skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that PG ignores the privilege and selection bias at play in all stages on the funnel to Google-scale success. I'm okay with that though, because calling out all the statistical realities does not lead to actionable advice for young people; it tends to devolve into hand-wringing and complaining about what "we" as a society should do, but very few are actually empowered or incentivized to address. And, at the end of the day, if you're looking for a single place to find good co-founders, it's hard to argue there is any better place than Stanford or MIT. I think Paul's advice on balance is decent, even for folks starting from less privilege.

That said, I think the biggest risk for ambitious young people reading this is black and white thinking about getting into the right school. Successful founders are relentlessly resourceful, so while it's a decent plan to target a top school, I believe that how you handle rejection and refocus your ambitions says more about your long-term entrepreneurial prospects than being accepted would have. Focus on what you can control, play to your strengths, and on balance you'll get better outcomes.
The article's information about WebRTC is not accurate. You can do client/server WebRTC without a "signaling server". Just make the server do the signaling. It takes a few extra round trips, but it doesn't need to be an extra server. And WebRTC data channels work quite well as a replacement for WebSockets or SSE, especially if you want to avoid head-of-line blocking. And there are many libraries that will do pretty much all of the work for you, like Pion or str0m.

I also think calling the WebTransport API complex is overblown. If you don't want the more advanced things, you can ignore them. If you want to use it like a WebSocket, just open one bidirectional stream and you're basically done. If you want to avoid head-of-line blocking, just open a stream for every message. It's a little more complex, but it's not the kind of thing you need a library for. Github Copilot will probably write the code for you. It's true there aren't as many server libraries out there yet, since WebTransport is still maturing. And we're waiting for Safari to add support.
The story of Minecraft was an awesome inspiration for my peers and me, much more relatable than Google or any SV startup. Markus Persson did not come from a family of academics or engineers; he was just a poor blue-collar kid who liked videogames and coding (unfortunately his political views have stained his image).
that is a fair point, but i think the two are correlated
You might be underestimating cross OS keyboard handling difficulties across keyboard layouts….
Single malt was the currency of choice when bribing and/or placating SRE's and hwops folks. For example, if a SWE botched a rollout that caused a multiple SRE's to get paged at 3am, a bottle of single malt donated to the SRE bar was considered a way of apologizing.
Author here.

I mentioned suffix rules and pattern rules.

Unfortunately, meta build systems don't like to generate rules like that.
Study: AI improves performance for some radiologists but worsens it for others
Cultured Code's rate of development is my greatest negative, lol. Text resizing is the biggest feature add in recent memory.

> choosing dates in Things is a mouse operation

Not so! Cmd-Shift-D: https://imgur.com/a/kfa6KZj
In the YC Youtube videos it's amusing that they (Jason and the other guy) almost always reference Google and Facebook despite the fact that neither of those companies were YC companies and none of the YC companies out of 4000+ funded (not even Stripe) come close to the scale or valuation of either Google or Facebook.

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation
I made no comment on whether talented people should explore AI tools. I’m a musician and they’re pretty interesting. But they’re not a shortcut to talent, which is what I think some people treat them as.
This lunar concept is probably gonna get deployed before the infamous California High Speed Rail boondoggle.
Apple are so large and require such scale and control that they have to phase in technology like GaN over time.

You can't just order 15M components, built to a custom spec, and get them reliably overnight. Hence Apple have been working to scale supply lines, work with suppliers (and their suppliers) and ensure both quality and other factors (like environmental concerns).

Anker can go out of stock and then produce again when things stabilize. Apple can't stop selling Macs for 3 months without a major global crisis.
There proposal is actually that gradient descent is a bad representation of the NN learning behavior, and that instead this NFM tracks the “learning” behavior of the model better than simply its loss function over training.
My point is that the probability of getting that rich is really low. You need to combine hard work with incredible luck. A very few percentage will get 100x richer than a FAANG engineer.

A typical founder, 10 years in, is less rich than he could have been if he had taken a high paid tech job.

But anyway, PG is saying the same thing he's been saying for years. He wants people to launch startups, and he wants them to shoot for the moon with VC money. He has no interest in bootstrapped companies. Because he's a VC, so he's talking in his own interest first and foremost.
If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT
Good observations, thank you. I take the point about properly delimiting the boundaries of the orchestration layer in a system.

I think you're right about how that line comes across, I'll try and improve it.
It's regulatory capture. There's a network of big corps that make cross patenting agreements, and keep others out of the market, benefiting from the patent system. This kind of court case is the rare spillover that normally stays below the surface.
There is a lot in here, various paths to venture off, but the bottom line seems to be trust is important when running commands on a machine, and LLMs are not trustable. What else?
Author here.

