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> The lesson that I walked away with was to listen to that pain, no matter how irrational it may seem in the moment... I’ve been learning to listen and to trust my emotions in less desperate situations in the years since the YC interview.

I do not think the author is claiming you should shout about your niece in a YC interview. They told a pretty interesting anecdote and gave the insight they gained from it.

Not to be rude but your comment seems kind of like it should just be a downvote (or I suppose a withheld upvote).
Fully recording and controlling an immersive environment sounds like the ultimate money making proposition to me.

I've spent time playing Poker Stars, Table Tennis, Rec Room and Alt Space interacting with adults. The interactions I've had are nothing like posting void-screaming updates to your feed and are everything like being there with a real person. People are kinder too, this is after all a real person in front of you and it is just as intensely embarrassing to make a fool out of yourself as it would be in real life. I recently had a nice conversation with a man about his partner's cancer diagnosis and was able to offer him real human empathy in a moment where the headset and avatars fell away. It reminds me of the intimacy that old POTS telephone lines had, like whispering into each other's ears. The potential is all there and the execution lies in the decade ahead. We will see, but I am paying attention.
Methane Gas Leaks in Central Asia Worsen Climate Change Crisis
I appreciate you pointing out my mistake. That wasn't clear from the documentation I referred to [1] (when I performed the operation, I created a queue from the inventory report and performed delete requests popping the items off the queue), and I've let our TAM know the documentation I referred to needs to be improved to reflect that DeleteObject or DeleteObjects operations with a batch job aren't currently supported.

[1] "Specify the operation that you want S3 Batch Operations to run against the objects in the manifest. Each operation type accepts parameters that are specific to that operation. This enables you to perform the same tasks as if you performed the operation one-by-one on each object."

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/batch-...
I can't agree. Wishing death on the entity that invents life-saving technology seems at odds with the overall goal of saving lives, does it not?

What incentive would a future company have to take the R&D risk to invent that kind of medical technology if there is no upside?

[Edited to be less snarky]
Man I'm really looking forward to this story blowing over so HN can stop being spammed with this flamebait.
> - Code quality is quite subjective and the field is driven by opinions and fads.

I think a big part of this is the tech industries failure to grasp the value of experience. Experience teaches you to pick out the fads from the fashions and the values of various opinions. It helps develop your code smell and your ability to discern the quality of a work. All other trades value experience and trust it to help measure these things. If you wanted to judge the quality of work done by a junior plumber you'd bring in a master plumber to evaluate it.
Biotech investing has 50 misses for every hit. You don't have to recoup the cost of this particular investment, you have to recoup the costs that went into all the gambles that didn't pay off.

(unless you want that investor money to go into some stupid smartphone game instead, which is absolutely what will happen if you destroy the profitability of breakthrough vaccine improvements)
That's insane to me as an American as well! I have 4 kids, and I've been absolutely appalled at how much violence there is in stuff that's directed at kids compared to how much people try to shield them from nudity. Everyone just takes it for granted that the average children's story is going to have someone fighting someone.

I've had that exact conversation with someone.

"I don't mind if they see nudity."

"Aren't you worried about how it will affect them?"

"I dunno, how many people died in the last Marvel movie? We're not worried about them becoming mass murderers. And besides, if the consequence of them seeing nudity is ... sex? That's a thing they'll be able to do when they're old enough, as opposed to murder, which will never be right in any circumstance..."
We want a robust economy around novel vaccine creation. What company would prioritize this kind of vaccine research that is high risk/high reward if you take away the reward?

You are changing the bet from double or nothing to "maybe a little bit" or nothing.
So can someone build a mini cloud service with these machines?
But there's a global pandemic killing millions. How can they think their long-term business model is more important? I don't get it. Sure the WHO should pay for it, but if they won't pay enough to balance your projections, suck it up and save the world anyway.
I've used the github.dev "." shortcut (on any repo in Github press dot to jump to github.dev) a few times to browse the code "more comfortably" with many of my VS Code extensions (via Settings Sync) without needing the time to clone locally. (There is a way to get one of the Github extensions locally to give you a Remote Repository experience in a local VS Code window, but that dot shortcut is much more convenient.) I've even forked and made small (mostly Markdown) PRs that way now.

I'm excited that VSCode.dev now supports the same thing with my company's current Azure Repos. Maybe they can give us a dot shortcut there now too. (If anyone is still active enough work on it to make such a change.)

Though I think the big new use case (that a lot of people are overlooking) is the new Theme Preview Playground use case in the article towards the bottom is a pretty great one. For instance, here's the VSCode theme I currently use because it shiny and rad and totally tubular:

https://vscode.dev/theme/jaredkent.laserwave

You don't have to download the theme to try it. It opens a fake workspace with several examples of code highlighting to get a feel for the theme. If you've got Settings Sync turned on you'll see how it interacts with your other settings (like which side you keep the "explorer bar" on) and if you decide to Keep the theme by clicking the button in the notification it pops up, your other devices will install the extension automatically and start to use it as soon as they next sync.

