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Have we forgotten how venture capital (VC) is supposed to work?

A new technology comes out. The new tech has high startup costs and low marginal costs. You invest in 10 companies developing this new tech. 8 go bankrupt, one hangs on by a thread, the last one returns 1000x on what you invested.

Last I checked, Y-Combinator is still considered a VC firm. Investing in a bunch of firms doing the same or very similar things is what YC should be doing.

Most of my development experience is in C/C++ and Python.

Know what I'd do if the interviewer asked me to debug PHP? Pretty much return the question:

"I've never used PHP. Are there logging macros/functions defined somewhere? Where do I see the output? syslog maybe? Is there a debugger of some sort I can use? How do I run each `piece` of code in isolation?"

(I am assuming the job listing did not explicitly mention PHP experience. If it did, both myself and the recruiter would absolutely deserve to fail me for this interview).

I realize FM radio is strictly an example, but would you not rely on bandpass sampling? Where you sample at some multiple of your bandwidth and rely on the spectral replication effect to get your waveform.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling (funny enough, this article explicitly calls out the FM radio use case).

Tech employment had hockey stick growth from 2016-2021 and I suspect the number of HN users followed that curve. My guess is that the ratio of comments/users is the same or perhaps even slightly lower than 2016.

Since promoting a secure economic future is clearly not in the Democratic party game plan, maybe trick the Republicans into starting a war and then campaign on stopping it?

I am not sure what could hit at the self-interest of the 18-29M demographic other than the Selective Service.

> breathing low-grade gas fumes for years

I have been doing most of my cooking on a gas hob for 5 years now. Could you share more detail on this point?

I feel the need to be scared today (it is Halloween after all).

> any EMF above 60Hz.

Isn't that effectively all the EMF? You may be missing a prefix.

Edit: huh, turns out these frequencies do have some applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_low_frequency

I replaced my own bottom bracket!

Ok well, first I destroyed the threads on the cranks meant to interface with the bottom bracket tool. Thus requiring a shop visit. And the shop, after consulting with the frame manufacturer, cut the destroyed cranks off with an angle grinder (and posted a video to their Facebook page - you don't usually see that many sparks in a bike shop).

But hey, I now have a nice, let-the-pros-do-this-job souvenir (the wrecked cranks). And my bracket/bearings are creak-free and spinning quite nicely three years later.

As a self-confessed "former punk", do you really deserve to make that assessment?

On holiday in Whistler back in 2019, I had a brief conversation with an Englishman in the hotel elevator.

A few days later, he recognizes me outside the hotel but I am noticeably slow to recognize back and he mentions "we chatted on the lift". I fake remembering while desperately searching my memory for the event of riding the chairlift with this English guy.

An hour later I remember that in the UK, "lift" == "elevator". Me, being North American and having spent plenty of time in ski towns, always associates "lift" with "chairlift".

I have always taken both Taiwanese and TSMC culture to be fairly reserved. So if you see language like "podcasting bro" slipping out, it really means something like "fcking bullsht con artist".

> Don't forget social media. I mean, we have some of the smartest, best paid people on the planet incentivized to use every bit of data they can to hack your evolutionary biology to keep you scroll, scroll, scrolling.

I remember this being said about NYC investment bankers (often Ivy League grads) during the 2007/2008 Great Recession.

Around that time, Silicon Valley upstarts were seen as the altruistic alternative. Google, Facebook, whoever else was getting started around that time, were giving you a "free" service. Whereas Goldman Sachs and company were being broadly (and appropriately IMO) castigated for ruining lives and crippling the economy.

It is interesting to have lived long enough to see the heroes turn into villains.

If you find yourself in Washington DC, I highly recommend a visit to the International Spy Museum. Its one of the few attractions in DC you need to pay for but worth the ticket price.

(Spoiler Alert)

At the end, there's mural or placard that says something like: Most exhibits in this museum are here because of failure. The best spies are the ones you never hear of.

> I went to a vacation club presentation for a bunch of free stuff once, it wasn't worth it.

My wife and I signed up for a snorkel tour a few years ago, one of those "attend this 45 minute presentation and get your tour for half price!" deals.

We skipped the presentation and ended up being charged the full tour cost plus something extra, I think $25/person on a $200/person tour.

