skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be the suggestion with MFN, it gets priced at the lowest term sheet so in this case the sale term sheet
Oops! I guess I need to be more careful when writing checks.
Engineers, artists, etc hired as "temp" workers. Mostly will work there a year until they are cycled out for someone else as to not have to treat them like full timers.
It might go against the expectations, but it would not be defrauding.
> And some things (like binary search) should be easy to write anyway.

It's a different story when a) your mind is set on statistics/linear algebra b) you've never had to actually implement binary search by hand since college and c) even if you do implement the algorithm and demonstrate that you have a general understanding, it must work perfectly and pass test cases otherwise it doesn't count.

FWIW I was rarely asked about algorithmic complexity which is more relevant in DS/ML, albeit it's usually in the context of whiteboarding another algorithm and the interviewer mocking me for doing it in O(n) instead of O(logn).
Agreed!

I don't doubt there are some 10x programmers that are able to pump out features that check off every box that biz dev wants while simultaneously creating code that is understandable and supportable by the rest of the team.

But for every 10x programmer that does this there are many more programmers that are able to pump out features that check off every box that biz dev wants but are creating code that is only understandable to them using their preferred abstractions/libraries/variable naming conventions/etc and unintentionally (or sometimes intentionally) only supportable by them.

This makes them look super productive and 10x-y versus their team members but leads to long term resentment amongst team members and high bus factor loads for the company on that individual that are not apparent to biz dev.
Mini-Telescopes and the Huygens Principle
very didactic expose of why size matters in the world of telescopes.
Assuming that the algorithm is 100% accurate!
I'm not so sure a body full of people that voted for our politicians are going to indirectly fix their unethical behavior through a corporation.
>When there are multiple sellers of generic drugs, you're correct. When there is one seller of a non-generic, life saving drug with no alternative, the NHS is going to pay whatever the one seller, which by definition is a monopoly, is going to charge.

This is incorrect. If the price is too high they refuse, depriving the company of all income. This has been done for certain cancer drugs.

Even if they dont refuse their pricing power lets them beat down prices.

>That we cannot keep increasing NHS funding exponentially

It's barely even increasing in line with inflation.

>Some people seem to find that fact hard

They really dont.

>Both parties campaigned for the NHS in the 1940s.

This is provably false. The tories wanted an insurance based system rather than the system we have modeled on the soviet union.

I think Im gonna leave this discussion here. We clearly dont live in the same plane of reality.
Same for our large company - lack of product understanding, poor outcomes/outputs/quality, communication issues (including SOW definitions), and regulatory constraints that limit what they are even allowed to work on.
> Not trying to be tongue in cheek but isn't it easier for everyone just to reject the bad PRs like that?

Sure, especially if your (meta) goal is minimizing individual maintainer effort. But if you want instead to maximize maintainer and contributor return on effort (counting both the originator and the polisher as contributors), a different approach may be called for.

Maintainers "just" need to figure out for themselves not just how much work they are willing to put in, but what sort of work, and what work (if any) they are able and willing to delegate or offload onto others.

For a maintainer who isn't willing or able to do the work of polishing contributions or handholding potential contributors, and doesn't have anyone they trust that is willing or able to do that work, rejecting most PRs (and even issues, for that matter) outright can be an entirely valid approach.

Open source success and sustainability don't look the same for every project or for every maintainer.
Did Microsoft completely banned this developer from their other services? To my understanding, the developer account is suspended from GitHub. He is not banned from other MS products.

That is the difference. In Google case, Google completely ban on all of their services to those banned users. If they are banned in Gmail, then likely they are banned from Play Store, Workspace, Google Drive, etc (entire Google ecosystem). In this case, Microsoft didn't banned this developers from their other services, it only the developer's GitHub account is suspended without affecting other services that the developers are using.
Yes as they would likely present different surfaces with each tumble cycle.
The analysis is wrong. There is no reason to believe that AD and BE intersect, etc.
Yea I was thinking this too. A reasonable startup is talking to other investors besides YC when they apply, so those investors will have to make up their mind before you get in or they will have to accept the same MFN note after
I actually did read a few (those that actually had them), and asked follow up questions in Discord. The view from the teams generally was no transfer of rights to the NFT holder, you have the control of transferring the NFT via smart contract and that is all. The NFT has a relationship with typically a piece of content (image, mp3) but what that relationship isn't actually defined.

