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YC Batch, Application Public?
Hi, I work in big tech, and I am considering applying to the YC Spring Batch, whose deadline is tomorrow.

I am still unsure whether I should quit my job at big tech for founding the start-up, because of family reasons that I should get more info in the next few weeks.

My main fear is that my employer would know that I applied to the latest YC batch, and then I would get into trouble (or fired) if I decide to stay in my current job.

Does anyone have experienced this? What happens if I get accepted but decide not to join the batch? I would apply with cofounders. Can I "sell" my part of the company to my cofounders if I get accepted but decide to stay in my current job? Would all of this be private and my big tech company not know this?

Thanks for any info!
Sales tax is a state issue, so president doesn't have to care.

Fraud charges could be avoided with careful asterisking, and lack of enforcement of de minimus fraud.
This is a gist created 1 hour ago. No proof of the attack vector. What's the point of posting a private key?

Also, so what if they used Debian? Linux is used on everything. Debian has multiple licenses, it also has BSD3 and others to choose from: https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
> Starlink connections in Ukraine are geofenced

This was debunked. Starlink was never active in Crimea because Crimea was sanctioned by the US. He said if the US government asked him to activate it he would. They did not.
I don't think that's actually a diminutive (meaning shifts to add smallness or endearment), just a colloquializer (meaning doesn't change, just becomes less formal; dialects may adopt a particular informal word as standard).
So all that friction is just schemes to get you to pay up more.
In the spirit of your observation, I encourage you to make your observation again.
He was talking to potential voters who are struggling, telling them they only have to bother this one time and he'll fix their problems so they can go back to not paying attention to politics.
TSA and DOD. One can dream.
they just need to find some laws to break or some poor people to exploit so they can be like other big SV startups.
What are you taking about? By the actual standards of big-O that allow you to derive the constant run time? See the second linked comment which establishes that it only becomes constant when you add in practical hardware considerations.

No bounded run time function can have an infinite output space (while still halting, anyway).
Wow kiksht sounds like a pretty cool language! Are there any resources you'd recommend for the language itself? I'm mostly curious about the whole "a verb with prefix structure can be a whole sentence" thing, that sounds like a pretty cool language feature!
Like I said, loyalty test.
Google retires their product all the time to the point that it's a meme.
>So how do you envision people flourishing in this anarchist/libertarian utopia?

Did I use the words anarchist/libertarian/utopia? How do you see people flourishing in the current situation with too much govt? OP was a post by the person facing a real word situation: nothing to hope for. What can you offer him?

>destroying the government and relying on gold or bitcoin will bring prosperity

Again you are putting words in my mouth. did I talk about gold or bitcoin? You do understand what big govt vs small govt is, vs destroying the govt?
Thanks in advance for anyone with similar experience that could shed light into this, or alumni from any past YC batch
>When planes crash, they often hit people on the ground

Do they? Other than 9/11, I'm personally unaware of this ever happening. 20 seconds searching says there was an airplane that crashed into a DC bridge in the 80's killing 4 motorists, and a couple of similar incidents, but it seems rare.
LinkedIn already has this feature:

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064
I’d like to know when this was created and if people who work at Duolingo even know the existence of it. The app is filled with ads on the free tier, with ads appearing after every single lesson. I’ve seen this for over a year. If anything, they don’t make courses universally available. They make them universally annoying.

Even if they’re targeting specific users for the ads to upgrade, they shouldn’t make it so annoying. If they want the (freeloading) user to leave the platform, then they should stop notifications bugging the user to not break the streak.

Something is very wrong with how Duolingo’s ad system is implemented. With this background, I can’t believe that they follow anything from this handbook that was probably written at the start by someone who’s no longer with the company.
Orcas will line up and swim together in perfect synchrony and at the perfect depth to make a wave to wash a seal off an ice floe. https://youtu.be/K16lZU0agbg
Presumably we could come up with a reformulated nickel that is much less costly to produce. It hasn't been changed outside of war issues in a long time.

The reformulated penny didn't take too long to be accepted. A new nickel would probably be accepted well too.
He bought Twitter and all he got was congress, the senate, and the presidency. Trump's 2020 loss was a wakeup call for him.
I’m pretty sure this was a financial take. Musk and his companies didn’t become immune to criticism when he started meddling in US politics. And by any measure, Tesla stock is crazy overvalued.
Interesting. I would not have guessed that. https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/

I don't know a good source for MAU numbers, but they would have to be very different with mobile app usage included.

I would guess that OpenAI (possibly as part of Microsoft or another company) will still be in the top 7 AI companies in a few years.
Update: I'll retract part of this. I'll stand by the part about conservative buzzwords and the dogwhistle of "you hired too many women and blacks".

