skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, he makes some personal investments in later rounds of YC companies he particularly likes and believes in. I know that's the case with Rescale.

But again, his investment in Rescale isn't because he read their balance sheet and business plan; it's because he's been following their progress closely since YC invested in them in 2012. So he has at least 9 years of progress he's been following, via regular email updates and conversations with the founders. (You mention the $55M round as if it's evidence of the scale of investments he makes, but his share of that round was likely quite small. He really doesn't have a team to do due diligence on his personal investments. He just invests in people he personally believes in.)

As for being a director; he's explicitly avoided taking directorships in companies he's invested in, as he doesn't want to deal with the things that directors have to do, like read balance sheets. The only exception he made to that rule is Watsi, a non-profit - https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/19/paul-graham-watsi/

Please don't be patronising; I've been polite and respectful towards you and the others in this discussion, despite barbs being sent my way. I'm just trying to clarify misapprehensions as I have knowledge about the topic.
Right, that makes sense, but that's not really relevant to what I assume is the half life of a specific strand of DNA, right?
That long comment was insightful, comparing how Rust and Go solved (or avoided altogether) similar concerns.

> ..we would have never found these things so early unless we had written the Rust compiler in Rust itself. It forces us to use the language constantly, and we quickly find pain points. I highly encourage all languages to do the same; it's a great way to find and shake out design issues early.

This reminded me of Lisp, meta-circular interpreters, and self-hosted compilers.

Reading up on Rust's beginnings, I learned that:

> The language grew out of a personal project begun in 2006.. [In 2010] work shifted from the initial compiler (written in OCaml) to an LLVM-based self-hosting compiler written in Rust. Named rustc, it successfully compiled itself in 2011.
I agree with your notion, that we reciprocally amplify our cognitive deficiencies but i don't get how smaller communities would be a solution, considering global issues like climate change, which could still occur in such a world, combined with different biases like diffusion of responsibilities.

Cancellation or isolation does not help. I my opinion, education (or proper dialog) is the only option we have.
I think you should look at the chaotic mess of JavaScript, not as a mental challenge but an opportunity.

I did the typical career path for developers. From Dev to Project Management to Enterprise Architecture and actual management and I hated it. So I found myself a development job again, and this happened to be one that uses a lot of JavaScript. It’s been great so far, because JavaScript isn’t actually that bad when you do it right.

Which is where the opportunity lies. Because it’s sooooo easy to do things wrong. Need to connect to a named instance or a msSQL server in azure? Tedious is going to be your first result, but tedious sucks. Then maybe Sequelize? Can’t connect? Yeah, you, me, and everybody else in a range of closed GitHub issue. Enter node-mssql which works, but in such a horrible way that you’re either a magician or building technical depth the moment you install it.

Except Sequelize runs on Tedious, so why isn’t it working? Aaaah, the documentation is just really poor for connecting to named instances on a msSQL server in an enterprise network. But once you figure it out, you have an ORM that’s basically as good as Entity Framework.

See what I’m getting at here? 15 years ago I would’ve gone with the mssql step and never thought twice about it. That was before I experienced a decade of cleaning up my own hurried mistakes. I’m not going to claim I’m a good developer or this is some sort or revelation, it’s exactly the opposite intact. But since most of us are mediocre, there is plenty of work for those who are old and mediocre. ;)
I think you need to narrow down your definition of "home users" to computer users, as most mobile devices have an ipv6 stack that works pretty well and transparently for their users.
What does being toast mean? Do they confiscate your deposit and give nothing in return?
Well, let's start from the bottom. For most computers and systems, there is only a signal network interface (and if not, there's usually just a single route from A to B.) So, when you say "I can have parallelism" you have to realize that even without a multiplexed TCP connection, the operating system is playing the same game. It is interleaving and blocking bits to the NIC even with multiple TCP connections.

The parallelism you see with multiple TCP connections comes from the fact that the NIC is not (generally) saturated sending and receiving bits.

So with that out of the way, where's the benefits?

One is eliminating the TCP slow start [1]. TCP was designed generally with the notion that you'd only ever have 1 connection between 2 computers. As a result, it has baked into the protocol network congestion sensing protocols. More connections == more congestion control == slower requests. It also, however, means that the first request of every connection will be penalized as the connection warms up. A single connection pays that penalty once.

Another is the latency problem. In order for a connection to be used, you need to send the data from the client to the server and then receive a response from the server. During that time, your connection is bound up (ignore http pipelining, it never worked well). You cannot add more bits down that connection, you have to wait for the server to process and send back response. If that round trip time takes 200ms, that's 200ms of sitting around doing nothing. During that time, over a 100Mbps connection your client could have sent 2.5MB worth of requests to the server. Because http request are typically very small (usually in the bytes), that's a lot of potential requests. This leads to the servers more than likely being able to saturate the connection which is what you want if you are trying to maximize performance.

