skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of the W12 batch of YC (which was a lot smaller, ~60 companies, back when Paul Graham was still leading YC).

YC funds a lot of companies and has always had super high variance in the companies it funds. Entrepreneurs are a wild bunch of people. There have always been companies where the founders turned out to be BS artists or sociopaths. Companies that folded immediately after the program started. Companies with messy cofounder breakups already brewing at the beginning of the batch. Companies that turned out to be slightly scammy. Some of the founders that were in those companies pivoted and became successful.

Picking on Pear AI (which I don't know anything about) as evidence of YC failing is silly. It's also a super early stage company and you really have no idea what they will do.

The test of YC to me is, can they keep attracting and picking some of the best founders (which you can't really tell for years). And providing the inspiring, warm, but pushy environment that best sets up founders for success, and in turn keeps them coming to YC. I'd apply to YC again in a heartbeat if I were ever starting another company.
One problem I always had with VSCode, is that it seems to fill up its autocomplete suggestions with "near-string-matches" from files all over the project. The jetbrains tools are quite strict in that regard and won't propose random string matches that don't fit semantically.
This is a nightmare and illegal for anyone in the EU or two-party consent state OR anyone who interacts with others in the EU or any two-party consent state. What comes across your screen and what can be picked up by your device's mic includes other people's data. If we are on a Zoom call, this is recording both sides of the conversation without notice or consent. If we are meeting in person, and I leave my device on the table with this installed, same problem.

I can't find anything in the docs about how to pause or temporarily stop data collection. People don't like others recording every interaction they have, which is what killed Google Glass.
The network isn't that reliable. It could easily take a couple minutes for sync to succeed, which is far too much chance of a conflict.
California already has cap and trade. There doesn't seem to be a need for further regulation. If there's a problem with emissions, adjust the pricing. That's the purpose of cap and trade.
If I press the option key of the Mac and clic on the speaker icon of the menu bar, I can select the source of the speaker and mic as well.
Am I missing something here ?
I'm from Russia.

By the way if you know how plants grow and spread "get eaten by humans and pooped into sewer" is not always the best reproduction strategy and so throwing away is not always a waste.

And judging that some people don't deserve something is not always wrong unless you are philosophical extremist. If you have so many fruit trees around that anyone in need can pick one any time you probably don't live in an area where a map of fruit trees is useful. It's catch-22 isn't it?
Is that not the human experience? I have no “agency” over the next thought to pop into my head. I “feel” like I can choose where to focus attention, but that too is a predictable outcome arising from the integration of my embryology, memories, and recently reinforced behaviors. “I” am merely an observer of my own mental state.

But that is an uncomfortable idea for most people.
"To be clear, the question was explicitly asking what makes these port workers special to demand this."

And I answered. The employees are not special in and of themselves. They can be replaced. That's what a scab is. Who cares what the public supports. They are not involved in this. What's the public going to do to show their lack of support?

People supported the strikes from the Writer's Guild and the Actor's Guild. They didn't want AI automation to replace their jobs. This union doesn't want a similar bit of automation to replace theirs.

To me, unions are no longer the thing they were when they were first created. From a non-union person looking in (and based on my one personal experience of going through a union vote), the people in favor of unionizing were unwilling to adapt to new technologies and feared losing their jobs or doing something they didn't want. To them, the union was a way to just say no to change because some jobs will be at stake. Seems like that's what's going on here too.
Do you have to? Doesn't YC have enough capital to spend it on meaningful endeavors instead of silly "moonshots"? How much would be enough before this happens? Genuine questions, no snark.
You cannot seriously compare nuclear materials delivery / handling to the creation of model weights and computation
YC went downhill during Sam Altman and then Garry Tan pushed it off a cliff. There’s no point in joining YC anymore.
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Nice flex. I once wanted a hat with 0x5F3759DF on it; but it would make me a total poser since I don't understand the algo.
Out of interest, where do you live?

I’m wondering if people’s tolerance for “like” is affected by their geography.

I live in California (from the UK originally) so I honestly don’t even notice this any more.
Stephen Wolfram calls this computational irreducibility.
>Also neither AOSP nor Chromium are used in the real world in practice, over 99.99% of users use proprietary forks.

I didn't think it needed spelling out, but OK: GrapheneOS would not exist if AOSP didn't have an open-source license. Electron, Microsoft Edge and Brave browser wouldn't exist if Chromium hadn't been released on open-source terms.

