skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> YC will always advise going for a high-growth, high-risk strategy

I agree that this is indeed YC's bias, but it's incorrect that they will always advise founders in this direction. That claim is inconsistent both with my direct personal experience as a YC founder, and also with the experiences of other YC founders who I know intimately and have spoken to about these sorts of questions.

The fundamental reason claims of "being bullied" and similar are incorrect is that there's another major component to YC's incentives. Namely, YC loses out on an enormous number of great startups if there's even the slightest justified perception that they do anything close to bullying their founders.

YC's time horizon is naturally long: their biggest investments pay off over a 7-12 year time scale and almost all of their portfolio is extremely illiquid at any given time. That means they're especially culturally sensitive to actions that carry the risk of long-term negative effects, even if those actions also have positive short-term effects. Bullying founders into risking it all is just such an action, so they'd default to avoiding it even if it worked (which, by and large, it does not).
I'm very much in favor of a carbon tax that aims to capture most of all sources of pollution. If you just tax gas you could get into a situation where it's more profitable but more wasteful for example to grow produce hydroponically because diesel is highly taxed but electricity generated by burning natural gas is not.

Just the effect of making less green options more expensive would help, but of course this would be even better if the money collected from such a tax was used to invest in green infrastructure which could balance the original pollution.
I get value from holding crypto, its as subjective term as it gets.

Listening to music in strict Islam is considered hurtful and sin. To some people listening to music is as worthless as crypto, or maybe even worse.

Stop whining about crypto being a ponzi scheme. Instead of parroting same points over and over read what ponzi scheme actually is.
https://archive.is/uHGlv
What's the takeaway? How can statistics inform action, if such action invalidates those statistics?
I think the problem is that there are multiple layers of correction - both the physical and the spelling/semantic.

On ios I just had to turn off autocorrect, because I had reminders I jotted down quickly which missed the physical correction and were irretrievably corrected semantically into garbage.

now I find a note with "spekk" and I can figure out I meant "spell" (need a better example)
As I pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28521804, hashcash with RandomX makes for a rather poor Proof of Work.
The code base at work has 100s of thousands of lines in several services based on Spring Boot. There's not a single factory in our code.

We also do not use XML to configure DI. Just add a annotation to a class and you can inject it automatically in any constructor without any additional config/annotations.

If this is too much "magic" for someone's taste, I will not argue even if I have a different view. But please do not make absolute statements based on a bad experience in some companies.

Modern Java and frameworks have evolved a lot in recent years.
I was aware of Linux, but did not try a distro until SLS (Soft Landing System). It was distributed on a pile of 3.5" floppies, and booted from a floppy too. I moved to Yggdrasil (running from CD-ROM) to get the benefit of a full install with X and development tools in an era when the 650MB CD-ROM had three times the capacity of a high-end hard drive.
I had to learn Spring and Hibernate.

Spring had good documentation that you can read on an ereader. It's also very mature, so there's lots of help on Stackoverflow.

Hibernate was a bit more difficult, but Vlad Mihalcea has improved the documentation side a lot.

Hibernate also allows you to drop down to native queries, which coupled with Spring Data's "projections" are useful.
Did Occupy Wall Street mean anything at all?
The taxes on RSUs at vesting are identical to taxes on other income.

RSUs are equity.

If you get stock options, there are (very limited) circumstances where those options have favorable taxation relative to income, but it’s a gamble, if you follow the strategies that might yield tax advantages.
How exactly did you set individual pixels on an unmodified ZX81 without extra hardware? As far as I know, that’s not possible, even when rewriting the screen driver. The font came from ROM, and while you could do things like switch where in ROM the font starts with every scan line, that only gave you “Pseudo HiRes” capabilities where not every combination was possible, see e.g. https://perfectlynormalsite.com/zxhires.html
They are important parts of the web, which are used by millions. Technically, web is decentralized, but in practice large parts of it aren't. Same for email, which is owned by Google to a large degree.
An alternative for researching domain names is to apply for TLD zone file access. "Trying to find a one word domain name," is unlikely to be an acceptable reason for access, though.

I applied (and received access on my second attempt) about a decade ago for .com access. Among other things, I ran a check for any words in my spellcheck dictionary that were not already taken as .com domains. There is a reason for all the silly spellings in domain names today; I don't recall the first words that were available, but they were not short nor desirable for a domain name. There were also no 3 alphanumeric ascii character domain names left, at the time.

I applied through Verisign. But, they are currently directing folks to apply via ICAN directly.