> It seems like for larger requests, you would suffer performance loss with http2?

A little tricky, it depends on what you are measuring. A large request will block other requests going through while it is streaming. In that scenario, you'd still be saturating the network line but the perceived concurrency would be down. So, from a requests/sec standpoint, that could end up being lower. But from a data-throughput standpoint, you'll be better off still than http1 due to the better network congestion handling of a single TCP connection. (The ole latency v throughput problem).

This is where we enter HTTP3, which bucks TCP as the primary request carrier for UDP messages instead. HTTP3 allows for much lower connection establishment costs (so making multiple QUIC connections isn't as expensive) but also contains protocol changes for errors which keeps an bad packet from blocking all the inbound packets (TCP will freeze the stream while it goes back up the connection to get the correct packet).

[1] https://blog.stackpath.com/tcp-slow-start/
For more background on the technical details, I found this presentation describing how KVM works with Arm EL2: https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slid... (pdf)
Boy do we have the strangest hang ups over people getting lucky. Your link is mostly spinning an untrue story. It’s only a tiny collection of anecdotes, and it’s cherry picking and mostly not true.

This bankruptcy thing is a myth that seems to have been made up and won’t die. I’ve looked into this in the past and the only stats I could find that back it up are based on small winnings, not large winnings, contrary to your redditor’s claims, and the bankruptcy rates were temporary. Get this: the bankruptcy rates went down 2 years after winning between $50k-$150k, and then 3 years after that they returned back to normal. The returning back to normal from a low point was cherry-picked and reported widely as bankruptcy rates going up. Misleading, right? Here’s the Florida study this misinformation was based on: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~cle/laborlunch/hoekstra.pdf

The National Endowment for Financial Education has issued a press release about this bankruptcy misinformation: https://www.nefe.org/news/2018/01/research-statistic-on-fina...
Only within certain extremely constrained limitations, but it’s an insignificant use of the system overall.
I totally agree with the elephant racing. If we saw traffic as team-play, things would be much easier.

A similar case, more frequent case here in a touristic place with single-lane routes is lines of vehicles right after each other, that don't know how to overtake the one before, but neither leave space in between so someone else _can_ overtake them.

In a complicated mountain road, I _may_ be able to overtake a truck once in a while (depending on incoming traffic, turns, and going uphill/downhill) - but the effort required to overtake 2, 3 or more vehicles at a time is almost impossible.
That took more effort than most people will put in.

Most HN participants will judge your post based on the content of your post, rather than taking the time to click thru to examine your position in the social hierarchy groupthink relative to mine or theirs, yours is merely 234 at this time, which is about one 59th of my exalted rank in the hierarchy. Given our power disparity I believe you're supposed to address me as Honored Sir, BTW. (just kidding... I think?)

As for Reddit its funny how classist it inherently is, given its political leanings of most of its few remaining unbanned participants.
Oh that's horrible. At least you got some entertainment from it, though.
Once you get banned from a subreddit, using those multiple accounts becomes “ban evasion”. Permanent ban from all of Reddit will follow quickly after.
Anyone can click anyone else's profile and see how much karma they have.
You'd rather appoint regulators with no industry experience?
I've paid with Bitcoin for many legal tangible things that I would have otherwise paid for with a credit card if the Bitcoin option wasn't so much cheaper (10-15% discounts usually).
Personally, probably not very many. But traditions of information sharing and story telling between humans have been strong long before the internet. This isn't some obscure information about space or DNA or something. This is something that would have been relatively accessible without technology.
Sure, if the server admin lets you
There's a classic Planet Money episode all about how behind the US is with inter-bank transfers. The huge number of often small banks in the US did seem to be a very significant part of the problem. Here in the UK we have many fewer banks, which makes it possible to build out the infrastructure that allows almost instantaneous transactions (rarely more than 15 seconds). As far as I'm aware support for the Faster Payments system is universal. I think that would have been much harder if there had been a large number of small banks without the technical capability to roll out such a system.
He did/does. However, I thought the complaint was that his judgement should be questioned because he supported Trump specifically, not republicans generally. If the complaint is that “he supports republicans, so don’t trust him.” That complaint is simply generically partisan. At least for me, general partisanship or party alignment doesn’t sway my opinion of an individual.

Trump is divisive and an atypical republican, so I can certainly see how someone supporting him could raise an eyebrow to folks with conventional political wisdom, even if I understand why someone like Thiel would support him.
That's quite an assumption. Plenty of examples exist of people with decay starting later than average that eventually went through a short "off-ramp" earlier, plenty of examples of people who experienced significant decay very early but then dragged it out very long, seeing their "still seemed so young ten years ago!" peers disappear one by one.
What do you think currency is? Of course it's a currency. If people have the misguided view that Bitcoin is a bank or that they should earn a profit by trading it, that's on them. USD isn't much different other than that it's backed by military and economic might; at the end of the day it's numbers, like Bitcoin, without a decentralized blockchain.
I had to scroll up and re-read to make sure we were on the same page.

