skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably my biggest topic of contemplation and experimentation.

The startup I co-founded was funded by YC the month after this essay was published. It was the same batch as Airbnb. We didn't tick the VC boxes. PG commented later that we were "so nervous" in the interview; he had no idea how much.

It was said that all the startups in our batch were chosen because we seemed particularly resilient. It's amazing how being told that by someone like PG will make it come true.

Our startup didn't make it as a "home run" success, and we found it hard to raise VC funding, partly, I think due to not ticking VC boxes. But the company still exists in a different form. It employs over 10 people and is doing really important work to help airlines recover from the effects of the pandemic. It could yet be a huge success, thanks to the resilience and determination of the people still there (I left about 7 years ago).

Thanks in large part to the YC experience and vote of confidence, I've been undertaking a very profound journey of self-discovery and growth, and have worked on several important and successful projects. I'm now exploring multiple opportunities to start or join new startups, some related to the work we were doing in our YC-funded startup, and others completely different.

I think the last few years has been a tough time to be the kind of founder who doesn't tick VC boxes; the whole startup world has been dominated by glitz and hype.

It feels like that's changed in the past week. It seems the latest hype era is over, and we're re-entering a period where resilience, resourcefulness and determination will be in strong demand.

Please don't be discouraged. If you really want to build something important and valuable, you'll find a way to do it, and you'll get the support and funding you need when you're ready. It may take a long time, but important work always takes a long time.

I hope you find the purpose and motivation you need to have a go. It really can be the most amazing, life-changing experience. Feel free to contact me (email in bio) if you want to ask or discuss anything.

Best wishes.
"There is only one thing cryptocurrency is good for" https://youtu.be/J9nv0Ol-R5Q?t=1986

It's from author's lecture.
My tandem doesn’t have the brake, but it does have the braze ons for it. I haven’t bothered because I’m not doing loaded touring or mountain routes.
If you want dang to fix it, click the contact button on the bottom. I always get a response, and usually it's extremely quickly.
No problem. My answer might not be the only way, though: I probably have a biased tendency to see "the hard, technical way" as the best option. There may be on-the-job training opportunities and/or apprenticeships possible too, or as another commentor suggests, starting with small contributions could make sense as a gradual entry.
Yes, this is correct insofar as this is in fact how maximalists think of it. No genuine maximalist is pressed about yet another dip in the BTC value, and the term 'shitcoin' is broadly applied to LUNAesque creations, the feeling in that community being that the proper value is in fact zero.

My take tends to be that the cryptocurrency market is undervalued, and that 99%+ of all blockchains/tokenthings/whatever which exist are properly valued at zero.

The difference between that and BTC/ETH maximalism is those camps are convinced they know where the value will land, and I'm agnostic on that question.
*or daughter. Girls can join the BSA, too, with the same program as the boys.
Have you ever needed to buy something illegal?
I think the point is that if the only API that's built into the browser is the canvas, then the browser itself can't know how you're actually structuring your data at all. So the most debugging you can get built in directly is telling you which lines and shapes are currently being rendered. Whereas currently, if you use the DOM, the browser can show you the full rendered tree, show you which elements have events attached, allow you to manipulate elements by putting them in specific states, or just let you delete and modify them in place. The same goes for CSS.

In practice, I suspect if this route were to become more common, then frameworks would provide these sorts of tools directly. The browser still couldn't directly see the component structure of your code, but a framework might provide a browser extension that it itself can hook into, so that you can inspect it as its running. The problem then is that each framework would have to do this separately, because there would be no single base component structure that the browser recognises.

Essentially, you'd go back to developing as it's done for desktop environments - Qt or GTK might provide their own debugging environments, but the operating system itself is generally running at a much lower level, and so can't help you much if you want to know why "foo" is being rendered instead of "bar".
Elon Musk mostly speaks about things he actually is an expert on though?
And unfortunately is “inspiring” a whole generation with his behaviour. Very sad actually.
The main real world problem is when your business isn’t able to use the credit card system. Adult/nsfw services and weed stores are the obvious examples. But I can imagine many more coming up over time.
This is a definitions game trap. You can not measure what you can not define.
"Research in this field is terrible, let's tell people what to do anyway!"
The article starts out with:

"The crypto world went into a full meltdown this week"

I don't know. Look at a chart of Bitcoins price on a log scale:

https://twitter.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1524810429884661761

To me, it does not look any different then it has looked for the last 10 years. Its a slowing exponential growth with a certain volatility. Nothing seems to have changed in the last week.
I find Skyrim's animations quite charming, although they were already dated from a technical perspective when the game first came out.
Last premise was not least in the message you are referring to.
At least it didn't contradict itself.
The world needs decentralised assets. It’s the internet of money.

