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Sanzig commented on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in   betakit.com/y-combinator-... · Posted by u/TheLegace
abdullahkhalids · 17 days ago
Thanks for your comment. I have in my mind to start a hardware focused business in Ontario. I am a little afraid now, but hopefully, I have better luck than you.

Can you expand a bit more on how difficult it is to deliver hardware product orders to other countries? Whichever countries you have experience in.

Sanzig · 17 days ago
Hardware should be much easier, especially if you get your boards fabbed and assembled at a CM (which you probably should, very few companies have a good reason to move assembly in-house).
Sanzig commented on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in   betakit.com/y-combinator-... · Posted by u/TheLegace
motohagiography · 17 days ago
briefly: cap gains reductions. at will employment. competitive top line corporate rates that attract HQ's and IP the way Ireland did. reduce the public sector talent tarpit, tariff goods from countries that use slave labor. abolish the dairy, wheat, and syrup boards and other agriculture cartels. enforce money laundering laws against retail businesses to normalize commercial rents. reduce immigration to levels where people can integrate and actually want to make things for each other and to take the pressure off home prices. pro natal policies that create more young people with a stake in their country. make math education a national project. to name a few.

if you talk to anyone in canada who is from here and doesn't work in the public sector, the conversation quickly turns to whether they're planning to leave and how far along they are. the way it's going, they're going to have to bar the exits.

Sanzig · 17 days ago
All Canadian jurisdictions, as far as I am aware, are at-will employment. Unionized environments are an exception because they have layoff procedures in their collective agreements, but that's the same in the US.
Sanzig commented on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in   betakit.com/y-combinator-... · Posted by u/TheLegace
dang · 17 days ago
I haven't talked to anyone at YC about this, have no inside information, and can't read the article*, but I imagine this is some technical change about where startups are incorporated. I'm sure applications from Canadian founders are as welcome as ever and there will be no change on the level of which applications get funded.

(* edit: I originally posted this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772809 but have since merged the thread hither)

Sanzig · 17 days ago
Seems like a very bizarre move, considering Canadian-domiciled corporations have access to very generous financial incentives (SR&ED) at both federal and provincial levels.

Can't help but think this is a move meant to satisfy the US admin.

Sanzig commented on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/jtokoph
Topgamer7 · 2 months ago
Out of curiosity, can anyone say the most impactful things they've needed incredibly accurate time for?
Sanzig · 2 months ago
Spacecraft state vectors.
Sanzig commented on An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions   arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643... · Posted by u/rapnie
MarkusQ · 2 months ago
"N-body simulation" doesn't mean what it's normally taken to mean here.

And the colliding gasses models have the huge assumption of random/thermal motion. These satellites are in carefully designed orbits; they aren't going to magically thermalize if left unmonitored for three days.

Sanzig · 2 months ago
Well, sure, they won't be thermally random, but they will be significantly perturbed from their nominal orbits, particularly at the lower orbital altitudes.

Solar flares cause atmospheric upwelling, so drag dramatically increases during a major solar flare. And the scenario envisioned in the paper is basically a Carrington-level event, so this effect would be extreme.

Sanzig commented on An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions   arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643... · Posted by u/rapnie
TGower · 2 months ago
Dissapointing that the paper is full of simplifying, and seemingly unreasonable, assumptions instead of simulation based on the known orbital elements of all these tracked satellites. For example, collision cross section of 200 square meters when discussing starlink even though the satellites are about 4 x 3 meters. Assuming random distribution of trajectories. I'm also unconvinced that "how fast would a collision occur if all the electronics got fried" is a useful metric, in that scenario I'm much more worried about the situation on the ground and commercial avaition...
Sanzig · 2 months ago
The cross section isn't actually all that outrageous, it corresponds to a hardbody radius of 4.5 meters. Hardbody radius is equal to the sum of the radii of the two colliding bodies, so 2.25 meters - which seems about right for Starlink.
Sanzig commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content   theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988
elif · 2 months ago
I think the headline is implying that they were targeted for their ideological positions.

However the very first line reveals what the actual reason probably was: "posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings"

Sanzig · 2 months ago
sigh

I know it's against HN rules to ask if people have read the article, but you clearly didn't read the article.

The "non-sexual nudity" example is at the bottom of the article. It's a stylized cartoon drawing of a nude man and woman with arms around each others' waists viewed from the back as they walk along a path. There is a heart strategically placed around waist level so you can't even see their whole butts.

It's about the tamest artistic depiction of nudity you can imagine, certainly something that is totally fine anywhere else on Facebook. Very clear that this is a bullshit excuse being used by Meta.

Sanzig commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products   windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari
ZeroConcerns · 2 months ago
Absolutely! There are so many scenarios where they could actually add some value, and they're fulfilling, like, exactly none of those?

Even in Visual Studio Enterprise, their flagship developer product, the GPT integration mostly just destroys code regardless of model output. I truly cannot fathom how any of that made it past even a cursory review. Or how that situation would last for over 6 months, but, yet, here we are.

And, again, it's fine with me: I'll just use Claude Code, but if I were a Microsoft VP-or-above, the lack of execution would sort-of, well concern me? But maybe I'm just focused on the wrong things. I mean, Cloudflare brought down, like, half the Internet twice in the past two weeks, and they're still a tech darling, so possibly incompetence is the new hotness now?

Sanzig · 2 months ago
I have Copilot at work, it feels so useless sometimes. As an example, I had a report which I needed to make some batch edits to. I figured why not let the robot take a crack at it, so I clicked the Copilot button and spent a couple minutes describing what I needed changed.

Copilot tells me it can't edit my current document, but it can create a new one. I figured okay, Microsoft doesn't want to set it loose on the original, guess it makes sense that it requires a copy. So I said yes.

Nope. Instead of creating a copy of my document and editing it, it created an entirely new document which excised basically everything in the original report and replaced it with a very short summary - I'm talking 5000 words down to 500. All my tables and figures were gone, as was the standard report template my employer uses.

What utter garbage. Office productivity is a major use case for LLMs, and here the largest vendor of productivity software on the planet is happy to fuck it up.

Sanzig commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture
lucb1e · 2 months ago
That's called a VPN

Is this like "Band-Aid" that used to be a brand name but now people just use it generically?

Sanzig · 2 months ago
Tailscale is a bit more than a VPN. It operates in a mesh configuration rather than a traditional VPN concentrator setup. Tailscale's control plane orchestrates NAT traversal for devices on the Tailnet (through techniques like UDP hole punching) and allows them to establish direct Wireguard tunnels between them. That way, there's no VPN concentrator bottleneck because there's no concentrator at all, every device establishes tunnels to every other device.
Sanzig commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture
sva_ · 2 months ago
I'm a bit skeptical that I don't have full control of my keys, but it does seem convenient.
Sanzig · 2 months ago
You can have full control over your keys if you want: https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock

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