skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta have 8 paragraphs so they can squeeze in 20 ads.
This is a solid entry point, though you'll get more immediacy out of learn python the hard way. However starting with python (like I did) will 'leave things out' and Principles is great for filling those holes.
You seem to be much more invested in an ideological battle than anyone else here.

Where I’m from, the climate has changed. It is changing. You don’t need scientific instruments to notice it.

As far as I can tell, the orthodox AGW theory fits the evidence and has predicted these changes better than any alternative explanation I’ve heard so far. As far as I’m concerned, ideology doesn’t really come into it.
What is developer support?

"It paid better but had way less responsibility and required very little cross-domain knowledge."

That sounds great, but why did you leave.
As a non-Physicist, I absolutely love the CCC hypothesis and I really hope it turns out to be true. It seems like such a beautiful alternative to the idea of the heat death of the universe just lasting forever and nothing ever happening again.
Inference can bring some compassion.

One doesn't need to think too much to know the only difference between us and other species is the ability to philosophize and as such, it should bring even more harmony and compassion, instead of beliefs that justify exploitation of nature.

I don't know why we assign ourselves so much importance, some of our thoughts allow us to bring harm to others but we don't want to be treated the same way we treat them.

All we really need is education, the education of putting ourselves in someone else's shoes (or hooves).
idk man there is a small slice of 0.01% engineers that truly move the needle. For the record I am not one of them. How many of these people are focused on a cause rather than adding another 0 to their bank accounts?

Those people are probably long gone from Google but if any are left, why increase the chances of them leaving?
But does Links have a graphical DOS version, like MicroWeb?
Saw a presentation by them at this week's Open Source Summit. Seems like a lot of the major contributors to Redis have moved over to this project. And it seems like AWS is a major supporter of it. I suspect their Elasticache Redis will soon be Elasticache Valkey.
"Ugly" is subjective. I'm sure a lot of people find it to be aesthetically pleasing.
100% return over 4 years refigured as constant annual return is 19%, not 25%, due to compounding.
Agreed that it is very crazy how shallow projections from humanity to other animals often is. Really gets annoying when folks try and reverse morality in discussing behavior that 'not even animals would do.' Or, heaven help me, discussion of "balance." I've grown to view leaf season as basically trees conducting war on shrubbery.
I've got Harper's Practical Foundations for Programming Languages and it's a great book—he writes clearly and succinctly.

Knowing the lambda calculus helped me one time when I was working as a software engineer: I had just added functions to a little DSL interpreter that was going to make it easy to customize behavior of our product to different customers. (It wasn't ever going to be used by customers directly; it was primarily a tool for the internal team.) It was at this point that I realized we needed some kind of execution time-out: since we could encode functions, we could write down e.g. the Y combinator or the omega combinator and we could get non-terminating programs in this DSL.

Now I work as a programming languages researcher, so the lambda calculus has direct application to my day job.

Those curious might be interested in ISWIM, [1,2] which is an extension of the lambda calculus with an arbitrary set of operators. Like the lambda calculus, this is an abstract language. However, you can add numbers and other operators, and ISWIM-like languages are often used to illustrate new ideas in programming languages.

Syntax is incidental. Boil the syntax away from languages and reduce them to their distilled semantics to get out the essential differences—this is the kind of thing that the lambda calculus makes easy.

I highly recommend reading Landin's The Next 700 Programming Languages [2] as it is a great, short, clear read.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISWIM
[2]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
100% week over week growth is nothing to sneeze at
At the company, I mentioned Valkey, and no one had any clue what I was taking about (we use Redis).
Everything relies on quantum effects. Water wouldn't behave like water. Gold metal would have a different color, etc.

All the same, I don't think there is special quantum magic above and beyond the "ordinary" quantum phenomena needed to explain our brains.
What is the future?
Of the two, "case catch" is The Correct Answer™. Obviously.

I would even accept just "catch", such that a switch can hold a mix of "case" and "catch" clauses, which would be most natural.
No one said the employees expected to keep their jobs. This is a strawman.

And it's not what I'm challenging with the above comment. OP claimed it's "not OK" to protest in the office, even when the protest is against mass murder of innocent people.
Totally. She seems really thoughtful and aware of how absolute freedom (anarchy) just leads to a situation where implicit power structures are created by those who get there first. Hope she and others keep doing good work to ensure that the site lives up to its goal, to catalog all knowledge, not just the knowledge that's easy to catalog.
Does it matter?

I mean we're talking about someone doing my job and just replacing me, not necessarily doing everything I can do. I'm sure there are things they might be able to do that I can't. I'm just a midlevel. I assume there are a fair number of "entry level" folks on here. I'm over 10 years in and "entry level". It seems the bar is quite low for most jobs if you have the right credentials or connections (but I pretty much don't).
You need to know how the donuts are made before you can speak about optimizing the size of the hole.
Might be Morse code
It's interesting how many people use the word consciousness for the ability to think thoughts or imagine stuff.

