skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if YC has published a model version of the "uncapped safe with an MFN" mentioned in the blog post?
I definitely share your opinion. I do think those more fortunate should put less weight on one's "wallet" and be "good samaritans". But I don't think that's a good solution to invoke the widespread change necessary for the environment.

Consider a similar "tragedy of the commons" externality-- air pollution.

LA smog was quite infamously disastrous for decades. This was not fixed by "good Samaritans" trailblazing, but rather regulation enabled by the Clean Air Act, in which California was especially liberal in using-- car smog checks, centralized landfills, catalytic cracker carbon controls, etc.

This was, in my opinion, wildly successful. Just look around LA. It's not the hellhole it once was. But these controls were, and still are, mildly unpopular [1].

The point I want to make is this-- change will not happen with single trailblazers e.g. the HN demographic. It has to happen with widespread change. That can either happen top down (e.g. air pollution) or bottoms up (e.g. making costs/revenues break even).

I personally don't think a top-down approach will ever happen in today's political climate. Thus, the reality is, we need a hyper-focus on making breakeven. Because that's the reality of the vast majority of people, not just the HN community.

[1]: https://publicintegrity.org/environment/a-california-regulat...
Entertaining debunking of web3, and less technical explanation of Moxie's recent blog post.

Don't neglect the funny footnotes.
Have you found good decaf anywhere? I drink only espresso and haven't found any decaf that isn't miserably bland.
I would say price discovery is one of the main problems just as you've identified. The other is inelasticity of demand. To put it in a crass way, what's the market value of the morbidity and mortality of your child? I suspect the answer is often all you have and more and I think plenty of actors in the system are happy to take advantage of that.
3 is probably just the amount of downtime OP was willing to put up with before throwing in the towel.
110kWh in one year from 320W is quite bad. One would at least expect 250kWh normally, even more under ideal circumstances. So a better setup can easily half the time until break even. Also, the inverter needs to be scaled to the panels, obviously. If your inverter can do xW, your panels should at least do xW (or more with east/west orientation), or you effectively lose money.

So a balcony installation is obviously not the best approach, but one has to wonder about a rooftop installation. What if every apartment would get some part of the roof allocated for private solar? It stands to reason that such an installation could pay for itself in 10 years or less.
I am vaxxed and done. I was told by doctors and by government officials, that vaccine will make me immune to virus indefinitely, and I do believe that. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and antivaxxer for me.
It was never just a personal risk, so yes, those people were rightly scolded. Now that there are effective vaccines (and effective treatments here now/coming soon), it is more like a personal risk.
I think the size of the stdlib is a bit misplaced. If you look at many of the complaints, many of which I agree with, the real issue isn't whether something is part of the language distribution itself or provided externally. The problem is bloat in the dependency tree. Nobody wants to individually vet a thousand plus library authors and enterprise/government or just anyone who cares a lot about supply chain security is not likely to consider "number of downloads" on crates.io a reliable proxy of trustworthiness.

Large collections of libraries that can often be pulled in as a single dependency, like boost, apache-commons, or all of the C libraries provided for free by a GNU system, are a nice middle ground. They're trusted, large enterprises will let you use them, you don't need to separately download every single library, but the core language maintainers don't need to maintain these collections themselves and they don't have to be subject to hard backwards compatibility guarantees provided by a built-in std.

But, of course, that also means you can't ask the core language maintainers to create this for you. These are community efforts. Also, I don't believe any of them existed within 11 years of the language first being released. Curated, dependable library collections that become ubiquitous as part of a language ecosystem take time to come about.
It's possible these exist, but I'd expect they're a sense of risk-awareness on the part of business owners, not sponsored by any employer directly. If you know you'll have someone who makes >$ dollars and lives less than a mile from your condo/apartment complex, you probably have a very stable, long term leasee.
Astral Codex Ten posited that conspiracy theories are part of the Epistemic Minor Leagues [0]. In other words a way for people to flex the part of their brain that doing real research and discovery stimulates even if they don't feel they can belong to or contribute to "regular" intellectual activity like academic research.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-league...
The "impossibility" proof actually uses 3 assumptions:

1. A, D, E, B lie in one plane

2. B, E, F, C lie in one plane

3. A, D, F, C lie in one plane

Any of these assumptions can be wrong. It's easy to perceive that number 3 is not flat, if you think that 1 and 2 are flat.
"Triaged out" doesn't mean "doesn't need to be here". It just means "less likely to die tonight if not in ICU", if it is at the point where you are talking about "triage".
> ps -ef | grep VBoxHeadless | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

There's pkill for that :)

pkill -KILL VBoxHeadless

(the above assumes that the binary is called `VBoxHeadless`)
Plenty of people who get the booster have a low grade fever and sickness for a day or two.
News flash: hospitals are businesses, and like all businesses, they are most profitable when running at close to capacity, therefore they're at close to capacity most of the time because staffing is sized accordingly.
Web3 Can’t Fix the Internet
I mentioned how this affects relationships and dating on a recent thread 'Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life? ' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514830

of course that thread ended up with like 520 comments or so and Im sure it'll be buried on the second page since there are so many replies about advertising evil / holy war.

