skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Apple's Mac line is stumbling a bit, the rest of Apple's hardware is pretty spot on. The Apple Watch, AirPods, iPhone, & iPad are all rock solid. The AR headset is a lot more like the Apple Watch and it's basically slaughtered it's competition and is widely considered a best-in-class product.

The big question mark with Apple isn't hardware, its software. iOS 13 and Catalina were both pretty ambitious and deeply flawed.
CPU cycles are limitless. Most of the time the CPU is waiting for the memory system.
> man who shot at agents and tried to firebomb an ICE facility...

Yes, and what happened to that guy? (Willem van Spronsen)
I wrote a little about how I bootstrapped for a couple years via tech consulting projects here:

https://amontalenti.com/2011/04/02/not-for-the-faint-of-hear...

It wasn't easy, but it was necessary for me to get over the "rent and health insurance hump". I do agree that it's hard to reconcile bootstrapping/consulting with pg's advice to "not do other things".

My main advice is: make sure consulting (or whatever "auxiliary income source" you are spending time on) is a means-to-an-end for you, and that it doesn't become the main thing. And also make sure to carve out time to actually work on the startup daily -- whether that's early mornings, "lunch breaks", or late nights. (In my case, it was all 3 :-) ...)

Avoid the easy way out. During my multi-year consulting/bootstrapping journey, I got a lot of offers to join other startups or take on big consulting clients. But I knew that wasn't what I wanted, however tempting. Ultimately, I had to turn down lucrative short-term gain for taking a stipend salary on my startup when it finally landed seed funding. Pulling the trigger on that was tough, but worth it, in retrospect. This was only possible because I had already mentally convinced myself that consulting/bootstrapping revenue was a means-to-the-end for the startup.

But yeah, life is messy, and we aren't all in the privileged position of being able to work without income for months or years on end, which unfortunately is often the vantage point taken by some of our "wise startup elders".

One small piece of practical advice based on some mistakes I saw other founders make: don't use debt.
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> It’s weird to me that people are so unskeptical about assertions that things are somehow completely dysfunctional in one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world.

As someone who hails from Asia like you and has seen proper dysfunctional systems, I agree completely.

But don't events of the past 3-4 years give you any pause? I've recently developed a habit of reading foxnews front page, and there's a clear trend of painting Mexicans and brown people in general as troublemakers. You and I will agree that the system isn't really corrupt, but I think you and I will also agree insofar as it's all ruled by money, news will be given out in the manner in which it gets them the most money: and unfortunately that is going to be by producing more outrage and by appealing to our laziness and our worst instincts. Doesn't that give you any worry?
I hear you. That cost was a lot easier to evaluate when I only had myself to consider.

It seems it really depends on how you sell privacy. For example, my wife did not get why I was playing with setting pihole, but she did notice lack of popups on her kindle and liked that.

As for VR, I think I agree that if it could make you feel sensations, maybe could achieve what stories could not (then again, would people pay to smell the air after D-day?). Right now, gaming allows you to feel detached from your decisions.
It’s not about being approved by Apple. It’s about a digital signature that proves the identity of the author.
You ever get the feeling that companies and programmers who become massively productive and profitable are either finding a narrow path where there are no concerns like the other discussions here, or simply ignoring them and ploughing on with a pile of faulty code that mostly works?

Look how much discussion there is over a few thousand nanoseconds here, edge cases around 16 digit numbers (if my bank account gets that high, and you accidentally round it up to too many digits, we can deal with that when it happens).

It seems inconcievable that the most 'productive' can spend this much effort on everything they do, and 'pick your battles' only goes so far towards explaining it. 'Move fast and break things' goes farther but only in the space of possibilities where correct vs incorrect has approximately no consequences.

"Companies with unicorn valuations are most probably doing things which don't have to be done very well"?
I actually finally made an account here just to tell you I really enjoyed the article. I have been in the process of managing my social media better for a while now and I appreciate a lot of your ideas. I totally agree that finding out the specific things you want from an app and tailoring it to just that thing is the key to healthy habits. Thanks. :)
Do we have to assume that they do it to satisfy an IG crowd, or can we simply allow them doing it for the sake of the experience?

Another take, is it that bad though if they did? It would be free marketing. Hopefully it would bring actual customers and not just selfie-photographers :)
i agree, constraints and "anything you haven't been taught yet" are two different things.

constraints should be spelled out explicitly.

