skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would group this together with two other statements I heard that seem logical on the surface but ignore the reality of the market:

"Why raise a seed round of more than $1.3M? If I can't build a business with 1.3M, then it's not a business worth building!"

"What's the problem with [name of a top tier VC fund] being in my seed round? If they actually choose not to do our A round, then it's not a good business to start with!"

The problem with all these statements is that you're looking at this from an overly idealized perspective where things always happen for a reason and there are no oh-shit moments. But the real world is messy and sometimes not rational. Perhaps your VC won't take your A simply because they already did two As that same year, and they are stretched beyond their limits. And perhaps your bigger competitor will sue you and suddenly your $1.3M will no longer be enough (at that point it's too late to raise again).

So going back to your original statement "best startups don't need help attracting access and information" - so you're saying best startups always go from bootstrapped to a high valuation A without any seed checks in between? I mean, even Google took a bunch of seed checks, and it doesn't get more disruptive than two Stanford PhDs building a better search engine with patented IP. By the time all those seed checks, lower-than-otherwise valuation, and various not-super-clean deal terms (was Eric Schmidt really necessary and how much did he cost in cash and equity?) are factored in, the YC route turns out to be net positive even for the best startups with first-time founders. The only exception might be a serial founder with a prior exit and strong VC connections, eg Max Levchin.
Apple makes it easier to replace a battery than Samsung phones.

They only charge $69 for an out of warranty battery replacement. You can mail it in or go to an Apple store. Is there any modern (and waterproof) phone you can have a battery replaced easier or for less?

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...
If you can set a guaranteed maximum on the delays (regardless of what those limits are), you're hard real-time by definition. The horror is that they weren't building a system that could support those guarantees.
They won't. Twitter has a rich history of only banning one side of the political landscape. They banned Zero Hedge for discussing the lab leak theory, they banned the New York Post for the Hunter Biden story, and so on, because they are associated with the political right in the US. However, they have allowed everyone from antifa to the Taliban to far-left "hacktivists" to continue to operate. Twitter isn't just guilty of setting moderation rules that favor one world view, but also of selectively enforcing their guidelines at their will.
Interesting point of view: autonomous cars as a form of contact-rich manipulation
Taking part in y combinator is it worth it.
estate = big piece of timberland in a rural location, yes. I have no intention of living in the 'big city' in retirement.
I'm having trouble understanding why you posted this when it's just the mirror of the actual repo on gitlab[0], AND the page is really just config details, not a lot of description.. but then I notice you've posted the marketing website[1] several times and it just hasn't got traction. Fickle HN votes, I guess. For my money, I find https://lightmeter.io more useful, even the video intros.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/lightmeter

[1]: https://lightmeter.io/
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now that some evidence is accrued. The conventional wisdom, we just need more controlled burns; fires are good”, is fallacy. It’s convenient to think that way. It appeals to our taste for “the old ways of doing things” but it pretends to situation is unchanged and it ignores all nuance, namely regional variation in the causes and consequences of these fires, and the changing nature of the ecosystem. I hear people say, “we just need controlled burns because that’s the way it always worked” and it’s like hearing people say “we should just go back to the 1950’s way of life, everything was better then.”

It’s appeals to simpletons with an agenda. California is filled with such special interests. We can’t get old growth back. What about beatles? Are all trees the same? How long does it take undergrowth to regenerate after a controlled burn? People can’t answer these, they just repeat mindlessly, “fires are a fact.” Just like the globalization zombies. Imagine if humans had never changed things. We’d still have slavery and be living in caves.
You can technically make money with Herbalife too. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if a greater proportion of people made money on Herbalife versus a YouTube channel.
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The difference is the student driver will learn within a few more dozen hours and be fit for the road, Tesla no silver lining on the horizon.
Heck, some humans even do literal garbage collection while driving!
My mistake, apologies.

Edited the comment to note my error.
> I could see a lot of easy application programming going away

In my experience, "easy applications" are already something you can just go buy cheap, or even download for free - other than for the learning experience, there's no point in coding one.
I know it, and I know that British Empire had absolutely monstrous material advantage over Germany, enough to sweep it within months in mid-thirties.
A DUI, in California for instance, means you’re suspended for months (years if you’re a repeat offender). Since it’s basically the same “driver” driving all FSD Teslas, are you arguing that they should be suspended under the same rules for drunken behavior? If so, they will basically be out of commission indefinitely, and we won’t see headlines anymore.
Ok, and the government is going to do what with them? The point is to raise tax revenue.
It is like quantum mechanics: the measurement process produces a perturbation of the physical system
My understanding is Django 4.0 would include SUPPORT for a redis cache backend using a subclass of django.core.cache.backends.BaseCache

Now they are shipping a built in Redis cache back-end?