That has to be close to the best 50 bucks I ever spent.

> WiFi — weird as it sounds, I saw some strings for WiFi antennas

This is probably so the car can act as a Wifi hotspot, with the Wifi antennas located in the interior rather than in the sharkfin.

With some waxing and a tan I could probably swing this gig. Not sure it'd be worth the associated male attention though.

Maybe the target audience is those with lapsed circuit theory knowledge from undergrad and no hobby or professional power electronics experience afterwards? Describing myself, of course (most of icamtuf's stuff is up my alley, fwiw).

One would think the title including "DC-DC voltage conversion" is enough of a squirrel-catcher to stop folks who either 1) Know nothing about what it means or 2) know exactly how to do it, from reading the article.

Dev - “Hey copilot, please split this commit into 5 separate commits”

Copilot - “okay I can do that for you! Here are your new commits!”

Senior Dev - “why? Your change is atomic. I’ll tell management to f-off, in a kind way, if they bring up those silly change-per-month metrics again”

> PLEASE be sure to plant only species and varieties native to YOUR area. It's much more beneficial all around than random "wildflowers"

I get the sentiment but the swarm of bees* on my Russian sage, some 9000km away from Moscow, makes one wonder about this advice.

*all sorts, not only European honeybees

This was also the case for several of my college classmates and I graduated in the late 2000's.

I would be curious why Steve Blank (who's pretty sharp otherwise) and Palantir are presenting this as something novel.

> many people really don't want to just wear glasses

> I can get away without wearing them

There's a fallacy of some sort here but I do not know enough rhetoric to determine which one.

I think your trailing question is a hypothetical but to answer:

Screenshots along with text, then use Microsoft Paint to mark up the screen shots. For example, circling the appropriate menu option in a thick red line. Sadly, I do not know how to graphically convey the double-click operation.

Its a time consuming and error prone process, best used if the buggy GUI application is abandonware. Otherwise, the new version will have the same bug or non-intuitive process but the GUI will be unrecognizable. Probably because some manager, somewhere, read too many HN articles and decided a user-facing refactor was the most important thing they could possibly do.

By my count at least four of the researchers are employed by American universities and therefore most likely live somewhere in the United States.

And "this stuff" to which you refer is the intended output of their full time jobs*. So presumably, they find time to work on it in the same way a software developer finds time to write code. You just sit down and do it, because you are being paid to do it.

*Did I miss something about how these papers were developed in their spare time?

> people could shout "Alexa order me Tide Pods" from wherever they were in their home and the order got magically processed...

> consumers don't behave like that

Computer savvy HN readers don't behave like that. My computer illiterate mother-in-law, on the other hand, kind of does. My brother-in-law got her one of those Google smart speakers years ago and she loved the thing. Finally, a computer to which she could bark orders and have them fulfilled, much like she does to any human within earshot.

Does Spec Miata have a spectator following? I have always taken it to be an accessible form of motor racing in which to participate, not something to watch.

To the GP, an electric mountain bike (eMTB) enduro race is probably not what you are envisioning.

Mountain bike (MTB) enduro is stage racing. Specifically, timed downhill-only sections separated by untimed transfers between stages. The name comes from motorcycle enduro racing. Riders do not go head-to-head like in road cycling, cyclocross or motocross. eMTB enduro is exactly the same format but using electric-motor assisted bikes and, IIRC, one timed uphill stage thrown in.

MTB/eMTB enduro is great fun as a participant sport but either not-there-yet or not-suitable as a spectator sport.

In your view, are activities like cycling and snowboarding valid as Olympic sports? Neither could exist without a significant amount of creative engineering.

> My framework for understanding safety is that we need to protect against two categories of harm: unintentional and intentional. Unintentional harm is when an AI system may cause harm even when it was not the intent of those running it to do so. For example, modern AI models may inadvertently give bad health advice. Or, in more futuristic scenarios, some worry that models may unintentionally self-replicate or hyper-optimize goals to the detriment of humanity. Intentional harm is when a bad actor uses an AI model with the goal of causing harm.

Okay then Mark. Replace "modern AI models" with "social media" and repeat this statement with a straight face.

As a lifelong Denver-area resident, I thank you for this post. You have made a marginal improvement to our traffic problem.

Does being part wookie make a bidet less effective? I am asking for a friend.