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Ask HN: Any examples of tech co-ops that went through an accelerator?
Do you know any tech cooperatives that managed to go through an accelerator? I’m interested in the business model developed around it.
Only if one assumes that revenue is the same thing as "value" in this context, which it clearly isn't.
Make me think of this cluster of 200 PS3 that was used in 2009 by EPFL to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lacal/articles/112bit_prime/
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The parent's point is that revenue is not equal to value. Determining actual value generated by tech companies is tricky
ahhhh... no, it's made with python so it's not pure.

nice try dude but you couldn't host this on a static server. you edit your title as it is a bit deceitful.
Apple does a lot of research on comfortable lap temperature. This guaranteed to burn someones lap.
I'd say they may connect dots quickly, but not necessarily well.
They're very prone, in my experience, to believing that their explanations are ultra-rational, though, reality be damned. And to falling for arguments with the trappings of rationality, but deeply flawed premises or early steps slyly skipped so the castle's built on sand but looks like a perfect castle with all these crazy-tall minarets reaching for the sky (ahem, like a certain popular-online political & economic philosophy) and then treating everyone who doesn't agree that the castle's beautiful as irrational, probably-emotion-driven morons.
That's because economists think there's a rational market, and there isn't, only a human one. Everything in the human world, including the economy, is affected by human psychology as a primary driver, everything else is secondary to emotionally driven discussions based on prognostication.
I mean the subreddit has for years been taken over by neo conservatives that basically use it as a means for testing how propaganda works.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nazimadakli/status/14190434038919...
Aside from the simple math of continuous decline leading to a population nearing zero...

Our economy and support systems are based upon growth. This includes population growth.

For instance, if there are too few people to generate revenue and service to support those in the society dependent on that revenue/service, the system will collapse. Think Social Security.
If you're willing to pay someone to move value around, then they are in fact creating the value that is == to what you're willing to pay them. Otherwise it would not be advantageous to pay them to do it, so you wouldn't.
If you look at the graphic at the top of the article (Penrose tiling) you'll notice there are a bunch of points that are centers of rotational symmetry (you can rotate it 2pi/N and get the same thing) and lines of reflection symmetry (you can mirror it over that line and get the same thing) but there is no translational symmetry (you can't slide it over in any direction and overlap with the original), this is a "quasicrystal" (in 2d)

Compare to e.g. a grid of squares that has reflection and rotation symmetry but also has translational symmetry, this is a true "crystal" (in 2d)

This article is treating a train of laser pulses as a "1d crystal" and if long/short pulses resemble a Fibonacci sequence treating it as a "1d quasicrystal". This seems to be noteworthy in that using such a structured pulse train provides some improvements in quantum computing when it's used to read / write (i.e. shine on) information (i.e. electron configuration) from atoms / small molecules (i.e. qubits)

Edit: And the "2 time dimensions" thing is basically that a N-d "quasicrystal" is usually a pretty close approximation of an [N+M]-d "true crystal" projected down into N dimensions so the considering the higher dimension structure might make things easier by getting rid of transcendental numbers etc.
> 1.2 trillion dollars on health care every year. 800 billion dollars on welfare.

You accidentally forgot the $800 billion for the military-industrial complex every year (it's easy to miss, I know).
I feel like Apple lost a golden opportunity to add these pads themselves but then thermal throttle this machine in the firmware UNLESS you purchase a $199 magnetic heatsink/docking station for the underside.

Seems like something they would have done if only they had thought of the idea.
I had a similar problem with a criminal complaint. It's impossible to get a hold of anyone at Paypal, and if you do, they will play dumb, or transfer you to an "account specialist" where you are just left in hold limbo (I've left the phone connected for about an hour before it was forcefully disconnected). In my case I had to talk to my credit union and credit card provider and both sided with me against Paypal and blocked the charge. Paypal is now trying to collect the money through a third party, so I have to go to arbitration. Paypal is on the side of criminals - not intentionally - because they make money on the fees and don't have to pay much for customer support to handle edge cases.

The FTC recently took Walmart to court over similar behavior, essentially profiting off of crime.
They don't take local factors into account at all. The local Russian speakers have emigrated at a larger rate than say ethnic Latvians. So, if they just project past trends to the future they are bound to be wrong.

Also, immigration is getting noticeably stronger. And then, the elephant in the room. They don't seem to align these projections with the climate change projections. The Baltics are going to continue to have a hospitable climate with no water availability issues. Unlike most of Southern Europe, and many other places in the world.

So, I'd be willing to put my money against these projections turning out correct.
That seems pretty straight forward:

>married foreigners

Immigrant.

