skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The issue isn't that PearAI did something illegal—it's that they got funded by YC with nothing more than a codebase copied from another YC-backed company. This shows that (1) YC is willing to fund just about anything, (2) they’re not doing any real due diligence, and (3) they don't particularly care about their existing portfolio companies."

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding on how YC functions. YCombinator was never a test of how good (or unique) your code was. At its core it was a filter of people, people who can work well together and people who can build something useful. That's it. You can read more about this straight from one of the founders [1]. The fact that you used open-source code (within legal bounds) to get their quicker just shows your resourcefulness, something YC actually optimizes for.

More often than not, "good people" tend to be domain experts sometimes really good and unique coders but that, to me, was always a byproduct of the search pattern.

You can obviously disagree with this methodology, but it has worked pretty well.

[1]: https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i...
Yes, exactly. People won’t trade their QoL today for a better future for the planet. At some point that will have to be done by force rather than choice. So yes, you’d better hope the magic policy that both A) Works and B) improves QOL today is found.

Although to be honest, this point won’t come until everyone alive today is probably long dead so it doesn’t matter that much.
Every once in a while I go down this bookmark rabbit hole. Tags is the correct solution (for all the reasons your mentioned). I hate the standard folder / tree based bookmark system that browsers and most 3rd party bookmark managers use. Firefox supports tags, but Firefox Mobile doesn't. Raindrop is clunky as hell. And...for along time, that was it.

Luckily, a few years ago I discovered xBrowserSync, which turned out to be exactly what I'd been looking for. It's a stupidly simple tag only based system that syncs across devices. The browser extension makes bookmarking easy. Your data is locally encrypted then synced. It has a phone app. It's open source. And I can self host a server if I want to. There is no "organizing" or sorting of anything. Bookmarks live almost ethereally in the plugin (tho they actually live in your browser's built-in bookmark manager too...but we never need to visit that place).

My only concern is that it hasn't been updated in forever (not that it's ever been broken for me). But I fear the day it does break and wonder if anyone will be around to fix it.

Someone in the comments below mentioned Linkding, which looks like it could work (if the browser extension or bookmarklet turn out to be mobile friendly). I'm definitely going to give that a run and see how it fits. Anyways, enough shilling for xBS (I swear I'm not affiliated with them). Good luck in your search.
The language one is quite insightful!
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I believe it’s because macOS uses a worse audio codec: https://gist.github.com/dvf/3771e58085568559c429d05ccc339219
It could just be fertilizer, but Russian sailors are known to be reckless and often dangerously incompetent. Given that Russia's national interests are served by an explosion regardless of cause, it's just not safe to let them anywhere near shore.
True, but I think it’s possibly exaggerated (if that were possible).

A. Slaves were generally expensive. The rich could afford to do whatever they wanted - for most though, severe mistreatment was a serious waste of money. It’s not in your best interest to kill a $40K girl for fun.

B. For most slaves, it was farm labor. In which case, there would absolutely be a few horrible traumatic events, but the day-to-day was less traumatic and consistent. See note about severe mistreatment being bad business.

I am not in any way intending to defend slavery.

I am daring to suggest that life for the lowest classes in the US (many of whom are doing low wage farm labor) right now isn't as much of an improvement as we would like to believe.
I don’t know if zig is going to become mainstream, but comptime is such a brilliant yet simple idea (the best ones) that it’s already written its name in the hallmark of programming languages.
Hey Guy, i built a website/domain security scanner tool. SSl/TSL, WAF detection, Secure Cookies, HSTS, DKIM/DMARC, DNSEC, etc..

I think the security score are gimicky (ignore that i have a header score I will be removing that).

You can just use it as a one-off tool to scan/check, you can schedule scans, get notified of changes (unexpected or expected), show proof of remediation, auto JIRA issue creation (with PDF attaching).

Thoughts? I would love some comments/usage/feedback.
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My wife's is in SOS mode here in Michigan. She can't even make calls over Wifi with the wifi calling feature enabled.

I'm on AT&T which is fortunately up and working - but it sucks so bad at a baseline level that it might as well be having an outage too lol.
If why means because there is a real randomness: we have free will. If its just because of current complexlity, we don't have free will.

It also implies that we might life this life over and over forever.
Thanks :) if you have the time, I’d sincerely appreciate feedback on it and especially on its docs/readme, even a simple github issue for “this is confusing” or “this typo is weird” would be really helpful.
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Not only that...but Firefox Mobile doesn't support tags either!
Not to mention the hereditary nature of American slavery that ensured your grandchildren would be slaves the moment you were even born, and the erasure of your history and culture to further untether you from anything but the utility of your labor.
Part of the earlier appeal of YC was that it was a batch of approval that, at least imo, was a strong signal to VCs to take a good look at the company and more-likely-than-not invest in.