But it appears the FAA did have some kind of "biographical questionnaire" that was not objective and standards based. I'm 100% against that kind of system or anything else that seems like a quota. Making an effort to recruit from all communities and making a welcoming environment is good. Lowering standards is not.

The other thing I'll stand behind is the ATC pipeline has not been fully-staffed for a very long time, pre-dating COVID and the even earlier biographical questionnaire. It appears both of those things made it worse (independently).
They do chew on our boats for fun, they don't seem all that scared!
Would love to see profiling to show where the React approach was falling short.
We're all still waiting for that professional grade Rust OS to come to market and put lesser languages to shame.
Also that we (in both boarding and deplaning) let people hold up the entire line to use the overhead bins, which shouldn’t be necessary.
> So unless those pools are full of primitive data types, you’re going to cause more frequent full GC pauses, and longer due to all the back pointers.

If you have enough objects pooled to get low allocation rate then you never trigger full GC. That's what "low latency Java" aims for.

I think that the main downside of object pools in Java is that it's very easy to accidentally forget to return an object to a pool or return it twice. It turns out that it's hard to keep track of what "owns" the object and should return it if the code is not a simple try{}finally{}. This was a significant source of bugs at my previous job (algo trading).
I frequently close the tab when I encounter this stuff. Sometimes I'll just disable JavaScript.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobkin

IRC, one of the Strugatskys used this REnicked name on his brother
If you do that on the server side, per account, it works. Small DoS risk, but it remains acceptable
This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.
There's a reason the phrase "beginner's luck" exists. I'm not sure the naïveté and success are causally related so much as they might be coincident.

Could knowing about prior research skew one's perspective and tarnish novel thought? Sure. But we don't know. Maybe we'd have an even better Balatro if the creator knew about some other deck builders. Maybe we wouldn't, we don't know. We cannot prove the counterfactual.

On the opposite extreme, there are examples of thinkers whose success stemmed from knowing much about one domain or much about many domains and integrating (Luhmann, Goethe, Feynman, Von Neumann etc.). In the general case, I think we are probably much better off promoting knowledge and study, and not ignorance and chance.

That said, I do think we should retain our willingness to play and to try things that are "out of bounds" with respect to the existing accumulated knowledge. We should live informed lives, but play and explore like unschooled children.
> your economic situation is so bad that you outright can't afford it unless you're desperate enough to walk however many hundreds of miles required

The answer to someone who can't or won't move, and has no economic use where they are, is subsidy. (Well, I guess or letting them starve.)

If someone insists on staying where they are and not upskilling, either because they can't or won't, they're implicitly demanding a subsidy.
Although... 4D chess move, if a state starts prosecution against Musk, get the DoJ to do it first and then pardon him after the fact.

Double jeopardy would stop the state from continuing with the prosecution, and the pardon means no consequences.

I hate that I consider this an actually possibly.
I think going one layer lower - the fundamental issue is that the internet drives people to unrealistic perceptions of the competence of others. Think about all of the undeniably brilliant people that have been involved in software over the past 40 years, and how many of them used hash tables in performance critical environments. Let alone mathematicians and others using them in applied domains. And you think there's something fundamental that all of these people just somehow missed?

The argument of 'if that's such a good idea, why wouldn't somebody have just done it already?' seems to have grown exponentially with the advent of the internet. And I think it's because the visibility of competence of other's became so much more clear. For those who lived through e.g. Carmack's Golden Age you knew you were never going to be half the coder he was, at least based on the image he successfully crafted. That 'slight' at the end is not to say he wasn't a brilliant developer or even perhaps the best in the world at his peak, but rather that brilliance + image crafting creates this Gargantuan beast of infallibility and exceptionalism that just doesn't really exist in reality. I think it's from this exact phenomena that you also get the practical fetishism of expertise.
What a blast from the past!
> feel the same way minus roomates

Get roommates! I bought a house and almost continuously have friends in the guest suite. It's been great, and I'm honestly living some of the best years of my life.
Some other alternatives, also haven't hearded about this one:

- SN DBS - https://www.snsystems.com/ - Used by a lot of game developers, to spread mostly compilation (but also shader compile, or custom jobs).

- IncrediBuild - https://www.incredibuild.com/

- Fast build - https://www.fastbuild.org/

- icecream - https://github.com/icecc/icecream

- Goma - https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/goma/client/

- Bazel / buck / like with various RBE back ends - https://bazel.build/remote/rbe

- distcc - https://www.distcc.org/

- ElectricAccelerator - https://docs.cloudbees.com/docs/cloudbees-build-acceleration/11.0/

- and many others...

