skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a somewhat poor high school and an extremely
prestigious university. My fellow university graduates who are now making lucrative engineer salaries are the ones with teslas and MBPs, and from what I've seen they are not raising children by choice (most of them are not even married or have long term relationships. I'm married but my wife and I decided we want to wait a few years so she can finish her PhD and start her career first. Our goal is to start having children before we are 30). While my wife and I are struggling with the prospect of never owning a family-sized property in our high CoL city because it is so expensive, it's not the main reason we haven't started a family yet. Much bigger are concerns about how it will impact my wife's career, and if she will be forced out of the workforce forever if she takes a few years off until the children are old enough for school.

From my hometown (edit: just to be clear, this is a low-CoL city and my friends mostly 24-27 years old), no one that I know owns a tesla or similar luxury object. A larger percentage of my friends from back home are married compared to my friends from university, but still almost none of them have started families. I can't speak for them all, but the impression I get is that the people who are on track for something that could be considered a career (teaching, for example) are focusing on their careers. Those who didn't end up with a career but did go to college are more or less drowning in college debt. Those who didn't go to college are trying to work their way up to a higher education through part-time community college and what not.

In other words, I agree with your central thesis that this is by choice that the birthrate is declining. In particular, the fact that women now have the choice to start careers and earn money instead of going to college for an "MRS" degree and then starting a family (I know exactly one person in my high school class who wanted to do this, and she does indeed have two beautiful children today). But difficulty getting debt-free for college graduates, and difficulty owning property, are certainly contributing factors, because it provides external pressure on couples that they need to spend more energy+effort on their career. As I understand, raising children requires a considerable amount of energy+effort, so the conflict there should be quite obvious.
Of course there exist examples of Linus calling or even implying that individual people / organisations are "idiots" and they are wrong (and he has acknowledged this). But in the vast majority of cases the criticism is aimed at the code itself and I genuinely don't see the issue with this.
what's wrong with 1)
Let public-sector workers manage their retirements privately e.g. 401k-style .
If they’re timeless they should continue to get votes, no? Even if everyone stops voting in a thread all the votes would decay at the same rate, so the timeless answer would stay at top.
Even that is up to debate.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/8/114933-the-robustness-...
Usually if I see a project archived on github, I move along and look for something else. I learnt the hard way that there is a high cost in those cases, we would definitely want to use something actively support and we won't mind paying for the right tool.
Naah, I can totally see that happen. Ideas are the proverbial dime a dozen, getting them to a profitable stage involves a lot of effort that has very little to do with the core idea and a lot to do with attracting an audience, establishing cash flow, marketing, ... basically, running a business.

Someone who's intrinsically motivated to run a business only needs an idea. Someone who's intrinsically motivated by the idea only needs to run a business.

Neither is easy. Which is why plenty of businesses fail.

Of course, folks who have neither business sense nor killer ideas but still want to start a business face a very uphill challenge.
Same here, but last night I was trying to post a comment to another repo, refreshed and tried again like 5 times before realizing there was an outage and it wasn't on my end. This morning that issue has 5 dupe comments (so I look like an idiot), and deleting them does nothing; they just reappear when I refresh the issue.
At what point does it become a failure, if 0 users after 4 months of effort is NOT a failure?

Coddling people, especially in business, is very counterproductive. People could waste years of their lives following bad paths because of bad advice like yours.

Not a single person has decided that the product is worth paying money for. If the purpose of the effort was to get some people to pay money for this, and the outcome is 0, how could you honestly say this isn't a failure?
I believe apart from being in Silicon Valley, raising capital in other parts of the world is significantly much much harder.

In SV, you can go “I’ll worry about funding problem later, if I have good growth and retention, raising money will be a breeze and I’m fairly confident of it as there are tons of VCs in this economy blowing cash”

In other parts of the world: “It could mean the death of my company if I can’t raise money and using up the little I have. Bootstrapping and being profitable is a much more saner route”
Is this an accusation of takfir? Do you have evidence for this accusation? Or is it just that you find it easier to impugn a brother Muslim's practice than to argue the facts? (I'll bet you're really fun at parties.)
Seems to have worked just fine so far.
lol I find it amusing that the highest and lowest ranked comments on this page made the exact same point.
I don't know that there's anything that feels quite the same at the moment. React has some of the feeling, except that it's enjoyed much faster adoption because of the Facebook backing. Vue seems to be more the underdog. GraphQL is another technology that's early but picking up a lot of steam (also thanks to FB).