With larger batches and more lax selection that signal is so weak that YC comapnies are mostly like other companies with some traction.
This is a very common error people make when considering "free will". They mix in "predictability" to the concept. But predictability is not "free will".

If I give you a choice between a million dollars or a painful lingering tortuous death, you will with for-the-sake-of-argument 100% choose the million dollars, of your own free will. It is no less what you will for the fact that anybody can predict it; it is certainly what you will. Will you deny that is what you will?

Predictability also brings in a lot of contingency that people do not generally realize they are bringing in. If the universe is entirely material and there is no external reality, then good news! Your actions are already unpredictable. No conceivable machine built within the real physical universe could possibly fully predict your actions; you can prove this with some information theory considerations (the amount of information your actions leak about your internal state is not sufficient to nail down that internal state fully). So you have free will! Yet... if the universe is entirely material and there is no external reality, the universe may still be fully deterministic. Contrary to somewhat popular opinion, quantum mechanics is not intrinsically nondeterministic. It means you can't determine the outcome of certain events with any process we know from the inside, but the entire universe can absolutely have some sort of PRNG or something to determine everything that is going on and it could all be deterministic in ways that still work for QM. In which case, oops, no free will for you. So by this definition, the question is unanswerable from the inside.

Unpredictability is not free will either. If by some amazing, but physically possible, set of circumstances, the decision about whether to turn left or right came down to one 50/50 outcome decided by a quantum waveform collapse, that still doesn't give you "free will" about the outcome. You don't get to pick the outcome. It was undecided and unpredictable, but it wasn't decided by your "will" either.

If you're still not having enough fun yet, suppose "quantum" does "solve" free will. Which quantum outcomes make the difference? Suppose I build a perfectly-feasible quantum device[1] to flip a random coin, quantumly. Compare to a supposed quantum decision made "in" my "brain". How exactly is it that the latter is my "quantum free will" whereas the former is just a random decision made out in the universe?

Just labeling a process "quantum" doesn't do anything. It's just wordplay in the end, substituting one undefinable term for another and calling it progress. There's still a crapton of work to show that the "quantum" provides the mechanism for "something else" to meaningfully interact with the world[2]. My "will" is not "randomness". And boy-oh-boy is that "something else" a can of worms of its own.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIGnATzBTg

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079700
It's used as an attack, so both.
How about starting with a decent objective definition?

So far, there doesn't seem to be any good definitions that include humans, don't include ChatGPT, and offer clear boundaries on which animals, insects, and bacteria experience "consciousness".
That's awesome. Do you have tons of fruit trees around in general? If not, do you think your idyllic situation is possibly because your trees are not listed on a map?

Do you think a person who really needs to eat right now and the only option is picked fruit can also be the person who has access to a website with fruit tree map and a car to get there?
It's a bit like asking what the Netherlands did after Russia shot down their civilian plane. Well, at that time they couldn't do much, but a few years later they are doing more than enough.
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VC firms are betting on the people. Most early startups are still looking for their market fit. The VC firm is betting that the people are able to identify that market which they'll be able to scale.
Could you quantify "quite popular"?

I never heard of anyone doing that in my own circles, but know of such youtube vlog families, which makes me think it's probably around one in a hundred thousand (that would mean thousands of people from the USA or around a thousand in Germany, which would be like two orders of magnitude above how many people are successful doing it, which sounds about right)
Decline is unavoidable, just a question of when and how quickly. Isn't it better to be at peace with it, as in broader sense also with aging in general?

There are sports where pleasure can be easily experienced, coupled with other intense positive emotions. Rock climbing does it for me (it works with something in our monkey brain and it works very well), some more adrenaline sports get you there too.

But its perfectly fine to not even seek pleasure, that's one way to sustain efforts for long since health benefits especially for white collar workers are massive.
HN is rife with these adds masquerading as legit hiring posts. One company was “hiring their 3rd engineer” for years.
So my problem with MSFT's big plan is that I simply don't know it.

I do know the price I'm paying for using Emacs and Vim. Even though (in theory) they are completely free, in reality there's a price there. Vim and Emacs require time, patience, and dedication, just like any other tools. I know who gains from my choice - myself, the community, and the industry.

I knew exactly how JetBrains profited from my choice of using IntelliJ in the past - I paid for the license and renewed it every year.

But what's MSFT's scheme here? They're giving me this beautiful, nice tool completely for "free"? What price will I have to pay for that choice in the future?

I'm sorry, but I think every dev should remain at least a bit skeptical, do you truly believe that Microsoft, a colossal corporation with a market capitalization comparable to the GDP of Germany, spends an enormous amount of resources to build "a free" code editor, because... I dunno, they love you or something?
This has been one of my fixations. That it‘s still an issue 20 years after Bluetooth audio has become a thing and 10 since telephony has become good quality is crazy to me.

It has been a few years since LE Audio has standardized and a lot of digging has led me to the conclusion that it should support decent audio with multiple channels (as it‘s not artificially limited like the Hands Free Profile). I‘d have expected Apple to jump on this to finally solve this stupid issue once and for all, but … nope.

I just want to listen to music while on a phone call. It’s not that crazy.
There is a part in the Netflix culture doc where it talks about how sometimes people do bad things, and Netflix tries to not overcorrect by implementing burdensome policies on the company as a knee-jerk reaction to a single bad actor.

The conclusion (YC's brand has been tarnished because of the lower quality companies in their larger batches who do bad things) doesn't follow from the evidence of this ONE company doing something that people could view as a low integrity move.

This exact situation could have occurred even if they kept their acceptance rates, and cohorts, incredibly small. There can always be bad actors (not saying this company is a bad actor though). I think you wanted to share your conclusion, even if the available evidence didn't necessarily support your claim.
Yes, I understand there is a huge difference of the degree to which this applies to the language. I was just pointing out that none of these things should be alien to an English speaker, and even a linguist who only knew English would have had similar struggles to define "word" because of these problems (though of course they could have decided to file them under "exceptions", which doesn't work for Chinese).
Medieval fair weapons still tend to be heavier than historical weapons because they (at least most of the ones that are handed to the public) are blunt.
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> Even dumb Shahed drones are assembled with American FPGAs and other microcontrollers.

Imagine not using cheap commodity chips that are easily available.

>If you are talking about Kinzhal then it is hypersonic in the same way ATACMS is hypersonic.

Look up Zircon and Avangard.

>How ironic to read this just a few weeks after the "Goodwin" and "Ernest" scandal. What does your metodichka say about them?

How many Ukrainian scandals should I mention? No one is saying that the Russian military is perfect, but taking this example as a way to show that Russia is utilizing human wave attacks is stupid at best.
There is also a self hosted solution called Wallabag https://wallabag.org/

Same concept its about archiving rather than just the link, given how quickly links often die its often what you want depending on why you bookmarked it.
A prompt including a long list of specific flaws to look for would make it even more interesting.
Where? I'm in the UK. One of my network switches has 595 days of uptime so I haven't had power issues in at least that long, but it seems like more than 3 years since the last disruption when something blew at the substation round the corner and was fixed within minutes.
And Texas, which 10 million fewer people is the eighth largest economy in the world, and growing at more than double the speed of Californias. This accomplishment (which is something to be proud of) is not unique to California.
Why wouldn't you use the magic .zfs directory on FreeBSD as well? Are the instructions assuming an older version?
Is there a tracker or all YC companies and their outcomes?
Not too bad - $3k.
Show HN: YRedesign for Hacker News (Mobile iOS Safari Extension)
I wanted a better looking and better functioning mobile experience for Hacker News, so I created my own.

The two main improvements are:
1) Larger touch targets for minimizing comments (faster reading)
2) Dark mode (automatic)

I'm an app developer expanding to iOS, so I also built this in order to test using App Store Connect. The name is a play on Y Combinator and also doubles as a joke about some people's opinions regarding redesigns. I figured that since I use this every day, someone else might find it useful! Open to feedback in the comments and I'll naturally be building this out as I use it daily.
I heard some not so great things about the CEO of that company on Reddit. Now sure how true it was but I recall it putting me off the product at the time, considering the sensitivity of the data they would have on me and my company. Reputation matters in this space and his seemed questionable.
1. How many people have a VoIP solution on their phones to use over WiFi in a case like this?

2. What is the percentage of homes with twisted pair landlines down to these days?
A website that sorts the recent Peloton bike rides by difficulty.
https://pelohard.com/

I love my Peloton and it was really annoying finding a ride with a difficulty over a certain threshold that was recent. I'm an embedded developer by day and did this with a lot of help from ChatGPT and Claude. Hoping to add some more features to it as time goes on.
They are producing them en masse. Just look at how many ballistic missiles and drones they are using.
Glenjamin gave a great answer. I’ll just add that in my experience (being responsible for the team’s database, at a few companies over the years), down migrations are NEVER helpful when a migration goes wrong. Roll-forward is the only correct model. Besides, there are plenty of migrations that cant be safely rolled back, so most “down migrations” either destroy data or don’t work (or both.)
it doesn't explain the findings very well. What exactly is it, how to configure it etc.
Part of the problem is the transit activist's obsession with public transit instead of just transit. At this rate, Brightline will likely have an HSR in California before the government does. We need to make private transit great again, and California should lead the way. Transit is transit, whether it's funded by government or private interests.
BIg swords weren't made to cut down an enemy in half. They were made to bring down a knight riding a horse.