> ethnically alike

Immigrant.

>second generation

Native.

The question is, "Were you born here?" If yes then not a first generation immigrant. If no, then first generation immigrant.
I don’t know about Estonia, but Lithuania (number 2) has prices like in Switzerland with salaries being small fraction of Swiss ones. Plus political instability. Just watch the Taiwan embassy opening and Chinese retaliation. Or railroad to Kaliningrad blockade. Plus steadily declining level of education and health care.
That's how it was taught to me as well.

For people unfamiliar with the different Jewish movements: Rockland county is overwhelmingly Orthodox, specifically Hasidic. The Hasidim are a modern conservative interpretation of Judaism: it didn't coalesce until the 18th century.

If I was going to be disparaging, I'd say that their closest Christian analogue is the nakedly revisionist evangelical Christianity of the the American 1970s and forwards.
Goonfleet has always loved their charismatic fascist leaders though. A whole lot of the early GF propaganda was veiled Triumph of the Will.
Ask HN: How do you go about evaluating interns at the end of their contract?
What are some effective ways of evaluating interns at the end of their contract? I ask because we do not measure interns based on normal impact metrics as an employee. Interns are here to learn–and in turn help us learn by teaching–not affect our bottom line. So what are some good quantifiable ways to determine if they're a good fit to convert to a job offer?
> autism, like many "disorders", is keenly overdiagnosed, to create a sociopolitically-mediated norm from which deviance (like "high-functioning" autism) can be classified and, where desired, ostrasized, for the sake of control. it's a classic hammer looking for a nail issue, but with coercion as its central aim.

Relevant quote from The Jargon File (http://catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html):

"Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really ‘diseases’ rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists — thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’.

So hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality. That being said, most would also concede that some hacker traits coincide with indicators for non-hyperactive ADD and AS — the status of caffeine as a hacker beverage of choice may be connected to the fact that it bonds to the same neural receptors as Ritalin, the drug most commonly prescribed for ADD. It is probably true that boosters of both would find a rather higher rate of clinical ADD among hackers than the supposedly mainstream-normal 3-5% (AS is rarer at 0.4-0.5%)."
OVH blocks me from accessing my account because I used a virtual credit card (they demand a picture holding the card + ID!) AND a day later they proceeded to charge the card anyways.
This makes the joke so much more funnier.
1) real estate by the airports is probably #1

2) airport counter real estate or the real estate at the "car rental satellite facility" is probably hard to get

3) fleet sale discounting with the car companies

But #1 is probably the main one.

Car rentals are actually decent in competition, although there may have been a merger flurry at some point.

Yup, Enterprise, Avis, and Hertz own them all.

It would probably take self-driving so an off-airport lot could dispatch self-driving cars to someone.

Customer service at car rentals is awful, it always seems to take an hour to get a dumb piece of paper and someone that says "go to this spot"

Disclaimer: not an industry expert, but all I see is three companies with the market share and no one new in probably 40 years, awful IT and customer service, and companies mistakenly calling the cops on their own customers for not-stolen cars.
Eh, Eth miners want memory bandwidth, which is increasingly no longer correlated to compute power.
Clicked through to type a similar comment. They have let me and my family down so many times, the trust is gone. They should have been harder on this stuff from day 1. Their marketplace needs both supply and demand to work.
They're really not vetted by the creators, usually.

Edit: I mean the products aren't usually vetted, they just make an ad saying how great it is, all the while most likely not having even tried it. How many YouTubers do you think actually played Raid Shadow Legends or used NordVPN?
If it doesn't happen to US citizens on US soil, it's not our place to directly intervene with boots on the ground. We can manage international relations with diplomacy and trade.
Yup. Normally a lot of work but a lot of fun too if you are up for it.

I look for dev teams of 3-5 for this type of company.
When has it not been the case that the top spec CPU of the previous generation is faster than the lowest spec next generation?

Are you also totally confused by the fact that a threadripper 3990x is faster than a ryzen 5500?
Problem number one is Accenture outsources all development to the cheapest bidder. Usually in India. Plenty of great Indian engineers, but they want the cheapest. I do wonder how difficult Hertz legacy systems made this on them though. Starting anew is not an option and I have little doubt Hertz existing infrastructure was a mess for the same reasons the new infrastructure is a mess. Lots of companies have become reliant on software, bit treated its development like a commodity to be purchased. Not a core part of the business for which they must hire internally.
My parent tried heat pumps twice. They are incapable of even handling the usually not-very-severe winters of central Texas without resorting to turning on their pathetically weak resistance heaters, an those can cost nearly $100/day to run! Their second Gen system was much newer and more expensive, but not much better.

