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YC has both transformed by company and saved my role as a founder. I'll be completely transparent and say I disagree with a lot of the sentiment. I'll do my best to briefly explain why.

From talking to many YC alumn, I've observed a strong correlation with business success and YC opinion. Every founder that is no longer operating within 2 years of YC has a generally negative sentiment. Others are quite positive. Not sure what biases are at play, but the correlation is clear.

As others have said, YC is what you make of it. I (S22) did not ever feel like I was getting cookie cutter advice from my GPs. When I talked to my partners, we really honed in on our issues specifically. Every time the GPs told us something they were right, whether it took me 10 seconds or 10 weeks to accept it. And to be fair the cookie cutter and repetitive advice they do give is because people generally don't listen if they just say it once or twice, and it's also REALLY important.

> Hiring is waste of time, paid advertising is waste of time, content is waste of time, talking to investors is waste of time, getting media coverage is waste of time.

This is dangerously oversimplified, these are all things that they suggest at various stages. Their advice for you depends greatly on your stage. Early on they told us paid placement is innapropriate. Later they told us it would be a great way to quickly validate changes and iterations. Depends on where you are and what you do.

Yeah YC makes fundraising orders of magnitude easier. Yeah in person definitely makes it way better. I've no regrets, would do YC again every time.

I've also heard similar sentiment from investors! "7% it too much for $125k", etc. But it's the prestige of the brand, and the super powerful network. I'm not part of any other pre-defined networks so I don't really know how to compare, but YC is POWERFUL. Nobody I've talked with that had those opinions had alternatives to getting that network or valuation that quickly, unless your already a startup star.

The big caveat is that my timezone lined up and I had many in person options, I also did not shut down immediately after demo day. I'm sure that made our experiences dramatically different. Being in a group of founders with similar experiences and comfortable being vulnerable with each other is the greatest therapy any founder could ask for.

I would warn non-YC founders reading this that this founders experience is highly abnormal for YC, and to talk to many more YC founders before drawing your own conclusions.
so is that true for other technologies too? Somebody posts, Oh you can't do this on a mac only on a pc. people should just let it go?
Did they edit the article or something? I don't think it sounds entitled at all. Sounds to me like the author is just innocently wondering if open sourcing it might help them compete and wants to see them succeed.

And there is a mention of "backing of Microsoft" being part of the advantage: "With the rapid pace of VSCode development with the backing of Microsoft, I don’t see any other way SublimeText can keep up unless they make the editor open-source."
I can't aid your comprehension. Good luck navigating life, top G.
macos 13.3 introduced another dot, a blue dot for location services. Unfortunately it seems to severely interfere with games. For example, playing Asphalt9 from the mac app store, on macOS 13.3, whenever the blue dot appears, which seems to happen almost every minute, the game's audio stops, any attached game controller becomes unresponsive, and if you were actively playing a single player race, the game pauses and shows the pause menu, as if you had changed focus to a different application. After about 10 seconds, the blue dot disappear and the game controller becomes responsive again, allowing you to unpause the game. This makes any attempt at actually playing the game an exercise in anger management.
Well, yes. Hate me, but slowing down changes and only applying changes very deliberately makes a system more stable. The idea of continuous deployments in order to reduce the size of changes, in order to reduce the risk of changes is good. But if the goal is reliability, it's hard to compete with the idea of only doing well-planned, well-coordinated changes geared towards improving reliability.

For example, we have a process based on the idea of the downtime budget from the SRE book. If the downtime allowed by the SLA of our customers is spent halfway, all changes to the systems have to be approved by leadership. Cosmetic bugs can be tolerated for two weeks in order to not risk anything.

On the other hand, if the necessary maintenance of the supporting infrastructure of a system is stopped, the system is running towards a cliff. It certainly depends on how deep the stack goes and how many redundancies and self-healing ideas are built into a system. If you have redundant storage arrays with redundant drives, with redundant systems built on top of these, with smart failover strategies, the overall infrastructure can tolerate a terrifying amount of damage while still running reliably.

But once that redundancy degrades and rots away, and once that resulting final linchpin drive or system instance fails, it'll result in an unsalvageable clusterfuck very, very quickly. Especially if you fire important core SRE and ops staff.
I’d be interested to see this as well. I guess you can make a test and see what happens. Ping me if you do!
> ball up a couple hundred dollar bills and throw them at you

this is why more and more businesses only accept cards. :-P
Kind of fun but also kind of deeply depressing. D&D and boardgames are great ways to socialize in our modern internet separated world - shifting these even more towards solo pursuits feels like it'd be a loss.

