skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"100 AI assisted code editors" is not even an exaggeration.

I checked, and over 300 (of ~500) 2024 YC startups have some sort of AI tag. I'm quite curious how the current AI hype is gonna end...
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The problem is if you need medical care, there aren't great options in rural areas.

Source: the closest hospital to me is 30 minutes and it sucks out loud for anything but basic injuries.
Carbon tax has wide popular support across the globe.
I feel pleasure when running out in nature, just alone, for myself. Every now and then, I join a race - be it a marathon or some other distance - but running in a race is not as pleasant. It is a completely different kind of experience, different kind of fun.
> This decline will continue until cool, innovative companies no longer see any reason to apply.

I am the furthest thing from a business man / start-up news addict, but even I know that the point of starting a company is to make money (perhaps fulfilling a need or niche, sure) and "being cool" should have nothing to do with it. Hell, "cool" often doesn't really square with being "innovative" anyway.
Penrose is a scientist gone crackpot in the tradition of Josephson. His "I can do math because I am a thetan" shtick is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding of Godel since Godel's theorems don't apply to a piece of wetware which is by no means consistent or complete. (e.g. if he does math by being a thetan why can't he solve Collatz?)

Wolfram is something else. A New Kind of Science isn't really wrong yet it's not really right. It's sad to see him spend decades looking for more systems like Rule 30 and finding systems that are similar but not so simple, not so pretty, and he never gets an insight out of it that really applies to anything else. He's like a crackpot in that he works tirelessly on a research program that's unconnected to anything else anyone else is working on, however. Maybe that comes out of being rich and not having to apply for grants. On the other hand, there are major fields of physics, such as string theory, which very well be based on a delusion, yet in that case it is a shared delusion.

In the pandemic he went on a vainglorious and grandiose quest for a "theory of everything" yet he has the good judgement to base it on causal networks which I think is one of the best grounded approaches to quantum gravity (e.g. given two points in space-time aren't they spacelike or timelike or lightlike and in the last two cases isn't one of them in the future or past of the other?)
How does this compare to goravel?
“It takes two points to establish a line, and three for a curve.”
It’s true. With 40k applications and roughly only 100s accepted… they likely only chose pearai because of nepotism. It would be self sabotage if they regularly do this so likely only a few companies are selected this way with pearai being one.

The above is a very educated guess on pearai, but whether or not YC engages in nepotism or not is unmistakable to me. They do and there is real corruption in the selection process. It’s not just gross incompetence.

Not only is there actual evidence that can be sourced but I can offer anecdotal evidence from inside sources from within the family involved with a company that passed via nepotism.

the company is called dreamworld. See here: https://www.pcgamer.com/dreamworld-infinite-world-mmo-kickst...

There’s whole YouTube videos about them including a post from one of the founders ex girlfriend. It’s all very shady the articles around them.

I encountered this company by being close friends with someone that is within the family related to the founders of dreamworld. I was literally told that the company succeeded because of family connections from dreamworlds ceo:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrisonbellack

Garrison is the ceo of dreamworld. And he’s from a rich family headed by his dad:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-r-bellack

who is part of some super rich real estate fund.

The bellacks regularly have big family gatherings in Tahoe and one of the attendees is Geoff ralston the previous president of YC.

Source not only confirmed dreamworld got selected via favors from Geoff but that Geoff was telling stories at this family retreat about how he had to fire Sam Altman from YC after getting a call from Paul graham. Yes pg fired Sam Altman from YC.

Dreamworld as it is right now got additional seed funding from VCs via connections as well and they are sitting on a pot of assets which is generating net positive income while that company can just stay afloat indefinitely. They don’t go through the hardships and risks other startup do thanks to nepotism.

There are other people in the bellack family creating startups and looking to Geoff to funnel them through YC via nepotism so Geoff is primed to make it happen again for sure.

So yeah. I’m sure Geoff isn’t the only person from within YC who does that.

Hacker news is pretty pristine, but the fund itself does shady stuff.

At least I think hacker news is pristine. Let’s see what happens to my post and my account. Maybe the moderators will be more strict with me? And use that to ban me? I am a bit rough with my opinions. But who knows?
If that were all it is, I'd agree but you may have missed the constant stream of other radical changes over the years.
> True, but I think it’s possibly exaggerated (if that were possible).