Surely it is not your claim that because Google has done bad things, nothing that Google has ever done has ever been positive?

Going back to your previous comment, where you write, "the OSI is not interested in open source being the default way to make software."

Do you actually believe that if the OSI had been smarter or more ethical or had listened to your advice (sent back in time perhaps) then open source might have become the default way to make software?

I consider it obvious that that was never a possibility.
No, we cryptocurrency people don't agree. It's actually hard to get them to agree on anything. Even whether it should be under state control or not.

Labelling the ethereum fork (I assume you are speaking of the DAO) as criminal is interesting. They simply executed the contract according to the terms of code which isn't necessarily illegal. At the time, ETH was a hundredth of its current size (losing 1/3rd its value on the contract) and considered an extinction level event. The other cryptos were innovating at a rapid rate to make "the next bitcoin" and could well have surpassed ETH in market cap.
Futex-likes on non-Linux systems
I think we should be extremely careful with this thinking. People in debt that work eight hours a day and go home to play video games, watch tv, and eat delicious food are a universe away from slaves in classical times which owned nothing.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/nero-man-behind-my...
California has unique geographic features that make it well positioned. It also has strategic geographic resources (like oil). This is like using Saudi Arabia as a standard of governance since they have greatly improved material conditions using oil money.

California does do several things very well. It also does several things poorly. Pointing out its current economic standing does not change that. The fallacy here is that we have to compare california against the best version of itself. Alaska is never going to be a California-level economy because the geography dictates that only a certain kind of person / company will set up there, for example. That doesn't mean the Alaskan government is necessarily bad. Every state has to work within its limits to achieve the best version of itself. Is california the best it could be? I think the answer is obviously no.
hahahaha, wow! I really thought this was a joke list. That’s stunning.
I wasn't trying to straw-man you and I agree with this more verbose phrasing. There's a vibe in some related comments that suggests that the proper way to manage your work affairs is to interact through some narrow "proper" API, in which nothing is sought nor proffered, that we exist to each other as callable services only.

I try to generally be polite and treat people the way they seem to want, but I'm not going to live some meek life terrified that someone might take offense at my over-reach. If I'm going to screw up, my defaults are set for errors of commission.
Hit the nail on the head. I've quit every other social media site with the exception of HackerNews. And while some would argue HN isn't social media, I would disagree; I'd argue most of what makes HN so popular is the commenters.

I've found that in this regard, HN is no less addictive to me than a site like Reddit. I impulsively check it when I'm bored and find myself wasting time in long comment threads that over the years I have found more and more pessimistic. Still far better than Reddit, but the pessimism gets to me to a point where I can't help but feel jaded. Anyway, I just don't think it's good for me anymore.
Rickrollin on dubs?
There was an open letter signed by more than 100 security professionals protesting the action: https://disclose.io/uploads/open_letter_columbus_attorney_za...
That's exactly why it should be a community. Being willing to pay a monthly fee for a search engine sets a higher bar for affluence and caring about the web. So I wish they would do something like create a "Kagi Web" search engine that just consists of their websites, since I'm sure Kagi users have interesting things to say.
I postponed my properly getting into Rust for way too long after inadvertently choosing to implement a doubly-linked list as an early learning excercise to familiarize myself with Rust ownership and mostly ending up confused and frustrated. Anything not involving recursive cyclic data structures turned out a lot more straightforward.
The two great miracles of quantum entanglement are:

(1) Solid matter. Solid matter is impossible in classical physics but possible in the real world because of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics

(2) The laser. Unlike 1/2-spin particles that can't be in the same quantum state, spin 1 particles want to dogpile in the same state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statisti...

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I could care less about EPR (real but not so profound) and speculations about quantum mechanics in consciousness. My first instinct is to think that quantum entanglement around black holes is the same kind of woo but I could be wrong about that.
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It seems to also send the actual sound samples though.
Unfortunately I don't think there's a browser API for registering keyboard shortcuts that can trigger actions on webpages.

I'll make it a PWA soon so that it can at least be added as an app.
I'm not sure how to parse this, and one possibility is worse than the other.

Did they go through and alter each commit in the history, making it look as if the committer was talking about brand B instead of brand A at the time they made the commit?