That would be so totally crazy that I am having trouble believing this headline.

How about "Django 4.0 will include built-in Redis cache support"
Population density and terrain are important factors as well. Including those two other factors on top of size actually supports my argument further. The United States is significantly larger, less dense, and has a wider range of terrain/elemental conditions (ie. mountains, wetlands, deserts, forests, etc.). The fact that the United States ranks this high with these un-optimal conditions is again rather good.

And to address your point that size does not matter is incorrect. Size certainly does matter. It is more cost effective to service a small region of land where high amounts of people are concentrated than it is to spread infrastructure thin across great swaths of land to service the few.
Definitely agree with everything you've said here. You've got to build the habit first, and you have to make it easy enough to not give up early. Once the habit is established it gets a lot easier.

One thing I'll add is that I believe the strength/mobility side of things is generally more important for software engineers, or at least you should not ignore this as walking/running won't counteract a lot of the ill effects of sitting in front of a computer all day. This could be my bias because I always maintained some baseline cardio as a bicycle commuter, but I had some nagging RSI / back issues that didn't really get fixed until I started lifting.

The main tip I have for lifting is to find a good coach to observe and correct your form early on.
I tried lifting weights here or there during my whole life, but like the poster it never stuck. Not until I was 40 did I actually find a trainer who was skilled enough to really observe and teach me how to squat, deadlift, and even pullup/press correctly. Body mechanics and how to execute the movements and engage all the right muscles are key to avoiding injury and getting all the muscle groups evenly. It's especially tricky when you have some weak muscles that you aren't used to using, so your body does all kinds of compensations subconsciously, especially if you focus on numbers. It doesn't matter how many videos you watch if you have bad habits and you don't know what it feels like to do it the right way.
Laughing is totally fine by me.

I would laugh too if not for:

- It's my kid

- We knew something like this would happen

- So we got it in writing that our kid should not be issued a chromebook (I set up a non-internet connected machine with open-office and sneakernetted her assignments)

- And a teacher ignored that and gave our kid a chromebook to use in class without telling us.
Could you suggest some common negative expressions to map to more positive ones?

It'd be great if we could put together a list/gist.
This is exactly why I doubt all the expert opinions on cave art. "This undoubtedly had ritual significance." BS. It was probably just some teenagers screwing around.
Yeah, tbh I don't see FB/Twitter as good platforms to have private conversations with friends. Partly for the reason you mention, as well as them being tools of ultra-pervasive surveillance. I don't trust businesses to respect my privacy or even my rights (especially because laws are always severely behind technical innovations). I don't even use Facebook anymore for these reasons.

And yeah, I believe text messages (SMS) are indeed filtered, sadly. I just saw an article about exactly this subject[0] where a company with a .xyz domain was finding that SMS containing their domain were not being delivered! Pretty disappointing.

This whole thread could be a good indicator of the future of online communication, and my personal advice is to start looking at "end-to-end encrypted (with no back doors)" as a requirement for any communication platform you use with friends & family. Too bad such a feature is extremely rare :(

[0] https://www.spotvirtual.com/blog/the-perils-of-an-xyz-domain... (and HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400 )
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Learning general website building technology is like learning to play an instrument, but being asked to build a given website is like being asked to give a performance. It might be a quick rendition or it might be a major performance on a stage (with one obviously being much more prep time than another).
I'm going to watch that talk later it sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.

This may be addressed in the talk but my immediate reaction is that a truly mastercrafted tool should be both. I tend to agree that where you have to make choices lean towards long term (thats what I personally prefer at least). I think I've sometimes romanticized that attitude a little bit though and reveled in complexity for the sake of complexity.

Ideally you're building stuff thats easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master (because of depth of the field, hopefully not because of the unnecessary complexity of the tool.)
Hard real time garbage collectors have existed for decades. Of course you can mathematically guarantee a minimum pause time given a cap on allocation rate. What's stopping you?
My pain building a WYSIWYG editor with contenteditable
I have no idea who that is, but I suspect it's a one off anecdote. Come to me with published studies in a respected journal that suggests bloodclots from the vaccine are a major problem
This was all not FSD beta; those were all on the completely separate public stack.
I agree those security practices are atrocious. However that doesn't excuse the crime committed by these hackers. They deserve to be brought to justice by the law. I doubt that will happen under the current administration, since agencies are probably directed to ignore issues affecting the political right.
Something like this was actually tried in the '90s for local phone circuits ("local loop unbundling"). As far as I know, it basically worked and is technically still policy, but the type of access mandated is no longer competitive for most purposes.
Like a peoples car. In german I think they would call this a volkswagen.
Whether or not "our urbanized places are garbage" is very much subjective. I don't consider the place I live to be garbage, personally I prefer it to living in a place as dense as Paris.