Glad to see this photofeeler page featured - I think a lot of people don't even know.
If I've learned anything through this pandemic, it's that people are always much more enraged than I could have imagined. It seems like everyone's looking for something new to focus all their rage onto.
The lethality of influenza is grossly overexagerated to sell vaccines. This started in the 90s when pharma realized there was an untapped market of aging Americans they could scare into creating demand for their product.
wow, you just had a really awful covid experience despite having all preventive measures in place, and now that you're "done" it's time to take off the masks for everyone?

thanks for "letting the chips fall where they may" on everyone else who still would much prefer not to get sick and risk long covid but I will keep the mask on for now, thanks
> It's an interesting math problem, that exists on the contexts of its definitions (like any other). But given that the definitions aren't stated, it's not reasonable to expected people to come aware of them.

That's why I linked to the the definitions in my own comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29875085

https://aitopics.org/download/classics:E29CE08E

This entire thread is mostly suffering from excessive pedantry because the linked blog failed to properly frame the problem.
I think punishments need to have enough teeth to deter.

Six months seems like it could be enough to deter without it unnecessarily keeping someone who is normally harmless incarcerated. I'm not too dug-in on this point though, it really depends on how risky shooting a laser at an aircraft really is.
"Science" can't be wrong, just the interpretation. And if the popular interpreters are frequently wrong, they should be called out.
How deadly does a disease have to be for you to feel it’s not worth the risk? 1%, 10%, 50%?
Jacobson was not force vaccinated. he paid a $5 fine following the ruling.
Right - I must have missed that
Yup, I took a test every other day until 5 days after. This was in GA where there is plenty of vaccine and tests to go around due to non-compliance (I guess?)
> “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”

It seems to me from this excerpt of his email to a colleague on February 5, 2020, Fauci really did not think masks were effective initially.
A) Covid is probably airborne and refusal to admit as such and this upgrade hvac is potentially an ignored reality

B) why aren’t we testing and segregated people in hospitals? If society is expected to segregate unvaccinated people why can’t hospitals test and segregate healthy patients from anyone with Covid?

C) what expression is appropriate for a hospital that was incapable of preventing a patient free of Covid from contracting Covid in the hospital? Unwilling perhaps? Uninterested?
American here, totally agree with your points and upvoted. I’m just wondering if you can provide a source for this?

> They have also indicated that getting vaccinated does not reduce your ability to spread the virus
> make arbitrary post-facto charges illegal,

Hospitals now are required to make pricing transparent and surprise bills (out of network charges) are now prohibited, both are recent reforms.
> Omicron is essentially impossible to avoid at this point short of locking yourself in a room and having everything delivered to your front door. The risks are known and its time to trust people to weigh those risks and make their own decisions.

As viruses can remain active on surfaces, unless you irradiate the deliveries with a UV lamp (and do it again after unboxing them, since there may be viruses on the actual item) even that would not be enough.

> Even if we locked down for 3 months, once we were released someone from another country would come in and re-infect everyone again.

That's if you assume away animals, as viruses that affect mammals are rarely limited to humans (ex: chicken flu)

> Also during lock down do we once again tell the poorest among us that while they are 'essential' that they are also worth less and must continue to work and face the risk alone so as to ensure the rest of us can isolate in safety at home

Agreed. It's time to accept we're not immortals, viruses exist, and yes it's a shame that covid is now endemic, but it's even worse to perform lockdowns of dubious efficiency that only have one guaranteed effect: hurting the economy, and the "poorest among us".
Show a study, any study (and not just a news article that links to another article claiming 'studies' show blah) where they reduce the risk of serious infection or transmission versus only 2 doses.

Simply pumping up antibodies for a couple weeks isn't the same as efficacy.
Vaccination makes you much less likely to get sick in the first place and probably reduces how long you are infectious if you do get sick. Neither of those things fit with 'does not reduce'.
Are you saying that until young kids can get vaccinated, it is not safe enough to remove shutdown protocols for preschools?