In eastern philosophy, consciousness is all that which is not material nature, that is unchanging, exactly the same in every living being and is separate from mind, intelligence and senses which are considered a part of material nature.
I ran a microbenchmark with Go 1.22, which ships with both ChaCha8 (a little faster than ChaCha12) and PCG (a little slower than xoshiro256+). On my M1 Mac, I'm seeing 2.3 ns/uint64 for PCG and 4.5 ns/uint64 for ChaCha8. Assuming 3.2 GHz clock speed, that puts them at about 1 and 2 cpb respectively. With a floating-point conversion in the mix, they ran at 4.0 and 4.5 (!) ns/float64 respectively. That's far better than I would have thought.

So yes, a good, slightly buffered (internal state seems to be 300 bytes) implementation of a (quasi-?)CSPRNG is pretty damn close to a decent quality non-cryptographic PRNG and likely fast enough for most video games on most hardware. Though, very few people write games in Go.
So why work for the company in the first place?
Do you think philosophy has produced better answers to these questions than science?
Maybe you wouldn't - my thought was that (to exaggerate) if company A produces 10 vehicles and issues 5 recalls, whereas company B produces 1,000,000 vehicles and issues 10 recalls, then company B isn't doing twice as badly as company A despite issuing twice as many recalls, because they've manufactured 100,000 times as many vehicles, and we probably need to factor that in somehow. Likewise the number of vehicles affected by each recall.

As the other commenter said, I also think number of SKUs is important as each one represents a different design and BOM.
The family is a fundamentally undemocratic institution. The demos does not get to decide how spouses interact or how parents raise their children anywhere but at the extremities.

Nobody wants to live in a totalizing democracy.
> I think one thing that people don't realize is that the YC application process is really one of the best tools for "sharpening" your idea/business.

I'm seeing this a lot through the comments but I have to ask, why is it? Do people just not think about how their product will make money, who the competition is or how are they going to get customers?
FWIW you did make me consider it. As others have said, the mere process of writing out an idea means thinking about the idea in a new way, and can lead to new insights.
People need to remember that "I was just doing my job" isn't a defense. There is a moral duty to interfere and obstruct. There is a moral duty not to disrupt those interfering and obstructing. Sometimes you need to get up to good trouble.
Don't get into MarTech, it will destroy you

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxazzarello/details/experience/
This article ignores the vandalism and and that co-workers felt threatened.
There is such thing as a sit-in which is disruptive, and makes the point, but why should somebody who comes to work feel threatened by a co-worker? That's not acceptable, no matter what the belief is.

And of course, if you vandalise your employers property, of course you should expect to be fired.

https://californiaglobe.com/fr/google-fires-28-for-anti-isra...
So back in the day when Skype was still new tech and I worked for small remote company we did interviews over the phone. It was absolutely wonderful for eliminating bias. We had a very diverse cross section of employees from many backgrounds doing very good work for us.

I kind of miss those days now that Zoom is everywhere and it's an expectation that you present yourself on video for others.

I get why a sales job might want to make sure you keep up appearances but just writing code, I really hate turning on video. No one I know wants to acknowledge that we aren't solving bias with video though. I am glad you brought this up though. I believe it's true.
Hispanic!= Immigrants. Much of the southwest was formerly even part of Mexico, many of those people didn't even move in the history of the US.
The Three Virtues according to Larry Wall: laziness, impatience, and hubris. https://thethreevirtues.com
What about, "I don't ever seem to have any good ideas worth pursuing" and "everything I can think of doing has already been or is currently being done by people way better funded than me"?
I would work on what I was most passionate about. Which btw is also the advice that pg and Jessica (specifically Jessica in this case) gave at their last YC talk, and you can't get more YC than that.
Generally, it's referring to a chronic condition, meaning that your blood pressure is elevated as a trend over time.

Everyone goes through huge peaks and troughs with BP - at the gym, sleeping, etc... will have massive changes in BP.

There are certain conditions where "instant" BP can become a problem, both high and low. Orthostatic hypotension, for example, is a condition where you can get dizzy or black out from changing position too quickly.

There's also a condition known as labile hypertension that can cause random high spikes in BP.
No music. ... I'd like my money back, please!
Who is filling your head with all this? I have never seen any program slow down over a move, because you should be moving enough data that copying a pointer doesn't matter anyway. This is trivial stuff. Show me in an actual program somewhere that shows what you're talking about.

Vec::reserve_exact isn't enough, you need Vec::reserve

Reserve reserves the amount that you give it. This isn't hard or complicated. What exactly do you think it should do differently, and how hard would it be to write your own? Vector is a simple data structure. Anything you don't like about it isn't a language limitation.

this fundamental type is a small perf leak

Show me a program that illustrates what you are talking about.

