skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struck by the terminology "killed my start-up". Should we instead start from the position of our start-ups being dead from the beginning? We can't bring them to life, only our customers can. We can do CPR on the idea. We can try to bring it to life, but our start-ups are default dead until customers bring it to life with revenue.

I'll admit, I hadn't thought of this perspective until reading this post, and I've been in the game for too many years.

There are challenges when bringing any start-up to life. The first one is potentially competitors.

This start-up, Storied, entered a market with competitors that were well backed, had many customers, and are making big names for themselves.

Why did Stephen think Storied could compete in this space? Never in the post did I hear why Storied would be able to compete, what was it's point of difference?

That's like trying to perform CPR on a body with an elephant sitting on it's chest. Unless you can get some leverage to get the elephant off the patient, you 're not going to be able to make a difference.

I may write a blog post examining this thread further if it's of interest to people.
It was a lot less shitty pre TSA when it was named.
As a big fan of rewrites (but not as big a fan as some), I think Linux has avoided needing big rewrites with a lot of very clever modularity in its design. Many corporate software programs do not have that level of modularity. Modularity has performance costs, is slower to develop, and "looks ugly" on a block diagram, but it pays dividends for open source projects and projects that need upgrades over time.

Individual parts of Linux go through relatively frequent rewrites (eg filesystems), but not the overall framework.
What is the crime here ?

Is this a DMCA violation for using modchips to defeat an IP protection scheme ?

I am not up to date on the current jurisprudence here - if I clean-sheet reverse engineer (Nintendo hardware) is it considered illegal to create and market modchips based on that ?

Or did they have proprietary code/firmware/loaders copied into them ?
Uber powers emergency food deliveries in Ukraine
> The fact that I can't park my money without it losing its value over time is asinine

Forcing people to invest or spend their money is the entire point of inflation. For good reason too, decreasing velocity of money is a major cause of recessions, and tightening of liquidity in the money market always leads to high unemployment.
Damn his cv

>Short CV:

2015- Jagiellonian University, Institute of Computer Science, assistant professor,

2013-2014 Purdue University, NSF Center for Science of Information, Postdoctoral researcher (webpage),

2006-2012 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PhD in Theoretical Physics (thesis)

2004-2010 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PhD in Theoretical Computer Science (thesis)

2001-2006 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Theoretical Physics (thesis)

2000-2005 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Theoretical Mathematics (thesis)

1999-2004 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Computer Science (thesis)

Holy
I wouldn't want to pay Real Money for it, but somehow it doesn't seem the same to say "I'll spend some finite amount of computation time/energy to make this comment". That seems like a much lower hurdle.

At the same time, paying ten cents to make a comment on Reddit or HN is very unappealing.
Just an FYI, readme updates, typo fixes, etc are "good first" things, but also very important, so while you may not have contributed to the code, you contributions are very important still.
Alas, my conscience prevents me from starting a scam — no matter how much I feel like I want to sometimes.

The best I can do is politely asking for things!
> Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’ll incur this cost for hundreds or thousands of years.

New plants produce a lot less waste.

And the reason nuclear waste seems so expensive is because we have externalized the cost of most other forms of power generation. Coal and gas, well we just let people get sick or die.

Natural gas, fracking has huge negative impacts on communities, lots of illness, but again, we don't count that as part of the "financial cost" of natural gas.

Solar, we have the panels made in some other country, we have the raw materials mined in some other country, we import the final product, now it is clean energy.

(I support solar, but there is an environmental cost to solar panels!)

Nuclear makes us confront the waste up front, so now we are all freaked out about it.

As has been pointed out repeatedly, you could take a football field, dig down a few stories, and put all the nuclear waste needed for energy generation in there, and then have enough left over to keep storing spent fuel from new high efficiency reactors until sometime until well after everyone reading HN is dead and gone.

It is a crap shoot if the cost of paying the lawyers to deal with all the lawsuits over where to build the storage site will end up costing more or less than the storage itself.
> your sole focus should be on the problem you're solving

It turns out it's sometimes better to focus on the market area and its participants' value streams, rather than putting your sole focus on just one problem.

Focusing on the market area can enable the startup to discover new problems within the market area, and within the participants' companies. Then the startup can experiment with those problems, and possibly pivot to one of them.

Use the idea of three discoveries: market discovery, customer discovery, product discovery.

For more about this idea, Steve Blank and others emphasize these three aspects and how startups can benefit by understanding them.
I think the due diligence at the point of acceptance into YC is fairly minimal. It might not even go beyond the application answers and the 10min interview... not sure though. I'd be curious to learn more about it.