Since you’re misquoting yourself, it sounds like you don’t want to have this debate, or you may not have realized what you said. But “The whole assumption that ethics have a price tag attached is faulty” is not at all the same thing as “ethical people exist.” It’s not a pedantic distinction; one is debating whether people will take compensation for acting unethically, even if they feel they’re the most ethical person on the planet — I think the answer is “yes” — whereas “ethical people exist” is a point no one could disagree with.

It’s a bit unexpected for you to omit your “price tag” words and then continue with my argument.

But we’re past the point that readers are having a nice time reading this. If you’d like to continue, I’m happy to do so, but we need to restrict ourselves to a high caliber of debate, if only for HN’s sake.
Just to be clear, though: this means that you view the evasion of existing AML statutes as a precondition for crypto "thriving". It's the same problem. Coinbase isn't doing this to be evil or centralized or controlling, they're literally just following the law.

Now, I'm sure there's a place for a reasoned discussion about the breadth of laundering regulation and how it might be improved. But your position seems to be an absolutist one (that AML simply can't be allowed in crypto), and it's not clear to me if you realize that.
It has a proven use case as a result of what?
> Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts

I don't think this is true. There are some subs which encourage if not require you to post via a throwaway account.
Ahh!! A forum? Where you can showcase your project and ask for help on it lol.

I really want a place to chat with people about what they're building +or thinking of building!! Like product hunt but for prelaunch/hobbies
> with zero preparation

Yes, but the students have had preparation time: the teaching and revision prior to the oral examination. They should be able to answer questions, even if the answers aren't as 'clean' as they might be if the questions had been shown to them beforehand.
"There are only two hard problems in CS, cache invalidation and naming." Dan Luu covered cache the other day (https://danluu.com/cache-incidents/) so I guess OP can be said to cover naming: users really hate the constant friction and uncertainty of naming. 'Untitled.doc' is the "blinking twelve" of writing or notetaking systems: just enough effort and trivial inconveniences to stop people from fixing it.

But as always, the solution to every problem in automation is some more automation, and it seems like we could do better than forcing users to aversively write titles. A neural net like GPT-J or T5 is good at abstractive summarization, so there's no reason a note-taking program couldn't make titles strictly optional: use the internal ID as the placeholder, and update the title based on the contents until such time as the user wishes to manually edit or write it themself.

This is the sort of gradual automation which works best in practice: I write my note as I please, the NN does the best it can, and when I read it, I realize it missed the important thing (and I realize the important thing in the first place!) and I edit it. Or I don't because it's fine, and I move on to the next thing.

(And making links/backlinks likewise. We don't need to make the user keep the whole note taking graph in their head and curate it themselves: just use more ML. I do something similar with text embeddings on notes on gwern.net: I write a note, and then it gets embedded and a list of suggested links is inserted for me to edit. I find it relieving to write while knowing that it'll suggest links I've forgotten. A poor man's remembrance agent https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/1996/SS-96-02/SS... Is it perfect? Far from it. But when it's not, I just delete the suggestions and move on.)
Extending life is a fantasy of the middle-aged who are still feeling great and imagine it forever.

You won't get it until you pass a certain year, where like an old car, things suddenly start failing one at a time where everything was fine for years.

Diseases, illnesses like Covid can cause radical aging, one year you are turning 55 but Covid now makes it like you are 65 because all your organs, body and brain have been stressed and damage beyond self-repair.

And endless common problems have no cure, ie. Raynalds, Small-Fiber Neuropathy, no cures, no prevention, many people get them when they are older.

Quantity of life is meaningless without quality of life.

We may reach a point where many people live past 100 but that will be because they are genetically engineered from birth to have great health.

Doesn't help we are poisoning the water and air, willingly and openly, not in third world countries but right here in USA like Texas: https://www.fastcompany.com/90692691/this-super-detailed-map...
NASA telescope spots powerful ever seen on Jupiter helps solve 30-year mystery
Yeah, I can so relate.
Ah, I didn't even notice the contention over the word 'disease'. I just found it notable that there are no anti-parasitic drugs for it, according to the WP article.
[EDIT: I wrote a somewhat long comment that really wasn't directly related to the article, so I chose to remove it.]
Systems design on how he’d build a hotel booking site
Ok, finally one I agree with. In order to have a full self driving car, you would need to be able to read any road sign and comprehend it better than any human. That will never happen in our lifetime.
A few months ago I made a new account that I will probably want to use in the future in a professional context. I never posted anything and in a month or so it was banned.