I want to look at a beacon over the horizon,

You can do this with intrinsics or libraries that use intrinsics.

the language lets you directly express in your definition of a loop

This isn't a performance limitation it's a convenience you want integrated into the language. There is one that does this, it's called ISPC. Is that what you use?

This seems to me like you've gone down some sort of anti C++ rabbit hole where people who don't know what they're doing get worked up about things that don't matter.

Meanwhile in the standard library there is actually the unordered_map design which is stifled by algorithmic complexity requirements, but people use flat maps to get around that.
> I'm talking about a group, a collective, that deliberately funds stuff that is merely good content

Why does this group need to be different from the general Youtube (insert any platform here) audience that votes with their views/likes/subscribes ?

What am I missing?
Yeah, this is the best possible reaction. Dude is cool.
This should be basic knowledge for any provider. I don't really agree that it is a model that is too simplistic. It is a tool that has considerations for accurate use based on physics and physiology.
Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning
Suppose the price of a house in the suburbs is $400,000. Developer buys one, pays $5M more to build a building with 20 condos in it, sells them each for $350,000 and nets $1.6M. Why would somebody buy one of those instead of a house? Because they're $350,000 instead of $400,000.
> companies that offer a free service but start charging once they've locked in a client-base (I'm looking at you Heroku).

I don’t know much about Heroku, or if it’s been enshittified (yet?), but a company that offers a free product and somewhere down the line starts charging for it sounds fine to me.

And anyone who believed a product produced by real people working at a real company could be free forever was kidding themselves.

(In general though I agree with the sentiment of the article.)
Rejection sucks, it's true. But one thing a lot of people don't know is that the chance of being accepted to YC goes up with repeated applications. I even think most founders who YC funds get rejected before they get accepted. (I may be wrong about most* but certainly it's a large chunk.)

The main thing is to demonstrate progress since your last application.

* Edit: I asked the team and got back: "most is true! for w24 companies, 58% had applied previously"
> nobody is getting put on BP meds because of a single errant reading

I'm glad you've had good experiences and relationships with what sound like quality healthcare professionals.

Others have had different experiences.
this is just silly pedantry. The comment you're replying to was clearly, if implicitly stating "visual conscious experience cannot simply be the experience of the patterns of light falling on our retina, even though we experience it as such, because of saccadic motion, which is occuring constantly but which we rarely perceive".

The point is that our intuition (for centuries!) about what visual conscious experience is driven by is wrong. You've summarized what we know now succinctly and usefully, but that in no way invalidates the point the comment was making.
Will the files get deleted with ON CASCADE DELETE somehow? That would be awesome.

Then for GDPR, when you delete a user, the associated storage can be deleted.

One could cobble this together with triggers, some kind of external process, and probably repetititious code so there is one table of metadata per "owning" id, although it would be nice to be packaged.
I don't think you can be concise about it. It just feels weird to ask someone you've never met to come up with stuff that sucks about their job, as people will either ignore you or just make up a bunch of things out of politeness.

And even if they do answer you, it's a bad idea to commit to those answers. There's a book written specifically about this (The Mom Test), but the point is: asking people about their problems is not a good way to validate a startup idea.
Well, don't underestimate the sheer back-of-the-envelope power of a cat's brain: 700m neurons x 200Hz per neuron is a LOT of compute, like ~10,000 modern CPU cores in terms of ops/second. Pretty impressive when you consider the thermal efficiency....

Regardless, looking at AI power that way is a mistake. There are already a few supercomputers that can perform more operations/second than the human brain and I wouldn't be too surprised if this neuromorphic computer can perform more ops/s than a cat. But the structure of the brain is important: brains aren't just simply glued-together layers of neurons. The incredible topological complexity and integration of mammal brains surely means that certain "parallelizable algorithms" can be run much more efficiently, and that disparate information can be pulled together more readily for identifying patterns and making mental models. All mammals (and birds) are faster learners than any artificial neural network, and they understand ideas like object permanence and causality, which no AI is even close to getting right. It is reasonable to suppose that the structural complexity of mammal/bird brains is an important part why their cognitive abilities are so much greater than 2024 AI.

And I really can't overemphasize how complex mammal neurons are compared to artificial ones: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i... It might not matter that individual biological neurons are slow when by themselves they're as sophisticated as deep artificial neural networks. A neuron might operate at 200Hz but it's not solving "what's the sum of these floating-point vectors?" like a CPU/GPU. It's solving something way more sophisticated: there was a paper recently arguing that humans had individual neurons for visually classifying 2 things, 3 things, etc. (Cats can do this "subitizing" almost as well as we can and probably have their own neurons for it, but their understanding of numbers seems shallower than a primate's.)