What a particular platform does when it sees that relationship is up to them.
If no platform does anything with that data then your NFT does exactly nothing.
I agree with this, too. Which opens up a nice point of discussion: closing stale bugs is bad because it sweeps the issue under the rug; but closing them is good in case the context and source code around the issue has changed a lot.

In this case I'm not sure what's the best solution. I have suffered myself finding an open bug but so old that it didn't really apply any more. However in those cases, it has happened that attracting attention from a dev, or just testing by myself, has driven the conversation into quickly realizing that the issue didn't apply any more with current state of the source code...

Maybe it's a good idea having the feature of specifying which version the bug was reported against. GitHub doesn't have this, but I've seen it in some other bug trackers.
Pinboard is $22 a year which is around $1.83 a month.

Very reasonably-priced, might have to give it a try.
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Explicitly misrepresenting your intentions would be fraud though. I'm not talking about a company that intended to go big, but didn't quite take off. I'm talking about a founder who never intended to go big (keep a small bootstrapped company all the way), but applied to YC claiming big ambitions anyway, just to get the initial $500k check.
First of all, many jurisdictions and courts have ruled EULAs as unenforceable precisely because of what I said on my previous reply.

To follow up, let me ask you, why should the software maker even have the right to govern how I make use of the copies on my own machine?
Terms of Service are a more fair thing since I am on someone else's back yard. I'm using other person's server and therefore I should be expected to abide by whatever rules they impose on my use.
However, with software that runs locally, why should there even be a license agreement? The first sale doctrine exists, copyright law exists and the DMCA exists. Those govern the copying and redistribution of material after the sale. Why should the average customer be expected to abide by additional terms? Even moreso, why should they expect to keep a contractual relationship with the copyright owner at all? If I buy a book, I have my copy and I can do whatever I want with it besides copying/redistributing copies. No relationship with the seller or author exists after the transaction is finished.
If I do all the heavy-lifting of using my computing power to execute the program and my own storage space and RAM to store it, why should I be obligated to abide by a contract to which I was obligated to agree to in order to use the copy of software I already own?
> Part of the reason why homelessness is so visible in places like Oakland because the governing body in cali cities tend to decriminalize homelessness.

That's what Jesus would do. The evangelicals seem to skip reading the full New Testament, as they arrest and harass homeless for being homeless.
Which of the 3 claims are you referring to?

The commit is here as far as i know, not deleted: https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d1...
You get the 375k now, it is not part of the 7%. The incremental % they own wouldn't be determined until you raise again.

But you could choose to never raise again. They'd still own some incremental amount of your company, but % would be a bit unclear unless you got a formal valuation outside of raising or sold the company.
Just showing that bitcoin is more about international money laundering than a realistic currency
> but it's not what a lot of people call data science

I think that's changed a bit over time and the term has expanded to mean more things. In addition to Facebook, another great example is this article from Lyft in 2018 where they say that they're renaming all their data analysts to data scientists and all their data scientists to research scientists - https://medium.com/@chamandy/whats-in-a-name-ce42f419d16c
In more CPU demanding games it will start running into trouble. Even on a single-threaded performance level a Ryzen 5600X is about twice as fast as a Core i5-2500k from 2012.
I've generally been in this camp, up until last month my primary personal box was a 5-6 year old Chromebook (HP Chromebook 13 G1), which with the recent ability to run Linux containers let me do almost everything in my "home" workflow.

However, a month ago I got one of those new Macbooks to fill in a few voids the Chromebook and borrowing my wife's laptop couldn't. The biggest being video editing. The main incentive was back in October when I spent ~30 hours editing my kids school concert video. Playing all sorts of tricks to get the machine to be barely useful for editing, etc.

That Mac hardware lets me copy the media from my phone or action cam and directly edit it. I don't have to generate optimized media, and it's lightning fast at scrubbing and rendering.

Now I'm running into wanting to update my work laptop, which is only a couple years old, because I got 2 4K monitors on end-of-year sale, and the laptop can only drive them at lower resolutions.

So, yes, for many use cases older laptops are just great.

I felt stupid spending that money on a new laptop, for what is an infrequent use case (videos, slicing 3D files being the big ones). But, what previously, even with my desktop that died, was a painful experience, has now become a joy. That has made it worth the price.

Plus, my spend on laptops over the last 7 years, personally, has been around $700.

