skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alice: All I want is to stand tall, looking at the sun.

Bob: All I want is to stand tall, looking at the sun.

Alice: Your shade hits me, Bob. Prepare to die.
Show HN: Veritasium-inspired simulation on skill vs. luck for success
This basically turns command line tolls into APIs. Crazy, in a good way.
TBH, if you're already holding a product in your hands, that you created, it's really hard to tell if you're holding an anchor or lightning in a bottle.

Using VC money to make that determination is kinda a no-brainer.

OTOH, if you're still in the exploratory phase (I am), is it wise to tie yourself to the mast of a ship that is already sinking?

In the latter scenario the smallbets.com proposition looks better.
Did blockchain startups ever provide any real value to end-users? Like, at all? Speaking from my technical but not SWE perspective, the only things I'm familiar with using the blockchain are cryptocurrency (obviously) and NFTs, which as far as I'm concerned are a scam.

AI does seem different in that regard, I think it is providing tremendous value to people. Just probably not in the random places where people are throwing it in where it doesn't actually fit.
The message is that the us government does not want your protected speech moderated, curated, and amplified according to the whims of a hostile foreign nation
> At present nobody is getting updates. Giving updates to everyone >=31 is an improvement to the status quo.

Well for who already has the app installed, but if one is on API <30 and wants to install VLC from the Play Store, it can't.
They already are. Peacock had a wildcard nfl playoff game exclusively, one that would attract the swifties, and it broke records for number of subs and views. More impressive is that the stream was beautiful and the tech worked great.
That's the problem I have with this, that Congress is banning a company instead of the practice they're supposedly worried about. But how else is the FBI supposed to spy on us? I mean, besides the renewed and expanded FISA Section 702, and also illegally.
So competition is suddenly a bad thing when you're losing? Okay
>> Yes, of course I know the costs. It ain't cheap. ;-)

I hate that we have to be this way about prices (its stupid)

Core density is through the roof... Your one box today is the equal of whats likely a 15x multiplier. 15 years ago that much compute would have spanned 2 racks. Or jammed one full of blade servers (and they were expensive).

It's in what? 4? 8? u of space?
While I don't think you're neccesarily wrong to fear NSO Group's capabilities, you are absolutely missing the forest for the trees if you think the United States does not have surveillance far in excess of what Israel could hope to achieve. Israel has to break into your iPhone, whereas MI6 and the CIA own it before you walk out the Verizon store.
They realize that engagement farming not-actually-social media is toxic brain rot.
"if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bicycle."
Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels do not go anywhere. A car with 4 flat tires, requires a vehicle with 4 good tires to tow it away. A Monowheel has the necessary and sufficient number of wheels to move. Monowheels are just way way cool.
Well, yes basically. What else would they do?
In this instance someone will gain something short term, I readily acknowledge.

That said, how is this different from Chinas long standing economic policies that have effectively banned many western companies from doing business there and longstanding practices of stealing trade secrets[0][1][2]?

Or how about forcing companies to transfer technology and business operations to local Chinese firms[3] under threat of being banned in the Chinese market?

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64206950

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/technology/china-generati...

[3]: https://www.axios.com/2021/12/21/why-us-giants-keep-caving-t...
there were a couple automated urban lines in pre-90s. If we hadn't cannibalized the inter-urban trolley cars for public roads but private rails in the 1920s, who knows what would have happened.
I'd be interested in an example.
A more effective means of bringing about change might be to protest and lobby for requiring by law more humane methods of raising and killing animals for food. I think far more people would be supportive of that approach.
So who was the registrar and what do the domains host? I do doubt that it was for no reason.
It feels to me like YC's name-drop doesn't have a purpose beyond just attention/view grabbing, despite there being a few nuggets of solid reasoning sprinkled throughout the post.

> That’s 1.25%. To be fair, that’s actually quite impressive, but let’s say you have the stamina and willpower to go through YC three times in your lifetime. You’d need approximately 26 lifetimes to hit the jackpot!

This isn't the least bit unique to YC, it's just the cold reality of any high-growth startup.

If OP had framed this as "Moonshot Startup vs Lifestyle Business" it would have felt more like a good faith argument. Even "Do you have the risk tolerance to be a founder" would have worked. But basing a thread titled "Why you shouldn't apply to YC" off an illformed assumption of the readers risk tolerance is naive at best (and likely malicious given OP is selling competing services).
Just yesterday my friend told me about this. His family is planning to resubscribe to "Disney+" so they can watch "The Acolyte". Then unsubscribe afterwards. And that's how they do it.

I of course have never subscribed to a streaming service. Yo ho.
> When discussing a law let's not discuss alleged things, be precise and talk about facts, was it done or not?

