting Mobile App
There is no formal definition of computing which is furthered by iPhones.

I have an iPhone, and pythonista is the only potential thing which fulfils the criteria of "computing", everything else is convenience.

Smartphones have done an incredible amount at bringing the consumption of the internet, audio, video and rich communication via social media.

But they have not brought "real world computing", because "real world computing" is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes and development of both hardware and software. It has scientific, engineering, mathematical, technological and social aspects.

You might want to read the wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing
> What is their line of thinking? That older people are too set in their ways? They command too much salary? They will not be a cultural fit because of an age gap? Can anyone describe the position of those who slyly or effectively hire a younger crowd only?

All of the above. In my experience, hiring managers want to hire someone they can have fun with outside of work so commonalities such as age are very important
If you had a thousand (or million) satellites doing this, could you actually measurably modify the orbits of planets? Mercury is small enough that presumably 1000 satellites each doing 9 gravity assists could change it in some way?
It isn't. It's the worst one.
Thanks - yep, that matches my rough understanding of the view from the ground too.

Statisticians and scientists sometimes talk about 'type 1' errors and 'type 2' errors - false positives and false negatives. I can rarely remember which is which, but I think that generally, software license/contract legal professionals never want to advise a client about something that later turns out to be a liability.

That's fine, because it protects their firm's reputation, and it maintains the client's trust (which needs to be strong). But I think that in the context of software licenses, this has led to an overly strong aversion (and indeed self-replicating idea) about the AGPL and other copyleft licenses.

(in the context of cost-benefit, it's hard to justify the upside from using and helping contribute towards a software commons, but I think it can be significant, perhaps depending on project context and popularity)
> To portray RMS as "against tech" is a very misleading characterization of him

It's also a poor characterization of the anabaptists, for that matter - they are not in general against technology but against the impacts of particular technology (nothing to do with RMS's concerns, theirs are about community).

For example, some anabaptist communities disallow cars, some allow them in limited ways, some allow them completely - but this is decided based not on a doctrine but on their communities evaluation on the impact of peoples housing spreading apart...
There should really be a length/complexity limit. Imagine what the bill of rights would look like if it were written today.

Some room for compromise makes sense but it seems we've taken things way too far.
Agreed. It feels like they're trying to claim that they were rejected for age... without providing any evidence. They don't want to come out and say it. But by suggesting enough, it's sure implied.
The fundamental flaw in this article is trying to redefine stupidity to be one specific cognitive failing. This leads to the comments being full of people quibbling about the definition. If he’d called out “cognitive tool failure” and defined it clearly, people would be discussing his ideals, not arguing about what “stupid” means.
Well fine. I meant that orbital speed (the "along track part") would increase if you lowered the altitude of a geosync object with rockets, string, or any other force, I think.
I dont blame you. After all this change is retroactive to all iPhones, and you might see the iPhone 14 removes the scanning. But then iPhone 15 re-adds it. You're at their mercy.
I think focusing on the interesting points of an article vs. maddening bits is a good approach.

Certain topics still seem to incite flame wars and upvote/downvote wars; I'm not even sure how to address the latter, though the HN guidelines (such as evaluating the argument rather than the speaker) seem sensible and may mitigate the former.
I agree that it's great to break out of the rigid 12 column grid, but for most devs -- without formal design training -- a basic grid helps with sizing, spacing and alignment.

One thing I enjoy when working with Tailwind is the ease at which I can experiment with flexible layouts and jump into a grid, when needed for alignment and sizing. When working with more opinionated CSS frameworks, you're pretty much forced into the 12 column grid pattern -- unless you're comfortable customizing the framework.
I don't see why climate change would affect the positive aspects of fire.

Logging generally does not have the same effect (logging takes big trees and leave small stuff, fires leave big trees and kill small stuff. Also the heat from fire is important for the germination of some types of trees)
The problem is _not_ on-device scanning, it's on-device scanning and then sending incriminating results to the device maker.
If you want to run NeXTSTEP on a Mac laptop but don't want to run OS X, then run Rhapsody or Mac OS X Server. It's closer, though it has a sort of not-fish-nor-fowl incomplete facsimile of classic Platinum as its interface. The Wally is probably the best choice for this.

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2014/08/and-now-for-something...
And the digital currency sounds like fiat direct deposit :)
When it’s your house that you own outright, I’ll allow it.
Why is this post getting so many upvotes? "Age discrimination" - based on what?!

If I am a vegan and get constantly rejected by YC, should I create a post: "Done with YC: They hate vegans"?