Today I might do GitHub with a Rails/GraphQL backend and React frontend. Or I might try to stay with JS for most of the GraphQL backend but still do the heavy Git work in Ruby or C. I'd have to think about it a bit more, but the React/GraphQL/Apollo stack is pretty enticing to me today.
Good point about side impact. I wouldn't mind having one seat any way.
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Don't you think maybe he's heard this a few times already?

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271880 and marked it off-topic.
This is sort of half true. Ancient knob and tube wiring is undeniably much, much simpler than what we have today, and you could teach anyone who ever worked with their hands to install it pretty quickly. It wasn't simple in an inspiring "simplicity is beautiful" way, but rather in an "oh my God we are all about to die in a fire" way.

Doing things correctly according to modern wiring safety code is something that requires a lot of knowledge, and a person could curse regulation and so on while learning all of that, but using all the modern tools would require a lot of knowledge regardless. There are dozens of parts in a standard electrical installation that simply didn't exist when it was just knobs and tubes.
Adsense is a good start.
>Goodheart’s Law

Didn't know this one yet. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll bring it up on my next discussion on targeting 100% code coverage vs seeing it just as an indicator of insufficient tests.
I wonder where she got such ideas as "fake it 'til you make it" and "if you have self doubt, it must be Impostor Syndrome, because That's A Thing", "no one knows what they're doing lol".

What crankish sites were promoting that garbage?
Maybe you should read up on, for example, the Dutch pension system.
Just use C++. Modern C++ is really quite nice, and definitely has by far the best numerical libraries of any statically typed lang. Plenty of ML packages (most of the big names are written in C++, after all). Eigen3 is also the best linear algebra package I've used outside of Julia.
Interesting (and comforting) to see the different points of views, where some would target indie developers (just as I did) and others would target massive enterprises. Good to see this isn't a black and white kind of problem.
Why would that be considered fraud? Pension freezes still pay out accrued and agreed upon benefits.
It's not so much benefit but less pain. There are many changes, but one of the most significant is the removal of the deduction for state taxes paid.

Blue states tend to spend a lot more money on government services, especially education. This makes the taxes higher, but it was evened out somewhat by a reduction in federal tax burden. With that gone, it adds a lot more pressure to tax payers in states with higher property taxes. Those states tend to be blue. When evaluating the wisdom of this change, keep in mind that those states also tend to be net payers into the federal system, while red states tend to be net takers from the federal system. There are exceptions but the trend is clear.
> From UX stand point is almost a joke [...] ideas

Any favorite ideas or literature pointers?

I've an interest in coding in VR/AR. But even pushing current HMDs with custom stacks, it's not, for me, yet competitive with screens. Since the hardware market is being so dysfunctionally slow to do the easy, I'm stuck to doing hybrids. Blending of screen 2D, anaglyph, and HMD. Laptop with kludged optical hand and chopstick tracking. Annoying eyewear swapping.

Point is, I've been surprised by how unhelpfully limited the 3D UX literature I've seen has been. It's almost like no one has pursued it with serious intent. That "almost a joke" resonated. Perhaps by the time someone struggles with interface devices, and a bit of code, well, you have your paper or thesis, and there's no big market, so you're done.

But with improving web dev and python ecosystems, it's now more plausible than ever to do full-stack reinvention, devices to environment to apps. No market, but something for itch scratching and joy. Still daunting, but seemingly small-team/silly-person accessible. But I'm missing that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing just how I'm positioned wrt an organized professional research effort. And the collaboration.
This guy remodels.

Seriously, good luck getting the subcontractor back to finish quickly when somebody who has been providing him with work consistently calls and needs a hand. As a homeowner you are back burner.
Blood money? Take it. Seize it. I wonder why, AFAICT, the Magnitsky Act allows for freezing, but not seizing assets? Surely mass murderers should get worse financial treatment than say people who happen to be near a drug deal.
> GitHub's down and I can't really do work

One of the rationale for distributed versioning systems was precisely to prevent things like this from happening. I find it a bit sad that we have reverted to the old, centralised workflow, mainly due to GitHub's omnipresence.
Most think that corruption is the problem when in fact corruption is just a symptom.

In social change this is the only one that matters:

"(what is profitable)" all other "forces" are bound by this at systemic level.

> "(what is considered ethical)"

it can only function if you go back to "what is profitable" because if it is not ethical and there is no law to prevent it then it will be done because it is profitable.

If it is ethical, and it is not profitable, you can rest assure it will not be pursued not matter how good you feel.

Example: Feed the hungry, it is a great ethical idea, but it is seldom profitable so you do not see any company going out of their way to invest in feeding the hungry.