I have worked with them long enough ago I can't remember.

Do they require the build files to list all dependencies?
That is not a reasonable definition of full speed. You would seriously say out loud that a 45+W charger “charges the laptop 50% faster than it charges at full speed”?
The actual advice given is “learn to program and then pursue projects that interest you”, which is great advice for a 14 year old.
Codapi: Interactive code examples for all types of technical writing
It's a one time purchase for both though, I've used it almost daily (at least during the week) for 3 years or so now.
Gave this a try and have to say, these visualizations are super useful and for me. Opened my eyes quite a bit to a concept that seems obvious: $1k spent now isn't just $1k spent, it's $1k not invested and growing over the rest of your life.

Far too much of my own money has been squandered on living in the now, and tools like this help give me the tools to grasp what it really means to tweak the balance of spending and saving when viewed over the long run.
How do you weigh the benefits of economic activity against human considerations?
Parent here :) Yeah i am, but i think the thing few consider (although some did provide the remark here) was that while the chances are good (given infinite time), the reality is no one has that.

So yeah, give someone 500 years, hopefully they keep going at it and the odds play out...but in the lets call it 50 productive years I feel I probably have been given, plus a few distractions along the way, there are maybe 5-10 serious bets one can place? Feels like that needs to be considered in conjunction with the mathematical probability "just keep trying" misleads us to believe.

10 coin flips can happen in less time than it took to type this reply. Those odds are a little more predictable because of the time span involved.
Is it opensource? Looking at the main page, i really like what I see. It is very sleek and the integration between Mac and IOS looks great.
This seems to be a verbatim copy of the second appendix from the Dune novel (the first of the six Dune books authored by Frank Herbert).
Defaults matter though. If getting rid of someone after a probationary period is a rare event, that's different from it being pretty common.
It is the biggest problem, until Central Banks intervene and solve the problem altogether, which makes the problem functionally disappear, but it's still the key problem. That's true for any company btw: you can live practically forever insolvent as long as you are liquid, but no matter how solvent you are “liquidity kills you quick”.
if you could guarentee your child had an iq of 80 or an iq of 120 which would you pick? presumably if IQ is useless youd be fine flipping that coin?
Not really my concern; I don’t listen to mindless garbage. I’m aware there’s a lot of it. (And about to be a lot more!)
Data Mechanics Delight will shutdown on May 31st
Hey guys,

Sebastien here, I'm the last founding engineer of Data Mechanics still working at NetApp

Just to let you know that despite my best effort to keep the lights on, it has been decided to shutdown Delight on May 31st

If you want to keep benefiting from Delight insight, know that our platform Ocean for Apache Spark (https://spot.io/product/ocean-apache-spark/) has all the features of Delight and more
And if it's not a solution for you know that I'm trying to see if I would be able to resurrect Delight in a form or another after the official shutdown
There is far more to the software world than YC. There was sufficient commentary when you posted this sentiment elsewhere to cover anything specific to YC. But on a broader level, if you want to found something, go for it. YC is not the gatekeeper to this industry.
Not research, but here's this popular Dan Luu essay https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
https://github.com/KevM/tikaondotnet ?
Japan's Labor Market Has a Lesson for the Fed: Women Can Surprise You
I like your poetic metaphor of sons as bright stars ...
A good manager is going to trust you to a large extent and not delve into the nitty-gritty of daily operations. With typical reporting loads in knowledge industries, they can’t - a manager with 10 reports realistically has 1-2 hours/week to spend on their projects once all the team overhead is taken care of.

My reports absolutely can chill for a couple days, work only at night, or skip meetings. My job is to get them promoted, which can’t happen until they land projects that demonstrate business impact.
I think it depends where you set the limit between “self made” and “inherited”. I don’t think it’s black or white

Would Gates have made it if Mum wasn’t on the board of IBM? Would Bezos have made it without 200k from mum&dad ?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The Silicon Valley TV series desperately needs a reboot.
Well, if neural nets are nothing more than their optimization problem then why isn't there a mathematical proof of this already?

And why isn't that reductionism? We don't say human learning is merely the product of millions of years of random evolution, and leave it at that. So if we take a position on reductionist account of learning, then how do we prove it or disprove it?

Are there arguments that don't rest on our gut feelings? Otherwise this is just different experts factions arguing that "neural nets are/aren't superautocomplete / stochastic parrots" but with more technobabble.
> (except all the garbage ethics, safety crap that didn't help google, probably kneecapped it actually)

Yes. Inflection's AI was just too useless and safe to be of any use and ultimately made no money.

> This is Satya Nadella's worst AI move yet.

