skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suggestions:

1. If you sell dev tools or sell to startups, YC gives you a great captive market in your peer group. They are also highly motivated to make "you scratch my back, I scratch yours deals."

2. If you have no connections to VC or a spotty resume, but your team is highly motivated, YC gives you those connections and overcomes the resume.

3. If you don't care that much about your success in this particular company but want to be a serial founder, being ex-YC is good.

4. If you are not self-motivated, it may be your only hope of developing the habits you need.

Otherwise, ~10% for $500k is probably a bad deal, especially for an AI company or a company with any traction at all.

Applied late once to YC with an idea (not a great one) and got rejected, probably because of solo founding.
Actually due to a confluence of events the place we chose was the best deal we found. The decision was based on cost (not trendiness)

Regarding schools, school catchment is based on an esoteric lottery system loosely related to the area you place you live. If you have money, there are ways to game the system but otherwise it’s a low probability roll of the dice that you get a good school. Also, I didn’t have money

Also, Day cares generally have a waitlist that starts before children are born.

It’s interesting you feel you can judge the type of person I am almost no information. The internet makes everyone overfit their priors.
> Hasina is the worse dictator Bangladesh has ever seen!

It depends on what your criteria for "worse dictator" is.

Compare a secular dictator who kills many political opponents, but leaves those who don't oppose them politically free to live their lives mostly in peace, to a religious dictator who kills significantly less people, but tries hard to force everyone to follow strict religious law. Some people will say the religious one is worst than the secular one, despite having killed more people.

Or compare a dictator who kills many political opponents, but is tolerant of ethnic and religious minorities so long as they don't politically oppose the regime, to a dictator who kills fewer people overall, but subjects ethnic and religious minorities to harsh (but mostly non-lethal) oppression.

It reminds me of the debate over Bashar al-Assad.

I'd rather be ruled by Sheikh Hasina than Ali Khamenei, even if it somehow turned out that she killed more people than he has.
TigerVNC x0vncserver[0] is just one option for ezpz sharing your existing X session.

Couple it with novnc if you want it in the web browser. Currently WebSockets but WebCodecs support looks to be around the corner[1].

> Terrible product design.

Which "product" are you even talking about here? VNC is a protocol with several different implementations.

[0]: https://tigervnc.org/doc/x0vncserver.html

[1]: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/pull/1876
That's more adventurous than all the Excel projects I've been given. Many of the most satisfying solutions are the most simple that nobody's implemented yet.

Like, at a job where all the lead devs and, apparently, the whole internet agreed that you can't do proper source control for Excel because you can't export-and-import code for all modules (including sheets & ThisWorkbook) without copy-paste and because a running module can't replace itself. The solution ending up so simple, that I was embarrassed to hear it called "a stroke of genius". I still have that code somewhere.
> and then inventing a braindead delayed loading mechanism. That required adding custom ELF sections.

What are you talking about???

dlopen is hardly a new "delayed loading mechanism" and having a custom ELF section where the dlopen'd libraries are listed is just a positive thing for package managers, so that it can be automatically detected during build just like used SO files (for writing the build metadata files).
It's a distillation of site-wide sentiment exemplified by your comment in one particular dimension.
Might be this? https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog... Found it in the first page of results for "evolution of google search ads display"
It seemed like a good response to me.
Nice! But obligatory calling it Primavera all the time, no cheating!
This is awesome - and you've got some great advice.

The following was just inspired by the idea of yours "1fps screen sharing":

If you do 1FPS screen sharing - then create a private gallery on imgur.com - and have a thing update screenshots in a single gallery with a garbage collecting thread deleting a screenshot every 30 seconds/interval...

then have user have hidden gallery url and auto refresh browser tab.

This might work well actually if you have a small data connector and a device that can upload like only when event occurs.