There are documented examples, if you care to educate yourself.
And JSON, technically, allows use of unlimited-precision fractions, but also allows implementations to set arbitrary limits (it actually does, you're not required to parse JSON numbers as doubles). So the situation is not really different from CBOR, isn't it? Just™ make both sides to agree to stick to some common subset (e.g. integers-in-int64_t-range-only for some fields) and you're done; no need to support double-precision floating point numbers.
In just 2-3 years we've gone from primitive LLMs to LLMs reaching Graduate PhD-level knowledge and intelligence in multiple domains. LLMs can complete almost any code I write with high accuracy given sufficient context. I can have a naturalistic dialog with an LLM that goes on for hours in multiple languages. Frankly (and humblingly, and frighteningly) they have already surpassed my own knowledge and intelligence in many, probably most, domains. Obviously they aren't perfect and make a lot of errors - but so do most humans.
Those calling Intel a company in decline are missing the point
TBH I think the problem with Clippy was more a problem with its implementation than the core idea.

It just wasn't helpful and we lacked the tech at the time to really make it helpful. My impression was that it was basically a glorified AIM Chatbot with some hooks into Office to get some context.
> The successful distance runner is thus a paradox: a person blessed with godlike endurance and a baffling insensitivity to pain, who nonetheless, in a fundamental way, is just like us

I don't think it is a paradox. It is simply an example of how our minds and bodies can adapt and get better at a skill through months / years of training. It is amazing the the vast improvement that can occur over time.
this is really great: https://mastodon.social/@ianthehenry/113223607547344491

How did you do it? Whats the shading factor?
You would need someone who understands Morse to notice and interpret. The same dexterity can also operate a pen, and this is the option I have more often seen used.

Neither is likely to be a much richer channel than the other, I think.
The "strictest sense" is something like:

1. We have control over our decisions

2. Our decisions are independent of past events

I agree that this is pretty hand-wavey and open to semantics. But I don't think that there is any realistic, coherent way to interpret and reconcile the above two statements [edit - without resorting to some kind of non-physicalism e.g. God, spirit planes... ].
But how do you know that the field called "FD" is meaningful if the message is a totally different schema than the one you were expecting?

In general there's very little you can really do with a dynamic schema. Perhaps you can convert the message to JSON or something. But if your code doesn't understand the schema it received, then it can't possibly understand what the fields mean...
It's always very entertaining to nitpick a statement that has a caveat by quoting it without the caveat.

(No it isn't)
He shares, I comment. That is the whole point of the attention economy, upon which everyone bases their self-worth.
Startups determine their ability to execute, and thus generate revenue (or promises of same) from appearing “cool” to prospective talent and future investors. Without it, they wither and die.
Weird that his example of YC's decline is a company putting together a hacky MVP based on open source code, which is an absolutely classic YC thing to do.
It does, if the company has any branch/office/agent or similar in the EU, or if it targets their services/website to EU residents.

What "targets" means exactly in this case I'm not sure, but given that YC actively markets to EU based companies too, I would think that GDPR applies to them as well.
> 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 disconnected to building viable businesses, as they just don't have to be the ones that are left holding the bag, and as an accelerator they are in the best position to do that.

That's really short term thinking.

It might work for a class or two, but eventually VCs will realize that they're getting bad returns from their investments, and YC won't be nearly as attractive as it is today.

For long term success, YC needs to pick companies that will eventually become successful. Particularly the big, standout successes.

> The easiest way to fill that pipeline is to pair current hype XYZ with Harvard (or other ivy league) undergrads (or high-level ex-FANG people). As long as their ROI stays above a certain threshold, that's the main way to scale up YC.

If you think that's the path to good long-term ROI, I have a startup to sell you.
The internet changes too much, that bookmarking for content is sometimes a futile effort. And even then, a browser like Firefox lets you tag liberally, if that's your thing.
How do you tell the difference? Especially when so many YCs seem almost like comical vaporware or shovelware but with a charismatic CEO.
For very interested readers, here is a meta-collection of articles from left, center and right about the story: https://ground.news/article/newsom-vetoes-bill-for-stricter-...

And a short bias comparison:

> The left discusses Newsom's veto as a victory for Silicon Valley, concentrating on the economic implications and backing from tech giants.

> The center highlights the broader societal ramifications, addressing criticisms from various sectors, such as Hollywood and AI safety advocates.

> The right emphasizes Newsom's concerns about hindering innovation and his commitment to future collaborative regulatory efforts, showcasing a balanced approach.
We were in YC S22 and it definitely has become a status seeker magnet. However, entrepreneurship is itself a status seeker magnet.

The point the author misses is that you need to think of YC not as an organization but as a segment of time for personal and team reflection. It can help you develop a coherent narrative for your path and goals. Others may deride this characterization and say it’s too expensive. But the only way to enforce that kind of reflection is to raise the stakes and give it a real opportunity cost.
Mr Akin's gotchu, fam:

> 2. . To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong .

> 3. Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time.

> 4. Your best design efforts will inevitably wind up being useless in the final design. Learn to live with the disappointment.

Also 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and a bunch of the others apply too.
An evolutions simulator where both plants and animals can evolve both their behavior and morphology.

This month I’m focussed on plants and I think I’ve had a breakthrough that could be worth publishing.

But just a hobby.
It's not as bad as you might think, we're speaking dozens of GB across the entire index.

I don't think stopwords as an optimization makes sense when you go beyond BM25. The search engine behaves worse and adding a bunch of optimizations makes an already incrediby complex piece of software more so.

So overall I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze.
The thing about this kind of story is they could have found two employees "rage applying" for new jobs and then they can say "employees," as if it's thousands. Not sticking up for the company, but this kind of reporting trick is pretty douchey.
> CrystalClear Sound requires a paid subscription(a rather cheap one), which supports the development of the app.

Sorry, but I'll pass.

I'd spend a few dollars on a convenience app like this as a one-off purchase (it would save me from option-clicking the volume icon every once in a while), but what ongoing development or infrastructure am I paying for with a subscription here?
I would suggest just start talking to them about stuff. Not every interaction has to be flirting.
Nuclear did remove almost completely fossil fuels from the French electricity grid. Only example I know of of a grid that succeeded in getting rid of almost all fossil fuels. (transport and heating keep using a lot of fossils however)
I tried to give a little description, on each one but I can do better (and I made them smaller because i thought it was too much text!

thanks for the tip/idea. I want to have a HELP page that might give more details into each check, a sample .htaccess or similar that you can just drop in and secure most things up (but with possibly breaking functionality in your site ha but just to have that option).

Its to just show your current state/posture.
I know it's a typo, and I make typos all the time, but this one should be elevated to the "new word" status

A collogue:

Someone who sees their role on the team as to annoys others.
> A beautiful interface with a suboptimal implementation can be easily cleaned up when time is allotted.

That won't happen. Why toy around with your ticket database like that? Just close it to WONTFIX.
Come up with a solution, most likely. Since when has this crowd bowed down to a challenge because “there is nothing you can do”?
Your site resets the connection.
This is an example of conflating slavery and poverty.

It is very common in these discussions, and makes it very hard to communicate.
https://www.reddit.com/ -> F

https://new.reddit.com/ -> F

https://old.reddit.com/ -> B

That is huge difference just with the front-end.
I run 5-6 times a week, and I've run many half and full marathons. I've never loved a run. I always love the feeling of being done with a run.
The blog post is dumb, in the extreme. Sven doesn’t know the PearAI founders, the key metric YC says they assess when they make a funding decision. Where they forked a codebase from is a deminimus consideration — as Gary says, if it’s in the license, it’s in the license. Maybe Sven thinks that’s unethical, although in this case it’s funny to complain on behalf of YC, “Hey, YC, your money went to an open source codebase, and then some more of your money got to use it! You guys suck!”

Comments here miss a lot as well, (although I agree that YC’s prestige days are over) — PG’s plan was ALWAYS to be able to do more. He lays out the reasoning in an essay maybe eight years ago — if your portfolio looks like 1-2 companies (now 3) out of 500 made 80% of the returns, what should you do?

There are basically three answers to this: Rejoice, Write 497 less checks next time, or write 1,000 more checks in the hope of getting a fourth.

PG’s head was at: write 1,000 more checks. I like this attitude a lot, and believe there are good social, macroeconomic and financial reasons to act this way. Of course you will put up with more failures in that mode — you already went and got the “good” ones — you are now picking ones you didn’t love that much in the sure knowledge that you’ll happily be wrong about one (or maybe even two) of them.

Especially when you’re considering what to do mid-ZIRP, this is I think the only rational strategy if you want to make more money and help the world see more cool things.

That said, one thing YC companies benefitted from immensely in the height of the prestige era was just that, prestige; it was a virtuous cycle in that getting in to YC guaranteed a quality seed and probably A round just on the name. In that way, it was like getting in to Stanford or MIT. Today, along with mentoring, one of the main benefits is the larger network internally, and this is a different thing. Possibly better, possibly not. I do think that if the prestige is needed for their model, they’re probably over scaled for today’s markets and venture money.

Of bigger concern, I would say should be the question: “what does pre-seed/seed even look like in five years?” — Much of what seed capital is for can be done with quality LLMs today — and I expect that trend to continue. We saw the rise of pre-seed firms in exactly this economic environment — through the middle of the dotcom one boom, a tech startup was EXPENSIVE — ten engineers, $30k sparcstations, long data center contracts — the cash was needed. YC started at an inflection point when open source tooling and availability was driving that cost down.