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi...

https://czds.icann.org/home
This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to pay for.
If you decide to keep all these toy cars you can reuse them when your son is older to play Gaslands.

https://gaslands.com/
I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine and talking about a similar thing: we just aren't looking for life as broadly as we might. To a certain extent, it's excusable, because how do you search for something you can't even properly recognize if you found it? How do you decide you've detected life if it doesn't fit any definition of life you can be confident of?

Looking for earth-like planets and trying to detect signs of life as we know it might eventually bear fruit, but whatever life is there is likely to resemble earth around the time life emerged on land a relatively recent 400 million years ago. The signs of life won't be alien structures, but biochemical signatures. What about the other 4 billion years, when Earth's life existed only in the oceans? On cosmic time scales, that's far more likely, but do we know enough about what Earth looked like to recognize that on exoplanets?

Projects that attempt to detect advanced extra-terrestrial life by their electromagnetic emissions, like SETI, seem especially misguided. We've only had the ability to broadcast radio for 100 years or so. That's laughably short on cosmic time scales, and the distances they've propagated are insignificant even on just a galactic scale. Just 75 other systems exist within that tiny distance, and our signals are likely distorted and attenuated to the point of being indistinguishable from background noise for most of them.

The book I like to recommend is titled Life Beyond Earth: The Intelligent Earthling’s Guide to Life in the Universe by Gerald and Feinberg and Robert Shapiro and published in 1980. It speculates on what forms life could take and how we might know something is living even if it doesn't fit our conventional ideas of life as we know it.
I live in a semi-rural area, on a dirt road off the highway with 15-20 other neighbors on our half-mile stretch of street. Until Starlink hit, the best internet we could get was 500kbps unmetered, and maybe 4mbps metered if you were lucky. It was genuinely that bad.
That second part isn't a requirement. Fire doesn't require you to spend all your money, and indeed, that's generally a bad idea...
Fire your Russian employees.

Then withdraw.

Hurts but if history should learn us a thing or two one of them should be not to give in to dictators.

The younger ones here are allowed to take a few minutes off to use their favorite search engine to look up the quote "peace in our time" by Chamberlain.

Edit:

It looks so simple the way I wrote it above. Please note that doing the right thing isn't easy. Telling lots of people their job is gone. Telling investors the money invested in one of the most promising markets is gone etc etc.

But I am afraid that sooner or later the alternative will be worse.
Maybe we should have some sort of certificate that you can get from a government body that demonstrates you have sufficient knowledge of laws and practical experience to be allowed to drive. And if you repeatedly demonstrate you're not able to drive safely, we could just revoke that certificate so you can't drive anymore.

And then, maybe a government body could ensure that cars are sufficiently safe to use in public. So the car manufacturer isn't putting the individual or the public at risk through shoddy manufacturing or software development.

So then, anyone with this certificate could buy any vehicle, and we don't have to rely on private companies to come up with their own standards for who can be trusted to use their product correctly. Since, if their product isn't safe for all certified drivers, then it's not safe for public roads.
As a user I like the App Store, all my software and purchases are all in on place.

Installs aren’t really an issue, and less so if you like the app store. I can see the point about wall gardens, but you can still just install non-app store programs on all operating systems. Regarding the 30% I not convienced that saving are directly passed on to the end users.

Edit: It just occurred to me that you might be think about software on phones. I don’t exactly care about mobile, but yes, then your argument makes more sense.
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Question:

Is there a use case here for an org that stores original, unresized images in S3 and JIT resizes them on the fly with Cloudflare workers?
The Long Disappointing March
Yes - the Phys.org article also states they need to replicate these results and the kind of projects that are underway that can assist with this sort of science.
For those that want to do lisp on embedded, binary size can be very important.
If the climate there was different 8k years ago, why did they depict camels which dwell deserts and hot climates?
I was at TAMU from 1995 to 1999, and ran either RedHat or Slackware. In the CS department where I worked part time it was all Solaris. Never heard of this TAMU distribution, but I would have been interested in helping to revive it if I had. Oh well!
This is the usual argument against doing large infrastructure in the USA, and I think it’s kind of missing the point: the USA also has much larger financial and physical resources than those countries. We also have counterarguments: we have a universal electrical network. We built a large railroad network across the entire country. We have an interstate highway system reaching every continental state (and with “interstates” in Alaska and Hawaii as well, if I’m not mistaken). Also, universal telephone service.

I live in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I can’t get cell reception at my house. I have basic broadband, but I can’t get fiber despite being on a street where other houses have it.