*edit: Seems YC participated in the follow-on round after the batch ended, so I imagine some extra due diligence goes into that.
That's the point. Code isn't law.
Additionally a bit flip in a CT (cert transparency) log rendered it invalid and dead. This cannot happen in a peer to peer consensus protocol as the bad block would have been rejected by the working nodes. CT is good tech but it superficially is a private issued blockchain without most of the benefits of public peer to peer electronic cash and digital asset systems.
Also on the other less cynical version of that, reporters are there - always. If there's something happening on the ground, you can get an unfiltered / unedited feed of what's happening around the world. For example I've got a list of 20 or so reporters from different countries on the ground in Ukraine, covering the situation every day. I find it much better than reading the published summaries.
If I go looking about articles related to the Biden administration and Tesla, I mostly see articles about Musk complaining the Biden administration was ignoring them. That's not what I'd expect if they were "bitterly anti Tesla".
I think the same of intelligent people in the blockchain space the same that I think of intelligent people that have joined cults. Either they're in on the scam or a victim of their own naïveté and/or ignorance.

Being smart isn't an indicator of correctness.
The fundamental problem is that Tesla's Autopilot is defective. It has repeatedly steered people into highway barriers, and sometimes has no clue which lane it's in or where it's going. See the opening of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvdI8nSAJE

An Apple employee was killed by his Tesla, which always veered into a highway barrier after an OTA update (he was distracted one day and didn't prevent the crash, died as a result).[0] The video above also involves the results of an OTA update.

There are more reports of dangerous Autopilot behavior than any other brand's cruise control that I'm aware of.

The problem here isn't neglectful driving, it's that you may be driving in a straight line on a highway for half an hour, distracted and "lulled" by the monotony and predictability of the road, and in a split second your car veers off and tries to kill you because it no longer knows where the lane is.

Now drivers need to not only pay attention to the road and over cars, but also be ready to react instantly with zero warning if the car does something unexpected and dangerous.

[0]: https://www.kqed.org/news/11801138/apple-engineer-killed-in-...
I've noticed similar stupid problems playing Portal 2 with a friend. Downloading the maps takes a really long time, but I've got a decent internet connection and so does my friend. It appears that when his machine is loading, my machine has no network activity whatsoever, and then once he's loaded the maps, then my machine will start loading them and his machine has no network activity.

The game has a number of other weird issues like this. After you've played a map, it asks you to rate a thumbs up or thumbs down, but the hit areas don't match where the button is drawn, for example. Sometimes the mouse doesn't cause my character to turn. I can quit and restart the game and it's the same. But if I open a different game, quit it and then restart Portal, it works fine. WTF?

I realize this is an old game so they aren't updating it (I have to boot into a 32-bit OS to even play it!) but it's a little depressing that such egregious issues went unnoticed for so long that we're now probably past the point of fixing them.
I think you and the parent are talking about two different things. Building products that are looking to the future is valuable, if risky.

But I believe the parent comment was talking about software abstractions. i.e., don't build abstractions because you might need them later. Instead, build the software in the simplest possible way to solve the problems it needs to handle now.

This is because you'll likely be wrong about your assumptions about which abstractions you'll need, and ripping those abstractions out is going to be more expensive than just modifying simple code to do new things.
Blessed be those saints.
Headlines can be ambigous in the US and you sometimea have to read the article to see whether a law or activity was found unconstutional under federal or state law.
It’s a grey area. EU laws are senior to local laws (though in theory EU countries are supposed to translate those laws to local laws). But I do not believe EU laws are senior to local constitutions. Though people argued they were when a polish court stated that they are not. Not convinced this is really settled.
Where is Tesla claiming that Autopilot is self-driving?
> I'm dubious as to how culpable Tesla is for that ignorance.

Tesla labeling a feature "Full Self Driving" certainly isn't helping the situation when the feature clearly does not deliver what the name of the functionality implies.
I've tried every open source video editor. They're all pretty awful. Even something as simple as iMovie is frankly several leagues ahead of them.

The one I always come back to is Blender. It too has serious issues, but it is actually improving fairly rapidly. In the latest releases you can scrub through video without it crawling to a halt (wow I know right!) and it has a non-tedious way to add text, etc.

Basically its interface is ... well if you've used Blender you know what it's like. But it does at least not crash, and you are unlikely to run into "you can't do that" issues, even if doing some simple things like changing the speed of a clip involves several YouTube tutorials and a bunch of caveats.

So yeah, open source video editing still sucks.
Flashback 2 finally has a release window
I knew it wouldn't take long for the "well AKCHTUALLY autopilot in planes just holds bearing therefore Tesla is BLAMELESS" crowd to appear.

Popular understanding of the word aside, Tesla often throws around phrases like "full self driving" in the same sentence as "autopilot".
California is far less liberal than you imagine. This is the state of Ronald Regan and B-1 Bob Dornan. Conservatives got to have it their way in California long before, and they left their mark on the state.