The next YC / early stage fund is going to look very, very different than the last one. And that’s okay! It will be fun to see what’s next.
Eh yes, but half a million in income sure helps you avoid death too, and most of them are moments from death when they apply.
Both of you are right. If installed properly it's safe, however worst case scenario used to be not "just" instant death but death by carbonization with your body being set on fire by electricity.

Pictures of that are some of the most horrifying things you'll see. Fortunately this does not happen anymore due to residual-current devices and safety mechanisms in the shower heads.

Source: Brazilian police forensics expert in the 90s
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You mean on www.ycombinator.com? I see 3 cookies one is XSRF. The other two could be for analytics.

About the youtube thing. Does anyone here know? If you have an iframe and that iframe sets analytics cookies on it's own domain, do you have to have cookie banner?
For me, running is fun, but the real "hook" is the pure escapism. If you don't take a phone, you're unreachable. I have a lot of responsibilities, running is just an amazing way to take 30m-1h+ and just have some time to think and listen to music that also has health benefits.

I do highly recommend a RoadID or other identification. I'll also carry at 20 dollar bill for food or (hypothetically, I've never needed to do it) a tip for whoever gives me an emergency ride home.
For founders? I'd buy into the network and mentorship maybe, but not with equity. Maybe a subscription or cohort based fee schedule.
Citing the Nord Modular as some sort of reference standard for modular synthesis seems odd to me.

There are plenty of ways in Rack to avoid the spaghetti incident mess.

Modular synthesis is not just about "easy modulations for everything".
The OP is talking about (land) enclosure, not stealing exactly, and enclosure is a precondition of capitalism. To be fair, it's a precondition of feudalism as well. But in order to turn resources that are essentially held in common (like land, and ideas) into capital, they have to be made private. That's what happened with the literal commons in medieval Europe, and it's what's happened with the intellectual commons in the last hundred years.

You didn't describe the intent or the definition of capitalism. You just mentioned that moving resources from A to B is easier if they're abstract. The intent of capitalism is that the society is improved when people who have a vested interest (literally vested, as in with money) in a company determine its actions.

Can you calm down, please? You were the one who started saying my comment was irrelevant. I don't think it makes much sense to parrot that back to me.
That English is Germanic. A similar debate exists about how to categorize Yiddish, but for different reasons.
On the other hand, true audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead using Bluetooth headphones anyway. 256kbps AAC? Only 44.1 kHz!? The horror!
1850$ a month at wholesale cost. That's prohibitively expensive and it could save lives.
You honestly can't think of anything worse than JSX? JSX bothers you more than all the ways useEffect gets used or the restrictions for hooks.
Holy shit are you serious.
I see, thank you!

Here's a link with more info: https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/

> Why US companies must comply with the GDPR

> The GDPR applies to companies outside the EU because it is extra-territorial in scope. Specifically, the law is designed not so much to regulate businesses as it is to protect the data subjects’ rights. A “data subject” is any person in the EU, including citizens, residents, and even, perhaps, visitors.

> What this means in practice is that if you collect any personal data of people in the EU, you are required to comply with the GDPR. The data could be in the form of email addresses in a marketing list or the IP addresses of those who visit your website. (See our article explaining what is considered personal data under the GDPR.)

> You may be wondering how the European Union will enforce a law in territory it does not control. The fact is, foreign governments help other countries enforce their laws through mutual assistance treaties and other mechanisms all the time. GDPR Article 50 addresses this question directly. So far, the EU’s reach has not been tested, but no doubt data protection authorities are exploring their options on a case-by-case basis.
What kind of set up do you use? This does not resonate at all with my experience of vs code
I will allow that there are going to be some innocent mixups. But the 'democrat party' epithet dates back almost a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

If you care about the perception of what you write, this is one of those things that will quickly steer your audience one way or the other. It has become so consistent that I would personally try not to get it wrong lest it distract from the point I'm trying to express.
A few things off the top of my head:

- Only add things that improve upon Reader View. A table of contents, better typography, and that's about it.

- Get to the point. I put a lot of effort into writing succinctly and unambiguously. I revise my content time and time again to get it just right. Information architecture is also important.

- Sweat the small stuff. Reduce friction for your users wherever you can. Something as simple as a letter template makes a big difference for readers that dread communicating in German.

I've been doing this for seven years, so I picked up quite a few tricks along the way. It all comes down to knowing my users, and working hard to reduce their pain.
"A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/14/elon-musk...
It applies if you have European users. Companies that want to avoid having to comply will typically block European users. They usually respond with http error code 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons.