skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but you have no idea what's going to be put into the standard tomorrow.

If code I write today has a class called bubble_sorter, and then one day, the C++ standard library decides to add std::bubble_sorter, then:

1. If I had "using namespace std;" then all of my code is suddenly broken.

2. If I didn't have it, I'm fine.

Also, and this is just personal preference, but I simply like to be able to clearly distinguish when my code is calling into the standard library. Typing in that short "std::" reminds me that I am calling into someone else's code.
Oh, please. Bitcoin is a protocol with no more inherent value than SMTP.

Aside from being the Catholic cryptocurrency, it has been surpassed technologically in every way by newer and better designed protocols. Why would anyone who doesn't already own Bitcoin choose to use it for anything over, ex. Ethereum?

Bitcoin maxis aren't technologists; they're grifters trying to convince you their magic beans are the most special magic beans.
I was thinking about the first in history part.
Where did you think ChatGPT got their training data?
RX is called design for manufacturing. Nothing new.
walk into bar

"please swap disc"

load load load

Largo comes in, talks for a bit, swishes spit in his mouth, leans back

"please swap disc"

load load load

A closeup of a big green gobbet of spit flying across the screen

"please swap disc"

load load load

And at that moment I knew I needed to get a hard drive.
I'm not trying to rationalize my emotional reactions and say they make logical sense. Just explaining why they are there.

But, if there was a long time period where almost no open source software went commercial...you would be conditioned to not worry about the risk of depending on it. Then when things change, you feel differently. I don't know why that's controversial.
That means nothing though. If you (N=1) apply to Google and get rejected but take a Facebook job, it doesn't mean people shouldn't apply to Google.
Except that in Ubuntu and Debian (and likely other major distros) you don't get the unmodified version of VLC, you get the crippled version with missing features. I recently spent a day trying to use VLC on Debian and Ubuntu to stream video from network camera (which works on Windows) only to find that Linux distros removed some VLC library that was required for this to work. So i used appimage version instead which did have the missing library. Linux distro packages are no longer easiest or best way to get working software.
This ignorant attitude about the past is currently shaping a trend of 2 dimensional characters in culture. All female characters must be strong and good, all males must be weak and evil. The same with racial depictions; whites are evil, blacks are good. The bigotry hasnt gone away, it's reversed, and become stronger.
> that doesn't mean science approaches an account of reality on its own terms.

That's true. But just because this is not a valid justification of the assertion that science does not approach an account of reality on its own terms, it does not follow that science does not in fact approach an account of reality on its own terms.

> To suggest otherwise is to postulate additional metaphysical baggage that even I, the lowly philosopher, find intolerable.

Really? Why? What aspect of reality do you believe is inherently beyond the scope of scientific inquiry?
It is fine enough for me as my English skill is bad enough to notice these things.
is it still no co-founder no go?
Off the top of my head: it seems unlikely that you can recoup the enormous investment required to get to 51% by making fraudulent transactions without anyone noticing and crashing the value of bitcoin, or agreeing to switch to a clean fork.

I'm not sure how early users tolerated this risk though.
Yeah, if PG takes me out for a steak, I will believe it :-). An email that cost $0.000001 on SES, nah!
Probably because lots of Asian Americans have family members who are still Chinese citizens. China doesn't allow dual citizenship, so their parents and grandparents may be barred from buying property even if they've lived here for a long time and have a green card.

You may suggest they get American citizenship, which would be fair normally but I think asking someone to give up their citizenship of their birth country in order to own a home is wrong. It's a part of their identity.
I didn't investigate all of the obviously Jewish entities in the "Mapping Project", but I looked up half a dozen and all but one of them had explicit "we support Israel in their conflict with Palestine" language at least, and some were actively raising funds for that explicit purpose. (note that most of the list is non-Jewish organizations)

I'm not local, but I did see random internet comments to the effect that "most local Jewish organizations aren't listed", so it seems plausible that the list might in fact be limited to Zionist organizations and those who do business with htem?

Besides that, remember that the ADL in particular has a history of mapping projects of its own, and went beyond that to actually committing crimes. Either mapping of bigots is acceptable or it is not; the one stance that is obviously wrong is that only some types of bigots are allowed to be mapped.
This is a very common but wrong assumption.

The OSS and Cloud divisions of most companies are very different beasts. The engineers that staff them are different, and their focus is different. This has often lead to issues where the company that creates the project doesn’t always have the capability to support it at scale.