The issue is every programming question requires by its very nature that you use something you haven't been taught to solve it

that, i don't agree with. it's entirely possible to state programming questions in such a way that they only require things you have already been taught. (in its simplest form "being taught" means "being told about". most (if not all) freecodecamp exercises work like that.
Side-note: it would be helpful if HN turned strings like that ("r/combatfootage") into actual HTML links to that particular subreddit. Reddit is a YC company, so why not?
Couldn't you just start putting a reflective coating on your mortar rounds?
> This blog post has unhealthy amounts of exaggeration and hyperbole. Consider the "Actual Schedule" chart in this article that only shows blocks of "Ruined Morning" and "Ruined Afternoon".

I found it to be a very clear illustration. I don’t think “ruined” should be read as “completely wasted”. A lower sense of focus or flow is a realistic outcome of a schedule like that, in my experience.
The complete loss of control over your own devices is being gradually normalized.
What it is like to launch your first startup at 65
You think low-cost drones can just be targeted by existing air defense systems and a laser defense system? Probably those hypersonic glide vehicles are the ones to worry most about. Basically only beatable if you can make them mistarget.
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For us the main indication of impending doom is when we don't hear from you. When we haven't heard from, or about, a startup for a couple months, that's a bad sign. If we send them an email asking what's up, and they don't reply, that's a really bad sign. So far that is a 100% accurate predictor of death.

Can someone at YC comment on if this is still a good proxy for startup failure?

From a personal perspective, we've sent out an investor update every single month [1] for our startup over the last four years. We also almost ran out of money at the end of 2017. The updates around that time were the hardest ones send out, but I can confirm they did help keep the company alive by forcing me to create and articulate a survival plan to our investors to get to profitability, which we pulled off [2] and are still going strong today.

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[1] The template we use for investor updates if you're curious: https://app.tettra.co/teams/tettra/pages/investor-update-tem...
[2] The story about how we almost ran out of money but survived: https://tettra.co/blog/navigating-the-depths-of-nearly-faili...
We really have no concept of what a real shooting war looks like. Twenty years of counter-insurgencies around the Middle East has amounted to a US butcher's bill that would be less than one single day during a major offensive in 1916 in France or 1943 in the Ukraine. The generation that was alive during Vietnam is dying out.

I'm from a backwoods area that disproportionately sends recruits to the military, and I don't know anybody from the dozens who went over there that actually fired any shots in anger. The fobbit-fighter ratio is pretty absurd.
I think it was Mark Cuban who made the point that a mature, professional team can handle having one "Dennis Rodman". But it can only be one, and management has to be clear that they're making an explicit exception which isn't open to others. The rest of the team might find this a bit unfair, but usually they'll tolerate it as long as results are good and they're treated well in other ways.
My point is that I don't understand why the GP brought up the poor, which are kind of a wild card ("won't someone think of the poor???"), when they are perfectly capable of returning books in time.
That $6.8 billion is nowhere near the total returns generated by Medallion over its lifetime. I agree the basket option scheme with Deutsche was questionable financial engineering, but the tax implications could at best augment the returns of an already profitable strategy. You cannot account for ~40% annual average returns over 30 years (after 5% management and 44% performance fees) using clever tax evasion.
How many of those nationalizations involved the workers "taking over the factories"?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/seattle-councilwoman-urge...
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This is an oversimplification, in reality you looking for a certain ratio of weight, muscle mass, lactic acid buildup and other blood markers. This ratio can only be sustained for a short period of time, which is why you ramp up to competitions and peak during competition week. I dont see why experienced coaches would keep an athlete in this peak state since they know its not possible. In another sport, cyclist get so low in weight that they become very susceptible to illness but once again, it's only maintained for a very short period of time.
Ok Boomer.
Not even immigrants, just the illegal ones.
Related HN discussion from 9 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19063977
Nah, they come from an electronic music background, their UI looks similar to modular synths which often have a very radical industrial aesthetic without bells and whistles. The round elments and neon color are influenced from the pseudo-futuristic 90s/y2k rave and acid aesthetic at that time.
>Being isolated is good, but it's harder to learn new things working by yourself.

Code reviews I feel provide a good avenue for learning how others have done things.

I've hit blocks in the past while working by myself however I feel part of learning is hitting a block over and over. Only once you truly grasp why other solutions don't work does a new novel solution really fit in completely. Moreover unless you truly try to solve it yourself you don't develop the skills to solve problems.
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Right, it's run by his designated successor, whose wealth comes from Mercer's "trading strategy".
Oh, agree that for arbitrary large or non integer inputs it might not work. But elsethread jepler has shown a solution off Hacker's Delight which which simply multiplies the index of the most significant bit with a magic constant.
Sure, I've been trying to make more tangible predictions about the future lately. I don't bet money, but if I'm wrong, you can come find me online and publicly tell me I'm wrong.