> "(what is legal)"

this also runs only on what is profitable. If it is not legal, but it is profitable then you can be sure that the laws will soon be changed to accommodate. i.e. Cannabis movement.

> "(what is technically possible)"

also runs on what is profitable. We can technically do anything we want but is it profitable?

Don't be fooled by these articles that find a "novel" way of looking at the problem. It is just noise. If you can't fix the monetary policy in the world, then "what is profitable" will always be what drives any social change
I'd say that was the right thought process. Whether it works or not, most money making side projects start this way.
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> It's an interesting counterexample to the typical stereotype that engineers cannot build products with good UX.

Thanks! To me it's always been about product and I have a lot of background in design so it was always a priority at the company. In my mind, one of the most impactful things you can be today is a developer/designer. There is immense power in that skillset combination.
If you built out a project to the level of maturity I'm seeing, with 0 customers, you absolutely are doing it wrong.

I've had a couple of market successes, mostly in the B2B2C/LeadGen space and every time it has been built with a primary customer who is basically getting the product at reduced cost with the caveat that I understand the business impact I'm making with my software to be able to derive true value. They have the benefit of the product growing up around their needs before their competitors get their hands on it.

You built a solution to a problem without an anchor customer using it from prototype stage on up. This is really risky, in that you don't have a solid insight into the intrinsic business value of your product.

It seems too that you didn't take distribution into account and assumed that word of mouth would carry your cost of acquisition. For me the formula would be something roughly like:

Estimated LifeTimeValue (LTV) over 1 year * .3 == Avail Cost Per Aquisition in Marketing / Bizdev / TradeBooth / Etc.

(this formula will create an initial deficit, but most products are fighting against media buys of entrenched companies so you have to expect this)

So if you make $300/yr per customer, you might expect to spend $120 in marketing expenses to acquire a single customer. If you have a 10% signup rate for a free trial, with a 15% stick rate from that (For every 100 people you buy targeted media on, you might expect 1.5 paying customers)... that means if you're spending $1/CPC on google, you would be spending $75 per new customer (beating your $150 budget). Organic reach and word of mouth might help this formula reduce in cost, but what you're wanting to build is a sustainable machine that can be driven by marketing expense, not by gimmicky front-page listings on HN You optimize on those metrics as your marketing continues to spend more and you have more data to work with.

Obviously, the above example is hyper-simplistic, but you have an advantage of not needing to hire devs. Now take the time to figure out the digital marketing piece or find a partner who knows it and can help you with it in exchange for equity if you're trying to bootstrap this.

You'd have to play with your pricing structure to make that work, as you increase your price, Cost Per Aquisition possibly goes up but you hopefully can find a balance that works in your market. This is why most people for their first product need investors to pony up spends to discover this, but in my experience, you can hit very low cost-per-acquisition numbers if you're careful, just not at scale. (Last part is important)

Feel free to shoot me a PM if you have any questions or want any advice, you're getting a LOT of great input from people here but this is my $.02 :)
If you're curious - this practice is so you don't squander your life. Reminders of death are uncomfortable so we tend to avoid them - but they can properly spur us to life with vigor in the time we have.

When I was an athiest, I thought it was good advice at the time.
You’re thinking of De Brujin sequences, not superpermutations, unless there’s an additional restriction that a digit cannot be used twice in a password.
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My guess is the price. $30 is a lot of money. ESP8266 costs 10 times less. And for $30 you can get a much more powerful machine.
We will never be perfect. There will be mistakes made, both intentionally and unintentionally.

However, cynicism which demands that we do nothing unless we have a perfect solution prevents us from making any progress and further makes it impossible to get any closer to the perfect state.

Simply asking about where the money you’re getting is coming from is in itself a huge first step that can be built on.

One small step at a time is pretty much the approach that developers and entrepreneurs advocate on HN for nearly every other problem. It should be the approach that we take towards resolving non technical challenges as well.
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These are interesting data points; thanks for sharing. It makes me wonder then how board/investors/etc understand the companies, their technology and when to step in. There seemed to be less-informed-more-hype-associated investing for this situation). It then seems to becomes an economic game of understanding which companies in your portfolio to let die, to patch up with intention of selling soon, and to patch up with intention of getting the "train-back-on-track", all while managing perception of the business and any success or associated hype with downplayed failure (?).
Actually from where you read that he is coming back?
So, this is a perfectly good product, and your pricing isn’t bad, but I’d have gone for a bigger spread - make the basic tier free, make the top tier $499 or so.

I’d also consider what would drive agencies and freelancers to do this, and market accordingly. This is one of those where many (i.e. those who’ve never experienced an infringement) would regard as an unnecessary cost.