Parent of 2 very young kids here btw - it's been brutal, I feel your pain. Frankly, our kids get enough other diseases from nursery that a months-long scratchy cough doesn't sound too terrifying.
Wait you have to presentable to get coffee from a coffee shop? I've made a terrible mistake
Note on one point - technically it doesn’t require multiple rounds. For early investors, the fewer rounds before a large IPO, the better. If you made it huge and IPO’d as a billion+ dollar company with only the YC funds? YC would be thrilled

The reality is that is really really hard to do - harder even than doing it with extra funds - so it’s foolish to have that as your goal, or be tied to that. Especially since the decisions required to do that would almost certainly hamstring your ability to get market traction, grow as quickly as you otherwise would be able, etc.

YC, and most other investors, would much rather have 1% of a
$10bln company than 10% of a $100mln company.
Ask HN: YouTube over Zoom
On Zoom, is there a way for a presenter (e.g. a teacher) to present a YouTube video to participants (e.g. students) without literally having the teacher’s local YouTube stream get sent over zoom? It’s unworkable.

What about a feature whereby a presenter can submit a YouTube url to zoom and then each participant’s machine fetches and presents the YouTube stream locally?

My kid’s teacher keeps showing YouTube videos over zoom and the frame rate is like 1 frame per 2 seconds and it’s totally unworkable.
Disagree. While the "we're working consciously" bit can be left out, you have to let the people you communicate with know that it's not just this Friday, it's EVERY Friday. Just saying "I'm out of the office today and will respond on Monday" implies it's a one-time thing.
3D Printed Walking AtAt
T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US
Personal electricity generation can be surprisingly diverse. You have hippie homesteaders, catastrophe bunker preppers, libertarians who just want to be off grid because they want to, etc. Environmentalists are just one of many groups that solar sellers are targeting.

Also, if you are extremely remote, getting the grid built out to you might cost tens of thousands, to the point that the up-front costs of nongrid power are even more palatable.
> Much of the difficulty goes away when you avoid artificial light, like from phones, in the evenings. It's just that teens would prefer to be sleepy rather than go to bed early and avoid phone

Ahh ok, this isn't medical research. It's the good old boomer rant that "phone bad".

I get it now.
That's not true of the immunocompromised, the rare few who actually couldn't get the fully vaccine because of a reaction to the first dose, the elderly and others with co-morbidities they might not even know about. Those people, along with the unvaccinated, are still going to overwhelm the hospitals if everyone doesn't attempt to limit the spread with measures like masking and testing.
Ok, I do. Congrats. My "support" though is doing very little against inertia, because unlike solar on my own roof I can't unilaterally cause a nuclear plant to be built. Let me know if you invent a safe back yard nuclear plant and maybe I'll install one.

I also didn't say anything about what I expect "people en masse" to do. You'd think I shot someone's dog when all I did was say "maybe we could talk about something other than money?"
Since they announce a handful of cases every day, they might as well also announce the small share of those that end with the patient dying. The last time that happened (on January 25, 2021, so the headline of the submission here is incorrect) it was just one of many statistics in the report the next day: http://www.jl.gov.cn/szfzt/jlzxd/yqtb/202101/t20210126_79254...
The only thing keeping me from being done is the fear/suspicion that the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

Front line workers are not being compensated well enough. This means less people taking the career path and increased burn out.

We are in for a world of hurt and the only thing I can do is try to not be sick when the hammer falls.
> I'm not interested in learning about SAFEs or cap tables or any of that.

Then YC isn't for you. They want people who are interested in learning about cap tables and SAFEs.
I suspect you're not trying to be facetious, so I'll do my best to reply in kind. But seriously, just adding more power or just shed load is not easy. Where do you magically find more power in a decentralized system where something as fickle as a cloud can cause huge spikes in power generation?

Load is easier to predict, but far harder to shed on short notice.

Decentralized production absolutely can be enough to max out power lines. In most parts of the world, power grids aren't exactly crown jewels. Many grids are basically held together with proverbial duct tape. Here in Belgium the grid is such a pile of rubbish that instead of trying to adapt to decentralized production, we're now actively going to punish people for using power during peak hours.

I agree that land and batteries are expensive. But they're a lot less expensive than rebuilding the grid.
If you are one of the lucky few that doesn’t get unpleasant side effects for 24-48 hours afterwords, this may be true.

I am not, and anecdotally nobody close to me is either. It’s not a pleasant experience that I want to repeat ad infinitum. Particularly if it’s not even going to stop the current C19 variation.
I feel that having a curated large standard library would mitigate the issues that are seen with crap like npm.
> The administration forcing a purge of unvaccinated US soldiers, government workers, and employees of companies that do business with the government is obscene.