Or did they clone the commit history, and add commits to rebrand, while keeping the historical commits intact?
In terms of climate adaptation, yes. If you're fearing large language models (which have been barely useful for a handful of years now; by the time the first kids grow up in an LLM world, they'll almost certainly have improved again), so far I'm seeing people get a lot more customised answers automatically as compared to being thrown in at the deep end and having to use a combination of partially-applicable answers, reference works, and own judgement. Whether judgement will suffer or if the false confidence of LLMs will only improve it, I have only the past to reference, such as Socrates' worry that the invention of writing would introduce forgetfulness because memory would not be practiced anymore (which, ironically, we now only know because someone else wrote his words down)

Regardless of which future you think more likely, it seems a bit early for a "for sure"!
Wealth, status, power, in that order, is usually the ladder and lens to use when understanding these issues and motives.
Verizon experiencing widespread outage across the US
A skeptical read would be that the economics of Norman style feudalism heavily relies on the peasants to work the land. Obviously you need the peasants to stay in their place. If all the warrior caste have the same perspective, you can't be carting off the population and selling them off overseas, without some major friction. And if you are trying to "take" some land from another warlord, it's not going to be very economical for you to sell off the peasants, cause then who is going to work the land?
The reason the PASPA was unconstitutional wasn't because the federal government can't regulate sportsbetting. It was due to the specifics of how the PASPA implemented the ban. In particular the authors of the PASPA wanted to "grandfather in" certain states so rather than making sportsbetting illegal nationwide/federally they made it illegal for state governments to pass new laws legalizing sportsbetting in their states (which meant that states which had legalized sportsbetting already could continue to allow it).

It was this "commandeering" of the state legislature's right to legislate that was found unconstitutional, not the federal government's ability to regulate sportsbetting. So if congress wanted they could pass a law that made sportsbetting illegal at the federal level and put a federal agency in charge of enforcing it.

Its similar to the legal weed situation. States can't be forced to enforce federal laws, but the federal government itself can enforce those laws even if the state governments are unwilling.
What is the recommended approach for this? I feel as though the specific database should be irrelevant. All OSes are equipped with permissions models that can restrict a SQLite file to use by a single application.
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Statamic. Really enjoying working with it, makes templating so easy and the REST & GraphQL api makes it easy to use with a framework like Nextjs or Nuxt.
It both stupid and offensive to compare student debt to slavery.

> Some would probably even prefer being beaten once in a while, than to have no hope of ever getting free of the debt after a decade of trying.

You are missing that slavery means your owner can beat you up and rape you as much as they want and you still have no hope of getting free.
This material deals with spin, unlike the article.
I wonder if this misconception comes from jousting armour, which could be about twice as heavy as battle armour, combined with out-of-shape knights.
The script can be extended with additional features like:

- fixing macOS balance bug (outputDevice:setBalance(0.5) on output device change)

- muting built-in speakers on headphones disconnect event

- pausing Spotify when external headphones are disconnected
Makes me think of this discussion which is going on right now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694025
tl;dr: author likes Ruby-style languages over C-style. But a blanket proposal for all languages to drop C-style is just odd.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401224
YC was a child of its time though, right? Are you asking what could YC have done differently in the context of its history, or are you asking what a new accelerator started today would look like?

I ask because I’m not sure that now is the time for a new startup accelerator to succeed, and we have no way to predict the circumstances that are required for success without couching it in some major changes to externalities.
> into a sandbox, Docker-style

Nope, docker alone/by itself is not a sandbox, at all. Not built for that purpose, nor suitable for that purpose.
California republicans are extremely moderate (or at least, there have been moderate candidates for governor of california almost every year), so I have no idea what you're talking about. The last GOP governor of California was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is a moderate republican by basically all standards.
If locals don't mind then why not?
It's a convenience app, doesn't do anything you can't do by yourself. That's how I used to do it, got sick and tired of doing it every time I connect my AirPods and made an app to make it happen automatically and put it on the AppStore to see if others can find it useful too.
Second Jetbrains' Intellij - Ultimate is all you need. Never really understood the point of the standalones.

I've tried other editors, including VS Code, because it was free. I always come back to Intellij.
I think the interesting difference he brought to the country music scene is typified by Sunday Morning Coming Down, which may have been his first successful hit (for Johnny Cash). Not going to look that up, let's say it's true. It's a depressing song about standing outside of society and community, walking around the edges of it and looking at it, but not wanting to get back in. That song would have broken another way if it were written by someone else.
:)

Yeah that’s a model that most people seem to like, and I would agree it helps soften the blow by providing some ongoing value for a set period of time.
I am 40, but you're partially right, I may have been slightly more left in my early 20s.
The Great Divide – CSS-Tricks
This kind of project has made me realize that somewhere along the way, I quit thinking of tech as a way to build anything fun. I need to rekindle that goofball spirit.
How much of that is being „forced“ by competition and the free market?