I've had mostly experience with IncrediBuild in the past, currently SN-DBS, but colleagues are looking into FASTBuild. Though my personal favorite is bazel
He said “partly” — seems reasonable that throwing nazi salutes around might have a partial impact on declining sales?
as i underestand it, xAI is essentially Elon's personal piggybank, and how he funnels money from his other companies back to himself. Tesla is public and Twitter is co-owned by a whole bunch of other billionaires, but xAI is just Elon.
BYD "God's Eye" driving assistance system
I don't think the Constitution is going to be something they pay a lot of attention to, going forward, if they get their way.
Corporate "DEI" is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals
Starmer has a long history of authoritarian tendencies, he’s always sided with the police or establishment powers, even when there was public outcry over the circumstances. He’s going to bend to whichever powerful spooks are pushing for this.

Most notable are the cases of Ian Tomlinson, Student Fees Protests and Jimmy Saville. Generally though, he’s been in favour or instructed his party not to oppose the introduction of greater police powers.

Man is a snake.
I don't know if this was intentional, but I appreciate that you dropped another example with "Thompson"
Chinese EV leader BYD to offer 'God's Eye' self-driving system on all models
>Before 9/11, hijackings weren't unheard of, but they were almost universally political stunts with some "hostage situation" to taste [1]. As a passenger, if you just played along, your odds of getting hurt were quite low.

Yeah. So much that, on the morning of 9/11, when a student in my college class was announcing there was a hijacking, I remember wanting to shout “Who cares? Those happen all the time and it gets resolved![1] Why is this a priority?”

… until he got to the part about it crashing into the WTC.

[1] Which, of course, still would have been out of line to say, but I was unusually cranky and didn’t get why that would be something to stop everything over.
Front line airport security is outsourced to entirely unsalaried, unwaged workers.
The former is an issue, at least in California.

https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/lawguides/annotations/460-0198.pdf

It can be done, but it appears a retailer has to either indicate that they are undercollecting sales tax to the customer - and make up the difference themselves - or use all-inclusive pricing rather than adding sales tax to the bill, and back out the tax from totals to calculate gross sales.
It's hard to imagine being in the top 5% of earnings for an age-group, with the ability to afford single-occupancy dwelling, where the problem isn't outflows.

Do you have a viable alternative?
> Young people also face an enormous propaganda machine constantly telling them

I've had folks in my age group (30s) complain about the travails of our generation over aprés, after a day of skiing, and in advance of their next international travels. Part of the propaganda is the fetishisation of victimhood.
I think they usually say that they are focused on alpha while minimizing beta, i.e. don't compare us to the S&P or other indices because we are market neutral. And in my experience, the large, old firms that I am personally familiar with do in fact have beta very close to 0 in their main funds, so on that front at least some firms do deliver.

This doesn't necessarily make the product a good idea even for people who can get an allocation, however. For example, because most (all?) market-neutral firms engage in active trading, a US UHNW person living in a high-tax state will generally have to pay around 50% of each year's gains in taxes. These taxes will have to be paid whether or not they did or were even allowed to withdraw any money from their investments that year, so a gain of let's say 12% becomes 6%, which may have to come out from some other source.
How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both
Moon Dog
That appears to only handle the distcc half. It looks like the main advantage of nocc is that it integrates the equivalent of ccache, in a way that works even when there are both multiple clients and multiple servers, without the ludicrous complexity of bazel-like tools.
That sounds extremely interesting. Do you have particular books you would recommend?
> Do you have a viable alternative?

OP doesn't sound like they're describing a lack of money. They're describing depression. Lack of friends, lovers and community. Loads of miserly fucks are lonely as hell despite not spending a modicum of their millions.
Thanks a lot for this search engine. I always wanted to be able to search this way, direct flights from xyz airport.
Ok, so who brought down these three?
> part of an effort that was financed, in part, by US taxpayer dollars

The "in part" here is doing a lot of work. I can't tell how big the part is from the detail provided in the article:

> v-Fluence, which also had the former agrochemical firm Monsanto as a client, secured some funding from the US government as part of a contract with a third party. Public spending records show the US Agency for International Development (USAid) contracted with a separate non-governmental organization that manages a government initiative to promote GM crops in African and Asian countries.

> That organization, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), then paid v-Fluence a little more than $400,000 from roughly 2013 through 2019 for services that included counteracting critics of “modern agriculture
approaches” in Africa and Asia.