Some are shitty, some are not.

Monero and Algorand are two good examples. The latter carbon negative.
> “It’s not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people, to put it crudely. It’s something to do with the environment, because we’re seeing the same differences within families,” he said.

> The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
This is correct but the comment was about “the crypto world” which is no longer limited to BTC
Writing someone’s entire being off because they have a one liner you don’t agree with is kinda small minded, isn’t it?

In my experience it feels like people have more hits than misses given enough chance, even those you disagree with /shrug
I have an anecdote from one of my trips to Moscow (I also spent some time in Ukraine for two months and one week, Odessa and Lviv, respectively). This was the one time I was there in winter.

This was many years ago (10? 15?), but I have no reason to think the attitude behind what I describe have changed.

I went on a walk not far from the Kremlin in early evening. Lots and lots of cars on the wintery multi-lane streets in the center of Moscow.

For no reason whatsoever, on many major crossings with four lanes or more, when the other side had to stop because of red light the cars started occupying the opposing lanes(!!!). Yes, the ones for the traffic from the opposite direction, the one that would be needed a minute later when the traffic lights changed colors.

Of course, this lead to total gridlock, because that happened on both sides. So, the started to also use the side walk(!?), for even more standstill gridlock.

There they stood, and I saw this on several major crossings in the city center, facing one another, and no way to untangle this idiotic situation because nobody could move forward any more.

There was no reason for any of this. Police did nothing. It happened every evening that I watched.

Why on earth would you block the lanes for the opposite direction? Even assuming complete selfishness and disregard for others and accepting it, how could one possibly think that would help one get ahead faster? You could see the cars waiting on the other side of the traffic light, the ones whose path you are now blocking.
Ḯ've heard that statement from many but I've never understood how they've been able to make this conceptually difficult for themselves:

IQ tests measure relative to a reference population. So we can speak of the IQ of a person aged 20 born in 1990 on a test where 100 is the average score at age 20 of the population of those born in 1960, etcetera.

Changes in average IQ has been something that has been spoken of in the literature since Flynn was young, back when IQ scores were rising.
> The difficulty that fiat currency faces is inflation

Is inflation bad? Some inflation is healthy! If your “currency” is deflationary, it’s not a currency because the house you bought will be worth less in 10 years.

Hasn’t deflation always lead to mass unemployment?
It's hilarious and terrifying that Putin had a less accurate understanding of the capabilities of the Russian military than most world leaders due to the insanely corrupt and fear-based society he has created.
You don't even need a significant return on capital for the strategy to pay off, it just has to slightly beat the interest on the loan over a very long time horizon. Consider these numbers: $100 million subject to capital gains, $10 million in cash needed for expenses, a 2% interest rate, a 2.5% return on investment, a 20% capital gains tax, and a 10 year timeframe.

The borrowing strategy starts with $100 million and a $10 million loan, and ends up with $128 million and a $12.2 million loan, so net $115.6 million (and the interest is likely tax deductible).

The taxpaying strategy starts with $88 million and ends up with $112.65 million.
If neither the EV batteries, nor high-power wiring energized by them, are actually involved in the fire - then you can* put the fire out normally.

Once the fire actually involves "serious" electricity...well, then you've got (1) "can't blow out" birthday candles from Hell, (2) "spray water on it and you may die by electrocution" issues, and (3) the fire has Unlocked a whole new way to Level Up fast, which does not depend upon the traditional "fire triangle" (fuel, oxygen, and heat).

*Or maybe you can't. Ask any fire fighter whether things get magically easy if there's no electricity involved.
Speaking of works of art and engineering, the three HP Voyager series calculators on my desk (12C, 15C, 16C) still work as well as they did several decades ago when they were new. As does the other 15C that I regularly carry around and occasionally drop.
I had no issues using them last year. As a matter of fact there was a whole subindustry of churning your mortgage as interest rates kept falling. Better.com allowed for that because of how seamless everything is and they would price match any rate you got.

Of course if you have some edge case and tons of questions or issues YMMV and you'd have similiar back and forth. Their call center which seemed to be staffed in the US was always helpful in answering questions or escalating if there are delays in the advisor side.
No, if land was worth $0 people would bid it up until the value of the land is how much they are willing to pay per year in taxes.
It's hard for you to know what purchases you MIGHT have done if you weren't constrained a priori to only making purchases from sellers that were big enough & sold products innocuous enough to get approval from one of the big 3 CC companies, or what products might have been available without this limitation.
Great to finally have some data. The tendency has been pretty clear for some years now, with more and more crazy ideologies spawning among the young.
Federal deficit spending is a tax on the citizens through inflation. So when politicians promise you something for nothing, inflation is the result. Ron Paul has been beating this drum for a few decades, but he is considered a total buzz kill. He was right.
what makes stablecoins not a real cryptocurrency? They are a currency stored on the blockchain
So is that why you cannot answer my question(s)?
Bitcoin makes about half of cryptos market cap.