Just upload that to replace the file in the imgur gallery - and you have a free cloud cam.
This was discussed 14 hours ago although the link is from The Register. Related but not identical :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41169195
I'm sure he meant the early 1900s. I've usually heard these called "streetcar suburbs" for obvious reasons. They tend to have a good mix of urban and suburban vibes. Unlike the car-focused developments after the war, these neighborhoods are super walkable with local retail or other spots just a stroll away, or a short streetcar hop. The design is all about pedestrians, with narrow streets, plenty of sidewalks, and often tree-lined avenues. The houses, seem to have been more often built by skilled craftsmen, and have unique architectural details, unlike the cookie-cutter homes you see in later post-war suburbs.
If you're unhappy about people using your work without compensating you or contributing back, don't release your work as free software. You can't have your cake and eat it too...
its not the workers and wealth creators people worry about, rather, its executive leadership and its ability to stand up to investors. Take xbox, phil spencer, gamepass etc. Look at the direction phil was taking things, the direction he wanted to keep taking things, but then compare against the direction it ended up having to take because of investors.

of course the workers are pro opensource etc. Their income is totally divorced from company profit, but through opensource they can at least build a public image that improves employability in a landscape of zero-trust relationships with your employer.
The big thing I was wondering is what their coverage analysis is like. I can see a developer missing this in a hurry, but where’s the review or second-order analysis? Tons of projects with far less importance monitor branch coverage, use fuzz testing and path analysis tools, etc. and while it’s not trivial to test a kernel driver it’s not _that_ hard, especially when you have the resources of a company valued in the tens of billions which allegedly specializes in exactly this kind of work.

The thing I’ve been thinking about are all of the assurances they made about SDLC, testing, secure development practices, etc. They have so many huge customers in regulated industries, government, etc. that they completed almost every certification in existence and seeing this really raises questions about how those assertions were reviewed.
Paradise Lost, Gravity's Rainbow, Middlemarch, and 2666.

edit: The short stories which have stuck with me the most over the years are probably Joyce's "The Dead," O'Connor's "Good Country People," and a solid half of Borges's "Ficciones."
> I'm no economist, but inflation should reflect an increse in growth and productivity.

An increase in growth and productivity should reflect deflation: more goods and services with the same amount of currency. Absent intervention, inflation simply does not happen as a long-term secular trend in a growing economy.

As mentioned in another thread, pre-modern US had growth rates higher than the modern US (~4%) with an immaterially changed CPI over a ~130 year period. This was with two punctuated sessions of central banks and wars which issued debt notes (currency).

In addition: it should be noted that Japan has had a deflationary currency for 30 years and is an economic dynamo. The only problematic aspect of that—which can be seen in the BOJ's recent ill-fated attempt to increase the interest rate—is it makes government debt (and all debt) harder to pay back. However the point remains: deflation has had an immaterial effect on standard of living.
I can't stand when buttons are mapped to physically clicking the analogue sticks down. Trying to press the button always messed up the direction I'm trying to hold on the stick. It's terrible design, akin to putting the safety switch of a pistol inside the trigger so that you have to squeeze the trigger part-way to engage the safety.

Input elements should be single purpose and simple, accurate, reliable, and tactile. Clickable analogue sticks (along with a clickable mouse wheel on a mouse) are none of these.
Every lawyer licensed by a bar association is a court officer.
> This is a very common active Bitcoin "investment" scam today.

Are you saying that now that BlackRock's CEO is endorsing it, El Savlador's president is buying it as reserve for the country and Trump promising to use Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, it could go 260x and that, hence, if we get such a scammy phone call we should hung up and open an account on Coinbase (a HN unicorn btw) to buy Bitcoins?
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is a publically traded company. They have to maximize profit for their shareholders. But a company does not have to be public. It can be owned by one person (having all shares), family owned, or owned by people with similar values. I'm not saying this is always the easiest route, but it's certainly the way for any entrepenour who doesn't want to sell his morals.
Apple puts "do not hallucinate" into prompts, it works
I don't always want to move quickly (and I don't mean because of in-game stealth or something). Sometimes I would like to slow down either to appreciate scenery, engage in role playing, enhance immersion, etc.