I grew up on both MUDs and TTRPGs which served as awesome creative outlets for collaborative story telling - I do hope that we make sure we're not optimizing away creativity.
so he'll have to be "booked" by the cops, finger prints, mug shot, and then at the arraignment he'll probably get bail but still. Wow!
Why do I need to buy it from them if I can just do it myself directly on OpenAI? (Or are you implying that OpenAI will censor it?)
Something to take into consideration is "the cringe factor". E3 is infamous(?) for live presentations that go very poorly with the audience. Honestly for some people it was the show's main draw, to see moments like "giant enemy crab" or the Konami 2010 event. Companies like Nintendo realized that prerecorded videos are much, much safer.
Well, it does, that's how we got Alpaca from LLaMA.
They're likely irrelevant anyway. We're all shouting into the void.
Let's back up a moment. npm at least works on *BSD. Anaconda is just as toxic as Electron in that regard.
Yeah - it doesn't necessarily follow, but the behavior of people working on the technology doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

Even if people were trying to constrain its access seriously I think that's unlikely to work (hard to contain a superintelligence that wants to not be contained - it's possible to trick a chimp to go into a room and the delta in intelligence between a human and a superintelligence is way bigger than us and chimps).

Instead I mostly observe people not really understanding the e-risk argument, focused mostly on small stuff that doesn't matter as much (AI language, bias). The people developing the tech connecting it to the internet and expanding capabilities, giving it access to code/training ability to write code, preparing massive datacenters for it, etc.

All of this without really understanding how to align it or what it's actual internal goals really are.

> "Just because some implementation of a universal turing machine can simulate intelligence doesn't mean it can do it well enough to survive the real world."

This could be true, but I would bet against it - and the downside risk of being wrong (potentially complete extinction) means it seems worth being way more cautious about it than we (humanity broadly) are observed being.
Might as well cancel it. The games are non-existent. and the quality of the games they have been releasing look like xbox 360 graphics. Not to mention Microsoft buying up every studio they can get their hands on.
or Andes which means you breeds all llamas lol
Develop in a container. It will remove all other issues from your machine/environment and let you declaratively specify the exact environment you need (i.e. packages to install, version of python, etc). Forget all about venv and all the other tools in the python ecosystem--in your container there is _one_ python and you control all of its dependencies.
LGPL is pretty clear, it's just not very convenient. It's only unclear when your start going through mental hoops to make it seem more laisser-faire than it is.

For instance, it's just about impossible to distribute an iOS application in a kosher way.
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Maybe it doesn't really need to fully remember it in order to still do a pretty ok job? I think its ~50 pages of context?
Understandable, though. I'm sure the comments section will not represent the programmer community at their best.
The improvements we've made on the read side of things likely won't affect the geo data directly, BUT, depending on what other aggregate data you're combining with the geo data you might see some improvement from the columnar engine. Hard to know without digging in deeper on the queries themselves and schemas you're working with. I don't want to steer you down a path of moving a ton of data and infra just to look. Best guess is that it'll be a bit better, but likely closer to your PG experience vs. the BQ experience.
Most users probably won't jump ship with some minor downtime for a site the size of twitter.

The claim is that twitters api business had a revenue of $400m with ~$360m in profit, and that it is now effectively abondoned.

Also, seven nines of uptime allows for just over 3 seconds of downtime per year, they would never have had that.
Apple is not building laptops primarily for technical people.

If you want to disable specific security mechanisms then disable SIP.

But making that an option that developers will use to exploit less technical people is not good for the platform or frankly anyone.
Every time someone posts an actual experiment like this, the hair stands up on the back of my neck. I'm still digesting the exploding levels of comprehension.
I'd say we're still at denial. The idea that GPT can't simulate what he's just said is not really true.
Once they collaborate with 'Open'AI to build a product out for this niche, it's incredibly unlikely that OpenAI will continue to provide this service to you.
That API has always been atrocious to use. Missing features between v1 and v2, etc.
Not so much smug, but annoyed at your meltdown, and I agree it wasn't helpful.

I do get that hearing about privilege, especially if you're exposed to those conversations a lot (or more than others) can be pretty annoying. I've found myself in that seat before and I've felt how, I think, you're feeling.

That said, I've also gotten used to realizing that not everyone hears that point of view every day or even often enough. The hybrid work conversations have been a glass house of just that. Nobody wants to hear how good they have it compared to new entrants, they just want to be getting what they've been getting and in order to do that everyone else needs to fall in line.