Ethereum makes another quarter and looks similar.

Tether makes another 10% or so and is at $0.998.

I find it hard to imagine that whatever happens lower down on the list of crypto projects can move the needle enough so we can come to the conclusion that "the crypto world" as a whole is in a meltdown.
Isn't IQ designed to average at 100?
In internet design circles these themes are known as multihoming and the locator/id split problem. See eg https://labs.apnic.net/presentations/store/2004-07-27-multi6...

Also IETF's envisioned post-TCP transport protocol (SCTP) supports multihoming natively but has failed to take off.
a water turbine like this one - https://www.waterlilyturbine.com/ - is probably more reliable in an environment like that if there is a flowing stream.
The BSA Fieldbook in its first edition (1944-1967) and to a lesser extent its second edition (1967-1984) was a pretty serious bushcraft and wilderness survival manual. That started changing with the third edition (1984-2004) and by the time the fourth edition came out (2004) it largely had turned into a book about outdoor activities like hiking and canoeing along with protecting the environment.
> Two years old to teens

> What to eat: seeds, tofu and semi-skimmed milk

If you have kids of this age, please do not do this to them. They need lots of healthy fat and animal protein.
I think you missed the primer on statistics
Higher education has never been a worse investment. There's so little time or incentive to read, and it's hard to sit down and say "I'm going to read a book". It's hard to read a book and also watch tv and also talk to friends etc etc, but that's how we spend all day - constantly interacting with media or socially.

I've had increasing trouble reading books for years. It stresses me out, I can't just sit for hours reading, I have things to do. It takes real... something - focus, mindfullness - to actually sit down and think in an explorative way that isn't strictly driven by work.

This isn't that surprising. IQ tests a specific type of intelligence, and we probably don't leverage that sort of intelligence day to day. Instead, we create hyperfocused individuals and build structure and process around them so that they can collaborate. Being generally intelligent and having general problem solving skills is less and less important, or at least we treat it that way.
That movie really missed the mark. It made out like the dumbing down would be a result of generations of poor breeding. Instead we see the dumbing down has been due to people willingly thumbing their nose at science and reason.
> I could be wrong, but that makes me think that we are the target of a marketing operation.

a) I think we're realizing that the marketing operation was 70 years of "Russia is scary strong". Reality is Russia is really bad at fighting armies and great at brutalizing civilians.

b) The preponderance of evidence is that Russia has made a long string of really, really bad decisions at all levels. It is so bad that they should consider playing Yakety Sax when they pass in review.

c) The fact is Russia should have taken all of Ukraine by now given the asset and manpower advantage they have. The fact they haven't achieved air dominance, have lost major capital ships to a country that effectively has no navy and are being beat by forces largely using less of the same equipment plus is just mystifying. It wasn't that many years ago that the Russian and Ukrainian army were the same Soviet army.
Love seeing people experimenting in this space with Go! One of my favorite things about this HN post is everyone is coming out of the woodworks to share their ideas.

What's the advantage of rendering HTML templates over websockets? Is this similar to Hotwire where it sends you HTML fragments over websockets when you, for example, click on a button?
ANOM
Isn't it possible that changes in education style or focus could bias scores?
Silvio Gesell proposed an auction mechanism but I honestly don't care about the details. You can lease land. Tax it or auction it off. There are so many good enough solutions that one does not have to be picky.
If Better can't itself afford to pay the loan back, bringing the personal guarantee into play, what value will the equity have?

Net worth is an abstraction that's generally useful to reason about outcomes, but it's a leaky abstraction.
From the military perspective, in a morbid sense - yes.
>Because it is wasteful by design and gets more wasteful as it scales

Plenty of other things are wasteful by design, like military for example. The more military things we build, the stronger we'll be. Same with BTC hashrate, the more power the stronger the network.
Who said I had losses or invested in anything?

I'm sure that is your great message for those who lost all their life savings, college funds, commited suicide, lost their house and can't pay their bills with all the tokens you sold them to.

So maybe they should 'Keep crying'?
Anyone with some domain knowledge willing to pitch in whether it's correct people are equating IQ with education in this thread?
The fun of creating a website.
Metadata on credit card transactions you make at a pharmacy, smoke shop, adult toy store, or abortion clinic is sold to a range of entities including government agencies, adtech firms, insurance companies. Your travel habits and times you are often not at home also can be very revealing.