For example entering a new area in Elden Ring, I rarely wanted to just gallop in but instead would prefer slowly walking and looking around as I go, taking my time.

I do agree in most cases it's good to be able to pick the default though.

What I'd really enjoy would be movement speed being a configuration setting I can adjust dynamically in real time with a small slider or touch interface (think AirPods Pro volume adjustment via the stem) on the back of the controller.
Have the companies operating those constellations pay towards orbital observatories and science profits too.
> The only truly immune people are those that don't understand the language and/or have no money.

I have to disagree on that point. I have a no soliciting sign. It is an IQ test - I don't do business with people who can't or won't read the sign. I used to work in sales and had to deal with rejection enough that I have absolutely no problem asking people if they can read the sign and closing the door in their face if they start to argue that what they are doing isn't "soliciting" for some technical reason.
That's why I use the French term "fin-de-siècle" which is well understood by educated English speakers and yet always refers to the end of the 19th century without additional qualifications.
Lottery plus Insider Connections.

Maybe 2% actual proper evaluation?
Soyuz doesn’t look like it came from a movie and can’t fly like a plane to touch down on a runway.
Like most things, you probably shouldn't take it as a hard rule that unconditionally applies to all scenarios and can never be strayed from.
Acutely feeling the pain that the product purports to solve.
I've polled my friends about this, and our group is a about 50/50. Some of us when looking at comments never read the usernames, we just completely skip over it. And some alway do - the next is right there of course you'd read it!

It seems like an interesting dichotomy - I didn't see any obvious correlation between other traits in my informal survey but I am very curious to see if there is some set of personality traits that correlates with reading vs ignoring user names.
Just upgraded an old system to solr 9. I've been very impressed with it.
Not exactly an advantage to pay a fee to a middleman. It's more like frictionless communication should be the default, and we had a period where friction accidentally acted as signal
In general if you mess up your EFI you have to find some magic ( some install wizards will offer to repair your install or upgrade the OS).

To my knowledge there's no way to ever get Linux Mint / Ubuntu to work my computer. Something is bonked and I lack the knowledge to figure this out.

It's worth remembering when things go wrong, they go Wrong is a capital W. Normal people probably don't want to deal with this, which ultimately limits Linux adoption.

I even had the thought last night " If I just take this back and buy a MacBook everything will be easier." Half the promise of a Mac is someone else has already figured it out, and if things do get weird you can go to the Apple store.

I have unique needs though, I require a 4TB SSD for music, games, photos and LLM weights. When the 8TB drives come down in price I'll upgrade to that.

I'm at 1200$ for the laptop and 200$ for the 4TB SSD vs 3200$ for the cheapest MacBook with 4TB.

We do need to admit we're a very small niche. I definitely love Linux when I don't want to deal with liposuction gossip in my taskbar.
It’s not so bad when there’s at least sprint toggling (often an option in gameplay settings). Having to hold it down continuously can be a bit much, especially in games where you basically want to sprint 90%+ of the time.
The one thing that stood out to me is the rather extensive nesting of if-else.

I know this is go code, but there's multiple places that go five branches deep, at least.

It works but it's a style that takes a lot of effort to grow what's happening IMHO.
A few weeks ago, Mezameshi 8 (morning news that my wife watches) was fixated on foreign tourists for days and days. Sure, tourists can be bothersome but they’ve been making mountains of molehills. The rideable electric suitcase was one of those issues. I actually laughed out loud as I watched it.

Edit: Also I now remember laughing as the panels started gasping at tourists jaywalking which I regularly see where I live.
AFAIU there's a long-standing practice of hiring fake patrons, often attractive women, to promote alcohol brands, bars, or nightclubs.