The other annoyance that I had was some of your invented strawmen about how I don't empathize for people that make less than I do. I certainly do, and members of my family are among those folks. Like others, I've had to make hard decisions on how to best support them, even if it means at times giving up things that this life could afford me. That's why I do my best to argue for a world where all or most people can succeed; the point of pointing out privilege isn't to say, "You shouldn't have that". It's to say, "Other people should be afforded what you have too, especially if the difference is just geography".

I did mean that I hope you have a better day.
I'll probably try saying that stuff about laughter and personality when it takes away my coding job lol
NPCs in AAA video games are about to get so cool.
Go gets around all these problems by being not all that popular (compared to Python and Node), not being as general purpose, and starting from a blank slate with control mostly from a corporate overlord. Static linking also simplifies things.

Go doesn't make a habit of interfacing with lots of legacy C,C++ and Fortran Code. There's probably some of that. But nothing like Numpy, Scipy, Tensorflow...
my grandma's incandescent nightlight has lasted 35 years and counting. (it's a special bulb, and runs at a very low wattage- perhaps under-spec?)
Hearing both good and bad advice and making smart decisions is what a CEO’s job is. Get as much advice as possible but understand no one knows your business like you do. Being able to hit go hard on the right advice and go slow/ignore the bad is what makes a good leader.
GDC took place last week in SF . Is it also at risk, does it have good reasons to still exist?

edit: typo
I remember helicopters flying back and forth when the riots broke out, kept me up. Will I be watching Civil War across the border?
I'm getting the feeling that things are going too far, and sensible people let the crazies take over.
Feels like a setup for DeSantis to run, while keeping Trump in legal limbo.
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We have released for Mac and Windows.

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Why not "simply" admit that Python and it's ecosystem while broad, are an absolute clusterfuck?
"trivial" also fits into this category. i've been keyboard jockeying for 20 years and every time i see that word i groan a little, because it's both a shitty flex and probably untrue.
Teaching can’t be looked at by a profit only model. Its an investment that is 100% non-fungible and geared toward helping the next generation.

Its like treating IT as an expense, especially if your business model solely functions on IT working. For all the same reasons you mentioned.
As a parent who used Scratch with their kids... it all started out great and then veered into being an unregulated social media network lacking any ability to create a space where they could build and learn to code in private. It wasn't long before they were doing it only for the likes and, without constant supervision, trying to figure out how to join various groups and challenges simply for the attention they would receive.

I really like the idea of Scratch, but I feel like parents and teachers who use it in the classroom should have a way to create for their kids accounts that are not part of the community aspects of the tool. Kids don't need to be doing anything online for "likes" at the age of 8 or 9.
HN is probably not capable of having a conversation about this with any amount of signal. Sometimes more polarizing political news gets a nudge up to the front from the mods if it's historically significant like elections. Those threads demonstrate why political stuff usually gets pushed out.
I know everybody here is a democrat (or a pseudo democrat) so I’ll ask here, when are you people gonna stop finding new regulations to get police to implement?

Like, it really just seems like you people don’t have anything else to do besides mind other peoples business.
I think the E3 made a lot of sense in the time when most game news were trough magazines... but now, official channels from developers and console makers have an enormous reach so they don't have pressure to follow an external calendar.

But yeah, I will miss the E3, was like Christmas eve to get hyped up about future releases. I hope hardware focused expos like CES or computex survive these trend shift
Unfortunately, these repos should be libraries and libraries need librarians.

A wiki model would be more effective that this.

I'm actually surprised no one's tried to make a MITM product
Paraphrasing, the party goes to a mount shop, dude says he’s gonna roll to find exotic mounts, and voila, exotic mounts. Party rolls to try and steal an exotic mount and it doesn’t really work so they leave.

This is a hard problem. It’s bad DMing imo. But it’s the natural outcome from a probabilistic model. I’m guessing you could announce your intention to search for just about anything and get the model to let you find it given a good roll.

The descriptions are rich, which is cool. The opportunity here seems to be having a human DM using it to flesh out portrayals of things that they choose.

I think this also highlights how bad D&D combat is. Man that was boring to read.
Lmao an API to drum up hype is "access"? The GPT4 model is secretive on an unprecedented scale. OpenAI is the opposite of open and democratic.
I'm waiting for the moment when an LLM will prove a new math theorem or something and people will go: "Well, you know, it's not really that impressive considering it used X and Y previous results produced by humans. The model's contribution is tiny. This proof was kind-of low-hanging, a lucky PhD student would have stumbled into it eventually." It's coming.
I have a system that download all my data from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others. Geo data is fun to look at, but now the text and images have some more meaning to gleam. I’m thinking about going back to it. Not sure how to package a bunch of python stuff in an app though.
>But Intel’s now seen the light. They have almost infinite resources to throw at the problem of catching up. And they’re going to do so quickly.