Whether you think US "urban" areas are garbage or not, your statement doesn't change the fact that "urban" in the US versus "urban" elsewhere can be pretty radically different. Saying "more than 80% of Americans live in urbanized areas, the same fraction as France, Norway, Spain, and the world generally" is kind of comparing apples and oranges. Yeah sure 80% of the population lives in locations labeled "urban", but the average densities of those urban areas in Europe are much more dense than the US. I'd imagine there are plenty of places in the US classified as "urban" which would easily compare to the densities of "rural" areas in Europe.

I do agree with the idea that a partial part of the problem is a lack of focus on infrastructure spending compared to other budgets such as the military. Hopefully that will change soon.
Even the slowest-starting suggestions here are too ambitious. If you are really starting from scratch, walking 20 min a day can be a lot. If that is too much, start walking 10-20 min per day, three days per week. You'll need the day to recover.

A key to habit formation, and motivation in general is the anticipation of a reward (not the reward but the anticipation). So have a reward planned. I usually use a piece of chocolate. Then really savor it when you are done. You might find that the next time you don't want to walk, the thought of that reward will be enough to get you out there.

Another thing missed by most of the posts is that it helps to have really compelling "why's". Why do you want to do this? There are likely many reasons both logical and emotional:

To get at the emotional after you have exercised, how is your:

- energy level

- body feeling

- breathing

- mood

- anxiety

- focus

- ability to take on the day

- well being

Think about the "why's" regularly. Motivation is 80% of it.
With all due respect to theorists, everyone in particle theory and cosmology is doing this sort of thing. I remember in grad school, cohort-mates down the hall whenever the LHC announced any sort of blip would rush to get a preprint from nothing in a week for the chance to be the one to have made a discovery that fits the discrepancy. One theorist even told me the lack of experiment was "good" because they had space to keep churning nice theory papers without having to worry about being shot down.

Occam's razor suggests to look at explanations that are mundane first. Even beyond dark energy candidates, it looks like Axions are another explanation which is more well established in the theory world (for what that's worth...), so absent more data it's hard to say it's an observation yet without elimination of alternatives.
The car almost certainly decided that the road ahead was blocked. For context, this release of FSD is the first to use a new obstacle detection technique, and as a result it is the first one that doesn't drive directly into the pillars on that street without perceiving them at all. So it's very likely that this new obstacle detection system glitched out here.
I remember last year, before the US elections, some of the conspiracy guys said "Just watch, after the election COVID will magically go away. This was all a ploy to make Trump look bad.". Others said "COVID will be around forever, the government will never give up emergency powers".

I could conclude that the latter camp was correct. Or that when you have competing versions of conspiracy theories, predicting different outcomes, one of them will always appear to be prescient after the fact. Then you can ignore the others that didn't pan out, and say that everything that's happened so far has been predicted by the conspiracy guys.
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Does it include WHOIS info? If so I bet it's impossible to get access.

Can you tell me if the info has registration dates? I have a use case where I'd love to do some bulk analysis related to domain squatting, but I've never been able to find a decent way I can make bulk queries against all the services I'd want to check.
The current algorithm takes a completely different approach compared to when there were failures several years ago. It's not marketing, people have been rightfully sceptical but it seems like it works
Great. Now we can all build a shopping list or to-do list application in minutes.
Genuinely curious: how would you even go about advancing autonomous driving without testing it in the streets?

I'm absolutely certain that they've attempted to simulate millions of hours of driving, yet this odd behavior happened in real life, which now can be studied and fixed.

If we never had the software on the wild, how would you ever really test it?
Diet and exercise. They work together, don't try to do one without the other. A good diet gives you energy for exercise, and exercise makes your body naturally want to eat a good diet.

For exercise start with something really small and easy that you will do every day. It doesn't matter if it's too small to make an impact, the point is to get in the habit of exercise every day. Once you're consistently doing it every day for a couple weeks then you can gradually dial up the intensity. If you miss a day don't get down on yourself and quit, instead forgive yourself and get back on the wagon the next day. To satisfy your software developer instincts your can use an app to track your progress. On Android I recommend Regularly and FitNotes, both free.