TBH, while I don’t support that kind of behavior, the cloud providers probably provide the best SaaS support for most OSS projects, just because of the operational capabilities they have created.
https://archive.ph/OgKWD
you could go further and say that bitcoin holders are trusting that no major vulnerability will be found on the network.
Ok great let's be explicit and cite your own stupid words

You believe that Apple should follow a law that is unethical.

evidence:
> I obviously don’t agree with China’s censorship

You believe this is ok though because other countries have bad laws sometimes.

evidence:
> they can point out lots of poor human rights abuses on our end yet Chinese companies are expected to follow our laws here too.

> Our own legal system has plenty of ethical issues. We lock up almost 5x as many people per capita as China. Should they not do business with us?

You also believe it's ok to do this because it's practical
evidence:
> Apple is just doing what any rational actor would, obeying the laws of recognized governments, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect them to do more. If the American people care that much about the free speech of Chinese citizens it’s a matter for our government, not our corporations.

> If corporations stopped doing business with any country someone on HN found to be doing something unethical, we'd all go back to the economic stone age.

pathetic
> Upload a founder video

Yeah definitely not. No thank you.

It's a great filter though. I am exactly the type of person who you don't want to see a video of, and therefore perfectly unsuited for YCombinator/SV/etc. which are all about personality.
Something about this doesn't make sense. This means that, from its own perspective, every photon is emitted at time T at location x, then absorbed at time T at location y, meaning there is no time "in between" those... yet somehow, at a distinct point in between those events, an object can get in the way and block the photon from reaching point y. Meaning you have two points in time that have the same value but aren't identical? How does that work, mathematically? Do you need nonstandard calculus or something to make sense of it?
Philosophers of science have given us some axiomatic statements about the nature of deduction and the limits of inquiry, but research is a trade far more nuanced than a philosophical framework, with cultural transmission of domain specific problem solving strategies and learned intuitive guides. Those things are inherently a-philosophical, and also probably the most important of all.
How did it work out? Did you get useful information and start a successful business?

Of so is the business still doing what you thought it would be doing after you’d done those interviews?
Man I miss Hitchens something fierce.
LOL, Redis CEO Rowan Trollope. Man I despise that guy. After successfully navigating the Cisco Contact Center, UC and WebEx business into oblivion, he ends up at Five9 architecting the crash and burn Zoom acquisition that failed 'successfully', and now he pops up at Redis.

Run away screaming as fast as you can.
I don't even disagree with you on many of those points, but you're still dancing around the actual question and just complaining that somebody dared to protest.
Hope this means we get a Tor browser soon too. This has been a huge gap
> Your corporate job isn't a democracy.

Herein lies the crux. We want to live in a democracy, but fundamentally undemocratic entities run the world and act on it in ways none of the citizens decided. The obvious next step is to dismantle those undemocratic places, or at least reduce their actions to what citizens decide, but we're far from it.

If the clear response is to fire those employees, the clear response to this should be to fire google
Poor diet increases cancer risk: Scientists uncover missing link
I use the binary package because Ubuntu only provides a Snap, and that lacked some permissions I wanted (reading installed html docs).
I get the gore, but _no money from corpses_? Are depictions of pickpocketing illegal?

(I'm being hyperbolic here, but, it's still curious.)
> Still profitable company with an incredibly high market cap

A market cap that has more than halved in the last year. And market cap isn’t everything. Plummeting sales amid higher competition, layoffs, etc don’t paint a great picture.

> Twitter's market cap hasn't change much

Since what time period? Since after he shaved 70% of it off? [1]. It wasn’t and still isn’t profitable, yes, but it now has a far higher debt load and a drop in advertising revenues which make it worth less.

> profitable and future projects are set to make it more even more profitable.

Oh I said rarely and barely profitable. That doesn’t imply much profit, nor potential. It has promise, yes, but clear profits… no. Sorry for the confusion. They turned a profit only for one quarter. The structural risks are due to government subsidies that can (and are) being pulled from SpaceX. Starlink has been a huge boom to its revenue, but those subsidies were part of that. His errant behavior could jeopardize additional contracts (eg his drug use).

> hardly worth mentioning

The trail of headline worthy businesses are worth mentioning because they add to his allure and image. That they have little business potential, amount to trivial cost to him, and are for vanity, makes them meaningless.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks...
A 51% attack allows you to rewrite history, which allows you to "double spend". For example, you could send funds to an exchange and withdraw them in cash, then during the attack send them to yourself instead. The amount of computer power defines how far back you can reorg the chain.

The transactions you create still have to follow protocol rules, which means you can only send funds from wallets you have the keys for - you cannot create money out of thin air, or steal funds from someone else's wallet.
I watched a video from Martin Odersky (creator of Scala) and he was sort of the same opinion when talking about effects.

A b() throws C;

And

A b()(using Throws[C]);

are exactly the same.
Her work history is indeed extremely concerning, but you're probably being downvoted because you invented a fake quote. Double quotes means a literal quote, he never said that. You invented it.
I hit 'space' in Firefox and it crashed.
Simple prompt engineering enables smaller LLMs to outperform larger ones
About age 10 when a teacher brought a Commodore PET into class running an ascii version of lunar lander. I got an Apple II+ a couple years later.
> Do you have any idea how much those machines cost, how easy it is to destroy them, or how quickly they'll remove the skin from your body? If some exhausted bonehead crashes a line how long will it take for repairs? Do you have spare parts on hand? Do they still make spares?

Sewing machines? Not that expensive, not that easy to destroy and the typical injury would be that you get stuck with a sewing needle.

It seems like you want to assume that every job involves some kind of delicate yet fatality-inducing industrial equipment. It doesn't.

> That's not a 12 hour shift, that's an 8 hour shift moving into triple overtime. Everyone involved in your scenario is fully aware that they're rolling the dice on people's lives due to an emergency.

It's a person working for 12 contiguous hours, because the benefits outweigh the costs.

> I'm assuming everyone has the same level of endurance because I'm not willing to gamble my livelihood on the self-awareness of some random asshole off the street. It doesn't matter how much they want to work if their output isn't making us money.

And if they're willing to work and the output is making you money?

The proposal is to ban people from working for more than 8 hours. You don't need a law for any of the cases where it isn't in the employer's interests to do it anyway. They just won't choose to do it in those cases then.
Thucydides Trap is just the nonsense of historicism.

What rising power went to war with the hegem with a currency peg?

What rising power went to war with a hegem with a currency peg and its largest trading partner? A coalition that would include several of the top trading partners.

Like all points in history, the current moment is unique and pretending you can predict the future from the past is stupid.
What if you created your own CMS?
If you were to create your own blogging platform, what would it be like? What would you prioritize? Would its design be serious like WordPress? Or would it be a fun design like Gumroad? What features would you offer?
On my Audi? MMI updates being an easy one, who cares, but updates to the HUD, to the digital cluster.
https://archive.is/aDwCP
Is it picky mating? Beetjes (and other insects) lay a bajillion eggs so access to highly diverse evolution seems reasonable.
I totally get it as video is anathema to me too, but I think you're drawing exactly the wrong conclusion. YC doesn't care about any social commonplaces (personality, dress, etc.). They just want a sense of who you are as a potential founder. A lot of what might be considered 'negatives' in more conventional contexts aren't negative at all in the YC context, and might actually help an application.

p.s. YC is definitely not "all about personality" - I don't know where you got that idea, but the spectrum of YC founders is about as wide as you could get that way. There are extraverted outgoing types and introverted awkward types and pretty much everyone else too.
> I wish politicians would work to separate healthcare and retirement (401k) from employment

Whenever your politicians feel like getting around to it, they'll be able to swipe the mechanisms from any of the jurisdictions that already do run healthcare and retirement over individuals rather than employers.
6 blocks ~60 minutes left.

https://www.nicehash.com/countdown/btc-halving-2024-05-10-12...

What happens to existing hardware at that point? Resold for video games? Sold to people who have cheaper electricity?
Reminds me a little bit of Façade, from 2005!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Façade_(video_game)
Say what you will about Ted Kaczynski or Jim Jones, but they were deeper thinkers than these guys.
We were lucky to be privy to his wisdom for the past 18 years, since a heart-related close call in 2006, but even that doesn't feel like enough.
Hmm. I actually still find I'm subjectively freer when I can peacefully face the reality in front of me, even when it's not something I would want.

My mom is a good example to me. The first time she got diagnosed with cancer (12 years ago), she had option option option. There was everything to try, but it was all fraught with the pressure of making the wrong choice, or messing something up, or not knowing.

This time, after she'd been cancer-free for 12 years and got diagnosed with a whole different cancer, it's been so different. She'll either beat it or she won't. Anything that's tried will either work or it won't. It will suck either a little or a lot, until it doesn't anymore, for one reason or another. She's subjectively freer now because she's not trying to get out of the "bad" options. They're just coming and she's just going through them.

She seems a lot more empowered this go-round.

You know that part of the Serenity Prayer, about "the wisdom to know the difference"? I feel more empowered when I don't try to judge that with a razor's margin. When I stop thinking, "Maybe, if I just try hard enough or in exactly the right way, this could be 'something I can change,'" and recognize how small my impact actually is on anything but my own life and the lives of the people very closest to me, the more empowered I feel.
You must have a doctor somewhere in your network 1 degree of separation away. Get a friend to ask for a favor to invite the doctor to a meal at a nice place, your treat. Be up front about your intent. At the right time, pitch to the doctor the idea of interacting on the job with doctor and/or staff. And don't promise the doctor any equity. Maybe free access to the product.
Fuck it, I am going to do this. Thanks for writing this.
Most of both this article and the discussion is covering the simple case of home on a local hard drive, rather than the more interesting real-world situations with network-mounted home directories and multiple different HW/OS architectures you'd want to be able to have handled transparently. Which is fine.

For more... interesting network scenarios, it can be helpful to construct some variable, say, $HOSTABI, that includes tokens for both hardware and OS.

$ echo $HOSTABI
x86_64-ubu-2204

Which can then be used inside architecture-influenced variables like ARCH, LIBRARY_PATH / LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, as well as inside the user's own installation system (makefiles, etc) used for anything the user compiled. Great for just installing some new hw/sw combo, mount home, cd into "~/src" or equivalent and run "make install", and just get all your own code recompiled and installed for your new architecture.

This is a microcosm of what sysadmins on heterogeneous networks do, mostly for different hardware architectures, although this was a much more common situation in earlier years than more recently where Linux has taken over even more of the corporate/research world. I've found it pretty useful even at home, where I'm using my one home directory across my systems' different installations of Linux with different library requirements (although I should probably sell that SGI Onyx/RE - IRIX not Linux - that Wing Commander III was rendered on).

My home directory is usually populated almost exclusively with dotfiles and some threescore subdirs with 3ish-letter names like doc/ etc/ fun/ (I'm a gamer) git/ iso/ job/<site>/<recursehere> lib/ man/ pub/ (packages of my own programs) sbin/ src/ steam/ (yep) tmp/ var/ (notes, logs, etc) vr/ ... and so on.

It seems to work out alright. Contains about half a million subdirs and 4.2 million files. ;-)
I think of this as Rosie Jetson robotic development. In the Jetsons cartoon show, you can watch the robotic maid, Rosie, manually washing dishes like a human. Today, we have a dedicated device purpose built for dish cleaning that operates nothing like a human. What is the end state of a machine which can operate more efficiently without being built around the human pattern?

(Although, Wikipedia is telling me dishwashers already existed at the time of the Jetsons, so my analogy is bad, and I should feel badly).
Think of time as defined by how many times a photon bounces between two mirrors. If the two mirrors move at the speed of light with the photon, the photon will never reach the mirror to bounce. Therefore, the photon experiences no time.

There is no universal time T in space time. Time is relative to the observer.

I suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space for the mathematics.
Sorry to "LMGTFY", but Wikipedia does have good info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle

Also a good list of alternatives when iGoogle was shut down in 2013, https://www.computerworld.com/article/1521275/there-s-no-pla...
'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue
After all the horror stories I have read on here about YC and VC in general, I'm genuinely surprised that many people are still keen to go down that path.
Oof yeah I didn’t think that one through.

Still I think the general idea is pertinent. Why the focus on China?
Just curious, I was filling out my profile and it says Education History required. Normally that means college experience. I only did one year at a local community college. Should I just put that? My cofounder is attending a well respected school though.
I wonder if that's how they get electrons into the particle accelerators too?
I'm not training an LLM I'm just training a LM.
I don’t find this at all foolish. I agree and while OP is looking for doctor input, a better avenue might be leveraging nurses as a seed point and growing from there. As (and this isn’t meant as a slight) grunt workers can be more open to sharing hardships and a good entry point for moving up the chain if they find your argument/solution as valid.
Thank you for the link. Now I have enough to form an opinion about her.
I am on a h1b visa and can't really work anywhere outside of my primary employment due to visa restrictions. Has anyone with the similar profile gotten into YC? and if so how did you make it work with all the legal blockades of h1b?
Track Your Growth
>Bitcoin maxis aren't technologists; they're grifters trying to convince you their magic beans are the most special magic beans.

Replace "bitcoin maxis" with any cryptocoin promoter and the statement remains true and equally as useless to those who refuse to consider digital coinage money.