I would be very interested in a comparison of what the citizens of each country have paid to fund internet service. US taxpayers have given the telecom mono/duopolies a ton of free money and right-of-way and the providers have broken every promise to provide universal service in exchange.
Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality [audio]
>There were no groups running around 'lynching' Black people during the Black Panther era

No, but some of the very earliest gun control laws were aimed at only black citizens and were enacted during lynching's heyday. Gun control in America has a very sordid history when viewed through a racial lens, and its ties to the civil rights era and the drug war are less blatant but still insidious.
Genuine question. What's the underlying issue behind this concern? When I'm reading your numbers, my first reaction is that 5-15MB these days is peanuts. What use cases am I missing?
What distro or patch set did you use? According to wikipedia, the best RTLinux could do was within 15 microseconds on interrupt handlers, and within 35 microseconds of its scheduled time for processes.

It is my understanding that the other real time linux attempts ended up in similar territory, good but not sub 5 microsecond good.
That actually sounds pretty neat. A hot wheels track timer!
Why do you think everything has to be either manually submitted order or HFT?
When you reboot a computer, is it the same program running or is it a new program that simply has access to the previous program's stored memory?

When you wake up in the morning, are you the same person who went to sleep, or merely a person with access to that past person's memories?

Indeed, besides your memory, which could just as easily have been created from a copy of you, is there any evidence of your conscious existence before this infinitesimal moment? Who is to say that a new iteration of you isn't created with every cascade of firing neurons and immediately destroyed with the next?
Don't forget:

1) snapd action logging doesn't go to the system logs and gets purged after 72 hours - makes troubleshooting why something broke REALLY fun
2) "snap" directory polluting your home directory
The IRS has had its ability to go after big fish gutted. They simply don't have the resources to properly audit and prosecute a billionaire.

But Joe the Electrician who does most of his work under the table? That's easy, so that's where they focus.
What is wrong with being 12th?

The numbers all look pretty massive anyway and my 70Mb/s is fast enough for me to work from home and stream video.
Meh I dunno about that! The US poured a few tens of millions into the molten salt breeder reactor program and a few more on the indian point 1 initial thorium breeder core. That's about it in the USA. In Europe, ok there was the THTR-300 which was a pretty big project. This is fluid fuel thorium though, which is quite a lot different from solid fuel. We have spent nearly nothing on fluid fuel so far.

Now if you want to talk about breeder reactors in general (namely on the uranium-plutonium fuel cycle), then yeah that's in the many billions range. That was more for infinite world-scale sustainability rather than cost specifically. LWR converter reactors have always been known to be cheaper than breeders.
It was actually one of the legit uses of blockchain. It actually replaces ICANN, not DNS. There are registrars that have built on top of HNS, but serving DNS requests still uses the same tools and tech.

A couple of problems with it is that the do not prevent existing domains from transacting (unless you are in the top 100k) and the real big problem is the same guy who ruined Freenode, essentially controls handshake.
I tried some queries for Harry Potter fanfictions, and the results were pretty much completely unrelated. There weren’t that many results, either.
What resources do you use to better understand the lay of the land in the Atlanta job market? I've been somewhat relying on levels.fyi and blind. I knew about companies like MS, VMware, square, etc. I thought the google office was just for networking stuff. I didn't even know FB had an office here.

I'm at that awkward level where I'm paid enough that I'm at the high end of 'normal' comp for local companies. I didn't think there were jobs at the $300k level for ICs in this city though. It appears the market has changed while I wasn't looking.
Interesting read. Had no idea it took that long and that many steps to make the actual model for sale or that the scale is not perfect to the original.

More importantly, I regret giving up my collection of hundreds of Hot Wheels to my younger brother in the early 70s. Some of those cars are worth a pretty penny now, but most of all I would like to have them for nostalgia sake.

Fortunately there are now Muscle Machines die cast to scratch that itch.
This is the part that matters. Anyone can DMCA anything
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Summary: Prof. Gintis notes that where biology, chemistry and physics disagree work is done to resolve the issues. Gintis points out this is not done where economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology disagree. He suggests a proximate cause. Applies game theory and gives experimental results that show the prevailing wisdom in all the disciplines he challenges are wrong and need reassessing.
I agree. And if they weren't, I get tired of arguments on the merits of argument "B" that states because "A" is wrong, you cannot point out that "B" is wrong too.

The danger is the mentality that we should not solve any single problem unless we can solve all of the problems. Pointing out the hypocrisy to invalidate the argument can lead to inaction.
Tsx11 was Ted Tso's MIT Linux site. Sunsite was unc (University of North Carolina). There was also funet in Finland (close to Linus). Those were the hot Linux sites back then.
> I think you cherry-picked here. You are thinking about the Baltics and forgetting about places like Uzbekistan

The parent did not cherry pick, they didn't go far enough. It was overwhelmingly positive regardless of Kazakhstan or Serbia.

East Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria.
See that word "unlimited"?
I think it depends on the depositional environment, its still possible for trees to be buried before decomposition. Especially in forested areas with significant water flow. Once a log hits the muddy, anerobic bottom of a river/lake it essentially enters stasis, people fish centuries old logs out of rivers for profit.

All of these things happen at massive scales, so even though the vast majority of wood does decompose before it can be preserved, even a few percent is probably enough coal to power some future post nuclear apocalypse society's industrial revolution in a few dozen million years time.
I fail to see how this is the company's problem. What if I take on a baby sloth that needs two years of potty training before you can leave it alone. Is my employer somehow morally responsible to make sure that I can stay home for this amount of time? Isn't the responsibly with me who actually chose to get the sloth in the first place?
Actually, if you think about it, the missile is already equipped with ultimate in garbage collection:)
I once made something very similar for myself in College when I was told not to use git for something in a lab… so my solution was to automate making archives. It worked ok. Definitely helped me appreciate git. Now a days i would have just used git and released archives to the rest of the org
Yes. Yes. Maybe. Similarly unknown.

In this case we're talking about propping up the existing Russian government who actively interfere in democracy around the world, assassinate political enemies and draw immense influence from the fear it spreads around it. Yeah, sure, why wouldn't we want to keep that going as long as we can?

Because it will end one day. Putin isn't Russia's greatest love machine. When that day comes, all the instability you'd blame on me and my ideals will rain down on us all anyway.

If you want to reduce my reasoned moral objections to "cancel culture", I'm sure you're somebody's hero, but yes, I think we should demand better from the companies we fund. Russia's instability is inevitable, either way.
The same phenomenon has many different names. From the OP:

> See also:

> Campbell's law – "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law

> Cobra effect – when incentives designed to solve a problem end up rewarding people for making it worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

> Gaming the system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_the_system

> Lucas critique – it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique

> McNamara fallacy – involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

> Overfitting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

> Reflexivity (social theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)

> Reification (fallacy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)

> San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – 2012 manifesto against using the journal impact factor to assess a scientist's work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Declaration_on_R...

> Volkswagen emissions scandal – 2010s diesel emissions scandal involving Volkswagen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law#See_also
I live in a city with an excellent home grown independent fiber ISP which really should be used as a case study for such things around the country.

https://usinternet.com/fiber/coverage-map/
Last GUID used up (2010)
You missed the point of Force Touch on macbook trackpads. It wasn’t about tap to click at all, it was about the actual press to click.

It was about the fact that while on other trackpads when you click, they produce a mechanical click. Macbook trackpads don’t have a mechanical click, the feeling of that click gets reproduced by the haptic/vibration engine. Which sounds wonky to emulate a physical click with a haptic engine, but in reality it works out like magic.

You can test it easily by turning off a macbook and trying to click on the trackpad. It won’t click at all, it will feel like just a flat piece of glass/metal/etc with no clickability.
The real problem here is "overthrow" vs "work with"

That was handshakes biggest mistake
My parents gave me a "laptop" in 1995, with a 386 processor, and 4 megs of ram. Even for the time it wasn't very powerful (my dad had a 486 desktop), but it was all mine, and I spent something like a whole weekend downloading the Slackware floppies.

I thought it was just the coolest thing ever that every single piece of software on that system had source code that I could read and learn from.

I used the 'jed' editor because Emacs was a bit heavy duty for the memory the system had.

My next computer was a more powerful desktop that was able to run Emacs, the X windowing system and all that. I put Debian on it, and still use Ubuntu, a derivative of Debian.
Yeah, it's just averages of whoever happens to go to speedtest.net and do a speed test in a given month, with a minimum of 300 users for a country to be listed.

For some of the countries, if you click through they give medians for sub-entities (states/provinces or cities). As you'd expect, they're significantly lower than the means on the front page. Not sure why they don't give country-level medians.

A few examples for major cities (median downloads in Mbps): Austin 182, NYC 169, Milan 153, San Francisco 144, Calgary 130, DC 122, Beijing 121, Paris 119, Miami 118, Shanghai 117, Toronto 99, Minneapolis 96, Rome 90, Montreal 65.
Same problem as TOR; the servers can share information. DNS seems like a good service for homomorphic PIR.
Yes, but how much of that maternal leave is paid for by the company itself? It's easy to be generous when it's someone else's money.