It's pretty neat and the article implies it's the first "playground" of this sort and probably not the last as they get other ideas of extension types people might prefer to test before they download.
US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress
And plastics messed up the hormones of those born after?

But of course all this is dependent on the amount of exposure which is individual.
This seems like a complete distraction to me. Moderna's vaccine needs to be frozen between -50C to -15C for long term storage and can be stored refrigerated for up to 30 days [1]. What WHO vaccine dependent country is the WHO targeting with this? A lot of the refrigeration requirements rule out places with poor infrastructure. It just seems like a generics making power play.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/modern...
Denied is doing a lot of work there.

What if there are 3 people with the knowledge and skills to successfully setup part of the production process. Should their time be made available to anyone that asks for it?
> Best estimates I've seen is that this would lower the total population burden from lead by well under 5%.

That sounds pretty great actually, for such a simple solution.
UI feedback: when selecting time zones to coordinate for a meeting, having a huge list to select from is such a pain that I would use some other tool just for that reason. Some of the common zones for an English-language tool are way at the bottom (USA, UK), and the USA ones aren't alphabetized. Also, there's no consistency with the naming: some are US states, others are cities, and I couldn't find some major cities, like San Francisco.

Just a list of time zones would be a lot easier. And even easier would be a world map that I can click on that would highlight the selected zones.
Oh - the loophole is that you can walk out your front door naked. And taking your clothes off isn't illegal in any stated law, it's just been generally found to be a lewd action when challenged, while merely existing naked hasn't been.
Speaking about MLton, I've often heard that it's "special" as it's a " whole-program optimizing compiler", but I was under the impression that it's already what compilers do. Is there a difference between MLton and let's say Clang, GCC or something like that?
There are many cases where a manufacturing process is not at all innovative but the end product is.
Consider the humble computer mouse. There was no manufacturing ingenuity needed to build it.

I don’t know enough about pharmaceutical manufacturing, but it’s quite possible Moderna and Pfizer don’t own any manufacturing IP (if I understand correctly some of their specialized equipment is developed by other companies). That means all they can really patent is their chemistry.
Seems kind of unfair with the NVIDIA using up to 320W of power and having nearly twice the memory bandwidth.
But if it runs even half as well as a 3080, that would represent amazing performance per Watt.
It's not only an awesome technical achievement, but it has also so much potential to be useful.

And yet, something at the back on my head is screaming:

WARNING!

I have the intuition that, on the long run, using more and more tools that are not on your own machine will create a dependency on systems big companies control. And something tells me we are going to pay for it in the end.

So I'll stay away.

Maybe I'm getting paranoid, but I don't regret not having ever created a Facebook account, or not getting on the 2010 hype train of magical SAAS services like Firebase that lock you in eventually.

We'll see in 10 years I guess.
I am a lifelong android user. I almost switched to iPhone during the 5 era because I loved the form factor of those solid metal edges. When iPhone 6 came out with the "Samsung esque bar of soap" I was shocked and disappointed. I think iPhones today are sooooo slippery! The iPhone SE is a really attractive device, but I am pretty deep into the android ecosystem at this point and have disapproved of a few of apples decisions. It's funny to me that companies keep copying the worst parts of each other's designs: the slipper bar of soap rounded corners, the notch, the removal of headphone jack and USB A...
What happened in the 1890s was not unlike today's era - Corporations just got "personhood". Railroad tycoons entrench hold on US commerce. Southern states push for undoing reconstruction-era reforms. Chinese exclusion act is enacted to drive Chinese laborers (who were instrumental to the national railroad buildout) out of the US.

I'm sure there are tons of parallels. The national party constituencies were reversed (Southern whites favored Democrats vs. Northern elites favoring Republicans).
which rom?
Thank you for posting this. I remember your interview like it was yesterday.
You just need to look at their org chart to see what is going on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Cornet#/media/File%3A%2...
Advice for the novice. Hmm. Best advice I can give is ignore your critics and everyone who tells you it can't be done, you're not good enough, you'll inevitably fail.

Market research has always led me astray. Making things that simply please myself have been far, far more successful.

Which is my favorite language? D, of course! As for why, it's the language I always wanted to program in, though I didn't realize it and it was a process to discover it.
Already legal in NY (aside from television).
Some time ago there was a link to an article here on HN about lead poisoning in ancient Rome. It mentioned how they used to boil grape juice (to concentrate its natural sugars) in lead containers.