We'll see. But I predict that Inflection AI will eventually sunset Pi.
The OP is likely trying to deliver something like Superhuman ($30/month) - speed and keyboard focused-email - but for todos. I would imagine there is very little overlap between that market and people who use vim or emacs + plugins.
I think we can assume almost all acquisitions are "this cash is better than continuing to operate as we were.... make of that what you will".
The irony of an 8-bit wide serial bus.... %-#
> someone shouldn't want to do particle physics and then do plasma physics, it's evidence that person isn't serious

That’s such a stupid and harmful thing to say. People change and it takes some maturity to realise that what we wanted to do might not actually be a good idea. It’s completely unrealistic to expect even undergrads to actually know how research is done in a specific field, so how could they be sure that they’d like it?

One of the best PhD student I have seen in materials chemistry came from biochemistry. It’s much better to go and see somewhere else than persevere and go in an unsatisfying field anyway. That’s the best way of becoming an angry, bitter and resentful little professor. Now that I think of it, it might explain some of my lecturers…
I want everything declarative, and mostly things are. However I keep running into something weird that the build system designers didn't think of and so I need something to make it work. Note that I'm the cmake expert here, so when I say I keep running into these situations understand that most of the other developers never hit these things, but when it happens they go to me and so I run into them often even though they are rare.
The cookie banners are the way they are because they comply with the law, so you can not say "you follow the law in a wrong way", except for these banners which do not allow to reject cookies as easy as to accept them, the banners comply with the law so you can not blame site owners.

Instead, the law and requirements should be adjusted to make the horror of cookie banners stop.

I never could understand who thought asking website owners to get your consent is a good idea. Think of when you are installing an app on your phone, is it the app asks permission to use your location or your OS? Access to cookie storage is the same, a browser should allow or not allow webpage to store something on your device. Same as most of the browsers do for notifications btw.

Fixing ~200 browsers is much easier than fixing millions of the websites, you can also setup default preference, you can also have a clear, unbiased UI.
He always criticizes how everyone got computing wrong (fair enough), but never offers anything but the most vague suggestions of how to do things differently.
> What is he in favor of?

See the category "Euclidean Twistor Unification" in his blog:

> https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?cat=31
> some of the QT libraries or older forked versions of them are still completely under open source license

Qt is LGPLv3 + GPLv3 which are clearly open source licenses.
This is a three-way collaboration between Berkeley AI, Microsoft Azure, and Meta AI!
RAFT involves the concept of domain-specific RAG, which represents a more focused and growingly favored area compared to the broader concept of the general open-book exam. In such exams, the domain in which the LLM will be evaluated is known in advance and used for inference. The LLM is capable of addressing prompts by leveraging any and all information from this particular domain, on which it has been specifically fine-tuned.

Blogs: https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/blogs/9_raft.html
Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce immigration law
CMD-Shift-D -- TIL, thanks!
Yes, that’s how they work. To be precise, the direct dependencies are listed, and each dependency (after retrieval from a package repository, or locally cached) provides a static list of its own direct dependencies.
I'm a big fan of Things (started with V1) and am happy they're getting stiffer competition. Will help both products and I'll benefit.
Apple supplies cheaper macbook pros with a less than full speed charger.

When iPhones shipped with chargers they were only 5w despite being able to charge from faster chargers.
Ya that is the main one. If you are born in midwest usa or god forbid, nigeria, please forget starting google.
>These “strange metals” have resistivity at low temperatures that is linearly proportional to temperature—that is,

their resistivity varies with the actual temperature rather than with the square of the temperature."

Interesting...

That could be worth further exploration!
Light Based Quantum Computing
Ok but, I'm sure the people doing that kind of work value it differently than just "how nice of a car can I afford." There is a real calling there.
Author here.

My go-to example is multi-language builds. Those get complex, and sometimes, multiple languages are necessary.
Boy would I love an task manager to respect the fact that work happens in other tools, and provide a centralized layer on top of the tools I integrate with.
Instagram v1 was launched after spending –$65,000 in 2010
Hey - Brock here from Statsig - we started out a couple years ago trying to make the best A/B testing tooling for developers, which as it turns out, a lot of the biggest AI companies have found valuable (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). Not always directly with prompts, but with model variants, new feature surfaces, etc.

With a combination of our feature flag and experiment tools I think you could accomplish everything you're looking for - with the exception of helping craft the prompts (we tend to leave that to other tools). We have a very generous free tier - if you'd like to try it out happy to provide any help I can!
Exactly, it's not that good technology gets funding, it's that technology that gets funding gets good.

People often get this the wrong way around. They believe you just need a good idea. No, you need social circles that can invest in your idea. Investment improves things over time.

Alan Kay talks about this. That the quality of the project is the quality of the funders.

You can have good ideas, but if you don't have access to funders, your good idea will not have the resources to become a great idea.
> However, 18 months after a one-time purchase, you'll no longer get access to new or updated features.