I will make a public prediction that after one year of Manifest V3 actually shipping to users in mainline Chrome:

- Assuming that Manifest V3's declarative API is not significantly changed from its current implementation.

- If you visit each of the top 10 publishers in the US (including open publishing platforms like Twitter/Facebook/Youtube)

- If you compare Chrome and Firefox, each with the most-recommended ad-blocking/tracker-blocking extensions on their equivalent web stores installed (currently Ublock Origin, but we'll leave it open. "Most recommended" means that among technical users, this extension is the most commonly recommended. There's a little ambiguity here, but not sure how to narrow it.).

- Firefox will block more web trackers (65% likelyhood).

- Firefox will block more visible ads and popups (55% likelyhood).

There are a couple of reasons why I feel comfortable making those two predictions:

- Twitter and Facebook both try really hard to get around adblockers, and Firefox will be more likely to be able to combat their strategies in the future.

- Extensions like Privacy Badger will already have a more difficult time working in Manifest V3, so there's potential for new adblocking strategies to develop in Firefox that can't be ported.

- Safari made similar changes, and it's already less effective than Firefox at adblocking, so it seems reasonable to guess that Chrome will follow the same path.

- Properly configured, Firefox is already better than Chrome at blocking web-trackers, and I think Firefox will roll those changes out by default to ordinary users before Chrome does.

There are a few reasons why I'm hedging my bets:

- The advertising market is volatile, and might change significantly in the next year (privacy laws, etc...) This is unlikely, but not so unlikely that I can completely discount it.

- Chrome has research teams working on some interesting privacy strategies. I think it's mostly just talk and they won't do much of significance in a year, but I can't completely discount it.

- A mass exodus to Firefox could force Chrome to adapt Manifest V3 to be more open. This is also unlikely, but again, I can't completely discount it.

- And just general uncertainty, because the longer out you predict the more uncertainty you should introduce.

55% and 65% seem like very low numbers, but I think they're a relatively bold prediction. If Firefox and Chrome are blocking basically identical numbers of trackers/ads, that doesn't count as a successful prediction. I'm not going to be pedantic about, "Chrome randomly saw one more ad on exactly one website." Right now, I consider Chrome and Firefox to be equal in terms of adblocking capabilities. So even a 50% guess would be saying, "there's a one-in-two chance that something changes and Firefox will just be an objectively better browser for adblocking."
I would hope that national security decisions by a world Superpower are not being made even in part based on the demeanor of the individuals in the photographs taken and published by the news media.
Some people thrive in that kind of environment (XP and all that), I know it sucked the soul out of me the one time it was forced on my team at a prior employer.
Well you could write your game in JS and deliver it over the web. Flash games were all the rage when I was a kid.

But for now, non-notarized executables don't fail, they just need to be enabled by an admin account through permissions.
Basing things on soldiers sending letters home doesn't seem generally likely to show a very unbiased view, either. Almost everyone I knew in Iraq/Afghanistan would send only very sanitized letters (well, emails, generally) home, except for a small minority who would send over the top insanity with little basis in reality. The only exception I saw was people sending letters to friends/relatives who had already been deployed in this specific conflict (not usually even Gulf War I or Vietnam or whatever era parents).

The most accurate reporting seemed to be people who kept journals and then reported on it after they left. Without the journal fallible memory would be a serious problem, but in the moment it also seemed to be difficult. There were also a lot of efforts at 1) opsec 2) consequences if you DID share something, like "my 1SG is a dick..." etc.

The VAST majority of everything is family life related stuff, mundane basics of life, interpersonal issues, etc. (Especially among units where families knew each other, like various NG units in smaller towns.)

There was probably a bias in what I saw (I often got asked by people working around me to help proofread or phrase things, as I was often the one providing the Internet connection and there), but I mean my own experience was to not tell parents/etc. that I was anywhere but "Germany" for 5 years as a contractor, etc.