If an old laptop works for you, great! If an old laptop plus some new upgrades works for you, fantastic! But, don't forget that if spending some money can solve a pain point, it might still be a good value.
2 of the 3 vaccines you mention were not fully developed in the US despite what you insinuate.

Johnson and Johnson was developed by Janssen which is based in the Netherlands and Belgium [1].

And as others have pointed out, Pfizer was developed by BioNTech in Germany [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssen_COVID-19_vaccine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
I love the comments saying that giving $500k instead of $125k will make things worse. Clearly YC should have made things better instead, by giving less!

Why stop there though? If YC really cared about founders, they'd give them nothing. Better yet, make them pay - now that would have been helpful! But no. Clearly YC doesn't care about founders.

YC really ought to stop making things worse for founders like this. I mean how dare they.
Also in Europe. Death by ozonotherapy is real.
Not understanding Bitcoin is backward thinking. Bitcoin is an incentive to move to clean power.

You can't stop it, you can't stop people mining it, you can't stop people using it. Complaining about the energy is like complaining about the moon. Nothing you say or do can make it go away. So get people to generate it cleanly.
I don't know that it's surprising or disappointing that Google was exploring PR related to their recent employee activism scandals. It would seem pretty incompetent for them to just ignore the problem and hope it goes away. As you can see from HR's comment threads, it's not an easy discussion to have and arguments for and against unions are painted as biased propaganda in either direction.
1. There aren't any other portable Linux VR Computers, as far as I'm aware. (There isn't even a portable Windows VR Computer, unless you count the Hololens/AR headset).

2. The Simula One has a higher PPD than any other portable VR headset on the market. This is one of the things driving its cost, but we think it's worth it when we're trying to build something so good that people will want to work in it for hours a day.

3. Our raw headset (not including the detachable compute pack) is competitive on specs with the Varjo Aero (priced at $2K), but the Aero is tethered and doesn't have Linux support. If you just want a Tethered version of our headset (for tethered Windows gaming, or if you want to provide your own Linux compute), it will be available on our Kickstarter for $2K.

4. Other fully portable headsets with comparable prices to ours: the Hololens 2 ($3,500) and the Magic Leap ($2,300). We're offering a Linux VR Computer with excellent specs for $2,800, without any economies of scale or venture backing.

5. Though our headset is competitive with other portable VR platforms (offering higher PPD, etc), it's in some sense not fair to compare it to them. We're offering something for people to work in. We'd like you to also compare the Simula One to premium laptops, which offer less screen real estate.
Vulnerable road users have a disproportionate share of crash fatalities. And the commonly accepted safety improvements might reduce crash frequencies for drivers, but it doesn’t do it enough (and have enough impact on major injuries death) to overcome their complaints of slower traffic and less parking. If it did, America’s traffic safety numbers would look more like Western European countries.

For example pedestrian bulb outs and daylighting reducing on-street parking while making pedestrians more visible. Bike lanes remove travel lanes or parking, making traffic slower. Lower speed limits make crashes more survivable, but slow down traffic. When used for safety (and not cash) speed and red light cameras increase safety, but make driving costlier.
Trust Is the Bedrock of Civilization
> And there is no denying there has be a reasonable cause to in the last four years.

If there's actually reasonable cause go to a court, get a warrant and investigate.
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I took a graduate-level reading course where the point was to critically read and discuss two research papers per week. These were research papers at top computing conferences in areas related to IoT.

You definitely don't need a week for just one paper. I wasn't even a graduate student. Papers are usually around 16 pages. It would take me a good 4-5 hours to read and digest things, and even longer when it was my turn to present a paper, but never an entire week... Professors go over these things even faster.
How are you comparing the efficiency of a SMPS and a transformer? They are different things. Would love to hear more.
Not exactly, although clearly this is in some part a reaction to the kind of insane amount of VC sloshing around.

They're not offering "more money for the same thing" (i.e. inflation).

Instead, YC is offering its old deal – 125k for 7% – plus a bunch more up-front cash for a (to my eyes) very reasonable adjustable equity stake to be named later.
If you draw a "dotted line" from "A to C", it becomes blatantly obvious that the backside must be curved or warped in some degree (where the "dotted line" represents the bottom base). Assuming that the front-faces are flat, the triangle on the top of the figure is too warped to match the readily assumed triangular base.