If we count second-degree links like this, I bet we'd find that most organizations (including for-profit companies) are "funded in part by US tax dollars."
I mean...you're kinda using sentimental anecdata to pat hn on the back a little bit here. There are definitely other explanations for sentiment change than being presented with facts.
Grok has absolutely no safety mecanism in place, you can use it for anything it will not block a query, all under the pretext of "free speech". And it's not open source either
I think some of it is shown on this page:

https://docs.dagger.io/features/visualization/
> notion that labor must be sold for basic survival is in and of itself the problem

One, this isn't a thing in the developed world.

Two, why not? Existence isn't free, and denying that reality is bound to lead to problems. Strong communities tend to start with acknowledging the reality that is the cost of existing. From that flows the value of existence, the value of others' existence to one's own, and thus, altruism.
> You're assuming

I'm not. It's pretty clear that you don't know how null safe Swift, C#, and Rust work.

IE: Rust has the option type for when a value can be null, and the compiler forces you to do an "empty" check. Otherwise, null, does not exist in the language.

Swift and C# are more metadata based. You indicate if a value supports null or not. The compiler will give you a warning, or error depending on configuration, if you try to assign null to a value that does not expect it.

All three languages have a concept of values that can be null, (or empty in Rust if you want to argue semantics,) so your type system tells you when a value can be null, or when it is expected to not be null. In all three languages, the compiler can force you to make assignments before you use an object.
First, I do not understand the reason for the fear of applying. Your BigCo employer should not treat it any different than your applying to another BigCo. They are not going to care (much), people explore other opportunities all the time.

But acceptance to YC is an all or nothing deal. They fund teams and would generally not fund a company that lost a key cofounder between acceptance and attendance. That's why they ask you to commit. Thus you should be upfront with your cofounders that you might not attend, which will likely void the acceptance (which, I guess, would greatly demotivate them). My 2c.
Do you think maybe this is less of a big deal in the brave new world of chatGPT.

I know I have zero worries about having to code in a new language or framework with the ability to get answers so quickly to my dumb questions, but maybe that is because I’m still choosing languages and frameworks that are fairly popular and have so much online documentation that the LLMs know about them, and if something is really esoteric maybe the help wouldn’t be that good?
Great view of one tonight if you happen to be in the northeast!
I'm curious about your approach and the nature of those industrial apps. Is it more of recommender agents accessing available sources (through URIs) - or more like explainers. Would be great to connect https://shorturl.at/xdOee
Before TSA existed we could get through security without paying the extra $85. Why doesn't the TSA just pre-check everyone? It just feels like a scam to me.
Academia has been claiming otherwise actually. There have been a bunch of studies trying to overturn the idea that dog behaviour is genetic, and turn it into a purely environmental thing. My guess is they’re worried that if we accept it’s true for animals , there’s not much of a leap to assuming it’s true for humans.

I don’t know enough about it to say whether the studies are BS or not, but as an experienced animal keeper, claims that it’s not heritable goes so heavily against my lived experience that I can’t reconcile it with reality.
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It's extremely unlikely that the constants would be nearly that large, but yes.
The dreams of Musk/Trump
That starts at 1966, go back to 1941 and it's not unprecedented.

We're only 3.8% above our 1945 peak.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

The 1940's and 1950's reduced it through raising taxes, not cutting social services. There was actually a large expansion of social services and infrastructure projects at the time.

Slash and burn economics/austerity are not the only option.
I've had this happen in New Zealand but only once. It's probably a rule outside the US but not enforced as strictly as in the US.
If you don't think Tesla is an AI company, you're not paying attention. xAI is also owned by him.

Meanwhile, OpenAI was cofounded by him.

Is there some reason OpenAI, which has maneuvered for regulatory capture of the AI industry in the past, is less dangerous than whatever you perceive?
The trades do pay well per hour (or at least all my friends who are in the trades are paid well per hour), but with two important caveats:

1. It's the union jobs that pay well.

2. You might not get a full 40 hours of work per week.

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In any case, I think the big non-white-collar job category worth investigating is trucking. "But YellowApple!" I can already hear you retort, "self-driving trucks will put truckers out of a job!" Yeah, I'll believe that when robots are able to put chains on tires, deal with asshole cops nitpicking log books, and otherwise reliably handle the bullshit truckers put up with as part of their job descriptions. AI might be able to automate the driving part, but I don't see human operators being absent from the cabs anytime soon.
Link to the video before the one above that compares APL, BQN, J, R, Julia, Numpy on the same problem.
https://youtu.be/8ynsN4nJxzU?si=EeAZEZzA2kd0mw1y
This just moves my question. Why would a company choose to advertise any product in German to a person who doesn't know German? Why they don't optimize their marketing budget if Google provides them with information to do that?