(The biggest truth of modern war, at least from the US side, seems to be that there are massive differences in what the experience is like based on your job, where you're based, luck, etc. This was probably true in previous wars, but with different balance in different roles -- less risk of spontaneous death from indirect fire or green on blue on a US support base in WW2, but inferior logistics, risk of medical problems, etc. From what I saw there were a small number of SOF-types and some smaller combat units, especially in Afghanistan, where there was essentially maximum personal "agency" combined with daily violence, which seemed to be fine, a bunch of people with low agency as far as their own safety but also low risk (people who spent the entire war on one of the biggest bases working in admin/medical/etc. probably were even safer than I was), who were also usually fine, and then some people who had moderate control over their risk but also had moderate risk (truck drivers for most of the Iraq war, etc.) which actually seemed to be the hardest.)
I'm waiting for the Tesla with the mobility scooter built in like the batcycle in the batmobile. /s
Ya, I was more thinking about incoming calls. I know her friends just text her and she calls them, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the services she uses (like the ones you mentioned) can't even call her at all.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/12/7-things-to...

In particular, look at two aspects of the animation for "Political Polarization of the American Public, 1994-2014": First, notice that the line for Median Democrat moves only to the left. Second, put your pointer or your finger over where the line for Median Democrat is in 1994 and compare that to where it ends up in 2014. Then do the same for Median Republican.

edit: Here's the version of it that goes to 1994-2017 -- you can clearly see what happens from 2015 to 2017 as well:

https://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polariza...
Surveillance capitalism and social media are quite different beasts. One is a constant bubble of narcissism, depression, and bother, and the other is a set of AI-driven binoculars watching you every second for a clue on how to instruct others on how to set a trap you'll fall into and give up some of that sweet sweet cash!
Many of the “expectations” were not something that people were really expecting.

Is your anecdotal claim a valid counterargument to another person's anecdotal claims you disagree with?
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Just a question to check on something that I'm pretty sure I already know from your story:

Just want to verify my assumption that you were too small to have a "Research" or "Tech Strategy" department to move that guy into?
It's not about "could" but about "should." Apple hasn't sold a computer with a 32 bit CPU in what, 8-9 years?

They deprecated 32 bit support almost a decade ago. Software has a lifespan and always has, to run obsolete code you need to jump through hoops to get an obsolete target running. This isn't new.
The commenter was pointing out that a sphere of volume 1 mm^3 has a diameter of 1.24 mm, while a sphere of diameter 1 mm has a volume of 0.52 mm^3.

Meanwhile a cube of side 1 mm has a volume of 1 mm^3.
> ...if you're distributing software professionally and can't cough up $100 in revenue in a year...

This is kinda where I'm at with this. Surely anyone even remotely garnering an audience could raise this amount annually. It's a decent cost to an individual but to even a humble audience, it's peanuts.

If you can't raise even that, then IMO your game being lost is of little consequence. Not everything farted out by every indie developer is a lost masterpiece, sometimes stuff is lost because it lacks the traction to merit archival.
What do you mean? African or European ̶s̶w̶a̶l̶l̶o̶w̶ ants?
Aren't SEC whistleblower awards setup to combat the scenario you're proposing? The first individual to defect would presumably earn vastly more money than continuing with the scheme.
To some extent, yes. I'm not saying it should put that over your own moral line, but I definitely think that sacrificing an animal you cared for is more acceptable than hunting a wild animal, for example.
Apple invents all of their key processors i.e. A, S, T, W, U.

They have also invented technologies like FaceID, TouchID, 3D Touch, MicroLED, LTPO etc.

The idea that they merely assemble other companies is just laughable.
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> It’s weird to me that people are so unskeptical about assertions that things are somehow completely dysfunctional in one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world.

It should be no surprise, then, that many of those who are skeptical about American institutions are also skeptical about the states being one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world.
Let's demand one!
I totally agree. My original comment was a bit narrow, but by captivate attention I meant platforms of consumption. But in many of those platforms, I’m willing to bet that an equal or proportionally larger amount of development is in advertising.

YouTube for example: Making a large scale video platform is a challenge, but then using that to generate revenue is probably the bigger challenge.
How do you reference what you've already written?

Why not just make it uneditable?
California electricity crisis (2000-2001)
But how exactly would this laundering work ?
Yes, they had a disruption in api they used a long time ago
Glad they found a solution
While it's true that most patents never get asserted or licensed, I suspect that in a pure sale, very few would go for less than the prosecution cost.
Rudy Giuliani's company is named Fraud Guarantee. This was apparently chosen to push down search results about one of the co-founders' legal issues.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/giuliani-associate-left-trail-o...
Smart speakers are superfluous? Only if you don't find them useful. My wife comes downstairs every morning and says "okay Google what's the weather?" My daughter says "Alexa, play [some pop singer]".

As a technology person, I tend to agree with you that these devices fall short of real life changing functionality, yet obviously many people out there love it.