I wrote asking why it was banned and they said it was a mistake and unbanned it. Maybe worth asking.
> As is tradition, the comments' section on that website is better than the article itself.

I read some of the comments based on your recommendation. I believe you were well-intentioned, but I will not repeat that mistake. The comments seem like a lot of economists' supply-demand curve easy, all-purpose answer to everything.

The pull-quote in Cowen's blog-post has some comically flawed grammar:

> One possible explanation for the increase in North Dakota birth rates is the fracking boom that occurred in this state over those years, which has been shown in other research to increase the birth rate (Kearney and Wilson 2018).

Wait, fracking booms increase birth rate, or does fracking increase birth rate or does North Dakota increase birth rate?
I gotta ask how a $2,000,000,000 single flight vehicle with a two year turnaround is still considered remotely acceptable?
Why? Remote saves money.

I bet next recession companies extend their life by ditching the office and in extreme cases laying off staff and replacing with staff from lower cost of living areas who can work remote.
The amount of Reddit comments with "well you post history" blah blah on it and then they'll mention posts from YEARS ago. Not sure I agree.
> it sends the canceled group or individual underground where any extremist views are amplified more than they would resident to whatever platform canceled them.

Independent of whether cancellation is a net negative or not, I don't think the data backs this up.
Gambling is not a human right, no one deserves to be able to waste resources they have no matter how much they may or may not enjoy it.
First is not necessarily best. But Washington deserves credit for setting the precedent of becoming an ex-president voluntarily. That was a big deal at the time.
The poster you replied to didn't say stupid. He said money coming from work and money coming from gambling are going to have different outcomes.
There is a lot of things that people value but it is impossible to monetize. Monetization control is a huge factor for the current shape of the internet

And then, there is no public internet. Wikipedia is valuable, and it sustains itself, but we don't have public email or public blogs. Why? Expression and association are rights
It was found in the 1920 so there may not be any photos, or good ones of the original site.
What's the size of that market, and what portion of participants bother to try covering up their transactions on the blockchain between exchanging with a real currency and buying/selling the drugs (or nuclear weapons, or hitman contracts, etc.)?
Sewing machines are often free on Craigslist, or at least cheap. If you're living frugally you should join a Hacker group or tech shop as these will almost always have an industrial sewing machine and free laptops/electronics/parts.

My buddy does maintenance-meditation (Maintetation?) where he hand repairs an article of clothing every morning. There is a zen to repairing your bike and clothes with minimal tools.
Just spatial safety, that's too bad. It won't catch use-after-free errors.
Yeah, Reddit is incredibly ban happy these days. You can get permabanned for saying "John Brown did nothing wrong". You can also get permabanned for ban evasion if you have multiple accounts and one of them gets banned on a subreddit you then comment on, which isn't difficult because subreddits will ban you simply for having posted on another subreddit, or mentioning them in a bad light, or because one of the mods read one of your posts in another subreddit and decided to ban you, or because you posted a news article somewhere that the mods didn't like, or because a powermod banned you from two dozen subreddits at once for an unmentioned offence and you lost track, etc...

Basically, Reddit wants you to use a single account forever and never post or say anything remotely controversial. Which makes a lot of sense because that's how they make the most money.
I might be projecting my own problems onto Roam, but as a product developer, the more flexible your product is the harder it becomes to evolve and change. You have a fractal of existing use cases to consider. I wonder if this explains their slow iteration.
Most apps in the app store are pretty useless or one offs. I pay for photo storage, file storage, grammar checking, IDEs, and useful/interesting content.
The Life of MS-DOS
So why not change things so it can be their job?
Issue lies in how fast changes are happening. We are simply not ready for that.
This is the moment when ppl who are a bit further on the evolution cycle should take things into own hands and stop others from hurting themselves.

It will take a small disaster now to get back on track.
I don't assume nor do I have to assume anything about someones intent to know that gambling is stupid. Entertainment can be had in so many forms today that even the poorest of the poor in developed countries can have choice paralysis from having so many options. Gambling is a stupid waste of resources, if you enjoy doing stupid things I have no moral/ethical qualms with your choices, but it's still stupid.
Except a researcher could easily need to skim 30+ papers in a day, this is not a solution.
Yes, but how would he know business plans and balance sheets aren’t useful unless he’s looked at one and decided to never look at one again?
You can use it as an everyday currency in El Salvador. Here's an example from three months ago: https://youtu.be/6IAc1G8xaDs?t=62
Who did you write to if you don't mind me asking?
Do people commonly pay attention to other people's karma on HN? I don't think I have even once. Although it's useful in seeing how people have responded to one's posts or comments, it's a pretty worthless statistic. I'm not really sure why we even have karma.