Then there's the history of claquers:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claque>

All that's old is new again / Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Are you referring to the macOS client app? It's built in Swift with an FFI bridge to the Rust-powered connectivity layer. Source is here: https://github.com/firezone/firezone/tree/main/swift/apple
It feels good as a consumer to finally see companies face stock price consequences for tanking quality while jacking up prices. Though its a wildly different market the same is happening for Starbucks and McDonalds.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 20 times, shame on you. I’m gonna hold and sell some calls.
I used live in the Tenderloin and work in the Twitter building. My walk to work required me to be mindful of both stationary and recently minted poop in transit. This was in 2019.
The areas where these would be used are super crowded, it is likely that the riders are constantly bumping into people.
Cloudflare tunnels is a nightmare to work with. I had the famous experience of "it worked fine at my home, I don't know why it's not working in the lab" and couldn't ever resolve the problem, running on Ubuntu. As of March 2024, Cloudflare tunnels was very, very unrefined (on Ubuntu). QUIC doesn't work and you have to read through forums to find how to change protocol to http2. The logs are insufficient to pinpoint issues. Remote administration workflow seems broken. I should also mention that I used my own domain, not the free one, and used Cloudflare for dns.

I am very interested in Tailscale SSH as an alternative to CloudflareTunnel + SSH. If anyone has experiences with Tailscale SSH, please share (https://tailscale.com/tailscale-ssh)
But there must be many more of the one than the other, since one has to satisfy a constraint and the other does not.
First 18650 Potassium Battery
“The new cells operate at 3.7 volts and are reported to have exceeded performance expectations, demonstrating "a practical path to achieve a gravimetric energy density of 160-180 Wh/kg." Though this is up there with typical LFP packs currently in the wild, it still lags behind the next-gen CATL Shenxing Plus batteries – which top out at 205 Wh/kg. In a straight performance shootout, it's even farther behind the lithium batteries in the lab as well as 4680 cells found in Tesla's electric vehicles, for example.”

So not there yet energy density wise, but a real product for once!
I’m looking at your website, where did you get this idea? It’s kind of genius:

> If you're reading this fine print, this is a message from the Universe: take a subscription now! Your life will be immediately happier, people will high-five you in the street, you'll be rich and your videos will be famous worldwide. Or, failing any of that, at least you'll have great professional content. And that's important.
I used to use Airbnb all the time but a single experience dealing with their customer service and a bad host was enough for me to never use them again. The lows of using Airbnb are 100x lower than the lows of hotels, and the highs are higher but not nearly enough to justify the risk.
Slack and chatgpt behaviors here are regular reminders to me of "using tech still sucks for the [non-nerds]". I'm pretty resilient to these whoopsies and just live with it...

Teams does the discord thing mentioned in another comment, helpfully! But I swear getting into code/format blocks in Teams only works sometimes (phase of the moon?)

My company's internal GPT changes the ChatGPT enter behavior, which I definitely appreciated the forethought of.
There is a huge price:cost disconnect in the SSD and HDD market, and always has been.

The floor price for 2TB SSD is basically stuck on USD100.00 for reputable brands. Less reputable brands are significantly cheaper but the good ones are self-policing around the floor price.

People like Tom's Hardware say "oh its the NAND shortage" but thats bullshit. It's the last vestige of not-really-illegal collusive pricing behaviour by a bunch of highly profitable manufacturers.

Demand (price) is driving this. Cost has nothing to do with it. "it's the market" is true, because if somebody dropped the floor to USD80 or USD70 I am willing to bet they'd make a killing for a very short while until the others come on board but while they can make book on $100 they're not going lower.

the other SSD sources are very dodgy. There's a lot of risk in going for the super cheap brands right now, you only have to read the reviews to see they come up far more often in post-purchase failure and inevitably problems with replacement. Not to say the majors never fail, but nobody much complains about their RMA on the failure.

Pricing of 2.5" HDD are now predominantly driven by SMR or not SMR as far as I can see it. Shucking is no longer much use to anyone. I expect some of the shuckable drives to migrate slowly to SSD and not bother saying so except indirectly "shockproof" or somesuch. It would actually be better for them not to admit they used SSD, than have to break the de-facto price barriers here.

If you want 4TB or higher, you are paying a premium, its more than 2x the cost of 2TB. The unit price of a 1TB does seem a bit more malleable and the sub TB units are now cheap as .. chips. You burn PCI lines or USB ports to glue these into RAID structures. Nice if you have the slots. Highly reliable with all those discrete media units but you need loads of them to get back to the 5-10TB scale effective filestore size. DO NOT USE USB MEDIA IN RAID IF YOU CAN AFFORD NOT TO

(I don't think M.2 or SATA 2.5" FF has much to do with this)
Vestigial pedals, LOL. Many deliveristas in NYC are seemingly competent riders. I noticed that an increasing number of them have bright red and blue blinking lights the exact color of police car emergency lights. That is distracting and bothers me more than a lot of their riding.
The Sense of Being Stared At
what kind of rocks are keto?
I mean this depends on what specifically you’re optimizing for.

A child in the suburb will need a chauffeur to get anywhere outside their immediate subdivision, and sometimes within it. Children are perfectly capable of taking public transit and using their two feet, though.
That seems like both a generational and cultural thing, vs a urban/sub-urban consideration. Prior generations in the US had kids just hangout with whomever in the neighborhood be it urban or sub-urban too. Playdates are probably just as common in urban areas now, the cultural change wasn't specific to the built-environment.
If you read any shaving related Reddit forum you'll end up thinking that cartridge razors are marketing scams that dupe the uninformed and most people are actually just shaving with double-edge razors. In reality millions of people who don't actually care much for the act of grooming other than to hit aesthetic goals will use a cartridge razor because it does a good enough job. You'll find many, many more enthusiastic posts from the former double-edged shaving enthusiasts than the latter cartridge-using realists.

You're seeing the same thing with Soylent. My friends who didn't enjoy cooking much before Soylent just had lots of protein bars, TV dinners, and takeout. Now they do the same thing but also drink lots of Soylent. The meal replacement maximalists are loud online because that's the only space they can create consensus in. It's the same reason most loud, minority opinions are overrepresented online.
> Surely it is good practise to always try to offer comfort and support, and to listen, no matter who you are talking to

That would be ideal if everyone had unlimited emotional reserves. Often though, those who are closer to the center have fewer reserves left over. If they were supporting those closer and those farther out they would be exhausted and no longer to support those closer to the center.
Imagine they had to work on a field or something,
Minimizing both is fine. But not minimizing the one that actually measures how likely you are to be a victim of a crime is … weird.
I'm young, like cities, but dislike SF.

The main reasons are

- crime -- SF isn't like Asian cities where I can walk around safely at night

- lack of public transit AND lack of parking (either convenient parking OR good transit would be fine, but SF has neither)

- rents are unaffordably high and I need a lot of space for projects

- not clean

- Asian food is mediocre compared to suburbs like Cupertino and Fremont

I love cities like Singapore, Stockholm, Taipei, and Chengdu, though. These cities have everything I like about cities. Good transit, cleanliness, safety, and good food (by my standards) everywhere.
This looked very promising.

Although, it's now prompting me to make an account when I issue `plandex new`?

None of the video demos show this requirement.

I think the demos should show this requirement. Or the Quickstart docs should directly link to the self-hosted instructions.

"? Hey there!
It looks like this is your first time using Plandex on this computer.

What would you like to do?

> Start an anonymous trial on Plandex Cloud (no email required)

Sign in, accept an invite, or create an account"****
“ If you're a Twitter diehard who's not willing to swap to X, it might be finally time to ditch X for Mastadon or Threads. On your way out, don't forget to delete your X account.”
journalists are so biased against X