In fact, my brain is bouncing between many different interpretations of the base when I saw this figure (first one is a quadrilateral base, as discussed in the blogpost) I don't consider myself to be that good with geometry, but I did play with CAD for a bit back in college, which probably built my instincts up. I imagine that machinists and mechanical engineers would instinctively see the "impossibility" of flat-faces and a 3-sided bottom base.

Us computer engineers really won't work with real-world geometry enough to really get the instincts that those mechanical engineers get though. That's fine. They can taunt us with their superior geometry skills while I'll taunt them with my superior C++ skills!

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I did require the additional guidelines to see the problem. But an additional set of guidelines (ex: dotted-triangle base of ABC) would really make it more obvious.
Deviant or not and corporation or not aren't at play. It'd be the same story if you had a video sharing site and didn't want to host my videos because I broke the "no comedy" rules by uploading a skit.
> Classic colors of royalty

I think this is a stretch, red and blue are also classic colours of royalty.
Not unbelievably, just happens to be a win-win. The founder likely wants the capital now and YC wants more ownership.
In practice for small round you will be raising SAFEs instead anyway, so it might be fine for early companies.
More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
No surprise here, and not something I'd personally be against anyway. Not sure why any Googler would unionize anyway, they already get paid more than most of the rest of the valley. Maybe a union would drop their pay down to levels closer to the rest of the valley.
I think NFT and blockchain are legitimate technologies. However, the hype around them is totally inflated by a gold rush on the premise of a pyramid scheme (cryptocurrencies literally are pyramid schemes). NFTs are real, but also 99% scam.
The analogy is ok if you only consider the capitalist's point of view. Screws don't need health care not do they have children that have to pay for college.

If you want to also consider the worker's point of view, you need think of things like cost of living vs salary and unionizing. Computer part analogies are much too naive for that.
They ride pretty slow, and don't lavishly maintain their bikes in general. You see people smoking while riding a bike in the city. This applies to the typical bike on the street. I understand there is a road bike culture in China now but that's a whole other thing.

I didn't get much chance to talk to people on the street in China since I only know a few words of Mandarin. Most of the software developers I was interacting with had better means of getting around. But I did walk past some working class housing, which is where you see these really large bike sheds. I suppose it's a hassle to carry oil and a tire pump down from one's apartment and back up.
I like this tool and I've considered using it before, but admittedly I sort of dislike the amount of SEO spam you do on your site.

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https://freeyourmusic.com/transfer-youtube-music-to-yandex-m...
etc etc with every single combination of streaming services.
Do companies that already have millions in revenue (or feel that's inevitable) get the same terms? It would be interesting to see who accepts that — they probably see something worth it in YC to give a discount on equity.
Just a note: I agree that spending millions fighting unions is strong evidence unions are bad for the company. It's not necessarily obvious this means unions are good for the employees.
Anyone have experience using this project: https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ ??

I have always wanted to self-host an instance of this app as I use several different desktop/mobile browsers.
Not OP, but in one sentence: YC will give you an additional $375k now, in exchange for the promise to give them equity at the same terms you give other investors when you raise your next round of funding.

The criticism here is that you need to give up a higher % of your company down the road.
Transformers work both ways so I personally don't see a problem, but even if they didn't, you'd have to have a lot of panels before you will be running the transformer "backwards" as you'd have to first power all the others users of that transformer.
Nope. They still retain their perpetual, unlimited 4% pro rata in addition to the 375k most favorable note.

This is extra pro rata.
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I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps and started using it at work. I sucked for a week or two but now I hardly ever watch my hands.
This really goes to the heart of the problem with modern Python. It's lost the simplicity of the language which was the whole point of it in the first place. OO and functional paradigms were bolted on to varying degrees of success, but an outsider can no longer look at average Python code and understand it at a glance.
Proponents of unions seem not understand that unions only exist to enrich existing members and not benefit society, future members, the profession, or anything else.

There's a reason why new teachers, doing the same job with the same title, make less than half of what teachers with seniority do. There's a reason why many unions use credentialing as a way to restrict the free market and the only way new people can join is through nepotism.

Do unions proivde some benefits? Sure. Certainly the threat of a union can also provide said benefits. But unions, like all centralized power structures, eventually become corrupt and end up doing harm at the cost of protecting a small group.
If I encounter a bug in a thread closed by a stalebot, my natural conclusion is that the developers have no intention or desire to ever fix the bug. This usually leads me to searching for alternatives rather than wasting my time re-reporting it.
Forget the paint, just remove the cars from the roads. Suddenly they become really safe, for everyone.