You know full well that it’s not possible to monitor or examine what these companies do, because we don’t have total transparency.

> So much bias in your comment.

The bias isn’t with me, but with you. Obviously you could have taken one second to do a search and find numerous articles on this, such as this one, where TikTok ADMITTED to storing US data in China, which means they lied under oath. That’s why a divestment is not enough to trust them:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

> Do you think everything in this world should be controlled by the USA?

I think the CCP is a corrupt authoritarian regime that used violent revolution and force to come into power and stay there. Most people don’t trust such regimes to control anything. It’s not about the US, or even Chinese people, but about Chinese leadership.

> Every country has its laws, companies should abide by them, and the USA as far as I am aware was a proponent of free trade, capitalism and democracy

I’m not sure what point you’re making. Banning TikTok worldwide would be consistent with all three.
Easy. Unqualified people promoted to the wrong jobs.
Canada can also be a very friendly place for technology companies - see all the games dev studios that popped up in Montreal
Easy. Unqualified people promoted to the wrong jobs. No domain knowledge anymore.
And there's nothing wrong with any of that. Freedom of speech exists to protect offensive, controversial and heterodox speech, not just speech approved by the CIA, moderators and corporate sponsors. I don't know what the CCP could tell America's impressionable youths that's worse than the torrent of capitalist mind-control, propaganda, hate speech and psychosis they're already being flooded with.
Non-adversarial state doesn’t mean the US only. Don’t strawman.
To me, this tweet seemed much more anti startup trying to grow big than anything anti-YC. Only using the tweet for marketing as mentioned at the bottom.

At first, it's against dedicating your life to your startup (which presumably you are already doing or at least want to do) and then states that YC actually has a good success rate for unicorns.

Then he talks about doing some brainstorming to find ideas and product market fit, but at least from my perspective YC doesn't advocate for this at all, but rather talking to customers, getting their buy in and then making something that solves customer problems. Aka, not brainstorming at all.

And then goes on to say that YC has lots of young people rather than older (more likely to be successful founders). But doesn't do any of the data diligence on percent of founders by age by industry and by YC vs. not.

And finally he focuses on saying that only the unicorns were success stories and no one else, while advocating that you should aim for a smaller goal. But doesn't acknowledge any data of companies from YC that aren't unicorns but are still operating, sold for less than a billion, etc.

I personally think that looking from the outside that YC is not for everyone and is geared towards the VC route. But if you want those things, then these arguments aren't valid for why you wouldn't apply.
What I don't like about Android is that you need root to have full access to your filesystem. That to me is a shame, let me have a privileges that allows me to get access to app data.

The current Android permission model doesn't allow, for example, to browse the data of the applications, i mean their folder in /data. For example if I want to backup app data on a cloud service, or make a full backup of the device, I simply can't. Either the app has to support a backup and restore feature to external storage, or you can't. Or I want to make some kind of integration that requires reading/writing directly on the sqlite database of an app, because it doesn't provide the facility that I need.

To me it doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's the only reason I root my devices.
Is "Built for Shopify" worth it?
Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss
Hey guys,

I'm not an infrastructure engineer nor do I work in web, but I'm pretty comfortable with Linux. I realised I need to spin up a couple of home servers and VPSs to simplify and localise my digital life, and I have an RPi and an x86 NAS in my home network, and a VPS in the cloud. They run different hardware and distros, so I have to set them up a bit differently, which is a pain of itself, but what makes matters worse is a situation when I mess something up real bad or when there's another reason that essentially forces me to reinstall.

I tried Ansible and find it hard to use. E.g. at some point I decided to redeploy my server to a different VPS type in the same cloud, but I had to patch my Ansible scripts to do so, even though it was the same Rocky Linux distro (and it failed at some random docker compose networking config IIRC). I guess, Ansible scripts aren't reproducible and require constant work to keep them working. But I very much like them vs just SSH-ing into servers.

That leads to my question. Is there anything I can do to write config once and just deploy it more or less reliably? NixOS looks interesting, but learning another programming language just for this feels a bit too much for me. Or maybe there's another way to do stuff like this which I overlook as I'm in a different industry?
The cost to the company for a recall is also a thing so accurate headlines matter. Having to spend money paying service reps to do software and hardware changes at a service center is way more expensive than pushing out an OTA software. Which is why a good chunk of the media won't mention it when it comes to Tesla.
Unfortunately, that appears to be America these days. Do something illegal, and then write a law to legalize the illegal behavior.
There's an inverse relationship between how good folk think they are vs. how good they actually are.

Anyone who's spent time in musician communities will be intimately familiar with the phenomenon.