The definitely are not capable of handling any subfreezing temperatures. Natural gas is, overall, FAR more efficient for heating when the supposed efficiency of the heat pump gets slammed by the inefficiency of electric heat.

So that answers the OP's question of why we don't use them: They're fiddly, expensive to buy, and both don't work in, and are insanely expensive to operate in the cold.
My M1 with thermal pad backside under heavy load gets to maximum 46°C compared to 37°C before. Everything above 42°C is uncomfortable on lap but it is not an issue for me at all as every time I need to run heavy load for long I'll be at my desk.
Guns are not banned in Chicago. There do have tighter restrictions than surrounding areas (and some of those restrictions may be unconstitutional), but many Chicagoans legally own guns.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-chicago-gun-laws-30646...
Again, just anecdotal evidence, but I know people who have been taking it for more than 10 years with good results. One had to increase the dose over time but that's it. We don't know the long term impact of Lexapro and similar drugs to know how big issues the risk of dependence is. It's a tradeoff like everything in life. I agree it's better to find "safer" long term solutions if possible and stopping the meds gradually, but for many people it's not an option, so in the end it's their quality of life vs the long term risk of taking meds.

I feel many people who comment on meds like SSRI never really needed them so much so for them the long term safety is a big issue, but when these pills have a huge positive impact on your life then you are more willing to accept it.
Lots of great stuff in the pipeline right now, including for obesity.

The difficulty of progress depends on what you try to treat. Otherwise healthy people get pain and swelling. Otherwise healthy people get HIV (my dad is on the patent for one of the world's best-selling HIV drugs). If you concentrate research on afflictions of the dying, progress is harder.
It's not just ulcers, you can get serious liver damage from combining alcohol and ibuprofen:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7921853/#:~:tex....
I’d like to second timr’s remarks on that study. I’ve read the whole thing twice, and I found it to be low quality and tendentious: they didn’t even fairly present the results they did have.

It may be that the “surgical” masks they used, while not N95, had an electret layer. That would make them a lot better than the “procedure” masks commonly worn in the US against COVID.
To my economics is one of the peak science "cargo cults" it would seem that if there was some sort of science behind it many of the experts would all agree on the same thing, yet the argument between Austrian and Kenseyian economics is alive and well.

I studied economics for a long time got deep into it, and what I've concluded is that it has much more in common with Philosophy than science. They dress it up with words and charts and formulas but it always seem that what they say doesn't pan out.

I'll agree with the idea of supply and demand that seems to work pretty well in most cases to describe things, but beyond that the economy is such a complex system it is too chaotic to model with any degree of accuracy.
Also son with Autism.

Can confirm - we do everything with countdown. He also loves using the timer on my phone for activities (ed psych thinks his anxiety decreases, as he feels in control).

Also giving options (even if contrived) work well for him. E.g. "do you want to brush teeth or put PJs on first?". He has to do both, but feels more at ease getting to choose.

Best of luck!
Advertising creates revenue, but does it create value? Imagine Coca-Cola pays Google a bunch of money to run ads. You are thirsty and go to a store and decide between a Dr. Pepper and a Coke. You choose the Coke. Has this process created value?
I recently was talking to a company with a team in Serbia. I honestly didn't know what to expect, good or bad, as I didn't know much about the country. I was blown away - they were very astute, using the latest tech, and spoke English probably better than I do as an American. Definitely opened my eyes - as Americans, we generally don't hear much about the country.
No, we are seeing 5-10 years of this and there is little benefit to businesses.
Like imagine you and a college friend have a running joke where you do something slightly offensive to each other, and the other person acts all surprised.

To you both, that’s just a funny running joke, but it could be taken out of context and shared with the world to make you look like a creep. If someone has a record of that, they can cut out the part right afterwards where you laugh and hug.

Will it be used against you? Probably not. But what a powerful weapon for someone to have hanging over your head.
It is wildly superior to the other option (acetaminophen) which is both ineffective on hangovers and damaging to your liver which is already dealing with the alcohol. Alcoholics may have issues with the stomach lining that can be exacerbated by ibuprofen, but people who are just drinking don't typically have that problem.
Just seeing the amount of IT workers from Brazil (me included) fleeing to Portugal...

It can't compete with the north in wages (especially the kinda-north countries which also have special tax regimes for immigrants), but it's much safer than the other CPLP countries, guess that's the strategy behind the new foreign law ?