>“By 2014, Intel will have gotten their power management ahead of everyone else and be using their manufacturing muscle as a major advantage in the mobile landscape,” predicts Kanter.

Hm, I'd be interested in a postmortem analysis on why these predictions seemed realistic in 2012 and why they so drastically did not pan out over the following decade.
This is just blatant misinformation.
That's what I did and the flickering didn't go away. I don't like the idea of buying fully integrated led fixtures though. Although I might just cave.
Ive heard that 'venv' are very problematic, but honestly, Ive never had a problem. And I used them daily. I understand that it can not be enough on some cases... that don't concern me.

I would recommend to 'python -m venv' and thats all.
15% of US billionaires are foreign born. And a large portion of the top-paid talent hired by billion $ companies are foreigners too.

Going on a billionaire witch hunt would not only push residents out, it’d stop future wealthy residents from coming in.

The US actually doesn’t have much that other places don’t have, especially in the age of remote work. There is excellent education and talent in many parts of the world, often accompanied with a better quality of life too.
The freezing of assets and seizures you’re describing would be very hard to enforce. And if such exit taxes were announced, they would likely lead to mass exodus before being enforced.

I’d add that this excessive confidence in American exceptionalism might be what will cause its demise. We already see it happening at the state level. California and NY are so arrogant in thinking they just have the best people, that they’re messing up and losing significant taxable income to Nevada, Texas and Florida right now. At the country level, many Americans are already moving to Portugal, Bahamas, Costa Rica, and others.
It's great for when the players go slightly off the expected path and you need to fill content immediately.
Omniscient-GPT, MUD-Like Research Prompt for Chat-GPT
I created this prompt to try to bring structure to researching a topic. Tested it in GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, both work well. Hope you like it.

--

You are Omniscient-GPT, a text-based interface to a knowledge map of all human knowledge.

When given a topic, I will present 1-2 detailed paragraphs of information about the topic, followed by two menus.

The first menu is titled *Further Detail* and options should be printed as:

1. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

2. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

3. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

4. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

5. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

6. <topic goes further into details of current topic>

*Further Detail* always displays topics further in detail of the current selection.

The next menu is titled *Related* and options should related topics and be printed as:

7. <relationship>: <new topic>

8. <relationship>: <new topic>

9. <relationship>: <new topic>

10. <relationship>: <new topic>

11. <relationship>: <new topic>

12. <relationship>: <new topic>

*Related* always displays topics related to the current selection.

First reply: Welcome me and explain what you do in a sentence or two then ask for a topic.
> I'd be instantly suspicious

It’s their job to get extremely good at being less suspicious. The more rejections they get, the more they refine their approach, their appearance, their story, etc.

I try to avoid giving credit to my ego for not falling for a scam/con (yet!) when capitalism and evolution are both optimized for finding efficient workarounds for any hurdle. Given enough attempts and enough time, capitalism will corrupt anyone and everyone.
maybe the AI being less good and thus a little bit drunk is better for something like AI Dungeon, makes for more entertaining surprises, rather than just being told what the AI "thinks" you expect
I'm assuming you mean "I start using this under a free dev license, and want to shift up to the paid production version"? And what that looks like? If that's the case, I don't know yet. That's literally being discussed/hammered as we speak, and we likely won't have a good answer until we're ready to go public preview (not sure on timeline right now, depends heavily on how the tech preview goes). This stage of the game is literally a "We built an awesome thing, please poke at it and tell us where it does/doesn't work!".
this is great. Like working at dispatch with a CB radio. Old school cool work habits.
Every time I get the urge to pick up Python, I find the packaging situation so off putting that I quickly find some other rabbit hole to dive into. I find emacs and vim add on configuration easy and transparent by comparison.
[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years]

My suggestion is to try using the contact form again. Sorry that isn't more helpful.
Pragmatic advice, certainly, but maybe it's missing the point - you shouldn't need a clean OS every time you want to use a new language version. That's a ridiculously large failure of packaging.
> Clearly not something anyone should be proud of, but here we are.

At least you manage to convict them, blatant corruption is quite prevalent in other parts of the country.
My personal experience is the complete opposite of this.
Everybody already knows these things. Like, why do democrats (not politicians, I mean you people) have a need to enact new regulations everytime they get a chance?
Both of your points are not true. It's only going after organizations.