Anyone who's spent time in musician communities will also understand just how good you need to be if you're still doing it after two decades.
Without a union, you have no agency. The deal can change at anytime with no recourse. Contracts bind, but require collective bargaining.
It’s the way the sausage is made
> unlike Facebook it's not involved in censorship

I guess you don’t know about the “F word and SH word” incident with the blizzard GM and the pro player getting banned from overwatch 2 for swearing and appeal rejected despite the words being filtered by a profanity filter that defaults to enabled.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/blizzard-confi...
This seems like a good example (free of cultural baggage) of how people with privilege often don't notice that they're receiving that privilege. What seemed normal and fair to your friend turned out to be an advantage that they didn't even consider.
Ok so my understanding: you can have the network generate a token that can be used as input to future token generation along with each output token it generates

These are called reasoning tokens

Initial results with gpt2 are promising

You can generalize this to let the network decide when to generate reasoning tokens (I'm unclear on how). There were also multiple lines in the loss graph with reasoning tokens that I don't quite understand (what's reasoning 1 vs 3? Is it the ratio of reasoning tokens? Something else?)
"... but those are only sold to private entities, not direct to consumers ..."

End users and consumers can buy digital signage and commercial displays without any trouble.

Here is one on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/NEC-Commercial-Public-Display-Speaker...
It’s not. It’s called propaganda all around. In between is organic content. But it’s irrational to want your own population subjected to an adversary’s propaganda.
Point being: TikTok is already banned for 1,464,000,000 people.

That's about 18% of the population of earth.

And if you count the population of China, that's another 1,412,000,000 people. So it's more like 36%...
It's worth noting that the ban is intended to be temporary. They want some more time to consider what the effects are [1] I get the idea, but I think it ends up being a bit ham-fisted. There's a compromise path that works for everyone.

The company I work for has hired a number of Canadians. There is a fair population of robotics companies and roboticists right around Toronto.

[1] https://www.therobotreport.com/toronto-city-council-votes-to...
Who said it was capitalism?
Reading the article and skimming the patent, whilst the explanation differs slightly the basic setup seems to just be the Biefield-Brown Effect. A heavily charged electrical condenser tends to exhibit motion towards it's positive pole.

I'm not a physicist and don't know if this is ion wind, if it works in a vacuum, or if this (and the Biefield-Brown Effect) is just dodgy science. Merely saying that the claims seem similar enough that it feels like nothing new.

There's videos of Biefield-Brown devices ("lifters") online, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVJwObmTAk
I'm sure it's not on purpose, but that sounds like fear-mongering against the AGPL license. None of the concerns raised here are remotely true. No worries :).
> So far your thought experiment involves someone with an athlete’s endurance who’s willing to spend half of their day on a menial task for three days out of five?

It could just be a job that isn't that tiring.

And why does it have to be three days out of five? Paying time and a half for four out of twelve hours could be worth it over paying benefits and overhead for another employee.

> A little unclear on the last part since you don’t seem to understand how overtime is calculated.

How are overtime calculations even relevant? If it isn't worth it for the employer to pay overtime in some context it would be required then banning 12 hour shifts would be irrelevant there because they wouldn't be happening to begin with.

> Your concerns are a corner case.

12 hour shifts are a corner case. Stop trying to ban everything atypical.
Again, I hate talking to people like you, simply because it is impossible. Who cares about your utopia? I certainly do not, it is a silly idea. Arguing about your stupid fantasy world.

>Compare the magical utopia presented in Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,

NO. I absolutely will not argue with some magic fantasy land. This is disingenuous, who cares what some hack writer has written. It is fiction and not constrained to the laws of reality.

>Frankly, if you don't want to have an opinion, then don't have an opinion.

Markets are an inescapable fact of life. In any society losers will exist and winners. Raging against that is futile and shows a fundamental disinterest in making anything better. There, you have my opinion. No I don't care that you think that some hack writer has written something where this isn't true, I really absolutely do not care that you can imagine a world where this isn't true. No I do not care that in some fantasy world scarcity does not exist, frankly I don't care about any of your arguments since you continue to argue about your silly fantasy worlds.
C/C++ is valid if it uses a subset of C that is also valid C++ and would compile with a C++ compiler.
Yep, this trend of dismissing undemocratic power structures as conspiracy theories is deeply troubling. Important issues such as surveillance, censorship, and the military-industrial complex have a long history and are extensively documented. Yet it's hard to bring these issues up today without being labeled a far right conspiracist.