Is this normal for SaaS?
And only considering the survivors is still survivorship bias.
> COBOL is just not that amazing compared with modern alternatives

To be honest, I'm new in field of mainframes, I'm just few weeks playing with Hercules.

But, after more than 20 years in industry, on micro- level (I near all my life spent with all sorts of x86 and with networking hardware, but also few years with Macs and with microcontrollers), I must say, only thing comparable to mainframes in reliability is Erlang.

And if I will take your words, just replace with regex /cobol/erlang/i, most will become truth, because, Erlang have much less LOC numbers, but looks like cost of massive reliability is same - not easy to write, or maintain (it is just too different from classic modern programming way), also Erlang is not very fast (experienced people said, it is close to Perl).

All these matter even considering Erlang syntax directly derived from Prolog, nearly best syntax in the modern world!

BTW if you want, I'm open to talk about how to make Erlang better for today, or even, talk possible ways to engage COBOL with Erlang on modern hardware.
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab
> I've yet to see a valid scenario where C++ is superior to Rust, Python and Go.

What? Python and Go are used in entirely different domains. Not everything is a web backend!

Today C++ is used mainly for performance critical applications: HPC, realtime audio, video editors, game engines, web browsers, operating systems, etc. In these fields, Rust would be pretty much the only practical alternative, but it still needs to catch up with the massive and mature(!) C++ ecosystem. Things like Eigen cannot even be implemented efficiently in Rust because its metaprogramming features are still too limited.
There are doctors who smoke… it is known. ;)

EDIT: And then an anecdote: a nurse student told me that almost all of her co-students consume tobacco. Hmm.
Japan's Trillion Dollar Pension Fund Considers Bitcoin for Diversification
2023 World Air Quality Report
Podman – v5.0.0
In general, I care the most about it being easy to debug by a random person who's never seen it before and barely knows the language either. So #2 stack trace as you said. Add in simple syntax. Lots of languages, libs, frameworks, etc show off how nice they are when everything is happy and ok; that's easy.
Ahh thanks, glad you liked it! We made it internally with the help of a video editor.
The original announcement in Japanese can be found here: https://www.gpif.go.jp/en/info/20240319_RFI_E.pdf
So far, we've been doing setup on behalf of customers precisely because it's the easiest option for our customers.

We're open to exploring self-serve, but realistically that's going to be really hard to get right. I'm imagining we may have templates that customers can choose from down the line, where they can one-click setup a CRM for their kind of business.
Am I the only one who feels a sort of tension between the silicon-valley-chic of this website and the simplicity of the software being presented? It seems to just be a list of things with some slight structure added. The big selling-point is responsive UI, but I feel that should be the minimum we expect from software. I personally prefer a pen an paper for this kind of thing. I guess this is primarily for collaborative use, but I'm not seeing much on the site about how good it works as a ticketing system. Perhaps some testimonials from organisations/teams that have used it would be a better thing to lead with than a strange technical statement which most users won't understand. I'm a fairly technical sort of guy myself and I don't exactly know off the top of my head what 50ms latency feels like or how it compares to other note taking software.
Three of my last six flights have not been on the original aircraft; Flighty has notified me each of those times of an equipment swap. In two of those cases the type changed. I'm hardly the only person with this experience; https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/37053/may-an-airl....

There's likely to be some variability from airline to airline and whether or not you're flying out of a big hub with lots of equipment present; as with most things, YMMV. If you're terrified of flying on a 737-MAX to the point of wanting a refund if one gets swapped in, though... take the train.
The web framework which AI can write
See this framework Teo: https://teocloud.io
We created it as a schema-centered web framework. Like human, AI declares model schemas very precisely.
This is what all these blogs don't really mention and I have seen this over and over and over again. You need a fundamental place in society: really high up to attempt to do any of this.
Thanks very much! I had no idea about this, but doing a find command as root did indeed find my backup. It was at:

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/Shared/Previously Relocated Items/Security/hbbackup

I don't know how people are supposed to know this. Plus it is taking up 50GB of space!
Parents who started companies. Lookin' at you Walton kids!
Esports league postponed after players hacked midgame
The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
> There are two main catches with Backblaze

Some would say there is a third. Decryption during restore is handled on the server, not on the client. They plan to support doing all encryption/decryption client side, but if that is something you need now Backblaze's client backup service may not be the right choice.

Here's a comment with more details and references [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38862215
Legal tender law is the legal fiat that gives a coin its ‘nominal’ value distinct from its commodity value.
It's definitely more popular on MacOS than elsewhere.
I've seen this a handful of times with libraries and other software. Typically, it's a year of updates, so 18 months is on the more generous side of things with this model.