skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would you be worried joining a startup where the founders are dating?
I recently interviewed to be an extremely early hire for a startup where the founders are romantic partners, but not yet engaged. I've always heard "investors are wary of startups founded by couples", but I've never heard advice for potential hires at startups founded by couples. How do you think should this affect my decision to join this startup or not?

For a bit of context, I know one of the cofounders somewhat well, but I've only met his partner / cofounder during the interview process. The role seems like a good fit and I like them both, but I'm just a bit wary about the dynamic here.
Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and MacPaint, and utilizes an interesting little language (https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html 2022 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33393283)
Something about Gary Stevenson doesn't feel right. Although what he says generally sounds good, all of his videos contain the exact same rhetoric about blaming problems on wealthy people. And yes, he says he's an inequality economist so it makes sense that he would say this, so why not show the numbers and data to back up his claims? He talks for 10-20 mins seemingly pulling his theories out of thin air. In that very video you linked he claims he saw house prices rising as a result of COVID while all the other economists were blind to it... uh no? He doesn't use the kind of vocabulary I would expect from somebody who has deep knowledge of the subject either.

What is he getting out of making these videos other than playing the populist game? Has he actually been verified to ever have been "Citi's top trader"?
FF7 style?
In my city they looked at that. My city is not one of the most expensive in the country (upper middle?), but it has been generally near the top of the "biggest YoY increases in home values" over the last decade of so.

All sorts of feasibility studies. Options.

And then out came the NIMBYs. "My grandkids play in the street and I'm scared they won't be able to anymore", "there's going to be cars parked everywhere on the street and we won't be able to find parking" (uh, you have driveways and garages, no?)

"What's this going to do to our property values?" This was the kicker. "Well the most conservative of our studies showed that it looks like we'd go from 11% YoY value increases to 8-9%."

Wow. You would have thought the city was pouring water in everyone's gas tanks, or assaulting their grandmothers.

"HELL NO. I have a right to double digit property value increases!" Even when the lower increases would still be in the top 20% of property markets in the country (and being clear, still an 8%+ ROI), no way in hell were any of those proposals going to pass.
A very long time. Two reasons why that combine to make things even worse: The cumbersome Mexican government bureaucracy (both Federal and belonging to the Capital district, which due to its size and influence might as well be its own national government) being generally sclerotic to the point of near uselessness for anything requiring long-term, planning-driven effort that doesn't just benefit a certain coterie, and the fact that much of Mexico City has been built over the literally, purposely buried ruins of the ancient Aztec capital, making underground digging an even bigger legal nightmare if archaeological remnants are discovered and said discovery made public. (applies mainly to the central part of the city).

Live here by the way, since nearly 2 decades ago, so lots of experience with the bureaucracy aspect and the general workings of government.
Ever heard of a hyperbole?

And if the other dev made an error and confused authorization and authentication you have a problem.

Stupider mistakes have been made and it is a sign of overconfidence if you think you are immune to them.
HH is just as compressible as HT or TH or TT.

You can easily build a compression scheme for any one of these values, but not one that encapsulates all values while using less data than the raw values themselves.
Have the same thought
The daily drive isn't what people are thinking about when charging time is brought up.

They're thinking about visiting family, or short day trip vacations, or longer hauls through very rural areas.

Or, they live in an apartment complex that doesn't let them run extension cords out to their cars or have charging stations for everyone yet (though admittedly this is only a matter of time).
This is the most uninformed comment I have ever seen at the top of HN. So much so I think it is likely trolling. Somehow you all fell for it.
Yup. You would think "builder grade" materials and work in a home was a sign of quality, a la "craftsman"... but no, it's "built using the cheapest shit that met code, and put together on deadlines".
The notion that you have Google/Facebook scale problems at 10k requests per second (vs 10s of millions of requests per second) is a pretty funny claim in its own right.
If they didn't completely rethink how IPs are associated with hosts, with the whole SLAAC and privacy address and etc crazyness that even ended up making ifconfig deprecated, perhaps adoption could have been much quicker.

IPv6 didn't only impact networking devices, it affected end-user applications that interact with the network in many ways, and this is a big part of the slow adoption.
Are they paying you? Does it matter?
It's super common to see websites which don't properly invalidate sessions because they use JWTs without tracking them anywhere.
I think you mean business loans like PPP, not student loans.
github.com reachable via IPv6 when?
Yes, this one.
No solution for mobile.
I appreciate your interpretation, and I don't want this to sound dismissive: The point is that Israel doesn't get to eat their cake and have it, too. Either they treat Palestine as an independent country with all the same rights as Israel, or they treat the Palestinian-born subjects under their rule as citizens with all the same rights as the Israeli-born subjects under their rule. Apartheid and genocide aren't legal options, despite Israel perpetrating both.