Edit: doh, should have clicked on your link. That was the article.
I'd hardly call the current American system Free. The market responded to the [ridiculous] capricious regulations. You get what you ask for.
Ideally you want to know what boxes you need to tick to get the check. Do they already like the product, and just want to vet the founders. Do they not understand the problem? Do they get the product, but question its ability to scale?

Basically what is the current set of things they require more depth of understanding in order to make their investment decision.
We've got a really big problem on our hands if "privileged" is "divisive newspeak." There's not even the "unearned" qualifier.
Japan Airlines to acquire up to 100 Vertical Aerospace eVTOLs from lessor Avolon
Hmm not sure what I was looking at before, that site is not the easiest to navigate.
Sure, VCs should look for good ideas that are poorly communicated. But it's no surprise that VCs would prioritize funding a good idea that is well-communicated. A founder needs to be able to communicate the value prop to other funders, customers, journalists, awards committees, etc. Being able to communicate via an elevator pitch or conversation is critically important to the success of a startup.
The risk there is that some states might start deciding that they want to do something different than what everyone else wants, and they'd be a country afterall.
> But I have been horribly wrong also, so I'm not so inclined to lead boldly

I think Musk spews a lot of BS, but one thing I agree with him is that if you think you have an edge you want to bet frequently because as the high frequency will have your edge manifest itself and you'd end up better/way better than random.

Also yet another important point is that your competitor is not somebody who is Omniscient and gets it right 100% of the times, but people who hold your same role in competing organizations.

So being wrong is not terrible, unfortunately the terrible part is that unlike sports the mistakes of people in your same position in competing organizations are hidden from your collegues and teammates. Hence the grass is always greener, and the comparison immediately skips to the Omniscient being.

That is a huge problem, and I don't know if it will ever be solved given that work is unspectacular and there is not a trail of events and decisions which can be publicly examined.

No such thing as a highlight reel (and even there was, nobody would ever bother looking at it.)
Brave is the last bastion of good open source commercial software.

I will try to support them as long as they aren’t bankrupt.
Millions more will die if all of the biotech firms leave the business because they can't fund the research.
This seems to be an ongoing theme when it comes to development and aid discussions. Countries seem to be willing to fork over some vaccines or some money but when it comes to actually creating the means for these countries to build up their own infrastructure and supply chains and to truly diminish their dependence you'll see the Moderna's and our governments start to flinch
If you're interested in the topic, you'd probably want to look at the source the article cites:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

The raw data isn't biased or opinionated, and is a better source when thinking about wealth/income inequality.
Well technically, US was in favour of abolishing IP and Germany was opposed to it a few months back.

But if you scratch under the surface a bit, the point they deviated on isn't really "should IP of a vaccine be a thing", but more "should Pfizer keep all the profit, or should BioNTech get some of it".

Because even if, say, my country made a perfect copy of a Pfizer vaccine, EMA/FDA could still put it in an unfavourable position if you're interested in traveling to the EU/USA any time soon. EU did just that with AZ vaccines manufactured in India (not recognizing it while recognizing AZ vaccine not made in India).
And corporate Investor Relations teams use AI to write CEO's statements.

Circlejerk.

But "what difference does it make"? As long as the Fed cooperates with Wall St & the US gov, it's mostly BUY BUY BUY! You can't go wrong.
The other day there was a medicine that sold for 1000usd in the US, and 4euros in France.

Healthcare US system is bonkers!
You can have patent on the end product but manufacturing details are trade secrets.
Ahh ok. Didn’t know about the license issue. The CVE idea is also very valid. Thanks for clarifying everyone.
The market would have fixed this, or at least made it suck a lot less, if it weren't for a very strong regulatory capture, certificates of need for hospitals, regulatory bottlenecks to creating doctors, etc, etc.

Notice how the dental industry doesn't have nearly the same problems even if you control for the scope of the work they do.
Yes, I would actually be comfortable with the latter claim in extremis.

But here we're talking about the Linux kernel and so we needn't stretch that far. "The buck stops here" so to speak, if you can't trust the OS kernel to do what it promised, you're pretty much screwed.

All you have left are broader physical or mathematical guarantees e.g. even a Linux kernel bug at Let's Encrypt can't leak your TLS server private keys because they don't have your private keys and so mathematically that can't happen - or even if there's a really drastic Linux kernel zero day this Android phone can't travel faster than the speed of light because physics doesn't rely on kernel code.
conspicuously, infuriatingly absent:

https://www.pine64.org/

https://puri.sm/
Apple invited the comparison during their keynote. ;)
4a is a great choice. I think you'll be happy with it. The Samsung 10e is another similarly priced device. I think the Google photos integration is really nice. Even though the Google photos app drives me nuts sometimes.
I’m glad that works for you but that sounds like a horrible solution to me. Maybe better than Bash but magic named files are probably my least favourite feature in scripting languages.
Time for a Moderna employee to spill the beans. In secret of course.
Are you comparing the price of a chip to a laptop??
Sshhhh! Don't remind them!
The blog post says it's using a brand new local file access API only in cutting edge browsers (edge and chrome) so you can access the files on your machine directly from the browser. There is no server upload of anything.
The single core is second to Intel's best but the multicore is well below in the scale, comparable to Intel Xeon W-2191B or Intel Core i9-10920X, which are 18 and 12 core beasts with TDP of up to 165W.