You didn't club it, but bashed it down with a swing.

Also, the Middle Ages weren't as dirty as you think, the British wrote a Black Legend about them. The 20th century movies didn't help neither.
I'm not talking about Monty Python, but the supossedly serious dramas set on that era.

For instance, I'm pretty sure the 13-14th centuries were completely different to the 8th or 9th ones in technology, development and culture.

This thinking school was almost in the Enlightenment era, but we can perfectly place it at the end of the Middle Ages as the kickstart of the modern rights born in the Enlightenment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Salamanca

And, of course, before these there were the Italians and the Humanist movement.
I'm with you, I thought neurodivergent included any folks whose brain chemistry was different than the 'regular' baseline. Bipolar, schizophrenic, etc.
How does it survive SanFran's infamous sea fog that rolls in from time to time?
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So it was prestigious, but it wasn't seen as a profitable investment before it made its first dollar.
> The only thing YC has to do is produce a portfolio of companies that looks good enough that other VCs invest into that.

This is completely incorrect. They need liquidity events. Simply getting to follow on funding without ever making it to an exit is a negative outcome for YC.
If you deploy on Vercel, the preview builds are automatic, and there is on-page commenting and discussions: https://vercel.com/docs/workflow-collaboration/comments

There are similar tools if you're not on Vercel, like https://usersnap.com/l/visual-feedback-tool

But beyond that, I don't think you should be having all the long discussions in the same place that you keep your tickets (let's say a kanban board). Have your discussions wherever you want, but keep them between the 2-3 people really involved. Then once they have an idea of what needs to change, THEN they can make a ticket for it with just some simple bullet points (linking back to the full discussion if they want).

Having everyone comment in the QA ticket directly mixes up discussion about the ticket itself and discussion about what to ticketize (which should've been done previously, outside the ticket). It's too much detail for the rest of the team to keep up with. They don't need the whole sordid history of how you got there, just what needs to be done.

In the teams I've been on, that previous discussion would happen all over the place... sometimes over Slack, sometimes over coffee at the coffee shop next door, sometimes in Figma/GDocs/Vercel comments, whatever. But once we come to an agreement, one of us writes the actual ticket without all the baggage, keeping it simple and clear.

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Edit: I think it really helps to have someone on the team who cares a lot about organization (and maybe even enjoys it). That could be anyone... a manager, project/product owner, one of the devs with a lighter workload, etc., just somebody who's OK going through the tickets once a week or so and making sure they have sufficient information for working on, and pinging the individual ticket creators for clarification if needed. The rest of the team doesn't need to get involved, but it helps make sure that the tickets are ready for work once you get to them. THAT's the sort of stuff that the comments in the actual ticket are good for (clarifications, not brainstorming).
They're probably asking themselves how Meta/Facebook is able to misappropriate "Open Source" to mean something completely different, and how they can do so themselves now while still showing "Microsoft <3 Open Source" ads.
Thanks for reading my blog post and thinking about it. I thought of cache as well, the 3 machines I'm running benchmarking on are all very different. The M2 Macbook has 128-byte cache lines, as opposed to the other 2 machines, which have 64-byte ache lines. The old Dell R530 has level 1 through 3 caches, the others have only levels 1 and 2. I'm still trying to understand CPU caching and see if I can correlate it to the performance drops somehow.

The linked list nodes are 16 bytes, and both 8-byte fields (.Next and .Data) get read and written during sorting. Up to a point, larger node sizes,which I would thing would change caching, don't change where the performance drops occur: https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-7/

Sorting an already sorted, or reverse sorted list, doesn't exhibit the performance drops either: https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-9/

A purely recursive mergesort doesn't show the performance drops: https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-3/
The Normans were pretty harsh in their treatment of rebellious areas - the "Harrying of the North" being particularly brutal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
You think the Republicans don't do similar things?

Republicans blazed a new trail in 2021, trying to actually change the outcome of an election in progress through force. This is not comparable to using legal processes. A better comparison might be the series of lawsuits the Republican Party attempted after force did not work. How many years until the guy who lost admitted that he lost? These actions strike at the very foundations of democracy. A non-trivial segment of citizens still think the election was somehow stolen from them, despite an utter lack of anything like evidence. We will be feeling reverberations from these actions for decades.
> I don’t see how any of the evidence martialed in this article proves the conclusion.

Agreed. Making this level clam requires a lot more evidence. It would have been better if the author presented this idea as something like 'YC better watch out, quality does matter' or something like that. Even then they would need to bring in more evidence and outside examples of industries where this trend took hold.