The single greatest accomplishment was Proposition-13. It caps property increases to a level that is lower than inflation, with the end result that property tax bases are more-or-less continually shrinking. This leads to all sorts of effects:

* Local governments are poor. In particular, local governments can't afford to pay for their own schools, shifting education to the state level.

* It increases NIMBYism because there is no downside to property value increase.

* Municipalities strongly prefer high-end development.

* Government revenues come primarily from sales tax and income tax. These sources are highly sensitive to economic disruptions, so when the economy tanks, the state becomes extremely poor.

* It gives entrenched businesses and landlords some advantages over new ones, as their fixed expenses decline over time.

To give you an idea of the scale that we're talking about: In the early 2000's the city of San Francisco had a shortfall of $100 million one year. If the Transamerica building's property taxes had increased along with its value, it would have been paying an additional $50 million in taxes that year. That's was half the city's shortfall.

[As an aside, anyone who tells you that California has high taxes probably knows nothing about how property taxes work there.]

Also, don't let me get started on the recall systems and the proposition systems. Learn from California. Direct democracy sucks.
But that probability rapidly drops below the probability that you will drop dead from some random cause while waiting for the roll's result :)
The mirror documentation [1] calls it a 'synthetic asset'. This mechanism is also how they also offered BTC and ETH on their network (as mBTC and mETH).

To be clear, I wasn't trying to debate the nature of if it is a security or not.

[1] https://docs.mirror.finance/
Probably means the "NIH spike" updated with Omicron genes (or parts of them? I don't know for sure.) The "NIH spike" is "full-length ... pre-fusion stabilised conformation variant (K986P and V987P) of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome 2, GenBank: MN908947.3) spike (S) glycoprotein" according to the WHO. It is used by all current US vaccines, including NovaVax. I know Pfizer does other things to the "NIH spike" gene, including codon optimization, flanking 5 and 3 prime untranslated regions, 3 prime poly(A) tail, with all uridine replaced with N1-methylpseudouridine. They also have the secret lipid nanoparticle formulation, that not even the FDA advisors know about.
You can play a huge amount of titles via SteamPlay/Proton: https://www.protondb.com/
Astrophysicist on Using AI to Glean Insights from James Webb Space Telescope
Meanwhile here in the states the most significant police action in regard to cyclists rights I can identify is the time I took the lane in front of a police cruiser due to a car illegally parked n the bike lane, pointing at this infraction as I did so, and the pig riding shotgun rolled down his window to mock me as they cruised past.
wonder what is percentage of people are using dark mode with system and apps ... somehow, I don't feel it is good/easy for eyes, and harder to read with dark mode at day time.
Here's the study: https://www.weprotect.org/wp-content/uploads/Estimates-of-ch...

Yeah, the overall 57 % figure is the total out of four possible harms targeting persons up to the age of 18.

Because sending nudes to a nine year old is probably closer to what was meant with a paedophile, the following stats is probably a better starting point for putting a tighter upper limit:

> Of the female respondents who received [sexually explicit] content from someone they did not know, 11% were under the age of nine and 21% were under the age of 12.
Li Jiaqi: Chinese influencer’s career hangs in balance after ‘tank cake’ stream
> It's interesting because I've come to the opposite conclusion from very similar experiences. I think the regulatory and legal enforcement haze allows the infinite scams to multiply but I found it refreshing/surprising to find there is a serious and useful core technology that all the scams are imitating in style (but not substance)

Well, why wouldn't there be? Cryptocurrency didn't start out the way it's being used now, and evangelists and nerds have been hard at work for over a decade in furthering the technology.

I can understand your perspective too, however, while we obviously appreciate and care for the underlying technology, almost no one else will. Most people have problems operating Metamask already, so there's no possible reality in which I can see cryptocurrency succeeding because of some awesome underlying technology that almost no one really understands. If cryptocurrency ever succeeds, it's because regulation has cracked down extremely hard, a lot of people are in jail, a lot of time has passed, the sentiment has recovered and real utility is commonplace.

The point at which APY rates for farming/staking are equal or almost equal to traditional treasury basis points, and the decision between investing in stocks or crypto is taken on the basis of fundamentals and utility, will be the time cryptocurrency has grown up and put on big boy pants.
>You want to use Gnome? Use Gnome. You want to use KDE? Use KDE. I3? ditto. Etc.

To play devil's advocate:

What do those even mean and why should I care? I want to view my files and folders and click a shortcut to run a program and install steam. And I want that process to be stable and smooth and be both logically transparent and consistent.