So:

- the artificial neurons are far simpler than cat neurons

- the links between the artificial neurons in neuromorphic computers are far simpler than the links between cat neurons in cat brains

- even in naive ops/second cats are not slouches

Simply matching the number of cat neurons and waving hands about "fast semiconductors" is not enough for me to think this machine is as powerful as a cat's brain. (And even if Intel made a computer theoretically capable of emulating a cat, I suspect it'll take several decades to develop AI software which is sophisticated enough to do the job.)
Reed is a great liberal arts college. Very intense and quirky academic culture, and being in Portland OR lends to an amazing college town vibe.

Sometimes I wish I went there instead of my Alma mater.
Guys just pick a fun project and apply. If you get in then you get to build a fun project really fast. If not, then just have fun building your project.
I think that the FTC's authority has less to do with the corporate hacking part and more to do with whether the hacked company had followed bare minimum data security practices before the ransomware attack [1]. What the bare minimum is, I'm not sure myself. If I had been in Lina Khan's place as a customer at MGM's hotel on that day, I would've had some expectation that MGM would, after having suffered a ransomware attack, be extra careful with the credit card information that MGM tells me to write on paper. I would want MGM to be clear about "Who will have access to this info or paper?", "where and how will you store this info?", "how when will you destroy this info?"

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security
PyNQ: Python LINQ for the Masochistic and Deranged
Attention all code junkies and complexity addicts! Are you tired of writing code that's readable, maintainable, and easy to understand? Do you crave the adrenaline rush of staring at a screen full of cryptic symbols and wondering what the hell you were thinking? Well, buckle up, buttercup, because PyNQ is here to satisfy all your wildest coding fantasies!
> would you go up to a Russian coworker and get in their face about Ukraine?

Is the company supplying arms to Russia? Is the coworker the boss who lied about doing so? Have the Russians killed 15,000 children in 6 months with the aid of those weapons?

Let's keep these analogies somewhat accurate.
There are reasons why you'd choose bitcoin over your example, ethereum. For one, supply of ethereum is not deterministically predictable. As money, that makes it less compelling. Some other technical details are very short block time means network splits, orphaned blocks, reorgs are very common. In the short term, ethereum finality is not as reliable.

Generally I agree with your point though. Money over IP can takeany forms, and the likelihood that the first form it took is the best it could possibly be is miniscule.
Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
Oh wow, that’s quite old; I hope they can find a way to backport newer versions at some point.
So did Elizabeth Holmes.
I'd argue hacker culture goes back much further than the 70s, e.g., with MIT hacks during the 1930s and 40s (see Feynman) and in Cambridge UK, as well as the early HAM radio enthusiasts in the 1900s...
There are foundational elements, those arrays of panels do have to be mounted to the earth somehow after all. I've built solar farms where we drilled thousands of 5-foot deep, 6-inch diameter holes with 1/4" tolerance for the location. Into which pipes were concreted and the long crossbars for the panel arrays were installed.

Did the tolerances truly need to be so tight? Probably not, and just set so by a designer somewhere. But the panels do have to line up for tying into conduit that goes to (pad mounted) transformers and distribution equipment, etc.
Their medical delivery stuff is so impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU, I'm a bit disappointed they weren't able to find another more valuable market than "we'll stick food in a box and get it to you faster".
Yes, for COM programming you better switch to C++.
YC approval process is pretty much this:

- Do I even understand your idea.

- Have you talked to customers.

- Am I impressed in your use of time.

- Do I believe that your team is capable of delivering.

- Is it a good idea.

Most people can't get past the first two but obsess over the last two.
Did they?

It’s surprising because your description can’t possibly be a recipe for generating startup ideas. pg was most passionate about lisp. There must be more to it than what you said.

I try not to dismiss ideas out of hand, but this seems like bad advice for someone explicitly trying to become wealthy. It’s great advice for YC to be giving, because it would maximize YC’s returns over decades: if everyone works on what they’re most passionate about, YC would get a flood of applications from exactly the type of people most likely to be effective founders. But for every passionate founder that chooses to build Stripe, there are dozens who would choose to work on programming languages, or game engines. “Passion project" is practically synonymous with an artist not intending to make money.

Even if today you were most passionate about spreadsheets, would you really choose to build skysheet again?

It’s impossible to imagine pg writing "If I wanted to start a startup, I would work on what I was most passionate about, since it’s the most likely way I’d succeed." The sentence seems mistaken, so pg must have said something more precise.
Did not cross my mind while reading. Please elaborate how you come to this conclusion.
Dropping a fry bag is such a tiny part of what you do in a restaurant it’s almost a joke.
That's an interesting concept. Of course you don't want to delete your record of the blob until the blog is deleted.. A trigger could add a "job" to delete the blob into another table when the file record is deleted though..