> Hamas' aggression has unfortunately made that impossible for now.

On the contrary: as the world has expressed on multiple occasions in multiple ways, Israel's genocide of Palestinians is what continues to make that difficult. After all, the world sees how Israel abused Palestinians for decades before October 7th. Israel can't say the world didn't warn them as they spiral into the same pariah status as Russia and North Korea.

> It seems unreasonable to expect a country to essentially give up on its own defense

The "abiding by international law means essentially giving up our defense" claim was put forth by Israel and judged not to be the case. It was expected, both when the law was drafted, and when the case was brought against Israel, given their frequent repetition of the now-debunked claim. It just wasn't credible: neither the court nor most countries or people actually believe Hamas is going to somehow conquer the state of Israel. Indeed, it's inconceivable that over their entire remaining existence Hamas will ever deal out even a small fraction of the damage Israel has dealt to innocent Palestinian civilians over the course of less than 1 year.

If, however, one isn't interested in discussing the legality of Israel's behavior (in an HN submission about precisely that), and the topic is reduced to whether Israel will say "whatever, I do what I want" a la Putin or Cartman, then I will submit a bet that they will, and leave it at that.
Meta dupe!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492670
The fun part about that mlb site is that all of the data used to generate those pages is freely available to download [1] and use for whatever non-commercial uses you can think of. If you come up with something interesting, you can submit and present at one of the many conferences that happen (example: [2]) and are attended by the data science folks at the various mlb teams, who love chatting with people about baseball stats.

The ecosystem is extremely open especially compared to other pro sports leagues like, say, the Premier League.

[1] https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search

[2] https://www.saberseminar.com
> All I can say is you clearly don’t understand what moral hazard is, because my example is a textbook (literally) example of it. [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moral%20hazard][h...

This random example is interestingly at odds with all the other definitions and example on that very web page!

> If the owner won’t lose out on the payout from insurance by committing arson, or could plausibly get away with it without getting caught, he is experiencing a moral hazard to commit arson.

This makes zero sense, because in that line of reasoning, the moral hazard is always there no matter what the policy is about arson: “all the owner needs to do” is to commit arson without being caught, which is exactly the same thing whether or not arson is excluded from the policy, since committing arson on your own good to receive payment from insurance is insurance fraud anyway.

The only thing that changes if arson is excluded is if the arson is committed by somebody else!

> Either way, that the insurance policy would pay him if he burnt his place down is literally the moral hazard.

But you are making things up! This particular moral hazard would only exist if insurance fraud was not a crime in itself, which it is already! And as such, there can be no such moral hazard, because no insurance company is to pay a dude that burns down his own place no matter if there's an exclusion about arson in their contract.

> That they would exclude if he did it himself, and would investigate it, is what the company is doing to attempt to mitigate that moral hazard. But it always exists.

The company would have to do no investigation and it would do no mitigation, as it would be the police investigating to protect public order.

AS I said before, the moral hazard would only exist in a place where insurance fraud is not recognized as a fraud.

Saying that this a moral hazard is like saying that bank robbery is a moral hazard on the perspective of banks, and that's clearly not what this phrase means.
Literally every single point is wrong(other than 1 which is obviously true and 4 which is subjective). It absolutely has to be a troll, or someone who is genuienly tragically uninformed.
Ordinary Least Squares Regression, from Scratch, in C
Yes, a large set of instances is more likely than a single instance (all things being equal).

However that doesn't mean that a sphere is any more or less likely than any specific other structure. It's an small but important distinction.

No, a pyramid shaped planet is not as likely to form as a sphere shaped pyramid. Definitionally a pyramid shaped planet is impossible.
> Surprised by the lack of encryption or any security on devices like these.

Note how the worst scenario you could think of was "get stuck flashing rapidly". That's why there's no encryption.

I suppose you could (partially) ruin a concert if you infected all (or most) of the wristbands with your random blinking virus. But hitting so many would be hard, and for what gain?
Land is cheap but building a house is expensive. If you want more supply then you are going to need to make building more economical.
Maybe in the general sense there’s a use that a large percentage of people have.

An area of knowledge retrieval or proof reading etc.

Would be interesting if there are any over powering use cases.
Something about the tax position of letting mortgaged property.

EDIT: I had misremembered. Landlords can still get a tax deduction for mortgage interest, but only at the 20% rate, not at their marginal tax rate. For most landlords with mortgages, this probably halves the tax credit.

In the UK, if a private landlord receives £1000 in rent, and pays £800 in mortgage interest, they pay tax on the whole £1000, not just on the money they made.

There are reasonable arguments on both sides:

A) Why should a landlord be able to deduct mortgage interest from their income, for tax purposes, when owner-occupiers cannot?