There's too much I have to critically compare and understand in my life to want to add 'desktop GUI flavor' to the list.
It's not so much that your points are wrong, as that they fail to see a bigger picture.

When you say there is no no depressing future without increased electrical demand, that's true. But who guaranteed you a non depressing future?

And the same was true in 1990, but we've made almost no progress to removing fossil fuels. So if you'd started nuclear projects then, you'd be just coming online. And have no new customers. And in the mean time the price of gas and solar and wind would have collapsed in comparison. And you couldn't afford to shut down when the price crashed like they can. You're fixed costs would rapidly drive you bankrupt.

That's the problem here.

The future isn't nice. And it's not predictable. Even over relatively short periods.

So it's much better to plan 6m ahead and then do it again 40 times, than to try and plan 20 years ahead in one go. That makes it much much better to run small incremental short-term projects like gas plants and renewables.

And if you do have to make some sort of medium term plan then it needs to be very flexible. Like a gas plant that can shut down for a year and avoid 90% of its costs.

Nuclear is long term, fixed cost. And that's terrible.

But go ahead, by some shares in a nuclear operator (or someone else in the supply chain etc). Make your fortune being right in 2045. Just don't sign up the rest of us via the public finances please!

This has always been one of the issues with control economies: people vastly over estimate their ability to predict the future, they don't appreciate flexibility and they don't manage risk. That's how the USSR ended up producing enormous amounts of steel and no washing machines: no one asked what people wanted, they just said 20% more of the same compared to last year! China are doing the same thing right now with electricity targets and no financial services...
> why stay in a company where I don't have anything other that money to gain?

Because for some of us that's all we want from the company!
Is Autopilot different than cruise control? Is it used differently?

If they're not the same thing why equate them?
You can memorize a lot of them and forget everything in a year.
Maybe all we need is a requirement for type certification on people's drivers licenses before they can drive a Tesla.
Property-based testing: What is it anyway?
1) You can oftentimes contact your bank to get them shifted.
2) Is losing 80% of your savings' value in a few days better?
I can't argue with that. Then again, I don't feel compelled to defend social media either.
I found the S5 (not max) a good robot for the price. I was able to find one on Amazon Warehouse Deals for $250 2 years ago. It's been running Valetudo since the day I recieved it. I don't have many complaints other than I wish I had the Dreame Tech Z10 Pro instead but given the Z10 Pro is 3x the price I paid for the S5 I'd still say I am happy.
Idk how I'm expected to read anything on that site when a lot of unrelated junk keeps occupying the screen instead.
So they appointed a person who cares about safety to be a safety advisor? How dare they.
I question this idea of history writing and it being a huge problem.

How far down the chain could a 51% blockchain rewrite occur before consuming all of the computation power of the universe?

I have seen arguments in which the 51% steals all of the new coins but how long can that be maintained, the other 49% needs to pay their bills and audits would inevitably out the bad players. Eventually, the last bitcoin will be minted, making the whole issue mute.
The Galapagos giant tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus is not extinct
I think the real lesson to be learned here is that it's extremely possible for a bunch of really smart people to completely miss the mark.
> Everyone I know with a Tesla exclusively uses autopilot on the highway in between exits.

Tesla touts (and sells as a separate option) "full self-driving" capability.
They tout that it can make turns on city streets, obey street lights, yield to city traffic, change lanes, park, etc. This is not intended for the use case of on the highway, well-supervised, between exits.
One has to consider that the storage capacity of the economy isn't infinite. Charging money for storing something is a very straightforward business model. When your economy is growing the storage capacity appears endless as no storage is actually needed, you can just produce the good in the future with your expanded production capacity. Once the economy stops growing for even a single year, then you will effectively hit the storage capacity of the economy and must pay to store additional goods that are intended to be consumed in the future.
What is the benefit of an auto-drive function if you have to pay constant attention to it?

Essentially, autopilot's main value proposition is that you don't need to pay attention to it -- and that's what makes it so dangerous.
With a hash chain[0], an idea from 1981.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain
Thanks! You can upvote those integrations so we can prioritize them: https://composeai.canny.io/integrations. We can then keep you posted.
> use windows instead of tabs

I've used Vivaldi as my primary browser for a few months now, doesn't speed cause you any issues when using new windows? I really enjoy many of the Vivaldi features but opening a new window is VERY slow for me (on my good PC and laptop, windows and linux so OS isn't the issue).
Hydrogen needs an complete overhaul to the pipeline system. Burning natural gas for energy is a fraction of it's use. More important are heating (where it can't be transported too), steel making and chemistry (CoViD vaccine ingredients are made using natural gas by BASF).
Tesla is building "full self driving" using a feature called "Autopilot". You're playing stupid but nobody is fooled by this sophistry.