It wasn't always like this. Many have agreed these were legitimate issues during the Iraq war. Where have all those people gone today?
Is any of this related to newer standards like Open Rack?
Yeah, which is why they're complying with India's request for censorship and not fighting back... It's almost as if they're okay with working with authoritarian governments but don't give a shit if the nation in question is left leaning or not run by a fascist demagogue.
As somebody quipped a few days ago, it was optimistic to think that the internet would improve the real world, as opposed to the real world problems diffusing into the net.
Yeah, there are some neat PC input devices outside of keyboard and mouse. Since I do a lot of 3D work I use a 6 axis knob in my left hand while I drag my mouse with my right https://www.amazon.com/3Dconnexion-3DX-700059-Spacemouse-Com...
Or anti-trust would handle that if it weren't neutered by the only criteria being (direct) consumer harm.
Plenty of companies have country-specific subsidiaries that share the brand. Heck, China requires some fraction (51%?) local ownership.
I use jq - which ChatGPT knows inside out, so I can generally get exactly what I want from it with a single prompt.
> But it is also visible, that despite Americana being a relatively young and not yet feature complete project by its own goals, it already struggles significantly with the technical limitations of the map rendering framework used and the commercially developed data schema it is built on.

I wonder what goals of Americana the author feels are fallen short? [1]

> The purpose of the Americana project is to:

* Promote collaboration and shared purpose in the American mapping community

* Express the American experience through cartography, taking inspiration from the familiar features of North American paper maps

* Close technology gaps that impede the use of American cartographic principles. Where the technology to build our map doesn't exist, we will build it.

[1]: https://github.com/osm-americana
No googleable name.

I think the following is enough to explain the concept. It's not quite how I do things, but it's mostly right

https://www.pauline-vos.nl/fix-bugs-%E2%9A%A1-fast-with-regr...
You said

>And given how small the US install base is compared to the rest of the world, it’s not an unreasonable stance to take.

Meaning that losing the US customer base wouldn't hurt TikTok too badly.

I said

>US = 10% of users, but 50% of revenue.

You can't now say

>True, but I don’t think it will matter.

You can't have it both ways. Would losing the US market seriously hurt TikTok? Yes, or no?

>China is likely to take an ideological stance, just like the US is.

I don't disagree, but that is orthogonal to your initial claim.

>It’s going to hurt the US more than China, especially with how close to the elections the ban will occur.

If TikTok is banned in the US, as opposed to being sold to some non-Chinese owner, Americans would just move to Instgram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
I always wondered if one could repurpose side-mounted fingerprint sensors (ex. Samsung Galaxy Fold) as a swipe-to-scroll mechanism.

There also used to be some lovely touchpad tech called "chiral scroll", which allowed for iPod-like scrolling. No idea where that went, patent hell?
Sounds like a startup opportunity: collects the movies I want to watch across all providers, and then round robbin my subscriptions based on volume to watch and my speed of watching to minimize my costs.
"Vizio for exmaple in 2021 made 85% of its revenue from selling the TV, just 15% from the "platform"."

What percentage of their profit comes from that 15% of their revenue ?

I suspect it's a lot.
I think the peek of this mess is when they put the Pam and Tommy episodes based on the sex tape on Disney+.

Seriously WTF Disney?
I imagine the problem is how do you pool the risk without being able to assess with confidence who will succeed and who will fail? And how do you prevent freeloaders who don't expect to succeed wanting a share?

And if you could make that determination accurately, why wouldn't you use it to avoid pooling risk among all but an extremely small pool?
> One of the bad learnings you get from YC is that there’s a formula for success, and it looks like this: First you do some brainstorming.

This isn’t how YC works at all…

If this guy had gone through YC, maybe he wouldn’t be trying to sell an online course.
> how about a general solution of a US GDPR plus anti-trust enforcement

I'd agree if such a solution was also being considered and would take the same amount of time. How long do you think it would take to write and pass such a bill? I think it would take so long to be essentially a useless diversion. It's an idea that people would push who never want any of these changes because it sounds like a viable alternative but it's impossible in practice.
The message i got is "we dont want Us citizens to see first-hand results of American foreign policy.
> how about a general solution of a US GDPR plus anti-trust enforcement (or even additional regulation) to stop this widespread bundling of client apps with publishing services?

There isn’t public support for this. Remember the warrant requirement for FISA? Virtually nobody called their electeds in support (see my other comment [1]). Unless someone can show a general privacy bill isn’t a similar boondoggle, it’s not worth policians’ time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099703
Unreal Engine 5 gains WebGPU support
I was going to suggest NixOS. It's a bit of a climb to learn it, but having a modular setup that works with all my devices is absolutely a killer-app. My desktop, laptop, VPS and Raspberry Pi all share the same terminal configuration from the same Git repo.

Waxing poetic about NixOS on HN is a horse well-beaten. Just try it, if you've got an extra machine laying around and a few hours to spare. I think it's a great halfway option for people that want complex server composition software without the Kubernetes built-in.
As an AI language model, I am unable to answer as this goes against the ethical principles of respect and impartiality. This is not financial advice.