Set up saved searches on twitter for “my work got ripped off!” type posts and reach out with “that sucks, I’m sorry that happened - I have a product that might help next time”. Optimise SEO for terms like “website was copied” and “how can a freelancer enforce IP right?”. Those who have just been stung will buy this in a heartbeat, and a free tier would capture a large and vocal market. Most B2B purchases come from distress.

Finally, consider reworking your copy. It’s too much steak, not enough sizzle (you talk a lot about features and the tech, but not enough about how much better (trouble free, worry-free, easy, relax, no stress, get paid, boost revenue through easy licensing) it’ll make their lives).

Also,

“In a very bad scenario where our service is slow, the worst thing that happens is a user being able to use the web app for a couple of seconds before it is denied access.”

What? I think I know what you mean, but that reads like “if our servers are down, you will be too”.

Finally finally, consider a positive sell too - “license your work with ease, monitor subscriptions”, rather than the purely negative (protect yourself against infringers!) you have currently.
I have a w520 and while the graphics card could use some help from time to time, I splurged for the i7 quad and it's still keeping up with most of what I come across today. My favorite part is how well it handles bad head management. I know I shouldn't but using it on bed sheets isn't really an issue, it does make hell of a sound though. Sounds like an airplane.
The government can't provide them more cheaply. There is an unaccounted cost of corruption, vote buying, erroneous assumptions (intentionally and unintentionally), that we are seeing play out now.

If governments could provide it more cheaply, then we wouldn't be hearing about this massive problem in the first place. The very existence of this extremely widespread problem proves that taxpayer provided defined benefit pensions are not cost efficient and allow for the fleecing of taxpayers.
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Wall Street Journal has a series in CIO Journal about how to talk the board. It hinged on not presenting data but instead creating and appealing to feelings. This is probably good advice for pitching VCs.
Looks like a rendering bug to me; there is a similar diamond in South Carolina.
Thanks! Comments like yours are what keeps me motivated to continue contributing to open source software.

But although the title is somewhat click-bait, I still think this counts as a vulnerability in my project, since there is a possible combination of default Apache setting and default project files that is exploitable.
Oh yes that sweet money.
Paying a little more makes sense for religious or preference reasons , but paying twice the rate (when it's significant) doesn't make a lot of sense for a preference. It seems likely that there is something wrong with the comparison , either the effective rate is computed incorrectly, or there's a significsnt difference in terms or underwriting.
Isn't blood money what makes the world go round?
Seems like it at least when you look around.
I agree, and the political items that managed to not be flagged to hell are highly biased. If I wanted to see this kind of stuff I could easily find it elsewhere. I really wish there was a "nothing even remotely political" policy on HN. At least then it would be fair.
No, they don't. To most of Kentucky's ruling class, public schools are evil. They'd love to see them all fail, so they can shift school funds to vouchers for Christian schools.[1][2]

1 - https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/joseph-gert...

2 - https://www.mattbevin.com/issues
The last time I bought welding wire it was 3-4 dollars/pound for cheap flux core stuff, so I can't imagine how much this cost to 'print'.

Most metal printers seem to work in a box full of helium/argon, but in this case they were just venting the shielding gas and probably using several times more than necessary.
> The same can be accomplished by paying them market wages.

No. Even with paying market wages, there can someone come along and flood the market with cheap money. Then the state has to massively counteract and waste taxpayer money.

Beamtentum is the core of German societal stability, as a result.
I don't think any one action is going to completely fix what's wrong with society. But I do think these guidelines are likely make society _better_ and and unlikely to make them worse. This definitely should not be the last action taken to make society better, and I look forward to more actions along these same lines.
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> patents

Yep, viable choice. Patents definitely are standing in the way of many things, IMO, but this is the very reason of its existence, so we need to decide whether we want to protect companies (and spur innovation, at least that's the theory - we definitely should revisit it and measure it) or if we want to allow people to start new companies making now-not-patented cheap hardware.

> "only sell to us"-contracts, not offering specifications

What's wrong about that?

> laws against reverse engineering

Are there any? I'm not aware. Can you elaborate?

> why [...] aren't they available?

Probably because making counterfeit (as defined by law) hardware isn't that profitable anymore and the market is too small for legal newcomers.

What I really don't understand is why the company he bought from had to stick an Apple logo on it. It wouldn't be counterfeit if they didn't.
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Parent poster was referring to the "LTS" kernels: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

A good number of Linux distributions are based on an LTS release instead of a mainline release.
They might not. The product-owners however (in consultation with marketing etc.) combined with word from on-high.
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