When this data inevitable leaks via hacks, or is used to target you when political tides change, suddenly you will be wishing we had all been normalizing alternatives.

I recommend everyone use tumbled bitcoin, monero, cash, or visa gift cards whenever possible. The less data we all give in aggregate to those seeking to sell changes in our behavior the better.

Your data pollution empowers entities that harm us all.
Low effort comments ripping on other people’s work contributes nothing to the discussion. You clearly have a different point of view so why not rebut the article or post your own laying out a counter opinion?
What is Musk an expert in? Besides being a rich school boy?
Starred!
I have no idea how you'd fail Fizbuzz, if you had been programming for over the 10 years as you claim.

Speaking as a programmer, knowledge and trivia of "hard-earned common sense and a meaningful understanding of how software evolves over time" is not useful to the actual building of software at all.
A yearly auction is overkill. Do it every 5-10 years with a fee the longer you delay the next auction. (Like banks charge more interest the longer a fixed rate loan is)
There are a bunch of internal only feature flags that Herokai use internally. Making internally visible feature flags is less of a political fight than making externally visible features.
> Kofman describes the Moskva as an antiquated rust bucket, with its defensive systems likely not even functional.

You know, that is the kind of truth that actually adds to the story of how bad Russia is doing rather than mitigating that story. Unless that wasn't their flagship (in that fleet), but I never saw that part of the narrative disputed.
I believe one doesn't need to look at these individual stories of incompetence, failure of tactics and/or technology.

It's simply that you can't take a country of 44 million with 100 thousand soldiers.

What the heck were they thinking?
Show HN: A VSCode extension for translating TypeScript errors
What is shodead? Cannot find any relevant info on them.
Sure, there’s a chance. A tiny chance.

But there’s a greater chance that you’re just crowdfunding a rich persons exit.
Okay, I see what you're saying, so we take two sample groups, use one as a baseline, then lay the second group over that curve.

So now we need to be really careful about bias in the sample groups.

To say IQ scores are dropping and we don't know why then means to me we don't know what variables were the key drivers of the first groups results so we therefore cannot possibly create a consistent second group to measure against the baseline.

I'm still stuck but I'm often dense and skeptical on these type of analysis.
> Many of the remaining students were distracted, looking nervously at the box every minute.

There are many possible reasons to look at the phone. Some were mentioned in comments, I can add two more.

It may be a reflex action triggered by the need to consult google. Not the real attempt to google, but when my mind suggested such a possibility to me, my eyes could flicker in a direction of my phone.

Another possible reason is the process of rehearsing. If I was rehearsing answers using the phone, then I would try to look at my phone on each question needing a mental effort to answer. It is how memory works: when you trying to remember what you had read in a book you will look at the book or at least imagine the book.

Or third reason. A neurotic reaction. Exam is a stressful experience, while phone often used to relax, to shut down external reality and to get some rest. So students are trying to get grip on themselves by taking a phone, but stop themselves from doing it. Probably they stop not just because their phone is unreachable, but because it is an exam and not a time to relax. But their mind keeps trying to use phone as a tool of self-regulation. If phone was in their pocket, they would touch it sometimes without looking.

These things are not drugs but a new part of a human body. Like pants. Or even better, like glasses. I use glasses from my childhood, and I refuse to use contact lenses, because I feel myself naked without my glasses. I feel every movement of the air. It is disturbing. If you asked me to take an exam without my glasses, you probably would watched how I sometimes reach my nose with my hand, trying to touch my glasses founding everytime that I wear no glasses now. Or how sometimes I look longingly in a direction were my glasses are. I would do all this while being absorbed in an exam, and probably wouldn't remember it afterwards.
How does asymmetric cryptography solve the Byzantine General's problem again? I'm all ears.

"More efficient" doesn't form a complete sentence, you've elided "more efficient at".
You're missing the point.

When an engineer gets promoted to engineering manager, a significant part of the management chain has to approve of the promotion, and they have had enough interaction with the newly promoted manager that they can reasonably assess whether the promotion is suitable.

Sure, you might claim (as you seem to have, as a strawman) that before the promotion the would-be manager was merely an engineer with no management duties, but that's not exactly how things work. Sometimes it happens like you describe, but often the person being promoted gets assigned some light management or leadership duties before they take on the role officially. At any rate, the higher management already knows more about the would-be manager than any candidate you can interview in a 8 hour period.
Maybe they're hoping to find better ways to leverage your private information in the future.
Having grit is probably the single most important trait of a founder, and one of the few which could reasonably argued to be innate. Just about everything else is learned, often by doing, which is why you need grit -- the learning curve is long and steep. Grit is how you bootstrap your way to being good at the other parts of building a startup.
Kind of like killing the cow king in Diablo 2.