I expect much better from HN. What the hell.
Taxation of carbon totally works. British Columbia has a $50/tonne tax, which increases the cost of unleaded gas by about CAD $0.996/L and natural gas by $0.0882/m^3 [1]

Revenue from the tax goes into the government's general revenue, which allows BC to have among the lowest rate of income tax of any province in Canada. Meanwhile, BC has the highest rate of electrical vehicle purchasing in North America [2]. One study showed that employment increased by 0.74% as a result of the carbon tax [3]. Finally, research shows that the tax is highly progressive, having a smaller impact on poor households than rich ones [4].

[1] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/taxes/sales-taxes/publicat...

[2] https://vancouversun.com/opinion/mark-zacharias-and-ian-nevi...

[3] https://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/econ/files/info/unitis/pub...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09287...
Incentives in Computer Science
Definitely all ears for options that still allow TFA apps like authy/okta/google authenticator needed for work.

ie, afaik pureism is not an option
He did. He bought Apple products. That's the whole point.
That doesn't seem to be the case here, because the files are actually deleted once the user logs out of Snapchat. So it's obviously the Snapchat app itself that is triggering the file deletion, not the OS.
Wasn't Bill Gates going to build a new type of reactor [0] before Trump became president and shut down US/China collaboration [1]?

It seems there's some movement from Mr. Gates around nuclear again, but not sure if the Natrium stuff is the same as the TWR (travelling wave reactor) of 5 years ago. [2]

0. https://www.terrapower.com/

1. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-w...
As an older founder, it's easier to raise $20M Series A than as a younger founder. I'm pretty confident I have a much better chance of raising money than I did a decade or two ago. To be specific, I think I would have had almost no chance way back when, and I think I'd probably have better-than-even-odds today, if I tried (which I wouldn't; I'm committed to what I'm doing).

However, that doesn't mean places don't age-discriminate.

Truth of the matter is, I'd enjoy doing Y-Combinator at some point in my life, but I don't think it will every be possible:

- I don't think they'd take someone like me

- If they did, once you have kids and mortgage, you can't relocate

- If you do, once you have kids, you can't do the Y-Combinator lifestyle of 80 hour work weeks, sprints, and ramen

- The offer would be exploitative, for people with more senior backgrounds. Perhaps I can get by this, but 7% is a lot to give up for advising.

Y-Combinator: "We think that $125k is currently the right amount for founders to be able to run their company and pay expenses for around 5-6 months, and sometimes even longer" (https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/)

That's great for a grad student, but I think a lot of people read this to mean "no older people." I mean, I might be able to self-finance or raise capital, but founding team for $125k for 6+ months? That's delusional if you're out-of-school and have expenses.
A riff on "The revolution will not be televised."
All are uploaded but only when the secret sharing threshold is met are any of them decryptable, and then it’s only the ones that were a match that can be decrypted.
I remember hearing a long time ago that brushing before eating is better. Sugar reacts with plaque to form acids and brushing temporarily removes plaque. So eating straight after brushing doesn't really do anything.
>we can live without internet as humans.

Sorry, but I'm not going back to pre-internet days to accomplish my life goals. You might as well tell people in 1900 that they could live just as well without electricity.

If you want to be a monk or Amish, sure. If you want to be a normal human in pursuit of self-actualization and helping the world, internet is a de-facto critical piece of your life.
I have been using the space mask, but it is hard to say if any of the masks really work at all.

I like the idea of air systems and UV light that I see in some of these indoor play places.
> our page looks way better than the alternative

They're built on Fidelity. Sweep will come. And there is value in being able to e.g. have an easy interface that says "I want this cash to be liquid around this date with about this confidence" and let the system work for you. Or designate cash as a rainy-day fund, or as buffer cash that can be invested in risky, marginable securities, et cetera.
There's usually a greater sense of accountability if someone expects to live somewhere longer than a year or two.
Genius Ways to Reduce Death Bed Regrets Permanently
He refuses to own a cell phone, because they're all closed-down, closed-source systems and that goes against his principles, but he's totally fine with using one when he needs to make a phone call. This comes across as startlingly performative.

I thought I remembered other instances, but none of them come to mind and obviously googling has turned up a ton of opinion pieces without a lot of actual substantative points made, so I'll leave it at that; not enough to argue that he is, by his nature, a hypocrite, but also not 100% pure to his principles in every circumstance.
I recommend Veritasium, his videos are quite good. This one probably has good and useful visualizations but I was doing the cleaning while listening to it so I missed that. Still possible to follow without watching though.
Yeah - my read of this is Apple wants to increase their e2e adoption while still handling CSAM in a way that gets them an okay from the regulators.