The one that seems odd in this list is soldiers. It's my understanding that soldiers already were mandated vaccines when put into areas where the particular diseases were common. I'm not sure why mandating covid vaccines for them during a global pandemic is different.

Maybe there's context I'm missing, but when I first read about the backlash I was confused.
We have options, and options imply choices and therefore morality.

I see lots wrong with it, since it creates pain and bad life experiences. This bothers me. But that's also a choice, of what kind of morality you embrace.
Oh, this seems likely. Good idea.
I actually believed we'd be able to go back to having normal mask free existence with 3. As of now that's not proven to be the case so I'll continue to wear an N95 as I have family to protect. Hope it will burn itself out and my under 5 child and older family can have a better idea of the risks in time.
But maybe not if you're young. Aspirin is associated with Reye Syndrome in children with viral infections. Not sure I've seen whether this has been shown to be the case or not with COVID, but basically nobody gives their kids aspirin anymore so I'm not sure if it's been an issue.
I don't know the situation in the US, but here in the UK, the only reason there is a strain on hospitals is not because of high hospital admissions, they aren't particularly high. It is because of mandatory self-quarantine requirement for hospital staff who test positive, which result in staff shortage. We wouldn't do that with a cold, and this variant, at least to the vaccinated, is little more than a cold.
Panasonic to Offer Four-Day Workweek in Japan
I just have one large cup of coffee in the morning for the taste and that's about it. I feel bad for this person.
Depending on your spending and your return on investments, it easily could have in the last 4 years...

House prices (on 5:1 leverage) are up >100% THIS YEAR.

The S&P is up ~30%.

You need a ~20% return saving ~$300k per year to get >$2M in 4 years. This wasn't terribly difficult to get in the last 4 years.

Who knows what the future will bring.
Tangentially, I recently moved to Canada and was surprised by the lack of quality healthcare..

Literally could not believe some walk ins have paper files and use fax, plus finding a GP apparently is a months long quest.

Visiting a specialist took ages, and I wouldn’t say it was the best / most modern infrastructure there either.

(And I went in downtown Toronto, must be so much worse for more remote places I guess).

In the end we kind of shunned the public system and decided to go private healthcare instead. But (luckily) have not really had to take advantage of it)

/rant
> at this point I want better public health evidence from CDC

> At this point I don't really think that pointing at CDC public health releases is going to convince a scientist like me.

I just watched you move the goal posts in realtime.
$250k base salary. That's not top of market if the other $550k are illiquid options with no clear liquidity horizon.
I imagine that'd not be what YC would expect but good question if they'd accept it.
So while the transmitter can "shape the beam" to create gain, the receiver cannot (though the path lose equation implies that it does). The receiver can physically just trap the amount of watts per square metre that it receives and this amount depends only on its size and not on the frequency of the incoming radiation.

So radio telescopes don't shape the incoming radiation? You can't just have a big flat antenna with a lot of area, they use dish reflectors and wave guides to shape the incoming radiation down to the actual antenna that has a size determined by guess what, FREQUENCY.

"Figure 3.3: Most high-frequency feeds are quarter-wave ground-plane verticals inside waveguide horns. The only true antenna in this figure is the λ/4 ground-plane vertical, which converts electromagnetic waves in the waveguide to currents in the coaxial cable extending down from the waveguide.

According to the strict definition of an antenna as a device for converting between electromagnetic waves in space and currents in conductors, the only antennas in most radio telescopes are half-wave dipoles and their relatives, quarter-wave ground-plane verticals. The large parabolic reflector of a radio telescope serves only to focus plane waves onto the feed antenna. (The term “feed” comes from radar antennas used for transmitting; the “feed” antenna feeds transmitter power to the main reflector. Receiving antennas used in radio astronomy work the other way around, and the “feed” actually collects radiation from the reflector.)

https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/web/Ch3.html
Apple reportedly wants nothing to do with Zuck's metaverse
I wholeheartedly disagree with your underlying premise of what open source is or should be.

It's not a job.

It's not a résumé.

It's not a damn lifestyle or an in-group to define yourself through.

It's a way of saying "I wrote this. I allow you to look at it and use it for yourself, if you like". Nothing more, nothing less.

> randoms from around the globe should keep their leftpads for themselves and their friends.

That seems like a bizarre inversion of responsibility to me. Randoms can publish whatever they please; if you use their left-pad, that's on you and you alone.
Yeah we live in a globalized world, corporations are global entities and companies from other countries made meaningful contribution. They still were predominately developed, tested, manufactured and distributed by US companies... thats why BioNTech had less than a billion of revenue last year to Pfizer's 7.5B Operating Income. You wouldn't have it at this scale without the so-called 'trash' US healthcare system.