I think that, for better or worse, we'll be an important factor in the portuguese demographical and budgetary future
I feel like that entirely depends on where you're traveling to. NYC or SF that feels highly normal even in "cheap" hotels.
Snap placed a risky bet on the Spotlight feature, going so far as paying out millions to the most popular creators, but when push came to shove, all the same content (and better) was available on TikTok.
Oh wow, I didn't even find the first page when on the apple site. Thanks for this! I was navigating Apple > Mac > Buy.

I was looking at the pages for the specific laptops (which, as far as I can tell, only have the front-facing photos.) The spec situation is still confusing (took me awhile to figure out the $1200 MBAs and the $1500 MBAs were two configs of the same model; "Select" essentially takes you to the same place, which was very confusing.)
I maintain a Flask-based template application to allow folks to get up and running with Python and Flask as quickly as possible. Thinks Rails but lighter weight and changes less frequently. You clone the application from GitHub, do the migration/set up your environment, and you'll be up and running with a template Flask dashboard/admin like app that is easy to add your custom code to.

I just released a new version with a number of library updates. I'll be doing another major update in the next 3 months or so where I'll be upgrading Flask to the newest and phasing out Flask-Script.

I hope this helps someone and I am happy to answer any questions.
It's weird to read this and also see how hosts are absolutely pissed over Airbnb not doing anything about guests abusing hosts - trashing the place, making false claims, etc etc. It's almost like if Airbnb just doesn't do anything to resolve issues, both for hosts and guests.

All this said, my personal Airbnb experience was positive. Surely beats rental classifieds or searching Google Maps, and I'm not aware about any serious general-purpose alternatives. My issue is that hotels are simply conceptually (and practically) different - there's a huge difference between a proper rental house/apartment and a hotel room (though Airbnb goes there, it used to be good but today many listings aren't better if not worse than a hotel room now). Sure, hotel brands had realized this and started to offer some curated properties, but this is very uncommon.
Big win for the API instrumentation team.

https://youtu.be/kHW58D-_O64
One thing that surprises me whenever Discworld comes up is that nobody ever mentions Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. I get that it doesn't really tie into any of the other story arcs, but it is indeed a Discworld book (the 28th). It's also one of the few that was intentionally written for children.

I read it with my 11 year old daughter and was expecting it to be fairly ho hum, but was absolutely blown away by the story and the satire.

Not only do I highly, highly recommend it for reading with children, it's absolutely a great read for adults.
I second this.. very useful for vector NLP and other ML tasks.
Scott Alexander has a cool theory that unifies Bayesian inference, low-level behaviour like neurotransmitter levels and high-level behaviour like learning, making decisions and different sensory phenomena (some of the posts explain autism and schizophrenia):

* https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...

* https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-...

* https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/towards-a-bayesian-the...

* https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba...

The core concept is called predictive coding, which suggests that the brain is constantly generating and updating a model of the world in a top-down and bottom-up manner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

Disclaimer: epistemic status = very speculative.
But many people are not rational in any part of their lives, so irrational arguments are not surprising from them. Some people don't actually know what a rational argument is - it's something that you learn in school, not something that is intuitive. They think that argumentation is when you make the other person shut up, rather than when you make a step by step case to get to a point from a set of agreed upon (at least provisionally) premises. You can recognize these people because they have a tell of repeating the same sentence over and over again to drown out the other person speaking. They're not trying to lay out a convincing case, they're trying to survive. If they trusted you, you could absolutely teach them argumentation and reason.

Engineers do know how to argue rationally, because they have to remember why things work to a pretty intense depth. The question is how people can wall off that ability instead of applying it to other things that are important to them.

Being "human" isn't an explanation, though. That's just saying that humans are frail, and this is a failure, therefore it should be expected from humans.
This isn’t just a Mac thing, lawyers on all sides of the PC market highly suggested the terminology “notebook” over laptop for the longest time.
Interesting! This is an issue I had with an external API which I intended to cache on my serverless workers infra.

I hit the API's rate limiter when the workers invalidated their cache, even though I staggered the lifetime of the cache keys for each replicated instance. This is how I found out how many Cloudflare workers run on a single edge instance. Hint: It's many.

Didn't know it had a name. I'm delighted, thanks!
No longer replying, if you use Apple products, based on your needs, consider looking for other options.

And no, lockdown mode should not enable or task users with authorizing file-by-file, line—by-line, etc blacklisted technologies; believe some of the off by default functionalities are able to be whitelist per domain, but might be wrong.

Also, you clearly and repeatedly stated you wanted to simulate running the code to “spoof” devices profile to evade fingerprinting — you, not I are the one intentionally causing issues in this thread, by repeatedly changing your stated intent.

Good luck, stay safe.
Yes. In my experience, they don't fix the headaches, but they certainly take the edge off in a way other painkillers don't.