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Cool list! I hope yc will also fund creative consumer companies. Ways to have fun, enjoy life, build healthy habits, cherish memories, dream about the future, and deepen relationships with friends. This is 100% selfish - I want more fun and meaningful products to use.
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There are two factors to consider though. On the one hand, you're correct that it does nothing for the American worker to bring manufacturing back if it means huge buildings with skeleton crews and machines that effectively run themselves. I don't particularly have a solution for this. Americans have gotten used to the price of goods being artificially low because of inexpensive labor in impoverished countries. Unles…
> it does nothing for the American worker to bring manufacturing back if it means huge buildings with skeleton crews and machines that effectively run themselves I don't think that right. It still means goods are being produced in America, which means: 1. Greater security of production against geopolitical threats, and 2. More goods being produced overall, meaning cheaper goods. Even without significant employment, t…
I address this in the second paragraph.
> More goods being produced overall, meaning cheaper goods.
I'm not convinced cheaper, more abundant goods are the top problem to solve right now. Especially as wants get cheaper, needs are getting much more expensive. And low and stagnant wages at the bottom means survival becomes increasingly difficult, despite cheaper candy and toys.
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Health Care is one field where nobody can seriously compete with state or state navked players, aka public health care or single payer. Especially not VC backed start-ups...
There is plenty of space for VC backed start-ups to compete in healthcare. It would be foolish to go head-to-head with a company like HCA or UnitedHealth Group. But there is a lot of opportunity to sell them better software which improves the experience for everyone in the system. Or build better medical devices or improve efficiency in the drug development process or a zillion other niche areas.
Just plain marketing. In reality they will invest in incremental startups of serial entrepreneurs or well known people in silicon valley. They became traditional corporate long ago. Shows in their recent portfolio.
Yep, already got rejected couple of times, even before the AI boom, with my company which clearly falls under "Using Machine Learning to simulate the physical world" and "Explainable A.I." and have the potential to fall under most of the rest...
Obviously I don't know anything about you or your ideas and I don't mean to offend but I've typically assumed that a YC rejection means they disqualified the candidate for one reason or another.
Do they give feedback in their rejection? I'm considering applying.
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Interesting, I have never seen this chinamod list before and it's undocumented[0][1][?]. https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod Are there more? [0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists [?] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
I put lists like that together sometimes to answer specific user questions—primarily when I can't use an HN Search link because there's no search query that's precise enough. That one stuck around because the perception that it corrects (of HN moderation being against $COUNTRY, where $COUNTRY = China in this case) shows up semi-regularly—as does the opposite perception, of course. These things always come in opposing…
>It’s interesting to see how different users react to reading such a set of comments…
I’ve noticed this myself and I’ve always been surprised at the wide variety of users that fall into either of these buckets. You sort of expect this from new(er) accounts. But some of the arguments from created: ~2000’s, karma: 20,000+ accounts in detached threads are wild.
I suspect this comes from a lot of moderation actually being quite transparent, but not obvious. If one has any interest they can actually go learn a lot w.r.t. moderation. But zero information is forced unless one goes looking or eventually runs afoul.
In the lack of a story, it’s easy to invent a lot of assumptions about what is done and why. People inevitably see the invented assumptions of others and repeat them.
Or perhaps there are some topics where its so close to home that any slight, real or perceived, makes it impossible to be reasoned with.
(Tangentially related to, “A WAY TO END CANCER”) After seeing how my doctor iteratively ordered up different sets of tests for me over the course of a few months, I got to thinking about improving decision trees for blood testing (and maybe others). However, when I spoke to a (first year) med student about this he suggested that doctors actually don’t want something like this. I don't think I followed the thought pro…
I think he was describing the fact that they already operate with decision framework that they already understand. Implicit in the results received from a particular test is the fact that there was a particular observation made that suggested they get such a test. If they get results from a test, but without the compelling observation, they're then operating outside their well established statistical framework, and t…
The fact that YC overlooks the dire need for next-generation cybersecurity solutions is quite shocking. In the coming years, cybersecurity, trust, and safety will be essential needs of every customer and enterprise application. For example, the whole fiasco with the spread of fake Taylor Swift's nude images is just the beginning of the exploitation of internet data on an industrial scale. We can already see attempts…
The same will certainly apply to the intra-head security you want against fake content and propaganda.
I would still like to see RFS 5 "Development on Handhelds" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20140428231118/http://ycombinato... ) fulfilled. I asked sama about it in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361215 . The state of the art has advanced since. Termux ( https://termux.dev/en/ ) on Android is a viable development environment. With a Debian PRoot ( https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot ), it feels a lot like…
Something like copilot can really help with bridging the gap created by not having a full size keyboard.
The keyboard I have is about the size of an ipad itself so there is no numeric keypad, and it's about as heavy as a tablet too since this one has a slanted slot in the back to slip the tablet or phone into, portrait or landscape, at a good angle for use so the combination acts not much differently than a laptop.
If it wasn't so heavily weighted it would topple over backward when you left the tablet in the slot. There are other bluetooth ones that are lightweight which should be just as useful if you have a different way to support the device.
Sometimes a hardware solution is ideal, other times software, most of the time with digital devices it's good to consider both and have lots of options which parts of the heavy lifting are where.
Most of those take a lot more time and money than YC usually offers. There are some opportunities in "New Defense Technology". Something like a low-cost replacement for the Javelin anti-tank missile based on off the shelf phone camera parts ought to be possible. Of course, once that's out there, every insurgent group will have some. "Explainable AI" is really important. "Stablecoin finance" is mostly how to make sure…
"Bring manufacturing back to America". Is it possible to build a cell phone in the US? I think we should start more basic and work our way up. For example, there isn't a real reason we can't produce all of our domestic iron and steel needs in the USA, but we end up importing a lot right now. Same with aluminum, etc. But this isn't something YC is really going to help with unless they are funding manufacturing and ind…