More apps doing roughly the same but none doing anything well or exceptional well? Yet resources become more spread and hence sparser?
I absolutely agree; I am using this as an indictment of our predatory college loan system than a defense of the conditions then.

However, to quote you:

> work eight hours a day and go home to play video games, watch tv, and eat delicious food

Many people in this condition in the US work way more than 8 hours a day and have a diet of very low-quality food, especially in rural areas.

Additionally, there’s no hope for the future. A good master at the time meant marriage and children and providing for them was all on the table. Our modern system leaves nothing of the sort on the table for anyone.
I doubt many buy into this at all but yes, it shows that there is someone in the pipeline demanding such changes, which are frankly ridiculous. Be it government or some activists doesn't really matter, it doesn't really reflect the opinion of the majority of western consumers.

That liberal parties are being made fun of on topic like gender is a self inflicted fate, especially if such overreaching "education" is spread in completely unrelated products.

So yes, companies should get flak for it until it is corrected.
Do you want an echo chamber? Perhaps just being fed with opinions you agree with?

We should celebrate opinions that go against local conventions
I think he is, it's sarcasm
YC benefits strongly from network effects; the value for each founder grows superlinearly with more founders. Grow faster!
The phrase "turn down" is the opposite of "turn up". To "turn down" would be to decrease the intensity of the party. And "turn down for what" means something like "don't stop the party for any reason".
The issue of governance is the massive hole in the US - Mexico border. Why California's government isn't joining the ranks of Texas, Arizona, etc, I cannot understand.

Source: my mom was an adult ESL / Language / Literacy teacher.
Pretty sure you can do this in the Ultimate version? You just install the necessary plugins.
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What happened is adverse selection due to a stubbornly low valuation that doesn't even try to keep up, in the midst of a growing number of alternatives, worsened by a formal and therefore somewhat gameable process of getting in. The kind of person who really has an idea they are going to pursue regardless that he's actually committed to isn't going to part with his equity at the low prices a YC would offer. Instead what you get is people creating companies explicitly with the intention of applying for VC, which removes an important filter reflecting founder buy-in, and therefore average quality; and there's no way you can really tell one from the other.
The world back then was very physically violent to the underclasses. I would argue our world is very mentally violent to our underclasses.
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Great question; the latter, because as you mention, YC was a product of a moment in time and that moment has passed, but during that time horizon, they were very successful (imho).

Edit: YC says "Build something people want." and so I'm going to riff off of that in a bit of a meta way: "Support experiments worth conducting." The accelerator bit comes in once you've reached product market fit and need fuel for the rocket ship, but until then, you're just running an economic science experiment.
Amazing! "bicycle touring in France" as a search target produces a huge number of spot-on returns beautifully formatted.
I don't think that's really connected to the topic here?

What you are describing here just sounds like one of their portfolio companies taking full advantage of one of the perks that comes with YC? I don't know what the limit on the "We're hiring" posts is for portfolio companies, and I also have a few on the top of my mind that showed up a lot, but having that as "ads" on this website isn't too bad.
{A} is always a subset, by definition, of the power set.
The energy used to chill the LNG and methane leaks are the big question marks as to whether LNG is better or worse than coal. So it's far from a slam dunk that it'll be better than biomass.
I flat out refuse to let an app go through my contacts, there is just no reason for it. Photos is always what I select and never full access. etc.

So when one of the social media sites recommends someone I may know, have no other contacts with this person and I recently shared my number with them. I get angry.

I will never understand how we got to the point that someone else can consent to a company gathering up my data just because it happens to be on their phone.

I don't think it's overlooked, some people talk about it. But a lot of companies try to push it away because they take "privacy" seriously while ignoring the consent problem.
Do you guys think Microsoft is pissed that Cursor exists? Do you think there are internal execs raging about the decision to open source VS Code because of it?
Mostly replaced implies >50% which is not the case. Gas is the most used fuel but has not 'mostly replaced' coal.
The license is literally a statement of intent.

If they wanted to police use, they could choose a different license, like one of the GPL or CC variants.