B) Why should a landlord be unable to deduct business expenses from revenue before calculating taxable profit, when all other businesses can?
> It's been around for at least a decade

I just logged into tunnelbroker.net to check: my HE account has been registered November 22, 2010 11:30:00 UTC. Today it's unused because IPv6 is basically always available in France.

That's not even the first time I tried IPv6 things, part of it being I had some access to RENATER via my engineering school, right when they kicked off IPv6 around 2002.

The past 10 years of IPv6 have been largely uneventful for me: it just works.
The museum is very lucky that they got any further cooperation after initially dismissing the person reporting it.
Unfortunely C and C++ have too many folks that do performance analysis by gut feeling instead of using a profiler, many times asserting stuff that with modern hardware are completly irrelevant.
> There's no reason why the major cloud providers need be considered more than data center providers

They have no incentive to do this or to offer low cost bare metal instances. If anything, the opposite incentive exists in my experience: make these instances extremely expensive and push everyone to cheaper, locked in managed services. Because surely anyone that needs bare metal has fat stacks of cash?!

Making public cloud a commodity kills the major public cloud providers valuation, IMO.
Gleam v1.2 released with LSP improvements
haha the thing is that I got better at prompting as I ran more and more experiments.

For example, in the beginning I was asking GPT to recommend me 3 stocks at a time, which was not a good idea. I revised the strategy to ask for only 1 stock recommendation at a time.

Also, GPT-4 was MUCH better at it than GPT-3.5 which makes sense and is also very exciting.
Rust is too hard. Can’t we just use the Sea?
I disagree. To authenticate something is to challenge it to prove its identity. Authentication is much broader in scope than "login," even within the narrow domain of computer science. JWT signing, domain certs and so forth fall under the "authN" header and use the same cryptographic tools and techniques... even many forms of user authN don't have a "login" flow.

Why would we choose "login" - which is more of a special case than the norm to describe something we already have a precise term for?
In the UK supermarkets have fast chargers. You park, plug in, go shopping, return to a fully charged car (similarly at pubs, cafes, gyms, etc.)

BEVs don't have to be plugged in like cellphones. In city driving one full charge can suffice for a whole week of commuting and errands.
My research went in similar directions although I was looking at RETE for rule evaluation as part of a general purpose workflow engine with rules as just one part.

Incremental view maintenance is different enough from rule composition and evaluation that the model diverges to be more optimal. Collections of tuples and instead of DAGs lots of cyclical loops to continue computation of the diffs.

There are deep and intrinsic space or time trade offs so many of the modern approaches moved toward natural dataflow concurrency, and streaming semantics where space or time trade offs can be chosen at runtime through batching and data context opposed to early RETE variations which were very OOP and eagerly evaluated instead of lazy (all in memory in the same place instantiated and mutated).

It'll be interesting to see where these differential dataflow approaches go as we head into local-first constraints where central authority on data isn't possible and long divergence of synchronization occurs. Lots of CRDTs in this future for sure. E.g. https://github.com/RhizomeDB/rs-rhizome / https://fission.codes/blog/fission-reactor-dialog-first-look...
+1, the dev is fairly active on here too https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kdrag0n
Why do you think Boring would do any good there?
That's not the problem at all.

Stop allowing people to buy multiple homes. Stop allowing landlords to "collaborate" on prices.
I've implemented the "chunked" iterator a million times. Glad to see I can just import this next time.
I want to say something else about IPv6 adoption! (Apart from how you can't necessarily unilaterally stop using IPv4, even if you can unilaterally start using IPv6.)

There is a great level of IPv6 awareness and enthusiasm in sort of technically elite spaces. Like at Ben's talk at RIPE that we're talking about, the audience was kind of laughing together at the non-IPv6 outgroup.

Meanwhile, I keep helping people use Let's Encrypt over on the Let's Encrypt forum. One of the most common reasons that people are failing to get their certificates is ... misconfigured IPv6 on their servers or in their DNS! And people in that situation often (1) didn't think of that as a possibility, (2) didn't notice (!!), (3) didn't necessarily care about it. Even worse, when people are told something like "your certificate issuance isn't working because your AAAA record is pointing at your old hosting provider rather than your current hosting provider" their usual response is to delete the AAAA record rather than updating it.

Other forum members may also advocate this as a solution. "Oh, just delete your AAAA record, you don't need it."

I'm not making this up, I've seen these things happen about 100 times on the Let's Encrypt forum.

Now, these are primarily sites in the long tail of Internet popularity, the proverbial Joe's Lamp Store rather than Gmail or Facebook or something. But the level of IPv6 awareness and interest among small-scale site operators and people doing small-scale IT stuff is very weak. And I've also seen that a surprisingly high fraction of web sites are IPv4-only rather than dual-stack.

I'm working on 240/4 usability, but I certainly don't want people to delete their AAAA records. I want them to know what an AAAA record is, and want to have their AAAA records be correct.

But there's quite a gap, in a way, between the elite and the non-elite tech spaces on this.
it also has many terminals to choose from and dirvish which sits on top of dired is the best file editor I've used.
Notably other issues (from the publisher):

> pcTattletale is a discreet and powerful tool that records and shows you the online activities of your employees and children. (emphasis mine)

Work computers with work secrets and children's computers with children's data. 17,000,000,000,000 bytes of such data. Maybe 5,000,000 screens if it was "normal" cell images. (Based on say a 3 MB screen, which might be large. If it's all XGA, or SXGA, or something, it may be way more screens.)
I looked into this a few years ago. It cost more and took longer than if I just drove it. Not sure how that calculation would work out today, though.
It's indeed puzzling how a museum's collection can go un-cataloged for decades...
This won't end until the boomers cash out their home equity. It's political suicide to do anything threatening that.
very true.

But with Nix!...Now you have two problems.
If you just need compute then big cloud doesn't really make sense. You're paying a huge premium for the lego block like ecosystem
Every time I hear someone predict the next housing crash I always ask them if they have looked at Canada and Australia. Seems to get more and more absurd but it keeps on trucking along.
Rents have been climbing for the same steady rate they have for years now. Shrinking supply meets increasing demand.

Nothing about that has changed recently.

The recent reforms did swap out some landlords for homeowners. It didnt undo the war on affordable housing it just prevented landlords from profiting as much from it.

Which is a good thing, even if some media outlets owned by landlords do like to pretend that euthanizing the buy to let landlord is bad renters.
its knowledge storage. for me works wonderfully well :) I have lots of papers, cards, letters, brochures.. I just want to take a picture and be done with it, but being sure I can recall it later when I need to. Why would I want to use different apps if the use-case is the same? store and recall.
The individual States have the power to do this, you don't need to get the Federal government involved (nor would you want to). It is also much simpler at the State level, since the solutions can be tailored to local conditions and you don't need to get nearly as many people living far away to agree with you to get anything done.

Without demonstrating success at the much more achievable State level, there is no way it will work at the Federal level, even ignoring the obvious Constitutional issue.
The BC government has been relatively successful at this. Housing prices in Vancouver used to be ~2X those of Toronto; now Toronto is more expensive than Vancouver.

The Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force released a list of 55 things to do to reduce housing prices. BC has implemented a far larger share of that 55 than Ontario has.

> In my opinion, the federal government should be designing simplified building and zoning guidelines and offering unprecedented grants (on the order of tens of billions) to provinces in a first come first serve manner. Have provinces compete on urgency to receive the most funds, tapering off the offer the longer provinces hold out.

That's basically what they're doing. They can't change zoning without changing the constitution, but they are giving out tens of billions of dollars conditional on appropriate zoning changes. BC has received lots of money that way, Toronto has bypassed the province to get theirs and Alberta has made it illegal for Calgary & Edmonton to access theirs.
His username seems fitting.
Seems more like the sort of thing someone at 4chan or similar would do, just because they could. For shits and giggles.
Yes, it would be a paid role. But I also don't necessarily want my job to be in jeopardy if my boss has a bad breakup.
Don't completely disagree with the general trend of what the article is predicting, since it really is a logistical nightmare to provide water to nearly 23 million people in a fairly dry valley metropolis filled with under-maintained infrastructure.

However, I think they overstate the real risk of the city either running out of water or not having rain before the month has gone by (forecasts are predicting a massive rainfall and storms in the next couple weeks for the central region of this country).

Also, maybe this was my biggest nitpick as someone who's been living here for many, many years: "Mexico City could run out of drinking water"

Next to nobody, not even the very poor, actually drinks any of the municipal water. The bottled water industry in Mexico is fantastically extensive, innovative and manages to deliver its product to nearly every corner as far as I've ever seen. Even to the most isolated villages, and yes, the vast majority of people use that water for their actual drinking.

Yes, you could argue that the municipal water of the capital district and its surroundings is what gets purified and bottled, and you'd be right, but only partly. The companies providing it are remarkably good at rerouting to new supply sources if local water dries up in any one region. I've seen them do it time and again.
I think realigning expectations ever so slightly can cure a lot of that. The cost of renting a gas car once a year or calling a taxi when you're stranded are comparatively tiny compared to retaining full-time ICEs just in case. I'm a city person so my default is no car and rent/taxi when I need one. My automotive expenditures per month probably nets out around $50 or so and I can handle any exigency.
Is 30W enough for a stadium audience?