Ben Thompson's suggested approach for them in this article is to just do the unencrypted iCloud model with normal CSAM reporting like FB does and make that the tradeoff.

Apple actually wants things to be more secure by encrypting everything e2e with this CSAM hash approach to still fulfill that obligation (and protect themselves from future regulatory requirements that are more broad).

Reasonable people can disagree on these approaches to policy, but it's not obvious that Apple's move here is strictly worse for end users - if they do make moves to e2e then it's arguably better for user privacy to do it the way they're doing it.
You're focusing on signal for some reason, ignoring the larger point being made

Also:

> their crypto as well as their app-related code is open, well-documented, and repeatedly audited.

And since nobody builds their executable from source, it doesn't at all guarantee anything about the version I have on my phone right now, unless I do a lot of extra check that virtually no one will do on every update. If whatever entity* aiming for me chose to target a specific update at me on the store that did a clear copy send on the side, I would never know.

* Say, China aiming for a chinese user on whatever chinese app store is popular at the moment, to take the most obvious (but clearly not only) exemple
The problem is not flying into the Sun, it's slowing down to get in an orbit around Mercury.
in the event an EMP knocks out all your electronics,
is having a functioning watch something that really
matters?

If you know what time it is, you can use your watch as a fairly accurate compass in an emergency.

https://www.citizenwatch-global.com/s/support/exterior/direc...
omg can't agree more: i sooooo wish i had kept my NeXTstation Color from 1992 just to have its amazing magnesium case. just beautiful mechanical engineering / materials design. also feel that way about my parents' long sold 1969 LawnBoy 2-cycle engine lawn mower, also magnesium, sturdy engineering, and with which i mowed countless lawns as a kid to save money for computer stuff and sports stuff.
Why wouldn't they just use pig teeth for dentures? Or rat teeth?
I've done a LOT of incident management and I'm not happy about it. The biggest issue I have run into other than burnout is this:

Thinking and reasoning under pressure are the enemy. Make as many decisions in advance as possible. Make flowcharts and decision trees with "decision criteria" already written down.

If you have to figure something out or make a "decision" then things are really really bad.
That happens sometimes, but when teams don't prep at all for incident management (pre-determined plans for common classes of problem) every incident is "really really bad"

If have a low risk, low cost action with low confidence of high reward, I'm going to do it and just tell people it happened. Asking means I just lost a half-hour+ worth of money and if I just did it and I was wrong we would have lost 2 minutes of money. When management asks me why I did that, I point at the doc I wrote that my coworkers reviewed and mostly forgot about.

A really common example is "it looks like most the errors are in datacenter X", you fail out of the datacenter. Maybe it was sampling bias or some other issue and it doesn't help, maybe the problem follows the traffic, maybe it just suddenly makes things better. No matter what we get signal. Establish well in advance of a situation what the common "solutions" to problems are and if you are oncall and responding, then just DO them and document+communicate as you do.
To me, it is pretty clear that YC favors the young and narrowly focused. The advice in startup school, while excellent and evergreen, certainly seems geared toward early career people in its content. YC representatives have said again and again that they are looking for people without families, with low personal burn rates (live like college students), the flexible personal relationships to move to SF and work nonstop(no family), absolutely hungry to prove themselves, who are wicked smart and motivated, but not yet wise enough to say no to an incredibly risky bet where the downsides are all one-sided. The avoiding of solo founders I think has a lot to do with the typical applicant's age and experience as well.

YC's inferred goal is to launch young founders who would otherwise be ignored or not taken seriously (and perhaps end up with a financial advantage for discovering a diamond in the rough). You are already in orbit. Keep at it and good luck!
> The most surprising thing is that angels appear to be semi-excluded now.

That might be a consequence from that Dreamworld debacle... Maybe... Hopefully...

Having an obvious scam legitimizing themselves through YCombinator was at the very least very disconcerting.

(Just a random person's opinion)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dreamworld
I only disagree that Apple could have previously "rightly" said it was impossible.

If China had previously demanded they scan users photos for certain material, then Apple could always have done so.

Sure, it would involve pushing an update to all phones, but so would the change you are talking about (to check more hashes).
I first heard about pumped hydro back in 2007.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/grist.org/article/monbiot-we-ca...
https://books.google.com/books?id=vsPYv7jm-34C
That's precisely why being an older person helps. You have experience under your belt. If you're 55 and have never done anything, that's a strong signal to not invest in you, since you're unlikely to do something now.

20-year-olds are risks. 55-year-old have track records.