Which means, at least for Geekbench, Apple M1 Max has a power comparable to a very powerful desktop workstation. But if you need the absolute best of the best on multicore you can get double the performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X at 280W TDP!

Can you imagine if Apple released some beast with similar TDP? 300W Apple M1 Unleashed, the trashcan design re-imagined, with 10X power of M1 Max if can preserve similar performance per watt. That would be 5X over the best of the best.

If Apple made an iMac Pro with similar TDP to the Intel one, and keeps the performance per watt, that would mean multicore score of about 60K, which is twice of the best processor there is in the X86 World.

I suspect, these scores don't tell the full story since the Apple SoC has specialised units for processing certain kind of data and they have direct access to the data in the memory and as a result it could be unmatched by anything but at the same time it can be comically slow for some other type of processes where X86 shines.
That's what VRChat has been for 4 years now. Though it's less Clubhouse rooms packed with celebrities and clout-chasers, and more improv comedy meets "Humans of New York":

https://www.youtube.com/c/syrmor/videos

VRChat as a platform has (enormous) problems of its own, but right now it's the best way to meet and chat with interesting people in VR.
This tweet and it's following thread is a lie.

It has no sources just random journal articles about lead.... so as fucking expected and totally HN, just believe random stuff, wank wank. Can't be challenged because there's nothing to challenge. And the dig at NASCAR is pretty on topic for HN, no one with an average IQ or better would believe a NASCAR track would actually make a difference and you couldn't starkly see it in other places. But whatever, hahaha NASCAR people are stupid and science proved it.

Millennial's in the West actually have average IQ's, what's concerning is they had less of many things we know lower IQs so something big hammered them to stop these gains. No one is sure what.

There is evidence removing lead from fuel harmed Millennials.

Micro dosing through leaded fuel didn't reduce IQs but it might have increased impulsiveness. It's no joke the Millennials onwards might be boring. It is very existential, boring people are happier. But it still feels depressing we now have 30 years of boring people and soon it will just be humans as a species.... boring.
It's indicative of an asset bubble.

A lot of people who are participating in this bubble were too young to be affected in 2008.
Geekbench has always been a little unpredictable. It was most famously skewed quite heavily in Apple's favor before Geekbench 4, and even the modern scores are pretty opaque. I'd wait to see real-world performance metrics out of it.
I recently walked into a pretty esoteric issue for people who don't with terminal emulation often :

Having rebound at firmware level my Left Ctrl key to F13, I found that while the key was appropriately grabbed at the OS and terminal emulation level, it wasn't really making it to my weird Zsh setup (The culprit is Zsh Vi Mode[1]. It's great !) and it couldn't be bound through bindkey. And I couldn't really change the keyboard binding to anything else because everything's already configured to use F13.

I ended up looking everywhere for what scancode I should be reading on the command line, and found this endlessly useful little cheatsheet.

In the end I configured the terminal emulator to output \u001b[25~ on F13 inputs and now it kinda mostly works.

[1]: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode
Governments the world over should start to collaborate on this, in essence the message to all these pharmaceuticals should be: you will now do what's right or you will cease to exist. The corporate charter is a privilege, not a right.
Definitely sounds like an EMTALA violation. You aren’t allowed to release a patient who is in that bad of shape, regardless of ability to pay.

My wife was an ER nurse until recently and they were often in a bind with abusive patients who refused treatment. They couldn’t release them for fear they’d quickly degrade, and they couldn’t keep them around because the staff would get hurt. ERs are kind of the dumping ground of society.
The research paper is linked in the BBC article. The paper covers more than just changes to diet (less meat, more plants). The diet issue is highlighted in the BBC report because it is presumably the most contentious.

The paper looks at difference ways to influence or change the behaviour of the public. Some examples from the paper below. These are higly selective extracts, but I highlight them because they do realistically highlight the opposition (or inertia!) to be expected from many of us.

Diet changes

> Asking people directly to eat less meat and dairy is a major political challenge, though
positive framings and smaller asks may be possible (e.g. learn one new recipe).

>...narratives must avoid alienation of mainstream dietary choices

Home retrofits and energy transitions

> Information provision alone tends to yield very small behaviour-change impacts in
energy consumption or technology adoption...

Aviation

> There will be limited political space to directly ask the public to fly less in the short-term.