For diet, don't try to eat less bad food. Going hungry sucks, and bad food tastes good! Instead of eating less bad food, eat more good food. For example, stuff yourself with healthy snacks even if you're not hungry. When you're served a plate with a mix of food, eat all the healthy stuff first. Filling up on good food will leave less room for bad food.

This is what works for me.
'I was fired at 64 – so I faced my fears and started my first company'
nice hopefully more fires all over the world and hurricanes and typhoons. everything is subjective especially laws.
Sorry, brainfart, no excuses, I had my coffee already. FEC ought to add only minimal latency, even if correction is necessary. I too believe the long latencies are due to retransmissions on the link level (what modems suffered from too), which, if on-going for long enough, causes retransmissions by TCP.
Helidon, Quarkus, Javalin etc. There's plenty of options if you want to build your framework yourself.
> I get a ton of email, so I use a special filtering service that routes my mail to different boxes -- including sending certain PR emails straight into the trash. As I read this bill, that would no longer be allowed in Texas.

> And this includes monetary fines. So the PR folks who are mad that I never read their emails could sue for $10 for each message "unlawfully impeded" and $25,000 for each day that their emails are so impeded as well.

To my understanding, the bill isn't restricting what an individual user can choose to block for themself. Like how a postal service being a common carrier doesn't mean you're not allowed to throw out junk mail you receive.

It clarifies as follows for user pages which can be a bit of an in-between case:

> (b) This chapter may not be construed to prohibit or restrict a social media platform from authorizing or facilitating a user's ability to censor specific expression on the user's platform or page at the request of that user.
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Is fatalism (in an all too unfortunately literal sense) all we have left?

When an official says "unless governments credibly commit to immediate, massive decreases in emissions, we're screwed," it just amounts to "we're screwed."

Encouraging and striving for some radical new technological innovation is all we can do.
I think there is a spectrum of how “science-y” a claim is, based on how much or how rigorous use of the scientific method is used to come to the conclusion.

Sort of like this comic:

https://xkcd.com/435
Congrats! The 7th YC company to IPO: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
Funny enough, I wrote a blog post yesterday titled "Todo: The hard parts"[1] where I started discussing how syncing the data planes of frontend apps are much more complex than they seem.

This looks really cool. I like the idea behind the Source/Dataset/Detail components. I wonder how they work in practice. My first attempt at a component based rendering system (with render cbs and such) felt super clunky as soon as things got a tad complex.

[1] https://synth.app/blog/todos-the-hard-parts-part-1
Voxels? Wow. I was recently contemplating conscious driving vs ones own autopilot (when you get to work and dont remember any of the drive because it was unevetful). I realised that I sometimes drive largely in image space and other times in world space. It was an odd thing to deliberately flip between them. I don't really want to think about that...
I think whether it's wasted space or not depends entirely on the reliability of the system. For a many-9's system which for all intents and purposes isn't going to fail dangerously, I agree, the visualisation is just peacocking. For a beta-quality system, knowing what the car is thinking is an important driver feedback which gives additional warning before it does something really stupid.
Seems like the hairpin portion may have been an animation between the two paths, to smooth the UX? Also, it would give the driver a chance to correct the motion, as happened in the video.
Another great Rich Hickey talk is Simple Made Easy, very similar message. So many of these auto-project tools are very easy to use, but in no way simple to understand and end up adding complexity in the long-term.

A good example is a tool like `create-react-app` (especially if you add TypeScript support). It's super easy to use and creates the project scaffold and enormous JS build system for you, but good luck trying to fix it if something breaks!
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Have any of these dire predictions ever come true?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-202...
You're unironically right and thank you for giving a powerful argument in favor of philanthropy using simple arithmetic.
Which is one reason I come back to thinking that you may see full automation in environments such as limited access highways in good weather but likely not in, say, Manhattan into the indefinite future.

Unexpected things can happen on highways but a lot fewer of them and it's not like humans driving 70 mph are great at avoiding that unexpected deer or erratic driver either.

ADDED: You'd actually think the manufacturers would prefer this from a liability perspective as well. In a busy city, pedestrians and cyclists do crazy stuff all the time (as do drivers) and it's a near certainty that FSD vehicles will get into accidents and kill people that aren't really their fault. That sort of thing is less common on a highway.
While most people see the student vehicle and give it a wide berth, there are those that see it as a "teachable" moment. We've already seen that asshats that screw with cars labeled with Student Driver just to "give 'em a lesson" are already screwing with self driving cars for the same reason: They're assholes.
Not older than the Bosnian Pyramid.